344 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. Gwrge squarc
for transporting a finelydressed lady in a powdered
toupee. The public sedans were, for the most
part, in the hands of Highlanders, who generally
wore short tartan coats, and whose strange jargon
and fiery irritability of temper, amid the confusion
of a dissolving assembly or a dismissed theatre,
were deemed highly amusing. Now there is no
such thing as a private sedan in Edinburgh any
more than in London, and the use of public ones
has entirely ceased.
North of George Square, No. I, Park Place (now
removed to niake way for .the new university Medical Schools), was the town house of the Campbells of Succoth. Sir Islay, the first baronet, was Lord
distance from the east end of Teviot Row, the
class-room of the chair of music. This handsome
hall, though inadequate to the purposes for
which it is required, is in the Italian style, and is
the finest of the university class-rooms. It was
erected by order of the CouJt of Session, in 1861,
from funds which were bequeathed for the purpose
by General John Reid, the composer of the
spirited march, ?The Garb of Old Gaul,? to
words written by General Sir Harry Erksine,
and it has a museum containing an almost unique
collection of instruments, both acoustic and musical,
together with various other objects of interest
There is also a library of musical compositions
PARK PLACE, SHOWING CAYPBELL OF SUCCOTH?S HOUSE.
President of the Court of Session, under the title 01
Lord Succoth, and was descended from the house
of Argyle, and his mother was the only daughte1
and heiress of John Wallace of Elderslie. He was
one of the counsel for the defence in the great
Douglas cause, and brought to Edinburgh the first
tidings of Lord Douglas?s victory in the House of
Lords. A baronetcy was conferred upon the Lord
President when he retired from office in 1808, and
he died in 1823, after being long resident on his
estate of Garscube, whither his son, Sir Archibaldwho
in 1809 became a senator under the title of
Lord Succoth-also retired in 1824; and his great
house in PArk Place was latterly occupied as the
Edinburgh Ladies? Institution for Education, and
near it was the new Jewish Synagogue.
In Park Place (where Dr. Tait, the present
Archbishop of Canterbury, was born) stands, about
ninety yards west of Charles Street and the same
and treatises, which is one of the most complete
at present existing.
Perhaps the special feature is the magnificent
organ by Messrs. Hill and Son, which in some
points is unsurpassed. It contains four manuals
and sixty-six stops, of which latter eleven belong
to the ?pedal organ.? In this department of the
instrument are two specimens, both in wood and
in metal, of the rare register of ? 32 feet? These
pedal stops, and several on the manuals, of the
most exquisite softness and delicacy, are the
great points of this renowned instrument, which
has been completed by the present occupant of the
chair of music, Professor Sir Herbert Oakeley, who,
during the university term, gives fortnightly open
? I recitals,? which are much prized by students and
citizens. During late years the interior of the hall
has been much improved. Under ten panels the
name aHd date of the ten greatest composers have
Park Place.] THE SOUTHERN DISTRICTS. 345
attempt was made to have the royaltj. extended
over all the southern suburbs of Edinburgh; but,
as that was strenuously opposed, they were afterwards,
by an Act of George 111. in 1771, divided
into eight distrkts in the following manner :-
I. The road leading from Bristo Street westward
by Teviot Row and Lauriston, ?? to the Twopenny
Custom? (in Old Toll Cross), to be called the district
of Lauriston.
been inscribed. Figures of two of these-Mozart
and Beethoven-have been already painted by
a Munich artist, and it is understood to be Sir
Herbert?s hope that the remaining eight will be
added.
Towards the middle of the eighteenth century an
with other thoroughfares leading into it, to be
George Square district.
IV. Nicolson Park, including the crossways
intersecting it, from the Chapel Street to the
Pleasance, and the street along the back of the
City Wall from Potterrow to Pleasance, to be
Nicolson Park district.
V. The Cross Causeway, from the south end of
the Potterrow to the east end of the said cause-
11. The streets of Bristo and Potterrow, from
their two ports to where they join (near the
General?s Entry), and the cross streets between
them, to be the district of Bristo and Potterrow.
111. George Square, with Charles and Crichton
Streets (exclusive of the corner house of the latter),
