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THE FIELD. 
saiii the government proposed to lako the responsibility of 
the expedition into their own hands, and to give the com- 
mand of it to Captain SJok«'>, an officer of great ability and 
exi<erience. He hoped that able and experienced men 
would be induced to join the expedition, and that (lie pro- 
-nc*- ni •« «eologi>t and a botanist would be essential to it. 
I (So C F.dlowes) could not but congratulate the society 
•hi the tact that the British government had resolved to un- 
dertake the expedition, as, by its assistance, they would be 
enabled to carry out their researches with still greater benefit 
to mankind. lie had also to uunounce the fact that 
Captain Sturt, an officer of great experience, had tendered 
hi» services to the expedition. (Cheers.) The chairman said 
that lie was glad to inform them that Mr. Baines also offered 
his services to the expedition. At the request of the chair- 
man, Captain Sturt described on the map the extent of his 
lormer explorations of Austrahu. At the meeting the fol- 
lowing gentlemen were elected fellows : — Commander E. J. 
Bedford, R.N. ; Messrs. D. It. Blaine; John Calvert, 
Sebastian S Dickinson, Walter Laurie, James Oucbterlony, 
Granville R. II Somerset, D.C.L. ; Jonathan Thorp, and 
Captniu R. Mailmen. 
Outward Bound. — The departures for the Australian 
colonies from the port of London during the past week show 
a decrease. They have comprised altogether six vessels — 
three to Adelaide, with an aggregate burden of 2,088 tons; 
two to Port Phillip, with au aggregate burden of 432 tons; 
and one to Sydney, of 355 tons. Their total capacity was 
consequently 2.875 tons. Tho rates of freight exhibit a 
tendency to decline. 
[Saturday, 
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. 
Agincenrt (Emigrant barque), Pa.hloy. Dec. 8. tat. 3.30 K., Ion. 22, 
jOVi .. twenty-seven days out, from Southampton for Geelong; all well 
I'clta, hnnsr. from London for Port Phillip. I> PC . 14, on the Hue. 
Iiiromlelle. from London for Melbourne, Nov. 30, )at li X., Ion 21 \V 
Klunbcib (schooner;, from Llvorpool for Port Phillip, Doe. 4 , on the 
Equator. * 
Janet Dickson, foom Belfast Lough for Melbourne, Dec. 9, thirty-two 
days out. lot X.. Ion. 23. 13 W. 1 
n '\V^ ' lrow k° udun f® r Mol bourne, Nov. 23, lot 7 N., Ion. 
1^W3 ‘ h cl min a C ath arm a, Stiffly, from London for Port Phillip, Doc. 9, 
COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Downing-Street, Jan. 24. — The Queen has been 
pleased to appoint Stephen Rice, Esq., to be Her Majesty’s 
Treasurer for Prince Edward Island.— From tho London 
Gazette, Tuesday, Jan. 24. 
An Untimely Death. — Mr. Charles John Tindal, 
whose death, in the neighbourhood of Sydney, New South 
Wales, Ins been lately noticed in the public journals, was 
the younge-t son of the late Sir Nicholas Tiudal, Lord 
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and received bis 
education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where bis father 
had, rurly in life, distinguished Imnself. Mr. Tindal 
was for several > ears marshal to his father, and shortly 
b-iore the ch ef justice’s death was appointed to the 
other of registrar of acknowledgments of the deeds of 
married women, which post, ou the elevation of Sir 
Thomas Wilde to tho chief justiceship, he afterwards 
hdd conjointly with Mr. Edward Archer Wilde, till the ap- 
pointment of Sir John Jervis, who bestowed it on his own 
sou-iu-Jaw, Mr. Bunkes. Since that time Mr. Tindal has 
hdd no place whatever. His urbanity and gentlomanly 
manners will be long recollected, not only by all of his own 
year at Cambridge, but also by ovary one with whom, in his 
Othcul capacity, lie came in contact while attending his 
father on the various circuits. 
Cape op Good Hope. — Taking the Bounce out op 
a “ Past ” Man.— S ome running matches were lately held 
ut Cape Town, and tho pet of tho affair was a Mr. Kanno- 
meyer, a ” darkey." ills friends and backers swore by him • 
but the gallant 73rd hud also their pet, and Serjeant Major 
Jennie agreed to run him a distance of 200 yards, and give 
him 10 yards start, providing tho sum of 5L each was slaked 
on the event. Tins race was suou decided. In a few strides 
Mr. Itounie was several yards ahead of his opponent, then 
turniug round, finished the race by running backwards, to 
the amusement of tho spectators. 
Guiana.— Philip E. Wodehouso, Esq., formerly of Cey- 
lon, aud now Superintendent at Honduras, is to succeed Sir 
Henry Barkly in the government of British Guiana. 
Canada. We extract the iollowiug from The Old 
t ountrymnn of Juuuary 5 : — 
" Mcnicipal Blkctions in Toronto.— T ho following gentle- 
men have been elected Aldermen and Common Councilmon for 
the ensuing year: — ’ ur 
M^rrh D j K !l K 'R~ h E IL R I ulW 1 [ ord . John Duncan, John C.irr, Charles 
r K h li, J n U n R i° Uun "' J ‘ u *- jrd * Lev 
W AlSl ZuOZm. ° 5leK - ““”*»• J “- *-«. Orag 
‘ C OMMON Codxcilvipn — E.W righl. S. D. Thomason P tt on,,-. 
K. II. Graham, Thot. Mar*, J. Earl, T. McConkey, W. ’Murph? John 
?ulh?A - ame * ’ J ° Un ^ W - U,n,ell > Ad “ u ' Bvauy, John Car- 
THE METROPOLIS. 
Opening op the SEHSiox.-The Queen will open 
I cirl ament m person on Tu-sday, the 31st instant, with the 
usual formalities. Her Majesty will come to town on 
a! HoSl, f 3Jlb ‘" fclaDt > * hcu * Privy Council will be held 
at Buckingham Palace, and will return to Windsor the fol- 
lowup day after the opening of the session. The Court is 
FctTl* ^ COai ° t0 LOUdOU f ° r lbe Monday, 
Fatal Accident by Fiu E .-On Monday morning an 
accident terminated fatally to Mrs. Mary Ann Herbert, of 
Church-lane Deptford. The poor lady fell into the fire, 
and the attention of the lodgers was attracted by tlio smell of 
fire, who. on entering the room, beheld her iying on the 
floor wrapped in flame. After much difficulty thofir.i was 
extinguished, when lbe sufferer was conveyed to Esther Ward 
Guy’s Hospital, where every assistance that medical skill 
could suggest was rendered, but from the severe nature of 
the injuries Mr*. Herbert gradually tank and expired 
Hyde Park- squAitB.— On Monday morning 
at ball-past three o’clock, a lire, attended with considerable 
Jo- of property, brokcoutaf Mr. T. C. Pennmsou’s Victoria 
Archery J av er u, Bathurst, Hyde Park-square. The Loudon 
i ire Brigade engines from King-street, Wells-stroot, and 
Cbandos-strcet, together with the Royal Society’, escapes 
arrived, and a ’•apply of water being obtained from the 
Grand Junction Waterworks, the flames were subdued, but 
the back room, ground floor, staircase, second floor, and 
roof were burnt. The content* were insured in the Royal 
Exchange Otfico 
Election* to the Common Council.— O n Monday 
Hr. Henley was elected a common councilman for the ward 
of Aldersgate without opposition, aud Mr. Slowman was 
declared to have boon duly elected in the saino capacity for 
the ward of Billingsgate. 
Attendance or Counsel in Chancery. — A very use- 
ful arrangement has been come to among Her Majesty’s 
Counsel utteuding the various branches of the Court of 
Chancery, by which much loss of time will be avoided. 
Hitherto, many of the gentlemen within the bar have 
practised in more thau one of the inferior Courts, and, in 
some instances, in more than two. Now, however, they 
have agreed that they will divido themselves into four 
bodies, to supply a distinct inner bar for the Rolls Court 
and the three Courts of the Vice-Chancellors. The effect 
of this will be obviously very advantageous to the suitors of 
the Court of Chancery, for the difficulty and delay con- 
stantly arising in the hearing of matters when called ou, in 
consequence of tho absence of counsel, had become op- 
pressive. Now, however, tho only claim upon the atten- 
tion of Queen’s Counsel, away from their several Courts, 
will be the duty of attendance before the Lord Chaucellor 
or Lords Justices, on appeals from the inferior branches of 
the Court. The choice among the learned counsel is under- 
otood to be as follows :— before lbe Master of the Rolls, 
Messrs. Rou pel I, Lloyd, Roundell Palmer, and Follett ; 
before Vice-Chancellor Kmderslev, Messrs. Swans ton, 
Cooper, Teed, Campbell, Builey. and Glasso ; before Vice- 
Chancellor Stuart, Messrs. Walker, Wigrarn, Bacon, 
Matins, F.lmsley, and Craig ; and before Vice-Chancellor 
Wood, Messrs. Roll, Chandless, Willcock, Daniel, and W. 
M. James. Messrs. Lee, Temple, J. Russell, Headlatn, 
and Anderson are understood uot to have yet made their 
electiou of particular Courts. 
Trial at Bar.— On tho application of the Attorney- 
Geuerul, the Court of Queen’s Bench lias fixed the 18th 
day ol February as the day on which the trial at bar shall 
take pluce. It was stated by the Attorney-General that the 
proceedings ol the intended trial would be ouly formal, and 
would occupy only a short time. 
E scats op Prisoners prom Horsemongeb-lanb 
Gaol.— O n Tuesday morning, u little alter 8 o’clock, 
Thomas Richardson and John Clark, two convicted prison- 
ers, contrived to escape from the abovo gaol in a very 
singular manner. Both prisoners were tried at the De- 
cember sessions for Surrey, and convicted for robberies 
with violence ; Richardson was sentenced to six years’ and 
Clark two years' penal servitude. The prisoners so con- 
victed are employed in the prison chiefly in cutting wood, 
and tying it in bundles, to be sold among the shopkeepers. 
At 8 o’clock, while the turnkeys were at breakfast, the two 
convicts got over the wail at the rear of the prLon, and 
succeeded in making their escape. They had by some 
means contrived to make a ladder with the pieces of spun 
yarn and wood. A large stone was afiixed at one end, and 
thrown over the Wall, where it got attached to the coping- 
stone. The prisoners, having climbe l that, let themselves 
down into Mr. Fellowos’s ropo walk, and crossed it unper- 
ceived by the workmen. A lad named Dunn, however, 
saw them, aud pursued them as far as Loclc’s-lielda, but lie 
was obliged to give up the chase, and the convicts mado 
their e-cape. On examination of that part of the guol, it 
appeared that they had forced their way through a water- 
closet into the inner garden, and by that means got easy 
acce-s to the outer wall. 
Wellington Club, Piccadilly.— T he magnificent 
upper salon at Crockford’s— now the Wellington, in Picca- 
dilly— lias just been decorated by the pencil of Mr. Sang. 
The luxuriant splendour and truly aristocratic grandezza of 
this apurtinont, dates its existence at the period of Goor-'e 
the Fourth and his royal brothers. Tho mouldings are of 
the most exquisite and tasteful class, aud were copied from 
the best specimens of Versailles, at the time that the club 
was erected with such astounding liberality by its original 
proprietor. \et colour has ever been considered to be 
wanting to relieve the profusion of gold decoration and the 
cold musses of white. And this has been effected in a manner 
the most delightful ; and the addition has served to render 
the salon far more magnificent than any other in Europe. 
The designs in colour are all surpassing in elegance. The 
Watteau-like medallions aud the original and capricious 
compositions in the panels are painted in perfect and melo- 
dious harmony. Indeed, the tout ensemble is marked by 
felicitous judgement and incomparable artistic ubiiity, and 
when it is borne iu inind that this display of masterly 
execution has been called forth by, and is especially devoted 
to, the requirements of « the people,” it is no less pleasing 
a.-, an evidence ol the onward inarch of taste and refinement 
than commendable on the part of tho proprietors, whose 
wealth and liberality have so successfully contributed to the 
result. — Globe. 
they would not then have the fear of w ur before^), 
Subscriptions were thou received, and tho balloting*?' 
riirbts ol ellOmo wna m.'ll. .. .. J »i « '0| 
rights of choice was proceeded with, and the sueciw^ 
numbers having heen declared, the meeting broke up. U 
Government School op Mines, Cornwall.— tk 
report ol the gentlemen appointed at a county meotin , , 6 
draw up and prepare a plan for establishing a ceni. I 
school of mines, together with local schools therewith j n »k 
county ol Corliwull, has just been published. It recon,* 
mends that in the Central School instruction shall he gj v 
in mathematics, natural philosophy and mechanics, aimij 61 } 
mechanics, drawing, surveying, levelling, machine drawl,,! 
and construction, miuo uccounls and mine suiveyin* 
chemistry, witli special application to metallurgy and assaS’ 
mineralogy and geology, working of mines, and preparation' 
of ores. A competent knowledge of these subjects may b 
acquired by a diligent pupil in two yearly courses, oxfeodj,, 9 
over six or eight months in cucli year. The fee of udrnissioS 
is to ho 2(1/., which is to be reduced in the case of y 0 u n „ 
m.-n engaged as practical miners. The students are to h 8 
examined annually, and certificates of progress awarded t! 
tho-e who pass such examinations. The teachers of t h 
Central School ure to niuke periodical tours into , h 9 
mining districts under the direction of the governors of th 
Central School, to inspect the local schools aud give loctur ei ° 
It is also proposed that these schools should he in connexion 
with the “School of Mines" in Jennyn-street, by which all 
the advantages of communicating with a central source of 
information would ho secured. This scheme has mot with 
the approval of several of the members for the county um i 
it is probable that it will shortly be carried out. 
PROVINCIAL. 
SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS. 
Warehousemen and Clerks’ Schools pon Or- 
phan and Necessitous Children.— a numerous 
meeting of (he subscribers aud friends of the above uewly- 
formed institution was held at the London Taveru, on 
Monday evening ; when a lengthened and animated dis- 
cussion took place on the proposition that the benefits of 
the charity should be limited to the children of those 
engaged in the drapery, hosiery, haberdashery, lace 
and glove trades. But comparatively low advocates were 
found to support this motion, the majority of the speakers 
being strongly in favour of an amendment which recom- 
mended the extension of the objects of the charity to tho 
children ol warehousemen and clerks (being subscribers) ol 
all whole-ale trades. On a division taking place, tho num- 
bers for the amendment were found to be iu overwhelming 
preponderance, aud most of the dissentients appeared 
ultimately disposed, notwithstanding their difference on this 
one point, to coutinue their co-operation and support in 
promoting the success of the institution. Votes of thanks 
were passed to the lion, secretary (Mr. G. Lawrence) aud 
the chairman ( Mr. W. It. Graham), and the latter gcutlemau 
announced that the donations and subscriptions already 
received amounted to upwards of 9,500/, 
City op London and Counties Freehold Land 
Society. On Monday evening a meeting of this society 
was held ut lludley’s Hotel, Bluckfriura ; the Right lion, 
tho Lord Mayor iu the chair. The chairman, observing 
tilut on that occasion he had stepped u little out of his usual 
course, udded that he had full confidence in tho respectability 
and integrity of the gentlemen at the head of tho under 
akiug. Aide, man Wire moved a reseluliou to the effect 
that in the opinion of tho meeting freehold land societies 
possessed advantages far superior to savings’ banks. Mr. 
Barnurd seconded the resolution, and suid that if Russia 
were at that moment divided into freehol<l|land societies, 
SPRING CIRCUITS OF TUB JUDGES. 
Tho Judges of the several Courts of Queen’s Bench, Coin- 
mon Pieus, and Exchequer, having assembled iu u le 
Exchequer Chamber, Westininster-hall, for tho purpose of 
determining nnd finally arrauging the several circuits upon 
which they should respectively proceed to hold the ousu.o e 
Spring Assize of oyer uud terminer aud general gaol delivery 
in and for the several counties in Fmglaud und Wales tho 
following arrangements were finally made, viz. : ’ 
Home CincuiT.-Judges-Tho Right Hon. Sir Jamc. 
Puike, Kmght, and the Hon. Sir Edward Hull Aldersou 
kuight, Barons of Her Majesty’s Court of Exchequer. Assizei 
to be balden at Hertford, Chelmsford, Maidstone, Lewes, 
and Kingston-on-Thames. 
Oxford Circuit. — Judges — The Honorable Sir William 
Wightman, Knight, one of the Judges of the Queen’s Bond, 
and Sir T. Noon Talfourd, Knight, oue of tbe Jud-os of the 
Common Pleas. 
Western Circuit.— Judges— The Hon. Sir William 
Erie, Kmght, one of tho Judges of tho Queen’s Bench aud 
Sir Samuel Martin, Knight, one of the Barons of th 0 
Exchequer. 
Norfolk Circuit.— J udges-The Right Hon. Lord 
Campbell, Lord Chief Justice of England, and the Right 
Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, Knight, Lord Chief Baron of 
tile Exchequer. 
Midland Circuit.— Judges— The Right Hon. Sir 
John Jervis, Knight. Lord Chief Justice of the Commoii 
Pleas, and Sir John T. Coleridge, Kuight, one of the Judges 
of the Common Pleas. ° 
Northern CiucuiT.-Judges-Tho Hon. Sir Cresswell 
Creswell, Knight, o.io ol the Judges of the Common Picas 
aud Sir J. T. Piatt, Knight, one of the Barons of the Ex- 
chequer. 
North Wales and Chester Circuit— J udge- 
The Hon. Sir E. Vuughau Williams, Knight, ono f tho 
Judges of the Common Pleas. 
South Wales and Chester Circuit.— J udge— 
i he Hod. Sir Charles Crompton, Knight, oue of the Judges 
of the Queen s Beucli. 
Vacation Judge— The Hon. Sir Win. H. Muule Knight, 
one of the Judges of the Common Pleas, will remain 0 iu 
town, and sit as Vacation Judge at Chambers, Sergeant’s 
lun, to hear and dispose of the general business of the throe 
Courts. 
Coombe. On the 19th inst., Daniel Painfon and James 
Long, of Ilandborough, were, by tho Rev. H. J. l*a-saud 
committed to Oxford gaol, for trial at the ensuing assize-, 
for night-poachiug in a wood the property of the Duke of 
Marlborough, at Coombe. It. appeared, that at about mid- 
night the watcher* found tho prisoners, and two com- 
panions, armed and with game, iu the wood. On tho fol- 
lowing day, Eliezer Whitley— who, it appeared, was one of 
tho companions of the above prisoner* on tho night iu ques- 
tion— wus also committed for trial for the offence 
Dover.— Removal op Cliff.— a small blast, says tho 
Dover Chronicle, took place on Wednesday afternoon the 
consequence* ol which were, wo regret to say, somewhut of 
a serious character, owing u» tho improper mode iu which 
the *haft was sunk. On the explosion taking place, tho 
chalk, instead of descending iu a broken inass, a* it had 
done on previous occasions, wus blown into a thousand frag- 
ments, and hurled in ull directions. Muny of these pieces 
were thrown with great, violence to the distance of a hundred 
and fifty yards, some of them striking the extremity of the 
East Cliff jetty. Happily no fatal injuries resulted to the 
bystander.-, most of whom were fortunate enough to obtain 
shelter from the flying mi-ailes beueuih the doorways of 
Athol- terrace. We i egret to stale, however, that Mrs. 
Williams, residing at No. 2 of the same terrace, wus struck 
by ono of the fragments. The blow fell upon tho back purt 
of her head, and caused her to drop to Urn ground senseless. 
The medical men who attended her, gtate that had it not 
been for her knot of buck hair uffording the heud some pro- 
tection, Mrs. Willium* would beyond doubt linvo boon killed 
upon the spot. We regret to state that the cliff still remains 
hi a very dangerous position; although, of course the m^k 
of rendering it permanently *alo i* much lighter now than it 
was bulore the operations of the past fortnight were com- 
menced. 
Oxford Singular House Accident A singular 
accident happened on the night ol Sunday last, which caused 
tho death ol a valuable liorso belonging to Mr. 1-. Greenwood, 
of the Maidenhead Hotel, Oxford. Early on Monday 
inormug the ostler went us usuul into the stable, and was sur- 
prised ut uot seeing his master’s horse there, which hud been 
safely tied up on the previous evening. On u lantern being 
procured, be was very much astonished on finding the poor 
animal quite dead, ut tho bottom of a well, which wos 
nearly dry , and from 1 8 to 20 feet deep. 1 1 appeared, from tho 
position the horse lay, that the covering of an old well 
(which no one on the premises knew unythiDg about) hud 
