The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-29 00:00:00

TRAVELLING UN THE PRAIRIES.

There is more variety iu a journey across the central
and yet unpeopled land of America, than one would be
disposed to expect, Even on the rrairie there is an
occasional change of scene—green slopes and belts of
timber here and there cross the path, the wood marking
the windings of a prarie stream; now a green dell in-
vites them to a noon-day rest, the whimpling rivulet
which runs near it supplying a store of wholesome
water—or, a lofty ridge, flanked by a deep ravine; some-
tim:a a b,ld bluff, capped with timber, comes into sight,
and froiw its crest, if you can surmount it, yon may see
the far-dread prairie, stretching away in graceful un-
dulati,ns as tar as the eye can reach. Then there is the
fresh breezy that is almost always blowing across the
prairio, the btaxstitul modulations of the changing clouds
—the storm that can be seen from its beginning to its
eud—the curious looming of objects between earth and
sky, tlxing the ingoouit
the every moment to rectify
Tbere is the anxiety for
night's quarters, the sere-
nade of wolves, howling round the camp, ready to
carry off the beasts in their voracious assaults,
' harness
and on which the night-guard tali
to keep a strict look-
out. This species of danger i
gd-'"a a zest to the interest
of a prairie journoY; and b there is an occasional
deer hunt, iu which the riflemen
shooting themselves
by their skill in tracking and
to the prairie the game,—all
this gives an interest and variety . (!PrDitie journey,
is still str
whi‘e the first flush of adventure
Cook's 144
on the
travellers across the plains.--.--I.'
PI -ci Jour-,Q.
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THE BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE A. THE err, 1
of WESTMINSTER. —We are requested to state that not 0n
in
lYia
the borough of Marylebone about to take the initiative
the shape of a demonstralion in favour of Lord Palmerston,
but that the citizens of Westminster, of the Liberal party,
indignant at the unfair treatment which they conceive DI
late Foreign Secretary has received, are about to get up a
requisition to the Noble Viscount to stand for that ancient
city at the next election. With regard to the borough of
Marylebone, communications are about to be forwarded to
Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., asking
their advice as to the best mode of proceeding, and requesting
their attendance when the demonstration takes place. The
fteing seems very general in favour of Lord Palmerston.
Sunday Paper.
LORD PALMERSTON AND Loan GRANVILLE.-000
of those coincidences in which curious people are prone to
indulge is to be found in the mottoes attached to the coat of
arms or the families of 1 ord Palmerston and Lord Granville.
The device of the ex-Secretary fur Foreign Affairs is " Flecti,
non I rang,': While that of the Foreign Secretary is "Frangas,
non 17( ctes. The similarity in sound, and opposition in
sense, of those two Mottoes of the respective noble houses to
which our late and present Foreign Secretaries belong, will
strike at once the curious in such matter, when it is con-
devicesw
ter? Selected long ago by the found-
erssidered how these
of those families, when
olate_ present events could scarcel3r
pre-ented themselves t heir iruaginaion. The inge-
-8 ??, Voious will further amuse themselves 1,
-3, making the applica-
corn accomplished nobleman, --yor- tk,n to the case of the ac who may have
II ma not .
..::--",hent" to rise again, but W 0 Y 3etbe .. broken."—
::::\-,',.?-4:),*ver.
INNER TO THE POOR S
~..._On Friday ( t. Stephen's
testy) Miss Burdett Coutts dined in company with 120 poor
and (aged people, who were liberally entertained at her eat-
ra in one of the school-rooms attached to ,t. Stephen's
•
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, ;,, hurch in Westminster,