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The following account of how the animals and
other curiosities fared in the great fire which on the
13th inst. totally destroyed Barnum's Museum, and
other adjacent property, is extracted from the New
York Herald's report of the conflagration
4‘ The majority of the crowd seemed delighted at the
chance of seeing the curiosities gratis. One of the enzployjs
at the museum, who passed through the crowd with a bunch
of coral in one hand and a stuffed racoon in the other, was
loudly cheered. But the excitement rose to its height when
the giantess, the fat lady, and the white woolly-headed
Albino passed down Fulton-street, followed by a number
of the ladies of the corps de ballet, who, poor things, had
lost all of their theatrical wardrobe. The pantomime of
the Green Monster was to have been performed at the
museum in the afternoon ; but the monster was consumed

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and the gearing within the engine-house, is £5O per
nominal horse-power. The mills have double win-
dows to keep out the cold. A. great amount of
influence for good has been exercised by. English
overlookers. The loss occasioned by supporting
this industry is estimated at £2,550,000 per annum.
The consumption of cotton ought to be 10 or 11
times as much as it is. At present only one-fifth
of the mills are working.

fat lady, the giantess, and the ballet girls found a tem-
porary refuge in a newspaper office, where they rehearsed
their losses to a small but select audience, and the Albino
with the whales, the Happy Family, and the snakes. The
was spirited away to a more private location, where she
could not be seen without paying for the privilege. About
100 persons must have been thrown out of employment
at the museum, and many of the pantomimists, dancers,
and keepers will find it difficult to obtain employment at
this dull season for amusements. The crowd did not think
of this, however. They were incessant in their cries of
boiled whale,' fried snakes,' broiled monkey,' and
' roast elephant,' thus displaying a sort of gamin wit and
a perfect familiarity with the contents of the museum.
Throw me out one of the canoes,' or Pitch me the bow-
constructor, I wants it for a tippet,' or How are you,
learned seal ?' provoked continued laughter. We suggest,
however, that the fire has rather a serious side to it, and
that the members of the theatrical profession in this city
ought to organise a mammoth benefit at the Academy of
Music, the proceeds to be divided among those whom this
'Happy Family' quite belied their
conflagration has deprived of their engagements for the
jabbered, the dogs barked, the
summer. When the fire first broke out and the smoke
ceryesamed, bears growled, kangaroos
commenced to penetrate the galleries there arose the most
peculiar Babel of sounds which it was ever allotted to
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the smoke, buried himself in his native
element. The birds fluttered against the bars of their
cages, and sang most doleful melodies. To save these poor
animals was one of the first things thought of, and the
first who presented himself to our notice was poor bruin'
himself, making the descent of the ladder in a very Neu-
._

A conversation followed of a very desultory cha-
racter, in which a member expressed a hope that
some steps would be taken by the Chamber relative
to the amendment of the law of bankruptcy, which
he said was to form a topic of consideration at next
year's meeting of the Social Science Association at
Sheffield.
Mr. WALKER wished to call attention to the want
of more reliable returns of the stock of cotton in
Liverpool, which he thought the Chamber might
usefully direct its attention to remedying. He
said that at the close of last year there were found
to be 114,000 bales of cotton more than the weekly
returns had led them to expect. It was clear, there-
fore, that these weekly returns had been in error
for some indefinite number of weeks, and yet we
were every week this year receiving returns of
stock, and comparing them with those.of last year,
which it was now well known were erroneous.

Mr. HUGH MASON said through this Chamber and
the Cotton Spinners' Association an arrangement
had since the close of last year been made with the
Liverpool cotton brokers to publish a quarterly re-
turn of the stock of cotton. As to the false returns
of last year he feared there was no remedy, but he
hoped the new arrangement would prevent such
errors in future.

The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the
president.

liar manner. He seemed quite savage, and not at all in-
clined for fun. Accustomed to be looked at through iron
bars, he seemed at a loss to understand his present situa-
tion. Several times, as his feet slipped through the rounds
of the ladder, the tightening of the rope by which he was
held caused him to pale visibly, and certainly show his
canines, or, more properly, bearines. After some con-
siderable time he reached, not the top of the ladder, but
the foot, and once on terra firma, he looked as contented
as a bear could look under the circumstances. Louder
grew the jabberings of the monkey tribe, who leaped
frantically about, the boa constrictor writhed in agony
as the heat became stronger, and a dismal series of wails
from the whales, who had not been used to tropical seas,
mingled with the rhapsodies of the astrologer, the pant-
ings of the fat woman, and the groanings of the giantess.
The two latter were half frantic. and the maniac penman
made the most artistic flourishes with his quill. Poor Ned,
the educated seal,who was wont to astonish spectators with
his sagacity, who used to turn the handle of a barrel organ,
and do everything but speak, was seized upon by a couple
of men, one evidently a Hibernian, ' Bad luck to ye, he's
biting me, Mick'; and so he was. Fetch me a basket' was
the cry, and still Ned wriggled about in the most fishy man-
ner, the crowd making on every side. At length his res-
cuers succeeded in bringing Ned to a place of safety, and
we may at some future time see him perform as of yore.
With these exceptions we fear all the extensive and inte-
resting collection of animals fell a prey to the fiery element,
with the exception, perhaps, of a few birds, which may
have succeeded in flying away. The crowd outside were
most anxious about ' dumb crathurs who niver done no one
any harm, barren the bite the sale give me,' as our friend
the Hibernian called them, andanxious inquiries weremade
as to whether the water in the aquaria wouldn't prevent
their finny inhabitants from being burnt. It may be some
time before we can have so fine a collection of tropical fish
as was in the Museum. The aquaria were made on the most
approved plan, and arranged so that the water was kept
fresh by the passage of air through them. The collection
of birds, too, was most extensive. The animals were nu-
merous and well trained, so that they all lived together
without any squabbling—making one think that even by
training the millennial characteristic of the lion lying
down with the lamb' would not be so strange after all.
The collection comprised a large variety of the monkey
tribe, kangaroo, cat, dog, and other species, and afforded
much amusement to the children of our city, to whom a
visit to Barnum's was always a great treat. Country cou-
sins, too, who viewed the white cat, that had no tail, and
and therefore could not ' a tale unfold,' will have no place
where to study the beauties of natural history, and many
now will feel sorry for having given the monkey blind
nuts, now that he is no more. Many will think of Jocko
who used to submit to their persecutions ' without a word
of anger or reproach.' Poor Jocko ! Unfortunate pussy !
you are now where even the great showman cannot find
you. We drop a tear for your memories. and though you
sometimes attempted to bite our fingers when we ap-
proached too near your prison-house, still we will faith-
fully adhere to the injunction, 'De mortuis nil nisi bonum.' "

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.
The North German Lloyd screw steamship
America, Captain H. Wessels, from New York on
the 15th inst., arrived off Cowes at noon to-day, and
went on to Bremen after transhipping mails, &c.;
for this port. She brings 88 passengers for South-
ampton and Havre, and 367 for Bremen ; and on
freight, 27,520 dols. for England, 2,000 dols. for
Bremen, and a general cargo. She has had fine
weather and variable westerly winds during the
voyage. On the 16th, at 710 a.m., in lat. 40 35
N., long. 70 7 W., the America spoke the steamer
Hansa, from Southampton on the sth, for New
York ; and at 10 30 a.m. on the 16th, in lat. 40 37
N. long. 69 19 W, she spoke the Bremen ship
Columbus, westward bound.

Judge Marvin, formerly United States' district
judge for the Southern district of Florida, was on
the 14th inst. appointed Provisional Governor of that
state by the President; This appointment completes
the work of supplying all the States lately in rebel-
lion with civil executives and in once more placing
the entire sisterhood of the Union under the direc-
tion of Governors, either elected or appointed,
acknowledging and in accord with the general
Government.

The work of confiscating the property of wealthy
rebels was inaugurated at Richmond on the 10th
inst., much to the consternation of the people of
that city, by the seizure of the famous Tredegar
Iron Works by Government agents. Descriptions
of a large amount of other property liable to be
confiscated have been taken, and the tenants thereof
have been notified to pay no more rent to the rebel
proprietors.

The publication of the Richmond TV hig was sus-
pended on the 11th by General Terry, and the esta-
blisment taken possession of by the Provost-Marshal,
in consequence of an editorial appearing in the paper
on that morning in which a portion of President
Johnson's amnesty proclamation was pronounced
" heathenish," and one of the Acts of Congress
" mean, brutal, and cowardly, revoltingly absurd
and atrociously unjust."

A correspondent of the New York Herald, who
has lately been through Northern Alabama, states
that that region is almost one continuous field of
cotton. The planters have given their attention to
the business again this year almost as much as in
ante-rebellion times, and the growing crop looks
very fine. The negroes are,working for their for-
mer Masters for wages, and the new labour system
appears to progress very well.
The New York Herald says :

RAILWAYS IN INDIA.—Mr. Juland Danvers, the
Government director of tho Indian railway companies,
states in his annual report, just issued, that the present
system of guaranteed railways comprises a length of
4,917 miles, of which 3,186 are now open for traffic. The
net profits in the year ending the 30th of June, 1863, on
2,151 miles of railway, amounted to £690,834 ; and to
£915,077 in the year ending June 30, 1864, on 2,489 miles.
The number of passengers conveyed in the latter year was
11,781,683, compared with 9,242,540 in the former. The
total expenditure of capital on the lines which are open, or
in course of construction, amounted on May 1, 1865, to
4h a
£54,942,029. The expenditure this year, it is estimated,
will amount to rather more than £5,000, 000, about£l, 804, 000
to be expended in England and £3,850,000 in India. The
total amount estimated to be required for the undertakings,
as now sanctioned, will reach £77,500,000. The number of
shareholders at the end of the year 1864 was 29,303 in Eng-
land and 777 in India, the latter number consisting of 3g4
Europeans
tura
advanced £13,160,539 to the railway companies for gottran_
but about £3,300,000 had been paid back out
holders. and
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teed interest,
of the earnings of the railways, leaving nearly £10,000,000
still due to the Government. The charge upon the Go-
vernment was £2,567,743 the past year, and by
Jan. 1 next it will probably have increased to £2,700,000 ;
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but the receipts from traffic which go in diminution of
this, and which in the year 1864-65 amounted to about
£1,000,000, will in 1864-65 probably reach £1,300,000.
Year by year the revenues will approach nearer and
nearer to the amount of the guaranteed interest, and at
last the Government will not onlybe relieved of the annual
payment altogether, but the railways will begin to earn
more
than the guaranteed rate, and to discharge their debt
for previous advances out of half the excess profits above 5
per cent. Although it will be some time before the Govern-
ment will receive back the large sum due to them, there is
enough in the present condition of the lines to encourage
the hope that ultimately it will be paid, and in the mean-
time the State obtains advantages which fully compensate
for the liability it has incurred. Mr. Danvers holds that no
country in the world will derive greater advantages from
railways than India ; that the traffic on the main lines may
be expected to be enormous ; and when they earn six,
eight, or ten per cent the difficulty which now exists in
inducing capitalists to promote public works in India will.
be removed.

"It is estimated that there still remain in Texas from
one hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand
bales of tho old crop of cotton, while, owing to various un-
favourable circumstances, it is thought that this year's
crop will not exceed fifty thousand bales. It is also calcu-
lated that there are within the State, accumulated during
the war,_ five million pounds of wool."
Governor Brownlow had issued an address to the
people of Tennessee, in which he declares that the
spirit of rebellion is still unsubdued, and that at
the approaching elections those who have, been in
actual hostility with the Union will attempt to re-
instate themselves in authority. He notifies that
to prevent such a result the laws regulating the
exercise of the right of suffrage will be rigidly en-
forced, even though it should become necessary to
call in the assistance of the military.
Mr. Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, during an
address at the laying of the corner stone of a new
orphan asylum in Washington on the 14th instant,
said, in alluding to the relations between France
and the United States :
" When the French sprang to arms in the defence of
Turkish nationality we all applauded, but not that they
attempt to crush feeble Mexico. We wish it might be the
will of God that this ;great Republic of ours should be
called upon to protect her feeble sister Republic."
Ex-Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair made
a speech at Hagarstown, Maryland, on the 12th,
of denouncing Secretary Seward's policy
non-inter-
ference with the schemes of the Emperor Napoleon
in Mexico, asserting that by it he had tacitly
favoured the establishment of the Mexican empire.
He congratulated the people upon having, however,
at the head of their Government a man of courage,
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Louisiana, had notified the planters in his district
firm negroes who have been their,slaves.
that the

REVIEW OF YORKSHIRE VOLUNTEERS.—Yester-
day, Lord Londesborough invited the volunteers
from the East Riding and other parts of Yorkshire to
assemble in his park at Londesbury, near Market Weighton,
on the occasion of the annual assembly of his tenantry. The
weather was beautiful, and the park magnificent. It was
originally purchased by Mr. G. Hudson, the railway king,
but when he so suddenly failed it was bought by the Lon-
desborough family. The grounds were arranged in the best
possible form for a fete champetre. The lower portion of the
park presented the appearance of a fair, for not only were
there booths in abundance, but numerous representatives of
the game of " Aunt Sally," and similar amusements. The
sham fight occupied a considerable time. The corps taking
part in it included the East Riding artillery and Yorkshire
riflemen. After the mound in front of the tents had been
captured by the riflemen, the whole body of volunteers ad-
journed to dinner, which was provided for nearly 3,000
persons in an extensive shed erected for the purpose. Lord
Londesborough occupied the chair, and amongst those pre-
sent were Lord Wenlock, Capt. and the Hon. Mrs. Eger-
ton, Lord and Lady Muncaster, Admiral Duncombe, Mr.
Lox,
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of noblemen and gentlemen have formed them-
selves into a committee, with the purpose of erecting
proper monument to the memory of the late Sir Joseph
Paxton. Among the names united with this view, of
many who were his prsonal friends and admirers of his
genius, those of the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of
Sutherland, Earl Granville, Lord Palmerston, Lord Eger-
ton of 'Patton, the Speaker, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Eleho,
M.P., S. Laing, Esq., M.P., A. H. Layard, Esq., M.P., sir
F. Crossley, Bart., M.P., T. N. Farquhar, Esq., Sir S. M
Peto, M.P., and of artists, literary men, and others well
known, and many more are on the list. They propose to
open a general subscription list, that the memorial shall be
a marble statue, which might be placed on a chosen posi-
tion in the English landscape gardens of the Crystal
Palace, and that the commission for the statue should be
entrusted to Mr. Spence, of Rome, to whom Sir Joseph sat
for his bust but a few months before his death. Mr. Geo.
Grove has undertaken the duties of hon. secretary to the
fund which is being raised.

A despatch from Cincinnati, dated the 14th inst.,
says :---

" At a festival given to Generals Sherman anti Cox yes-
terday, at Columbus, General Sherman, on being enthu-
siastically called upon to make a speech, came forward, and
with much reluctance did so. In the course of his remarks
he alluded to the charge that while he was in command in
Kentucky he had demanded for the campaign 200,000 men.
He said that was when he was visited by Secretary Came-
ron. He then explained to him the difficulty of marching
into Tennessee by divergent lines—one to Nashville, and the
other to East Tennessee, with forces largely outnumbered
by the rebel armies confronting him. On one of these lines
he had 4,300 men to meet an opposing force of 18,000.
When asked by Secretary Cameron how many men were
needed for the present campaign, he (Sherman) replied,
60,000, and before you can reduce the South to subjuga-
tion you must have 200,000.' This statement was made in
the presence of Secretary Cameron and his military family,
find was afterwards published in the Eastern newspapers
in a very distorted and incorrect form."

A great International Trade Convention assem-
bled at Detroit, Michigan, on the 11th. All the
different commercial organisations in the United
States and British North American Provinces were
represented. Various reports and resolutions were
submitted, but the Convention adjourned without
important action. A report presented on the 14th
by Mr. Howes, of Nova Scotia, contained the de-
claration that the annexation of the British Pro-
vinces to the United States has no place in the
minds of the people of those provinces, and that
should any one attempt to go to the hustings as an
advocate of such a scheme he would be treated as a
revolutionist.
A meeting of the Canadian Cabinet was held at
Quebec on the lith. The Goyernor-General has