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LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, I\ OVEMBEit 17, 1855,

NORFOLK EASTERN COUNTIES, and
EASTERN UNION RAILWAY 'COM-
PANIES.-(Arrangements with Reference to the Expenditure
of Money on Works. -Amendment of Acts.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament in the next session for- an
Act for making provision, with reference to the construction
of works authorised to be executed by the Norfolk Rail-
way Company, the Eastern Counties Railway Company,
and the Ea-tern Ulioir -Railway . Company; or - any or
either of them ; and for requiring or enabling the said
companies respectively from time to time to contribute
money out of their corporate funds in such proportions as
may be specified in the said intended act, or as may be mu-
tually agreed upon between them, towards the construction
of such works, and for enabling the said companies respec-
tively to make advances of money from time to time to each
other, for or towards the construction of such works, or to
set aside and appropriate to such purposes such part as may
from time to time be agreed upon of the nett revenues of the
said companies, or to guarantee the repayment of any prin-
cipal sums which from time to time have been or may be ex-
pended, raised, or advanced by any of the said companies for
the purposes of such works and the interest thereon.
And it is proposed by the said intended act to alter, amend,
extend, and enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the
several acts following, or some of them, that is to say, local
and personal acts, 6th and 7th Wm. IV., caps. 103 and 106,
Ist and 2d Vic., cap. 81, 2d and 3d Vic., caps. 77 and 78, 3d
Vic., cap. 52, 4th Vic., caps. 14 and 24, 4th and sth
Vic., cap. 42; 6th Vic., • cap. 28, 7th Vic., caps. 19, 20, and
' 35, 7th and Bth Vic., caps. 62 and 71, Sth and 9th Vie.,
caps. 85, 110, and 201, 9th Vic. cap. 52, 9th and 10th Vic.,
caps. 258, 356, 357, and 367, 10th and 11th Vic., caps. 92,
156,157, and 158, 15th Vic., caps. 30, 33, 51, 84, and 108, and
1 -ith and 17th Vic., caps. 87and 117, and 17th and 18th Vic.,
cap. 220, and of the several acts next hereinafter mentioned,
that is to say, local and personal acts sth Vic., cap. 82, 7th
Vic., caps. 4 and 15, Bth and 9th Vie., caps. 41, 45, and 154,
9th and 10th Vic., caps. 132 and 169, 10th and 11th Vic.,
caps. 64, 94, 98 and 99, 11th and 12th Vic., cap. 30, 15th
Vic., cap. 25, 17th and 18th Vic., caps. 130 and 180, and of
the several acts next hereinafter mentioned, that is to say,
local and personal acts, 7th and Bth Vic., cap. 85, Bth and
9th Vic., caps. 94 and 97. 9th Vic., cap. 53, 9 h and
10th V c.' caps. 76, 97, 106, and 280, 10th Vie., caps
11,- 18, 19, and 21, 10th and 11th Vic., caps 137 174.
and 225, 12th and 13th Vic., cap. 92, 13th and 14th
Vic., cap. 54, 14th and 15th caps. 58 and 66,
Vie.,
15th and 16th Vic., cap. 148, and 16th and 17th Vic., cap.
221, and of the several acts next hereinafter mentioned, that
is to say, local and personal acts, 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 172,
10th Vie., caps. 12, 13, and 20, 15th Vic., cap. 65, Bth and
9th, Vic., caps. 48, 55, and 126, 9th and 10th Vic., cap. 270,
10th and 11th Vic., caps. 170, 171, and 275, 12th and 13th
Vic., cap. 52, 14th and 15th Vic., cap. 101, and 16th and
17th Vic., cap. 193. .
And on or before the 31st day of December next printed
copies of the said intended act will be deposited in the Pri-
vate Bill-office of the House of Commons.
Dated this 15th day of November, 1855.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Tte
Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money
on Loan, to 'day off Debentures falling due, and are prepared to accept
Tenders ior the same cor a period of 3,5, or 7 years. at 5 per cent.
per annum, Application may be made to the undersigned.
By order of the Directors.

CH tS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Paddingtoa Station, 2d November, 1855.

ROYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY
KOPING TO HULT.

Notice Is hereby Orel that ,11 Shares in this Company, upon
whici the Final Call of 2/. per Share became due and payable on the
let October, 18.55„ will. acconiing to the Statutes of Vle Company. be
Hanle to Forfeiture it the Call be not paid on or before the let day of
December next.

JOHN BADLEIIi., Chairman.
London, 18, Cannon-street, Nov. 12, 1855.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY
COMPANY.
Call of 21. per share on the " 1 xp2rimental" Shares, now 31. paid,
making 51. per share called up.
Call all. per share on the " Extension" 'Shares, now 4/. paid,
m tking 51. per share ,alled up.
_ _

NOTfCE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That, In pursuance of a Resolu-
tion of the Bo int of Directors, the prearieto sin this ;`ompany, hold-
ing " Experimental" or " Extension" Shares upen which 3/. per
share and 41. per share respectively is already called, arc required to
pay a further instalment of 2/. and 11. per share upon each such share
(making in each case 5/. per share), on or before the 27th slay of
December, 1855, at the -Bank of Messrs. Ilevwood, Kennard.,i, and
Co., 4, Lombard-street, London; and if such Call be net paid on
or before the said 27th December, the proprietors of the aforesaid
shares will not be entitled to interest upon any portion of their
shares, but will, nevertheless, be chargeable with interest upon the
arrears, at, the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and the shares will
become liable to forfeiture, under " The Companies' Clatues Coasoll-
dation Act," 1845.

(Slimed) CORNELIUS NICHOLSON, Superintending Director.
3, New Broad-street, London, Nov. 15, 1855.
P.S.—The Register will be• Closed, pursuant to the above calls,
Iron the 21st Nov. inst., and no Transfers can be effected after the
21St inst., untilthe calls are paid.

GEELONG and MELBOURNE RAILWAY
CO IiPANY.
Incorporated by an Act of the Victoria Legislature, Feb. 8, 1853.
Capital £350,000, in 17,500 Shares of £2O each.

Bearing a Minimum Interest of Five per Pent. per Annum, gua-
ranteed by the Colonial .Government 'for Twenty-one Years, and
payable Half-Yearly, viz., on the 20th April and 20th October, in the
Colony and in:London.

DIRECTORS.
Elected by the Shareholders.
CHARLES NUTTAI,L THORNE, Esq., J.P., President.
William G. APKellar, Esq., J.P. I Charles ibbotson, Esq., J.P.
James B. Hutton, Esq.
Appointed by the Colonial Government.
Charles Edward Strutt, Esq.. J P., Immigration Agent.
George P. Belcher, Esq., Sub-Treasurer.
ENGINEER—Edward Snell, Esq.
SECRETARY—Martin Sholl, Esq.
• LONDON OFFICE.

MANAGER—S. J. Cook, Esq., 36, Cannon-street (late Treasurer to
the Colonial Government, and a Director of the Company).
AGENTS—Messrs. Larnack and Walker, 37, Cannon-street.
EXAMINING AND CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
Daniel Gooch, Esq., C.E. (Great Westera Railway).
Henry Stothert, Esq. (Stothert and Slaughter, Bristol).
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Goodwin and Co., 3, Lancaster-place, Strand.

BANKERS. .
London Joint Stock-Bank, and Bank of New Routh Wales,

The F ,lIRTEI HALF-YEARL Y REPORT, made by the Direc-
tors and adopted by the Shareholders in the above Company, dated
3d July last, has just been received, by the Marco Polo.
The earthworks and bridges were so far advanced that tenders
had been already taken, and others invited, for the laying of the per-
manent ay in several sections; and it was confidently anticipated
that the line would be entirely cotnpleted and open in the early part
of the ensuing year, and within the originelly estimated capital of
35 ~0001.

The shares already allotted in England have provided funds for
the purchase and shipment of roll! 'g stock and materials (the
greater portion of which is now delivered °rem the sea), which, with
contracts still in progre4s, wi I be sufficient to complete the perma-
nent way and open the traffic throughout between the capital of
Victoria and the terminus at Geelo ,g.
When it Is remembered that Melbourne, in the year 111,52, num-
bered a copulation of 25,1100, and Geelong was a mere village, with
its 8,000 deriving their tr•>de and support from the scattbred sheep
and cattle sta,lons far removed in the interior: and lhat.now the
fernier ranks with our third-rate English towns, having a fixed,
increasing, and busy population of 120,0)0, and the latter,' keeping'
a-head of its former proportion, being now estimated at nearly
60,000, it Is almost impossible to overrate the prospective advantage
off red by the connecting link of these two seaports within the
noble bay of tort-Philip.

The colonial government, fully impressed with the importance of
this great basis o/ communication between the principal towns com-
prised in this undertaking and the great gold fields of Ballarat and
Mount Alexander, had ordered surveys to be made for two trunk
Uses railway, intended to he a.topted and carried out under
legislative authority, for facilitating the intercourse with these im-
portant and populous districts.
The st• ictest economy has been observed hilierto in the prosecu-
tion of the Company's plans of operation, no expenses having been
incurred beyond those indispensably necessary for rhe actual for-
mation of the line of railway. ' •

No greater proof can, be eddaced of the popularity and Confidence
with which the results of this enterprise are regarded by its prOent
shareholders than the ready manner in which they have met the
calls in a colony where the Current rate of interest is from 8 to 12
per cent , the Government guarantee being scarcely more than anti-
valent to a minimum rate of interest in this country, viz.,s per'dent.
Upon 10,000 shares allotted in the Colony seven calls had been
made, amounting so 141. per share; and tee capital, therefore, will
most probably ba fully paid up aboat June next. Nearly 10,000/.
had been pa d up 'a anticipation of calls, and many shares have been
transferred from the colony to the London register.
The maximum dividend allowed under the. Act of Incorporation is
25 per cent , and, from the valuable grants of land and other privi-
leges con"eded by the Local Government, the level nature of the
country through which the line passes, the absence of great parlia-
mentary and legal expenses, costly bridges, earthworks, tunnels, or
viaducts, it is not unreasonable to expect, on the thorough comple•
Lion of this pioneer Railway, that this large dividend will he fairly
reached, and a reserve fund still secured for progr salve improve.
ments in the permanent development of its future resources.
The greater portion of the shares re.erved for .illotment in England
are already subscribed and paid up in foil (i.e , 201. per share). The
residue, viz., 3,000, are now finally off red to the public previously
to their re-transmission to the colony for distribution there. It is
necessary that they should be p dd up in full, and the interest of 5
per cent will take effect trom the date of payment, and the share
certificates, bearing the seal of the Company, u,lll be so endorsed.
Prospectuses, Reports, Register of Contracts, Plans, Working
Coloured Sections of the Line, and Specifications may be seen, and
all further inforMation obtain d on application at the Office of the
Company. S. J. COOKE, Manager.
Geelong an .1 Melbourne Railway Office,
36, Cannon-street, City, Nov. 1, 1855.

Form of Application for Shares.
To Messrs. Larnach and Walker, 37, Cannon-street, London.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me --- guaran-
teed shares of 20/. each in the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Com-
pany, at —; and I hereby undertake to accept the Seals d Cer-
tificates, and to pay for the same on receipt of the Allotment Letter.
Name.... •••
Address..
Profession or Business
Usual signature
Date.......... .....

JOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED
tj CAPSULES, approved of by the drench College of Physicians,
,uccessfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and
acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for a certain disorder.
(See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded on appli-
cation.—Price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To be had of the investor,
ABEIEL JOZEAU, sole French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London,
and all the principal chemists.

PUBLICATIONS.

TWELFTH AND CHEAPER EDITION.
Now ready, in 1 vol., with 15 illustrations, 68., bound,
THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS.
By ELIOT W RWURTON.

" The re-appearance at this monient, in a cheap form, of th's
Admirable book Is ingularly opportune." —Telm Bull.
Hurst aid /Hackett, Publishers, and to be hal of all booksellers.

On Thursday, the 22,1 of November (Atinanack Day), will be
published, In Twenty-eight pages, stitched, price 4‘1..
THE HOUSEHOLD WORDS ALMANACS,
For the Year 1856.
Households Words Office, No. 16, Wellington-street North, Strand

NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MOORE'S IRISH
MELODIES. •
On Tuesday, the 27th inst., will be published, In one 'volume, square
crown 8 vo. (uniform with the edition of Moore's "Lelia noon."
illuatrated under the superintendenoe of the late Charles Heath)
price 21s. cloth; or 3 Is."6d. handsomely bound in moroico.
JOORE'S IRISH MELODIES, illustrated
with Thirteen fine Steel Plates, engraved fiom original
Designs by
a. W. Cope, R.A.
P. Cresw.ck, R A.
A. L. Egg, A.R.A.
W. P Frith, R.A.
London :

W. E. Frost, A.R.A. W. Muheady, R.A.
J. C. Horsley. J: Sant, A.R.A.
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;man, Brown. Green, and Longman.

ESTABLTSFIED 1837.

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM.
PAN Y. ,
Empowered by Special Act-of Parllttment.

- -
;
BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIE AS -s'CACITA.TION,
M Empowered by tier ajestrs.Royal Letters Patent.
111s.roa-GENERAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman.
Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, at the
lowest possible rates consistent witirsecurity to the assured.
E. R. FOWI'EIt, Resitent Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.

THE TRUST and LOAN COMPANY of
UPPER CANADA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE', That an EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders in this Company will be
held on TiIURSD tY, the 29th instant, at I o'clock p.m., at the
Offices, G 5, Moorgate•street, for the purpose of declaring a dividend
on the Capital Stock of the Company.
The Transfer Books will be closed from the 20th inst. to the Ist
December. By order.
T. MACDONALD, Secretary.
65, Mxmgate-street, Nov. 14, 1955.

ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO
NOW OPEN for the winter season. The followinL
rule will be performed by his celebrated Band durine
he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lis
f the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir 'Atte (Gung'l), Fenella (Tinney)
,thel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultana (liosislo). Quadrilles--.-1 I
lot du Pastel o.amotte), Les flugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al-
•ert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), II Trovatore (Tutton)
,olkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie (Gavlelo), The Lillian (D'Al-
,ert), Des Cotteous (Bousquet), The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops—
he Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Hecla (Streather). Schottiich,
—La Guirlande do Pleura (Bosquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin.
trial Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission
oe

This Evening, the 17th, H. Laurent's new Varsoviana will be
played for the first time.

PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
chancery, made hi the matter of the Estate of William Luff.
late of No. 49, Theobald's-roa ,in the county of Middlesex, deceased,
&nd in a cause of Auguste Le Miere, against Sarah Luff. widow, tin
l'redltors oft e said William Luff, late of No. 49, Theobald's•road,
in the county of Middlesex, cheesemnnzer, deceased, who died in or
about the month 0: Octo er, one thousand eight hundred and tilt,
two, are, by their Solicitors, on or before the fifteenth day of Decem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and fifty Ilve, to come in and prove
their debts, at the Chambers of the Vice-Chaimellor Kindersley, No
3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex ; or in default therm
they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Order
Friday, the twenty-first day of December, 1855, at three o'clock
in the a'ternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and
adjudicating; upon the Claims.
Dated this 13th day of November, 1835.

CHARLES PITH!, Chief Clerk.
HENRY DI NN, Solicitor for the Plaintiff,
. .

3, Great Knight Rider-street, Doctors' Commons.

TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE
YARMOUTII BLOATERS for 6s , package included.
THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP

ARTICLE OF FOOD '
forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0
(preferred). Send full and plain direction, county, and nearest sta-
tion.—Address THOS. LETTIS, jun., Fish Curer, Gt. 'Yarmouth.
"This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar-
mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe,
house steward. Blenheim Palace.—Oct. 20, 1854."
" Mr. Lettis,—As,soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I
shall be glad to have a supply as usual; those I had last year gave
great satisfaction.— %. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's
Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855."

QIR WM. BURNETT'S DISINFECTING
FLUID, for destroying all Offensive Smells and purifying Sick
tooms, Ste. Its cost is less than One Farthing per Gallon when
&Med. for use.
Sold by all Chemists, and at 18, C,Ninon-s.treet,- City.
Gallons, is. Quarts, 2s. "Pints, la. Half-pints, 64. • ' '

COMMITTAL OF THE REVE.RIEND DR.
VAUGHAN. •

At th6•Lambeth Police-court yesterday, the Rev. Dr.
John Vaughan, incumbent of St. Matthew's Church,
Brixton, appeared before Mr. Elliott to answer the
charge preferred against him by Mr. Prior and Mr. Ed-
wards, the churchwardens, of falsifying the parish re-
gisters f,q. his own pecuniary advantage. One
of the
cases, that of Raven, was heard on Monday, and re-
ported in The Sea of Tuesday. Yesterday the other
charges set out in the summons (Begbie and Webb)
were proceeded with, Mr. Clarkson appearing, as be-
fore, for the churchwardens, and Mr. Ballantine, with
Mr. Prideaux, on behalf of the rev. defendant.
Mr. Clarkson said he proposed in the first place to
take the case in reference to Begbie, who died in Guy's
Hospital, in the pr rich of St. Olave, Southwark. Appli-
cation was made for burial at St. Matthew's, and a cer-
tificate was produced, which on the face of it showed
where the death took place. Double fees were paid. In
the rough book St. Olave's was inserted, but in the re-
gister the residence was stated to be at Brixton ; and in
the rough book the words St. Olave were struck out by
the doctor on his return from abroad, and Brixton-place
substituted.

Mr. George Goodeve, bootmaker, of 16, John-street,
Crutched-friars, said that James Begbie was his step-
son. When he was four years old he came to witness
from Calcutta, and lived with him until he went to Guy's
Hospital, in September, 1854. On the 20th of Novem-
ber he died in Guy's, and witness was there. Ile never
lived at Brixton-place. He was buried at Brixton
Church.
Mr. William Stainer, the registrar of deaths for St.
Olave's, in which district Guy's Hospital is situate,
proved that on the 25th of November, 1854, be regis-
tered the death of James Begbie, which took place in
the hospital.
Miss Elizabeth Goodeve said she lived in Camber-
well-lane, and was the aunt of James Begbie. He never
lived in Brixton-place. He never lived in any place in
England except with his step-father in Crutched-friars.
Mr. Plummer,. the undertaker of the funeral, and wit-
ness, paid the double fees, 1/. 155., to Malby. (The re-
ceipt was produced.) If the register represented that
Begbie died-in Brixton-place it was entirely untrue.
Mr. Rogers, solicitor, produced a certified copy of the
register of burial of Begbie, and had compared it with the
original, the whole of which was in Dr. Vaughan's hand-
writing. Under the printed head of address were the
words, " Brixton-place." In the rough book he found an
entry made in the handwriting of the Rev. Geo. East-
man, the curate, with the exception of the amount of fee,
which was in Dr. Vaughan's handwriting,,, he thought.
By Mr.Ballantine—Tbe amount inserted in the book
would represent that the person buried was a parishioner.
Mr. J. W. Plummer, of Brixton-place, said he was
parish clerk of St. Matthew's. Begbie died, and he con-
ducted the funeral. He had since been dismissed by Dr.
Vaughan. The entry in the rough book was in Mr. East-
man's handwriting, with the exception of the fee, 68.,
which was in Dr. Vaughan's handwriting. Six shillings
would be the proper amount for a parishioner. Witness
had no recollection of seeing the certificate, and did not
know who had it. Witness on that occasion received
ls. Bd. as parish clerk, being the fee he was entitled to

for a parishioner.
By Mr. Ballantine—lt would be the duty of the un-
dertaker (witness) or the sexton (Malby) to give the
officiating minister the certificate. Dr. Vaughan had
never complained of his sinokiog in the church or the
vestry. He had certainly complained that his clothes
smelt of smoke. He had been engaged in posting bills
calling a meeting in reference to Dr. Vaughan, and he
carried out his instructions, which were given to him by
Edwards and Mr. Prior, the churchwardens. He posted
one of the bills directly opposite to Dr. Vaughan's
house. The churchwardens gave him special directions
where to post the bills. He got a paper giving him the
necessary directions from the house of Mr. Gearing, in
Acre-lane, Brixton, where Mr. Eastman, the curate,
lives. Mr. Eastman gave him the paper. It directed him
as to the precise places on which he was to post the bills.
By Mr. Clarkson—He never posted any bills insulting
to or abusive of Dr. Vaughan. Those he was entrusted
with merely announced the meetings int,nded to be held.
Mr. G. Malby, the sexton of St. Matthew's, said he
saw Dr. Vaughan about the interment of Begbie. 11,
informed the rev. gentleman that Miss Goodeve had ap-
plied for the interment of a person who had died in the
hospital, and asked him whether he would take it. Dr,
Vaughan said he would on payment of double fees.
Witness received 1/. 155., being the amount of double

fees, fiom Mies Goodeve, and paid the doctor 19e., being
his proportion of the double fees. At the time of the
funeral he delivered the certificate to the Rev. Mr. East-
man, who officiated. Witness produced the receipt he
gave to Miss Goodeve for the double fees.
By Mr. Ballantine —He never told Dr. Vaughan in the
presence of his son, the Rev. Matthew Vaughan, that
though Begbie died in the hospital, he had lived in Brix-
ton-place, and had worked for Budd, the baker. He did
not know that the doctor was falsifying the accounts
until he heard the churchwardens talking about it, and
then he examined the books. Mr. Eastman, the curate,
I,enerally performed the funerals, and did not always re-
ceive the certificates, which had in some cases been pre-
viously given to Dr. Vaughan.
By Kr. Clarkson—lt had been the practice of Dr.
Vaughan to enter the certificates in a rough book on a
Sunday morning, 'and then Mr. Eastman would perform
the ceremony. .
Mr. Alfred Staff Prior, one of the churchwardens of
St. Matthew's, said he had received requisitions from
the inhabitants to call a. meeting, and be did so. In
the case of Begbie and Webb he received half of single

fees. On the 27th of August witness called Dr. VaughaTa's
attention to several cases in which the fees were unsa-
tisfactOry, particularly to one case, in which a certificate
of death, granted from St. Matthew's, Brixton, was re-
fused at the Bank. of England, on the ground that the
place of abode had been altered. On the following morn-
ing witness, with his colleague Mr. Edwards, met Dr.
Vaughan at the church, and called his attention to the
case of Begbie. In the rough book the death was stated
to have occurred in St. Olave's, but in the church regis-
ter it was altered, to Brixton-place.. Dr. Vaughan said
that Mr. Eastman had discovered his mistake after en-
tering it in the rough book, and had requested him (de;
fendant) to put it correctly in the register.
By Mr. Ballintine—He bad never said, When walking
Co church with Miss Vaughan, that things would never
go right in the church until three persons were got rid
of, namely—Plummer, Malby, and Eastman. He had
remarked on the occasion, that it was very disgraceful
that Dr. Vaughan and his curate should differ, and re-
commended that if they could not agree, they should
,art. He had never said anything of the same character
in reference to Malby or Plummer.
Mr. Edwards, churchwarden, spoke to the same facts
as those stated by his colleague.
The Rev. George Eastman, curate of St. Matthew's,
was next called—He said he bad been curate since May,
1353. Dr. Vaughan was then the incumbent. Dr.
Vaughan said, that for the purpose of keeping the regis-
ter clear, ho would enter the burials from the rough
book into the register, as he had done during the time
his son was curate. He performed the service over Beg-
bie. The entry in the rough book. was in his hand-
writing, with the exception of the fee—six shillings. He
bitered St. Olave's parish, from the certificate he pre-
tamed.- That entry had been struck out, but not by
niin ; nor did he put in the figure G. He never rt quested
Dr. Vaughan, or any one else, to strike out " St.
...Mayo's," and was not aware that it had been struck out
tail his attention was called to it.

By Mr. Ballantine—He frequently buried without a

:ertifieate, but he had always seen the entry from a cer-
tificate in the rough book shortly afterwards in Dr.
Vaughan's haild-writing. The church register was
always looked up. Dr. Vaughan contending that 33 he
vas solely responsible for it he should keep possession
)f. it.

-Ilir. Prior recalled, stated, that in the cases of Raven,
Begbie, and Webb, the churchwardens had only received
their share of single fees.
Mr. Richard Gibbs, one of the committee appointed to
inquire into Dr. Vaughan's alleged offences, said be
went through the register with Dr. Vaughan, who, on
"coming to Begbie's case, said " I have all the particulars
of that case." He took from his pocket a book, from

which he read that Begbie lived at the back of Brixton-
place, and that he worked for Budd, the baker. He
Ldded, " If you doubt my word, I will take my oath
of it."

This was the case for the prosecution, so far as regards
the case of Begbie.
Mr. Ballantine proceeded to address the court. He
admitted that there bad been great irregularities in the
parish, for which Dr. Vaughan, being the incumbent, was
prima facieresponsible, and that the churchwardens were
consequently quite justified in instititing a rigid inquiry,.
.9.s in the case of Raven, last Monday, he threw the
whole blame on Malby, the sexton, upon whose evidence
be contended the whole case rested, and who, in order
that he might escape, had implicated Dr. Vaughan in
the crimes of which he alone-was guilty.
The Rev. Matthew Vaughan, incumbent of St. John's,
Brixton, was called and examined by Mr. Prideaux. He
said he was the son of the defendant. He remembered
going to St. Matthew's Church at the end of last No-
vember, and saw his father and Malby. Dr. Vaughan
had the rough burial book before, him. The doctor was
making an entry, and said to Malby, " Now, is it St.
Olave's ? There are only single fees." Malby said that
Mr. Eastman had made a mistake, for his residence was
in Brixton-place, or in the rear of Brixton-place. Dr.
Vaughan ran thriOngh St. °laves and wrote in Brixton.
place. Malby said Begbie worked for Budd, the baker.
By Mr. Clarkson—Witness's mother and brother were
present, and' he-thought also his sister Decima.
By the Magistrate—Dr. Vaughan was in the constant
habit of making entries from the statement of the sexton.,
without certificate, on the promise Of the sexton that he
would produce it in a day or two.
Mr. J. M. Vaughan, of Trinity Hall, Cambridge,
another son of the defendant, confirmed the statement of
the last witness as to the conversation between the doc-
tor and Malby. When Dr. Vaughan mentioned the
case of single fees in Begbie's case, Malby said that
although Begbie died at Guy's Hospital, he resided at
Brixton-place, and it was only customary to take single
fees in such cases.

This was the defence in the case of Begbie.
The last 'case, that of Jane Webb, was then pro-
ceeded with.

Mr. Frost, the registrar of Clapham; said he registered
the death of Webb on the 6th of June, and gave an un-
dertaker's certificate. She lived at 53, Park place, Park-
roan, Clapham. No part of Park-place was in the parish
of Brixton.

Miss Anne Webb said she was the daughter of the
deceased. Her mother never lived in Acre lane, Brixton,
The funeral took place at St. Matthew's, Brixton, as the
husband of the deceased was buried there. Witness paid
1/. 155., being double fees, to the undertaker, Plummer.
It was shown that in the register the residence of the
deceased had been altered from Park-place, Clapham, to
Acre-lane, Brixton, and that --ingle fees only were ac•
counted for, whereas the double fees were handed to
Dr. Vaughan by Malby, the sexton, in the presence of
Plummer.
•
Mr. J. M." Vaughan said be was present when the en-
try of Webb was made. Malby paid the doctor single
fees.

Mr. Elliott said that as the case ha,d now been brought
to a close, a very painful duty devolved upon him.
During a somewhat lengthened experience, it had never
been his practice to commit a person for trial except un-
der a conviction that he was guilty, and he regretted to
say, in reference to this case, that be felt bound to send
it to a jury,
Dr. Vaughan was then fully committed for trial, and
the various witnesses were bound over in the usual
manner.

In answer to a question as to bail, Mr. Elliott said he
should require two sureties of 5001., and the doctor him-
self in 1,0001.
The required sureties were entered into before the
breaking up of the court, and Dr. Vaughan was liberated
from custody. The rev. doctor's summons against Malby
the sexton for alleged perjury in the County Court of
Lambeth (where the doctor summoned him for 121.,
stated to have been lent to him), is to be heard on Mon-
day next. Malby has retained Mr. Parry for the defence.
It is said that the doctor has expressed his determina-
tion to preach at St. Matthew's Church next Sunday
morning, unless prohibited from doing so by the Bishop
of Winchester.

CAPTAIN DEVEY, OF THE MERMAID. —The underwriters
of the ship Mermaid have presented to Capt. Devey,
who navigated the ship and her valuable gold freight
safely to this port, the munificent sum of 1,000 guineas.
The shipowners and merchants of the port are about to
present him with a service of plate and a complimentary
address.—LiveTool Mercury.
Mn. G. GODWIN ON THE HOMES OF THE THOU-
SANDS. —The lecture-hall of the Polytechnic Institution
was on Monday evening filled from floor to ceiling to
hear a lecture from Mr. G. Godwin, F.R.S., editor of
the Builder, on "The Homes of the Thousands," a sub-
ject
which his long and praiseworthy endeavours to-
wards effecting an improvement eminently qualify him
to enlarge upon. The bearing of the question on the
moral and religious well-being of the poorer classes was
illustrated in a clear and forcible manner, and the evi-
dent earnestness of the lecturer's sympathy with the un-
fortunate dwellers in overcrowded, ill-drained, and im-
perfectly ventilated houses elicited from his thronged and
most attentive audience repeated manifestations of ap-
plause. The account of his examination of the low
lodging-houses and wretched tenements of Drury-lane,
Gray's-inn-lane, Whitechapel, the Mint, and other re-
sorts of poverty, was full of interest, though of a pain-
ful character ; and Mr. God win's statements were
admirably elucidated by a set of large coloured drawings
representing some of the houses, both externally and
internally, in the localities which he visited. In one neigh-
bourhood he found 50 houses without water, a condition
of things which rendered cleanliness impossible, and
gradually destroyed the feeling of decency and self-
respect. Vice and disease were the natural consequences
of these defective arrangements, and much of the na-
tional disgrace of intemperance might fairly he attributed
to the languor and exhaustion occasioned by breathing
foul air, which caused a craving for stirnn'ants. The
average duration of life in the localities he had described
was reduced, by these causes,to 17 years,
whilst in
Rutland it was 45 years ; and 25,000 lives were annually
sacrificed in the metropolis alone through the want of
better provision for health in the homes of the poor.
The lecture was one of a course specially intended for
the industrial classes, and to which Mr. Jacob Bell, Dr
Spicer, Dr. Pettigrew, and Mr. Pepper have already
contributed their talents. Sir Robert Peel is announced
to lecture in this course, but the honourable baronet's
subject has not yet been notified to the public. These
II lectures are invariably well attended, and the interest
taken in them is evidmitly on the increase.