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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 196, 16 April 1867, Page 3

The following is a summary of the ntw.i not anticipated by the Suez mail : — The latest dates from Europe are to the 9fch February. A new Telegraph Company has been formed in London, having for its object the laying of a submarine cable by way of the Azores, to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The trial of ex-Governor Eyre, of Jamaica, had commenced. The number of bodies recovered from tho late accident in Regent's Park amounted to forty in all. It is suggested to fill in and concrete the bottom, similar to that in St. James' Park. A number of Reform League meetings have been held in various parts of the country. The great metropolitan meeting is to take place on 'the 11th February. No attempt will be made to hold it in the Park, as was thought. .Accounts., from all ■ quarters describe alarming distress. Thousands of people are on the point of starvation. The King of Hanover has instructed Ilerr Able, a solicitor in his late capital, to sue the Prussian Government for the seizure of his private property. The suit comes on in February before the Hanover Obergerickt. The ex-Elector of Hesse is about to pursue a similar course. Cholera has suddenly reappeared in a very malignant form in the north. .Tho pit villages of Ooxhoe, Kelloe, and Tarrington Hill, in the neighborhood of the city of Durham, have been in a somewhat unhealthy condition of late, and last week cholera appeared in a malignant form at Ooxhoe. The homeward mail per the Seine arrived at Southampton on the 31st ult. She was instantly put into quarantine, having had fourteen cases of yellow fever on board, but only one death, which occurred on the 9th. The West ludia and Pacific Steam Company's steamer Chilean, Captain Sevill, arrived at Liverpool on the 29th. Mr Gladstone lias been a guest at the Tuilleries. In a speech delivered by him at the dinner of the Society of Political Economy, he declared that the credit of having effected commercial reform be-, longed to iho Emperor Napoleon and Mr Cobden. Upon the latter, Mr Gladstone passed a magnificent eulogium, declaring that his arm -was not only to encounter the misery of nations, but to effect their moral union. '"The mission of our century," said Mr Gladstone, " is to free capital and labor from all subjection. It may be called the century of labor and justice. Prosperity to. energetic labor, and peace to men and goodwill — this is the object at which we aim. The general riches which have accumulated are the basis of every prosperous condition, and the lever which raises that condition is liberty." The Journal de Havre says v The first of a number of iroiuplated frigates for the Japan Government has just been finished at the Seyne building yards near Toulon. It is called the Taicoyn, and will cost 3,500,000 f. By special permission of the Minister of. Marine., six guns, 350 to 450 pounders, and costing each GO,OOOf. are comprised in the .amount of the contract. It is said that the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Stanley, and all the members of the English Commission, are to be present at the opening of the Universal Exhibition. The Sultan will, it. is rumorqd, visit Paris during the Exhibition. The Panama Star- and Herald announces the temporary and probably permanent abandonment of the Darien surveying expedition, sent out to examine the prospects of building a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific. A number of trading vessels had passed through the Suez Canal, John Bright has made a speech"in which he endorsed Napoleon's reform measures. Mr Bennett had tendered his yacht, Henrietta, to Prince Alfred of England, who declined it in a very graceful note. Accounts from all parts of the Southern State 3 of America inform us that the greatest suffering, poverty and destitution is existing among the people— and that the I future has no look of brightness or gladness about it.. The latest advices from Mexico continue to make it clear that everything in that unhappy country is still in as great a muddle as ever. Juarez would appear to be gaining around at all points-^but how long he will continue to do so is >, matter of conjecture entirely. Muxlmillian " reigns" as best he can, and does. &ot appear to be making any haste to resign the perplexities and cares attendant uj|on his throne. The French are supposed be making great preparations to leave by |te

Ist of March. Nothing further has transpired of consequence in regard to the Sherman-Campbell mission. The Detroit Post has an article on the recent snow storm, in which it says : — The railroads have been blockaded by snow over a surface of country extending from Boston to Washington in a North and South line,- and from the Atlantic to Pike's Peak on the East and West line. The storm may really be set down, however, as covering a belt of country a little over three hundred miles wide. If we track the great arc of a circle followed by this storm, we find the snow in Connecticut, at New Haven, four feet deep ; in Central and Southern Pennsylvania, fifteen inches deep ; in St. Louis, one foot deep, and in Kansas, six inches to a foot deep. We may safely calculate that the snow deposited by this single storm on the continent, not counting that which fell in the sea before reaching the continent, at over one foot in depth over a belt of country three hundred miles wide and fifteen hundred miles long ; and that outside of this belt at least onequarter as much was deposited. In order that an approximate idea of the immense deposit of this single storm may be conveyed lo our readers, we will enter into a little calculation. Let us suppose the snow to have been an ordinary dry snow, everywhere, and that, evenly distributed, the main deposit would have covered a belt three hundred miles wide and fifteen hundred miles long to a uniform depth of one foot. Snow of this depth, of an ordinary dry character, will weigh five tons to the acre. At five tons to the acre there lias fallen three thousand two hundred tons to the square mile, or a grand total of fourteen hundred and ten millions of snow ! And this in one storm, from one vast cloud, and within a space of four days' time. This weight is so vast, that it is hard to comprehend. Some idea of it may lie gathered, perhaps, from the statement that it is more than ten times the weight of all the wheat grown in the United States since the Continent of America was discovered by Columbus.