genuine colours and their true proportions. The article Theology in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_ is written, not by Dr. Chalmers, but new-modelled from an old article by the minister of an Independent congregation in Edinburgh, Mr. Lindsay Alexander--we doubt not an able and good man, but not supereminently the _one_ theologian of Scotland. We mark, besides, a few faults, of _commission_ in the work, apparently of a sub-editorial character, but which, unlike the defect just pointed out, the editor of some future edition will find little difficulty in amending. Works the production of a single mind, bear generally an individual character; works the productions of many minds, are marked rather by the character of the age to which they belong. We find occasional evidence in the _Encyclopædia_ that it belongs to the age of Catholic Emancipation,--an age in which the _true_ in science was deemed a very great matter by men to whom the _true_ in religion seemed a much less one. One at least of the minds employed on the minor articles of the work had palpably a papistical leaning. A blaze of eulogium, which contrasts ludicrously enough with the well-toned sobriety of what we may term its staple style, is made to surround, like the halo in old paintings, some of the men who were happy enough to be distinguished assertors of the Romish Church. We would instance, as a specimen, the biographical sketches of Bossuet and the Jesuit Bourdaloue, written by the late Dr. James Browne. These, however, are but comparatively minute flaws in a work so truly great, and of such immense multiplicity. They are some of the imperfections of a work to which imperfection is inevitable, and which, after all such deductions have been made, must be recognised as by much the least faulty and most complete of its class which the world has yet seen. _April 30, 1842._ A VISION OF THE RAILROAD. [_Private._] ----, ISLE OF SKYE.