jurisdiction and authority, communicates the facts to the Legislature, and submits whether any action should be taken by them upon this assumed jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. March 8. A. H. Reeder and J. H. Lane are elected Senators to Congress by the Free State Legislature at Topeka. March 11.-- President Rivas, of Nicaragua, declares war against Costa Rica. March 15.-The steam ferry-boat New Jersey, while crossing the Delaware River from Philadelphia to Camden, takes fire, and a large number of persons perish. The boiler is defective and unfit for service. March 16. An heir is born to Louis Napoleon, the French Emperor. His name is Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph; title, Prince of Algiers. March 17.-Mr. Buchanan surrenders the English embassy to Mr. Dallas. March 17. Senator Douglas, in Congress, from the Committee on Territories, reports a bill authorizing the people of Kansas to form a Constitution and State Government, and for her admission into the Union when she has the requisite population. March 18. The Cunard steamer Curlew from Halifax, runs on a reef north of the Bermudas and is wrecked. Two mail-bags, one containing newspapers, and the other North American letters, are missing. March 19.The Resolutions to appoint the Kansas Investigating Committee are adopted in the House of Representatives at Washington, D. C. March 20. Col. Schlessinger, with 400 of Gen. Walker's men, is attacked at the Hacienda Santa Rosa, by a party of 500 Costa Ricans, under Gen. Mora, and entirely defeated. Nineteen prisoners, chiefly Irish and Germans, are courtmartialled and shot by the Costa Ricans. Gen. Mora has 16 killed, among them 6 officers, and 25 wounded. Of Gen. Walker's men, 90 are killed in the conflict and several perish in the woods. The battle lasts but fourteen minutes. March 21.- -Governor Barstow of Wisconsin sends a message to the Senate resigning the office of Governor. March 21. The fortieth asteroid, named "Lætitia," is discovered by Mr. Goldschmidt at Paris. March 25. The Court of Appeals of New York decide the search and seizure clause of the New York liquor law to be unconstitutional. March 30.-- The Treaty of Peace is signed at Paris. The news is received the same day in London, and it is officially proclaimed on Monday, the 31st. March 31. The propeller Arctic reaches the New York navy-yard after an unsuccessful cruise of 49 days in search of the missing Pacific. April 1.-The Emperor Alexander publishes at St. Petersburg a Proclamation announcing the signing of the Treaty of Peace. April 2.--The news of the signing of the Treaty of Peace reaches the Allied armies in the Crimea. April 2.The court-house in Boston is somewhat damaged by fire. The court papers and the law library are not injured. April 3.- President Comonfort returns to the city of Mexico after a triumph at Puebla, where the rebel army surrenders to him, and where the rebel generals are reduced to the rank of privates. April 4. Mr. Dallas presents his credentials to the Queen. - April 6. The Constitution of the proposed new State of Deseret is established by a People's Convention at Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. April 7. The steamship Adriatic is launched at New York, being the largest steamer yet afloat. She was modelled by George Steers, Esq. April 7.-The Costa Ricans take possession of Rivas with 2,000 men. April 9.-The New York Legislature, having completed the 100 days in the session for which the members can draw pay, adjourns, leaving the appropriation bills and numerous other bills not passed. April 10.208 men leave New Orleans, to join General Walker in Nicaragua. April 10. Lieut. Green, with 15 men, attacks 200 Costa Ricans, kills 27 of them, and disperses the rest. The American loss is 1 killed and 2 wounded. April 11.The great bridge at Rock Island is completed, and locomotives pass from the Illinois to the lowa side. April 11. Gen. Walker, with a force of 400 Americans and 300 natives, attacks the Costa Ricans, numbering 3,000 men, at Rivas, and after a long contest they leave the city. The Costa Ricans lose, by their official report, over 200 killed and 400 wounded. The loss of Gen. Walker is 80 killed and disabled, including almost all of his official staff. April 13. - A violent tornado visits Philadelphia, and 150 houses in different sections of the city are unroofed. April 13. In the Crimea, Gen. Luders reviews a body of Russian troops in the presence of Marshal Pelissier and Generals Codrington and La Marmora. April 14.- Governor Wells, of Maine, in pursuance of the address of both branches of the Legislature, removes Woodbury Davis from the office of Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. The address passed the House by a vote of 81 to 60, and the Senate by 25 to 3. April 15. An affray occurs at Panama between the passengers of the American Transit Company and the natives, in which 30 passengers are killed and 20 wounded. April 17. The Peace Conference at Paris terminates. April 19. Sheriff Jones arrests S. N. Wood in Lawrence, Kansas, but is prevented from carrying him away; April 20, he returns with assistants to make arrests, but effects nothing; 23, he returns with the United States troops, and makes arrests; 24, while sitting in a tent, he is shot at and wounded, which act is publicly condemned by the Free State men, and a reward of $500 offered for the apprehension of the offender; 25, Col. Sumner arrives at Lawrence with his whole command. Mr. Buchanan arrives in New York in the Arago. April 23. April 23.-The grand naval review takes place off Portsmouth, England. The fleet numbers 240 ships of war, of all sizes, all but two being steamers. April 24.-- -The case of Giles vs. Flagg, in New York city, involving the right to hold office as City Comptroller, is decided in favor of Flagg, the incumbent. April 27. The ratifications of the Treaty of Peace are exchanged at Paris. April 28. The receipt of the ratification of the Treaty of Peace by all the foreign powers is announced officially in England, and a day of thanksgiving throughout the United Kingdom is appointed. May 1.. - A fire in the station-house of the Harlem and the New Haven Railroad, in New York city, destroys property to the amount of about $100,000. May 5. A convention of delegates from the principal Typographical Unions in the United States meets in Philadelphia, Pa. May 6.- An accident on the Panama Railroad occurs, by which 43 persons are killed and 60 wounded. May 6. A portion of Rock Island Bridge is destroyed by fire. May 7.- Judge Lander, of the District Court of Washington Territory, with his clerk, are arrested by order of Judge Stevens, in the court-house at Steilacoom, and carried to Olympia, the seat of the Territorial Government. An indignation meeting is held by the members of the bar, and also by the citizens. May 8.There is an affray between P. T. Herbert, member of Congress, and Thomas Keating, waiter at Willard's Hotel, Washington, in which Keating is killed. May 9.There is much excitement in Detroit because of the arrest of persons under the "liquor law." The military are called out. May 10.-P. T. Herbert, member of Congress, committed this day by the examining magistrates to answer the charge of the murder of Thomas Keating, is brought before Judge Crawford, and (May 12) is permitted to go at large on bail. May 10.-Charles Robinson, the Free State Governor elect of Kansas, on his passage eastward, is detained at Lexington, Mo. May 11. Marshal Donaldson calls upon all law-abiding citizens to aid him in serving his writs at Lawrence, to which about 1,000 men respond. Gov. Shannon refuses to interpose, upon the request of the people of Lawrence, between them and the posse of the Marshal and the Sheriff. May 14. Padre Vijil, at Washington, presents his credentials as Minister from Nicaragua, and is recognized by the President. May 14.James King of William, Editor of the Evening Bulletin in San Francisco, is shot in the street by Casey, Editor of the Sunday Times, and dies on the 20th from the effect of the wound. Casey is arrested and conveyed to jail amidst great popular excitement, and an attempt is made by the multitude to organize for the purpose of his immediate execution. On the 18th the Vigilance Committee, numbering 3,000 men, proceed to the jail, take Casey, and Cora, the murderer of General Richardson, and carry them to the Committee Rooms, where they are tried, and on the 22d, the day of Mr. King's burial, they are hung. May 15.- The City Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., is destroyed by fire. May 21. Mr. Fillmore, in Paris, France, accepts the nomination of the American party for President. - May 21. Marshal Donaldson makes two arrests in Lawrence without opposition. The Emigrant Aid Society's Hotel in Lawrence, and the Herald of Freedom printing-office are destroyed, and houses are sacked and plundered by Sheriff Jones and his posse. Two of the Proslavery men are accidentally killed. May 22. Charles Sumner, Senator from Massachusetts, while seated at his desk in the Senate Chamber engaged in writing, after the adjournment of the Senate, is violently assaulted and beaten to the floor by Preston S. Brooks, who is accompanied by L. M. Keitt, both members of the House from South Carolina. May 27. Dr. William Palmer is convicted of poisoning Cook, by strychnine. May 29 Senator Wilson, in a manly and sensible letter, declines to fight a duel with Mr. Brooks. May 29. The President transmits to Congress a message relative to the Enlistment controversy between our government and Great Britain, and announces officially that he has ceased to hold diplomatic intercourse with the British Minister, Mr. Crampton. May 30. The ship Pallas, from Cork to Quebec, strikes the breakers off St. Paul's Island, and bilges. Of her 120 passengers, 72 are drowned. May 30. - There is a storm of snow on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. June 2. -The House Committee at Washington report in favor of the expulsion of Mr. Brooks. In the final action upon the report the vote stands, yeas 121, nays 95, which being less than the requisite two-thirds vote, the House refuses to agree to the resolution for expulsion. Upon this Mr. Brooks resigns his seat. Mr. Keitt is censured, and resigns. June 2. - -The Democratic National Convention assembles in Cincinnati, O.; and June 3d, organizes permanently by the choice of John E. Ward, of Georgia, as President; June 5, the Platform is adopted; and June 6, on the 17th ballot James Buchanan of Pa. is nominated unanimously as the candidate for President, Mr. Pierce being withdrawn on the 15th ballot and Mr. Douglas on the 16th. John C. Breckenridge of Ky. is unanimously nominated on the 2d ballot for Vice-President. June 5. Gov. Johnson, of California, declares the city of San Francisco to be in a state of insurrection. June 5. The Postmaster-General instructs the Postmaster of New York, whenever a letter is deposited unpaid, to send a circular to the person addressed, informing him of the fact, and that it will be forwarded on the receipt of the amount due for postage, in postage-stamps. June 6.-Osawatomie, in Kansas, is sacked. June 14. Mr. Marcy, Secretary of State. formally notifies the Danish Minister that the United States will not make forcible resistance to the collection of the Sound Dues for a year from this day. June 14. - The son of Louis Napoleon is baptized with great pomp and display. The rite is performed by the Cardinal-Legate Patrizzi. June 17.--The National Republican Convention meets at Philadelphia. Henry S. Lane of Indiana is made President of the Convention. On the first formal ballot John Charles Fremont of California receives the nomination for President by 329 votes to 37 for McLean and 1 for Seward, and is then unanimously nominated. On the first formal ballot William L. Dayton of New Jersey is nominated for Vice-President, receiving all but 29 votes, and the nomination is made unanimous. June 18.-The first display of the Great Fountain in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham is made in presence of the Queen and royal family. June 19.The new steam-frigate Colorado is launched at Norfolk, Va. June 22 Millard Fillmore arrives at New York in the steamer Atlantic. June 24.-Padre Vijil, late Nicaraguan Minister, leaves New York for San Juan. June 25.—The Grand Jury at Washington return an indictment against Preston S. Brooks for assault and battery upon Charles Sumner. June 25.Senator Wilson presents in the Senate the memorial of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, asking compensation for their property destroyed in Lawrence "with the consent, or through the culpable negligence, of the officers of the general government." June 27.-A company of emigrants from Worcester, Mass., for Kansas, are stopped on the Missouri River and disarmed. A company from Chicago had been previously, and other emigrants are subsequently, detained and disarmed. June. Destructive floods occur in various parts of France, especially in the neighborhood of Lyons. At Tours the railway station is ten feet under water. Steamboats pass over cultivated lands. At the Orleans railway station the waters reach the fourth story. In some places whole villages are swept away. July 1. There is a heavy gale on the coast of Labrador, and 29 vessels out of a fleet of 30 are driven ashore and lost. July 3. -The House pass a bill for the admission of Kansas, with the Topeka Constitution, into the Union as a State. July 4. July 4. A statue of Washington is inaugurated in Union Square, New York. Both branches of the Kansas Free State Legislature meet at Topeka, but are dispersed by Col. Sumner with the United States troops. July 8. The case of the indictment against Preston S. Brooks is called up at Washington for the assault upon Senator Sumner. He admits the facts, and is sentenced to pay a fine of $300. July 12. The Crimea is completely evacuated by the Allied forces. July 12. The Submarine Telegraph Cable is laid across the Gulf of St. Lawrence between Cape Race Cove, Newfoundland, and Ashby Bay, Cape Breton, a distance of 85 miles, and messages are freely transmitted. July 14. A formidable insurrection breaks out in Madrid, Spain. July 16, it is suppressed in Madrid after a sanguinary contest of 30 hours. - July 17. At Salonica, Turkey, while a fire is raging, a terrific explosion of gunpowder occurs, killing and wounding 700 persons. Among the wounded are the Russian, Dutch, and Sardinian Consuls. July 17.-- - By the gross carelessness of the conductor, a collision occurs on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, near Philadelphia. One of the trains has an excursion party from a Sunday school. 60 are killed and 78 wounded. July 17. The steamer Northern Indiana is burned upon Lake Erie. Over thirty persons are lost. July 21. Mr. Burlingame sends a note to Mr. Brooks, in reply to a communication from him, stating that he will meet him at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls, on the 26th July, at noon, where any difference pending between them may be settled, and leaves Washington at once. Upon the receipt of this note Mr Brooks declines to pursue the subject further. July 26. A boiler of the steamer Empire State, on the passage from Fall River to New York, explodes, killing and wounding several passengers. July 27.The steamer John Jay, on Lake George, on her passage from the landing near Ticonderoga to Caldwell, takes fire and is consumed. Several of her passengers and crew perish. July 29. - Jefferson Block, in North Street, Boston, is destroyed by fire. Eighty families are burned out, and nine lives lost. July 28. Preston S. Brooks and Lawrence M. Keitt are re-elected to Congress from South Carolina. July 31.The Senate confirms John W. Geary as Governor of Kansas. July. A Submarine Diver from Buffalo, N. Y., succeeds in raising the safe of the American Express Company, which was lost with the steamer Atlantic in 1852. Its contents are found in a good state of preservation. Aug. 1. The House of Representatives by 110 yeas and 92 nays decide that Mr. Whitfield is not entitled to a seat as delegate from Kansas, and also reject Mr. Reeder by 88 yeas to 113 nays. - Aug. 6. There have been upwards of 80 cases of yellow-fever at Quarantine in New York since June 18. Aug. 10.- Last Island, a summer resort in the Gulf of Mexico, is destroyed during a terrific storm which rages three days. The island is entirely submerged, and every house in the island gives way. 173 persons are lost. Aug. 12. The Free State men in Kansas capture the town of Franklin. Aug. 12 The freight station-houses in Chicago of the Michigan, Southern, and Rock Island railroads, take fire, and a large amount of property is destroyed. Aug. 16. The Free State men in Kansas attack Col. Titus's camp near Lecompton, and take the Colonel and his party prisoners. Aug. 18.-F. McMullen of Virginia, and A. P. Granger of New York, both members of Congress, have an altercation in an omnibus in Washington, D. C., and McMullen strikes Granger. Aug. 18- The first session of the 34th Congress terminates at 12 M. The Army Bill is lost. The President calls an extra session to meet, August 21st. Aug. 20.-M. Boutenieffe, the Russian Ambassador, arrives at Constantinople. Aug. 21.There is a severe storm in the vicinity of Albany, and a freshet in the Hudson River that causes much injury to the towns on its banks, and a temporary suspension of the railroad trains. Aug. 21. Aug. 21. Aug. 25. -The famous Charter Oak at Hartford, Ct. is blown down in a storm. - Daniel Woodson, acting Governor of Kansas, issues his proclamation declaring the Territory to be in a state of open insurrection and rebellion. Aug. 28.. The Dudley Observatory is inaugurated at Albany. Aug. 29. A large meeting is held in Columbia, S. C., to welcome Preston S. Brooks. The Mayor gives him a cane, and other testimonials of approbation. Aug. 30.-The extra session of Congress adjourns sine die, the House having passed the Army Bill without the Kansas proviso by a vote of 101 to 98. The Latting Observatory, near the Crystal Palace in New York city, is burned to the ground. Aug. 30. - BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. The names of the several Provinces in North America under the dominion of the British crown, their areas, population, and Governors, can be found on page 340 of the Almanac. The names of the chief officers of the Executive and Judiciary of some of the Provinces are given below. Sir Edmund Walker Head is Governor-General. R. T. Pennefather is his Secretary, and Capt. Retallick, 16th Regt., his principal Aide-de-Camp and Military Secretary. Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Eyre is the Commander of the Forces. The head-quarters of the army in Canada are at Montreal. CANADA. The Executive Council consists of Philip M. Vankoughnet, President, and Head of the Bureau of Agriculture and Statistics; George E. Cartier, Attorney-General Canada East; John A. McDonald, Attorney-General Canada West; William Cayley, Inspector-General; Joseph Curran Morrison, Receiver-General; Robert Spence, Postmaster-General; Joseph Cauchon, Commissioner of Crown Lands; François Lemieux, Commissioner of Public Works. E. P. Taché, Speaker Legislative Council. Timothy Lee Terrill, Provincial Secretary. The Legislative Council consists of 52 members; the Legislative Assembly, of which Louis Victor Sicotte is Speaker, has 132 members. John Langton is Auditor of Public Accounts. R. M. S. Bouchette is Commissioner of Customs. Rev. Egerton Ryerson, D.D., is chief Superintendent of Education for Canada West, and P. J. O. Chauveau is Superintendent for Canada East. Sir William E. Logan, Provincial Geologist, is at the head of the Geological Survey of the Province. JUDICIARY, Canada West. Court of Queen's Bench: Sir J. B. Robinson, Chief Justice; Arch. McLean, R. E. Burns, Puisne Judges; C. C. Small, Clerk; J. Lukin Robinson, Reporter. Court of Chancery: W. H. Blake, Chancellor; J. C. P. Esten, J. G. Spragge, Vice-Chancellors; A. Grant, Registrar and Reporter. Court of Common Pleas : W. H. Draper, Chief Justice; W. B. Richards, J. H. Hagarty, Puisne Judges; Heyden, Clerk; E. S. Jones, Reporter. Court of Probate: S. Brough, Toronto, Official Principal; C. Fitzgibbon, Toronto, Registrar. Surrogate Court: S. B. Harrison, Judge; William J. Fitzgerald, Toronto, Registrar. There is an Heir and Devisee Court (to determine claims to lands for which no patent has issued from the Crown). There are County Courts, Courts of Quarter Sessions for criminal business, Division Courts for the summary disposal of cases by the County Judges, an Insolvent Debtors' Court, and, in the cities of Toronto, Hamilton, and Kingston, Recorder's Courts. Canada East. - Court of Queen's Bench: Sir L. H. Lafontaine, Chief Justice; Jean H. Duval, René E. Caron, Thomas C. Aylwin, Puisne Judges; J. U. Beaudry, Clerk and Reporter. Superior Court for Lower Canada. - Jurisdiction in suits over £15. Edward Bowen, Chief Justice; Dominique Mondelet, Charles Dewey Day, James Smith, C. J. E. Mondelet, William C. Meredith, Edward Short, Auguste N. Morin, William Badgley, Puisne Judges. Circuit Courts. — Jurisdiction in suits up to £15. Hypolite Guy, John S. McCord, J. C. Bruneau, Judges. Dunbar Ross is Solicitor-General for Canada East and Henry Smith for Canada West. NOVA SCOTIA. Executive Council: Michael Tobin, President Legislative Council; James McNab, Receiver-General; William Young, Attorney-General; Archibald Adams, Solicitor-General ; William A. Henry, Provincial Secretary; Samuel Creelman, Financial Secretary; James |