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REVELATION of QUACKS and QUACKERY.
By DMCECTOR.

. For notices of this startl.ng -work see the "Saturday Re-
view" of April I, entitled "Quacks and Quackery ;" the
"Weekly D.spatch" of April v. "The Quacks and their
, Crimes ;' "The Sun" of April 12, "'Detector's' Broadside
on Quacks and Quackery."
GUIDE TO Tilt QUACKS OF LONDON.
A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in
the " Medical Circular," with the signature of "Detector,"
has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The
reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. lie has
of ten read, in the pages of "Punch." of a, rtain Quacks, frau-
dulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences,
and more money by menaces and extortion, from green
young men. For their names, which " Punch" would not
advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of
the advertisinl.r, columns of low newspapers, amongst which
too many of Mr. ‘• Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the
country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to pub-
lish the information that a nominal list of these miscreanta,
with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning
them. needful to be anown, will be found in the pamphl- t
above referred to, which is entitled " Revelations of Quacks
an I Quackery," and is to be had at the " Medicsl Circular "
Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.C.
The vile practices, the monstrous impudence, the cruel
rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of
Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to
the causation of suicide, are iully set forth in " Revelations
of Quacks and Qackery." And mark especially that, as
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EASTERN BENGAL.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Friday at the London Tavern ; Mr. J. F. Leith in the chair.
The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun,
was taken as read.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said the traffic on the lino had gradually progressed, and
on the whole he thought they would consider it satisfactory.
There was considerable difficulty in diverting
the traffic in
India from the ordinary routes, and he thought they might
congratulate themselves on the accession of traffic to their
Kooshtee station on the Ganges. By this means the native
merchants would avoid sending their goods in boats by
the tedious navigation of the Sunderbunds to Calcutta.
Since the last meeting the directors had. ascertained
that the total loss to the company by the late cyclone
did not exceed £12,610. The traffic had gone on
increasing satisfac The gross receipts for the
half-year ending tiiiTtlst of December last amounted
to £46,732, and for the corresponding half of 1863 to
£42,603, showing an increase of £4,129. The net receipts
amounted to £21,652 against £20,476 for the corresponding
half of 1863. The total number of passengers carried was
539,700 against 514,99 Q for the same half of 1863, showing
an increase of 24,710. The increase of traffic on the line
would have been much greater if the feeder roads had been
completed, but he was sorry to say that not ono of the feeder
roads had yet been completed to the railway, and conse-
quently the local traffic could not be developed. The chief
increase was from through traffic. Since the end of last
year the traffic had augmented in a greater proportion than
formerly. The receipts for the ',reek ending March 18 last
amounted to £3,973, which was sufficient to pay at the rate
of 51 per cent. per annum on the cost of the railway, which
was about £15,000 a mile. The total cost of the 110 miles
was about £1,650,000. In the subsequent week ending
March 25 the receipts amounted to £4,534, which was a
larger receipt. The total receipts for the first 15 weeks of
the present year amounted for passengers to £23,313, and
for goods to £19,290; together, .£42,603, which he thought
was very satisfactory. The Inter communications to
Kooshtee would materially assist them. With regard to the
passenger traffic, the establishment of a fourth class had
given great satisfaction to the natives, as it enabled them
to preserve caste. It had also enccuraged the natives to use
the railway for residential traffic near Calcutta. The first
and second class fares were lower than on the East Indian
Railway, and should be raised to rank° them remunerative.
The first class fares were 12 pice rer mile, of IZd. ; second
class, 6 pice, or id. per mile ; third class was 42 pica per
mile, and fourth class 3 pica, or three-eighths of a penny
per mile. The goods traffic consisted chiefly of produce from
the interior to Calcutta, but if the imports were as much the
traffic both ways, up and down. The company's
would have
the goods
waggons would not return empty, and they
staff had enjoyed good health during the past half-year.
The traffic has already exceeded the original estimate of Mr.
Burden, their engineer. He had estimated the local traffic
at £55,000, and the through traffic from the Ganges at
£25,000, making £BO,OOO a-year ; the receipts for the year
1864 amounted to £92,000, which was £12,000 above the
estimate. They had repaid to the Government £82,475 out
of their net reveflue on interest account to Dec. 31 last.

Sir F. HALL/DAY seconded the motion for the adoption of
the report, which was carried unanimously. .
In reply to questions it was stated that there was a com-
mission sitting in Calcutta on the subject of a bridge across
the Hooghly. The company's engineer had proposed that
the bridge should cross the river at either of the two points
—one 30 miles above Calcutta, and the other at 16 miles from
Calcutta, at either of which a junction line could pass over
the bridge from the East Indian Railway to the Eastern of
Bengal Railway. The East Indian Railway Company had
proposed that the bridge should cross the Hooghly as near
their station at Howrah as possible. Howrah was at one
side of the river Hooghly and Calcutta on the other, similar
in position to London and Lambeth on each side of the
Thames. The point selected for crossing the Hooghly was
about 5 miles above4etttiii, and it was proposed to bring
the traffic of the East liidian Railway over the Eastern of
Bengal Railway to a central station at Sealdah, in Calcutta.
On the motion of Mr. FRANKLIN, seconded by Mr.
TnonrsoN, a resolution was unanimously passed requesting
the directors to communicate to the Government the re-
spectful remonstranceof the compauyat the non-fulfilment
of expectations held out in reference to the construction of
feeder roads, the absence of which had deprived the com-
pany of remunerative local traffic which otherwise would
have come upon the line.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to tho
chairman.

Death of Charles Waterton, the Naturalist.

Mr. Charles Waterton, or, to use the name by
which he was more familiarly known around the
place where he passed the later years of his life,
Squire Waterton, the noted naturalist and traveller,
died at midnight on Friday last, at his residence,
Walton-hall, near Wakefield. Although he had
reachtd an advanced age, namely, 83, yet up to
Thursday he was hale and vigorous beyond the com-
mon lot of those of his time of life. On that day he
met with an accident by falling from a rustic bridge
spanning a small stream which runs into the upper
end of the lake surrounding the hall. Dr. Wright
and Mr. Horsfall were called into him, but the shock
which the system had -sustained was too great for
the old squire to rally from. The Reverend Canon
Brown before his death administeredto him the last
rites of the Roman Catholic Church, and it is under-
stood the Pope telegraphed his benediction. Mr.
Edmund Waterton, the squire's son, was in Rome
with the Pope when the accident took place. As a
naturalist Mr. Waterton was world renowned.
" Waterton's Wanderings in South America" have
been read, we should think, wherever the English
tongue has penetrated ; and the bold characteristic
deed therein narrated—the riding of a caiman to
death—will at once recur to every mind. One of
squire's well-known traits was never to allow a shot
to be fired on his grounds, except to keep down the
rabbits which infested them. The result has been
that in Walton-park many a rare bird and animal
has made its haunt in safety, and the curious cir-
cumstance may be therein seen of herons and equally
shy members of the feathered tribe remaining un-
moved at the report of a gun. Walton-hall and
grounds have long been the resort during the sum-
mer months of numerous pleasure parties. The in-
structions which the departed squire left behind him
concerning his funeral are somewhat remarkable.
A mausoleum for the reception of his body had long
been erected near the top end of the lake. This
sepulchre rests beneath the overhanging shade of
two venerable oak trees. The body is not to be car-
ried to its long home by land, but is to be conveyed
over the lake in a boat, the mourners are to follow
in the wake. The funeral is to take place on Satur-
day ; and if the wishes of the deceased squire aro to
be consulted, will be strictly private. The squire
had written his own epitaph. It is in Latin. The
translation runs thus :—" Pray for the soul of
Charles Waterton, born June, 1782, died 18—,
whose wearied bones rest here." The following
brief account of his life is taken from Mr. W. H.
Leatham's lectures, published in 1845 :—" This
celebrated naturalist was born at Walton-hall, near
Wakefield, in the county of York, about 62 years
ago. On his father's side he is descended in a direct
line (through his grandmother) from Sir Thomas
More. On his mother's side he is akin to the Be-
clingfields of Oxbury, to the Charletons of Hazle-
side, and to the Swinburnes of Chapheaton. The
Watertons emigrated into Yorkshire some centuries
ago, from their family seat, bearing their own name,
in the island of Axholm, in Lincolnshire. The
Watertons fought at Cressy and Agincourt and at
Marston Moor. They were preferred in Catholic
times to places of great honour and trust, but since
the :Reformation they have experienced opposite
fortune. Walton-hall, the family seat, stands on
an island in a lake. The land rises gently from the
water on all sides and is crowned with fine timber,
the whole park being inclosed by a formidable
stone wall. Charles Waterton received his education
at Stonyhurst, Lancashire, where he remained until
nearly 21 years of age. Here he became an elegant
Latin scholar, and renounced for ever the use of
wines and spirituous liquors. His love for natural
history often led him into playing truant, but even-
tually his instructors gave him further liberty to
pursue his favourite study. Soon after leaving
Stonyhurst the young squire made a tour into Spain.
Here he met with many strange adventures—fever,
earthquakes, &c., and was seized with sickness on
his return home. In 1804, lie went out to superin-
tend his uncle's estates in Demerara. In 1812, his
father and uncle being dead, he delivered up his
trust, and all subsequent visits which he paid to
South America were undertaken with no other ob-
ject in view than the pursuit of natural history.
" The Wanderings" bear testimony to the wonder-
ful adventures of Mr. Waterton during these visits.
The vivacity with which these narratives abound
render them the most charming productions of the
kind in the English language: In 1829, Mr.
Waterton married a Miss Edmonstone, but
their :felicity was of short duration—she died
within a year, leaving him a son. He has
since made frequent journeys to Belgium
and Italy. His " Essays on Natural History" have
been collected from Loudon's Magazine, and edited
by himself in a handsome volume, to which he pre-
fixed a most amusing autobiography. This work is
as racy as " The Wanderings," and full of interest-
ing and acute observation. In closing this brief
sketch of Mr. Waterton, we must not omit to men-
tion that he is the first bird-stutter in.the world, and
one of the most kind-hearted landlords, and a zealous
and conscientious Catholic. A highly recommen-
datory feature of his writings is, that they uniformly
enjoin kind treatment of animals, and a generous
sympathy with their persecutions. He has lately
published a second series of essays on Natural
History.