Value of Steam Packets.—­A steam packet of 100 horse power, equipped as it ought to be, will probably cost about 20,000_l._; expenditure of fuel, at the rate of one-half chaldron of coals per hour, wages and victualling, per month, 250_l._; tonnage duty, lights, pilotage, and port charges, 200_l._ per annum; insurance, 100_l._ per month; small repairs and winter expenses, about 500_l_.  Besides which, being calculated to last only ten years, the owners should be able to lay by a sinking fund, or reserve of 2,000_l._ per annum, and 1,500_l._ for a new set of boilers during that time, making altogether the sailing expenses of such a vessel about 1,000_l._ per month.

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THE LATE SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.

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  Price Twopence,
    AN ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT,
  Containing NOTICES of the LIFE and WRITINGS
    of the late
  SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. 
    With Five Engravings.

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