The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-27 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADXLEALIT, MAT 28. APPOINTILINTS. Com-
manders H. L. Cox, J. Hutchinson, and F. W. Sidney, to
the Miranda.
Fiat Clam Assistant Engineer E. Judge, to the
Coekatriee.
Acting Tug Class Amistent Engineer R. W. Trubehaw
(additional), to the Cumberland for the Louisa.
Second Clem Amiatant Fogineers D. B. Baffler, to
traC; Sutherland, to the Miranda ;F. Smiley, to
katries.

PORTSMOUTH, MAT 26.

The Eak, 21, screw corvette, Captain John
Hamilton, steamed out of harbour this afternoon, and made
• trial of her angina tithe measured mils in Stokes Bay.
The Victoria and Albert, royal screw yacht, Captain the
Prince Leiningen, arrived here this afternoon.
An ludisman hove in sight this afternoon making far
Spithead. It in supposed to be the Aganiennioo, with
military invalids from India.
COD ON BOARD HER MAZISTT'S SHIP
V !MORT .-A 000ttemartial assembled on board the Bag-ship
Victory, to try Jeremiah Murphy, steward of the Ar.,
revenue cruiser, tender to her Majesty's ship Datuat,
on the following charge :—" For that he the said Jeremiah
Murphy, being a person subject to the Naval Discipline Act,
1881, and employed in custody of provisions and victualling
stores on board the said tender, did between the let of
October, 1862, and the 28th of April, 1863, fraudulently
embesale and appropriate to his own use certain provisions,
the property of the crown, viz. :-17 pllous of spirits 14Ibe.
of tea, 401Ibs. fresh meat, 74th. of vegetables, and Mba of
salt meat." The court comprised Captain Arthur Cumming
(president), Captain Philliniore, Captain Chamberlain,
Lin Seccombe, sod Commander De Saumares M• 04a
Dixon, of the Daunt/ma, prosecuted ; and Mr. E. Hoskins
sat as officiating judge advocate. After • long investiga-
tion the court found the charge " Not proven," and the
prisoner was therefore acquitted.

WOOLWICH, MAT 26.

ROYAL Ansarrsi.. —Considerable activity now
prevails at the militery store department of the Royal
in the preparation for shipment of guns, shot,
shell, and other munitions of war for home and foreign
statues'. The following vessels taken up by the War De-
partment have received cargoes of such storee—via., the
Adelaide, for Gibraltar ; the Orient, for Bermuda ; and the
Hanger, for Halifax. A number of Armstrong guns of the
largest calibre have been forwarded to the depot atChatham,
and also to Portsmouth, for the naval service. Mr. Ander-
son, the acting superintendent of the royal gnu factories,
with the sanction of the Ordnance Select Committee, is now
engaged in experiments to ascertain the effir of_ steel
tempered in • peculiar rummer, which it is red will
prove superior to the metal now weed for the most tubes of
rifled ordnance. Three experimental rifled guns of various
patterns are now being manufactured under the superin-
tendence of Mr. Anderson, to be tested at Shoeburynims in
the presence of the Ordnance Select Committee.

The Megiera, 6, iron screw troop ship, Com-
mander Madden, ea male from Portsmouth to the Went
Indies, put is to Plymouth on Tuesday rooming, having
run down the Danish brig Hams, about 30 mils off the
Start, the night before. The brig's crew are all saved.
The Megan baa suffered but little injury. The brig was
laden with coffee, from Rio for Hamburg.
The British government has accepted the pro-
position of the Peninsular sad Oriental Company to estab-
lish a fortnightly communicatiou with Australia, provided
the Australian colonies will contribute 30,0004 towards the
additional subsidy.

EMIGRATION TO ALBERT LAND, NEW
ZEALAND.