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tAt the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on Monday,-14prd Shield in the ohair,—reporta were read from Dr. Barth, announcing his departure from Timbuctoo, last Maroh ; and also. letters frern the Foreign Office,- announcing that Dr, Vogel had received intelligence -et the death of Dr. Barth, and also of Mr. Henry Warrington, who had actionmaniett Dr:Vogel as far as Kuka. Dr. Vogel had tuffered frota a severe attack of- feler, and had been 'unable to go himself to /deroda, where Dr. Barth died. Mr. Warrington died at the Well el Dibla, some
handred miles to the South of Bilma. - - The general meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England was held op Saturday, at the Society's house in Hanover Square. Accordieg to the report, since May the Society has lost 45 and gained 135 members ; the present number is 5266= The accounts show a decrease of 15004 la the funded property of the Society, caused by the non-payment of sub- setipttons and losses occasioned by the meeting at Lewes; but the re- ceipts for the half-year ending in June last were 46961, Os. 9d., the eit- penditure 33714 3s. 10d.
At a meeting, of the Court of Dire-eters at the East India House, on the 6th instant, Mr. Henry Ricketts was appointed a provisional member of the Council of India, and Mr. Arthur Malet a provisional member of Council of Bombay.
The London Bridge Committee have resolved to try two plans for fa- cilitating traffic over London Bridge. They intend to erect foot-ways
outside, the present parapet-walls, throwing the foot-paths now, in use into the carriage-way. While the new foot-ways are in progress, they Rill carry out a plan first suggested, we believe, by a newspaper cor- respondent--heavy, slow-going traffic, to proceed in two lines, next the kerbs, while fast vehicles will occupy the centre of the road.
A new cemetery company is proposed—" the London and Western Districts." The promoters have selected sixty acres of land at Isle- worth, and the Home Office has approved of the site.
The Chichester and Thornhill case came before the Court of Chancery again on Monday. The Solicitor-General handed in a new affidavit, in which Mr. Chichester declares that he has no other letters or extracts or copies of letters from Miss Thornhill besides the four handed to the Lord Chancellor ; and he undertakes " not to solicit, molest, or hold any commu- nication with Miss Thornhill during her minority, without the consent of the Court." Lord Edward Chichester, the father of the prisoner, also en- tered into this undertaking, and agreed to pay the costs of the suit within forty-eight hours after taxation. Upon these conditions, Mr. Chichester was liberated.
Emmanuel Barthelemy, who killed two men last week, was examined by the Marlborough Street Magistrates on Saturday. He was charged with murdering George Moore, and with attempting to murder Charles Collard ; but at eight o'clock the same night Collard died, so that the prisoner has now to answer for two murders. He was recognized at the Police Court as a Frenchman, the surviving principal in the Egham duel ; who was impri- soned for two months for killing Cournet in that encounter. Mr. Carter, a '
surgeon described the cause of Mr. Moore's death—a bullet had passed through the brain. There were wounds on the head as from blows. In j[r. Moore's parlour there was a chair with the back broken, and on the wall behind, about the height of a man's head when he was seated, were splashes of blood. A lump of lead was found in the room. Madden, a wood-carver, deposed that he seized the accused after he had shot Collard; his captive made a great resistance, striking him on the head and arm with a pistol ; but he was held till aid came. The prisoner was remanded, that.the Police might endeavour to capture the woman who accompanied him. to Mr. Moore's. When he was seized he had in his possession two pistols, car- tridges, percussion-caps, and a dagger. His motive for attacking Moore is unknown : no robbery was committed.
On Thursday, a Coroner's Jury pronounced a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Emanuel Barthelemy in the case of Mr. Moore. The prisoner was also produced at the Police Office. It seems the Police are on. the track of the woman who escaped ; one of them knows " the party " ; and has a clue to her apprehension. The life of the widow of Collard, the second victim, is now despaired of.
Charles Mallett has been committed for trial by Alderman Sir Robert Car- den for a daring and atrocious outrage, perpetrated on Monday evening. Ile knocked at the door of a house in Bull Inn Yard, Aldgate; Mrs. Harrison, wife of a carpenter, was in the place with two young children ; Mallett said he had some needlework for her ; and she asked him into he parlour. He entered, blew out the candle, demanded her money, tore away a pocket in which she had some silver, knocked her down, struck her with a stick, and bound her with a clothes-line. He at first violently-pre- vented her from screaming, and afterwards cowed her by threats of murder- ing her infant. He exhibited two pistols. After visiting other rooms he left the house, the children having begun to scream. Mrs. Harrison's little girl now alarmed the neighbours. The poor woman was found on the floor, bound, and almost insensible. This outrage was perpetrated in a room look- ing upon the yard, where persons were constantly passing. Mrs. Harrison subsequently identified Mallett in a penny theatre.
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