Accounts from India mention, that a meeting had been convened
in Bombay for the 14th of May, on the subject of a steam-navigation from England to India. The main object of the meeting, however, related to the communications between Bombay and Suez ; it being con- cluded that the enterprise of private individuals in this country, of which the public have already heard much, particularly in the instance of Mr. Waghorn, would accomplish the remaining distance. An estimate had been prepared, and was to be submitted to the meeting, by which it was shown that for an expense of 163,000 rupees (16,0001.) a steam-boat of sufficient power could be built to navigate between Suez and Bom- bay. This sum it was proposed to raise by voluntary subscriptions ; and as soon as one lac of rupees was subscribed, it was intended to send home the order to England to build a vessel for that purpose.—Times.
By the ship Bolton, about to leave Gravesend for the Cape of Good Hope, the Society for the Suppression of Juvenile Vagrancy forward fifty boys as apprentices to Algoa Bay, under the care of Colonel So- merset, commandant of that district ; making one hundred and forty boys transmitted to that colony in a year and a half by the exertions of this society, and leaving only three boys at their school at Hackney- wick ; but which is immediately to be refilled to its usual complement, their funds and their premises not enabling them to receive and educate more than fifty at a time.
Some of the greatest capitalists in London, among whom are the Rothschilds and Barings, have resolved on establishing a bank, in the province of Upper Canada. It is the Scotch system that is in con- templation, and the capital will be " immense."—York Patriot.
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