The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-23 00:00:00

FOR EDINBURG 11.

THE Splendid New STEAM-SHIPS, the
ROYAL ADELAIDE, Captain MILLS, and
ROYAL WILLIAM, Captain CH &PLIN, each 200 horse
power, will start from St. Katharine Dock Steam .wharf,
near the Tower, as follow :
ROYAL WILLIAM, on Saturday Evening, Aug.2s at Ten.
ROYAL ADELAIDE, on Wednesday Evening, Aug. 29, at Ten,
ROYAL WILLIAM, on Wednesday Evening, Sept. 5, at Ten.
ROYAL ADELAIDE, on Saturday Evening, Sept. 8, atTen,

- These Vessels will be found of The very first class in
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that afford to passengers the advantage of embarking at
the commodious Steam-wharf, London, and landing in
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he shipped and landed with the greatest ease and safety.
Fares, including provisions, Chief Cabin, 41. 4s. ; Second
Cabin, 21. 10s. The accommodations in the Second Ca-
bins are very superior, with separate apartments for females.
Information obtained, berths secured, and goods re-
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Haymarket; M. Sanderson, Boar and Castle Inn, Ox-
ford-street ; Mr. Clarke, Old White Horse Cellar, Pic-
cadilly; and Mr. Gilbert, Blossoms Inn, Lawrence-
lane, Cheapside, where light goods are received, and for-
warded to the Wharf till Five o'clock on the days of
starting. JOSEPH ADAMS, Agent.
Leith and Glasgow Wharf.

THE FALLACIES OF HOPE, a Poem.
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POETIC FRAGMENTS from unpublished MSS.
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THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS,
AND THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.
THE COURT MAGAZINE, No. 111.,
For SEPTEMBER,

Edited by the Hon. Mrs. NORTON,
Will he embellished with a highly-finished Engraving of
the EMPRESS of RUSSIA and CHILD, from the cele-
brated
Painting by George Dawe, Esq., R.A. An EX-
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of the. QUEEN of the BELGIANS.
The Literary Contents of Nos. 1., 11., and 111. of the
Court Magazine include Original Contributions by
Miss Fanny Kemble Theodore Hook, Esq.
C. M'Farlane, Esq. Mrs. Lee, formerly Mrs. Bow-
Mrs. Shelley, Author of ditch .
" Frankenstein" Lord Morpeth
T. Roscoe, Esq. The late J. Taylor, Esq.
Ron. Mrs. Norton Mrs. Trollope
Viscount Castlereagh G. H. Caunter, Esq.
Mrs Price Blackwood Napoleon Bonaparte, (origi-
Tyrone Power, Esq. nal Letters to Marshal
J. Burke, Esq. Ney)
Lord Nugent Sheridan Knowles, Esq.
Viscount Newark Rev. H. Stebhing
Rev. H. Caunter Richard Brinstey Sheridan,
The late Thos. Sheridan, Esq. Esq.
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METHOD OF FISHING IN THE ST.

LAWRENCE.

In the spring, the fish usually run up into
the thousand small creeks (in England they
Would be called rivers) which fall into the St.
Lawrence ; these being oftentimes shallow, per-
mit a man to wade across and along them ; one
carries a bundle of dry pine or cedar bark splin-
ters, lighted and used as a torch ; another fol-
lows with a barbed spear, having a handle eight
or ten feet long, and, by the aid of the torch
light, he is enabled to see the fish as they lie
along the bottom of the stream ; which fish he
cautiously approaches and transfixes with his
spear ; when the water is too deep for him to
wade, a canoe is procured ; a light iron grate is
placed in the bow, and filled with dry pitchy pine
splinters, which blaze vehemently, and cast a
bright and ruddy glow through the water to
many yards distance. The fish, as before, are
by this means discovered lying at the bottom of
the stream, and are caught in the same manner.
Great dexterity is often evinced in the manage-
ment of the spear ; and I have often seen fish of
four or five feet in length caught in this manner.
In the calm evenings of summer, as the night comes
gradually on, canoe after canoe, with its bright
and waving light, may be seen putting silently
from shore, and gliding rapidly and noiselessly
along the still and glassy river ; with one touch
of,
the paddle the canoe is inipelled to the spot
Pointed out by the gestures of the spearsman,
Who, waiting till the fish be within his range,
darts his weapon with admirable precision upon
the devoted prey, lifts it as quietly as possible
into the canoe, and proceeds onwards in search
of further sport. The water of the St. Law-
rence, clear beyond that of almost all the rivers
I have seen, is admirably fitted for this purpose,
and will allow a dexterous sportsman to seize his
prey, if it be tolerably large, even when the water
15 ten or twelve feet in depth. There are few
Scenes in Canada more peculiar and striking
than this night fishing. Often have I stood upon
the banks of the broad and beautiful St. Law-
elllce, and contemplated with rapture the almost
airy picture it afforded. The still and mighty ex-
Parise °twat er, spread out in glassy calmness befot e
!Ile, with its edges fringed by a dark mass of
huge forests sweeping to the very brink of the
!iver, and the deep purple shade of night clos-
,thi g over all, have, together, conjured up a scene
that has held me for hours in contemplation.
he
—ootn asongnu s oilf the
wa voter,yageur floating over the
fl
ent
and mellowed by dis-
lance, has, in my imagination, equalled the
(3ng-lost strains of the Venetian gondolier ; the
glancing multitude of waving lights, belying the
Llorriely purpose to which they were applied,
have seemed a nocturnal festival ; and, by the
.441 of a little romance ill my own feelings, have
slot seldom cheated me into half poetical mus-
til'gs• The " garish eye of day," luckily, in.
t'a,rjahly dispelled the hallucination, by robbing
"e scene of its enchanting but temporary beauty.
thwould, however, recommend the traveller in
t.f)ae distant regions, to view the scene in a
i4nn night of June ; and I doubt not but that,
r 0 short time, he will discover himself more
e°lantic than he deemed.—Bouchette's British
Minions in America,