22 APRIL 1854, Page 8

FROM PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

The Liverpool Local Marine Board have inquired into the competency of Captain Noble, the master of the unfortunate ship Tayleur, to continue in such a command. Their opinion is, that in no respect is Captain Noble in- competent to discharge the duties of a Master ; and the renewal of his cer- tificate is recommended.

On the 1st of January last, the number of registered steam-vessels of the United Kingdom was 1375; with 248,623 of tonnage, exclusive of engine. room.

A return moved for by Colonel Harcourt states the number of married women belonging to each of the regiments ordered on foreign service, and the number of soldiers' children. The totals are—women legally married, 3266 ; residing in barracks 1711; number of children, 4222. No record is kept of the soldiers who marry without leave ; but the presumption is that the women who reside in barracks have been married with leave.

It appears from a return on the subject of the inmates of Irish work- houses, that during the half-year ending 1st January 1854, 671 illegitimate and 313 legitimate children were born in these houses.

The statistics of the medical profession in England, Scotland, and the islands in the British Seas, as supplied by the census of 1851, have appeared in a Parliamentary return moved for by Mr. Brady. The results are—phy- sicians, 2328; surgeons or apothecaries, 15,162; druggists, 15,325; dentists, 1167; aurists, 4; oculists, 14. Of the druggists, 3630 were under twenty years of age. A few of the physicians and surgeons had reached long ages ; 9 of the former and 29 of the latter being "eighty-five and upwards." The larger proportion were between thirty-five and forty years of age. In London alone, there were 552 physicians, 3407 surgeons or apothecaries, 2670 drug- gists, 503 dentists, .9 oculists.