The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-22 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

GUIDE to the INVESTMENT of CAPITAL
or, how to Lay out Money with Safety and Prof
By G. M. Bell.

To those having capital to invest this little work will
prove most useful. They will find in it " a true and
particular account" of the relative advantages and dis-
advantages of in vestments in lands, houses, the public
funds, joint•stock banks, railways, chipping, insurance
companies, mining companies, discounting bills, bonds
and mortgages, and foreign funds. Mrs. Glasse, of
" domestic cookery" immortality, commences her receipt
for cooking a hare in these words—" First catch your
hare." So should Mr. Bell have commenced this book

—" First get your capital ;" and if he could teach us
an infallible method of getting capital to invest he
would be conferring on the majority of mankind a
greater obligation far than he has already conferred on
the ainority by teaching them how to invest it.

A NEW KIND OF POTATO.—John 1
have discovered a
Dig
crops
potatoes,
of Buxton, in Norfolk, and the grower of tour
a c ottiangoenre
year, in a letter to the Norfolk Chronicle, says, '
.
berry which I will gather from the banks or hedges, and which will
birrrtnietsoewsillinprqoudaulictey
atshamt
uecvheraswoenree
grown. One
the
obushel of our common potato. 'These berries are of a small finest
quart pooftato these or
sub-
stance, and are to be planted whole; They must go through a re-
gular process in the course of the winter, which is scarcely any
trouble, and of no expense. I now have in my possession a
quantity
of potatoes raised from these berries last Year, and it is my intention
to grow crop after crop this year, until the fourth crop. The size of
the potatoes raised from the berries the first year are about that of a
duck's egg, The berries are so numerous that all England can be
supplied."

OUT-PENSIONERS OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL.—From
a return just delivered by order of the House of Commons, it appears
that there are on the list of out-pensioners of Greenwich Hospital
6,386 seamen, and 5,124 marines residing in Great Britain ; 966 sea-
men, and 234 marines in Ireland; and 422 seamen, and 141 marines
abroad, or their residences not ascertained ; making a total of 7,754
seamen, and 5,499 marines, or a grind total of 13,253 out-pensioners
of Greenwich Hospital now on that list.
POST•OFFIcE NOTICE.—REDUCTION IN THE RATES
OF POSTAGE The following document was issued yesterday:—
" General Post-office, May 21, 1846. On and after the Ist of June
next the foreign rates of postage on letters sent through France
between the United Kingdom and Wurtemburg, will be reduced from
10d. to sd. on each single letter. No alteration, however, will take
place in the present British rates of postage en these letters. The
British and foreign rates must be combined, and taken on the same
principle as that adopted for letters addressed to France, as shown in
the following table :—Combined British and foreign rates on a letter,
weighing under a quarter of an ounce, British sd. ; foreign 5d.; total,
to destination, 10d. Weighing a quarter of an ounce, and not
exceeding half an ounce, British, 5d.; foreign, 10d. • total to
destination, Is. 3d. Exceeding half an ounce, and under three-
quarters of an ounce, British, 10d. , foreign, Is. 3d. ; total to destina-
tion, 2s. Id. Weighing three-quarters of an ounce, and not exceed-
ing one ounce, British 10d.; foreign, Is. Bd.; total to destination,
2s. 6d. Exceeding one onnce, and under one ounce and a quarter,
British, Is. Bd. ; foreign, 2s. Id.; total to destination, 3s. 9d. The
payment of postage on these letters is optional, but the letters mist
ice either forwarded unpaid, or the entire postage to destination, both
British and foreign, must be paid in advance."
HoNG-KONG.—The freight ship Sir Robert Sale left
China en the 16th olViumary last for England, and made an excel-
lent passage in 110 days, with the under-mentioned detachments of
invalids on board :-1 sergeant and 1 gunner of the Royal Artillery ;
2 corporals and I private of the Royal Sappers and Millers ; 5 zer,
geanta, 48 privates, and 2 drummers of the 18th Regiment;' and 16
privates of the 98th Regiment, Of naval invalids there were 5 war-
rant officers and 38 seamen and marines, with 10 women and 10
children. Died during tile passage 7of the 18th Regiment, 7 of the
98th Begiment, 3 naval, and 2 children. Lieutenant Armstrong, of
the 18th, commanded, with Lieutenant Elliott, of the same Regi •
ment ; and Dr. Shelton, of the 28th Regiment, was the medical
officer in charge. Mr. Cook, purser, R.N., pr, Nail!, surge
Mr. Gordon, clerk, and Mr. BOYce,"volunteer, returned at the same
ti

me.
A gentleman, from Nottingham, observed a remark-
able scene in Exeter one day recently. A number of Nottingha.-0
stockingers were parading the streets of that City, dragging along a
stagcwork on wheels, occupied by one of their number and a stock-
ing-cramp In full work. Tile astonishment of the citizens was great,
aud, from the sale of stockins the men carried with them, they
reaped a good harvest.
WaEns ARE You GOING 7—During the last week
or ten days persons have been stationed at the London Terminus of
the Brighton and Dover Railways inquiring of all passengers arriving
in London whether their destination was the City or the West-end
The object is to assist the judgment of the Commissioners appointed
maw
to consider the expediency or necessity of a West-ehd te • .
the southern railways. One of our ConteMPOreri,
under the head of " Where arc v.- - •
that the inquiriPs • _ in a paragraph
- Ebing,-1113, prettmaid 9,1 orates
Instituted by the Poll •
C, CoC9Pl4lteginere.