The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-10 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMILALTY, MAT 9.—APPOIDITNZATS AND PRO.
NOTMaa.--Captain A. F. B. De Harem to the Wolvonao,
emandoeneed.
Ceenosader H. B. Woo combs, to the Amoraass, oom-
edatiosod.
Putnam ileesags, to nor.
ttztsktirviatut
asifl Eagio•er R. Pm% to Ib luitarssies.
Film Ones Btookweed, to the Amman.
Snood Clam ließEwor V. C. frond. to tb• Amatandt.
To be Eagiason —J. C. Gray, T. Fabler, W. Minn, sad
J. WCilaeban.
To be AniseEogineora—J. Medley, T. P. Potts, sad E.
C. Spasm.

PORTSMOUTH, MAT 9.
The Victorial 107, screw three-decker, will
shortly be commissioned for service is the Mediberaoems,
whore she will pelisse the Marlborough, dap ship of Vine.
Admiral Robert Smart, S.H.
The Prism Oonsort, 36, fres to
frigate. rewired
orders to blare Cowse to-day. aad to praised so tie Dowse,
to join the Cbansol Swot wider the comsisad of Rear-
Admiral Sydney Coipoys Dosses, C.B.
The Royal Swamies, 4, iroo-cesed torn* ship, hes Do
peppered is her machinery depsztmest as to make a
preliminary trial of be espime ths dockyard
to-dsy.

WOOLWICH, liar 9.
The Persian ambassador and suite visited the
dockyard this themes, ead s order had bees received at
ire Revd Amend to afford ev facility for as isepeotioa
of the alsperftisto ot that set btiehoeet, but the whit sae
deferred k
kyanLryjsia atoellesey, who !Mused to towed tor leaving
the doo

Her Majesty's ship Irresistible has taken up her
swiss is Boathouses Water.

Tile MACCAY Gaza.? Gult.—Mr. James Mackay,
Mr. Daniel Mackay, Captain Mater, R.N., Colonel Clay,
Major Blundell, and several other gentlemen were early
on the beach at Crosby yesterday morning, to witeseeeorne
with Mr. James Mackay'. great gun. A steel
Wririsehre boor, and weighing 153115. was and at a
target, rep stinting a emetics of the Ida of her Majesty's
ship Agincourt, .t present being heal& at Birkenhead.
The target was constructed wllk h five-and-a-hall
incises armour plate, nine irides@ teak beadier three-
fourths of an inch iron " skin," timber halbs, and
sand, large piles supporting and strengthening the whole.
The shot struck the target twelve inches below and
directly in a line with the bull's-eye, went clean through,
buried a piece of the target 90Ite. weight four feet deep in
the sand, and then travelled 440 yards along the beach. It
may here be stated that the distance of the target from
the gua wee 900 yard", the dinettes at which the govern-
ment authorities have tested other gnus. Earl de Grey and
Ripon recently said that another gun had accomplished the
same work as the weapon of Mr. Mackay, butte did not
mention that the gun to which he alluded was three tons
heavier, and had a hors of 10i Inches, whereas Mr. Mackay's
ham only a bore ofd 1.16 th inches.

GALLERY or ILLERERAI7ON.—Mr. sad Mn.
German Reed, like roomy more theatrical managers. have
" improved the coosslos" be the medallion of a new sketch
by Mr. William Broagh, ailed the Bard and il4l Birthday;
a Shahspeariale Reverse. In this some Mrs. Reed appears
as Willman Shakespeare, Rosalind, Tonchatoos, Hecate, and
Ariel, sad also as a loss old lady who is supposed to
have °barge of espsare's boom In the chief apart.
sent of this borne, winch se very faithfully and artistically
put upon the stage, Mr. Reedits supposed to have obtained
permission to compose • Shakespeas an cantata, sod while
playing snatches of Mendelmohn, Bishop, Locke, and other
composers, interspersed with some original music, be is
visited by Mn. Reed in the various fano we have men.
tiooed. A. a pleasant vehicle for introducing Shakespearian
manic the trills could hardly have been better put together,
and Mrs. Reed's risen alone was sufleiset to mean suc-
cess. The sketch lasts about half an hoer, and is played
between the Pyramid sad Mrs. Rosettes lasing Party,

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SUNDAY BANDS IN THE REUENT'A-PARK.—The
ninth awe* of what is called the People's Band porta/-
manor wen opened in the Begeet'e•park oa Sunday after-
noon near the new fountain. The bend plajed for two
boom and a belt to a amorous sadism,.

GARIBALDI'S DIIPARTCRIL—The Record, referring
to Mae Prirarowshill meeting. observes :—" Mr. Shaun as-
serts that Mr. Gladstone allured that Garibaldi's &par-tans
would be a relief to the sowarnmant, and if this assertive
gyro ottabliaisd u z tack it would cot bs taiduirtist ant"
any statement made either by Lord Polierntoe, Mr. Glad.
atone, or Lord Shaftesbury.'

CANON MILLER.-6r. Miller, of Birmingham, is
prevented from Mira; • farther part in the Leedom Anal-
venetian by • severedomestio bereavement, acted is yester-
day's paper—the death of another of hie daughters, the wife
of the Rev. F. S. Dale, of SA Luke's, Binningham, This
'week oconrring, too, so soon after the decree of her
Mater, will awaken gement sympathy.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE CONDOS-RRIDO2
Tgs-
etNrs.—Last night Mr. Payee, the coroner for the City
and Southwark, held se *oast at Guy's Hospital am the
body of the Rev. Theodosius William Hathaway. ILA.. egad
32 years, whose death was toured wider the following cir-
cumstances. Mr. Freeland appeared os behalf of the South
Eastern Railway Oompany. and Mr. Etherioston for the
friends of the deceased. From the evidence of the several
witnesses, it appeared that the deceased was minister to the
Thames Fleeting Church at East Greeatirich, and on Thurs-
day sight last was nom the platform at the Landoll-badge
station of the Charing-cross ire, waiting for the train. On
its arrival be ran foment aid caught bold of the kindle of
ow of the carriage door while the train was still in motion.
In so doing he came in 000 tact with a lady, which caused him
to Imo his footing, and fall between the platform mad the
carriages. He was picked up and coeveysd to the hospital,
where it was found that hot/ lags were nearly severed from
the body, and that be was otherwise so injured that be died
in about an hour. The jury returned a verdict ri "Acci-
dental Death," and advised that a nil or some etch protec-
tion should be placed along the platform, ie order to prevent
parson Latham to the train until it was at a stand-still and
reedy to receive passeagers.
FATAL JUMP FROM • RAILWAY TRAIN.-02
Sunday evening a .hooking accident, which soon terminated
fatally, betel a Dane. tamed Peter Angler:tun F.agiebert
Jameson. • native of De/ogod, Floesborg, while travelling
on the Great Western Railway, through the Sousing cut-
ting. midway Intense Reading and Tenford statioos. it
appears be took the trait at Cardiff, after having left the
ship Iris, belonging to Bremen, and was prooseding to Lea-
den for the purpose of obtaining from the Danish stoma a
pees to Dimmark, where be isteoded to join the army.
While looking out of the carriage window, after young
Reading station, the wind carried away his hat, whisk cot-
lamed important papers directed to the Danish consul, mad
be immediately jumped oat in the hone of removed=
documents, whee be fell eerier the train. mud the
pared over his legs, and they were both frightfully smashed.
The poor fellow maimed to crawl to the embeakmeet,
where he lay for about half an boar, when be was dis-
covered by • gamekeeper on the Home-park Mate, which
adjoins the tins. Mr. Shepherd, surgeoe, of ftoeainngg,. was
passing at the time, mad nootasamded the t.hetatato
man's removal to the Barks Hospital, at Reading. where be
irosived every extentioe from Mr. Davie, the boom sergeon.
bat expired is shout four hours after his admindes.
THE HUDDERSFIELD MURDER..—THE
Yesterday Mn. J. R. Ingram, deputy coroner for the Bud-
derefield district, held are banal at the White Orme lee,
Bredley, on the body al Joseph Pesigue. oaks Weer. 64
years of spa, who was brutally murdered on Saterday mese-
tag by Joseph Haigh, of Bradley, at whose boon he lodged,
and who is believed to be hone, wider the eircumstamoss
reported in oar yesterday's impression. The jury, eller •
long deliberation, Monied • reedit* of manelanailnar. The
primmer was thee conaraitted apes the eereasee ennead to
take his trial at the York senior upon that charge. Mr.
&aloft, moniker, watched the proceediage as behalf of
prisoner's family. Primmer will he brought before the
m today for ezantinatioa on the 40/P-
-earrar= Hmeaflearme Mumtum.— the
week ending May 7, the visitors have bees as fellows
Monday, Tensility, and Saturday, free days, epee from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m.. 8,104 ; oa Wedeseday, Thmsday, ad
Friday, Modesto' days (admilesios to the pubic 6d.), epee
hem 10 a.m. till 6 pm.. 1.663 ; total, 6.1167. lam the
opeedep of the sues, 4,01482.