The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-07 00:00:00

N°.17,664.] LONDON, MONDAY E G

THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS OF COLONIZATION,
EMIGRATION, AND PENAL ARRANGEMENTS.
Just published (with a Map by Wyld, Charing-cross),
LETTER from Major Robert Carmichael-
Smyth to his. Friend, the Author of " The Clockmaker," con-
taining Thoughts on the Subject of a British Colonial Railway Com-
munication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, at the same
time assisting Emigration and Penal Arrangements ; concluding with
a few Remarks on the Grand Canal and Railway Project of Lieut.
Henry Millington synge, of the Royal Engineers.
Published by W. P. Metchim, 20, Parliament-street. Sold also by
Simpkin and Marshall ; Ridgway, Piccadilly ; Wilson, Royal Ex-
change ; Saunders, Charing-cross ; and R. Folthorp, Royal Library,
Brighton.
Concluding paragraphs from the article in the HISTORIC TIMES
of the 23d of-February, on the Missing Arctic Expedition.
" This brief sketch of Arctic discovery may serve to remind our
readers of its progress to the present time, and prepare them for
further discoveries, while it sufficiently illustrates our estimate of
the national character that in about fifteen years the iee-bound
coasts of a continent extending 110 degrees of longitude, i.e., as
wide as Asia, and twice as wide as Europe, has been traced by land
and sea, and its interior traversed in every direction. It cannot,
however, be doubted that the same amount of energy and capital thus
employed might have joined the Atlantic and Pacific by a path available
for commercial purposes, united the west with the east, poured the
wealth of the latter into the coffers of our merchants,' and spread reli-
gion and civilization to the most remote corners of the globe."
Extracts from THE SUN, 16th February.
" According to the scheme disclosed in this remarkable pamphlet,
mails, mercharidize, and passengers might be perpetually conveyed
to and fro between England and her colonial territories in the two
hemispheres without having to traverse the roads of Continental
Europe (which roads might be rendered impassable at any moment
by the outbreak of a general war), and without the necessity of
having to double either the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn,
where the seas are as tempestuous as the voyages are circuitous;
and the intercourse between Great Britain and her most distant
and scattered possessions would not only be by this means less liable
to interruption, but it would be infinitely more rapid, and, in every
respect, more convenient. The proposed line of railway. would link
together the two oceans, the Pacific and the Atlantic ; it would
stretch in a direct line across our colonies in North America; it
would commence at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and would terminate
at Frazer's River, pouring into the Gulf of Georgia ; it would com-
municate by steam-vessels with the ports of the United Kingdom in
one direction, and in the other would promote a continual inter-
change of commodities and intelligence with Pekin, with Canton,
with Australia. with New Zealand, with the Spice Islands, with
Ceylon, with Madras, and with Calcutta.
" The North American Railway from the Gulf of Georgia to the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, running from Nova Scotia by St. John's
through New Brunswick, across the St. Lawrence and Otawa, tra-
versing Upper Canada along the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Su-
perior, through the dominions of the Hudson's Bay Company to the
south of Lake Winnipeg, over the chain of the Rocky Mountains to
the coast of the Pacific confronting tke Island pf Vancouver—this
enormous line of railway would then be the first substantial em-
ployment of that felicitous fact which has been intimated in the ex-
pression that the shores of the Pacific constitute the end of the West
and the beginning of the East.'
" It would form the great link required to unite in one powerful
chain the whole English race.' It would penetrate the enormoun bar-
rier of the Rocky Mountains. It would, in a particular manner,
bind together the interests of England, of the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany, and the Canadas. It would present a magnificent field for the
employment of gangs of convict labourers—criminals who by clear-
ing and enclosing lands, by constructing roads, and building bridges,
would be withdrawn from the diabolical contaminations of the
penal settlements, and would, unconsciously be instrumental in for-
warding the grand labours of civilization.
" It would pass through regions 'rich in mines of silver and copper,'
such as the vicinity of Lake Superior. It would draw into use the
abundant timber of the Oregon, the plentiful coal of Vancouver's Is-
land, the iron, lead, and tin, the granite, slate, and sandstone, the
oolites, the cattle, wool, hides, and tallow, the salted meat, the beef,
the pork, the wheat, the barley, the Indian corn, the apples, and
the rest of the nutritious vegetation which now flourishes uncon-
sumed in the lengih and breadth of the North American Continent.
" Such is the noble project of a Colonial railway suggested by
this patriotic pamphleteer."
Extract from THE SUN, 13th March.
"On the 16th of February we directed public attention to a
pamphlet, in the form of a letter, addressed to Judge Halliburton,
the immortal " Clockmaker"—a pamphlet in which a magnificent
scheme is proposed for the cennsxien of the Pacific and the Atlantic
by a railroad running through our North American possessions,
through the Canadas, and through the territories of the
Hudson's Bay Company, beginning at the harbour of Ha-
Max, near Newfoundland. and terminating on Frazer's River,
opposite Vancouver's Island. Since then, it will have been
observed by our readers that the author of that remarkable
pamphlet, Major Robert Carmichael Smyth, has addressed a
letter to ourselves, in which he disclaims any of that dogmatic
egotism which is generally supposed to actuate the projectors of such
colossal enterprises. The pamphlet of Major -myth, previously
printed for private circulation, and written without any signature
upon the title page, has, subsequently to the appearance of our re-
marks on the 16th ult., been published in a complete and well-
digested form, accompanied by an illustrative map from the hand of
Mr. Wyld, the geographer. Now, that the plan may be regarded as
fairly before the public, we cannot but take this, the earliest oppor-
tunity, of reiterating our previous argument, that the noble scheme
suggested by Major Carmichael Smyth is one intimately associated
with the present condition and the future destinies, with the glory,
the greatness, and the prosperity of the British empire."
Extract from the BRITISH and ARMY DISPATCH, 16th February,
before the Pamphlet was Published for General Circulation.
" This pamphlet is from the pen of an officer of rank, whose long
residence on service in North America has enabled him to offer to
the pdblic some valuable suggestions on the subject of the extension
of railway communication on that vast continent, in the further ex-
tremity of which new ground has lately been broken in the progress
of civilization. The pamphlet purports to point out means for the
employment of the people and capital of Great Britain in her own
colonies, by undertaking a great national work, and thus opening
the shortest road to the most extensive regions of wealth ever
before at the command of any nation in the world (not regions of
gold, but for commerce and industry), and opening to Great Britain
a new outlet for the superabundant population of her soil, and new
markets for her labour. With great minuteness and considerable
local knowledge the author traces the means by which the far apart
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans shall be made easily communicable, and
urges that on that part of the line where the district labour and ca-
pital is sufficient, it shall be undertaken by the residents, and where
population is too thin, the remedy can be supplied by English capital
and convict labour.
" The pamphlet is altogether well worthy of perusal by all who
are interested in the progress of the great tide which is now so
strongly setting ' westward.' "
Extract from the BRIGHTON GAZETTE, Bth March.
" One consequence of the recent discoveries in California has been
the renewed and zealous discussion of various plena heretofore sug-
gested for opening a direct communication between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, instead of the present circuitous and hazardous route
by Capo Horn. A general feeling seems to have hitherto prevailed
in preference of a water line by the river and Lake of San Juan de
Nicaragua ; and certainly, as compared with the Isthmus of Darien
or that of Tehuantepec, there can be little doubt of its superior eli-
gibility. But we think that the views developed in the able pamphlet of
Major Carmichael Smyth will go far towards effecting a revolution in
public opinion. For the United States the route above-mentioned
may be a sufficiently desirable one ; but the author of this pamphlet
contends—and therein he will have at least every Englishman on his
side—that such a communication ought, if possible, to be made
within the limits of our own territory.
" In a question like this the advocates of Colonization must feel a
strong interest; for 'let England her Northern American, colonies,
and the Hudson's Bay Company,join heart and hand, and with the
great power of steam which it has pleased the Almighty to place at
the command of man, there will soon arise a work that will be the
wonder and admiration of the age—and such a mercantile and co-
lonizing road will be open to Great Britain, that at no future period
(at least within the imagination of man), will she ever again have to
complain of too great a reputation on her soil, and too small a market
for her labour." This Letter is addressed to the Clockmaker,' and
who will not echo the exclamation of that distinguished writer—
' Oh, squire, if John Bull only knew the value of these colonies, he
would be a great man, I tell you—but he don't.' "
Extract from the RAILWAY TIMES, March 18.
" There is work to be done—wealth to be opened up—men's bodies
and souls to be saved—the press teems with suggestions, plain,
practical, and operative—yet not a ray of intelligence, of apprehen-
sion, not a sign, not an expression indicative of activity, escapes
from the chief of the Colonial-office, or his fussy, yet do-nothing,
subordinates.
" We shall revert to this topic in our next, and lay before our
readers the able, invigorating arguments of Major Robert Carmichael
Smyth, in reference to the subject of a British colonial railway corn•
munication between the Atlantic and Pacific.

IT is impossible to detail in the limits of an ordi-
nary Advertisement the many advantages appertaining to the
REGISTERED PAL ETOT, the MORNING COAT, &c., suf-
fice it to say, that Messrs. NICOLL purchase the woel direct
from the foreign grower, and it does not leave their possession
until it is produced in a complete form and ready for the inspection
of their Patrons. Messrs. NICOLL are honoured with the patronage
of their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert, Prince George of Cam-
bridge, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, his Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington, and all others distinguished in Rank and Fashion, the Court,
the Pulpit, and the Bar.
114, 116, and 120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNHILL.

NDER the SH kDOW of tho GRASS-
IJ lIOPPER (22, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange) may
be seen the City Depot for the NICOLL, the REGISTERED
I'ALETOT, NICOLL'S MORNING COATS, and other garments,
with some portion of each of the beautiful fabrics daily exhibited in
the spacious warerooms, 114, 116, and 120, Regent-street, as not
only these last-named premises, but also those in Cornhill, are the
property of one and the same firm.
The following agents have also a large variety of goods for inspection,
viz.:—Messrs. Wareing and Son, New-street, Birmingham ; Messrs.
Dawbarn and Son, Bold-street, Liverpool ; Messrs. Macdona, Moles-
worth-street, Dublin ; Messrs. Christie am' Son, George-street, Edin-
burgh; Messrs. Wilson and Co.. Calcutta; Messrs. Rutherford, Hong
Kong ; Messrs. Roth, Philadelphia ; Messrs. Bruce, Cape Town.
II y a des agents pour la vente de ces articles brevet& dans toutes
les principales vines de l'Angleterre et des c•lonies qui out des as-
sortiments prets a etre examines.

TELL GWYNNE TAVERN and • CHOP-
HOUSE, Bull Inn-court, Strand, for Luncheons, Dinners,
and Suppers, Three Doors East of the Adelphi Theatre, awl opposite
Adam street.
Messrs. ARCHER, and HOLT most respectfully invite their
friends and the public to patronise the Nell Gwynne Coffee room,
which has been fitted up in the style of the period in which she lived.
Visitors to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected with
Somerset House, and the Banking Houses in the vicinity, will find
the Table d'Hote, which takes place at Half-past Five precisely, the
most comfortable and reasonable In the metropolis.—Fish and
Joints, 2s. per head. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers mar_ One
o'clock. Private Dining-rooms excellent Beds, superior Wines and
Spirits, fine Ales, and Barclay and Perkins's Stout.

N.B. An Entrance also from Maiden lane.

OLD FRENCH BRANDY, purest possible
kind, 60s. per dozen; the brown 545.
MARSALA in perfection, as partaken by the Nobility, 1/.-4 doz.
PORT and SIIERRY (beautiful Wines—it is scarcely necessary to
use finer, except special occasions), 34s the dozen.
PORT or SHERRY, highest order, 445; bottles of each included;
own carts, six (a 5/. order 100) miles free ; terms, prepayment, or
on delivery., If you do not pay cash, you bear a proportion of
others' debts, independent of salaries to book-keepers, clerks, col-
lectors, travellers, &c. Credit is the admitted bane of trade, and
keeps up high prices.

Orders payable to JOHN JONES, Wholesale Dealer
(for 11 years past), Knightsbridge, Agent. for
BASS and CO.'S INDIA ALE. GUINNESS' STOUT.

N.B. Choice Claret (much admired), and the Champagne direct
from Bouded Stores at the Docks, each il. per three dozen, Cases,
Duty, and every expense Included.
Fresh Seltzer, Gs. per dozen.

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THE COUNTRY IgARK.ETS.
LIVERPOOL, MAY s.—At our COrn. Exchange yesterday
there was a moderately fair demand for wheat and lour, at
prices barely equal to those obtained on Tuesday. There
were several buyers from the interior. There was no change
in the value of any other other article, excepting Indian corn,
which was in some instances 6d per quarter dearer, and the
Irish demand is unabated. There is little business going for-
ward to day In Indian corn and flour at yesterday's prices. No
change in the value of other. articles of the trade.
s. d. s. d

Wheat, per 70Ib :
English, white • • 7 2 to 7
Do. rid.. ' 6 8 6
Irish, new .. 6. 2 6
Do., old • • • • 6 4
Dantsic .. • - 7- 4 -' 7
Do., good mixed 7 0 7
Lowerßaltic,whit., 6 . 2 —• 6
Do: led— 6 6-6
American • ••6 0 7
Canadian • • .. 6 0 6
Spanish, red -and'
white.. .. • • 6 8 7
Tuscan and Bar-
letta, red .. .. 6 2 6
Marlanopoll • • 5 4 5
Odessa, Polish .. 5 9 5
1)0., hard.. • • 5 0 5
Egyptian •. .. 4 3 5
Oats, per 451 b :
English and Scotch 2 9 3
Welsh • .. 2 6 2
Irish, new .. 2 6 2
Do old .. 2 7 2

s. d. s. d.
Barleyireeding 3 3to 3 6
Rite, par 4801 b 00— 0 0
Beans,Ehglish, pr
imperial quartr 33 0 36 0
Irish and Scotch,
Per 480 lb .. 30 0— 31 0
Foreign, duty pd. 25 0 30 0
European, per im-
perialquarter.. 32 0 —33 0
Peas, English, per
imperial quartr 30 0 —3l 9
Foreign . • • .. 26 0— 28 0
Matt, English, per
imperial quartr 6l 0
Do., Irish .. 55 0— 56 0
Do., brown .. 54 0 —b7 0
Flour, English, pr
2801 b • • .. 36 0— 34 0
Irish, extra fine •• 38 0 39 0
United States, per
barrel • •
•23 0 25 0
Canadian .. 23 0—24 0
Oatmeal, English,
& Scotch pr24olb 95 0 27 0

Barley, English, pr - -
imperial quarter 30 0 —32

Ash, new •• •• 24 6 —25 0
Do., old .• •23 6 24 0

riLha,nxSc,poeterh6,olabn.d. 3 3 an corn, per 31 0 34 6
3 6 4801 b
MANCHESTER, MAY 5. e have again Indi
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to report a very
languid demand for flour throughout the week, and in the li.tle
business transacted the previous currency has been with diffi-
culty obtained. Oatmeal of choice quality having continued
scarce, was saleable at a further improvement in prices. Con-
trary winds have generally prevailed during the week, to which
cause probably the scanty arriviti of prodeee at Liverpool and
Runcorn may in some measure be attributed, the only import-
of moment being about 7,000 barrels of flour and 13,000
quarters of Indian corn from the United States. At our
market this morning both wheat and flour were in limited
request, and might have been purchased on somewhat lower
terms. In the value of oats no change was apparent, but on
prime cuts of oatmeal we raise our quotations 6d per load.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY s.—The only feature
worth notice in the West India market this week has been, that
the first cargo of Barbadoes for the season has been brought
forward, and about 300 hogsheads have been sold at very firm
rates. Four or five thousand mats of Mauritius have been sold
at full prices. Rums are quiet. The arrivals during the week
have been, in the Harebell, from Mauritius, 4,852 mats of
sugar, 10 puncheons of rum ; in the Maria, from Barbadoes,
557 hogsheads, 38 tierces, and 42 barrels of sugar; in the
Sybilla, from Alauritius, 200 casks, 4,362 bags, 50 puncheons
of rum, and 3,546 mats of sugar.
GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, MAY 3.—At our market to-
day the numbers were—cattle, 633 ; sheep, 669 ' • lambs, 40.
We had a large show of very superior cattle, which met a dull
sale at a decline of 6d on the top, and even at that fall the mar-
ket continued quite inactive, and a great number of beasts
turned out unsold. Best ox beef, 45s per cwt • second, 40s to
42s per do ; cows, bulls, and inferior animals, 35s to 40s
per do, sinking the offal. We had considerably fewer sheep
this morning. Sales were brisker and easier disposed of, at an
advance of id per lb. All sold. Best aged wethers fully 6d
per lb. ; second, 5d to sid per ditto, sinking the offal. There
was a good supply of lambs for the season, which sold according
to quality at from lOs to 24s each.
ABERDEEN, MAT 4.—Grain—Oats 14s 6d to 15s 6d,401b per
bushel ; barley, 23s to 245, 521bs per bushel ; bear, 23s to 245,
52 lbs per bushel ; wheat, 46s to 52s ; oatmeal, 1156 d to 12s 6d
per boll ; flour, .37s to 45s per Bach. Provisions—Beef,
3d to tid per lb ; mutton,_ ditto, 3d to 6d ; veal, ditto, 3d
to 6d pork, per stone, 4s :to :48;6d ; lamb, per:lb, 7d to Od;
tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, lOd to Is ;
hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each Od to Os ; hares, each, Os
t6°(ll;s turkeys, to Os ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 8d to 10d ;
eggs, per doz, 6d to 7d ; cheese, per stone, Os to Os ; hens, per
2paii4r 2d
tso 62 ds
Bto d 2s; ;ducks,
each, di ditto,
s
cure ), per cwt, 62s to Os ; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, 5d
to 4s Od ; geese, ditto, Os to Os; butter for exportation (present
to Od ; 4b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stone of 14 lbs
ducklings,9d ;chickens, di ditto, ditto,
tol °2ds
3s 6d to Os Od; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork large,
3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, 1001. to Os.
Meal—Oatmeal, Is 3d to is 4d; bearmeal, is 3d to Is 4d ,
peasemeal, Is 10d to 2s; sids, 6d to 7d ; barley flour, is 4d to
Is 5d ; barley dust, 7d to 8d ; flour, 1110 d to 2s; barley, per lb,
lid to 2id.
of the three prices of wheat were 18st 101 b, 18st 41b, and, 18st
01b. Oats, 12st 101 b, I2st 31b, and lOst 101 b. Barley, 16st 31b,
DALKEITH, MAY 3.—The relative weight per four bushels
15st 61b, and 14st 1 Ilb. Peas and beans, 19st 121 b, 18st 01b,
and 16st 101bs.
Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior.
218 Wheat .. £2 11 0 £2 6 0 £2 0 0
1150 Oats
84 Barley
82 Pease and Beans 1 13 0 1 8 6 1 4 0

Average of wheat 4ss ld.
MONTROsi, MAY 4.—There was not much corn business
doing to-day—prices looking down. Wheat, 62 lbs, 45s to
46s • oats, 40 lbs, 16s to 16s 6d ; barley, 53 lbs, 23s per qr.
BIELFAST, MAY 3.—Wheat is in good demand, and prices
unchanged. Flour is a slow sales,. at about former prices.
American, 24s 6d to 26s per barrel. Barley scarce, and sells
freely at my quotations. Oats are in small supply, and demand
dull. Oatmeal—The supply continues moderate, and prices
unchanged. Indian corn sells slowly ; yellow, 8/ 5s to 8110 s ;
white, 81 to 815 s per ton. Flaxseed sells freely at 32s to 35s
for Riga, and 70s to 74s for Dutch.

CORK, MAY 4.—The arrivals of foreign grain continue very
moderate, and the supplies of that of home growth very trilling.
The stocks of Indian corn in this port are rapidly running low.
This week a large business has been done in the article, so that
with the consumption that is going on and the fact (as we be-
lieve it, having the information from good authority) that the
supplies coming forward will fall far short of what was gene-
rally expected, we look for a further advance in the value of
this grain. With reference to the future supply of wheat from
abroad, as much will depend upon the continuance or non-con-
tinuance of the Danish blockade, we cannot, of course, speak
with any certainty; but we incline to the opinion that, with a
long continuance of hostilities in that quarter, we shall have
wheat scarce and dearer. The prices of grain at our.market
have undergone little alteration, but barley and oat sowing
being nearly brought to a close the value of those articles, for
seed purposes, tend downward. In prepared wheat we have
little doing. In foreign also, until yesterday, when some dis-
position to make purchases was manifested, but a trifling
amount of business was transacted. We quote the value of
both articles 6d to Is lower than the rates of last week. Inferior
wheat is inquired for, but is scarce. The stocks of prepared
oats in store here are reduced to a narrow compass. Holders
evinced much firmness, and there is little disposition to sell ex-
cept at higher rates. An offer of lOs 9d for a parcel of blacks
having been refused, we may quote the value of the article I Is
f.o.b. In flour the business doing has been quite in retail, and
the advance established some days since has not been sup-
ported. Bakers are engaged in working off late purchases, and
until they are again in the market as purchasers we cannot ex-
pect any decided improvement. In Indian corn, as we have
previously remarked, a large trade has been done,
and we may quote the article a free sale at 2s 6d
to 5s per ton advance, the current prices being 81 7s 6d to
8/ 12s 6d, the latter figure however being scarcely obtainable.
Flour—Firsts 14s Od to 14s 6d ; extra 153 tid ;
seconds, 13s Od to 13s 6d; households lOs to 12s ; thirds 8s to 10s
per cwt. Oatmeal 12s to 12s 6d; Indian meal 8s 6d to 9s ; wheat
meal, lOs 6d to 11 s per cwt. Indian corn 8/ 2s 6dto 8/103 Iv:- ton.
Bran 4/ to 4/ 5s per ton. Hay—Farmers 305 Od to 41s; average
36s ; dealers 45s to 48s; average 00s Od per ton. So aw—Farmers
I3s Od to 303 Od ; average 30s ; dealers 35s Od to OOs Od;
average OOs Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 60;
household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter,
Coals—
Newport to
9d per lb. Eggs —4s to 4s Id
Bst Neath
16s; Lydney 17s; Landore 16s;
4 per cwt.
Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 43s 6d to 9
4 Meat
Whiskey, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial. gallon.veal 51d to
—Beef 4d to 7d; Mutton 5d to 6id ,
8d • sausages 6d per
7d ; pork 4d to sid ; bacon 7d to
31 2s 6d to 3/ 5s per
lb. -Hops 61 lOs per cwt. Bangor slates
ton. Bark—Barbary 81 to 8110 s ; Valonia 141 to 0/ ; French
gs 18$ to 19s ; red
per hundred.
lOns to 12s per stone.
ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 1 / lOs to 12/ per
Timber—New Memel 4/ lOs ; old scarce; red pine 3/
ton.
7Hielm°3p; 341 English
t 036/ poelrpteornt.oniishF—leSeccoetcWh Wool lOs
_ 0
15s • yellow pine 3/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 201; second
quality 171 per 120. Hides—Market 10s to I6s ; salted Its to
16. per cwt • calf skins 2d to 26d; market 2d to 2id per lb.
Potatoes, White 13d to 14d; Minions 19d to 20d; Guano—
Peruvian, 11/ to 11/10s ; Ichaboe 91 per ton ; Tar—Archangel,
19s per barrel.

T. LOTTERY OF MARRIAGE.--This new story
of Mrs. Trollopo's is singularly replete with original
characters illustrative of modern fashionable society.
Among the most prominent will be found the fashion-
able young nobleman, the Earl of Wigton, who has just
succeeded to immense possessions, and is consequently
the centre of attraction, as well as of speculation; the
pious lady of fashion, the Hon. Mrs. Maurice, whose
spirit is influenced equally by the Blue Book and the
Rubric; the fashionable clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Hart-
ley, the pillar of evangelism and the model of dress and
manners; the poor lady of fashion, Lady do Laurie,
and her stylish daughter, Cassandra, imposing upon
every one as people of property; the would-be fashion.
able lady and wealthy widow, Mrs. Codrington, who
has left her Yorkshire estates in the hopes of obtaining
a fashionable husband; and the noble widower, the Earl
of Kington, who acts the part of Solicitor-General in
behalf of his three unmarried daughters. From such
materials, as might have been expected, Mrs. Trollope
has produced one of the most amusing novels that has
appeared for many seasons.
SAILORS' HOME AND DESTITUTE SAILORS' ASYLUM.
—The annual meetings of these excellent institutions for
the moral and religious care and comfort of the sailor,
were held at the Hanover-square Rooms on Saturday,
Rear-Admiral Bowles, C. 8., M.P., was in the chair,
supported by Rear-Admiral Earl Waldegrave, C. 8.; the
Hem Captain Maude, R.N.; John Labouchere, Esq.,
&e. The report presented was on the whole a favour-
able one, but urging renewed exertions in the good cause,
to promote the highly deserving objects of the societies.
4,633 men had passed through the home during the year,
making the total number since the commencement
41.992; of these 11,191 were old boarders. 112 ships
had been manned from the home. The total receipts
amounted to 7,8921,; this included a previous balance of
671/ ; deducting the expenditure, a balance of 643/. re-
mained. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager was a donor
to the amount of 4201., by which the last remaining
dormitory was completed.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY.—The Earl of Rosse, as
President of the Royal Society, had his second converse-
zione ou Saturday night, at the apartments of that
learned body at Somerset House. There was a rather
numerous attendance of the fellows of that and the other
litirary and scientific institutions of the metropolis, and
many of the distinguished personages from the enter-
tainment of the Royal Academy of Arts. The company
separated shortly before midnight.
A turbot was caught on Tuesday last, by, the fish-
ing-boat Stag, of Liverpool,- which weighed 42Ibs.—
Liverpool Mercury.