MISCELLANEOUS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 19, 4 July 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)

MISCELLANEOUS.

Heenan and Tom King.—The deposits for this event continue to be made with regularity; In the western division Heenan finds plenty of supporters, while the partisans of King are very numerous in the east. The admirers of the latter have presented him with a belt, which is said to be ll the most beautiful thing of the kind ever yet displayed." King, in thanking his friends tor their loudness, said he would do his best to retain their favor. He had strong hopes that he should be able to come off best in his great match, and to the best of his ability would support the honor of England, and if he should have the misfortune to lose—which, however, he did not at all think he should—the public and his friends should have a good aud sufficient reason why." Heenan still continues the principal attraction of Howes' American Circus.

So strange an event as an express train being literally dashed t<» pieces, and without loss of life, seems almost incredible. And yet such has been actually the case on the Great Northern Railway. The express train, going at the usual rate of 40 miles an hour, ran off the metals at Stamford, tore down the line and was presently a heap of ruins ; the engine was " doubled up," and the carriages shattered and crushed and apparently shivered to mere debris of oroken wood and twisted iron. And yet out of the ruin were taken some twenty people more or less bruised and bleeding, but, marvellous to tell, not one seriously injured. Considerable excitement has been caused in Liverpool by the seizure of a gunboat intended for the Confederates. It had been well known for some weeks past that one gunboat, if not more, was being fitted out in some of the minor docks, and the people employed about them made no secret of the destination for which they were intended. On the facts coming to the knowledge of the United States Consul at Liverpool, he communicated with the American

minister in London, and official inquiries were | consequently instituted into the whole of the proceedings bearing upon the building of the vessel seized. The result of these inquiries may j be inferred from the fact that the British Go-1 yerninent sent down orders to seize the vessel, and one of the Customs surveyors went on board the Alexandra and placed the " broad arrow" on ! the vessel, and took possession of her. The Alexandra is a wooden screw stt araer of about 120 tons and a very fine model. The vessel has now been exchequered, and it is understood that Messrs. Fawcett, Preston & Co., her owners, and Messrs. Miller, her builders, will probably be summoned before the magistrates on the charge of designing to infringe the Foreign Enlistment Act The solicitors for the defendants applied to the Mayor of Liverpool for an inspection of the depositions, but were informed that the law officers of the Crown advised that the application ought not to be complied with. It is understood that the Government in! end holding an inquiry as to the ownership and destination of two gunboats now being constructed by Messrs. Laird, of Birkenhead, information having been forwarded to the effect that they are being built for the Confederate Government. A splendid steamer, called the Japan—otherwise the Virginia—sailed from the Clyde on April 4, heavily armed, for a Confederate port. The crew of the Virginia, consisting of upwards of 100 men, were shipped from Liverpool, having been engaged at high wages, with a promise of a bounty for every run she makes in and out of a Confederate port; and also a good share of prizemoney for every Federal vessel captured or destroyed. A remarkable u find" of gold in East Sussex has lately been made public. It consisted of bars and piec; s, rings, chains, &c, to the value of about £IOOO.

A Te Deum was chanted by order of the Greek Government in the Greek chapel at Malta on the occasion of the election of Prince William of Denmark as King of Greece. After the Te Deum, the officiating clergy of the Greek Church invoked the blessing of the Almighty on the three protecting Powers. The acting consul pronounced a fitting speech on the success of the revolution, which overturned, he said, a bad king and a worse system of government. The proceedings terminated with ewivas for the new King of Greece and the Greek nation. Ladies in North America are constantly being arrested on charges of complicity with the Southerns.

During the month of March 200 gold, silver, and copper mining companies were formed in San Francisco, to develop the mines in California, Nevada, and North-Westero Mexico. Their nominal capital was over 80,000,000d015.

"It is affirmed," says the Siecle> " that Russians of large fortune, holding important offices, are just' now realising their property, and investing considerable sums in foreign securities, from fear lest the rising of the Poles should occasion a revolution at St. Petersburg or Moscow."

An American paper says that there is one Irish Mormon in Utah, and that he has nine wives and 47 children.

Some Washington admirers of Miss Julia Mortimer, a danseme t went to serenade her. They mistook the window, and, instead of the beautiful Julia, who should appear but Jim Lane of Kansas ? He put up the window and made a characteristic speech. Considerable amusement was caused in the House of Commons on the discussion of Sir 0. Grey's motion for an amalgamation of the police forces of the metropolis, by the Lord Mayor observing that about a million of persons transacted business in the city every day, and that the police u mixed with them, took notice of them, and made a record of every one of them, so that there was scarcely a thief who was not known." While public attention and sanitary exertions have been directed to Lancashire in anticipation of a great outbreak of fever among the cotton operatives, an epidemic of fever has been silently raging in the metropolis far surpassing in extent any observed during the past 15 years. According to the Lancet the deaths from fever in the metropolis, which in 1860 did not exceed 1392, rose in 1862 to 3635. The causes of typhus are not doubtful: they are overcrowding, destitution, and bad ventilation. The distress of Lancashire has probably told more on the overcrowded districts of London than in that county, where the most careful and active philanthropy has averted that herding of destitute creatures in pestilential chambers which originates and pro-, pagates typhus. During 1862 no fewer than 32 deaths from starvation were reported in London, although it is doubtful if a single death from this cause was noted throughout the length and breadth of Lancashire in the same period. The ceremonies of the Holy Week at Rome commenced on Palm Sunday, his holiness taking part in the function at St. Peter's. The crowds of foreign spectators were so great that the usual seats erected for ladies were tar from sufficient to accommodate all who presented themselves with tickets.