At the meeting of the Geographical Society on the 12th
inst. papers were read from Captain Pally, wino has penetrated to Riadh; the capital of the lkialiabeautact in Atrabia, and the ruler of whinh sways all the NejecV or highland prcwince,of the peninsula. He 'found this sovereign an able• and dignified man, who having arrived at the same theory as Mr. Bright and the Japanese de- clined to have foreign relations with anybody, more especially the English. Another paper was also submitted by Captain Allen Young, containing an account of Corea, the great peninsula be- tween northern China and Japan, of which so little is knoWn, but which produces quantities of silk, cotton, hemp, rice, wheat, tobacco, gold, silver, copper, and coal, andin fact everything that the mercantile mind- delights in. Expeditions were talked of, and we should say the Corean chance of a happy life went down twenty degrees.
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