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Telegrams.

AMERICA, 2ND JUNE.—Bodies of arm- ed Fenians crossed Niagara, and captured Fort Erie, engaging Canadian Volunteers. Two Regiments of Regulars are moving against Fenians, whose retreat is cut off.

LONDON, 4TH JUNE.—Prussia, Austria and Italy assented to Conference, but without suspending armaments or binding themselves to results.

On Thursday the Prussians disposed the Holstein Estates.

This evening the Austrian Ambassador has been recalled from Berlin.

Diplomatic relations terminated be- tween Austria and Prussia. Prussian troops have occupied the Hanoverian and Saxon capitals and Hanoverian troops have effected a junction with the Austrian Army.

15TH.—Fenian raiders on Canada de- feated. Johnston issued a proclamation against Fenians. Federal Authorities have arrested Roberts and Sweeney, with four hundred men. Canadian troops are rapidly concentrating on the fron- tier. Prussia receded from Confedera- tion.

16TH JUNE.—The Ministry have ten- dered their resignation to Her Majesty. The Ministerial defeat is causing uneasi- ness in the city. Prussia and Italy have formally declared war against Austria. Communication with seat of war inter- rupted. An engagement has taken place before Frankfort between Hessians and Prussians, in which the advantage was gained by the latter, the Fourth Darms- tadt Regiment being nearly annihilated by the Prussians.

18TH.—The Bombay Mail arrived at Suez. Prussians entered Saxony on three sides and advanced within a few hours' march of Dresden. Prussians now occu- py Saxony, Hesse and Hanover. Saxon Army withdrawn into Bohemia and joined Austria. The Prussians have entered Hanover and Saxony. The Austrians and South Germany are opposing them.

19TH.—Government in minority of el- even on Lord Dunkellin's motion for substitution of rateable value for Fran- chise Bill instead of rent. Government has been defeated on an amendment to Clauses of the Reform Bill by majority of 316 to 304. Prussia and Italy have declared war against Austria. Prussians occupied Hanover, Dresden, Hesse Cas- sel. Hostilities have commenced.

20TH.—Ministry resigned in conse- quence of the defeat on Borough Fran- chise Bill. The Queen at Balmoral. Par- liament.

liament has been adjourned till Monday. Exchange on Calcutta and Madras, 1s. 10½d. on Bombay, 1s. 10½d. ; minimum tender in full. Funds weaker. The posi- tion of the Ministry and possible dissolu- tion of Parliament, are the principal causes of the anxiety. Consols, 85¼ to 86. The Austrian Army has crossed the Sile- sian Frontier.

Prussians raising earth-works before Dresden. Postal traffic stopped between Italy and Venetia.

21st.—-Sixty thousand Federal troops are now concentrated at Frankfort. The King of Italy has issued a manifesto and has left for the Italian Camp at Carignan (?). The Italians have crossed the Mincio. A great battle fought yesterday before Verona; the Italians were repulsed with heavy loss. The Prussians have entered Bohemia.

22nd.—-Probability of immediate dis- solution of Parliament. Both Houses meet again on the 27th. Slight improve- ment in funds. The Austrian troops have entered Silesia. The Prussians are sur- rounding the Hanoverian Army. The Prussians have occupied the whole of Saxony.

23rd.—-At a Meeting of the Agra and Masterman's Bank the Shareholders a- greed to a voluntary liquidation. Los- ses one million.

25th.-—Consols, 85⅜ to 86½. Sir Charles Price Company Bank suspend (?). Ita- lian Army crossed the Mincio; great bat- tle before Verona. Austrians repulsed both wings of the Italians. Prince Ama- deus and General Cerali wounded. It is reported that the Italian army recrossed Mincio. Prussians repulsed in invading Gallicia.

26th.—-The Queen has accepted resig- nation of Ministry. Garibaldi repulsed Austrians in Tyrol. Another insurrection in Madrid suppressed after six hours' fighting. Italians recrossed the Mincio after the battle at Verona. In the after- noon Italians recrossed the Po. A Military revolt at Madrid and Gerona has been promptly suppressed. A battle has been fought in Bohemia, near Neustadt, in which the Artillery and Cavalry were engaged.—-At 6 in the evening the Prus- sians were in full retreat. [Above partly unintelligible.]

27th.—-The Queen sent for Lord Derby who consents to form a Ministry. Fair Dholleras, 9d. Bengal Cotton, 6½d. Fair Western (Madras) Cotton, 9d. Consols, 86¾ to 87¼. Rumoured engagement be- tween Austrians and Prussians. Lord Derby has been summoned to Windsor. Lord Stanley has been appointed Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs. Accounts received concerning the Hanoverian Army are conflicting.

JUNE 28th.-—Lord Derby has not yet formed a new Ministry. There has been a second battle in Bohemia. The Prus- sians were defeated with great loss and retreated leaving their dead and wound- ed. An Armistice has been refused by the Austrians. Discount 10, unaltered. Cotton quiet, occasionally in favor of buyers, not quotable lower. Sale 8,000.

JUNE 29th.—-Another battle in Bohe- mia. Prussians victorious. Hanoverian Army surrendered to Prussians. Shirt- ings 12s. 3d. Mule Twist 20s.—-quiet.

LONDON, JULY 4TH.—-The Oriental Mercantile and Bank of Hindustan have announced that after December,—their Branches will not buy or sell bills exceed- ing four months.

LONDON, JULY 5TH.—The MONITEUR announces Peace. Cotton excited. Bank rate 10 per cent. Austria ceded Venetia -—accepted mediation of Napoleon to conclude peace. Napoleon sent com- munications to Prussia and Italy to obtain armistice.

A Bombay Telegram of 2nd duly [?] presents O. B. C. shares at 20 premium; eager buyers. Mercantile 7 premium. Terrible outbreak of Cholera at Kursool.

Summary.

FRANCE.-—A letter written by the Em- peror to his Foreign Minister, in refer- ence to the proposed Congress and the German conflict, has been read to the Corps Legislatif. It is pretty clearly in- timated that, in case of the "map of Europe being modified," France will look to have the Rhenish provinces-—al- ways supposing, of course, that they demand annexation "by votes freely ex- pressed." A correspondent states that France is prepared to put 600,000 men in the field in a fortnight. Precautions are being taken against cholera.

THE GERMAN STATES.—-The Federal Diet adopted the Austrian motion for mobilizing the Federal army by nine votes to six, the larger States being all in favour of it. The Prussian represen- tative declared the Federal pact to be dissolved, and withdrew from the assem- bly. The States who assented have been warned that Prussia will consider their votes equivalent to a declaration of war.

RUSSIA.-—News has been received of a complete victory gained over the Emir of Bokhara on the 8th May by General Romanowsky. The Czarewitch arrived at Copenhagen on the 13th.

DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.-—It is said that England, France, and Russia are willing to acknowledge Prince Charles of Hohenzollern.

PORTUGAL.—-It is said that the King and Queen have had a narrow escape of being poisoned.

BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.—-A body of Fenians crossed the Niagara River and took possession of a village called Fort Erie. The Canadian Volunteers were unsuccessful in attacking them, but reg- ular troops coming up the Fenians were routed.

MEXICO.—-The Emperor Maximilian has declared his intention to abdicate unless France affords him financial assis- tance.

British North America.

The steamer that left New York on the 2nd instant brought intelligence that a body of Fenians, under Colonel O'Neill, variously estimated at from 500 to 2,000 strong, crossed Niagara river on the night of the 29th May, and took possession of Fort Erie, a small and undefended village, three miles from Buffalo, and threw up breastworks to await reinforcements.

We have since had advices direct from Quebec to the same date, which state that on receipt of the intelligence two volunteer infantry corps left Montreal to meet the enemy, and the following des patch was put on board the steamer when off Panther Point:—"The volunteers af ter attacking the enemy this morning (June 2) near Ridgway were compelled to retire, being outnumbered. Colonel Peacock, in the meantime, had moved his force (regulars) to a point between the enemy and the river. He then eng aged them at the point of the bayonet, and all who reached the river took to the boats, but the United States author ities would not allow them to land on the United States frontier, and it is be lieved that most of them have surrender ed to our forces: The Fenians are con centrating at Malone and St. Alban's, but ample preparations have been made to deal with them should they cross the border. The greatest enthusiasm pre vails amongst our volunteers, who are hourly going to the front.

Another account is—Fenians defeated, and surrounded by 16th and 47th Re giments and volunteers. It is stated that O'Neill, the Fenian leader, had been shot. It is reported that 37 men and three officers of the Toronto 10th Royals were killed in the action in which the Fenians were defeated. The Fenians fought desperately. One thousand men, under Colonel Lowry, left Toronto to-day (the 2nd). The volunteers are pouring in from the country. Medical men have gone from Montreal to the scene of action.

The Straits' Transfer.

In confirmation of the statement made in our last, we now have to announce that the Bill was read a first time on the 13th inst. We give the following extract from a Treasury letter, dated 2nd June: —“In order to avoid further delay, my lords considered it best that the fixed con- tribution of £56,500 a year should be adopted for the first five years; and, on this understanding, they assent to the in- troduction of the Bill into Parliament for the transfer of these Settlements. As regards that portion of your letter which refers to barrack accommodation for any troops stationed in the Settlements for Imperial purposes, my lords agree that no charge, on this account, ought to fall upon the Settlements. The only condi- tion they have to make upon the subject is, that after sufficient barrack and hos- pital accommodation has been provided at the expense of the Settlements for the troops stationed there for local pur- poses, any existing barracks or hospitals which may be in excess of such accommo- dation, and which may be required by the War Department, shall be handed over to that department free of any charge, to be maintained at the Imperial expense during their occupation thereof. As regards the public debt of the Settle- ments, my lords conclude that the arran- gement with the Indian Government, as explained in the Colonial Office letter of the 24th March, 1865, is to be carried out; that, as regards the convict expen- diture, the whole of it from the date of transfer will be repaid by the Indian Government and that the notice for the removal of the penal establishment with- in three years of the date of such notice will be given not later than the date of transfer, which should take place, as recommended in the 66th paragraph of Sir Hercules Robinson's Report upon the Settlements, at the close of the colonial financial year, viz., 31st December 1866 or 1867, according as the necessary ar- rangements can be completed. As re- gards the civil establishment to be sanc- tioned for the Settlements, my lords will be prepared to approve of an establish- ment on the basis of that suggested by Sir H. Robinson, in Enclosure No. 9 of his report, subject to such modification as experience may have since dictated, or which any change as regards the muni- cipalities of the Settlements may here- after render necessary.

FIVE BATTLES in one week, and Austria victorious in the three most im- tant—-such is the news brought by telegraph so far as it is intelligible. The first conflict is telegraphed on 19th June, when Prussia attacked the Darm- stadt Hessians who held the federal capital of Frankfort, and nearly anni- hilated a regiment. One-third of the people of Hesse Darmstadt are Roman Catholics and the rest Lutherans or Calvinists. Thus at the outset a Prot- estant German Army, the head of which is the husband of our Princess Royal, slaughtered the Protestant Ger- man troops of a family into which our Princess Alice is married. Advancing on the west into Bohemia the Pruss- ians have been twice beaten, once at Neustadt on the 26th, and again on the 28th, with great loss. Besides this on the east, they were checked in invading Galicia. In the south, the Italians' ardent patriotism seem to have thrown them on the Quadrilateral at Verona to meet only the defeat so disheartening that they retreated not only the Mineio but the Po. Wheth- er Garibaldi repulsed the Austrians in the Tyrol, as is probable, or was repulsed as another telegram says, re- mains to be seen. Meanwhile Aus- tria is master of the situation. Russia has abstained from threatening her Pol- ish frontier, the war is as popular with the many races who are her sub- jects as it is detested by Prussia, and that Hungarian sprung from the peo- ple, Field Marshal Benedek, has not yet met his rival. If Austria pushes her victories, as she seems inclined to do by refusing an armistice after the second great battle, Prussia will rise as one man, Italy will only be fired by her defeat, and a long and bloody contest seems certain.—-FRIEND of INDIA.

LORD DERBY, by the last news, had not formed a ministry or done more than assign to his son the Foreign Office, with the leadership of the House of Commons of course, and he will have such great difficulty in getting men from the Con- servative ranks that he may be driven to a Coalition. In that case the Third Party will get scope for their ability, and noth- ing is less improbable than that Mr. La- ing's services should be made available in the Indian Office. He is less a Liberal than Lord Stanley, and there is no room for his financial abilities in a ministry which long ago fixed on Sir Stafford Northcote for its Chancellor of the Ex- chequer. The mention of Lord Stanley in connexion with the Foreign Office, in- volves the elevation of Mr. Disraeli to the Lords, with a nominal office or the French Embassy.

THE FAMINE, continues its severity in Orissa, but the copious rain makes it pro- bable that the scarcity will soon disappear elsewhere. For Orissa Government has advanced £40,000 as capital for the pur- chase and sale of rice, which, now that the high prices have failed to bring much of the supposed hidden store into the mar- ket, ought to be sold at a cheaper rate than 5 seers a rupee.—-FRIEND of INDIA.

ACCORDING TO A RUSSIAN JOURNAL. THE object of Russia in extending her conquests in Central Asia to the fron- tiers of India, is to compel England to remain neutral in the war which Russia intends sooner or later to wage against Turkey.

"Russia does not care to command the road to India with any ambitious idea of wresting their possessions from the English for the mere sake of con- quest. She will only keep this as a reserved argument to force the British to retire from the Council Chamber of the Sultan; and if she cannot per- suade them to join her in the Holy War, she can at least insist on their remaining passive in the struggle.—- FRIEND of INDIA.

American Beneficence.

The beneficence that flowed from the American heart during the war of the Re- bellion, was not a spasmodic effort, produ- ced by the sudden scenes of suffering and bloodshed. There was a charitable prin- ciple underlying exterior life, which took shape in educational plans and various other objects. A large number of Ameri- can colleges and theological seminaries have received princely donations within the last two years, when it would be natu-

rally supposed that every purse would be emptied to keep the wolf from the door. The application of treasure during the rebellion for other objects than those in- cident to the war, was of such magnitude and spontaneous growth, that its equal can- not be found in history. During the last two years Bowdoin college has received an endowment of $72,000; Dartmouth of $47, 000; Middlebury, $10,000; Williams, $25, 000; Amherst, over $100,000; Trinity, $100, 000; Yale, $450,000; Hamilton, over $100, 000; Rutgers, $130,000; Princeton, $130, 000; Andover, Theological Seminary, $70, 000; New-York University, $60,000; Au- burn Theological Seminary at Chicago, $80,000; besides various other donations of scarcely less amount. Denominational be- neficence has not been contracted by the war; on the contrary it seems to have gain- ed greater power. As an evidence of it, the Methodist Episcopal Church, which this year celebrates its centennial jubilee, pro- poses to raise an extraordinary fund of two million of dollars, one-fourth of which has already been pledged by one man—Daniel Drew of New York. The probability is that the close of the centenary year will find the Methodist treasury containing nearly three millions than two millions of dollars.—Lo, Co, News.

The True Standard of Dress.

We are always excessive when we sacri- fice the higher beauty to attain the lower one. A woman who will sacrifice domes- tic affection, conscience, self-respect, honor, to love of dress, we all agree, loves dress too much. She loses the true and higher beauty of womanhood for the lower beauty of gems and flowers and colors. A girl who sacrifices to dress all her time all her strength, all her money, to the neglect of the claims of others on her helpfulness, is sacrificing the higher to the lower beauty. Her fault is not the love of beauty, but lov- ing the wrong and inferior kind.

In fine, girls, you may try yourselves by this standard. You love dress too much when you care more for you outward ador- nings than for your inward dispositions, when it afflicts you more to have torn your dress than to have lost your tempers, when you are more troubled by an ill-fitting gown than by a neglected duty,—when you are less concerned at having made an unjust comment, or spread a scandalous report, than at having worn a PAGAN bonner,— when you are less troubled at the thought of being found at the last great feast with- out the wedding garment, than at being found at the party to-night in the fashion of last year. No Christian woman, as I view it, ought to give such attention to her dress as to allow it to take up ALL of three very important things, viz: ALL her time, ALL her strength, ALL her money. Who- ever does this lives not the Christian, but the Pagan life,—worships not at the Chris- tian's altar of our Lord Jesus, but at the shrine of the lower Venus of Corinth and Rome. Mrs. STOWE.

Strength of Materials.

It is a remarkable fact that one of the most abundant materials in natural iron- is the strongest of all known substances. Made into the best steel, a rod one-fourth of an inch in diameter will sustain 9,000 lbs. before breaking: soft steel, 7,000 lbs.; iron wire, 6,000; bar iron, 4,000; inferior bar iron, 2,000; cast iron 1,000 to 3,000; copper wire, 1,000; silver, 2,000; gold, 2,000; tin, 160; cast zinc, 160; sheet zinc, 1,000; cast lead, 50; milled lead, 200.

Of wood, oak and locust the same size, will hold 1,200 pounds; tough ash, 1,000; elm, 800; beech, cedar, white oak, pitch pine, 700; chestnut and soft maple, 650; pop- lar, 400. Wood, which will bear a heavy weight for a minute or two, will break with two-thirds the force acting a long time. A rod of iron is about ten times as strong as a hemp cord. A rope, an inch in diam- eter, will bear about two and a half tons, but in practice it is not safe to subject it to a strain of more than about one ton. Half an inch in diameter the strength will be one quarter as much: a quarter of an inch, one-sixteenth as much, and so on.

Colored People in Boston.

The Boston Journal says the colored population of that city numbers between 2,500 and 3,000, and are generally speak- ing, an industrious, intelligent, frugal and quietly disposed class of people— much more so than they have credit for. There are among them a large number of mechanics; most of them, however, are laboring men. A large number are quite wealthy, owning property averaging from $500 to $50,000.—-They support five churches—-three Methodist and two Baptist—-four of which are upheld en- tirely by themselves, and one has been assisted somewhat by contributions out- side of their own organization. It is much to their credit that there are but few paupers among them. As a class, with the disadvantage of a deep-seated, though fast disappearing prejudice a- gainst them, they have certainly won for themselves the respect of the community in which they live. Their children at- tend our public schools, and have equal privileges with the children of their white neighbors, and several of them have been recipients at different times of the Fram- klin and City Medals for good scholarship.

Bangkok Recorder.

The European war

Our latest telegram of July 5th looks somewhat like a morning star of hope of a pleasant day after a dark night of terrible storm. But we have had of late so many false stars that have been suddenly blotted out as morp meteors, that we cannot but feel somewhat distrustful of this sign of the times. Still we will hope, though it be with trembling, that the myriad of swords that had leaped from their scabbards have all returned to their quiet homes, and that all the mightily empowered engines of war, hurling thou- sands into eternity, have been hushed to peace. One thing appear to as pretty certain, and that is, that Prussia has lost her arrogant prestige and will no more be feared by her German neighbors as she has been. And another seems quite probable, which is that all the German states, it may be with Prussia herself included, are now about forming a great Republic or a limited Monarchy that shall have strength and stability enough to bo- come second to no other power in preserving the peace of Europe.

Those many petty independent States, having among them more than a dozen crowned heads, are necessari- ly composed of too inflammable ma- terials to allow any rational hope of peace among themselves while consti- tuted as they hitherto have been. We will frankly say, that we fervently hope to hear that negociations are in pro- gress for the thorough remodelling of those States and for their ultimate co- alescence into one grand gov- ernment for developing the principles of liberty and freedom in concert with the spirit of the age in which we live, and thus become a powerful central bulwark of Europe.

Petchaburee No. 5.

As promised in our last issue, we come now to have another pleasant interview with our readers on the top of P'rá Nákwun-kiree the sacred city on a mount. This name has been given to it since the royal palace on its summit was erected. Prior to this it was denominated Maha Sawan; lit- erally the great heaven. Why it ever received such a name we cannot tell. There is nothing in its size, certainly, that would render it appropriate; for it is scarcely 400 feet high, and pro- bably less than two miles in circum- ference at its lowest base. You will observe that its length is in the direc- tion of N. W. and S. E. and that it has 3 prinicipal peaks about of equal hight. The one at the S. E. extremity is honored with the distinguishing name SOW P'RÁ NAWN—-mount of a loung- ing god, because at its foot is a temple in which is enshrined an immense image of Buddh in a reclining posture. The peak most western is the site of His Majesty's mountain palace. The middle peak has been set apart for a large pagoda the foundation of which has been laid and carried up 8 or 10 feet. There are several peaks, all oc- cupied by various brick works inten- ded to add beauty and dignity to the palace as satellites.

The shrubbery on the mount is now so thick and its foliage so dense as al- most to hide entirely all the craggy rocks of which the mount is mainly composed. We once, about 7 years since, had a view of those rocks when the mount had but recently been cleared of most of its primitive shrub- bery for the purpose of preparing it for the royal palace. We could not but mourn over the desolation which the work, then but commencing, made over the wild magnificence of nature. But now a new growth of shrubbery has sprung up with a good degree of the original wildness, bearing a foliage the most luxuriant and beautiful. When you look closely among them and see the great predominance of lime stone rocks, lying edgewise in the greatest disorder, with their myriads of crags and spires, you can but wonder how the vegetation can find soil en- ough to flourish as it does. But the truth is, the climate of Siam is no won- derfully favorable to vegetable life that many shrubs, and even trees of con- siderable size, will grow with scarcely a sprinkling of soil. The pad tree, for example, will commence life on the naked walls of a brick house more than 30 feet from the ground, shoot- ing its roots down the sides of the wall, entering into every crevice, until they reach the ground, and then throw the building down by their growth among the cracks. Hence it becomes necessary that a strict watch always be kept of the seedlings of the poâ that they be extirpated from walls and roofs of buildings ere it becomes impossible to eradicate them without destroying the building on which they have taken root. Of such air plants, as we may call them, there are many kinds in Siam.

Wherever there is any vacancy of shrubbery on the mount there the wild lady slipper occupies, and the pink and purple and white four o’clocks and morning glories and many other flow- ering annuals furnish a pleasing va- riety. The lan tom, mentioned in a preceding article, abounds and ever im- parts by her yellowish white cup flowers a very pleasant fragrance to the air. —The prickly pear of many varieties is perfectly at home here. One of the species becomes a tree from 15 to 20 feet high with a trunk from 6 to 10 in- ches in diameter. The old trees that had become large were mostly cut down years ago, and consequently the new growth is now comparatively small.

We cannot attempt a minute de- scription of any of the thirty or more buildings on the mount, much less of the palace itself into which we have never entered. This is not a large building as one might anticipate. It is we should judge not far from 80 by 40 feet exclusive of the many attach- ments to it. To form a foundation sufficiently ample for it, walls wery built up by the sides of the cliff from 20 to 50 feet with broken lime stone blasted from the rocks, and laid roughly to- gether like a common stone fence, and then the crevices all filled with lime mortar. The walls of the palace are two stories high built of brick, finished externally with white stucco, and neatly polished. The roof of the palace is covered with earthen tiles imported from China, which form narrow furrows and ridges from eve to ridge. The win- dows, as usual in Siam, have no glass, being closed by wooden shutters. In or- der to reach the basement story you have to ascend two flights of stone steps 30 or 40 feet long with a heavy railing of white stucco work with green earthen balusters or rounds. We have the im- pression that while the internal aspect of the palace must comport with the good taste of what we see of it exter- nally, it will not nearly equal the rich- ness and magnificence of the royal palace at the capital; and the rooms must necessarily, be much less capa- cious, being designed for His Majes- ty's accomodation only a dozen days in a year.

A theatre, which is always an indis- pensable accompaniment of a royal palace was early built on the mount, situated a little down the cliff at the N. West end of the palace. It was burnt down two years ago by a balloon falling on its attap roof while His Ma- jesty was holding holidays, on the mount. It is now nearly rebuilt.

At the S. E. end of the palace, on the highest part of that peak, you will ob- serve and admire a small brick structure called Mon-Top. It is a kind of pago- da, perhaps 30 feet high exclusive of its spire, having four small wings with their gable ends looking to the four cardinal points of the compass. The general form of the Mon-Top is like that of the royal funeral canopy for kings. At each of the four angles of the pagoda there is a tasty light house 15 feet high, covered with a glass dome. All this work is neatly finished with white stucco and adorned with tasty mouldings of the same material.

In close proximity with the Mon- Top at the S. E. you will see a Budd- hist brick Chapel not less than 80 by 40 feet and 13 or 14 feet from its tiled floor to the ceiling. This is also neatly finished externally with stucco and pa- pered internally both walls and ceiling with European paper. At one end of the hall is a semi-circular platform of imitation marble on which we suppose the officiating priest sits in a chair when he reads the Buddhist homilies. The hall seems to be admirably adapted for speaking, the slightest voice being con- veyed distinctly from end to end.

As you pass out of the S. E. end of the Chapel you come immediately to the chief light house and observatory which stands on 8 brick pillars with four most graceful arches, and is finished like all the buildings previously men- tioned. You ascend into the upper story by spiral steps with an iron rail- ing. It is probably 20 feet high and covered with a glass dome.

Looking to the S. E. over a valley you will notice a very conspicuous pagoda on the K'óse-p'ra-no[?]en peak, and a foot path brick-flagged with a white stucco balustrade and earthen rounds on the lower side of it all the way. The basement story of the pa- goda is of brick and the superstructure of granite. The pieces of which it is composed are some of them very large, which must have required more than ordinary skill to have lifted up 400 feet, and fitted them so accurately in their places; for they were brought from the other side of the gulf, we think, or from China already shaped, so that, probably, no hammer had to be used in adjusting them.

But time would fail us to speak thus particularly of the many other brick and stuccoed buildings on the mount. Some of them are salas, some little forts forming entire circles with white embrasures, some barracks for the king's body guard, some for the accom- modation of his numerous retinue etc. Down in a deep valley on the north side there is a new temple made in good keeping with the taste of the other buildings on the mount. In another direction on the south side there are some quite interesting caves with an entrance by what has every appearance of having been the mouth of a volcanic crater. These of course have all been consecrated to Buddhism and are full of idols. There are other caverns in the vicinity of the temple of some re- pute among Buddhists. But Mount Nakawn Kiree is not now and never was famous for its caverns. Her sister mounts Kadei-it, and Kow Lóóang far excel her in this regard, and may claim our notice at some future time.

Would that we could accompany this very imperfect description of the palace mount by some of the beautiful pictures which last Dec. we saw J. Thomson Esq. the photographer take from many stand points. Then could we hope that our dull account of its scenery would be read with lively interest. We have yet much to say of Petscha- buree in regard to the city, the agri- culture of the country, and the people, which, if the Lord will, we may give in future articles.

LOCAL.
Births.

On the 21st ult. at her residence in this city, Mrs. Alabaster, wife of Hen- ry Alabaster, Interpreter to the Brit- ish Consulate, of a son.

On the 28th ult., at her residence in this city, Mrs. Carden, wife of Rev. P. L. Carden, Missionary of the Am. Presbyterian Board, of a son.

The Siam. Str. Chow Phya left for Singapore this day about noon, having been hurried off, as we learn, by ur- gent dispatches of government, two days earlier than she would otherwise have gone, in order that she may sure- ly be in time for the next homeward bound mail. It is understood that she has orders to remain at Singapore un- til the next European mail arrives, which will prolong her stay at Singa- pore two days longer than usual. Hence the time intervening her departure and next arrival may be expected to be four days longer than it has usually been.

G. W. Virgin Esqr. and family, went as passengers on board the Chow Phya for a temporary residence at Singapore. Mr. Virgin is in feeble health suffer- ing from pulmonary disease, and hopes that the climate of Singapore and oth- er things will better favor his conva- lescence than Bangkok. We took leave of our friend and countryman and former Consul, on board the steam- er this morning, with tender sympathy for his welfare, hoping and praying that he may realize his fond hopes.

Mr. Virgin, as will be seen by a no- tice in this issue, has left his business here in the hands of W. H. Hamilton Esqr. of this city. We are sorry to learn that he is not expected to return hither for business even though his health should admit of it.

The House of Virgin & Co. Amer- ican, Ship Chandlers, sold at Public Auction all the goods belonging to their Store on the 14th ult. We learn that the goods sold very poorly, amounting only to about $4000.

The Bark "Fah Kee," belonging to the same firm, was sold to a Chinese Importer on the 27th ult. for the sum of $3600.

Peace in Siam.

As yet Siam appears to be enjoying peace with herself, and with all na- tions. We hear occasionally of some little political squalls, and now and then the semblance of distant thunder. But this phenomena serves only to keep our atmosphere from stagnation. We have heard quite recently some blustering threats of an interruption of peace. But we think it will prove to be only a mere vomiting of bile, which symptoms, in our humble opinion, are most successfully treated by a stomach full of luke warm water, and with no newspaper nostrums whatever.

The editors of Exchange papers from Singapore, Penang, Rangoon, Maulmain and Singapore, have no- ticed with very becoming respect the death of His Excellency Phya Montrée Suriwongs, and tender their condolence to his family, relatives, and govern- ment.

THE STEAMER "Chow Phya" arrived here on the 28th ulto, bringing dates from the continent by letters, and pa- pers up to June 28th, from England to June 16th, from America to May 20th from Shanghai to July 6th, from Hong Kong to July 10th, from Rangoon, Maulmain and India to July 11th, and from Singapore to July 22nd. Tele- grams from Europe to July 5th, and from America to June 2nd.

We are glad to hear that the pros- pects of the Telegraph company, which is to run a line through the Malay Peninsula and join Bangkok with British Burmah, are improving day by day, and will, we hope shortly be in a position to begin the line. The Netherlands Indian government have approved of it, and will give the scheme its utmost support, and it is said that private letters from England state that the project has met with support in high quarters. May future accounts confirm this good news!

On going down town last Monday we were struck with the empty appear- ance, of the river We counted only six square rigged vessels, exclusive of steamers, from Klaang Bangkok-yai down to the Borneo Co's. A few months ago the river was crowded, now it is nearly as empty as a country lake. Our shipping list shows quite a number of vessels in port, but when we look for them in town we can see nothing like the number mentioned in the list. If the whole number be at Paknam, or outside the bar there must be a good fleet below, and business must be somewhat brisk in that quarter

Mr. Editor,—In your issue of the 26th inst, you have made a mistake in sta- ting that I was umpire at the last races at Paknam. It was not so, and I wish it to be rectified in your next issue. By doing so you will oblige yours &c. &c. ATKINS DYER.

From the ILLUSTRATED GUIDE for the BLACK VALLEY RAILROAD.

STATEMENT OF THE BUSINESS
OF THE
BLACK VALLEY RAILROAD

1. It is constantly carrying over 300,000 persons toward the doom that awaits the Common Drunkard.

2. It carries untold misery and wretchedness to more than 1,500,000 persons, a large proportion of whom are women and children.

3. It carries down to poverty and beggary enough to keep over 200,000 persons in the Alms House.

4. It carries down to the condition of Criminals enough to keep 75,000 in prison.

5. It is carrying toward destruc- tion multitudes of brave and noble young men in our Army.

6. It has carried Victory to our enemies and Slaughter to our friends in several important battles during the war, by disqualifying officers and men for their duty.

7. It carries essential help to traitors in promoting Mobs and Riots.

8. It has carried down to disgrace, poverty and destruction many of the most talented men of the country from the Bar, the Bench, the Pulpit and the Halls of Congress.

9. It carries more than 30,000 in to Eternity annually.

10. It carries more than 100,000, 000 of dollars to Destruction.

11. It carries grain enough to the Distillery annually to make more than 5 millions of barrels of flour for the poor.

Reader, will you assist in diffusing in- formation about the above Road, so that the multitudes of young men and others who are invited to occasional excursions upon it, may be informed beforehand a- bout the country through which it passes and in which it terminates.

MOST STARTLING NEWS has seldom reach- ed India than that of the dissolution of the Russel-Gladstone ministry and at the same time the rapid spread of war over Central and Southern Europe, following close on the most serious commercial panic ever experienced and not yet at an end. The war we have considered elsewhere. The Ministry were defeated by 14 votes on the question whether the borough franchise should be based on the ratable or rent value of houses, by the adoption of the former which the Opposition succeeded in raising the franchise to £8. As the County Franchise Bill had passed, and the redistribution of seats on the Scotch principle of grouping was so fair, we can- not understand why Earl Russel has not dissolved Parliament and appealed to the country. Nothing could be more unfor- tunate than this ministerial crisis—-for England, because she will be unable to take her proper position during what threatens to be the greatest war Europe has seen since 1814;—-for India because all Indian questions will now be post- poned and the India House will be de- prived of Lord de Grey and Mr. Stans- feld who protested well.

THE Government of India appears to have given the most serious consideration to the construction of irrigation works in all parts of India on an efficient scale. With a glimmering of statesman-ship so rarely in these days, the dispatch expresses an aspiration that this “develop- ment” will be no less successful and no less worthy of an enlightened Government than that made in respect to the means of communication by the adoption of the policy originated by Lord Dalhousie for the construction of Railways."

—THE ENGLISHMAN says that the sick and starving are now pouring into Cal- cutta in such that Government has sanc- tioned the immediate formation of a tem- porary hospital in the Chappole Road, and the natives are offering subscriptions. THE HURKORA learns that Dr. Francis has requested the Bengal Government to sanction the establishment of a hospi- tal in Amherst Street for the treatment of destitute natives attacked with cholera and dysentery, for such cases are daily in- creasing and seriously overcrowding the Medical College Hospital.

—THE POSTS, according to the LEVANT HERALD, is most active in military pre- parations. The intended introduction of a rule granting long furloughs has been put off till next year. The whole of the regiments are to be raised to their full nominal strength, for which purpose the enrolled conscripts of 1863 and 1864 have been summoned to the depots and in ad- dition 12,000 orders of the 1st and 2nd corps d’armee have been called out. An- other great fire has happened in Constan- tinople and burned down exactly the mass of buildings spared by the great fire of September last. This site was necessary for the complete carrying out of the scheme of reconstruction, which will change the whole face of the capital be- tween the Ports and the Golden Horn.

—THE AMERICAN portion of the Over- land Russian telegraph is being pushed on so vigorously that communication is now complete between Washington city and Victoria, Vancouver, a distance of 7500 miles. On April 25 congratulatory messages were exchanged between the au- thorities of the two cities. About 24 hours were required for the transmission of the message and the return of the an- swer.

—THE HEAT has been so severe at Ma- drass as to kill the flying foxes in large numbers. During the day they drop dead from the trees, and are greedily seized by the people of the lower castes and bur- ried.

—THE SINDIAN asserts that a fleet of steamers is now in the course of construc- tion to ply direct between Kurrachee, A- den and Suez. The trips will be bi-month- ly, and it is expected the vessels will be ready about January next. Kurrachee is two days nearer Aden than Bombay is, and the new steamers will take the Punjab passenger traffic. But till Mooltan and Kotree are connected by rail the rest of Northern India will take the Bombay route.

HUMAN FOOD.-—A letter from Berlin states that great success has attended the introduction of horse-flesh in that capital as an article of human food. The meat is perfectly wholesome, and very palata- bly palatable, resembling boiled coarse beef. Grand dinners have been given by a society interested in its introduction, at which horse-flesh alone was produced, though prepared in various ways.

From our own Correspondent.

The Game is Up.

The Bund of Frankfort has voted by a majority of nine votes against six. The federal occupation against Prussia, which had been demanded by Austria on account of the occupation of Hol- stein, by the Prussians in the [?].

Prussia on her side has formally de- clared that she would consider as ene- mies all that should take part with Austria.

So the word of command will soon be, march on to the slaughter—-sound the trumpet of war—wives and mothers prepare your mourning-—all for the greater glory of Bismarck the usurper.

But let the good be comforted, there is a justice superior to that of man, the crimes of the Prussian government will not remain unpunished.

CLEVERNESS OF AUSTRIA.-—The a- bility shown by Austria in the present situation has been very great; it has shown infinite patience and art in its tactics as you will see, it has succeeded in gaining over all the German Con- federation and in forcing the cabinet of the Tuileries to assume a reserved and almost friendly attitude—-all this Austria has done, within 15 days.

I think I need not recall to your me- mory that on the 1st inst., Austria gave up all its rights in the Duchy of Hol- stein in favor of the German Bund at Frankfort-on-the-Main and that it had further convoked the Estates of Hol- stein at Itzehoe.

Prussia, on learning this move of her friendly enemy, declared that the trea- ties of Gastein and Olmütz were there- by violated, and General Manteuffel ar- rived the order to oppose the meeting of the Holstein Estates at Itzehoe even by force if necessary.

It was thought that violence would be the Causa belli. An Austrian bri- gade commanded by General Von Gablens was in possession of Altona and Itzehoe, the question was would he allow the Prussians to turn him out without a shot.

On the 11th of June the Prussians entered Itzehoe, arrested the Austrian commissioner Larner, sent the depu- ties to the right about and the Austrian troops made good their escape, how- ever, their trunks and police china were left behind, and were confiscated. What is of all this? Austria, who had been so clever, had prepared for what was to occur, by telling her soldiers that they would be of no use, they might pick up their trunks and follow him out of the country as he should return home by way of Hanover. On the 12th there was not a Kaiserlich white coat in the Duchies. As the game of Aus- tria was to screen himself behind the Bund his tactic was a wise one, it is telling, and Prussia will therefore be obliged to face not only the Austrian army which is formidable, but Bava- ria, Saxony, Hanover and all the Sec- ondary states who well know that Vic- tory for Bismarck will be the usurpa- tion of all Germany by Bismarck.

POSITION OF THE PRUSSIAN GOVERN- MENT,-—which was really excellent two months ago, is now considerably chang- ed. Not only is public opinion in Eu- rope against Count Bismarck; but he will not even be able to reckon on the Prussians. The democratic party which a few months ago committed the fault of backing the violent policy of the haughty premier has now found out its mistake. Hundreds of petitions have been sent to the King praying he will maintain peace. Everyday the troops are called out to repress the mobs which clamour for work.

It is certain that the Kammer (or Chamber of Deputies) which is short- ly to be elected is still more hostile than the proceeding one to the policy of Bismarck, and we should never be surprised to hear that a revolution has taken place in Berlin, and that both the premier and all the pack of Ho- henzollerns have been sent to the right about. It cannot be doubted that when the first shot has been fired German patriotism will show itself in all its glory-—but—-

WHAT WILL FRANCE DO?—-To this question which has been in every bo- dy's mouth for the last six weeks an answer was given on the 12th Inst. by the Sphinx of the Tuileries by a dic- tatory written to the minister of State M. Rouher and which was read in the Corps Legislatif or legislative bo- dy—to cheers of applause.

THE IMPERIAL MESSAGE—-is as appel- [.......] is in many binding injunctions to the [....................................] [....................................] [.......] I rejected all idea of terri- tory till the Conference had been held, you want to have declared in my game, that I rejected all idea of terri-

torial aggrandisement (loud applause) as long as the balance of power in Eu- rope should remain unbroken." The message of the Emperor, which our pa- pers will bring you in extenso, though of a pacific character, does not promise that France will not enter the lists should the work begun in Italy be in any way interrupted, the imperial speech may be called pacifico bellico- —as we say in France ni'eclair, ni'- poisson, moitie fique, moitie raison.

THe CoRPS LEGISLATIVE—(as I said before) received the Imperial message with much applause and was disinclined to have the present question debated, therefore both Mons. Favre a rank an- -Imperialist and even Mons. Thiers were coughed down, when they tried to say a few words about the matters most interesting to the country at the present moment.

WAR POPULAR IN AUSTRIA AND ITA- LY.—-A war which is feared in Prus- sia, France and England, is however hailed with delight in Austria and It- aly. In Vienna vengeance to Prussia is vowed from the Palace to the Ho- tel. In Florence the cry is morte ai Federachi death to the Germana—the Italians are prepared to make every sac- rifice to get rid of the "stranger and the Priest." The revolutionary party and the Bourbons are taking advantage of the movement to raise their heads.

The Italian government is taking the most vigorous measures to crush the partisan of the fallen house, and almost calls the reign of terror in "France," the dungeons are full of prisoners and even the convents and barracks are turned into prisons.

After many hesitations Garibaldi has left the island of Caprera—he is at present at the lake of Como organizing the bands of volunteers, and it would seem as if he intended attacking Aus- tria in the Tyrol.

However we shall soon know what is going to be done, for it is utterly impos- sible that things can go on as at pres- ent, we shall soon see the

HORRORS OF WAR.

The Cholera is in the South of Spain, at Nantes, and at Rotterdam, where it seems to resist all the efforts of the med- ical men. Advices from Italy inform us that much fever reigns among the troops now on the border of the Po.

AN IMPORTANT ARREST—-took place a few days ago at one of the Paris railway stations, of a man who was found to be carrying several detona- ting balls in his overcoat pocket simi- lar to those made use of by Orsini and others who attempted the life of the Emperor in 1857. It is thought that he forms part of a conspiracy.

FARE THEE WELL, AND IF FOREVER.— It was yesterday reported that the Em- peror Maximilian had decided upon throwing up the Imperial crown of Mexico, but we are as yet without con- firmation of the same. Mexican bonds are now 187, they were issued at 345.

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION—-will take place with or without war; the knowing ones affirm that should it break out, it will not last long, unless indeed the Czar should wish to put his finger in the fire.

PARIS AMUSEMENTS.—-As you can imagine there is no very great desire to take pleasure of any kind with the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads.

GRAND FETE AT THE ELYSEE.— There were great doings a few days ago at the Elysee Bourbon, which has just been restored on a grand scale as a residence for the Prince Imperial. The Empress gave a splendid fete to the grand Duchess Marie of Russia, who is related to the Emperor. It sur- passed any thing yet attempted, and all Paris is talking of the fairy-like ap- pearance of the gardens lit up by the electric light which sent its rays through the branches of the beautiful trees which used to shade the Em- peror whilst taking his coffee.

Rossi the great Italian tragedian is still with us, he has made quite a sen- sation in Amleto (Hamlet) and other Shakespearean parts—-he will shortly leave us for a tour in England and the U.S.

Poor Batty who was the other day bit by the lion is still suffering from the wound inflicted on him.

Latest accounts from America in- form us that the chamber of represen- tatives has just passed a bill voting the maintenance and amelioration of the Freedmen's Bureau.

The Senate has modified the con- stitutional amendment which had been previously adopted by the chamber, depriving all those of a right to vote who had taken a part in the late rebel- lion, until the year 1870. It is very likely this amendment will take its place among the laws of the country.

The Fenians have at last made their threatened attack on Canada, but were unsuccessful as almost all those who took part in the invasion were made prisoners by the volunteers of Buffa- lo.

P. S. Things are coming to a cli- max in Germany. The Prussians have entered Saxony, Hanover and Electoral Hesse. On the approach of the Prussians the Saxon army retreat- ed abandoning the Capital toward which the Prussians were marching. The representative of Saxony at Frank- fort has demanded the assistance of Austria and Bavaria. It is thought that the Austrians have already enter- ed Saxony and that an encounter will shortly take place.

Telegraph extension to Siam
AND SINGAPORE.

The public of British Burmah will learn with sincere satisfaction, that His Majesty the King of Siam, as announ- ced in the ‘Bangkok Recorder’ of the 26th April, has just granted a conces- sion to W. H. Read, Esquire, Honor- ary Magistrate of Singapore for the construction of a line of Telegraph through Siamese territory down the coast to Singapore.

Repeatedly has this interesting sub- ject been referred to in our columns. Every body may take it for granted that the Siamese Government will give their entire support to any just and rational plan, for connecting Siam with Burmah, India and Europe. This sanction now given to run the line down through Siamese territory to Singapore from Rangoon is in keeping with the well known liberal character of the present sovereign of that king- dom. He will not enter upon hazar- dous speculations. He will not grant concessions, which he may not be able to perform. In short, he will engage to do only those things, which he knows he can do. He will not promise to stand sentry over the line wherever it may be put down. Nor will be promise to make it good in case of its getting injured from any accident whatever.

He will give permission to any Tele- graph Company to carry out their plans in his territory; and they have the same protection for their property, as every other subject of His Majesty. It is absurd to ask for anything more. More- over it is very possible that the King may subscribe for a number of shares, and require certain guarantees for the use of the line when wanted for public purposes.

There can be no question, that if a line is constructed from Maulmain pas- sing down through the Seaport of Amherst, the large Burmese town of Yes, the town of Tavoy and the town of Mergui in British Burmah, it will help to swell the future dividends of the Shareholders. From Tavoy a line of eighty miles will reach Bangkok the capital of Siam. If it is intended to carry the wire down to the eastern side of the Malay peninsula, instead of the west, the advantages of that route may be more acceptable to the Siamese government and the general utility of the line than by the western route.

About twelve months ago, a gentle- man visited Rangoon, who had been deputed by the King of Siam to travel across the country from Bangkok. He was requested to reconnoitre the coun- try to see if any difficulties existed against the contemplated possibility of constructing a telegraph between the two states at an early period. We believe he was favorably impress- ed from what he saw, that there were no obstacles whatever in the way, which could not be easily surmounted. Whatever Telegraph Company may ultimately be induced to embark on this enterprise, they may rest perfectly sure of receiving every encouragement of a reasonable nature both from the British and Siamese Governments.

This work of constructing a line of telegraph through a foreign territory must of course be left to private enter- prise. Whatever the British Govern- ment may do to connect England and India, they certainly would feel averse to turning Telegraph construc- tors to all the East. It is impossible to conceive, why there should be any hesitation on the part of a Private Company to undertake this good scheme. Capitalists can find money to fling into the ocean, hopeless of all benefit or profit to any one; and yet to link our own territories with a per- fectly friendly Asiatic State is a matter for astonishment. It is hoped that a scheme so inviting and so full of pro- mise will be taken in hand before long and that the day for consultation has nearly passed and the day of action has at length arrived.—-Rangoon Times.

Hydrographic Notice.

By the politeness of Capt. Orton we have the perusal of a little pamph- let entitled "HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE": touching the dangers in the China sea. Our space will not allow of copy- ing it. We can only add a little to the circulation of the notice among Mariners by a bare reference to it.

The North Dangers, as they are cal- led, are two cays in Lat. 11° 28' N. and Long. 114°20' 45" E. The Ri- neman Bank extends from Lat. 7°31' N. to 7°37' N. and from Long. 111°32' E. to 111°45' 30" E. The Prince Consort Bank extends from Lat. 7° 46' N. to 7°58' N. and from Long. 109°55' E. to 110°6' E. The Central London Reef has its centre in Lat. 8°55' 30" N. and Long. 112°20' E. said to be far the most dangerous reef of them all. The Cuarteron Reef is in the form of a crescent, awash, its most Easterly extremity being in Lat. 8°50' 54" N. and Long, 112°49' 34" E. ex- tending W. by N. three miles. The East London Reef is seven miles long running east and west and from one to two miles wide, its E. end being in Lat. 8°49'38" N. and Long. 112°37' 26" E.

Sir,—-The following extract of a private letter from an Officer of H. M. Surveying Vessel SWALLOW at Batavia, containing an account of the discovery of a very dan- gerous track at the Southern entrance of Gaspar Straits—is of so much importance especially at this season when so many homeward bound vessel, are leaving China, that I forward it to you for publication, in anticipation of the ordinary official ac- count.

Found a coral patch of 6 feet near the position of "Hippogriffe" (in S. 33° 55' 8" 105°54' 30" E.) steep to on all sides, most dangerous for vessels running through Gas- par straits; it is of such small extent, that after we had found it, we had some difficul- ty in picking it up again.

Did not succeed in finding either the "Sharpshooter" or "Mary Goddard" Rocks. Neither could we find the Clifton Shoal, (North of Brothers), but picked up a patch of 22 feet S. 16° W., 12.5 miles off them.

LEGACIES.-—Mary, wife of Silvanns Sterling, recently deceased, gave her dwelling to the first Congregational Society, Bridgeport, to be the future residence of its minister; also a small sum, the interest of which is devoted to keeping it in repair, and a further sum towards paying the pew rents of the deserving poor of the church. To the American Bible Society, American Missionary Association, American Tract Society, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and American Home Missionary So- cieties, respectively each, $1,000; to the American Seamen's Friend So- ciety, $500; the American Coloniza- tion Society, $200; and to Rev. Daniel B. Bradley, a missionary of the Baptist Board in Siam, a relative of the family, $1,000; all the rest and residue of her property she gave to the town of Bridgeport in trust, for the Bridgeport Protestant widow's Society, including a lot of ground containing about one acre, for the site of a suitable building, as a home, for the use of said Society.—-Pacific

[NOTE.—-We know of no man by the name of Rev. Daniel B. Bradley in these parts— nor indeed of any Bradley a missionary connected with the Baptist Mission in Siam. But we have a slight acquaintance with one Dan B. Bradley of the American Mission- ary Association Board in Siam, and sur- mise that the legacy in question must be designed for him, as he is indeed a rela- tive of the late Mrs. Mary Sterling, being an own cousin on his mother's side, and she lived in Bridgeport Conn. Is it not very odd that this notice of the legacy in a California paper should have been the first word that the said Bradley had ei- ther of the death or the legacy? Ed.]

Premium on Babies.

We are now certain that the sour old bachelors in Congress do not control everything, for the ways and means com- mittee have agreed that the income tax shall stand as it is, with this exception, that fifty dollars shall be added to the 600 exempted from tax for every child of the family up to fifteen in number This is reasonable and liberal, and what a suggestion for increase of population is embodied in extending the number to fifteen. That sounds like the good old times, when a family meant something more than one or two spoiled children. To be sure fifty dollars per year is but a meager allowance for a baby of any size in these times, but it is something to have the fact considered, by those who levy the taxes, that a man who obeys the or- iginal law of the race and does his part towards replenishing the earth, necessar- ily uses up more of his income than the childless, and uses it too for the benefit of the country, whose wealth consists in population. Family men will take cour- age, and thank the Congressmen who show this consideration at the same time of their services and their necessities.—- SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN.

Prices Current.

GOLDBAY—Tic. 17 P Ticals weight. EXCHANGE—On Singapore 8 P cent premium 10 d. s.

FREIGHTS—The harbor is clear of foreign unchartered vessels. There is a slight demand for small vessels, present freights are from 40 to 45 cents P picul for Hongkong, and from 25 to 30 cents P picul for Singapore.

We report the following charters—

British ship “Cutty Sark” 12,000 ph. 45 cents inside, and 40 cents P picul out- side, rice to Hongkong.

Bremen bark “Scharnhorst” 45 cents inside, and 40 cents P picul outside, rice for Hongkong.

British schooner “Clio” 2,700 piculs $700 in full to Singapore.

British schooner “Water Lily” 25 cents P picul to Singapore.

The following vessels have sailed for Hongkong, on the owners account.

Siam bark “Hap Seng” with 231 pls. rice, 695 sapanwood, 680 sugar, 425 paddy.

Siam ship “Queen of England” with 10,366 pls. rice.

Siam bark “Seaforth” with 1,210 pls. rice, 969 sapanwood, 823 sugar, 699 pepper, 136 tin, 567 paddy.

Siam ship “Sword Fish” with 4,664 pls. rice, 1,000 sapanwood, 200 teelseed, 950 paddy.

Siam bark “Rapid” with 1,721 sapan- wood, 1,176 sugar, 370 pepper, 180 teelseed, 950 paddy.

Siam ship “Race Horse” with 3,867 pls. rice, 1,005 sapanwood, 493 pepper, 972 paddy.

Siam schooner “Mary Rose” with 7,400 pls. rice, 330 sapanwood, 87 hides.

Siam bark “St. Mary” with 3,673 pls. rice, 179 sapanwood, 104 horns.

Siam ship “Chow Sye” with 2,876 pls. rice, 2,280 sapanwood, 600 sugar, 826 pepper, 40 horns, 1,194 paddy.

Siam ship “Comet” with 2,680 pls. sapanwood, 3,590 sugar, 1,416 paddy.

Siam ship “Contest” with 1,300 pls. rice, 1,419 sapanwood, 1,300 sugar, 1,091 paddy.

Siam steamer “Chow Phya” for Singa- pore, with 4,226 pls. rice, 343 sugar, 85 horns, 16 silk.

Russia

A telegram had been received at St. Petersburg, dated Orenburg, May 20, which was to the following effect :—- “Major General Romanowski announces that on the 8th of May the principal army of the Emir of Bokhara, number- ing 40,000 men, and having 21 guns, was completely routed near Idjar. The Emir fled to Dyouzak with a hundred Sarbares and two guns. The remainder of his artillery, two immense camps, and the baggage, fell into our hands. The ene- my left more than a thousand dead on the battle-field; our losses are insig- nificant.”

The Heat

A maximum temperature of 102° in the shade against 94° last year, with only 10½ inches of rain against 21, will excuse some mention of the weather. Bengal lives in a Turkish bath. Seldom if ever was such intense and continuous heat experienced. The oldest inhabitant is compelled to travel back to 1842 to find anything approaching to the present wea- ther. Week after week passes away with- out change or improvement. The friendly cloud freighted from the ocean will not stay, or stays to no purpose. Sharp storms have proved inadequate to dispel the fiery atmospheric pall by which the land is en- veloped. Thunder, lightning and earth- quake avail nothing, and rain only seems to evolve caloric from the overcharged earth, thereby adding steam to other en- joyments. The Calcutta crows sit with distended beaks, and the long-legged ad- jutants have returned to the ice-bound regions of Chandernagore. The air is in- tensely sultry-a dull, opaque body of warm water heavy laden with dust, and a vertical sun beats upon the city, its nar- row gullies, impure tanks and crowded bazaars, with fierce and unrelenting fury. Palki bearers stagger slowly along with loads they can scarcely raise, horses lie dead in many streets killed by the heat, and the palms and cocoa-nut trees droop their heads. All nature groans under the intolerable burden. The fate of the An- cient Mariner was nothing compared with that of the Calcutta cockney. Prickly heat, mosquitoes and imperfect drainage were unknown to him of “the grey beard and glittering eye.” Moreover he enjoyed the advantage of sea-air. The eye falters beneath an insufferable glare, which causes the tin dome of Government House to shine with ineffable glory—another and vice-regal sun. We exist in a huge ex- panse, tempered by ice, mango, fish and ponkahs bodily pulled. Men waste and fade away under the melting ordeal, and but for the Directory and Army List might forget their identity.—-FRIEND OF INDIA.

A strange story of a fire
proof chest.

What very nearly amounted to a shock- ing tragedy, reminding one not a little of the famous old story of the bride and the chest, took place at Oxford last Tuesday. At the handsome Randolph Hotel in that city, lately built, two men and a boy em- ployed on the premises, from fun and curiosity, we believe, got into a very carefully constructed fireproof plate closet. Another servant, also in fun, little thinking what he was doing, closed the door. [..] fastened with a spring lock, and the hor- rified victims found themselves enclosed in an air tight box about three feet square by six feet high. It is difficult to under- stand how three persons could have squeez- ed themselves into such a place, for there was only just standing room; but such is the fact. Their cries soon alarmed the es- tablishment and at last the key was found; but, as might be expected in the confusion, under the agonised efforts of the frighten- ed man who had shut the door, it broke in the lock. There was now nothing for it but to break in, but the extraordinary strength of the door resisted every effort of several sledge-hammers, wielded by powerful men, working for the life of their fellow-creatures. The escape of the pri- soners was only effected after having been immured for more than half-an-hour, by breaking through the wall with proper mason's tools. The boy had fainted, and one of the men was bleeding at the nose and mouth; the other had not yet begun to suffer visibly, though much distressed. A very few minutes more—it is said not more than five—and some, if not all, must have perished. Considerable crowds col- lected round the hotel both at the time and afterwards.-—CHURCHMAN.

Odds and Ends.

—"I can't," never crossed the Alps or raised an acre of corn.

—If you would be nothing, just wait to be something.

—Look out for the man, or woman, who is always telling you to look out for others.

Said a crazy woman, of a penurious, stingy man, "Do you see that man?" You can blow his soul through a hum- ming bird's quill into a mosquito's eye, and the mosquito wouldn't wink!"

—Grapple ever with opportunity. And as you do not know when opportunity will happen, keep your grappling irons always ready.

—The man who can make his own fire, black his own boots, carry his own wood, hoe his own garden, pay his own debts, and live without wine and tobacco need ask no favor of him who rides in a coach- and-four.

—A Dutchman carried two mugs to the milkman in place of one, as usual, and being asked the meaning of it, re-

plied: “ Dis vor te millich, an’ dis vor te vater, an’ I vill mix tem zo as to zoote myzelf.”

—-An Eastern caliph being sorely a- flicted with enui, was advised that an exchange of shirts with a man who was perfectly happy, would cure him. After a long search, he discovered such a man, but was informed that the happy fellow had no shirt.

An old picture represents a king sit- ting in state, with a label, “I govern all,” —-a bishop with a legend, “I pray for all,”—-a soldier with a motto, “I fight for all,” and a farmer, drawing forth reluctantly a purse, with the superscrip- tion, “I pay for all.”

—-Any assurance which does not lead to more careful walking before God, to more earnest and deep heart-searchings, and to quicker and heart felt repentings, we may rest assured is a false peace— one that comes from the father of lies, and not from God.

—-Lost wealth may be regained by in- dustry; the wreck of health restored by temperance; forgotten knowledge may be ours again by study; alienated friend- ship soothed into forgetfulness and even forfeited reputation redeemed by a life of patience and virtue. But who ever again looked upon his vanished hours?— recalled his wasted years? or erased from Heaven’s record this fearful blot of was- ted time?

—-“I will extend no other mercy to you,” said a prince to a jester, who for a fault, was condemned to death, “except permitting you to choose what kind of death you will die.—Decide immediately, for I will be obeyed.” “I adore your clemency,” said the jester; I choose to die of old age.”

“When the world had become so cor- rupt that the Lord could do nothing with it, he was obliged to give it a thorough sowing in cold water.”

“Yes,” replied a toper present, “but it killed every critter on the face of the earth.”

The doctor’s motto—Be patient.

The potter’s motto—Beware.

The type-setter’s motto—-Be com-

—-One of the miseries of human life is going to dine with your friend on the strength of a general invitation, and finding, by the countenance of his wife, that you had much better have waited for a particular one. posed.

—-An Irish gentleman parting with a lazy servant woman was asked whether she was what is termed afraid of work. “Not at all; she’ll frequent- ly lie down and fall asleep by the very side of it.”

—-It has been said that “the finest arts are fine manners,” and the saying is a good and true one. But if man- ners come from art alone, they can have only a superficial value. When they spring from the heart refined by grace, they are precious as ointment poured forth.

—-Of a truth there can be no mean- er type of human selfishness than that afforded by him, who unmindful of the world of sin and suffering about him, occupies himself in the pitiful business of saving his own soul in the very spirit of the miser, watching over his own private hoard while his neigh- bors starve for the lack of bread.

—-It does us good to admire what is good and very beautiful. But it does us infinitely more good to love it. We grow like what we admire. But we become one with what we love.

—-The fears which cause most of the trouble and worry that men ex- perience, result from undue anxiety for the riches and so-called good things of this life—not having the calm faith that sustains one in doing cheerfully and gladly the duties of to-day, feeling fully assured that the morrow will take care of itself, and that strength will be given to do the work when it is needed.

—-Reputation is a good deal like a bonfire, you’ve got to keep piling on the shavings. If you don’t, the flames will soon subside.

—-Many people use their accomplish- ments as a spider uses his web,—to catch the weak upon, that they may be mercilessly devoured.

CORRECTION.

In the Tide Table of the Bangkok Calendar for 1866 for May, June, Au- gust, and October, for High read Low, and for Low read HIGH.