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ward or large cabin, used as a breakfast and diningroom ; and a sleeping and dressing cabin. The wholeare substantially and handsomely finished and furnished,particularly the after-cabin. In this there is a beauti-fully engraved likeness of his majesty George IV. , froma full-length portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence ; a half-length portrait of the present Lady Byron ; and one ofthe same size of Moore, the poet, who is an intimatefriend of the Byron family.

Of Lady Byron , we have heard an admirable account.The expression of countenance in her portrait is un-commonly ingenuous and prepossessing, and, in ad-dition to all that is amiable and benevolent in disposition,she i$ said, by those whom we have heard speak ofher, to be eminently pious ; the plainness of her dress,and whole appearance, indicate a mind and heartlittle devoted to the vanities of high and fashionablelife.

The library is in the after-cabin, and is of a characteryou would more expect to meet in a clergyman’s study,chan in a post-captain’s cabin; consisting principally ofthe British classical writers, with standard works onmorals and religion.

Saturday evening, II. After being delayed all dayyesterday between Maui and Hawaii , we this morningsucceeded in doubling the north point of the latterisland, and have been delighted with the romantic andverdant scenery of the windward side of Hawaii , includ-ing the precipices and waterfalls in the neighbourhoodof the beautiful valleys of Wai-Pio, and Wai-Manu.One cascade, of which we had a full view for some