154 EARL DE GREY'S ADDRESS. [May 28, 1860. 



of the Hydrograpliic Office, and published by the Admiralty. In 

 the event of a march by the allied forces on Tien-tsing or Pekin, 

 this latter map cannot fail to prove useful. We have received from 

 our associate, Major W. S. Sherwell, Deputy Surveyor- General of 

 India, a map of the China coast, from the Canton Eiver to the Gulf of 

 Pechili, with a rough outline of the provinces between Canton and 

 Pekin ; several valuable remarks and statistical tables are engraved 

 on the map, which was published, on a scale of 24 miles to an inch, 

 at Calcutta, November, 1859. 



Tartary. — Commander Ward and his staff, Messrs. Kerr, Blackney, 

 Farmer, and Bedwell, in the ActcBon, with Lieutenant Bullock 

 and Mr. Ellis, in the Dove gunboat, have made good use of 

 their time on the coasts of Tartary, Korea, and Japan. To the 

 north we have a survey of the bay of St. Yladimir; in Man- 

 churia, of Seau-wuhu bay. Observation spot, on the north-east 

 side of the bay, being in lat. 42° 54' 14" N., long. 133° 50' 32" E. ; 

 in Korea Tsan-liang-hai harbour (the Chosan of Broughton in 1796), 

 in which the north point of Deer Island is in lat. 35° 6' 6" N., 

 long. 129° 1' 49" E. ; and lastly, a survey of a magnificent sound, 

 that divides the island of Tsu-sima into two parts. The above 

 plans are on the scale of 3 inches to a mile, and they will be en- 

 graved and published on a suitable scale in the course of the present 

 year, illustrated by some characteristic sketches in Korea and Tar- 

 tary by Mr. Bedwell, r.n. These are positive acquisitions to the geo- 

 graphy of little known coasts, such as it seldom falls to our lot to 

 have to record, and they reflect great credit on the officers who, 

 in spite of many difficulties, have persevered in accomplishing 

 them. 



Australia. — Captain Denham, in H.M.S. Herald^ with his staff, 

 composed of Lieutenant Hutchinson, Messrs. Smith and Wilds, 

 masters, and Messrs. Hixson and Howard, second masters, have 

 cleared away numerous reported dangers, and defined the limits of 

 several reefs and banks in the Coral Sea during the past season. 

 However important these new positions are, it is not necessary to enu- 

 merate them here, as besides having been published immediately on 

 reaching the Admiralty, and being inserted in the Admiralty charts, 

 the notice of them has been reprinted at Sydney, at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, and in the United States, and thus within the space of 

 three months from their discovery, the whole civilized world was 

 furnished with the means of correcting their charts of this much 

 frequented route, which connects Sydney with Torres Strait, India, 



