7.-THE UNITED STATES NAVAL FORCE IN COMMISSION.

The following is a statement of our entire naval force now in commission in squadrons;

In this connection it may not be uninteresting to give a few facts concerning the distribution of British men-of-war throughout the world. It has been said that her majesty has a naval vessel within a day's sail of everywhere, which, if not literally true, would hardly seem impossible when the following table is dissected. In June last the "royal navy" had in commission on squadrons as thus stationed:

About ten ships have lately been added to the British Fleet in China. The "Channel fleet" is not included in this table.-New York Post.

8.-WHITE PAUPERISM AT THE NORTH.

The following extract from a speech, lately delivered by Mr. B. F. Butler, the democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, presents a lively view of the internal affairs of a commonwealth, that busies itself so much about fancied wrongs in other States:

"According to the statistics furnished by the present State legislature, as a proof of their own committee, it is more dangerous to spend a year in a Massachusetts alms-house than it would have been to have led the charge of the Zouaves at the battle of the Magenta. I see this statement strikes some of you almost with dread. Let me repeat. There was a larger proportion of the regiment which led the attack at the battle of Solferino came out unscathed from that battle than there were of the paupers of 1858, who came out alive from the

State alms-houses of Massachusetts. [Sensation.] Allow me to give you the figures. How many was the average number of paupers in the State alms-houses during the year 1858? Twenty-seven hundred and some odd. How many died in the year ending October 1, 1858? Six hundred and sixty-six. One in every four. Every fourth man, woman, and child, that went into the State alms houses of Massachusetts, died and was buried in the potter's field of a pauper's burying-ground. Three hundred and forty-one children, under the age of five years, died in those charnel-houses; and the physician of one of those houses says he does not expect to rear but three per cent. of the children brought there under one year old! Three out of a hundred-all the others, ninety-seven, to a nameless grave."

9.-VIRGINIA MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

THE Central Southern Rights Association was recently re-organized in Virginia. The following were the proceedings :

By Edmund Ruffin, Esq., of Hanover, a member of the Association: Resolved, That the late outbreak at Harper's Ferry, of a long-concocted and wide-spread Northern conspiracy, for the destruction by armed violence and bloodshed of all that is valuable for the welfare, safety, and even existence of Virginia and the other Southern States, was, in the prompt and complete suppression of the attempt, and in all its direct results, a failure no less abortive and contemptible than the design and means employed, and objects aimed at, were malignant, atrocious, and devilish.

Resolved, That, nevertheless, the indirect results of this Northern conspiracy, and attempted deadly assault and warfare on Virginia, are all-important for the consideration and instruction of the Southern people, and especially in these respects, to wit: 1st, As proving to the world the actual condition of entire submission, obedience, and general loyalty of our negro slaves, in the fact that all the previous and scarcely impeded efforts of Northern abolitionists and their emissaries, aided by all that falsehood and deception could effect, did not operate to seduce a single negro in Virginia to rebel, or even to evince the least spirit of insubordination. 2d, As showing, in the general expression of opinion in the Northern States, through the press and from the pulpit, from prominent or leading public men, and also in the only public meetings yet held, and generally by the great popular voice of the North, that the majority, or at least the far greater number of all whose opinions have yet been expressed, either excuse, or desire to have pardoned, or sympathise with, or openly and heartily applaud the actors in this conspiracy and attack, which could have been made successful only by the means of laying waste the South and extinguishing its institutions and their defenders by fire and sword, and with outrages more horrible than merely general massacre-while the Northern friends of the South, and of the cause of right and law, are too few, or too timid to speak openly in our support, or even to make their dissent heard, and too weak to contend with the more numerous and violent assaults of the South.

Resolved, That the time has come when every State and every man of the South should determine to act promptly and effectively for the defence of our institutions and dearest rights, as well as for other important, though less vital interests; and we earnestly appeal, especially to the legislature of Virginia, and also to the legislatures of all others of the slaveholding States, that they will hasten to consult and to deliberate, and will maturely consider and discuss the condition of the Southern States, under all past aggressions and wrongs, especially this last and crowning aggression of Northern usurpation and hatred, and devise suitable and efficient measures for the defense of the Southern people and their institutions, from the unceasing hostility and unscrupulous assaults of Northern enemies, fanatics and conspirators.

The Secretary read the petition of the Central Southern Rights Association of Virginia, to the legislature in 1851.

By Col. E. Fontaine :

Resolved, That a special committee of thirteen be appointed, whose duty it shall be to take into consideration the propriety of sending the memorial of 1851

again to the legislature, with such amendments as may be deemed judicious, and to report to an adjourned meeting in the Hall of the House of Delegates, on the 6th of December, with permission of the proper authorities.

The Association elected the following gentlemen to compose the Committee of Thirteen, viz.: Messrs. Dabney P. Gooch, R. G. Morriss, L. W. Glazebrook, E. Fontaine, Geo. W. Gretter, N. F. Bowe, Joseph R. Anderson, Gen. O. G. Clay, Samuel Rutherfoord, James Lyons, William Green, Edmund Ruffin, and John Howard.

By Mr. Geo. R. Peake :

Resolved, That the President of this Association be instructed to have collected all its records, from its organization to the present time, and put in such form as to insure their future preservation.

By James Lyons, Esq.:

Resolved, That the Constitution of this Association be referred to the Committee of Thirteen, with instructions to report such amendments, if any, as they may deem necessary.

Resolved, That all the citizens of Richmond, Henrico, and the adjacent counties, be invited to attend the next meeting of this Association, to be held at the African Church, to sign the Constitution and take part in its deliberations.

Resolved, That the President of this Association be directed to call a meeting, whenever informed by the Committee of Thirteen, to whom the memorial and Constitution have been referred, that they are prepared to report.

The following were the introductory remarks of Daniel H. London, Esq., President. This address received profound attention and loud applause:

In again meeting you, with whom I have so often communed upon the interests and rights of Virginia and the South, many emotions fill my bosom. On the one hand stands the popular demonstrations which I have recently witnessed of approval and endorsation of the measures projected by you in the years 1850 and 1851, in your memorial and the accompanying documents sent to the Legislature of the State. On the other hand, it is my melancholy duty to state, that death has removed some of our brightest and most efficient members. Since our last meeting, John Lynch, Esq., at the time of his death Collector of Customs at this port, is no more; Geo. W. Clutter, Esq., died whilst acting as first Auditor of Virginia, another of our most zealous members; Major Charles Yancey, the last but two of the members of session of the Legislature of Virginia, of 1798 and '99, has gone from amongst us; he was always a zealous States Rights man, and acted with us from the beginning of our organization. James Bosher, William Wallace and John J. London, are also gone from amongst the living; Col. Charles S. Morgan, with his well-stored mind and efficient and powerful understanding, is no longer amongst the living-he coutributed all of the statistical tables appended to the memorial to the Legislature in 1851-he was a member of the Virginia Convention of 1829 and 1830; and after having filled for nearly thirty years the position of the Superintendent of the Penitentiary of Virginia, he died in his office, without a single doubt in any mind as to his faithfulness in every duty to his State and country. The Hon. John Y. Mason, who died recently at the French Court, is not now ready, with his elegant diction, to instruct us and urge us forward in our noble aims-but all of them sleep on the bosom of our beloved State, and whilst we cannot recall them, yet we know that unless kept away by the icy hand of death, they would be here tonight to counsel with us as to our course of duty amidst the bursting clouds that, with us, they had watched with the eyes of wisdom and forecast when so many disregarded our warnings, and despised and ridiculed our suggestions. You are no longer dependent on any for respect. All must admit your wisdom, and be ready to admire the zeal and patriotism which have marked your action. It would not be my province, upon so very important an occasion as this to occupy your time with suggestions of my own, as upon every other meeting; as upon this my duty is best discharged in giving every attention to your indications; and whilst I am not ready to denounce the timidity and cowardice of any, I can commend the fearless independence and manly annunciation of great purposes that have uniformly characterized all your deliberations.

No party name has ever been called in the course of any discussion here, and none ever should be. We are patriotic Southern citizens; citizens of Virginia, allied to her destiny because we prefer to guard and defend her honor; and

whilst we shall view with the deepest interest everything which may affect the interest of the Southern States, and warmly invite their co-operation with us, and stand ready to aid and assist the least as well as the greatest of the slave States in the defence of their rights, yet, whilst we are so surely warned of our own danger, we should, with the keenest and profoundest regard for our own homes and firesides, discuss such measures as may be demanded for the defence of the rights of our beloved mother-knowing that not a single Southern State will fail to sustain Virginia in any line of action she may think it proper and right for her to adopt. The memorial of 1851, which has been so much commended, was drawn by Dabney P. Gooch, Esq. I make this statement, that he and his posterity may share the fame which it should reflect on its author, as embodying in the simplest form one of the most vital and valuable principles of State interposition, and containing reflections worthy of any age. Whether the circumstances by which we are now surrounded shall render it necessary and proper for us to present again this memorial, with such alterations as time and experience may have suggested, or to enter into the consideration of the propriety of recommending to our Legislature the adoption of our suggestions at once, and calling a Convention of the Southern States, with a view of forming a Southern Confederation, or any other measure of a decisive character, you must determine. Certain it is, that we are entitled to peace and safety under any form of government, and, farther, to the fruits of our own toil, as well as the dearest of all rights to worship God as our consciences may dictate. How far these ends are served by our present union with the Northern States, we can measure surely with but little satisfaction. Whether we ought not now to take the initiatory steps in order to construct another government in which safety may be found, is a question of gravity, and none ought to go before you in considering it, because of your professions and principles as avowed in your constitution.

Citizens, our constitution was drawn up for our organization in the year 1850, and under it we think some good has been accomplished, and in invoking your co-operation we repeat the same words which we have always employed to all who seek membership with us: "We greet with the hearty welcome of brotherhood every good citizen who unites with us in feeling, practice, and sentiment, without regard to party or nativity." Come, then, and take your places where duty and patriotism invite you, and where you may exercise, with effect, the ardent wish which every Virginian ought to entertain for the independence of our Common Mother. God bless her, now and forever, whatever may be tide us."

EDITORIAL MISCELLANY.

J. B. Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, have recently published the Manual of Public Libraries and Societies in the United States and British Provinces of North America. By Wm. J. Rhees, of the Smithsonian Institution. It is a volume of near 700 pages, and will be an invaluable book in every public and private library.

From H. G. Stetson and Co., the New-Orleans publishers, we receive a copy of one of the series of valuable Plantation Record Books, which is prepared by Thomas Affleck, and highly endorsed in so many quarters. Mr. Affleck's "Southern Rural Almanac," is also placed upon our table.

From E. B. Bryan, of South Carolina, we have a copy of his "Minority Report in the Legislature of that State upon the African Slave Trade." It is

an able and luminous document, and it would give us much pleasure to extract fully from its pages, did we not conceive the subject at present to be entirely threadbare, other and more stirring questions having monopolized the public attention.

The prospectus of Silliman's Journal has been sent to us by the proprietors. It is the oldest scientific journal in our country, and it is the repository of almost everything that is useful in physical and chemical science, natural history, geography, &c. Seventy-eight volumes have already been published. Terms, $5 per annum. New-Haven: Conn.

The house of D. Appleton & Co., of New-York, send us, through their agents J. C. Morgan & Co., and D

McGinnis, New-Orleans, the following | vast fields of marvels, snatching up a gem here and there, and cutting one works: and another of the brilliant blossoms of 1. Re-statements of Christian Doctrine. this flowery region, to weave a speciBy Henry W. Bellows, of New-men chaplet, a sample coronal, which York. may tell of the good things behind.

It consists of twenty-five sermons, 7. Here and There; or, Earth and preached at All Souls' Church. The Heaven Contrasted. author says: "All the argumentation

Consisting of well-arranged extracts

volume, has grown out of an earnest from Scripture and from poetry.

desire to move actual stumbling-blocks 8. Chambers' Encyclopædia. Reprint, out of the way of actual people; all the questioning of popular opinions out of the necessity of extricating strugThe Harpers, of New-York, send us, gling souls from theological embarrass-through D. McGinnis, of New-Orleans, ments, that would not let them be three finely-bound and illustrated little volumes for children, entitled