The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-11 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Share) Joint-Stock Banks. Paid. Closing 1 Business
Price. Done.

LAW INTELLIGEXCE-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
RE WILLIAMS.

BANKRUPTCY AND CHANCERY.—This bankrupt was
described as of Ludgate-hill, umbrella manufacturer, and
to-day came up to pass his last examination on accounts
prepared by Mr. March, Basinghall-street. The debts
were not large, and the bankruptcy appeared to have arisen
through some Chancery proceedings in which the bank-
rupt had been involved. It appeared that he had previously
t 011857 been in partnership with a person named Eccles.
Both, however, were made bankrupt separately, and an
injunction was obtained against the present bankrupt,
prohibiting him from interfering with the assets of the
firm, but he was ultimately appointed receiver, and he gave
security, and part of his present liabilities arose on a debt
due to his sureties, an adverse judgment having been
obtained against him for a larger amount than was thought
to be due to the estate of Eccles.

Mr. Pook appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Mason
(Mason and Start), for the assignees.
His Honour granted an immediate certificate of the second
class.

IN RE SIMON.

This bankrupt had carried on business as a wine and
spirit merchant in London, and came up to pass his last
examination. Mr. Chidley was for the assignees, Mr.
Pook for the bankrupt.
The preliminary statement, furnished from the office
of Messrs. Hart Brothers, showed debts about £1,664 ;
assets, good and doubtful debts, £1,280.
An application was made for an adjournment, as the ac-
counts had not been filed.

His Honour asked what was the cause of the delay ?
Mr. Hayles said that, unfortunately, the bankrupt had
been confined in Whitecross-street Prison, and the delay
was unavoidable.

His Honour then granted an adjournment at the expense
of the estate.

IN RE WALTON AND WALTON.

These bankrupts were described as csf Gracechurch-street,
and Clement's-lane, Lombard-street, ship and insurance
brokers, and now came up and passed their last examina-
tion. The balance-sheet shows debtor to creditors unse-
cured, £46,790 ; ditto holding security, £4,388. Assets—
cash at Bank of England, £l6 ; property, £69 ; ditto in
hands of creditors, £12,579 ; debtors good, £1,073 ; doubt-
ful, £lB9 ; bad, £953, and having claims against the estate
of Charles Walton.

POLICE LATTELLIGEIVCE.—(Thi.s Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING BRICKS FROM SEWER WORKS.— Martin
Dowd, a labourer, James ravey, a bricklayer, and William
Tutton, a butcher, were charged, the former with stealing
and the two latter with receiving, a quantity of bricks, the
property of Mr. Edward Thirst, the contractor for the
building of sewers for the vestry of St. James's.
Cook, 175 C, said that, at four that morning, he saw the
prisoner Dowd go up to the stack of bricks in Hopkin's-
street, and pick up about a dozen and walk away with
them. He followed and stopped him, and sprang his rattler
when the prisoner Tutton came cut of Berwick-street'and
said, " Martin, where have you been ? we have been wait-
ing for those bricks," and returned to 6, Berwick-street.
He then took Dowd to the station, and on returning to the
house, found Pavey and Tutton there. Dowd said, when
he took him, the bricklayer sent him for them, as he was
laying a copper at the house. Pavey having 'admitted
he was the bricklayer doing the work, he took him into
custody. There was a large quantity of bricks about the
place exactly corresponding with those at the works. The
prisoner Tatton was employed by the owner of the house,
who was a pork butcher.
Sergeant Glass, 3 C, said he went to the house and saw
Pavey setting a copper. There was a large quantity
of new brick fresh laid, and Pavey said the labourer had
brought them. He had taken two of the bricks from those
set Aid they exactly corresponded in every particular with
thoso Dowd had taken from the works. Believed that
above 100 had been taken.

Mr. Edward Thirst, of John-street, Chelsea, said he was
contractor for the works, and the bricks produced were part
of a large quantity belonging to him which were at the
works. He knew nothing of the prisoners.
Pendrill, the watchman, said the bricks were taken from
a gateway out of the line' of works. He had seen Dowd
pass once or twice but did not suspect his object.
Welsh, the gaoler of the court, said Dowd had been con-
victed of stealing lead, and Sergeant Guramer was in
attendance to prove it.

The prisoners, who had nothing to say, were remanded.

THAMES.

SUFFERING INNOCENCE.—UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF
FELONY.--Mary Ann Cosgrove, a servant girl, aged 14,
surrendered on bail to answer a charge of stealing a £5
Bank of England note, the property of her master, J. W.
Snowden, a drugilist,:of No. 15, Gloucester-terrace, New-
road, Stepney. The prosecutor, on the first examination,
made a statement that itlwas with great regret he appeared
against the girl, -who was very saucy and petulant, and abio~
self-willed, and thaf he should be glad if an asylum or re-
formatory Would open their doors to her, and she might
become a good girl. He then formally charged her with
stealing a £5 note, which h6inissed from a desk in a room
to which the girl had access: The note had not been traced,
but he could not fix his suspicions on any one
else but the prisoner, who, he was afraid, had
fallen into very bad courses. The girl, who was
in a state of great agitation, loudly protested her innocence,
and said she had never been dishonest in her life.

Mr Sclfe had held her to bail in her own recognisance
this (lay.

The prosecutor now said he had found the bank-note he
charged the prisoner with stealing, lie discovered it in
his pocket-book on Sunday evening last, and he must have
put it there. His wife had been to the girl's urotha to
assure her of her perfect innocence. He was very sorry for
having made such a rash charge.. He No made compen-
sation to the girl, and would continut to interest himself in
her behalf.

Mr. Selfe was glad there was this terntination to the
case ; and could not help remarking that the prosecutor
should have been more careful, and that on the first exa-
mination he (the prosecutor) had said many things to the
prejudice of the girl which he ought ought not to have
done. There was not the least disgrace or dbrcredit at-
tached to the girl. She was perfectly hutment, and he had
great pleasure ua discharging her free from taint and sus-
picion.

A MOST EXPENSIVE SMASH IN A PITELIC-ITOUSE.--
Julia Mahoney, 31, a most reckless and desperate woman,
who looked GO, and was in a wretched plight from disease,
dissipation, and drink, was brought before Mr. Self°,
charged with destroying £24 worth of plate glass in
of the Angel public-house, Back-road, Shad— front
ellho
prisoner has spent many years of her life in
4-ne' M. Tiddlesex
House of Correction for drunkenness, 0:
.
petty robberies, and assaults, and - .sorderly conduct,
to the magistrates of this court nas been often stated
was most orderly, corree4 /nat her conduct in prison
very useful.
Out of and proper, and that she was
nuisance and a t-
prison, however, she is a complete
windows,
terror to the publicans in the district, whose
con i'-• has smashed, and created great disorder and
_,ton.

R. Stone, barman at the Angel, said prisoner was there
on Friday for several hours, and demanded liquor, with which
he refused to supply her. She was noisy and intoxicated,
and he removed her several times from the house. When
he ejected her at one door she came in at another, and
threatened to smash everything in the place. He removed
the pots and glasses off the counter to prevent mischief,
and a man, on her promise to leave, gave her a pint of
porter. This made her worse instead of better, and she
continued her disorderly conduct. She obtained possession
of a piece of wood, and was about to break the windows,
but was prevented, and he took the piece of wood away
from her. After a series of rows, and the use of most in-
famous and blasphemous language, he put the prisoner out
of the house and closed the doors upon her. He was
obliged to open them -again for business, and the
prisoner, in spite of every obstacle, rushed into the
house again, took up a pint pot and smashed the
plate glass windows.
Mr. &lie—What is the value of them ?
Witness-124. Ilere is a piece of ono window (produc-
ing a piece of thick plate glass).
Mr. Selfe—.£2-1. I am only empowered, under the Act
of Parliament, to order £5 or two mouths' imprisonment.
Is it profitable in this district to have plate glass windows ?
Witness—All the plate glass is insured.
Mr. Selfe—l have heard many of these cases, and the
pr(qoium ought to be high.
The prisoner said the barman told her she might break
as many windows as she pleased. This was denied by
Stone.

James Stockley, 56 K, saw a great part of the disorderly
conduct of the prisoner. who struck him 'violently.
Mr. Selfe said the prisoner behaved well under discipline
in prison, and that was the best place for her. He ordered
her to find bail, herself in £2O, and two sureties of £lO
each, to keep the peace for three months ; and as no one
would become bail for her, that would keep her in prison
for three months.

THE AUSTFALIANMAILS.---The Australian Mail
just brought home in the Tcviot contained 94,000 letters.
If the Victoria mail steamer had arrived out at Australia
before the Teviot's mails had been despatched, it is expected
that she would have brought home ten or fifteen thousand
more letters than she did, in answers to the Victoria's cor-
respondence.
SUICIDE OF A FEMALE 68 YEARS OLD.—Yester-
day a suicide of a lamentable character occurred at No. 4,
Church-terrace, 'Waterloo-road. The police and several
of the neighbours immediately proceeded to the house, and
on entering the ft-cut:kitchen perceived a fearful spectacle,
for on the floor was lying a female named Humphries, 68
years of age, with her throat cut almost from ear to ear,
the boards covered with gore, and a large tableknifo at her
side, smeared with blood. The poor creature was evidently
just breathing her last. Medical aid was at once sent for,
and Mr. Young, the assistant to Dr. Johnson, of the York-
road, promptly attended, but not in time to be of any
assistance, as the poor creature expired a few seconds after
his arrival. There being no one in the room at the time
beyond the deceased, not the least doubt can be entertained
but that she committed the rash act herself. The body has
been taken charge of by Mr. Adamson, the beadle, to await
au iinuot

T EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

LITERATURE.

-1 Journey Due Yorth. By George A. Sala.

Bentley.

r-
This is a very agreeable Volume, containing notes
cf the fiat h or's -resid: nee in- Russia during the sum-
mer of i 856, It is written In d fresh and animated
manner, Which imparts a delightful novelty to a
subject that has occupied the pens of a good many
travellers, and wearied a large number of readers
and critics since the famous Turkish question. A
boita.fidc -description of the interior of Russia, by
an Englishman, is still something of a novelty, and
has decidedly the. advantage over Turkey, Cir-
cassia, the Crimean battle-fields, and similar
localities. The author starts in the true spirit of
an enthusiastic traveller, and tells ns how a trip to
the grim land of the Czar and Count Orloff's
police; was one of his childish visions. He thus
amusingly relates his early dreams on the
subject :
" When I was a little lad, the maps were my story-books.
The big marble-paper .covered atlas, only to 'be thumbed on
high days and holidays, had greater charms for me than
even Fox's Martyrs or the Seven-Champions. With this
atlas and a paunchy volume with a piecrust cover (was it
Brothes' or Maunder's Gazetteer ?) what romances I wove
what poems I imagined ! what castles in the air I built !
what household words I made of foreign cities! what subtle
knowledge I had of the three Arabias—Arabia Petra,
Arabia Deserta, and Arabia Felix! How I longed for the
time when I should be big enough to go to Spain (shall I
ever be big enough to make that journey, I wonder ?)—what
doughty projects I formed against the day when I should
be enabled to travel on an elephant in Bengal, and a r(
li-
deer in Lapland, and a mule in the Pyrenees, and an
ostrich in Kabylia, and a crocodile in Nubia, like Mr.
• Waterton ! But my special story-book was that vast patch
on the map of Europe marked Russia. In Europe quotha !
Did not Russia stretch far, far into Asia, and fait her still
into America? I never was satiated with this part of the
atlas. There was perpetual winter in Russia., of course.
The only means of travelling was on a sledge across the
snowy Steppes. Packs of wolves invariably followed in
pursuit
howling fearfully for prey. The traveller was
always provided With a stock of live babies, whom he loved
dearer than life itself, but whom he threw out, nevertheless,
to the wolves one by one, at half-mile distance or so. Then
he threw out his lovely and attached wife (at her own
earnest request, I need not say), and then the wolves, intent.
on a third course, leaped into the sledge, and made an end
of him. It used to puzzle me considerably as to how the
horses escaped being eaten in the commencement, for the
sledge alwayS kept going at a tremendous rate; and I was
always in a state of ludicrous uncertainty as to the steppes
—what .they were made of,—wood
.or stone, or turf;
whether children ever sat on them with babies in their
arms (but the Wolves would never have allowed that,
surely) ; and how many steps went to a flight. There was
attraction enough to me, goodness knows, in the rest of the
atlas ; in boot-shaped Italy ; in Africa, huge and yellow as a
pumpkin, and like that esculent, little excavated ; in the
Red Sea (why did they always colour it. pea-green in the
map ?) ; but the vasty Russia with its appurtnances was
my great storehouse of romance. The Baltic was a con.
tinual wonder to me. • How could ships ever get into it
when there were the Great and Little Belts, and the
' Kraken, and the Maelstrom, and the icebergs, and the polar
bears to stop the way. - Russia (on the map) was one vast
and delightful region of mysteries, and adventures, and
perilous expeditions ; a glorious wonder-land of czars who
lived in wooden houses disguised as shipwrights; of Cossacks
continually careering on lung-maned ponies, and with
lances like Maypoles; of grisly bears, sweet-smelling leather,
ducks, wolves, palaces of ice, forests, steppes, frozen lakes,
caftans, long beards, Kremlins, and Ivan the Terribles.
Never mind the knout; never mind the perpetual winter;
never mind the passage of the Beresina----I put Russia
down in my juvenile itinerary as a place to be visited, collte
qui coute, as soon as I was twenty-one. I remember, when
I was about half that age, travelling on the top of an
omnibus from Mile-end to be Bank with a philosophic
individual in a red plaid cloak. He told me he had lived
ten years in Russia (Rooshia, he pronounced it), and gave
me to understand confidentially that the czar ruled his
subjects with a rod of iron. I grieved when he departed,
though his conversation was but common-place. I followed
him half-way up Cornhill, gazing at the red plaid skirts of
his cloak flapping in the breeze, and 'revering him as one
who had had vast and wonderful experiences—as a Sindbad
the Sailor, multiplied by Marco Polo. Oh, for my twenty-
first birthday, and my aunt's legacy,and hey for Russia 1"
At length, when fairly started for his expedition,
various vexatious delays hindered his progress.
His despair at his long detention at Stettin, wait-
ing for the ice in the Gulf of Finland to take pity
upon northern travellers, is pathetically described ;
his passport difficulties, recalling the exploits of
Jack and the Giants, are sufficient to deter any
rash or impetuous persons from putting themselves
in the way-of such trials of temper. At length he
joined himself with the rest of his fellow-passengers
undergoing the inspection of the Custom-house at
St. Petersburg. After narrating the old story of
Sehinderhannes, the Robber of the Rhine, and the
caravan of Jews, he proceeds to describe the system
adopted by these delightful officials :

". I hate related this little apologne to illustrate the charac-
teristic, but tutpleasarit, proceedings of the Russian custom-
house Officers, when we had given up OW keys, its mod the
white-washed cellars on the basement of a - building
on the IngliskvaLt Xahertjerutiaf or English Quay, and
when those oflicial.s pkoceeded to the Criareluation of our
luggage, Either they had read 'Mr. Leitch Ritcltio's Life
of MelitilderliatitieS, of they had tin intuitive perception of
the ;ja evniati of the robbers of the Rhltto, it they had
6tile htiisiorne tfith the Parisian police agents ;
fur sitcli a turning up of boxes had ant of their
contents, and mixture of their seyeralitictl, jjell,mell,
h OA,,
iggittlyriiie,,, hot gkol ter' ,ferry-cum-tumble, buffer
upon bilecP, topsv4ip Ty, iattelti mess, and muddle, I
neviir iii /tilt Thett dommier, who
held a bamiliox under one tilt), and seemed desirous of
emulating the popular hattrick of llerr Dobler ; for he
keitt tip it etititimoi of gloves, collars, eau-de-
Cologne bottles, combs, hair-brushes, guide-books, pin-
cushions, and lace cuffs, till I turned to look for the accont-
pliee, Wiro was supplying him with fresh bandboxes. Now,
the eustitinAouse ollicers of etery nation I have yet tra-
velled throttgh, hate a different manner of examining your
Ittgghgt. Ymir etustx, phlegmatic Englishman turns over
each article separately but (Artfully. Your stupid Belgian
rummages your trunk, as it he we) trying to catch a
ymtr totirteons Frenchman CithLZ lightly and
gracpftilly tutns tip Tour find littai, as though he were
making a lob. ter salad, or—ll-melt more frog-iv:fully—if you
tell him you hate nothliig to declare, and are polite to him;
just peeps into one corner of yetir peltmanteau, and 5a747
C'est asvt! Year sententions Gerntart ponders deeply
over your trunk, pokes his It t'ukts.zfirlek into the bostrin Of
your dress-shirts, and motions you to shill it ttgalft, But
none of these peculiarities had the Russians. They had tt
way of their own. They twitlted, they toasted, .they turned
over, they held writing-cases open, bottom upwards, 811C1
shook out the manuscript contents, like snow-flakes. They
held up coats and shirts' and examined them like pawn-
brokers. They lingered radies' dresses like Jew elothesmen.
They punched hats.z and looked irto their linings; passed
Casnmere shawls iron OW to flit titlltcr for irlPPeciion
opened letiditt, and ttied to read their contents (upside
gttitkititO O,fer thet,,iortsurjr!in:t ; held boots by
ardllosed them
the toes, and shook them ; opeTiLl
their Girt
again with the -Wrong corks ; left the impress Y
&pa§ Up dea on n liner, putt ; cramn:,`.4
ladies' OritKsrtgittilibiltm hitt+ iiritpel-lrags forced
a boot.jack into the little French s dress's idlleitl6; tittTped
things under foot, trod on then; tore theta, and lattghdd,
stAlt tali-flgt,t77otogie, kt 4041. 4iik *kith perittninf forced
sprained rttliled springs, broke eigitt-e, litre-Pled
Inuslini raised a cloud of puff-powder and dentritice.
Arid this we duiic., rtj r t 7kiet waritonlyf perhaps only
in ignorant savagery ; but, with such a reekless Wittt of the
commonest care; with etieh a hideous vicanne of shooting:),
screaming) truimpl;ntx, itna plunging, that the only light I
could view the scene in—besides the Schindcrhannes one—
WEIS in the improbable event of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley travel-
ling through the country of the Patagonian. falling into a
gigantic ambuscade, and having their theatrical wardrobe
overhauled by tltore otergromm savages." •

•
followinS portrait. of a. Russian noble is.not
univiterestim 9,1---
, •
r' The Rusaian. is a gentlerrlarCw:boie wo yearsT kra of
travel has expired, and -who, 'tint being able to :obtain an
extension of his leave of ttbsence, and not Very desirouls of
liming his °atoll* acquestered, which would he the,pkenally
of disohodiente, is returning, distress & in aftobk his own
inclination to ItUssia, is an, who looks young
enough to be tIVO or Mite hll4 twenty, and old enough to be
two or three aWid Ibt4y, How 'are you to tell in a gentle-
man whose hair, without a speck of grey, is always fault-
lessly brushed, oiled, perfumed, and arranged ; whose
moustache is lustrous, firm, and black; whose teeth arc
sound and white ; whose face is perfectly smooth, and clear,
and clean shaven ; who boalways perfectly easy, graceful,
and self-possessed The litissian speaks English and French
--the first language as you and I, my dear Bob, speak it;
the second as our friend, Monsieur Adolphe, front. Paris,
would spook his native tongue by which I moan that the
Russian. speaks English like anEnglishman, and Frenchlike
a Frenchman, without- heSitaliv, accent, or foreign idiom.
He is versed in the literature of both countries, and talks of
Sam Weiler and JeromaPaturot with equal facility. I am,
perhaps, not so well qualified to judge of his proficiency in
Italian ; but he seems to speak that 'tongue with at least the
salne aogii.,,e of fluency as he converses.in German, of which,
ascending to Captain Steffens, he is a master. He laughs
When I talk about the special and astounding gift that his
countrymen seem to possess for the acquisition &languages.
Gift, ray dear fellow,' he says, it is nothing of the kind.
I certainly picked up Italian in six Months, during a resi-
dence in the country; bat I could speak FrencN. English,
and German long before I Could speak Russian. 11 ous attires
lruMse
a ns ple
rvof e hs
saolr.
s?tv,Sißssir
g6lB,ernweessehsar w
0E nbgalNi.sehGne
e
French ca-
nt college. As children and as adults we often pass days
and weeks without hearing a word of Russian; and the
language with which we have the slightest acquaintance is
our own.' The Russian and I soon grow to be great
(travelling) friends. He talks, and seems to be well-in-
formed, our everybody and everything, and speaks about
governments and dynasties in precisely the same tone of
easy persiflage in which he discusses the Italian opera and
the ballet. He tells me a great deal about the Greek
church; hut it is easy to see that matters ecclesiastical
don't trouble 2iCteS antres gentilkommeN Tenses' much. He
has been in the army, like the vast majority of his order,
and is learned in horses, dogs, and a•eneral sportsmanship;
a branch of knowledge that clashes strangely with his gras-
sailleing Parisian accent. He proposes ecarte in an interval
of chat ; but finding, that I am but a poor cardplayer, he
shows me a few tricks on the cards sufficient to set a mo-
derately ambitious wizard up inhusincss on the spot, and
contentedly relinquishes the pack for the pianoforte, on
which he executes such brilliant voluntaries, that I can see
the hard-favoured visage of Miss:Wapps gaging down at us
through the saloon skylight in discontented admiration
—that decisive lady marvelling doubtless how such an
accomplished Russian can condescend to waste his time and
talents on such a trumpery mortal as I am, He shows me
an arum bound in green velvet, and with his cipher, and
coronet embroidered. in rubies thereupon, and filled with
drawings of his own execution. He rolls paper cigarettes
with the dexterity of a Castilian caballero ; and he ias. the
most varied and exact statistical knowledge on all sorts of
topics, political, social, agricultural, and literary, of any
man foyer met with. And this is, believe me, as ordinary
and everyday-to-be-found specimens of the Russian gentle-
men as the unlettered, unlicked, uncouth, untravelled John
Smith one meets at a Boulogne boarding-house is of an
English esquire. My friend, the Russian, has his little
peculiarities ; without being in the slightest degree grave or
sententious, that facile mouth of his is never curved into a
genuine smile ; those dark-grey eyes of his never look you
14, the face ;1e §epu Acyg tied ciriaiPg chwpagne,

and never in the least flushed thereby ; and finally, and
above all, I noverhear him express an opinion that any hmnan
thing is right. or wrong. If he have an opinion on any
subject, and he conyerses on almost all topics, it is not on
board the Preussieher Adler,' or to me,- that -he -WM im-
part it. With his -handsome face and graceful.. caniage„
and varied parts, this is the sort of man whom nine women
out of ten would fall desperately in love with at first sight;
yet he drops a •,vity anecdote or so Shout the sex, that makes
Ind Fart and Ray, Heaven help the woman who ever falls
in love with him!"

The great Russian Boguey, as the author terms the
secret police, appear to possess a terrible übiquity.
It strikes the traveller on his first arrival. There
are thirty passengers by the Prussian steamer ; they
eat, and drink, and talk together, mingling freely
as voyagers and wanderers, but only twenty-nine
take their places at the table in the cabin, where
each has to give an account of himself and his
passport to the officials. The 30th passenger takes
his scat among these officials, asking his fellow-
travellers, with cool politeness, what their business
might be ? He devotes an entire chapter to the
especial description of this Boguey,which certainly
appears in very unattractive colours, whether as a
preserver of public ordor, or an uninvited constant
companion. "The Ischvostchiks," "The Merchants
and Money-changers," " The Russian Village,"
Music,"
People," & " The Drama in Russia," "The Black
c., all occupy different chapters, and are
described in the livelystyle. and with the keen
penetration which we find. in most of this writer's
pages. This work is as animated a compound of
sense and nonsense, anecdote and humour, as one
can readily meet in a traveller's tale ; yet with it
all the reader lays it down with a somew=hat melan-
choly feeling. The perpetual supervision and übi
quity of the police: the hopelessness of appeal from
any grievance or injustice, the monotonous dejec-
tion of the people, the absence of all spirit, energy,
or enjoyment of life in thousands of toiling labour-
ers, all combine to impress the denizen of a free
country with a sense of oppression and gloom.
Some of the hardships may have been ameliorated
since the author's visit, but it is to be apprehended
that much still remains to make a " Journey Due
North" more pleasant in Mr. Sala's
real pages than in
earnest.

The Seaman's Pocket Animal for 1858, Compiled

by John Mayo, Esq. O'nyrne, Brothers.

This useful little compendium is issued for the
benefit of masters, apprentices, and seamen. It
contains all information likely to be required for
the regulation of affairs between masters and sea-
men, matters of salvage, pilotage, &e. Another
remarkable feature is the explanation of the system
of signal flags for the commercial code, of which
coloured illustrations are given, and of the ensigns
worn by foreign merchant vessels. The best plans for
preserving life from shipwreck, and in accidents,
and casualties, &c., are fully and clearly explained,
and the names of the principal officers of the Board
of Trade, the Marine Board, and a list of the
Sailors' societies are also added. The volume is
published with the sanction and approval of the
Board of Trade, which renders its information
authentic.