... EXPEDITION TO CTEINTAL AFRICA. Further communications have been received from Dr. Barth, from Timbuktu, giving an account of his protracted sojourn at that dangerous place. The date of the present letters is two months more recent than that of the first letters despatched thence. They reach up to the 15th of December last. They contain the gratifying news that this indefatigable and courageous ...

... ?? METRtOPOLis.-Ttnerq are strong groonds for on- ag tertaining ithe hope that the pestilence has done its worst, ij iltud that it is passaing away fronm amongst us. ?? is, de scarcely a parish in or near Lonldoii which has not been ua no visited by the disease ansld although the mortality coca- th sioned by it has fallen very foe short of that which the me- tropolis experienced front the same ...

... 'ECCLBSJASTWCAL. APPOITITMZTS. The Bisbop of Chichester has collated the Rev. Sir Henry Thompson, Bert., vicar of Fraut, Sussex, to tile prebendal stall of Thorney, in the cathedral church of Chichester, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Venerable George Bland, M.A., Arebdeacon of Durham, and the Rev. Henry Browns, M. A ., rector of Earoley ad AImodington, to the rectory of Pevensey, ...

... 7HE BRI TISH ASSOCIATION. The interest felt in the proceedings of this association con- tinues to increase in proportion as the period for holding the meeting becomes less distant. The local secretaries and committees are busily employed in completing the arrauge- ments, and the replies from invited guests who intend being present are multiplying daily. From present indications, the meeting ...

... V ILrGRAPHIC DESPATCRES. I , IIT' :3lY IN TIJE CRIMEA. tI -ratch has been received from Lord Raglan I St. Arnaud, giving some further de- , , ?? the expedition to the Crimea. , aespatch was forv arded to Omer Pacha, who *rr'ied it to Lord Westmorelaud j3 dted upon the 17th inst., one day later i i jormer despatc!l, and it states that thle of the allied army had landed, with the , thle whole ...

... THB GENERAL BOARD OF HEALMI AND TEB GUARDIANS OF CLERKEN WELL. -- Yesterday forenoon Mr. Wakley, the coroner, and a jury empanelled on Thursday last, at the instigation of the General Board of Health, as to the death of a child named James Buckley, aged two years and eight months, who had died of cholera, re-assembled at the Crown Tavern, Clerken.t w well-green, to pursue their irnvestigatiort ...

... RAIL WA YS. PORTSMOUTH. Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of tire shareholders in this company was held at theoffices, 28, Great George-street, Westminster, Mr. Ross D. Mangles, M.P., in the chair. Mr. C. W. HORN, the secretary, read the following re- port :- The directors have much satisfaction in reporting to the shareholders that, notwithstanding the strong opposi- tion of rival railway ...

... , jli)S8 of the CITY of PHILADELPIAll. L(,3 . f As - LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORINXG. ' Tire inhabitants of this port wvere startled this mor;ing by gF the intelligence tlhat the fine new screw-steamer City of Phi- rl:adelphiirt, Captain Leitch, which sailed from this port for the town after which she is named, on tire 30th nit,, bi td been last off Capc Race on the 9th inst. On inquiry it w di:- ...

... SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY ELECTRIC I TELEGRAPH. To TIZ EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. k SBn-A letter from a shareholder claims for me the merit 1 of the introduction of the electric telegraph on the South- t Eastern Railway, and a reply, signed Walker, has ap-t peered in several of the daily papers. S It is due to Mr. Charles V. Walker, the able and scientific co manager of the telegraph on ...

... THE REGISTRA TIONS. +s MIDDLESEX. s is The revision of the lists of voters for the metropolitan oid county sas proceeded with yesterday, by Mr. Shadwell, at the Castle Iot), Brentford. The day's revision included the ipe parishes isud places within this polling district. fs Mr. Jones and Mr. Maclure attended for the Conserva- tives. The Liberal interests were represented by Mr. Davies anid Mr. ...

... ECCLE2S1ASTICAL. APPOINTMENTS. The Archbishop of York his licensed the Rev. Edward GOivvihow, jun., B.A., curate of Newton-upon-Oue, Y.rk- shire, vice the Rev. Joln Gatenby. M.A., on the nomtnin- tion of the lion. P~idsey Dawson ; soid the Rev. J. Sampson, B.A., to the curacy of St. Jolts'6 Church, Kingston-upon- luil, mn tie nomuiantion of the Rev. Henry NWilliam, Renip, M.A. The Bishop of St ...

... I THR LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDA Y, I SBPTBMBER 16. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of Sep. tunber, 1854, present the Qaeen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury do prepare a Form of Prayer and Tihanksgiving to Almighty God for the present abundant Harvest; and that such Form of Prayer and ...