The Express. — London, England, 1853-10-20 00:00:00

II: i I lAN IWIAL MAIL STLAM JA r7G.tT(UN courA XY. Yesterday an extraordinary general meeting of th,thrholdete was held at the L,ndon Tavern, Mr. FRITH la the chair, for the pupae of annulling or altering the rovuonis of the deed of settlement, which required that ~,,R h et of shores to be held by a director should have tun hild ter el& consecutive months nest preceding his ileoloc, for altering the number of directors, and for other yorpotst• 1 % , r eport stated that, in pursuance of the resolution %tried to ty the pro, ietors at the last 'entre' meeting, the choirm..n waited on the Board of Trade and asked for to the modification of that part of the decd of settotunt which required a director to hold his shares for t or.q, %give ision•hs previous to his election. In eonse cues, e however, of one of the directors having waited on t h i , word Trade, the reply returned was that the Board of Trade could assent to the proposed modification only, after t had been sanctioned by a meeting of the share holders. The CH tt KHAN said that the present meeting was called i aerder to obtain the assent of the shareholders, and the propewd IntAttkation, as required by the Board of Trade. thr he had awed on a former occasion, he understood that the Loud of Trade assented to the modification, but in ronvireente of cue of the directors having gone and Meted hi. own views to the Board of Trade, it required that the sweat of the shareholders should be formally given to the tearosed loodtliestion. The resolution he had therefore awl/nit was, that the necessity for holding the required samba of shares be limited to ten days nest preceding Ike election of a director instead of six months. 31r. Sltarazun seconded the resolution, which wee car ried. The CHAIIMAN then submitted a resolution for reducing tte *umber of directors from 12 to such number u the sharelolden might think most advisable. If the opinion gale directors wee asked, they would, he believed, say that 7 would be a proper cumber. (Hear.) A i'MOPIIIZTUR proposed that the number be reduced to 5, which not biding a seconder was not put. • Another PROPRIETOR proposed 9, but the motion was 100. and the number 7 was adopted. Ihe CUAIRMAN said that this was the only busineu which the directors hail to bring before the meeting, but as it wai competent for any shareholder, under the terms of the advertisement, to submit any resolution in reference to the Oars of the company, he wished to know if any gen tleman had any further resolution to propose. Mr. LAWRENCE then moved, and Colonel COFFIN seconded, a resolution, instructing the directors to take steps for realising the property of the company, and di viding it amongst the shareholders. After some dii.cussion, from which it appeared to be the general feeling of the proprietors, that the more advisable course would be to leave the matter in the hands of the dirsct ri generally, the motion was withdrawn. In answer to a Shareholder, The CHAIRMAN said that the Sydney was the only vessel which the directors had ordered to be sold in Australia. Mr. W. Hewes, one of the directors, then submitted a resolution, the object of which was to alter the male of voting at general meetings. By the provisions of the deed of settlement there was • vote for every share; but, as under that system a great preponderance might be given to a few shareholders holding a large number of shares, he thought it would be for the advantage of the proprietors generally, if the scale of voting mentioned in the company's Clauses Consolidation Act of 1846 were adopted instead. The scale of voting recommended in that act would give sufficient security both to the large and small, to the absent as well as to the present shareholder. lie and his friends had a large interest in the company, so that he could have no other object in proposing the alteration than the advan tage of the proprietors generally. The CHAIRMAN proceeded to make some observations in reply to Mr. Hawes, and remarked in very strong language (for whisk he afterwards apologised) on the unusual pro- ceeding which he adopted in going la his individual capa city to the board. Mr. AMBROAZ Moons deprecated t►e bandying nf per sonalities, and recommended Mr. Hawes to postpone kis resolution, in which he concurred, to • more suitable and calmer period. Mr. fawns adopted the suggestion, and the resolution was accordingly withdrawn. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro ceedings. IKE KOSSTA AFFAIR. A few days ago we published the statement of the Austrian government respecting the convention made by BIJOU Bruck, its internancio at the Porte, with Mr. Brown, aiis:ster of the Visited States at Constantinople, stipulating the conditions upon which Mania Kowa* should be re leased from the guardianship of the Frisch consul. We also subsequently quoted the statement of a Maltese journal that as AMINTICS6 tercel with Martin Kossta on board had touched at that Weed. This latter statement was rendered doubtful by the het that one of the points of agreement was that the vessel moseying Koesta should not touch at any of the Mediterranean ports. It would now appear that wit not true; and, indeed, that Kamm had not left Smyrna on the 6th inst. The following letter in the Ger etan formal of Frankfort bears that date : " lionita is still in the French hospital, and his affair has assumed • sew appearance. The consul of the United States has declared to the Consulate-General of Austria that limits was either Austrian or American ; that, if an Austrian, he might to be given up to Austria, but, if as Americas, he maid, as a free man, go or stay when be pleased. TM emu' added that he had no sedan totemic* hem the American embassy at Constantinople, but solely hem his gemenniest. In consequence he refused to receive end send WM. Keene. Mr. Brown, Secretary of the Ami nes. Legation at Constantinople, then demanded from M. riches, consul of Fraser, that Kossts should be given up ; bat M. Fiches refund, saying, that be only undertook to give up Koine to one of the parties, with the consent of the consuls of Austria and the United States. Mr. Brows thereupon obtained from the ambassador et Constantinople as order addressed to M. Pkhoa to give up M. Kama, even without the consent of the Costal of the •Unind States. But M. Pith= would net execute the order, saying that be was under as engagement to the eemsula of Alaftfil aid the United States. Kant., on his side, declared hat under the circumstances, he would not quit his prison. Mr. Brown accordingly returned to Constantinople without having obtained anything, and the affair, far from being arranged, tends to become more compliaated." THE COLLISION ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. MANSLAUGHTER. Yesterday the adjourned inquiry as to the cause of the recent collision on the Midland Railway, in which one man was killed and fourteen ',fiend) , injured, was re sumed at the Town-hall, Derby, before Mr. Deputy Coro- nor Portmore. The whole of the evidence having been game through, The coroner having semmed ty, after two hour,' delibe ration, the jury returned a verdict of" Manslaughter agains t ' Samuel Kent (the guard), Gee. Cawood (driver), and John Smeeton (driver)." The jury also added the following remarks: "The jury recommend the company in any future acci dent occurring on the line, that some official person of audio rity should accompany the man who:may be sent to mist or remove any obstruction, as they think had such a person been sent on the occasion of the mem accident it would not have occurred. The jury think that the Midland Railway Company's rules for the guidance of their servants are generally good if strictly adhered to, which they regret to find was not the cue in this instance. Had they been so, the jury are of opinion the accident would not have taken place. And they further recommend to the directors in future to adopt such prompt mesas as may be in their power to compel their servants to make them selves acquainted with, and obey, the printed rules of the company. " The jury conclude their remarks desiring to espresa a severs censure upon J. Stevenson, station-master at What standwell.bridge, for absenting himself from his station under such circumstances." BIRMINGILIM BOROUGH PRISON. - • - BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAT. The magistrates of this town held the usual quar terly gaol sessions at the Public Office to-dry, the principal business being the election, or rather the ClOllllll6Oll of the election, of ;Mr. Hillyard, of Nottingham, as the suc cessor of Lieut. Austin in the governorship of the gaol. It had been rumoured that Mr. Hill, Q.C., the Recorder, intended to propose the re-election of Capt. Maconochie, but the learned gentleman did not attend the sessions. 111141/1( HAWKED. Esq., the Mayor, presided, and there was a tolerably tall attendance of the magistrates. From the reports read, it appears that the attention of the visiting justices has at length been directed to the effi ciency of the various officers of the gaol : they recommend that with the view to secure a better class of men, that higher salaries be paid to the warden that an infirmary warder be immediately appointed (the absence of such an officer having been severely animadverted upon' by Capt. Williams in the course of the late inquiry), and that the salary of the surgeon be raised from 1601. so 2501. per annum. Freer has bun discharged; the elder Cot term has resigned, and one or two cf the at unfit of the officers have also been dismissed. The magistrates, in the course of their reports, admit that facts have come out in the course of the inquiry made by her Majesty's commissioners which require the attention of the visiting justices in respect of important matters connected with the government of the gaol, but proceedings are de ferred until after the commissioners have snide their report. In consideration, however, of peculiar circumstances and dilliculties, it was thought advisable to re-appoint the visiting justices for the current quarter, though each of them alleged that they would gladly have been relieved from their onerous duties. A letter was read from the surgeon resigning his office, and accompanying it was a report specially intended to prove that the crank labour had not been injurious, and with still another Bibulous to the boy Andrews for " his hypocritical manner towards 'myself," Mr. Blount still persisting in the expression of his belief that Andrews did not intend to commit suicide, and that he was not driven to despair by the punishments he received. Mr. Blount's resignation was accepted, and he now holds his office pro tees. The election of Mr. G. W. Hillyard, of the County Gaol at Nottingham, wee unanimously confirmed, on the motion of Mr. Charlie Shaw, seconded by Mr. Win. Wills, the latter gentleman congratulating the court on its una nimity in reference to this appointment, Mr. Hillyard having testimonials from noblemen and gentlemen of the highest character, many of whom were known to thentagis trates present. Mr. Smith remarked, too, that wherever Mr. Halyard had been he had discharged his duties efil. ciently ; serving a sort of apprenticeship of four years at Pentonville, he was subsequently four years deputy-gover nor at Stafford Gael, and lastly four years at Nottingham, where he had given the highest satisfaction ; he had the fullest confidence that here he would satisfy the visiting justices and the public at large. _ _ . . . _ The new governor enters upon his duties this day ; the report of her Majesty's Commiesionen is expected in the come of next week. THE PRODUCE OF COCHIN. The following memorial has been addressed to the Treasury, in consequence of a regulation by which the pro duce 01 Cochin was admitted as British ha•ieg been re scinded suddenly, without due notice : "To THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD! COMXISNIONIRS OP Mtn MAJESTY'S TIMASTAY. " Kay it please your Lordships,— " We have been for Bosse years large importers of pro duce fres Cochin, o n th e Malabar coast, and which produce Is always been admitted as British-grows, and which was sore fully confirmed by your lordships' order of the 12th of April last, expressly directing that it should be so con sidered, a copy of which order we bees the honour to suet. llpon the faith of the above, we and our correspondents hare shipped largely of silage, nd other produce, and we now find tha, after psyieg duty of fie. per cwt. on 7 MCI of ginger, ea Royal Charlie, from Cochin, a farther fortigo duty of Ss., or 10e. per cwt. Mall, is demanded. " We submit to your lordships the great injustice done to or by this proceeding, and submit that, before any such alteration take effect, ample time should be given to com municate with shippers from Cochin, and that all ship. moots here and on the way should be admitted at the lower duty, and which we trust your lordships will be p.sseed to order.—We have the honour to be your ler& a4.4),*. kc. , "D. DUNDAD. AND Suits. Limehouse, Oct. 13." ST. ASAIM CUURCII RATE.—A rate was pro pond by Mr. /Lytle Roberta of three farthings in the peond, and an amendment proposed by Mr. Robt. Jones tent no rate be made. The polling was kept up for nine day, to ..nable the church party to bring up a number of sozers from a distance. The following is the gross return at the close of each day's poll:—Oct. 4, majority against rate, 36 ; Oct. dn., 60; Oct. 6, do., 21; Oct. 7, do., 16 ; Oct. S, do., 15 ; Oct. 10, do ,5. Oct. 11, minority for rate. 1; Oct. 12, do , 17; Oct. 13, do., 21. The declaration HEAVY RUNi itt ITALY.—The Genoa Gazette is to be made on the sth of November. The bishop, dean gives a distressing account of the disasters caused on tho and clergy polled 22 votes,and all the influence dist could bo 13th by a violent fall of rein in various parts of the pro. cousmand was brought to beer against the opponents of the vinces. A diligence of the ileuegerics Imp'riales, coming rate. All the clergy were actively engaged, the gantry (with from Nice, stuck fast in the midst of the Chiaravagna, the one exception only) and their lewd agents, and the solicitors, : waters of which, rushing on with inconceivable impetus were without eaception all busily employed. The strew sity, threatened all the pamengera, 19 in cumber, with ki wi. in full power. and ur4ent voter, were brought from a staid death. As it was two women and a little boy lost distance. Ihe cars and other vehicles of the city were all their lives, while the others were with di6lclity rived by I issel by the supgcrters of the rate, although the owners the exertions of the cazabiceers who were on the spot. The and not the Otenpier, of the small tenements are allowed to bodies of the three victims were found near the sea coast at var. Yet only a minority 0121 could be got, some of which Sestri and l'ia on the following mousing According to aro hail votes. This m • virtual victory for the anti-rate the latest accounts the diligence had not yet been extricated. I Irt Who would hare thought in the c a th e d ra l c i ty of Several streets of Genoa were Inundated, and report. from 4 t. Laph, that in spite of all inflame, upon a rine days' different villages in the vicinity mention the falling down p,14 batsyaajority of 21 could be got for a ran 2 of four new houses and several aarrow escapee. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1853. LIFE ASSURANCE. The following are the nommen& legit committee appointed to take into of the Se lantion the subject of Al lan/SSICS Asneiatioas: Your committee therefore would Hammond that it shall be imperative upon each company to make a templets in vestigation Into its affairs at lout once in Eve years, as is usually prescribed by their deeds of settlement, and at such them so prenallisd, which shall show a complete valuation of their risks and liabilities, and of their meets to meet the same ; and that all such valuation accounts, which may be made for the information and us of their proprietors, shareholders, or members, shall be registered in the office of the registrar; and that in each intermediate year between such periodical balsas* sheets or valuations, there shall also be registered a statement containing authenti cated information on the following particulars Tke amount of receipts daring the year for premiums on policies. Toe amount of expenses daring the year. The number and amount of new policies issued. The total number and amount of liabilities en all current policies. The total amount of premiums reciivable on the same. The whole amount of capital, distinguishing the manner in which invested. How much in cash. How much is government securities. How much in mortgage upon real estate. How much in other securities, specifying their nature. 7he average rate of interest received Ilion each class of investments. The amount of inch investment, U any, on which the payment of Interest is in arrears. The table of mortality and the rate of interest used in calculating the premiums. The committee add : 13. The evidence which your committee has obtained , loads them to believe that some such general statemeng would be of much greater utility in enabling the public to some to a correct judgment as to the condition of an 081 es, than any forma account that could be adopted. In ad dition to the above, in the case of proprietary companies, the amount of subscribed capital should be stated, and also the amount actually paid up, and how invested. 14. It has been brought to the attention of your commit tee, that the business of assurance °Ekes is becoming every year of a may. varied character. 15. This your committee regard as the necesury result of the advancement of the science on which it is hued ; but there is a class of bulimia which some offues have un dertaken, via., that of receiving deposits of money at in terest, which appears to your committee totally inconsis tent with the business of life assurance. 16. Your committee will conclude their report by calling attention to a part of the evidence which ads:4sta* the formation of an incorporated society of actuaries, with • we. to the advancement of that important science, and also with a view to issue diplomas or eertificet.a to persons qu►lified to practise as actuaries. If any effort should be made to induce parliament to grant such an incorporation the committee are of opinion that it will he worthy of con sideration, hut that further investigation would be needful before such measures should be adopted, as considerable difference of opinion prevails on the subject among actuaries themselves. PLYMOUTH AND THE MAIL STEAMERS. The members of the Plymouth Chamber of Com merce held a meeting on Wednesday at noon. In the al:more of the Earl of Morley, t►e chairman of the chamber, W. H. HAWKER, Eeq the vice chairman, presided. The object of the meeting was to consider the draft of a memorial to be presented to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, with the view of obtaining for Plymouth the position of a mail-packet station. The movement had been initiated in the Town Council, and a memorial to their lordships adopted. _ . Amongst the gentlemen present were Messrs. C. C. Whiteford. J. Kelley, W. Lunombe, I. Nicholls, R. W. Stevens, W. Human, J. C. Wilcock., H. A. Hampton, J. Luiwombe, &c. The PIiESIMINT having stated the object of the meeting, the (ideation was raised whelier the memoridl as adopted by the Town Conseil should be accepted in its entirety or altered in any parr. The memorial, which is as follows, was drawn up by Mr. R. White Stevens. To the Right Honourable the L - rds Ccmmissiouers of the Admiralty. " The memorial of the council of the borcugh of Ply mouth, in the county of Devon, sheweth— " That your memorialists have heard with considerable surprise that it is prop:red to discontinue the practice of embarking and disembukiog the Cape of Good Hope mails at Plytnenth. That these mails have been embarked and disembarked at Plymouth from the commencement of the service by the ships of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company in December, 18.50, mud during all that pencil those ships have arrived at and sailed hem Plymouth &laud, by day or night, without detention and without accident. _ _ _ " That the Sound possesses an open communication with the Eoglish Channel, from which the Eddystone Lighthouse is a sure and consusut guide, sad that its deep harbour is protected by Vie breakwater, the lighthouse on which affords a second faciilty (or entering the port at all hours in safety. That your memorialists are informed that it is proposed to make Southampton the mail port for the Cape service, and they bog to tail the serious attention of your lordship to the mita, which will be iofl.cted on the commerce, and postal communications of the country at large, by such an alteration. " That the distance from the Eddystone to Plymouth is about 10 miles, and from the Eddystone to Southampton, by the Needles, 126 miles, being an access of 116 miles over Plymouth. This, however, is not the only loss. When easterly winds prevail, a screw steam ship off Ushant, could make nine knots or more per hour, if bound to Plymouth, and not half that speed if bound to Southampton, after passing the Eddystone and the Start. Ships bound to Southampton have to encounter the difficult and narrow entrance at the Needle Rocks, and the entrance and dan gerous navigation inside, for' 2 miles to Southampton. It sometimes happens that the Needle passage is altogether impracticable, and ships have then to prxeed round the Isle of Wight, by the Nab Light Vessel. " That these obstacles to the speedy landing of the mails at Southampton are greatly increased is stormy weather, when the entrance to the Needles cannot be attempted without the aid of a pilot. who is prevented by the same weather from going outside, or if outside, is unable to board vessels from the turbulence of the sea which there exists on the Shingles Bank, and on the shallow waters near the Needles. It will be found, on inquiry, that many mail packets have recently had to lie-to there for several hours, to th c great detriment of the commerce of the nation where, when inside the Needles, considerable loss of time also occurs in avoiding the dangerous sandbanks, which obstruct the passage, especially during the fogs, which so often pre vail in that locality when the vessels can only proceed a ith safety at very reduced speed, and keeping the lead con stantly going. " That when steam ships are outward bound from South ampton, they are, although of large power, occasionally compelled during the continuance of south westerly gales, to remain inside the Needles, and when outside, the same gales prevent a quick passage down Channel, the course from the Needles being 47.0 west, to the north-west point of Ushant. - - " 1 hat the course from Plymouth being only south 19.30 west, these westerly gales have never, except on two occa sions during a period of nearly three years. p ted even the supplementary Cope mail packets of small comparative power, from crooeeding to sea, and at no time have the full sized pack. te bees prevented by the warither, from leaviog the port. That none of these ships have been forced by stress of weather to put back, or anchor, after leaving Plymouth, and that they have never, large or smell, on any occasion, with the wind from any quarter, been pre vented from entering that harbour, when homeward bound. " The shortest distance from a port five miles north-west ward of lishant at the entrance to the channel, to South ampton, is 214 miles; and from the same point to Plymouth Is 118 miles. The difference of time ordinarily occupied in the transit to the two ports would be about twelve hours, and assuming the difference of time occupied in railway communication between the two ports and London, to be four hours in favour of Southampton, on &comparison of the entire distance from the ports Indicated to London, as be tween Plymouth end Southampton, them will be a constant gain of eight hours by landing or embarking the mails at Ply&auutb. That a very large and increased proportion of the trade of the country is now carried on by the tele graphic wire, which is extended to Plymouth. By this mode of communication the difference of time in corre sponding from Plymouth or London is practically annihilated and there would be a constant gain of twelve hours in the transmission of intelligence to government or to merchants, which (is already observed) would be greatly increased in stormy weather. It is also to be noticed that the advantage in point of distance In favour of Plymouth is really greater than is above assumed, since the track of the homeward bound Cape steamers is to the westward of the point above laid down. The direct course to or from St Vincent's, the first and last ocean coal depot of these ships, is a straight line to Plymouth. This position falls about 20 miles to the north-west of tsbant lighthouse, and every mile to the north west brings the track, by comparison, nearer to Plymouth than Southampton. " That the loss of time in the mail communication which will result from the removal of the packets from Plymouth, will not be confined to the metropolis, Exeter, Bristol, Bir mingham, Manchester, the manufacturing districts, but Liverpool and Glasgow will loose considerably more time, in consequence of their greater postal distance front Southamp ton than from Plymouth. Indeed, all the commercial towns of the west will sae placed at a great disadvantage by the proposed alteration. tt That the greater distance a mail fi conveyed by land, the more advestageons it is for the community at large. Not only is time saved, but the full development of the sys tem would enable a mail train to be gathering correspond ence from the centre of the country, down to the water's edge, and to be distributing letters from the moment of their landing. ' That it was proposed in October, 1862, to remove the Cate mail packets to Southampton, but your memorialists appealed that the representations then submitted of the is jury which would occur to the commerce of the nation, induced your lordships to decide on continuing the service at Plymouth. tt That taking all theme circumstances into consideration, your memorialists prey that the Cape mail-packet service, which includes the communication with the Mauritius, may continue at Plymouth, or that no alteratton be made until a full and complete inquiry is instituted into the merits of this important subject." Mr. Wurthronu, the town clerk, and others, thought it would be most effective to adopt it unaltered. Mr. J. B. Wtheocas then related a circumstance which had come to his knowledge, which, in his opinion, would weigh materially in favour of Plymouth as a port of depar ture, as compared with Southampton. Two vessels were appointed to sail, ono from Plymouth and the other front Southampton; both within two days —ono on the 16th September and the other on the 17th September —were notified to take emigrants. The one at Plymouth, the David Malone', sailed hoot this port on the 20th September with a west-north-west wind, and pro ceeded on her voyage. The oz. at Portsmouth sailed on the same day, but struck or touched on the Mother Bank, where she remained till the 8:h of October—ln fact 18 days. This fact—to which if trouble wet* taken they daubtlese could get many a parallel—was of much import ance se bearing out the assertions contained in the memo rial/. Several gentlemen thought it was a remarkable case in point. and that it was worthy of being brought under the notice of the Admiralty. Mr. J. NICHOLLS then pioposed the following reeolu tiou : " That the memorial to the Lords of the Admiralty now reed be adopted by this Chamber, as embodying the peeition of the port of Plymouth as the most favourable re sort for melt steam packets in a national point of view ; and that Lord Morley, the chairman of the Chamber, be re quested to supp,rt its prayer, in conjunction with the Mayor and Mr. Robert White Stevens, In their interview with the Admiralty." Mr. J. Lescount seconded the motion, which was car ried unanimously, and the meeticg separated. KING EDWARD RAGGED AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL —BAZAAR AND FANCY FAIR.—The friends and promoters of this valuable Institution, which now educates, trains, and otherwise mires 600 children, who, but for its care, would have been entirely destitute, being anxious to ex tend its usefulners, have endeavoured to attract the contri butions of the fashionable world by opening a basso, and fancy lair at the well known anti central premises, 14, Lud gate•hill, about to be occupied by the Milton Club. The bazaar evened yesterday, and, notwithstanding the lode ntenty of the weather, we were happy to see it fully and fashionably attended. Tbe articles, principally the work of fair amateurs, exhibited mere than the usual variety and taste, and included toys, embroidery, artistic needlework, ftc.. in great abundance. Amongst them were contrihn tiODZ from the Countess of Shaftesbury, Countess Manes re, Ladies Beauchamp, Rsdsteek, the Mimes Gurney, &c. lu addition to the fancy articles a model of the school, and a : miniature priming press attracted great attention. A rapid sale was effected, and the prices, as might be expected, were moat satisfactory. A good band, under the direction of Mr. I G. F. Taylor. was in attendance throughcat the day, end played a tasteful selection of popular music. The mi. ginel intention was that the bazaar should close this his:, tearing that the weather may have kept back I a portion of the charitable public, the promoters have deter ; mined a give them another day—Friday. The Rev. Mr. Tyler and Mr. H. It. Williams, to whose ?milted exertion , I the scho:44mfty be said to owe their taiatenco, attend daily, ' and are happy to rive every information t o visitors. THE GRAND DUCHESS MARIE OF RUSsIA came to town from Torquay last week, and intends to leave Tor qua on the' Ist instant for Dover. It is stat e d, but can hardly be true, that this lady Is to be conveyed from Dover to ()Mad is one of the denten of the National navy. swINDLI.VG IN TWO HEMISPHERES. Not long since an ingentritui and anccersdnl practice of swindling, carried on in America upon English victims, was exposed under the above heading in these columns. It was then stated that the fund was carried on by means of begging letters addressed from America, by a soi disant sick prisoner in a "gaol hospital"—who only signs with the letter "E."—to gentlemen of wealth and station in Eng land, recently dead, ack now l e d g i ng i n f u l some terms t h e 1 receipt of former bounty, and asking for a M. or 10/. note to enable" E." to procure articles of fiat. &c., which the prison rules deny him. He requests the let:er containing the Bask of England note may be addressed to the physi cian of the institution, who has been very kind to hint. In some cases the trap has been successful. Near surviving relatives, knowing their recently deceased husband, father, or brother, to have been a benevolent man, have thought it a pious dirty to carry out what would have been his own wishes had he lived, and have sent a bank note. In many other cases suspicions being awakened, the relative into whose hand. E.'s letter to the deceased came, has writ ten to the supposed physician for further informa tion, and frequently received a reply, in a diflvrent handwriting, and signed by the " doctor," speaking of his pour patient as exemplary in conduct, but as de dining to allow his name to be known, as his benefactor is dead. -- The Manchester Guardian of yesterday states that it baa now received, through the kindness of Mr. J.ffia Chadwick, of Broadfielth Rochdale, a great taus of letters, oocurying several hours barely to glance through, and all containing evidence of the same artful trick, practised during the last three years lay the same designing villain. The earliest dates we have seen on any of the letters of * E." are of May, 1850; the most recent are or April, 18.53; so that during three years within a month, the rascal has been scribbling these letters, to deceased persons in various parts of England, and in one or two cases in Ireland—being every now sod then successful in getting a remittance from some one who has been disarmed of suspicion by the writer's appeal to the well-known benevolence of a relative and friend recently lost. Mr. John Chadwick hes received bundles of letters from E." and his doctor " from per sons in all ranks of society, with details of the frauds com mitted on these parties, as one sufferer expresses it "at a time when the minds of surviving relatives are most inca pable of deliberation or sound judgment." The first letter thet "E." addressed to any deceased person in this country is from the same stereotype form, always alike in substance, frequently the same in words, and the handwriting is in variably the same. The swindler is accomplished in his vocation ; he knows his business well. By careful perusal of English papers, or from other sources, he gleans sum cient Information in some cases to enable him to allude to the country house or sea side sojourn of the deceased for some period previous to his death, as a fact familiar to him self ; and as he often dates his first letter within a few days only of the death of the dectuest to whom it is addressed, the difference between its internal date sad that of the post mark of the American town where it is posted escapism de tection, survivors are thrown off their guard. If no answer is made to his first letter, " E." sometimes ventures on a second, complaining of the silence of his generous friend : or, as the case may be, assumes that his first letter, or the answer to it, must have miscarried. If his letter falls into tbs bands of some kind person, who wishes to know something more about him, with a view to more substantial help, E." in reply laments the announced death of his only friend aced tot nefactor ; takes care to allude to an advance of mosey (sometimes 201., sometimes more), which he will surely repay when he has got out of this " konible " Ame rican gaol, " if ever he live to return to his dear native coun try and his noble parents;" but he declines to bring shame upon them by revealing his name. He artfully avoids making a second request for money ; but this second jitter is usually inclosed in one from " the doctor," whose cone- Iterative evidence as to his penitence, good conduct, and dis tressing condition often succeeds in extracting the remit tance of a hank-note. In one case," E.'s" first letter coming to the hands of a bereaved widow, whose only happiness left was to honour her husband's name, and to carry his bene volence to a successful issue," she sent a remittance; and E." in acknowledging its receipt, fears she has put herself to inconvenience to spare him the money, assures her he has difficulty in accepting it from her, but the "doctor" in sists on the propriety of his keeping it ; therefore with tears and prayers and blessings oc the lady, he commends her to heaven tor consolation in her bereavement. The doctor backs this with a letter from himself; and the result is that the benevolent lady transmitted a sewed bank note of 101., which "/V duly acknowledges, declares it will set him at liberty ; says be is "so excited that he hardly knows what he writes," but he will "surely return to his home; kneel at her feet and bless her." He lives "oney to repay all he owes to her," and the 301. he was previously indebted to her husband, die. Then the doctor writes again to the t fleet that he had received that morning from the governor "our poor young friend's pardon ;" that she doctor's wife should nurse him • week previous to his voyage, and that in three weeks or a month be will be in England; the doctor will himself see him on board, and he prays the lady to write after she has seen "the poor young gentleman," as the doctor takes great interest in him and wishes to know that he has arrived safe and is doing well. In due time the lady receives another letter from "E," stating that he had only arrived in London from Liverpool that morning, and that he should leave for home that night; that the voyage has fatigued him much, but he truce on reaching home and "being clasped in the fond embrace of his dearest parent'," will do much to revive him. In three weeks he purposes to see his benefactress, when all ;pecu niary kindnesses shall be repaid ; but the debt of gratitude never can be repaid. Would that his noble benefactor were also alive that he might lee he was not altogether unworthy of his goodness. He has a letter for the lady from the good doctor, which he will personally deliver, &c. It need scarcely be added that from the date of his London letter (April 6, 1853) to the present time " B." has never made his 9 1 , ar , ° °'. • . Mr. Chadwick observes that strange as these letters may appear, the same story, with very slight variations, has been palmed on many other parties, at data commencing in 1849, and continuing to April or May last. He has observed in the numerous letters of " E." and " the doctor," forwarded to him by parties duped or sought to be duped by the swinaler, that with very few exceptions the post mark on the letters is " Baltimore," though within, the letters are dated from a dozen other places. The numerous and Ingenious changes in the doctor's name, betray the extent to which the fraud is carried on. The letters written by the same hand, and dated is Zeeland, have the English post mark ; one letter had that of Havre de-Grace. This may be readily accounted for, as one part of the rogue's system must be, tossed letters by any individual sailing from the United States to be posted in Europe. Sometimes these are marked " Per favour of Captain Johnson." We think a careful perusal of the bulky pile of letters before us, would lead any unprejudiced mind to the conclusion at which Mr. Chadw ick has arrived, and at which we formerly hinted, that the rascal is domiciled in Baltimore, and that various posteofiloes In the United States have been requested by him to send letters arriving " from Europe" to his address in their towns, forward to Balti more; sometimes to Washington. The scheme has been so far systematised, that it only requires mu person to carry it on ; bat he must keep &regular entry of the parties to whom he sends letting, the place from which they are dated, the name of the doctor, and other particulars, es that he may keep up several stories to a many English correspondents, without confusing names, dates, and plum. Applications having bun made from this country to the British consul at Baltimore, he writes (6th Deumher, 1851) that be had been familiar with the operations of " E." for upwards of a year, having during that period received va rious letters from England, requesting him to find out and relieve the sufferer, if worthy. The consul in the course of his inquiries finds no inch prisoner ; but, after searching investigation through the peatoifflue does ascertain that a certain " Dr. Bates, of Easton, Mary land, can imitate any one's signature ;" and writes la different handwritings to the postmaster', requesting letters to be forwarded (to the doctor as named) to Annapolis, Baltimore, Washington, or elsewhere, whence he again enters them to be transmitted to some other place, so as to avoid detection. The consul pronounces him a " consummate scoundrel." Many parties forwarding the letterset "E" to Mr. Chad wick, have expressed a wish that their names should not appear, and we have therefore forborne to publish any. But we have been at the trouble to prepare a list giving the dates of the letters of E., the various names and addresses of the " goad doctor," &c., which the American papers would do well to circulate, tutted all the putouts re might be a little on the alert, and with the aid of the police, might ultimately catch this accomplished swindler. Names and addresses of " E.'s " good doctor—Bates, Samuel, gaol physician, Easton, Maryland; Bates, Samuel T., Easton, Maryland; Can Dr., Easton, Maryland; Em berton, Robert, Elkton, Maryland ; Ellis, Miles H. Easton, Northampton County ; Grant, F. H., Columbia, Lancester County, Pennsylvania; Halstead, B. 8., Dover, Delaware ; Harper, Miles, Baltimore; Harper, Niles, Baltimore; Hawley, F. H , Chester, Peonsylvania ; •Henderson, Thomas, New Brunswick, New Jersey ; Ludlow, Edmund, Camden, New Jersey ; Moreland, G. W., Portsmouth, Vir ginia; Poole, P. W., Reading., Berke County, Penney'. vault; Randall, Robert, Burlington, New Jersey; Rod man, Samuel, Washington, Delaware County ; Walton, S. R., Norrinowe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. As to the dates at which the "good doctor" was referred to in the letters of " E," by one or other of the shove names, it may be noteworthy that they wen in the following order 1850. Early, Dr. Carr ; May, Dr. Henderson; Get., Dr. Niles Harper. 1861. Feb., Dr. Emberton; Feb , Dr. Bates; Aug. and Oat., Dr. Ludlow; Oct., Dr. Hawley ; Oct , Dr. Randall. 1862. Jan., Dr. Rodman; Sept., Dr. Halstead; Sept., Dr. Moreland; Nov., Dr. Grant; Dec., Dr. Walton. 1853. April, Dr. Miles H. Ellis; May, Dr. Poole; July, Dr. Poole. There is yet another thing which Is shown by a rough analysis of the dates. On May 20, 1850, the swindler dated two letters, New Brunswick, New Jersey, which were posted at New York, for two deceased gentlemen in different parts of England; referring both to Dr. Thomas Henderson. About October 6, 1860, three letters, dated Gaol Hospital, Hanover County, were sent to different deceased persons in England, all referring to Dr. Niles Harper. %Vs have only met with one letter of February 4, 1851, referring to Dr. Embertost ; but on the 12th of that month "E." wrote another, referring to Dr. Bates. On the 7th August, 1851,1 he wrote giving " the good doctor's" name, Dr. Ludlow, and another Litter to a different party in England on the ' 14th October, naming Dr. Ludlow. In that month of October, he had rime "good doctors" for different CU,- respoodents—the one already named; Dr. Hawley, in two letters of October 14, and another of October 21; and Dr. Randall, in four letters of October 23 and 24, and thereabouts. Oa the 28th J weary, 1852, he dated two letters, both naming Dr. nommen. Some of his iterary productions during the next few mouths have hitherto escaped publicity ; but in September, 1862, he bad two doctors, viz., Dr. Halstead oa the Bth, Dr. Moreland on the 18th. Oa the 4th November be tames Dr. Grant. la letters dated December 6th pad 10th, to two deceased gentlemen in England, he names Dr. Walton. In April, 1853, in two letters dated the 25th, and two more of the 28th of that month, all four to deceased "dear and honoured benefactors," he names Dr. Miles H. Ellis. In three letters (to u many benefactnys) of May 2, 18, and 23, 1853, Dr. Poole is his ltenerolenT friend ; and again Dr. Pools serves him in • letter dated July 6, 1853, to a de ceased gentleman in the immediate neighbourhood of Man chester. From this synopsis we infer that he issues a batch of letters about the same time to different persons; and conducts these several correspondences to a close frequently resulting in remittances, before he flies more of these "gaol hospital kites," for his "honoured benefactors" in England. We will only add that it is scarcely creditable to the vigi lance and dexterity of the police in the United States, espe cially to that of Baltimore, that this rascal has so long escaped detection. UNIVERSITY AND CLERIC-4L. OXFORD, Ocr. 19.-PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE.- The Clinical Professor of Medicine, Dr. Ogle, proposes to commence his next course of instruction at the Radcliffe Infirmary, at 1 o'clock on Tuesday, Nov. 1. Those students of medicine (nou-academics) who desire to attend these lectures, will be required to exhibit the writtent consent of the parties to whom their services as pupils are legally due. All farther information may be obtained by inquiry of the secretary of the infirmary any morning between the hours of 11 and 1. The Regius Professor of Physic (Dr. Ogle) propeets tv commerce a course of lectures on anatomy and rb)- biology on Monday, the 31st inst., at 2 o'clock. Gentlemen who desire to attend these lectures are requested to call on the professor at his residence on or before the 29th inst. UNIVEUSITY DEHATIMO SOCIIITY.—The first meeting in this term of the Vuiversity Debating Society will be held to•morrew evening, when the following question will be introduced by Mr. W. F. Wilberforce, of University Col lege : " That the tendency of English policy doting the last twenty-five years has been bad." CAMBRIDGE. Ocr. 19.—At a congregation holden this day the following degrees were conferred:—M.A.— Charles Schreiber, Trinity College ; Lawrence John Par sons, St. John's College; Ebenezer William Lomax, tor pus Christi College. L.L.B.—Henry Hammond, Clare Hall. &A.—Henry Richard Hathway, Queen's College. Pro Proctor.—Andrew Long, M.A., of King's College, and John Clark, M.A., of Queen's College were appointed pro proctors. The Senate has appointed Dr. Paget Examiner for Medi. cal Degrees, and Mr. Mould of C. C. College, and Mr. Hort of Trinity College, Examiners for the Le Bas Price for the coming year. The Woodwardian Professor is to commence his course of Geological Lectures on Friday, October 28. The lectures are to be given five days a week in the Geological Musuem, till the end of the course. The Lowndean Professor of Astronomy is to begin a course of lectures on Astronomy, on Thursday, the 27th inst. to be continued daily. UNIVERSITY FUR WALES.-A movement was com menced a short time ago for the purpose of establishing a university in Wales, and petitions for this object were drawn up by the Anglo-Welsh clergy, in which it was urged that a strong necessity existed fur the establishm sit of a university at which the natives of the principality might receive a liberal education in all the different branches of literature, without incurring, to many of them, the heavy expense of travelling to distant parts of the kingdom to obtain it. It is now proposed that, under the title of " University of Wales,' the College of St. David at Lem peter, the Llsndovery Institution, the Brecon College, and the endowed grammar schools of the principality, sh all all be united and incorporated ; students from all the above to be admis.ible fur degrees in arts and divinity. The Rev. C. Abbott, to the Stipendiary Curacy of St. Paul's Church, Stayley-bridge, Cheshire. The Rev. S. W. Andrews, M.A., to the Rectory of Clazby, near Horncastle ; patron, the Hon. H. %twee. The Rev. J. Armstrong, to the Curacy of Abington, Limerick. The Rev. S. Baker, M.A , to the Vicarage of Clifton; upon-Tease, Worcestershire ; patron, Sir J. E. Winning ton, Bart. The Rev. C. C. Barnard, M.A , to the Rectory of Ruck land, with the Rectory of Farforth and the Vicarage of Maiden-Weil annex d, near Louth; patron, the Earl of Yarborough. The Rev. F. J. Been, to the Curacy of Toomos, Ros common. The Rev. J. Edwards, late of the ill-fared Dauntless, to be Chaplets to the Ajax flag-ship for Queenstown. The Rev. IL J. Fyno, to the Curacy of Elphin, Roe c.ntrnon. The Rev. H. Fry, to the Curacy of Kilkeevan, Rae common. The Rev. N. M. Germon, 8.A., to the Curacy of Bishop's Hull, Somerset, — The ltev. C. J. Le Oet, 8.A., of Exeter College, to be one of the Chaplains at Magdalen College, Oxford. The Rev. J. Gumley, to the Curacy of Oran, Roscommon. The ttev. W. T. Harte, to the Curacy of Cricklade, Tho Rev. J. Hemphill, to the Curacy of Templetuchy, county Tipperary. The Rev. W. Holderness, M.A., to be Chaplain of the Convict Prison Establishment at Portland. The Rev. F. W. Kittermaster, M.A., to the Curacy and Leeturesuip of St. Paul's Church, Lisson-grove ; patron, the Rev. H. Davis. to the :Living of Levertoo, near Boston. The Rev. B. H. Puckle, to the Rectory of Graff ham, Hunts; patron, Lady Olivia Bernard Sparrow. The Rev. R. P. Powell, to the Curacy of Hillooly, Tip perary. The Rev. G. Prcthero, M.A., late Vicar of ellton-npen- Teme, to the Curacy of Whippingham, Isle of Wight, and to the Chaplaincy of the Royal Establishment at Osborne house. _ _ The Rev. H. T. Ridley, to the Assistant Curacy of St. James's, beim:port. The Res. D. Rea land, to the Curacy of St. Dogmael's, Pembrokeshire. The Rev. F. Swire, 8.A., Curate of Stroud, Gloucester , shire, to the Rectory of Liston, Notts. The Rev. F. R. Traill, M.A., Incumbent of Trinity Episcopal Chapel, Haddington, N. 8., to be Domestic Chap • lain to the EMI of Wemyss and March. The Rev. F. Trench, to the Rectory of Worlingwerth, with Southelt annexed, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. Patron, Lord Henniker. _ . _ the Rea. G. W. Weldon, B.A. to the Curacy of St. Stephen the hiartyr, St. John ' s -wood. The Rev. R. Wcst, 81. A., to the Rectory of Pett, near Hastings Sussex. The Rev. H. Wyndham, S.C.L., to the Coney of Bur. bap, Wilts. 1t... F. H. Whitfield, to the Curacy of Horetown, Wen (Ord. Itev. W. F. Young, to the Curacy of Ballyibteban and Ern, Tipperary. VACANCIES. The following presentations have become vacant by the removal or death of the Incumbents :—The Vicarage of Tidenham, near Chepstow, by the promotion of the Rev. John Armstrong, M.A. to the Bishopric of Graham's 'Town, South Africa ; value, 5001. a year ; patron, Mr. D. H. D. Burr. The Vicarage of Rumney, near Cardiff ; value, 1001. a year; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The Vicarage of Barnby-in the-Willows, near Newark ; value, 2001. a year ; patron, the Chapter of South well Collegiate Church. The Rectory of North Hurst, Devon ; as also the Mastership of St. Mary Magdalen's Hospital. Bath. The Incumbency of St. Peter's, Bishops worth, Bedminster, by the resignation of the Rev. H. Brancker ; patron, Rev. H. 0. Eland. The Rectory of Milford, near Chester, by the resignation of the Rev. F. Brandt; value, 3501. a year; patron, the Marquis of West minstet. The R ectory of Itiugwould, .near Deal, value 3601. a year ; patrons, the representatives of the late In cumbent. NAVAL. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 19.—APPOINTMENTS.—Chap lain J. P. Giver, to Minden. Paymaster G. A. Lance, to Tiger. J. F. Johnson confirmed to rank of Surgeon. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 19.—The Leopard, 12, paddle frigate, Captain G. Gifford, is ordered to SAO to-morrow from Spithead for Cork, there to embark 13 different drafts of regiments for conveyance to the Mediterraneen. They will number about 400 men, women and children, exclusive of 26 officers and one lady. The Dauntless, 24 screw. frigate, was taken into the sea basin to•day. The Lucifer, steam-vessel, arrived to-day from Plymouth. The Dili• gence, transport, wan taken out of dock to-day. DEYONPORT, OCT. 19.—The Queen, Capt. Michel, is still is the Sound; she bas drawn her chute and received her powder. 11 is reported she is to take out troops. The Lucifer, steamer, left yesterday with supernumeraries fur Portsmouth. The St. George, 120, ordinary guardship, Capt. J. Kingcomr, will be paid off on tho 31st, and re• commissioned on the following day. The Nautilus, 10, Lieut.-Commander S. Dolling, sailed on Wednesday, for the exercise of the naval apprentices, and returned the same day. Tue Ajax, 58 (screw), Capt. Warden, at this port, will sail in a few days for Queenstown, to take the tt.ig of Rear-Admiral Sir W. F. Carroll, K.C.B. The President, 50, Captain Burridge, at this port, is about 80 men short of Ler complement. The Desperate, b ("crew), Captain Chambers, will be paid wages at this port to-hay (Wednesday). Her mast was put on board oa Friday, and she is now ready to go out of har bour. The Valorous, 16 (paddle), Captain Buckle, was paid wages at this pert on Monday. The M:.gitienne, 16 (paddle), Capt. Fisher, arrived here on Sunday from Ports mouth. Her crew will be paid wages to-day (Wednesday). Capt. Sir Thomas Maitlaad, of the Agamemnon, 91 (screw), was ou Monday evening summoned to the Admiralty by electric message. It is rumoured Sir Thomas is to the aew Comptroller of Coast Guard. The Leander, 50, Capt. King, on her way to Malta, arrived at Lislym from this port, on the 9th inst., and remained on the 10th. The „Deegan, lighter, sailed with stores for Queenstown on Sun day. The James Watt, 90, was taken out of duck on Mon day, and placed alongside the ji tty. The foremast of the .Imoerieuse is complete, and will be put on ho.ird this day (Wednesday). The f aemast of the Agamemnon is also re paired, and will be put in on Thursday. Mr. John Ward, the boatswain of the Desperate, who lately saved the lite of a ,canan carried away wit" the fore , topmast of that ship, in a gale off the east of Ireland, and who on nine former occasions has been instrumental in saving the lives of his fellow creatures, has had Lie citations honourably acknowledged by the committee of the Royal thepila eue Soci e ty,dna onwaetea courage meeting in a o n f l. d h t h e h o u l ll ' ii h O a : n Board Blowin g ng again the re s olution 21d displayed l l s t i e : d unanimouslyb;i Thatr. John Ward, boatswain of the Desperate, on the 9th dope., 1853, in having jumped overboard to the resese of a seaman who was carried away with the foritepmast, when blowing strong at sea, off Ireland, and whcse life he saved, calls forth the lively admiration of this committee, and justly entitles ►im to its sincere thanks, inscribed on vellum (he having formerly been adjudged the society's *Hilt , medal) which are hereby awarded him." The testimonial was presented to the gallant fellow on the quarter-deck of the Dcaperate, in the pre.ence of the crew. TILE CHOLERA. ~-_ (From the General to;r4 of flealth, Oct. 19.) METROPOLIS. Mr. Hall, of the Poor-law Board, and Dr. Milroy, from the General Board of Health, had interviews on Tuesday with the boards of guardians of Ken sington and of Fulham. Upon the advice of these gentlemen the guardians in both inwances devolved the very responsible duties of sanitary inspection in the different districts of their parishes upon their medical officers,who are required at the same time to maintain a vigilant surveillance over the health of the inhabitants in all the suspected localities. At both meetings, but more especially at Fulham. loud complaint was made of the disgraceful state of lung open ditches as left by the Commissioners of Sewers, and indeed of the utterly defective sewerage through out the district. In the Notting-hill portion of Kensington parish there still exist that slough of abominations known as "the Po series;" things are worse now than in 1848.49, when loud complaints were made by ail the respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood of the horrible condition of the locality, and when the medical officer of the di,trict proved that the ratio of mortality among the residents exceeded that of almost any part of England. No one who has vi, , ted the spot where swine and human beings are suffered to remain immersed together in filth, can %ender at such a result. There is a general opinion prevalent that the Ken sington Board of Guardians might have done much more than has been done to correct this monster nui sance, and it has oven been alleged that some of the guardians are owners of the property in " the Pot teries." Whether this be the fact or not, it is ear nestly to be hoped that without a day's delay prompt and energetic measures will be taken by the hoard for the removal of so foul a disgrace of their parish. A case of cholera has occurred within the last few days at Kensington, in the very same room where the first fatal case occurred in 1849. There have also been two fatal cases in St. George's-in-the-East. From reports of the superintendents of the 1/, K, L, M, It, S, and V divisions of police, forwarded this day to the General Board of Health by direction of the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police, it appears that between the lath inst. and the 18th there have been 27 cases of cholera, resulting in 13 deaths. In six cases death ensued within 24 hours of the attack. In one instance it is remarked by the superinten dent that "the smell from the premises in Green street was so bad all last week that it was impossible to have the windows of this house (where the death occurred) open for ordinary ventilation." The patient was " in perfect health up to the time of the attack." GERMAN EMIGRANTS' LODGING -HOUSE, GLASS HOUSE-YARD, ST. MARY'S, WHITECHAPEL.—During the last few days several cases of cholera have occurred at this dep4t for the Germans em grating from Germany to America. Three have leen re moved to the German, three to St. Thomas's, and one to the London Hospitals. The disease appears to have been brought over from Holland by the emigrants, as in some of the patients it app eare d even on b oard the Rotterdam steamboat, and in others shortly after their lauding at St. Catherine's wharf, in Lower East Smithfield. The medical officer attending the sick in this lodging-house states that he considers the accommodation supplied in the establishment during the short stay of the emigrants in London as faultless, that constant attention is paid to cleanliness in every respect, and that any sugges tion that can promote the comfort and health of the emigrants is immediately carried out, regardless of expense, by the proprietor. LIVERPOOL. Since the 14th inst. these have been five new cases of cholera and two deaths; of those attacked three were Germans, and two Irish. 'I he latter and one of the former were emigrants ; another had arrived 'in Liverpool, vii Hull, a fortnight before. The third was the keeper of a large German lodging-house, in which several cases of cholera had previously occured. The deaths were among the German eon grants formerly reported. NHWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. October 18—Cholera, 6 • diarrhoea, 3. The total number of deaths from Cholera and diarrhoea in Newcastle during the present outbreak has been 1,314. In the same period—viz., the first 48 days— during the prevalence of epidemic cholera in 1831-2, the number of deaths was 291. DABLINGTON.—heath—Oct. 17. Diarrhcea, 1. GATESHEAD lisioN.—lleaths—Oct. 17. Cholera, 3 ;l 4arrhcea, 1. __ GATESIIEAD (HEWORTH Disnmv).—Deatha— Oct. 18. Cholera, 3. Sot ril SHIELDS UNlON.—Deaths—Oct. 13 and 15. Cholera, 2; Diarrhcca 2. HEMEL HEMPSTEAD.—Leath—Oct.I7. Cholera, 1. HowD6B.--Deatha—Oct. 16. Cholera, 2. CUXTON, NEAR ROCHEaTER..—DeMIas—Oct. 16 and 17. Cholera 2. MARYPORT.—The report from this place states that there' have beeu about 10 deaths in 10 or 14 days. DANZIG.—The recent visitation of cholera in this city and neighbourhood has been of a wilder charac ter than on former occasions. _ The entire number of met from its commence ment, 13th of July to the Bth of October, 1853, are reported to have been—civilians : 760 attacked, 495 deaths, 195 recovered; military: 140 attached, 60 deaths, 69 recovered. Thero were still under nudi cal care at the date of the latest despatches, 61 persons. The College of Physicians hare just spoken out upon cholera, as follows : Royal College of Physicians, Oct. Id. The Cholera COmmittee of the Royal College of Physi cians have received from various quarters applications for some plain directions calculated to be of service to the public during the prevalence of epidemic cholera, when medical advice may not be immediately at band, and odors such advice can possibly be obtained. For this reason the committee deem it right to offer to the public some ins:rue , t ions, which on accoust of an extended notification" having been issued by the •Gesicral Board of Health, on the 20th of September, 1863, may be brief; and are in.uo case intended either to supersede the necessity of having recourse, as speedily as passible, to further medical assistance, or to ira -Isuse any authoritative restriction on medical practitioners. Daring the prevalence of cholera, — 1. No degree of looseness of the bowels should be neg lected for a single hour. Medical advice. should be at once sought when the looseness begins; and, previous to the arrival of a medical attendant, some of the medicines, at other times used fur checking diarrhass, should be taken, 'for example, the chalk mixture, the compound cinnamon powder, or .the compound chalk powder-with opium, in doses of from 20 to 40 grains for an adult. 2. No 'alias- aperients or drastic purgatives should be taken without the advice of a medic: I man. 3. Intemperance in eating or drinking is highly dan gerous. But the moderate use of vegetable us well as animal food may be recommended ; midi in general, such a plan of diet u each individual has found by experience to be most conducive to his health. For any considerable change in the diet to which a versos has been aceusttmed, is seldom advisable during the prevalence of an epidi niic. 4. Debility, exhaustion, and exposure to damp, render the poor especially *object to the violence of the d,seaae. The committee urge upon the rich, the necessity of supply ing those in need with food, fuel, arid clothing. a. 'file extrume importance of removing or couatorattini sit impurities, whether in the air, water, or soil, a- 7 Yen tilatien, cleanliness, and the tree use of chloride of lime, or chloride of zinc, car.not be too strongly insisted upon. Lastly, since the reports mode tithe College of Physician* show that of the per,ons who were eager d about the sick :in the last epidemic. the le-ember of those who were attacked !by the disease was, iu propertien, exceedingly soul., the 'fear of infection may be practically disregarded. The cowl - duce lorbear to dwoll upon the extreme import 'awe of providing medical attendants at dispeuserie• ter the 'trent:neat of the &aerie:se among the poor; et or.dit sing in every, district affected op cholera se)iet, is called tile aye. tell of Acme-to-how visitation, and of establishing tempo- Jar, I.dspitala for the recepti m et Italie : tits who cennut be (properly treated at their own homes; .§4couse these men. cures hove been strongly and properly thircelin the ' No tificetieb Plttilidatil by the General Board of Health. •--- GLOUCESTER (\Vr.usesnev), A fatal cue of cholera h u occitrzed lure, and lios crustal oreatcomitarnatioa. Tae victim. is Mrs. Patin?, the Scifc cr a highly respretelny druc2ist,.Lormetly a member of the t. ten gunnel]. She went to London on Soturday. and stayed tul .Mindsy, in • house in Southmark, in which. neighbourhood. sgverii deaths trunt cholera hod occurred. While journoying.to Gloucester on Mondry eventuo she more than aim mentioned this fact, which had evidently taken a.strong hold on her mind,and• pn-ZaasOff._ she was seized with symptoms of the disease an 6041b,s6oChOnal. 60' - (2