The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-04 00:00:00

'SPIRIT OF TEE kUBLIO JOURNALS. The 17171,e4, although entirely opposed to rhe revival of Convocation in Ireland, thinks it most desirable that Irish Churchmen should assemble and express their views on the situation of the Irish Church. Let the Irish bishops take counsel together, in the first place, with such lay assistance as may be immediately available, and consult as to the constitution of the committee they would con voke to represent the opinions of all members of the Church ; and when in this committee let them consider what arrangement they will accept from the Government. If, for instance, they should really devise a committee fairly and impartially representative, and capable of efficient action, they would secure the sanction of Parliament to the adoption of such a committee as the Administrative Council of the Disendowed and Disestablished Church. If, again, accepting as a necessity the abolition of the Esta blishment, they drew up a scheme for the conversion of reserved life interests into the nucleus of a permanent endowment, if they constructed an organisation for the receipt and application of such funds as might hereafter accrue from the voluntary gifts of the members and friends of the Disendowed Church, such a scheme and such an organisation would receive the attentive consideration, and in all probability the willing approval, of the Ministry. It would be a minor but a most useful feature of such a representative committee as we have imagined to bring together evidence of all cases where Churchmen like the late Sir Benjamin Guinness have contributed from their private wealth to the re-edification of churches or the better endowment of clergymen. It is, in fact, plain that if the Irish Churchmen are disposed to meet the Ministry frankly, the Ministry will be glad to meet them. They must not, of course,'answer with a Non possumus. They must accept a inevitable the abolition of the Establishment, and make the best of that necessity. Will they do so ? To speak honestly, we have no confidence that they will. If they will not, it must follow that the action of the Government will be simpler, if more rough and more severe than if they assisted to guide. No Administration can pursue the task of dis establishment and disendowment into the endless ramifi cations which might each be cared for by a consultive com mittee of Irish Churchmen. The Churchmen of Ireland have at this moment an excellent opportunity ; let them seize it, and put to shame our prognostications by aban doning all hope from such a broken reed as Convocation, and-by constructing in an impartial and courageous manner a new temporal organisation for the communion of which they are members. The Pcst refers to the appointment of Colonel Henderson as the Chief Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and declares that the Home Secretary decided the point regarding the selection of Sir Richard Alayne's . successor by selecting a soldier, and yet not simply a soldier. Colonel Henderson belongs to the Royal Engineers ; his services, however, have mainly been of a civil character, like those of many of his brother officers ; and they have been of a nature eminently suited to qualify him for the trying post for which he has been chosen from among so many. Nearly twenty years ago Colonel Henderson sailed for Western Australia with a ship-load of convicts and a company of Sappers, to make the arrangements for their establishment there. At the end of several years, spent in successfully carrying out this scheme, he was appointed to a civil office under the Australian Government, which he held for a considerable time. Soon after his arrival at home, on giving up his colonial appointment, Colonel Henderson was selected to fill the office of Surveyor- General of Military and Convict Prisons, and he has held this important post up to the present time. Thus it will be seen that Colonel Henderson has had just the right kind of experience to justify the selection of the Home Secretary. A scientific soldier, and still not moulded into stiffness by many years of unmiti gated pipeclay ; a practised administrator under novel and trying circumstances ; an officer thoroughly acquainted with the idiosyncracies of criminal character, and one who has thoroughly merited the several important offices he has filled, the new Chief Commissioner of Police appears to be the right man in the right place. The Morning Star says the Ultra Ritualists have done their best to elect their five candidates for membership on the standing committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and have signally failed, and that it is impossible to regard the issue of the contest as other than an additional rebuke offered by public opinion to the extreme Ritualist party. The truth is that Englishmen do not and cannot live in the medimval world into which the new school of ecclesiastics would lead them. The dogmas to which they are wedded may once have flourished on English soil ; but we are not a people who are likely to return to these ancient ways simply because they have been trodden by our forefathers several centuries ago, or because they were devised orhad the sanction of certain persons who began to flourish two or three centuries after Chri,tianity was launched by its Divine Founder, and who had no warrant whatever for the additions they made to the teachings of the New Testament. This, be it remenibered, is no ques tion of the external beauty of public worship. People may admire an ornate ritual or the cultivation of an msthetio A!ISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We in England are bothering the brains of the Home Secretary bycalling emphatically for a stronger police. In Jersey, however, which seems to be quite a modern Arcadia, there is an attempt being made to put down the police altogether. The force at present at St. Helier's (population 30,000) consists of ten constables, without a superintendent. That office is filled by honorary constables on alternate days. A bill is now before the States of Jersey for the abolition of this force, and the revival of the watch men of " Old Charlies." It has been referred to a select committee—a proof that the opponents of the bill were not strong enough to negative the measure. Jersey offers a good field for an enterprising gentle man engaged in " professional" pursuits. THE MONTH. The meteorologists have been rubbing their hands with joy again during the month passed. Never before—meteorology being a young science—have such astounding records been made. But the joy his had with it a certain amount of perplexity. Witness Mr. Allnatt's letter to the Times, asking mysteriously whether the crust of the earth had been " attenuated." He seems to have come to himself again since, however, for he offers no such solution of the problem in his monthly epistle to the great Thunderer. The month he has written about is certainly a remarkable one—sultry to-day, frosty to-morrow. It opened with considerable frost, the mean of the day being 2.8 deg. below the average of fifty years. From a temperature of 28 deg. on the night of the lst (a wind arising) the ther mometer suddenly ascended to 40 deg. Then we had several days of intermittent gales varying in force. From the 15th to the 17th the thermometer was again above the average from 71 to 91 deg. On the 19th there was a minimum. On the 24th the temperature was 10.4 deg. below the average of 50 years, and on the 28th 6.2 deg. above. Surely never before did the clerk of the weather look after his work so badly. FATAL BOILEIt EXPLOSION. On Tuesday morning a disastrous explosion oc curred at the Unswortli Colliery, the property of Mr. George Elliot, M.P., by which one man was killed and three persons seriously injured. The man who was killed was blown a distance of sixty yards. The boiler which exploded was situated among seven others in the pit-heap near the colliery. The origin of the accident is not stated. THE IIIGIIWAY ACT. Lord Teignmouth has replied at some length to the attack made upon him by Mr. Soulby in reference to the new Highway Act. It will be remembered that Mr. Soulby, who is strongly opposed to the Act, was much incensed by the language used by Lord Teignmouth at the North Riding Quarter Sessions respecting the agitation against it. Lord Teignmouth declares that the only petition against the new Act originated in a single district, and that the local resistance to it has been greatly exaggerated. He avers that the opposition of rate payers was treated by the magistrates with uniform respect, and that the whole matter was freely dis cussed and considered. Lord Teignmouth is highly indignant with Mr. Soulby, whose position as secre tary to a Chamber of Agriculture gives him some importance, and Lord Teignmouth calls upon him to substantiate or withdraw the charges contained in his letter. THE AGRICULTURAL LABOULER. What kind of man is the agricultural labourer ? He produces as much perplexity as the " working man" of the famous Reform struggle. One writer makes him almost revel in luxury, while another pictures him sunk in squalor, dirt, and misery. Mr. J. J. Xlcchi, of Tiptree Hall, Essex— an authority on agricultural matters—gives us his idea in a letter to the Times. Here it is. Conditions—generally healthy. Wages, under good masters, 15s. or Ms. per week, generally 1 ls. or 12s. Families—large, (over ten children), set early to work, generally healthy. Cottages —many very bad but a new order of things coming in. As the labourer is generally contented, gets pure air for nothing, has a healthy, though . not too abundant diet, Mr. Mechi thinks him superior to his brother of the town and the factory. 02ICIgALITY. A discussion long wanted has commenced in the London papers as to originality. It arose in this wise :Mr. Robertson has just written two plays— " Home " and " School "—both of which have been favourably received. Suddenly a correspondent discovers that Mr. Ilobertson's play " School " is something after the style of " Aschenbr6del," a German play of some repute, and straightway ch.irges the author with piracy. It is admitttxl that the play is no mere ti%lnslation ; many scenes are entirely new, the dialogue is different, the working out in many respects dissimilar, but there is the "inspiration." Ilad Mr. Robertson any right to use the play ? These who say so, argue that any genius, any man who has any wish to write for the coming generation, an author with a spark of individuality, would lean on himself alone, woal'l spurn such aid es can be got from other people's brains. In using taste in the outward and visible forms of divine another nian's work—inre-dressing it— he gds predi,.t,- worship, with ou t f ee li ng th e s li g ht es t symmt tl iv will' till. iS 'l . lifi f n i p ~, . ..*,‘,..2 . 1..-4. —, - .... ~.;.,ibeilLtea thaz mien .- - . ...- ~... aegree or sanctity, an d pro• a stric rule would fetter the genius of the present ceed mn cla further in adoring th e Vi rg i n M ary an d t h e generation. As it i s we ll p u t i n one o f th e p a p ers — Saints than is generally supposed. Indeed, if th e Rit ua li s t s " The right of an artist t o t r y an d d o b e tt er w h a t h e believes has been imperfectly done before, is one that had their way, th e Ch urc h o f E ng l and would become a mere travesty of b o th th e R oman C at h ol i c and the Greek no one questions, as it concerns the magnates of th e Churches—a m ongre l i nst i tut i on wh i ch neither Church p ast, who are beyond the pressure of contempora ry prejudices and i n t eres t s ." Sh a k s p ere fou n d would recognise, and whi c h wou ld ye t h ave as little Boccaccio helpful; Scott worked out a border legend affinity as either with the Protestantism of the country. " Bride of Lammermoor; " Tennyson's The Telegraph refers to its announcement of the refusal complains.in"ldyiliilees " are m " as old as the hills." And yet no one of Government to sanction a revival of Convocation in ay not the same thing be done by Ireland, and considers that the best justification of the n playwrights? refusal is the language of the rejected application just pub. SYMPTOMS OF THE SESSION. lished. There is a large and daily-increasing party among CoEtuairclii,DheasGrey and Ripon, Lord President of the the clergy and laity in favour of negotiation with the Council, Twelve given his first Ministerial . dinner of the Government, but, on the other hand, the bishops who signedmembers of the Cabinet the Lord the petition are at present vehemently opposed to every. Chamberlain, Mr. Helps, and Mr. Harrison were concession or accommodation. It is certainly thing like present; the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Goschen, and Mr. Fortescue were the absentee Ministers. At the not the policy of the present Government to discourage Cabinet Council, held the same morning, fourteen overtures of capitulation or fi re on a flag of e, members of th e C a bi ne t were presen t , M r. Fortes truce. On the contrary, Minist ers most earnestly desi re a whoo is in Ir e l an d, b e i ng th e on l y a b sen t ee . L or d to carry out the great reform in a conc ili atory spirit, Clarendonet was at both gatherings ;so that the report on f and to confer with every or any fairly- cons tit ute d institu. setbya recently-started evening paper as to Lion which represents the parties int eres t e d. Th ere are th e serious eo illness of the Foreign Secretary would to many reasons why such communications s h ou ld b e invited seem have no f oun d a ti on i n f ac t. and hailed with the utmost pleasure. In the first place, THE IRISH CHURCH. the questions of proprietary right which the Legislature ThedeEati,lish Conservative journals are showing a has to consider are extremely intricate, and it is especially goodirritation at the attitude of Irish Church desirable that the various claims should be well inves. men. Theoffi complain that the second should now, instead ca o r f a p t itt making a brave resistance, be intent tigated, and, if possible, settled by amicable arrange. meat. By a rough computation, the annual cede- only up on mg on the best terms. These journals say that it is ratheri hard that English Con hundred thousand pounds, of which about one-third o fight the battle of the Irish Church alone, should .° be the only party to rally is derived from land, and the residue, for the round the s t an d ard of " no surrender. " It was most part, com e s f rom th e tith e rentcharge. With all not for such fainthearted conduct as this that this property p ar li amen t must d ea l i n th e ensu i ng session ; they foughtthe battle of the elections. Moreover, and, in order to estimate the justice or expediency of any 1 what are they to do in the coming campaign if they plan for appropriation, we ought to have a clear concep- are to be de y • of the only ground which is left tion of the existing titl es an d tenures. For th e purposes o f I EthnegmlisfhorceoonmpsEa:t7t. Irish Churchmen are wiser than hustings declamation, of harangues addressed to Orange I have no wish to baelvesdthought them to be. They lodges, it is sufficient to say that the property has been I "Constitution "wasma e , a mere cheral de bataille, as solemnly and irrevocably given to the Church ; and it !theto be abandoned like warfare that' i during iitgv whenever Reform ver th.e struggle, llee ess i- follows, as a sufficiently logical consequence, that Mr, ties of party two m h a o s r te ese r in l a y ttere r 2 e a t e r pm ea ao t ic . iraiatic Gladstone and his colleagues are spoliators and robbers. compel a strategical move- The ttthlei lipseor men a The Daily News asks whether railway shareholders have yie,,lliteY know any fair right to throw on the public the burden of their to a nt own mistakes and extravagance by compelling them to pay the fiction of a democratic ne Toil' as a pret - e p invented leeedgfr double and treble the price on the lines they do want dishing their opponents; they know that these men which they would hare paid if the company had not took a leap in the dark s ;so far as the State is con wasted their money on lines which are not wanted. Share. cerned, and believe that the uld . take another as regards the Church. So they ey holders assume as a matter of course that they have such athink it wisest to make terms with the Liberals, right, and they will not stop to consider the other side of who are willing to grant the case. When liberal co n diti ons, rather than to one of their number, saner than the rest, only in order hereafter to surrender refuse all terms attempts, as on Tuesday at the meeting of the Brighton " unconditionally. sharehold er s, to remind them of the public expectations, ' CONGRATULATIO NS. The Conservatives of Mid Surrey held high and of the experience gathered elsewhere as to what is festival on Tuesday night. They met together at really remunerative, they put him down for trying to one of the 1 several new " railway hotels " which ‘ "depreciate their property." This is all very foolish, be- been erected in the metropolis,have of late to congratulate cause the case of the public sooner or later, and sooner one anothe ha • succeeded 111 in carrying es o a n t the vl e n l g two rather than later, must be fully heard. Shareholders , Conservatisf evould do well to pause, before they push their rights, or that whenever such a baeenqinonet. takes is place ing to note ace—whichever fancied rights, to an erstreme. We dispute, then, alto. I party rejoices —the speakers consid P that the con gether, the absolute , right of railway conapan4s to a five stituency has been " rescued er from oppressive per cent. or even a one per cent. dividend on the . thraldom." This and a great deal to the same 'enormous • capttals which they have heaped up. What ' effect was said by the fervid after-dinnerlne orators. Lord George Hamilton, M.P., was one of tchaey. capital strictly entitled to is a fair return on the the speakers. He ridiculed the idea of the present working lines, the various branches of their aural. Government notwithstanding the weakness of the late Minis gamated undertakings being in thisaccount k ept try , it had braved unpopularity and the loss of a separate. They have no sort of moral or equitable claim ' seat by prosecuting Mr. Johnston, of Ballykilbeg. to make the strea m of tragic on the main line, or the But the present Government, in fear of losing the suburban lines near London, bear the interest on capital support of a section of the party, had not the moral for totally disconnected arricl O them u s t e l l iral lines which they courage to put down the Mayor of Cork, notwith have chosen to take npon. The two things standing his seditious language. Mr. Brodrick set are entirely distinct, and although7s. they insist on keep. forth a " social " policy for the present Government. ing them together, the public will T 1 not agree with them when . ELECTION EXPENSES. the penalty is too severe. `!'hat ,hie is now the need . by a can need not insist. One can only wonder La " we , It is astonishing how much may be spent at tae ins There is Mr. Tomline, for in didate in a few days. fatuation of Mr. Laing in talkinr, glibly as he does stance, who went to Grimsby only aor two of the expediency and justice of raising so fares l and rates in before the eleetion, and who spent L 1,240 ; and Order that above all things a certainidc sa return may be Captain Williams, who was brought out at the last obtained. He did not care, he said,accordin g to one re- minute for Barnstaple, and who spent over 4.:T00. port, "whether the fares p=r passenger were id • a mile or Beth these borough- Ire so notoriously corrupt that 33, a mile," provided the gross receipts were soand neither side dares .• • . so. i petition, knowing well that the Bat this is exactly what the public do care about,poie future would be disfranchised, and all opportunities their present mood it was not wise to indicate so and in : eso roughly __ spoiling of candidates would be taken away. and epigrammatically the clispee ' awn of railway direo. Thus tee worst offenders escape punishment. tors to neglect them. BARON MARTIN. Surely Baron M • artin, though a most excellent judge is ' - The Derby illereary states that there ' will be no 6 , `Sir Henry , a somewhat indiscreet man. His letter to ir I Stracey, in which, after unseating him petition against tho return of Colosol Vr'iimct f cr South publicly he consoled h . privately, was, to say the DaLTs6lm . , least, an eccentric proc un l . I i eec nig. His speech at Bradford when decja,rin, At ~, r, i'orster duly elected was some- THE SUN, LONDON,. THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY - .4, -1869. tnmg more than eccentric. tie protestea ianaly and vehemently against having to try the case at all. - It was perhaps pardonable that all the judges should have protested in the first place, and when the new regulations were still under dis cussion, but that a judge having bowed to the will of Parliament, and having undertaken the duties imposed upon him, should, in the discharge thereof, have resented the task, does seem contrary to judicial dignity. Baron Martin has now delivered his soul, and it is to be hoped that henceforth he will refrain from private letters to the members whom he unseats, and from public protests against the law of the land. THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Puna) A BLUNDER-BUSS.—Kissing the wrong girl, DELICACY. —Young Swell : " We won't go down Con duit-street, for I haven't paid my tailor his Christmas bill yet, and if he sees me he might feel embarrassed !" COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Ruined Shareholder to Daughter : " Yes ' they are committed for trial ; but we my child, to hard labour for life I " A HOLIDAY TASK FOR AN M.F.H.—To keep in good temper with a large field while Mr. Titups amuses himself by heading the fox and riding over the best hounds. A GOOD RRASONER.—A teetotaller's arguments are pretty sure to be sound, for he is certain to snake use of nothing which will not bold water. LOOK FIERE, LORD LINDSAY.—Brisk Volunteer (to languid ditto): "You'll be at drill next Saturday, won't you?" Languid One : " Eh, ah, it's the first this season, isn't it ? Ya-as, think I shall. There's sure to be more talk than dwill ; so it'll be a good night to go." (From Fun.) MOTTO FOR H. M.'s STATIONERY OFFICE.—Take care of the pens and the pounds will take care of themselves. BIRDS OF A FEATRER.—When a man has feathered his nest you will generally find that he also plumes himself upon it. How true is it, therefore, that " riches take unto themselves wings." LITERARY NOTE.—The great " Proverbial Philosophy " of our Tupper has just been translated into Swedish. We trust it will be appreciated by the turnip•headed Swedes. We only wish Stockholm would relieve us of the home stock of the work. COURTSHIP AND MATRIAIONT.—Let this paragraph, which we clip from a contemporary, be a warning to all ardent bachelors :—" A female weaver, at Bradford, named Sabina Carey, has gained £5 damages against a yofing man who, while courting her, squeezed her hand so hard as to break one of her fingers." If Sabina Carey's young man had only been learned in tke law he would have married her out of hand before breaking her finger. It is one of the privileges of a married man under our wise laws to break his wife's head—or her heart—with perfect immunity from the danger of damages—to him. self. State after State is yet to arise, and where the pro ductions for the support of society in the old crowded States must be brought forth. Power is not to re side permanently on the eastern slope of the Alle- L gliany Mountains nor in the seaports, but will be located in the Mississippi Valley and at the sources of the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence. I now believe, he continued, that the ultimate last seat of Government on this great continent will be found somewhere within a circle not far from St. Paul, the bead of the navigation on the Mississippi River. The tide of emigration is now rapidly flowing in, and will, no doubt, bring about this great change. The estimated population of the United States (38 millions), at the present rate of emigration, will in thirty years be 100 millions, and at least 60 per cent. of that increase will be thrown into the West ern States." St. Paul, the city whose future is pre dicted as the seat of Government for the continent, by such an authority as Mr. Seward, is already a large and beautiful town, situated on a great bend of the Mississippi (which is there bridged), contain ing upwards of 20,000 inhabitants. It is the centre of a considerable trade, numerous steamers lie at the wharf, and eleven railroads put down and carry off passengers. Fourteen thousand tons of shipping be longed to the port in 1867, and the emigrant is sur prised to see so many vessels grouped at the docks in a- place he regarded as the outskirts of civi lization. A railway connects St. Paul with Lake Superior, running through a fertile portion of the State, and laying open two millions of acres of rich agricultural land. It is calculated that on this line the freight of wheat alone will be from 12 to 20 millions bushels annually. Au association is now in operation to people this land, with an office at No. 1, Bartholomew House, Bartholomew lane, opposite the Bank of England. It offers homes for emigrants on terms which will eventually pay, though not perhaps at present, the proprietors of the railroad. The United States' plan of peopling the waste places is for the Government to grant alter nate sections for ten miles back along the road as constructed, which gives a vastly increased value to the half belonging to the Government. The object of the company then is to get the country on each side their road settled as speedily as possible, for every farm recovered from the waste adds to the business of the line, and consequently to its value. Those then who form this association are enabled to kill two birds with one stone, for in offering farm land in a charming country to hungry families at a small cost, they add to the intrinsic worth of their property in the direct proportion of the success of those they plant along the line. The produce of the State is mainly wheat, but very valuable crops are 'raised of hay, Indian corn, potatoes, and oats. In 1865 400,000 acres of wheat were harvested, giving twelve millions of bushels, averaging all round 30 'bushels to the acre. This was a great yield, though the soil is said to return 35 bushels of wheat to the acre, of corn 40 to 50, and of potatoes 300. Sugar maple is plentiful, much being manufactured in 1867, together with 48,0001b5. of tobacco. Honey and beeswax averaged from 21bs. to 4lbs. a hive. The lands along the bank of the Upper Mississippi are covered with forest, and of the St. Croix, Crow Wing, and Otter Tail Rivers, which employ about 3,000 lum ber-mon. In 1866 the logs and lumber cut yielded 175,000,000 feet at St. Anthony and St. Croix, where mills are at work which turn whole trunks of trees into boards at one sawing. At St. Anthony there are rnagnificentFalls, estimated by engineers to equal 120,000 horse power, and this is the centre of a most fertile district. The Missouri plains, as well as the country generally, grows good grass, well adapted to departure cattle and sheep. The oak openings afford both splendid feed and shade ; the wool grows finer and in larger quantities than in the warmer climes of the south ; while the number of days in winter they require to be fed and sheltered is not greater than in Ohio and in Southern Illinois. Un like such countries as Australia and New Zealand, Minnesota abounds with game. Indeed, the valley of the St. Croix is noted over America for its deer, bear, turkeys, prairie fowl, pheasants, grouse ; wild pigeons, and prairie chickens positively swarm. Oc casion dly buffalo find their way into these prairies and elk. The lakes and rivers are alive with flab, from speckled trout to the largest pike, while they are covered in winter with wild duck and geese. Pickerel are caught weighing 20 sonic instances 301b5., white fish about 11Ibs., and carp about 4lbs. Although we have said that Minnesota is not noted for any scene grandly pictu resque, an exception must be made in favour of the Falls of Minnehaha, four miles from St. Paul. This, the moat beautiful cascade in America, derives an additional charm from Longfellow's Hiawatha,. which in a measure has made it classic ground. This State is reached in three days from any of the great Atlantic ports by rail and by water, either up the Mississippi or by the St. Lawrence, though of course the time would be very much longer. Through it will pass the Northern line to the Pacific ; indeed the rail terminus of such a road must be in this. State, for here the. water communication begins. Instead,ithen, of being out of the way, it may not , only become a centre for Government, but a world's highway. It was settled about 1846 by emigrants from the Northern and Western States ; organized as a Territory in 1849, and admitted into the Union in 1857. From 1854 its increase was very rapid, which has continued up to the Present. It remains for us now but to touch on the financial condition of the State. At the commencement of 1867 its funded debt, exclusive of unrecognized railroad bonds, only amounted to $350,000, of which but half is held outside the State. It had then a claim against the United States of $lOO,OOO ; and indeed virtually it may be said to have no debt at all, being in this respect in a strikingly favourable position when contrasted with other communities in America.. The revenue for the year was estimated at $322,546, and the balance in the Treasury was $68,189. The taxable value of real and personal property returned for 1865- 6,was $45,127,318 ; for 1866-7,557,500,000. The permanent school fund then amounted to _ _ _ $1,333,161; the revenue was $109,935 • the school districts, 1,993 ; the school houses, 1,297 ; the pupils, .52,753 ; the average daily attendance, 33,319. A university was opened at St. Anthony, a thriving city, and a State Penitentiary at Still water, another rising town. There is a deaf and duml institution with 28 pupils. Around Lake. Superior there is abundance of copper and iron ore, also coal, slate, building stone, and clay. It now furnishes one-fourth of all the iron ore produced in the States, upwards of 500,000 tons, which is so increasing that it is expected in five years to reach a million tons. The red pipe stone, of which the Indians make their pipes, is found in this State. The next State we purpose to discuss is Texas, going at a bound from the North to the South of the Union. At the fire (Dec. 24) at Briggs Brothers, in Twenty -third-street and Sixth-avenue, New York, the following were the horses destroyed :—" There were on livery at the time some seventy private animals, embracing a pair of bay mares belonging to Mr. Le Fevre; a pair of bay geldings, belonging to Mr. Platt; a pair of black trot ters of ' Mr. Hoadley's ; a Henry Clay horse of Mr. Osborne's ; Mr. Ross's sorrel colt Whirlpool, a promising three-year -old ; a four-i❑-hand of Mr. Palmer's ; black and bay coach teams, the property of Messrs. William P. and Ferdinand Earle; a saddle pony and black team of Mr. Slaughter's; Mr. Frazor's two road mares; a carriage team of Mr. Thompson's ; a piir of greys of Mr. Ballard's ; a road team of Mr. Hotchkiss's, of St. James's Hotel ; a black mare of Mr. Read's, of the Hoffman House, for which 81,000 was recently paid ; Mr. Arkenburg's carriage team; while road and saddlelorses were lost by Messrs. Lappin, Jones, Merritt, Lawrence, Beach, Martin, Dodge, and many others. The Briggs Brothers lost sixty animals." A telegram, dated thrlin, Jan. 29, was to the effect that the editors and j- , urnalists of Berlin had adopted, upon the suggestion of Herr Berthold Auerl•ach, an address to General Grant, to ba presented to him upon his assuming the offie3 of President of the United States, requesting him to take tto initiative in a bill for the mutual protection of literary and artistic property in America and Germany. The various literary societies of Germany have also been invited to unite with the Berlin editors in this matter. IJUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London W. 4 —[Ad , vertisernentj SPURTING INTEL LIGENCE. SUDBURY SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. A Handicap Plate of 40 soya; winners extra. One mile and a quarter. Mr Robert's Flash, by Thunderbolt—Miss Hincla, 3 yrs, 7st tinc. 7lb ex.) (Butler) 1 Mr Rover's Poleaxe, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Ba r k er ) 2 Mr Wass's Whit woth, 5 yrs, Bst 51b (T. Goodwin) 3 The following also ran :—Wild Blood, Contempt, Nannie, Mathilde, First Fiddle, and Colonel P. Huxtable weighed for Cromwell, 5 yrs, Bst, and the number was hoisted, but the horse having left the course did not start. Botting.-2 to 1 agstFlash, 4 to 1 agst Nannie, 5 to 1 (al first 2 to 1) agst Contempt, S to 1 agst Poleaxe, 10 to agst Whitworth. Won by a length and a half. A Hunters' Plate of 20 sovs for bunters ; weight for age, Two miles. Mr Audinwood's Lucy, pedigree unknown, 4 yrs, 12st 7lb Mr Seabrook's Lizzie, aged, l2st 121 b (Owner) 0 Betting-6 to 4on Lucy. Lucy had the race to herself, Lizzie persistently refusing to start till her opponent had gone thirty yards; and when she did get off she ran so unkindly as to leave Lucy to canter in alone. A Plate of 20 sovs, for all ages ; weight for age. Three furlongs. Mr Fuller's c by Simple Simon—Ambush, 2 yrs (X2O), Gst 51b (G. Jarvis) f 1 Mr J. Waltham's Colonel P., 3 yrs (X20), , 85t 71b (T. Goodwin) t 2 Mr Goodwin's Mousetrap, 2 yrs (£2O), Gst 51b (car. Est 81b) •.•. (Butler) 3 Mr Seabrook's May Queen, 2 yrs (£2O), 6st 51b (Dann) 4 Betting— 5 to 2on Mousetrap, 7 to 2 agst the Ambush colt, 10 to 1" bar two." Mousetrap jumped off with a clear lead of Colonel P., the Ambush colt bringing up the rear to the distance, where Mousetrap was beaten, and the Ambush colt join ing Colonel P., the pair ran a close race up, resulting in a dead-heat. The favourite was third, beaten a length from the dead-heaters, while May Queen was last, beaten off. Deciding Heat-2 to lon the Ambush colt, who made play throughout, and won in a canter by ten lengths. The Spring Flying (Handicap) of 30 soves ; winners !IETING—FEB. 17. Altair.) t. the Earl of Sefton. ,600 in specie, by subscriptio winner to receive X3OO, and WATERLOO M: (Over _ Patron -Right Hon The Waterloo Cup, value £l, of £25 each ; 64 subs; the the second £2OO. 1. Mr C. F. Allison 33. Mr J. Ingleby 2. Mr J. F. Armistead 34. Mr R. Jardine 3. Mr J. Bake 35. Mr F. Johnston 4. Mr W. J. Barden 36. Mr J. Johnston 5. Mr F. Bartholomew 37. Mr H. B. Joues 6. Lord Binning 38. Mr W. J. Legit 7. Mr J. Blackstock 39. Mr S. C. Lister 8. Mr J. S. Bland 40. Mr J. Lonsdale 9. Mr G. Blanshard 41. Lord Lurgan 10. Mr W. G. Borrow 42. Mr S. Mallabey 11. Mr T. Brocklebank 43. 12. Mr J. Brundrit 13. Mr R. B. Carruth e rs 45. 14. Mr C. J. Chesshyr e 46. Hon. C. C. Moly 1110 11 S 15. Mr W.ll. Clark 47. Mr 'l'. Neville E. 4. i. 16. Mr E. Croft 48. M r R. P a terson 17. Mr 49. J. Cunningham Sir 3Mrrr C. ' II EI I 1 1 y lla n ar e si Mr 'l'. L. Rood 18. Mr W. D. Doighton 50. Dr Richardson 19. Mr James Dunlop 51. Mr J. Savage 20. Mr J. Evans 52. Mr N. Saxton 21. Lord Garlies 53. Lord Sefton 22. Mr J. Gibson 54. Mr T. Smith 23. Mr W. M. Gilmour 55. Mr J. Stinks 24. Col. Goodlake 56. Lord Stair 25. Mr A. Graham 57. Mr L. W. Stocker 26. Mr T. Green . 58. Mr S. Swinburno 27. Mr C. A. Halley 59. Mr G. A. 'Thompson 28. Capt. Hathorn 60. Mr R. Todd 29. Mr J. Haywood 61. Mr B. W. Trinder 30. Mr J. Hodson 62. Mr R. C. Vyner 31. Mr J. Hole 63. Mr R. H. WilliamS 32. Mr J. Hyslop 64. Capt. Wyndham d The Waterloo Plate for the 16 d ogs b ea t en i n the sec° ll ,, ties for the Cup, amounti ng t o £lOO , t o b e divided " under: -- 1. Winner o receive ... 1 Second ditto ... 2. Dogs to receive £7 lOs each. 4. Ditto ditto .5 ditto ... £4O 25 8 £lO O The Waterloo Purse, for th e 32 d ogs b ea t en in the first course for the Waterloo Cup, amounting to £260, to b° divided as under:- 1. Winner to receive ... ... 1. Second ditto . ... 2. Dogs to receiv e £l5 each... 4. Ditto ditto 10 ditto... 8. Ditto ditto 5 ditto... 50 ... 30 ----- X 260 The Great Waterloo Cup, 64 subscribers, at £25 eac h the money .£l,6oo—to be divided as under:- 1. Winner to receive 1. Second ditto 2. Dogs to receive £5O each... 4. Ditto ditto 30 ditto... 8. Ditto 20 ditto... 16. Ditto 10 ditto... X5O O 200 100 120 160 160 32 1,240 The Waterloo Purse and Waterloo Plate 360 £1,600 The Waterlos Plate, value £lOO in specie, taken from t' t OUP Stakes, for the 16 beaten dogs in tho first 00 8 f° the Waterloo Cup. The Waterloo Purse, value £260, in specie, taken from tho Cup Stake, for the 32 beaten dogs in the first round for the Cup; the winner to receive £lOO. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. • a.ustralla and New Zealand, v i a S outhampton.... .Fe"h Ditto, via li r arseilles O Feb. Ditto, via ....... .......„, ......... Feb Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and M on t e Vi deo mar. i• jar .• Ditto, by Frenoh packet 4. Feb- Cap Vac's, by Brazil pa c k e t /L b 1 2 . Cape of Good Ascension. and St. Helena..-•;e — China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton 11 ‘ b Gibraltar, vla Southampt on Feb .... "„ India, via Southampton unto, via Marseil:es Malta, Egypt, &o. 1%43' 6 ; Ditto, Marseilles . Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. via Southampton Feb. 16. Ditto, Marseilies .. FI) Newfoundla n d ...... ........ Portugal ... „..Mac r United States, Canada, California, Sao., by British packet Ditto, by Canadian packet Ditto, by L nited States packet Ditto ditto (Baltimore) West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ...• • •. °— 10. West Indies and Pazitio (except Mexico and Baha- Feb "; mas) Falkland Islands, Cuba and Mexico -gar Bermuda, via Halifax. ., ... - Biha:nas, via New York ~Feb 3 -The mineral resources of Arkansas proni'° l „r yield immense b ene fit s t o th a t St a t e. G o ld and St lbe bearing quartz has been found at various points ° , ll , t he Washita ri ver; l oa d i n seven counties, and in all various spurs of the Ozark range. The Confe der " t he mined a largo amount of lead in Sevier county dur in "„ i t war. Zinc exists in half a dozen of counties in n'''', ° s it unlimited quantities. Lawrence county contains a d e r ,P`,o _Nitrate of potash is abundant. D °. t ., of the finest black marble ever discovered on the C °1) . 1 4 nent has been taken from the quarries near Jackson-P,,u!te on White River. There are various grades of t marble at numerous points in the same valley, and g l ` in endless varieties.— Wall-street Journal. I ast Saturday evening, in the Merchants' r , Glasgow, Captain M unro, o f the Hibernia, screw ste l ,, -- b e was publicly present e d w i t h 1 50 sovereigns, subscribe' nj the citizens of Glas gow, i n recognition of his heroic e-of seaman-like conduct in connection with the foundering his ship on the 24th November last. Cit A new velocipede h as b een i nvented i n P o rtia Maine. It has three wheels, but a fourth is to b ) acia t i; The motion is co mmun i cate d e i ther with the ban d s or fe - s ti or with both, an d th e ve hi cle is capable of being ntige to a horse snd d rawn lik e an ordinary buggy. The te i ie erJ ing apparatus is managed by the knees of the rider. rb arethg esneivoeursallyoctohnertrdiviffeedi:ences,said Cincinnatitoh be improvements, hada l:cle velo . co . s t tournament, with p r i zes f or both the fastest and 0? -4 e riders. froln A deputation, consisting of two clergymen o v e r Bohemia, will visit th e U n i ted States this spring, - •o to set forth the condition of the Protestants in that vine() of Austria. The visit is in consequence Of ail ea t vitation at the mee ti ng o f the Evangelical AlliAne o . Bath, E ng l an d , i n 1866, and renewed in 1867, by an Ara rican clergyman who was travelling in Bohemia. [A D VERTISEMENT:II—HoIIoway's Ointment and P llh s o' Jaundice. —Disordered Liver.—A good free flow of bile 'l3 D" e d lutely necessary for digestion; when this secretion is inte rr- ,, or or depraved disea se i mme di ately sets in, and sallovvos s ;ot jaundice marks th e cause to b e in the liver. This iln 1)o ."110- organ, so liable to disord er , ' can a l ways be regulated hY.'icief way's ointment and pill s . Th e f ormer, rubbed on the right over the region of the li ver, upon which it exercises the ;1010 salutary influence without harassin g th e stomac h or the .. 031 —a matter frequently o f v it a l i mportance—confers on t his rue s. an advantage over every o th er f orm of medicine in the P" buir copceia; when assisted by th e pill s every disease is speechlY jetted and effectually banished. 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The 30s. a nd o olc° are sent free of carr i age in England on receipt of P os t ficw- Order, —BARRY DU B ARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street,,. , don; and all Gr ocers and Chemists. Births. 0. ELTOT—On the 31st ult., at Port Eliot, the Hon. - 1 ` .1.9. Eliot, of a daughter. HAWLEY—On the 3d i ns t., a t O c kh am House, TW'a l. ham, the wife of W. H. T. Hawley, Esq., of a s° ° ' HENNELL—On tho 3d inst., at Oakwood, Ma °` °- p of Forest-hill, the wif e of Alex. Gordon Hormel', Ds`''' a daughter. Marriages. , „ :pp f K DOWDESIVELL—PARYNs—On the 2d Inst., at All Norfolk-square, Wm. Edward Dowdeswell, Esq ., 1 - 0 , 0 9 / to Emily, second d aug ht er o f Si r T homas G . A. P 3r Bart., of Ruddington Manor, Nottinghamshire. (1 , 0 .18, GARD - NOBLE-0n th e 2d i ns t ., at Reading, W. G . ,. f - „r Esq., Militdry Train, to Clara A m y, e ld e st delIP a 1. L. Noble, Esq., of St. Mary's Priory, Reading' Deaths. VI it' DAMES —On the Ist inst., a t W oo db erry Va l e, Stoke ington, George Dames, Esq., aged 43. Treed DONKIN—On the 2d inst., at Farnham, Surrey' Donkin, Esq., aged "5. id ot HALL—On the 2d inst., at Sonthsea, Sophia Me rv ' of the late Lieutenant -Colonel Hall, of the Both lure aged 68. win" WHITTINGHAM - On th e 2d inst., at Western Pe gs " ford, John Whittingham, Esq., late of „r.eyto o6 Essex. NO London : Printed and Pablished by WiLLIAg A- 10 , z - „ 1 , of No. 112, Stra n d, Printer, at Tan SUN 09103. or 01 Strand, in the Precinct of the Sevoy, in the C°u ' i Middlesex.—Thursday, February 4, 1809. LORD NAPIER OF IIAGDALA. Some of the Calcutta papers mention a rumour to the effect that Lord Napier of Magdala will shortly return to England and take an important post which will enable him to assist the reforms at the War Office. Lord Napier left England just before the present Ministry came into office ; so that his recall home almost immediately after leaving England may not be as improbable as it appears at first sight. A ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. According to the Irish Times, the Prince and the Princess of Wales will visit Dublin during the ensuing spring. As they are not expected back from the East for some months, this announcement does not seem to be well founded. GIBRALTAR AND CEUTA. General Codrington has addressed a letter to the Times urging that some facts have not been duly weighed with regard to the proposed cession of Gibraltar. lie first points out how widely applicable is the abstract theory of nationalities. He next argues that England has a duty and an interest in preventing one nation from controlling both shores of the Straits. There have been instances in which dues have been enforced in such narrow passages, whereas Gibraltar is now a free port, open to all nations in peace. With respect to Ceuta, after pointing out that the al.stract theory applies to that port as well as to Gibraltar, the General goes on to state that the extended fron tier of Ceuta weakens it as a military position, while naval officers of experience have given conclusive opinions against it as a harbour. He admits that the present anchorage of Gibraltar is not tenable.. in a war with Spain, but, as possessors of Gib raltar, we are not necessarily at war with Spain; England, he goes on to point out, has derived much good from the fortress, as may be seen from the history of the wars from 1805 to 1814. Another point worth attention is, that the civil population of Gibraltar numbers 14,000 persons, many of whom hold property under English law, and all of whom value highly their rights as British subjects. Yet tne transfer to the power awl laws of tipainas men tioned as if these persons were of no account. VOLUNTEER. STATISTICS. The Morning Post sides with c' Hippophylax l " and doubts if the Government would act wisely in in creasing the capitation grant to volunteers. Our contemporary gives the following statistics :—" The total estimated cost of the Volunteers for the current year was £385,000. Out of this sum the adjutants were to receive £04,400, and the sergeant instructOrs £58,000. Miscellaneous charges reckoaed for £4,700. The Capitation Grant for the Volunteers themselves amounted to - .C228,000. Thus we have one hundred and seventy thousand efficient men, each cost ing the State £2 55., against £32 for the ordinary and £4O for the re-engaged regular soldier. The money expended on the volunteers would procure about 11,000 regular troops." Surely the figures here are too high and too low ; the stated cost of the volunteer is excessive and of the regular soldier beneath the mark. We have heard the cost of a soldier put at £lOO a year, while the Post puts it at only £4O. Everything depends upon the mode of reckoning the cost. Our contemporary seems to have included all :he expenses E 0 far rs the volunteer is concerned — ranges, headquarters, rifles, staff, and the like; and to have reckoned only the bare pay so far as the soldier is concerned. FOREILIN NOT. S. SPAIN. The Provisional Government has at last Confessed its inability to find a suitable candidate for the throne, and has decided to recommend that the supreme executive power be conferred upon a triumvirate, or directory of three. The Liberte says that the situation demanded some expedient of the kind. Not only is the uncertainty dangerous, but some members of the Government are utterly weary of their task. Prim and Serrano enjoy most of the luxury of power, whilst the hard labour, care, and peril which the subordinate Ministers have undergone since the fall of Isabella is not compensated by any hope to the ambitious. The Liberti and all the French Liberal papers rejoice at this decision, which they believe to be a decided gain to Republicanism. So it will be if it do not result in the other extreme. History is not reassuring on the subject of triumvirates or directories. As to the Pro visional Government, it will dissolve in honour, and with the respect of Europe. Its faults have not been few. nut it has given the nation compa rative quiet dnring a time of great difficulty. It has csta blished universal suffrage, and worked it without riot, cut ,oloniat untie:et, - saved inzliions in ecclesiastical ex penses, and has done something to diminish the deluge of distress and pauperism. The Government, says the Times' correspondent, bas acted very unjustly and unwisely in bringing the persons arrested at Burgos before a court-martial. A deep sense of horror and disgust has been awakened by this resole• tion. It is, indeed, true that a state of siege has been proclaimed at Burgos, but by the law of Spain courts. martial cannot judge any offence committed previous to the proclamation. AUSTRIA. The Bohemians and the Poles are alike struggling for an independent existence similar to that of Hungary, but whilst the Czechs have been playing the game of their adversaries by violence against the Government and division amongst themselves, the Poles seek their object by legal means. They have carried a motion by which the question of Polish autonomy is to be submitted to the con sideration of the Reichsrath. The Minister of the Interior did not discuss the question, but he did not oppose the motion, The cause of the Austrian Poles looks hopeful. TURKEY AND CREECE. The Greeks are much irritated at the declaration of the Conference. They had little hope that it would be in their favour, especially after the refusal of their Ambas sador to take part in the deliberations at Paris ; but they are, nevertheless, greatly disappointed that a Conference at which Russia was represented should have pro nounced so decisively in favour of their adversary. The people are said to Remand the rejection of the proto col, and there is no doubt that the Ministry is disposed to take that course, but the chances are in favour of peace. The King, it is authoritatively asserted, will acquiesce in the decision of the Conference, and a Ministerial change is probable. Turkey has managed matters well, and has gained all that was to be had—though that was not much. This difficulty is merely one incident in a chronic state of hostility between the two nations. The most substantial advantage acquired by the Porte is undoubtedly the victory in Crete. THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The details of the recent great battles . in Paraguay shew that the Allies have gained a substantial, if not a very glorious success. They have defeated a greatly en feebled adversary, and the cause of Lopez seems utterly lost. After - the two battles of the tith and 11th of Dec., the allied army was obliged to rest awhile, in order to receive supplies, but on the 21st it moved forward to assail the Paraguayan position on the hills called Lomas Valentinas, about nine miles from Villeta.. Here Lopez was posted with a sma.ll,but still respectable army, clearly proving that the capture of Villeta had not been followed by the flight of the Dictator with a few hundred cavalry, as was at first asserted. The Allies had suffered so severely in the two battles before Villeta that their number was reduced to under 18,000 men, but the Para guayans bad only 7,000. These forces were engaged on the heights of Lomas Valentinas, and little by little the Para. guayans lost ground. By six o'clock on the night of the 21st the Brazilians had carried the first line of defence, but the fighting went on all night, the Paraguayans making repeattd efforts to recover the position. They were unsuccessful, but held their remain. ing lines until the 27th, the fighting being incessant. On this last day all the allied troops advanced against the works on Lomas Valentinas, ground was gained on all sides, the chief redoubt in the rear was carried; and by night Lopez had retreated into his last defences. Here the intelligence ends, but up to the evening of the 27th Au2;ustura still held out. The war, say the Brazilian papers, will be carried on until Lopez be captured or driven out of Paraguay. He deserves a better fate. Whatever may be his private character, it has been grossly calumniated, whilst the skill and the courage with which lie has defended his country against a greatly superior enemy have never been surpassed. THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. The Falkland Islands, a British settlement hitherto deemed both undesirable and hopeless, are rising in im portance. The stream of emigration flows largely towards South America just now, and of course the irrepressible Briton forms a considerable proportion of it. To protect English interests, the Falkland Islands are of some conse quence. Many sheep-farmers from Amitralia and New Zealand have invaded this possession, the imports and ex ports have risen, and a dry dock is being constructed. Gold and coal are believed to exist, but the labour which mieht find them is wasting in the mother country. A Scientific Tract Society has been suggested as a suitable meansfor the diffusion of useful knowledge among the working people. (From the Tomahawk.) DRAMATIC AND MILITART.—The new gun-metal for English pieces. German silver. Eh ! Mr. Tom Robertson ? A curious rumour prevails in the City that Mr. E. W. Edwards, of Overend and Gurney fame, is the original of that whimsical character in Offenbach's " Orphee," John Styx, the being who drowned his care in draughts of Lethe. The regal salary which Mr. Edwards received for doing comparatively nothing seems to give an air of tredibility to the rumour. B11171S11 : EMIGR,A710N TO AiIIERIC, MINNESOTA. (From the Anglo-American Times.) This State derives its name from the Dacotah words Minne-sotah, meaning sky-tinted water, in reference to its numerous and beautiful streams and lakes, which, from their crystal purity, re flect the clear blue skies. The area given of Minnesota is about 83.531 square miles, with a population now estimated at 420,000, being an in crease of 70 per cent. on the State census of 1865, at which rate, if maintained till next year when the census of the Republic is taken, it will be 600,000. Bacon in his Handbook estimates the Indians at 25,000, but they are now probably under that num ber, as the Sioux were driven into Dacotah in 1862, the Chippewas alone remaining in the State. Hole-in-the-Day, a brave, intelligent chief of this tribe,was making money at Crow Wing in farming and industrial pursuits, and was thought to be as respectable in every way as his neighbours, till he died the other day leaving a vast sum to his wife. From au unpublished manuscript we learn that from Superior City at the head of the lake of that name, across the State, and from White Bear Lake to Otter Tail, there is no more danger from Indians than in the Strand. Minnesota is the most western of the most northern tier of the States. Beyond it, to the setting sun, lies the Territory of Dacotah, bounding it from north to south on the west. Next to Dacotah is Montana, and between that, and the Pacific State of Oregon and Territory of Washing ton, lies Idaho. The greater half of its eastern boundary borders on Wisconsin; the lesser on Lake Superior, while all along the north runs the Hud son Bay Territory. It may be thought that the climate of a State so fa r north must be cold, and liable to great extremes. The 45th parallel of north lati tude runs right through its centre, passing over the best and most fertile parts of Canada West, touching the north of New York State, Vermont, New Hampshire, and along the centre of Maine. As the Atlantic is neared the cold becomes more intense, and the gigantic lakes bordering on the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minne- sota, temper the climate, which is marked by distinct peen' iarities ; with the winter of Canada and New England, but without their heavy falls DrusAWltrie, 90? WilitAr nfa"Cate'l'as" Licata it&M; and has added so much to its salubrity, as well as to the brilliancy imparted to every landscape. The moisture in winter is frozen out of the atmosphere, and lies on the soil in snow from December until the end of March. During this time rain seldom falls, while the snow is not sufficiently deep seriously impede travel. In the spring there is a rapid thaw, but all the water --the lakes and rivers —remain as clear as glass. The settlers as sert the climate to be the healthiest in the world, and eminently suited for consumptive people, and the leading life assurance companies authorize their agents to take risks which would not else where be touched. The surface is undulating with great peculiarity being tenu d n i l v e e r r o s u i s ty C o ry f st l a a l n-d li s :e a l Pe akes i , tB many of them pic turesquely Much placed, of h waterfalls, and high bluffs. a rolling prairie of rich ed, t s e p l a a r n k d li 11 8 g soil, and the State may be said to be equally di vided between oak openings and prairies; stately fo rests line the banks of the rivers, and there are few countries where wools and open untimbered plains are so happily distributed. The prevailing soil is a dark calcareous loam, composed for the most part of decayed vegetable matter or leaf mould, averag ing in depth six feet, and resting upon fine sand cenetryhainsfrom anything More attractive from its and diversified . character The particu larlyscenery grand and marked. This is pe r haps attribut able to the extraordinary clearness of atmosphere which imparts its brilliancy to all surrounding na-. ture. The rivers become a deep blue, the water falls sparkle, and the numerous lakes reflect the bright sky like mirrors cast over the surface. Sun sets are gorgeous, the stars glitter, and the nights are as beautiful as the days are delightful, for there is a joyousness in such a climate which those only can appreciate who come under its influence. Three fourths of the soil is suited for agriculture, but the best farm lands are in the southern portion, com prising about one-half of the State. Above the Falls of St. Anthony the country gets wet. Minnesota is the birth-place of the Mississippi, and the head waters of Lake Superior also lave the shore of this State, almost the largest lake and the largest river in the world. It is the proximity of these two of nature's greatest channels of communication which enables the citizens to predict with such confidence a prosperous future. Nor can those who glance at the map be surprised at this anticipation. Centre ing in a rich country, bl ess ed with a climate as en joyable as healthy, commence the two great water courses of the Coliinent. From Duluth at the head of Lake Superior the navigation extends for thou sands of miles through lakes, through the St. Law rence, through canals, embracing a vast extent of civilized, settled, fertile country both of the British Dominion and of the United States. From Duluth to St. Paul, the capital of the State and the head of the steam navigation on the Mississippi River, the distance is but 150 miles: Then commences a communication, if more intricate and wanting in breadth of lake, yet more stupendous still. The main feature of the Continent is the valley of the 111i,sissippi, ►which embraces the State we are now discussing. Our readers know that at least 23,000 miles of navigation is opened by this river and its branche.3, and the starting-point is from St. Paul. It was this fact which made Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State, exclaim in one of his most ulobrated speeches, "Here spring up side by side the tw3 great rivers of the Continent, the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, ahno3t within a stone's throw of each other, and running in opposite directions—the one half way to Europe, the other gathering the produce of the cotton plantations to the Gulf of Mexico, or to the vast water power of the Upper Mississippi. Here is the place (allud ing to this district), the central place, where the agriculture ci the richest region of North America must pour out its tributes to the whole world. . . . On the east all along the shore of Lake Superior and west, stretching in one broad plain across the Continent, is a country where extra. Half a mile. The winner was not sold. void. CARMARTHEN HUNT MEETING. WEDNESDAY. Mr Planner's Farleigh (late Serious Case), by the Cure, —Gift, aged, list 31b (H. Ellison) 1 Mr Todd's Paddy, aged, 11st 31b (J Pope) 2 Jack and Englishman also ran. Betting-5 to 4on Farleigh, 2to lauy other. Won in a canter by three lengths; Jaok bjlted, and Englishman refused. The winner was not sold. Open Steeplechase (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, h ft, 3 to tho fund if declared, with 100 added. About four miles Mr R. Green Price's Whitehall, by Sir Tatton Sykes (h b), aged, 12st (G. Stevens) 1 Mr Richardson's Chance, 6 yrs, 1 Ist 81b (Ilitchings) 2 Mr Noble's The Guide, aged. 12st 21b (fil. Billion) 0 Betting-6 to 4un The Guide, 6to 4 agst Whitehall, 3 to 1 agst Chance. Won, after a good race, by a length. Whitehall broke down after passing the post., The Guide pulled up. The Hunters' Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 40 added ; weight for age. About three miles. _ Governess Isle of Man 2 Forester, President, and Aprilis also ran. Betting-5 to 4 agst Governess, 2to 1 agst Isle of Man 5 to 2 agst Forester. Won easily. Forester bolted into the betting ring, Aprilis fell, and President refused. Acceptances for the BIRMI] STEEPLECHASE of 15 certain winners extra. A NGIIAIvI GRAND ANNUAL sovs each, with 100 added; bout three miles and a half. Age st lb Doctor, The a 12 7 Lamb, The ... a 12 6 Philosopher a L 2 2 Steamboat... ... 6 11 12 Mcanwood... ... a 11. 5 Ace of Trumps a 11 5 The Bobber ... a 11 4 Greenland... a 11 4 Tribune ... 11 2 Orno 5 11 2 Beadle ... 11 2 Despatch a 11 0 11. Liston ... ... a 11 0 Ag) st lb Tennyson a 11 0 Lord Waldegrave... a 10 11 Juryman ... ... 6 10 11 Bannockburn ... a 10 10 Ada ... 5 10 9 Owen Roe ... 6 10 9 Columbia ... a 10 9 Whitehall... ... a 10 9 FlRtcatcher a 10 8 Plover ... a 10 6 Gipsy Girl a 10 5 Prima Donna ... 5 10 4 Bishoptnn Malcom ... a 10 2 ... 6 10 2 RACING FIXTURES. FEBRUARY. Lincoln l6, 17 I Nottingham Spring... 23, 21 Ifarrow lB, 19 Chelmsford.... 25, 26 Mansfield 18 I Derby Spring 25, 26 Pontefract lB, 19 ROIL Liverpool Spring 2,3, 4 Shrewsbury Spring 5, 6 Downpatrick 9 Warwick 9, 10, 11 Hendon l2, 13 West Somerset 15, 16 Northampton 16, 17 West Drayton lB, 19 Baldoyle First Spring 18, 19 Margate 20 Beverley 20 Durham 29, 30 Epsom 30, 31 Abergavenny l, 2 Bromley 1, 2 Aldershot l, 2 Cat terick Bridge... l, 2 Thirsk ... 6, 7 Hungerford 6, 7 Lichfield .6, 7 Cambridge 7 8 Croston Park .. 8 Streatham .. B, 9 Newmarket Cravon...l2, &c. Knighton... l3, 14 Ludlow 15, 16 Eastbourne l9 Lewes 20 21 Curragh ...20, 21, 22 Croydon... 22, 23 Newmarket Ist Spring _ 26, &o Chester 4, 5,6, 7 Eglinton Hunt 6, 7 Winchester ll, 12 York 11, 12 Baldoyle 2nd Spring 11, 12 St. Albans •11 1 14 Salisbury l3, 14 Doncaster 13, 14 West Drayton l7, 18 Bath lB, 19 Manchester ......... 19, 20, 21 Croydon l9, 21 Harpenden 2l Epsom Summer ...,.25 &o. IE. , Croydon 2,3, 4 Newton 2,3, 4 Ascot ....8, 9, 10, 11 Liverpool Summer —.15, 16 Windsor 15, 16 Hampton l7, 18 Curragh 22, 23, 24 Newcastle ......,,,.22, 23, 24 01dham.,.,,... ,, 22 Ilibury Club 23 Stockbridge ......... 24, 23, 26 Chelmsford .. 29, 30 Sutton Park .....29, 30 L Worcester 1, i 1 Newmarket July 6, &c. Carlisle Pontefract 9,10 Hendon ~... 12, 13 Nottingham 13, 14 AUG Brighton 3, 4 Brighton Club 5 Lewes . 6, 7 Egham lO, 11 Wolverhampton lO, II Windsor 12, 13 St. Albans 17, 18 Stockton • lB, 19, 20 Southampton 13 14 Roading ......•••.......•• 15 , 16 Huntingdon 2O, 21 Stamford ... t',2 23 Goodwood 27, 23,29, 30 UST. Oxford York Plymouth 26, 27 Scarborough 30, 81 Derby Summer ...31, Sep. 1 Weymouth 31, Sep. 1 Canterbury ..... 3l, Sep. 1 'EMBER. SEPT. Warwick... 7, 8 Curragh (Royal) 7,8, 9 Abingdon 9, 10 Doncaster 14 , 15, 16, 17 Richmond 21, 22 Lichfield ......... 2l, 22 Hampton - 21, 22 Western (Ayr).... 22, 23 Hendon 23, 24 Monmouth... 23, 24 Newmarket I st 0ct....28, &c. Lanark... 29, 30 IBER. OCTI Bedford 5, 6 Edinburgh 6, 7, 8 Leicester 7, 8 Bromley - 7 8 Newmarket 2d 0ct...11, &c. Chelmsford l9 20 Kelso 19 20 1 NOVE Worcester 2,3, 4 Harrow 2, 3 Liverpool 9, 10, 11, 12 Cheltenham l9, 20 Curragh l9, 20, 21 West Drayton 2l, 22 Hereford 2l, 22 Monmouth 23, 24 Newmarkt.t H'ton ...25, dce. STEEPLECHA; Chi ppenham 10, FEBR it Streatham 11, 12 Newbridge 15 Lincoln Lti, 17 Morton-in-Marsh lB Harrow lB, 19 . ' MA: Liverpool a Shrewsbury ..... 5, 6 Malton Rugby (Grand Mil.) 8 , 9 Kingsbury 12, 13 Aldershot 1,2 Bromley 1, 2 Abergavenny . 1, 2 Lichfield ..(i, 7 Southdown Hunt ..7 Cambridge ... 7, 8 Cheltenham 7, 8 111 Limerick Hunt 4 Eglintoa hunt 6, 7 Kingsbury Mr C. Jarvis's Little Coates, by Lambton—dam by Bal linkedo, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Lluxtable) 1 Air W. Dixon's Peter, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Payne) 2 . . - Betting-5 to 2on Little Coates, who made the whole of the running, and won in a canter by a length and a half. A hurdle Race Plate of 30 soya, weight for age, one mile and a quarter, over six flights of hurdles, became THE SUDBURY HANDICAP.-0 wing to the Stewards not being present to-day, the objection against Nannie was not considered, but it will be decided in London on Monday. The Cambrian Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 30 adled; weight for age, with selling allowance. About two miles. • :MBER. Sbrewsbury 15, &c. Leamington Runt 23, &c, ;E FIXTURES. UAUY I Pontefract 18, 19 Boston Windsor 22, 23 I St. Albans 23, 24 I Derby . 25 Baschurch 9G ROM West Somerset ......... 15, 13 York 17 Crewkeme ..............18, 19 Chepstow 29, 30 Ei TL. ' I Streatham B, 9 Royal Artily., Woolwich...B IKnighton ......... l3, 14 Ludlow l5, 16 Tenbury.„ 2l Cr0yd0n...... 22, 23 Co. Louth & Arden 27, 28 AY. St. Albans West Drayton..._... 17 L Y. AUGUST. St. Albans OCTOBER. J3romle y 7 West Drayton 2l, 22 NOVEMBER. Harrow 2, 3 I Egliuton Hunt 6, 7 Worcester 3, 4 I Liverpool St. Albans 5, 6 i Shrewsbury ..... l5, 19 4 , II ll',