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Yesterday the following officers and troops em-
barked from Gravesend on board the Ardbeg, Capt.
R. Nicol, for Calcutta :-1 sergeant and 26 men" of
the 3d Buffs ; Ensign Lucius J. Blake and 20 men
of the sth Fusileers ; 2 men of the 19th Regiment;
25 men of the 20th Regiment ; Ensign Wm. Boy-
cott, 1 sergeant, and 52 men of the 29th. Regiment ;
Major C. J. 0. Swaffield, 31st Regiment ; 1 ser-
geant of the 32d Light Infantry ; 1 sergeant of the
35th Regiment ; Ensign G. T. C. Moore and 29
men of the 42d Royal Highlanders ; Ensign Pierce
O'B. Butler and 20 men of the 60th Rifles ; 1 ser- I
geant of the 64th Regiment ; Ensign J. W. Chap-
lin, 1 sergeant, and 52 men of the 67th Regiment ;
1 sergeant and 21 men of the 75th Regiment ; 1
sergeant of the 77th Regiment ; 1 sergeant of the
71th Highlanders ; 1 sergeant of the 84th Regiment ;
21 men of the .93d Highlanders ; and Capt. Frcdk.
Cockburn Griffin, with 2 sergeants and 44 men of
the Royal Artillery. Staff Assistant-Surgeon G. A.
Moorhead proceeds to Calcutta in medical charge
of the troops. The embarkations were effected
under the direction of the officers of the staff from
Chatham garrison. The Ardbeg was to sail from
the Thames last night. The non-commissioned
officers who are proceeding to Calcutta have all
gone through a course of instruction in the Enfield
rifle, in order to qualify themselves for assistant-
instructors in musketry to the British regiments in
India.

The steamship Calcutta, with the 67th Regiment,
arrived at Calcutta, all well, on December the 13th.
They had a good voyage of 97 days, and lost only
one man. The regiment was moved immediately
to Barrackpore, to take charge of three disarmed
Sepoy regiments.
Corporal punishment was yesterdS7 inflicted at
the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich. The pri-
soner, a driver belonging to the II Battery, Royal
Artillery, named Henry Smith, quartered at the
encampment on Woolwich-common, had been con-
victed by a board of officers of gross and insubor-
nate conduct, tending to subvert the discipline
of the service, and was condemned to receive
fifty lashes, and to be imprisoned in Fort Clarence
for the term of eighty-four days. It is stated
that he is one of those obstinate characters on whom
all other punishment short of the extreme seve-
rity resorted to yesterday has failed to produce
a profitable result. On a recent occasion he per-
versely refused to perform his stable duties, and
when brought before the officer commanding the
battery he defied his authority, and swore that no
amount of threat or punishment should subdue him
to submission. After receiving the 50 lashes the
prisoner was taken to the infirmary, and on his re-
covers Fort Clarence
tounderhgeo will
r be
me arienind eory el' hist° punishment.
Mrs. Seacole, of Crimean celebrity, visited several
of the military and naval heroes doing duty at
Sheerness on Friday and Saturday last. She.
received a hearty and kind welcome from the
garrison officers, whose quarters she made her home
during her stay. She purposes in a few days pay-
ing a visit to the officers of the navy, many of
whom now in port partook of her creature comforts
while in the Crimea. Previous to her arrival at
Sheerness she visited Chatham Barracks and Mel-
ville Hospital, at which places she was received
with the best feelings by the officers and men.
Many of the herons of the Crimea surrounded her
and cheered her most enthusiastically.
ROYAL ENGINEERS.—Orders from the War
Office were received yesterday at Brompton for
Lieut. W. Bailey and 11 non-commissioned officers
and privates to proceed to Southampton, to embark
on Friday, the 4th Feb., on board the mail steam-
packet Norman for the Cape of -Good Hope, for
making a geographical survey of that British pos-
session. There is another party under orders to
proceed to the West India Islands for similar duty ;
and another surveying party, with officers, are
ordered to proceed to India.
MEDICAL OFFICERS FOR INDlA.—Staff Assistant
Surgeon G. Park, M.D., and Staff Assistant Sur-
geon Duncan, M.D., will leave the General Hos-
pital, Fort Pitt, Chatham, on Thursday, to embark
on board the mail steampacket for Alexandria, to
proceed overland to India ; and Assistant Surgeon
R. Lindsay, M. 8., from the staff, is under orders to
proceed to Canada to join the 39th Regiment, vice
A. M. Humphrey, M.D., cashiered by a general
court-martial held on the 14th December last.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND.
LAYING THE FIRST STONE.

(From the Freeman's Journal)
The ceremony of laying the first stone of the
National Gallery of Ireland was performed on
Saturday afternoon by his Excellency the Lord
Lieutenant, in the presence of a numerous and dis-
tinguished company. The weather was very unfa-
vourable ; nevertheless, the importance of the
occasion brought together a larger assemblage than
was expected under the circumstances, and fortu-
nately the rain having .cleared off towards three
o'clock, the ceremony was carried out with but little
inconvenience to those engaged in it. We congra-
tulate the citizens of Dublin upon the beginning
that has just been made of a work of great national
importance. When the building, of which the
Viceroy has laid the first stone, shall have been
erected—and we believe that the work will be
pushed forward with all due diligence and speed—
the capital of Ireland will be relieved from the
reproach of having no public gallery of art, no
national collection of pictures, for the instruction as
well as the recreation of the people.
A large number of ladies and gentlemen had
assembled before three o'clock in the board room of
the Royal Dublin Society House, where the formal
proceedings were to commence, by the presentation
to the Lord Lieutenant of the address of the gover-
nors and guardians of the National Gallery of
Ireland. Amongst those present were—The Lord
Mayor and the Misses Kilbee, the Lord Justice of
Appeal, the Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare,
Lady Seaton and the Misses Colborne, Lord Talbot
de Malahide, Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon
and Miss D'Arcy Irvine, the Hon. Sir Francis
Stanhope, Lord Wm. Fitzgerald, Sir George and
Lady Hodson, Sir R. Griffith, the Right Hon.
Maziere and the Misses Brady, Mr. C. Stronge,
Doctor Petrie, Rev. Dr, Todd, Dr. Mackessy ; and
the Mayor of Waterford.
At three o'clock precisely his Excellency arrived
at the Society-house, accompanied by Major Bagot,
Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Mr. Everard, the Hon. C.
Hanbury, Capt. Wigran, A.D.C., and the Hon. C.
Lindsay, A.D.C. He was receivedby the guardians
and governors of the new institution, and conducted
o the board-room, where he assumed the presiden-

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tial chair.
iiiir. GEO. F. MULTANY, hon. sec., then came
forward,. and read an address, of which the follow-
ing is a portion :—" The governors and guardians
of the National Gallery of Ireland have made the
mistake of too cheaply estimating the probable cost
of the work, and have found that the funds by
which it was originally contemplated that the
building could have been erected fell far short of
the necessary amount. Those funds amounted to
consideration
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guished public. services of William Dargan, Es q.,
found
that a much larger sum was required, and it S
became
necessary to obtain the sanction of ' the Lords of
the Treasury to an application to parliament
for a
further grant. Such an application was
I made for the additional sum of x_ _
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deavou rs of the governors to proclu2, .. The en-
deavours this
.sanction
occupied a much longer time, but at last,
. in the
spring of 1858, the justice of the
re-
cognised, and an additional sum of
xclaim was
5,00.0 has been
voted. towards this object in the
last session of par-
liament. With funds thus present augmented
the building _ trustees ,have thought
safely th they may
tlroceed in the - erection
The designs and plans of it haveobeenefinglalllery.
ranged. under the sanction of the Board ofa Trade
and ad.-
an d their inspector for science and arts, and approvedrae
of by the public bodies whose concurrence is required
by the act of parliament—namely the Trustees of
Primate Marsh's Library, and the governors and
guardians of the National Gallery ; they have also
been approved by. the Committee of the Dargan
Subscription Fund, by the Council of the Royal
Dublin. Society, and on the part of the Right lion.
Sidney Herbert, under whom the lawn is. holden.
The external elevation of the building will corre-
spond with that of the New Museum of the Royal
Dublin Society, recently erected on
.the south side
of the lawn. Internally there ational Gallery
building will comprise on the gnd floor a sculp-
ture hall, to be designated the Dargan Hall,
. of 114
feet in length by 40 in breadth and 22 in height,
and a library apartment of 91 feet by 40; at the
• end of the sculpture hall a double flight of stairs
will lead to the great picture gallery of 126 feet in
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wonderfully
efficacious in curing a scorbutic eruption of
Mr. Mackridge, ship's store-dealer,
of Price's-street, Liverpool, was afflicted for upwards of ten
years with a violent scorbutic affection in the hand, which
gave him so much pain and agony that his bodily health
became seriously affected. During this period he had the
advice of several eminent practitioners, but without obtain-
ing the slightest relief. He then purchased of Mr. Thomp.
son, chemist, Stanhope-street, Liverpool, some, of Hollo-
way's ointment and pills, which, by perseverance in their
use, very shortly cured the disease, and restored him to per-
fect health and strength. All those skin diseases sup .posed
to be hereditary quickly disappear before these purifying
mecligtunents.

length by 40 in breadth ; but the
lower library room will be divided i.
the first or middle story of this part
comprising a second library apart.
official rooms. The upper story,
entrance will open from the great picture gallery,
will consist of four lesser galleries for the small
sized and cabinet pictures, each being of the dimen-
sions of 36 feet by 20 and 22 feet in height. The
library apartments are destined for the reception
of the very important public library, founded and
endowed by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh in the
year 1694, and it is hoped that by its removal to
this central position, and by further accessions of
more modern publications, this library will become
of much more value to the literary and scientific
students, and to the general public of Dublin, than
it could ever be expected to prove in its present
comparatively secluded locality, and from the
deficiency of means which it has long laboured,
under for the annual increase of its collections.
The galleries will afford ample space for the display
of larger collections of works of artt than may at the
first, be available.
His EXCELLENCY replied in the following temp
—My Lords and Gentlemen—l receive with great
pleasure the address which you present to
me on the part of the governors and guardians
of the National Gallery of Ireland, and it is
the more gratifying to me when I find that the
office which I hold in the Royal Dublin Society
constitutes me a member of your body ; although
I assure you it was without the knowledge of that
fact I responded to the call made upon me on this
occasion. It is to be regretted that the various
difficulties under which you laboured should have
retarded the progress of this great national under-
taking; bat I am glad to be informed that the
funds now collected are sufficient to justify you in
commencing operations, although they may not be
adequate to all the requirements which a scheme of
such magnitude necessarily involves. From your
description it appears that the buildings will be
worthy of the site and the object for which it is
intended, and I trust that both externally and in-
ternally it will prove a fitting testimonial to the
generosity and patriotism of Mr. Dargan, and a
lasting monument of the magnificent temporary
structure which was erected under his auspices. I
cannot doubt that an institution such as this, by
supplying a want which has been so long felt, will
be of the greatest benefit to the student of art in
the city generally as well as to those of the Royal
Dublin Society, within whose precincts it is placed, -
and I trust it will receive that liberalsupport from
the public of which it is so highly deserving.
His Excellency and the members of the viceregal
household then proceed to the lawn, where the ne-
cessary arrangements had been made for laying the
first stone of the new institution, the site of which
was marked by an oblong cut in the sward, run-
ning parallel to the building on the oppsite side of
the lawn. It was already trenched in severalplaces
for the foundation works, and from a temporary
scaffold was suspended by chains the large block of
granite, the setting of which was to be performed
under the supervision of the Lord Lieutenant. The
ceremony took place at half-past three o'clock, and,
as the weather had cleared up, witnessed by the
entire of the assemblage mentionedabove. A glass
globe containing a circular copper plate on one side
of which was engraved " National Gallery of Ire-
land,"and the names of the governors and guardians,
and on the obverse, " The first stonelaid by the Earl
of Eglinton and Winton, Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land, 20th Jan., 1859," was placed in a cavity, and
covered with mortar. Sir It. Griffith, Bart., with some
appropriate observations, handed to his Excellency
a silver trowel, richly chased, and on which was
engraved the following inscription :—" Presented
by the governors and guardians of the National
Gallery of Ireland to his Excellency Archibald.
William Earl of Eglinton and Winton, Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, on the occasion of the first stone
of the Gallery being laid by his Excellency, on
Leinster Lawn, the 29th January, 1859." His Ex-
cellency, - with the trowel, smoothed the mortar ;
the stone was then lowered into its place, and, when
fixed, his Excellency, with a small mallet presented
to him for the purpose, struck it several blows
amidst loud cheers, and immediately afterwards
used the plumb to ascertain whether the setting
was straight, which it proved to be. The band,
with a guard of honour from the Lanark Militia
Regiment stationed on the lawn immediately played
" God save the Queen."
His EXCELLENCY said—My lords and gentlemen,
in laying the foundation-stone of the National Gal-
lery of Ireland, I may be pardoned for making a
few observations with respect to the events in which
the project originated, and the purposes for which
it was intended. I think that, in addition to the
right which my official position gives me on this
occasion, I have another claim to be the mouth-
piece of the public. It is about six years since in
this place, and I believe almost on this very site, I
performed the same ceremony for the Great Exhi-
bition building—an enterprise which reflected the
highest honour on those who supported it, and
brought into more prominent notice even than be-
fore the name of the man who had conferred the
greatest benefits on Ireland previously, but whose
generosity and patriotism on that occasion will
never be forgotten by his countrymen. When the
doubts and difficulties appeared almostinsurmount
able, Mr. Dargan came forward, guaranteed all
expenses, removed all difficulties, and enabled you
to display a show which attracted the critical eye
of Royalty itself, and to which not only the noble,
the rich, and the educated thronged, but the poor,
the artisan, and the labourer—all, in short, except
him who presided at, its birth, and who, very
much against his own wish, was prevented from
witnessing its matured glories. (Loud applause.)
It was out of that great enterprise that this arose,
and I am happy to find myself again assisting in
the commencement of another great undertaking,
which, although not so gigantic in its proportions
or so varied in its details as the other, will, I trust,
prove of permanent benefit to the country, and an
ornament to this city. When this project is finished
what a combination of the useful and beautiful
shall we not have here ! In the main building and
in its western face we have libraries, schools, halls
for lectures, and an agricultural museum; and on
the southern face the treasures of general art,
which, spreading beyond the general limits des-
tined for them, have been within the last year, I
believe, communicated with the building erect( don
the other side. But this only was wanted. Ireland
had no national exhibition. The gratitude of the
people was exemplified by a large subscription for
the purpose of erecting a testimonial to Mr. Dar-
gan. What testimonial could be better than a
National Gallery, raised on the site where the mag-
nificent temporary building which he erected had
stood ? (Applause.) This National Gallery was
then determined upon, and it was settled that the
library bequeathed by Archbishop Marsh should
be brought here from the obscurer part of the city
in which it had hitherto been placed. The various
interests connected with the operations were
arranged, and here is the result. I have only now,
therefore, to wish all success and prosperity to the
National
i Gallery of Ireland, and I trust we shall
soon see erected n this place a building worthy of
the objects for which it is destined. (Cheers.)
Lord TALBOT DE MALAIIIDE said that before the
meeting separated he wished to express, on the
part of the governors and guardians, their sense of
gratitude for the honour conferred upon them by
his Excellency in presiding over the proceedings
of the day. His Excellency had so appropriately
stated the history of the National Gallery of Ire-
land, that it was quite unnecessary to say anything
additional on the subject ; but he (Lord Talbot de
Malahide) begged to say that the anxiety, of his
Excellency to forward the industrial and general
interest of Ireland was well known, and he confessed
he had always admired the zeal and alacrity with
which, if he might be allowed to use the expression,
his Excellency came forward to stimulate and en-
courage their enterprises. He begged again to
express, on the part of the governors and guardians
of the National Gallery of Ireland, their gratitude
to his Excellency for the great assistance and en-
couragement which he had that day given to their
work. (Applause.)
The proceedings then terminated.