The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-16 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

MALTA, Anorir 10.
The Assistance, fovereMent anew steamer, which ar-
rived from Cosetantinople, Alined daring the voyage very
severely from cholera, having lost twelve men by death, and
some thirty of bar crew rendered slat for duty. It is re-
ported the venal was in a very sad state and the men re-
fused to work, or were in sae► a state that they could not
work. Fortunately, Rear-Admiral Sig Stephen Lashing-
toe was on board as passenger, and he took charge
of the ship, sad by a well-timed interference,
be got the ma to ge cheerfully to their duty,
greeds( arm a gill of rum per day end a bottle of bar;
and, by kis determination and example, restoring coal-
dean. The vessel was brought, after a speedy voyage, to
Malts, sad Sir &mhos Lashingtos, Captain Peel, Captain
Roberta, sad Mr. Muir Laded, sad after three days'
guaranties Aniseed pratigus. The deb from the ship were
landed at the Lassuatto Hospital; sad, if so new ease'
take plan, she will obtain pratigue to-morrow, being five
days from the last case, two of those who were landed
laving died on shore. Notwithstanding her present state,
t►e vessel is is every respect a good vessel, and
very comfortable for her passengers. la fact had
it not been for this frightful visitation of sholera the Assist.
ease would have been at Marseilles for French soldien.
Now she is detained to be thoroughly cleaned.
Captain Pnl, the cure of whose wound is retarded by
his anxiety to get bock to the trenches, took a pas-
sage to Marseilles in the Alma, which vessel left oes Wed-
nesday morning, towing two transports. Mr. Gonadal
also took a passage over ia her.
Captain Lord Clueless Paget, of the Prisons Royal,
passed through es resole to England, having been obliged to
leave his ship from bad eyes.
Yesterday the Tye/smooth arrived from the East, and
went on to Marseilles ; sad H.M.S. Himalaya arrived from
England with the Ist Dragoon and reinforcernesta for the
Crimea. After a few hoses' detention As left for the
Crimea.

The Pride of the Occur, Captain Kyle, having arrived
after a very quick voyage from Kamieseh, baud for Mar-
seilles, wee detained here by the admiral, and left this day
again foe the Crimea, having with all poesible despatch
stripped some siege gam, and a detachment of 200 Marines,
ander the command of Captain. Gwysn, Allen, and Lieut.
Staddart, for the brigade at Balahlava, and SOO seamen and
boys, under Lieutenants Strode and Bridges, to join the
Royal Albert, for service la the Black Sea fleet, and Dr.
Danville, for the Agamemnon AU those came oat in the
Powerful, Capt. Massie, which vessel returns to England
early on Monday. The Cleopatra, 'mew steamer, left on
Wednesday, towing the Talavera, both vessels crowded
with troops for the Crimea.

Sir Stephen Ludington taken $ passage in the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamer for Mantillas %disowns/Ans.

PORII3IdOI.ITH, AVOUST 16.
Rear-Admiral Martin' Admiral Superintendent of
the Dockyard, hu hoisted his fag on board the Victory
u oommander-ia-chief, daring the Masao of Sir Thomas
Cochrane.

The Raleigh, 60, sadist( frigate, was taken oat of dock
today into the fitting basin.
SHEERNESS, AIIOI7IIT 16.
The mew screw steam store-ship Urgent, Com-
mends, Fhblips, arrived hero this morning from Blackwell,
being towed by tits steam tags Monkey sad Adder. Whilst
the steam top wore getting fast to the Urgent in her leav-
ing the dock astraaos at Blackwell, the Monkey weenie oa
board of by the screw steam treasport Indiana, cot down on
the starboard bow, and bee her mast carried away about 10
gsAaMserdstk The leases sorriest sway his tocs-
in sea sad ispiellsat mast.
The Alban, 4, paddls-wheel steam-vessel, Lieut.-Com-
mander W. E. Fidler, left here this day for Heligoland.

SOUTHAMPTON, AVOUST 16.
The West India Company's steamer Trent left to-
day for the East, with a large well, 24 officers, 181 men, 168
horses, 20 servant', and 2 policemen. She is fitted up to
earry 220 horses, and she will tall at Gibraltar to take is
mules or horses. Orders have been received hen to prepare
the Orieatal Company's steamer Colombo, to receive 200
tone of shells for the Crimea. She will be ready to leave on
the 21st inst. The United States steam packet Herman
left tiouthamptos yesterday, with the mails and 270 pas-
sengers. She took out also the news of the destruction of
weaborg.

ADMIRALTY, ArOUsT 15.—APPOINTMENT8.—As-
'latent. thigeos W. D. Smyth (1864), antfirosed to the Rosa-
mond, 6, paddle-whorl steam sloop of 2io-hone power, for
particular melee.
Second Master G. Tsrpin (1847), to the St. Vincent, 102,
guard ship of ordinary, at Portsmouth.
Assistant-Paymaster I. C. Malabar (1851), to the Alecto,
6, paddlewheel steam sloop of 200-torse power, at Wool-
wich.

- iiidebipmaa E. W. Warms. to the Havannah, 19, at
Devonport.
Naval Cadet 0. H. A. Cos, to the Alarm, 26, at Devon-
port.

IMMENSE DUI:TWITS OF VOLUNTEERS AND RE-
CROITS.—This morning 110 volunteers from militia regi-
mes". and recruits enlisted in the northern and eastern dis-
tricts, who were finally approved of yesterday by the offi-
cers and our& il staff attached to the reernitiag department,
proceeded by railway to join the depot cowponies of their
respective regiments et Winchester and Patkhunt,
Isl. of Wight. Forty.seven volunteers from the Sank
compasies of mhitie regimests joined the head-
quarters of the Oreasdier Guards, in Welling-
ton harreeks, and the depots of the Ist battalions of
Coldstream sad Scots Fusilier Guards, and 40 tall active
young men foe the Light Cavalry were sent to the depots
at Canterbury and Maidstone. During the past week,
upwards of 60 volunteers from Irish mimesis of militia
astillery parsed through the 'metropolis, en rade for the
head-quarters of the Royal Artillery at Wool eich.

Till GOVERNMENT M now seeking ships to eszry
oat 1,000 toes of shot sad shell to Bs.baklava.

Anti or RZSERTIL—The news of the intended
despatch of ea army of reserve from India to Cairo has
reached the Puojattb, end ramoun were afloat aa to what
regiments of her Majesty's service would farm a portioa of
the force. The 80th Rifles, the 1' 62ad, and 70th
_ .

100 were
spoken otos the regiments most likely to go, sine*, from
befog shadomod so near the /h&j, their transport to Kur-
tosis* wiggle his a matter of comparative ease. If all the
royal spoken of as destined to join the army of
noires really going, and its entire strength is oily to be
15,000 moo, then the native Infantry portion of it will be
very small, or possibly ao eepoy corps will be seat at all,
and the fore@ will amen of Bntisb infantry only, with
Compaay's Artillery and irregular cavalry, sad possibly
some regulars, and lite 14th Light Drsgooas. We suppose
that we may shortly expect to maims some intelligence of a
somewhat more definite nature relative to this amemblimg of
this may of reserve at Cairo, and the despatch of an ex-
pedition to the Persian Gulf, if oas really be destined to pro-
ws! to the White Basra Berrharw, Jane 28.
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•
H!1 MAJZOTT'II 64TH REOMENT. A Belgium
eirriespondeat of the Bombay Telierraph mad COMO*/
saentions that Less Majesty's 64th Reginseat boa received
orders to bold Lusatia readiness to embark for the west. We
presume thenfose, that this bone of the win selected to
form part of the army of reserve ts be mostabled neat cold
weather at Cairo, and which will, we believe, consist of
troop; of all arms, Qt 111•11.11 as well as Company's. The
64th numbers upwards of 1,000 bap:mats, and tbe men are
described as flee, solid, saumilar soldiers, who appear
capable of undergoing any amount of (abyss. As this regi-
ment ealy esabatked foe Bombay in 1849, it cannot be
about to return to England, and therefore no doubt is
"nisi on service of some kind or another.—Beigal ilwrkarsi,
Jane 19.

WRECK OP • SCIPZIW sIZAMER.—CARDITY,
ArousT 13.—A Ise iron alsompeldp, called the Loin,
Captain Coek, was lees ea Lead, Island, daring thick
weather at an mit hour yeallorday morning. She
loft ib pert for Bordeaux, with a cargo of be-
twain MO sad 700 toss ot seas, sad it was said was
modsg lb. seed aurae down the, Briatol Miasmal whoa
she ameweeseed a thin fog ; sad aotwitketsadisi the
lend pessosisse beteg takes, about belt past throe o'clock
she elm* ea the roeks ea the worth of Lutes!, Island.
livery AM was then made by tee easels and Grew to got
bar si AU their inertia's, loweva, failed. Site °outl-
awed edateesee the reef ; sad after hanging on the reeks
der eens el: Mese or so, she broke in two, and her stern
bonsai' off sad seek. Fortnastely, however, the whole
Olds crow IMO ambled to save theasosivea. They wore
takes sp by the pilot boat' sad leaded bat,.

MN. W. S. LINDSAY, Y.P.
TYNEMOUTH, WIDNIIIDAY.
Mr. W. B. Lindsay, M.P., who is threatemod with
opposition front Captain Linskill, • liberal easservstive,
and • souls of the Greys, has taken the lint oppcotaaity
to oust his osastitswats, sod addressed • ism aesembly of
the eleeton of the bony* last swain. His rsomption was
sassodiagly cordial.

Mr. 11;DSL7, 'Rif thanking the meeting for the hearty
reception they had given him, peeled In review the sasesures
brought before parliament duels, the melon. He referred
the meeting to a thick pamphlet he bad publishod as a com-
plete refutation of the charges brought apart him by Sir
C. Wood. He denied that he had derived aay edvaatage
from bla position of member of parliament ; oa the contrary,
he had been attacked sad abased for his szposure of go-

vernment missnamegemeat—miestaaagement that bad lost
many precious Uses and equaadoeed much of wealth. The
administrative reform 'movement wee going on quietly,
bat be said he would have liked to have ewn them
show more nerve, and agitate for parliamentary reforit
and the immediate abolition of all patronage, as the most
speedy means to reach their end. After referring to Mr.
Linskill and his address, of whom be understood the govern-
mint knew nothing, for the Secretary of the Treasury had
told him that be was not aware that there was such a gen- I
t►emen in existence, he urged upon the electors net to allow
him (Mr. Lindsay) to be stabbed behind his back, bat to
support him as their inderendent member, and as an honest 11
and earnest administrative reformer.
Mr. Lindsay retired amidst general cheering.

THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY MOVEMENT.

Yesterday evening s mot al:mem= and respect-
able meeting was bald in Guildhall, for the purpose of con-
sidering the steps necessary to be taken to assure the
cessation of busbies. la the City from two o'clock on Satur-
days. Sir Justus Data, M.P., in the chair.

Mr. LtLwsLL, the bosomy secretary to the Society for
Promoting Bari, Closing, read letters from the Earl of
Ebrioston, Mr. Gregory, of Bedford-row, the Rev. Thomas
Binaey, the Rev. Henry Allen, and Alderman Salomon.,
regretting they could not be present at the meeting, and
expressing their cordial concurrence in its objects. lie
then reed a statement of the progress of the early-closing
movement, from the sonasaidnoement to the present time,
which was received with mach applaud's.
J. W. HUBBARD, Req. , late Governor of the Bank of
England, wowed the flrst resolution, to the effect
that as the Saturday half-holiday hid been tried
is Edinburgh, Glasgow, and all the principal town.
in Scotland, in Liverpool, Maachester, and many large
towns in Busland, and even is lathy important branches of
trade in London, and was tolead to work besellaially for
both the employers and the employed, it was expedient to
adopt that practice wherever it was practicable. He said
he should have been unwilling to have moved each a reso-
lution at the eommeadwaserat of the movement, for he
thought it would be dictating to employers what time they
should let their people work ; bat that difficulty was re-
moved, for he saw that those very =oaten who were
interested in the matter were not only the sup-
porters of the motion, hut the actual promoters
of it. (Cheers.) There was a stupid 'atom extant that
capital and labour were is antagoaistio positions ; and with
narrow-minded people it was so, for they sacrificed every.
thing end everybody to gun. Bat the enlightened oapitaitst
Stand that his greatest gain was in aunt wearing out his
labourers by overwoltinp them.
The Bev. Taaanam Gam] seconded the resolution,
which was earned unanimously.
Mr. J. R. Tat Los proposed the nest resolution, to the
effect that a memorial be preseated to the proper authorities
praying for the closing of law, public, and other offices at
toe o'clock on Saturdays. He said that 236 firms of Loa-
don had petitioned the judges to this effect; but one of them
feeling that be could not pins up so much time belonging
to the public, 'mold sot assent is it, and the others
would not act without him.

Mr. TLkvroN seconded the resolution, which wee carried
unanimously.
Mr. Alai/LORI Moons proposed and Mr. Deputy HOLT
seconded the next resolution, recommending the airman to
pay wages on Friday, or early on Eisturday.
This and some complimentary resolutions having been pat
and serried, the proceedings terminated.

STORMY PEACE MEETING AT ST. MARTIN'S

HALL.

Lut night a public meeting Mae held at St.
Martin's Hall, Long-acre, .• to take the opinion of the
public upon the momentous (Laudon of peace or war."
Mr. J. HAMILTON, of Southwark hustings notoriety, took
the chair. Toe attendance was comparatively thin at the
commencement of the proceedings, bat towards the close
the hall was pretty well filled.
The CHLIAMAN, is a lug rhapsodic speech, sontitually
interrupted by tempests of mingled cheats and hisses, pro-
ceeded to state his opinions upon the war and its conse-
quences, sasuriag the meeting that be did not know the
amount of treasure expanded, nor did he know how much
tsarina of liberty had been made ; but he would say with-
out hesitation that nearly 600,100 human lives had been
lost; and it was his duty to inform them that a grave int-
premien had gone abroad that the brave British
army in the Crimea might possibly be doomed
to perish without returning to their nadve land.
He would not tell them what they fought for, unless he
were to utter dark suspicions ; bat if the Christian religion
had never been known, and if there bad been no recogni-
tion of eternal justice on earth, there could not have been a
war more recklessly carried on ; and history, he believed,
would brand the war es an atheistical one. (Hisses and
cheering.) Ia meclasioa, the chairman, as the beat advice
be could give them, recommended the people of England to
refuse to supply to their government dime materials of war
which were may used for their own destruction. (Uproar.)
Mr. BRONTII.II.II O'Batax attacked the newspaper
press of the metropolis because they would not rrataitously
publish an address, cf about two columns in length, emana-
ting from a society of which he (Mr. B. O'Brien) is prose.
dent. After characterising the war as en aggression epos
the part of England, and making a fierce attack upon die
government of England and Franco, amid much teen-
aim be concluded by proposing a long resolution Goad.=
caddy of the war, and strongly protesting merest its far-
ther continuance. (Uproar.)
Mr. J. O Humus, in seconding the resolution, expressed
the usursac• that it would be unanimously adopted, and
that it would have an electrifying effect throughout the
country, that the government would be turned out, end
universal pesos prevail. (Loud laughter.)
Mr. P•aaMORZ EDWAZDS rote to prot Ore an emend.
meet, denouncing the war " as a mockery, a delusion, and
a snare ;" but the meeting deckled that this wu no amend-
ment, and rehired to hear him.
About fifteen other gentlemen, anxious to address the
meetiag,then jumped to the frost of the rostrum. contendieg
for a long time for precedenee, amid a setae of indescribable
confusion, in which the chairman found his seat anything
but one of rose leaves. Ultimately,
Mr. Hoaace ST. Joe. obtained a hearing, and moved
se an amendment, " That this meeting merman, both the
justice sad necessity of the war in which we are sagged,
and seeing that the great objects for which it was wider-
takea are still unaccomilished, pledges itself to support any
honest government that will vigorously prosecute it to an
honourable and victorious termination." Mr. St. John, in
Buskin to his resolution, aroused the ire of the peace party,
one of whom advanced sad shook his band in the speaker's
feu, and another scene of uproar tack place, which it is
impossible to describe. Afterwards,
Mr. H. COOK' seconded the amendment, asserting his
espial°e that the people of England had not abated one jot
of their determined°a to carry on the glorious war.
(Coafespioa.)
Mr. W. WILLIS vehemently opposed the amendment,
exciting considerable surprise by characterisieg the bom-
bardment of Sweaborg es the crowning proof of ministerial
treachery, because it was calculated to do more harm to the
Fins, our friends, than to the Bandits, cur imunies—ea
anaoancement which wee met by a storm of ridicule and
disapprobation ; but Mr. Wilkes afterwards recoup.'
ground by advoutiog the extension of aid to Poland. He
advised them to stop the war until they had put down
Palneenton and got universal suffrage.
Mr. BAXIIIL HYDD observed that the wishes and
ascendancy of Mania could not possibly be better promoted
than by stopping the war unconditionally. (Load chum)
He loved pease ; but pesos, in the pewee state of Europe,
meant fighting and oosqueiag Buda. (Loud chute.)
War was a great game, and they must sot be idle at it;
either het them make peace In serous or make war la
earned. (Load applauds.)
Mr. G. THOMPSON supported the ressiutioa.
The amendment and the original resolution were then
put by the &airman, whoa the latter was carried by a
majority of two to out.

POST-OFFICII, AUG..

1866.—Pootago lab;ia of tl; 'also of 104. will co Wain to
bowed. Us followiag w time labile at mown la um :
Poway labels, teopeasy ditto, foorposay 'Wow
ditto, 'Willa( ditto.—RoortAxa SuL, iloototary.