The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1868.

RETORTED CONSPIRACY AGAINST THB
LIFE OF NAPOLEON.

The Pays of Monday night contained the following
alarming statement :

" PROJET D'ATTMTTAT.

" An alarming rumour has been circulating in Paris since
pasterclay evening ; it is requisite to reduce it to its real
proportions.

" Three individuals, more than suspected for some time
past of harbouring a design against the Emperor's life,
were traced to Rouen and arrested there. We do not
hesitate in giving these details if it were only to put the
public on their guard against the exaggerations which may
be circulated. The Emperor once said, under circum-
stances of a far graver character, that he had nothing to
fear from an assassin so long as he bad not accomplished
the mission which Providence had entrusted to him. We
ire of that opinion, too. The destiny of a people is not at
;,he mercy of a few wretches."
The Faris correspondent of the Evening Standard,
writing on Monday night, says : "It is probable
that tie rays has derived these details from
an official source, but it is to be regretted that
they are not more complete, and that the names of
the individuals, and the circumstances under which
they were arrested, should not be made known. The
silence of the 21.101iiteur ci n nt of such im-
bortance seems quite i naccountable."
The Paris correspondent of the Globe writes : "Rumours
were spread last evening shortly after the return of the
Emperor and Empress to Paris, and they have been
repeated to-day, that some persons were arrested at
Rouen on suspicion of designing an attack on the Empe-
ror's life. The report, it seems, was true." The report
from the Pays is then quoted.
The Paris correspondent of the Star gives the substance
of the same statement.-

The Constitutiortnel of Tuesday morning gives an official
denial to the statement.

THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORT.

The committee state that a variety of objections have
been urged against the extension of the boundaries as re-
commended by the commissioners, and they summarise
their objections as follows

1. The apprehension that if the outlying districts should
be brolOit within the limits of the parliamentary borough,
the municipal boundary would be altered so as to make it
co-extensive with the parliamentary boundary ; such an
alteration subjecAng the inhabitants in that district to a
new jurisdiction, and probably to increased taxation.
2. The change made in the law which has abolished the
power to compound for the poor rates in parliamentary
boroughs. This has been urged as causing peculiar hard.
ship in those cases where one part of the parish would be
included in the parliamentary borough while another part
is still left out of it without the advantages of compounding
eny longer.
3. That the boroughs are already so large as to be
almost unmanageabie for the purposes of election, and the
objectors urge that such boroughs, if considerable additions
were made to them, would require division.
4. That the wishes of the inhabitants of the borough;
or
of the districts proposed to be added, are opposed to
annexation.
5. That the supposed community of interests within
the borough and the districts proposed to be added is not
greater than between the borough and other districts
con tiorons thereto.
6. Where a large number of county voters exist, and
the outlying districts are not immediately connected in
interest with the urban population of the contiguous
borough, it would be contrary to the wishes and feelings
of the inhabitants to deprive them by annexation of the
county franchise, or to change that franchise into a frau!
chise for the borough.
7. Where the inhabitants of the outlying districts haVi
their own local board, their own local burdens, their own
markets, their own shops, and their own business connec-
tion, they cannot be said to have such a community of
interest with the town as to justify their annexation to it
against their will.
8. Where the municipal and parliamentary boundariei
are conterminous, it is not advisable to disturb existing
communities by bringing within them a new class of in-
terests, seldom identical, and sometimes antagonistic.
9. Where outlying districts are not connected with si
borough either by social or fiscal relations, it would be
unjust to admit the inhabitants of such districts to its
parliamentary privileges unless they participated in the
imurder.s and duties of a common citizenship.
10. Where portions of counties are to be annexed to
boroughs, regard should be had to the maintenance of a
reasonable number of electors in those counties, especially
where counties or divisions of counties have been divided
by the Act of 1867.
11. Where two towns are distinct or only slightly con.
nected, they should not be joined together as a Par-
liamentary borough, unless the principle of grouping be
further extended by Parliament.
All these circumstances, so far as they were brought
under the notice of the commissioners, appear to have
been examined by them with the greatest care.
But much additional information has, in many cases, been
communicated to your committee in petitions and memo-
rials, called forth by the report of the commissioners, and
also by conference with the members representing the
counties and boroughs affected by the report. This infor-
mation, and thelarger powers conferred on your committee,
have led them to conclusions differing in some cases from
those of the commissioners.

The committee do not attempt to answer the objections
which they have enumerated, but content themselves with
giving their decision upon the various cases which were
referred to them.

The cases in which the report of the commissioners

was reo,mmended for adoption were—Bolton, Chester,
Greenwich, Newport (Mon.), Northampton, Prestoi,
Staleybridge, and Windsor. CaSes for which modifi-
cations bad been suggested, but most of them only
slight—Chelsea, Darlington, Middlesborough, New-
port (Isle of Wight), Salisbury, Wilton, Cheltenham,
Gloucester, Hastings, and Oldham. Cases in which the
present boundaries are retained—Birkenhead, Birming-
ham, Bristol, Gateshead, Lambeth, Liverpool, Maryle-
bone, Manchester, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Reading,
South Shields, Plymouth, Warwick, and Wigan.
The prompt action of the committee appears to have
given satisfaction to the House of Commons, and it is to
be hoped that their decision will be equally satisfactory to
the country.

Yesterday was the first shilling day at the Leeds Exhibi-
tion. There wore 3,413 admissions—namely, by season
tickets, 625 ; by payment of Is. each, 2,788.
The E4rl of Shaftesbury yesterday laid the foundation
stone of a new church at Bournemouth, which is to be
erected with the avowed object of counteracting the
Ritualist practices which are carried out at the parish
church of St. Peter's in that town, one of the finest churches
in England. The new church will be dedicated to the
Holy Trinity.
The committee on Mr. John Abel Smith's bill has sat,
since its formation, with Sir James Fergusson as chairman,
for the purpose of taking evidence, twelve tunes; it has
examined thirty-nine witnesses, who have fur the most
part been in favour of increased restrictions on the present
Sunday drinking. The evidence in favour of the bill is now
closed, and on Monday next witnesses are to be heard against
the proposed measure. Hitherto the witnesses have been
entirely unanimous as to the beneficial operations of the Act
of 1839, which closed public-houses on Sunday mornings;
as well as to the advantageous working of Wilson Patten's
Act of 1854, and Sir George Grey's Act of 1864.
The claim to have women placed upon the list of Parlia-
mentary voters has not been dealt with in Manchester as
in Salford. The overseers asked for the opinion of Mr. Mel-
lish, Q. 0., who, according to the Pall Mall Gazette, replied—
"l am of opinion that under the Reprepresentation of
the People Act, 1867, women are not entitled to be
registered as voters. It is plain that if it had been the in-
tention of Parliament to give votes to women, the word
'man' would not have been used in the 3d, 4th, sth, and 6th
sections, and no statute ought to be construed contrary to the
manifest intention of the Legislature." Mr. Mellish adds that
he sees no objection to the names of women being placed on
the list of claimants.

The Globe, in an an article headed " Which shall be
Leader—Gladstone or Bright ?"—says of the latter gentle-
man—" As a rule he has displayed a propensity towards
fairness and temperance which has offered an agreeable
contrast to Mr. Gladstone. He bas been conciliatory; he
has been even courteous. More than once be has shown a
power of right perception in questions of political nicety ; in
a word, he possesses some measure of that power of compro-
mise without which he is not a political leader. While
Mr. Gladstone either knows not or ignores all those little
social amenities which go no i❑considerable way towards
success even in political life, •John Bright, Quaker though
he be, and steadily as he objects to appear in State dress, can
condescend to make himself pleasant.. If we come to
the esteem in which each is held outside the walls of
St. Stephen's, we shall find the difference even wider still.
For one person who trusts Mr. Gladstone ten will place
their confidence in Mr. Bright. This is a very significant
fact, that even at those meetings, held throughout the
country, at which Mr. Gladstone's resolutions have
been approved of, the approval has almost invariably
been coupled n ith a distrust of the motives of the man.
The conviction that they are the result only of a desire to
replace himself upon tho Treasury Bench has scarcely once
been disguised. Who, then, is to be the Liberal Leader of
the future ? We have, at any rate, said enough to show
that it will not be• Mr. Gladstone."

Of the 228 private bills originally deposited for the present
session only 187 came before Parliament.
On the motion for the secend reading of the Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill, on Tuesday next, Mr. Schreiber will move that it
be read a second time that day six months.
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The annual procession of the Manchester and Salford
Church of England Sunday Schools took place on Monday.
The children numbered 14,563, against 14,100 last year.

A fire of a very serious character broke out in Liverpoo
on Monday, by which a large cotton warehouse was
destroyed.

The Annual Movable Delegation of the Order of Druids
met at Derby on Monday, when the Grand Master delivered
an address showing that during the past year the organiza-
tion had made satisfactory progress.
It is rumoured that ou a dissolution of Parliament Lord
Henry Percy will retire from the representation of North
Northumb,rland, and that Earl Percy, the eldest son of the
Da() of Northumberland, will come forward as a candidate
in his place.

Th 3 Eastern Horning News states that the poor fellow who
was shot by the accidental discharge of a carbine at Hull
died on Monday evening. The circumstances are of an un-
usually melancholy character. The deceased was engaged
to be married shortly ; he supported his mother, with whom
he resided in Grosvenor-street, and he was much respected
by a large circle of acquaintances.

IS THE PRESIDENT TO BE A DESPO2?

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The English daily papers, in discussing the posi-
tion at Washington, generally overlook the grave
difficulty that the decision of the Senate Court on
Impeachment not only leaves untouched, but tends
to complicate. Is the President of the United States
to be erected into a despot?—which must be the
case if he has the power of dismissing the Cabinet
and other officers, and nominating persons selected
by himself as their successors without the sanction
of the Senate. No English Sovereign pretends to
such a power, nor would the English people for a
moment allow it, knowing as they do that its exer-
cise would speedily be fatal to their liberties. It
was shown by the Impeachment Managers that the
number of officers subject to the control of the
PRESIDENT, if his will alone is to rule in this matter,
would be 42,000, drawing salaries amounting in the
aggregate to $32,00000. A patronage so enor-
mous could never in a constitutional Government
be safely entrusted to any one man. Nor, even if
the public liberty were not endangered, should such
a temptation be given. There is no subject on
which English people are more jealous than on
the control of the Executive by Parliament. No
Ministry can stand in the face of a hostile
majority, and the only power the Sovereign and the
Executive have is to dissolve the House of Com-
mons and appeal to the people. If the result of
the Impeachment Trial is to be taken as a decision
on the PRESIDENT'S right to dismiss and appoint,
it will be absolutely necessary for Congress to in-
troduce an Amendment to the Constitution, if by
other means the PRESIDENT cannot be deprived of
so dangerous a prerogative. ANDREW JOHNSON
possessed many qualities which, had they not been
neutralized by others, would have rendered him a
dangerous man when backed by so enormous an
influence. Who can tell what the next President
may be? If popular, ambitious, skilful in intrigue,
unscrupulous, and courageous, short work might be
made in such hands of Republican institutions, If
there be danger, in democratic license, there is still
greeter danger in the one-man power ; and the Re-
publican institutions handed down to the present
generation of Americans are too sacted a trust not
to be guarded at every point. When Englishmen
harshly criticise the 35 Senators who voted for the
Impeachment charges, they lose sight of the great
point of Constitutionalgovernment involved,d welling
only on the guilt or innocence of ANDREW JOHNSON'S
intentions. They overlook the fact that were their own
liberties thus threatened no measures would be consi-
dered objectionable by them that removed the danger.
Any other course would perhaps have been prefer-
able that gave a chance by legal means of attaining
the object aimed at ; but we hold it to be the
bounden duty, of those who desire to transmit to
posterity the free institutions they have inherited
to prevent a President of the United States from
securing the unqualified power of removals and ap- •
pointments. If no other way was open, Congress
was justified in impeaching the PRESIDENT for in-
fringing a law passed to restrain his action, and
for exercising that objectionable authority in de-
fiance of the Senate. It was not these motives
that brought Impeachment into discredit, but the
underhand intrigues of those who supported the
Hon. BEN WADE, and desired through him to
seize the spoils of office. Had the Managers con-
fined themselves to a simple statement of the facts,
and of the danger of allowing a President to exer-
cise the power claimed by ANDREW JOHNSON, the
trial might have terminated differently. But they
overloaded their case with other issues, and sank it
with the discredit of objects other than the defence
of Republican institutions. We have before this
urged the one fact, which appears to us unausvrer-
able agaiust the ad interim appointments of the Chief
Magistrate. What is to prevent a President from
dismissing a Cabinet Minister, who opposes his
schemes against the liberties of the people, and re-
placing him with a tool of his min ? Congress
may or may not be sitting ; be merely announces
that he has dismissed such a Secretary ; and that he
appointed such a person to perform the duties
pending his selection of a successor. What can the
Senate do to restrain him ? No time is named in
which to submit the nomination, ncr is the PRESI-
IDENT compelled to consult the Senate regarding the
appointment. He may therefore first delay it, and
afterwards solect a person notoriously objectionable,
and thus dismiss and replace all the great officers of
State. This may be far-fetched, but so are coups

d'etat, and the other measures by which usurpers are
in the habit of gaining their ends. There can b 3
que3tion about the fact, that in so far as the Legislature
cannot exercise an immediate and general control
over the Executive, such as is exercised by the
British Parliament, the Constitution of the
United States is defective. If the result of Im-
peachment be a victory for the PRESIDENT on this
point, then it increases the necessity for an altera-
tion. That the PRESIDENT is an elected officer
but increases the danger; for his popularity, and
the confidence the people place in the individual
they choose, disarm watchfulness and opposition,
while the patronage gives him an army of tools oc-
•cupying all the places of strength. From the tre-
mendous battery brought to bear by the mere sec-
tional organization of a party against the Republi-
can Senators who would not vote as certain mr3n
dictited, the strength of the battery a popular PRE-
SIDENT might bring to bear thus armed against
honest, patriotic men who opposed his ambitious de-
signs, may be imagined. It is impossible to ignore
the danger, one indeed sufficiently great, whatever
may be the influence of Congress over the Chief
Magistrate, without increasing it by placing wea-
pons in the PRESIDENT'S hand which convey to his
mind the ceaseless temptation to use them.

MONEY.—No. I.

When we read that in ATHELSTAN'S reign an ox
sold for 30 pence and a sheep for one shilling, and
later far, though the citizens of London still trusted
for defence to their wall—that ducks, geese, fowls,
were offered in Cheapside for half pence, the ques-
tion is suggested—what these pence were compared
with those now circulated. Doubtless money has
materially fallen in value, but has the fall been so
great as represented by the price of the ox in the
time of ATHELSTAN, and its price in the time of
VICTORIA ? It cannot be said that money was
scarce and oxen plentiful, when the first Sovereign
of all England sat on the Throne from A.D. 924 to
940, as contrasted with the time of the reigning
Monarch, for if money has prodigiously increased
so have oxen. The 30 pence were not the pence of
to-day, and we know that the old Roman penny
was equal to sevenpence halfpenny of our money.
The Anglo-Saxons coined inferior brass pieces
called stycas, of which two were equal to a
farthing, but we confess that we know nothing of
ancient British money, nor does it enter into our
subject. The English pound is of French origin,
being " CHARLEMAGNE'S" here or pound weight of
silver, decreed by him A.D. 800 to be the standard
of his Empire. It was imposed on the English by
WILLIAM the CONQUEROR, the Tower pound taken
and stamped as the measure, bearing the date of
the Conquest,
1066. Twenty shillings which now
form our silver pound do not contain one-quarter
of that weight. In 1792 in decimalitizing the coin
of France, the livre of CHARLEMAGNE, dwarfed and
shrank in its career of ten centuries, disappeared
from the world. Gold was introduced into the
coinage of England by HENRY 111., who mann-
tured the pieces of almost pure metal, half a grain
only being alloy. HENRY VIII. debased their purity,
fabricating crowns, five shilling gold pieces, 22
carats, which has since continued to be the stan-
dard, pure gold being 24 carats. We are told that
this word carat came to us from Abyssinia, a weight
of that country, said to be a bean, the fruit of an
Abyssinian tree, which varies little in weight after
being gathered, and is issued in Africa to weigh
gold, and in India diamonds. Salt is said to be
the circulating medium in Abyssinia. Both stan-
dards continued to be used till 1633, when the pure
standard was discarded. Some of the silver pieces
during the time of HENRY 111. were depreciated
till they contained only a third part of fine metal,
but they were restored by ELIZABETH, and the
English silver standard has since remained un-
touched. At the beginning of the present century,
according to livlacian, the America; mines pro-_

duced annually 17,291 kilogs. of gold and 795,581
kilogs. of silver, valued at $43,500,000, equal, at
4s. 6d. per dollar, to £9,666,000. The annual pro-
duce of European mines, coupled with those of
Northern Asia, at the same period, was about a
million sterling, giving in America a gold produce
in the ratio to silver as one is to forty-six, and in
Europe as one is to forty ; while the value of equal
quantities of gold to silver were in the proportion
of 15 or 151 to 1. The American mines continued
to increase their annual yield till they reached their
then maximum in 1809, that year's yield amounting
to £12,500,000. The revolt of the Spanish colonies
wrought a change ; the average from 1809 to
1829 being less than half at the commencement
of the century, or £4,036,838, according to JA-
COBS, a calculation many suppose to be an exag-
gerated decrease. During this period the scarcity
tended to raise the value, which must always
depend upon the demand for currency and the fine
arts, and while the yield for so •long a time thrs de-
creased the population and the commercial trans-
tions of the world were rapidly on the increase.
The fine gold and silver produced in 1846, two
years before the discovery of the Californian mines,
is calculated to have been for Europe, Africa, and
Asia, exclusive of China and Japan, gold, £4,545,192 ;
silver, £1,254,306 ; total, £5,790,491; and for North
and South America, gold, £1,301,560 ; silver,
£5,261,619 ; total, £6,563,179. Two years after
these discoveries, that is in 1850, the yield on the
former continents was gold, £5,312,533 ; silver,
£1,528,592; total, £6,810,975, and for the latter,
gold, £13,341,989 ; . silver, £7,259,824 ; total,
£20,601,813. From these figures it will be seen
that the vast increase was alMost entirely from the
gold of California, which represents more than
twelve of the fifteen millions increase contained in
the totals. Putting the gold-fields of Australia
and California aside, the production of the precious
metals, in each of the years 1855-6-7, did not ex-
ceed £14,050,000, the increase only being about
£1,550,000 on estimated annual produce of 1809.
Had it not been for the discovery of the auriferous
wealth of Australia and California,these sources would
not have sufficed to meet the additional demand
for coin and the bullion used in the arts, consequent
on the increase in population, commerce, and
wealth in Europe and America. This is best illus-
trated by showing the mere wear and tear and loss
of coins in circulation, which is calculated to be
one and a half per cent., while the value of the
coined money of America, Africa, and a large por-
tiim of Asia, was estimated at £500,000,000 an-
nually, the yearly waste according to this estimate
being £7,500,000. During 1858 the amount used
in the arts was valued at £12,000,000, so that it is
clear that the supply, independent of California and
Au.stralia, Would have been' Wholly insufficient to
Meet the requirements of the world. The value .of
the coinage of England in 1858 was estimated at
£75,000,000, but some of the best authorities con-
sider £90,000,000 nearer the truth, while the coin-
age of France was very nearly double, being.
£140,000;000. The largest sum ever accumulated-
in a building now rests in the vaults of the Bank
of France, which was last week announced to be
£46,000,000. In 1858 the estimated produce of
the world was £39,000,000, and the increase of
coinage was put down at £10,000,000, leaving a
balance in favour of produce, when the wear and
tear and the quantity used in the arts is added
to that coined, of over £10,000,000. In France
the coinage of gold increased in a remarkable de-
gree over that of silver, and the tendency of
Christendom has been to substitute gold for silver
currency. This was strikingly the case in the
United States, especially before greenbacks took the
place of metals. In 1849 the gold coinage was
$9,007,761 ; in 1851, $62,614,492 ; and in 1856,
$59,343,465. The Bank of England estimate laid
before the House of Commons in 1857-8 of addi-
tions of bullion of Europe for 1851 were—lmports,
gold, £8,654,000 ; silver, £4,076,000 ; while there
were exported, gold, £102,000 ; £1,716,000 ;
leaving little short of *the entire import in the
continent. In 1857 the imports were—gold,
£21,366,000 silver, £4,050,000 ; and the exports
—gold, £529,000, and silver, £20,000 ; the latter
figures showing distinctly the change in the circu-
lating medium introduced into France. The Hon.
SAMUEL B. RUGGLES, who acted for the United
States at the Commission lately held in Paris for
promoting international coinage, states in his re-
port, that the total coinage of gold in England,
France, and the United States from 1793 to 1851
-was $981,000,000, being $180,000,000 by the
United States, $180,000,000 by Great Britain, and
$424,000,000 by Frauce. For the 15 years from
1851 to 1866 the United States coined $665,000,000;
England, $355,000,000 ; and France, $987,000,000;
making a total of $2,108,000,000. The amount of
gold in circulation in France, Belgium, and Italy he
calculates at $1,400,000,000, which, added to the re-
mainder of the gold coinage of Europe, would carry
the total to $1,800,000,000. In the British Mint for
the ten years ending 1866 inclusive the silver coined
was £3,677,182, or $18,385,910. During NAPOLEON
lll.'s reign, from 1851 co 1866, the silver coined in
France was, francs 215,561,101, or $43,112,180.
The silver coinage of France, Great Britain, and the
United States from 1851 t 0,1866 was $117,000,000,
against the gold coinage as above given for the same
period of $2,108,000,000. Tae reason of this
was the decision by the French Government to
substitute a gold for a silver legal tender ; the sil-
ver being in demand for the East Indies in exchange
for cotton and other products ; and from France
alone the supply diverted to India during that 15
years amounted to $750,000,000. During-the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1866, there were coined in the
Mint and branches of the United States 1,532,996
gold pieces, valued at $37,429,430. Of these 141
were fine bars, being in value $9,115,485. For the
same period there were coined 1,704,927 silver
pieces, valued at $1,596,646, of which 527 were bars
of the value of $916,382. Tls entire deposits in
the Mint of gold produced in the United States up
to June 30th, 1866, were $652,146,656. The
amount of silver from January, 1841, to the 30th
June, 1862, deposited in the Mint was $8,286,536 ;
for the year ending June 30, 1866, the gold pro-
duction of the United States deposited in the Mint
was $28,970,762, and the silver $893,262. During
the year 1866, $41,411,726 in treasure were received
at New York from California, and from foreign
parts $9,578,029, while the exports amounted to
$62,553,700, being in excess of the imports of
$11,563,945. An official statement of the precious
metals of the United States Pacific coast for 1867
has been recently presented to Congress. Accord-
ing to this document the produce of California
amounted to $25,000,000, Nevada to $20,000,000,
Montana to $12,000,000, Colorado to $2,500,000,
and Oregon to $2,000,000. The total value raised
during the twenty years, 1848 to 1867, was
$1,165,000,000, of which California contributed
$900,000,000. We fear that these figures will not
prove attractive to our readers ; but it is necessary
to give them, however imperfectly, as the calcula-
tions on which we base our remarks.—Anglo-Ame-
ricaa Times.

A raca on the Charles river for the championship
cf the Union Boat Club, of Boston, inaugurated the season
on Wednesday arternoou, May 13. The result of the race
demonstrated the superior advantages of paper boats, the
winner, J. Fay, not thought to be a champion oarsman,
using one of that material, which weighs only 281 b.
PISCICULTURE IN AMERICA.—The House Com-
mittee of Massachusetts on Fisheries went to Holyoke,
May 15, and spent the afternoon prospecting for the pro-
posed fishway at the dam, returned highly pleased with the
scheme, and passed the night at the Massaott House. Next
day they visited Turner's Falls. The fishway at Holyoke,
to he built next fall, will be 300 feet long, and will cost
$20,000.

The catch of shad on Haddam island, Connecti-
cut, in a recent week, Wa3 between 700 and 800, only 200
being taken on the largest haul. In 1802 ono draught
brought 2,330, and a second 1,900, but the seining and
pound nets at the mouth of the river are very destruc-
tive to the fisheries alone.

In Virginia the Supreme Court has decided that
ir. debts contracted ineoufederata money the amount shall
be commuted into Federal money, at the value of the Con-
federate money when the debt matured, and not when it
was contracted. It has also decided, with reference to the
distribution of the assets of the old Virginia State Banks,
that the noteholders shall not have preference, but that
they, the depositors and all other creditor; shall share
alike.

THE RECENT CONVULSIONS OF
NA 7 URE.

Fuller accounts have come to hand through the!
American papers of the volcanic eruption at the
Sandwich Islands, and of the extraordinary tornado
which destroyed Shanghai, near Galesburg, Illinois ;
as well as that in Tennessee, another of so unusual a
character as to deserve a more lengthened record
than we gave in our last. On the 27th of March
Mauna Loa began its demonstrations, and on the
next day 100 earthquake shocks were felt, and
during the two weeks following, to April 13, 2,000
earthquake shocks occurred. At Waiscbina, the
earth opened in many places, and a tidal wave,
60 feet high, rose over the tops of the cocoa
trees for a quarter of a mile inland, sweeping
human beings, houses, and everything movable be-
fore it. A terrible shock prostrated the churches and
houses and killed many persons. In all 100 lives
were lost, besides thousands of horsas and cattle.
The craters vomited fire, rocks, and lava, and a
river of red-hot lava, five or six miles long, flowed
to the sea at the rate of ten miles per hour, burn-
ing everything before it, and forming an island in
the sea, and a new crater two miles wide opened
and threw rocks and streams of lava five thousand
feet high. At one time the illumination extended
50 miles at night. The lava has pushed out from
shore one mile. At Waischina, three miles from
the shore, a conical island rose suddenly, emitting
a column of steam and smoke, while the Keno
packet was passing, spattering mud on the vessel.
The greatest shock occurred April 2. Prior to the
eruption there was a great shower of ashes
and pumics. During the great shock the
swinging motion of the earth was dreadful, so
that no person could stand. In the midst of this
tremendous shock, red earth poured down the
mountain, rushing across the plain three miles
in three minutes, and then ceased. Then came a
great tidal wave, and then streams of lava ; the
villages on the shore were all destroyed by this wave.
The earth opened under the sea and reddened the
water. The earth eruption swallowed thirty per-
sons, and the sea many more. Great suffering and
terror prevailed in the district, and the whole
region was affected. The sloop Live Yankee has
been despatched with provisions, &c., to rescue and
relieve. Further accounts :say that a stream of
water has burst from the mountain where the earth
eruption occurred. The base of the volcano is
about thirty miles in circumference, and is deso-
lated. At least half a million dollars' worth of
property has been destroyed. The King of the
Sandwich Islands has issued a proclamation for
the relief of the sufferers. Many visitors to the
scene of the eruption have gone from Honolulu,
and many will go from San Francisco. The worst
is thought to be over, but the flow of lava continues.
It is a grand spectacle. The Honolulu correspon-
dence of the San Francisco Bulletin gives the details
of the eruption, showing that the earthquake shocks
extended to all the islands of the Hawaiian group,
but no damage is known to have occurred, except
around Mauna Loa. Numerous extensive land
slides accompanied the other phenomena, destroy-
ing life and property. The summit and side hill,
1,500 feet in height, were thrown a thousand feet
over the top of trees and landed in the valley below.
The gases that issued afterward destroyed both
vegetable and animal life. Bottomless fissures
opened in the mountain side. The lava stream
flowed under ground, breaking out in four jets, six
miles from the sea, and throwing lava and stones
" 1,000 to 1,500 feet high, and was afterwards joined
to the main land by a stream of lava a mile wide.

Touching the tornado at Shanghai, the Chicago
Republican says :—" The first that was observed by
the people who were watching the clouds was what
looked to them to be a circular cloud or volume of
wind and rain about two and a half miles due west
of the village of Shanghai, which seemed to rise
and sink in the air. It came on, gathering new
strength, straight east, levelling to the ground
fences, gates, and everything that came in its
way, to Mr. John Calder's farm, where several
window lights were knocked out and a large cherry
tree, eight inches through at the butt, was twisted
round and torn up by the roots. A remarkable in-
cident at Calder's farm was that a tub full of water
standing in the yard, which was not moved iu its
position, had every drop of water in it carried up in
the air. In Calder's grove, near his house, many
large trees were twisted round and torn up by the
roots, and a person on standing in the village can
distinctly see the track of the whirwind by the
opening through the grove. There were 15 dwelling
houses totally destroyed. Many of them were picked
up by the whirlwind, lifted into the air, and car
ried quite a distance, and then, seemingly with
demoniacal fury, dashed to the ground and
shivered into a million of fragments. Besides those
dwellings that were destroyed, seven were blown
off their foundations. It will seem incredible that
two good-sized, well-built churches, the only ones in
the place, both new—one completed a year ago and
the other less than six months ago—were both scat-
tered in fragments over the prairie for nearly half
a mile. Services commenced in the Second Advent
Church, a new building completed last fall, at four
o'clock p.m. As the people were wending their
way from their farms and cottages to church, the
sun was brightly shining, although clouds were seen
in the heavens. The pastor of the church, the Rev.
G. W. Hurd, ascended the pulpit and commenced
his discourse, which was not interrupted until it
was nearly through, when the evidences of the
coming disaster began to be apparent. First it
was perfectly still, and then a noise was heard
in the distance as of the roaring of a mighty
cataract. The windows began to shake, and some
one called out from his seat, Mr. Hurd, a bad
storm is corning up.' The minister answered,
Never mind the storm; there is a day coming when
there will be a storm compared with which this will
be nothing. I will be through soon.' Just then
the hail and wind commenced breaking in the win-
dow lights, and in almost an instant the windows
of the church, sash and all, were torn out. The
only two persons who succeeded in getting out were
George Wern and Harrison Wixen, who were in •
stantly killed. The building reeled like a drunken
man, but none could get out. Wives clung to their
husbands, children to their parents, brothers and
sisters to each other, and despair was depicted on
every countenance. Suddenly the crash came, and
with a deafening sound, mingled with the shrieks of
the pent-up people, timbers, scantling, and all came
down with a sudden crash upon the devoted heads
of the congregation, men, women, and children.
Some had skulls broken, other arms, others received
internal injuries from which they can never recover.
There are several who did not receive a scratch, but
nearly all were more or less injured. The killed were
George Wern, fi. Wixen, Alonzo Page, and Mrs. J.
Wood. Twenty-five persons were seriously wounded."
In Tennessee, about six o'clock on the afternoon of
the 13th, a tornado swept over the country, blow-
ing down houses, uprooting trees, carrying away
roofs, and destroying fences, for a distance of
twenty miles. The path of the hurricane seemed
to be about half a mile in width, and it swept over
the country in a zigzag course, carrying death and
destruction wherever its resistless whirl could reach
a movable object. Deep, rolling thunder and
blinding flashes of lightning, accompanied by tor-
rents of rain, followed upon the tornado, and the
scene along its route is described to have been as
grand as it was terribly destructive. The
groaning of the great trees clinging to their
strong roots, the crash of falling buildings,
the whirring and clattering of flying boards
and shingles, mingled with the roar of the
tempest, as it swept along over hill and hollow,
and whistled spitefully about the corners of the
houses and barns its halite I scope barely permitted
it to touch, made up a confasien of sounds
that would have drowned a moving pande-
monium. It was first observed at Hillsborough
Pike, thence it approached the Franklin Pike, two
miles beyond Brentwood. Passing eastward it
reached the Wilson Pike, and after passing over
Mill Creek it seemed gradually to lose its force.
At Chattanooga and in the Cumberland mountains
torrents of rain and hail fell, leaving on the summit
of the Racoon hailstones nearly as large as hens'
eggs. Numbers of people were killed and wounded,
and a large portion of Fayetteville laid in ruins.

Births.
BARNARDISTON— On tke 30th ult ,at the Ryes, 1.0
Suffolk, the Lady Florence Barn. ardiston, of a son. y,
LANCE—On the Ist inst., at 1, Albion-street, HYde-118.1
the wife of JD. Lance Esq., of a aughter.
11.'MAiloN—Ou. the 31st, ult., at 15,d Connaught-squirg;
Hyde-park, the wifo of Major IPMatton, of Genii
Park, Hunt(); Kent, of a son.

Marriages.
WALMSLEY--WALMSLEY—On the 2d inst., at St. Sav°,lers,
Paddington, Edward, eldest son of E. B. Waorge
Esq., of Kew, to Annie, daughter of the late u-
Walmsley, sq., of H idst
WILBRUHAM— E ampton
BROWE—On the inst., at All 6491/-1-vp''
Laugham-place, Hugh Wilbraham, Esq., of 13oatbeire5t
Lodge, county Mayo, to Lady Marian Browne, 3rouvg
daughter of the late Marquis of Sligo.

Deaths.
CAHILL—On Whit-Sunday morning, at Riehreoudt Stir'
rey, Richard S. Cahill, Esq., aged 82.
CARit—On the Ist inst , Mr. John Carr, of IVO-Street'
Putney, S.W., aged 76. Of 20
GLOVER- On the Ist inst , Thomas Glover, Escl.7
Gothic. Highgate-road.
LEETE—On the Ist inst. at 1, Westbourne-place,
square, Mr. John Hurstwaitu Leete, late of Sloane-0"
aged 53. ,wool
BANDOLPIL—At 7G, Chester-square, the Bov. J.llOll
eiec.7iaop
to r
Randolph, prebend of St. Paul's, n
Sauderstead, Surrey, second son of and
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Lon,dou, aged 77.
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