The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-10 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS. Naval and Military Intelligence. The 71st Highland Light Infantry, which for several days has been under orders for service in Ireland, will leave Aldershott this morning for Ports mouth, there to embark for its destination. The strength marching out is as follows :-23 officers, 42 sergeants, 26 drummers, 535 rank and file, 42 women, 121. children, and six horses. The 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment, which recived orders at the same time as the 71st High landers, will also leave Aldershot this morning for Ports-mouth, en route for Ireland. The strength marching oat is as follows :--21 officers, 7 staff sergeants, 35 sergeants, 16 drummers, 600 rank and 1110, - 80 women, 00 children, and eight horses. jt is understood that an additional force of Royal Artillery. will shortly be despatched to Ireland to augment the Royal Artillery now serving there. Brigadier-Geueral Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford, commanding the 3d Brigade at Aldershott, has left the camp for Dublin, to take the temporary command of a division at that station. Capt. the Hon. W. 11. Herbert, 84th Regiment, has proceeded to Landguard Fort, Ilarwich, to assume the command of that station, in succession to Capt. Gregory, 08th Regiment. The 65th Regiment, under the command of Col. A. F. W. Wyatt, C. 8., arrived at Camp on Saturday evening at 7 o'clock from Devonport. The following is the strength of the regiment :-21 officers, nine staff-sergeants, 620 non-commissioned officers and rank and file, 65 women, and 71. child ren. The 65th is quartered in the centre block of theinfantry barracks, and is attached to General Campbell's (the 2d) Brigade. The examination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, under the regultations dated horse Guards, March 31, 1866, will commence at Chelsea Hospital this morning, before Major-Gen. W. C. E. Napier, vice-president, and the members of the Council of Military Educa tion. The examination will occupy the whole week. Her Majesty's screw troopship Orontes, Captain Hire, arrived at Spithead on Saturday morning from Devonport with the 65th Regiment on board. The Orontes immediately after arrival at Spithead went into Portsmouth harbour and disembarked the Re giment at the dockyard. To-day she embarks the 48th for Ireland. The Tamar, screw troopship, Capt. Sullivan, will receive the 71st Regiment at Portsmouth this evening for conveyance to Queens town. The Research, 4, armoured screw sloop, Com mander Grant, went out of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead on the completion of her refit on Friday last. On Saturday she was swung.under steam in Stokes'-bay to ascertain the deviation of her compass, and yesterday morningsheleft Spithead understeam by the Needles' Channel, for the coast of Ireland. The Virage, 6, paddle sloop, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the Nore, en route for the coast of Ireland. 'The Reindeer, 7, screw unarmoured sloop, Com mander E. Nares, haVing completed the necessary repairs to her fire-hearth at Portsmouth, has sailed from that port for the coast of Ireland, and after wards for a term of foreign service. 'The Hector screw iron frigate, Captain Luard, remains at Spithead, and is expected to do duty as guardship off Osborne during her Majesty's stay there. Captain Luard is on leave from the Hector until the 17th inst. The Swedish sloopof war Oradd, recently wrecked on the shore between Dungeness and Rye, on the south-west Sussex coast, will be sold as the wreck lies, guns, hull, rigging, and stores, on the 14th inst. Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, paid an official visit last week to Devonport. On Friday, accompanied by Rear-Admiral Superintendent the Hon. Jas. R. Drummond, C. 8., he proceeded into the Sound and made a thorough inspection of the ironclad flagship Zealous (converted on his plan) prior to her departure for the Pacific. On returning from the Sound they visited the ironclad twin screw gunboat Vixen, in which the only improvement sug gested was the lining of the under side of the iron deck with thin plank, to prevent the condensation f water from the atmosphere upon it, as this con densation is the cause of much discomfort to the crew. This suggestion Mr. Reed approved, and the work was at once taken in hand. The next ship in vspectca -trais tho sloop Vestal, which is complete for sea, and is expected to put in commission shortly. This vessel resembles the Amazon, but is fitted with an iron collision bulkhead. She is of about 1,000 tons, will steam 12 knots, and carry two heavy and two light rifled guns of the newest type. The exa mination of the Lord Warden, which is in dock in Keyham, occupied the remainder of the day. On Saturday the Admiral Superintendent and Mr. Reed (accompanied by officers of the Steam Re serve and dockyard) paid a second visit to the Lord Warden, and completed the arrangements for en abling the upper deck bow guns to fire light ahead. Th e se guns are to be each of 9 tons in weight, and, with the two Gi-ton guns on the main deck, will make the armour-plated bow battery of this ship the most formidable in the world, with the single exception of the sister ship, Lord Clyde. As the Lord Warden is to be a flagship, the accom modation proposed for the Admiral and his suite short sojourn fully discussed and arranged. After a ho b r e t , h sojourn on b oard the wooden fri g at es Liffey, p and Galatea the visitors went on board the Cale donia, flag of the C ommander-in-Ch ief, where they were received by Admiral Yelverton. They then proceeded to the ironclad ship Achilles, and devoted the rest of the day to the Lord Clyde. The main object of the inspection of the various ships seems to be to arrange the reception of the new armament, as it is now decided that every wooden frigate shall carry a certain number of 61 -ton guns, which with Palliser shot and shell will pierce ordinary armour plating, and that every ironclad frigate shall carry a proportion of 9-ton guns, which are of still greater power in this and every other respect. There can be little doubt that these visits of the Chief constructor to the dockyards are of considerable use to the ser vice, as they enable the designer of the ships to con fer minutely with the Admiral and other practical officers on all points touching their efficiency. The screw steam gunvessel Ranger, 5, Commander W. A. Cambier, nine days from Loando, arrived at St. Helena Oct. 31, bound for Ascension. The screw steam sloop Rapid, 11, Commander IV. B. Stubbs, 21 days from Simons Bay, arrived at St. Helena Nov. 4, and sailed therefrom on the Gth for Ascension and England. The armour plated screw steamship Caledonia, 30, Capt. Hon. F. A. C. Foley, flag of Admiral IL R. Yelverton, was placed: on Friday in the basin of Keyham steamyard, to have some alterations made in her armament. The armour plated screw steamship Zealous, 20, Capt. R. Dawkins, flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. G. F. Hastings, C. 8., left Plymouth Sound on Sa turday for the Pacific station. A numerous body of workmen and labourers was engaged in the quadrangle at the smithery in Chat ham dockyard on Saturday in erecting the lifts for the second 40 ton crane which is ordered to be erected on that establishment, to be used for lifting the h eavy forgings required for the ironclad ships u Iv under construction. The works connected with the forgin g of the massive sternpost for the ller cules, the largest forging of the kind ever attempted in this country, are still at a standstill, in conse quence of the breaking down of the heavy 40 ton steam hammer durin g the operation. In the de.3cripti ou of b a r, which appearedhi the iron troop s hip Mala of thewater papers on S.tturday, the intern draught t r ansports building f or the Gov vt,th five Indian e hie t re w a a s s the by an error stated to be 30 feet, " 'i runa proper draught of those vessels suld have been described as 21ft. In the Naval and Military Intelligence of Satur day M. Gaudet (of the firm of Gaudet Freres) was spoken of as a director of the Messageries Impe_ riales. We are requested to state that no member of the firm referred to has the honour of being di. rector of that company. Gaudet Frres are carriers between England and the Continent, and are known as the French .correspondents of Pickford and Co. They are also owners of the line of steamers plying between London and Paris direct, and in this capa city have treated with Capt. Gordon for the con veyance from Woolwich Arsenal to the Paris Exhi bition of the 23-ton gun and the other military stores mentioned in the article referred to. The Gettysburg National Orphans' Homestead was dedicated to its future use on the 20th No vember last. The Homestead is situated on the Baltimore pike, a continuation of one of the prin cipal streets of Gettysburg, half a mile from the centre of the town, and close by the National Cemetery for soldiers who fell at the battle of Gettysburg. The building was formerly a large and commodious residence, which was purchased by the homestead Committee, and so altered and im proved that it now presents a very haadsome and attractive appearance, being in fact, the most im posing edifice in the neighbourhood. It faces, and is .situated a few yards fr om, the famous Cemetery Ridge, at the point where the Eleventh Army Corps, under General 0. 0. Howard, took its position during the great and decisive battle of Gettys burg. It is contemplated to erect a much larger and splendid edifice on the piece of ground occu pied by Rickett's Battery during the battle, very near the present Homestead, and which will accom odate between four hundred and five hundred orphans of soldiers. The meteors observed in America were not so nume rous as those seen in England. Arrangements had been made in several cities to ring the bells in order to arouse the people if the spectacle should be such as was expected ; but it was not. Professor Loomis, of Yale College, makes the following report :—" On Monday night, November 12, a company of ob servers at this place counted 696 shooting stars in five hours and twenty minutes, which is about four times the average number visible for the same period throughout the year. On Tuesday night, Novem ber 13, another company counted 881 shooting stars in five hours, which is five times the average num ber. On Wednesday night the sky was overcast, so that no observations could be made. We con clude that the number of shooting stars visible about the 13th was very remarkable ; nevertheless, this display is not to be compared with that of the 13th of November, 1833, in which the number of meteors was variously estimated at from 10,000 to 30,000 per hour. The grand display, therefore, which it was supposed might possibly occur this year has not been witnessed in the United States. . . If we receive no accounts of an unusual dis play of meteors this week in any part of the world, we shall look with considerable confidence for such a display on the 14th of November, 1867." An important decision was rendered by Chief Justice Titus recently on a point long agitated—the validity of the charter of Great Salt Lake City. The argument opposed to the validity was founded on the fact that no minute could be found in the Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States ; that the HOuse had not received any copy of the laws of Utah passed in 1859-60 ; and that consequently those laws, including the charter of the city, granted that session were null and void. his Honour decided that whether or not copies of those laws were sent to the United States House of Representatives, had no effect on their validity. This question was sprung as a land claim case, as a party issue, to lessen, if possible, the ex tent of power in the hands of the Mormon part of the community, which have a sufficiently large majority to control the city elections. Another point of interest here is the liquor question. The city authorities have for some time past endeavoured to keep this traffic within narrow bounds, very lat terly having had but one place for its sale, and there " not to be drunk on the premises." This policy has been virulently opposed, chiefly by the " Gen tiles," though many Mormons were not well pleased with it. This one place—the " City Liquor Store" --is now closed, through a petition from many citi zens. So just now there is no place within the city boundaries where liquor can be legally made, bought, or sold. From Belleville, Nov. 13, we hear the excitement regarding the gold discoveries in Madoc is in creasing. Large numbers of people continue to arrive, and nearly every person returning brings specimens of the precious metal. Another spot has been discovered where good specimens were found. The President has directed the issue of a warrant fur the pardon of Zeno Kelley, convicted at the Octo ber term, 1863, of the United States Circuit Court for the district of Massachusetts, of fitting out a vessel fortue slave traae, ana sentences to tour years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $l,OOO. The Iron Aye gives an interesting account of the late excursion through the mining and manufactur ing districts of Pennsylvania. The party consisted of gentlemen of a great variety of opinions, pursuits, and tastes, comprising Senators, journalists, mer chants, manufacturers, &c., but all having a common interest in the industrial prosperity of the country. It was conducted under the guidance of Hon. David A. Wells, United States Commissioner of Revenue, and passed off with unalloyed pleasure to all parties. The New York Erenzng Post makes the following honourable mention of Cyrus W. Field :—" We hope we do not violate confidence in stating a fact to the honour of a New York merchant, which, though a private transaction, ought to be known. Our fellow-citizen, Mr. Cyrus W. Field—whose name will always be connected with the At lantic Telegraph—has twice nearly rained him self by his devotion to that enterprise. Though a man of independent fortune when he began, he embarked in it so large a portion of his capital as nearly to make shipwreck of the whole. While in England engag e d i n the ex p e dition of 1857 a finan cial storm swept over this country, and his house suspended, but on his return he asked only for time, and paid all in full with interest. But the stop page was a h eavy bl ow, an d b e i ng f o ll owe d b y a fi re in 1859, which burned his store to the ground, and by the p an i c of breaking out December, 1860, just before the of the war, he was finally obliged to compromise with his creditors. Thus released, he devoted himself t o t h e work of his life, which he' has ha at last carried th rough, lost wealth to The success of the Atlan tic Telegraph, we are learn, has brought back a portion of hi s wealth has been to make good a ll losses to, and his first care others. He has addressed a l et ter to every credit or who suffered by six years, an d as fasta the failure a the house in 18 60, requestin g hi m t o send a statemen t of th e amount comp rom i sed, The whole ue in full. d about $200,000. S uc h a fact, how he m ay. wish to keep it secret, ought a d s in pgrtesheenitnetderreesttufronrs nearly q a mount will be t e o v e r b e how much n to his honour, and to the ho nour of the merchants of Ne w York." At the banquet given in honour of Mr. Cyrus Field t e l egraphic wireswere placed in the room to communicate with Europe through the cable. The cards of invit a ti on were six inches by seven ; the engraving includ e d • three pictures. The central one represented America and England girdling the earth with Joining it the telegraphic cable. An olive branch was held • over the earth by a dove on the wino. was the seal of the Chamber of Commerce. On the left below was the American eagle, w ith shield, &c., and thirty-six stars ; and on the right, the coat-of arms of Great Britain. The words of inv itation were :—" The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York _ respectfully invites -- to meet Cyrus W. Field at dinner, on Thursday, the 15th instant, at six o'clock p.m., at the Metropoli tan Hotel, to exchange congratulations on the happy result of his efforts in the great work of unit ing by telegraph the Old World and the New." There were more than a hundred invited guests, distinguished men of America and other countries. Speeches were also made by Major Hoffman, ex- Mayor Opdyke, Rev. Drs. Beecher and Bellows, John Jay, and others. Telegrams were received from Lord Monck and Captain Anderson, of the Great Eastern ; and letters from President John son, General Grant, John A. Dix, Generals Porter, Chase, In s r e,Sir Frederick Bruce, &c. The following " London, was received from Captain Anderson : Nov. 15.—Will you tell Mr. Field and your banquet that I am with him in hearty friend ship, and hope his countrymen will give due recog nition to his unqualified efforts in establishing the telegraphic cord between our two countries." The Clement and Hawks Manufacturino- f y Northampton, whi c h was recently organised with a capital of $lOO,OOO, are now erectingi tot ch 4 be 150 150 fac tory buildings. The mai n buildingo • Co. , f ee t by 40 in, fiiza, 3 stories hi g h, w i th a E reach. TUE SUN, LONIJOS, MONDAY EVELSING, DECEMBER 10 . 1866. and capable of giving employment to 250 ,men. It will be in working order by the Ist of January. The company have contracted for 70 m.achines for cutting screws, with which they will'be able to manufacture 1,500 gross of screws a day. The cost of the building, dam, canal, wheel, &c., is about $25,000, and the machinery order ed will swell the amount to $lOO,OOO. The building and water-power are capable of running $lOO,OOO worth of machines in addition to those ordered. The number of hands employed in this factory will be from fifty to seventy-five. Adjoin ing this is a forge shop, 80 feet by 40 in size, and one story high. About 50 men are now employed on and about the buildings, and the work is being pushed rapidly forward. The arrangements for receiving and removing freight are unsurpassed. A track is to be laid from the Canal Railroad to xoof ; the factory, running along the side-hill east of the Cook lot. The distance is 2,500 feet, and the Canal Company agree to lay 1,000 feet of the track, the proprietors of the factory doing tha grading and laying the remainder of the track. This track will run into the tower, so that freight can be taken directly from the cars and hoisted into the factory, and vice versa. We learn from the Philadelphia Inquirer that the work on the bridge of the Philadelphia and Balti more Railroad at Havre-de-Grace is finished, and that on Monday next it will be used by the regular trains. This bridge has been completed in despite of great obstacles, not the least of which was the overturning of the whole structure during the pre sent year by a hurricane. From the accounts given of that disaster, it was thought that a long time would be required to repair the damage. But the company has worked with great courage and deter mination, and formidable obstacles have been sur mounted. The completion of this bridge will do away with the delay occasioned by the use of the ferry boat across the Susquehanna, and shorten the time between Philadelphia and Baltimore about 30 minutes. The railroad company and the travelling community may well be congratulated at the happy result. President Johnson made a journey upon what might be called a public occasion, aud, strange to say, made no speeches. The ceremony of laying the corner-stone of the Masonic Temple at Balti more was honoured by his presence, and he partici pated in it without any show or display of oratory. Had he used the same discretion when he " swung round the circle" the result might have been better for his " policy." _ The iumours, says the Nation, about the probable course of the President are numerous and conflict ing. He has had " conferences" of some length of late with Chief Justice Chase and other " traitors," who certainly never approved of the "policy," and it is inferred from this, with some show of reason, that he is still " open to conviction." It is hoped, too, that the heavy douche of the elections may have cleared his brain a little and led him to view the situation with a somewhat steadier gaze than a week or two ago. Of course, all this is possible, and even not improbable ; but Mr. Johnson's train- ing and the structure of his mind are such as to make it very unsafe to attempt to calculate what he will do under any given circumstances. The ma jority against him is, perhaps, the phenomenon he can best understand, and which will produce most effect on him. It may either induce him to remain passive hereafter—which would be unfortunate, as he has done mischief which he is bound to undo— or it may make him modify his " policy," but still insist on having a policy, which would also be un fortunate, as it would protract the conflict between him and Congress. The talk of his proclaiming universal amnesty in return for impartial suffrage is very foolish talk, and we hope does not originate with him. He has no power to make any such arrangement, and if he had, ought not to make it, as it would settle only one of the very important points in the controversy between the Union and the revolted States. Amongst the signs of Mr. Johnson's conversion which are just now spoken of, is his refusal to listen any longer to Democratic applications for offices. Delegations of office-seekers and their friends calling attention to the state of the post-office in their neighbonrlioo I are now every day sent away sorrow ful. This is very well as far as it goes. If Mr. Johnson had only thought of it two months ago ! The Uommission, or which Ualeb Cushing is the head, for the codification of the United States laws, are making rapid progress with their work. There is more labour involved in this work than any of the judges supposed. The Tribune continues to discipline its employees in public. It is evidently thoroughly purging its floor. This time it is an unfortunate reporter named Miller who has been " discharged" (" dis missed" is, as Tony Weller would say, " a more tenderer word") for attempting to edit the paper, when he was only employed to collect news for it. If these acts of wholesome se verity wiil only bring the true nature of the distinction clearly before the mind of all the re porters in the country, the Tribune will have ac quired a fresh claim to the gratitude of the public. General Pile, the successful opponent of the Hon. John Hogan for a seat in the 40th Congress, was charged by the Missouri Republican, just on the eve of the election, with being an embezzler and a thief. There was no truth in the charge, but at the late day when itwas made, its refutation could hardly be effective in the canvass. We commend the general's example to every candidate, whether Democratic or Republican, who in his own person suffers from wbat is the curse of American political journalism. He has. brought a suit against the Republican for $5,000. We fear his best chance of getting any thing, lies in the fact, that the whole administration of the law in Missouri is in the hands of a party bitterly opposed to the Republican, and which itself has proved its ability to call names. The Secretary of the United States Navy has issued a circular providing as follows :—All persons who have served as volunteer officers in the United States navy for the term of two years, and who 1 desire to be examined for admission to the regular navy, as provided in the act of Congress approved July 25, 1866, will at once make application ad dressed to Commodore S. P. Lee, Hartford, Conn., who will notify them when to appear. Those who do not present themselves when notified, will be considered as having waived their claim for exami nation. Candidates will take with them, when summoned, their official papers showing their naval record. Rear-Admiral Gordon, commanding the South Atlantic Squadron of the United States, under date of Rio Janeiro, October Bth, reports to the Navy Department that the latest advices from the seat of war in South America is anything but favourable to the Allies. They captured Fort Cumsia some time since, with heavy loss, and then prepared for an attack on Lumpali, a strong point on the route to Humaita. The new Ministry have urged the attack, which pr ove d most disastrous to the allied forces. They acknowledge a loss of five thousand in killed and wounded, but the accounts are Brazilian, and it is thought that ten thousand willprov o e f nearer the truth. General Fl ores , t h e President has withdrawn from th e f ront w i th the remainder ' of the Uruguayan army, about five hundred men. The ironclad squadron has been very roughly handled, and Admiral Gordon says, that the last events in the field, confirm him in the belief that the Allies will not have control of Paraguay, for some time to come. • That distinguished gentleman, Chief Justice Chase, i s expected to be in Philadelphia to p res id e athaasneleeting to be held at the Academy of Music, by the Freemasons' Union Commission. His Honour, who is always found in all good and patriotic works, is now President of the Commis sion, in place of Bishop Simpson, resigned. The meeting will, doubtless, be one of much interest, as besides the Chief Justice, Rev. Phillips Brooks (lately returned from Europe), General - Howard, and other eloquent speakers, are expected to repre sent the cause of education among the freedmen. The Philadelphia Inquirer gives a full account of a prize fight which came off near Washington on the 20th November between Carr, alias English, and a man named White. The appearance of the men, their size and weight, &c., are all fully de tailed. Every round, from the first to the forty first, is described, We fear our relatives on the other side of the Herring-pond are drifting into some of the vices they have so strongly condemned on this. The present United States Senate consists of 38 Radicals and 13 Democrats and Conservatives, counting the Tennesseeans. The next is likely to have 41 Radicals and 10 Democrats. The new Senators, thus far, are the Hon. Cornelius Cole, of California ; the Hons. J. S. Fowler and David T. Patterson, of Tennessee (who have taken their seats) ; A. G.'Gattell, of New Jersey (present Con gress) ; and H. W. Corbett, of Oregon. Only one of these, Senator Patterson, the President's son-in law, is a Democrat. The complexion will be fur ther changed by the election of a Democratic Senator in Maryland (probably Governor Swann), to fill the place of the Honourable A. J. Creswell, Radical, whose term expires next year ; and in Pennsylvania and New Jer sey by the choice of Radicals in the place of the Hons. Edgar Cowan and William Wright, Democrats, the latter deceased. John Evans and Jerome B. Chaffee are the Senators chosen from the proposed new State of Colorado, and Thomas W. Piptou and General John U. Thayer those chosen from that of Nebraska. These four Territorial Senators are Radicals. Should they be admitted in the next Congress, the Radical strength will be forty-five members. The steamer Henry Von Phill, from St. Louis for New Orleans, with 3,500 bales of cotton, has been burned above Donaldsonville. Two lives were lost by the accident. _ . _ Improved machinery and implements had arrived in large quantities at New Orleans, for the Fair to be held 28th November last ; and a great display was expected of superior stock of all kinds. A number of fine horses from the Western cities were to be exhibited. The St. Louis Despatch has news of the safe ar rival at Omana of two miners' fleets, one of six teen the other of seven boats. The aggregate amount of gold dust was over $1,500,000. Colonel Talp Shaffner, of Kentucky, whose ex periments and successes in scientific mining and engineering are well known, has arrived in Wash ington to induce the departments to recommend the removal of the rocks at Hell Gate by the means of nitro-glycerine and electricity. Colonel Shaff ner claims that his recent experiments with this powerful explosive agent at Hoosac tunnel render it certain that the channel at Hell Gate can be entirely cleared by sub mar i ne bl a sting. _ _ The trial of the celebrated " Jumel case was brought to a sudden close on November 12, by a verdict in favour of the heirs, a compromise having been effected with the defendants before the case was brought into court. In about five minutes the jury renderei a verdict for the plaintiffs, Mme. Jumel being held to be of unsound mind at the time of the execution of the will. In 1860 there were in Texas 3,535,768 head of milch cows, working oxen, and other cattle exclusive of horses, sheep, and swine. A diffi culty in getting exact statistics in this respect from Texas exists in the fact that so large a per centage of the whole are kept at pasture in charge of Mexican vaqueros, and, being once branded, are hardly counted again by the owner for a year. An - other difficulty lies in the fact that there are herds of really wild cattle in some parts which have escaped from their keepers, and have to be hunted almost like game. They have the brands of their owners in most cases, but are quite as wild and as little relied on as the cattle of Attakapas were some years since. The result of the late elections is even more favourable to the Republican party than at first supposed. In the State of New York the Repub lican candidate for Governor has been elected by a majority of about 15,000. The majority of the Re publicans in Massachusetts is about 70,000. Illi nois gives to the same party 60,000 ; Michigan, 28,000 ; Wisconsin, 25,000 ; Minnesota, 10,000 ; Kansas, 20,000. Together, the four last-named States show a Republican gain, over 1861, of nearly 60,000 votes. Missouri has gone Radical by over 20,000 majority, and Nevada by 1,000. As regards the election of members of Congress, the Republicans lose three districts in New York, one in New Jersey, one in Missouri, one in Maryland ; and they gain, on the other hand, three in New York, two in New Jersey, and one in Missouri— making the. number of gains and lu=s crew. Alto gether, 163 Congressmen have been elected this year, of whom 128 are supporters of .the policy of the 39th Congress, and 35 are opposed to it. In 1864, 130 Republicans were elected, and 33 Demo crats. As of the former eight have acted this year with the President and Democrats against the majority of Congress, thus making the relation of the parties, for the remainder of the 39th Congress, 122 Radical Republicans against 41 Democrats and Conservatives, the present majority of Congress may be said to have gained this year six members. The Legislature of every northern State, as well as those of ➢Missouri, West Virginia and Tennessee, and the State Legislature elected in Nebraska, sympathise with the majority of Congress. Buffalo has now in operation four anthracite fur naces, which make 30,000 tons of pig-iron per year, and two more of the largest capacity are pro jected. In the same city have recently been erected a Paisley shawl mill, a silk ribbon factory, and a delaine mill—the two former being b operation. Some New Jersey capitalists have built an immense pottery, fire brick and gas retort factory. Admiral Farragut gets $19,000 for his share of the Mobile prize money. THE CONDEMNED FENIANS.---The Toronto Globe gives the following sketches of the history of the Fenian prisoners under sentence of death in that city :—Robert B. Lynch was born in Galway, we understand, in 1818. He was at one time chief clerk in the Department of the Board of Charitable Donations and Bequests, Dublin Castle, and re tained- that post from 1827 to 1812, when he is said to have emigrated to the_United States. He then engaged in business in St. Louis for a time, but left there in 1819, and travelled to many of the leading cities in the South American Republics and West Indies. He subsequently joined the American army, and was Quartermaster, with the rank of Major in the 24th Wisconsin Volunteers. During the latter part of the war he was chief clerk, with the rank of Major, in the Discharge Department of Louisville. Afterwards, he says, he came to Canada, under the direction of Adjutant-General M'Dermott, of the F. B. of Louisville, Kentucky, to report the Fenian cam paign in Canada. This is the prisoner's account himself, but we have heard other versions of his career, which assigned him a residence of some years in Western Canada. Rev. John M'Mahon was born in the county of Monaghan, Ireland, about 1820, and is consequently 46 years old. He studied for the ministry, according to his statement, in the University of St. Mary's, Chicago, and, after serv ing as a priest in various parts, was lately appointed to Andersonville, Madison county, Indiana. He was parish priest there until the time of his arrest at Fort Erie, on the morning of the 3d of June. Robert B. Lynch, the condemned Fenian pri soner, has written a letter to a relative in Mil waukee, in which he says :—" I was unable to pro duce the evidence that could preve my innocence, as they were liable to arrest themselves, and their sworn evidence could not be received unless they were present. I was found guilty and sentenced to be hung December 13, 1866. I am innocent, but it was necessary to satisfy the Canadian people that an example should be made of some one. I was the person selected for this sacrifice, though I had no military connection with the Fcnians. But if it is a crime to love my native land, then I am willing to suffer death, for I am guilty of that crime, and will meet it like a man. Don't be uneasy about me. My death upon the scaffold will bring no dis grace on you, the children, or any of our family— particularly for such a crime as this. Many true and noble patriots died for this noble cause—why should I complain ? I have not the slightest doubt but that the witnesses against me must have mis taken me for some other person. Considering that I am a doomed man, I am in my usual spirits and in good health. The governor of the prison and all the officers are very kind to me." The New Haven correspondent of a Connecticut paper tells the foll ow i ng an ecdote :—Mr. and Mrs. Oren Cleveland, fo rmer ly of Winged ) Connecticut removed to Ohio in 1839. Theyburied their eldest child in Winsted in March, 1809, and all of the others, nine in number, survive ; nor has there been a death in their immediate family for the long period of 57 years. The aged parents, partners during 60 years, have for 12 years past had a strong desire to see their children altogether once more on the shores of time. Time, in its course, had brought six of the nine children to reside within 40 miles of . the parental home. Three were still living "at the east," one in New Hartford, Litchford county ; one in New Haven, and one on Long Island, New York. These three made a flying jour ney to Huntsville, Geauga county, Ohio, and on September 24th celebrated the birthday of the mother, she being 81. The father was 81 last May. A bountiful dinner being prepared for the occasion, they all sat down, eldest by eldest—the eldest child being 58, and the youngest 35. All were grey, more or less ; yet the last tine they met, at the wedding of :the eldest child, not one had a grey hair, but that was 31 years ago. The mother and eldest son had not met before in 28 years. The 11ev. Daniel Dorchester estimates - the num ber of children and youths between the ages of five and twenty in the United States at 12,577,329. GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, Wednesday, Oct. 24. —ln.the middle of Monday night a tragedy occurred in the heart of this city which sent a thrill of horror through the community, from which it has scarcely recovered. Dr. J. King Robinson was called up about 12 o'clock of the night stated by some person who professed to require his surgical service in a case of a broken limb of "his brother, John Jones." The doctor dressed and went off with the man, but they had not exceeded a stone's throw of the doctor's residence when he was assaulted and mortally wounded, expiring about two o'clock on Tuesday morning. He was struck on the face several times with an axe or some other heavy sharp instrument, and also shot in the face, probably with a revolver. His funeral took place to-day, under the auspices of the Odd Fellows, and was attended by a long train of citizens, on horseback and on foot. The cowardly assassination has called forth the detestation and abhorrence of all classes of the community. The city and county jointly offer a reward of $2,000 for the apprehension of the murderer or murderers, and the merchants and principal citizens have subscribed largely in addition, nearly $l,OOO to the present time. As yet there is no clue to the murderers, nor is there any known or surmised provocation on the part of the deceased, that might be considered an inciting cause of his untimely taking off. One or two circumstances have been particularly talked about as possibly con nected with this murder, but to dispassioned ob servers they seem to be so insignificant as to be un worthy of serious thought, and the best plan will doubtless be to await the course of the law. At all events remote and scarcely probable suspicions, if spread abroad and magnified, would be likely to go to the prejudice of innocent persons, especially in a community where party feeling is so strong, and prejudices are so deep-rooted and bitter as they are here. Suffice it to say that the feelings of the com munity have been so stirred to their utmost depth by the tragedy that it is evident that no stone will be left unturned in the endeavour to dis cover the dastardly perpetrator—that there- is a manifest intention on the part of some of the " Gen tile" portion of the community to make it appear that the horrible deed was a Mormon and a party offence, and that in such a view it will doubtless be used as argument for the necessity of a larger mili tary force being stationed in or near this city. Owing to the Virulence of party feeling here any attempt to make this tragedy appear a party affair will doubtless be received generally with consider able caution, and only on the clearest evidence. Dr. Robinson was born at Calais, Maine, and was about thirty-one years of age. He left a recently mar ried wife to deplore his horrible and cowardly assassination.—Correspondence of the New York Times. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.-- The effect of the Indian Mutiny has been to entirely alter the tenure by which we hold our Oriental dominions. Before that momentous event the received theory was that India was maintained in subjection to her foreign masters by the agency of Indian armies, that our function was to dii Get and organise those armies, and to supply just as many English troops as were required to give tone and example to their Asiatic comrades. This state of things had doubtless many advantages. It en abled us to assert, with great show of reason, that though from the peculiar constitution of Asiatic society we were unable to obtain a plebiscite, or any other public manifestation of popular assent, we might fairly boast that we held India with the good will of her people, since it was by their own hands that our rule was maintained. Many collateral advantages flowed from this. It moderated the in solence of a conquering race, and made it necessary for us to respect the feelings and prejudices of the natives. That state of things, however, passed away when the native army on which we relied rose in mutiny against us. From that time the basis of our power in India has avowedly been the English troops whom we maintain there. Nothing but hard necessity could reconcile us to such a change of system. The drain upon our own resources is enormous. In case of a European war, it is very difficult to see how this country, hard pressed at home for men, could ma i nta i n so large a force in the remote East to defend an Empire which, however brilliant and glorious it may be, neither fills our treasury nor recruits our armies. There are other evils in the present system. We rule avowedly as an alien race by alie n sw o r d s . Such a confession is mortifying to the pride of many high-spirited races in Lyda, and affords a peculiar temptation to that uns . : mpathetic and domineering spirit which is one of the most prominent defects of our own. Most gladly would we return to the for mer state of things, were it possible, or find the basis of our power in India anywhere else than in a given number of English bayonets. It remains to be seen whether we may not to some extent copy the policy upon which Austria has subsisted for so many centuries, and, availing ourselves of the vast extent of our territory, and the different races of the people who inhabit it, balance one part of the Empire against the other, and rule by the equipoise that we establish. For such a policy, we require, however, something equivalent to the eight millions of German subjects which Austria possesses—some thing which may serve as a nucleus towards which the elements of power may have a common conver gence. The difficulty is where to establish a firm footing, where to find a solid resting-place, amid so much that is treacherous and uncertain. Re garded from this point cf view, the Lahore letter of our Indian correspondent, which we published on Thursday last, has a very peculiar interest. We are too apt to have our attention distracted by the suffering of a particular province—such as Orissa, for instance—and to forget the vast work that is steadily and successfully going on over the whole continent of India. The increased demand for labour, the rise in the prices of agri cultural produce, the greater facilities of inland transport, and the growth of wealth and wellbeing arc all advances in the direction of peace and tran quillity, but nothing is so reassuring as the complete success that we have met with in the latest and most hardly won of our conquests. The Punjab, although it has a very hot climate, is not within the tropics. Its winters are cool and refreshing as compared with tropical India, and the races that inhabit it are braver and more vigorous, and apparently more capable of culture, than their southern neighbours. It is the India of Alexander and of Porus, and many causes combine to show that it is destined, notwith standing its inland position, to be the citadel and centre of English power. Indeed, it has been so already ; for, bri e f as is the period during which it has been attached to us, it has already, under the administration of Sir J. Lawrence, been the means of saving the Empire. It was by the forces contri buted from the Punjab that Delhi was taken, and this service was rendered only eight years after the country had been annexed. Nine years have since passed away, and we are now presented with a view of the Punjab such as it is under British rule. It is, as our correspondent says, as if we had held the country for a century. The habits and pursuits of 17 years ago have passed away. The military hordes, the t error o f N o rthern India, have become thriving husbandmen, or veterans enriched by the plunder of Indian mutineers and Chinese palaces. Roads, railways, and canals are doing their work, and security a n d j us tice have raised prices and pro duced general content. The goods exported to Hin dostan Proper have nearly doubled in value during the last three years. The income from ferries and from town and octroi duties has greatly increased during the last year. The cost of the Government of the province, including the maintenance of 14,000 English and 25,000 native troops, is four millions sterling, three millions of which it contri butes front its own resources. The frontier vi hich they guard is enormous, and, considering that this service is rendered not only to the province but the empire, it may, perhaps, be fairly considered that the Punjab already fully pays its own expenses. To have effected such a transformation in so short a time and with such brilliant results is a feat, we believe, unexampled in the dealings of civilized . with half-civilized nations. The problem we have had to solve in the Punjab is something similar to that which has been attempted by France in Al geria, only that, instead of a long sea coast, a climate substantially the same as that of the South of Europe, and a harbour only forty-eight hours distant from our shores, we have achieved these great changes at the distance of half the globe, in a remote inland country, with a climate of oppressive heat, and, towards Peshawar, of the most dangerous insalubrity. We are repairing the monuments of °titer times ; we have built churches, gaols, penitentiaries, lunatic asylums, medical colleges, and museums. We have initiated the Sikhs into the arts of municipal self-government, and taught them to administer justice to each other, somewhat after the manner of our unpaid magis trates. We are making the boldest innovation in the habits of the East by the impulse we have given to female education. There are already in the Punjab a thousand female schools, either supported or aided by Government, in which more than 21,000 girls are receiving instruction. We seem to have found in the hardy and manly race which inhabits this remote province more docile pupils and more energetic associates than elsewhere in India ; and if the stupendous problem of engrafting European cultivation upon Oriental habits and feelings e is to be solved anywhere, it is probably in the Punjab that such success will be obtained. There are so many persons bent at present on exposing the weak nesses and exaggerating the faults and shortcomings of England that it is only right we should every now and then break through the habits which have become inveterate in us, and, instead of invariably displaying our weaknesses and our failures, point occasionally to feats like the one we have just been describing, and challenge our censors to point out the race or country in ancient or modern times that can show anything comparable to them. The Daily News, referring to the decision of the Government to appoint a commission to consider the present state of international law with regard to captures at sea, congratulates the Ministry on their approaching the question of marine capture in any way, however roundabout or undignified. The matter is of prodigious importance, it would con cern us as belligerents far more than even as neut rals, and since it cannot be settled after war has broken out, the necessity for settling it by some general agreement in anticipation is the more urgent. We in this country have as yet had no occasion to consider the matter practically. Our only modern war was with Russia, and the configuration of that country is such that we were able to seal hermeti cally all egress to her vessels, with the exception of the force which for a short time roamed the North Ameri— can and China seas. Nor had then the idea occurred to a belligerent that, though without the use of a single port of her own, she might purchase a vessel of war in a neutral territory, arm and commission it at sea, and send it forth on a plundering mission, entitled to full honours of war and rights of shelter in every neutral port. If Russia had only had such an inspiration she might with an Alabama of her own, fitted out in Stettin, Trieste, Cadiz, or New York, have swept our commercial marine from the sea as effectually as the Confederate Alabama and her consorts purged that of the Federals from the At lantic and Pacific. And, in that case, we should doubtless have eagerly urged the insertion of a further declaration in the Treaty of Paris, by which it would have been solemnly laid down that " arm ing and commissioning a belligerent vessel at sea, or in a neutral port, is and remains abolished." Our naval supremacy may show itself in pitched battles, or in blockading long lines of coast, but our mer chant navy is a prey to the tiniest gunboat of the feeblest State. We have more than any nation to lose by preserving the old rules under the new con ditions—more than any nation to gain by accepting a modification which others have already offered. The Star hopes that the effort .being made by some of our railway companies to induce the French Government to suspend the hateful system of cus toms search during the Paris Exhibition season may be successful. During the period of the Paris Exhibition of 1855 there was a suspension of the passport system, and there is therefore good prece dent for a relaxation of the customs examination during the coming year. The Imperial Govern ment have made so many sensible concessions to international good-fellowship that it hardly seems probable this very reasonable request will be refused. Where the customs search is rigorously conducted it is an almost insufferable nuisance ; where it is a mere formality, as it now generally is, it is a super fluous and inexcusable bore. The Emperor of the French is said to have set his heart upon the success of the forthcoming Exhibition in Paris. A very important step towards insuring its success, so far as the number of foreign visitors go, would be to suspend, if only for the season, the weary and tor menting ceremonial, the expectation of which now sits like black care behind the traveller as he ap proaches his journey's end. THE AMERICAN PRESS. THE CONFEDERATION SCHEME. The delegation from Canada to press upon the English Government the necessity of authorising the scheme of confederation of all the British North American Provinces sailed from New York in the steamship Australasian. This project, which seemed very doubtful of success at one time, acquired new vigour in consequence of the Fenian invasion. That Unfortunate and wicked expedition furnished the advocates of confederation with new arguments in favour of a strong Government, and carried over many of its former opponents in the general excite ment. The Canadian delegates merely represent the feeling in those provinces, and are not autho rised to speak for all. British North America. There is not a hearty acquiescence in the Confederation plan in the other provinces. In New Brunswick there was strong opposition, but about the time of Killian's attempt upon the island of Campo Bello, the excitement in consequence contributed to the choice of a Confederation Ministry. There is, never theless, a very strong anti-Confederation minority in that province, and at the next election, now that the Fenian excitement is over, it may triumph. Prince Edward's Island is strongly against Confe deration, which the people consider to be a sch me to consolidate power in the Canadas, and one which is opposed to the interests of the maritime pro vinces. Newfoundland has not decided in favour of Confederation. Nova Scotia has, by its Leg'sla ture, passed resolutionsin favour of some plan of confederation, but it has not indorsed the plan pro - posed in Canada. The project proposes that British North America shall be a Viceroyalty, governed by a Viceroy nominated in England. The Parliament is to be composed of a Legislative Council and House of Commons. Th e U pper H ouse i s t o h ave seventy-six members, of which the two Canadas are to have nearly two-thi r d s an d th e o th er pro vinces a little over one-third between them. It is proposed that the Home of Commons shall be composed of one hundred and ninety-four mem bers, of which the two Canadas shall have one hundred and forty-seven. The plan, in fact, is intended to make the Canadas overwhelming in their influence, and to intrust the interests of the maritime provinces to delegates who, if united, will be powerless against a heavy insular majority. It is this fact which renders the maritime provinces fearful of being oversloughed, and renders them jealous of their rights. The delegation which goes to Great Britain may have some effect, but the cautious language of Lord Carnarvon to a delega tion, urging Confederation, some time ago, may be indicative of hesitation on the part of the present Ministry of Great Britain. Confederation was strongly urged by the Russell Cabinet, it was sup posed, because Great Britain desired to escape from the expense of maintaining her colonies, and in the hope of making them strong enough, by combina tion, to resist the dreaded power of the United States. But the Derby Ministry is not bound by the action of its predecessors. As long as some of the provinces are opposed to the scheme, it would be doubtful whether it would be judicious to com pel them to adopt the plan. If such a policy is re solved upon, the new Confederacy will start with heartburnings, opposition, and jealousies which will create much trouble hereafter.—Philadelphia In quirer. SEVEN-THIRTY NOTES. The promulgation of the intentions of the Trea sury Department in relation to 7-30 notes which may be lost will convey agreeable information to many of the holders of those securities. These notes were not issued with the formality which attends the execution of bonds. The latter may be re gistered, showing the title of the owner on the books of the Treasury Department—a title not to be changed except by actual transfer made before certain officers of the United States. A coupon bond has not that advantage, and the title of the real owner may be put in jeopardy by the loss or destruction of the instru ment. Some 7-30 notes are issued payable to bearer, others to order, with a blank for the name of the payee. If the blank is not paid up they pass from hand to hand as a coupon bond or bank-note would do. It has been understood that the inser tion of his own name as payee by the holder of any 7-30 note would limit its negotiability, without in dorsement; but until the present time we do not know of any public notification that such was the fact. But this is clearly shown by the late statements at Washington, and it is important to holders of 7-30 notes, who have heretofore been troubled about the risk of keeping them. Where they have received notes which arc issued to order, in blank, they may secure their property by filling in their own names as payees. In that case it is said that the Treasury Department will recognise their property in the notes if they are lost or stolen. This liability is re cognised even if the name of the payee should be extracted and another written thereon. But there must be evidence of that fact, in order to satisfy the Department, and here in many cases failure to recover may be expected. The claimant of a lost, stolen, or altered note must be a bl e t o show that he held it while his name was wr itt en th ereo n as payee. This, with many pe rs o ns , w ill b e diff i cult, for the reason that prudent people rarely ever make exhibition of their wealth to strangers. Outside of one's family the particular manner in which money is invested is rarely known. This verY fact has been an objection to the 7-30 notes from the first., and has turned the attention of carefu l individuals to registe re d b on d s . Th e num ber of the latter is increasing very much, and although the coupon bonds ha ve adva n t ag e s t o th os e w ho do not intend to hold them long, perm anen t investments are more generally made in the registered securities. It does not appear from the statements made of the intentions of the Treasury Department what would become of a 7-30 note with a special endorsement , as if, for instance, it is endorsed, " Pay the within to the order of A. B." Would the property in it of A. B. be recognised in case of loss or if there were further endorsements , 4 to C. D. or order," and so on, would the Department recognise property in the last indorsee? We infer so, because such is the usage of business, and it seems as if the Department wishes to assimilate those notes as much as possible to commercial paper in regard to nego tiability. THE SCHOOL FOR CONSULS. Some time since the Department of State promul gated a code of regulations for the examination of candidates for the position of consuls representing the United States in foreign countries. Previous to the institution of those regulations the acquisition of a eonsulship seemed to be a privilege With in the power of any man. All that was required of him was that he should be a member of the dominant party and have influential friends. It made no difference that he was entirely ignorant of the language of the country to which he was accredited, that he had 110 knowledge of international law, and had no prac tical acquaintance with commercial transactions . Under this loose system some men have been appointed to consulships who disgraced the countcountryOthers, honestly intending to discharge their duties , had not the necessary experience and made some unpleasant mistakes. A consul who has not the proper judgment sometimes presumes upon th e authority of his office, and allows his own prep dices to dictate his course as a national represen tative. The difficulties which have arisen in con sequence of the unauthorised acts of consul s abroad have created vexation in the State DePart ment, and sometimes being of necessity disavowe d " the nation has appeared in a somewhat ridiculous position. With many foreign nations diplomacy h a regular profession, and no one is intrusted with such unless he has had the proper training. Hence, foreign consuls rarely make mistakes. They know exactly what they ought t°, do, and how far they will be sustain by the home Gover n m en t. The regulati o fn n lately adopted a t W as hi ng t on are now in t operation, and they are lik e ly to h ave an excellent effect. IVe are told that they are not merely 1 0 r," anal, but that they are t o b e carr i e d out w ith strict ness. Examinations already held of aspirants for consular honour and profits have developed the fact that very few who desire such offices were coin" petent to fill them. Only two persons of late applicants have passed the ordeal. The others wanted to be consuls, without any very clear ides what consuls had to do. The consequences of t he , new rule must be excellent. If it is not abolish ed by some subsequent denizen of the State Depart ment, it will in a few years appear that all the consuls appointed by our Government are intelli gent, well instructed, and competent men.—Fin ia. delphia Inquirer. a ll the COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH —SATURDAY. of At this market to-day there was a limited supplY wheat, and in some instances prices receded about is P e ' qr., but the farmers were reluctant sellers at any further reduction. A largo supply of barley, and the trade ruftY be quoted about is per quarter lower for tho best de scriptions. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 68s to 70s ; old red cutto, (weighing 631 b), 58s to 638 ; new red ditto (weighing 601 b to 631 b), —s to —s ; best malting barley (weig h & 521 b to 531 b), 50s to 55s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 5= 7, 36s to 408 • distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 36 1,`: 40s ; oats, '24s to 26s ; beans, 378 to 39s ; peas (maple), 0 " to 38s per qr. Flour, 41s Od per sack. NO T TINGHAM—SATtiItDAY. There was a middling supply of wheat to-day, tb ° condition of which was not first-rate. Fine and dri, samples were scarce, Lnd maintained late prices. Tl)Pri,, was a toltn•ablo surlily of barley, thu quality of which IV!' very irregular. A moderato supply of oats, for whic h toe demand was by no moans active, at last week's rates. Beans a quiet trade at previous prices. Old white wheat, 668 to 70s ; old red, 56s to 6 8 s • 1:1Tf white, 6ls to 726 ; new red, 54s to 62s per 36 stone. 0 ', 1 7 , old, 34s to 38s; new, 24s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans , °' l . 56s to 60s ; new, 46s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 43, to 46s per sack. LEICESTER —SATURDAY. We had a tolerably good show of wheat, most of ti l° samples being of the new crop. The demand was i"i . tive, and prices 2s per qr. lower. Barley in quiet dernan at rather lower prices for the best qualities. Oats in derate demand at about previous currencies. A steady demand for beans, at previous rates. ol d , New white wheat, 62s to 69s ; new rod, 60s to 68s • , white, 68s to 73s ; old red, 64s to 68s per 36 stone. ley, or malting, 42s to 50s per qr.; grinding, 32s to 0 2 4 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 32s to 40s ; new, 27s to 32s Per stone. Beans, old, 56s to 60s ; new, 42s to 50s per 38 ston°• Fine flour, 48s ; seconds, 40s to 45s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat a t this marV e t • to-day, and the attendan ce o f th e trade was tolerabloi Sales were slow, and prices in favour of the buyor• 6l barley there was a plentiful supply, but of really ifts samples only a moderate quantity came to hand. ° without much alteration. A moderate inquiry for b ean at late prices. 3 6 Now white wheat, 5Gs to 63s ; new red, 50s to 5 8 s per stone. Barley, for malting, 36s to 40s per qr. ; grin e , 33s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 28s per 2 4 t tone• Beans, new, 50s to Ms per 38 stone. Malt, 68s to 70 '' Flour, 47s to 49s Der sack of 2801bs. IMPORTS OF GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA.—The re' ceipts of gold from the Australian group of colo nies appear to be sensibly reviving, having amou nted in September to 1686,777, as compared with £238,556 in the corresponding month of 1865, and £405,613 in September, 1864. In the nine mouthl ending September 30, this year, the total value cs• the gold imported from the Australian £4,639,371, as compared with £2,155,23 2 in t4 ,, ° , corresponding period of 1865, and £2,421,72' J" the first nine months of 1864. It may be interest; ing to recapitulate the imports of gold from file Australian during the eight years ending 1865 :" 1858, £9,064,763 ; 1859, £8,624,566 ; 1 - 86 0 ! £6,719,000 ; 1861, £6,331,225 ; 1862, £6,7 04,75 ',' 1863, £5,995,368 ; 1864, £ 2,656,971 ; and 186 ' £5,051,170. The discovery of gold in Australii* excited fears, it will be remembered, in 1851, 1- 852 ' and 1853 that there would be a great depreciation in the value of that metal, a contingency w hich lo not been realised in the least, although since those eventful years New Zealand has become a gold-Pr°- ducing centre. The deliveries from the Australia: colonies this year promise to come up at least t° the receipts in 1862 or 1863. Births. BETHELL—On the sth inst., at Upwood Mount, Cheeth 9 ", lll ; hill, Manchester, the wife of 11. S. Bothell, of a da U g''r CUNLIFFE—On the 7th inst., at Marden Ash, High C )r g '' Mrs. Edward S. Cunliffe, of a daughter. Itroo-=On the 6th inst., at Crossrigg Hall, Westmorland' the wife of Lieut.-Col. Hugh Rigg, of a son. SUCIIE—On the Bth inst., at 69, Princes-square, Boysicgt°t' the wife of Joseph Suche, Esq., of a son. Marriages. ELLIS—CLARE — On the 6th inst., at Holy Trinity uu", t he Stepney, James Ellis, of Forest-hill, youngest son °' - late C. T. Ellis, of Great Yarmouth. to Mary A- 110 e y. second daughter of T. Clare, of Bancroft-road, Stel'u b, MORDAUNT—MONCREIFFE --At St.Jelm's Episcopal Ch ur ett Perth, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart., M.P., to 1 1 , 311 400. Sarah, fourth daughter of Sir Thomas an d Lady 14°- Moncreiffe. Deaths. Cnunn T On the 3d inst.,at Wood Park, Devonport, A. Chubb, E aged fV). IfoLmEs—On tho sq., Gth inst., at Bexley-heath Anne, svi of the lateavid Ho's, sq., a . ed 85. HALLAM 0 lithe 6th lme inst., E at Alba Villa, Burgess-Hill' Sussex, Samuel Hallam, Esq., aged 61. Jogs—On the Gth inst., at Bartonmore, Suffo lk, the e'r. C. Jones, aged 74. Vato o° LITTLEWOOD—On the 3d inst., at 92, Ebury-street , square, John Littlewood, Esq., aged 44. f th e PELLY —On the 30th ult., Captain George Polly, °- late E.l.C.'s Service, aged 76. set' STEELE— On the sth inst., at White's Place, Poo le, Dort shire, Isaac Steele, Esq., aged GO. 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