with it, a violent hailstorm broke over us, making us glad to seek shelter from its fury under rocks and trees. Most of the day was thus consumed, and it was not until 5 P. M. that we mounted our mules and swam them across. The water was icy cold, and some of the animals had a narrow escape from drowning. We, however, saddled up immediately, and proceeding four miles from the creek, encamped for the night in a small hollow. On leaving the Rio de la Laguna, the road ascended a high and steep hill. The country travelled over this day was abundantly grassed, the hills timbered with firs, pines, and aspens, and the streams shaded with willows. Day's trivel 9 miles; total, 885 miles." What do you think of that contrivance, Dr.? "This morning our anxieties from Indians have commenced. At ten o'clock three of them rode into camp, and shortly afterwards some dozen more. Yesterday, after the Indians arrived, I gave them what little tobacco we could spare and some of our small stock of dried elk meat. After eating and smoking for awhile they insisted on my accompanying them to their camp, which was some ten miles off. I explained to them as well as I could who I was. Knowing that it is best always to act boldly with Indians, as if you felt no fear whatever, I armed myself and started with them. Our road for a mile or two led over a barren plain, thickly covered with grease wood, but we soon struck the base of the mountain, where the firm rich mountain grass swept our saddle-girths as we cantered over it. We crossed a considerable mountain covered with timber and grass, and near the summit of which was quite a cluster of small, but very clear and apparently deep lakes. They were not more than an acre or two in size, and some not even that, but surrounded by luxuriant grass, and perched away up on the mountain, with fine timber quite near them. It was the most beautiful scenery in the world; it formed quite a hunter's paradise, for deer and elk bounded off from us as we approached, and then stood within rifle-shot, looking back in astonishment. A few hours' ride brought us to the Indian camp; and I wish here I could describe the beauty of the charming valley in which they lived. It was small, probably not more than five miles wide by fifteen long, but surrounded on all sides by the boldest mountains, covered to their summits with alternate patches of timber and grass, giving it the appearance of having been regularly laid off in small farms. Through the centre a fine bold stream, probably three feet deep by forty wide, watered the meadow land, and gave the last touch which the valley required to make it the most beautiful I had ever seen. Hundreds of horses and goats were feeding on the meadows and hill-sides, and the Indian lodges, with the women and children standing in front of them to look at the approaching stranger, strongly reminded me of the old patriarchal times, when flocks and herds made the wealth and happiness of the people, and a tent was as good as a palace. I was conducted to the lodge of the chief, an old and infirm man who welcomed me kindly, and told me his young men had told him I had given of my small store to them, and to "sit in peace." I brought out my pipe, filled it, and we smoked together. In about fifteen minutes a squaw brought in two large wooden platters, containing some very fat deer meat and some boiled corn, to which I did ample justice. After this followed a dish which one must have been two weeks without bread to have appreciated as I did. Never at the tables of the wealthiest in Washington did I find a dish which appeared to me so perfectly without a parallel. It was some cornmeal boiled in goats' milk, with a little elk fat. I think I certainly ate near half a peck of this delicious, atole, and then stopped, not because I had enough, but because I had scraped the dish dry with my fingers, and licked them as long as the smallest particle remained, which is "manners' among Indians, and also among Arabs. Eat all they give you, or get somebody to do it for you, is to honor the hospitality you receive. To leave any is a slight. I needed not the rule to make me eat all. After this we smoked again, and when about to start I found a large bag of dried meat and a peck of corn put up for me to take to my people. Bidding a friendly good-by to my hosts and dividing among them about a pound of tobacco and two handkerchiefs, and giving the old chief the battered remains of a small leaden picayune looking-glass, I mounted my mule to return.The sun was just setting when I started, and before reaching the summit of the mountain it was quite dark. As there was no road, and the creeks very dark in the bottoms, I had a most toilsome time of it. At one creek, which I reached after very great difficulty in getting through the thick and almost impenetrable undergrowth, it was so dark that I could see nothing; but, trusting to luck, I jumped my mule off the bank and brought up in water nearly covering my saddle. Getting in was bad enough, but coming out was worse; for, finding the banks high on the other side, I was obliged to follow down the stream for half a mile or more, not knowing when I should be swimming, until I succeeded with great difficulty in getting out through the tingled brushwood on the opposite side. I arrived at camp late at night, and found my men very anxi ously awaiting my return, having almost concluded to give me up, and to think I had lost my "hair." A little rain." I've only two more extracts. Started at 5 A. M., and, travelling thirty-five miles, encamped on Green River Fork of the Great Colorado at 1 P. M. The country we traversed was stony and broken by dry watercourses. On every side, and principally to the north and northeast, extended ranges of rugged hills, bare of vezetation, and seamed with ravines. On their summits were rocks of fantastic shapes, resembling pyramids, obelisks, churches, and towers, and having all the appearances of a vast city in the distance. The only vegetation was a scanty growth of stunted wild sage and cacti, except at a point known as the Hole in the Rock, where there were willows and other plants denoting the vicin ity of water, but we found none on our route. The sun was exceedingly hot, and we, as well as our mules, were glad to reach the river, where we could relieve our thirst. Saw four antelopes near Green River, to which the Delaware immediately gave chase, but was unable to get within gunshot. Green River was broader and deeper than either Grand River or the Avonkarea, but its current was neither so rapid nor so turbulent. The scenery on its banks was grand and solemn, and we had an excellent view of it from our camping place ou a high bluff." And now for the last, "We procured at Parawan a settlement of the Mormons, a small supply of flour and some beef, which we buccanée'd. eastern nations, and backing his argument with statistics of the relative number of males and females born, obtained no boubt from the same source as the Book of Mormon. This discourse did not increase our respect for the tenets he advocated, but we deemed it useless to engage in a controversy with one who made use of such sophistry. From what he said, I inferred that a large number of Mormons do not entirely approve of the “spiritual wife" system, and, judging from some of the households, it was evident that the weaker vessel has in many instances here, as elsewhere, the control of the mènage. This subject, "the Central Route to the Pacific," will always be of importance, even although the line of railroads farther north should in time connect with an iron-clasp the two oceans. Mr. Gwynn H. Heap's book is very readable. Doctor, have you seen a paper on Indian Fibres fit for Textile Fabrics, or for Rope and Paper making?" ་་ DOCTOR.-I have, and think it of great importance at a time when our differences with Russia have, in a great measure, forced us to seek our Here is the supply of hemp from other sources. paper. The kind reception that we received from the inhabitants of these settlements, during our short sojourn among them, strongly contrasted with what we had been led to anticipate from the reports of the Mexicans and Indians whom we had met on the road. On our arrival, Colonel G. A. Smith sent an officer to inquire who we were, our business, destination, &c., at the same time apologizing for the inquiries, by stating that the disturbed condition of the country rendered it necessary to exercise a strict vigilance over all strangers, particularly over those who came from the direction of their enemy's territory. Mr. INDIAN SUBSTITUTES FOR RUSSIAN HEMP.-At Beale's replies being, of course, satisfactory, we the last meeting of the Society of Arts Dr. Forbes were treated as friends, and received every mark Royle read a paper on "Indiar. Fibres fit for Texof cordiality. We spent the evening of our ar- tile Fabrics, or for Rope and Paper making." He rival in Parawan at the house of Col. Smith, who stated that in the white-fibred plants, such as the was in command of this portion of the territory, bowstring hemp, the aloe, the pita-fibre, the pineand was organizing a military force for its protec-apple, and, above all, the plantain, we had boundtion. He related to us the origin of these southern settlements, the many difficulties and hardships that they had to contend with, and gave us much interesting information of the geography of the surrounding country. He also stated that furnaces for smelting iron ore were already in operation in the vicinity of Paragoona and Parawan, and that the metal, which was obtained in sufficient quantity to supply any demand, was also of an excellent quality; and that veins of coal had been found near Cedar City, on Coal Creek, eighteen miles south of Parawan, one of which was fifteen feet in thickness, and apparently inexhaustible. A large force of English miners was employed in working these mines, and pronounced the coal to be equal to the best English coal. I saw it used in the forges; it is bituminous, and burns with a bright flame. As regards the odious practice of polygamy which these people have engrafted on their religion, it is not to be supposed that we could learn much about it during our short stay, and its existence would even have been unobserved by us, had not a "Saint" voluntarily informed us that he was "one of those Mormons who believed in a plurality of wives," and added, "for my part I have six, and this is one of them," pointing to a female who was present. Taking this subject for his text, he delivered a discourse highly eulogistic of the institution of marriage, as seen in a Mormon point of view; of the antiquity of polygamy, its advantages, the evils it prevents, quoting the example of the patriarchs, and of less resources of material not only for paper making, but for cordage, which would rival Manilla hemp, or the American aloe which bridged over broad rivers. The oakum of these plants might be converted into paper, and the fibres into fabrics of different qualities; and, though they might not be fitted for making knots, they would yet make ropes which were capable of bearing considerable strain. Among the malvaceous and leguminous plants, or those among which the brown hemp and "sunn" of India were found, with the jute among the linden tribe, we had a variety of cheap products, because the plants could be grown with ease and their fibres sepa rated with facility. If we required fibres possessed of all the strength of Russian or of Polish hemp, we should find this property not only in the hemp of the Himalaya, but in the various nettles which clothe the foot of these mountains from Assam to to the Sutlej. One of the latter-the rheea fibre he felt assured would not only undersell every other fibre, but, in point of strength, would take a position second to none of all the fibres at present imported. Some of this fibre had been made into a 5-inch rope, and had been tried at Messrs. Huddart's rope manufactory, where it was found that each square inch made from the wild rheea, bore in the first experiment 844 lbs.; in the second experiment 894 lbs., and that from rheea fibre 910 lbs.; while the average strength of rope made with the best hemp, and after numerous experiments, from the year 1803 to 1808, was 805 lbs. per square inch. In December last some Statistical Tables, compiled from the Criminal Registrar of the Gaol of the United Counties of York, Ontario and Peel, for the year 1853, for the information of the Grand Jury, showing the num ber of prisoners committed, whether male or fe male, their offences, countries of their birth, their ages, their education, and also the number who use ardent spirits to excess: Drunk in experiments were made at the East India Com-ty-seven, while the loss of property is less by pany's military stores with fibres in equal weights $118,516. and of equal lengths. The weight that each fibre broke with was ascertained to be as follows:-St. Petersburgh hemp, 160lbs. Jubbulpore hemp, 190lbs.; Wuckoonar fibre, 175lbs.; mudar, or yercum fibre (common all over India), 190lbs.; China grass, 250lbs.; rheea fibre, 820lbs.; wild rheea, from Assam, 343lbs.; and Kote Kangra hemp, no breakage at 400lbs. This hemp was the cannabis satira of botanists, and was cultiFor manslaughter, 2 males. Murder-males, vated in every part of India on account of the intoxicating property of its leaves. Dr. Royle 13, females 3. Rape-3. Drunk and disorderly stated, in conclusion, that the Court of Directors-males, 132, females 110, boys, 2. had ordered 20 tons of the rheea fibres, as well the streets-males 104, females 19. Disorderly as of the Himalayan hemps, to be sent here yearly males 52, females 110, boys 15. Larceny-males characters-males 14, females 37. Vagrancyfor the purpose of having them tried. A vast number of specimens of the different fibres, and 78, females 27, boys 18. Assaults-males 22, of the articles manufactured from them, have females 7, boys 2. Trespass-males 7, females been left at the Society of Arts for a few days for 4, lunatics 2. Assaulting constables in discharge of duty-9. Arson-males 4, females 1, boys 3. inspection. Leaving employment-males 3. Drunk and fighting-males 3, females 3. Robbery-males 4. Receiving stolen goods-males 3. Passing bad money-2. Escape from prison-1. Highway robbery-1. Keeping disorderly houses-males 3, females 8. Selling spirituous liquors without license-1. Deserting seamen-4. Contempt of Court-3. Non-performance of statute labor -1. Embezzlement-1. Aggravated assault1. Aiding soldiers to desert-1. Sheep stealing -1. Detained as witnesses-7. Threateningmales 52, females 26. Larceny and trespass males 2. Horse stealing-10. Furious driving -1. MAJOR.-It is a fortunate circumstance that we shall be able to supply the want created by the war with Russia. The price of the article has already reached a very high figure, and few can predict when the war will end. I will now read you my Colonial News. (Major reads:) COLONIAL CHIT-CHAT. The "table turnings” and “spiritual rappings have reached such a head in Lower Canada, that the Bishop of Montreal has thought it necessary to denounce them in a pastoral letter. Nearly all the Canadian Banks have given notice that they will apply to l'arliament at its next session for an increase of their capital stock. DISASTERS ON THE LAKES FOR THE YEAR 1853. -We find in the Buffalo Erpress a statement by G. W. Rounds, Agent for the North Western Insurance Company, in relation to the lake disasters for the last year amounting to two hundred and sixty-six. Loss of property, $874, 143. lost, 81. The following a recapitulation :Amount of loss by American vessels...$635,525 British Sail 238,920 Lives 354... 255 58. " 25 Other causes 608,371 France-4. G. L. ALLEN, Jailor. LIVING IN QUEBEC.-We are informed that the four pound loaf has risen to fifteen pence, or a quarter of a dollar in Quebec; and that their cord of wood, which, according to their measure121.906 205,512 88,594 ment, is but two feet and a half long, is at five 62,744 151,331 dollars. 23,700 123.616 157,310 32,500 Of the two hundred and sixty-six disasters here detailed, nineteen occurred in April, thirty in May, seventeen in June, eleven in July, twentyeight in August, thirty in September, thirty-nine in October, eighty in November, and twelve in December. Six steamers, two propellers, and thirty sail vessels have gone out of existence entirely. The number of vessels lost during the present year exceeds those of last year by thir TORONTO PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. This Society has now been completely reorganized; and consists of two branches, the Vocal and Instrumental. The following is a complete list of the Officers : President-The Rev. J. McCaul, L. L. D. Officers appointed by the Vocal branch :— Curator-James B. Davis. Secretary and Treasurer-H. Mason. Officers appointed by the Instrumental branch: Vice-President-Professor Cherriman. Managers-Professor Irving and Mr. Eccles. Curator-J. Ellis. Secretary and Treasurer-A. Nordheimer. The Hamilton Spectator states that the Committee appointed by the English Shareholders of the Great Western Railway Company have unanimously reported against the purchase of the Erie and Ontario Railway and the Niagara Harbor and Docks. Mr. Langsdon has been appointed as agent to proceed to this country and represent the English shareholders at the next election for Directors. RAILWAYS IN CANADA.-We are often asked how many miles of railway are completed, single track in Canada. The following is near the mark: Great Western, 229 miles.-Grand Trunk, Montreal to Island Pond, 143.-Toronto to Barrie, 64. -Montreal to Lachine, 8.-Chippewa to Queen ston, &c., about 9.-Rouse's Point to Montreal, 47.-Montreal to Hemmingford, 36.-Bytown to Prescott, 40.-Fort E ie to Paris, 80.-Richmond, or Melbourne to Quebec, 97. Total over 650, of which eighteen years since not any was begun.-Transcript. The following list of insurances is pretty £26,000 The Quebec papers state that on the Heights of Abraham, where the decisive battle between the English and French was fought in 1760, which decided the future nationality of Canada, the remains of several men who fell in the conflict have been lately found. The Quebec Canadien, a French paper, suggests that in order to mark the unanimity that now prevails between the two races in Canada, the remains should be solemnly removed under the directions of the National Societies, to some more appropriate resting place. UNION OF THE PROVINCES.-A correspondent of the New Brunswicker advocates an union of the Lower Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island, under their ancient name, the "Province of Acadia." The extent and population of the three Colonies which it is thus proposed to unite under one Government, are as follows: The editor of the Daily Colonist, suggests that pigs should be cherished as pets, instead of dogs! He thinks that they are quite as orna. mental, and more useful! The New Brunswicker is opposed to the suggested Federal Union of the British North Ame rican Colonies, as embracing under one govern ment too wide a range of territory, but maintains that the three lower provinces above named would, if united, soon be in position to take rank with Canada, and would by their combined exertions, under one system of laws and fiscal regulations, advance with far greater strides than they can possibly do, while frittering away their legislation and their labours, each by itself and often in an antagonistic manner. A striking instance of noble disregard to selfinterest in promoting the 'beard movement,' may be seen any day about the market of Toronto, in the person of an itinerant razor grinder, who is cultivating a beard to the evident danger of the craft by which he makes his living. Capt. C. O. Ermatinger, Chief of Police of Montreal, has issued his annual report of the statistics of crime during the year 1853, in Montreal. The number of parties arrested, and for what offences is given in the report as follows:-For murder, 1; horse-stealing 1; passing counterfeit money, 5; obtaining goods under false pretences, 7; receiving stolen goods, 1; larceny 17; drunk in the streets, 2083; drunk and disorderly conduct, 125; breach of the peace, 144; vagrants, 315; protection, 645; indecent exposure, 19; impeding and incommoding, 91. Total offences, 3601. Tried and fined summarily, 35; committed to the house of correction as vagrants, for fifteen days and under, 1404; for one month and under, 168; committed for trial, 89; committed for examination, 3; discharged, 1669. A Commission with visitorial powers has been appointed to inquire into the state of discipline of Upper Canada College, the system of teaching adopted therein, and the general management thereof. The Hon. Chancellor Blake, the Hon. Judge Harrison and the Rev. Dr. Ryerson are the Commissioners. The Owen Sound Lever states, that there is a company of Land Sharks, whose head quarters are at Barrie, banded together for the purpose of robbing the honest, industrious, hard-working, toil-worn pioneers of the County of Simcoe; their mode of procedure is to enquire into their titles: if a flaw is found they buy the land from under them, and dispossess them. This is a description of business which amounts to downright roguery. It is a pity that Courts of Justice should be made to accomplish the ends of such knaves. When a man becomes honestly possessed of land, no court of law or equity should deprive him of it, on account of a mere qui ble of the law. The Legislature of Prince Edward's Island met on the 9th February, when the Hon. Mr. Jardine Acres. Souls. was chosen Speaker. His Excellency's opening New Brunswick, 20,000,000 193,800 speech gave an encouraging account of the proNova Scotia & Cape Breton, 11,534,196 277.005 gress of the colony. The revenue of the IsPrince Edward Island, 1,360,000 62,678 land is stated at £35,000. On the the 11th ult., in consequence of the Government's having been 32,894,196 533,483 in a minority, on the Address, the preceding eve Total, ning, they tendered their resignations, which the subject, and in our resumé we will at once were forthwith acccepted by Sir Alexander Ban- proceed to the events of the last six months. nerman. The Quebec papers of the 11th March, state that the following Officers serving in Canada have been ordered forthwith to proceed to England to embark with the army for Constantinople:-Asst. Com. Gen. Routh, Dep. Asst. Coms. Genl. Hawkins, Webb and Downes. D. A. C. Genl. Webb has been stationed at Quebec, for the last three years, during which time he was frequently the Senior Officer of the Department. Deer are remarkably numerous in the Township of Wallace this year. A short time ago eleven of them were seen drinking together at a spring in that township. Four Quebeckers have just returned from Australia. They report hard times, hard luck, and hard usage; but amazingly little hard money. An independent militia Rifle Company is about being formed at St. Catharines. The Constitutional understands, that the company will be furnished with arms in a short time, and believes it will be the means of supplying the town with an efficient police force in case of need. The Voice of the Fugitive states, that numbers of fugitives from slavery continue to arrive in Canada from the boasted land of freedom. If they had not Canada to fly to, their fate would be sad indeed. But once here, where true freedom exists, they need have no further fear of the lash; unless, indeed, our "vi tril" friend, Mitchell's ideas of liberty should prevail among us-which heaven forefend ! The Barber Brothers, so well known for their manufacturing enterprise, are putting up a new and extensive Paper Mill on the C: edit, near Georgetown. It is a stone building, 100 feet long and four stories high. They will doubtless supply a good article. It is proposed to establish in the City of Hamilton, a company for the manufacture of knitted fabrics and hosiery. The Trustees of the Quebec Provident and Saving's Bank made their annual report on the 28th March, in which the affairs of the Bank are favorably spoken of. The number of the new accounts opened during the past year is 634, making the total number of accounts now open 2246. The deposits have increased during the same period from £112,538. 12. 7, to £148,338. 5. 1, and the surplus fund to £9,274. 12. 9. NEWS FROM ABROAD. The position of affairs in the East has been so distinctly defined in the two articles in the April and May numbers, and the causes of the war so clearly explained, that it is needless to return to GREAT BRITAIN. The principal topic after the 1st of January which engrossed public attention was the unfounded rumour, (raised as stated by some journals, by Lord Palmerston's party) respecting Prince Albert's treasonable conduct in betraying the confidence reposed in him as a Privy Coun sellor, ex-officio. This rumour resulted in the most triumphant refutation of all the charges brought against his Royal Highness, and in establishing the fact that the Prince was deservedly the most popular personage in Her Majesty's dominions. A second point of interest has been the offensive and defensive alliance entered into between France and England and Turkey. "Their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Emperor of the French resolved to lend their assistance to His Majesty the Sultan Abdul Medjid, Emperor of the Ottomans, in the war which he is carrying on against the aggressions of Russia, and obliged, moreover, notwithstanding their sincere and persevering efforts to maintain peace, to become themselves belligerent parties in a war which, without their active interference, would have threatened to overthrow the balance of power in Europe, and the interests of their own Kingdoms, have, in consequence, resolved to conclude convention for the purpose of designat ing the object of their alliance, as well as the means to be employed in concert to carry it out, and have for this purpose named as their Plenipotentiaries: "Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable George William Frederic, Earl of Clarendon, &c., and Principal Secretary of State of Her Britannic Majesty for Foreign Affairs; And His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Sieur Alexander Colonna, Count Walewski, &c., his ambassador to the court of Her Britannic Majesty; Who, having mutually communicated their credentials in due form, have determined and signed the following articles : ARTICLE I. "The High Contracting Parties engage, as far as in their power, to bring about the re-establishment of peace between Russia and the Sublime Port on solid and lasting bases, and to guarantee Europe against a return of the lamentable complications which have just so unhappily disturbed the general peace. ARTICLE II. "The integrity of the Ottoman Empire having been violated by the occupation of the provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia, and by other movements of Russian troops, their Majesties the and Ireland and the Emperor of the French have Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain concerted and will concert the most advisable means to free the territories of the Sultan from |