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by the tide awl drift with it sufficiently to " slew"
upon the ways, in which case, as the tide fell, she
would be in great danger of turning over and be-
coming a total wreck. So also, as the lighters lift
her, the struts by which she is at present supported
will fall, and in case of her still holding by the bows
there would again be the most imminent danger of
her falling on her side—a danger which would be
as great to those near her as to her own hull. Every
possible precaution, however, has been taken to
prevent chances of such accidents arising. The
dockyard men employed in the lighters are, of
course, conversant with this kind of work, and
have, furthermore, been instructed to cut away the
fastenings which bind their craft to the huge vessel
the instant they perceive she is moving safely.
No day whatever has actually been fixed for at-
tempting to carry out this great effort in mechanics.
If the tide serves to-day it may be attempted, but
for a very high tide the northerly wind is wanted,
and that which now prevails is westerly and likely
to keep down the tide of the Thames. In case of
the river not rising high enough to-day, the attempt
to launch or float—whichever it may be called—is
likely to be made on Tuesday. Most earnestly do
we trust that whenever it is made it may be success-
ful, for any accident happening to this splendid ship
would not only be a serious loss to the Miliwall
Company, but a still more serious loss to the iron-
clad fleet of England, of which the Northumber-
land is one of the most magnificent specimens ever
built.

ravel and, ALM

An order was yesterdPiy received at Chatham
garrison directing the following officers and-detach-
ments to be held in readiness to embark at Graves-
end on board the chartered troopship Gresham for
Hongkong—viz., Capt. G. Hamilton French, En-
sign Charles H. Shepherd, Staff Assist.-Surgeons
Jackson and King, 37 non-commissioned officers
and men, one barrack-sergeant and wife, and 27
soldiers' wives and children of the 2d battalion
of the Regiment ; Capt. Allen N. Adams, Ensign
John Hugh Ford, and 51 non-commissioned officers
and men of the 2d battalion of the 20th Regiment.
Two armourer-sergeants and one schoolmaster will
also embark with the detachments. Previously to
the troops embarking the Gresham will be inspected
by Major-General Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., to
insure the regulations required by the War Depart-
ment being carried out.
The following officers at Chatham garrison have
been placed under orders for embarkation to join
the headquarters of their respective regiments at
the stations named :—viz., Capt. Walter F. Blake,
2d battalion 4th King's Own Regiment, for Malta ;
Captain Johnson Wilkinson, Ist battalion 15th
Regiment, for New Brunswick; Capt. Mont. M'P.
Battye, Ist battalion 10th Regiment, for the Cape
of Good Hope ; Ensign Edward W. Stokes, 2d bat-
talion 4th King's Own Royals, for Malta ; Ensign
Richard Albert Bayley, 35th Regiment, for Cal-
cutta; and Ensign W. Hector M'Caskill, 102 d
Royal Madras Fusileers, for Madras. The following
officers have received orders to join the depot com-
panies of their respective regiments at Chatham gar-
rison :—Capt. F. B. Ehrenberg Allhusen, Ist bat-
talion 15th Regiment ; Lieut. W. Paul Bridson,
and Ensign Thomas Blackwood, 2d battalion 4th
King's Own Regiment; and Ensign Owen Wil-
liams, Ist battalion 12th Regiment.
Capt. W. Alexander Godley, 56th Regiment, has
been appointed by the Duke of Cambridge to
succeed Major J. Hallowes, 87th Royal Irish Fusi-
leers, as superintendent of the Royal Military
Gymnasium, Chatham.
By direction of the Admiralty the screw gunboat
Hunter, 2, 40-horse power, attached to the squadron
at Portsmouth, is to be sent from that port to Chat-
ham, for the purpose of being employed in connec-
tion with the works for the enlargement and exten-
sion of the dockyard.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

VARNA.

The second general meeting was held on Thurs
day at the offices, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street
Mr. H. W. Blake in the chair.

The Secretary read the report, which stated that
the progress made in the construction of the railway
was in all respects satisfactory, and the works were
so far advanced that every arrangement would be
made for opening the railway for traffic in October
next. _ _ .

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said in consequence of the mildness of the
weather the contractors had been able to complete
nearly all the ballasting, and they could rely upon
the opening of the line on the Ist of October next.
The report was adopted.

* This letter is written by an old member of the Loudon
Working Men's College, who emigrated to Vancouver's
Island about four years since.

WORCESTER, BROMYARD, AND LEOMINSTER.
The report of the directors stated that little pro-
gress has been made in the works of the railway
since Christmas. Arrangements were being made
with a contractor to complete the time to Bromyard,
by March 25, 1867. The directors had introduced a
bill for an extension of the time for the purchase of
land and completion of works between Bromyard
and Leominster, and for the increase of capital. The
capital account showed that £50,201 had been ex-
pended.

The English Cattle Supply.

The Times, alluding to the Cattle Trade Re-
port, says that the number of beasts last Mon-
day fortnight was 2,140, on Monday week it
was 4,157, while yesterday it was but 2,340.
Strange to say, however, notwithstanding this
diminution in the supply, the price of beef shows a
further fall. On the 12th of March the price of
prime beef was 55. 10d. the stone; last week it fell
to 55., and this week it is 4s. 10d. The deficiency
in the number of cattle, like the abundance of last
week, is due to variation in the foreign supply. the
importation by water from parts of the United
Kingdom being still insignificant. The number of
foreign animals at the market, which was 3,490 last
Monday, was yesterday but 1,910, and this was
more than four-fifths of the whole. These
numbers represent the cattle actually offered for
sale at the market ; but the Custom-house return
of the total weekly importation tells the same tale.
In the week ending the sth of March the number
of cattle imported was 2,855 ; in the following
week they were 2,823 ; in the week preceding the
19th inst. they were 4,171 ; while during last week
they fell to 3,102. The fall in the price of beef can
only be ascribed to a greater abundance in the dead-
meat market, and the satisfactory anticipations
which we have indulged on this head are so far
more than fulfilled.
prepdlyfor sale at the
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d.is
still
dependentitappears
uponfr from ihnetth these returns
foreignbree rt uorfnse supplytltiat
to the extent of about half
Metropolitan markets. is, at this criti-
calta which the country has had to consider since
yto Tbehisoffsue
moment, affected by one of the most important
which used formerl
the first introduction of the Cattle Plague.
The total number of oxen imported during the
year 1864 from Holland was 77,481,
while the im-
portation from all other countries amounted to
68,908. Taking into account also the number of
cows and calves, the total importations of Dutch
cattle were
144)957 against but 81,399 from all
other countries. jt
appears, therefore, that after
to-morrow we shall be suddenly deprived of two-
thirds of our foreign supplies, and that at the very
,
moment when this source of supply has become of
amount of the evil. It is difficult to
sent the whole
the first importance to us. No. r does this repre-
such prohibition can long be re-
suppose that
German cattle may at
t become equally dangerous with those
any moment
from Holland ; and if these two sources were
simultaneously cut off, we should, according to our
present circumstances, be deprived of our whole
stricted to Patch cattle.
foreign supply. It is abundantly evident from
such a fact as that which has occasioned this sum-
mary Order how entirely insufficient are our pre-
sent systems of inspection to prevent the introduc-
tion of diseased animals.

California has set an example worthy of imita.
tation by excluding bushels and selling and pridDg agri-
cultural produce by weight alone.

, Dear F,--You _
itten to you so often of late, but I have been so
tdch in the backwoods hunting and prospecting
that I could not get in the humour to write ; and in
fact there is very little indeed to write about in this
piace, except the bankrupt state of the country.
Everybody in it talks about getting out of it as soon
as he possibly can, but under existing circumstances
he doesn't know how to set about it. I would have
left long ago if I could have arranged the prelirna..
naries. All the summer I have been farming ; that
I have played out in the full. I then started with
another glow to hunt during the winter, selling
what we killed in the town. We made our hea,d
quarters near the town of Nanairno, the great Pacific
coal depot. Here they are only working one pit, and
that is most sadly mismanaged. There is coal all
over the country, and at Nanaimo several really-
good seams crop out, which, if worked Vroperly,
would make this a most important town- on this
coast ; but the people in office have a very happy
way of spoiling anything they attempt ; there are
so many " bummers" to pay and support, that they
have no money left to work the coal as it should i3c
worked. There are rumours of two other coin-
panics starting very soon, but no one knows any-
thing about it. I believe, though there is a com-
pany at work on an island up at the north of th:is
one, " Queen Charlotte Island," this is supposed. to
be good anthracite coal ; I only hope they may all
turn out well for the sake of the next generation,
for I don't believe this one will be benefited by
them, but I really believe that there are far bet4-.,er
prospects of coal here than from the gold that
is likely- to be discovered. We have had
our usual autumnal gold excitement ready
to make .fools of all who wish to try their
fortunes in the spring. What I shall do then I •
haven't the least idea. Hunting is awful work. I
thought that mining_was bad enough, but I have
tArsetkiktime.:... always has a
strong notion 611.WRINffiiiti winter O4,tln3lnnt r-Cf
thought that one might spend a pleasanktime shoot-
ing some deer, probably a panther erNear, or two,
and expected it would be like boating, or. anytplea--
sure of the kind one sees in the old country ;,here it •
is really desperate, grim hard work.' I'll try an'
describe it; Imagine a country very similar to too
highlands of Scotland,. or any place where there Le
any steep rocky hills and gullies, with patches of
very heavy timber,. swamps, and streams. You start
before daybreak, shoulder your Kentucky rifle
weighing about 221b5., and off you are, over moun-
tain grid stream. You arc not out 10 minutes before
you are wet through, boots, leggings, and. elethei.
Take care of the,nipple of your rifle, or that Will be, • •
wet too ; the beSt preventive is to pour some melted
fat oh-it. Welk after travelling about balf,aUboUr,
you see a fat hick or a doe—we will say a doe, • as-
does are fatteit- this time.of the year, standing on a
rocky hill-side. Look out ! - she is uneasy-;-611.0
smells you. .qi-ow, if you can only reach that rock
to your left;', you will get a splendid' shot 'at her:
Crawling over the snow, swinging yourself over loco,
cautiously treading so as not to crack anything,
you reach a place from where,, if you only succeed
in springing on to the log in front of you, you will
be in full sight. of her. You balance yourself well,
and make the attempt ; but, alas! it is an Old dead :
log without any bark, slippery as ice ; your foot
slips, you nearly break your neck, the rifle barrel
strikes your head, and you land. neck and 11Rls in
three feet of scft snow. Worst of. all, the 4(66.
bounding away over the rocks, 15. or 20 feet at a leap;
You may. Whistle'py, halloo as much as you like ; she •
dislike& your.movements too much to stop. Well,
ran. recoyer_yourself,see your rifle is not Wet, shake •
tke snow,outof Jour,neck, and off once mare. After'
having travelled nearly all day, Wet, weary, and
hungry, • you have• Succeeded in killing,two deer ;
one hangs about two miles froin home, -and the, one
you have just killed is about three and a half.
is a buck, and whenbis bead is off, and his inside
out he weighs about 75lbs. Now comes the 'work:
I:cannot' describe 'what- you will .have to endure,
over logs, logs, up:bluffs; throUgh snow-bottoms up
piur middle, sweating 'and tumbling—'you get .into
Your Places .Where it:is .like being on the treadinitl,
f coursej only, j.utlge of this occupation from de-
Ption) ;-tll3bat'every step pit
-endeaVour to take your foeffalri-back into the same
place ; however, you do get home ; then you have
to go back to where you left the other deer, and
pack him in before dark. Then when you have
finished your frugal meal of venison and tea before
a huge log fire—the only comfort a hunter has—
you compare notes with your chum, talk over the
events of the day, how many deer you saw, &c. ; in
short, fight your battles over again. This occurs
day after day, only varied in details ; sometimes
you kill nothing, sometimes three or four (a deer is
worth 10s.) ; sometimes you see tracks of wolves or
panthers ; sometimes you see the brutes themselves,
very seldom the latter though. Deer-stalking may
be first-rate fun in Scotland ; but when a man has
to hunt and shoot his deer, and then pack it home,
it is too much of a good thing.—Believe me, truly
yours, JOIIN FOTHERINGFIAM.

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