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Press, Volume XII, Issue 1584, 4 December 1867, Page 3

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The Judges t»f the higher Courts of England get high salaries, without which no man in large practice can iiffbrd to relinquish lucrative practice at the bar. The Lord Chancellor receives £10.000, the two Vice-Chan-cellors, £3000 each ; the Mazier of the Rolls, £t>ooo ; the three Justices of Appeal, £6000 each ; the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, £S000; the Chief Baron of the Exchequer and the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, £7000 each ; twelve Puisne Judges, £5000 each ; and the Chief Judge in Admiralty, £4000 per aunum. Moreover, lull these are offices for life, with the exception of that of Lord Chancellor. His is held to be a political office, aud he resigns it when his party go out of power. But, as a salvo, he receives, no matter how brief his occupancy of that office, a life pension of £5000. Professor Hamilton has presented to the Pathological Society of New York the heart of a patient aged forty-four. A bullet was embedded, says the " British Medical Jonrnal," in the apex of the heart, which had been lodged there from a musket wound received when he was fourteen years old. Six weeks after the. injury he returned to work. He was married in 1845. His last illness was ascribed to cold. The ball was surrounded by atheromatous deposits. The heart was dilated, but not hypertrophied. It is one of the hardships of the editorial profession that its working wheels—brains and heart—are not allowed to lag for sickness, or stop for calamity or sorrow. The judge may adjourn his Court, the school and workshop may close shutters, the mourner may veil his features and turn friend and stranger from the door, but the journalist must forget before tomorrow the sorrow of to-day, must write gaily and freshly as a newsmonger on the trifle of an hour, whatever burdeu has been laid ou that hour by Providence, or his brains as a man, and as the world reads what is thus written it never dreams of the agony which- may rack the brain which produced it. The public looks upon au editor's labours as the Indian did upon the man that was cutting hay. He finally gave in his opinion that it was " easy to see the white man mow." A remarkable confirmation of Professor Halford's views of the origin of zymotic diseases from organic poisons absorbed into the blood through the lungs is given in the " Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science." It states — " Mr Chauveau, of Lyons, has recently proved experimentally that horses may be vaccinated by causing them to inhale the dried and pulverized matter of the vaccine vesicle. In these instances the resultant vesicles were formed, not on the bronchial, but on the cutaneous surface, thereby showing the predilection of the disease for its ordinary habitat, irrespectively of the mode of ite communication. These experi* ments, moreover, prove conclusively the communieability of zymotic disease in a palpable form through the medium of the atmosphere." But urns from all except eight counties in Virginia show the registration to be—whites, 110,000 ; blacks, 90,000. Of the counties not heard from four will give large white majorities. Registration in Alabama has been completed. The total number of voters is 160,995, of which 72,247 are whites. During the twenty years ending this summer 4,000,000 of emigrants have arrived, in New York. It is said that a company of Grermansis organizing in San Francisco to induce emigration from the Old World to Sitka ; they intend to establish agencies for this purpose in the large German cities^ The Chicago and North Western Railroad Company has 1152 miles of railway, and the capital stock and funded debt are 45,000,000 dols. The earnings last year were 10,167,735, and the operating expenses 7,103,893. The Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad has been opened to Omaha, where it connects with the Union Pacific Railroad, making a continuous line of nearly 1000 miles westward from Chicago. The London Underground Railway has carried in six months' time 12,002,886 passengers, or about three times the population of London. The largest traffic on any one day was Whit-Monday, when 113,074 passengers were carried over the Metropolitan proper, and 6495 over the Hammersmith and City Extension, making a total of 119,569 passengers in one day. In Whitsun-week the Metropolitan carried 542,833 passengers, and the Hammersmith and City 27,887 —a total of 570,720 passengers in one week. The actual number of passengers carried over the line since its opening in January, 1863, is about 70,000,000. While the Sultan was in London Lord Westmeath was presented to him as the only survivor of those of the British army which debarked in Egypt under General Sir Ralph Abercrombie in the year 1801. Lord Westmeath possesses the medal of the Crescent for services then performed. Eight hundred tons of shell have recently been returned to Washington, to be emptied and stored, and it is said that the workmen have discovered that work upon them is not dangerous, as sawdust has been substituted for powder in the preparation of these projectiles. How many thousands of them similarly filled were fired at the rebel forces during the war it is impoesible to calculate. Masonic lodges have been closed in Austria since 1794. An attempt to procure the re-opening of them in 1849 failed. The Vienna Masons are stated to be at present endeavouring to obtain an authorization to reconstitute the former lodge of that city. At a recent book sale in London the extraordinary price of 2050 dols. was paid for " Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies," published according to the true original copies, and printed by Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount in 1623.

In a- note addressed to the French Academy relative to the importance of studying ancient Chinese records, M. Paravey expresses a doubt that the basalt statue of King Chephren. sup- j posed to be 6000 years old, could have been chiselled with flint implements. The "Fortnightly Review" has been sold for a sum of £550 to Messrs Chapman and Hall, the publishers, of Piccadilly. It is to undergo certain transformations, and then be published by them avowedly as a monthly journal. It is alleged that carbonic acid has recently been successfully used for the extermination of mosquitoes and flies. A small piece of cloth, saturated with the acid, was hung up in a room, and in two hours the flies had entirely disappeared In the evening the acid was tried in the kitchen, where the mosquitoes were very troublesome, with like success. "E.N." writing to the London " Times," says that he has recently returned from the East Coast station, and that the slave trade is as active as ever. From Zanzibar to Muscat about 18,000 slaves are taken every year. It is reported that a cargo of 500 African negroes was recently landed on the coast of Cuba, and was rapidly dispersed amongst the sugar plantations. The Emperor Napoleon's railway state carriages are connected by tastefully decorated bridges, and are furnished with chairs, ottomans, sofas, mirrors, pictures, clocks, and chandeliers. There is a study, a bedroom with two bed*, a drawing-room, a kitchen, a wine-cellar, and a couservatory. The Emperor can communicate by telegraph with his suite in the other carriages.