1857 APRIL. 12 Remarkable days. 1 Civil Establishment ceases to to be defrayed by the Home Government, 1850. 2 Slight falls of 3 Snow. 5 Palm Sunday. 0 Napoleon sent to Elba. 7 Fire at Toronto , 1846. 8 Hudson's Bay Company es¬ tablished 1692. 9 Falling Weather. 10 Gor. D Friday . 12 Easter Sunday. 14 Peace with France, 1814. 1 6 Showers. 18 First Newspaper published in America, 1701. 19 Low Sunday. 21 Still cold and frosty. 23 St. George. Responsible Government granted, 1851. 25 Princess Alice born 1853. Parliament Houses burnt in Canada . 26 2d Sunday after Easter 27 St. Mark. 29 Clears up and 30 becomes'fine. A popular writer, speaking of the proposed oceanic tele¬ graph, wonders whether the news transmitted through salt water would be fresh. The newspaper item was right which records -the accident of the sloop-wreck on the North River , in September last, in these few,,but graphic words " While the storm was at its height, the vessel keeled to the larboard, and the captain and another cask of whisky rolled overboard." I think our church will last a good many years yet," said a worthy but waggish deacon to the minister ; " I see the sleep¬ ers are very sound." In the pine barrens of Michi¬ gan, not a thousand miles from Grand Rapids, but four miles any other dwelling, is a mise¬ rable shanty of log shingles, bearing the following sign : "This is Uncle Dan Themases Who always kept his promises; His virtuals and beer, And oiher good cheer, Can'l be beat about here." In Georgia, a short time since, a boy from the woods was at the depot when the train was on the track, and as he was gazing in stupid wonder at the fixins, and wandering in the cars, the whistle shrieked its unearth¬ ly sound, and in a moment more the whole thing was driving on at the rate of "two-forty." Oh, lordy!" screamed the boy, " stop it, stop it! I ain't gwine!" and bursting open the door, he stood on the platform between the cars. Just then the train was cros¬ sing a deep and cavernous- looking gorge on trestle- work, and seeing the trees and fields far below him, the fiighfened booby fell on the floor and fainted away. Pre¬ sently he came to, and look¬ ing up at the conductor, who stood by him, he cried with horror, "Say stranger, tell me, oh, lordy! has the thing lit?" V -//