The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-28 00:00:00

• Reporting his basis; asked for o sadism*.

Dowwirro-untswe,oll:l 44.—The Queen has
been pleased to sppoint Humphey Emit, Esq., to be Colo-
nisi Surveyor for the colony of Siena Lemse.—Gorerre.
THE LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY AND
rss NEW CITY TIAMC REGULATION& —The following
order was yesterday issued by the directors of the Loodoo
General Omnibus Company to the dnven and oonducton of
their omnibus' :—" It is ordered that hereafter all omsi-
buses of the company io tossing the Mansion-house, sad
along the Poultry, Cheapaide, and other leading thorough-
fares in the CUT, do follow close up behind the vehicle pre-
ceding them is the mot, stoppage being allowed °sly foe
the purpose of talriag up or setting down passenger, By •
recent order of the Police Commissioners of the City of
Loam:, all drivers of omnibuses acting cootrary to the
above regtdatiou are to besummoned. Drivers ere, ore,
hereby warmed Naiad offesdisg."

TIM WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.

The Secretary of State for War has received a
dispatch from Lieutenant-General Qumran, C. 8., com-
mending the troops in New Zealand, of which the following
is • copy :
Headquarters, Queen's Redoubt, August 4, 1863.
wind Lord, —With reference to the reports I have for.
to your lordship relative to the operations in which
the troops to this province have been engaged during the
past month, I beg to state that their moms hes been owing
a prime measure to the minable assistance rendered by
Captain Sullivan, senior naval officer at this station, and
by the °dims sad men under his command. A large party
of mama sad marines of bar Majesty's ship Harrier lime
bees encamped on the bank of the ILangatwhiri river
since the 11th ultimo, and their minim have beau of
the greeted advantage to the force under my corn-
min4 all the boats employed in conveying troops and sup-
plies armee so the Holisma having bees entirely manned by
them. At my request Captain Sullivan has superintended
the ooestrnetioe of six large fat-bottomed boats, especially
fee the transport of troop up the Waikato. Two
hem bees brought overlaid from Auckland, a die-
tame of 36 miles, to the kfangatawhiri, where they ham
Mee extremely useful. Without the aid of such boats,
operatiews up the Waikato could not be carried on, as there
is me road on either bank of the river. For these services
I am much %defiled to Captain Sullivan, as well as for his
owes' emmeestion on all other occsaime since the saw
latineellient
I have alas to scquaint your lordship that the small oolo-
niaketeareer Awe was brouiatit of o the Waikato from rho
Nainikest by Conmasedsr her kisfeety's ship
Eclipse, and is sow at amber the Sluff stockade at
Havelock. la repartleg to Captain Selma the perform-
saes of this impatient and basesdowe duty, Oemamekr
' Yam Reeks highly, of the mailienos be nweived from
Captain Cremes edam deputy sanistaat quartenmeter-
esseral, by whom; the lower part of the river wee surveyed
last winner. Is Justice to Capella Creams, who is • mat
melees sad talented after, I beg to forward °setae Sulli-
van's letter regarding hie swim on this ocession.
The Avon n the first steamer that has ever bass brought
into the Waikato, as it was supposed, previous to the
'army made by Captain Gramm that the numerous' shoals
la the lower part of its course rendered the menage al a
steamer impoesible. The Avon eon carry 100 men ; her W-
eide ham been made ballet-proof, and she is armed with a
1.2-peander Armstrong gm. I ham ao doubt that the will
be el great swim h oar operations up the Waikato.—l
have, &a. D. A. CAXIMON, Lleatesant-Cenend.
The Right Hoe. the Secretary of Slate for War,
War-ofier, London.

Beaks of Mangalawbiri, July 27,1863.
have the honour to inform you that the Colonial
steam venial Avon has this day arrived at Havelock, and is
now ready for any semise in which she ten 'mist you.
001WEILIAIR Mayas, to wham I had cenlided the teak at
= twingiohe Avon from the Manukan into the Waikato, a
n camidered navigable only for canoes, in hie
report to me, thus speaks of the valuable assistance rim
dared by Captain Grimes, deputpaselataat uartermastee,
senora : "Captain Gleams, depetymenatent quarter-
master.gemand, amonmsnied the meet, and it is owing to
' his knowledge of the river and anaemic% merry that the
service was accomplished so sucometoUy ; be preceded the
vessel the whole way, mending and showing the channel ;"
and it is with pleasure I rim this opportualty of tendering
him through yon my hearty thaska for hie valuable aid.—
I have, to., J. W. Butzry AN, Commander,
and Beaky Naval Ofileer in New Zealand.
Lieutenant-General D. A. Camaro., OM., to.,
Cormaaadieg the Forme is New Zealand,
Qaosn's &doubt.

THE BLOCKADE OP THE MEXICAN COAST.

It is notified in last night's Gazette that Earl
Russell, bet Majesty's Priecipsi flesrelaty et 8t to for
Foreign Atisiry has reseived from her Majesty's viee•ccosul
at Vasa Qua a ootiheatioe, &adrenal to 'him by the eem•

nianderbe-ohief of the French naval forces in the Gulf of
Yexioo, end dated the sth of September, 1863, of the
blockade by the Trench naval forces, on and from the 6th
September, 1863, of the meat of the Gulf of Mexloo, with
the exception of Tampico, Vera Cruz, Alvarado, Goatm-
°calms, Tabseco, and Carmen. The following la the official
communication received by Earl Rowell :

Re, the undersigned rearadmiral oommandiog.in.eltief
the naval forces of his Majesty the Emperor of the French
is the Oalf of Mexico, in view of the state of war exist.
lag between Frazee and the government of Juarez,
acting by virtue of the powers which belong
to us, declare that, from the 6th of Septem-
ber iastant, the porta and their outlets, the riven, harbours,
roadsteads, creeks, ko., of the waste of Mexioo which
are not in the occupation of our troops, and which still
sokeowledge the power of Juarez from the lagoon, 10 leagues
to the south of Matamoros, up to sod including Campeche.
between 25 degrees 22 minutes N., 99 degrees 54 minutes
W., and 19 degrees 52 ninnies N., 92 degrees 50 minutes
W. (meridian of Paris), shall be held in a state of effective
blockade b 7 the steal tones under our command, and that
(ritually or neutral vessels shall have a delay of 25 days to
complete their cargoes, and to quit the places blockaded.
The pante excepted from the blockade are Tampico, Vera
Cruz, Alvarado, Goetzecoaloos, Tabeago, and Carmen. Pro-
omdinp in conformity with international law and the tres-
tles in force with neutral Powers will be taken against all
verisela which shall attempt to violate the said blockade.
On board of the frigate Senora of his Majesty the Empe-
ror of the French, anchored in the roadstead of Sacrincios,
the sth of September, 1863.
(Signed) A. Boson.

TEE SUSPECTED DEATH FROM EATING POISONOUS
SsitErsiars.—Lest evening, Mr. St. Clair Bedford, the
coroner for Westminster, resumed an inquiry at the Monster
Tavern, Pimlico, relative to the death of Arthur Leopold
Bosworth, aged five years, which it was supposed warred
through eating a poisoned sweetmeat toy called a "red
lady, as was recently reported in our columns. Mr.3ecege
Healey, Professor of Medical Jurirpredence of University
College Hospital, said he had received various vessels oos-
teining a stomach and part of the intestines of a child, as
also some sweetmeats. He bad examined them, but found no
poison. On examining a black cake, however' and submit-
ting a portion of it to the sulphuric acid teat, it threw off
metallic copper, sad on the solution being submitted to the
galvanic tat it yielded positive copper. The other portion
of the black cake contained grains of copper which were
visible to the naked eye. The symptoms under which the
deceased and his brother had suffered, as described by Dr,
Ellis, were precisely those of poisoning by copper, and the '
lite and cramps which wine compatible with such poisoning
were exhibited by the contraction of the limbs, John
Mew, of Commercial-raid East, the manufacturer of the
cakes, said be had made 10,000 of those cakes at one batch.
They were composed of rhubarb, Seville orange peel, sod
treacle. He boiled them at separate times in a
copper pan, which he scraped out with an iron
pellet knife. They were called black currant
squares. He had not heard of any one else being attacked
by symptoms similar to those of the deceased. Some other
evidence wee given showing that the deemed bad partaken
of salt beef, sod took tea afterwards. The deemed sober
comely bought • "red lady" and one of the black squares.
His brother also bought • square and a piece of jujube. The
younger brother ate both the lady end the square. but the
surviving boy only ate the jujube, the square being takes
from hie pocket and banded over for analysis. William
Gregory, confectioner, of Kimpetreet, Borough, said he was
the manufacturer of the "rd ladies." They were boiled
in copper eaucepens, stirred with wood, and coloured with
cochineal. °mem Henry Beecher, of 12, Ether-street,
Westminster, said be meek the jujubes from cowheel and
gum, and boiled the materials in tine with sugar and
coloured with oochiceel. The Coroner having raerCed to
the extraordinary nature of the cam the jury, after a short
deliberation, returned a verdict of "Death from convulsions;
but whether those convulsions were produced by poison or
by oaten) muses there was not sufficient evidence to prom."
Tina SCARLET FEVER AND THE BETHNAL-GREEN
SARTIATIORS. —Mr. Jobe Humphreys, the 'coroner for East
Middlesex, yesterday opened an inquiry at the Butler's
Arms, Ih4lirstreet, Bethnal-green, upon the body of •
child named Amelia Janette Wars, aged 12 years, who died
at No. 8, Georgmetreet, Butler-strut, Green-street,
Bethnal-green, supposed from armlet fever, produced by
inhaling foul air from the drains. Three children of this
same family have previously died, and it is melancholy to
add that there is another child now lying ill, paralysed, and
got expected to live. From the statement made by the
mother it seems that in a room where the children died
there has always been a dreadful smell, and that the had
applied to the landlord, who said that he had done all he
could for her. The drilla, from a numher of the adjoining
houses all centre in one, which passes under her room.
An examination of the place by the coroner's officer shows
that there is a groat smell, mil that the place ie very dirty.
The kitchen, adjoining the parlour, is also in • very filthy
state. The water-closet is decent, ad the water is kid os,
and to all appearaeee there is a good supply of water, which,
on bMng turned nor, ran rapidly away free from obseructios.
From that it would appear that the efiluvia must arise from
the drains, of which the confluence is seder the room where
the cbildrss died, red which the another complained of. At
the eating of the court, the corooer said that be had in-
structed Dr. Gay to :mks a pose morgue examination, but
ea that had sot been completed, the caw must be adjourned,
sod filter the identification of the body that course was
laitettal PALACE. ONE likimuwo DAY.••••
TUESDAY, OCT. V.—Mutinies/. as Femmes, 1,136 ; Mite
by was ticket., 847 ; SAW, 1,182.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

IMATILLi, OCT. 27.
This morning some experiments Were under-
taken at the Royal &Mesas' Odd-works et Sig iterrison
far the purpose of testis( a new deeeriptice of military
auspeusiou bridge, the loyalties of Ilergeant-M4or J. •100411,
Royal Engineers. The bridge experimented upon bad a span
of mom 130 feet, sod was farmed freer the iris Mods
used is the construction of the pbioea, also invented by
fiergemntabijor Joe's. Three were haired together hi
lengths and firmly secured, the pootoon theme forming
the flooring. Nothritlithiading the comparative hansom
of the etractare, horse, guns, sad troops were bikes back-
wards and forwards &arms it, the bridge exhibiting little
or so detente°. The satire structure was formed by 30
Royal Eogineemin mix bonze.

WOOLWICH, Oar. 27.
Mach activity now prevails at the Storekeeper's
Doparkmat of the Royal Arsenal in the preparation for
shipment of a large SANWA of ahot, shell, sad monitiam of
war for New &aim d end other foreign Nations. A num-
ber of 68.proader, 'tube 8-ince aens,
bees fully proved, are ordered forwarded wide
home of Portamooth, tie We of Wight, Jan% Gaissiory,
and static= on the south coast

NAVAL Pius MOM.—Notice is given in last
sight's Gaines that prepsratioss ere now being made for the
hateedid disiribution of the slave boast, of the Ithauella,
captured es the 10th August, 1880, by her Majesty's ship
Belk. Nodes is also gives that the distribatims of the tee-
nage bossily and pressedaufa benne, sere askseees, sup-
posed to be the Imam Mesrells, ed by her Majesty's
ship BEIM, es theist January, 1861, will Gommiec• ow
Smiley, the Elmira% is the Prise %wok of the Di-
p:lmM of the Aormeateat-Geeeral of the Navy.
Admiralty, Poseasst-homa The following are the shuts
due to sa iadividual m the several ohms. :—Flag,
954 18s. Bd. ; ommisader. 2274 16s. 10d. ; third dais,
SOL 11d. ; fourth dais, 381. 13a. Md. fifth deem
211. ; Math clam 191. Bs. ; seveath this, 121. 18a 7d.
eighth dam, 84 9s. 4d. ; ;Oath alma, 44 Gs. 2d. ; With
ohm, Z. 34. ld.