23 MARCH 1839, Page 9

The Great Western steamer, in her last trip from New

York, brought 7,723 letters and 1,133 newspapers, being the largest number she has yet had intrusted to her care.

It appears from a Parliamentary paper that 4,600,000 fewer persons travelled by stage-coaches in 1839 than in 1836; and 14,400,000 more persons by railway in the same period.

The Government are on the point of sending out an expedition to the Antarctic Circle, liar the purpose of making magnetic observations in the Southern hemisphere. The ships to be employed on this service are the Erebus and Terror; and the charge of the expedition is intrusted. to Captain J. Ross. The other ship will be commanded by Commander

F. R. M. Crozier.—Hampshire Telegraph.