from New York. All the passengers out to-day and quite well, wind fell off in afternoon, almost calm; evening wind chopping at last S.E.

16TH. Course E. by S., about noon wind came up from S.W., ship tacked; clear and beautiful weather. Report seventy-three miles made, in all thirteen hundred and fortyfive from New York.

17TH.-Course E., weather clear and fine, rate eleven knots, noon. Report two hundred and thirty-eight miles, in all fifteen hundred and seventy-five from New York.

18TH.-SUNDAY.-After yesterday's fine run, wind shifted to E., course S.W., rainy, no observation. Report one hundred and ninety miles, seventeen hundred and sixtyfive in all; service and sermon in the cabin, by Rev. Mr. Kelling of Grace Church, Cincinnati, Ohio; quite fair sermon, several of the sailors came down to service, an interesting sight. About 9, P. M., wind changed, tacked ship; all hands, twenty-six men, on quarter deck at once.

19TH.-Course E.N.E., rate eight knots, wind S.W., splendid day; lay around deck all day, too fine to move about; 3, P. M., spoke schooner Jane, of Plymouth, from Belize, out twenty days, bound to Cork, no news. Report one hundred miles, in all eighteen hundred and sixty-five miles from New York. After dinner, an American packet, homebound, passed us under full sail; too far off to read the name or speak; ran out our signal, but it was not answered; in fifteen minutes she was out of sight; towards night,

another sail seen on horizon starboard distant, but with the glass we could see people on the deck; she looked superbly in the bright sunshine, dashing the foam about.

20TH.-Weather before breakfast very fine.

Wind the same, rate nine to ten knots, afterwards rainy; wind chopping to N.E. and cloudy: no observation. Report one hundred and ninety, in all two thousand and fifty-five miles. Cleared up cold, with west wind, after dinner.

21ST.-Wind N.W. Course S.E.; clear and bracing; saw four sail. Report two hundred and eighty-four miles, total two hundred and twenty-four miles: after lunch, arrival lottery drawn, each ticket (sixteen in all,) representing six hours, from Tuesday at 12, night, till do. Saturday next week; half sovereign each. I drew Wednesday, to 6, P. M. Condition

arrival before or after to count first or last ticket. Ship Severn, New York, from Havre to New York, spoke us and passed off in grand style, deck full of French emigrants; passing so near that we threw newspapers on board.

22D.-Course E., but wind getting ahead; rate two to five knots. Report one hundred and eight, total two thousand three hundred and forty-nine miles; towards noon, wind changed west and the vessel was making a better run.

23D.-Wind W. Course E. Clear and cool. Report one hundred and sixteen miles, total two thousand four hundred and sixty-five miles.

24TH.-Wind W. by S.; rate, eight to eleven knots. Report two hundred and thirty miles; hazy, several sail seen; total two thousand seven hundred and sixty-five miles.

25TH.-SUNDAY-Wind S.W.,'little hazy, sea changing color. Report that we are on soundings. Rate, two hundred and thirty-six miles: total three thousand and one miles; service in cabin.

26TH.-Clear wind, W. At ten o'clock last night, passed Cape Clear, standing off thirty-five miles; land seen this morning, lead thrown; at twelve at night, sixty-eight fathoms, brought up gravel. Report one hundred and ninety-five miles run, three thousand one hundred and ninety-six miles in all. Rate, about six knots.

About 6, P. M., passed Tascar light, too distant to be fully visible; foggy and rainy. About 9, P. M., wind veered S.W., then cleared off. Rate, nine to ten knots. 27TH.-Rose (awakened by the first mate, Mr. Williams,) between 4 and 5, A. M., to see the Holyhead, which we were passing; a splendid morning; it was refreshing to look on solid ground, and the fresh green hills: about 6, A. M., passing Anglesey, making signals, and ship running eleven and a half knots, heavy blow; about 7, A. M., pilot arrived, the tide increased our speed to fourteen knots; passed near Brighton, the Fort, Birkenhead, Bootle, Rock Ferry, and about 12, M., anchored in the Slogue, as the anchorage is called, within a stone's throw of the middle of the city of

Liverpool. A steam tug came alongside, and after some delay in waiting for a customhouse officer, who did not at last arrive, we went on board the steamer, leaving all our baggage, and in about ten minutes reached the pier, some half a mile from our hotel; walked up, gazing with delight and some surprise at the miles of substantial docks, with fine stone levees, forests of warehouses, and wide, finely paved streets; stopped at Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh Place, the Astor House here, a first rate house; walked out through the leading streets; Lord street is fine, side-walks are of asphalt, carriage-way macadamised, stores built in collonades Ionic chiefly, immense plate windows, very fine shops. Bold street is the Broadway here; Hausburg's store of fancy goods, like Bonfanti's with us, is the main lion there; its front is Ionic, eighty feet, four stories high, one hundred and twenty feet deep, some hundred clerks; the proprietor showed me through. There are many other fine stores; the street was full of ladies, some quite pretty, but not so well dressed as at home.

27TH. In the evening went through the railroad station here, a fine building, some two hundred feet front, Corinthian, of freestone, where all the trains terminate; and the Exchange, New Town Hall, St. George's, not yet finished. It is much like our patent office at Washington, of light Portland stone, standing very high. Strolled with friends, a mile or two about the streets, came home very much fatigued, and retired early.

28TH. After breakfast, walked to St. James' Cemetery, some half mile from the hotel, quarried deep in solid limestone. On a stone path, under a stone arch, the only monument worth remark, is Huskisson's beautiful statue in the centre; neat Doric Chapel at the gate; a little beyond the cemetery, a fine flight of steps leads to a beautiful park of some two acres long, and narrow, called the Mount; fronting on St. James' road, with fine terrace and view over the city and villages; from the inside you look down into the cemetery, a depth of sixty or eighty feet. Eighteen thousand persons have been interred in this cemetery in eighteen years.

Half-past 1, P. M., got in railway boat to Birkenhead, then took the cars to Chester, to witness the great race for cups and tradesman's plate, this spring meeting. Chester is an interesting city, whole streets of houses centuries old, not a new house visible anywhere. The race course is just out of the walls, and forms a natural amphitheatre, bounded by the old wall, the bank of the river Dee, and low hills, and on the right the Welch railway viaduct; some forty to fifty thousand persons were there; course twenty-five yards wide, one mile round; I stood by the judge's stand; twentynine horses ran for the great plate. St. Lawrence, the winning horse, beating only by a half length. Fifty thousand pounds were said to have been bet on this race.

After this race, came the race for the tradesman's plate of two hundred sovereigns. I took a cab and drove out