The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-24 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

DEVON POR r, AVOUST 23.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are
**wined m this port os dm& anal *soma official tour of
haapettira toil, la the essolsa week.
SOUTHAMPTON, Avoros 23.
About a domino( the bets intsoded for housing the
British arm, is the Crimes strived hers this wientiag.
They sot wry sopotioe to the bete seat sat last wise*, is
the ague of Ow awoorial used few them, lad is the taegity
with which they ass be itrostod. Thelma whist' seabed
Wiley mime from Latex. About 200 worm holowliew to
Irish militis witiettaW, arrived her today 00 .0110 way to
Plakhont butulm, is the Isle of Wight, at tad& there 4
a depot for swims togimosto of lb* 1100. TWO 'militia.
nos hod • I voltatetwod tats the line.

ADMIRALTY. AVOURT 23. A rpournnurre.—
Bargees' J. H. Patin/son (1846), to the Prisms Royal, 91,
weer drama ohm, et 400 bone power. is tke Bleak See;
sad W. Itt/es (1856), M.D., to the VelltiViti. 6, peddle-wheel
ateeme-sump, of 280-hone power, Mediterranean swine.
Navel Instraetve Rev. 8. W. Payne, to the Alarm. 26, at
Devoup:rt.
Armen Serena D. Finooese (1861), M.D., to the
Royal Albert, I. screw ateaaa-dtip, of 600-hone power, in
Ike Black Bes.

Aleastaat Clerk H. T. Searle, to the llosereh, $4, at
Devaupsrt.
It is stated that the four ,scant ooloneloias will
bsglees to Lieut.-Omen! the Hen. Charles Gym C. 8.,
lately ie command of the troops la Canada, to Lieut.-
Oeuerel Walton, General Simplot, and Major-General Sir
W. Codriugtoo, B C.B.
Two labourers left their work (haymaking) on a
faro, nest Chelmsford, the other day, to see the rosier of the
Rain Yeomanry, end on the eouiplaint of their employer
were sestendeil to 14 days' imprimontent and had labour.
Major Pointer, the commandant, asked the Home Secretary
Somali their punishment, bat Sir George Grey declined.

MYSTERIOUS CASE OF DROWNING.
Aa inquest was bud the day Wore yesterday at
Nawtoa Beata, Irma Mariam, baton Mr.W. el. Balser, aa
tabs body of a weans amed aurae bebohfald, who was
head drowsed is tlw Sadie& Canal wider sireaustasses

whisk had led to • emplelea ef murder having lams NS-
=Mid. It was stated is asides., that the dammed was 36
years of age sad the wife of a dyer mused William Wale
told, sad they had lived in a house aeu thdaam.road seal
Monday sight, when they were obliged to leave, sad •
neighbour Daniel William Spencer agreed to let them •
700 s is bit hoses at a shilling a week. About • quartet.'
past tea o'clock that night deceased went out, billing her
children eke was gulag M leek for their father, as ha would
not knoirwhige as iewee bet abe never retuned. At fear
o'clock on Tuesday mania( her husband mate is ter the
fret tau, and the. appeared half drunk. Ose of the
childrea asked his where hie mother was, sad Beholefiald
Sid ha had been fall*: out with her sear the toll-bar, that
he bad hit her oat the bead, and eke had left lima there,
sayicg it would be the last time he would hit hoz.
A police officer, lammed Jolla Breathing, said be had met
the demand and her husband walking Moog the high road
near the toll-bar at Newton-heath about °ail o'clock es
Tuesday monolog, and they were quarreling. They were
both in liquor, and the lemma was crying, and asked the
officer to look how bar huebsad had hit her on the mouth,
which was blowing. The masa accused her of taking hie
children away, and she said she had been tamed out of the
house. The officer resnanagadsi thaw to go home quietly,
and they weal away, and he heard an more of them that
night. Four hosts afterwards lbs mamaa's body was
covered Outten is the easel, quite by &private weigh-
awa named Williams Bates, sear Kr. 'e weeks, is
Albion-street, Nurtsa.beetli. Behetellskt wee appeebesded
near the toll bar about lea ileeklek se Tenday morning,
when he said he did not knew what had benne of hie wife
after they had quarrelled.
Mr. P. gge, eargeema K Mawberbealh, made as ea•
secusetUn of the body, eel heal we 'sternal injuries,
eseept a few skin seratehes, sad nothing but drowning
apprized to have bees the same of
The jury feud a wrilist et " Need dgeweeL"
Boholefield was Isesel4 Wee the weiblemesiel the New
Bailey, BallorJ, sad meads semestist