The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-29 00:00:00

THE EMIGRANT 11V NEW YORK.

The following valuable document, containing direc-
tions for immigrants into New York, has lately been
published in that city. It is dated " Office of the
Commissioners of Emigrants of the State of New
York, New City-hall, Chanabe.rs-street, New York,
August, 1851," and signed " Gulian C. Verplanck,
President of the Commiisiouers of Emigration, New
York :"

Passengers arriving at the port of New York with
the intention of proceeding to the interior should make
their state in the city as short as possible, in order to
save money. It will generally not be necessary for
them to go to any hotel or inn, but the passage-tickets
to the interior can be bought immediately, and the bag-
gage be at once removed from the ship to the steam-
boat, tow-boat, or railroad, come one of v. hich starts
every day throughout the year. This course saves not
lodging, and carting, but
only niusl coney for board,
also prevents many occazione for fraud. If passengers
go to an inn or boarding-house, they should see at onoe
whether a list of prices for board and lodging is posted
up for their inspection, as is required by law. Never
employ a cart that has no number painted on it, and be
careful to note down the number. Always make a bar-
gain for the price to be paid before engaging a cart to
carry your baggage. The price allowed by law for a
cartload any distance not over half a mile is 33c., and
for etch additional half mile one-third more. Among
the impositions practised on emigrant passengers none is
more common than an overcharge in the rates of passage
to the interior, against which there is ao protection,
except by a close attention to the following remarks, and
by insisting on a strict adherence on the part of for-
warders to the scale of prices established by the mayor
of the city of New York and the Commissioners of Emi-
gradon, which will be found below. There aro two
principal routes to the interior from New York; one is
by way of Albany and Buffalo, or by the New York
and Erie Railroad. The passage from New York to
Albany costs from 25c. to 50c. (half a dollar). From
Albany there are two modes of conveyance to Buffalo--
one by canal, which takes from seven to ten days, at li
dolls.; the other by railroad, going through in 36 hours,
at 4 olls.; and no higher prices should be paid. The
route to the south and west is by way of Philadelphia
and Pittsburg. The passage from New York to Phila-
delphia is 1 doll. 50c., and from there to Pittsburg 3
to 5 dolls., making from New York to Pittsburg from
4 dolls. 50e. to 4dolls. 50c. There is also a route to
Pittsburg by way of Albany in the summer season,
which will cost 5 dolls, 50e.. On all these routes pas-
sengers have to find their own provisions, and, conse-
quently, the difference in the cost between travelling by
canal and railroad is not as great as it appears at first, as
the passengers by canal have to pay for a week's provi-
sions more than those travelling by railrcad, besides
losing time and being longer exposed to fraud. Pal-
serr/ars are advised in no event to engage their passage
to distant small places that do not lie on the main route,
but only to engage to the nearest main station, . and
from there to make a new engogement to their final
place of destination. If not differently advised by the
Emigration Seciety, and in all cases when the passen-
gers have not been able to consult these societies they
should never engage passage further than liuffale
or Pittsburg, and there make a new contract. Other-
wise, their passage-tickets, though paid for, may prove
good for nothing. Passengers are cautioned that bag-
gage is very often stolen, and the owners should al-
ways keep an eye upon their effects, and not allow
themselves to be enticed or bullied into giving the
transportation of them to irresponsible people, or going
into boarding-houses or forwarding offices not of their
own free selection. Emigrants should always decide,
immediately upon their arrival, what they will do before
they spend their small remaining means in the board-
ing-house, and they should generally proceed at once
on their journey while they have the means. On their
arrival here they should not give ear to any representa-
tions nor enter into any engagements without obtaining
first the advice and counsel of either the Commissioners
of Emigration, or the Emigrant Society of the nation
to which they belong, or its Consul ; and in inquiring
for the office of the society, cr Consul, or Commis-
sioners, they should be careful not to be carried to the
wrong place. There are many individuals sufficiently
unscrupulous intentionally to mislead the stranger. If
the latter, for instance, inquire after the agency
of the German Society, or the Irish Emigrant Society,
the person applied to will say that he is the agent,
or that he will take the stranger to the office .of the
German Society; but, instead of doing so, will take him
to a place where he is almost sure to be defrauded. As
a general rule, if the emigrant is urged to take passage,
or has to pay for the advice he asks, he may take it for
granted that he is not at the place whore he wishes to
tie; and he should bear in mind to look for the name of
the persons or office he is in search of at the door of the
house into which ho is shown. All the foreign consuls

and the emigrant societies, as well as the Commissioners
of Emigration, have signs over the doors of their offices.
The office of the German Society is No. 95, Greenwich-
street; of the Irish Emigrant Society at No. 29, Reade-
street; and of the Commissioners of Emigration in one
of the public edifices of the city, in the Park. N.B. The
Commissioners earnestly advise ell emigrants who bring
money with them to deposit it as soon as they arrive in
the Emigrant Industrial Savings-bank, No. 51, Cham-
bers-street, opposite the Park. This institution was
established by the Legislature for the express purpose of
affording to emigrants a safe place of deposit for their
moneys, which they can draw cut at pleasure whenever
they want it; and, after a certain period, with interest
ddcd to it. Never keep money about your person, or
in your trunks. Evil persons may rob or commit worse
Crimea upon you. Take it to the savings-bank. Pas-
sengers while travelling should always he provided with
small silver change, as they may otherwise ho more
easily cheated on the way. Nevcr take bank-notes, if
you can avoid it, until you ero able to judge of their
value for yourselves, as there are many counterfeit and
broken bank-notes in circulation. What is called a
shilling in America is not more than sixpence sterling."

RIVAL STEAM-VESSELS.
THE THAMES VERSUS THE CLlDE.—Considerable
interest has been cxcited by statements in the public
prints as to the merits of the Jupiter, the celebrated
Gravesend steamer, belonging to the Star Company,
and built by Miller, Revenhill, and Salkeld, of Black-
wall, and has been running for three years ; and the
Tourist, a new steam-packet, built at Dumbarton by
Messrs. Denny. A trial took place on Wednesday,
the 13. h instant, when the Jupiter proved her supe
riority, and maintained her character as the fastest
vessel on the Thames. The Tourist, having gotl up
her steam at Westminster, went to Biackwall, possi-
bly expecting the Jupiter would be running on her
usual station ; but the Star Company having heard of
the Tourist's intention, had the Jupiter waiting for her
at Blackwall, which, when the former saw, she turned
back and ran up the river. The Jupiter then followed
her to the buoy at the Victualling-yard, Deptford,when
Captain Smith went on board and repeated his chal-
lenge to her to run. This the owners declined, and
the Jupiter returned to her moorings at Blackwall.,
About half an hour later the Tourist passed Blackwall
with her jack flying. This being the usual Thames
challenge signal, the Jupiter loosed from her moor-
ings, but by the time she got her head straight the
Tourist had entered Woolwich Reach, thus gaining a
start of six or seven minutes ; nevertheless away went
the Jupiter. Off Greenhithe, the Tourist, finding
the Jupiter within six or seven boats' length of her,
to prevent being passed, made fast to the Government
moorings there, and again declined to run, saving
they would send a challenge some other day. Thus
the " shine" has been pretty well taken out of the
fictitious character of the Tourist, and it appears very
likely that, after having been chased out of the
Thames, she w;it.,, go back to Scotland to her native
obscurity.—Herald.

STEAM-BOAT COLLISION AND Loss or LIFE.
DUNDEE, AUG. 26.—Between ten and eleven o'clock on Sa-
turday night, Thomas Galloway, an old sailor, belonging to
Dundee, and John G. RAMSay, a young lad of fifteen years
old, having left the South Ferry in a boat, and having an_
other boat in tow, in order to bring her up to Dundee,shi.pLownhdoilne
on their way up the river, observed the steam
here they were. They
bearing down in the direction w
called out to the steamer, and were answered from on board,
could be done a collision took
but before anything place, and
both of the small boats were sunk. The young lad Ramsay
got hold of some oars belonging to the boats, and kept him
self up until he was rescued by a boat from the steamer ;
Galloway could not be found. Ramsay, after beim, refre'h d
wa, put ashore at Broughty Ferry, where he remaineds teal'
nest morning, and then came to Dundee.
(Sends))' while the schooner Queen w-ason 1C
herext passagem or
morning
un gp
the river, the men on board observed a boat bottom upwards,
and on coming up to her they found the body of Galloway
hanging on by one of the ropes. He had such a firm hold
that they had to cut the rope. They then secured the body,
and towed it up to the harbour along with them. —Dundee
Advertiser.

THE TOWER OF LONDON GRAND NATIONAL
EXHIBITION REGATTA. The new Exhibition boat, and
other prizes, including the elegant coat and badge, were this
(Thursday) presentedeveningha to the winners on the stage of
Astley's Theatre. oat wasand ab present from Donald
Nicoll, Esa., the late sheriff,c badge from Messrs.
Sail and Sons, silversmiths, of Cornhill,te
ma-
nufactured. It is composed of massive silver, in ionintlifteweas
richly raised chasing of the Prince of Wales, plumeen tsruera-
raunded by foliage, and bearing an inscription describing
that it was presented to commemorate the natal day of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the Grand National Ex-
hibition, &c. The coat, in the style of Doggett'a, was manu-
factured by Messrs. H. J. and D. Nico'l, of Regent-street
and 'Cornhill. • It is constructed of th . very finest scarlet
cloth, lined throughout with rich silk of he same colour, the
skirts hanging in ample folds, the buttons plated and em-
bossed with the City arms. Both coat and badge have been
got up in a style of elegance not usual in such articles.
The Postmaster-General has announced that nor
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respondence addressed post restante, or to be left at the Ge-
neral Post-office till called for, may be re-transmitted, and
that arrangements have been made for parties who may yds
to avail themselves of the regulation previous to their depa
tare from the metropolis, to leave their address in the
tary'fi cage; 56 Ltutill's-11-Q-rand.