Out And About: In Derbyshire.

" Glossary . " The chancel , large , and the north transept have lofty lancet AA'indoAYS . Some A aluable monuments to the Cockayne family are being injured by clamp . Amongst the Boothby monuments , one of a child in unquiet sleep is a good work by Banks . It has a pedantic inscription in

English , Latin , Italian , and French . The toAvn itself is quaint and interesting , with many schools , almshouses , and other parochial structures scattered , about ; and the views of the valley in which it stands , seen when approaching ifc , are fine . Canning made ifc talked about years ago by these two lines in one of his " skits " —

" So , down thy dale , romantic Ashbourne glides The Derby Dilly , earring six insides . " The drive from Derby to Dove Dale is charming , too , though it is hard now-a-days , when sitting behind a pair of horses after a railway journey , to avoid remembering the little girl , AVIIO having ridden fifty miles in a train , then took a coach to her uncle ' s house , some five miles further , and beino- asked on her arrival if she had come

by the train , replied— "We travelled a little Avay in the train , and then all the rest of the journey in a carriage . " Approaching the dale Ave reached Ham , Avith its pretty prim cottages , built for effect , and a memorial cross , by Derick , after the fashion of that

at Waltham , but including a fountain , inscribed to Mrs . Mary Watts Russell , by her husband , the oAvner of the estate . The inscription says —•

" . Free , as for all these crystal waters flow , Her gentle eyes Avould Aveep for others' AVOO ; Dried is that fount ; but long may this endure , To be a Well of Comfort for the poor . " This fount , howevez * , AVOUICI seem IIOAV to be dry too , or , at any rate , drying . The AA'ater in the

basins round the cross , Avhen Ave Avere in the neighbourhood , hacl evidently been there for some time , and was not attractive . The disinclination of even Avater to run aAvay at Ham is understandable ; it is certainly a pretty spot . Ham Hall comes Avell into the picture ; andas Ave approach

, the Izaak Walton Hotel , Thorpe Cloud on one side ( a truncated cone as seen here , though a pointed mountain vieAved from behind ) , and Bunster Hill on the other , mark the entrance to the picturesque dale . The name of the hotel alluded to will remind readers of the connection

of this beautiful piece of Derbyshire ancl Staffordshire ( here the counties touch ) AA'ith the well-known hosier of Fleet-street , " Father of angling , " and his son-in-laAV , Charles Cotton , Avho lias sung the merits of the Dove with brave Avords . . The Tiber , the Tagus , and the Po cannot SIIOAV such streams , —

" Tho ITaese , the Danube , and the Ehine , Are puddle-water all , compared to thine ;" and Tame and Isis , when conjoined , are made to lay their trophies at its feet . This is simply stuff , but Dove Dale is a lovely place notwithstanding . The stream here smoothly flows , with its often-painted " stepping-stones , " and

there rushes impetuously through a narrower channel and dashes itself into foam against fallen stones that impede it ; Avhile on either side treecovered hills alternate Avith craggy masses of rock ; in one part grass land smiles , in another precipices frown . The view from the Lover's Leap ( of course

there is a lover ' s leap ) is truly grand , including an amphitheatre of Scotch firs , ash , and beech , mixed up Avith limestone rocks of quaint shape . The more prominent rocks have names of old standing , and " Dove Dale Church , " " The Sugar Loaves , " and other masses are pointed out to the tourist .

The " photographing gentlemen , " as our guide puts it , are changing the names ; Avhy or Avherefore does not seem clear . Thus on their VICAVS fchey call the group long knoAvn as "The TAVCIVO Apostles " " Tissington Spires North ; " surely a stupid alteration . Do , pray , gentlemen of the

camera , leave fche old names alone . The path here and there is rugged , and in ascending to Reynard's Cave , the highest aim of the enterprising examiner of Dove Dale , the difficulty almost amounts to danger ; at any rate , care and a steady head are necessary .

Ham Hall , though just out of Derbyshire , must not be passed by us Avithout a few notes and praises . Ifc is one of the best of the

modem-Gothic houses erected at the commencement of the present century . The first stone Avas laid in 1821 , and the late Mr . ShaAV was , Ave belieA-e , the architect . As the residence of a private gentleman , not pretending to be a palace or a castle , it is [ complete and homogeneous . Good taste

appears to have had direction over eA-ery part of it , nothing incongruous or poor meets the eye . The grounds , too , are charming , and fche ancient village church Avithin them , ancl near the house , backed by Thorpe Cloud , comes into the vieAV from the Avindows . Why called Thorpe Cloud ,

by the way — this mountain ? Thorpe is the hamlet Avhence it springs , and the Cloud will be seen most days hanging loA'ingly around its shoulders . The Hall contains some fine pictures —tAvo good Vandycks , Landscer ' s "Dogs of

St . Bernard rescuing a Traveller , ' a landscape by Gainsborough , a portrait of Congreve , A \ ' 1 IO Avrote at Ham his comedy , " The Old Bachelor , " which AA'as produced in 1693 , and part of " The Mourning Bride , " produced in 1697 ; a charming seabCalcottfull of movement good icture

piece y , ; a p by Opie , "The Dame School" ( the " head of the old Avoman worthy of Rembrandt ); and HoAvard ' s "Pleiades and the Morning * Star , " suffused Avith poetic feeling . There is , too , an admirable bust of the late Mr . Watts , by Chanfcrey , A \ ' 1 IO

also executed an elaborate and beautiful monument to his memory , erected in the church hard by . In this Mr . Watts is represented as rising from his bed , by the side of Avhich are his only daughter and her children , who , it is understood , wait to receive his dying words . An open book in his hands , to which he is directing their attention ,