The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-10 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 9.—APPOINTIOLCTa.—Pay-
=Are G. W. bathers, to this Royal Adelaide.
Hama W. D. Walker sad J. H. Browne have bees swab
Dated to naval cadetship.

WOOLWICH, SEPT. 9.
The Warspite, old sailing frigate, which was
recently towed to this yard from Chatham, is ordered to be
fitted out forthwith, to be moored in the Thome* as a
training ship for the lads of the Royal Mario. Society.
ROYAL ARSENAL. —Upwards of 1,400 persons,
including a large number of foreigners, visited the several
depsrtmenta of the Royal Arsenal this day. Since the
opening of the International Exhibition the establishment
has been crowded with visitors oo Tuesdays and Thursdays,
and many thousands have been refused &dosimeters in COO/0 -
queues of not being provided with cards, which can, how-
ever, be obtained without difficulty on application at the
War Department.

CHATHAM,Birr. 9.

Tim LAUNCH or rim ROYAL OAK, 80--very
preparation was this evening completed for the launch of
the fine armour.plated frigate Royal Oak. 50, 1,000-horse
power, which takes place from this dockyard at an early
hour to-morrow afternoon. _ _

The line of battle strainer Trafalgar, 86, 2,900 tons, 500.
horse power, is ordered to be taken into dock next week, is
order to undergo a thorough overhaul and repair.
By direction of the Admiralty volunteering has been com-
menced from the companies at the head-quarters of this disi•
Woo of Royal Marines Light Infantry for the companies of
marines stationed at Bermuda.

P9RTSMOUTH, SEPT. 9.

The parameter of the Resistance, stram ram ship,
Captain Chamberlain, has made • desperate attempt at
suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He has been
conveyed to lisalar Hospital, where be remains in a pre-
carious condition. The Resistance was taken into No. 10
dock today.
The Volcano went out of harbour to try her engines.
It is reported that the Frederick William, 82, screw, AM
Elutlej, 51, screw frigate, are to be immediately commis-
sioned.

The Edgar, 86, will be taken ono of the ship buin on
Thursday.

EXTRAORDINARY STATE OF A SHIP.—The 11E4'
tame 18, screw iron frigate, Captain Chamberlain, was
placed in dock yesterday at Portsmouth, and her bottom
found toffs in an extraordinary state for a ship on the home
station, bearing more the appearance of having gone through
a long commission on the coast of Africa. The entire bot-
tom of the ship was covered with weeds and long grass of
every known kind and colour, with huge patches of morels
here and there on the port aide, together with a good
sprinkling of barnacles. On the starboard aide, however,
the barnacles extended from stem to stern, with an im-
mense quantity of weeds and long grass, the latter in some
pieties, as under the quarter, full those fist in length. The
muesels, too, extended fore sod aft, with bunches hanging
in places as large as a child's head. From the stein to
abreast the fore chiles on this side, about three feet below
the water line, a belt of mussel. adhered to the ship's bow
of from two to bee inches in thickness, and from one to two
feet broad.

"1/14WERS AND GEterumarr."—A party of
officers of the • went down to 00Z0 in the middle of
last month, having it appears, no better amusement,
resorted to the not very original or humane expedient
of throwing heated coppers to a crowd of boys they
had collected together under the window of the Imperial
Hotel, at which they were staying. Having anted
a charcoal tire to be lighted in a stove, and brought
into the room, they made a number of copper
COlOll red hot, and, by means of a pair of pitmen, threw
them rapidly in succession to the boys in the street, who
little suspected the cruelty about to be inflicted upon
them. The consequence was, seven lads, from tan to
eighteen years of age, were more or leas severely burnt in
the hands, legs, and other parts of their bodies. This
peopeat naturally caused indignation and excitement amonget
the Gorman er at Rabbet°, who were only prevented
by the policefrom taking summary vengeance On the
persona of the authors of this cruel and stupid frolic.
Aggravating their offence by not appearing in court until
a second summons bad been served upon than, the magis-
trate, Dr. Borg, fined them on the 30th ult. 51. each. it
hasalways beau our opinion that one of she best ways of
preventing the repetition of pranks of this kind is to give
the authors the full benefit of publicity, by attaching Ora
Dames to the record of their gallant deeds. In this convw-
*ion we append the following as the names of the gentlemen
who have gained for themselves this rather useo•ieble ea
toriety on this °motion :—Captain Charles Vane Fitzroy,
Ensign the Hon. Charles North, sad Ensign Alfred Sey-
mour, all of the 4th battalion Rifle Brigade.—Yalta Tunes,
Sept. 4.

A Loe's's Twaarr.—A young man whose pro-
fission is "to go down to the sea in ships," had been
courting a young girl at a house not a hundred miles from
the Ulveraton canal, when some quarrel ensued between the
lovers, and the gay Lothario threatened to drown binvelf.
No wooer said than Noce, apparently. He sprang into the
moat, to the great terror of the girl, who at owe created an
slam The dissatisfied lover had disappeared beneath
the water ; and, although every effort was mete to
reader mssistance if practicabl, theory to bring tip the WI,
when all hope of rescuing ictim of disenpointen
prim had vanished, there was uothing to show for this a-
-1 peaditure of good feeling. We understand that several
notemben of the police force, assisted by tvmpathinag by-
standers, dragged the canal fora considerable time, but with-
oat effect. The truth was, that the disconsolate lover was
capital swimmer and diver, and contrived, through the dark-
ness of the night, to get home noobserved, where he Intl
found next morning comfortably demand between the
blaakets. Rumour says that the heart of the fair I/aldose
is softened, and that the course of true love is likely to rue
smooth hotoeforth. —Cumberland Tacque!.