The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-14 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

A Residence in Tasmania. By Captain H. Butler
Stoney, author of " Five Years in the Levant."
Smith and Elder.
This is a pleasantly written sketch of Tasmania
at the present time. The author having resided
there for a short time, and having visited the prin-
cipal towns and islands, was most favourably im-
pressed, both with the natural advantages and with
the social prospects of the colony. The Tasmania
described in his agreeable volume is a very different
place from the Van Diemen's Land whose name, a
few years ago, was associated with nothing but
crime and criminals. It any lingering prejudice
still exists with respect to this colony, the present
volume will do much to remove it. It is three
years since Van Diemen's Land ceased to be a penal
settlement, in compliance with the earnest desire of
the settlers, and since that time the more agreeable
appellation of Tasmania has been substituted for
the old title which had fallen into such disrepute.
Its prospects, therefore, are materially altered ;
and, as it is naturally fertile, and the climate par-
ticularly healthy, there seems little reason to doubt
the writer's assertions, when he prophesies a great
colonial future for the despised Tasmania. His
Work does not pretend to be more than the record
nf tour from Macquarie Harbour to Circu-
lar— Head,a
therefore the reader must not
P
any information respectinc, expect to find
the historyof the colony, the race of the abori
of those learned questions that usually
sines,
v any
Yttention of travellers. His object, he
occupy the
tflinel a before the British public the present
says, 1, .... -ai
state of the island, in the earnest
condition
and
of those prejudices now so common
hope that some
lessened, if not removed. This
object his wonir..I
against it mayb;3s veryliakehmloytoe.ayd,vance, as it con-
veys the impression of r labour and enterprise—
where, there is roomlb
where, if the toil i 3 hard the reward is certain,
and where the dangers and difficulties are not
worse than those which usually attend the path of
a settler. It was not al ways so) however, and the
first settlers had many serious obstacles to their
success, and were often placed in circumstances
of imminent peril from the assaults of bushrangersof.
or natives. The bushranezers are nom &sr --IL,
,i
and the natives having
colony for the neighbduring Fiinder'o ishul f: re
la;en induced. to leave . t.v
nearly extinct. The great impodirnett to the pre-
,..,, r., s of the colony
--a.i, of course, the immlgratio:.
,
cf convicts, but now that that objection is removed
there is
no reason Why intending
emigrants
should not select it for their home. The list of
articles sent, to the English and French exhibitions
surprise the reader, and give him a
higher opinion of Tasmanian abilities. The schools,
Spill perhaps
also, Whose statistics the author furnishes us with,
and well-conducted, while Hobart's
are numerous as it is now more
tanicaicommonlyGar. Town or aebart'Qanß' Soap teals,
a Bo
ogled, poaaesaes 1. Rospitals, Agrioultuza A
4 besides ?Oil° ssok
to,

Viscount Wellesley has arrived at the Clarendon from
the North.

The Right HoR. B. Vernon Smith and Mrs. Vernon
Smith are visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston
at Broadlands.

Lord and Lady Brougham have been receiving a suc-
cession of visitors at Brougham Hall during the past
month. The guests have included the Countess of West-
moreland and Lady Rose Facie, the Countess of Jersey
and Lady Clementina Tilliers, the Etrl and Countess of
Clarendon, Lord and La 'y William Powlett and Miss
Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. Wi'iarn Osborne, Hon. Mrs. A.
Villiers, the Dean of Carlisle, Mr. Elwin, Captain In-
glefield, Admiral Eden, &c.
Lord Brougham has arrived in Paris. His lordship is
in excellent health.

The Earl and Countess Granville arrived at Kiel, in
H.M.S. St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Capt. St. Vincent King,
on Wednesday last, from Cronstadt. The noble earl
and her ladyship proceeded by railway to Altona, and
thence to Hamburg, and have sinca gone to Barba, en
route for Carlebad,in Bohemia.
AMERICAN MAILS.—The United States' mail steamer
Atlantic will sail from Liverpool for New York on Wed-
nesday next. Letters will be received at the Liverpool
post-office on that morning till 8 a.m., with late fees till
9 a.m., and on the landing stage till 10 a.m.
ACCIDENT TO LADY STEIVART.—TiIe Malta Times of
the 7th says :—" It is reputed that IT.M.S Hannibal,
heathy, the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart,
K.C.E., which has completed her repairs in the dry-
dock, leaves in a day or two for England, but we regret
to learn that Lady Stewart burst a blood-vessel on
Friday last, and that her ladyship still lies in a preca-
rious state. It is not improbable, therefore, that this
lamentable occurrence may delay the departure of Sir
Houston Stewart for some days."
ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THE MUNIFICENCE OF THE
QUEEN.—We are happy to be enabled to announce that
her Majesty, upon learning the straitened circumstances
in which the two unmarried daughters of the late Mr.
Sale, formerly her Majesty's musical instructor, have
been left by his decease, after a lengthened illness, which
incapacitated him for many years from the exercise of
his profession, has in the most kind manner granted thenr
a pension of 501. a-year out of her privy purse.
ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE.—The foun-
dation stone of the chapel about to be raised in the
grounds of the colleges at Epsom for the use of the pen-
sioners and s3holars was laid on Friday, the 10th inst.,
by Mr. E. R. Northey, High Sheriff of Surrey, in the
presence of the committee of management and all the
inmates of the college. Appropriate prayers were
offered on the occasion by the Rev. It. Thornton, the
head- master. It is intended that the chapel shalt be
finished by the spring.
ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.—Yesterday evening an eclipse
of the moon took place. The eclipse began at 911. 21.1. m.;
greatest eclipse at 10h. 54.1 m., ending at 12h. 27.1 m.
First contact 1,170, from the moon's vertex towards
east. Last contact 1,550 from the moon's vertex towards
west. This eclipse was visible to the whole of Europe,
Africa, and South America, nearly the whole of Asia,
including the islands Sumatra, Borneo, and Java, the
western Darts of Australia, 'the eastern parts of North
America, and an extensive surface of the Atlantic and
Indian oceans.
Tax BISHOPRIC OF LONDON.—Yesterday the Vein.
W. Hale Hale, Archdeacon of London and Canon of
St. Paul's, took the customary oaths, and was admitted
before the Vicar-General, Dr. Twiss, to the office of
Official with the city and diocese of London during the
vacancy of the see of London. This appointment is
made under an ancient composition between Archbishop
Beniface, some time Archbishop of Canterbury, and the
Man and Chapter of St. Paul's, under which the latter
body have the privilege of nominating three of the
canons of their cathedral church, from whom the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury selects an Official, who ii em-
powered to discharg,e the functions usually performed by
t!)- s: roar-General of the Archbishop during the vecaney
e‘ a diocesan see.

Advices from Galatz, received by MesTrs. Henry
p soil and Sons, state that the Indian corn harvest had
commenced, and that the finality is excellent. In addi•
ti .n-to the la,g:3 fleet already in port, nearly 200 vessels
werJ reported to be in the river, and freights were con-
secitiently low. Stocks of all grain were light,and arrivals
from the interior were delayed by want of labour. The
Commissioners for settling the new boundary line in
Bessarabia had nearly completed their work. In a
few days they would reach Tornaia and the Pruth, and
it was said that the English and French Commissioners,
after arriving at Tornaia, will await at Rani instruc-
tions from Paris relative to the subjeot of Bolgrad. It
was also reported that the Russians are becoming leas
disposed to resist the demands of the allies oa this
point,

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 11.
THERMOMETER, IN THZ SHADE.
62 —highest sines noon yesterday.
52 —lowest this morning and during the night.
59 —this day at noon.
Bettomitrms, 29.97—falling.
WIND, S.E.—Fresh, with dull, cloudy weather.

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