The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-10 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Letters of the 25th from Constantinople, state that
the Swedish Charge d'Affaires had obtained t-atisfac-
tion for the insults and bad treatment to which the
Swedish Vice-Consul at the Dardanelles had been
subjected. The l'aeha of the Dardanelles had been
dismissed, and the Swedish flag saluted with 21
guns. The trial of Elmer Effendi for being concerned
in the murder of Father Basil at Antioch, was ex-
pected to take place before the Grand Council of
Justice. M. Edward do Leracps, French consul at
Latakia, and the other parties, accusing and accused,
had arrived at Constantinople for this purpose.

THE " PRESERVED" MEATS At'
PORTSMOUTIL

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(From a Correspondent.)

PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY MORNING.
At the eleventh hour the Admiralty have given
rders to Sir E. Parry, at the Clarence-dock-pita, Gosport,

not to give any mere information to the newspapers in refer-
ence to the examination of the tin cases of putrid matter sup-
plied to the Navy as " preserved meat, warranted
to keep for five years." But the following short summary
of facts, collected by a gentleman on the spot, may be relied
upon no authentic. Goldner, who was and has been
ever since 184.5 the contractor for the supply of
these provisions, was lately resident at Greenwich:
The last contract consisted of 8,660 canisters, or
over 73,000 lbs. weight of food. The result of ten days' ex-
amination is, that out of 6,671 cases, only 189 have
been found " good." For this contract Mr. Goldner
was paid at the rate of bid. per lb. for the best
beef and mutton. Mr. Goldner is or was also a cort
tractor with the Russian government for a supply of
tallow, and for the production of which he had is tallow
factory at full work, in Galati, in Moldavia ; and there can
be little doubt that the offal and refuse of this factory is
the "preserved meat" which ho has supplied to the
English navy. About four months ago an agent of Its was
allowed to remove and take away 2,000 of these canisters
from the Clarence Victualling-yard, in consequence of a
report having got abroad that their contents wire emitting a
very unpleasant odour; what became of these 2,000 remains a
mystery, but they were included in the 8,660.
Yesterday the examination came to an abrupt close
before one o'clock; but it resulted in the condem-
nation of two hundred tin cases, out of which not
a single one was found " good ; " but any person apply-
ing for information on behalf of a newspaper received a
decided refusal until such time as some communication

can be had from the Admiralty on the subject. However,
it is now confidently asserted in Portsmouth that a large
portion of this firtid stuff was put oa board the ships of
Sir John Franklin.
Up to a late hour last evening no communication

of any sort had been received by the Board of Examiners
either from tho contractor's representative in London, or
from his sureties, and nothing whatever is known of the eon.
tractor himself, beyond the fact that he is no longer to be
found in Greenwich.

MALTA, JAN. 2.—Spiteful is to leave port in a few
days for Naples. Albion and Serpent are to go out on a
trial of sailing about Wednesday. It is said they will go as
far as Gibraltar. Terrible, it is reported, will accompany
them, to bring back the admiral. Ceylon, the old receiving
ship, hushed her ballast out. She is found to be in a much
better state than was supposed, and probably will still be
retained as the receiving ship ; whilst the Hercules may be
ordered to England. Medina is in duck. Medusa will be
docked. . .

SEAMEN'S IiOSPITAL SOClETY.—Yesterdny the
quarterly court of the governors of this institution took
place at the offices in King William-street, City, Mr. John
Wild, vice-president, in the chair. A report was adopted,
which stated that the number of patients admitted into the
hospital ship Dreadnought from the lit October to the 31st
Dec., 1861, was 768, of which 165 were still sick, '2 were
convalescent, 3 were tit for duty, and 608 had been dis-
charged. The number received since the first establishment
of the hospital in 1821 was 64,373. The number of out-
patients from the Ist October to the 31st December
amounted to 372. The statement of accounts between the
29th September and the 31st December, 1861, showed that
the quarter's expenses amounted to 1,6221. 2s. 2d., and the
receipts to 1,242/. 12s. Id., leaving a balance against the
society of 3691. 10s. Id.
STAFFORDSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE RAILWAY.—
The Master in Chancery Brougham, after a long argument
by Mr. Roxburgh, for Mr. Hutton, the official manager, and
Mr. Southgate and Mr. E. Smith, on the other side, has
placed Mr. W. Bowen, of Stafford, the local solicitor to this
company, on the list as liable for twenty shares, on which
the deposit of 2/ 16s. remained unpaid. It appeared from
the evidence that Mr. Bowen applied for shares, and signed
the deed, butdid not ieeeive the strip, and on these grounds
it was contended that there was no contract, and that the
signature to the deed was what is called an escrow. Mr.
Roxburgh said it appeared to be the custom of the time to
I apply fur shares, and dispose of the scrip at a premium, and
out of it to pay the deposit, and the Master held that as
I Mr. Bowen had not, as lie might have done, placed himself
in a position to receive the scrip, which in his evidence he
admitted his desire to have bad, he must hold him liable
for its payment now, so as to place him on an equal footing
with thew who had originally fulfilled the contract.

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AMAZON.