A sad accident occurred in New York city on the 27th of November. In a large public school, in the Ninth Ward, one of the teachers was seized with paralysis. The circumstance alarmed her pupils, and their screams created a sudden panic throughout all the school. Immense numbers rushed to the stairs the banisters of which gave way, and they fell one upon another, upon the stone floor below. _Forty-three_ children were killed by this sad catastrophe. The Coroner's Inquest discovered nothing except that the stairs were improperly and insecurely constructed. In Mississippi the Constitutional Convention adjourned on the 17th November, after adopting resolutions declaring the acquiescence of the State in the Compromise and the Union, but declaring that it would secede in case Congress should repeal the Fugitive Slave law, or in any way interfere with slavery in the States. The same Convention adopted by a vote of 72 to 17, a resolution declaring that the asserted right of secession is utterly unsanctioned by the Constitution, and that it can not, in fact, take place without a subversion of the Union and a civil revolution. Mr. John S. Thrasher, the American in Havana, to whose case we alluded in our last Monthly Record, has had his trial (if the process to which he was subjected deserves such a name), and has been sentenced to imprisonment for eight years on the coast of Africa. He was thrown into prison and kept there for some weeks, until the 15th of November, when he was tried before a court martial. He was not allowed counsel, no witnesses were examined, and the proceeding was wholly a farce. The charges against him were of the most puerile kind, and not the slightest proof of their truth was offered. Yet he was convicted, sentenced, and sent from Havana in a Spanish ship of war. He has published a brief appeal to the government and people of the United States, in which he sets forth the gross illegality of the whole proceeding. The official returns of the State election in New York have just been declared as follows: _Judge of Court_ } Johnson (Dem.) 201,144 3,321 _Maj._ _of Appeals._ } Foote (Whig) 197,823 _Sec. of State._ Randal (Dem.) 199,426 844 _Maj._ Forsyth (Whig) 198,582 _Comptroller._ Wright (Dem.) 200,790 258 _Maj._ Patterson (Whig) 200,532 _Treasurer._ Welch (Dem.) 200,465 Cook (Whig) 200,693 228 _Maj._ _Canal Com._ Wheaton (Dem.) 200,234 Fitzhugh (Whig) 201,147 913 _Maj._ _State Engineer._ McAlpine (Dem.) 203,032 3,728 _Maj._ Seymour (Whig) 199,304 _Ins. State Pris._ Storms (Dem.) 202,801 4,223 _Maj._ Wells (Whig) 198,578 The aggregate vote in all the districts, for Senators and Members of Assembly, was as follows: