The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-23 00:00:00

United States. This is the largest number as yet
given, with the exception of 1864, the increase com-
ing chiefly from Ireland. Mr. Disraeli will find it
difficult to check the exodus, however much he
may disapprove of the children of a soil forsaking
in this wholesale manner the cradle of their race.

Business at Rio Janeiro was completely suspended
on the news of the English monetary crisis. Several
failures occurred, and everything will remain stag-
nant until the receipt of further advices from Europe.
The Ministry had been defeated in a vote on the
Budget, and both Chambers were to meet on Bth
June. The President of the Argentine Confedera-
tion had resigned the office of acting President.
From Victoria, British Columbia, the news up to
the 23rd June last, informs us that a serious dis-
pute had arisen between Governor Kennedy and
he Legislative Assembly about the financial condi-
tion of the Colony. The Assembly had tele-
graphed a petition to the Home Government for re-
trenchment, and that the Colony be united to
British Columbia, believing one government to be
sufficient for both.

Much interest has been created by a recent dis-
covery in the Valley of the Mississippi, near New
Orleans, of an immense bed of pure rock salt, almost
as transparent as crystal, which lies some thirty feet
below the surface. Specimens of the salt have been
received by the Smithsonian Institute. The most
singular fact in connection with this valuable de-
posit has been the discovery of the remains of an
elephant, twenty feet below the surface of the super-
incumbent earth, beneath which has been found
basket-work formed of reeds. Photographic re-
presentations of this ancient hand-work are in pos-
session of the Institute.

One of those singular murders combining the
most ferocious brutality with the professed love of
God has been perpetrated at Medina, Orleans
county, New York, by a man named Lindsley, the
victim being his own child. It appears that the
child, not three years of age, having a spice we
presume of his fathers' obstinacy, refused to say
his prayers. The father, perhaps aware how detri-
mental in life his own vicious obstinacy had been,
had determined to break that of his little son, so he
took a shingle—(which for our English readers who
use thatch or slate, we may add, is a light, flat
piece of wood used for roofing)—and beat the child
for two hours. The child then began to show signs
of debility, when he was laid on a couch and his
stepmother called. The child died ; and as several
of its fingers were broken, the father tied its hands
behind its back and placed it in a coffin. A post
mortem examination revealed the savage manner in
which it had been put to death. During the ex-
amination Mr. Lindsley sat by coolly looking on,
and asked " if this thing had not been carried about
far enough." The doctors seemed to have thought
so, for they declared the child to have died from ex-
cessive and cruel punishment, and the father was
arrested and lodged in the gaol in Albion. Bail in
the sum of $lO,OOO was accepted, and the murderer
was free to leave his cell. The populace, however,
had formed their own idea of the crime, and awaited
him outside. Mr. Lindsley preferred the shelter of
its walls to a summary execution on a lamp post.
and therefore remained where he was. It seems
that he is well off in circumstances, and a mission
clergyman.