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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. CONSCIENCE MONEY. —The amount of conicience money received by the Chancellor of the *c q during the year 1862-3 was £ 10,422. f„linded JBWS SCHOOL.— The Jews of Tunis hare j a school in that city for the yonth of 'heir °*|r J. sion, in commemoration of the visit of the re Constantinople. In addition to the Hebrew language, Arabian, French, and Italian will be taug »itino STBAM VESSELS.—A return has been jus 8 ? the number, name», and other details o reg vessels in the United Kingdom on the 1st of January last. The number of vessel* was 2192. and the ton; nage respectively were :-Register tonnage o3o,596, and the close of the year 1862 the capital in the Post-office Savings-banks, the principal and interest due to depositors, w" 7. In/he S* ings-banks, under trustees, £ 40,o93,124, this last sum, being £953,1.)1 less than the amount in 1861. The French Minister of Marine has offered a reward of 50,000 francs to any one who shall invent any means of preventing, or discover any proctss of repairing, the damage done by the action of the sea, or of some insect contained in it, to the metal pliting of men-of-war. It aeems that the metal-covered ships suffer just as wooden vessels do in some parts of the Mediterranean. SIR G. C. LEWIS ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS.—The Edin- burgh Review, in an interesting article on the late Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, introduces an extract on American po, lilies from a private letter of that lamented statesman, written so long back as 1856. The parage strikingly shows how truly political insight involves political fore. sight, and how completely a discerning judgment of the present may amount to a prophetic anticipation of the future. THE POWER OF TRUTH.—Mr. Joseph Barker, origi- nally an eloquent Dissenting preacher, but who abjured Christianity, and has been for many years, both in most of the United States and in England, one of the leading advocates of atheism, has openly renounced his infidelity. With his return to orthodoxy, he writes in admiration of the Southern Confederacy, and challenges Mr. Thompson (formerly M.P. for the Tower Hamlets) to a public dis- cussion on North and South. UNDERGROUND LONDON. —A new company has been registered under the title of the London Main Trunk Un- derground Railway Company." It is proposed to construct a main trunk underground line of railway, to commence at Stratford, to be carried down the Bow, Milt-and, and Whitechapel roadf, through the City, down Holborn, Oxford-Jtreet, and Bayswater-road, and to terminate at Shepherd's-bush. In connection with the construction of this line of railway, it is also suggested that four lines of rails at the least should be made, and that chambers should be constructed for depositing gas and water pipe*, telegraph wires, &e. PPOFOSED AUSTRALIAN PRESENT FOR THE PRINCESS OF WAL HS.—We are glad to hear that the subscriptions towards the Casket Fund for the wedding present to the Princess of Wales is going on well. Lady Young is de. sirous of raising the sum of ,£500 amongst the ladies of the colony for this purpose. The enthusiasm already shown in private circles is sufficient to prove that when the object is understood, the amount required will be easily subscribed.—Sydney Herald. THE NEW VOLUNTEERS' ACT.—On Friday the new act to Consolidate and Amend the Law retatingtothe Volun- teer Force in Great Britain, which received the Royal as- sent on Tuesday, was printed. It contains 53 sections and a schedule of forms to be used, and also showing the enactments now repealed. The act is divided into seven parts. Her Majesty is empowered to accept the service of volunteer corps through the lieutenants of counties, and to form a permanent staff. The acceptance of a com- mission in a volunteer corps by a member of the House of Commons, is not to render his seat vacant. A volun- teer may quit his corps when not in actual military service, on complying wilh certain conditions set forth. The general command may be placed under a field or general officer, and an annual inspection is to take place. The Secretary of State may make regulations for the go. vernment of the force, and in case of invasion the Crown may call on the volunteers for active military service, and grant them an allowance. There are other provisions in the statute respecting discipline and the power to acquire land for drill and practice. The Chief Commissioner of Works may allot a portion of the Itoyal parks for shoot- ing practice. The law in regard to volunteers is now consolidated and amended. THE CLOSB OF THE SESSION.—The Ministerial white. bait dinner, the customary prelude to the close of the Parliamentary Session, took place on Saturday evening at the Trafalgar at Greenwich. The noble Premier, the Duke of Argyll, and the majority of the company, pro- ceeded by water from Westminster-bridge in one of the Citizen steamboats, which was carpeted and gaily deco- rated, to the landing, just past the Royal Hospital. Covers were laid for 30, and among those present were Viscount Palmeiston, the Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, the Right Hon. E. Card- well, the Right HOD. C. P. Yilliers, the Right Hon. R. Lowe, the Right Hon. W. Hutt, the Right Hon. F. Peel, the Right Hon. W. F Cowper, Hon. H. B. W. Brand, the Marquis of Hartington, Mr. Chichester Fortesque, Mr. A. H. Layard, Mr. T. G. Baring, the Attorney- General, the Solicitor-General, Sir W. Dunbar, Colonel White, Mr. Gilpin, Mr. E. H. K. Hugessen, Ac. The Right Hon. Sir G. Grey was unable to attend, public business calling him to Osborne; and the Duke of New. castle and the Earl de Grey were also unable to be pre sent owing to other engagements. THE SYDNBY MORNING HERALD" ON EMIGRATION TO THE AUSTRALIA COLONIES.—There are many causes which are inducing the peopleof England to look to these eotoniesasa home for the emigrating classes. It is natural that the thousands who are enveloped directly or indi- rectly in the great Lancashire cotton calamity, should listen with interest to the accounts of lands where so many of their countrymen have often sought a refuge from the periodical difficulties of English life. When- ever immigration proceeds at an accelerated pace, and large numbers are thrown without provision and without notification on the shores of a colony, there succeeds a season of difficulty aod distress, and the first letters they selnd of their ill fortune tend to damp the enterprise of others who would follow. Time, however, rolls away, and if a census were made of those who arrived at a given time, it would be found that only a few have seen reason, after a lapse of years, to regret their enterprise, and their advice would probably be very different from that they gave when, in the first gush of disappointment, they found that the streets were not paved with gold, and that there were no acclamations of welcome to hail their advent. There is scarcely anything that can be said too glowing when describing the capabilities of these countries. Their rapid growth, and the enormous exports and im- ports compared with the population, indicate the natural wealth to which there is no parallel save in America. Time was when good Tea was readily obtainable- pure wholesome tea—and people generally seek such now. John Chinaman has not been slow in finding out that be can pass off his brown waste leaves by colouring all qualities alike, thus greatly increasing bis own and the merchant's profits, at the consumer's expense. It is highly requisite that good Tea be again readily obtainable; HORNIMAN and Co., London, therefore import it pure, without any mineral powder on its surface, being the strong, delicious, and invigorating spring borts the green, a dull olive-oot bluish; and the black not made intensely dark being thus undisguised, it is reliable in quality. Supplied only in Packets, through HORNIMAN'S own agents.

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