The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-16 00:00:00

TO TUE IDITOI of TIII LIPIUMS.

SIR, —Will you allow use, in reply to nturieroua
inquiries, to state, in very few words, the progress and
present position of this undertaking.
In answer to the application fur a survey of the seas and
coasts on the route of the proposed telegraph made by the
deputation whirls waited on Lord Palmerston in May last,
the following letter has been received from the Secretary of
the Admiralty :
"Admiralty, June 6, IMO.
" Gentlemen,—ln reply to your letter of this date re-
questing to be informed what assistance her Majesty's go-
vernmeat have decided to give in surveying the proposed
route fur telegraphic communication fwith America, rid
the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland, I am commanded
by nay Lords Commissionen of the Admiralty to acquaint
you that Lind Pahnarstou was informed that my lords
would fake immediate steps to prepare one 'teem vessel
for the of obtaining deep sea soundings on the
line of telegraphic communication, whist' they
consider will be advantageous upon general grounds, as well
aster the advantage of any company which may heitufter
be prepared to establish such communication, with the
continent of America by the mute in question ; but their
loolships are not prepared, nor are the nieuns at present
available, to enable them to undertake a detailed survey of
the west. of the proposed route.--I sass, etc.,
ittigned) " W. O. RowAsim."
It is understood that the wending' referred to in this
letter will embrace the aces between Seothend mid the
Faroe Isles, Iceland, Greenland, sad Hamilton's Islet, on
the Labrador Cond. The expedition will also, ou its re-
tails, take a line of mouldings fifty miles south of the out-
ward voyage. The steamer Bulldog, under the command
of Sir Leopold SlVlintock, has been ordered fur this ser-
vice, and will sail on the 90th Inst.
To complete the survey of the whole route the steam-
yacht Fox has been purchased, and Captain Allen Young,
of Arctic reputation, engaged to proceed in command of her,
to survey the coasts where the cables will be laid. Ex-
parknoed gentlemen will also accompany the expedition to
determine the land route. The Fox will sail about the Ist
Jnly next from Southampton.-1 am, &c.,
6, Old Jewry, Jane 16, 1800. WM. BEVAN.

ROYAL COLLIOI 07 SURGEONS. —The following
members of the college having been elected Fellows ut pre-
vious meetings of the oouucii were admitted as such on the
14th lust., via.: Beaus. William Hobbs, Royal Navy,
diploma of membership dated June 10,1828 ; Henry Pearson,
Ely, Jan. 22, 1841; Jahn Harry Her longs, 40.12., deputy
inspedorieseral, Army, July 19, 1841 • John
M.D. Stanley-terrace, Notting hill, August 27, 1841 ;
Charles (]odium, Bans* Herta, Deo. 18, 1840 ; Jolui
Ram-
say Brsh, M.D. Army, May 16, 1840; Heary Charles
Stewart, North Bank, BegmPalark, July 9, 1841 ;
William Edward Haddelay, Newports F.sitTVibiretbt•• /7
1811,

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MEDICAL APPOINTMENT& —The Fellow& of the
Royal Collage of Physicians have appointed Dr. Burrows to
he their representative in the General Council of Medical
Education and Registration, in the vacancy occasioned by
the retirement of Dr. Watson. Dr. Bader, of the Ophthal.
mks Hospital, has been elected twoondassistant in the
Hunterian Museum, vice Dr. Marie, resigned. Mr. E. C.
Hulme has been appointed full surgeon to the Central
Landon Cydithalmic HospitaL
TIM LIVERPOOL LAW SOCIETY AND THE LOCAL
MAOINTRATUt—The Law Society of Liverpool which has
been for some time, but unsuccessfully., agitating for the
appointment of &second atipeudiary magistrate held a meet-
ing yesterday, at which it was resolved to obtain if possible
• douse in I future act enabling attorneys of the society to
have cases which they. believe require a legal knowledge
heard by • stipendiary instead of a lay magistrate. At the
same meeting the society resolved to pa eat a petition
against the 514th section of the New Bsnlmtptcy MR which
prohibits attorneys from appearing as advocates in bank-
ruptcy courts.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZER AT Till LIVERPOOL
COMMUTE lifsTlTCTloN.—Yesterday (Friday) it was stated
at the Liverpool Collegiate Institution after the distribution
of prises, that the institution bad been remarkably suc-
cessful with its candidates for the local university exami-
nation prices, fourteen out of the twenty -one competitors
having °Mottled honours. It was also stated that a system
of military drill had been established in the school, and
that g.ey uniforms, with facing, differing in accordance
with the classes to which the boys were attached, had been
introduced.
SIRIOUS CHARGE OF FORORItY BY A BIRMINOHAig
?drauriatiT.-- Mr. John Plimley Edwaals, merchant, who
absconded, and was apprehended under • Secretary of State's
warrant at Stockholm on the 2nd inst., was yesterday (Fri.
day) brought before the Birmingham magistrates, charged
with the above offence. Mr. Alotterani of the Oxford Cdr
cult, instructed by Messrs. Hodgson and Allen, prosecuted ;
sail Mr. John Smith defeueled. The prisoner, whose trans-
actions were very large. had dealings with Messrs. Hull, of
Tunstall, and ou the liOth of April paid to Mr. Lyndon (Mr.
Bull'. representative) a bill purporting to be drawn by J.
Roe, of Birmingham, moo H. Edwards, of Biruung
ham. The bill was endorsed by J. Roe and J. P..
Edwards. Mr. Cooper and Mr. Beaumont, clerks to
the prisoner, proved the handarnting of the signa-
ture, J. P. Edwards, to be that of the prisoner,
but neither would express any belief that the name, J. Roe,
was the prisoner's handwriting, though the charaotra was
very like. Mr. J. Roe, of West Bromwich, his boa, and
two Mr. J. Roe's' of Birmingham, denied the signature. Polio,-
constable Tends said he had made ill It.irio.a, aad could had
no person of the name of J. Roe in ham. Henry
Edwards, the prieoner's father, proved his own and his son's
signatans, but did not know who the J. Roe was, The bill
was an accommodation and not • trade transiictioo. The
prisoner was committed to the wises ; as also upon another
charge of defrauding Measrs.lloyd, the bankers, of 1,000 i.,
by man of two hills of SON. each, purporting to be
sump by Edwin Fox and Co., of 21, St. Hebei s-place,
London. The bills were paid into Messrs. Lloyd's bank by
the priemer'e father, who received them from the prisoner.
A SMUT OF PAP= FOUR MILES LOBO.—A sheet
of tissue paper has bee. axlilhWag at Colyton Devocahire.
It mamma in length four miles, being 21.0011 feet tang,
sad is is besedth s feet 3 Inds's. The weight of it is but
19811 - lt was manufactured in twelve hours.
, dvertiseinest.l—HOLLoWAY'S Pill-it AND 0I1:T-
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alraehmt la their news, or ultimately cared Or Rime tee rar-
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easing medicaments. The pills rouse the stomach, re-
ths tow, stimulate the kidneys, and art gently on the
wet& As Mamma' rubbed over say part penetrates to
which it frees tnou all noxious anti irritat-
m "4,usurmg. c'nouta., b, the pay. expels thaw By these
rested the.siOas cleansed .4 all freckled. +l.b, and distigure•
meets, without driving them inwards or doing harm. It o won.
derhil how weak... low spirits, and (nervation gise eay to
vispeir and vivacity UMW n course of Holloway's medicinue,
which may be safely used at all tunes by both mum