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vacant by the death of Sir Stuart
A committee, consisting of C:
Osborn, Colonel de Lisle, Mr. A. Crawford, and a
representative from each of the reclamation com-
panies, has been appointed by Government to report
on the subject of over-bridges needed on the Great
'lndian Peninsula Railway line passing through the
native town of Bombay.
"It is reported that the Bengal Sappers and
Miners are about to be reorganised on a very liberal
footing. The numbers of both officers and men are
to be increased, and an instruction branch' formed.
" A fatal accident recently occurred on the East
Indian Railway near Cawnpore, by a passenger train
from Delhi coming into collision with another pas-
senger train from Calcutta. The drivers of both
the trains escaped with slight injuries, but two
Europeans and ten natives were killed upon the spot,
and many other persons injured.
" The recent disturbances adverted to in the
Cossyah hills have ended in the murder of the Rajah
of Mowigam by a party of Cossyahs, who have since
been arrested by the police.
" llis Highness the Maharajah of Rewah has
given £5OO to found a Rewah scholarship in Queen's
College, Benares ; and the Maharajah of Viziana-
gram has also subscribed £7OO to found a Viziana-
gram scholarship in the same college.
" A landslip has occurred on the bank of the river
at Canning-town, some 300 ft. in length and 150 ft.
in breadth.

" There has been a slight landslip on the Thall
ghaut, and also a falling of stone in one of the
tunnels on the Bhore ghaut.

Obituary.—Gen. Sir Stuart Corbett, at Nynee
Tal, and Lieut. G. P. Alston, R.A., at Ahmedabhad,
on the 7th inst. ; Lieut.-Colonel Thompson, Bengal
Cavalry, Alipore, on the 3d inst. ; Capt. G. Richard..
son, Bth Native Infantry, at Surat ; and Lieut.-
Colonel Hawkins, R.A., at Kurrachee, on the 2d
instant."

The Cholera in the Mediterranean.

VALETTA, Sept. 22.

The epidemic has not declined during the week.
On the 17th the cases rose to 33 attacks and 20
deaths, and on the 19th to 35 attacks and 22 deaths.
On the following day they fell to 13 attacks and 18
deaths, but, on the next day, they rose again to 21
attacks and 18 deaths. The increase is chiefly owing
to fresh outbreaks at Vittoriosa and Teitun. The
former is one of the towns on the shores of the filthy
dockyard creek, and the latter is suffering much
from want of work. The average number of cases
in Valetta has been, for some time past, about three
daily. To-day there were only two attacks, and the
accounts from such parts of the country as have
been received are more satisfactory.
On the 13th and 18th the island was visited by
storms of thunder and rain, but the hopes of an
amelioration in its sanitary condition to be derived
thereby have not been gratified. The coolweather
has not yet set in, and it is feared the epidemic will
not leave us until that period.
The total number of deaths among the troops, in-
cluding women and children, up to the 14th inst.,
I was 115, out of about 150 to 160 attacks. Since
then several cases have occurred, especially in the
84th Regiment, which for a long time escaped the
disease entirely. Yesterday five cases manifested
themselves in this regiment, and one in the Royal
Artillery.
'The following are the returns of cholera cases in
the civil population since the 11th inst., the date of
my last communication :
Attacks. Deaths. !Attacks. Deaths.
Sept. 12 17 ... 9 Sept. 17 ... 33 20
13 21 10 „ 18 ... 25 16
14 15 16 77 „19 ... 35 22 „
15 ... 25 14 „ 20 13 ... 18
„ 16 ... 21 13 71 21 21 18
The accounts of the cholera in the Levant are
11 more encouraging. It has disappeared from Alex-
andria, although it still lingers in Upper Egypt, on
account of which clean bills of health have not yet
been issued. The rise of the Nile above the ave-
rage height has gladdened all hearts, and promises
a splendid cotton crop.
From Smyrna, Constantinople, Odessa, and other
ports, reassuring news is received. At Smyrna, ac-
cording to a letter of the 13th instant, confi-
dence was being restored, the epidemic having
ceased for some days. A great deal of misery,
however, required to be relieved. At Constanti-
nople, where the disease had assumed the most
gigantic proportions, it is at present limited to a
few cases daily. From Odessa we learn that clean
bills of health are now issued from that port.
Corfu, as indeed all Greece, I believe, continues
free from cholera, but fevers were very prevalent.
A steamer, lately arrived at Corfu from Brindisi,
reported a case of cholera there.
The Malta Relief Fund, for the assistance of per-
sons suffering from the present visitation of cholera,
has lately received the munificent donation of £lOO
from Messrs. Burns and Maclver, of Liverpool, in
addition to a personal donation, on the part of Mr.
Maclver, of £5O.

We are informed on most unquestionable autho-
rity that a decided and undoubted case of Asiatic
cholera, with a fatal result, has occurred in South-
ampton. The victim was a man named Rose, about
30 years of age, residing in Brewhouse-court, Brew-
house-lane, who died on Sunday, about 36 hours
from his first attack, the symptoms at every stage
being those of the most virulent form of this dread-
ful disease. The unfortunate man himself dated
his illness having been engaged a few days previously
in cleaning out a very offensive cesspool. Another
case, that of a woman living in a different part of
the town, is also reported as presenting similar t,
symptoms. Although these cases, should they both
prove to be Asiatic cholera, may not presage an im-
mediate prevalence of the epidemic, they are suffi-
ciently alarming to call for vigilant and energetic
measures, without an hour's delay, on the part of
the local authorities, and, if necessary, the Govern-
ment itself. 'With a full consideration of the fact
that the town of Southampton is in direct commu-
nication, by means of the mail steamers, with the
Mediterranean, and only four days from Gibraltar,
where the cholera now prevails, and at which port
these steamers call, every possible sanitary precau-
tion should be at once taken to guard the health,
not only of the inhabitants of Southampton, but the
country at large.

MORISON'S PILLS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF
HEALTH, EUSTON-ROAD, LONDON.—AII persons should
know that the above medicine can be sent by post on receipt
of 30 postage stamps for two boxes, Nos. 1 and 2,13 id. size.
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THE GHEENWI CIIPE NS I ONE RS. —Yesterday nearly
200 out of the 900 pensioners of Greenwich Hospi-
tal who have accepted the Admiralty offer of pension
allowances, in conformity with the Act passed in the last
Session of Parliament, left that establishment for various
parts of the country they have selected for their future
hothe, and by the end of the present week it is calculated
that the whole 900 will have left, and that Greenwich
Hospital, which only a few years ago had upwards cf 2,000
inmates, will not contain more than 450. These are prin-
cipally cripples, or persons otherwise infirm, and to them
only will the Hospital in future be open. Those pensioners
who have taken their discharge are to receive the same
amount of out-pension as that which they gave up when
they entered the establishment., in addition to which
they are to be paid a "Greenwich Hospital pension," pro-
viding they come within the following rules the pen-
sioner is 55 years of age, and has been a pensioner (whether
in the Hospital cr out) for a period of five years, ho will be
paid sd. a day—that is £7 12s. per annum : or, if he is 70
years of ago, and has been a pensioner (whether in the Hos-
pital or out) for a period of ten years, he will be paid 9d. a,
day—that is, £l3 12s. a year. In further addition to his
pension he will be paid one-half the money allowance he
was receiving from the Hospital on the Gth of April last,
whether it be the weekly money paid to him of either
three, four, or five shillings, according to his classification,
or the two shillings' allowance to married men, or his
weekly wages for acting in any capacity which is paid out
of the Hospital funds. In making the foregoing allowances
the Lords of the Admiralty have desired, as far as their
powers enable them, to make up an allowance of £36 10s_
a year, which is equal to 14s. a week. The foregoing pen-
sions and money allowance will not, however, in the case of
every pensioner make up that sum, and in such cases the
Lords of the Admiralty have allowed the deficient amount '

to be made up, if possible, out of the other half of the money
allowance. The proper fare for the conveyance home of
the pensioners has also been allowed. They are also entitled
to take their chest of clothes with them, and to be read-
mitted at any time hereafter on becoming infirm anti
helpless.