The Sun. — London, England, 1867-11-28 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC. HEALTH. The following is the weekly return of the Registrar-General of births and deaths in London and in twelve other large towns of the United Kingdom : General Register-office, Somerset-house, Nov. 25. In the week that ended on Saturday, Nov. 23, 4,315 births and 3,083 deaths were registered in London and in 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 26 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in London, 33 in Edinburgh, and 22 in Dublin ; 28 in Bristol, 26 in Birmingham, 32 in Liverpool, 35 in Manchester, 34 in Salford, 21 in Sheffield, 22 in Leeds, 18 in Hull, 33 in Newcastle upon-Tyne, and 27 in Glasgow. Tlin rate in Vienna was 25 per 1,000 during the week ending the 16 h inst., when the mean temperature was 4 . 9 Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London, where the rate was 25. Manchester is still conspicuous for its high death rate. Scarlatina measles, whooping-cough, and the various forms of fever are fatally prevalent in many parts of the city. The ant-Alai rate of mortality per 1,000 persons estimated to be living in the city has, in the past eight weeks of the cur rent quarter, averaged 31 per 1,000, against 35 and 30 respectively in the corresponding eight weeks of 1865 and 1866. In London the births of 1,168 boys and 1,092 girls, in all 2,260 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years 18157-66 the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,054. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,426. It was the forty-seventh week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of popula tion, 1,627. The deaths in the present return are less by 201 than the estimated number. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 230, the corrected average number being 371. The deaths from smallpox were 10, from scarlatina 32, from whooping-cough 28, from typhus 44, diarrhcel 13, and measles 53. No deaths occurred from cholera or choleraic diarrhoea. Nine children died from measles in the west, 13 in the north, 2 in the central, 11 in the east, and 18 in the south districts. Nine deaths from measles were registered in the sub-district of St. John, Marylebone. The registrar remarks—. " During the last month 22 children have died from measles in some of the streets adjoining Salisbury street, and there is no appearance of the mortality subsiding. Last week 148 persons died from phthisis, 205 from bronchitis, 132 from pneumonia, and 68 from diseases of the heart. Seven children and one adult died from injuries caused by burns or scalds ; two of these cases were those of children whose clothes took fire when they were playing with lucifer matches. A man, aged 48 years, died on Nov. 18th at 1, George-street, Spitalfield, of starvation. Post mort. (Inquest.) A female infant, aged eight months, died on Nov. 17, at 9, Ratcliff-square,Ratcliff, of "disease of me senteric glands, accelerated by insufficient nourish ment, from poverty and destitution." (Inquest.) The deaths of 4 persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered last week. One hundred and fifty-seven deaths from injuries caused by horses or vehicles in the streets have been recorded during the present year. The medical officer of health for the district of Mile-end Old-town states, in reference to the death of a child on Oct. 28, at 21, Washington-street, from convulsions from choleraic diarrhoea, that " the child had been exposed to the noxious effluvia arising from a drain which was being cleared out near the house; the drainage of the house was also very defective." At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30.199 in. the barometrical reading increased from 29.59 in. at the beginning of the week to 30.41 in. on Thursday, the 21st of November. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 39.6 deg., which is 2 deg. below the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 46.8 deg., on Tuesday, the 19th of November. The lowest night temperature was 32 . 8 deg., on Monday, the 18th November. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 14 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 43.6 deg. ; that of the lowest was 4FI deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 4.9 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 83, complete saturation being represented by 100. A little rain fell during the morning of Sunday, the 17th November ; a heavy gale prevailed from the N.E. throughout the day. A little rain fell on Friday and Saturday, the 22d and 23d November. The general direction of the wind during the week was N.N.W. According to a return furnished by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the average daily quantity of sewage pumped into the River Thames at the Southern Outfall Works, Crossness, was 61,622,249 gallons, or 279,978 cubic metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight. A legal certificate of any birth, death, or marriage registered in England or Wales since July 1, 1837, may be obtained at the General Register-office, Somerset-house. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. METROPOLITAN. This company has given notice of application to Parliament for power to make a short line, com mencing by a junction with the main line under the Meat and Poultry Market in Smithfield, and ter minating near the north side of the bridge carrying Snow-hill over the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, by a junction with the latter railway. To extend the time for the purchase of lands and com pletion of works on the Western Extension ; and to confirm agreements with the Midland, the Great Northern, and the Metropolitan and St. John's-wood Railway Companies, for the use of the Metropolitan line and stations. NORTH BRITISH. This company have given notice of intended ap plication to Parliament for power to abandon seve ral authorised lines of railway—No. 1. Authorised by the company's Lasswade Branches Act, 1865 ; No. 1, authorised by the b Coatbridge Act, 1865 ; the railways authorised by the Dundee Branch Act, 1866 ; the lines sanctioned by the St. Margaret's Diversion Act, 1866 ; the lines of the Camps, &c., Branches Act, 1866 ; the lines, Nos. 1 and 3, autho rised by the Devon Valley and North British Branches Act, 1866 ; No. 2 railway authorised by the General Powers Act, 1867 ; and a portion of No. 2 Railway authorised by the company's Financial Arrangement Act, 1867. They also pro pose to ask for an extension of time for the comple tion of several branch railways which may not be authorised to be abandoned by the company, and which are specified in ten of the company's Acts of Parliament passed in the sessions of 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, and 1867. It is further proposed to make some of those branch lines and extensions into separate undertakings, having separate capitals and borrowing powers. Also power to make agreements with the Caledonian, the Midlaud, and other rail way companies. BRECON AND MERTHYR TYDFIL. Parliamentary notices have been given by this company for powers to suspend all actions and suits and other legal proceedings or remedies against the company for a certain period, to remove the re . ctiver, and to direct the intermediate applications of the income ; also to extend the powers of the Court of Chancery with respect to questions relating to the rights or liabilities of the company, the rights and priority of the creditors, of the mortgagees, and several classes of shareholders, and to raise further capital, to alter the constitution of the Board of Directors, and to provide for the representation on the board of mortgagees, debenture holders, and other persons having fixed charges on the company. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the weck ending the 9th inst. amounted fur passengers to £10,673, for emigrants to £358, mails, &c., to 1,027, and for freight and live stock to £ 1 .7,536 ; total, £29,414, against £31,945 for On COY respond ing week last year, showing a deer ease of £2,531. The total traffic receipts from the 1 st or July to the 9th inst. amounted to £524,446, and for the same period last year to £510,872, shcrging A decrease of £16,426. METROPOL ITAN TRAMWAY. The Metropolitan Tramway Company (limited) have given notice of intended ar i )lication to Parlia ment for power to lay down street tramways for the conveyance of passengers and otter traffic. Tram way No. 1 is proposed to corn:um ice from the Arch way-road, near Highgate, and to pass along the Holloway-road, Upper-street, Islington, Iligh street, and City-road, to Finsbury-place. Tram way No. 2 is to commence in the Seven Sisters road, and Tottenham-court-road. to near Oxford street. Tramway No. 3 is to start from Unbn street, Whitechapel, and to pass along the White chapel-road to the Broadway, Stratford. Tramway No. 4 from High-street. Clapham, to Kennington park-road, Lambeth ; Tramway No. 5 to extend from Kennington to Brixton-hill ; Tramway No. 6 from Kennington to Westminster-bridge. Power to purcLase lands and to make agreements with the street authorities. Each tramway is to occupy sft. Sin. in width. Power to raise money and to reserve to the company the exclusive right of using carriages on the tramwayiwith flange wheels adapted to run on edge rails. Another company has given notice of intended application for power to construct 13 street tram ways in Southwark and Lambeth. No.l is to pass along the New Kent-road, from St. George-the- Martyr, Southwark, to Camberwell ; No. 2 from St. George-the-Martyr to Newington ; No. 3 along the centre of the Westminster-bridge-road to Christ Church, Southwark ; No. 4 to pass along the centre of the London-road and Blackfriars-road to South wark-street ; No. from the Westminster.bridge road to the Elephant and Castle. The company reserve the exc!usive use of the tramways, having carriages with flange wheels adapted to run on the groove rails. Aesocia;;ed Cambers of Commerce. Yesterday morning the conference of the dele gates from chambers of commerce from various cities and towns in the kingdom was resumed at the Westminster Palace Hotel. Mr. Sampson Lloyd again presided, and the attendance of members was larger than yesterday. TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Resolutions in connection with this important question were introduced by the representatives of Leeds, Nottingham, Huddersfield, and Kendal. In effect they urged on the Government the importance and desirability of technical education in arts, manufactures, and science; to this education they attributed the rapid progress and high excellence of continental manufactures ; and in order to enable English manufacturers to maintain the pre-emi nence they bad so long enjoyed they requested the Government to appoint a commissio❑ or adopt other means for the purpose of obtaining the fullest infor mation with reference to the schools for technical education on the Continent, with a view of estab lishing similar institutions in England. Mr. MUNDELLA (Nottingham) said that at pre sent they had competitors on the Continent in art, science, and manufacture such as they had never dreamed of, and from what he had seen in the workshops of France and Germany they were about to have a much more formidable competition, which rendered it necessary that steps should at once be taken to educate the working classes of this coun try. They were resting. They were resting on their old prestige, and that prestige was rapidly ex pending itself, and unless they began to stir them selves they would soon find England falling in the manufacturing scale behind the other nations. The schools of design were the best steps which had been taken during the last 50 years. They had in their workmen the best material in the world, and if these men were properly educated a great load of nice, drunkenness, and pauperism, which now weighed down the country, would bo removed. Mr. WHITWELL (Kendal) trusted the conference would come to a unanimous resolution to approach the Government, and call upon it to adopt some means by which the yearly increasing want of tech meal education might be supplied. Mr. MAXWELL BLEWS (Birmingham) drew at tention to the marvellous progress which bad been made iu industrial pursuits in Germany since the Exhibitio❑ of 1851. He attributed the backward ness of this country in that respect to the disgraceful state of primary education, and to the absence of governmental channels, such as those possessed by continental countries, for the development of educa tion. He trusted that instant action would be taken by the chambers and by the Government to bring about such measures as would result in the practical application of their wishes. Iklr. BAINES, M.P., expressed his satisfaction at the intention of the conference to bring the import ant question of technical education under the notice of the Council on Education, and state their views concerning it. He promised to back their efforts to the best of his ability. Mr. W. E. FORSTER, M.P., followed in the con gratulatory strain adopted by Mr. Baines. He was very hopeful as to the results of the visits made by representatives of some of the Government depart ments to technical schools on the Continent. He tiusted that full and accurate information with re gard to the working of these schools would be sup plied before the meeting of Parliament in spring, so that the necessary material for a discussion on this all-absorbing topic might be at hand. Mr. DIxoN, M.P., in the course of some remarks, dwelt upon the necessity of local action in respect to the question occupying attention. After some further discussion the following reso lution, moved byMr. MUNDELLA, was carried unani mously :—" That the rapid progress and high ex cellence of continental manufactures are, in the opinion of this association, mainly attributable to the schools for technical education which have for !alloy years past been established in Germany and other parts of the Continent, and by means of which the art of design and other valuable scientific know ledge have been very gradually acquired, to the great advantage of industrial pursuits; and that, in order to enable our manufacturers to maintain the position they have so long enjoyed, the necessity of establishing in this country institutions of a similar character be urged upon the Government, and for this purpose a committee be appointed by the asso ciated chambers to assist in the promotion of art and industrial education." INTERNATIONAL COINAGE. On the motion of the representative of Bradford, the following resolution was adopted :—" That a memorial be presented to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, expressing the thanks of this association for the mission of Mr. Graham to the congress on international coinage recently held in Paris, and, whilst regretting the absence of au thentic information derived from Her Majesty's Go vernment in regard to the results of the congress, con veying the confident hope that England may again be represented at the meeting of official commis sioners in February next, when this association trusts that an arrangement will be made which shall prevent British commerce from being excluded from the great advantage of an international mone tary system. That the proposal of making the gold of the countriesbeing parties to the monetary union a legal tender in England, and English gold a legal tender abroad, be recommended to th, favour able consideration of her Majesty's Government." INTERNATION.AL MAItITUIE LAW. A long and interesting discus.siou ensued upon the moving of the following resolution brought forward by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce : " That in the opinion of this meeting the declara tion of principles by the Congress of Paris, 1856, falls short of the demands of civilisation, the re quirements of commerce, and the growing desire to lessen the calamity of war, in not extending to the private property on the ocean of belligerents, except contraband of war, the freedom from seizure pro claimed for that of neutrals. That a copy of this re solution be forwarded to her Majesty's Government and to the prinOpal chambers of commerce." Mr. DuoN, M.P., supported the resolution in a TELE SUN, LOINDoN THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1867. speech of considerable length. He maintained that the interests of England would be especially pro moted by the security sought to be given to com merce by the Birmingham Chamber. He instanced the case of the Alabama as illustrative of the capa city of a small Power to inflict incalculable injury on the commercial interests of a stronger Power, and as England had no longer supremacy on the Sea, and would never again occupy that position, he thought it was desirable that the state of things of which he complained should be altered. The MAYOR of Southampton, in the course of slime remarks, characterised the speech of the hon. member for Birmingham as un-English. Ile had still implicit faith in the power of " Old England." Mr. MUNDELLA (Nottingham) said the question was an exceedingly grave one, and he hoped it would be postponed. Ile, however, wished to dis claim all sympathy with the foolish old fashioned belief in " Rule Britannia" which influenced the last speaker, and expressed his intention to support the Birmingham motion in the event of its being pressed to a division. The representative of Hull moved " the previous question," which, upon a division, was carried by a majority of 19 to 16. The conference was then adjourned till this morning. Naval and Military Intolligence. A general regimental order, signed by Col. H. Keane, Deputy-Adjt.-Gen., Royal Engineers, has been issued by command of his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, announcing that with reference to the second paragraph of Corps' General Order, No. 462, dated the lst of 1862, which directs " officers of the Royal Engi neers, desirous of serving in India to transmit their names to theDeputy-Adjt.-Gen., Royal Engi neers, Horse Guards, by whom a special roster of officers volunteering for Indian service will be kept," his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding in-Chief has been pleased to desire that officers ex changing for service in India must proceed thither within two months from the date of exchange. It is also notified, for information, that from the date of exchange until arrival in India officers will re ceive the pay of their rank from the India-office. A detachment of 48 non-commissioned officers and gunners of the Royal Artillery is ordered to join the head-quarters of the Ist division of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, in readiness for embarkation with the reinforcements ordered to embark for India. Yesterday an order was received at the head quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, directing a detachment of 18 non-com missioned officers and sappers of the Royal Engi neers to be held in readiness to embark for service at Gibraltar, and a party of 11 non-commissioned officers and men to proceed to Malta, to be attached to the company of Royal Engineers at that station. The order likewise directs a party of 27 non-com missioned officers and sappers to be held in readiness to proceed from Chatham to Bermuda. The Royal Engineers for Gibraltar and Malta are to be in readiness to embark on Tuesday next, but the date for the departure of the draught for Bermuda has not been fixed. Capt. Li. C. Seddon has been appointed assist.- instructor in architectural and military drawing at the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham. By direction of the Duke of Cambridge the following officers have been attached to the Royal Engineer establishment for service at head quarters :—Capt. C. R. T. Davidson, Capt. G. Newmarch, Lieut. H. F. Blair, Lieut. J. P. Westmoreland, and Lieut. J. Fellowea. A notification has been received at the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, announcing that volunteer non-commissioned officers and sappers are required for the Public Works' Department in India. The volunteers for this service are required to have passed through the curriculum of Royal Engineer instruction as carried out at the establishment, Chatham, rind to be in all respects conversant with the nature of the duties in which they will be em ployed. From information received at head quarters it would appear that the non-eot►►missioned officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers despatched from Chatham to India some short time since for employment on the public works have been very successful, one of the non-commissioned officers having attained to the position of principal engineer, and three others to that of sub-engineer. The officers of the Ordnance Select Committee of Woolwich Arsenal were yesterday engaged in test ing an improved system of sling carriage for the removal of the heavy guns in competition with the old and unwieldy wooden carriage hitherto in use, together with a more available method of dragging the wheels when proceeding down a decline. The hind wheels of the old carriage are 1 lft. in diameter, and weigh 29cwt. each, the fore wheels weigh scwt. each, and the total weight of the carriage is 3 tons. The new carriage, the body and hoisting gear of which are of iron, is considerably less weighty and the breaks, instead of being worked by lever and lanyards, are adjusted by means of easily worked screws, ordered to be removed from the front, as at present, to the back of the wheels, beyond the reach of danger. Each carriage was loaded with a 9-inch 12-ton gun, having eight and 12 horses attached respectively, and was paraded through the principal thoroughfare of the arsenal and across Beresford square in the to ffn. The new carriage was pro nounced a decided improvement. The armour-plated screw steamship Royal Oak, 35, Capt. the Hon. George D. Keane, from Lisbon, which arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morn ing, put to sea from the Tagus on the 20th in com pany with other ships belonging to the Channel squadron, and parted company with them ou the 23d, when they were left cruising. The Royal Oak experienced very heavy weather on the 24th. She brings mails from various ships of war, and 50 in valid and time-expired men, but whether they will be landed at Plymouth or be taken on in her to Portsmouth was unknown when our despatch left. When the squadron left the Tagus it was accom panied by the United States frigate Franklin, under supreme command of Admiral Farragut, before whom the ships went through several evolutions under steam and under canvas and their crews were exer cised aloft. In the evening the Admiral, having been joined by his tender, the gunboat Frolic, proceeded for Gibraltar. The iron screw steamer Buffalo, 2, 80-horse power, has arrived alongside the dockyard at Chatham, having on board the boats, models, and other articles sent from Chatham for exhibition at Paris. The Buffalo has also on board a few articles which were sent for exhibition from Woolwich dockyard. The floating sheers in Chatham harbour have been removed to Sheerness dockyard, in tow of the Locust and Sheerness, to be employed in lifting the mastiu„cr sheers at the latter establishment for the purpose of being repaired. rADTERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Autumnal Remedies.—Towards the fall of the year count less causes are at work to lower the tone of the nervous system, which will be followed by ill-health unless proper means lie employed to avert that evil. Holloway's far famed preparations supply a faultless remedy for both ex ternal and internal complaints connected with changes of season. All affections of the skin, roughness, blotches, pimples, superficial and deeper seated inflammations, ery sopilas, rheumatic pains, and gouty pangs alike succumb to the exalted virtues of Holloway's ointment and pills, which will effect a happy revolution in the patient's con dition though the symptoms of his disorders are legion and have obstinately withstood the best efforts of science to subdue them. LADvsitnsintENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best moat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, am. energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 63,000 cures;—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,413.—"R0me, July 21, 186 —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica. Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly." From the " Gazette de Midi, July 25. Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."--Cure No 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins at ls, 14d.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., lls. 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Acg,ent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly ; and at 61, Grac,echurel-street; 4, Chnapside;_63, 110, and 289, Oxtudttreet 380 gi toad and all soar and chtinists, THE LATE ELECTIONS. (From the Springfield Republican.) The result of the elections last Tuesday is a second edition of the verdict of October, or rather a still stronger expression of the popular disgust at the management of national polities, and dissatis faction with the Congressional policy of reconstruc tion at the South. New York has gone Democratic by 40,000 majority, overcoming a Republican ma jority of 13,789 last year, and 27,857 the year before ; New Jersey has gone the same way, elect ing a Democratic Legislature in place of a Repub lican one ; Maryland is still more so, of course, and in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, while the Republicans still hold the reins of power, the Democrats have got the whip and come unplea santly near getting full control of the team. The lesson this result offers is obvious, its warning timely. Congress, so soon to meet, will do well to heed both ; and if the politicians do not trim their sails accordingly for the presidential election, it must be because they have lost, or never had, the instinct of self-preser vation.-1n Massachusetts Governor Bullock and the full Republican State ticket is re-elected by a vote of about 95,000, against 90,000 last year, but with a majority of from 25,000 to 30,000 only, against 65,000 the year before, the Democratic vote coming up from 26,000 to nearly 70,000. But the most noteworthy, though expected, feature of the election is the change of the Legislature from pro hibition to license, the popular verdict against sumptuary laws and the State constabulary. While remaining two-thirds Republican, the general court is three-fourths license in both branches, and before grass grows again the occupation of the State con stabulary will be gone, and the constables too. Even the western counties, relied on as the stronghold of the prohibitionists, join heartily in this result, 'and return a majority of license favouring Sena tom and Representatives. The most exciting local contests, for Councillor in the eighth district and Senator in the Eastern Hampden district, resulted in the just defeat of Mr. Johnson of Adams, but the election of Mr. Alexander by De mocratic and P. L. L. help, but with a vote against him that expressed unmistakeably the popular cen sure of his political trickery. In New York the highest officer on the State ticket chosen this year was Secretary of State, Gov. Fenton holding over, and the Democratic majority in the State is about 40,000 ; in New York city 59,818, the registration being 6,000 larger than last year, but the vote 3,000 less. The members of the State ticket elected are as follows :—Giving Gov. Fenton a complete De mocratic " cabinet ;" Secretary of State, Homer A. Nelson ; controller, William F. Allen ; treasurer, Wheeler H. Bristol ; attorney-general, Marshall B. Champlain ; State engineer, Van Rensselaer Richmond ; canal commissioner, John 1). Fay ; inspector of State prison, Solomon Schea. Mar tin Grover, Democrat, was elected judge of the Court of Appeals, and of the Supreme Court judges the Democrats have three and the Republi cans five. The Democrats will have a majority of the Lower House of the Legislature, and at least 15 of the 32 senators.—New Jersey elected six sena tors and a house of representatives entire, and the democrats, with a large majority on the popular vote, have both houses of the Legislature by con siderable majorities.—ln Maryland, Odin Bowie, democrat, was elected governor over Hugh L. Bond, and the democrats swept everything else in the state by a large majority,—over 17,000 in Balti more alone.—ln Wisconsin, Gov. L. Fairchild, re pulican, is re-elected by a majority of 3000 or 4,000 over J. J. Tallu3adge, the democrats gaining six or eight members of the Assembly and three or four senators, with about 2,000 on the popular vote. The Legislature remains strongly republi can, however.—ln Minesota, W. R. Marshall, republican, it, elected governor over C. E. Flandrau by about 4,000 majority. The Legislature is doubtful, and the constitutional amendment granting negro suffrage is probably de feated.—Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, and Mis souri also held elections on Tuesday, but for local officers only, and the returns yet are neither full nor definite. The vote in Kens is is made interesting and important by the fact that both woman and negro suffrage were to be de cided by it, and probably both are defeated, the first by. from 8,000 to 10,000 majority. This will be a hard blow to the advocates of woman suffrage, who had counted on Kansas going for them, sure ; but the negro can afford to wait, knowing that his rights to the ballot must soon be acknowledged and granted in Kansas and every where else.—The Michigan, resulted iu the democrat, for mayor, by , c c h h o a i r e t e er o e f le A c i t r i . on wr o h f e ll a e to tr n o , it a , 360 majority, the city council remaining a tie, as at present. The State has undoubtedly gone republi can, and so has Illinois. In Chicago about a two thirds vote only was polled, and the Republican majority fur General Osborne, for county treasurer, was about 4,000. —In the third congressional dis trict of Missouri, James B. M'Cormack, Democrat, was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas E. Noell, by 1,000 majority over James H. Chase.—Alexander H. Bailey of Rome, Repub lican, is elicited in the Urica (New York) district to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Ros coe Conkling to the Senate. known that the Legation at Buenos Ayres is natu rally, though not rightly, influenced through the Argentine Government—a very interested party in the matter—no great attention will be paid to the complaints of Mr. Gould by the Office of Foreign Affairs. A large encounter took place on the 24th of Sep tember between a Brazilian force of nearly 4,000, which was escorting a very large convoy to Tujuti, in which the Brazilians sustained a regu lar defeat. The Tribune, of Buenos Ayres, calling it the battle of the Convoy, states that this was the first victory Lopez had gained since the allied army did move to Tuju-cue. The Brazilians ap pear to have fought well, but were no match for the Paraguayans, who followed the Brazilians almost up to their lines of Tujuti. A great many officers were killed and taken prisoners, and the commander, Brigadier Carvalho, seriously wounded. This affair has so much more added to the ill-feeling an I dis satisfaction iu the allied camp, as cholera of a very malignant character has again made its appearance in the camp. On the 3d of October a large force of the allies attacked a Paraguayan outpost, and were so happy to kill a few and to force the Para guayans to retire in good order, but so scarce are the good news from the Allies that it was proclaimed a great victory. It is on all hands acknowledged that the allies, with the resources at their command, are unable to hold out much longer in the position they are, and that it would take twice their number to attack Lopez even with a faint hope of success. This is also the opinion of officers of H.M. gunboat Dotterel, and has been published in several of the native journals. Monte Video is very quiet under the military rule of General Flores, who himself is under command of the Brazilians. The pro vieces of the Confederation are still in open re bellion, and are aided by Chili. The Buenos Ayres Standard is of opinion that before long the war in the provinces will put into the shade the war in Paraguay. General Mitre, it was reported, was willing to make peace with Marshal Lopez; but Brazil Wands out, and Mitre was only awaiting the first opportunity to shake off this alliance, make peace with Paraguay, and through this, probably secure his re-election. At Rio de Janeiro the Ministry would have been forced to retire if not for the promise to furnish a new army of 20,000 men to Paraguay, but how this was to be accomplished with an empty trea sury no one knows. MINING INTELLIGENCE. The following items are from the Reese River Reveille : WHITE PINE DISTRICT.—We learn from Thomas Robinson, who has just arrived in this city from the IVhite Pine District, that the greater portion of the miners who left the " Goose Creek" gold mines had returned and were working their claims. R kinson and others are the owners of three large and appa rently good ledges, of which we have hitherto made mention, named the Uncle Sam, Philadelphia, and Vanderbilt. The Uncle Sam is declared to be 12 feet wide by the tape line, both the head wall and the foot wall have been uncovered ; and while the vein generally carries a good quality of mineral, there is lying upon the foot wall a stratum two feet thick of extra ore. The Philadelphia is also of great size, nearly as well developed, and exhibits a different but a high grade of mineral. The Vanderbilt is of less size than either of the above, appears to be well defined, and produces fine-look ing ore. These ledges are only slightly opened, but they present many of the best indications of good veins. The Monte Christo Company was working one of its mines called the Mohawk with consider able vigour. The machinery and nearly all the ma terials for its five-stamp mill had been on the ground some time, and workmen were rapidly giving them the form of a practicable mill. SUCCESSFUL PEOSPECTING.—Joe Williams, one of.the most successful prospectors in the State, re turned yesterday afternoon from a tour to the southward after an absence of about thirty days. lie discovered and locate 1 eight ledges of silver and gold bearing ore, samples of which he brought into town for assay. Mr. Williams thinks the locations were made upon the boundary line of the State, in which they are situated, as well as in California. He pronounces the ledges, as far as size and general appearance is concerned, to be the very best he has yet discovered ; which is saying a great deal for one of his experience. Snreral of the samples of quartz exhibited free gold. Williams and party skirted what is generally called Death Valley, and found an abundance of good grass. They saw no Indians during the trip. On his return, Mr. Williams stopped at the Silver Peak District, where he saw J. E. Clayton, the Superin tendent of the splendid mining property of the Silver Peak and Red Mountain Gold and Silver Mining Company, and whose operations will be conducted upon a magnificent scale. The machin ery for mill and motive power had arrived, and it was the opinion of Mr. Clayton that a battery of twenty stamps would be completed and running in four months. Williams stopped also at the district of San Antonio, where Rigby was pushing work on the Liberty Mine to great advantage. His small mill had been repaired and was running, but was to be replaced shortly by one of greater capacity. Williams thinks highly of the prospects of the dis trict. WASHINGTON DlSTRlCT.—Considerable activity prevails now in this long neglected district„ and there are favourable indications that its mining pro p2rty will soon receive some measure of the atten tion that it deserves. We were shown last evening by Colonel James Fitton a diagram of that part of San Juan Canyon in which the veins of the Silver Hill Tunnel Company are located, and also the pro minent objects on the adjacent hills. The claim of the company embraces ten ledges, named as follows : Reality, Franklin, Field, Morse, Raleigh, Cass, Bis. marck, Spenser, Chaucer, and Bacon. The ledges were located at an early day, and have received more or less work. We were shown a box of speci mens taken from the Reality Ledge, which exhibits the characteristic mineral of the district. It is distinct from that produced by the greater number of the districts of Eastern Nevada, and is mainly an argentiferous galena quite rich in silver. One oe this character appears to be in exhaustible in quantity. The veins are generally large and regular in their formation,• and vary from 4ft. to 15ft. in width. Several attempts have been made to reduce the ores of the district, but they failed through the lack of skill of the operators. The ore exists in immense masses, and it i 3 the judgment of competent authority that it could be readily and economically smelted, or reduced in a furnace of the proper construction. Timber of an excellent quality is abundant throughout the dis trict, and fuel will bear only a nominal price for years. The riches and advantages of Washington District are indisputable, and it must sooner or later receive the earnest attention of capitalists. We are informel by Colonel Fitton that the ton ledges of the group of the Silver Hill Tunnel Com pany are so happily situated that they may be cut by a tunnel not to exceed four hundred feet in length. There is a good prospect that work will soon be undertaken, as we learn that overtures have been made by substantial parties for a con si lerable interest in the handsome property of the company. The first success, of which there would seen to be no doubt, will place 'Washington in the van of silver-producing districts in the region. The Bangor IVlig says that an explosion of the dangerous combustible known as nitro-glycerine took place at the silver mine in Guildford, Maine, on Monday morning, the 26th October. It seems that a box contain ing about fifteen pounds of the combustible was set on the forge in the shanty where the tools were prepared, and where the men were in the habit of warming themselves. At about eight o'clock on Monday morning, four of the men stood in the shanty together, and one of them sat on the b,x containing the glycerine. About five minutes after they left the shanty—two of them going to work in the drift and the other two going home—a most terrific explosion took place, tearing everything in the vici nity into shreds, breaking the steel drills into pieces, and cutting pieces out of them as if they had been bitten out, and stunning the men, who were one hundred and twenty feet into the drift. Had the men remained five minutes longer in the shanty all must have inevitably met with instant death! THE WAR IN THE RIVER PLATE. The French:packet Navarre, arrived at Bordeaux, brought a fortnight later news from the Brazils and the River Plate. War still rages in these beauti ful countries, and peace, so anxiously expected, is slow to come, as all the allies are so situated that a defeat will not only be a defeat on the battle-field, but also a defeat at home—i.e., will carry with it a change of Government. If Brazil does not come off victorious, the Emperor, it is said, will abdicate in favour—of whom ? and Brazil will be the prey of ambitious men, and Demagogues declare for a Republic, and will split in a dozen. If Brazil cannot maintain any longer a large force at Monte Video, the rebel Flores will have to run away, and make place to the legitimate voted Government, which he, with the help of Brazil and Buenos Ayres, has upset ; if victory does not crown Gen. Mitre, whose term of office as President of the Argentine Confederation will expire in a year, he will have to make place probably to Gen. Urquiza, the friend of the soldiers, of peace, and Paraguay. Very different it is with Paraguay. Lopez there is sus tained by the will of a people whose patriotism has shown itself in a three-years' war, and even if he was inclined to peace, without having all his de mands satisfied, his people would not allow it. Paraguay will fight to the last, and even if Hu maita and Curupaity should be taken, the Allies are as far from having conquered Paraguay as they are this day, where their fleet is still beleaguered between the fortresses of Curupaity and Humaita, and their army kept in check at Tuju-cue. The peace proposals of Mr. Gould, her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of Lega tion at Buenos Ayres, made in the name of the Allies, and not accepted by Paraguay, has been read in the order of the day to the Paraguayan army, and was received with shouts of derision. The Paraguayan army declared they would not allow their General and President, even if he was willing, to leave the country, but that they would conquer or die before falling a prey to the hateful Brazilian in vader. Mr. Gould seems to have played a double game in Paraguay, which Gen. Lopez soon saw through, and had all the documents, relative to Mr. Gould's mission to Paso-Pucu, published, which it seems made Mr. Gould very furious ; besides this he con siders that Marshal Lvez did not treat him accord ing to his rank, and had shown him less civilities than were shown to the English officers of the gun. boat the Dotterel, to whom opportunity was offered to visit the different camps and fortifications. Consequently Mr. Gould, on his arrival at Buenos Ayres, represented Paraguay in the last stage of exhaustion, and that two months more would finish the war. The officers of gunboat, which arrived at Monte River, tell to every one who likes to listen quite the contrary ; that not only Paraguay was very well provided, but also able to resist any forces the Allies would be able to bring into the field for a long time to come. Mr. Gould is said to have threatened to report to his Government the behaviour of the Paraguayan Government towards Peen; but it being Mscellaneous News. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Hoosac Tunnel has been the scene of two terrible accidents, in both of which Thomas Mallory dis played a heroism worth recording. The first accident occurred in laying a floor on the shaft. This is done by lowering a timber, one end of which is placed in a hole, and the other has to be inserted in another hole on the opposite side of the shaft. Four men were lowered with the timber 437 feet, within 140 feet of the rocky bottom. The timber had been landed in its place; the fourth, a sailor, sitting on it with his legs crossed below it. The heel of the boot of ono caught in the timber, when lie lost his balance, seized on the next, who went over with . him, when he, caught the third, who laid hold of the sailor. The latter suddenly found himself whirled round with three men hanging to him. Presently they were relieved of a weight, and a heavy thud told the fate of a comrade. Almost immediately after, a second followed, when the third observed to the sailor, "It will be my turn soon, as I cannot hold on much longer." He was cheered by the sailor, who desired hint to swing himself till he could feel the timber with his feet, which he did, finally gaining the top. They then signalled, "Serious accident —send help." The only communication being by the rope attached to the timber, which the men were too much ex hausted to unfasten. A saidor on the top slid down the wire rope the 437 feet, which he quickly unfastened, and was drawn up, when he obtained a cage, in which he suc ceeded in getting the two men to the surface. He then set to work to get to the bottom of the pit, to render assistance, if possible, to those who had fallen. The first was found a broken mass, and though the second was still alive he died eight hours after being brought up. It was Thomas Mallory, the first who descended the shaft after the recent explosion, who effected this rescue. The death of ex. Governor Andrew has been keenly felt in Massachusetts. He was a man of rare in tellectual qualities, possessing a faculty of deep thought and of expression which made him eloquent, and gave to his career a power and weight which the noble qualities of his heart never permitted him to misuse. His was an unadorned eloquence, sincere and fervent, the plain ex pression of his mind. He was a philanthropist in the broadest sense of the word, not running into any enthu siasm which made him the slave of a single idea, but tem pering every question with judgment and common sense. In a few simple words he truly tells what he was:—" I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world; but this 1 do know, that I never was so mean as to despise any man because he was poor, or was ignorant, or because he was black." His early life was devoted to his profession as a lawyer, and he did Lot then come prominently forward as a politician. Ho belonged to the same school as Sumner, Allen, C. F. Adams, and Wilson. He strongly supported the Free-soil party, was opposed to capital punishment (though as Governor he rigidly exer cised the laws), was a Fred-trader, and though religiously inclined, was opposed to orthodoxy and the dreary views of the Puritans. He spent much time in visiting prisons, penitentiaries, and poor-houses, and looking into the treatment of convicts. He was fearless in the expression of his opinions, and thoroughly imbued with New England ideas, being indeed a true representative of Massachusetts, a State that has lost within the last few weeks by sudden death Loring, Dana, Pond, as well as Andrew. The Springfield Republican gives the following sketch : "John A. Andrew was born at Windham, Maine, on the 31st of May, 1818, and lacked but about six mouths of having completed a half century of life. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1837, studied law in Boston, and was admitted to the bar there in 1840. In 1808 he was elected to the Legislature, was a delegate in 1860 to the Republican Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for President, and was elected Governor of Massachusetts the same year by the largest popular vote ever cast for a governor of this commonwealth. He was four times re elected, with but nominal opposition. His intelligent and indefatigable services to the State and the Union throughout the war are familiar to all the people, and will connect his name forever with the toils and glories of that grand struggle. Justly did the Rev. Mr. Quint say in the election sermon of 1866 To have been the Governor of Massachusetts for five such years—called by spontaneous voice of the people, and continued by re-elections (the most momentous years since those of the revolution)—is enough for the patriotic ambition of any man. To have been such a governor ennobles a man in history.'" He leaves four children ; two sons and two daughters. Dr. Worthington Hooker, professor of medical science at Yale College, died at Newhaven, Nov. 6. He was a son of Judge Hooker, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and a graduate in the college where he afterwards held the post of professor. He was the author of several works on medicine and chemistry, and their practical combinations, of such merit as now to be extensively used in schools. Dr. John 31‘Gregor, recently of Thomson, Con necticut, was killed by his carnage coming into collision with a freight carriage at Providence, Rhode Island, on the 4th November. He was thrown on the track by the shock, and his arm was crushel by the car, which was amputated, but the doctor died three hours after the accident. He served in a Connecticut regiment during the war, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Bull Bun. A voting machine has recently been patented at Washington, and is to be tried in the Common Council chamber of that city. By an arrangement of wires similar to that of the hotel-annunciator, connecting the desks of the members of a deliberative body with the voting apparatus, members are enabled to vote all at once, and, after a moment's time allowed for a change of vote by any member who may desire it, the result —that is, the individual vote of each member, together with the aggre gates respectively of the yeas and nays—is plainly shown on the dial plates. Simultaneously with the summarised result, the names of each member voting is printed for the use of the reporters of the press. The machine will not have a chance to work, not on account of any mechanical difficulty, but because political leaders will oppose its introduction. Our legislative halls contain many mem bers who need to know how certain men vote before recording their own ; and, besides, the Congressional leaders prefer to have their flicks under their eye.— Watchman and Reflector. REGISTERED LETTERS FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. —As the Post Office authorities in the Philippine Islands have now consented to give receipts fur registered letters sent from this country, the registration of letters addressed to the Philippine Islands, which was discon tinued in November of last year, will be resumed. Upon such letters the registration fee of 4d., together with the postage, must be paid in advance.—General Post Office, Nov. 18. The Springfield Republican, Nov. 2, says :—" The State Teachers' Convention commences at Meriden, Thurs day of next week, with a lecture by President Woolsey, of Yale College, and other speakers expected the following day are Governor English, B. G. Northrop, secretary of the State Board of Education, E. H. Sawyer of Middle town, and A. Morse of Hartford. Many of the schools of the State will suspend during the convention. POSTAGE OF LETTERS FOR OFFICERS OF THE ARMY SERVING IN THE COLONIES.—On the Ist of January next, and thenceforward, prepaid letters, posted in the United Kingdom, addressed to officers of the army serving in a British colony, and conveyed direct, without passing through a foreign country, will be chargeable with a post age of 6d. only per ioz, although the postage of ordinary letters sent to such colony may be higher than 6d. When the letters pass through a foreign country they will ba liable, in addition to the British rate of 6d., to the same transit rate as other letters. Thus, officers' letters ad dressed to Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Cape of Good Hope, or Natal, when sent via Marseilles will be chargeable with a total rate of 10d. per loz Officers' letters addressed to British Columbia, Vancouver's Island, or Honduras, being sent through the United States, will be chargeable with a total rate of Bd. per oz. ; and officers' letters for Bermuda will be liable to the same rate of Bd. per oz. when sent via New York. The superscrip tion of each letter must specify the rank and regiment, corps, or detachment in which the officer to whom the letter is addressed is serving, or the department to which he belongs.—General Post Office, Nov. 18, 1867. A recent work on Mining and Metallurgy esti mates the yield of the precious metals in 1865 at 550,587 pounds troy in gold, and over 4,000,000 pounds troy of silver. Of the gold the tufted States furnished 210,000 pounds, or nearly two-fifths. Australia and New Zealand, 191,000 ; Wales, 742 ounces. Of silver, Mexico furnished 1,700,000 pounds ; the United States, 1,000,000; Peru and Chili, 697,000 ; Europe, 636,000. The production of gold in the United States alone for the last year is estimated iu dollars at $74,000,000. THE PUBLISHING SEASON.—On the 7th inst. Mr. Murray, of Albemarle-street, entertained at dinner some sixty of the leading booksellers of London on the occasion of his annual trade sale, at the Albion, in Aldoragate street, when the following new works and new editions were disppsed of, the company not separating until nearly ten o'clock : —1,300 Motley's " United Netherlands," vols. 3 and 4 ; 600 Lady Brownlow's "Reminiscences," 1,800 Dean Stanley's " Memorials of Westminster ALb:y," 3,800 Dr. Smith's " English Latin Dictionaries," 500 Sir William Page Wood's "Continuity of Scripture," 1,000 Smiles's " Huguenots," 500 " Life of Sir Charles Barry," 1,200 " Darwin on Animals and Plants," 200 Sir Roderick Murchison's " Siluria," 1,300 Lord Derby's new edition of the "Iliad," 8,000 Smith's "Latin and Classical Dictionaries," 7,500 Smith's "Smaller Histories," 600 Layard's "Popular Narratives," GOO Archbishop of York's new work, 400 White's "Massacre of St. Bartholo mew," 600 Dr. Smith's "Bible Dictionary," 1,000 Hallam', "Histories," 8,500 "Little Arthur's History of England," 11,400 "Student's Historical Manuals," 2,500 Byron's works, 9,300 Mrs. Markham's " Histories," 6,000 Smiles's " Industrial Biographies," 800 Murray's "British Classics," 14,000 Smith's "Latin and Greek Course." The mosey order system in the American Post office is winning its way to favour, and becoming most useful to the people. It was begun in November, 1864, when 140 money-order offices were opened, and by June 30, 1865, $1,860,122 had bean transmitted by the system, yielding the department a revenue of $11,534. In 1866 the number of offices was blamed to 473, and the but ness done reached $3,977,259. During the last fiscal ye ar ' ending June 30, 1867, there were 835 money-order offices open, and $10,000,000 were transmitted; and during the current year the number of offices is to be increased to 1,035, and it is estimated that $15,000,000 will be trans' mitted. Tho system is modelled after the English system,and has been conducted so success f u ll y as t o pay a pr ofit over all expenses. THE HURRICANE.—It appears from the Ne t York papers that con s id era bl e p or ti ons o f the America n coast line, as well as the West India islands, experienced most destructive storms in the past month. The PicaYun 6 says :—" Upon the Rio Grande the hurricane was the most terrible in the memory of man on that frontier. A perpetual bombardment for a year could hardly have done as much damage as happened from this one night's storm. Twenty-six persons were killed 3 t Matamoras, and ten wore killed and one wounded at Brownsville. At Brazos, so far as is known, twelve Fe-sons perished. The schooners Ella and Kedash were blown high ashore. Only two houses were left standing 'd Clarksville, and none at Bagdad. The loss of life in the latter place is not known. Ninety of the inhabitants escaped by going on board of a vessel which rode out the storm; the rest have perished. The negro soldiers an d their officers at Brazos aro said to have acted infamously: They not only refused all assistance to the struggling and suffering families, but retired to the sheltered part of the island, and the soldiers returned the next day to rob the wrecked goods under the remains of the warehouses And dwellings. Ono of them was shot by a citizen who detected him in robbery. Their officers, it is said, do nothing W check their brigandism." LETTER F 110.31 THE CONVICT IVILLIAM ALLEN. The Cork Examiner publishes the following letter, which was entrusted by Allen to his aunt in Man' chester, with directions to forward it to his siste r in Cork : . " Manchester, Nov. 18, '6 7 . "Dear Sister, Brother-in-Law, and Brothers, --1 am sure you will regret to be hearing out of a Pri son dungeon from me, but it cannot be help ed ' There are a great many changes in the world, all' we must all put up with our share. Next SaturdaY, is the day of my execution ; also three others. will be gone only a few days before the lougea t liver of you all ; it is nothing, dear sister, to 1049 ' into it. I hope you do not forget praying for 113 _,, e ' and for those that are in with me. It is haw' dear sister, brother-in-law, and brothers to be suffering for a charge a person is no t g ui▪ lty of. lam quite reconciled to the will of Goa, w h ' i▪ t r ; ever my fate may be. I received Holy Coinniu ni° this morning, thank God, and a m in very g o°a spirits. There is nothing in this world that a Per son should be so sorry f or l eav i ng it. Tell 03 / brothers to mind thei r d u ty t o G o d, and alwa ys pray for me, and all th a t are i n w i t h m e. lam very sorry, dear sister, I h a d no t th e pleasure 4) 0 seeing James before leaving thi s wor ld, and "L s , your daughter. I think I have a s li g ht knowleue i of James, if Ido not make a mistake. I hope, l do not see him here, I will see hi m and you a ; please God, in heaven. Remember my words, des s friends—there is no use in grieving at all; it M u not make the thing any better, and injures your ew health, although I am quite sure there will be nia lj, thousands that never saw me, or any of the o ther prisoners in their lives, that will regret our death s ; and many a tear will flow from parties with svil o I never was in my life. I am a b ou t to leave t ti world, and I do not think I h ave man y enemie sj a it, except those who s w o re my lif e awa y for bl' , money. I forgive th em f rom th e b o ttom of °y l c heart, and may G o d f org i ve th em . Fare vie f t sister, brother, and brothers-in-law, niece also. na has crossed my mind not to forget Miss Clanei t To my grandmother ; tell them to pray for us also. ' er more from your affectionate and ever-loving br °tl3 " W. P. ALLE I4 'a ig P.S.—Remember me t o f a th er an d mother, a ° so aunt.—Send this to my sister in Cork as e °oll ,, e r you receive it. Keep up your hearts, and ne • ad°' forget praying for me. Remember me to all fil e / I send you 1,000 kisses each, and 2,000 t o ° brother Joe." THE IMPENE7RABLE CENTRE. i t We move upon the surface of the globe, as fl d humorist who was also a philosopher once obse rve i : o knowing no more of its central contents th at ' - e r do of what is inside a W oo l w i c h shell e , which they crawl. There is fire, we 1 ' because Vesuvius, Stromboli, and other gin, canoes, are so many furnace-doors, oe eol° o f ally open, through which we see the gusbeset flame. There is an explosive and destructive 1 90° ,.. ic i; too, offspring of those terrible passions into NY ° e 0 that great dumb monster, the earth, souletno breaks, to the horror and destruction of poor frag de d humanity—offspring of which we give the d rea o ld name of earthquakes. A certain fantastic, t he thinker about the cosmogony, who consider ed itb earth to be a huge living animal, bristled W ie j forests, encrusted with mountains, and sP eck a iii with oceans and lakes, would no doubt hav e re- 0 0 believed our metaphor to be a solid fact. Ile' f° oo have affirmed that earthquakes were rea llY der shudderings of a vast megalosauras, as he b illv o ce , ingly laboured to rise from his long " 3 There have been, as we know, great astroleee who have asserted the sun to be a world on glowing, vast, red-hot asbestos, coal in the be aT bag e at once a beacon, a furnace, a fireplace, and 3 f es , central aerial chandelier to the system it fe e "; is Other star-gazers have assured us that the e' °° oo cl a burnt-out world—a great cinder of lak es a ecli mountains, now nearly all named and 0 11 ie and lit only by reflection from our plane t ' oat' signally wise in extracting sunbeams frome ll jo t bers, and in trying to gauge the infinite wi th 3 n 1 ;10 11 cup, have assured audiences that perpetual o f tho was possible, because our earth is an examPlo,l l o d e -A great opprobrium of science being solved--ttneeo being a moving weight that perpetually ove rbs,P o the wheel of the world, and keeps it spinn in g ° space.—Dickens's "All the Year Round." Foreign Iliad' Packet List. MAILS DUE. ea 2° : kuatralla and New Zealand, vi a Sonthampton-- .. Dec , 1. Ditto, via Marseilles ** •••-- • • ' ',/- of , f•- 4 ' Ditto, via Panama ......................... • • •„,` ~ 4 , •trasil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video .......... V Q— i . Pe °. Ditto, by French packet .... 4. Cape Verds. by Brazil packet .... . V e° ii• .... ~,01,. ,Jape of Good Elope. A.suension, and St. kielena• • • • I ‘ ..„ 4 China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southamptou•••°*(. 21' . ...... 11° _, 4. Ditto, via Marseilles **•' - . g ?aikland Islands . ............ , ~. 2 • . NO , • , tlibraltar, via Southampton ........... ,0,.. , India, via Southampton ............... . ..... •• • •:; 20 , 2 6 ' Ditto, Via Marseil es Malta, Egypt, Jul •• • ................. -- .. Iv Ditto, Marseilles.. ............................ 14°T Mauritius, Cape of Good nape, and Natal, 4 vi 4 /N,o ~,1)• .. Southam ............................... . pea 0 Diet, Marie Lies .......................... Sewfoundla ...... ... • Deg 1. ............ ortugal .... Ditto, by pr r Q ship to Oporto ... ........... Ditto r;tto to Lisbon .............. United States, ( ansda, California, &C., by Briti s "„ o 3. 4 packet .... _ Ditto, by L. i ited States packet ................ Ditto ditto 'New York, Ditto ditto Ncw York) ........... • ....... O, DUO clitt , , (Baltimore) .• • ....... :Sof' Ditto, by Cauadiaa packet veo•4 West Coast of Afri,..a, Sladeira, and Tenerilra.• • • • 5 , West lades and Pazilic (except Mexico and Ba ba lSof .6 •" ' mas) - . • Cubit and Mexico ................. . De e, ,g. ilattamas, via New York ....................... • • .p e c ' • •• • Bermuda, via Halifax .....--- -- - Births. rlrf if .304 9 SERGISON —On the 25th inst., at Albion-street, ' 4 , o v. e the wife of Captain Sergison, 4th liuss%rs, of it - t Di" ' lIANKEY —On the 26th inst. at 13, Ile; fordlala'u'sl"taeo. fair, the wife of Sydney A. Hankey, Esq ., ° r 111 Ni r c a tt r o k L , s t o h x e — w O i f li t) theof W. t N h i i e n h s o t i . , 6e a n t , 4, S Esq,t! s g e x . p - !I: 1 0 'r: 'e, o 0 • lo jor Marriages. Bt; • *R" RNE---ILMAINE—On the 20th inst. St P Ubli i r t j ;W iif f -1 Oweu T. Burue, A.D.C. to General'Lord SV ioo , i ; t i i.• Commander of the Forces in Ireland, to he T,a - ill ' line Browne, youngest daughter of Lord an d -- 4 t itr maine. Devon, Sir John F. t DAVIS—RocKE—On ou nt iv - ,:1; Dheav2is6,thßairnt.s,t.i.act.itraf ,h o ter o f . Gloucestershire, to Lucy Ellen, eldest daub- Rev. T. J. Itocke, vicar of Exmouth. A 0 1. Deaths. -, 2 af0 1 " BRIMLEY —On the 24th inst , at St. Peter's, ''' e r A yea G. Brim'ey, Esq., aged 821 tik cO‘ li ' l CUMMINS Cu the 23d inst ,at Wildecroft, ma - t r , Ileigate, James J. Cummins, Esq., age d 3. De l°° e DotLE—On the 23d inst. in Charles - s treet, square, Sidney, wife of Sir F. 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