eaty
in 1740. Through the agency of their Minister, the French had succeeded in
procuring an admission of the binding force of the treaty: but just then
the Russian Minister presented a demand that the Holy Sepulchre should
still remain in the hands of the Greek Church. This remonstrance caused
the Porte to hesitate: and the affair is still undecided.

From CHINA and the EAST news a month later has been received. From Bombay
intelligence is to Nov. 17. A very severe hurricane occurred in and around
Calcutta on the 22d of October, and caused great damage to the shipping as
well as to houses: a great many persons were killed. Hostilities have
again broken out between the English and the natives at Gwalior. Troops
had been sent out upon service, but no engagements are reported.--In
consequence of rival claimants to the throne, a fearful scene of anarchy
and blood is commencing in Affghanistan. Many of the Hindoo traders and
other peacable inhabitants have fled from the country, and were putting
themselves under British protection.--An extensive fire occurred in Canton,
Oct. 4, destroying five hundred houses and an immense amount of property.
The intelligence of the Chinese rebellion was very vague, and the movement
had ceased to excite interest or attract attention.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

The Value of the Union.--In our periodical rounds, we have arrived at the
month which numbers in its calendar the natal day of Washington. What
subject, then, more appropriate for such a period than the one we have
placed at the head of our editorial Table? "_The Value of the Union_"--in
other words, the value of our national Constitution? Who shall estimate
it? By what mathematical formula shall we enter upon a computation
requiring so many known and unknown forces to be taken into the account,
and involving results so immense in the number and magnitude of their
complications? No problem in astronomy or mechanics is to be compared with
it. As a question of science, the whole solar system presents nothing more
intricate. It is not a "problem of three bodies," but of thirty; and these
regarded not merely in their internal dynamical relations, but in their
moral bearings upon an outer world of widely varied and varying forces.

In the computations of stocks and dividends, and the profit and loss of
commercial partnerships, the process is comparatively clear. The balance
is ever of one ascertained kind, and expressed in one uniform c