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      TPhe main , -point to ire determined was whether the 'proper-wtmiKngB had Tjeen taken , -and such-measures adopted as tmght hare -aaved the -ship- At the voncln tion of tb& evidence , THr . Traill / Oaptain Sullivan ,-and Mr . ' Cumberland ( who appeared for the Board , of Trade ) retired for a short time , and , on tberr return , Mr . Traill said that ne and Captain Sullivan had held some conversation with / respect "to the inqtiiry under consideration , ana had come to the conclusion that the certificate of Captain Bayley ynth his ( Mr . Train ' s ) report should be forwarded to the Board of Trade , when , in all probability , -reference would be made to the conduct of "the third supefior oiBcer . A Ship Run Down . —The steam-ship Albert / from Dunkirk to 6 t . Petersburg , was Tun down off Copenhagen , and sunk , by the ship Jean Clair . The passengers and crew were saved .

      Kein-forcesients fob India . —The Tdllowing troops , batteries , and companies of artillery have been ordered for India : —The D Troop of Royal Horse Artillery , commanded by Major Gardiner . The Y Field Battery , 1 st Company , 6 th Battalion , commanded by Major Singleton . The I Field Battery , 5 th Company , 8 rd Battalion , commanded by Captain Dyneley . ; No . 1 ' . Field Battery , 5 th -Company , 1 st Battalion , commande'd : by Captain Disborough . The 8 th : Company , " 2 nd Battalion , commanded by Captain Turing . The 6 th Company , 9 th . ' Battalion , commanded by Captain Wright . 'The . 2 nd Company , 11 th Battalion , commanded by Captain Bayley . The 7 th . Company , llth Battalion , commanded bj-Major Grant . The 6 th Company , llth Battalion , commanded by Lieut-Colonel Fortescue . —T v

      man who was the meaa 3 of saving the Exraouth , 90-gun . screw jshtp , ¦ when embayed among the rocks in . in a covs ¦ ne ar 'Romance , last Apisl , has "been rewarded by the . Admiralty with , the sum of "SI "for saving an English line-of-ibattle ship with a crew of 700 or 800 soula . The Woxai j \ xa . —The subjoiaed extract "is from one dfthe officers of the 90 th Regiment on . board the Himalaya : — - " Himalaya , Singapore , July 10 th . —My dear G , — -I am . going to spin you a short yarn of our . progress so . far . In the fir 3 t place , I must tell you that we have been a lamentable instance of the -. truth of the saying that ' . the third time is fafal ; ' for , after nearly

      Tunning ashore at St . "Vincent s ( Cape "VTerd ) aud the Cape . 'last'Monday , July 6 th , we ran slap ashore , going thirteen : kuots , in the straits of Banca . Not a soul on board ever expected to . get her off . again , at . all events without steamers from . Singapore . ; bat , luckily , it was full moon , and consequently a higher tide than usvtal ; so with the assistance of another ship and three anchors out astern Tve . managed to . get off about jiine o ' clock -at night , after having been about thirty hours . on the . sandbank , to the evident delight of a quantity of cranes and pelicans , and a stray crocodile or twx > , wMeh came out from the island or Sumatra to Jiave a look at us . " ' The . Steam-ship C lyde has been lost in the Gulf of St . Lawrence , but happily all hands were saved .

      undermentioned detachments proceeded from Chatham on Monday morning , vid London to Portsmouth , for the purpose of embarking there on board the troop ship Gloriana , for conveyance to Madras , &c . ; 43 rd ( Monmouthshire ) Light Infantry , Ensign Talbot and 8 men ; 60 th Rifles , 3 rd battalion , 13 non-commissioned officers and privates ; 74 th Highlanders , Captain Venables and 54 men . The Gloriana receives on board a cavalrv regiment for the East . A reinforcement for the 83 rd , 86 th , and 78 th Highlanders has been called for by the Horse Guards , to be selected from the depots commanded by Colonel H . Jervis , for embarkation at Gravesend on board the steam-ship Prince Albert . "The officers selected for embarkation are Ensign Thompson , 78 th , and Ensign Jackson , 86 th .

      The Defence . —The convict-hulk Defence , having been skilfully lifted from her sunken position in the bed of the river , was released from her moorings off Woolwich Arsenal on Monday , and , having been lashed to a powerful steamer on either side , she was conveyed to the dockyard , and successfully hauled into dock , " where she will undergo a careful survey by the shipwright department . Loss of a British : Barque . —The British barque Hope , of Bristol , 503 tons , bound from Swansea to the

      Cape verd Islands with patent fuel , has been totally lost . The captain , Read , and his crow of sixteen souls , were picked up in two boats at five p . m ., on the 26 th ult ., during a gale of wind and heavy sea , by the captain and crew of the French , brig Amitic " , of La Nouvclle , in the Gulf of Lyons , and brought to Caen . They report that they could not have lived out . the night had it not been for the courage of the French crew . The vessel foundered , and was abandoned in lat . 46 deg . 43 xnin . N ., long . 10 deg ., 14 min . \ V . Nothing was saved but the ship ' s papers .

      Commissions in theAkmv . —The following memorandum has been issued from the Horse Guards : — " 1 . His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief , with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for War , has boen pleased to determine that gentlemen desirous of entering the army may obtain . commissions In the line by raisiug 100 recruits , subject to the subjoined regulations : —2 . Before receiving permission . to raise men a candidate , if redding in England , muBt report his intention to the Adjutant-General . at the llo-ree Guard * , who will personally ftxamino him . as to bis fitness for the army . 3 . The age of a candidate must not be under eighteen , or above twenty-three . 4 . He will be required to produce a certificate of baptism , or other

      satisfactory proof of age . 5 . He will produce a certificate from a minister of the church of the denomination to which lie belongs that lie has boen duly instructed in the principles of religion . 6 . The candidates will further produce a certificate from the master or tutor under -whom lie has been educated of Ills general moral conduct for at least the two proc-eding years , and if more than one year from school ft certificate from u respectable person , to wham ho is well known , that his conduct has been correct and gentlemanly . 7 . If approved , the candidate will bo placed in communication with tho subdivision officer of the district in which he proposes to raise his

      men , from whom be will rcceiv . c inatructions . 8 . The inspecting field ofucer to whom all such recruits will be sent -will keep a list , and grant a certificate of the men so ciliated by him and intermediately approved , and send a certificate to tho Military Secrctury , I Iorae Guards , when the required number ia complete . 9 . Candidate * residing in Ireland or Scotland will in like man-Tier report their intention to tho general ofliccra commanding in those parts or tho United Kingdom , to whom matruotioiiN will bo sent for their guid / moo . —By command , G . A . Wr . THKKAJ . i-, Adjutant-General . " Tuk Ex . uoirm . — Thotniw ' llichoim , tho poor fi . slicr-

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      OBITUARY . Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke , Baet ., one of the most distinguished physicians of the present age , died on Monday , at his residence on the Marine Parade , Brighton , in bis seventy-sixth year , . after an illness of nearly two years' duration . He was a native of London , his father being a . surgeon in Chancery-lane , and his mother was a daughter of Mr . William Mansfield , of Thrapstone , Northamptonshire . He was educated at St . Paul ' s School , where he was a schoolfellow of the late Lord Chancellor Truro and the present Chief Baron Pollock . " Having finished liis preliminary studies , " says a writer in the Times , " Charles Clarke was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons , , ajid

      spent the first two years of his professional life -as assistant-surgeon in the Hertfordshire Militia , which he subsequently exchanged for the post of surgeon in the 3 rd Regiment of Foot Guards . Of this part of his early career he always felt proud , and frequently in his later years it was his lot to return thanks on . public occasions at once for the military and the medical profession . Subsequently , however , he was induced by his elder brother to give up the army , and to devote his whole attention to the diseases of women and children , and more particularly to the practice of midwifery . " He soon earned a handsome fortune , and was enabled , when he had scarcely passed his fortieth year , to retire from

      London practice , and to purchase an estate in Norfolk . ' * Having obtained the degree of M . D . from Lambeth , in 1827 , " continues the same account , " Dr . Clarke became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians , and , on the accession of King William IV . to the throne , he was honoured by the appointment of Physician to Queen Adelaide . On September 30 , J . 831 , he was created a Baronet ; and in the year 1836 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians . In 1842 , ho had conferred upon him the honorary degree of M . A . by the University of Cambridge , and was created a D . C . L . of Oxford in 1845 . " He was the author of some works on the diseases of women and children . Of lato years he resided almost entirely at Brighton .

      Lieutenant-Geneual George Augustus Hendbrson , Colonel of the 59 th Regriment , died on Monday at his country residence in Worcestershire . He entered the army in 1793 ; served during the rebellion in Ireland , 1798 ; was with Sir Ralph Abercromby in JSgyat ; and went through the whole of the JPeniuaular war . After his retirement on half-pay , he was one . of the inspecting field officer . In April , 1852 ,, ho was appointed Colonel of the oflth Regiment by the . Duke of Wellington . Admjoal Jamks Wilkes Mauiuw , one of the most jgallant heroes of tho last war with Prance , died at Stonchcuso on Friday week , in the eightj' -third yeaT of his age . Me was a native of Devonport . His promotion to the rank of admiral was on tho 1 st of October , 184 C .

      Augustk Cqmte . —Tho Paris JPresse announces the death of , M . Auguste Cointc , tho chief > of tho Positive School of Philosophy , with whose principal work the English public were made acquainted , a few years ago , in translations by Miss Martiuoau and Mr . Lowch . Bauon Hociiscuild , Swedish . Minister at London , died suddenly nt Copenhagen ..

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      fioyal familyJjaye take © jflwir R ^ mMy 4 * W <* in > # » ¦ aefgaaaumoQcl . i . LoBD _ DAW 3 opsip . . The Marquis ftf P . ^ SW fc » B ^ aced toe . whole of . hy , pension , < rf 5 Q 0 # . yeaj , , qga - fercedxm Wby . tteJj ^ tJCp . Ua Sampa ^ y , aft ti ^ e . dggoaition . of ibe London , c ^ mmjitose * n & \ a . q £ the sufferers by the Indian rebellion . ' rnTTmr Mbuthyr Tydvi * ,, —The inhabitants of , tfti 3 , tflw . n are about to apply : to . the ( FrivyC < W > oU for ^ . char ^ r of , io-¦ . ijoirporatioii . ' " ' '' . ~ -FlBBS . —tA very serLoiis jire lias occurred . At Oxfjqrdpa . the premises jof a tallor . and robe-make . r in . By road-street , opposite Balliol Collqgs . The family weje in bed . at th < s . time , ; but they were remove ! in safety . The engiaea

      . then played vigorously on . the flames ; bat the fire co ? i ttauea to bairn for sue . hours , . and several houses ware ^ destroyed- —The house . of a cb . airinakei : in Holyw . ejl-. row , JVVorsbip-squarc , Shoreditcb , was burnt down lasfe Saturday , and three other houses were seriously 4 Ajaxaged .- —An extensive fire occurred on Tuesday .. at ; JBowles-wharf , Batcliffe . The wharf alone covers / in wnmense jirea « f . ^ rx > und , . on which were erected many lofty warehouses , divided into different flat ? ,. and these werejoined , or nearly so , hy ~ the warehouses on Coek ; hill . The firemen for several Jiours laboured perseveriagly , but it was late in the evening . before the fire was entirely subdued . —A fire "also broke oat the same day in Lamb ' s-place , Kingsland-road , which destroyed a fiveroomed house , and slightly damaged those adjoining .

      CHiiBca-RATE 8 . —A church , rate has been refused at Beccles , Suffolk , by 184 to 101 ; aud at . Tottenham , Middlesex , . by 459 to 242 . Official Aepx > ijstments . —Mr . Cyprian Hermodatt Dupuy has been appointed District Magistrate for the Island of Mauritius . Mr . Frederick 3 ? orth , Colonial Treasurer of Hong-Kong , has been appointed a member of the Legislative Council of that colony . The new Scotch Lunacy Board will consist of Viscount Melguud , M . P ., as chairman ; Sir Ales : ander Maitland , of Clifton Hall , Midlothian , and George Young , Esq ., unpaid commissioners ; Dr . James Coxe and Dr . IT . A . F . Browne , paid commissioners , and William Forbe 3 , Esq ., of M-edwyja , secretary . The Queen has appointed Colonel Kanloch . to be Iaspector . of Scotch police under the act of last session . Professor H . Rogers has been appointed Professor of ^ Natural History in the University of Glasgow . .

      English Victdis in the East . —TJie Archbishop of York lias addressed a circular letter to the clergy of liis diocese , in which he says : —¦ " At this . time , when . the deepest anxiety universally prevails > among the people of this kingdom on account of the sorrow , suffering , and danger with which our countrymen in the East are encompassed , I strongly recommend you . to introduce both ; < at morning and evening prayer the prayer , 'In the time of war and tumults ; ' also that in the prayer ' For All conditions of men' you deBiro the prayers of the congregation especially for our countrymen in India , and for their sorrowing families and relatives at home . " Similar . circulars have been issued by other prelates .

      Workhouse Schoolmasters . —Tha Spalding guardians have been discussing a curious and important question—whether schoolmasters appointed in union workhouses must be members of the Established Church . Mr . White , one of the guardians , having addressed the Poor-law Board on the subject , received the following reply : —" Poor-law Board , Whitehall , Aug . 25 . —Sir , — I ana directed by the Pooi-law Board to acknowledge the receipt of your inquiry , and inform you that tho board nave not issued any regulation prescribing aa a qualification for tho office of schoolmaster of a union , that such , ofiicer shall be a member of tho Church of England . —I . am , sir , youc obedient servant , —Coun-TBNA r ,. Secretan * . "

      Booic Post to tue Colonoiss . —On the 1 st of October , jind thenceforward , printed or lithographed letters may be sent , like other printed matter , uudier the regulations of the colonial book post . At the same period , an alteration will take , placc in the scale of wejgufc under -which book packets sent to the colonies have hitherto boen charged . When a book packet doe 3 . not exceed in weight four ounces , it will be chargeable witdi one half only of the present rate of postage , aud when the 'weight of a book packet exceeds one pound , tho charge will increase by ateps of half a pound instead of by steps of one pound , ae , at prcsont . The colonial book jpoat haa now been extended , to the whole of tho British colonies and poaseHaions . No book . Racket inuat exceed two feet in length , width , or depth ; and book packets aunt to tho East . Indies or to New South W . alcs must not exceed three pounds in weight .

      MISCELLANEOUS . Tub Court . —The annual muster of Highland olaus , to cclcbra , t ( i tho Bruomar gathering , took place beforo the Queen and Court , on Thursday week , at the Castlo of Brnemar . Tho cluns of tlio Duff * , the PurquharsonH , tho Forboa , and a party of the Ogilvica , were drawn up to receive her Majesty . Tho games confuted of ' putting' the atone , throwing tho heavy hammer , tootling tho cub « r , reol-danciny , &c . liain oiune on iu the course of the day , and tlic Queen returned to liahnorul nt about . six o ' clock . —I ' rinoo Albert 1 mk bfcen actively employed iu door-stalking during the weak , aud tho Queen and

      TuicUkpiumuntation ov Giu £ isNWJ < j ) i . —An ndjourncil meeting of eleetons whs held at Cirei nwich on Tuesday evening , for the purpose of hearing ilio result of a niquiuition calling on Mr . Montagu Chambers , ( i-C ,, - to coma forward aguin uh u . candidate ) for the borough . A . lutter wan rcud i ' rom Mr . CJuuinburs tjxpredaintf his willingness to-do so . A committee was then appointed Xo carry out tlio wishes of tlic meeting . Loud BuounnAii ax Manciiicsticic— -Oa Tucsdj ^ y ovouiug Lord llroiighain attended tlie annual meotitu ; of tliu liiHiitutioiittl ' AHHciuiationof Laucauliiro ouct Guc-Hhiro , at the Mechanics' Institution , Mauchc . stor on tho invitation of tlio Ooinnritloc of Miumgement , for tlto |) uti »> ho of prcHQiitiiur tbo prizu . s awarded to . pupild at tho laLo annual cjcaminaliou . His Lurdtthip wan nceom-

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      JSTq > 390 , September 13 , 1857 ; . ] THE ^ EADJE R . ^ 5

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 12, 1857, page 875, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2209/page/11/