The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-28 00:00:00

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AFREAS SCIENTIFiC FAPEDITIONS.—We regret
much to have to state, that Dr. Ovi rwvg, t! c companion
of Dr. Barth, in his journey into central Africa, has died
at Kotu, south-west of and near to Lake Tchad, or Chad,
from the effects of a slow fever. He was only twenty-
seven years of age. The loss is a great one, under the
circumstances. Government has equipped 1)r. Vogel, the
astronomical assistant at Mr. Bishop's, as astronomer and
botanist, with two uppers and miners, to reinforce this
expedition. We believe they sailed on the 20th or 21st.
Dr. Barth has sent over, among other thing•, a compre-
hensive map of the route to Lake 'Fenzel, and of
the countries surrounding it, composed en a scale
of an inch to the degree, which Mr. Petermann.
who Speaks in the highest terms of it, is pre-
paring for publication. Many rivers flow into the lake,
but none out of it ; so that it as not, as has been supposed,
one of the sources of the Nile. The wlicle country west
and east, towards the Niger and the Nile, is for the most
part highly cultivated, and comparatively densely popu-
lated. Towns and villages abound on all sides. We have
intelligence from the East, that liormucl 1121164 M has ar-
rived at Nimrod, where he has commenced his excovations
with success. The French are hard at work, and saw they
have found the chariot of Aseltur himself. lioyunjik only
affords as yet clay tablets used as money and for petitions.
The Turks have begun to work at the mound of Nabbi
Yunus, or the prophet Jonah, where, from relirious ecru-
pies, they will not let Europeans excavate. The country
around is in a very disturbed state, some of the Mesopota-
mian Arabs being in a slate of insurrection.—Tailes's Lois-
donWeck.ly Paper.

THE CORNWALL 11.m.wAT.—The fourteenth half-
yearly meeting of the sharehalers in the Cornwall Rail-
way Company, was held is the Town Hall, Truro, on Sa-
turday. The attendance of shareholders wan more
than usually numerous. The chair was talie a by Michael
Williams, Esq., the chairman of the board of directors. The
secretary having read the reports, the chairman said since
he had the pleasure of meeting them at the last I:air-yearly
meting their works had proceeded but slowly, in conse-
quence n( the inclement eta eof the weather. As far as the
contracts were contented, it. y bud made, as to a large
portion of the line, considerahle progress ; they had made a
contract for the construction of the bridge at S,itash, and
the hoe thence to the Plymouth Station, at pri, ca within
the estimates ol Mr. Brunel, their engineer; and they were
now making arrangements with the South Devon Company
for station accommodation at Plymouth. After some other
ohservatioes, the chairman concluLd by moving the adop-
tion of the reports of the directors and of the engineer, and
the statement of accounts, which was carried unanimously.
After disposing of the remaing routine business the meeting
separated.
LAssCLlit3WwTasMAcNom.—mli"tr,ed
regret
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the Rev. Mr. Fisher, Vicar of Abbotskerswell, on William
Creed, Esq , of that parish, on Thursday afternoon, on the
public highway. It appears that some conversation took
ellee between the reverend gentleman and Mr. Creed, near
the rc.idence of the I:tter g,ntleinan, and. on parting, Mr.
F.-her struck, with a heavy mounted walking stick, several
very vio:ent blows on the head and face of Mr. Creed, which
would have felled him to the ground but for the support of
a tree which was grasped by the assailed party as he was
on the point of falling. The worthy gentleman now lies in
a precarious state from severe wounds in the head. The
village, hitherto one of the most peaceful in the county, is
in a state of great excitement, owing to the high estimation
in who li the family of the assaulted gentleman is held.—
Western Time.