looking through the new Lloyd's Universal Register, we are struck, among other things, by the modern habit that shipowners have adopted of choosing particular classes of names for their fleets. Of course we are all familiar with the Glens and the Bone, the Shires and the Castles, as they. are in India with the Cities and the Clans, There used to be a fleet of Rickmorses, trading to Shanghai in the days before the Canal was opened, and there was a fleet of steamers the surname of all of which was the cnoophonous Batters, one of them, the Eleanor Batters, our. viving to this day as the Yehsin. We find in the first page of the list of ship owners, seven vessels whose surname Accame, the Adele Accane heading, and the Teresa Accame closing it, The Indo-China Steam Navigation Com. pany las made ® not very consistent attempt at classifying ite fect, ending the names of its river steamers in Wo, and many of its seagoing vessels in Sang: while the China Merobanta' S. N. Ca,, more practically, begins the names of its river steamers with Kiang (civer), and some of its const poate with Hai (sen.) Messrs, Adamson and Short of North Shields, name their fleet of tou atenmors after Eatly Buglish oclebritioe, from Algitha to Harold; while Aitken, Lilburu.& Ao., of Glasgow, manage a flvot of sixteen large clippers, all whose names begin with Loch. J, and A. Allan, of the Allan line, have a large fleet of steamers whose panies genorally and in "an," and run from Austrian to Waldensian, but their rule is not absolute. Mr, J, A. Auderson has a fleet of eighteen vossela named After meteorological phonomena, and he rejoices at will in a Billow, 0 Blast, " Breeze, a Haze, a Ripple, " Tempest, etc. The steamers of the German "Anglia" line are all Prinzes; wa notice them because they have bogus to trade to China of Late while those who believe in the safety of a Port in a storm should travel by one of the steamers of the Angloe Australasian S.N. Ca. The steamers of the Aulns Steamship Company all begin with " A," except one, the Caribe,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.