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CATTLF; AND POULTRY 710,/411°W.--GREA.T WESTERN 'RAILWAY EXCURSION tio , , for one or two days will leave PADDINGTON for 818, , on THURSDAY, the 15th December, at 7.45 a.m., and on teke; B l2 n 1 6th, at 7.30 a.m., returning each evening at 7 p.m. t hat day e on the 15th will be available for the return journey on ror the or on the next ; those taken on the 16th will be available same day only. No luggage beyond a carpet bag allowed. FADES VIERS AND BACK : Carriages. Pari • First Class. Covered —thngton to Birmingham,— .. 12s. .. 78. Tram s a re are not transferable, and can only be used far the above Paddington, Dec. 6, 1853. DNESDAY EVENING CONCERTS, on EXETER HALL. e lath December will be performed selections from WILLIAM TELL. W ritten —B * MARCH, the LAST COMPOSITION of ROSSINI . , ettra,ZD r essly for the GRAND SULTAN. To give effect to this addedt o 42trY the Orchestra Work W TO distinct MILITARY BANDS 'will be : - which, some of the most popular COMBOSITIONS OF Mr. BENEDICT. econelude with Music of a Light and Miscellaneous characttr Cniuellt ENGLISH COM POS ERS. )hoaciPal Vocalists • —Madame Amedei, Miss Stabbach, the Misses raui, Mdlle. Annie Do Lara, Miss Chipp, Mr. George Ferren, ° Wig, Mr. Weiss &c. , Grand Pianoforte, MADAME DE BARRY. L AND —SEVENTY-T ,V 0 PERFORMERS: Conductors, Mr. BENEDICT and HERR MEYER LUTZ. ....tendr 'tk lust er _ L .. r. Ihirlwall; Director of trG... Music, Mr. Box: Chorus 'rro gra Brnythson ; Managing Director, Mr. William Willott. and Tickets to be had at the Hall. --- ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.. ti lts PATRON—II.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. riPXIIIBITION of PUO TOGRAPUIC PICTURES MAGNI vie a bout 40,r00 ti mes on th e Di sc , w ith the DISSOLVING Org,. B „' datlY at One o'clo^k and a Quarter -past Four. UNI by Dr. BAC ROFFNER on WILKINS'S NEW PATENT LECTtp , iAL ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH PEPPER, Esq., on Chemistry. .1880,rORICAL and MITSICAI., LECTURE, illustrated with the ZNG SCENERY, entitled " The ROAD, the RIVER, and W ilten b Y CARPENTER, Eici. (the popular Anth?r and Song tiat tizat , t assisted by miss Blanche younge, every evening, except o peu Y, at Nine o'clock. 'eh - 11 dr 4° rnillas and Evenings. Admission, ls. ; Schools and "A ander Ten years of age, Half-price. L-------__________ • AU RENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE ROOMS, rh o (Lessee, Cass. C. LAURENT, 00810 w-house, Fu.4am•road), 14!).:1 DELFRpATEI•Inue Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON. —Et,pr.— continu e ' il lt •'''''ATEl•l open every evening, with LAURENT'S ein g to -- - BAWD. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8 '"---,,,___ COMMenee at 9 o'clOek, and ter tdnate at half-past. 11. ALBERT SMITR ' S MONT BLANC Satn;.,? -11101- rf (TUESDAY), and EVERY EVENING (ex.. Tw o -- AY) at Mott- TUESDAY and SATURDAY MORNINGS, Stalls, 374. which can be taken from a plan at the box 'elpti:,7, e l! day, froml Eleven to Four; Area, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Hall, Piccadilly. INSON and COMPANY, CABINET b ri vv klt PACTURERg, UPHOLSTERERS, and CARPET ` 4 Be-j o NI 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 7 5 , Westminster -84, Lambeth, London. VVIC-lk INSON and COMPANY, DRAPERS, 1 4 ;415, ' MERCERS, LACEMEN, &c., 69 . 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, ; str ainster-bridge-road, Lambeth, London . — Shawls, Furs, a nillY Mournin, &c. • OYSTERS—TO EPICURES. 9 I:T ENBOROUGH and FAVERSHAM 7. NATIVE OYSTERS. Irth ' o - ,L i lost acceptable P t esent at this season of the year is a Barre - L'eleh r 7„ s t NATIVE OYSTERS, which are to be obtained at SCOTT'S " 1 c 58, 6 , OYSTER WAREHOUSE, 18, Coventry-street, Piccadilly, Barrel. warranted to weigh 141bs. EPE_NNY ILLUSTRATED NEWS th...—,spaner Til E• ILLUSTRATED TIM .s for Town and Country .— No. all the y.—No. I. of this E j(7Mcn — al l , coFnatmaiinlY gravi liews of the Week, aed enriched with numerous beautiful e. w ill /Wear next Saturday, Pee. 17. Price Threepence 113, Strand. Order of all newsvenders. l ir ° the NOBILITY and PATRONS of WAR bi Regent-street.—The SELLING OFF will d E at Ten o'c ' lock each morning after this announcement, .ures 'S'at bargains will necessarily be offered in Silks, Shawls, The a nd :Mantles. dissolution of partnership compels an Immediate wile, how ‘l,llfer:2!tt the loss, and it is deemed to be but proper that this early aavel: w an should be given to those who, for a quarter of a century, age—,ne acc ustomed to honour this establishment with their atron- 142 and 144, Regent-street. p a,, SECOND EDITION.—WITII ADDITIONS. I , o,,‘Ptibllshed,Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post free. ss. 6d. .k) -1 - 1 TRUE Az FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, With the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors 'tti a ..; ,T 1 to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility o f the ''1• 11 System, 'sr Sexual Rypochondrlasis. Translated from 'he German of Dr. PICRFORD eo " , lekford ts known to English readers by his frequent practi tir,„ .1 1 fributions to German medical literature. This is the first tel r' he Informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi '4lle7er• We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letect any . 'Lon A -14411 3 , flagrant evil which it may be in his cower to correct.' ,uls l .on Medical ilazette, May 30, 1851. The tribe of 'Quiet Sympa -17114 4: A n a, Medical Friends 'are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book Its way into the ' hands of those who stiffer frnm the corn- C sav ed w hich it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would ni,„ rn ,., 4 ch ndless suffering of body and mind, and prize of - „""ance, though it is that which the quacks most t,'Dlrice a Y • ....This volume is well qualified to put an end to the 1 11 ;'Ilt 00 S Yltein of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to piaci the treat iT a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefbre ° 47a" good."—Ms4ical Circular, June 16, 1852. Lon Ion: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. UL T IMATUM of the CATTLE SHOW.— Rre e he Cattle Shear; has this year been marked by a far greater utility than usual, the object of the A riculturist seems to cultiv * .t .,erea ation of a really useful business. It has also . been dis "orat,"Y thousands of visitors to the City that the magnitude and b e Mo'i ar chitecture of the East and West-end Establishments of k ion s 8 and SON is the result of unpatalleled commercial con uNie p";iaend that their business is the most accomplished record of taste oat h aving the most practical application, at every season, vaatageous selection may be made from their Unrivalled N.r ) at e b , orders for Dress are attended with more correctness, ‘lb l t he eb na economy than at any other house. The preparations tttnp ang vacations are on an extraordinary scale of grandeur • Ti 4r, os' 4 , and Young Gentlemen's Attire ordered or purchased . at C to .llp 4r . a r , d Son's possesses many desirable improvements, which in the novelty Of the materials and the New Mode of L.Kgiort n ,7covered by E. MOSES and Son, from which a perfect and eq, o ;"le Fit is insured, but the most economical prices are charged. 117 1 y Comfortable Overcoats and the Warmest and most Gentle k,siery later Attire is presented by E. MOSES and Son. The ‘",,, labt 4cl Ladies Dress Departments are replenished with an and rhea variety of new, rich and useful articles, in which superior tro' t aaa nd ,-, e heanness is s ' urpris ' ingly combined ; and Hats and Caps, pur-ohoes, &c. &e., show the inimitable advantages derived lug at E. Moses and Sots's. The Vast Stock in the ,rth bt ..uePartment offers t captains, merchants, and emigrants b ra t be cleft in selection not to be found elsewhere, that class of e l ife t ba bi r t Prepared from a perfect knowledge of the present state 41 'Y cj a „.'sta abroad, and in accordance 's ith the requirements cf Ztts „'„,".,?f Migrants. The remarkably low prices charged by E. V.,t h ", 1 ,1)- a '"olt hre a source of great profit to all purchasers. •4etrke sailing information and full lists of Outfits for Ladies and a:. ie I . lpr i( Vaay be had on application, or post free. • s i„ N • —E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the ilb t sraoha - ,". , 5t imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like c , b l , B artia " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's iog d ~,'"fiCern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for 5 C ce s " ,,, ea sons. they beg to state that they have NEEION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN Olt OUT OF LONDON, 14,0110 except their own Establishments, as follows : 4 ' Oll City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minories, 83, is la 1 1 11 d 86 A ldwite ppo all communicatin. t Wes end B ' ra o n - ch s . i b e o4, h :o, h gV, 'New Oxford-street, g 1, 2 1. foro 3 , Hart-street, all communicating. 14,7 4 (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Col Branch, 36 Fargate. I ,l‘,f,: °ll tal. Branch 51;113ourne, Australia. "Sthc r ,,Chant Tailo. , Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Nstakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. Lkei bt ORTANT,—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be '3ed if desired, or, if preferred, the . money will be returned Otie:lt hesitation. All goods are marked in plain flgure,s, the lowest 6e c l° n l Which no abatement can be made. ‘ l lro 4 `J., stablishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on "• when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. t k t t 4l ,‘° hook, "The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," con a n lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, &c., &c., 's hid 1 -en application, or post-free. 11,h,„"a Perle Francais. Qui si purls Italian°. s rrieht man Deutsch. Aqua se habla Espano ktb,„, .-T. , ADVICE ON THE SECRET I\ til . YOUTH LONDON, AND MATURITY.,,,,A.RE, _ —°,,to',.!-,IWIJEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, 0... 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London, 6:c f the nervous and generative_ have pro or bylete e T ;ste o m n , 44 utti, :tic f 'rations disorders o ~.ea and excesse „ w hi c h re _. t 444 th,, rci in juvenile irregulari" dation in manhood, and P 71 . ty re , lee,, t 'e Inisery in youth, dagra 1 4 4 k, - at all stages of life, and practical experience l„ille treat to modern pathologists. h Lon v g ed that there are in than perhaps any other class of at exi"' asei,„ a . i taent of these diseases --a! b4l!klie,"' e allses of self-acquired habits, to which Nervous mis i e p r u r i o s esalyldisappointed hopes in tt ßt 4lty 'vtraceable to certain pernicious and Unfruitibl Marrt teq34:ll494,riolts forms of Insanity, ess, and their tri t h i 4 , 4 rn b : c ii n e e 9 a Y ti , oh Lo s : w al e an the d ir C el o m ns es tit t u e t h io t t i t r a e l o W rig e l a n k . n ille' n e iDlc, °lately necessary that all men should et kn he o v w ie t l h a a t t ed th: i r t e ho ar h e t 1 41''lle t of Personal management which cant; ii,"„ l' be „, a i y Of inconsiderate self-indulgence, te.' i loya grievous penalties, and when wisdom h an w d th re es gr e ets th: llol,7llgated, hew the sting of their bitterness° penaltiesucceed es,t .. ,e evil and its cenQequenc es maybe infirmity or functional &,erc,`„esreely any degree of phYslcal a apply a cure. 1 11 ~..'uTciii. " . . ..te which the timely aid of science cann r3 oid m ed a , y an b ga re bo m v o e v all ed : It)14,i;;! e ate..'_A'MEßT has for a long series of , t delicate corn- s tiLtrietttaelizti:llsleprOanclytieleegiannythgeutalltflaed r • hysicfan wiu d ), srteghardas hadle y h e es a e been engaged siitZliri,,;',:nd envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, k:.ni pr o es e a, to direct r k VI te t h _ through the medium of the e,,,, t ,... n s,,ie_nse enormous evils, from which pu no i g c rade of society iS t Ni..." 41 by ',,t'ag thiq department of practice, he has been amply ~ r, "'ant of the great success that has attended his efforts in qt.: abe i alkie„,. l .e B e cases, which are too generally confided to the tr th e4tl %B ''' i ed and ignorant empirics, who, with their prated kart'll'lr Pater:tiarned foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues At k een l adu n ,,,' ti :tinas, have inflicted serious Injury on those who ' I X tiii ° '' l e 10, e ' m la Place faith in their pretensions. kecti n , tight ,CODAilltatloll daily from Eleven till Two, and from / t ‘4,, , tes ea.;l he letters must contain the fee of 11., and advice and i ' l lotd,i' desir,Lie f°r warded to any initials or address. trat ott e hat , t Patlenta wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT 4 1.1.. 414 a COPY of his work on % a t : teal 7'r. ~ SELF-PRESERVATION. .Iti‘,,i,-4,,ee on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and eZ h i n deianiLitY. Illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des rin—n- --a .varlerts disorders resulting from secret habits and - •-,04 Pernsal of this treatise will assist in the correct (.11, ~. feetheir e.- !le,„, ',Panish .., - -es, and May be had, pricein English, , '.., km e , i ',itch, Italian or German, of Messrs. Piper ,'..cS, 0er,,°,,,,23, Paternoster-6w • Hannay 63, Oxford-street ter fcri, ---- u,__" l Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or free .1 116';67,5° ,LoxBtaalPe ekldr from the Author's Mg * -- --,1511:41,4 r , u, "I - • - P;lce 28. 6d., UNCH'S POCKET-BOOK FOR 1854. With a Coloured Plate by JOHN LEECH, and numerous Wood Engravings. ' By JOHN LEECH and JOAN TENNIEL. Punch•ofce, 85, Fleet-street. it e , old 6 03 °d ' new 58 ! „, 0s • grin ding ' to' 70s ; °, 3 , t4 , 47° t° '"" ; e a ns, tick, 4C 3 38s to 413. 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Office, 85, Fleet-street, and sold by all Bootsellers and Newsvenders. B ELLOT TESTIMONIAL FUND. NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS. (Received at the apartments of the Royal Geographical Society, Waterloo-place, up to NoV. 21.) Sir Roderick I. Murchi son, D.C.L., M.A., F.R.S., V.P.R.G.S., Chairman • • £25 0 0 Aberdeen, the Earl of, K.T., M.A., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. .. 25 0 0 Acland, Sir Thomas D., Bart., M.P., 1.R.5., F.R.G.S. .. 5 0 0 Addington, H. U., Esq. 5 0 0 Aitchison, Captain .. 3 3 0 Alston, Mr. A. 11. _ _ Hughes, H. W., Eaq. • • I 0 0 Hurry, Edward, E. .. 1 1 0 Hutchinson, Col. H... 1 0 0 Hutchinson, Hon. R. H. 1 0 0 Ick, Rev. W. R., Sygles tborpe .. • • Inglefield, Capt. E. A., R.N., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Inglis, Sir R. H., Bart., F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Irving, Dr. E. 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Ward, of Hull,) will no doubt feel pleasure in permitting him to inspect it. We were that season in 82j degs. north latitude, and from 12 degs. to 15 dogs. east longitude, with an open sea to the north east free from ice. It is probable that the Captin Martin referred to by Mr. Petermann was the commander of the Eclipse, of Peterhead, as I find that vessel in company with us in high latitudes. It is also probable that others were quite as far north as ourselves. I find in my private memoranda that in lat. 79 deg. 30', 16 vessels were in company. Leaving unthouchea the piestion has to whether the Pole itself is land, ice, or water, and the practicability or impractica,biliiiy of reach ing it by land, I would state my conviction to be that the east coast of Greenland extends considerably beyond the 180th parallel of latitude. The strong current of the Nor thern Ocean sets the ice towards the coast of Greenland in a pack abont 300 miles wide ; when the current reaches the slrallower bed of the :ocean near the coast, it turns south and keeps an open channel about 50 miles wide be t Ween the coast and the pack of ice. In sailing north wo found the edge of this pt r,ek gradually tending N.N.E. to 82 degs.—how much further I cannot say. " I am satisfied that the probability of reaching the Pole by water is much g7eater than by land, for we had in 82j dogs. an open sea to the N.E. quite free from ice, no apparent obstacle pre muted itself to our progress ; we might have reached the Pole with the same ease and safety that we reached the latittude we then were in. I should remark, that the season of 1837 was remarkably fine ; my journal, under date of June 21st, states, that, ' there has been n continuous eve kne fiwneawnyeatil;hinerg likesin since April 10th ; the oldest captain " I give below a few dates, and corresponding latitude and temperature : - - - - April 25 29... 79 ' -30 Ma „ y 7 „ 29 • "An observation is app tended to the temperature under the last date as follows :- —" A very warm day.' I have felt the cold more at Edi nburgh in any ordinary winter than I did in these latitud os. I beg further to say, that a screw steamer, properly constructed, well manned, and efficiently commanded, we •ald prove the practicability of the attempt in a voyage c .f three months, and might, in addition to its main objet t, discover now fishing grounds to the east of Spitzbergen .for our whalers. The months should be April, May, and. June. In July the navigation of the Arctic Ocean becoi nes dangerous from the dense fogs which prevail,--I am, &c. " HRITRY WHITWORTH, M.D. " St. Agnes, Cornwall, :Kov. 25." From this letter it appears that the writer has been upwards of two degrees. further north than Captain Beechey, and that he cow m3quently speaks from personal experience on the sea to which I have drawn attention, and on all the essential points of my views which he cor roborates. Indeed, if a fair investigation of the matter from.all existing authorities were to be made it would, I doubt not, be found that ai:perience is rather in favour of my plan than otherwise. Even by the experience of the last two years many points connected with it have been confirmed. From the manner in which the case has been put before the public, the opinion co: me to must have been that I ad vocated the continuation o Rho search after Sir J. Franklin, than which nothing could be more erroneous. I proposed my plan two years ago, (!), while at present, and since the last Arctic dispatches, I have altogether refrained from offering any fresh sugges Lion as to whether the search should be continued in thi s direction of my plan. I have simply explained and defer ided my Arctic views generally, which, independently of th o Franklin search, affect matters of the most important description. It was neither for sel fish nor party interests, m Er merely for geographical pro blems, but also for what I: conceived to be the national interests of this country, tl tat I laboured to draw attention to the exploration of the si ias beyond Spitzbergen as being a great desideratum,. The Times, some 12 mo oaths since, advocated so promi nently the importance of t 3 lie Arctic whalefisheries, and it is with regard to this poin t entirely lost sight of by Cap tain Beechey that I beg yi en will kindly insert this letter as a kind of supplement to the communication of that gen tleman. It will be remembered that the American whale fishes ies in Behring's Strai:is amounted, in two years, to the enormous value of $B,O 00,000. That sea had frequently been traversed, even by Captain Beechey himself, and no such treasure was prognositicated, although whales were certainly seen. Now, the old navigators always fell in with whales in the sea east—of Spitzbergen, and it is quite reasonab!o to suppose that. they may still be found where they have never been distill. :bed, in the same numbers as in Behring's Straits. It has been said by soim s of my opponents, that these prospects, if so brilliant as represented, shut themselves out from public help. But it may appear to others that an investigation as to wheth my the seas east of and beyond Spitzbergen offer new whaleflahing grounds, is of a cl a ss o f objects wich deserve the attention and co-operation, if not the exclusive power of paternal Governments rather than private individuals. The survey of the Darien Isthmus, the search after guano islands, the exploration of inner Africa, and inner Australia, are precisely of the same chac ter, and without material assistance and hearty counte nance of Government, would. probably fail to be satisfac torily solved, or be considerably delayed. The British whalefishers entered spiritedly into the sug gestion of The Times, to employ steam ; a company for fit ting out two steamers was started last year, but, for want of certain hoped-for assistan cc from the Government, ulti mately dropped. So nnanimkusly were the British whale fishers convinced of the desiirableness of acting on certain of my suggestions that a petition was addressed to me last year, signed by 18 of the principal managing owners of British whalefishing vessels requesting me to use all my influence for inducing the dovernment to lend their a,-,sist ance in the investigation of the said sea. 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Sir,—My attention has - in n a :lleti Arctic subjects which appear in the Times of the 25th 1 ult., in which some passages small published several years ago* e quoted, in support of e letter w h u ie p h o upon which your correspon ent, Captain Inglefield, ex pressed at the Geographical Society, as to the state of the Polar sea, and the direction ' which Sir John Franklin should now he looked for, and which letter, he goes on to say, that these passages of . no, curiously enough, sup tvoolsum sup port all.the opinions he had ex .assed at that meeting. i 1 As nothing can be more di erent from my sentiments than some of those opinions, Lam desirous of an oppor tunity of replying to the chargé. The statements mad e at thy Geographical Society were to the effect that there exists open sea all the way from Nova Zembla - and Greenland t' Behriug's Strait, and that it may be passt'd th roug h i n " e season ;" th a t th ere was no ground for believing th a t tho se ever h a d b een an y p ac k e d i n ice between Nova Zeinblit and; Spitzbergen; that Spitz bergen was a very habitable Countr3t ; that four seamen left behind there amassed a fortaine, and insisted upon pay ing their passage home in the vessel which discovered them ; and, among other equally strange assertions, that Sir John Franklin or traces of him would in all probability be found at Spitzbergen. ' I believe, Sir, it will only be necessary to refer to the volume from which thwabove mentioned quotations were taken, to satisfy the inquirer that I entertain no such opinions, that the very reverse of a clear Polar sea has been argued and show to be the case throughout the book. In fact, the volume was written to prove the reverse of a clear Polar sea, and recounts the numerous unsuccessful attempts that have been made from the days of Sir Hugh Willoughby to the year in which Parry made his memorable jou ey o v er the Polar ice. And as regards Sir John Fr klin., he was at the time f that book was written in Van iemen's Land, and conse quently those passages could haye ;o reference to a search for him in the Polar regions. ado not suppose that Cap tain Inglefied intended those pissages to be applied to Sir John, but he has made no disthiction in his letter. As to the pleasure and profitableness of a residence in Spitzbergen, enough will be found in the early attempts to settle in that couatry-f• to show what they were • and, lest adventurers should be tempted to seek their fortune there, and the tide of emigration be diverted from the goldfields of Melbourne to the shores of Spitzbergen, it may be as well to observe that nearly all who attempted to settle in that island pe rished. In continuation, I beg to observe that the quotations made use of by Captain Ingiefield were written for a very different purpose than that to which they have been ap plied ; they were penned at a time when the approach to the Polo was considered a project worthy of a further trial by members of the Government then in office, and when the screw propeller was newly introduced. Under these circumstances, and a conviction that a greater advance to the northward might be made than we had hitherto been able to accomplish, I embodied those remarks in the con cluding part of the narrative of Buchan's voyage, and re commended the screw. Franklin adopted the recommen dation, and I feel confident it would havo aided him in time of need, for whenever its advantages in Polar navigation have been put to the test, its utility has been acknow ledged. It is with great regret I now find those passages have been so misemployed as to appear that I favour a voyage to Spitzbergen, or by way of the Pole, in search of Sir John Franklin—a project, in my opinion, as visionary as it is calculated to disturb needlessly the feelings of those persons who have the misfortune to be nearly connected with the crews whose probable fate we so greatly deplore. As I have been written to by some of those persons to learn whether I really think an expedition to Spitzbergen would be attended with any beneficial result, and as it has been rumoured that a lady whose heroic conduct is so well known to the world is willing to advance money towards such a project, I am anxious that nothing which I have written should be made to appear as if 1 in any way de sired to promote such an undertaking. It is stated that the probability of finding Sir John Franklin at Spitzbergen rests upon the supposition of his having passed into the Polar basin, and, that meeting with some obstruction towards Behring's Strait, he has sailed about, and either got wrecked upon the Siberian coast, and then made his way in his boats to Spitzbergen, or that he has intentionally taken that island in his way home, and that his having been there is supported by the fact of rein deer having been found at Spitzbergen with their ears slit. Admitting, for the purpose of argument, that there is such an anomaly of nature as a Polar basin (of course a clear basin is meant)—a belief repainted, if I mistake not, by all the most experienced Polar officers—and that Sir John Franklin has reached it through Wellington or some other channel, it is extremely improbable that, whatever may have happened to him, he would have attempted to find his way home by Spitzbergen. He has had sufficient practical experience of the difficulties which beset that route, and had he been able, by any chance, to reach Siberia, and have been there cast away, he would certainly have preferred seeking the Russian settlements upon that coast to undertaking a long and hazardous voyage in open boats, through a sea encumbered with heavy ice, to Spitzbergen. But, take Captain Inglefield's argument, and suppose he had reached the shores of Spitzbergen, it is quite clear to any mind that he would, iu such a case, have been home long before this time ; for he would have communicated with the Russians resident at that place. He is fully aware of the hunters' cottage near Magdalena, Bay, which he and I entered to gether some years ago ; and its inmates would have di rected him where to meet the vessel that is periodically sent from Russia to communicate with these men ; or he would certainly have reached Magdalena pay or Smuren, burg harbour by the means which brought him to the island— places which heknows to be tho common resort of such whaling vessels as touch at the island ; and, as we have been informed that one of such vessels has actually been at Spitzbergen in the last summer, ho would cer tainly have been in England with that vessel had he been there. We cannot believe that Sir John Franklin could have missed these opportunities and have preferred catching reindeer and setting them adrift with their ears slit. Nor is it likely that he would have quitted Spitzbergen in his boats, if he had once arrived there by that moans ; and there certainly is no other way by which ho could get there, unless by his own ships, for Captain Inglefield will not allow that there is any ice by which ho could approach it ; and then, if by his ships, of course, why not come home in them ? It appears to me, therefore, that the proposed plan is the most unlikely of all the suggestions that have been made to lead to the dis covery of any traces of our missing countrymen. But I have not given my reasons why I differ from Cap tain Inglefield in believing that he could accomplish this search for Sir John Franklin and get to Behring's Strait in a single season by means of his open sea between Nova Zembla and Greenland. The reason, then, is simply be cause I do not believe there i s an open sea for him to steam along, but, on the contrary, one encumbered with heavy ice, which I do not think he will get through. If it be otherwise, there must either have been some extraordinary convulsion of nature, or we must pronounce the voyages of Phipps, Buchan, Scoresby, and Parry, to be fictions, and believe that no such voyages as those of Barentz, Hud son, Ryp, Baffin, Poole, Wood, and others, and lastly, of Lutke as recently as 1824, were over performed , and that Purchas, Hakluyt, Muller, and a host of other writers, only penned fables to amuse the people of the day. If these things were so, then, indeed, we might believe with the gallant officer that there was no authority for differing in opinion from him; but when we know that on every occa sion of that sea, and of all other openings into the Polar ice basin being attempted, th e y h a ve been found impracti cable, that no satisfactory advance has ever been made except by means of the narrow lanes of water which occur between the land and the ice, when we know that on the Behring's Strait side, also, the attempts which have been made there have always been attended with the same un successful result (M'Cluro having advanced only by the beforementioned narrow channels long the land) ; and when it is clear, that had there been such a clear sea, Col linson would have been home long ago and outrivalled the gallant M'Clure in the brilliancy of his exploit. I say, when we put all these things together, it is impossible to deny that the conclusion of your correspondent is most extraordinary and quite unauthorized. To advocate an attempt to reach a high northern latitude with the aid of modern inventions and modern appliances, is fair enough—such expeditions have been acknowledged to have had their uses. In addition to the extension of scientific and geographical knowledge, they elevate the character of our naval service; they bring forward talents which might otherwise have lain dormant, and they have been pronounced honourable to the nation. On such grounds any person has a right to urge whatever may most promote the undertaking, and I will do Captain Inglefiold the justice to believe that he would cre ditably acquit himself of any such duty that he might undertake. He is one of those enterprising, sanguine officers, who occasionally become the bright orna ments of their profession, and we can quite for give the feeling, if not carried too far, of indiffer ence as to the dangers and difficulties in prospect, so long as he can but have an opportunity of testing them. But to advocate an expedition in that direction, under the idea that Sir John Franklin is to be found there, is surely wounding unnecessarily the feelings of those whose happi ness may be wrapped up in the fate of their missing friends, for it can only have the effect of uselessly reviving feelings which time and resignati on ma y have begun to alloy and temper down to a tender recollection of the past; and at a time when the mind may have begun to experience consolation from the bright hope of at length meeting in those bright regions of eternal happiness where the weary spirit shall be at rest and where the mourner's grief shall be for ever stayed.—l am, Sir, your humble servant, F. W. BEECHEY, Captain R.N. December 5. P.S.—Much time has elapsed since the appearance of Captain Inglefield's letter in your paper, and it was not my intention at first to offer any reply through the me dium of your journal, as you had so ably and conclusively dealt with the subject in your leading article ; but cir cumstances now render it desirable that I should adopt that course. F. W. B. * Captain Buchan's Attempt to Reach a High Northern Latitude by Spitzberg,en. ISIS. t Sec Voyage of Captain Buchan towards the North Pole. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—ln Captain Beechey's letter contained in your columns of to-day, and headed " Arctic Discovery," the writer comments upon some points connected with my plan of search after Sir John Franklin and my Arctic views generally. This is a subject in which the public has taken an intense and noble interest, which will continue to be felt, to some degree, even after Sir John Franklin and his 138 should be given up by all. But not one out of a thousand can be presumed for various reasons, so closely to investigate the subj ec t as t o f orm an independent opinion of his own, and therefore the general opinion is much guided by leading articles, and communications of celebrated authorities. Captain Beechey, for one, has put forth his "dictum !" It is not in the spirit of controversy, but luau humble endeavour to advocate what I have be lieved the interest of the British nation, that I beg the favour of your inserting the following letter communicated to the Athenmum of last Saturday, which may have been seen only by a few of those who would peruse Captain Beechey's letter in your own columns : " 1 ARCTIC DISCOVERY. " Will you allow me space to corroborate Mr. Peter man's observations in your number of October 22 ? I was surgeon of the Truelove, of Hull, in 1837, and would refer the Rev. Dr. Scoresby to the journal of that vepoel TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—ln a letter from Captain Beechey, which appeared in the Times of the Bth inst., the following passage occurs with reference to a proposed expedition to Spitzbergen : "It has been rumoured that a lady, whose heroic conduct is so well known to the world, is willing to advance money towards such a project." As the person alluded to can bo no other than Lady Franklin, I am enabled to state, from my own knowledge of that lady's sentiments, that Captain Beechey has been entirely . misinformed as to the intention of Lady Franklin to furnish money towards an expedition to that •island, and for these sufficient reasons--that she has no funds for such a purpose, and that her anxiety is mainly directed to an other point, viz., that unexplored region lying in the c ourse that her husband was ordered to take between the meri dians of Wellington Channel and Behring's Strait, which was his destined outlet. For several years her efforts, both with the Admiralty and privately, have been directed to this field of search, which has never yet been explored. I am Sir, your humble servant, Somerset-house, Dec. 9. C. li. WELD. THE WINE DUTIES.-MR. OLIVEIRA. A great and favourable result, as far as French inte rests are concerned, has been produced by Mr. Oliveira's visit to Bordeaux. The honourable member for Ponte fract, who is collecting from the best sources in all the wine countries various data to give full effect to his statement in the approaching session, recently visited the city of Bordeaux, and the enlightened commercial magnates of that important place, not only placed at his disposal all the information with respect to the produce price, and capability of supply which were necessary for the purpose, but they manifested so much sympathy for the question in which Mr. Olivera is engaged as to produce some very complimentary results. A special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was convened in the splendid Hall of the Bourse to re ceive Mr. Oliveira, and the Vice-president, Mr. Berlin, entered very fully into all the questions, commercial, moral, and international, expressing an earnest hope that Mr. Oliveira's efforts might be successful, as well for the interests of Bordeaux as those of the wine districts of France generally, and the still higher claims of inter national friendship and alliance, to all of which Mr. Oliveira gave a cordial response, referring especially to the advantages he expected to obtain for British inte rests in the shape of increased revenue, improved morality, greater improvement for British shipping, and an augmented intercourse with the French nation. Subsequently the Chamber of Commerce invited pad Oliveira to an official dinner, a compliment rare?' v i";;;. by that body, and upon that occasion the grn oo the chants and municipal body were all present, _! 6 e T oque nt, British Consul. The President, in a e _verY o f eor?-1 speech, referring to the very great ativ_f e l if i a! inertial relations with Great Brita r in :p ev o ; o f the sta " . health in connexion with the ;: i c; (l 7' givivg some and in duties ; to which Mr. Oliveira 'replied, reve en t e, e h health tistical details upon the ternational questions, concluding. The Pre 7hat the general 048 by e ` n t gave the of the Emperor of Fri.alce (nad a ppea!, Queen of England, uiries encouragement. arc of Mr. Oliveira the oTea test rive arc such as to d an d i t w . this part of France, t to be on their way srEALJ A * ers Among the gold ships re- GOLD FROM the Mohawk, from Sydney, on the 29th to England, a .. ,L"; no ported by the tl ivi ie r :f u , s . - I :7T i a s rta: ioi r u - , nm f e r p i s m e;r, o f August 14th port Philip, on the 12th of Philip, 14,095 ounces on the f r om andneh."aciagnocar' ounces. The total value of these the 4 :, ith 60000 Augusents about there was - the tallow market yesterday hALa'sv'nA-- In per cwt. , owing to fresh purchases on rise of 1 tor a acting upon the political news, r t of *eon a t 325,000/. the Pa 1 00 2 2.0 1 1 0 [PRICE SD• CORN AND CATTLE. (Prom the Times.) Amid wars and rumours of wars, Asiatic cholera, London fog, Lancashire strikes, and all the other troubles that thicken around us, it is consolatory ttoerfinodf unqualified oneelassatle c a o s n t g w ra h t o u s l e at c io o n n . ditio T n ha i st aismanto other than our old friends the. ag,ricultnriitz,,iillo have really forgotten their once familiar language of complaint. Theirtameness is almost shocking, so accustomed have we been- to see them in their m th o e r y e i t la ra r g e ic n ni ot ood so s w . T n in h o e l i .e r and generally gone deeper into speculation. It is b m e u ei t mutton, Christmasn , th - oi veal, s)eel7o and d not only that wheat fetches. more than twice as pork, n grou n stand d soe much as last year,only complaint a n i i n o t r: s Ca t t i t i l a e t , but those vulgar, but needful substantialities, beef, figure than last Christmas, and higher still the was there so great a supply-, though only lust meet 7Abseaaslittiotsti and 290 pigs, that stood in 2e in meet ing the demand. Good profits there must have other_ :nB3eg Smithfield-market a r s eli in proportion, ~ 2t 06 0 0 , c u a l e vl v . Monday, covering the al close s a e m u u la c t h higher h,na ling" was impossible till the afternoon. Many a country squire, as well as tenant-fanner, not to speak of here and there a clergyman, who culti vates both parish and glebe, has derived from that sleek multitude the means of more ample hos pitalities than usual. The extra leaves of his mahogany have been oftener in requisition, more merry faces are gathered round his fire, the house rings more loudly with laughter-loving lasses, and one son more is destined for Eton, or some pre paratory school. Unquestionably the prosperity of this class assumes a more graceful form than that of the sister interest. With increased demand for calicoes you have more chimnies, more noise, mom dirt, more cellars, more cholera, more talk about, sanitary measures. With corn-and-cattle pros.e perity we have all that the poets have ennobled and the Protectionists have vulgarised. True, the mercantile part of the affair is not very beautiful. A fat beast, panting, sweating, and staggering through the streets of London, with his tongue out of his mouth, vainly trying to slake his thirst at every little pool in the gutter, is not a more agree able object than a bale of cotton wool. But we must not concern ourselves with the intermediate stages, when the beginning of the agricultural pro cess is the rural homestead, and the end a dining table. They say that a visit to the kitchen before dinner would effectually dispel appetite ; so it would be nothing strange if a visit to Smithfield and the Baker-street Show had the same palling effect. But a word or two about this intermediate stage —the fat beast itself. Glad aro we to find that year after year our feeders are getting out of their old way, which was simply to produce a mountain of fat with the least time and cost. The wants of the customer were put wholly out of view. Moore's Hindoo city, in which comely butchers and welh filled shambles were everywhere seen for the benefit of natives who were compelled by law to buy, but prevented by their religion from eating, was quite' equalled in a metropolis where a conspiracy of farmers, butchers, cooks, and tallow-cha n dl ers compelled us to buy, cook, carve, and put on our plates, masses of adipose matter, which the palate and the stomach alike resen t e d, and Liebig has, scientifically condemned. There is a continued and progressive improvement in this respect. Size' and fat are no longer preferred to beauty and meat. Among the successful competitors for the prizes, or those that should have had them, we find such notices as " a little Devon of great beauty " " a most splendid beast, small, and well made, with a great quantity of the finest meat in a small compass"—" very superior, and just fat enough for all useful purposes,"—" a very fine little beast," —" a very fine, superior beast, showing a great quantity of fine meat, - which is what is required," —" very good, and not superfluously fat,"—no pretensions towards being a fat beast,"—while giants and monsters are justly left to their own disgusting ugliness and cumbrous inutility. Vat beasts, fat women, and fat children are very well for shows, where there is always a certain class of minds who are better pleased with bulk than beauty. Otherwise, the article itself, it is now generally agreed, ifs about as injurious a substance, in undue proportion, as it is possible to force into the human stomach. But, while we congratulate the agriculturists on the good time which has come at last, we must admit that we have no desire to see prices always what they now are. That they are so high is not, as a certain gentleman seems to imagine, the effect of any financial laws, but simply the natural course of things. It so happens that corn is cheaper in this country than in those around us. The French and Belgians are coming to us for supplies, and the prod uce o f th e Bl ac k S ea i s diverted from us to Italy. In fact, this metro polis may now boast the cheapest market, quality considered, in Europe, and, if legislation has done anything, it has cheapened food rather than the contrary. This resort of foreigners to our market takes place, too, be it observed, when an immense stimulus has been g iven to foreign p r od uc ti on , when English capital and English skill have been transferred to other countries—not .directly, per haps, to the cultivation of the soil, but to public works and general improvement. This happens, too, at a time when our examp l e an d t h e deman d s of our immense consumption have led all the na tions of Europe to greater efforts of industrial and material improvement that were ever known in history, so that philosophical fanatics loudly lament the present degradation of the world, manifested, as they think, in the predominance of such vulgar pursuits. Yet, in spite of this universal pursuit of useful wealth, England keeps ahead, and has at this moment the most abundant supply of the food of man to be found in the world. So much for the taunt that the repeal of the corn laws has not given us cheap bread just now. It has given us cheaper bread than Louis Napoleon is able to give his armies of workmen, soldiers, and courtiers in Paris. It has given us bread so cheap that the immense harvests of the Danube are detained On the shores of the Mediterranean by higher prices than we need give here. If it has not given our people all the content, wisdom, and happiness we could de sire, that is a success which, so long as man is Ma n , we are not to expect from any law, or any work, in this sublunary sphere. THE STRIKES. ( From the Morning Herald.) The charge of Baron Alderson at the Live;pool assizes calls attention to a fact connected with our manufacturing system of fearful contemplation. The learried judge, outni alluding to same cases to be tried ii before him arising of the strike at Wigan, took occasion to ape,* i•ngcon demnation of strikes. Be attributed the the workpeople in them't th • erience.. In i o eir want of exp ed dilating upon this t • topic the learned baron us these re embark'innm of markable words :-- " It is lamentable that it should be so; can not help thinking that it is from the wont cifexperience that this m a tt er arises • for from the shortne ss 3 3 the manufacturing districts the p are generally very young. cenoplertieennipolfoytehde etlxpieree. 'The PT - very small, and it rienced to the inexperienced, thetnfie 1 course of my official has been my unfortunate fate, persons of this life, to come here and try i e o rt of offence. Every eight, description for the same ° generation arises ; they have sinuccession nine, or ten years 3 ' --- e stitTeriligs of their predecessors, not tbe experience or th they overbear the more experienced, and by their n umbers and thus the thing . fro mVisesndgeof the land, in the habit of Hero We have distract,j testifying from his official know visiting that t h o e , es ifaoness of life in the manufacturing dis ct that "the people employed in the ledge to to and, finally, that tricts ;" ge nerally very young;" factories aretilential avocations "a new generation arises in these Pe: e g nine, or ten years." ev rr er h Y e i-i t i statements are unhappily too true. Our factory isssnstained by an annual sacrifice of human life s ys - te - i e u s , ter far greater, than that expended in some of our' ' rea glorious and successful campaigns. We speak not f o o w st of the hundreds each year cut off by violent and 1 shocking deaths—of those who fall victims to the dan gers to which the contact with machinery exposes them. It has been calculated that these accidents almost equ a l the casualties of an ordinary campaign. But we speak of that which is infinitely more shocking— o f the constant wear and tear of human existence which is perpetually consuming the manufacturing pop u l a ti on—of the R r i ß tematic shortening of human life, which isthevinieetviraitasblei result of the factory system. Th e wretched that system do not live, out half their days.njoyment of they do live they have but little of the The days every eight y n • ine, _ oaition to all the doc- Before the Legislature, in opposition trines of the political economists, placed some restriction upon the labour of younTghpersons, the evil was of a most appalling character. were driven to these slow death. Infants e process of the factory " was houses to toil for a, f terrible work sink to the grave, or years,encounoter r even e months w oreeanddestiny of then being turned out on th cts-- e world w ith stunted ' f rames and weakened i n t e ll e and avarice ~ „ m iserable monuments of the cruelty _ 04 the • millowners Too b"reVer, Qf much, , , this terrible system still remains. The order of industry is reversed in the manufacturing districts. Human beings do not toil that they may live, but seem to live only that they may toil. Health, strength, moral 'cul ture, intellectual improvement, all are sacrificed to the one consideration—how much work can be got out of the human frame ?. The flesh, and blood, and sin ews o f our fellow-beings are estimated exactly as so lunch iron and wood ; as for the minds and souls of the workmen, they are as little thought of as_ if their flesh, and blood, and sinews, constituted, in reality, nothing but machines. The time is come when the Legislature must interfere to regulate the entire of this !'system, which is now at tended with such fearful results. Millowners must not. be . permitted to slay their thousands and tens of thousands every year without check or control. Men may prate as they will about the laws of politi cal economy, but there are laws of God and our nature to which at least some respect is due. Here we have a social system which condemns hundreds of thou sands of our noble population to earn their bread by a labour which shortens their existence, and consigns them to an early grave. The selfishness of man will tell us that we have nothing to do with this—that it is the prin. ciple of supply and demand s the proportion of capital to lahour s eutirestricted competition—or reply in some one other of the forms in which the cruel gangers of a false philosophy appeal at once to the wickedness and the . in dolence of our nature. 'Political economy will repeat the primmval excuse for the priuueval murder, and teach society to, ask, " Ain i my brother's keeper ?" The very Occasion on which the sentence was tittered which has drawn out these remarks:., an answer. What brought Baron Alderson to Liverpool? Exactly because society has assumed a guardianship over the factory workers. The millowners are now engaged in a tremendous struggle to teach the factory workers that they are en tirely in their masters' hands. This is the plain meaning of those enormous efforts by which a combination of millowners on •one side is now endeavouring to break down a combination of workmen on the other. In the contest between labour and capital, which is now agitat ing our manufacturing districts, there is no other prin ciple involved but this—Can the masters absolutely dic tate their own terms to those whom they employ? Sup pose the masters to succeed, their power to do so is established. But it is enough for our purpose to say that they assert that right. A few hundreds of men—not the most amiable—not the best educated—not the most generous in the community, assert an absolute power of determining the conditions upon which hundreds- of thousands of our people shall work. - Thisis practically the power now asserted by the conspiracy of the mill owners ; they are starving their dependents into submis sion ; they combine for the purpose of forcing their workmen to accept implicitly their own terms. Their b t t y o r t a h n e n y w o i is k a i n b s a o n l _u t e “ and t z u e n i ti c o e nt twork rolled. as T i o h n e g y as say, ay r in fact, we please, land for 'whatever wages we please, or you must starve. This is the short and quick logic of these cotton lords — a logic which their oppressed victims are, we fear in effectually, att em pti ng to answer by strikes.' It is impossible not to look to the practical effects of the exercise of this power. We must remember that, even partially controlled by acts of Parliament, these men have yet so arranged the conditions of factory em ployment that under it human life wastes away. Eight or nine years is a period sufficient to consume a genera. tion of its victims, and in each cycle of the duration a new supply of human sacrifices is offered to the Moloch that is the god of the manufacturer. On the part of the workers there is no power of resisting. This is the as. sertion of the masters. This is the substance and the meaning of all those homilies which are so condescend. ingly addressed to the working classes upon the truths of political economy and the folly of strikes. To this one proposition they all in the end resolve themselves. You must take whatever your masters think proper to give yon, and to question it is only running your head against the wall. If this be not the meaning of these philosophical lessons, they have no meaning at all. The rate of wages must be fixed by the masters. This is the great law which is enunciated under every one of these specious forms. .... If there be truth in this it is impossible for any exer tion or any conduct of the working people to remedy the state of things to which Baron Alderson bears such fear ful testimony. We may explicitly rely on human avarice and human cruelty to continue the system as it is, as long as millowners have the power. Contract is out of the question—competition, practically, does not exist. Strikes, we are told, are a species of contest in which the master is sure to get the better. What, then, is to be done ? Either the Legislature must interfere, or we must submit to the perpetuity of a state of things in which we sacrifice the souls and bodies of our working population that a few capitalists may make rapid and enormous gains ; under which we doom to a miserable existence and a premature decay our fellow-creatures, whom an All-wise Creator sent upon this earth for other purposes than to toil away their health and strength in the forced exertions which the avarice of the mill owners demands. To the statement of Baron Alderson we earnestly implore the attention of our readers, and to the reflec tions of the philanthropist and the Christian we leave the fearful fact, that we are doing all we can to encou rage and extend in our land a system under which human life—and young life—is wasted away in eight or nine years—a system which condemns each year a large proportion of our population to a tyramly that spares neither age nor sex—that tasks the woman and the babe —that exacts from its victims a toil that has neither re• gard for physical health, nor mental culture, nor religious training. This is the factory system of England. The nation must regulate that system, or as sure as the world is governed by the laws of moral retribution, that system will destroy the nation. WHAT EMIGRANTS SHOULD DO OR THEIR ARRIVAL IN CANADA. The difficulties of an emigrant on first landing are not those which an uninformed imagination would be apt to paint. Canada is no longer a new province with little means of absorbing labour : she is far advanced, and her ' power of absorption far exceeds the quantity of labour likely to be thrown upon her shores in any particular year. An English, Irish, or Scotch emigrant, of the labouring class, is safe enough, if on landing at Quebec he has sufficient means to carry him to the old settlements !of Upper Canada or the neighbourhood of those railroad enterprises everywhere going on. A few dollars will suffice for each individual ; and every able-bodied man is certain of obtaining immediate employment at 4 shillings . !sterling a day, and more on the railways and other public - !works. As the ulti ma t e object of_ every emigrant ac•' fcustomed to a gr i cu lt ura l lab Our should be to b ecome the farmer of his own land, he cannot too soon begin to acquire that knowledge which he will find essentia l i n :his vocati on . Th ere i s necessarily a wide difference in the mode of farming here from that pursued in an old 'country ; and the poorer the settler the greater will he 'tfionrdalthat emigrants,differe difference ewithout o It most be the fat e o f a ll agr i cu l- hour, to clear the land oft h i e t r s ' r forestse s o urc . e s This s n i their sil l a• : emigrants a new Occupation ; and it is better that every ; emigrant should learn something of this - and similar new ' e ti ec ow u n pat t i o ° ns clear by he work working for another before , he : settles the emigeroanuntt asa a ra f . a l rrn on his own account. the that will b 17 h of time in the ma i rhoaraddlyorreamna.4?agricrulitenurgat_ labourer,r, e useful to him as a settler on his own land hereafter. As a farm-labourer the know ledgewithout acquiring knowledge kind; but many would at first obtain better . remunera tionallhe will acquire will be of the most useful as railroad labourers. There is one h N t , h e l nag w hich desire to emigrants of the labouring class who Main object of all voluntary emigration and towns as better their condition —and that . wet a t u ak_e . s t h o ou b l e d the be careful to do : they should shun f a or th l e if r e e, ; t l e m n t ch if a t n h ce ey s will be t mere is , u bo o reason in the world why t o lae o e n s e otfhesyettlernent. If they ll u r re e n m rs ai go to the c ount t ry, eeo h m er e e independent farmers, owning hey should no b niuch real independence . of land rk settle see p i 00 o r 200 acres as can land, well fallan d to n t j h o e y i l n o g t, a o s f, ,_ 114 : i ee b nwt :c iandehnist whateverd-t o r e e tr] earned e t d s man. The gagrictuolbt object t l e t nig o r b a t n a t in s i l u io g uld Oa s eul he does should always be made affident to`fitty an instalment on I When the emigrant has spent a year or two in the country, ai . i me Thevaluable worth know ledgeo f this pr e i. min a r y knowledge can hardly be over-estimated. - It land, lie to a N' s .j s l i l st t l h ii e s n ft i l i t a L e e o o b p t e a ra in t e i d on s s o . iii more valuable than a considerable amount of ready cash. The emigrant who brings a small capital with him, and goes to work as a farmer, on his old coup tly- plans, instead of waiting to learn the methods filch experience has proved to be profitable here, In such Wises which th 1 i ..31most sure to- miscarry ; while he who brings not . - 1 pital, but his labour, and is, therefore, necessitated •••_ ti• accustom himself to the prevalent mod es of *ming, almost invariably succeeds. failure is almost unknown. The 'terms on In the i g r a b b e s t i l Government disposes of the public lands are e - • i 'The nd s in n price a a h - ° e st c o varies ..' , f irn o n p ta 6 g s eo . t u o s s t s o . a t a he ac i) re o , o f r or e tg, or indeed in the world. Of only one-tenth is required clown '- the purchase money payable in nine annual instalments. purchase being give the emigrant a great adva t These conditions g denied in the United States vih n a ge) ,which. Would r e sold exclusively for cash: , , ere th e ' public_ n d, " are being demonstrated i T a e capabilities of Our ail 'I II rapid increase of our n yemarkable way by soil rig which article we shall, exports, pa,rtieul ar i f ''' • e 14 United States. • a s export Y(3 Wilea ‘ in ers, soon outdo the ' If it is important for the :' r bred to agriculture to dais of emigrants who are ~ the grave of their ro avoid a residence in the town, as profesSional men ps p e ets, it is no less needful to warn 1 skilled labour a • and all who follow any description of ~ There is, no gainst the seductions of a farming life. ~,. classes to become Mistake thin for persons o_f these ' homy could Possibly be farmers in Canada . 1•1 valueles a s . ''' What, it-has taken isi render t t o o eui bark in a pur suit '1 where they c year t s tohope leartno, a i n( lval the labourer who . has no pretension a s n t n o o skill. It is a Mistaken idea that because Canada Mechanical labour is equally is a colony mechanical labour is not in demand; a n d th a t . !. if mechanics emigrate t o this country they mu s t nece ssarily turn their atten tion to agr i culture. sought for as agricultural ; and the competition among employers has, during the last year been severely fe lt in some branches of industry. d for bricklayers , masons, There is a great deman d classes of mechanics. Emigrants other car penters, joiners, and several . . . Emiants of some means, especially if farming be their pursuit, should not be precipitate in making pur chases o f land or anything eise. Their success depends upon precaution. Let them first acquaint the mse l ves w ith the country, its various resources and capabilities, and the modes of cultivation which prevail. Let eve ry class of emigrants be sober, industrious, and economical, and success will to a certainty crown their efforts.— ;Toronto Leader. - I[ lll ROME COUNTIES AND METRO POLITAN- FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY. • ._. lifemb e . Office -14, Chatham-pla ce , Illackfriars. event ) ge fro enrolled Daily. Office hours 10 to 4—and on Thursday m 7 to ~ PRESIDENT. Lord Dudley Ceutts Stuart, M.P. Allr.l VICE-PRESIDENTS. —43 ' Pellatt, Esq., 13.f.r. William Ewart, Esq., M.P. APslev p.......i. TRUSTEES. . s 5.....,,, r.sq., iii,p . William E war t, Esq., M.P. ,_ John Williams, Esq. Der Share 4 w 3 e o leaen- Entaance Fee ls. Subscription, One Shilling The bire t e 1Y Purchased reoreraspeoti special n rn ir t,t attention to the class One at Wood-gre, of estates t that are anaongst the members of this sociey, be one g tor building fa rpOSCS "the Most ell ibi; '''''cr Mullet allottel is acknowledged to b ,Igoetety; and Land *erected f a further purchase i Wi nbledon-park has just been yet d,st,ibtited by any kir u "y equal, ic not Au n ' ..._ablY adapted f • ' perlor to the one at Wood•green, ad wikrhere is la or first class villas. zt, . now an opportunity, either by paying up Shares, or tak . ing 12 to get Ballot-rights of acquiring plots on this highly eligible 2011 table estate. A - 714104 take place Monthly. , Om_ IIJtI%RY KNIGIIT, Secretary. ' '',.---14. Chatham-place, mackfrlars. 39 ipton 1 1 De" 0 )1 ..• Ii .• '.~