The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-07 00:00:00

LORD LYNDHURS T.

Since the announcement which was published in
our columns yesterday, we understand that Lord
Lyndhurst is still so far recovering that hopes are
given of his recovery. General the Hon. Charles
Grey, at the request of the Queen, sent yesterday
to learn the condition of the noble and learned lord.
The telegram was—" The Queen is very anxious to
hear how Lord Lyndhurst is."

The early bulletin announced that " Lord Lynd-
hurst had pissed the night again satisfactorily, and
the improvement represented yesterday is sustained
to-day."

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston sent a
special messenger from Broadlands, near Romsey,
on the noble Premier learning the dangerous illness
of the noble ex-Lord Chancellor, and former col-
league. Lord Lyndhurst and Viscount Palmerston
are the only surviving members of the Administra-
tion of the Right Hon. George Canning.
Later in the day the following bulletin was
issued, signed by Dr. Thomas Hawksley :—" The
improvement in Lord Lyndhurst's state has been
well sustained during the day and this evening."
The following bulletin was issued this day :--
"Lord Lyndhurst has not passed so good a night
as the two preceding ones, and his condition to-day
is not quite so favourable as yesterday.
" THOS. HAWKSLEY, M.D."

EMIGRATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM in
1862 amountee to 121,214 souls, of whom 58,706,
or upwards of 48 per cent., went to the United States;
15,522, or a little more than 12 per cent, to British North
America; 41,843, or nearly 34 per cent, to Australia and
New Zealand; and 5,143, or more than 4 per cent. to other
places. The emigration of 1862 exceeded the emigration of
1861 by upwards of 29,000 souls, and was larger than the
years, but fell much short of
average of the four previous
and '57, and was less than two-
the emigration of 1855, '56,
fifths of the emigration of the eight Years from 1847 to 1855.
The greatest decrease, both in 1861 and 1862, was, as
might be expected, in the emigration to the United States.
—Social Science Beciew.
WHITEBAIT.--Whitebait, without which there
would be no Vessel, and in the minds of a great
many people no Greenwich—whitebait, which Theodore
Hook called " curl-papers fried in batter," which most
people sneer at asnothing, and which everybody eats with
delight—are caught where the water is a little brackish,
generally between Barking and Greenhithe, with a net 30
feet long and 12 feet wide. This net is cast always in
daylight, either at high or low water, and remains two feet
below the surface until nearly the ebb or flood, as the case
may be. At the commencement of the spring whitebait
first appear, but not in largo quantities, as these are old
fish who escaped the last year's netting—about the middle
of April the young fry, perfectly transparent, arrive, and
in the first week in May come to perfection. So it con-
tinues for a couple of months, then gradually whitebait get
larger and larger, and about the close of September are lost
sight of altogether, There is speciality for dressing "bait,"
and the fisherman who, assisted by his son, for upwards of
a score of years has supplied the Vessel, not only catches
the whitebait but cooks them• On a glowing coke fire is
placed a large frying-pan full of boiling lard ; the fish,
first thoroughly rolled in flour, aro placed in a cloth,
which is plunged into the hissing fat, The cook, a per-
fect Salamander, utterly impervious to the frightful heat
which makes strangers wink and beat a hasty retreat,
takes the handle of the frying-pan and turns it from right
to left, peering in at the seething mass. In two minutes
the cooking is accomplished, and the fish are emptied out of
the cloth on to a dish. Ye who would taste your bait in
perfection, get permission to eat it in the kitchen.—
Dfckens'B f( "All the Year RouncV,