27 MAY 1837, Page 16

WESTERN VIRGINIA.

Two weeks ago, whilst we speculated on the effect of Mr. BIDDLE'S bonds in carrying surplus British capital to American lands, another speculator was applying himself to this process of transference in a direct form, through the medium of our own advertising columns. The coincidence was " curious," but it did so happen, that an announcement of lands for sale in Virginia appeared in the same paper ; and we have now here before us a neat little volume published by Mr. BULL with the avowed intention, as the preface states, " of facilitating the sale of cer- tain landed estates in Western Virginia." It contains a great variety of information respecting the general appearance of that part of the United States, its mineral productions, climate, popula- tion, internal improvements—such as railways and canals—political institutions, habits and enjoyments of the people, and the mode of acquiring land. The country and its inhabitants are certainly painted en beau ; but we have not discovered any misstatement, and the author professes to have compiled his work from indis- putable authorities. He makes out a tempting prospect for an emigrant of good health, a little capital, some knowledge of farm- ing, and a disposition not to quarrel with the Republican institu- tions of the country and the everlasting swagger of the people with whom he must mix. As a set-off against affronts to national pride, may be mentioned the absence of taxes, parish-rates, and tithes. We can safely recommend the perusal of the Sketch of Western Virginia; for if it do not bring purchasers of the

" landed estates" therein lying, it will turn the thoughts of the struggling farmer towards emigration to some other favoured por- tion of the globe, where a requital for industry and intelligence is as certain as most things in this world of trouble.