are the guests of the city; June 9 they reach Philadelphia; June 16, New York; June 29, they go aboard the steamer Niagara, and on the 30th sail for home.

May 14. Isaac V. Fowler, the Postmaster in New York city, is discovered to be a defaulter to the government in a large amount.

May 15. Garibaldi wins the battle of Calatafimi; 27th, he storms and captures Palermo, and 28th attacks the Castle; and May 31 an armistice is agreed to. May 16.The National Republican Convention meets in Chicago. Twentyfour States are represented. George Ashmun, of Massachusetts, is elected President of the Convention. May 17, the platform is adopted. May 18, the balloting for candidates for the President begins, and on the third ballot Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, is chosen. On the second ballot, Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, is selected as candidate for Vice-President.

May 21.There is a tornado on the Ohio River, from Louisville, Ky., to Marietta, O. 150 lives are lost, and property is destroyed to the amount of $1,000,000. Great damage is done in Cincinnati.

May 22. The screw steamer Malabar is wrecked in the harbor of Point de Galle. Lord Elgin and Baron Gros are on board, and lose their credentials, luggage, &c.

May 26.- A violent thunder and rain storm in the western part of New York. May 30. A tornado sweeps over Armstrong and Clarion Counties, Pa., destroying buildings, trees, &c. Many lives are lost.

May 31. An insurrection breaks out in Catania, Sicily, and is suppressed by the royal troops; portions of the city are pillaged by the troops. June 3, the troops abandon the city

May 31.The United States Senate rejects the treaty with Mexico.

June 1. - The law of Maryland prohibiting the manumission of slaves takes effect.

June 2.This evening there is a violent storm with thunder and lightning, at St. Louis, Mo., and its vicinity.

June 3. A terrible tornado passes over the eastern part of Iowa and western part of Illinois this morning. Some whole villages are destroyed. The towns of Camanche in Iowa and Albany in Illinois are demolished.

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June 5. In Wilmington, N. C., there is a gale from southwest to northeast. Buildings are unroofed.

June 6.--The capitulation of Palermo is signed, and, June 8, the troops in the Castle embark.

June 9.A large number of volunteers, 6,000 or 7,000, leave Genoa for Sicily. June 12. Two steamers under the American flag, the Washington and Oregon, enter Cagliari with volunteers (1,700 men) for Sicily.

June 14. The fourth National Quarantine and Sanitary Convention meets in Boston, and, June 16, adjourns.

June 15-16.

There is a meeting at Baden between the Prince Regent of Prussia, the Emperor Napoleon, and other sovereigns.

June 16. The Count de Montemolin and his brother retract the renunciation of their claim to the crown of Spain, given April 23, when under arrest. June 17.-There is a severe hail-storm in Albany. Windows are broken and flowers and fruits damaged.

June 18.- The National Democratic Convention meets, by adjournment, in Baltimore. June 23, a large number of delegates withdraw, and with them Caleb Cushing, the President of the Convention. Those remaining nominate Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois for President and Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama for Vice-President. The seceding delegates nominate for President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, and for Vice-President, Joseph Lane of Oregon.

June 21.A comet, visible to the naked eye, is seen at the Observatory, Cambridge.

June 21. General William Walker and his filibusters sail from Ruatan, their rendezvous, for Nicaragua.

June 21.

The United States steamer Walker comes in collision with a vessel off Absecom Light, and sinks in a short time.

June 23. The English volunteers, over 18,000 strong, are reviewed in Hyde Park by Queen Victoria. The metropolis furnishes 13,226 men, the country 5,224.

June 23. - President Buchanan vetoes the Homestead Bill, and it is lost. June 24.-The steamer Ben. W. Lewis, plying between Memphis and St. Louis, bursts her boiler at Cairo. Fifty lives are lost.

June-25.

The king of Naples proclaims the grant of a Constitution to his people, and a general amnesty to all political offenders.

June 25.-The first session of the Thirty-sixth Congress is brought to a close

at noon.

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June 26. The French association of Orpheonists give a Grand Concert in the Crystal Palace, London.

June 28.-The Great Eastern arrives at New York in eleven days and two hours from Southampton. Her maximum speed was 144 knots.

June 29. A violent storm of wind and rain with thunder and lightning visits Boston. One large branch of the great elm on the Common is broken off.

July 1. It is said to be ascertained that the Druses in Syria have destroyed one hundred and fifty-one villages of the Christians since May 29, and have killed thousands and banished more.

July 1. There is a violent thunder-storm at Cincinnati, O., and at the same time a tornado does great damage in Springfield, in Clark Co., in the same State. In Peoria, Illinois, and vicinity there is a thunder-storm of unusual severity. July 2. The National Rifle Association in England commences a shooting match at Wimbledon. Queen Victoria fires the first shot.

July 3.The cabinet workshop in the State Prison at Sing Sing, N. Y., is destroyed by fire.

July 3.

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-The Great Eastern is opened for visitors in New York city. July 4. Farewell exercises are had on board the "Spring Hill," in Boston, preparatory to her departure under Dr. I. F. Hayes, on the Arctic Expedition. She sails July 7.

July 7.-The Prince of Wales and suite embark on board the Hero, at Plymouth, Eng., and July 8 sail for St. John's, N. F.

July 9.

The Moslems commence the massacre of the Christians at Damascus, and continue it for several days. It is estimated that 3,300 are slain. Their houses are burned. Abd-el-Kader affords protection to some.

July 11.-The West Washington Market Buildings in New York city are destroyed by fire.

July 16.The fourth session of the International Statistical Congress opens at London.

July 18. -The eclipse of the sun is observed, among others, by the British Expedition in Spain and the American Expedition in Labrador

July 20-21.-The Battle of Melazzo is fought. Garibaldi is victorious, and enters the city. His loss is estimated at 1,000 men; that of the Neapolitans is said to be greater.

July 20. A remarkable meteor is seen in the northerly portions of the United States, in a space about one thousand miles in length and seven hundred miles in width. It first became visible near the region of the great lakes, and its path was thence over the northern part of Michigan, over Lake Huron, Canada West, Lake Erie, the State of New York, the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, a part of Connecticut, Long Island Sound, and Long Island; and it was seen when three or four hundred miles at sea. It is observed in Cambridge, at the Observatory of Harvard College, at 10 P. M. The appearance at West Point, N. Y., is thus described: -

"The meteor passed over West Point on the evening of the 20th inst., about 9h. 50m. P. M. It made its first appearance in the west, and moved, apparently very slowly, to the east; its motion resembling that of a fire-balloon propelled by the burning of a feeble rocket composition. At nearly equal intervals it threw off masses of burning matter, which immediately took the shape and velocity of the principal body, with, however, greatly diminished luminosity; the whole suggesting the idea of a parent followed by a numerous progeny, dotting her path through the heavens. Just before it disappeared, the principal mass divided into two nearly equal portions. The color, which was intensely bright, was at first blue and then white, which at the close took a tinge of yellow. The altitude seemed not greater than that attained by ordinary signal rockets; and this, together with the seemingly slow motion, led at first to the inference that it was some new and marvellously successful pyrotechnic device, fired from the western hills. It lasted about one minute and a quarter. As it culminated, its projection on the celestial sphere was near to Corona Borealis. It must have had great altitude, from the slowness of its apparent motion."

At Philadelphia, Pa., the time of its appearance is stated at 9.30; at Newark,

N. J., at 9 45. At Worcester, Mass., about 10 o'clock, several balls of fire were seen flying through the atmosphere with great rapidity, in a northeasterly direction, apparently 300 or 400 feet above the earth. The illumination caused thereby was like that of a large fire. Mr. George P. Bond, Director of the Observatory in Cambridge, in a communication published in the newspapers, says: "The evidence (in regard to the appearance and path of the meteor) indicates that, instead of falling upon our globe, or being consumed like most bodies of its class before reaching it, it may have passed beyond the limits of the atmosphere, and resumed its original character as a wanderer in the planetary spaces. The accounts from the seaboard agree tolerably well in describing its disappearance as a gradual fading away, at a considerable altitude above the horizon, sufficient to carry its path, when prolonged, quite clear of contact with the earth. If the velocity, relative to the earth's surface, of 20 miles a second be admitted, it follows that the greater part of the apparent motion of the meteor was due to our motion in the solar system, and that the major axis of the orbit of this little asteroid, and the period of describing its complete circuit about the sun, must have been less than those of the earth."

July 21.- --A tornado destroys the Braceville Station of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad. July 23. The Prince of Wales arrives at St Johns, N. F., and lands July 24. July 30, arrives at Halifax, N. S.; Aug. 3, at St. John, N. B. ; 9, at Charlottetown, P.E. I.; 18, at Quebec; 24, at Montreal; 31, at Ottawa; Sept. 14, at Niagara; Sept. 20, leaves Canada at Windsor, and reaches Detroit, in the United States; 21, reaches Chicago; 25, is shooting at Dwight Station, Ill.; 27, arrives in St. Louis; 29, is in Cincinnati; Oct. 3, is at Harrisburg, Pa.; 3, arrives at Washington; 8, in Baltimore; 9, in Philadelphia; 11, in New York; 15, at West Point; 16, at Albany; 17, at Boston; 20, at Portland, and on the same day embarks on board the Hero; Nov. 15, arrives in Plymouth, England.

July 24.—The Connaught, the first of the Galway line of steamers, arrives in Boston.

July 25.-The Emperor Napoleon directs his minister in England, Count Persigny, to say to Lord Palmerston, that his only object since Villafranca is to inaugurate a new era of peace.

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July 25. A mob in St. Louis, Mo., destroy twenty houses of ill-fame. July 27. Garibaldi from Melazzo, in response to a letter from Victor Emanuel, advising him not to pass with his valorous troops to the Neapolitan continent, solicits permission not to obey.

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An armistice is signed for the evacuation of Sicily by the Neapol

July 30. A tornado passes over Marysville, and other portions of Kansas; and destroys many dwellings and buildings.

July 30. -The Great Eastern leaves New York for Cape May, and reaches there 31st. The passengers fare badly.

July 30. A military convention is concluded between Garibaldi and Gen. Clary, of the Neapolitan army. The Neapolitans will have certain forts, Garibaldi will have the city of Messina.

Aug. 1. The American Scientific Association meets at Newport, R. I. and adjourns Aug. 8th. Aug. 2.

- A fire at Salisbury, Maryland, consumes sixty houses, and the loss is said to be $200,000.

Aug. 2.1,000 volunteers leave Turin for Sicily.

Aug. 3.

-Two protocols of the conference on the affairs of Syria are signed at Paris by the representatives of England, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Turkey.

Aug. 3.-There is a heavy storm of wind and rain at Springfield, Ill., and vicinity. Buildings are blown down and trees uprooted.

Aug. 5. The French troops leave Marseilles for Syria. The French contingent is 6,000 men.

Aug. 5. Fuad Pacha, having surrounded Lebanon with troops, threatens to put the Druses to the sword if the Sheiks do not surrender in two days.

Aug. 5. General Walker lands near Truxillo, Honduras; Aug. 6 he takes possession of the fort, carrying it by assault; and Aug. 7 issues a proclamation that he does not make war upon the people of Honduras, but only upon the gov ernment. He is shot Sept. 12.

Aug. 7. An unusually brilliant aurora is observed this morning throughout New England and New York.

Aug. 7.-A destructive tornado in the northern part of Wayne Co., New York.

Aug. 7.- Queen Victoria reviews the Scotch Volunteers from Holyrood Palace. It is said that over 20,000 passed in review.

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Aug. 8.Garibaldi's troops from Sicily land on the mainland of Naples. Aug. 10. A battle is fought at Lagos between Miramon and Degollado. The former is defeated.

Aug. 11. Lady Franklin arrives in New York in the Adriatic from England. Aug. 11. -There is a violent rain-storm in New Orleans and vicinity. The water rises over twelve feet at Proctorville, and submerges the place. Many houses are carried away and lives. lost. The greater part of the parish of Plaquemines is affected by the wind and rain.

Aug. 13. The Prince Danielo of Montenegro is assassinated. - A violent thunder-storm in Philadelphia.

Aug. 14. Aug. 15. The Queen of England, an armed steamer, arrives at Messina with 16 rifled cannon and 22,000 rifles, and ammunition, the gift of Englishmen to Garibaldi's men.

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Aug. 16. The Great Eastern leaves New York for England, where she arrives Aug. 26, via Halifax. She carries about 300 passengers.

Aug. 17.-The English newspapers announce that England refuses to sanction the admission of Spain to the rank of a European power of the first class, a proposal to that effect having been made by Napoleon III., — and that the other powers decline to press the matter,

Aug. 18.-General Sam. Houston withdraws his name from the list of candidates for the Presidency.

Aug. 20.-167 persons, Moslems of all ranks and conditions, implicated in the late massacres of the Christians in Syria, are publicly executed at Damascus; 57 being hung and 110 shot.

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Aug. 21. The Taku forts at the mouth of the Peiho are taken by the allies (French and English) after a determined resistance by the Chinese troops. The Allies lose 400 in killed and wounded. They occupy Tientsin, and the ambassadors and army march towards Pekin.

Aug. 22.A meeting is held in London, Eng., and a committee raised to collect subscriptions to aid Garibaldi in the deliverance of Italy.

Aug. 22-23. -- A violent rain-storm in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. Portions of the tracks of several railroads are carried away, and the trains delayed.

Aug. 22.-The thirty-first annual meeting of the American Institute of Instruction opens in Boston, where thirty years ago the first meeting was held. Aug. 22. By imperial decree of this date, breadstuffs may be admitted free into France until Sept. 30, 1861.

Aug. 22.-There is an unusual fall of rain in portions of Middlesex Co., Mass. In Waltham, 5 inches of water fell in little over an hour, as indicated by a raingauge.

Aug. 26. -- The Great Eastern arrives at Milford Haven via Halifax.

Aug. During this month and in July, there are reports from Texas of the burning of towns and attempts at poisoning of wells by negroes, instigated by whites. Persons suspected are lynched or driven from the State.

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MEMBERS ELECT TO THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, SO FAR AS

ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN HAD.