The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-20 00:00:00

BRITISH INDIA.

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A. blue-book of 72 pages has just been issued, which
may probably be regarded as the first of an annual series
a statistical abstract relating to British India. It describes
British India as having an area of 95.5,238 square miles,
and a population estimated at 144,674,615 ; the native
States an area of 596,790 square miles, and a population
of 47,909,199; States under French Government 188
square miles, and 203,887 inhabitants; States under the
Portuguese Governineut, 1,066 square miles, and 3113,262
inhabitants—making a grand total of 1,553,282 square miles,
with a population of 193,100,963. The population of
Calcutta, according -to the census of January, 1866,
was 377,924 ; of the town of Bombay, according to the
census. of February, 1864, 816,562; of the town of Madras,
according to the administrative report for 1863, 427,771
The commercial progress of British India of late years has
been astonishing. In the financial year 1840-41 the mer-
chandise imported by sea from foreign countries was of
the value of £8,415,940 ; in 1860-61 it had risen to
£23,493,716; is 1864-65 it was £28,150,923, in addition
to £21,363,352 of treasure. In the year 1848-49 cotton
goods of the value of £2,222,089 were imported into
BritiSh India; in the year 1864-65 of the value
of £11,035,885. The exports of merchandise from
British India increased from £13,155,584 in the year 1840-41
to £32,970,605 in 1860-61, and to £68,027,016 in 1861-65.
This last increase was, of course, due chiefly to the effect
of the American civil war ; in the year 1859-60 the export
of raw cotton from British India amounted in value to
£5,637,624, in 1864-65 to £37,573,637. The other chief ex-
ports in 1864-65 wore opium £9,911,804, rice £5,573,587,
seeds £1,912,433, indigo £1,860,141, jute £1,307,844. The
United Kingdom took £7,054,388 worth of the exports in
1840-41, and £46,873,208 in 1864-65. Exports of the value
of £10,874,652 in this last year went to China and Japan,
aßt
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and £2,902,596 to France. The entrances and clearances of
of European and other foreign vessels 1,755 of 920,532
0f0f5,841r7it,f582h1
tons ; of native craft, 40,227 of 1,582,864 tons. In
Indiatons
the year 1864-5, 2,747 miles of railway were opened in
India, and conveyed 12,826,518 passengers. There were
1,421 post-offices, and 55,986,646 covers were transmitted
through tho post, besides books and parcels. 17,117 schools
and colleges were maintained or aided by the Government;
the average attendance of pupils in them was 435,898,
and the Government expenditure upon them £391,277.
X 4,473,263 was expended in the year upon public works.
11,736 miles of Government telegraph lines were open.
The gross public revenue of British India increased from
£20,124,038 in the financial year 183940, to £45,652,897 in
1864-65 ; and the expenditure from £22,228,011 in the
former year to £26,450,990 in the latter. The public debt
advanced from £34,484,997 in 1839-46, to £98,477,555 in
1864-65. Thu troops employed in British India in the
former year wore 35,604 Europeans and 199,839 natives ;
iu 1861-65 71,880 Europeans and 118,315 natives.

Rumours were again freely circulating that a
Fenian attack would be mado on tho chief frontier towns
on tho opening of navigation, and every preparation Ivan
accordingly being made to meet any emergency. Large
quantities of cannon and small arm service ammunition,
wo are informed, were daily being forwarded westward
from Quebec garrison under guards, for tho supply of the
out-lyllig military posts along the exposed portions of the
frontier. The provincial gunboats—Alfred, Rescue, Her -
cules—are to be manned exclusively by crews belonging
to the Royal Navy and commanded by officers of the same
service. In all, there will be, with the 'three Imperial
gunboats, six vessels of war on the lakes at the opening
of the navigation.

LARGE SILVER WINING DIVIDENDS.—Five silver
mining companies working on the Consteck lode, Nevada,
declared dividends for the month of January, amounting
to £56,800, and for February amounting to £51,200. These
large dividends were made for the last favourable two
months in the year. The "Yellow Jacket," with a capital
of £6,000, paid £12,000 in dividends for January ; this is
•t the rate of 240 per cent. per annum. " The Savage,"
with a capital of £21,000, paid dividends January and
February, each month amounting to £16,000, at the rate
of 814 per cent. per annum, and the "Imperial," with a
capital of £9,300, declared dividends for January of
£6,400, or at.the rate of 783 per annum, and for February
er at the rate of 1,176. per cent.' per

The beforeexaminatioefnAl‘,tas.Royal7xl.lThe
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bricklayers to working with persons not qualified to
work at the trade, and they showed that objection
in other ways than by " sending to Coventry" the
persons, inasmuch as they struck against them. lle
had never been a pal ty.to any measures which would
occasion distress to a man beyond refusing to speak
to him, and though accusations had been brought
against the Union men of using violence, none of
these had been supported. Ile joined the society in
1859, before the great strike of that year, and he
joined it, not because he found it stand in his way
by hindering him from making the best of his ability,
but because he decided to throw his lot in with the
society in obtaining a reduction of the hours of labour.
The wages fixed by•the society were the minimum
of what a skilled man ought to receive; but, though
employers were not bound to limit themselves to this
lament, and might give as much more as they liked
yet they seldom did so, unless it was to make a man a
" bell-horse", to lead his fellows on to do more work
than they properly could—a form of " chasing,, as it
was termed among the masons. A foreman might'
give a good and more than ordinarily skilled man an
extra hour a day, but this was, be said, an underhand
way of paying a man.
There was no objection to a
man doing as much work as he could ; but the men
decidedly objected to the " chasing" principle, and
they also decidedly objected to piecework where a
man got lower wages than the minimum. The
men would object to work with a non-society
man who received less than the minimum
wages. The evidence seemed further to point out
that there was not among the bricklayers so much
arbitrary exclusion as among the masons, and one
pleasing fact came out. Mr. Roebuck asked, " Sup-
posing that a man were sick and enfeebled by bad
health, but still a very good workman, he could not
do perhaps so much as other men. Supposing he
were to ask for work and to take less wages, would
you object to that ?" Witness—Yes ; but in such a
case, this is what the men would do. In the first
place the foreman, if he were a foreman of any judg-
ment whatever, would put himwhere his skill would
be made available without any great injury to his
health. In the next place, there are but few men
who would not feel pleasure in adding a brick each
to enable the man to do the ordinary amount of
work. Supposing five workmen were working on
what is called a line, those fivemen would divide the
whole length of the building into five spaces, and if
one man was known to be ill or feeble, the other
four would, as a rule, leave him the smallest portion
of that work. They would do that naturally and
without any hesitation." The witness stated further
that the union had increased wages, lowered the
hours of labour, and tended to decrease drunken-
ness among the men.

Mr. R. Applegarth, the secretary of the Amalga-
mated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, was exa-
mined at very great length. He said the society had
189 branches and 8,261 members, and its income in
1865 was £10,487 155., and its expenditure £6,733
lls. sid. The society had progressed very much
during the last year, there being an increase in that
period of 2,500 members.
The witness then described the purposes of the
society, which combines a trade and friendly society,
and the purpose apparently of combining the_two is
to have more influence over the members in enforc-
ing the trade claims, as a man ceasing to act in con-
formity with the rules in the trade loses his benefits.
Each member subscribes a shilling per week and
3d. per quarter to a benevolent and contingent fund.
" The benefits," the witness said, " are as follows :
Donation benefit for 12 weeks, lOs. per week ; and
for another 12 weeks, 6s. per week. For leaving em-
ployment satisfactory to branch or executive coun-
cil, 15s. per week ; tool benefit to any amount of
loss, or when a man has been a member for only
six months, £5 ; sick benefit for 26 weeks, 12s. per
week, and then Gs. per week so long as this illness
continues; funeral benefit £l3 or £3 lOs., when a
six mouths' member dies ; accident benefit, £lOO ;
superannuation benefit for life, if a member 25 years,
Bs. per week ; if a member 18 years, 7s. per week ;
if a member for 12 years, ss. per week. The emigra-
tion benefit is £6, and there are benevolent grants,
according to circumstances, in cases of distress."
He went on to speak of the decisions which had
lately been given, declaring the rules illegal, as they
acted in restraint of trade. The particular rule re-
ferred to was one giving 15s. a week to a member
" leaving his employment under circumstances satis-
factory to the branch or executive council." By that
rule the executive were enabled to withdraw men
from work on any pretext they thought satisfactory,
and this rule was acted upon about a dozen times a
year, and involved from 20 to 100 men leaving their
work. The money paid under this head was nearly
a third of the whole expenditure of the society, being
in 1865 £1,941 Bs. lid. ; but in this was included
money paid for law expenses in enabling men to ob-
tain "privileges of trade." With respect to strikes
there was one last year not acknowledged by the
society at Manchester. That strike was not sanc-
tioned by the executive, because they " disapproved
of a strike at that time on account of the monetary
crisis," but the society was forced to support some
men through it, as masters locked out some who did
not strike. The strike was successful, as by it the
men had obtained an advance of 2s. a week, and an
hour reduction of time. There was another strike
at Torquay, and this was successful, and the cir-
cumstances which hd to this strike were drawn out
by Mr. Roebuck, who asked if there was any influx
of business to the masters on that occasion, to which
the witness answered " We have our monthly trades'
reports, of which I have furnished the Commissioners
with a copy, in which you will find the state of
trade stated to be good, bad, or indifferent, as the
case may be, from month to month, and year to
year ; that is the ground on which we judge of the
condition of the trade. In the particular casein
question there was every reason to believe that the
men were going to have a busy summer, and, com-
paring things there with other towns near them, we
felt that they were underpaid, and the state of trade
would warrant an increase of wages." Mr. Roe-
buck.—" So that the strike really origin ated in
Witness
Torquay 'out of the briskness of trade r
" Yes." Mr. Roebuck.—"And the briskness of
trade on the part of the masters caused the men to
ask for an increase of wages ?" Witness.—" Yes."
Mr. Roebuck.—" Do the men in time of depression
of trade ever mention to the masters a diminution of
wages ?" Witness. —" It is not very natural that
men should mention it ; but I can refer to instances
where men have agreed to it where it has been men-
tioned to them by the masters." Mr. Roebuck.-,
" Do not they usually refuse it ?" Witness.—" Yes,
they do not like a reduction of their wage, of
course." Mr. Roebuck.—" They take advantage of
the briskness of trade on the part of the masters to
ask for an increase of wage, but they do not like
that the masters should take advantage (if you call
it an advantage) of the slackness of trade to lower
the wage ?" Witness. —" They do take advantage
of a briskness of trade to ask for an increase, and
they do not like a reduction any more than we
suppose the employers like to pay an increase." The
witness entered at length into the history of other
strikes made for the advance of wages and decrease
of hours. On some other questions of interfering
with a manes to the work he should do, and referring
particularly to a prohibition of men doing any work
after hours for their employers customers, the follow-
ing examination took place :—Mr. Roebuck asked
"So that you do really interfere with a man's judg-

meat of his own interests ; you say, ' We, the trade,
interfere and tell you that you shall not be governed
by your own judgment ?' " Witness—" In matters
like that we believe it to be on the whole very in-
jurious for the men to act in that way." Mr. Roe-
buck--" What do you mean by injurious ?'"
" Witness--" We believe that when a man
has done a day's work he has done sufficient."
Mr. I:oebuck—" Do you not suppose that lie is a
Letter judge of that qu stion than you ?" Witness
--‘2No, we do not ; we believe that the men are
thoroughly selfish who act in that way." Mr. Roe-
buck.—" How should you like me to interfere with
you as you interfere with those men ?" Witness—
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joofrintlyy sdoe
cc iiedteyd, at anda t yIo u,
mustii
c"olnfj tymoctit iwo :12 r ewai t mh
conform to certain regulations, I should be bound
to do so ; but if we are all left to do as we like the
sooner we dissolve our society the better." Mr.
Roebuck —" Is not that bringing the opinion of the
majority in all cases to govern mankind ?" Witness
—" Undoubtedly, and I see no reason against it."
Mr. Roebuck—" Then you think that the minority
should have no voice?" . Witness—" Undoubtedly,
let them have a voice, and if they have right on their
side let them agitate till they convince the majority
they are right." Mr. Roebuck—" But who is to
decide whether they have right on their side ?"
Witness 7-" The same remark marl* apiikd'to•
the question of the suffrage, about ivt3io I suppose
we shall have to go on agitating till we get what we
wish." Mr. Roebuck—" Here is, ,we Will say, an
individual man, who bas a peculiar power, who is,
in fact a genius; you interefere with him and say,
Your genius shall not help you, we will bring you
down to the mediocrity of the society ?'
Witness—" That is a mistake. I would ask
whether it adds to a man's genius •to over-
tax his own strength." Mr. Roebuck—" Is
not he the best judge of that question?" Wit-
ness—" No, I think not." Mr. Roebuck—" So that
you would have the society a nursing mother to
genius ?" Witness—" I would have a man do a
fair day's work for a fair day's wage." Mr. Roe-
buck—" And that is the rule you lay down in your
society, is it?" Witness—" Yes, and as far as we
are able to carry it." He further described the so-
ciety as objecting to piecework, and he gave as the
reason that piecework caused bad material to be
used. His explanation was suggestive. He said—
" On the outskirtsof London there are many villa re-
sidences put up by the piece. The general rule is for
the employers to give a certain price for the work,
and that a very low price, and they know well that
the men cannot make the same rate of wages that
men can get in a shop in London. The consequence
is that the men have to work so much longer and
to make more exertion. The employers know that
the men exert themselves to throw the work together
as speedily as possible, and at every opportunity
they introduce indifferent material. Now, as au
instance, what we term the treads (those are the
boards you tread on coming upstairs) of the stairs
in all good buildings are the same thickness at the
back as they are at the front. You see the round
edge, and that should be the thickness of the board
from back to front. They make a practice here in
London, and in some parts of the country also, of
having the boards cut aslant in such a way that the
thickness is not the same throughout. Now, when
these men work by the piece, their object is to get
the work as quickly thrown together as possible,
and having this desire they will cover up and hide
bad material,
and the employers know this, and
hence they introduce it. That is only one instance,
but many others might be given."
The influence work done abroad and imported
here had upon English labour, the effects of the
combinations upon capital, and instances of ratteo-
log'', all important matters, were then gone into at
very coisiderable length.

Admiral Persano has been cashiered by vote of
the Italian Senate for his conduct in the action off Lissa.
It seems front the evidence that the Admiral's retreat to
the recesses of the rain Afnidatore contributed largely to
the success of the Austrian fleet. On his own showing he
once took a look at the progress of the action, leaving the
Italian ships engaged to follow their own devices in fight-
ing the enemy. At one moment the captain of the iljon-
datore had made sure of a fair stroke against the side of
the Austrian three-decker, and the Kaiser Max sootned,
according to all human probability, likely to be rammed to
the bottom of the sea. But at the critical moment Admiral
Persano interfered with the rant's butt as directed by the
captain, and himself taking charge of the Afonda- •
tore, ordered the helm to be reversed. Finally, ho
gave command for the fleet to follow the ram, and there-
upon retreated front the scone of action. These details,
which indicate something more than want of moral nerve
on the part of Persano, seem almost incredible to whoever
knows anything of the bravery which he displayed in the
attack on Ancona by the Italian fleet then under his corn-
, maud. It was Admiral Persano who decided the advance
of Cialdini into the Roman States. He wrote to the
General that his vessels were bad and his crews worse,
that he expected the Austrian fleet to come and attack
him, and that his little strength would be more use-
fully employed in battering the defences of „Ancona.
Therewith ho declared to the General that he should
be off the town on a certain day, and should
attack forthwith. Cialdini accepted the rendezvous, Ad-
miral Persano brought his ships under fire with great
gallantry, and the result is well known. Up to the battle
of Lissa he was thought to he a man of daring, nay of
intelligent courage. Curiously enough, the officials of the
Vienna Admiralty placed no trust in Tegethoff. It was
rather expected by them that he would by his blundering
send the Austrian fleet to the bottom of the Adriatic. The
!result of the court-martial on Persano should be soothing
to Italian pride. It is evident that the disaster off Lissa
I was mainly clue to the Admiral's abdication of all efficient
control. The moral to be learned from the whole business
appears to bo that in the next naval war victory will wait
on the fleets which have the most scientific and methodical
handling.
The Springfield Republican remarks that the
advocates of an eight-hour law who think that they have
I discovered a new thing under the sun, will find their tills-
? alto by reading the subjoined extract front the ancient re-
cords of Springfield, n:11 of which Mr. Folsom, the city
clerk, is carefully copying to insure their preservation.
Not only the time of labour, but the amount of wages, is
limited, a conjunction that would be hardly relished now-
a-days. Just imagine the present City Council passing
such an order as the following, which was adopted by the
" plantation," December 21, 101, five years after the first
settlement of,Springfield:— "It is mutually by vote agreed
for ye orderinge of wages fur several labourers, viz., hus-
bandman, or ordinary laborers from yo first of Novembr
to yo first of March to worke at 181 p day, for ye
other pt of ye yearn not to take above 20d p day ; for
carpenters for ye first 4 months 20d p day, foe ye other
pt of ye yearn 2s p day for mowers 2s p day, for
taylers 10d p day wch severall laborers aro to worke
8 hours in ye winter pt, dz 19 hovers in ye somer pt,
besides eating° and sleepingo, taylors to worke 12 howrs :
it is alsoo ordered for teames that they shall worke 4
cattell and ono man at 6d p day from May till Octobr to
worke 8 howrs & yo other pt 6 howrs & if they carry by ye
loado to work pportionably this order to continue for one
wholl y : followingo on till order be taken to ye contrary.
" BRAYING."—The special correspondent who
writes about the Paris Exhibition to the Daily Telegraph
is certainly, to; Swift said, "the greatest elephant in the
world except himself." His last excursion was into the
"Ceramic" courts, and never did sublimer bull dash into
earthly china shop. He says of Minton's modellers,
" They have the Rubens' touch, the Lucca Giordano power
of wrist, the roundness and flowing abundance of form
and drapery which wo recognise so gladly in the con-
ceptions of Giovanni di Bologna and .Donatello." Front
imitation majolica he ascends to the twthetic philoso-
phy of the I?(inaissance. Its method is a singular
thin :—"All that the Roman had of racy, all that time
Greek had of rare that was sumptuous and extrava,
gant in the Gothic, it took and brayed with flowing pig-
nmoutsand plastic wealth in an affluent mortar, adding, how-
ever, harmony as a sauce." After this bit of "braying..
no wonder if " Minton's " majolica has the true sparkle and
sheen, the veritable gloss and density of broidored rich-
ness of the age when the wine flowed from thp(„nosto4-9f..
Donatello's horse at Padua, and carpets of
r shin pib-
le
I were laid, &c. One of the persistent tlifimes of this guf
all
lime gentleman is the brutal and grovelling /untenably o
French art, and the vast superiority
of English work to
the boasted achievements, in whatever line, of " envious,
sneering, captious foreigners." Ho advises Messrs. Wedg-
wood to avoid "a gilded pigsty. of a boudoir," and copy
" Fuseli with his writhing forms of terror, and Morthuer
with his monsters and chimeras dire." Failing these they
ire to "abide among the Dutchmen. . old Isaac
Ostade ; subdued but luminous as a firefly on the Riviera
di lavauta oil a meanieo Pitsbt."—faa 'Vcad Gazette.

Yesterday the authorities theme
Railway completed their arrangetriekta iiiiifir-Ve-
veyance of the main body of the- Tolinieers to
Dover on Easter Monday. The metropolitan
Volunteers who will be conveyed from the Charing-.
cross and Cannon-street Stations have been ordered
by the War-office to be in attendance at these ter-
mini at stated intervals between 4 50 a.m. and 6
a.m. The special trains for these Volunteers will
be placed in position alongside a platform at each
station, and be ready for loading directly the seve-
ral Volunteer corps are admitted within the station,
aud this will ba regulated by a staff officer in con,
junction with the emu pat iy's officials. Eight special
trains will be started from Cannon-street, and five
trains front Charing-cross. Etch train will be made
up of 2 L vehicles (covered carriages, and one first-
class), including thr:e breaks, and as each train will
accommodate 600 men, it follows that about, 8,000
Volunteers will be carried from the Cannon-street
and Charing-cross tertnini.
The special trains will start as under :—From.
Cannon-street at 4 55 a.m., at 52 a.m., and at 5 8
a.m. ; from Charing-cross, 5 10 a.m., and at 5 16
a.m. ; from Cannon-street at 5 22 a.m. ; from
Charing-cross, at 5 25 a.m. ; from Cannon-street,
at 5 35 a.m., at 5 50 a.m., and at 5 55 a.m..; from
Charing-cross at 6 a.m. ; from Cannon-street at
6 10 a.m. ; and from Charing-cross at 6 15 a.m.
These specials will return from Dover to Cannon-
street and Charing-cross at about every 10 minutes
from 6 15 p.m. to 7 45 p.m. The 8,000 Volunteers
will be conveyed in 200 carriages. An early special
train with horses and officers' servants will leave
Charing-cross at 3 a.m., calling at Red. hill and
Ashford, and arriving at Dover at 615 a.m. This
14., n will run to • and unload at the Dover town
platform. It will not take dowfi-borses. from the
country stations. The special will return from
Dover to Charing-cross at about 11 p.m., calling
at the same stations as above.

There will also be Volunteer special trains from
country stations to Dover. From the main line,
leaving Redhill (empty) at 4 30 a.m., calling at
Edenbridge, Penshurst, &c. ; from the North Kent
Dartford, &c.; from Plumstead, at 5 a.m., callin
I Bricklayers'ack heath, a
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(empty),, calling g
line, leaving Plumstead at 4 50 a.m., calling at
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calling at New Cross, Siv.% Volunteer specials wil
run from Hastings, via Ashford, at 7 20 and 8 40
a.m.; from Tunbridge Wells at 7 45 a.m., Croydon
at 8 30 a.m., and Guildford at 8 a.m.
Mr. C. W. Eborall, the general manager, and Mr.
J. P. Knight, the out-door superintendent of the
South-Eastern Railway have taken extra precautions
to secure the safety and convenience of the Volun-
teem and public. Smeeth and Shorncliffe Camp
stations will remain open throughout Easter Sunday
and Monday nights, and all stations on the North
Kent line between London and Maidstone, and on
the Paddock-road wood branch will also remain open
the same nights, while the stations on the Ashford
and Hastings and Tunbridge Wells branches will
not close till all their specials have returned. Tem-
porary sidings for ten trains have been lard on on
the spare ground at the Folkestone end of the Shak-
spere tunnel. Extra signalling stations will be
opened and at work from noon-day till the same
time on Tuesday.
In the evening, on the return, the public will not
be admitted to the Dover Station till all the Vo-
lunteer special trains have left. The London special
trains will be started first and the two entrances to
the station for the Volunteers will be at the booking
office, Beach-street, and at the large gates near the
locomotive shed in Great-street. The departure and
arrival platforms will be used for these specials.
The country specials will be started from the Dover
Town platforms and Middle-road.
About 3,500 Volunteers will be conveyed by the
London, Chatham, and Dover line in trains, each
made up of 18 carriages, and the despatching of
these will be under the supervision of Mr. Forbes,
the general manager. The South-Western line
will also run Volunteer special trains from Farn-
ham at 7.20 a.m. ; Sunburn (Thames Valley line),
5.20 a.m. ; Staines (Staines and Loop Line), 5.20
a.m. ; Chertsey (mAin line and Chertsoy), 5.20
a.m. ; Kingston, 5.35 a.m. ; and Waterloo (South-
Eastern Station), at 6.30 a.m. This traffic will
be under the direction of Mr. Godson, Mr.
Hams, and Messrs. Verrinder and Hill. At a rough
computation the total number of Volunteers ex-
pected to be present at Dover on Monday may be
estimated at from 15,000 to 20,000 men.

DOVER, Good Friday Evening.
The weather at Dover to-day is splendid, and
full advantage seems to be taken of it by the Vo-
lunteers and visitors, judging from the unusually
gay and animated appearance of the sea terraces
and the unrivalled Admiralty-pier promenade, the
latter being especially patronised. It is calculated
that about 800 Volunteers have already arrived at
Dover and Folkestone ; several hundreds are ex.
pected down this evening, and by to-morrow night
there will in all probability be an accession of at
least 4,000 of these visitors.
Accommodation at Dover is, al might be expected,
becoming rapidly absorbed ; at Folkestone, Sand-
gate, and llythe there is yet, so it is reported, an
ample reserve of apartments, both at hotels and pri-
vate houses. Visitors to the review wile have not
yei secured themselves a temporary residence can-
not, perinps, do better than make their place of so-
journ before And after Monday either at Walmer,
Deal, Sandwich, Minster, Eamsgate, or Margate,
and find their way over to Dover on the morning
of the review by either sea, Tail, or road convey-
ance, a choice of such modes of transit between
those adjacent coast towns and the review having
been announced by the steamboat and railway com-

panies.
The local committees at Dover and Folkestone
are working most assiduously in regard to lodgings,
and also as to a supply of refreshments to the Vo-
lunteers at a reasonable price on the arrival of
the trains on Monday morning, and a word of
praise is here due to Mr. Mummery and Mr. Gam-
brill, the mayors of the two towns, and also to their
indefatigable colleagues, Messrs. Church ward, Fin-
rib, Knocker, and Harrison, for their laudable ex-
ertions in this important part of the arrangements.
The Terrible, Virago, and Sea Lark, war vessclr,
have already arrived ; the remaining part of the at-
tacking squadron, which will be much stronger
than was at first supposed, is expected to arrive and
anchor off Dover to-morrow and Sunday.

THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN DELEGATES.--
The return to their Transatlantic homes of the few re
maining delegates who continued amongst us to watch
the passage of the Intercolonial Railway Bill through
several parliamentary stages seems a proper occasion on
which to express the lasting obligations under which
British America and the empire generally are indebted to
those gentlemen who have been s) long engaged in the
performance of a public duty—the most important which
has devolved on any set of statesmen shim) the founda-
tion of the American republic. The quanti
the in
the of
the work done, the quality of that work, n-
exhaustible patience and forbearance exhibited by
the real authors of the utlion measure, surpass all
prais .. We feel, therefore, that
g,-neral orioion of those bast informed on the matter that
flogl.ind and America iota never fagot what they owe to
the men who have carried this confederation to so successful
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favourable auspices,
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Messrs.ttrue Johnto N
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the Secretary to the Delegation, departure
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return for another week.— nee /.
am tau News.

In a report on the geology of Alabama, Professor
Tummy computes that there are 5,330 squana ►riles of
coal7fit,lds in the Slate of Alabama alone.

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