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r! The Emperor Napoleon III is having a magnificent yacht built as a present for the Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Calcutta, as it has grown larger, has been getting worse and worse. It is fast becoming a vast cesspool; every variety of filth accumulates in the streets; the natives are horribly dirty in all their habits. People who have not been to the East can form no conception of their dirtiness; five thousand corpses are annually thrown into the river, and are washed up and down among the shipping. Who can wonder that disease hangs over the place like a cloud? The area under cotton cultivation in the central provinces of India has increased from 419,465 acres in 1862-'63 to 579,475 acres in 1863-'64. The gaming bank at Spa has just issued its returns of winnings for last year, which reach the magnificent sum of 1,567,147 francs. Mr. Hughes ("Tom Brown") will, it is stated, be brought forward as a candidate for Southwark at the next general election.