promoting sanitary reform—not only by promulgating the
scientific truths respecting it, but by personal labour—
is to find himself obliged to recommence his career as a
practising physician. Doubtless Dr. Smith has not
opened his consulting-rooms for private practice in vain;
but it is a bitter discouragement to those who devote
their talents and their energies to the best interests of
the public, to find that, while drones of family and
influence burden the pension list, men of action and
skill, without 'connexions,' can expect no better fate
than that which we are now recording of the foremost
sanitary reformer of the time."

         Obituary of Notable Persons

GENERAL HENRY D'OYLY, Colonel of the 33rd Regiment,
died at Nevill Park, Tunbridge Wells, on the 26th ult., in his
75th year.

ADMIRAL SIR Samuel PYM, died at Southampton on the
2nd inst., aged 80.

ADMIRAL GIFFARD has died at his residence in
Southampton, at the age of 95. He was the father of Captain
Giffard who was killed in the Tiger off Odessa.

The RIGHT HON. SIR H. ELLIS, K.C.B., died at Brighton on
the 28th ult. He accompanied Lord Amherst to China, and
published an account of the Embassy.

ARCHDEACON BROOKS, the senior Rector of the parish of
Liverpool, died suddenly on the 29th ult., in his 81st year.

The RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT ADAIR, G.C.B., died on the
3rd inst., at his residence in Mayfair, in his 93rd year.

LORD DELAMERE died on the 30th ult., at his residence in
Hereford-street, aged 8S.

COUNT SERGIUS OUVAROFF, President of the Imperial
Russian Academy of Sciences, died at .Moscow on the 16th ult.,
in the 71st year of his age.

GEORGE CANNING BACKHOUSE, Esq., her Majesty's
Commissary Judge at the Havana, died on the 31st August,
mortally wounded while defending himself from a gang of
robbers who had entered his house.

FREDERICK LUCAS, Esq., Member of Parliament for the
county of Meath, died on the 21th inst., at the residence of
Mrs. Ashby, his mother-in-law, at Staines, in his 43rd year.

MR. MAY, Superintendent of Police, who was the first man
that ever wore the police uniform, died on the 23rd inst. He
was highly respected in the force.

REAR-ADMIRAL THE HON. W. H. PERCY, died in Portman-
square on the 5th inst., in his 68th year.

MAJOR-GENERAL WHITTY, R.A., died on the 2nd inst., at
his residence, near Dublin, aged 67. He entered the service
in 1805, and was present at the reduction of the Danish
Islands in the West Indies in 1807, and the capture of
Guadaloupe in 1810.

MR. ROSS MOORE, M.P. for Armagh, died on the 6th inst.,
at his residence in that city, after a protracted illness.

PROFESSOR BUSCH, Director of the Observatory of Konigsberg,
in Prussia, died lately of cholera.

M. MAJENDIE, late physician at the Hôtel Dieu in Paris,
died on the 8th inst. of a disease of the heart, from which he
had been long suffering.

SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, Bart., Secretary of State for the
Colonies, died at his house in Eaton-place on the 22nd inst.,
after a brief illness, aged 45.

LORD WHARNCLIFFE died on the 22nd inst., at Wortley Hall,
the family seat in Yorkshire, in his 55th year.

GENERAL MONTEVECCHIO has died of the wounds received by
him at the battle of the Tchernaya.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

The Overland Mail has brought advices from Bombay
to the 12th of September. Very little of general interest
is reported. The Sontal insurrection has been
entirely suppressed; some thousands have surrendered, but
the majority are still safe in their jungles. As the fever
season had set in, the advanced posts of the troops had
been withdrawn, and the main bodies were preparing to
fall back out of the fever range. It is stated that the
tranquillity at Lucknow is more apparent than real.
The king, on one side, was either besotted with opium
or debauchery; and the fanatics, on the other, were
secretly instigating the people.

From Ceylon we hear that the life of Sir Henry Ward,
the governor, was attempted on the 7th of September.
Miss Kate Ward, seeing a man in the room where she
and her sisters slept, the door of which he bolted, gave
an alarm. The man ran out, and in the passage met
Sir Henry Ward; who, armed with a stick and revolver,
chased him into the drawing-room. Here the intruder,
brandishing a knife, came to bay. But the governor
shot him in the shoulder, and fought with him until,
assistance arriving, the ruffian was overpowered.

By the West India Mail we learn that at Jamaica
the Legislature would meet on the 16th inst. The
weather was intensely hot, and the island generally
healthy. At Tobago affairs had slightly improved. An
amended constitution, similar to that of Jamaica, had
come into operation. The island was healthy, and the
weather favourable. At Barbadoes the weather was
wet, and the prospect of a large crop excellent. At
Demerara the weather had been dry, and exceedingly
favourable for maturing the sugar-cane, many crops of
which have considerably improved. Intelligence from
Grenada reports the island healthy, but business still
depressed. The plantations had derived benefit from
the weather, but the want of labour was still felt. At
Trinidad heavy rains had prevailed throughout the
month, and the young canes were growing fast. In
some instances, however, the crops had suffered
materially from the storms.

Intelligence from Melbourne has been received to the
26th of July.

Agricultural operations are going on with considerable
vigour in the neighbourhood of Ballarat. Fencing,
clearing, and cropping are, we are told, proceeding in a
style which shows evident earnestness of purpose. The
inhabitants are sanguine in their anticipations that the
district will ere long become quite an agricultural one,
and speculators are already said to be on the look-out for
good sites for flour mills.

Riots have taken place at the diggings, which, though
not political, have been of formidable magnitude,
threatening serious consequences. They arose from a local
quarrel between an unruly section of the mining
population known as the "Tipperary Boys," and the rest of
the diggers: they were decidedly important as evidence
of feeling and customs on the diggings, and of the
powerlessness of the government in those districts. The
"Tipperary Boys" are not all Irishmen, much less all from
Tipperary, the name being given to them merely on
account of their large possession of those lawless and
pugnacious qualities supposed to be characteristic of the
inhabitants of that county. It seems that on most of the
diggings they congregate inconsiderable gangs, and have
become objects at once of terror and animosity to persons
of a more peaceable persuasion.

The local papers give curious glimpses of the progress
of colonial society. A new Theatre Royal has been
opened at Melbourne. This magnificent establishment
is in respect of dimensions scarcely inferior to Drury-
lane Theatre; and although it has been finished somewhat
in a hurry, the decorations and general appointments
are upon a corresponding scale of splendour. The
audience portion of the theatre has capacity for
accommodating over three thousand persons; and the stage,
which has been laid down with every attention to recent
improvements, is, for extent and adaptability for the
purpose intended, equal to that of the great national
establishment to which we have referred. Seats are
provided for 3000 persons, and doubtless on crowded
nights, nearly 500 more than that number would find
places upon the benches. The private boxes (17 in
number) accommodate nearly 100 persons; the dress
circle about 400; the stalls about 120; the upper circle
of boxes, about 500; the slips about 120; the pit, over
1000; and the gallery about 700. The audience, on the
opening night, appeared to find abundance of amusement
in observations on the extreme beauty and unexpected
grandeur of the new theatre, and although it was
nearly eight o'clock before the curtain rose, very little
impatience was manifested, and at any time only by an
infinitesimal minority. Miss Hayes—who left for Sydney
on July 21—was recognised in one of the proscenium