88 NEW YE All' s DAY. \Jaiiuary, 



render spring travel almost impossible. We hardly look 

 beyond our present sensations ; but having experienced 

 a temperature of 46 '5 but three days since, it is not 

 probable that we shall be long in this fancied misery. 



On this, our New Year's Day, I have inspected our 

 home department between decks, where I was pleased to 

 notice the same comfort, good humour, and good cheer 

 reigns. I had but little to add to my Christmas toasts, 

 but the wish, which many emblems exhibited forcibly 

 brought to my mind, that they had the fairer part of the 

 creation to warm their hearts and render enjoyment more 

 rational. After the customary toasts of Her Majesty, the 

 Prince, etc., I had only to express my wish that the op- 

 position between the adverse berths, married and bache- 

 lors, might be swamped by the single becoming married 

 and the married happy, sentiments which seemed to find 

 an echo even in these dreary regions. The preparations 

 for enjoyment were apparently on an increased scale : 

 comfort and cleanliness, those virtues inherent in all well 

 ordered and well disposed seamen, prevailed ; and hap- 

 piness, if that commodity ever reaches thus far north, 1 

 have reason to hope was in a small degree disseminated. 

 What robe she adopts here it is difficult to determine : 

 if white, how happy and innocent we should be ! the 

 couleur de rose is not traceable. 



January 5. The result of much noise and anxiety 

 proved that Punch had again got into bad company with 

 the wolf; but his faithful ally, Lady Fanny Disco, in 

 the most affectionate manner, rushed to his rescue, and 

 brought him home to his family. Daylight, or the grey 

 tint of an English morning, is now fast extending, and 



