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The following will form the three depot battalions at
Chatham as soon as the changes authorised by the
Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief have been car-
ried out at that garrison : Ist depot battalion—lst bat-
talion of the 4th King's Own Regiment, 2d battalion of
the 4th King's Own Regiment, Ist battalion of the 15th
Regiment, 2d battalion of the 15th Regiment, 35th
Regiment, 77th Regiment, and 94th Regiment.
Second depot battalion-2d battalion of the 2d
Queen's Royals, Ist battalion of the 12th Regiment,
2d battalion of the 12th Regiment, Ist battalion of
the 20th Regiment, 2d battalion of the 20th Regi-
ment, 29th Regiment, 40th Regiment, and 52d Light
Infantry. Third depot battalion--Ist battalion of
the 10th Regiment, 2d battalion of the 10th Regi-
ment, Ist battalion of the 19th Regiment, 2d bat-
talion of the 19th Regiment, 65th Regiment, 80th
Regiment, 81st Regiment, and the 102 d Royal Mad-
ras Fusileers. The following depots have received
orders to leave Chatham garrison for the stations
named on Tuesday next, the 31st inst. :—viz., the
depots of the 31st, 75th, and 83d regiments to Alder-
shot, to join the service companies of their regiments
now at the camp; the depot of the 91st Argyllshire
Highlanders to Preston ; and the depot of the 101st
Royal Bengal Fusileers to Walmer. The depot com-
panies of the 43d Light Infantry and the 51st King's
Own Light Infantry will pioceed from Chatham to
Winchester, on the 2d February, the 2d battalion of
the 2d Royals depot, numbering five officers and 140
men of all ranks, will arrive at Chatham garrison,
from Walmer, on TueSday next, and the depots of
the 10th and 20th Regiments during the same week.
The total strength of the regimental depots ordered
to proceed to Chatham is 38 officers and 1,092 non-
commissioned officers and men.

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED... - 5d

that clauses similar to those pressed on the compa-
nies last session be inserted in the pending bills. By
these clauses the Board can require the railway com-
panies, when running a line through a metropolitan
district, to " reform and reconstruct" the sewerage
of the district through which it passes, or that is
affected by the works. And if any sewers are inter-
rupted or cut by the railroad operations the company
is compelled to pay the Board of Works any addi-
tional cost of pumping, supervision, and engineer-
ing the Board has to incur. The same body claims,
and intends still to assert, a certain amount of con-
trol over the construction of railway bridges cross-
ing public roads in London. These indispensable
edifices are a new feature of our thoroughfares, and
not a pleasing one. We shall in time become recon-
ciled to their ugliness, though the later use of them
as placarding stations makes them uglier than neces-
sary. But with the outward appearance of these
bridges the Board of Works has nothing to do. Its
concern is solely with such points as dimensions, gra-
dients, and strength, for which the precautions taken
are detailed in the report. We notice the omission of
any provision touching decoration, merely asking all
the new companies if they cannot do something for
their road bridges in the same spirit as the London,
Chatham, and Dover Company have done for their
bridge over the river. An act of Parliament is now
all that the patents from the Crown were in the days
of the Stuarts. The monopoly obtained cannot
be resisted, and if the directors would allow their
engineers to rise a step or two above the sordid and
repulsive the public would take it as a favour at
their hands. All the conditions the railways have
been subjected to at the instance of the Board of
Works appear to be essential to the very existence
of the foot, and horse, and wheel traffic of the metro-
polis. There are a few other railway bills, nine in
number, which Mr. Bazalgette does not take into
consideration, as their works will not come under
the jurisdiction of the Board. The following six
proposed lines—East London and Thames Tunnel ;
Metropolitan and South London (Thames Tunnel) ;
Blackwall, Greenwich, and Woolwich ; Waterloo and
Whitehall ; Fulham ; the King's-cross, Islington,
and Limehouse ; and the London, Blackwall, and
Millwall Extension—as, Mr. Bazalgette reports,
" not only interfere with portions of the Main
Drainage sewers, but also with the sewers through
which the works pass." There is no special clause
in the last-named bill protecting these important
works, and the report advises that such a protection
should be introduced. Of the new lines, probably
the most remarkable is that proposed under the name
of the Waterloo and Whitehall Railway. This is a
pneumatic line, not for the conveyance of letters and
parcels only, not an iron tube like the gigantic pipe
between the Post-office and. Euston-square ; it is an
extension of the plan that has been for some time ex-
hibited in operation in the grounds of the Crystal
Palace at Sydenham. The tunnel admits a full-sized
omnibus carriage, which is propelled by a pressure of
the atmosphere behind the vehicle, produced by les-
sening the density of the air in front. It is an under-
ground railway, worked without locomotives. The
proposed line will run in a tunnel under the Thames,
and open a communication between Whitehall and
the Waterloo station, near Vine-street. As a means
of communication between one part of London and
another this line will be quite an experi-
ment. Of all the railroads in Mr. Bazalgette's
list, minute details are given of how and to what
extent the works will affect the existing sewerage,
and suggestions are made of the course to be
adopted in each case ; but most of these particulars
are given in too technical a form for extract. A
note informs us that the Crystal Palace High Level
Railway has been withdrawn.

The naval transport Dove arrived at Chatham yes-
terday with a portion of the armament of the Chal-
lenger, 21, 400 horse-power, Capt. J. J. Kennedy,
C. 8., on board.

Major Palliser's experimental gun having fired
800 rounds, was yesterday brought up to the de-
partment of Major Freeth, Inspector of Ordnance,
Woolwich Arsenal, for examination and search, as
according to an impression taken in the usual
manner, after the last 15 rounds at the butt, it was
discovered that the inner tube had split. A report
was according transmitted to the War Department
for further orders.

The Admiralty paddlewheel yacht Enchantress,
Staff-Commander John E. Petley, was yesterday
hauled into the fitting basin at Woolwich to undergo
repairs, preparatory to the embarkation of Prince
Arthur on his intended cruise in the Mediterranean.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander F. C. B. Robinson
and Commander F. Hewson, to be Inspecting-
Commanders of the Coastguard, vice Commanders
Selby and Rundle ; Sub.-Lieut. Edward A. Bolitho
and Sub. -Lieut. Richard B. Trollope, to the Curacoa ;
Sub.-Lieut. Robert Barton, to the Sutlej ; Sub.-
Lieut. W. T. Down, to the Achilles ; Murray Glad-
stone, midshipman, to the Clio ; Arthur Price, pay-
master, additional, to the Fisgard ; H. Brown, chief
engineer, to the Cumberland for the Challenger ;
W. M. Freak, assist.-engineer, to the Asia, as
supernumerary ; J. R. Abbott and C. Allsop, assist.-
engineers, to the Resistance ; J. Briggs, assist.-en-
gineer, to the Defence ; and N. G. Page, of the
Hawke, promoted to first-class assist.-engineer.

The report then deals with the miscellaneous im-
provements other than railroads. All the opera-
tions they render necessary within the jurisdiction
of the Board of Works will of course require a
similar vigilance on the part of those who represent
the public. The following is the list of schemes
proposed :—The Metropolis Sewage and Essex Re-
clamation; Limehouse Basin and Cut; Whitechapel
and Holborn Improvements ; Piccadilly and Park-
lane New-road Improvements ; Courts of Justice
Concentration ; St. Clement Danes Improvement ;
Public Offices Site and Approaches, Westminster ;
India Office Site Approaches, Westminster ;
Westminster Improvements ; Hyde Park-gate
Estate ; South Kensington New-road ; London-
field Purchase and Appropriation ; Wimbledon-
common Improvements, and West London Docks
and Warehouses.

A Bill promoting an Essex reclamation in connec-
tion with the metropolitan sewage almost explains
itself. What the Board of Works has completed
the present scheme is intended to utilise on the coast
of Essex, by rendering fertile the present waste
shores at Ray Sands, Dengie Flats, and the Foulness
and Maplin Sands. As the works contemplated by
this bill are mostly beyond the jurisdiction of the
Board, Mr. Bazalgette merely states the course of
the conduits and the nature of the operations without
comment. But the bill is remarkable if only for the
fact that it is the first on the list of actual proposals
to carry into effect a measure that has long been
desired and often suggested, but never attempted,
from the general conviction that the plan was a prac-
tical impossibility. There are two bills for the im-
provement of Piccadilly and Park-lane, but of these
we learn only that they are " promoted by the Board
of Works." A bill is required for the acquisition
of a site for the concentration of the courts of jus-
tice, between Carey-street and the Strand, Cle-
ment's-lane and Bell-yard. But the only concern
of the Board with this improvement is an anxiety
that the building, if erected, may not be allowed to
interfere with the Essex-street main sewer. The
St. Clement Danes Improvement Bill conceals half
its merits under such a general title. It will be
better appreciated as a measure that, if passed, will
sweep away Holywell-street. The Strand Hotel
has done part of the work, but the great clearance
remains to be made between St. Clement's Church
and St. Mary's, in the Strand. In the place of
these old decaying dwellings are to be erected
houses for the working classes, chambers and offices
connected with the Courts of Justice, and shops.
These combined improvements, if effected, will be
among the most striking changes in modem Lon-
don. Bills are also to be proposed in the coming
Session to obtain sites for new public offices and the
new India-office, between the new Government
buildings and Gardner's-lane, and Duke-street and
King-street, Westminster. A new street is to con-
nect Victoria-street and the Broadway, and another
is to continue the Horseferry-road into Rochester-
row. The communication between South Kensing-

ton and Belgrave-square is to be improved, and the
Import closes with a brief reference to the proposed
improvements on Wimbledon-common. Should
these bills be sanctioned the Session of 1865 will
leave a very perceptible mark on the present metro-
polis, both in the centre and at the outskirts.

DEATH FROM CRINOLINE.—On Wednesday last I
Ellen Sykes, aged 27, the wife of William Sykes, went to I
the chemical works of Mr. Carr, Knostropp. near Leeds,
where her husband works, and while playing with her
child in one of the rooms, her dress, which was greatly
expanded by crinoline, was caught by some revolving
machinery. The unfortunate woman was drawn into the
machinery, and her body was much crushed
She and lacera
same
ted,
died the
and one of her legs almost pulled off.
evening from the injuries she received.
THE GOVERNMENT REWARD IN MULLER'S CASE.
—Yesterday (Friday), Mr. Beard, the solicitor for
murder of
the assignees in the case of Jonathan Matthews, the
man, received a letter from the Home-office, in referenceeabto-
the reward offered by the Government for the
on behalf of the assignees of your letter of
Mr. 13riggs.—"Sir,—I am instructed by Secretary Sir
nees of Jona-
than Grey to acknowledge the receipt
reward offered by her Majesty's
of Muller,
theirand am to inform you
et;ina:thpf for
icanthgsee,
th 0
Government
l ms tati inst.,
Matthews,
that the Treasury have instructed'
same to Mr. E. W. Edwards, theofficial solicitor to pay the
money will be paid into the Court
dis-
tribution among the creditorsof assignee." The
of Bankruptcy for
of the expenses in the cue. Matthews, after payment

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