The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-04 00:00:00

" MY WIFE AND I."

PART IL
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to Ten. W. CORBYN, Acting Manager.

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Every Evening, at eight (except Saturday),
with new characters, music, songs, and dances. The scenic
illustrations and effects, entirely new, painted by and under
the direction of Mr. William Callcott. Morning Performance,
Saturday, S ept. 6. at 3. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 28.; amphitheatre,
Is. Box-office open from eleven to five.
Mr. Woodin as Mr. Sotbern, of the Haymarket, in his
celebrated character of "Lord Dundreary," Morning and
Evening.

-1- A RGYLL ROOMS. Great Windmill-street,
--11 Haymarket.—GßAND CASINO FRANCAISE.—
Open every Evening for Promenade and Dancing, with the
celebrated Band of 50 performers. Conductor and Principal
Cornet-a-Piston, M. 130IILCOURT.—The new Imperial
drille, Valse Cotillion, and L. Mosca's Peep o'DayValse will
to played nightly.
A new Conversation Salon•has been added to the above
Fstablishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments.—
Admission lg.—Manager, 21T. Grenet.

1.) OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-
Under the M GARDEN.
anagement of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.
THIS EVENING. Benedict's highly successful Opera,
THE LILY OF KILLARNEY. Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss
Thirlwall, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. Smithy, Geo. Perron,
X'atey, Dussek, Lyall, and W. Harrison.

Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon.
Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Dion RoueJesuit. Lessee.
THIS EVENING, THE YANKEE LEGACY.
Followed by the first part of the Arab Entertainment at
half-past 7.
After which, THE COLLEEN BARN: Messrs. Dion
Poucicault, A. Vaiidenhoff, F. Robinson, Searle; Madame
Celeste, Jordan, Stevens.
To conclude with THE ARABS OF THE DESERT : a
Troupe of the Beni-Zowr-Zourr, at 10.
Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 to 5.

THEATRE-RON Al. HAY MARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J B. Buekstone.
THIS EVENING, at Seven, FISH OUT OF WATER.
Mr. Compton, Mr. Rogers, Miss Caroline Bill, &c.
After which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed (219th time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck-
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern.
Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled CELOS
l's'CA LTA ; or, Love and Jealousy. Senora Perea Nena, Se-
nor Ricardo Moragas, and the rorps de Ballet.
To conclude with THE CHRISTENING.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. Messrs. Higgie,
lieadows, drc., and Miss Maria Harris.
After which, at a quarter to Fight, KING HENRY VIII.
rardinal Wolsey, Mr. Charles Kean ; Queen Katharine, Mrs.
Charles Kean.
To conclude with THE TWO POLTS. Mr. Viriddicomb.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

t? OVAL LYCEUM THEATRE,
1 I Sole Lessee and Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.

252 d Nizht of the rontinuous run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS le VENING. PEEP O'DAY ; or. Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Falcone! ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers. Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.
After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude. entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.

Followed by a new Farce, entitled THE COLLEEN
PAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Mr. Charles Selby and Miss
ydia Thompson. _ _

AC-U' Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
PTices Fig naval. Doors open at half -past fi, to commence at
7. Box-office open daily from 11 MIS.

i'mmmence ft 7

NEW TTATATI/F-R0 VAL. ADELPHI.-
sole Proprietor and Mnns.,:rer. Mr. B. Webster.

THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER.
Messrs. J. L. Toole. P. Bedford, MissWoolgar, Miss Kate
Kelly, and Mrs. H. Marston.

After which, ADRIENNE LE COL VREUR : Messrs J.
L. Toole. Billington, D. Fisher, Sefton, Stephenson, Fburne,
Miss A vonia Jones, Miss Lattimer, Miss K. Bland, Miss
Latimer, and Mrs. Itillington.

To conclude with THE SHIT LING DAY. Messrs. T. L.
Toole, P. Bedford, Phillips, Miss Latimer, Mrs. 11. Lewis.

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Commence at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
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of "Mazeppa."
THIS EVENG will be performed MAZEPPA ; or, The
Decorations.
Wild Horse of Tartary, with New Scenery, Dresses, and
Tc be followed by a brilliant routine of novel and daring
fScenes in the Circle.
To conclude with a COMIC BALLET, in which the Misses
Gunnis and Harry Croueste will appear.
Manager, Mr. W. Searle.
Commence at 7._staae

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Vancouver Island and British Columbia : where
they are ; what they are ; and what they may
become. By Alexander Rattray, M.D., Edin.,
R.N. Smith Elder, and Co.
Among the most useful of the works that have
recently appeared on these colonies, we must class
the one before us, which, unpretending as regards
bulk, has been compiled with the view of dissi-
pating whatever erroneous ideas may exist with
regard to these colonies, as well as of pointing out
in what their respective advantages consist, and of
indicating for what fields of enterprise they offer an
advantageous opening. Of the two colonies that of
Vancouver Island is the one in which the author is
most at home; he has evidently spared no pains to
convey accurate information respecting its climate
and capabilities, and he is extremely sanguine as to
its future. Still, he admits that our present know-
ledge of the island is very imperfect. A large part
of it remains to be explored; and it is the same with
British Columbia. "Fur-trading settlements have
long existed in its interior, which has therefore been
partially explored ; and the gold diggings of more
recent date have opened up the country in the
neighbourhood of the Fraser River; but the north-
east, north, and western districts, including nine.
tenths of its surface, are still unsettled, and much of
it unvisited." Up to 1859 these colonies were in
the hands of the Hudson's Bay Company, who dis-
couraged emigration, but in that year their charter
of exclusive trade expired, and active colonisation
commenced. The area of British Columbia is about
200,000 square miles," nearly twice that of Great
Britain, and its population is from 5,000 to 6,000,
of which the miners form about one-third. Whilst
the area of Vancouver Island is about 14,000 square
miles, and the white population of the island is
about 4,000 or 5,000. " A narrow but navigable
channel separates this island from the adjacent
colony, too narrow and intricate at its north end to
be of much use, but broad and deep along the south
coast and the lower half of the east coast of the
island, so as to permit of easy and safe access by the
Strait of Fuca to Victoria, the commercial harbour
of the colony—to Esquimalt, its naval har-
bour—and by the Gulf of Georgia to Nanaimo
and its coal mines—and to the Fraser River,
the largest and most important stream in British
Columbia, and the principal outlet for the commerce,
and the agricultural, mineral, and other products of
the country." The climate of Vancouver Island,
of which the author gives an elaborate account, ap-
pears to be, on the whole, favourable. Thus from
the Ist of April, 1860, to the Ist of April, 1861, 187
days were fine, the remainder being dull, showery,
rainy, &c. Rain fell on 118 days, and snow fell on
12 days only, and then neither heavily nor for any
length of time. The highest summer temperature
was 72 deg. ; June, July, and August being the
warmest months of the year; and the lowest was
231 deg., the coldest months being December,
January, and February. Southerly winds prevail,
as a rule, and occur in the proportion of 67 per cent.
The climate of Vancouver Island is much superior
to that of Canada, and " is milder and steadier than
that of England ; the summer longer, drier, and
finer, and the winter shorter and less rigorous. The
mean annual temperate of the former is higher by
1.38 deg. than that of the latter. During the sum-
mer months the hot weather of Vancouver Island
is not so oppressive, and the maximum tempera.
ture is less by 14 deg. than that of London ; while
in the winter the tempers lure never falls so low at
Vancouver Island as in London ; and the annual
range of the two places differs by 151 deg. in favour
of Esquimalt." From a table to show the relative
prevalence of rain at Esquimalt and London we
find that rain falls in London once every two days,
and at Vancouver Island only once in three days ;
and the climate is said to be remarkably healthy.
Vancouver Island, the author admits, is not likely
to acquire the agricultural prominence of California
and British Columbia, as neither its geological
structure nor general topographical features fit it
for an agricultural or pastoral colony.
" 13y far the greater part of the island is hilly and moun-
tainous, and, in fact, forms the prolongation of the Olympian
range, which, branching off from the Rocky Mountains to
the south of California, rims up along the coast, traversing
its entire length so as to form its back bone. A compara-
tively level peninsula, containing about 150 to 200 square
miles, exists at the southern extremity of the island, in the
neighbourhood of Victoria, formed by the Saanich and Sooke
inlets, on which several fine farms and sheep stations are
actively and profitably worked; but this cannot be taken as
a criterion of what prevails over the island generally. The
probability is that such another tract, equal in size and fer-
tility to the Victoria peninsula just alluded to, is not to be
found over the entire island. The prospect from Victoria,
which may be taken as a fair example of the general fea-
tures of the island throughout, though fine, is by no means
inviting in a utilitarian point of view. It presents only a
series of lofty, undulating, pine-clad hills, which rise irre-
gularly one behind another, and have small intervening
valleys where patches of arable land exist ; but the hills
themselves are generally so scantily covered with soil as
barely to afford root to the scattered and stunted trees on
their sides and summits."
Such land, however, as is fitted for cultivation is of
good quality; all kinds of English grain and vege-
tables grow readily, and it is anticipated that by
draining, some of the lower parts of the islands will
higharei
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promises every facility,
be gre&tly improved. Farm labourers, it seems,
ynwicle
present are £4 a month
for with
becomingrations,,
great
rraiensatdi
cs6s of
agricul-
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the
and pastoral colony. The
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interior, or agricultural region, "are extensive tracts
of fine woodland and of open prairie highly fertile,
and well adapted for farming or pastoral purposes,
and well watered and drained—first, by the Fraser
River, which traverses its entire length from north
to south ; and, second, by an innumerable number
of lakes, many of which are of considerable size, but
the majority small and unimportant, and most
numerous towards its northern part. In the In-
terior the climate is fine, mild, and dry, and superior
to that along the Lower Fraser,' which still forms
the principal route to the agricultural country."
The soil being dry, irrigation is necessary, but, as
the country abounds with streams, this is compara-
tively an easy task. The mineral wealth of both
colonies is great, that of Vancouver Island consist.
ing of building material and coal fields, whilst the
gold and silver mines of British Columbia are pro-
bably the richest in the world. As a manufacturing
and commercial colony the author considers that
Vancouver Island will attain a high pitch of
prosperity. He gives many useful hints as to the
branches of industry likely to be most remunera-
tive, and intending emigrants will do well to con-
sult his pages before they start.