The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-17 00:00:00

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NAVAL

ADMIRALTY. SEPT:I6I----APPOININIENTS.—Lieu-
tenants G. W. E. Lloyd to Termagant ; and J. 11. Crany
to Hercules; Mate 11. Burnaby to Marero , A•aistant-
Surgeons Dr. T. B. Pomba. to Electra ; and Dr. J. 11..ticIty
to Dee; Midshipmen W. Howarth to Electra; and G. T.
Purcell to Bstterts; Master', Assistant C. E. li. Farraut to
Dee.

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Two SCREW STEAM-FRIGATES, Dauntlees, Captain
Halsted, and Highflyer, Captain Matson, ordered to he
ready for sea at :pithead yesterday, will proceed at once
to Jamaica, there to await the arrival of Vice-Admiral Sir
0. F. Seymour, the commander in-chief of the West Indies.
CLERICAL.
PREFERMENT.

Rev. Thomas Scott Huxley to— Altleby perpetual curacy,
Norfolk ; value, 1201. ; patrons, Dean and Chapter of Nor-
wich.

LI ngeitho Rectory, Cardiganshire, diocese St. David's;
value 1061. ; patron, Bishop of St. David's ; Rev. Thomas
Edwards, deceased.
Bettwa-Leike Perpetual Curacy, Cardiganshire, diocese
St. David's ; value 601.: patron, the Perpetual Curate of
Llandewy-Brevi ; Rev. T. Edwards, deceased.
Downham Perpetual Curacy, Lancashire, dioce.e Man-
chester; value 1201., with residence: patrons,
Trustees; 11ev. Philip Abbott, deceased.
Rhes-y-Cae Perpetual Curacy, Flintshire, di.,cese St.
Asaph : value 60/.: patron, Bishop of St. A.Aph ; Rev.
J. E. Davies, promoted.
Altrincham Union Chaplaincy; stipend 1001.
Oulton Union Chaplaincy, Suffolk; salary 40/.; testimo-
nials before Oct. 2; Rev. 11. G. Salter, resigned.
Wortham Union Chaplaincy, Suffolk ; Rev.Hichard Cob.
bold, resigned.
VlCARAo2.—Kilgelln, diocese of Elfin; patron, Bishop
of Kilmore, &c.; Rev. C. B. Swsyne, resignid.

NELSON'S FUNERAL.—The enthusiasm of Eng-
land on the arrival of Nelson's remains from the caul of
that peninsula which Wellington soon aftir mule the
theatre of, if possible, greater services and exploits during
ran of victory, can scarce ho realised or credited at this
esine period of European Imaitude and relative repose.
The lying in state of the naval warrior's corpse in the
Great Hall of Greenwich Hospital on the Bth of January,
1806, was a spectacle of unparalleled interest; and the
solemnity of the scene, the crowds thronging by land and
water to the bier of the beloved, the tears and wailing
of a grateful people, were indicative of the depth and sia-
cerity of the public sorrow. On the following day along
the pathway of the Thames the funeral flotilla moved in
slow and impressive procession. The coffin was for a
moment deposited at the Admiralty, with ail the ceremo-
nial that contemporary records delight to describe ; the
whole metropolis rose to accompany, as one man, the pro-
gress to St. Paul's; by torchlight led carriages of the prin-
cipal mourners kad assembled in Hyde-park, and were
marshalled in due order of precedency. All the troops
within 100 miles of London were by daylight is at-
tendance, the Life Guards keeping the line of proces-
sion. The Prince of Wales, the Dukes of York, Cumber-
land, and Clarence, Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, Erskine, Wind-
bam, Hominy, and every man of eminence in the land,
were gathered in mourning concourse, and felt it a duty to
attend- in the manifestation of general grief. Under the
dome of the cathedral, alone in the occupancy of that proud
catacomb, in a coffin formed out of the mast of L'Orient, the
French admiral's flagship, blown ep in the waters of the
Nile, all that was mortal of England's sea champion has for
nearly half acentury found a fitting resting-place.
Tun OUTLET FOR NORTII AMERICAN SLAVERY.
' —A home is open in Liberia to all free negroes who will
accept citizenship there; on his arrival in Liberia, the negro
receives an allotment of land, and is supported is • republic
of his own nee for the few months that must elapse before
the produce of his farm will fern him. . . . The best
hopes of a man it is in the power of every free negro to
realise, by quitting the soil on which he meets with daily
insult, and establishing a true home in Liberia. He does
not, however, feel the daily insult; be is acclimatised to the
atmosphere of wrong. At the last census there were found
to he four hundred and twenty-eight thousand six hun-
dred and thirty-seven free negroes in the United States;
while the negro population of Liberia, proceeding from
America, has not yet reached tan thousand auk. . . . The
negroes in Liberia consist of the few mt n whose energies; re-
sisted all the depressing force to which they had been subject
in America, end of their children who have grown up under
better rule. Small as their number is, the energy
with which they have conducted their atDirs, and the in-
fluence they have exerted on surrounding tribes, are un-
deniable. The colony has fought with many difficulties,
and its promoters have been disappoint( d by the want of
interest with which it is regarded by great numbers of the
claufor whose advantage it was planned. In 1e47, in con-
sequence of objections that had been made on the part of
England to imposts levied upon British vessels in Liberia,
and the assertion that such rights of levying duties could
not be conceded to a privateanoeistion in men, however it
might otherwise be worthy of respect,—the Colonisation
Society of the United States decided on abandoning the
land altogether to the negro emigrants, reserving only the
space necessary for the further purposes of emigration, and
a tax for the nurposes of education. Liberia, therefore, on
the 24th of August in that year, hoisted its own flag, and
started with &constitution of its own in the characte r of a free
negro republic. p The Americans, the English, and the
French, all heartily supported the new cat.. Conflicting
accounts have been given of its present condition ; it ap-
pears, however, to be fairly established, and to pi +owe to
the utmost of its means. The eight or ten thouaut civi-
lised negroes from America exert their influence upon three
hundreu thousand natives who are living on Liberian soil,
consenting to the laws and customs of their civilised society.
Fifty thousand have learnt English, schcols abound, and
the number of Christians is increasing every month. The
Liberians grow coffee and cocoa, export palm oil, camwood,
ivory, rice, gold dust, and other things; their port of Mon-
rovia being tolerably familiar with ships. There is, of
course, room fur mach growth ; their farms are at present
little more than country gardens, and they are under the
disadvantage of not yet haying succeeded in the attempt to
maintain horses or oxen in their country. The resourcesof
the two colonies of Liberia, and Maryland in Liberia, have
been so limited, that, little as they may have done, they do-
serve full credit for the achievement of remarkable results.
—Dickens's " Household Words."
AN IMMENSE PENDULUM, hung within Bunker
Hill Monument, has led to the knewlcage of • variety of
interesting facts. Among them Is one which we we given
en the authority ot Professor Horsford, of liervard College,
stating that the monument swings backwards and forwards
like • pendulum every day. By an apparatus, which it is
111500•18ary to describe, it has been ascertained that there
is a very slight but perceptible movement in the morning
to the westward, at noon to the northward, and in the
evening to the east. It is caused by the unequal expan-
sion of the sides of the monument by the heat of the can.
What confirms it is, that • shower suddenly cooling one
aide, also produces • movement. —.Kew Fork l'ribune.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
LONDON.
Mr. McChristie, the revising barrister, opened his *owl
for the revision of the register of voters for the City of
London yesterday, at OvuWhat
Mr. Sidney Smith and Mr. Ledger attended as agents on
behalf of the liberal party, Mr. Brown for theconservativee,
sad Mr. Admid as the representative of, as he stated, lode-
poidest principles, acting on behalf of a body of gentlemen
tsba were dnii ries of purging the list of many inacestraciet.
The number of objections made by the conservatives is
676—viz., 23 against liverymen, and 552 against house-
boiders ; the liberal objections were 99 against liverymen,
and 409 against householders; and Mr. Adana hail served
notices en 41',' liverymen, the Isrger proportion of whom
were present in pereon to defend their votes.
The having been delivered io, Mr. McChristie pro-
ceeded fleet to dead with those of the livery.
In the list of the Armourere Company,
Mr. Acland wet proceeding to prove the service by pest
of several notices of objections, when
Mr. Smith called the attention of the barrister to an in-
formality in th. notice, which he contended was fatal.
The art 'vein red that when service was made I y poet, the
address must br endorsed on both sides of the notice, and
that it should be delivered open, and in duplicate to the
post2ll3Ett. The duplicate notice now produced was ad-
deemed 01: the inside only.
Tie Barrister concurred. The art of parliament was
!ricer u:•rn the point, that the Ivaco must be addressed on
the outside as well as the inside.
Mr. Brown—lf all Mr. &eland's notices are alike in this
sespeet thiy snort fall to the ground—perhaps he had better
withdraw them at °ace.
Mr. Acland —They are ell alike—but I do not find any.
thing in the act of ;enlistment to the effect now contended.
The 11Affistet —The question has been decided by the
court above, and besides that the act of parliament is, as I
think, clear on the subject.
Mr. Arland was Said 10s. costs in three cases, and 7v.
in another ease, for objections, which the barrister said
should not have been made.
The formal revision of the remainind lists taken alpha-
betically down to that of the Carpenter' Company, occupied
the res.. of the day.

FINSBU ICY.
Yoterday John Fraser Ilacqueen, Esq., the bar-
rister .aupoluted to revise the list of voters for the borough
of Fir..',ury, hell his cool: at the Lord Justices Court,
Lincoln's-inn, so revise the lists of voters in the numerous
parians within the borough.
Mr. John Layton, the vestry clerk of St. Mary's Isling-
ton, on presenting the list of voters for that parish, stated
that it eont.sine.l more voters than the entire remaining por-
tions of the hor.sugh, there being 8,610 on the register.
being 1,400 more than last year. There were 2.00 new
clams.