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icai geography, soil. climate, products, towns, internal improvements, mode of conveyance, and great amount of other iniormatlon, such as cannot fail to prove highiy useful to emigrants and travellers The work will soon be issued in a neat Pooii et volume of about 55a pages, with plumber of maps, plans, Grc. suitable to the text.

 The distinction which Mr. Tanner has gained ih geography and statistics, by his many valuable and accurate publications ID those departments of knowledge is an assurance Of the merit and success of the volume now announced.--.Nat. Gag.

 An English paper, received by the last arrival, has the following singular para graph:

 The Plague ef Fiery serpents.-The fol loving is an extract of a letter, dated Bassorah, the 24th August, 1881, and re- ceived in Calcutta by an American gentle man :-ss almost every country in these regions of the globe has been visited by a dreadful visitation of Providence. You must have been long before this, informed of the many calamities that have befailen the devoted city of Bagdad, and the pla- ces adjacent to 1t. News have also been received from the adjacent city of Hama dan, CT the ancient Echantana, ofthc oc- eurrence of another natural calamity in .hat place. The city is described to be literally infested with a species of fiery serpents, tho bite of which is followed by immediate madness, which in the course of a very short timelte rminates in the death of the sufferer. The streets of the town are said to be choaked with dead bodies, which are fed upon by dogs and jackals The inhabitants areseized with conster- nation and trepidation, not knowing where to fly from the Angel of the Almighty.

 h,dia GaxeAe, Dec. g.