The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-23 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

AMMAN; J.N.
13ntood-car Anionat-Entinoor H. W. Hart, to the loin.
rinse, for disponi, vice ennui.

WOOLWICH, JAP. 22.

ROYAL ASTILIART, —A nuM—erouseletiaMenTof
the depot brigade, Royal Artillery, is ordered for Denise 4
litheinises and Watley, and a number of noasonimismiosed
*facers from those stations will proceed to Shosburynem to
000299 of instruction at the School of Gunnery
with rldedordnance. Two batteries of the thirteenth brigade
am ordered home from the East Indies. The regiment.,
with the recent augmentations, now 0011111411 of sixteen Mi.
pdas, divided into 152 batteries.

CHATHAM. Jas. 22.

The Terrible, 21, 800-bores power, Captain
Glans, C. 8., having towed the Brillnat, 36, to Mow
where she te to be Oationed as • training ship for the
Naval Rearm lima retuned to the Non, where, on her
snivel restsidayodie saluted the flag of Vies-Admire!
Hope Johanna, the Coairesadsr-in-Chte. The Torii*
has bees about four years is 0001111111/11013, during nearly the
whole of which times she ham been attached to the Medi.
touitassa sonadroa. She commenold diachargiog her colas
and goes to-day, and se soon as she has been dismonlel
she will be paid oN and pat out of ocanntheion.

We are informed that Captain' G. H. Seymour,
C. 8., hp appointed to the command of her Majesty's yust
Vieteris and Albert, vine Hon. J. Denman, promoted..

Viscount Hanciagh is among the recent arrivals
at the Bedford HoteL We (Brighton Gazette) believe his
lordship's whit to Brighton was for the purpose of viewing
the ground sear the Race-hill, with some gentlemen, where
the propomd sham fight on Easter Monday il to come off.
It iisaid that 25,000 volunteers may be expected on tbat
condo&
THII RETURN 07 THE SCREW STRAYER VICTORIA.
—The Queenstown oorrespoodeat of Sausukre Pow,
reference to this event which we reported paterday, we:—
" The troops which left this for Canada in the early part of
the month have been unfortunate he their voyages, for et
the four deem ships which put to see two have already re-
turned, after much suffering. The screw steamer Manntim
left on the 2nd instant, with the lit battalion of the 15th
Regiment and the bth battery of the Bth brigade of the
Royal Artillery. The screw steamer Adelaide mind in two
days after, with another portion of the 16th Regiment. The
screw steamer Victoria followed on the 6th indent, with
the right wing of the 96th Regiment and a number of
hones ; and in two days after the screw steamer Wend
steamed out of the harbour with 44 of and 630 lama of
the 96th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Hospital Oorps.
The Adelaide, as is already known, pat into Plymouth on
the 15th natant, having been eleven days at ma ; aad this
forenoon, at tea o'clock, the Victoria retuned Into Oak
harbour, after as diseme of Mesa days, during which time
the troops entered severely in the storms they met with.
the vessel having bad her deoks swept, by whisk she led
her bade, sod tie beams lieloogieg to the hems having
be killed is the toesiegot the shi . On @avoid 0/301111i001
the ship was ia great peril of her &mks harlot
darted, the water pound down into ttsse eugine-redin, and
it wee with grist exertion that it was kept under so se to
prevent the Arse being extinguished,. A telegraph of the
return of the ship has been forwarded to the Horse Guards,
and as order to lid the troops, who ruler effetely from
the affects of the data and cold, is expected in the mares
of this Tuesday evening."

ARRIVAL OP ANOTHER CONFEDERATE VESSEL
FROM CHARLESTON.

_(nor ova 'iarraroor. oonalronnm.)
The West Indian, • vessel belonging to • Southern
planter merchant, has arrived at Liverpool direct from
Charleston, having successful) y run the blockade.
The owner of the West lodka sad her maga (who ems
from Charleston with the venal), and ()opted& Foote, with
whom we had as inteminer, informed or that the blockade
of the pest of Cherdselen issaything het effesinal, and that
the " grimite bhelmde." se flar from stop the estneace
to the port, MR eusteally deepen the eirr ehlosele.
On this point the Ohneleetudine me confident, sad there-
fore the making of the partite fleet give& them bet little
onessi.
The West Indian is • be, rakish-looking tassel,
schooner rigged, but with immense them She can carry
• great deal of canvas, and, judging by her lives, is a fast
boat. She is 241 tons burden, and has • full cargo of
spirits of turpentine. She left Charleston in the evening
of the 24th Deoembar. It was • fine starlight night, and
with a favourable wind the blockade was run, without
meeting with any of the blockading fifth The West Indian
left Charleston after the store fleet had beat sunk, and an
down to the sea through one of the channels left open by
the Federal.. During the voyage to Liverpool the weather
was very tempestuous, but the vessel suffered no damage.
Mr. —, the owner of the vessel and freight, is a resi-
dent of Savannah, and as he frequeetly travelled between
that portend Charleston, he tells us that be himself raw
the plutetime on fire. It is the fixed determination, he
lays, of the planters to burn their cotton sooner than it
should fall into the hands of the Yankees. All the planta-
tions about Port Royal have been destroyed, and, with the
exception of a few hundred bales of cotton which have been
gathered by the Unionist', and which is unclasped, there is
scarcely • bale of good cotton about the place.
Charleston is well defended, and the number of troops
between that city and Savannah is about 40,000 men, under
the command of General Lee, of whom General Scott said,
" He is the best general we have in the United States army."
This compliment was paid to General Lee before the sem-
sion movement took place, sod no doubt still holds good.
Reinforcements also continue to arrive at the different points
of defence. Savannah is in the beat possible state of defence,
and the citizens are heart and soul in the struggle of the
South for " secession."
The gentleman whom we have alluded to above was in
Richmond about three months sifts, and he was informed
upon authority, which he bad no occasion to doubt, that
there had been an agent of the French government in that
city for some time purchasing all the tobacco he could
get on government account. It was also hinted that hopes
were held out by French agents in the South that before
long the Southern Confederacy would be recognised by both
France and England. and the immense quantity of tobacco
stored in Richmond on French government account appears
to give some substantiality to the above statement.
Coffee, tea, sugar, salt, boot. and thou, kc.—indeed all
the common luxuries of life—are exceedingly SUMS sad
dear in nearly all the Southern cities. Captain Foote, and
the owner of the West Indian, both spoke of the scarcity of
than articles in the South.

DISSOLUTION OF THI PARTHENON CLU8...4M8
awe celebrated club, which hu been in existence for nearly
• quarter of • °minty, and was originally founded by some
of the most celebrated *avant' of the day, is entirely
brokers up and dissolved ; and, by order of the committee,
the library and the whole of the effects of the club.house,
la Regentotrest, are to be brought to the hammer.
SHISZFIRLD SCHOOL OF ART.—The annual rower-
*mime of the Sheffield School of Art was held on Tuesday
evening, and was quite as successful as in former years,
though the show of oil paintings was leas numerous than
last year, when it received such valuable acoessories from
Mr. Gillett, of Birmingham. Lord Wharoeliffe's contriba-
Hoes, brought by hie youngest brother front Chins, of put
of the spoils of the Emperor's Summer Palms, were very
carious and valuable. His lordship presided very gracefully,
and read au admirable address. His remarks on
the value of schools of art as opening Dew
spheres of employment to females were par,
'malady appropriate. Mr. Cole paid • well.deserved ooin-
&meat to our townsman, Mr. Godfrey Sykes, whose terra
oaths columns in the Horticultural Gardens he described as
=by any similar works of antiquity or of the
med is Home or Naples. The prize drawings of the
elad.ents and the number of prism awarded Watt the con-
Wesel emcees with which the work of the school is prose-
cuted by its able principal and presiding genius, Mr. Young
Mitchell, It was stated that under his can the students
have increased from MOM 1,200.--Slieffleki /*dependent.
MANORBSTIR UNITY OF INDEPINDANT ODD.
rutaows.—A mediae of the executive of this body, repre-
senting 390,000 members, was held at Manchester yester-
day, to agree to as eddying of condolence to her Majesty on
the death of the Prime Consort. There were deputations
present from Leeds, Bradford, Oldham, Ashton, and other
places, and the meeting was presided over by Mr. JohaGele,
of Liverpool, grand master of the order. The address,
which recognises the efforts of the late Prince Comport for
the improvement of the materiel and moral condition of the
operative portion of her Majesty's subjects, to which class
the great majority of the Unity belong, was moved by Mr.
Chas. Hardwick, of Preston, and seconded by Mr. Rich-
mond, of Manchester, and carried unanimously.
A Cosinturottaaw or BURNA—There is residing
at Duntsparish of Alumni (says the Scerman), ea old
man a of 97 years of age, • native of Gleomint,
Duna armed Thomas Harris, who spent the earlier part
of his life is the seighboarhood of Enjoined at the time
Burns was tenant there. During that time he saw the poet
" almost every day
," but had not the pleasure of his &c-
-=oca, although he was on friendly terms with Gilbert
and John Begg, the latter of whom be characterises
"e• • fine fellow." Many of the persons praised or sa-
tirised by the poet, he knew well ; and the old man's spirit
maw to shake off the rust of years when he talks of the
great departed. He has passed, thus far, through a long
pilgrimage, with a character free from the shadow of
reproach. and is now buffetting the tides of poverty and
ago—" ill-matched pair"—with quiet Christian resignation.

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