The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-13 00:00:00

JOINT STOCK COMPANIES (vOTING PAPERS.)

Mr. D. GRIFFITH moved for leave to Ikeda°, a bill to
afford shareholders is joisactook companies facilities for
voting by meant of voting papeta. He had refrained from
touching that ggnnaat charter of the railway ampules, the
Clauses Contolid tioa Act. He left the whole of the power
of shareholden and directors exactly as they were, and did
sot interfere with the power of rolling proxies. HI
recommendation was simply that, after • poll shoold be
demanded so a gnostic's moved and encoded at a sleeting,
the voting papers alsonlet then all be seat out, and the share-
holden be enabled to vote by means of those vetting papers.
The principle wee by someone new to the home.
Mr. HADFIELD seconded the mottos.
Leave was tins gins.
PATENTS MUSEUM AND OFFICE.

If r. DILLWYN waa procoodineto call the attention of tbo
house to the inauficiawcy end hioonvonioncri of the temporary
13160041111 for inventions at South Kroaington, and the Patent
office in Southampton- baildinp, whom

Aa How. lumina moved that the bore be eretattd, aad
then being only 33 members present, the bows stood ad-
ioarned at flee mantes after 8 o'clock.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY. APRIL 11 —APPODMICINTS AND PlLO-
noviono.—C. R. Memberloin, chief opposer, to the Cum-
berland, for the Boma. C. W. Aylmer, nand cadet
(nominated).
To be Fir* Clam Aasiotont Engineers: J. Immo, of the
Hiodoa ; T. G. Poonett, of the Warrior; T. J. Warburton,
of the Hector ; and W. Berm, of the Hogue, for Modem.
To be Action First Clam Animas' Engineers : J. R.
Harvey, to the koeario ; J. Tarp. to Me Jame ; C. B. Har-
grove, to the Yozhousd ; T. Haltom, to the Trident ; and
E Winans* to the Bacchante.

CHATHAM, API= U.
NAVAL COURT MARTIAL. —A court-martial
emobled this morning on board the Formidable. 84, °Wahl
J. Fulford, assdap of Vice-Admiral Sir C. Talbot. IC.C.R.,
enrol commander-in•chief, for the trW of Kr. E. F. Nichol-
son, assistant-payometer of the Bombay, 67, Captain C. A.
Campbell, on the charge of having, on or about the 30th
all., been drank on board the said ship, and incapable of
performing hie duty. The court was presided over by
Captain J. Fidford, and Mr. knight, snhcitor, Rochester,
officiated aa deputy judge-advocate ; Captain Campbell, of
the Bombay, prosecuted. The court, after hearing the
*video°e of the whammies for the prosecutios, as well aa the
defence made by the prisowr, deliberated for a short time,
end ultimately found the prisoner guilty. He win maenad
to forfeit three years of his seniority, and to be severely
reprimanded.

PORTSMOUTH, Aran, 11.
The Fairy, screw yacht, and the Sitio, paddle
yacht, were aadocked this morals( attar repairs fur the
presort worries of the QUO'S, bat it is reported that the
Fairy is afterwards to be bookie up.
The court is expected to arrive at the Royal Clamps
yard, Gosport, to-aiorrow week re route to (Mores,

WOOLWICH, Arum 12.
FITNELAL Or TEI LATE COLONEL BixonAx.—The
remains of the late Woad Charles BaleISM, Deputy-Ad-
jutant Ormeral of the Royal Artillery, were interred this
afternoon in the family exult at Plumaged with the full
military boom,, duo to the rank of the deomeed officer,
who bad resided niany yaws at Woolwieb, sod was highly
eeteented both In military toad ciei► oinks.

MAIL PACKETS WISTERE PORT Or CALL. —A
large sad influential deputation atteadird yesterday cm the
Postmaster-Ormsral with rsfereoos to the questiou which
is &gala beisg agitated as to expediting the delivery of
kitten byte eosin Alm packets. fin lordship promised to
give every attention to the statement of the deputatiort,
and that the matter should be fully imosidered belong the
next tenders for the mail 'maim were called for.

OITSTAL ?LIAM. Owi 81111.1JNO DAT. --
TUESDAY, Aria It —AthisheiODl ea payment, 1,700; ditko
by seams tickets, 871; total, 2,571.
Moth THAN STIR AND WITTER THAN frets.—Thls
to the lamest and best stock cd spied sad manses
patterns ever subedited for public sppresai Ths wertddsated
lda tresses at Alfred Hebb Mies; tk• erkilealeds only est..
bllimon4 73. liseekekesa Haeover•etuant. leleklisked 10.1,