The Elections

Indiana. The Democrats claim eight out of the ten Congrcssmen, a elcar majority in the Senate, and a considerable one in the House. Thia is somewhat of n gain on last year. Tennesseë. The whole returns are not received. The Democrats hope for 2000 or 3000 majority. KentuckY. 11 is said the Congressional delegntion will stand six Whigs to four Democrats. Nortii Carolina. The report is that the Whigs will have three of the members of Congress.CC0 The provisión made on board the sieamcrGreat Britain for the safety of the passongers, scein to be superior to the facilities nfforded by any olher vessels. The N. Y. Tribune says: "She carries four large life-boats of iron, and two boats of wood in the davits, and one large life-boat on deck; they are built according to a patenl taken out by Mr. Guppy, and are capable of carrying 400 people. A short time ago her life-boats were tested. One of them was lowered in the water, the valves in the bottom being so arranged as to give free ingress and egress to the water. To fi!l her more rnpidly a number of snilors were sent iuto her with buckets, and she was soon filled up to that height at wbich the water flowed out as fast as it was bailed in. About thirty men were then sent into her to stand on the thwarts.when f rom the height she still ilonted out of the water, il was evident tbnt she could, when full of water, sustain from fifty to sixty persons without the possibility of her sinking.