The Next Congress

- Eighty-eightbereofthe next Congress are already elected. Of these, on!y 18 are Whigs. The representation of the same States in the Inst Congress was 51 Whigs ond 52 Locos. Loco gain, 18. Whig loss, 33. The new Congress will comprise but 223 members. It is said that more than a thousand elaves escaped from the island of Caudaloupe to Brit. ish Islanös, in the confusión that followed the great carthquake.