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fantry regiments in India are now
at Chatham garrison to embark on
tered troopship Beaumaris Castle, whiclilliss igen 8
taken up by the lion. Council of India for the
conveyance of troops to Kunachee--viz., Lieut.
W. S. Jervis, Ensign C. D. Randall, Ensign E. A.
Free, and 34 non-commissioned officers and men of
the 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers ; Ensign R.
Lawrence, and 153 non-commissioned officers and
men of the 90th Light Infantry ; Captain J. Lane
and wife, 82d Regiment; Captain W. Green, En-
sign A. W. Warrand ; Ensign S. G. Hulse, and 80
men of all ranks of the 42d Royal Highlanders (the
Black Watch) ; 51 non-commissioned officers and
men of the 79th Cameron Highlanders ; 1 man of
the 93d Sutherland Highlanders ; 1 man of the
51st King's Own Light Infantry ; Lieutenant J.
Gabbett and 26 men of the 95th Regiment ; and
1 man of the 21st Hussars, the whole in medical
charge of Assistant-Surgeon T. A. Thornhill, M. 8.,
7th Queen's Own Hussars. The Beaumaris Castle
was under orders to leave the Thames, with the
above troops on board, on the 18th inst., but in
consequence of an accident which she. has sustained
she is not expected to be ready to receive on board
her troops for some days.

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

sian flat face, the fine profile of the Latin race—an unmis-
takable brotherhood of nations. The English have not
many here ; just a dash of fast young men, a few curious
middle-aged club men, a few most respectable matrons
with their bevy of blooming daughters. Not many of the
English sit at the tables ; the most venturesome of them
fling in their florin or napoleon, just by way of frolic, and
either walk away unconcerned, without awaiting results,
or aro ready with their good humoured laugh either for
gain or loss. Few of the better class of English people
gamble, I repeat ; not many even frequent the Kursaal.
They are rather to be found at the reading-rooms or gar-
dens, at their own hotels, where they limit themselves
pretty much to each other's company, sit down to long
breakfasts and still longer dinners, at their own late hours,
and keep up a lazy, harmless, and tant soit peu drowsy talk
about the last set come in or the last party gone off; about
the merits and charges of various hotels, the best route to
Zermatt, Bishop Colenso, the cattle disease, Bismark, the
gout, the
and aew hi
waiters.watersithewteties. Two-thirds of h
I noticebald headst
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younggreat
number,
ladies are pretty, or are made by the waters, by early hours,
'and mild excitement, to look so.
I wonder if any man of woman born_ever grows up with
a natural calling to be a croupier. I sat opposite to him
the day at the Kursaal table d'hote at Homburg, not the
great man himself, I suppose, but certainly one of the
principal ministers and high priests of the divinity men
come here to bow down to; a bland-looking, smug, middle-
aged gentleman,anditwhe cladwaja waistcoat, very blandthtemostsc scrupulously blackeryusvlyneaetarnee,
t
coat
not ill-favoured, on a first inspection, but marked with a
most unequivocal hooked nose and capacious nether jaw,
all sleek and Stout and round, a gorged bird of prey, the
edge of whose appetite no gorging can blunt ; glossy black
hair, dull black eyes, deep eye-brows, colourless cheeks,
a bronze face. He cracked his jokes in an undertone,
leered at a high-dressed young lady on his right—oue of
those young ladies who happen to have taken the wrong
train somewhere and lost their friends on the way, and
who come hither without mamma or chaperon—and for
the rest, there he sat, self-satisfied, conscious of his im-
portance ; a man of few wants, apparently, of humdrum
habits, of a most limited vocabulary. " Faites le jeu,
Messieurs—le jeu est fait :—rouge perd," ; and the
eternal rattle of the napoleons raked in and the florins
doled out. There is an existence for an immortal soul
made in God's image !

Yet, without him, what would Wiesbaden, Baden, or
Homburg be in the summer, or Monaco in winter ? "It is
a crying shame, a flagrant scandal of the German Govern-
ments," I hear it said. It may be, or may not be ; but, if
that man waited till he fattened on my florins or thalers,
I dare say it would take time before he looked as sleek as
he does. I remember that Frenchmen who could never
find fault with any human contrivance, however question-
able, the result of which was to "faire rouler les ecus,"
and certainly for a sure means of rapid pecuniary circula-
toin there is nothing in the world like the darling sin at
Wiesbaden; and because it is one of the sins we have no
mind to, my good friend, shall we be in a hurry to damn
it, and think less of the sins we are inclined to ?
Naval and Military Intelligence.

We (Times) have received the following letter
from our Malta correspondent, dated Valletta,
August 18 :

" Her Majesty's frigate Magicionne, 16, Capt. W. Army-
tago, arrived on the 11th inst. from Castellamare and Mes-
sina, having been ordered to Malta by the Commander-in-
Chief. She brought the satisfactory intelligence that, the
last instalment of £B,OOO having been paid to the Italian
brigands, Mr. Moens was about to be released. An anchor
lost four years ago by her Majesty's ship Terrible at Mes-
sina, and which several of her Majesty's ships had been ex-
pressly sent to recover, but without success, was brought
hero by this vessel. The Chanticleer, 17, Commander W.
H. Fen wick, and the Racer, 11, Commander L. Brine, left
port on the 11th inst., and aro still sailing in the offing for
the benefit of the sea breeze. The former vessel returned
from Rosas Bay on the Bth inst. Last week I contradicted
a report that a second fatal case of cholera had occurred on
board. The report was untrue at the time, but the evening
after her departure from Malta a second case, ending fatally,
actually did occur among the crew. The Chanticleer con-
sequently brought back a large number of supernumeraries
she was conveying for the different ships, as had they been
received by the Admiral the whole squadron would have
been put in quarantine. There have been no other cases
of cholera on board any of the ships here ; but the disease
prevails amongst the dockyard police, and some of the
workmen have been attacked, owing, it is believed, to the
horrid state of the Dockyard-creek, which has become un-
bearable in the summer weather from the sewers of three
populous towns emptying themselves into it. Various pro-
posals have been made by commissions appointed to exa-
mine into the matter, but nothing has been done hitherto
to remedy the evil. Many of the employes whose duties
will permit them have boon driven from their official resi-
dences to seek a purer atmosphere elsewhere. Her Majesty's
gun vessel Surprise, Commander G. Tryon, left Malta on
the 15th inst. for Spezzia with mails for the squadron.
Since her departure a telegram has been received an-
nouncing the arrival of the Commander-in-Chief at Genoa,
and giving instructions that the next mails should be de-
spatched to him at Spezzia." _ _

- The passage of the armour-plated frigate Agin-
court, last week, from Birkenhead to Plymouth, is
said to be the first in which a ship has been navi-
gated from her place of construction to a naval port
without the aid of canvas or the escort of a steam
tender. This immense ship, 6,621 tons, the largest
in the British navy, was in charge of Capt. Paynter
and Staff-Commander Moor, of the Donegal, at
Liverpool, who had a crew of about 150 men, in-
cluding seamen and stokers, from the steam reserve
in Hamoaze, and riggers from Devonport dockyard,
under the command of Mr. Sleep, master of the
steamtug Scotia. Mr. Henry H. Laird, one of her
builders, was on board. The Agincourt left Liver-
pool on the 12th inst. for Holyhead, where, in con-
sequence of the weather, she continued until the
18th at noon, when she started, and reached the
South Slack light at 12 56 p.m. ; the Smalls light
was passed at 10 2 ; Longships, off the Land's-end,
at 7 28 on the morning of the 19th ; the Lizard,
9 38, and Rame Head, the western boundary of
Plymouth Sound, at 134 p.m. the same day. The
course, about 280 miles, was thus run in 24h. 40m.,
equal to a speed of 114 knots, without' deductions
for hazy weather or when ships were near, on which
occasions the speed never exceeded 10 knots. This
result was considered satisfactory by the officers in
charge. When ready for sea it is estimated that
the draught of the Agincourt will be, aft, 26ft. ;
forward, 25ft. On leaving Liverpool her draught
was 25ft. 6in., and 23ft. 6in., and on her arrival at
forward -fuheel; fivesoo
Plymouth 25ft. 6in., and 22. Tin.
tons of coal, was stowed chiefly ,
iron masts are on deck, a little abaft the midship
section. The bulk of the weights which will yet
have to go in her will be placed chiefly forward.
The Agincourt on her passage answered her helm
readily, and was very easy under the swell of the
sea, whether ahead or on her beam. The weather,
although moderate, was sufficiently heavy to cause
other ships to roll. Her engines, by Maudslay, Sons,
and Field, are of 1,350 horse power nominal, being
more powerful by 100 horses than those of the
Achilles, and were in charge of Mr. Warrener, of
that firm, and his engineers. They were
fitted in Mr. Laird's yard, but will not
be accepted by the Lords of the Admiralty until
certified after trial by the official inspectors, which
cannot take place for some time. On the passage
all her 10 boilers were worked. The screw has a
diameter of 24ft., and a pitch of 24ft. ; it is of the
Admiralty pattern—four bladed ; the revolutions
averaged 50 per minute ; vacuum, 26i and 27 ;
highest temperature in the stoke-hole 105 deg., and
in the engine-room 82 deg. There were no hot
bearings, and the machinery was not stopped from
the time of leaving Holyhead to arrival in Plymouth
Sound. The Agincourt will be placed in the new
long dock in Devonport yard. In consequence of
her great breadth-59ft. 3in.—it will be necessary
to use deeper blocks than usual to receive her keel,
by which her bilges will be brought higher up,
and consequently further off from the receding
sides of the dock. There will thus be more light
below, and the artisans will obtain more space in
which to do their work. She will probably be
docked on Thursday. Her total weight is 8,000
tons.
The Constance screw frigate, Captain E. Bar-
nard, sailed from Spithead yesterday from Devon-
port, where she is ordered to complete her outfit for
foreign service.
The Scorpion, 4, double turret ship, Captain H.
Burgoyne, V.C., remains at anchor at St. Helen's,
south of Spithead, testing the working of her guns
and turrets, under the supervision of the officers of
her Majesty's ship Excellent.
Tne following reinforcements for cavalry and in-