The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-03 00:00:00

COURT-MARTIAL

SHEERNES3, Ocr. 2.
A court-martial assembled oo board the dig-ship
Waterloo, at 9 cm. this day, to try Lieutecint Richard
Horner, of the screw steam frigate Penelope. Captain 81r
William 8. Wiseman, Bart., prooscutrd.
The followiog °Marrs composed the court :—V.ce•Admiral
of the Blue the Ron. William Gordon, coo:mender in-
chief at the buoy of the Non, and for the rivers Thames
sad Medway. President, Commodore Christopher Wyvill,
captain suporintecdent of Chatham yard, and in command
of the Wellrley, 72 pas; Cspuds John J,.rris Tacker,
earaircsuperindondent of Sheerness yard, and in ccmmacd
of the Formidable, 81 guns, Commander Josiah Thompson,
of Formideb.e ; Commander John B. Marsh, of Waterloo,
and Mr. William Webb Hayward, deputy judge advocate
Liselesasat Thomas D. Williams officiate as the officer of
the 'curt.

The shame against the prisoner was to the sffret that he,
the said Lieutenant Richard Horner, being ia actual ser-
vice, sad in full pay of, and belonging t_ ,o H. 16 S. Pecelope,
whilst officer of the first watch, on the 27th of July last, at
about 10 p.m (at which time a heavy sea was rousing, the
ship thee being on a passage (rem Buffalo Mouth toward
Algae Bay, the wind at the time blowing a strong gale from
the south west, with occasional squalls and pining showers
of rare) was perfectly drunk and apable of doing his duty.
Lieutenant George Asher White Welch, first lieutenant,
and Mr. Jobs Scott Davidseo, surgeon, were called to give
evidence for the prosecution, and Mr. Charles Forbes,
muter and pilot, was called to prose the regular entry intim
ship's log at the time the occurrencetook place. The sea.
deem for the prosecution being closed, the priecner was
asked by the Deputy Judge Advocate if he ri golfed any
time to prepare his defines. The prisoner replied that be
threw himself entirely on the gamey of the court, and then
produced six teethe certificates, gima him according
to Admiralty regulations by officers under whom
be bad served. After they had been read the
court was sleazed, and in about half•an•hoin was
&sails opened, when Mr. W. W. Hayward, Deputy-
Judge Advocate, read the sentence of the court, which was:
" The court having heard the evidence produced by the pro-
secutor, and the printer's remarks in his defence, and after
mature consideration, were clearly of opinion that the charge
led been folly proved, and they do adjudge the prisoner to
be diazained her Majesty's envies, and be is hereby dis-
missed from her Majesty • service.
It is reported that in a few days another court will have
to be assembled to try an rear of an inferior rank Co a
similar charge, of and belonging to the same ship. •
The Perseverance, screw steam troop ship, Commander
Harris, has completed her coaling and steamed down to
harbour mooring., ready to motive the Rutiaa prisoners
from the Deatinsbire.
The Cornwallis, 60 guns, screw steam ship, Capt. George
G. Wellesley, arrived from the Baltic, and anchored at the
Mouse during Sunday eight. Yesterday morning her num-
ber was demanded by the flag ship, and she was imme-
diately sigsaliscd to proceed to Plymouth. She left here at
6 30 p m. yesterday.
The Jackal, No. 27, hired screw transport, Edwin
Pioche= commander, which vessel was assisted in here
leaky (as reported), left here for the Black Sea at 9 60 a.m.
this.day. Her leak, having been connected with con of her
through pipes, has bean deiteted sad stopped.
The Reseed, Captain Scott, arrived at the Nor. from the
Baltic this afternoon; she will come into harbour to-
morrow's tide.

PORTSMOUTH, Ocr. 2.
Captain Hay, of the Gout* died on board the
ladimas, et apithead, yesterday morning, sod his body
arm bressbt is by the Sprightly in the afterncon, and
Maud at the Clayenee.yard late last evening, for clayey-
num to London by rail. Captain Hay is brother to the
Hos. Arthur Hay, Flag-Lieutenant to the Commander-in-
Chief.

Reer•Adesirel Martin, Superintendent, struck his flag on
hosed the St. Vincent at sunset last evening. He is on s
montlee leave of 'bones.

The Lady lighotoo, No. 183, atom transport, is token up
to mover huts to the Crises. She soiled this mon:mg.
The Bellervhon, 78, w taken into dock this afternoon,
to be cossvetts4 into is bulk.
The Imperstriz, No. 130, steam transport, hauled slocg-
aide the Malabar left evenieg to noel.
The Ifir George Pollock, No. 79, sailing transport, is to be
paid off, her services being no longer required.
The Ladies., steam transport, landed her invalids this
afternoon.

CHATHAM, Ocr. 2.
91sT AZGIMINT.—On Saturday evening the god
battalins of this Sue regiment landed at the Old Docks.
The 91st, under the command of Major B. W. C. Wright,
nailed from the Cape. Mated at Portsmouth, and proceeded
by tbo steam•boat Neelope to Sheeniest. On Monday
they were paraded on the Barrsek•squsre sal marched to
Yon Pitt, mbar, after a medical inspection by Geo. R
Dolma], D.T.O.H , the men returned to their quar-
ters. The headquarters of the reginwat is at Greece.

DUBLIN, Ocr. 2.
A detachment, consisting Of two officers, &sergeant,
sad 62 privates of the 65th Regiment, embarked yesterday
(sr Liverpool, es mallet. the Crimes, bevies bees conveyed
to town is the eosins of the morning by true from Temple-
mon. They were warmly cheered by the assembled mow&
es the steamer left the quay.
A somber of volunteer from the Westmeath Rifles for
the 40th Regiment sad for the gallant 88th, a• well es
velesteen from other tallith regiments for the latter corm
Lea Isfi Cork for England within the last few days.
A porker of the 2nd Somerset Militia wen to have sailed
from Cork yesterday for England. The Cork Reporter
says :—" The departure of Mr caps has been delayed,
swing, we helium, to a few asso of small pox baying ap-
peared smug the men. We are happy to state they have
seeoveted, sod that but one will be left behind in hospital."

MOSS TRANSPORTS WANTBD.—The Board of Ad-
mire/Ay base touted teaders to be seat to Eleresrsebhosse
before bees ea the 4th fast. for the eosveyane• of troops
60111 Liserpsel sad Cork to Melts. The traders are to be
at a roe pee bead, to iselade officers frets each port,
las is reeks, medical senaterts, all aeoettoaries,
6e1014 sod attlaps, exordia, to the potent-
sant aspistios. The *Wass sad provisions to b. sabjeet
laservirel et the pevemasekt surveyor. The vessels to
be few sea ea the lidt of °caber. No ship haviag
itiesberced guano Win be awed.
At the attack at the Baia Major Hicg, of the
47th, suffer a men —odes
lase a round shot ea the

DUBLIN, Ocr. 2.
The Lord-Lieutenant held a Privy Council in
Dublin Castle yesterday, when there were present—
the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Bishop of Meath,
Judge Moore, the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, the
Attorney-General, and the Right Hon. Edward
Herman. The following order in council was passed
for a form of prayer and thanksgiving for the sac-
comes of the allied armies in the Crimea:
IT TEI LORD LIIIVTINANT AND COUNCIL OP IRRLAND.
Ckaitsts—

Ordered, that the lords, archbishops, and bishops sow in
town do prepare a form of prayer and thanksgiving to
Almighty God for the signal and repeated mimeses' ob-
teamed by the troops of her Majesty and by those of her
allies In the Crimes, and especially for the capture of the
town of Sebastopol ; and that such form of prayer and
thanksgiving be used in all churches and chapels to Ireland
upon Sunday, the 7th day of October Inst.
And it is hereby further ordered that her Majesty's
printers do forthwith print a competent number of copies of
the said form of prayer and thanksgiving, in order that the
same may he forthwith seat round sad read in the several
churches and chapels in Ireland.
Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, the let day of
October, 1866. Masts/2 BRADY. C.
RICHARD MOORI.
E. HOHAMAN.
FIMUMULICI fin kW.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant kw apppointed
the following gentlemen as assistant eommiaaionera
to enquire into endowed schools in Ireland, under the
provisions of the 18th and 19th Vic. cap. 69: Arthur
Sharman Crawford, George Whitley Abraham, Fre-
derick William M•Blein, and Edward Pennefather,

Esqrs., barristers-at-law.
Nearly a hundred wives and children of soldiers
of the 20th, 68th, and 92nd regiments arrived in
Dublin yesterday, when some among them who ar •
peered particularly deserving of commiseration were,
under the directions of the Rev. Mr. Hort, garrison
chaplain, removed to O'Brien's hotel, now known as
the Royal Crimean Hotel, from the fact of the enter-
tainment tht re provided for invalid soldiers through
the generosity of the Earl of Carlisle.
Lord Talbot de Malahide presided yesterday at
the annual meeting and dinner of the Fingal Farm-
ing Society.
At the last meeting of the Royal Irish Flax Im-
provement Society, held in Belfast, a letter was read
from the private secretary of the Lord Lieutenant,
intimating that his Exoelteney, on the occasion of
his approaching visit to Belfast, would be glad to
witness some of the processes in the linen manufac-
ture. The committee deputed some of their number,
with the secretary, to prepare an address to his Ex-
cellency, and to arrange as to which of the esta-
blishments in the linen manufacture should be shown

to him, placing themselves in communication with
the committee nominated at the town meeting to pre-
pare for the Lord Lieutenant's recepticn. Mr. Etor-
resins, a gentleman from Milan, wee introduced to
the meeting. He bad invented a mode of preparing
flax fibre from the straw without fermentative steep-
ing, which be had first tried in Lombardy, and had
now patented for the United Kingdom.

SPORTING.