The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-08 00:00:00

worth-road, Jan. 20, at half-past one, and March 1, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Andrew Thompson Honeyman Dalziel, licensed victual-
ler, Liverpool, Jan. 13 and 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court.
William Oxlade, coal merchant, York, Jan. 26 and Feb.
23, at half-past eleven, at the Commercial-buildings.
Leeds.
James Moorhouse, cotton spinner, Howgill, Yorkshire,
Jan. 2G and Feb. 22, at twelve, at the Commercial-build-
lugs, Leeds.
Chatburn Cockcroft, picker maker, Stansfield, Halifax,
Jan. 19, at half-put eleven, and Feb. 16, at eleven, at
the Leeds District Court. .

Thomas Oliver anal Andrew Oliver' lace manufacturers,
Nottingham, Jan. 21, and Feb. 9, at half-past tot:, at the
Shirehall Nottingham.
Tom Smith and William Fletcher, commission agents,
Bradford, Jan. 21 and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court.

Edmund Cockshott and John Cockshott, worsted manu-
facturers, Bradford, Jan. 25 and Feb. 26, at eleven, at the
Leeds District Court.
John Mayor Brown, apothecary, Kineten, Warwick-
shire, Jan. 21 anl Feb. 11, at half-past eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court.
Joseph Thompson, jun., plumber, Dudley, Worcester.
shire, Jan. 20 and Feb. 10, at half-past ten, at the Bir-
mingham District Court.
Ed ward R. Daunt and Brother, gereral merchants, Liver.
pool, .Tan. 15 and Feb, 11, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis.
trict Court.
James Laidlaw, insurance broker, Liverpool, Jan. 26
and Feb. 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
John Moffat, tanner and currier, Annan.
Chappell and Anderson, brick-makers, Glasgow.
William Russell, grocer, Glasgow.
Cay, Ogilvie, and Company, merchants, Leith.
Donald M`Glashau, Wine Merchant, Edinburgh.
Alexander Mitchell, manufacturer, Glasgow.
James Morrison, innkeeper, Port Elphinstone, Aber.
deenshire.
Robert Philp, builder, Glasgow.

COURSE OF EXCHANGA_ria
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...HIS DAY.
=thrum •• 11 15% Gibraltar •• •••• • • "'"
Ditto, three months 11 19 'Leghorn .. •• • • ••30 30
Rotterdam • • .• •• •••• •• l i 194 Genoa 66666 ••••• • • •• • • 25 S 5
Antwerp .............. 25 50 blllan -
Brussels ....•• .• .. 25 50 Venice
ilamburgh •• ..•• 13 6Sy Naples •••66• •• •• " 41
Altena ~ • • • • • • Palermo .... • 122%
Psris • • ...... -... • • .... 25 25 Messina .... 123
Do. three months 25 57% Lisbon ... •••• 5114
Marseilles •••••••••• •• 25 66 Oporto •.•••••• .. • • • . • • 52%
l?.ourdeaux e• ••••• • • • we • • Rio Janeiro ..... .......
Frankfort-on-Maine •• .. 120 Buenos Ayres ..
Berlin • • New York ,60 days' sight
Vienna • • .... 10 45 Philadelphia ..
Trieste 10 45 rams or suLuos, PER OZ
Vetersburg ............ 34% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Madrid .........., 4844, Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Cadiz • • ....... 49 Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
Barcelona •• .• •• •• • • New Dollars .• 0 0 0
Seville Silver in bars .....- 0 0 0

LODGING, TRAVELLING, AND SPITTING(

IN AMERICA.

The Adelaide steamer conveyed us to Portland, in.
Maine, where we obtained our first lesson in the enter-
prise of the States. I do not now speak of the commerce
nor of the jetties which are in the course of erection as
the lauding-place of the Great Eastern. I allude to the
hotel system. It has been described too often to require
that I should go over the ground again. It is certainly
well adapted to those who lead an unsettled life, and
consequently displays the wisdom of the peoplein accom-
modating themselves to the part they have so largely
to play in the world's history—the part, I mean, of
pioneers—of an advanced guard to reduce to their do-
minion the boundless expanse of forest and prairie land
which forms the background of their immediate position,
No sooner is a village planted than two or three hotels
rise out of the dust—large rough buildings at first. As
the village grows into a town, mere costly erections fol-
low, until at last a superb palace springs up and be-
comes, as in the Eastern tale, a caravanserai. The pas-
sengers by the Great Eastern will probably find the new
hotel at Portland ready to receive them. When I saw itg
the principal elevation of white tumble was complete,
and it struck me that the beauty of the design corres.
ponded with that of the material. Perhaps it is rather
smaller than might have been expected. In most of the
principal towns the hotels are of unwieldy dimensions.
The largest in the States is said to make up 3,000 beds.
This is, no doubt, a great exaggeration, but the princi-
pal houses in New York do make up about 1,000 beds
each, and the style of the public rooms is quite princely.
Too simplicity of the mode of accounting is admirably
suited to a progressing people. On entering the office,
you write your name in a book. The clerk enters oppo.
site to it the hour, or rather whether it is before or after
dinner, and the number of your room. You are then
free to the house, and must look after your own interest.
No one will trouble himself whether you eat all day,
or eat not at all, and you will pay the same in either
ease—about 10s. per day. I had the curiosity to count
the number of entries, along with my own, on the
day I arrived at the St. Nicholas, in New York, and
about hotels, I will now
found it
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been
speaking
draw to a conclusion my remarks on American travel.

ling, by saying, in one word, that if you have no squeam-
ishness about spitting, you will find all the arrangements
as perfect as can be desired. Your luggage is safely
stowed in your waistcoat pocket in the shape of a label,
and you may travel a thousand miles by half a dozen
lines of railway without giving it even a thought. A.
lady travelling alone finds a separate window devoted to
her use at the stations, where she may take out her
ticket apart from the crowd. She finds a separate car-
riage in the train, into which gentlemen unaccompanied
by ladies are forbidden to enter. At the principal hotels
she finds a separate entrance, and the master of the
house thinks it his duty to attend personally to her
wants. If she goes to the post-office for her letters, she
finds a separate window railed off for her convenience ;
and should she return to the hotel five minutes after the
dinner bell has rung, she finds the lobbies crowded by a
set of hungry gentlemen, who dare not enter the dining-
room until she has taken her seat.
This is the perfection of travelling arrangements, but
to an unaccustomed traveller, male or female, it is all
clouded and disfigured by the vile habit of spitting.
Doubtless, the presence of the ladies is some check on
this filthy practice. What it might be I dare not ectojec-
ture. What it is, amply suffices to mar the beauty of
outer life in America. Yon meet it at every turn. Marble
pavements and Turkey carpets are alike constantly and
copiously befouled. Spitting is the monster vice of the
country. Next to slavery, it is the great obstacle in the
way of perfect civilisation. Do you ask me how t I
will tell you that it promotes and keeps up a want of
social union between the sexes. If you look into the
drawing-rooms of an hotel, you will see elegantly-dressed
for occupation—some listlessly oscillating
ladiesi n
the phioning
horrid rocking chairs—some nervously passing
from the mirrors to the windows, anxious, perhaps, that
others should enjoy a sight which has gratified them-
selves so much—whilst the lobbies, and the bar, and the
tobacco-rooms are crowded with their husbands and
brothers—aye, and their lovers, too, perhaps, who dare
not spit before the ladies. I counted at one time, in an
hotel in Kentucky, 125 gentlemen in the lobby, the
pavement of which they bad rendered slippery and un-
-1 safe to the feet.—Kelland's Transatlantic-Sketches.
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