Among all the inmates, we noticed a person who was deaf, dumb, and blind; she is an object of great sympathy, yet she seemed to be happy in the situation that she was placed in; she was cheerfully working away with a small spinningwheel. She was also taught to read and write and communicate her wishes by certain signs. Our guide pressed her fingers, shoulders, and the palm of her hand, which she informed us was asking how she was, and the poor creature by similar means said she was 66 very well." There are schools for the blind in all principal towns of England and Scotland, and these benevolent institutions do the people of Great Britain a great credit. We also heard them play a tune on an organ in a room which was appropriated to divine service. Voluntary contributions are received on the premises, for which purpose boxes are placed in two or three places, and we think every person who can spare even a small sum ought to contribute towards the maintenance of this humane and charitable purpose. We also saw extensive chrystal works belonging to Mr. Watson, of Glasgow, and we here witnessed the method of making wineglasses, tumblers, and goblets. In the midst of a large building was a circular furnace, having about five or six fire places, and a great many people were working here the various processes; the processes a glass undergoes before it is fit for sale are

very pleasing, and well worth seeing. We cannot give a proper account of a thing quite new to us, and which we never saw again. We were told that the materials of which glass is formed are sand, saltpetre, red lead, and manganese. In another room we saw them cutting and polishing various domestic articles, such as tumblers, glasses, &c.

We also paid a visit to the warehouse of Wingate and Sons, where we saw some very fine specimens of needle-work, both English and French, and an enormous quantity of shawls, silk handkerchiefs, and Scottish plaids. The warehouse of Campbell and Co. is very large, and contains an incredible quantity of cotton piece goods of every description, and hosiery, but we were surprised to find that the prices of the piece goods which we expected must be cheaper than at Bombay, was, on the contrary dearer than at that place. This inconsistency can be only accounted for by supposing the market at that place to be always overloaded with stock.

On the 21st of November we went to Greenock in a fine steamer called the Admiral, for the purpose of seeing the vessel that was building by Messrs. Scott, Sinclair & Co., for the Royal West Indian Mail Company. Greenock is situated at the mouth of the Clyde, about twenty-four miles from Glasgow. Here are docks, building yards, and steam-engine manufactories. We saw our

friend Captain Kincaid, who built the ship John Fleming here; he was kind enough to take us over to the dock-yard, and we saw the steamer that we were anxious about, she was in frame, all her timbers were of good sound oak. This vessel was building for the West India Mails; we could not see her plan in consequence of the absence of Mr. Scott from the yard. We then accompanied our friend to his house, which was pleasantly situated a little way beyond Greenock. The town is very dirty and extremely irregular, and none but those immediately connected with the dockyards, shipping, and the manufactories reside there. We returned to Glasgow the same evening.

There is indeed so much to be seen at Glasgow that one could very well spend five or six weeks there; but as we could not spare much time we took our departure on the morning of the 25th, highly delighted with all we saw, and equally grateful to all who showed us attention and hospitality; it is but justice to say that the gentlemen belonging to the various manufactories that we inspected showed us much politeness, and took a delight in giving us all the information we required of them without the least reserve. It is a noble feeling among the English and Scottish people, they are always kind, hospitable, free and full of politeness and affability, and ever ready to oblige those who come from a distant clime to

seek after knowledge in their truly fine and unequalled country.

We left Glasgow at twelve o'clock by the "Achilles," the same vessel that brought us from Liverpool, and after a detention of a quarter of an hour arrived at Liverpool at eleven o'clock next morning.

On the morning of the 1st of December we left Liverpool by the railway at eight in the morning, and after waiting half an hour at Birmingham, reached the station at Euston Square, London, at half-past six in the evening without feeling the slightest fatigue. Thus terminated our tour through the country, which we shall always recollect with much pleasure when in India.

We here annex a tabular form containing

the distance that we travelled in the whole in different conveyances, together with the charges of passage-money, and the actual time that we took in moving from one place to another, in order to show our countrymen at one glance the facility of travelling which exists in England; we shall therefore arrange the table in the same order that we accomplished the tour: thus,

By examining the total number of miles, shillings, and hours, it will be seen that in three days and eleven hours we travelled 1,240 miles by three different sorts of conveyances, on an average a little more than 24d. per mile, and at the rate of about eleven miles and one-third per hour. This facility and cheapness no country can boast of except England, and no people could effect it except Englishmen.

What will our countrymen say, when we tell them that in England a person might leave London by the railway for Birmingham, a distance exceeding by twenty miles that between Bombay and Poona, and after taking his dinner, and seeing a friend or two at that place, comfortably