The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-16 00:00:00

AMERICAN AND CANADIAN NOTES.

The New York papers delivered yesterday report that
a terrific gale raged en Lakes Erie and Ontario on Sun-
day night (the 30th ult.), doing much damage to shipping:-
Several vessels were driven ashore and wrecked, or seri-
ously damaged, but the crews, so far as reported, were
saved. There was also a violent wind in St. Louis,
which blew clown several buildings. There
were snowstorms in Maine and New Hampshire
on Monday. Several lives were lost during the gale on
the lakes on Monday. Several vessels were wrecked, and
their cargoes, mostly of grain, entirely lost. An explosion
of 150,0001 b. of nitro-glycerine occurred at Fairport, Ohio,
on the sth instant. Four persons were blown to pieces.
A correspondent of the Toronto Globe, writing from
Winnipeg, states that the Indians have been suffering from
small-pox, and the idea has seized upon their minds that
it was given them by the whites for the purpose of
their destruction. Whole camps have been destroyed by
this fearful plague, and the wigwams are standing tenant-
less, while their owners lie mouldering and bleaching on
the prairie, or are torn from the semblance of humanity
by wolves and other wild animals. At Fort Pitt 200
wild Indians died, and the survivors brought their dead and
threw them against the stockades to try and give the in-
fection to the whites.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The First Lord,. of the Admiralty, accompanied by
Admiral Sir Sydney Dacres and Captain Stanhope
(private secretary to the First Lord), returned to the
Admiralty; Whitehall, on Monday evening from an
official visit to Portsmouth.
Her Majesty's ship Juno arrived at Gibraltar on the
evening of the 12th inst., and the Lord Warden on
the 13th inst., with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Hastings
Yelverton.
A detachment of the Chatham Division of Royal
Marines have left head-quarters to embark on board the
Repulse, 12, armour-plated vessel, in the coast-guard
service, for Ireland. The Repulse has changed crews
without being put out of commission.

LICENSES FOR HOTEL SERVANTS.—A number of
hotel proprietors met on Monday at the City Terminus
Hotel to consider the unsatisfactory state of the law on
the subject of licenses for servants employed at hotels.
In the course of the discussion one or two of the speakers
dwelt on the hardship of hotel proprietors being taxed for
servantwat 011. • The .meeting resolved to support Mr.
Spencer, of ' Margate, in his appeal against being taxed
for servants employed for temporary purposes.

JEnsEt AND GRANVILLE.—A. Jersey correspon-
dent writes that communication bet Ween Jersey and
Granville, which had been discontinued for nearly five
weeks, owing to an attack by the populace on the steamer
Dispatch, belonging to the London and South Western
Company, was resumed last week,. the French
Government having ordered troops down to Gran-
ville to protect the traffic. A body of the Garde
Mobile kept possession of the quays during the
discharging . and loading of the steamer Granville,
which proceeded to the port on Thursday,. returning on
Saturday. The people assembled in considerable num-
bers, but the Mobiles kept them from doing any mischief.
On Thursday night, after the soldiers haki been removed
to their barracks, some showers of stones were thrown on
board the steamer, and on Sunday morning one of her
ropes was cut away by some of the mob. The feeling in
Granville atill•oontinues very strong against the exporta-
tion of anything, especially-food. The authorities have
promised the steam packet company's agent all needful
protection of the steamer and crew.

'FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.—The Chamber of
Agricultutv Journal says that at a meeting of the Fareham
committee, the foot and mouth disease was .reported to
have broken out at fifteen fresh places within a fortnight.
There have been 164 fresh outbreaks in Hampshire during
the past week. In the last week in October the total
numbers were 2,091 cattle, 14. sheep, and 639 pigs. The
foot disease Still prevails to an alarming extent in Dorset-
shire. The returns of the county constabulary shew that
in the week ending Saturday last there were within the
Dorchester division the following number of diseased
animals :—Cows' 336 ; heifers, 29; swine, 14; oxen, 9 ;
bulls, 3 ; sheep, 120—total, 56L This disease continues
to. spread at an alarming rate in the counties of Somerset
and Gloucester: At the Long Ashton petty sessions on
Friday, Mr. Superintendent Jones reported that since the
last meeting of the justices 244 animals had been attacked
on farms in the parishes .of Bedminster, Nailseai Yatton,
Brockley, Walton, Backwell, Wonford, Dundry, and
Cleave. At the meeting of the Lawford's Gate
Cattle Plague Committee, the inspector reported
the herds on several farms to have recovered, and
they were accordingly declared free. The cattle on some
other farms were stated to be going on favourably, but
there had been fresh outbreaks on farms in the parishes of
Charlton and Westbury. There have also been fresh out-
breaks on farms in the division situated at Corstun and
Wellow, but in this district the return far the past week
is the smallest since the Arst appearance of disease some
months ago. In Coruwail two fresh outbreaks are re-
ported, namely, at Helstan and Chasews•ter.

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DIAMONP PIGGING.—A Liveruool man, writing
_home to his friends from the diamond fieldti, says
"The part of the country we are new In really belongs to
no one it has no government, no laws, and until the
diamonds were found, no claimants. Now the Free
States and the Transvaal Republics have both put in
claims, besides native chiefs. All this it is supposed
will bring about a war, but in such an event I shall
clear out of course, for the simple reason that I did
not come here to fight. We have washed out thirty loads
of earth, which we carted down from the hills, and have
washed in the river and sorted out ; but unfortunately up
to the present time we have had no luck. Diamoncf-
digginn• is hard manual work, and favours only the few.
Yesterday' I saw a diamond that a ty.Rder haci found for
which he refused £6,000 it was a beauty, and almost
made my mouth water. "It was as large as a
hen's egg and as bilght as a star. It is considered by
people who know something of the value of diamonds that
if it cuts well it will be worth 225,000. Diamonds of this
size are of course very rare, but small ones of the value of
£lO to £3O are picked up daily. This is a rough, bagen
country, made up of a series of ironstone hill, mtermixed
with what is called italcolumite, a substance re.sembling
gravel, but mixed with ironstene,liYne, jasper, mica, ruby,
garnet, and here and there the diamond. We commence
work before sunrise and knock off after sundown, have
our supper, and turn in. This goes on day after dtay until
Sunday comes, and then all hands go in f9r rest."