The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

EMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION.
Mortimer, London, 1844.
The Author of this work, which embodies the
results of a mission to Great Britain and Ireland,
undertaken in 1839 and the three following years, is
a gentleman named Ralph, late emigration agent for
the Government of Canada, who has brought a vast
deal of practical knowledge and experience to the im-
portant subject which he discusses in the present vo-
lume. Ilia main object appears to be to show the ne-
cessity of emigration, chiefly to Canada and our other
American settlements, for the relief of the home po-
pulation ; and he states, towards the close of his work,
that there is an earnest desire on the part of the Ca-
nadians to receive emigrants from the mother-coun-
try, in proof whereof he instances the willingness of
the proprietary to devote portions of their territory in
free grant to actual settlers, adding that the combina-
tion of land, capital, and surplus population might be
rendered mutually serviceable and available in carry-
ing on a large, profitable, and creditable system of
colonisation.
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To those—and they are a fast-increas-
ing class—who are interested in the question of emi-
gration, this work will be found exceedingly useful,
if only from the multiplicity and variety of the statis-
tical facts which it contains.

At a meeting of the Council of the Royal College
of Surgeons of England, on Thursday last, Sir Benjamin
Collins Brodie, Baronet, was elected • president, and Samuel
Cooper and William Lawrence, .Esqrs., were elected vice-
presidents of the college for the year ensuing.
SUBMARINE OPERATIONS.—On Thursday week, the
smack, Argyle, of Jersey, belonging to a company in
the West of England, arrived in Castleton-bay, Isle of
Niel', with a celebrated diver, apparatus, &c., for the
purpose of taking up the brass guns and other parts of
the wreck of the Racehorse sloop-of-war, lost on the
Langness-point about twenty-one years ago. On Wed-
nesday last a great, number of people, gentle and simple,
were out at Langness, looking at the diver. The
weather was beautiful, and there were persons sailing
on that day who had not been •on the water for many
years. There was not a single boat left is the harbour.
The diver has succeeded, with the assistance of the crew
of the Argyle, in taking up about 30 tons of pig-iron,
a large quantity of copper, and a large anchor and chain.
The diver was-under water three hours at one time on
Wednesday.— Isle of Man paper.
THE CONVICT BARBER .—We are authorised to
state that Sir James Graham has intimated that he can
see no ground whatever for interfering with the convic-
tion of Barber, and that the ship Agincourt, in which
that convict and his accomplice Fletcher were passer.-
gers, is on her way to her destination. It is believed
that if any confirmation of the propriety of the verdict
had been considered necessary, that confirmation
was furnished in the ingenious struggle to appear to be
an innocent man, made by Barber after his condemna-
tion—a Struggle which showed how impossible it was
that so clever a fellow could have been made the dupe
of one so infinitely his inferior in every respect.
DEATH OF LIEUT. EDWARD• ROBERTS.—The ar-
rival of the Acadia brings the melancholy intelligence of the
death of -Lieut. Edward Roberts, officer of her Majesty's
mails;: in the steamer. He wakattacked by a fit of apoplexy
previous to the arrival of the ship at Halifax, and his
recovery
was looked upon as so doubtful that Capt. Jud-
kins was sworn in as mail agent at that place. Shortly after
his arrival at Boston he seemed to recover partially,but file dis-
ease afterwards took a more serious turn, and he died at the
Massachusetts General Hospital on the 27th June, aged 69,
Lieutenant Roberts had been in the British navy more than
half a century, and held a Lieutenant's commission since
1810. He had seen much hard service, and participated in
no less than thirty naval engagements. He went out as mail
agent in the Britannia on her first trip to the United States,
had been-in constant service since, and had crossed the At-
lantic over forty times. He has left a wife in Liverpool, but
has no family. His remains were deposited in a vault under
Park-street 'Church, Boston.
PRAGUE, --- JUNE 27. The tranquillity of this city
has not been interrupted. All the manufactories are in full
work, on account of the approaching annual fairs of Bruun
and Pilsen.
In the crop of a rook, shot the other day in Sussex,
were found nineteen grub worms, and seventeen wire
worms—a proof that rooks are the farmers' friends.—
Hants Advertiser.
The mode of popping the question in America now
is, not " Miss, will you marry ?" but " Miss, are you in
favour of annexation ?"
A DROP TOO Muct".—A New York- paper states
that a man named Neville is in custody for taking A
Drop too much—namely, for marrying Miss Amelia
Drop, whilst he, bad another wife living. ,