ten days assumed a phagedænic character, by which a portion of the soft parts of the cheek, have been destroyed The violence of the action in a great measure yielded for a day or two but has not yet subsided.

His Excellency's health has not materially suffered, although it has been necessary for him to observe a very rigid abstinense.

JAMES CRAWFORD, M. D.
ROBT., L. MACDONELL, M. D.

We understand a splended formation of slate has been discovered within about forty miles of the navigable communication of Lake Huron, the quarry contains slates of all dimensions and thicknesses from two inches to the eighth of an inch. We trust that some enterprizing individuals will, by introducing slate as a covering for our houses, thus afford one preventative to our frequent fires.

We have also been

shewn some beautiful specimens of white marble, nearly as white as statuary, and also of the "Verde Antique" as it is called, and which exists in inexhaustable quantities upon the cliffs of the Gananoque Lake a few miles only below Kingston.- Kingston Chronicle.

Mineral Survey of Canada.-The report on a Geological Survey of Canada, presented to the House of Assembly last session, and ordered to be printed is now published, and contains matter of much general interest.

The Limestone formation, says the report, extends at least 30,000 square miles of the surface of the province. It abounds in excellent materials, and its quality in many places is sufficiently hard to take a fine polish, and yield a good marble.

But in this vast district, we regret to say, the search for coal will not be successful. Taking into consideration the extremely moderate dip and the undisturbed condition of the strata of limestone, and the general even geographical surface of the country, and also the depth of the strata below the point at which coal formations are found, we are not warranted reasonably

to anticipate the finding of any coal between the top of Lake Huron and Quebec.

But of Iron the quantity found in the Province is likely to prove very considerable. Considering the valuable deposits of this mineral already known in Marmora, Mador, Bedford, Hull, &c., and the deflection of the magnet over regions of great exrent, it is not unreasonable to hope that a diligent search may disclose provincial beds of equal consequence of those of New York State.

The deposit of gypsiferous shale, so valuable for its gypsum salt, hydraulic lime, occupies nearly all that neck of land which separates Lake Ontario from Lake Erie, skirts the shore of the former lake through Niagra county, passes by Cayuga, York, and Paris, near Galt, on the Grand River, and turns northward towards Aabot's Head on Lake Huron. The thickness of this deposit Is estimated at 300 feet. About three and a half miles below Cayuga, there is a hard solid bed of water lime, thirty feet thick. The gypsum, it appears, is deposited in detached masses, almost invariably assuming more or less of a conical shape. Adjacent to the gypsum, and indeed sometimes intermixed with it, are vast quantities of water lime. The beds worked in York and Paris are extensive, and produce excellent gypsum. This part of Canada, we are informed, extending from Galt to Cayuga cannot fail in time, from the mineral contents of the subsoil to become one of the most valuable parts of the Province.

An interesting discovery has been made of the existence of Lithographic Stone at Rama, on Lake Simcoe. It is of the best quality, and the supply is very large, which is the more satisfactory, inasmuch as this stone is only to be found in one other place in the world-Solenhofen on the Danubeand has hitherto commanded a monopoly price.

NOVA SCOTIA.-The following important and highly satisfactory dispatch, to Lord Auckland, on the subject of allowing the Americans to fill in the

waters of the Bay Chaleur, is published in the papers :

Downing Street, 16th Sept., 1845.

My Lord-Her Majesty's Government have attentively considered the representations contained in your Despatches, No. 324 and 331, of the 17th June and 2nd of July, respecting the policy of granting permission to the Fisheries of the United States to fish in Bay of Chaleurs, and other large bays of a similar character on the Coasts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and apprehending from your statements that any such general concession would be injurious to the interests of British North American Provinces, we have abandoned the intention we had entertained upon the subject, and shall

adhere to the strict letter of the treatise which exist between Great Britain and the United States, relative to the Fisheries in North America, except in so far, as they may relate to the Bay of Fundy, which has been thrown open to the North Americans under certain restrictions.

In announcing this decision to you, I must at the same time direct your attention to the absolute necessity of a scrupulous observance of those treaties on the part of the Colonial authorities, and to the danger which cannot fail to arise from any over strained assumption of the power of excluding the Fisherman of the United States from the waters in which they have a right to follow their pursuits.

RIRTHS.

On the 22nd Oct., at Trinidad, the lady of F. H. Stevens, of a son.

At Valletta, Malta, on the 22nd Oct., the lady of Capt. Thomas Rolmes Tidy, H.M. 14th Foot, Aid-de-Cemp to Lieut. Gen. Sir P. Stuart, G.C.M.G., of a son.

At Barbados, Oct. 4, the lady of the right Rev. the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, of a daughter.

At Port of Spain, Demerara, on the 12th Sept., the lady of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Guiana, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

At Dunmore, Hunter River, New South Wales, by speciai license, on Tuesday, the 8th Juiy, by the Rev. Dr. Lang, M.C, Robert Muir, Esq., of Liverpool Plains, son of the late John Muir, Esq., of West St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, to Isabella, only daughter of the late William Lang, of Prospect Hill, Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, and sister ofihe Rev. Dr. Lang. and Andrew Lang, Esq., M.P., of Dunmore.

At the Cape of Good Hope, on the 11th Sept. by the Rev. George Hough, M.A., Senior Chaplain, Clarence Thomas Wylde, son of Sir John Wylde, Chief Justice of the Colony, to Elizabeth

Palmer, daughter of Charles Palmer, Esq., Doputy Commissioner General to the Forces.

On the 13th Oct., at Toronto, at the Cathedral Church of St James, by the Lord Bishop of Toronto, Arthur Wells, Esq., of Montreal, son of the Hon. Colonel Wells, of Davenport, to Georgina, daughter of George Ridout, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Toronto.

On the 21st Oct., at Malta, Francis Thomas Mansfield, Esq., M.D., second son of Thomas Mansfield, Esq., of the Auditor General's Department, to Emily, second daughter of Henry Grant Derbishire, Esq., and niece to the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Stuart, G.C.B., Commander of the Forces in the Mediterranean.

DEATHS.

At Bermuda, on the 20th Sept., the Hon. Robert Newbold, a Member of the Council of Grenada, and a Magistrate of the Colony, and formerly Speaker of the House of Assembly of that Island.

At his father's residence, St. Urbain Street, Montreal, on the 4th Oct., Robert Armour, jun., Esq., Advocate and Barrister-at-law, and Law Clerk of the Legislative Council, aged 38.

At Montreal, Oct. 2, Robert Amorn, jun., Esq., Advocate, and Editor of the Montreal Gazette.