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LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBEft 17, 1855.

NORFOLK EASTERN . COUNTIES and
EASTERN UNION RAILWAY 'COM-
PANlES.—(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 Union Railway Company, or any or
either of them ; anR fel+ 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 prill-
cipal sums which from time to time have been or may bo-ex-
pended, raised, or advanced by any of the said, companies for
the purposes of such works and the interest thereon.

/Cud 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 'Tth Wm. IV., caps. 103 and 106,
Ist and 2d Vic., cap. 81, 2d and 3d Vie., Caps. 77 and 78, 3d
Vic., cap. Si, 4th Vie., caps. 14 and 24, 4th and sth
Vie., cap. 42, 6th Vic., cap. 28, 7th Vic., caps. 19, 20, and
35, 7th and Bth Vic., caps. 62 and 71, Bth and 9th Vic.,
caps. 85, 110, and 201, 9th Vic. cap. 52, 9th and 10th Vie.,
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 nth 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 Vic., 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 Vie., caps. 94 and 97, 9th Vic., cap. 53, 9.h and
10th V,e.' caps 76, 97, 106, and 280, 10th Vic. 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 Vic„ caps. 58 and 66,
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 Vic., caps. 12; 13, and 20, 15th Vic., cap. 65, Bth and
9th, Vie., 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
17t1; Vic., cap. 193.

Aud 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 RAIL WAY.—The
Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money
on Loan, to pay off Debentures failing due, and are prepared to accept
Tenders for the same for a period of 3,5, or 7 years, at 5 per cent.
per annum. ApplicatiOn may be made to the undersigned. '

By order of tho Directors,

CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Paddingtoa Station; 23 November, 1855.

ROYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY,
KOPING TO HULT.

Notice is hereby given that all Shares in this Company, upon
which the Final Call of 2/. per Share became due and payabld on the.
let October, 1855, will, according to the Statutes of the Company, be
liable to Forfeiture if the Call be not paid on or before the Ist day of
December next.

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

GREA.T INDIAN PENINSULA RAILWAY
COMPANY'.
Call 0121. per share on the " xperimental" Shares, now 3/. paid,

Positing 51. per share called up:
Call of IL per share on the " Extension" Shares, now 41. paid,
making 51. per share called up.
I. na
ii
thi
this pursuance
oeihopfa an
Company,
Resolu-
tion
rSeheadryesesuupeden,
awrehircehollr.edpeter
NOTlCEoftell Bo andlS
noEf HEREBY GIVEN,
the p r el; rhi cal;
hold-
ingshare"aEexdperaimpeerntsalha"reorres'p'
pay a further instalment of 2/ and il. per share upon each such share
at the dank of Messrs. Heywood, Kennard,, and
Recxticeeillsyleins'al'
(making in each case 51. per share), OR or before the 27th day of
chargeablel te res t upon
with
1 rahn y
interestportion e
upon
a theiri
the
-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
sCDholcfrbeju°r'n'tlfaislrsld;
arrears, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and the shares will
become liable to forfeiture, under "The Companies' Clauses Coasoli-
dation Act" 1845.

(Signed) COR NIELIIIS NICHOLSON, Superintending Director.
3, New Broad-street, London, Nov. 15, 1855.

P.S.—Tbe Register will be Closed, pursuant to the above calls,
from the 21st Nov. inst., and no Transfers can be effected after the
21st inst., until tho calls are paid.

EELONG and MELBOURNE RAILWAY
kir COMPANY.
Incorporated by an Act of the Victeria Legislature, Feb. 8, 1853.
Capital 4350,000, In 17,500 Shares of 420 each.

Bearing a Minimum Interest of Five per Cent, 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.
CHAItLES NUTTALL THORNE, Esq., J.P., President.
William G. 31`Keliar, Esq., J.P. I Charles Ibbolson, Esq., J.P.
Janes B. Hutton, Esq.
Appointed by the Colonial Government.
Charles Edward Strutt, Esq., J.P., Immigration Agent.
George F. Belcher, Esq., Sub-Treasurer.
ENGINEER—Edward Snell, Esq.
SECRETARY—Martin Moll, Esq.
LONDON OFFICE.
MANAGER—S. J. Coo'l, Esq., 36, Cannon-street (late Treasurer to
the Colonial Government, and a Director of the Company).
AGENTS—Messrs. Larna^,k and Walker, 37, Cannon-street.
EXAMINING AND CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
Daniel Gooch, Esq., C.E. (Great Western 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 south Wales,

f- The FOURTH HALF-YEARLY REPORT, made by the Direc-
tors and adopted by the Shareholders in the above Oonirany, 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 takdri, and others invited, for the laying of the per-
manent way in:several sections; and it was confidently anticipated
that the line would be entirely completed and open in the early part
of the ensuing year, and within the originally estimated capital of
350,0001.

The shares already allotted in England nave provided funds for
the purchase and shipment of rolling stock and materials (the
greater portion of which is now delivered oron thew's.), which, with
contracts still in tirogress, wl.l be suMcient to complete the perma-
nent way and open the traffic throughout between tin capital of
Victoria and the terminus at Geelong.
When it is remembered that blelboarne, in the year 1852, num-
bered a population of 25,080, and Geelong was .a mere village, with
its 8,000 deriving their trade and support from the scattered sheep
and cattle stations far removed in the interior and that now the
former ranks with our third-rate English towns, having a fixed,
increasing, and busy population of 120,000, 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
oMred by the connecting link of these two seaports within the
noble bay of Port-Philip.

. The colonial government, fully impressed with the importance of
this great basis of 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
lines of railway, intended to be adopted and carried out under
legislative authority, for facilitating the intercourse with theie ini-
portant and populous districts.
The strictest economy has been observed hitherto in the prosecu-
tion of the Company's plans of operation, no expenses having been
incurred beyond those Indispensably necessary (or the actual for-
mation of the line of railway.
Nei' greater proof can be adduced of the" popularity and confidence
with which the results of this enterprise are regarded by its present
shareholders than the ready manner in which they have met the
calls in a colony where the current rate of i rterest is from 8 to n
per cent., the Government guarantee being scarcely more than equi-
valent to a minimum rate of interest in this country, viz., 5 per cent.
Upon 10,000 shares allotted in the colony seven calls, had been
made, amounting to W. per share; and the capital, therefore, will
most probably ha fully paid up about June next. Nearly 10,0001.
had been pet'd up in anticipation of calls, and many shares have been
transferred from the colony to the London register.
The maximum dividend allowed under the Act of Incorporat'on is
25 per cent., and, from the valuable grants of land and other privi-
leges conceded 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-
tion of this pioneer Railway, that this large dividend will be fairly
reached, and a reserve fund still secured for progressive improve ••
menu in the permanent development of its future resources.
The greater portion of the shares reserved for allotment ill England
are already subscribed and paid up in full (i.e , 20/. per share). The
es
3,000, are now finally off.red to the public previously
trotihdeuie; vriez-;ransrnission to the colony for distribution there. It is
necessary that they should be paid up in dill, and the interest of 5
per cent. will take effect from the date of payment, and the share
certificates, bearing the seal of the Company, will be so endorsed.
Prospectuses, Reports,' Register of Contracts, Plans, Working
Coloured Sections of the Line, and Specifications may be seen, and
all further information obtained on application at the Office of the
Company. S. J. COOKE, Manager.
Geelong and Melbourne Railway Office,
36, Cannon-street, City, Nov. 1, 1855.

Form of Application for Phares.
To Messrs. Larnach an Walker, 37, Cannon-street, London.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me -- guaran-
teed shares of 201. each in the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Com-
pany, at ; and I hereby undertake to accept the Beal, d Cer-
tificates, and to pay for the same on receipt of the Allotment Letter.
Name........... ..
Address ..
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mccessfully 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 a➢pli-
cation.—Price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To be had of the investor,
GABRIEL JOZEAU, solo French chemist, 49, Haymarket, 'London,
and all the principal chemists.

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THE TRUST and LOAN COMPANY of
UPPER CANADA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That an EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders in this Company will be
held on THURSDAY, the 29th instant, at 1 o'clock p.m., at the
Offica, 65,. 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, ILergate-street, Nov. 14, 1555.

NRGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO
NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following
will be performed by his celebrated Band during
he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily
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11)IIRSITANT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in the matter of the Estate of William Luff,
late of No. 49, Theobald's-roa 1, in the county of Middlesex, deceased,
and in a cause of Auguste Le Miere, against Sarah Luff, widow, the
Creditors of tne said William Luff, late of No. 49, Theobald's-road,
in the county of Middlesex, cheesemonger, deceased, who died in or
about the mouth of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
two, are, by their Solicitors, on or before the fifteenth day of Decem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, to come in and prove
their debts, at the Chambers of theArice-Chancellor Kindersley, No.
3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex ; or in default thereof
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 afternoon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and
adjudicating upon the Claims.
Dated this 13th day of November, 1855.
CHARLES PUGH, Chief Clerk.
HENRY DINN, Solicitor for the Plaintiff,
3, Great Knight Rider-street, Doctors' Commons.

TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE
YARMOUTH 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, at. 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.—A. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's
Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855."

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fees, from Miss 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 Itad 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,
generally performed the funerals, and did not always re-
ceisve the certificates, which had in some cases been pre-
viously given to Dr. Vaughan.
By Mr. Clarkson—lt bad 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 he did so. In
the case of Begbie and Webb he received half of single
fees. On the 27th of August witness called Dr. Vaughan'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-
-113,111m-10' to put it correctly in the register.
By Mr. Ballantine—He had never said, when walking
ktolturcla wi h. laisq__YaugLan,that things would nover
go right in the church until three persoiis wero got rid
of, namely-Plummer, Malby, and Eastman. lie 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
part. He had never said anything of the same character
in reference to Malby or Plummer.
Mr. Edwards, churchwarden, spoke to the same facts
as thoie stated by his colleague.
The Rev. George Eastman, curate of St. Matthew's,
was next called-,-He said he had been curate since May,
1353. Dr. Vaughan was then the incumbent. Dr.
Vaughan said, that for the purpose of keeping the regis-
ter clear, he 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
entered St, Olave's parish, from the certificate he pre-
sumed. That entry had been struck out, but not by
him ; nor did he put in the figure 6. He never requested
Dr. Vaughan, or any one else, to strike out " St.
Olave's," and was not aware that it had been struck oat
until his attention was called to it.

By Mr. Ballantine—He frequently buried without a
certificate, but he had always seen the entry from a cer-
tificate in the rough book shortly afterwards in Dr.
Vaughan's hand-writing. The church register was
always looked up. Dr. Vaughan contending that as he
was solely responsible for it he should keep possession
of it.

Mr. 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 he
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
added, " 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 had been great irregularities in the
parish, for which Dr. Vaughan, being the incumbent, was
prima facie responsible, and that the churchwardens were
consequently quite justified in instituting a rigid inquiry.
As in the case of Raven, last Monday, he threw the
whole blame on Malby, the sexton, upon whose evidence
he contended the whole case rested, and who, in order
chat he might pscape, 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
waking an entry, and said to Malby, "Now, is it St.
Olave's t There are only single fees.'! Malby said that
Mr. Eastman had made a mistake for his residence was
iu Brixton-place, or in the rear of Brixton-place. Dr.
Vaughan ran through St. Olave's 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-
road, 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 fnneral 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 wasshown that in the register the residence of the
deceased had been altered from Park-place, Clapham, to
Acre-lane, Brixton, and that single 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 he was present when the en-
try oEWebb was made. Malby paid the doctor single
fees.

Mr. Elliott said that as the case had 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 he 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 12/.,
s'ated 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
add ress.—Liverpool 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 novelty, was full of interest, though of a pain-
ful character ; and Mr. Godwiu's statements were
admirably elucidated by a set of large coloured drawings
representing some of the houses, both externally and
internally, in the localities whichhe 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 be attributed
to the languor and exhaustion occasioned by breathing
foul air, which caused a craving for stimulants. 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.r
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
lectures are invariably well attended, and the interest
taken ill them is evidently on the increase.

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Naval and Military Intelligence

The Great Britain steam-transport, Capt. Gray, em-
barked 1,354 men, and the following officers of the Bri-
,.tish Swiss Legion yesterday at Portsmouth dockyard,
for conveyance to I3alaklava :—Col. Dickson, Lieut.-
Col. Blarer, Major Fornaro, Captains Reinart, De Wil-
iiere, Oberlin, Baron do Gingins, Frepp, and Honegger;
Lieutenants Petitpierre, Maghel, Hostache, Cruper, Mi-
chel, Berger, and Schiffmann ; Adjutant Stampfli ; En-
signs Humerwadel, Scharrar, Von Buren, Gingoux, and
Hunefec ; Surgeon Berri ; Assistant-Surgeons Word-
muller and Schwab; Dispenser Bion, Quarterniaster
Twigg, Paymaster J. Wray, and Payma.ster D. Simp-
son. These were all of the Ist battalion. Of the 2d
battalion there were Major Hufelin, Captains Roth
Stutz, Muller, Vonoux, Pfeiffer, and Grnssi ; Lietrts:
Battler, Ischensmid, Vurst, Kruttle, Ernst, Haslar, and
Laudersett ; Adjutant Von Travers, Assistant-Surgeons
Muller and Buchser, Quartermaster Goldley, Paymaster
Beatty, and Piiyrnaster's Clerk Early. These levies were
escorted to the. place of embarkation, as they arrived, in
two divisions, each played in by the band of the 819th
Foot ; they presented the appearance of an unusually
fine body of Men, of mature age, well bui!t, and hardy
in constitution. The Great Britain will leave with them
for their destination this morning aler pest time.
The steam-transport Niagara, Capt. Shannon, . em-
barked at Portsmouth yesterday 19 officers; 521 men, 49
women, 68 children, and 5 horses belonging to the Royal
South Lincoln Militia, of which Col. Sibthorp, M.P.,
is the Colonel-in-Chief. The officers consisted of Capt.
Moore (in command), wife, and family; Capt. Parker,
-Captains S. Robertson, S. Brenesford, and J. Beasley,
Lieuts. Fitzimons, C. Telford and wife, -A. C. Take, J.
M. Williams, W. A. Heiden, and M. S. Williams, En-
signs E. D. jOhnson, R. Fredd, J. Whitshed, and P. W.
Horsley ; Captain-Adjutant C. Norris, SurgeonYerne-
ley and three children, Assistant-Swgeon W. Dyinopkv,
wife, Quartermaster -.T.:--eesatuortr wiles -nusisesa

children. She proceeds to Queenstown to disembark
them, and returns with 15 officers and 407 men of tho
Westmeath Militia, also a detachment of the G9th Regt.,
consisting of six officers and 84 men, women, &c. She
left Portsmouth yesterday, at 3 p.m., direct for Cork.
The steam gun-boat Hind arrived at Portsmouth yes-

terday from the Baltic, and went into harbour.
La Hogue, screw steam-ship, Capt. Ramsay, discharged
her powder and shot in Plymouth Sound, and went up
Hamoaze on Thursday.
The hired steam-ship Ripon, with Land Transport
Corps and provisions for the Crimea, left Hamoaze early
yesterday morning. When passing between St. Nicho-
las and the Main she met H. M.'s screw steam-ship La
Hogue going up harbour. The two 'exchanged salutes
by dipping ensigns, and the craw of La Hogue gave
three hearty 'cheers, which were acknowledged most
warmly by their departing comrades in arms. The Ripon
passed the west end of the Plymouth breakwater at 8.45
a.m.

The crew of the Sanspareil, 70, Capt. Williams, struck
lower yards and topmasts at Plymouth on Thursday,
and the ship was towed to the shear hulk to have her
fan unshipped previously to being taken into dock. She
is to be fitted with all despatch.
The paddle-wheel steam-vessel Caradoc, Lieutenant-
Commander Derriman, from Portsmouth, arrived at
Plymouth on Thursday, for Marseilles, where she will
embark Lord Canning, Governor-General of India.
The Gleaner gun-boat, tender to the Ajax, left Sheer-
ness at noon yesterday for Plymouth.
An Admiralty order has arrived at Sheerness for the
Phoenix, 6, screw steam-sloop, Commander Arthur Tower
(just appointed), to be paid off. All the seamen who are
entitled to long leave are to be immediately discharged
to the Waterloo ; and on the Phoenix being paid off her
crew are to be transferred to the Waterloo. She has
been taken into No. 1 dry dock. In order to obviate
her propensity for rolling, it has been recommended that
she should be doubled from her extreme breadth at her

bends downward to the floor heads, and rolling bilge
pieces fixed on her.

- The Horatio, 8, screw steam-ship, Captain the Hon.
Arthur A. Cochrane, was taken into No. 3 dry dock,
Sheerness, yesterday, for a thorough overhaul of hull
and machinery. On her outward passage from Sheerness
with the Glatton floating battery she called at Ports-
mouth, where it was found necessary, from complaints
made, to inspect her accommodation for officers and men.
The Right Hon. Sir M. F. F. Berkeley, 1C.C.8., M.P.,
and Admiral Martin visited her for that purpose, and it
was found that in consequence of the confined state of
the lower deck, which is only 5 feet 5 inches from deck
to beam, the average temperature with a portion of the
ship's company below was above 100 degrees. The ship's
crew consists of 200 meu, who were at that time all
berthed and messed on the lower deck. It was immedi-
ately ordered by Admiral Berkeley that mess tables and
stools should be supplied for the shipV company living
and sleeping on the main deck for the future. The gun-
room on the lower deck, intended for the accommodation
of the gun-room officers, 10 in -number, frequently
(by supernumeraries) increased to 17, did not- con-
tain 400 cubic feet of space. About 80 cubic feet more
were granted them by Admiral Berkeley's order. The
temperature ranged from msninusm 95 to 110, and that
in a constant vapour bath while under way with steam
up, which kept at least 25 per cont. of the ship's com-
pany on the sick list. Owing to this and other causes,
nearly one-half of the Horatio's crew have deserted her
since the Ist of January last. She has been taken into
dock for the purpose of remedying these serious inconve-
nisei °es. It will require at least three months to refit her.
Her Majesty's ship Dee, Master Commander pullet],
sailed yesterday from Woolwich with boilers and ma-
chinery for Portsmouth. On the previous evening, dur-
ing a dense fog, Joseph Ostlan, a Quartermaster of the
Dee, fell into the basin, but was fortunately extricated
by the police, who were in attendance- with lanterns
and drags. They were assisted by a workman of the
dockyard named Bradley, who has been instrumental
in saving the lives of two other persons similarly
situated. A man belonging to the Rhadamanthus
likewise fell into the basin alongside his ship, and
his body was not -discovered until life was extinct.
The Beaver, lighter, was yesterday morning towed
down to Sheerness by the • Monkey, with boilers and
machinery for the Porcupine.

The George Hawkins, steam-tmnsport, passed Wool-
wich on Thursday for Greenhitho, where she will be
swung preparatory to her departure for the East. She
takes out medical stores for the army, and carries a mail.
Mr. Charles William Fothergill, Woolwich Division
of Royal Marines, is promoted to Second Lieutenant,
and appointed to the Portsmouth Division ; and Mr. R.
J. Pascoe, likewise of the Woolwich Division, to be
Second Lieutenant, and to join the Chatham Division of
that corps.

Mr. E. W. Baker, chief engineer of the third class,
RN., serving in her Majesty's 'ship Hogue, has been
promoted to the second class.
A number of medals for distinguished services has
been received at head-quarters of the Royal Sappers and
Miners, at Woolwich, for distribution among the follow-
ing non-commissioned officers and privates, all of whom,
with one exception, are still serving at the seat of war,
whence a representation of their services has been for-
warded :—Colour-Serjeants Henry M‘Donald and
Michael M‘Leod ; Corporals Joseph J. Stanton and
Samuel Cole ; Second-Corporals John Paul and Wm.
Trimble ; Lance-Corporals Joseph Thos. Collins, Wm.
Jenkins, and Chas. Kintry ; Privates Wm. Harvey,
Wm. Orr, Wm. Bruce, Alex. M`Caughey, Jas. Moncur,
Neil Wlnnes, and Andrew Fairservice.

First-Lieutenant D. W. Curry, son of Admiral Curry,
C. 8., of Devon port, died on the 22d ult., at the hospital
at Therapia. He served with the Marine Battalion from
their first landing in the Crimea, and commanded a bat-
tery under Sir Colin Campbell at Balaklava. He was
also senior subaltern and acting adjutant to the Marine
detachment in the Battle of Inkerman, after which he
held the appointment of Quartermaster at Balaklava.
Ultimately his health gave way, and two days after the
fall of Sebastopol he was removed to Therapia, where be
died.

The largest slip in England is the new one in Chatham
dockyard. Its dimensions are-300 feet long, 114 feet
wide, and 90 feet high. It was commenced in 1851, and
has 60 iron pillars and 6 travellers. The ends are glazed.
A 30. gun floating battery is to be built in it immediately,
to be ready for launching in March next.
An additional length of 40 feet is being given to the
second and third wet docks at Chatham, to admit of the
largest vessels in the navy being floated in for repairs.
The non-commissioned officers and men of the 57th
Regiment, now on active service in the Crimea, have
subscribed their working pay to create a fund for 3
been
the
widows and orphans of soldiers who have died in
et_
Crimea. The following letter, among others, has
received by a resident in Cork :--
" The non-commissioned officers and men
of the 57th
from Oct.,
Regiment having subscribed their working pay
1854, to Feb., 1855, to create a fund for the benefit of
widows and orphans of soldiers who have died in the
of the 57th
Crimea, Lieut.-Col. Warre and the officers
Regiment have great satisfactioni .n
and 1/. for your
notifying to you
that the sum of 41., being
child, will be paid to you o3rl.yof°ur yourselfi
order on application to
agents, Craig's court,
Messrs. Cox and Co., army
London.

THE MILITIA.
The North Mayo Militia moves from Castlebar to Sligo.
the Fermanagh Militia from Newry to Dundalk ;
the
Louth Rifles from Dundalk to Cavan and Belturbet, re-
placing the Cavan Militia, ordered to England ;
the 2d
Cheshire from England to Newry.

ALL-11ALLOW FAIR.—The number of cattle on the
stance on Wednesday would be about 4,500, composed
of all descriptions, with several lots of fresh ones forward
yesterday. Best descriptions would be fully 5 per cent.
down from Tuesday, While the smaller sorts of cattle
will be 7 to 10 per cent, down, with every appearance of
a very heavy finish, and an immense number of High-
land and Irish cattle unsold. Highland cattle will be
10 per cent. down from Doune on the inferior kinds.
Mr. Swan, salesman, sold a lot of three-year-old short-
horn bullocks to Mr. Murray, Kersknowe, at 141. 19a.,
and another lot of the same description at 141.; a lot of
four-year olds to Mr. Calder, Tanderlane, at 18/. 18s.;
a lot of stirks at 71., to Mr. Rintoul, Fifeshire, and
another lot at 71.; a lot of half-bred lambs to _ Alc3r •
Hill, Leckerstone, at 17s. 6d. a-piece, and 400 black-
faced
faced ewes at 10/. per clad score. Several other
I men sold at similar prices, but In some instances not
extensive.—Nora Baas & Dail!! Mai'
us so