The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-05 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

• ADMIRALTY. lAN. 4.—Pitomonor4.--Commander
T. A.B. Bpratt (1849) pie meted to the reek of captain.
Aorourntaret.—Captais I. W. Tuletou (1862), to the
Barydiee,26. at Bermuda.

TaR ODIN, 'team frigate, Captain Francis Scott,
was paid wages down to Wednesday, at Woolwielt, and the
mw have got one month•' lam of Owns*. In the mean-
time the Odin will receive new boilers.

THE GREAT NORTHERN, the Lady Alice Lambton,
and the Typhoon, are all at Greenhithe at present having
their compasses adjusted previous to proceeding tar the
Crimea, sod, being all steamers, they will soon reach their

destination. Tbo Great Northern his on board a locomotive
engine for ruaiog on the Balaklava

Oat of 18 Castom-house °Moen stationed at
Gravesend, and under the age of 40, who voluntarily offered
to accede to the proposition of government to proceed to
13a!Wawa for the purpose of assisting in the commissariat
department there, 12 have been selected. They are to re-
mire as pay 7s. 64. a day and rations, and be still borne as
the customs books.

PORTSMOUTH, Jaw. 4.

The wounded and invalid troop, brought home by
the Rituality& (with Oa exception of these who, being too
bad to be removed far, were taken to the military hospital
n this garrison) disembarked from her this morning, and
were conveyed from the dockyard in omnibuses to the rail.
way station, whence they proceeded on to Chatham. The
630 women and children also brought to England by this
ship, as we stated yesterday. were seat to the Clarence Bar
racks. The Relief Association, of which Major Powys
is secretary, expended a considerable sum of money in
assisting these poor women and childrea by gratuitously
unveying their boxes and other baggage from the ship to
he barracks, and in other ways. This assistance was op-
portunely given by the association, and judiciously applied
by the Rev. Mr. Milner, garrison chaplain here.
Rer Majesty is expected at this port to-morrow en route
to Osborne. The steam yachts Fairy and Elfin have been
sot of harbour to-day trying their engines, uis usual prior
to the Queen's requiring their service.
The Burette, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant Commander
Wake, left Bpithead to-day for the Thames to be ;paid off
there.

The screw frigate Arrogant, 48, Captain Weirton, erne
into harbour to-day from Bpithead, and went alongside the
dockyard to relit.
The Blenheim, 60, mew, and Hogue, 60, 'mew, were
both taken into the steam beds today to have defect. made
Rood. The Imperious', 61, screw, wee also taken into
dock.

The Falcon, 16, screw sloop, and the Oberon, 3, paddle
steamer, were taken into the fitting basis today; and the
Myrmidon, 3, paddle steamer, yesterday.
The Himalaya, troop ship, hauled off from alongside the'
dockyard this afternoon to one of the hulks, into which she
will discharge some condemned stone she has brought from
the Crimea. She will then undergo a thorough repair and
refit.

PLYMOUTH, img. 4.

The Nile, 91, Capt. Mundsy, is in harbour. It is
reported that a court of inquiry will be held to invostigate
the circumstances under which she came into contact with
the Hogs' in the North Sea, by which she was damaged
and one man loot his life. The Princess Royal has com-
menced coaling. The Monarch bas had a new foremast.
The Eery&lus is la Jock. The Anthills', 60, Capt. Thomas
M. C. Symonds, arrived yesterday from Malta, bringing
home 160 invalids. The invalids wen landed at the Res&
William Victualling•ofila, and take, to the hospital is the
course of the afternoon. Via St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw,
Capt. the He.. H. Koppel, sailed yesterday for Queeastown
to embark troops for the But: she went out at 3.30 p.m,
The Princess Royal, 91, screw, Capt. Lord Clarence Paget,
is to leave this port on Saturday, taking in mails, itc., for
Malta, Constantinople, and the Crimes.