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Illastrated by 26 Anatomical Coloarod Engravings oa Steel.

ON YHYSICACDISQUALICATIONS, GENkRATIVE
CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE,

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RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 21.

,fiLaatneta.s-hdiarye,
STOCK ExcIIAKOB.—The share market was rather
enenrzte,.aiiilll3Bso, 15
Ditto, and but
itelsittetrl e(
lbusinessat, c. a
nddo
8.),. easraalne
guaranteed
—6 rrk
Ditto, 221. Shares, Ditto,7l4 die.—East Lancashire,
ference, Quarters, 7h, —Gasgew, Paisley, and Greenock,ittl°: Pre".
ence, 6 per cent. ti 111853, 71,4—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 321. Shares,refer-
Bt4 die —Ditto, Preference, 11 —London and North-Western, 131
—llitto, New Quarters, S3s. 9d. p.—Midland, 78 c.
BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 91.
STOCK EXCHANae.—The Share Marketdis. continuesrth Stafford very depr
shireessed.
The sales are—Eastern Counties, Sy, —No,
dis.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B), 3•X die.
YORK., Aram 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fol-
lows :—Great Northern, 101. 18s. 9d,—North Stafferdshire, 14 l—
lows
Rotherham, and Goole, North Division, guaranteed 5 per
cent., 914—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, 93,i —York,
Newcastle, and Berwick (Newcastle Extension), 16s. 31 —Ditto
(G. N. E. Purchase), 614 •
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, APRIL 21.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to
day has been 'as follows : —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N
E. Purchase), 634,

GLASGOW, APRIL 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are to-day's transaction! :
Caledonian, Preference (Scrip), 1 11. 6s.—Glasgow, lialnianiockond
Ayr, 55 Ditto, Halves (No. 1), 6%—Ditto (IZo. 2), GT, —Aber-
deco, pretererlee,49s. 6d.—Edinburgh and Glasgow (itirling Midland
Junction), guaranteed 5 por cent., 15%--Glasgow and Greenock, 13
—North British, Preference, 23s.—Scottish Central, 23 .

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EMBEZZLEMENT BY A POLICE CONSTABLE .AT BI
MINGHAM.—On Friday last, one of the Birminghtan
police force, named Lindford, absconded from that town,
taking with him three 51. notes, with which he had
been entrusted to get change for gold and silver to pa)
the men. He has since been captured in Wales, and was
yesterday brought before the magistrate at Birmingham,
and committed for trial at the assizes.
Mr. John Fielden had an interview with Lord John
Russell on Saturday.
The Belgian Minister transacted business at the
Foreign-office on Saturday.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE PACKET SERVICE.—It is stated that the Holy-
head mail steamers having regularly reduced the time
of transit of the mail bags by the route via Holyhead
to Dublin, it is contemplated to make those steamers per-
form all the service of carrying the mails between Lon-
don and Dublin, and to take off the Liverpool line of
mail packets.
MADEIRA, MARCH 26.—Her Majesty's ship Rattler
arrived to-day from Plymouth, bound to the coast of
Africa with mails. Her Majesty's ship Sappho arrived
on the 20th from Portsmouth, for Bermuda. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Driver arrived on the 13th from Plymouth,
bound for Rio Janeiro and the South Pacific.

APPOINTMENTS.
Mate—John H. Glover to the Volage, surveying- ship
the Mediterranean.

Assistant Surgeons—Thomas B. Purchas to the Vic-
tory, flag-ship at Portsmouth; George Mason, M. 1).,
from the Victory to the Heroine sloop, at Devon-
port ; James A. M'Cullagh to the Crocodile, flag-ship
at Cork.

Midshipmen—J. H. Morgan, R. 0. Leach, and J.
Harris to the Ganges, 84, at Cork ' • G. J. Malcolm, G.
D. Fitzroy, H. C. Farrington, J. E. Frampton, G. J.
Dale, and T. P. Kidd to the Wellesley, flag-ship on the
West India station ; H. C. Burleigh and G. F. Acton to
the Superb, 84, at Spithead; H. B. Phillimore, G. W.
Strong, and A. B. Blackwood to the Victory ; H. L.
Holderiand H. Mitchell to the Raleigh, 50, flag-ship in the
River Plato ; C. R. Jefferey, R. P. Jenkins, 11. C.
Wogan, and E. S. Meara to the Centaur, flag. steamer
on the coast of Africa ; R. P. G. Helps and E. J.
Webb, to the Hastings, flag-ship in the East Indies ;
H. G. Payne, to the Plumper, steam schooner, at Ports-
mouth; H. Gulden, to the Reynard, steam schooner, at
Portsmouth; G. G. Nelson, to the Rattler, screw
schooner, on the coast of Africa; R. G. Gresham, to
the Impregnable, 104, flag-ship at Devonport; J. R.
Ouseley, to the Prince Regent, in the Mediterranean
J. A. Gregory and W. D. Hanbury, to the Powerful, in
the Mediterranean ; G. A. Woods and S. H. Pike, to
the Ocean, flag-ship, at Sheerness ; A. D. Mercer, F. J,
Campbell, and J. A. Poland, to the Heroine, at De-
von port.

NAVAL CADETS.—P. Brock, to the Raleigh ;M. W.
Woods, to the Wellesley; H. Bailey and F. H. Hastings.
to the Superb ; T. B. Pratt, to the Prince Regent ; W.
J. Arnold, to the Arrogant ; D. Stewart and A. A.
Smith, to the Hastings ; J. B. Butler, E. H. Hickmand,
and Henry Corbett, to the Southampton.
COAST GUARD.—Lieutenant J. B. Clarke, to com-
mand Shoeburgress station; Lieutenant H. Stokes, from
Rosslaire to Kilmore station ; Mr. J. B. Littlehales,
from Grand Redoubt to Warharrow station.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 22.—A Board of Admiralty is
expected at this port this week.

ADMIRALTY APPOINTMENTS, APRIL 21.
Master—peter Chowes to be chief officer in the
Coast Guard.

Assistant-Surgeons—W. T. Alexander to the Volage;
T. M. Rayner, to tho Ardent; Edward D'Auvergne and
Henry Wellings to the Hibernia.

PROMOTION.
Lieutenant Richard Purvis, late Flag Lieutenant to
Commodore Sir Chareles Hotham, K.C.8., has baen
promoted to the rank of Commander. This promising
officer was Midshipman of the Blonde frigate, and offi-
cially mentioned for sorvice in the boats of that ship
during the operations in Canton River, and also in
storming the heights of Canton, where he served as
Aide-de-Camp to the officer commanding the brigade of
seamen and marines; he was wounded at the attack
upon the batteries of Woosung, and present at the cap-
ture of Chin-Kiang-Foo, and when the treaty of Nankin
was concluded.

The Arrogant, 46, steam-frigate, Captain Fitzroy,
was undocked yesterday, and warped alongside her hulk,
to receive her crew.

The Myrtle, steam tender, temporarily commanded
by Mr. Scarlett, of the Fanny, returned last night from
Cork, whither she had been sent with newly-raised men
from this port.
The Sparrow, ketch, Commander Frazer, and the
Comet, steam-vessel, Commander Otter, fitting for sur-
veying service, are nearly ready to proceed to their re-
spective stations.

The Driver, steam sloop, Commander Johnson, arrived
at Madeira on the 13th ult., from this port, and after re-
plenishing fuel sailed for Itio,_en route to the Pacific.

Th. Rattler, steam-sloop, Commander Cumming, ar-
rived at Madeira on the 26th ult. from Plymouth, and
alter coaling proceeded for Cape Verd and Ascension.
The Sappho, 12, Commander Mitchell, arrived at
Madeira on the 20th ult., from this port, and sailed fur
the %Vest India station.

Tho Harlequin, 12, Commander Seymour, will sail
from Lisbon on the Ist of May, for Madeira.
The Meander, 44, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel, arrived
at Singapore on the 3d ult. from Labuan. When about
on day's sail from that port she picked up the boat of
the brigantine Minerva, Lonsdate, front Moulmein
(wrecked at Balambangan), containing the Master, mate,
and four lascars, who had been 13 days attempting to
beat up to Labuan, and had suffered much from the in•
clemency of the weather. The Meander proceeded im-
mediately to the wreck, but it was found that the natives
had completely stripped her of everything, burning her
to the water's edge to get out the iron and copper.
The Hercules, 72, Master-Commander Fulton, arrived
at Trincomalee on the sth of February, from Moulmein,
laden with teak, and sailed on the 13th for England.
The Ringdove, 16, Commander Robert B. Miller,
(actin:), arrived at Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope,
from Bombay, en route to England, on the 7th of
February.
The Cambrian, 40, Commodore Plnmridge, C. 8., ar-
rived at Bombay to take the command of that division on
the India and China station on the 11th ult., from Trin-
comalee.

The Childers, 12, Commander Pitman, sailed from
Bombay, after repair, on the 10th ult., supposed for Eng-
land. .

Wind, S.S.E., light breezes, and thick hazy weather,
with rain.

PLYMOUTH. APRH. 20.—Her Majesty's sloop Heroine
was commissioned by Commander Marsh on Wednesday,
the 18th, and will take the next mail to the coast of
Africa.

The Hamoaze lighter came in on the 18th, from Pem-
broke.

On the arrival of her Majesty's ship Queen, from the
Mediterranean, she will be paid off, and recommissioned
forthwith .

Dockyard.--The men employed in ripping up the San
Josef had got as far as the gun•deck on Saturday, and
cleared all the beams on Tuesday. Sawyers, when em-
ployed in the labouring department, are in future to be
paid 2s. per day.
Off the port on the 17th inst., the merchant barque
Triton, from St. Croix, with sugar for Copenhagen, all
well; had been upwards of a week in the chops of the
Channel. Landed, Mr. J. C. Mudie and lady, pas-
sengers.

CHAT AM, APRIL 21.—Colonel J. Wright, KM., of

the Chatham division, has returned to his residence at
the barracks from the Admiralty, the Gallant Officer
having given in his resignation as the commandant,
which has been accepted.
The Duck, Savage master, has arrived from Plymouth
and Portsmouth with stores, and the Roohester, Sudg-
weeks master, also has arrived with stores for this yard
from Pembroke. The Aid, Smallman master, remains
loading for Portsmouth.
Mr. G. D. Baines, foreman of the yard at Devonport,
is appointed foreman at this yard, in lieu of one of those
foremen who were last week superannuated. Mr. W. P.
Moore, inspector of joiners at Woolwich yard, is to be
transferred to this yard, in consequence of one inspector
being reduced at that yard.
Mr. Henry Hurrell, boatswain in the Cleopatra, has
been dismissed the service, in consequence of his being
reported by the Commander of the Poictiers to the
Admiralty for having absented himself one night from
the ship, thereby leaving the stores liable to be stolen.
It appears that this warrant officer bad permission pre-
viously from the commander to sleep on board the
Wanderer, which ship lies off three moorings from the
Cleopatra.
William Doe, the private of Royal Marines who was
tried last week by a general court-martial for striking
and threatening to take the life of Sergeant Barratt, and
for damaging the bed and the wall of the cell in which

he was confined, was brought into the presence of the
corps assembled on parade, and received his sentence,
viz., two years' imprisonment, with hard labour. Por-
tions of his sentence were set apart to be solitary, and
he is placed under stoppages, to make good the damage.
At the conclusion, he was removed under escort to the
Military Prison, Fort Clarence.
WOOLWICH, APRIL 21.—The Elfin steam-vessel,
after leaving Blackwell yesterday, proceeded to Half-
way-reach, and then returned to Blackwell to land Capt.
Ellice, controller of steam machinery, and Mr. Lloyd,
chief engineer of the Admiralty. The Elfin accomplished
the entire distance from Blackwell to Chatham in 3 hours
and 17 minutes, and her engines, two of 20-horse power
each, on the oscillating principle, by Messrs. George
and Sir John Ronnie, were worked for some time at the
rate of 66 revolutions per minute. There was no op.
portunity yesterday of testing the speed of the Elfin
at the measured mile, which is usually done by running
four or six times up or down the measured distance in
Long-reach.

T'.;e Megicienne steam-vessel, recently launched at
eshteer by the
rday
of
fes m at
Pembroke, was towed up the river
Monkey steam-vessel, to be fitted witti
this port. She was brought round in Olaregnegi
Laen, the master of the Royal Sovereign, at Pembrokr, e
and has brought about 300 men to navigate the Basilisk
and Niger steam-vessels during the approaching trial of
speed and sailing qualities, and ultimately to take them
to Devonport, where they are to be stationed as part of
the advanced steamers at that station.
The Lightning steam vessel, Master Commander
Petley, arrived to-day from Grimsby and Sheerness, and
was taken alongside the wharf to have a supply of coals
nut on board, to be ready for further service.
The Sampson and Gladiator steam-frigates are in an
advanced state, and will soon be ready to be placed
amor oat the war steamers kept in a state of readiness for
commission.

OBITUARY.
Lieutenant Edward Medly (1807), of the coast euard
station at Staxigoe, died on the afternoon of Wednes-
day. the 11th inst., after an illness of
the ta only a.few days.
Ile was midshipman of the Quebec at king of He-

ligoland, and served in her boats in cutting out several
vessels from the Vlie passage. He was lieutenant of
the 'Wanderer, and was wounded in the attack on the
Island of St. Martin's, in 1808 ; and when senior of the
Reynard, served in her boats at cutting out three Danish
privateers in the Baltic, 1810. He was the unwearied
agent of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Be-
nevolent Society. To his representations the maritime
portion of the community owe the erection of the Ness
Head Lighthouse on its present site.
Master's Assistant Mr. Anderson, of the Ardent, on
the Mediterranean station, died at the Royal Naval
Hospital, Malta, on Wednesday, the sth, and after a
fortnight's illness. He was 20 years of age, and was
about to pass for a second master. He was interred the
following morning with military honours, a detach-
ment of marines from the Ceylon forming the firing
party. All the second masters and assistant-masters in
port attended the funeral.