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NEW YORK, May 20, 6 p.m.—Ashes firm, pots 6 06 to
66 pearls 71 to 71. Cotton firmer, sales 2,000 bales. Flour
61c lower on corn., sales 7,600 brls, common to strait State
556t0 6; Upper Lake 5 75 to 6 25; corn. to good 6to
6 37 ; Southern firm, sales 1,800 brls, mixed to good 6 25
to 7, fancy and extra 706 to 8 25; Canadian 52 tot 61,
extra 61 to Bi. Corn closes dull and heavy, sales 27,000
bush, mixed 55 to 57, white 58 to 61, yellow 57 to 58,
round do 56 to 57. Pork closed easier, sales 520 brls,
mess 19 to 19 12, prime 15 to 15 25, Western prime mess
10 30 t.. 10 i'3• tied, y, bales 300 Lilo. vO4lOlll wee.
8 to 9 50, prime 7 to 8, repacked Chicago 12, prime mess
14 to 17. Lard firm, 300 bris 10 to 10k, choice 101. Bacon
scarce and wanted, hams 91 to 10 scarce, shoulders 7i to
71 do. Butter firm and in demand, Ohio 14 to 17, State 18
to 20. Sugar dull and'heavy, sales 100 hhds, MUM 6to 8,
PR 61 to 8. Molasses firm, N 047 to 48, Muse 35 to
37. Oils firm, sales 10,000 gal. linseed 83 to 84, lard 88 to
90. Spirits Turpentine.-300 brls 41 to 42c per gal. 3,500
brls rosin 165 to arrive, 1 671 to 170 here. Iron firm, 60
tons, Scotch 32 50 to 33, 6ms. Tobacco firm, 30 hhds Ky
9to 13. Rice firm, 350 tcs 350t0 4 12. Tallow heavy,
17,000 lbs 101 to 101. Freights to Liverpool easier, cotton
7-32 to 3-163, flour 2s to 2s 3d, grain 53 to Md.
Stocks lower and dull. Money and Exchange un•
changed. Illinois Central bonds 851; Canton 211; New
York Central 892 ; Erie 541; Illinois Central 99 ; Read-
ing 87 ; Galena and Chicago 1092; Cleveland and Toledo
; Michigan southern 93k.

ier Majesty has hononred
the committee by naming " The Royal Naval Female
School" as the charity to which the receipts of the perform.
mice at the Royal Italian Opera House Lyceum on Monday
are to be applied.

THE ARIATEUR PANTOMIME.-

A NEW PLANET.—Another planet was discovered on
Thursday morning, at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford,
by Mr. Pogson, the first assistant. It is a little brighter
than a tenth magnitude. Mr. Pogson saw the planet
about midnight on the 23rd, but the sky clouded over
before he could obtain a satisfactory observation.

THE ROYAL SOCIETY.—The Fellows of the Royal
Society have been summoned to attend a special general
meeting of the society on Tuesday, June 3, to consider a
proposal from government to give apartments to the
society in Burlington-house. The occupancy of this very
desirable locality, which we trust will be cordially
approved by the Fellows of the Royal Society, will be a
step towards bringing the chartered scientific societies of
the metropolis in juxtaposition.
THE EMIGRATION CosturssioN.—lt appears by the
sixteenth general report of the Emigration Commissioners
issued on Saturday morning, that the emigration from the
united kingdom in 1855, amounted to only 176,807 souls,
being less than half what it was in 1852, and less than
three-fifths the average of the eight years ending with
1854. The decrease is chiefly in the Irish emigration.
In 1855 no less than 22,821 emigrants returned to the
United Kingdom-18,402 coming from America, and
4,419 from Australia. The commissioners believe these
persons to have been, generally speaking, possessed of
money.

NAVAL ARSENAL AT CORK.—On Saturday a deputation
consisting of Lords Bernard, M.P , and Dungarvon, M.P.,
J. I. Heard, Esq., M.P., John F. Maguire, Es q., M.P.,
and the members for the city of Cork, waited by appo nt-
ment upon Lord Palmerston, at his residence in Piccadilly,
to submit a memorial from the inhabitants of Queenstown,
calling for the construction of a naval arsenal in the har-
bour of Cork. Lord Palmerston expressed himself
desirous of giving the question every consideration, in
conjunction with the heads of the Admiralty, without,
however, pledging himself or the government to any
specific course.
LOLA MONTES WHIPPED BY A WossAN.—The Ballaarat
Times, of March 3rd, contains an account of a whipping at
length administered to this terrible whipper, by one of her
own sex. Lola Writes was engaged to perform at the
Ballaarat Theatre, for Mr. Crosby. She quarrelled with
him about accounts, abased him, and was then set on by his
wife. Mrs. Crosby broke a vdhip on her opponent, then
seized Madam by the hair—the rest may be imagined. The
Ballaarat Times says that Lola Mentes will not be able to
appear for a long time cn the stage.

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ACCIDENTS IN THE Panrcs.—George Smart, while stand-
ing in the Green Park, sustained a severe lacerated scalp
wound, occasioned by the falling of a rocket stick, from
the effects of which he shortly died. Several cases of serious
and, in some cases, irreparable injuries have been taken o
St. George's Hospital, viz. : —Patrick Burke, smashed to .
John Cossell, total blindness by the falling of a rocket
stick. George Wilding, blindness of the right eye which
it is feared will seriorsly affect the left. Thomas Morris,
severe fracture of the head, from the falling of a rocket
stick. Sarah Fenn, blindness of the right eye, and the left
slightly injured.
SHIPWRECKED MARINERS' SOCIETY.—The seventeenth
annual meeting of this institution was held yesterday, at
Willis's Rooms, Lord Haddo, M.P., in the chair. The
report stated that no less than 3,085 vessels wrecked,
foundered at sea, or abandoned, had been reported at Lloyd's
during the past year, and the society had relieved 5,990
persons, including 2,368 widows, orphans, and aged parents
—and 3,622 mariners and fishermen who bad been assisted
to replace their clothing or boats lost or damaged by storms
—in all 55,568 persons since the formation of the society in
1839. The average increase of subscribers amongst the
seafaring classes at 2s 6d each had been 4,000 per annum
during the last five years, making now a total of 42,000.
Rewards for saving life on the high seas and the coasts of
the colonies have been given since January, 1851, to the
g4ast7 the 7 ls°asv.
amountffor
as
sis
ti ofn n besidesg
o f 10 gold
1,696
lives. a d 47 silver medals,

I transmit herewith reports of the Secretary of State,
the Secretary of the Navy, and the Attorney-General, in
reply to a resolution of the Senate of the 24th of March
last, and also to a resolution of the House of Represen-
tatives of the Bth of May inst., both having reference to
the routes of transit betw3en the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans through the republics of New Granada and

Nicaragua, and to the condition of affairs in Central

America. These documents relate to questions of the
highest importance and interest to the people of the
United States.
The narrow Isthmus which connects the continent of
North and South America, by the facilities it affords for
easy transit between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,
rendered the countries of Central America an object of
special consideration to all maritime nations, which has
been greatly augmented in modern times by the operation
of changes in commercial relations, especially those

produced by the general use of steam as

motive power by land and sea. To us, on account
of its geographical position, and of our political
interest as an American State of primary magnitude,
that isthmus is of peculiar importance, just as the
Isthmus of Suez is for corresponding reasons, to the
maritime Powers of Europe. But, above all, the impor-
tance to the United States of securing free transit across
the American Isthmus, has rendered it of paramount
interest to us, since the settlement of the territories of
Oregon and Washington, and the accession of California
to the Union.

Impelled by these considerations, the United States
took measures at an early day to assure suitable means
of commercial transit by canal, railway, or otherwise,
across this Isthmus. We concluded in the first place
a treaty of peace, amity, navigation and commerce with
the republic of New Granada—among the conditions of
which was, a stipulation on the part of New Granada
guaranteeing to the United States the right of way or
transit across that part of the Isthmus which lies in the
territory of New Granada, in consideration of which the
United States guaranteed in respect of the same terri-
tory the rights of sovereignty and property of New
Granada. The effect of this treaty is to afford to the
people of the United States facilities for at once opening
a common road from Chagres to Panama, and for at
length constructing a rail way in the same direction to
connect regularly with steam ships for the transportation
of mails, specie, and passengers, to and fro, between
the Atlantic and Pacific States and territories of the
United States.

The United States also endeavoured, but unsuccessfully,
to obtain from the Mexican Republic the cession of the
right of way at the northern extremity of the Isthmus,
which had came to be an object of solicitude to the psople
of this Republic.
In the meantime intervening between the Republic of
New-Granada and and the Mexican Republic lie the States
of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa
Rica—the severed members of the former Republic of Cen-
tral America. Here in the Territory of the Central Ameri-
can States is the narrowest part of the Isthmus, and hither
of course public attention has been directed as the most
inviting field for enterprises of Interoceanic communication
between the opposite shores of America, and more especially
to the Territory of the States of Nicaragua and Honduras.
Paramount to that of any European State as was the
interest of the United States in the security and freedom of
projected lines of travel across the isthmus by the way of
Nicaragua and Honduras, still we do not yield in this respect
to any questions of territorial aggrandizement, or even of
exclusive advantage, either of communication or of com-
merce. Opportunities had not been wanting to the United
States to procure such advantages by peat-eel rnAana and.
with full and free assent of those who alone had any
ligitimate authority in the matter. We disregarded those
opportunities, from considerations alike of domestic and
foreign policy. Just as even to the present day we have
persevered in a system of justice and respect for the rights
and interests of others, as well as our own, in regard to each
and all of the States of Central America.

It was with surprise ant regret, therefore, that the
United Statcs learned a few days after the conclu-ioa of the
treaty of Goudaloupe Hidalgo, by which the United States
bacame, with the consent of the Mexican Republic, the
rightful owners of California, and thus invested with aug..
mAited special interest in the political condition of Central
America, that a military expedition, under the authority of
the British government, had landed at San Juan del Norte,
in the State of Nicaragua, and taken forcible possession of
that port, the necessary terminus of any canal or railway
across the isthmus within the territories of Nicaragua. It
did not diminish the unwelcomeness to us of this act on the
part of Great Mitain, to find that she assumed to jus,ify it
on the ground of an alleged protectorship of a small and
obscure band of uncivilised Indians, whose proper name
even had become lost to history—who did not constitute a
State capable of territorial sovereignty, either in fact, or in
right, and all political interest in whom and in the territory
they occupied Great Britain had previously renounced, by
by successive treaties with Spain, when Spain was sovereign
of the country, and consequently with independent Spanish
America.

Nevertheless, and injuriously affected as the United
States conceived themselves to have been by this act of the
British government, and by its occupation about the same
time of insular and of continental portions of the territory
of the State of Honduras, we remembered the many and
powerful ties and mutual interests by which Great Britain
and the United States are associated, and we proceeded, in
earnest good faith, and with a sincere desire to do whatever
might strengthen the bonds of peace between us, to
negotiate wish Great Britain a convention, to assure the
perfect neutrality of all interoceanic communications across
the Isthmus, and as the indispensible condition of such
neutrality, the absolute independence of the States of Cen-
tral America and their complete sovereignty within the
limits of their own territory, as well against Great Britain
as against the United Stites. We supposed we had accom-
plished that object by the convention of April 19, 18.50,
which would never have been signed nor ratified, on the part
of the United Ste' e!, but for the c inviction that in virtue of its
provisions neither Great Britain nor the United States was
thereafter to exercise any territorial sovereignty, is fact or
in name, in any part of Central America, however or when-
soever acquired, either before or afterwards. The essential
obj et of the convention, the neutralisation of the Isthmus,
would of course become a nullity, if either Great Britain
or the United States were to continue to hold exclusively
the Islands or main land of the Isthmus, and more especially
if, under any claim of protectorship of Indians, either
Government were to remain for ever sovereign in fact of the
Atlantic shores of the three States of Costa Rica, Nicaragua
and Honduras.

I have already communicated to the two Houses of Con-
gress full information of the protracted and hitherto fruit-
less efforts which the United States have made to arrange
this international question with Great Britain. It is
referred to on the present occasion only because of its inti-
mate connection with the special object now to ba brought
to the attention of congress.
The unsettled political condition of some of the Spanish
American Republics has never ceased to be regarded by this
government with solicitude and regret o❑ their own
account, while it has been the source of continual embar-
rassment in our public and private relations with them.
In the midst of the violent revolutions, and the
wars by which they are continually agitated, their
public authorities are unable to afford due protection to
foreigners, and to foreign interests within their territories, or
even to defend their own soil against individual aggressors,
foreign or domestic ; the burden of the inconveniences and
losses of which, therefore, devolves in no small degree upon
the foreign states associated with them in close relations of
geographical vicinity or of commercial intercourse. Such

failed to appear conspicuously in their intercourse
with Spanish American republics. Great Britain has
repeatedly been constrained to resort to measures of force
for the protection of British interests in those countries.
France found it necessary to attack the Castle of San Juan
de Ulla, and even to debark troops at Vera Cruz, in order
to obtain redress of wrongs done to Frenchmen in Mexico.
What is memorable in this respect, in the conduct and
policy of the United States, is, that while it would be es
easy for us to annex and absorb new territories from America,
as it is for European States to do this in Asia or Africa,
and while, if done by us, it might be justified as well on the
alleged ground of the advantage which would accrue there-
from to the territories annexed and absorbed, yet we have
abstained from doing it in obedience to considerations of

right not less than of policy ; and that, while the cou-
rageous and self-reliant spirit of our people prompts them to
hardy enterprises, and they occasionally yield to the tempta-
tion of taking part in the troubles of countries near at hand
where they know how potential their influence, moral and
material, must be, the American Government has uni-
f)rmly and steadily resisted all attempts of individuals in
the United States to undertake armed aggression against
friendly Spanish American Republics.
While the present incumbent of the Executive Office has
been in discharge of its duties, he has never failed to exert

all the authority in him vested to repress such enterprises,
because they are in violation of the law of the land which
the c3nstitution requires him to execute faithfully, because

they are contrary to the policy of the government, and
because to permit th(m would be a departure from good
faith to those American Republics in amity with us, Nhicb
are entitled to, and will never cease to enjoy in their
calamities the cordial sympathy, and in their prosperity the
efficient good will, of the government and people of the
United States.

To say that our laws in this respect are sometimes vio-
lated or successfully evaded, is only to say what is true of all
laws in all countries, but not more so in the United States
than in any one whatever of the countries of Europe.
Suffice it to repeat that the laws of the United States pro-
hibiting a'.l foreign military enlistments or expeditions
within our territory have been executed with impartial good
faith, and so far as the nature of things permits, as well in
repression of private persons as of the official agents of other
governments, both of Europe and America.
Among the Central American Republics to which modern
events have imparted most prominence, is that of Nicaragua,
by reason of its particular position to the Isthmus. Citizens
of the United States have established in its territory a
regular Interoceanic Transit Route, second only in utility
and value to the one previously established in the territory
of New Granada. The condition of Nicaragua, would, it
is believed, have been much more prosperous than it has
been but for the occupation of its only Atlantic port by a
foreign power, and for the disturbing authority, set up and
sustained by the same power in a portion of its territory,
by means of which its domestic sovereignty was impaired,
its public lands were withheld from settlement, and it was
deprived of all the maritime revenue which it would other-
wise cAlect on imported merchandise at San Juan del
Norte.

In these circumstances of the political debility of the Re-
public of IS icaragua, and when its inhabitants were
exhausted by long continued civil war between parties, wi-
ther of them strong enough to overcome the other, or per-
manently maintain internal tranquillity, one of the

contending factions of the republic inviting the assistance and
co-operation of a small body of citizens of the United
States from the State of California, whose presence, it
appears, put an end at once to civil war, and restore appa-
rent order throughout the Territory of Nicaragua, with a
new administration, having at its head a distinguished indi-
vidual, by birth a native of the Republic, D. Patricio Rivas,
as its provissional President.
It is the established policy of the United States to recog-
nize all governments without question of their source or
their organization, or of the means by which the governing
persons attain their power, provided there be a government
de facto, accepted by the people of the country, and with
rcscrvo only of time as the recognition of revolutionary
governments arising cut of the subdivision ot parent States
in which we are in relations of amity. We do not go
behind the facts of a foreign government exercising cctual
power, to investigate questions of legitimacy. We do not
enquire into the causes which may have led to a change of
government. To us it is indifferent whether a successful
revolution has been aidel by foreign intervention or not—
whether insurrection has overthrown the existing govern-
ment and another has been estab): ' -^ according

Led in its plat
to the pro-existing forms, or in a manner adopted for the
occasior, by those whom we find in the actual possession of
power. All these matters we leave to the people and
public authorities of the particular country to determine ;
and their determination, whether it be by positive action or
by ascertained acquiescence, is to us a sufficient warranty
of the legitimacy of the new government.
During the sixty-seven years which have elapsed since
the establishment of the existing Government of the United
States, in all which time this Union has maintained undis-
turbed domestic tranquillity, we have had occasion to
recognise Governments de facto, founded either by domes-
tic revolution or by military invasion from abroad, in
many of the Governments of Europe. It is the more
imperatively necessary to apply this rule to the Spanish
American Republics, in consideration of the frequent and
not seldom anomalous changes of organisation or admin-
istration which they undergo, and the revolutionary
nature of most of these changes, of which the recent series

of revolutions in the Mexican Republic is an example,
where five successive Revolutionary Governments have
made their appearance in the course of a few months, and
been recognised successively, each as the political power
of that country, by the United States.
When, therefore, some time since, a new Minister from
the Republic of Nicaragua presented himself, bearing the
commission of President Rivas, he must and would have
been received as such, unless he was found, on enquiry,
subject to personal exception, but for the absence of satis-
factory information upon the question whether President
Rivas was in fact the head of an established Government
of the Republic of Nicaragua, doubt as to which arose,
not only from the circumstances of his avowed association
with armed emigrants recently from the United States,
but that the proposed Minister himself was of that class
of persons, and not otherwise or previously a citizen of
Nicaragua.

Another minister from the Republic of Nicaragua has
now presented himself, and has been received as such,
satisfactory evidence appearing that he represents the
Government de facto, and, so far as such exists, the
Government de jure of that, Republic. That reception,
while in accordance with the established policy of the
United States, was likewise called for by most imperative
special exigencies, which require that this Government
shall enter at once into diplomatic relations with that of
Nicaragua. In the first place a difference has occurred
between the Government of President Rivas and the
Nicaragua Transit Company, which involves the necessity
of enquiry into the rights of citizens of the United States,
who allege that they have been aggrieved by the acts of
the former, and claim protection and redress at the hands
of their Government. In the second place, the Inter-
oceanic communication by the way of Nicaragua is
effectually interrupted, and the persons and property of
unoffendiug private citizens of the United States in that
country require the attention of their Government.
Neither of these objects can receive due consideration
without resumption of diplomatic intercourse with the
Government of Nicaragua.

Further than this, the documented show that while the
interoceanic transit by way of Nicaragua is cut off, dis-
turbances at Panama have occurred to obstruct, tem-
porarily at least, that by the way of New-Granada,
involving the sacrifices of the lives and property of
citizens of the United States. A special commissioner
has been dispatched to Panama to investigate the facts of
this occurrence, with a view particularly to the redress of
parties aggrieved. But measures of another class will be
demanded for the future security of interoceanic commu-
nication by this as by the other routes of the Isthmus.
It would be difficult to suggest a single object of interest,
external or internal, more important to the United States,
than the maintenance of the communication by land and
sea between the Atlantic and Pacific States and Territo-
ries of the Union. It is a material element of the national
integrity and sovereignty. I have adopted such precau-
tionary measures—and have taken such action for the
purpose of affording security to the several transit routes
of Central America and the persons and property of
citizens of the United States connected with or using- the
same as are within my Constitutional power, and as exist-
ing circumstances have seemed to demand. Should these
measures prove inadequate to the objects that fact will be
communicated to Congress with such recommendation as
the exigency of the case may indicate.

rRANKLIN PIERCE.

We have already communicated to the public, that
the official notification of the under sherriff of Stafford,
has been received by the governor of the prison,
that the sentence of the law is to be carried
into effect on the morning of the 14th instant, at
eight o'clock. For ourselves, we may be permitted
to say, that we loathe to approach, ad interim, the
miseries of the condemned cell in which the wretched
culprit awaits his doom, and though others attempt to
intrude upon that wretched solitude, we shall not lend
ourselves to such a tyranny. If the convict Palmer
should make a confession, our appliances enable us to
convey the fact to the public; and, in the mean time,
we will not lend ourselves to the reiteration of the

many idle rumours which are current on the subject.
It would seem, accord ng to the information received
from authentic sources, that the convict is already
in a state of great physical and mental prostration.
It would indeed be almost miraculous that he
should be otherwise after the fearful ordeal to which a
twelve days' solemn investigation has exposed him.
Palmer evinced almost the acme to which human self-
possession can arrive, and hence we are are far from
surprised that after the ultimatum there should have

been a reaction which it was impossible to subdue

Again iNe repeat that an indulgence in conjectural
reports touching the arcana of Staff

miserable inmate, will not be r

a sincere

,rd gaol, with its

sorted to by us, though

e actuates us that a full confession may
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corroborate the righteous and just ver
the most unexampled and patient enquiry, a jury of

lict whic

our countrymen have pronounced

SCOTCH FISHERIES.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer
has resolved on a further investigation into the public
advantage of continuing the Scotch Fisheries Board,
and has selected Mr. Bonamy Price and Mr. St. John,
the latter an officer of the Customs, to conduct the
inquiries, and to report on the whole question. Those
gentlemen will proceed to Scotland forthwith on this
duty.

THE Pooa LAW.—The eighth annual report of the poor
law board, just published, shows that in the year 1855,
£5,890,041 was expended on the relief of the poor, being
an increase of £607,188, or upwards of half a million, as
compared with 1854, and equivalent to an increase of 11.3
per cen., and to an increased rate per head on the popula-
tion of id. The increase is attributed in a great measure
to the severity of the wi,:ter. The increase extended to
every county save Durham, where there was a decrease of
0.3 per cent.

MORE CONVERSIONS.—The Weekly Register and Catholic
Standard of Saturday announces that two clergymen of the
Church of England have been received into the Roman
Catholic Church. The one is the Rev. F. Temple, M.A.,
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and late Principal of
the Government Training Cullege at lineller Hall. The
other is a son of the celebrated Rev. Dr. Arnold, of Rugby.
The same paps also gives particulars of the return and public
reception of the Rev. N. Crotty, a priest, who left the
Church 30 yews ago.

ME WELLINGTON COLLEGE.—The laying of the foun-
dation stone of the Wellington College by her Majesty
will take place this day, a little after one o'clock. The
Vice-president (Lord Derby) will previously present an
address, and after the ceremony the Queen will retire to
the Royal Pavillion, where the governors will have the
honour of lunching with her Majesty, who will afterwards
review the troops under the command of the Duke of
Cambridge. The royal party will leave at half-past four
for town. Special trains will run from the Waterloo and
Loudon-bridge stations to a temporary station within a
quarter of a mile of the college.
DECIMAL COINAGE.—The state of the decimal coin-
age question is now as follows :—After the strong
recommendation of one particular plan by two scientific
commissions, by a committee of the House of Commons,
and by a vute of the house itself, followed by the organi-
sation of an association containing hundreds of parlia-
mentary and hundreds of commercial names, and sup•
ported by the Bank of England—Lord Palmerston
appointed a royal commission, consisting of Lord Mon-
teagle, Lord Overstone, and Mr. Hubbard, to consider
the whole question. This commission has now been at
work some months ; but none of its proceedings have
been publi4ied.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT.—Returns have been
made to Parliament, on the motion of Mr. Ewart, M.P.,
relative to the establishment or rejection of free public
libraries. At Birmingham a proposal to form a public
library in Itis2 was lost on a poll by a large majority.
At Bolton, 662 to 55 votes determined the formation of a
library. The general results have been " most satisfac-
tory At Liverpool there is a library of 32,000 volumes..
The result is "satisfactory beyond all expeCtation." A new
library and museum are projected at a cost of £40,000.
The City of London, like Birmingham, enjoys the excep-
tional and unenviable distinction of rejecting this useful
means of diffusing knowledge among the lower orders.
At Manchester 40 persons feebly opposed a majority of
3,962, by which the Act was formally adopted. Salford
possesses a good library. The Act was adopted at
Sheffield by 883 to 232, and the results have hitherto been
" most cheering and satisfactory." At Warrington there
are a museum and library combined, to which there were
11,018 visitors in 1854-55. A new museum is in course of
erection, the site of which is kin lly given by Colonel
Wilson Patten, 'M.P.
SELECTIONS FOR A NEWSPAPER.— Most people think the

selection for a newspaper the easiest part of the business.
How great an error. It is Ly all means the most difficult.
To look over and over hundreds of exchange papers every
week, from which to select enough for one, especially
when the question is, not what shall, but shall not be
selected, is no easy task. If every person who reads a
newspaper could have edited it, we would hear les*
complaints. Not unfrequently is it the case, that an
editor looks over all its exchange papers for something
interesting, and can absolutely find nothing. Every paper
is drier than a contribution box ; and yet something must
be had—his paper must come out with something in it,
and he does the best he can. To an editor who has the
least care about what he selects, the writing he has to do
is the easiest part of the labour. Every subscriber thinks
the paper prin ed for his own benefit, and if there is
nothing in it that suits him, it must be stopped—it is good
for nothing. Just as many subscribers as an editor may
have, so many tastes he has to consult. One wants
something smart, and another something sound.
One likes anecdotes, fun and frolic, and the next door
neighbour wonders that a man of sense would put such
stuff ,in his paper. Something argumentative, and the
editor is a dull fool. And so between them all, you see,
the poor fellow gets roughly handled. And yet to ninety-
nine out of a hundred these things do not occur. They
never reflect that what does not please them may please,
the next man ; but they insist that if the paper does not
suit them, it is good for nothing.—Atnerican Journal.
THUNDER STORM IN SUSSEX.-A violent storm of thun-
der and lightning, accompanied with heavy rains and hail,
visited the western part of Sussex on Thursday, extend-
ing to Brighton, Lewes, and neighbourhood. In the
vicinity of the former place, a bullock was killed by the
lightning, and the electric fluid struck the wires of the
telegraph between the Ford and Littlehampton stations,
doing considerable damage, and passing into the latter
station, completely destroyed the telegraphic instrument.
Fortunately no person was touching it at the time, or the
consequences might have been serious. The rain fell in
torrents; and at Worthing the town was almost deluged,
but we believe no particular damage resulted, though the
thunder and lightning was terrific. At Shoreham the
storm raged most furiously, and was nearly being attended
with a fatal result. Five or six of Mr. Bailey's workmen
were engaged on the mast of a ship, which was in the
course of erection in the yard, when they were all struck
by the lightning, and were all more or leas injured, one
most seriously. The rain, however, fell In such torrents
between Lewes and Keymer, that a portion of the rail-
way on that line was completely inundated, and the
trains had to rass through water for some distance.
At Chaney the parsonage house was completely surrounded
by the flood. At Heathfield a farm servant, named Piper,
was struck by lightning while sitting near a window eating
his dinner, and was killed almost instantaneously. His,
master was sitting in the room, and at the same moment
experienced a severe shock, but escaped from personal
injury. The storm came on so suddenly, that it is feared
the damage done to the cattle will be very great, and the
growing crops are much injured in many places.
re RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.—A special general meeting of
the London and North Western Railway Company is called
for the 12th of June, to consider three bills now before Par-
liament. One is for " altering the Crewe and Shrewsbury
line ;" the second is to "enable the Luton, Dunstable, and
Welwyn Junction Railway Company to alter the present
authorised junction of their railway with the Leighton Boa-
zArd and Dunstable branch of the London and North
Western Railway ;" ani the third authorises the construc-
tion of a line from the Oswestry and Newtown Railway to
Shrewsbury, with a branch to Winstanley.—At a special
meeting of the proprietors of the Midland Railway, at
Derby, on Friday, Mr. Ellice in the chair, the bill now
pending to enable that company to raise additional capital
for the purpose of enlarging the station and adding to the
working stock, to accommodate their increasing traffic
in minerals and goods, was approved by a resolution
passed with only a short opposition from Mr. Parsons,
of Bristol, who complained that the shareholders had
net been made acquainted with the provisions of the
bill in time to consider it properly. In reply to a
remark from Mr. Gee, the chairman said the directors
would not spend the whole of the money now autho-
rised to be raised; us that gentleman anticipated, within
ten months of this time, but that they did not think it
desirable to exhaust all their powers, and ought never
to hold less than £lOO,OOO. They were not going to ask
for additional capital before they found it absolutely
necessary. By the bill in question, they proposed to
raise £400,000 in new shares; alio powers to borrow
ore-third of the money ; and to take powers to bring to
life again those shares which were dead and had become;
, forfeited.