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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 139, 17 June 1867, Page 2

The Boston Leader says: — " We bave received a visit from Mr H.M. Lane, who has just visited the diamond mines of Brazil, and tells us that, in taking the gems from ihe earth, a driver places his gang of slaves in a mud-hole where the gems are found, and pans out the earth in the water like goldwashers. The negroes are naked, to prevent them secreting the diamonds in their clothes. Tbey are required to work facing the overseer, and forbidden to raise a band to t.he face, lest, they should swallow the jewels wheu found. Yet they do cany them away, by becoming so expert that they can snap them with their fingers from the pau to the mouth Avithout detection." At a recent dinner of the Idun Scientific Society in Stockkolm, a dish of meat taken out by Parry, in his expedition to the Nortb Pole in 1827, was served to the guests. It was preserved in tin boxes, aud found by the Swedish Scientific Expedition on School Point, Spitsbergen. In New York, the number of people over twenty-one who caunot read and write are — City, 19,199; State, 95,865. Of these, combined, 50,830 are males; and of both males and females who cannot read and write, 21,897 are natives of the United States,- 69,323 are of Ireland alone. A Treasury return just made gives the following comparative results. The gross revenue oflreland, excluding miscellaneous receipts, was, in 1841, £4, 158,677; in 1855, £4,324,865; and in 1861* £6,792,606. The pooulatiou numbered, in 1841, 8,196,597; in 1851, 6,574,278; and in 1861 5.798,967. The amount, of grass per head of population was, in 1841, '10s. Id.; in 1851, 13s. 2d.; and in 1861, £.1 3s. sd. The gross revenue includes receipts from Crown lands as follows: — 1841, £65,934; 1851, £5(j,035; 1831, £47,057..