The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-26 00:00:00

NEW YORK BREAKFASTS.

I went to several boarding-houses before finally
making a selection. In answer to inquiries for the terms,
•they were generally reasonable enough ; the highest
two dollars a day, about Bs. 6d. sterling ; and the lowest
one dollar. At these last I inquired their hours. Break-
fast at six o'clock and half-past ; hot beef-steaks, mush
and milk, hommaney, rice and molasses, mackerel, sal-
mon, shad, hot cakes, and rolls of every description,
tea and coffee. Dinner at twelve o'clock, and supper at
six. The bill of fare, on reading, looks abundant
enough ; but really, on inspection, this well•covered
table offers to an Englishman very little that is even
eatable, much less palatable. Though every one must
admire the early hours and temperance of the Ameri.
cans, yet only imagine a Londoner, and an old hand not
used to anything much gorse than the shady side of
Pall-mall, assembling at six o'clock at the noise of a
great hell—washed and shaved, mind, by six o'clock—
to took at an immense rump-steak at the head of the
table swimming in fat, not half cooked ; then lower
down a dish of enormous salt mackerel, one of which
would make two of our English mackerel ; then some
Halifax salmon just as taken from the barrel, and as salt
as brine ; then two or three smaller dishes, some with
mush—a food for pigs—and others with hommaney, onlS
differing from mush in that this last is white maize
ground and boiled in water, whilst mush is yellow corn
ground and boiled. As this sort of food is not known
in England, thank God, except in the penitentiaries, I
have been rather particular in describing it. No caution
is required to my countrymen to avoid it, because the

very sight of it will be enough to make him sick. The
remainder of the table was filled up with some warmed"
up tough old hen, called cliick,n fixings—ull warihyd
down with the most execrable coffee in the whole world.
I used to think that England might defy all creation for
bad coffee, but the Americans beat us hollow.
We were some thirty or forty at br. akfast. The
men ate like wolves ; and, cheap as it wit!, I reckoned
it cost them a shilling per minute. Little children. who
alto assemble at these tables, were permitted, by their
foolish mothers, to be guzzling raw rump-steak, swim'
ming in fat, at six o'clock in the morning
Rambles in the United States.

WASTE OF SEA-COASTS.
The abbey of Whitby, at its first erection by LadY
Hilda in 958, is reported to have been a mile from the
sea; but the distance from the verge of Whitby Cot
cliff to the nearest part of the able,y, measured in the
line of transept, was found in 1816 to be little more then
200 yards. Along the coast line of Yorkshire, from
Bricliengton Quay to Spurn Point, the shore has no
im-
portant inlet or projection, and consists of beds of claim
gravel, sand, and chalk rubble; and exposed to a strong
current .from the north, as well as to the uncontrolled
action of the waves, the annual devastation committed
here is very extensive. Of the villages of Auburn,
Hartburn, and Hyde, in the Bay of Bridlington, 0011
the remembrance remains. Several places on the shore.
preserve, in the termination of their names, a memorial
of meres, or freshwater lakes, once having existed in
their neighbourhood—as Skipsca, Kilnsea, and Withers'
sea, the Scandinavian sjo signifying a lake; but the 61
has broken into these meres, and absorbed them, thneg
recesses on the shore seem to mark the spots they oece
occupied. The mere at Hornsea still survives; but
ct
this place which was once several miles Wan.'
has been brought within half a mile of the water e
edge, and the hamlet of Hornsea Beck been utterly de'
stroyed. The waste of the coast amounts to about four
yar!s a year; and farmers may be met with who gape
witnessed the corn wave where the sea now prevails.'
The depredations of the ocean towards Spurn Point, at
the entrance Qf the Humber estuary, have been still more
considerable; nor is it unlikely that the Point will ere_
long become an island. Ravenspur—with the latter par:
of which word the name Spurn seems to be connected, a,.
important place in this locality—has long since been lei,
with a number of other places in the vicinity, belonging_
to Bristol Priory; and the site of the priory itself has
been totally swept away. Pennant remarks—. The sill
and even the very names of several places, once towns)
note upon the Humber, are now only recorded in 11
tory ; and Ravenspur was at one time a rival to Illud
and a port so very considerable in 1332, that Ed"r,„
Ballot and the confederated English barons sailed foie
hence to invade Scotland; and Henry IV., in 1399, re,s f
choice of this port to land at, to effect the deposal:3
Richard ; yet the whole has long since been nes;
voured by the merciless ocean ; extensive sands, drYll
low water, are to be seen in their stead." Mr. I,)c
• halt.
makes a remarkable statement respecting Shering
owe
en the coast of Norfolk.—" I ascertained, in 1829,
_es
facts which throw light upon the rate at which the sea
gains on the land. It was computed, when the seventy
inn was built, in 1805, that it would require st:,'_"d'.
years for the sea to reach the spot, the mean loss ots7e;
being calculated, from previous observations, to be e some'
what less than one yard anneally. The distanc
075.
tween the house and the sea was fifty yards ; but efroe
lowance was made for the slope of the ground beirg_
the sea, in consequence of which the waste as
let,
to '
turally accelerated every year, as the cliff grew „e,
there being at every succeeding period less matter lycen
move when portions of equal area fell down. Bearilsthe years 1824 and 1829, no less than seventeebeY
n left
were swept away, ani only a small garden wast depth
between the building and the sea. There is no one
point,
of twenty feet—sufficient to float a frigate—ait J ~eas
in the harbour of the port, where only forty-el.eeesupon
ago, there stood a Cliff fifty feet high, with house chop
it. If once in half a century an equal amount of an
were produced at once by the momentary such
earthquake, history would be filled with record eft if the
wonderful revolutions of the earth's surface ; it ex'
conversion of high land into deep sea be graduevreeen•
cites only local attention. The flag•staff of the arbour,
the Service station, en the south side of i l
"0,0,0
has, within the last fifteen years, been tile ;e-
-inland, in consequence of the advance of.

THE REGISTRATION FOR 1011111

LANCASHIRE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.) r 0115
The following circular shows the alarm *ale." PI° oof
in the monopolist camp respecting the represenletAtion
the northern division of this county whenever an elec,.
may occur:— Blackburn, Dec. 11, 18Ae.,
Dear Sir,—At a g, this da of several gen'!
meetin
mer favourable to the maintenanceyo'f the Conservaseri
tive
interest in the northern division of this county,
loauws
League,mentte menaced bs
scheme
et the
w activeas exertions
submits
ed foofr then pAr
on 71- Cg et;;
rendering more efficient the regisation of voters in that
interest, throughout the division ; which
awaleesfsev:xupreanble
received, but cannot be carried out a
than from 1,5001. to 2,0001 an it
woluti(wi ansottbheeruignhatntimo onus opinion of
ts
bbsecarri
ptthi
oenw
oughtho le oft
os ol lboeswe
enteredrtihoeu
of raising a fund from which the expenses may be de
ft
rh
aei
chatter,e.dn therefore,
ad
to
solicitre q eys requested
assistancet o d youfirx • to
convinced no argument is requisite, because oit'sft'thtchincetbi:lbils
serious
an
into,ehrse outlay
meetingff for the theh bea tp
brp 6.15_1!a that
division
ous necessity of a strenuous effort being now melt
less the supporters of a Conservative line of polleJ:r .
prepared, at the next election, to surrender their leltio.•
mate influence at the will of an unconstitutional ass

ciaTtih°en'subscriptions are requested for two yea limited
by way of experiment • and the maximum ti
to let, in order to afford' scope for a general manifests-
don of support. I shall feel obliged by your co-warding'
anY SUM you may think proper to contribute, at your
earliest convfnience, to Mr. flu
solicitor, the
secretary fur this district.
I am, dear Sir, yours, faithfullY,
WILLIAM FEILDEN, Chairman.

am.
BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY .---Th eP•r -r to
just arrived here by the train from London, on big Rai' o
Drayton Manor, to spend Christmas with his family. Varrie
the Eight Hon. Baronet being recognised in his carriag ' most
number of gentlemen who were assembled cheered lilia,ibrbt
enthusiastically,and continued their applause until thelobert
Hon. Baronet got into his carriage and drove off. sirtv pal'
looked well, and appeared much pleased at the hearty
come he received.
GLASGOW PIG IRON TRADE, DEC. 23.--"'"pr
elers sur
said to have improved these two days past. Inuniss. eetti
plying their immediate wants have had to p3Y, while, "-
Several sales were made at 775. 6d. and 80s. credli; bar
the same time, we believe, several thousand tons cetprove"
been procured at 725. 6d. cash. The appearance ° '-i;olderS
ment is caused by our present political positon--; ore
the
pausing until something definite takes place. Illsott
has, for some time past, been endeavouring to imp ergs so
trade the propriety of an extension of malleable o'^d that
means of consumpt for pig iron. We have just lear°- of pig
an extensive firm, engaged solely in the manufacture obich
iron, have surveyed ground near Coatbridge, and °ale'''.
they are to erect a malleable work on an e.xtensive
The National. Liggia

[ADyEimsEnam.]—The Atrapilatory, Oriej,"4l4_,
Hair Dye, the only dye that really answers for cfs' it ises'
does not require re-doing, but as the hair grows, as nipos en
fades or acquires that unnatural red or purple tint c° fideito*"
all other dies. Ross and Sons can, with the greatest nosh, taw
recommend the above dye as infallible, if dome at t!eare re!
blishment ; and ladies and gentlemen requiring 'low it Is
quested to bring a friend or servant with them to ses.,boot
tye
used, which will enable them to 110 it afterwards ted es:
chance of failure. Several private apartments devilisbates.
tirely to the above purpose, and some of their este' Thel
having used it, she effect produced can be at once seell'do is'
think it necessary to add, that by a' tending strictly to 000
structions given with each bottle of dye, numerous Pets:Orel
succeeded equally well without coming to them. tabor,
Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, the ce— tiTP•
Perruquiers, Perfumers, Hair-cutters, and Hair-dyers' tbs
Parties attended at their own residences, tcoatel—
distance.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—The fame of liolloWai sod*,
in the care of headaches, dimness of sight, deranged st° h as°
and disordered livers, as likewise in restoring stroolf:t that
vigour. in cases of debilitated constitutions, is so gr%e's are
even in the East Indies the different castes and TAU' cps
taking but little other medicine than these famous Pills.
native agent in the Presidency of Bombay sold latell,_AiptrY
fifty-three dozen boxes in fifteen days. The extrao7g, it
cures performed by these Pills, when all other mewl
truly wonderful. Females will find this a most 1101%01
medicine.—S .Id by all druggists, and at Professor Hell°
establishment, 244, Strand, London.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—LIVERPOOL, IVEDNE--te
A dreadful fire broke out at an early hour this niorpiet,,
the extensive iron foundry of Messrs. Smith and WilleY:irl•
Smithdown-lane, called the Edgebill and Windsor Foolin the
The alarm was first given about three o'clock, and whte re'
engines arrived the whole building was in a blaze, and s; the
gret to say there was a very great deficiency of water
first instance. The consequence was, the flames spree
puny, and all efforts to arrest their progress were auvtigh,
until the roof had fallen in and the first floor burned Oro
to
The building is completely gutted, and at present 011
see
front outer walls are standing. About 300 workfeeLbro
thrown out of employment by this catastrophe. The cl‘lrell
is estimated at nearly 200001. Many valuable pattern .d to
destroyed, and all the machinery. The insurance is About
amount to only 8,0001 in the We-st of England office-
4,0001. of the stock of machinery now destroyed had ow) ofiO
lodged in the building a few weeks ago. Nothing is "
at present of the origin of the fire.
pattiSi'
ELECTION MOVEMENTS IN NORWICH.—A
tion is in course of signature in this city to Sir ""detor,
Foster, Bart., and S. M Peto, Esq., the railway cot r-ejec.
to allow themselves to be put in nomination at the nest
tion.—Cambridge Advertiser.

BIRTH.
On the 24th inst., the wife of the Rev. John DL
tll/3
Rector of Btriton, of a son.

MARRIED. TWO
On the 23d ult., at Wattisfield Church, Suffolk, "-Thor
Ellis, Esq., surgeon, to Elizabeth Freeman, second ding"
of W. A. Freeman. Cord
On the 23d inst., at West Wickham, Kent, James, 04
Sherrard, Esq., to Louisa, eldest daughter of C. H. Nab'
of West Wickham.

DIED.
On the 23d inst., at Chatham-place, David Foggo,
On the 23d inst., at Addington-place, Camberwell, r'
be Ann wife of Mr. John llopkirm. ~/
On the 19th inst., at Hastings, Jacob Phillips, Esq., "
Inner Temple, barrister-at-law.
On the 22d inst., at Bath, T. E. Blackwell, Esq. OP
On the 22d inst., William George, the infant son o'tb,
Thomas Roney, solicitor, of Walcot-place, East, Lamb(
On the 23d inst., at Brighton, Claude, youngest son °'
Marshall, Esq., M.P. Bloc'
On the 24th inst., Hannah, the wife of Mr. George 131'14
burns, of Mark-lane and Islingtor,
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laid4lesex, Friday, December 26, 1645.