The Sun. — London, England, 1867-02-11 00:00:00

Iv! Naval ant ,elligence. Hussars. Capt. Biddlecombe, master attendant of Wool wich dockyard, went down to Greenhithe on Satur day morning and superintended the mooring of the line-of-battle 50 gunship Chichester, let as a train ing vessel for destitute boys entered by the society for that purpose. The following is the official statement from the Royal Marine-office issued at Woolwich showing the figures of merit and numbers exercised at target practice of the several divisions of Royal Marines during the past year :—Figures of merit.—Artillery division, 141.72 ; Woolwich divi son, 104.44 ; Chatham division, 96.30 ; Portsmouth, 87.30 ; Plymouth, 80.22. Numbers exercised.— Artillery division, 692 ; Woolwich, 960 ; Chatham, 956 ; Portsmouth, 677 ; and Plymouth, 765. The best shots were—first period, Sergt. John Bott, Woolwich division ; second period, Private Rogers, Chatham ; third period, Sergt. Bott, pronounced accordingly the best shot of the entire corps. Her Majesty's 4-gun iron screw storeship Megasra, Capt. Simpson, having completed her cargo at Wool w—ich, went down the river on trial on Saturday, and is under orders to sail without delay for Gibraltar and Malta. The Government lighter Tortoise, from Wool wich, arrived at Devonport on Thursday. The iron screw steam transport, Tamar, 2, Capt. Francis W. Sullivan, C. 8., having had defects made good, left Plymouth Sound on Saturday for the Mediterranean. The screw . steam corvette Racoon, 22, Captain Richard Purvis, put her steam in motion on Thurs day when in Keyham basin. On Saturday she was placed is the lock. To-day she will be removed into Hamoaze. After making trial of her engines, either to-day or to-morrow, her crew will be turned over from the hulk. One of her engineers, Mr, Robert Taylor, was considerably injured on Thurs day by the machinery. The screw steam frigate Bristol, 31, Capt. Leve son E. H. Somerset, which left Plymouth on-Thurs day for her station on the West Co ,st of Africa, put back on Friday, having received such damage as required her to go into Hamoaze on Saturday morning. Her jib-boom is carried away, and she may require a new bowsprit. The screw steam-corvette Charybdis, 17, from Spithead for Australia, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday. The paddlewheel steam frigate Valorous!, 16, Capt. C. C. Forsyth, 11 , nd the screw steam-sloop Petrel, 3, Commander W. E. Gordon, were in Shnon's Bay on the 3d of January. The screw steamer Rodney, 79, 500 horse-power, Capt. Algernon Heneage, flagship of Vice-A cimiral the Hon. Slr H. Keppel, I .C. 8., Commander-in- Chief in China and Japan, is expected to be ready for sea in about a month from the present time. She is still several A.B.'s and first-class and leading seamen short of her proper complement, and bills are posted throughout Chatham inviting petty offi cers and able seamen to join her. The ironclad ship Northumberland, 26, 6,621 tons, 1,350-horse power (nominal), Commander Batt, remains at her moorings, near the west shore in the Medway, awaiting orders from the Admi ralty, to proceed to Devonport as soon as there is dock accommodation for her at that yard. A party of officers and men belonging to the steam reserve remain in charge of the Northumberland. She is nearly ready for the pennant. The Curacoa, 23, screw frigate (unarmonred), 1,571 tons, 350-horse power, Commander Sir W. S. Wiseman, C. 8., which arrived at Spithead on Fri day from Australia and New Zealand, was inspected at Spithead on Saturday, by Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley, K.C.8., and afterwards steamed into Portsmouth harbour to dismantle and pay out of commission. The Minotaur, ironclad iron frigate, Capt. J. E. Goodenough, fitting at Portsmouth for the flag of Rear-Admiral Warden, as Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet of 1867, was placed in dock at that yard on Saturday. The Speedy, screw gunvessel, 60-horse power, tender to the Dasher, paddle steamer, sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday for the Channel Islands, taking the Needles channel. The 68th Regiment, under the command of Col. Greer, stationed in Portsmouth garrison, has been armed throughout with the Snider breech-loading rifle. The examinations of candidates for commissions in the medical department of the army will com mence at Chelsea Hospital this morning, before Major-General W. C. E. Napier, Vice-President, and the members of the Council of Military Educa tion. An order was received at Chatham on Saturday directing Capt. G. C. Bartholomew, 2d battalion, 10th Regiment ; Lieut. J. G. Hughes, Ist battalion, 22d Regiment, and Ensign E. Birch, 4th West India Regiments, to he held in readiness for embarkation, to join the service companies of their respective regi meats. On Saturday detachments from the various corps comprising the three depot battalions at Chatham left that garrison, and proceeded to Ilythe for the purpose of going through a course of instruction in the use of the new breech-loader Snider gun at the School of Musketry. An application has been made to the Government by the corporation of the city of Rochester for the Sappers and Miners of the Royal Engineers at Chatham to be employed in submarine operations in the port of Rochester, to remove some dangerous shoals and other accumulations near Rochester bridge and soiree other parts of the harbour, the corporation paying the expense. The corporation have been given to understand that their application will be acceded to. A few years since the Sappers and Miners were employed in the demolition of old Brompton-bridge between two and three years. They performed the work most satisfactorily. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty : —Lieut Shattock, additional, to the Bristol, for disposal ; Lieut. R. B. Pipon to the Zebra; Lieut. B. J. Hughes to the Niobe ; J. C. Thomas, to the Virago ; J. G. Liddle, masttr, to the Zebra ;- E. 11. C. Smith, master, to the Niobe ; Sub-Lieut. J. T. Hardinge to the Zebra ; Sub.-Lieut. C. T. Francis to the Niobe; J. Ferris and J. W. B. Reeve, midshipmen, to the Zebra ; J. F. H. Vernon, midshipman to the Niobe ; W. Lewis Lewis, chief engineer, to the Fisgard, forser vice in the Nymph ; T. Sagar, chief engineer, to the Mutine ; R. J. Wilson, chief engineer, to the Cum berland, for the Myrmidon; W. J. Thomson, assist.- Burg., to the Dauntless ; J. Rodgers, acting assist.- surg., to the Itoyod Alfred ; F, A. Jdaig, Tamter's I 11 Capt. the Duke of Edinburgh arrived on Fridwy evening at Devonport, and on Saturday mornin g went on board his frigate, the Galatea. . The arrangements necessary for the accommo 3a tion of Prince Arthur, on his admision to the Itt )yal Military Academy at Woolwich are now compl ete. His Royal Highness, having passed the usual •exa mination before the Council of Military Wincation at Chelsea, will commence his studies in the capacity of cadet to-morrow, at 9 o'clock. For the present half-year the number of cadets, including the Prince, is 183. The Prince, who will be attended by Major Elphinstone, his governor, and Lieut. A. F. Pickard, V.C., will continue his residence at the Ranger's house in Greene►ch-park, leaving the Academy daily at 7 in the evening, so that the only meal he will attend in the Academy will be the luncheon at 2 o'clock in the dining-hall, in common with the remainder of the cadets. The chartered troopship Camperdown, which sailed from the Thames with troops on board, for Bombay, has put back and returned to the Thames to make good the damage she has sustained since putting to sea. Her troops will be landed at Gravesend on Saturday, and will be accommodated in barracks until the vessel is again ready to receive them on board. The Camperdown left Gravesend on the 13th ult., and from the period of her getting clear of the Channel she encountered a succession of fearful gales, the ship sustaining such damage that she was compelled to put I.)cic. She has been towed up the river to the East India- Docks, where she will be repaired and refitted. The troops ofi board were in charge of Cornet W. G. Andrews, 18th I assiat., to the Zebra ; D. A. Richmond, master's assist., to the Niobe ; R. J. Rogers, master's assist., to the Achilles; F. Roberts, and R. C. Roughton, master's assists., to the Rodney ; and T. W. Bower, engineer, to the Indus, for service in the Vixen. RAILWAY INTELL IGEN CF, MIDLAND. The directors state in their report that the traffic of the railway for the half-year ending Dec. 31 last, as compared with the corresponding half-year of 1865, showed an increase from coaching of £30,985 ; from cattle, of £4,613 ; from merchandise, of £25,318 ; from minerals, of £10,689 ; total increase, £72,265. The amounts under these heads would lave been considerably greater but for the unfortu nate accidents which occurred during the autumn of last year to the Apperley Via lust and other works on the Leeds and Bradford Railway, and the great land slip at Bugsworth. on the Rowsley and Buxton Extension to New Mills, whereby the traffic on both these railways was interrupted. The expenses had increased very considerably over those for the cor responding period of 1865, and were beyond the proportion which they usually bore to the receipts. This matter had received the cicse attention of the directors, and the increase was mainly to be attri buted to the continued advance in the price of la bour and materials, and to the great expense which it was necessary to incur in working the traffic in terrupted by the incidents referred to. The balance available for dividend was £518,251, of which £4,617 was brought from the previous half-year ; and the directors were enabled to recommend the declaration of the following dividends (less income tax), payable on the Ist day of March next :—.E3 2s. 6d. per cent. on the Consolidated Stock ; £2 2s. 9d. per cent. on the Consolidated Birmingham and Derby Stock ; £3 2s. 6d. per cent, on the Consoli dated Preferential Stock ; and on the Consolidated Erewash Valley Stock; also the usual dividends on all the preference shares and stocks ; leaving a ba lance of £6,551 to be-carried to the current half year. The dividend recommended was less than that declared for the corresponding half-year of 1865, but the diminution was occasioned by causes, some of which would prove only temporary in their operation—viz., the large amount of interest and dividend paid out of revenue in respect of railways and works at present unproductive, the outlay upon which, to the end of 1866, might be estimated at four millions ; and the restoration of the viaduct and other works destroyed by the floods upon the Leeds and Bradford Railway, the cost of which would be borne by revenne, the greater part having been already charged in the accounts of the half year. There had also been an increase in the amount of interest upon the debenture debt of the company during the half-year, in consequence of the enhanced value of money, and the larger amount borrowed. Mr. Kirtley reported that the rolling stock was in good working order, and that during the half year the mileage performed by trains had been—with passenger trains, 2,680,059 miles, and with goods and mineral trains, 3,640,106 miles—total, 6,320,165 miles, showing an increase of 524,612 miles over the corresponding period. The renewals of locomo tive stock for the half year have been 11 engines, 43 carriages, eight break vans, 11 horse-boxes, nine carriage trucks, and 399 waggons, the entire cost of which has been charged to revenue. Mr. Crossley reported that the length of line relaid was 324 miles, and that the line and works corn prising .78 miles of addition railway bad been main tained in an effective state during the Lalf-year, with the exception of those upon the Leeds and Bradford Railway, which sustained considerable damage from the unusual floods of November last ; but those works have now been so far restored as to enable the traffic to resume its ordinary course. With respect to new lines in course of construction he reported that the Midland and Furness, and Duffield and Wirks work railways were nearly completed ; and that on the Sheffield and Chesterfield, Mangotsfleldandßatb, Cudworth and Barnsley, and Melbourne and Sawloy lines as much progress had been made as could reason ably be expected, considering the extremely unfavour able weather which had prevailed during the last few months. Messrs. Barlow & Liddell reported that the works upon the Bedford and London Railway were proceeding with activity. The tunnels and all the heavy works were in a forward state, and the line might be ready for goods traffic during the autumn of the present year. The foundations for the passenger sta tion and Hotel at St. Pancras had been commenced. The directors were glad to observe that the bills de posited for the present session were few in number as compared with those of former years. The (Mid land (Additional Powers) Bill, promoted by this company, proposed to raise £170,000 on shares and £56,600 on loans; and the Midland (Derby Gas works) Bill £30,000 in shares. The directors strongly recommended the proposed amalgamation of the Midland with the Glasgow and South-Western Company :to the approval of the proprietors. Tile London and North-Western and Midland (Hudders field and Halifax) Bill authorised the raising of £440,000 in shares and £146,600 by borrowing, of which capital the Midland were to provide one-half. With respect to the Cheshire Lines Bill, the Mid land Company were to raise one-third of the capital or £34,000 on shares, and £11,300 by loans. It had become necessary to create capital for the purposes of the railways and works authorised by Parliament last session, and the directors intended to submit a resolution at the ensuing meeting for power to raise £2,755,000 for the construction of the Settle to Car lisle Railway ; the Ashby and Nuneaton, the Addi tional Powers Act, the Branches Act, the Liverpool Extension Joint Line, and Cheshire and other lines. It was proposed that the shares be £22 each, and bo entitled to a preference dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. 'per annum, with an option to the holders to convert the same into the ordinary stock of the com pany after June 30, 1872. LONDON AND BLACKWALL, Miscellaneous American News. competitors, winning a race, the latter had fondly hoped would, without doubt, have been theirs. As soon as the coming match began to excite attention, the papers contained the customary letters, the general strain of -which was patronising commendation of the hopeless pluck of the Yankees. One person, signing himself "Tomßrown," asked if any nation could contend against the " bone and sinew of , Old England," but just before the race he changed his tune, and, having seen the Yankees p u ll over the course, wrote again to say that they were " dangerous." amidr sew stretches th h s reee fi tEe n he e eg , sl applause as t hhme eightei mile f m e t a ah mail was newidrefae o friends ehanpli ff d stf , or aaotnnmhdde just uathese tkstartinge tidebackers. point,l Thehgehwhencourse day T Athegejuecdighee,rstheemßahriteisanh dtihueiraul,,hwolaetcrhateinohnatnhde. be low a sharp tu rn , t o an old redoubt, on which stood f v o ic ll e o - N a v bank ; but most people took up positions at inter vals. There were crowds of all nations, stations and occupations there, and the interest grew intense as the long American boat, with the beautiful little flag in . her bow (the handiwork of an absent lady well-wisher), pushed off from the boat-house, and swung steadily up. The starting-place was soon reached, and the turn made ; the last instructions and warnings were passed up the boat; the "Forward all !" was given ; the starter, stop-watch in hand, stood on one bank, and the umpire, on a fast horse, was ready on the other; the gunner had his hand on the lanyard of the cannon ; the coxswain, crouched in his seat, with the starting rope in his left hand, and the yoke-lines in his right, had replied " all ready" to the starter ; and the start came. The lead was to be taken if possible, and taken it was, and after half a mile, pulled as hard as ever in this country—thirty-six to thirty-seven strokes to the minute—the Americans had a lead of a clear length. Another half mile they held it well, the pace being very severe. At one time the Eng lishmen put on a little spurt, and there were cries from the bank of " 'Well pulled ! pick her up ! go it, English, you're gaining !" but our coxswain was a match for them. He could not only steer well, but he had been an old fireman too, and he was ready with a yell that would have galvanised a boatful of mummies—" Go it, Yanks, no they ain't!" "Don't you hear your friends calling to you ?" Friends calling, indeed ! How shall I describe the scene on the bank? Babel was nothing to it. Our friends had been straining their eyes ever since they heard the gun, some cool and confident, others actually pale and trembling with excitement, and now diplo mats, consuls, missionaries, doctors, merchants, captains, and all were fairly beside themselves. The American flag was raised on two canes, one man begged another to take his spy-glass and " hit him over the head," and an old speaking-trumpet that ha I often hailed the weather yard-aria off the cape was used lustily. Onr coxswain had made the last turn to perfection, and the captain had quickened for the rush in at the finish, the gap widening at every stroke, when the English crew stopped for some seconds. 'They went on again, amid the enraged c r ies of their friends, but had lost the chance of even making a good show at the end ; and they had not gone far when the report of the gun announced that the urbane admiral had seen the stars and stripes go past the winning-post in 8 minutes and 30 seconds from the starting flash, slightly against the tide. Not a man in the crew was distressed ; they gave three cheers and a tiger, and landed to be almost torn in pieces by their friends. The English captain gave an explanation of his stopping, on coming in, to the effect that the stroke side was weak, and that as they could not The directors state in their report that they had received the rent for the half-year ending the 31st of December last from the Great Eastern Rail way Company, and the warrants for the divi dend would be payable on the 13th inst. They were now enabled to submit to the proprietors a state ment of the revenue account for the half-year end- Lng Dec. 31, 1865, which showed that the gross re ceipts, with the balance of £2,499 from the previous account, amounted to £74,666, and the expenditure to £24,925, leaving a net profit of £49,741, and after deducting £10,799, six months' interest on de bentures, there remains £33,943, out of which was deducted the interest accruing due to the 31st Dec., 1865, the dividend on the preference stock for the half-year, and the interim dividend on the ordinary stock, leaving £11,296 subject to the adjustment of the outstanding claims. Looking at the result ,of the working of the line for the year 1860, being the last prior to the lease taking effect, the receipts amounted to £140;123, the expenses to £47,164, and the net profits to £92,859. From this was deducted £20,933 for interest on debentures, leaving a balance of £71,926, which was sufficient to give a return of £4 4s. 2d. per cent. on the £1,709,105 capital stock of the company. The debenture debt of the com pany being so fully secured by the revenue of the line, the directors considered it desirable that they should be in a position to issue a perpetual debenture stock as opportunity occurred, instead of borrowing money to replace debentures from time to time fall ing due. They would therefore ask the sanction of the proprietors to create a £4 10s. debenture stock under the Company's Act, 1860. The capital ac count showed that £2,250,890 had been expended. TENDRING HUNDRED. This company's extension to Walton-on-the-Naze is expected to be opened for traffic at the close of next; month. The section has already been bal lasted throughout. The opening up of railway com munication to Walton-on-the-Naze is expected to greatly increase its importance as a watering-place. STONEROUSE AND NAILS WORTH. • This new line of railway, which is an exten sion or branch of the Midland, was opened last week for public traffic. The line is only six miles in length, but has occupied three years in con struction, owing to failures of contractors and the slipping of bridges. The line runs from the Stone house station of the Midland line in Gloucestershire The people of Martinsburg, West Virginia, are complaining of the high rents demanded by land lords. Five Nantucket vessels have received this year $7,012 in cod fishing bounties. Vermont sent 22,968 cattle, 197,013 sheep, and 3,360 swine to the Boston markets last year. New York State can put 25,000 militia into the field in five days after call. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN CHURCH IN PARIS.— The following letter appeared in the Standard on Thursday last :—" will you allow me, through your columns, to inform the members of the English and American Churches that the municipality of Paris have very liberally granted a site near the Exhibi tion for a temporary church during the season ; and that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel are willing to undertake the arrangement of the services, &c., under the sanction of the Bishop of London, and, in conjunction with the American Church, provided that the funds are forthcoming for the temporary iron church, the expenses of which will be about £l,OOO. The promise of donations will be thankfully received by the the G sec e r s e p t e a l, ry of the society for th e P ropagat i on o f 5, Park-place, St. James's, or by your obedient servant, A. CAZENOVE, St. Mark's Parson age, Reigate. AMERICAN PEICES.—A correspondent of the Louisville Democrat, complaining of the very high price to which clothing has risen, represents that if he wants to take a trip to Europe, and to go pro vided with a few things "no fella can do without," say a black suit of superfine West of England cloth, a wearing tweed suit, an overcoat, a silk hat, a pair of boots, a pair of goloshes, a dozen pairs of French kid gloves, and a dozen socks, he will be charged $324 for them in Louisville. His plan, therefore, fur a trip to Europe, is to buy over there. He says he can go from Louisville, via New York, to Liver pool (in second cabin), get these clothes there, and after paying for them have enough of the $324 left to pay his fare both ways between Louisville and Liverpool, and $3O over to spend while staying in the latter town. AN ODD FISIL—The Boston Cultivator gives a report of a recent lecture of Professor Agassiz, in which he describes the extraordinary habits of a newly-discovered fish. We suggest that they might be ornamental to the trees and shrubbery of the Central-park or Boston-common, if they could be kept within the enclosures. The professor then described several families of the Goniodontes found in the waters of Brazil, remarking that he gave these de tails to- satisfy his hearers that the animals of Brazil are entirely different from ours, and as having an important bearing on the question whence they come, and how animals are distributed on the globe. One was the family of Callicihists, characterised by two rows of scales upon their sides, with a depres sion between them. These fish have the peculiar habit of leaving the water at times, and the profes sor said he had frequently found them on dry land three miles from the water. They deposit their eggs in a cavity, after the manner of the stickle-back, and hatch them by sitting, as it were, upon them. They ascend trees, and the same shot of the sports man which brought down a parrot has been known to dislodge one of these fishes.— Watchma IZ and Reflector. A lake of borax, recently discovered in California, in is h producing world has ducinglargely h . een ehAlltthaeinbed from oraxhl a l lake itertou in Thibet, in Asia (which is in the hands of an English and some, though not much, from NorthernA nmonopoly)A n e l rc t i aly. an paper states that for several years it has been feared that it would be impossible to supply a sufficient quantity of butter and other dairy products to meet the demand. It proposes olive oil as a substitute for butter, and says that " when the olive shall be cultivated on the Pacific slope, the mountain and mining region can be sup_ plied with pure oil, which will take the place not only of butter, but of lard." The estimated expense of building the five miles of railroad, in Sheffield, New York, is $103,077, exclusive of land damages and fencing. The stock of $125,000 is being rapidly taken. A friend has sent us the following excellent account of a boat race at Shanghae, in which, after a well-contested struggle, the stars and strip es fluttered past the victor's goal first. The Ameri can oarsmen, to the astonishment of their British Senator and Vice-President Foster, of Connecti cut, who retires fron - i Congress in March, will very likely have a foreign mission. That to Italy, in place of Mr. Marsh, is named. Mr. Cyrus Legg and Mr. S. Laing, M.P., are the candidates who have offered themselves to sup ply the vacancy at the Great Eastern board occa sioned by the retirement of Sir E. C. Kerrison, Bart., M.P. Mr. Leonard W. Jerome, of New York, has given $5,000 to Princeton College, New Jersey, the'intc rest of which is to be annually expended for a me dal, to be given to the graduate who shall be declared each year to be the "first gentleman of his class" by a vote of his classmates. Mr. Jerome, in making this endowment, says the most pressing necessity of Young America just now is to get a little good manners. L. W. W r i g ht , a verdant member of the Wis consin Legisl a t ure from Greene county, blew out the gas in hi s b ed-room at Madison, the other night, and was resuscitated the next morning with great difficulty. A pipe hole in the chimney, through Dudbridge to Nailsworth, and was intended beat, and he had another race to pull, he thought to be carried on through Tenbury to Christian Mal- best to take this course. This does not seem to ford, but this extension is at present in abeyance. satisfy his countrymen. They acknowledge the A spur is to be made from Dudbridge to Stroud, defeat handsomely, and give all credit to their placing Stroud on the narrow as well as the broad "generous rivals," as they call us ; but while the gauge. bards and correspondents are singing our praises the poor captain is the scapegoat to be blamed for the stopping of the other crew when they might have made at least a fair race, although no one claims that they had the ghost of a chance to win. The following important decision was recently rendered by Judge Drummond of Chicago : " Aaron L. Collins versus the City of Chicago, United States Circuit Court," January, 1867. The facts were that the city caused to be assessed for the payment of taxes, under the law of Illinois, the stock of the First National Bank of Chicago as so much capital in the aggregate, with the intention of having the tax levied on the sum total of the capi tal stock of the bank. The plaintiff, a non-resident shareholder,applied to the court to have the assessment laid aside as illegal. The Court decided that the assessment was a violation of the Acts of Congress authorising the existence of the National Banks, and that the capital stock of the bank, as such, could not be assessed under State authority ; that the only way that the stock could be reached was to assess the shares of the different stockholders in the same manner that the assessments were made in other cases against property owners by the citizens and inhabitants of the State. The Court, therefore, held that the assessment made by the city in this case against the capital stock of the bank could not be sustained. The President's first regular levee of the season, which took place on the 25th January, was unusually well attended. The thermometer stood at 20 deg. below freezing point, but we learn from the Washing ton Republican that every department of the Na tional Government was represented without regard to party politics. All the 36 States of the Union were represented ; Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Italy, Austria, Spain, and nearly all the other foreign Powers, by their Ministers, or mem bers of their Legations. The President appeared to be in excellent health, and greeted his guests with great cheerfulness and cordiality. A new line of steamers is to be started between Boston and Southampton, Havre, and other European ports. There will be eleven steamers, which were originally intended to run between New York and California. It is reported that surveys are making for the purpose of building a pneumatic railway across the North and East Rivers, to unite New York with Brooklyn and Jersey City. The idea is a sub marine tube, through which pasiengers should be shot by air. Of the two coloured members of the Massa chusetts Legislature, one, who is a lawyer, has been placed upon the Committee on Federal Relations, and the other, a printer, upon the Standing Com mittee on Printing. Agricultural colleges and schools haie 'long been among the favourite ideas in America as' means of advancing agriculture. Pennsylvania has one, which, by all accounts, is not now in a flourishing condition. New York has a magnificent one in pros pect to replace two or three which have from time to time been opened and soon closed, and Massa chusetts intends:to open her's so soon as its trustees can erect their buildings and mature their plans. All these means of increasing agricultural know ledge are proper subjects for discussion, which the people will do we ll to consider. The Cornell Uni versity, New York, which embraces the State Agricultural College, is organised on a plan which includes five different courses of study, twelve resident and a number of non-resident professors. Short courses of six or twelve lectures are to be de livered by the most eminent men in the country. Mr. Andrew S. White, of Syracuse, is the pre sident. The New Hartford (Connecticut) people have decided to prosecute a temperance reformation on their own account, and have subscribed a fund of $12,360 with which to carry on the legal part of the work. Several wealthy men gave $l,OOO apiece. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times, from a personal conversation with General Grant, thus states his position on the suffrage ques tion. He was present at the Cabinet meeting by request, without previous knowledge of the subject t c l u ia ss t io w n ou o l n d theoembeilluclp e f n or era clial G ib r e a r n a:i t o o n c . sk n l o n after all were th roug h , and he had risen from his p t a h r e t, adnisd seat to depart, the President asked him if there would be any impropriety in askin g his views on the subject. General Grant replied, very briefly, that the objection which had been urged by one member of the Cabinet, that it was unconstitutional because it disfranchised rebels without trial, was in his esti mation the best part of the bill and exhibited the most wisdom. With reference to conferring the right of suffrage upon the coloured people of this district, he remarked that he always thought it in consistent on the part of Congress to enforce this right here while they refused to grant it to the same class in their own States. Either members of Con gress should extend this privilege at home or wait until the people here asked for it. The culture of cranberries is exciting much atten tion in America. In New Jersey, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and in Michigan, thousands of dol lars are being expended in planting this wholesome, useful, and pleasant fruit. Newburyport has a steam fire-engine to which the self-propelling invention has been successfully • applied, and the machine now runs to the fires with out asking any favours of the horses or anybody else. It has been so contructed that it will travel over ice or bare ground with equal facility. The Memphis Post, a loyal journal, thinks there is sufficient evidence to show that Gen. N. B. Forrest " condemned at the time, and has d one so ever since, h men in massacring the negro soldiers When the Ge nera l arr i ve d t e a conduct t Fort of at the fort the butchering had b egun, and he en edveeanvotuo shooting ng tootirestornaeinofthtehmem dead for not obeying, using severe me a s ur es, his orders." The Post says " that it is the great grief of his life that this horrid thing should have occurred, and that his name should have been con nected with it." The funeral of the late Lieutenant Wilson, only son of the lion. Henry Wilson, took place January 9th, at the Orthodox church in Natick. During the progress of the service and the passage of the procession to the cemetery, the stores and places of business in the town were generally closed, and oc cupation suspended. The claims of Charles Sumner for the next Pre sidency are advocated by the Newburyport Herald and New Bedford Standard. One Michael Pryzbylowiez proposes to go to Congress from Kansas. The eldest female graduate of any institution in America is Mrs. Elliott, of Philadelphia. Her diploma bears date 1794. A Mrs. Woolworth has been dismissed from the Congregational Church in Winstead, Connecticut, for obtaining a divorce from her husband " with out Bible cause." The Boston Traveller says that the efforts of General Banks's friends to raise money to help him out of his pecuniary difficulties have been very successful. through which the gas was drawn up, was all that saved him. The Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, M.C., from Illinois, has sailed for Europe to seek medical advice. Mr. Washburne is a prominent Republican, and one of the ablest mem b ers of the House, -in whiCh he has served for 14 years, and, being the 'oldest member in continuous service, is now the " Father of the House." James P. French, the valedictorian of the Am herst College class of 1859, died at Rahway, New Jersey, Sunday, Jan. 13, aged 26. The college course of Mr. French was one of unusually brilliant scholarship, combined with rare literary ability, and the tidings of his sudden and untimely death will bring sorrow to a wide circle of classmates and college friends. He had devoted himself after graduation to the profession of teaching, most of the time at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and St. Louis, Mobile. Prince Napoleon and the Duke of Rutland have each ordered a boat like the Red, White, and Blue, from Ingersoll, the boat bui!der. A arge meeting, at which Wendell Phillips and ex-Governor Andrew were the chief speakers, has been held in Boston, to sympathise with the Cretans, and a relief committee appointed. A Roman Catholic Church is about to be built at Washington, which will be the largest church build ing in America. News comes from Massachusetts which we are, on the whole, sorry to hear. The town records, it is said, show that in the first generation of settlers, when they were Englishmen, the average number of children in a family was eight or ten. In the second, third, and fourth generations, the number was seven or eight ; in the fifth, five was the average number; in the sixth, it was less than three. In the present, which is supposed to be the seventh generation, the average number of offspring is less than three even, and the deaths exceed in number the births. Meantime the foreigners increase, by immigration and by excess of births over deaths ; and in about twenty-five years, if things go on as at present, the foreign-born population and the de scendants of foreigners will be in a majority. The gradual progress of this diminution has been taken to prove that the vitality and virility of the old Puritan stock is gradually di minishing. Probably this is not true, or not true to any very great extent. In the war just over, Massachusetts men, as may ba proved by statistical records, showed no lack of endurance or courage. We do not understand that complaint is made of the want of virility of the New Englanders, largely Massachusetts men, who have peopled the West. And it must be remembered, too, that the damaging comparison of Massachusetts parents with foreigners is drawn between them and people of the Irish race, one of the most prolific in the world. We suppose that the comfort in which the New Englanders live, and for many years have lived, has had the same effect upon population there that a like condition of things has had latterly in France and for a longer time in Switzerland— namely, it has kept population nearly stationary. Give a man a respectable position in life, and he does not wish his children after him to occupy lower places. That this consideration is of force is a fact in political economy, just as it is a fact that when a man in poverty and misery is satisfied that he cannot raise himself by any exer tions, he marries young and leaves many children to inherit his wretched condition. " The Irish manufacture, that of children," which Sydney Smith speaks of, was never more flourishing than when the manufacturers were most abjectly miserable. Ministers have been cited, a proof that these some what occult causes are to be taken into account, though we have never seen any statistics that would support the theory. They seem, it is said, to get into the habit of relying upon Providence and their congregations, and thus generally have a pewful of offspring. Were they more worldly-minded and careful of ways and means they would have less need of carefulness .than too many of them now have. The prudence of the Yankees, then, has, in our opinion, had most to do with bringing about a state of things which the rest of us regret. And doubtless it would be c a.r.ct; too, to lay some por tion of the blame upon the physical education, or want of it, of the New England women.—The Nation. The New York Tribune advocates 'the recon struction of the South on the basis of equal suffrage, and thinks that if either the freedmen or the ex rebels are counted out, we shall only have cleared the decks for a new fight, in which the advocates of universal enfranchisement are sure to win at last. True, but do we really gain anything by another reconstruction ? Unless we disfranchise nearly the entire white population, the political power of those States will remain in the same hands where it now is, and once restored to their places in the Union these States will mould their local institutions, suf frage among the rest, to suit themselves. Thus we are brought back continually, after all our wander ings among temporary expedients, to the conclu sion that nothing will answer the purpose but the establishment of equal suffrage in the constitution. Let this be made the sole and indispensable condi tion of restoration, and everything else is safe. Attempt to gain the end by bills of reconstruction, and there is a possibility, if not a probability, of utter and disastrous failure. Misce laneous French News. (From a Correspondent of the Anglo-American Times.) PARIS, Feb. 7, 1867. The questions are frequently asked among Americans visiting France, " What is necessary to procure the honour of a presentation to their Im perial Majesties, and what are the forms to be ob served and the style of dress worn ?" It may, therefore, be interesting to answer the above ques tions through the correspondence of the Anglo and Franco American limes; and on that account a sketch of the ceremonies of presentation, &c., is given below. During the winter season there are generally three receptions at the Tuileries, when the Ministers representing the different nations of the world are permitted to present such as have been selected among those desirous of the honour. Ladies are expected to appear in the richest dresses. Gentlemen attend in blue cloth dress-coats, trimmed with gold and velvet on the cuffs and colar, and em broidered in gold around the buttons at the back ; white casimer pantaloons, with gold lace stripes down the sides ; or breeches may be worn, white casimer vest with gilt buttons, a cocked hat looped up with gold lace, white kid gloves, and a dress sword with white scabbard. On arriving at the Tuileries, enter at the court, and deposit cloaks, &c., in an ante-chamber, ascend the Escalier d'llonneur, and at the top of the stair way the tickets are given up ; then enter the assem bly-room, where the persons to be presented are joined by the ambassador of their country, who conducts them into the Salle d'Attente. Soon after their Majesties enter the room, and the ambassador escorts greet the Emperor around the circle, presenting to him each of the party there assembled ; then returning for the Empress, they are in the same manner presented to her. There was a meeting held yesterday at the bank ing -house of Messrs. John Monroe and Co., 7, Rue Scribe, for the purpose of reviving the custom of giving a public ball on the 22d February, in com memoration of the birthday of General Geo. Wash ington. It was usual before the War for the Americans in Paris to celebrate the 22d in this way, but since 1860 there has been no demonstra tion of the kind. The meeting was well attended, a'nd many leading Paris-Americans were present. The reception at General Dix's, last Saturday night, was the most delightful that has yet been held there. Numbers were present, and the beauty of the ladies, their magnificent dress and graceful manners, showed all that America can boast with pride that the loveliest in the laud were nurtured beneath the Stirs and Stripes." The Right Rev. Dr. Whitehouse, Bishop of the State of Illinois, has been spending some time in Paris, and has received a warm welcome here from his numerous friends and admirers. • He has now left for a few days for Canterbury, to be present at the consecration of three colonial bishops. Americans just from the United States remain but a short 'time in Paris, the weather reminding There was a ball last week at the residence of Madame de Westruck, largely attended by Ameri cans. It is rumoured that the noble little ship, the Red, White, and Blue, will now arrive in Paris, to be shown at the Exhibition. There is a great desire manifested by the French to see so small a boat, which was capable of crossing the ocean. We have received the report of the meeeting of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company too late for comment. We will in our next issue remark on New Zealand investments generally, and on this company particularly. PARIS FASHIONS. PARIS, Feb. 7, 1867. There is strife and contention in Fashion's camp : some ladies insist on the adoption of amber, others stand up for jet, and the two elegant trimmings are in danger of being torn off from the head gear they cling to. Why must the everlasting moral at th e end of the fable about the lily and the rose be ever recalled to quarrelsome parties, or rather why must ladies quarrel at all ? The majestic, immaculate queen of the pasture, the lily, is not a bit lovelier than the blushing full rose. Let the blonde hide the former in her light green drapery, the brune a damask rose in her white airy folds, and both will be equally admired. Thus it is with amber —it is most bewitching in fair rippling curls, and jet is more becoming in auburn wavy hair. Crinoline and horse-hair are also getting clamo rous. The former will not give way ; it stands on the defensive, and recedes no more than an inch at a time. Since its last surrender it has been sta tionary-, glorying in half steel and half calico, which its detractors mischievously call " half-and half," the very lowest pun that could be applied to an encroaching old lady. Other threatening encroachments are bonnets, formerly called " Bolivars," the very ugliest on re cord. They are not the sweet little roofs we now can smile or frown under to advantage. They are flat behind, and provided in front with straight pokes, which are not unlike the raised hoods of a post-chaise, and will have to be filled out with busl'es of flowers or false hair. If I thus anticipate coming events, it is because there is no pleasure in offering readers anything but the first-fruits of a season, and it is moreover even well for husbands to know beforehand what they lave to make up their minds to before they see their wives in the " newest French style." Two other novelties are the elegant jet-fringed waistband, which is to be worn on high robes, and the rounded little velvet and satin basque, which is worn over ball dresses on the flat front width im mediately 'below the . waistband. They are also made of coloured satin fringed with crystal, chenille, or ruche over white tulle skirts, and end in three long ear-shaped sa,hes behind. The most gorgeous trimming is peacock's tail employed in bands, which form peplums, basques, berthes, and sleeves. The richest Lyons silks are being bought withvery humane intentions, I am told, all for the sake of poor, distressed silk weavers ; but a pity it is the intentions are fashionable. For my part, Ido not see that any end is attained because ladies wear brocades that half ruin their husbands. The said splendid textures have already caused great dis comfort at home, as they are not solely adopted by the wives of millionaires. The . fact of Lyons robes being the origin of the ruin shall be illustrat©d with a tale founded on facts, about a pair of slippers which were put in some well-meaning lottery instituted for the poor, and gained by a sober-minded gentleman. The slippers were so elaborately worked with gold that the first time the winner thereof put them on he observed that he was in want of a new morning gown to make his neglige' costume complete. When clad iu his new flowing cashmere, he dis covered that his footstool and the chair on which he sat at his writing desk were very much the worse for wear, and ordered a man to renew them. When the things were brought into his study all the rest ooked very faded, especially the carpet and cur tains. On consulting his account-books he found hat he had had them a very long time, and resolved on purchasing new hangings. In the course of time everything in the sancium was refitted, when the gentleman's wife—for he was married—declared her lord's retreat was the only respectable room in the house to receive one's friends in. Monsieur, in great alarm at the threat ened invasion, ordered Madame's drawing -room to be refurnished in the newest style. Next, servants were ,found fault with for their ignorant handling of delicate uphoLstery—a new set were called in for higher requirements; but these objected to live with masters who gave no parties. Dinners and parties were in consequence given, and the end was that both Monsieur and Madame were ruined in a very short time. Among the wrecks of their past splendour, a pair of old tarnished, slip-shod shoes were found just fit to . be thrown on a d u st-ca r t. Thus Ly ons s ilk s - A •• • entail large sums spent on diamonds, and every one knows how few one does get for one's money. In my next I will not promise to explain other humane motives such as hippophagy or the use of horseflesh for food, though it is all fashionable ; only I shall have much matter, and I am not quite sure that horse steaks are necessary to salvation any more than the snuff people make out of the bits of cigars which i hey pick up in the streets, but there must be a saving in both. A NEW FOOD.—Mr. J. Hullett, Clarence Lodge, Coshani, Hauts, writes calling attention to the Chinese sugar grass (Sorghum Tartaricum) as a valuable addition to our cereal crops. It is not only perfectly hardy, and bears from six to eight times the quantity per acre that wheat does, but the bread made from it is more nourishing, and goes further than any other. Added to this, the leaves and shoots are invaluable as food for cattle. As the true seed is not easily obtained, Mr. Hullett will be happy to send a few grains to any one send ing a stamped directed envelope. SURGICAL—We English practise vivisection. We are very fond of cutting up our friends and acquai n tances.—Punch. TILE LESSON OF TIIE CRISIS. The Nation declares that to preserve the Union is the one point upon which the Northern people are agreed, and ui on which there is no discussion. They have resolved that on American soil there shall be no political inequality, but that every man shall be equal before the law, and that no legal barrier shall stand between him and any of the prizes of life. There are those who say that the negro should not be equal to the white man before the law, but there are none who deny that the ma jority are determined to have him so. Political equality, irrespective of birth and colour, being fixed as the basis of the national. Government, the part of true statesmen is to inaugurate the new regime according to law and constitutional forms. them so little of " sunny France" that to escape its disagreeableness they go south to spend the re mainder of the winter. Noticed among the recent departures are J. 0. B. Inman, Thomas Hill, and Mr. Bispham, American artists of some celebrity, who have gone to Italy ; Dr. Walter Carey and Mr. Watson, of Buffalo, New YOrk,.accompanied by their families, have gone on an extended Air to Africa and across to Greece and Italy. I hear people speak with regret of Lord Gray of Gray, who died last Friday in his 69th year. lie was well known in Paris, among British and Ame rican residents. The Queen's Speech has been given in extenso, and has been well received. If the Tory party can carry out but a small portion of the programme they will deserve well of the country. People are very curious to learn how Mr. Disraeli will introduce his Reform Bill next Monday, and what measures it, will embody. By-the-by, is not that the clay of the Grand Reform Demon stration, when London will be in the hands of Col. Dickson and his friends? Americans here are dis appointed at the delay that has occurred in the United States Senate, in sanctioning the appoint ment of our Minister, General Dix. In March some time there is to be a marriage be tween Miss Curtis, of New York, and Duke Talle rand Perigord. The Duke Tallerand met Miss Curtis at Nice, where she was spending the winter with her parents. Flirting on Skates. Flirtation may be an evil, but the world, or that portion of it which is blessed with common sense, has pretty well made up its' mind that it is a neces sary one. So long as the sun and moon shine and the stars run in their accustomed orbits--so long as we are actuated by those inflexible necessities which a bounteous Providence has planted in the breast of humanity —so long as women are fascinating and men susceptible, flirtation will continue one of the things which is and which, therefore, presumably ought to be. It is surely not so grave a thing as love, or, of course, so grand and glorious a thing. But then without it love would scarcely ever visit us at all. It is the beautiful and roseate forerunner of the nobler and loftier passion which, like the sun itself, mly afterward illumine a long and steadfast day of life or haply be darkened by the clouds of misunderstanding, of incompatibility-, or of misfor tune. The little god, like an able general, throws out his skirmishers in advance to feel . the enemy's position, and often with results as happy in averting calamity as in paving the way to victorious assault. Assuming, then, that flirtation is inevitable, it becomes a matter of legitimate. interest to in quire what are its least hurtful conditions, or under what circumstances it may be indulged in with the minimum of disadvantage to those who feel irresistibly impelled to explore its mysteries and to plunge into its halycon if often fleeting intoxica tions. Modern civilisation has brought all manner of new provocatives and furnished all manner of new opportunities for the delightful pastime, and whether a greater proportion of marriages be the fruit or not than of yore, it is certain that the chances are sufficiently augmented. People of good degree now flirt in the fashionable promenade to a degree which, when the pavements were not, would have been quite out of the question. They flirt in theatre and opera and concert-room in a way which before the era of gas and open audi toriums would have been, if not impossible, at least very difficult. They flirt, moreover, in the omnibus and the railway carriage, on steamboats and in parks, whereas a hundred years ago such facilities were denied save, in the latter case, to a few and favoured localities. They flirt, too, vigor ously at croquet, and even at billiards and other semi -muscular sports whereat our grandmothers would have stared with wonder and thought the end of all things was verily close at hand. The old-fashioned opportunities of balls and dinner parties and morning vists, meanwhile, still re main ; so that all ancient avenues for flirta tion are preserved and countless new ones are opened. Some of these, whether new or old, may be objection able, and love-making for hours on a winter's evening in the heat of a pestilential stove is fairly to be reckoned as one of the number. But if any method or scheme of flirtation can be pronounced free of most objections —if any presents the valuable feature of uniting health with fascinating pleasure —if there is any which cannot be reprobated save . by those who denounce flirtation altogether per se, it is the exhilarating modernism of flirting on, skates ! Wh a t can b e more charming than a bevy of pretty girls, their cheeks all aglow with blushes of that exquisite sort which is richly heightened .by genial exercise, becomingly clad in warm and radiant, colours, and flying over the glittering ice like so many Atalantas, pursued by their eager and ad-, miring swains ? Each pulse is bounding with health, each laughing eye is beaming with pleasure and mischief, each dainty figure is rounded with . hearty and vigorous respiration, and every look and movement is instinct with the consciousness of doing something innocent yet pleasurable, and look ing most lovely while doing it ! Surely if American girls would but skate enough, whether they unite flirtation with the sport or no, the sad complaint of physical delicacy and degeneration we have heard so much of might soon fade away, and at last be heard by a succeed ing generation with incredulous surprise. We will warrant too that flirting, to whatever reasonable lengths it might be carried, would interfere no whit with wholesome and robust development. The truth is that whatever is morbid or unwholesome in the mind, no less than in the body, is almost sure to be regulated and expelled by active physical exercise and plenty of it. Flirtations which are most demoralising arc those which are carried on by the palid, the weakly, and the morbidly sensitive. Your stout, brave girl, who walks or skates her ten or fifteen miles a day, is the one least likely to for get her self .respect in her intercourse either with the opposite sex or her own . Th e l aw w hi ch leads us to look for sound minds in sound bodies operates in amatory matters with a force at least as great as in any others. Flirtations born of the heated atmosphere of the ball-room or theatre may lead to harm at times, as most things human do ; but those whose soft nothings are breathed on skates are, we will be bound, as little hurtful as aught on " the dangerous edge of things" can possibly be. —The Round Table. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH— SATURDAY. At this market to-day the supply of wheat was only fair, and for the best qualities the prices of this day se'nnight were well supported, damp and ill-conditioned samples, sold at . irregular prices. A tolerably good supply of barley,. and prices may be quoted about is per qr. loWer for all de scriptions. In oats, beans, and peas little doing. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 70s to 72s ; old red aitto, (weighing 631 b), 60s to 65s ; new red ditto (weighing 601 b to 631 b), 605 . t0 655; best malting barley (weighing ; 521 b to 531 b), 48s to 50s •, runs ditto (weighing 511 b to &21b), 45s to 475; distilling ditto (weighing bOlb to 521 b), 36s to 40s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, i7s to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s' to 38s per qr. Flour, 45s Od per sack. NOT TINGIIADI-SATuRDAy. Tho supply of wheat was limited. The &mind was fair and superior lots were taken off at is -per qr. more money. A quiet demand for barley, at about last week's prices. Oats at previous prices. Beans and peas same as' heretofore. Old white wheat, 68s to 72s ; old red 60s to 686 ; no W white, 62s to 70s ; new red, 58 s to 65s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 35s to 40s ; new, 24s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans, old,' 55s to 60s ; new, 42s to 49s per 38 stone. -Fine flour, 45s to 48s per sack. L EICESTER —SATURDAY. Wheat a tolerably good supply, the demand for which was limited, at late rates. Ordinary sorts of barley rather cheaper. There was a seasonable show of oats, for which the demand was slow, but the rates of this day week were supported. The inquiry for beans was slow, but equal to the supply, and prices were for the most part without any important alteration. New white wheat, 5Gs to 67s ; new red, 58s to 64s • old, white, 67s to 71s ; o ld re d, 63 s t o 67 s per 36 stone. 'Bar ley, for malting, 395 to 48s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 34s to 37s ; new, 28s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 58s to 60s ; new, 44s to 528 per 38 stone. Fine flour, 49s ; seconds, 4Gs to 49s per 20 stone. YOLK—SATURDAY. A seasonable supply of wheat, and steady trade, at full prices. A. , middling show of barley, the prices of last week being obtained for good qualities. For oats the demand was better, at full prices. There was only a limited de mand for beans; sales were made at late rates. New white wheat, 54s to 62s ; new red, 50s to 58s per 3 6 stone. Barley, for ma lti ng, 38s to 42s per qr. ; grinding, 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 22s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, now, 45s to 50s per 38 stone. Malt, 68s to 70s- Flour, 47s to 49s per sack of 2801bs. Births. BETTS—On the Bth inst., at 262, Oxford -street, Mrs. John D. Betts, of a son. DUNBAR—On the 29th ult., at Malta, the wife of Capt. W. M. Dunbar, 24th Regt., of twins—a son and daughter. DODD —On the 9th inst., at 3, Cromwell-terrace, Brixton, Mrs. Montague Dodd, of a son. GREEN—On the 9th inst., at 3, Upper Lansdowne-terrace , Kensington -park, the wife of Henry Green, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. CROLE— KENDERDINE —On the 7th inst., at Stafford, the Rev. P. R. Crole to Mary Ann Brutton, elder daugh te r of Capt. Keuderdine, R.N., B roo k House, Stafford. STEPIIENS—EPIVORTII—On the 7th inst., at the Chive-- h Of St. Michael Le Belfrey, York, James G. Stephens, of Hyde-place, Greenwich, Kent, to Mrs. E. Epwor t " , widow of the late Mr. C. Epworth, of York. Deaths. CORRIE —On the Bth inst. at Vontnor, Samuel T. C° lll° ' Esq., late of ll.M.' s 18th Royal Irish, aged 29. HAMMOND— On the Bth inst., at Dalston, Mr. W. Hammond,. aged 46. LANE—On the Bth inst.. at Castelnau, Barnes, Wm. IlenrY • Lane, Esq., aged 83. SANDER - On the Bth inst., at 4, Tredegar-place, Bow, Jo hn Sander, Esq., aged 88. Ton—On the Bth inst., at Edinburgh, Thomas Tod, Es'' of Drygrange. WOODFALL—On the 7th inst., at Maidstone, Col. NVoodfall, formerly of the Madras Native Infantry, - aged 62. Gondol : Printed and Published by IL L LAU ANIla of 112, Strand, Pfinter at VIZ SUN °gm , 14° ' 11 7 Strand, in the Precbet of th e Savoy, in the Couu t y Middlesex.—Monday, February 11,1667. THE SUN, LOi4UON, MONDAY EVEAING, FEBRUARY 11 1867.