28 JANUARY 1837, Page 14

The Beagle, surveying ship, which has lately returned, in company

with the Adventure, from the South Seas, after a surveying expedition which lasted five years, is now fitting out at Woolwich for a voyage tO Torres Straits and the North.western coast of Australia, where she will proceed in the course of a few weeks; under the command of Cap- tain Wickham, who acted as Lieutenant on the lust occasian. The land expedition, consisting of Lieutenants Gray and Lushington, and Mr. Porter, as surgeon and naturalist, will proceed in the vessel to their destination, the Swan River, where they will receive the aid of troops from Captain Stirling, the Governor, to prosecute their researches in the interior.—Courier.