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A correlpondt‘ut oi the New York" Time: wrltél 1mm Jerusalem :

“ The discoveries made liltlii rlo may be summed up brieil . 'Ihe south wpll oi the sacred area, I arnni El Shereif. within V‘Vltit‘ll stobd‘the temple. has been explored to the Very foundations It has ioiiiiil that. In one place tho wall was no li-ss than

I81) leet. hi It. At the lowest point oi tin- WML‘WII'IQ is now determined to he also the lowest point ot the 'Iympteon Valley. ho discurered a small pas-'ago which be explored lot-inane tau Icei. ot‘ ancient. eon- slruetion. Illitl eii‘h-n‘ly intended to entry oil'superlluotis Wfllt'l'. Previously to this

discovery it had been supposed that the‘

Iowmt point was the southwest angle oi

“‘0 “1|”. there was the great ill't‘ll known l

as Robinson‘s Arch. Yisitois to Jun iieiii ‘\vill I't‘InI'Itillt'l‘ the spring ofthe old arch. :it this point. They will be gralilied to learn that all the conjectures witli i-vfer once to what t'oi-nii- y

been abundantly vrrilied.

Not only \\ as

there a splendid arch crossing the 'J‘yio- I

pa-u Valley at. this point—the spun at ‘wlncli was lorty felt across—«and the voussirs and ruins nl which now he biirivd

iii theilcbii's. but beneath this old ureb._

' covered with a pavement. presumably to ' cover these ruins. lie the stout-s at an art-Ii older still. peihnps the arch btiilt by Solu- ‘mon iiiniscli. 'I‘lie coiiipiete inicsti i 'tiou of tin aivrliliiis IiUl'l) a long and m "ly‘i'lthlertaititig. bur its importance is vci great.

Uri the east side oi the IIl‘lIII will lies the Valley oi tiie III'III'UII. Lieutenant Wain-n by a series oi slialts- id borings. has ascertained that the present. bed oi the bllciilll is no less than forty Iert higher tii ttho old bid—tho beds having been

ra .rtl by the enormous in: soil oi debris and mine that have been hurried over iii- tili-y. fly the latter iii Jerii cni

m of chain- ,.

d a plan at the sy sti- iicrs dis n'vt'eil at. “ Wilson‘s .\I'l'ii. tip on the we cut wail tit-:trtlio ' \ -ing I‘lai-e“ oi the Jews. Lieutenant. War- ten lnisdiscnvered. at. a depth of sonic titty lia-t below the tilll'izicu ol' the ground. a vast system ol chambers and passages.

'I‘liiierliaiiibt-rs whose use has t.tiI yet. twt-lvc‘ let-t. stpmt‘e. vaulted :iiid tilled tip \\'IIII‘

been decided, are mostly .iiitl:

tuobisli or with water. have been openel oi which it is «and lured that two or three are oi Sill'l'l'll origin and the rest. oi Jewish. The) branch nil‘ I'l"itl and II'II along it great pass. This has been followed tip Itll’ u distance oi 2.3!) feet. its destination iii-iiig \‘et uncertain. and its use problematic. ’ei'haps. how it was a secret I go lor tl'oops'~'l'lic discovery is iiilcti. ily iii- lci'cstiiig. and may lead to singular and most interesting results.

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THE WARSAW MLTEOR.

In the Paris mrrcspoudence of the New York Times we find tiie following:

“ lliit what are ive t I think of the wand 1‘- {iii build: of Warsaw, of a few months ago? Here is something more fantastic tliati imy- thin ,I the astronomer ever dreamed of. Oh .'i starlight night tlic citichs of Warsaw gazed petrified with learnt the rapitl approach of an immense hallo. lire whi b atlast burst over their heads with on no .-e and shock SIIl'ii‘ is never has been heard or felt before on thcl

stood there have!

‘ 'I‘lio Empress Chut'hittt‘; the autonomic Empress seems. nt'mtrding to current re-i pmts concerning her. to be pretty well inl

to. It there is tiny diii‘erenec. it is incline towards the twin-e side. , brooding. often interi'uptutl by violent weeping. is the moral state in which she is at. present lingering. ()l the violent outbursts oi passion spoken oi at times in ' the papers nothing bi known by those who . Stn‘l‘llllllll her line thing in very strictiv iwatehed over. namely. that. the rt-ceivts no letters nor any other journals, which only tend to rouse the sltniilieriug tleinoii “flier mind. Iler butlin lll‘llllll is said to be good; she is even inclined to blottlnes i In eating and drinking. lioWevev. she still it-xhibils the saint: anxiety as tinting her _ :tiriiey to Rome. b‘he prelcrs catii "‘illl jilriiiking when she is, or int 5 in l to be entiii-iy alone. jstill alive; but his deeease is hourly ex~ l pi-ctcd.

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I nl' .\ lilti‘l‘l )lt.—- 'lic Brisbane it'ouru tales that seieiai oi the rev-ls ‘jnst :ii cil li'oiii tiie southward rc 'led tliat tin-re was a great deal nI electriiai nt- inio~piir ' disturbance. but whether it w. ‘ the cilia-t or was simply coincident with the eclipse. otir inloriiiaiion could not :a in one case it w: tended ii ith fatal t'e< stilts. and it man was killed on lioarii llII‘ ‘Isciiouner‘l't nia by the explosion at an :eict‘lrle nicteov. The vessel was otl't‘roiv-

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'llldy Head on Monday, August 17. tltltlltt,

,niidniglii, when H. iic: southwesterly ,sqttall c IIIt', and all hands were called lo‘ :Iborteii sail. A scainan nuincil II. G Salesr ; was steering. and at l2.li\) u in. on Tue 1 . ‘. August 18th. : meteor. like a ball at, tlirc, li-il IIIIlIit‘llitllt‘ly over the vesselsI lstcrn.aiid exploded with a loiid report. in embling that of a he: ' pit-co of oril-; . ice. Sparks oi lire were scattered :iili about the dc '. and tho stcvrsinan was; killed by the shock. livery one aboaid; {tell a indent shock like tliatol‘ u galvanic! ‘battery; but none oi the crew were iujnvi-d‘ except Sales. who at his last gasp when ,picked up. Ills boily showed no that ‘liiii appeared to be blackened, and some .s . or sci \il hours alter decomposition set in. and the your lvlloiv was buried over Illt'l side. Iii: wit. youngr niaii,:ibonltwenty-. IIII'I‘L. and sit in seam ii. The liredmlll iparcnlly tiavelled with the wind, which ,was than the south-west. and \- iII'li iii ’burst. Ilie llash was so intensely brilliant jliltll the steward. who was lying in his I berth bviow. declared that he saw the live; through the seams oi the deck, the cabin‘ at iii same moment w illcd with Sllltlitl'.l , which blackened papers lying about. L‘pt.| idoltnstoiic inloi'ms [in that. the discolour-l iation ol‘tlie paint was like that prodnccd‘ iby “ smoking the ship with charcoal.“ Al Epi-ctiiiar and indescribable smell was per ’eeivcd lor some time after the expiostott.,l ;l|llll a quantity ol llzii. '5 like the soot Il'tllll. vainir's lnnnel were scattered about,i

l ll:lill Miilnian. oi the holy Yonagl (<1eultit‘l‘). iiiloi'nis its that on his l‘lel trip‘ to Sydney, a lire-ball was observed pass- ,ingaiieadol his ship. :iboutl :i. ni.. on Monday. August 17. It travelled a hori~ Izoiitai direction from ninth-west to south- ersi. Apparently it was so iii-av the ship

. . l tiiat the olhccr oi the watch altered IIUI'I course to avoid it. when it burst. and lori llic Illl)llll‘l|l. tiic wliolc heavens scented lol

he iii a bi

ot light, and at the same

"W" “l "‘9 “Wilt—I‘ll“? 1"“ Sim” but“ 1 time there w. s lerrilie thunder. Lightning

""0" "film I‘M“! i", "if" br‘lk" “lb ‘m‘ll‘and thunder continued at. iiilcrvais through parts oi the mass. lit-lore reaching the lllll‘lll ‘

l . . liltill-‘Illsll'lgli' ocioek when the \i'cather

were in powder. the first discharges represen- Iinp from the sound the discharge at artillery. and the smaller pieces the rolling discharge of many regiments oi'sniall iirins.—- M. Daub- ree oi‘the French Academy oi Sc ci‘ice. who , has JIIVI been lecturing on the subject, has; obtained for the Academy 9:}! pieces oftlieI

broken bili'lle. M. It'rantz oi Iionit, g. licred up for himself i.Iil'.‘ pit-cell. Utlit-r prutrssors l: 'e done the same. and iiilllioii of pi-icee yet ‘r rt main strewn ovtr the blclluli of country In ilt'i‘l.‘ it twoke.

“ It was computed that this globe-had Inriat'e nf‘.‘ till) acres; IlIIlI was iaiiiscipteniiy .ltrtze enough to maintain the iiic oi many Microscopic nations. \\‘i did it come train. iittd what was the force that dii‘ cli-d it thus in it stra ht line against the cartli‘.”

Winn first seen it appeared as large as the, moon. and never approved any larger till it i This ' A

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struck our atmosphere and exploded. tart. shows its irightl'ul rapidity of mu- nun. for from the distance at \"Illt'll it up- pearial less titan the moon till lill' time it ex- ploded. it. must have shot so rapidly that the eye had not the time to perceive its enlarge- iiiem! ’I‘brn. again. what. was the cause of the explosion so complete as to almost tritu- rate the particles? Was it in the density of the earth's ahtinspliere that broke it. or was the expluion due to thc (‘nniraet of certain. [uses of the meteor with the constituents ofi the air? It is more consoling to adopt the tint theory, because we will then tcel as if our atmosphere served nsa cuirars to the mirth. rnd would continue to protect us from the stray globes .iki- that of Warsaw. 'I‘he Rllock and the spring oi the air must have teen something beyond the computation of. tiiiiiilfor it iliii not kliock people down, and yet it occurtd at toiiii-thiiiciike fifty miles trout the earth, and the pieecti picked up it to have been ii tolerable hard stone.

In the L w Courts nl Scotland it has been tin liydei'ided that women have no legal (-1 iii to the sui- i'viigr. 'I'lie ipiestioii iit issue was. lioiv tarthe Act known as Lord Romily‘s in Virtue oi which the masculine is to include liiclcmiiiiiic gender. tinh-ss tin-re. be It proviso to the contrary. uii’ri-tvd the third t-L't‘lioli oi the new Ileloriii Act, wvicli pro-

I-‘i'niia. Sl'rritai;

\ich that every man s :ill be entitled to} be rcgisttred as a rider who is

ot lull age. and not subject to any legal incapacity. It \vasiu'gi d lliat the word " man" iiiciiidi-il winiirn also. because no spe the provision w' a made against. this: and so. that Icgil incapacity was not chargeable iig inst women. The Court ol Appeal was llniniluclit't'tl by these argu- ments. and unanimously decided tlil women were not entitled to have then nisniett placed on the register.

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Mix i.\'l AXII rut: Sawiin lili\'0l.l."l‘l0N -—'I‘lic tollowing is cxtri “Illéll lioni it ii-lli-i

.“ lit-vii" and " Uuloiu riei

out the It t and n.-xt day iiiitii alaiiil cleared up .—.\'o doubt. the so called tite- i.eor was an intense discharge oi lightning, which not uiilvc-juciitly makes a globular iorui.

. i | Very Latest telegrams... London. Nov. 24.

Mr. Gladstone has been defeated in Lao-i 'llxlllil‘l'. \iiiich will make it necessary for him to rot do the (irecnwick scat. whicii it ivas proposed to be given to Mr. Mill.

'l‘nel test i'etiii'ii troni the elections are very unlavouriibie to the Liberals. it‘tilli‘lllg‘ \\ t “as considered ‘uii actual majority oi} i.'iU to I It.-

Mr. liladrlniie has just i~sncd a paziipiiieti

i I. lnisbmrnt. , The French Government continues its pro-l ~ccutiuns ot the press with the xcvei‘ilv. I'lie Jiliiors oi the “ l‘enip lournnlde l'aris,"‘ have been stiiii-, named to appear before it Civil ’I‘ribimal on! Friday next, to answer to the charges made. against tlieiit for promoting the subseriptions' for the Iiamloii Monument. I Madrid, Nov. 2i.

Large public meetings has been held in ilnrceloiia hy built the Monarchist and lie- pulilieaii parties. I‘rocessions. with hands of music. parade the streets, and other demoti- intuitions are made,i;ut though political feeling! i'lllls high, all the jrocvediiigs have been‘ peiic iblc. and order respected. The Monarch-

lists aic largerly iii the ascendant, though the,

Iicpublicans let-ms to be gaining ground,‘ All political parties iti “mind are preparing to make sini ir demonstrations, iitid there is every indication ot'ii lively canvass for the tortlicoming election.

London. Nov. 25.

The Times says the liberal majority in the New House will be 117. The deli-at ol Gladstone for tiie South West Lancashire dis " 'I Is mainly due to the local dislike of tilt. sh people in that district. Speculation lc nitli regard to the composition oer. lstniic's Cabinet, It is considered very "13' certain the Earl of liitnbovili will be Secret.in oi'b‘tiite for foreign iitliiirs.

New York. Nov. 26.

The following intelligence is received from Port an I'iincc. After the botiiliniilmeiit ot' Scri'ltulc, I'rcbident. rialiiiiva boiiilmrdi'd. lor the hours. the town at liorgiic. liutwas lhi..l|y repulsed. Many of liainiivc's pickets on shore surrendered totlie rcvoliitionists. 'I'he ilisiiiiris oi' liorgne and St. bin-bolas have JIIIIL’tl the revolution. All foreign t'oltsltln have been notiiled by Siiliinvc that he intended to attack the towns of .liicini-l. Aux (,‘iiycr .iiiil St. Mare. 'I‘iie coimininder oi the Inn- isli war vessels “Niobc” had ordi-rstn prL cut the Inioihiirdiiicnt of any town where liritisli

In... om.

j —iiiid I know that they or

i (it 'ciice of his charge of opinions on Church 5.

To not Barron or 1' Jouexac. > Sim—In perusing the Islander ufthe 70th

‘tIIL‘ same state ul mind and body iisiiitln-r- " Illt.. my eye Voi- nmstcd by ii communication

headed “ Miiil Conveyance Ilaekwttt‘ds," nlid' dated “ Mickey's IIth-w." whiciu'yitgi alto: tzether ttnttceeuuary. for at the lkpit bi:an at the artich- in question. you wou d‘ 'it eer- taiiiiy have placed the writer there. [or own- ‘but one II'JIII itaid locality would make Minn-It,

1 so busy and anxious to become uniisplfiuoac: 1

lie continent-es by stating that the I'dstiniiil- l ter General, Mr. Uweit. was-at. Mount I'leii-

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‘hlllll I'mt liliicc. Lot l':. H Week or two ago. stward,‘ ' i’lsifmg but he! did not think it woiiii his while visiting I'm-t: Hill I 05! Uilicc, which was no doubt the uisc,‘ for very likely Mr. Uvreii. like the majorin of the piilili , would much rather matter Mr.

i.\iieki-y‘s screrr clnistiscment than visit tiiiit

'i'or hail be taken the pains to visit that,

l and proceeded on to the We the several I'oxt tiliici-s on ills route;

.va

'I'iic I'iint'c li- yal is Ulllce. it would be iii the risk of bat iig to beg. . .,

shelter umler some hospitable tarmer‘s rooi‘, ‘ or travel the dist-Anci- of four miles to Mr. ‘

,ti‘t‘oiiiior's, being the nearest house of tic-l -

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coiiiniodatiun. ’ lie nrxt forms a lull}: and pitiful sior,‘ about , the in cularity oi’tlie Mails conveyed to Port. 1 lliil. Now, Mr. I-Iditor. it III well known to you what the state of the road to Port. llili is,' and also the way the mails iiaveto be convey- ed to that pl- I should like to state to the public the lscts concerning the irregularity of those iniportiilit bags to Port IIill. 'I'hetna *1 lo.- the Westward have to be taken II‘IJIIISlillI-. nit-rside, ieaiiiig immediately after their ar- rival froni Charlottetown, conveyed throughi l.ot lli, crossing Grand or Ellis Iiiver It‘erry.l “w ieli Ferry, I am sorry to say. hi about as, irregularly kept as are the Mails conveyed to 1 Port lliil." calling at but H .I’ost Uiitce Iiyl Mr. John U'Connor‘s. thence on to I‘nl‘t IIill. .‘ Ily looking at the iiiiip you will see that tiiisl li‘ei'ry is iIIIIt'iI exposed. You will alsonoticcl that it will not require a heavy wind front tia- l£.i~liv.trd to prewnt ci'os. ug. To go 'roniiill this rivcryou 'c to rose the South \\'e.-t' “ridge which carried away by the i-‘toi'im oi'ttctube ‘67. and has not been replaced. I You can Sir. that it' the Mails go to this lit 7 .innoi cross, they are in it‘- fair ' of being irregular. This was the who diii' I the week the return Mails laid in The carrier to .l’ in lliil. after \r iting all night iit the Ferry, returned it St. l-Jleanei's in time to meet the carrier tor 'llg‘ iiisii,—\vim for t't'nsttlls that will be shown lici'eatter, \ ibstinatc enough to break the contract by driiing all the way through—who then took the bags tor Let it :iiiil l‘ort lid]. and carried them on leaving Lot 14 b gs at that (Mice, and Port liill bags at A. McLean's. paying ilIiiI or his son for carrying them oiil to Port llill iiiiiucdnitely. Never. to my knowledge. were those bigs c irrivd from Mr. McLe-in's to Port Hill by any traveller. I will leave to your own judgment where to- place the negligence and wiltttl IlllSlliJililgC‘ inan of iiiiscarryiiig these important Mail Lugs.

All I hate to I’d t liili to 'I'

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iy concerning the .\i.-.ils finiii iiisli is: I found they were likely to be L. It ed very irrtgtilar on account at the reasons aburc shown. I drew to Suin- iiIL‘I':l'i‘.' merely for the sake of tit'coinniodal- log the Western people. who, it can lll' isiiy 5. ii. would not li:i\e received their M: lsone Ii: fthc time regularly it depending on then: to be carried across lirand liivcr I’i-rry. I in iy also state to Mr. Mickey that the con. ance of Millie from Port Hill to 'I'ignisli is . at as ate as it ll't'l was, though for the last few trips there has been no way bag, but the letters were conveyed, IL‘llf’II that were any, just as s to in a sealed paich as in a bag.

'I‘rus mg this will have the desired ellect oi' rciiioring erroneous impressions limit the public mind, I remain

Yours, &i-., 'I‘ilt: Wes-rims Man. ilov. Lot i-I, Nov. 30, 'GN.

To riii: EDITOR or Till-2 Jack. in. Soc—'liiioiring that your valuable columns.l

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the present. opportui ty of addressing you a few Illit'S on the siii-ject of Education. ‘

Il i< tlic iiiiiveisiil opinion oi theip'e'ople of this Island, that since the amendment oi the Education Act. female teachers receive ajust rennin ' tion for their labors, but I tiiiiik othei A Inaict cr ofilic llrst class, receives the hull] of “fly I re pounds. while a female teat her rvt-ciics tlii- t~|'III oi'tliirty—Ilve pott ds. .\oiv I appeal to the publictokiioiv II this is just? It'ieninlc teachers are duali— lied to discharge the duties of it inalc teacher —they should be paid accordingly. Look into our district in )is, who are the teachers in the generality ol‘t'roiii sixteen to twenty ye rs ot‘iigc, who enter lili‘ profession merely as ‘n stepping stone to something else—who know no more about the art. ot teaching that] teach lug knows about. them; and yet they reci ' the handsome sum oi lifty~iivc pounds, with 1 ie idueeineiit of it higher salary ii‘thi'y are c r L‘II|)IIy;Il to rise in the profession :‘ii‘irfist a female teacher, who is its well qualified in many respects. and bttlti' iii the art of teach- ing. for it is acknowledged by all that women are more capiibic of imparting knowledge to the young than men—who toil from week to week over a school of from iorty .to sixty scholars. iind receive only the paltry sum it thirty-live pounds, In the Province» i'ciiia e teachers, it not on a par with the males. have advantages in superior in their sisters of the I.~i.iiid. to which, no doubt. may be attributed the fact liltll. they are better educated, although we have it " Iioble system of cducatton." Iiut. Mr. Editor, thinking I have already oc- cupied too much space. and promising you shall hear from me again, I remain

A 'I‘irariiizi't. New London, Nov 22, 1865i

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