24G De. Blackie on Russian Acquisitions in Manchooria. 



Petropavlovsk, in Kamtschatka, to which last, we are informed, steamers 

 already ply at intervals. Important for the development of the Russian 

 marine on the Pacific, and for the general trade to Nikolajewsk, are 

 the excellent timber to be obtained on the Amoor, and the excellent coal, 

 said to equal the best English, found and already wrought in Jonquiere 

 Bay, in the island of Saghalin, an island on which the Russians have 

 evidently set their heart, and over which they will likely soon extend 

 their sway (as indeed they appear in part to have already done), not- 

 withstanding of the objections that may be urged by the brother of 

 Moon, in Pekin, or the Siogun in Yeddo. 



In conclusion, it may be remarked, that if the trade of the Amoor 

 be valuable to the merchants of the United States, it must likewise be 

 so to those of Great Britain, and that the voyage from Glasgow, Liver- 

 pool, or London, to Nikolajewsk, is as short as it is from New York, 

 and that the voyage from Singapore, Hong-kong, or Vancouver's Island, 

 is shorter than it is from San Francisco. 



A communication was received fi-om Mr. "William Gardner — " On a 

 new Method of disposing of Night Sod, in large towns." 



April 28, 1858. — The concluding meeting of the Society was held 

 this evening, in the Hall of Anderson's University, — the Peesident 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Rose exhibited his Apparatus "For illustrating the Persistence 

 of Images on the Retina," and received the cordial thanks of the 

 Society. 



BF.LI. AND BAIN, PRIKTKRS, GLASGOW. 



