No pupil, how ever, is received who is not American born and seared. Col Chaillelong, late Chief of the staff to General Gordon, delivered a lecture in New York, on Deo. 5, in which he insisted that the General was still alive. The lecturer said he had four or five steamers, and, in his opinion, went south in one of these to Gondokoro, and would jn due time be heard from. William H. Vandwbilt, of New York, said to hay* been the richest man in the world, died suddenly of paralysis of the brain at hia mansion, New York, on the night of Dec. Bth. His total income p«r annum was stated at 15,000,000d015. The money and stock market will not be affected by his death, which is attributed to over-work. Suspicious characters have been found hovering near his tomb, and it is believed theft of the body is contem plated, as in the case of the millionaire Stewart. A sensational tragedy occurred in a bus iness office, Nevada Block, San Francisco, on Dec. 11. Chas W. Brown sought a business settlement with John A. Benson, and failing in a satisfactory result, shot Benson twice and then cut his own throat. Brown's death was immediate ; Benson may survive. Both men were concerned in the business of laying off and selling public lands. The authorities of New York are taking notice of the fact that desperate boxing matches are the rule now among the aris tocracy of that place. There was a set-to at the rooms of the Athletic Club, the richest in the city, on Dec. 11 between Bllinge worth and Macmahon, two gilded youths, the bloody details of which are sickening. Macmahon was punished nearly to death, and the furniture, carpet, and clothes of spectators sprinkled with the blood of the combatants. Slogging matches in clubs are also being revived in BOBtOll. ' i

Miss Fannie de Valknce, who claims to be the widow of an English lord, was Ar rested for forgery in New York on Dec. 13, There is a most decided boom in the iron trade of the United States at present. On Dec. 5 pig metal advanced one dollar a ton, and fifty cents on ore. Six children were bitten by a rabid dog, running at Newark, N. J. , on Dec 4. 