The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-30 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

The poet of Vice-President of the Colo( ,f
Military Education is once more vacant, Lieut..' :,,,e,
nl
Koollys having resigned his office on being appointed
troller of the Household to the Prince of Wales. The
names of several officers are mentioned in comten is watt
the vacancy--among them that of Major-General l.
Hamilton, C. 8., now military attaclW to her Majesty'.
gation at Berlin, who hays the Army and Nary got
improbably will suooeed to the important office about t
relinquished by General Knollye.

The wardroom and gunroom officer, of I:, r M
Mety's ships St. George and Chanticleer have publicly
premed their acknowledgmente of the unbounded I,o•l,italitf
and civility they have experienced during their stay at l: a,O.
stadt. The governor of Croastadt placed his own .tea,:...r
at their dispos►l, and his flag captain was unrernittik;
attentions and offers of personal service. The Naval Club,
a noble building, containing an English library, was thrown
open ; and ► dinner was given by the Eineun midshipmen
to the junior officers of our ships. The night before their
departure a magnificent banquet was given by Viee..tilmira
Novosilsky, governor.

The important post of captain of th,• training-
ship Britanuia is about to be vacant by the retirement of
Captain Robert Harrill.

It ill expected that the monster 41111 }N.10I14111:. to
the Mersey Company will be ready for trial at Slmelmryet,,
about Thursday next. The gun weighs very nearly 22 tOO%
The charge of powder to be used will be 6011,a, and the
shot, which is a 13-inch solid csat•iron one, weigh 4 2,2r5.
.

Mr. Lynall Thomas has induced the War Depart-
ment to give him permission, at the coat of about 2,i)9'.,
to manufacture a gun of 16 tone weight, on his prim-Tie, at
the Royal Aroma!, Woolwich.

• ADMIRALTY, ATOVRT 29. APPOIVIIIENT,
Master J. R. Ryan, to the Indus, for the Leopard.
MaistairaPaymaster F. Braila**, to the Hawke.
Assistant-Surgeon D. R. Alcoa, to the Reactance.
Engineer A. Gilliam, to the Dasher ; R. Siunneis, to rt.
main additional to the Asia, for the Psyche.
First Class Assistant-Eogineers J. Price and A. Smith, to
the Asia, for the Psyche ; W. Webber, to the Asia. for at
Swinger ; A. Wood, to the Severn, for the Pantaloon.
Snoond Clam Assistant-Engineer A. Wilson, to the Vie.
vein, fcr the Pantaloon.
Acting Second Clam Engineers G. Edwards, to tke
Psyche ; A. Moreton, to the Indus, supernumerary.

CHATHAM, Alums.? 2'i.
The Admiralty having placed one of the vmov:e
attached to the sailing reserve at this port at the services of
the Emperor of China, to be used as a storeehip for the
fleet of screw gunboats, orders bare been received at tine
dockyard for the Diamond, 27, the Ina, 26, or the Ame-
thyst, 26, to be selects I for that purpose.
Intelligence has been received at the headquarten of the
Royal Engineer establishment, that the 26th company of
Royal Engineers, which has been serving for several ye.wo
the Cape of Good Hope, wdl shortly arrive at this garrison,
its penixl of foreign sena e having expired. A detachment
of Royal Engineers will shortly ha despatched from head-
quarters to New Zealand, for service in that colony.

WOOLWICH, Amon

Hem MAJIENTY'fI EMBARKATION. —The embarka-
tion of her Majesty at Woolwich is expected to take place
at one o'clock on Monday next, and no visitors will be ad-
mitted to the dockyard after ten o'clock on that day. A
notice has been issued by the Woolwich Steam Packet
Company to the effect that the Sea Swallow and two other
!stye steam vessels will leave Hangerford on Monday morn.
lug and accompany the royal squadron to the Nore, cm.
raying pusengers. The steam vessel Fairy, which will
convey her Majesty front Woolwich to the royal yacht at
Greenhithe, is now moored alongside the dockyard wharf.
The Osborne steam reed, after proceeding with the quadrat
to Antwerp, la ordered to return to Woolwich next week, to
embark his Royal Highness the Priam of Wales end slain
for the continent.

PEMBROliafAucusr

To-day the workmen of the establishment re-
turned to their duty, having been absent three days on lean
for the purpose of visiting the International Exhibitive.
The captain superintendent algae his oosetniuid into the
heads of Captain Irving on Monday next. Captain Ramey
leaves with the good wishes of every one in the rate-
bowline&