The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

NAVAL.

The Lords of the Admiralty have sent out instructions to
the Commander-in-Chief in the Chinese Seas that on no ac-
count are the British residents at Canton to be lift without
the protection of a man-of-war. This order was sent out by
I the present Admiralty Board shortly after they came into
office. The recent events in Canton, where the lives and
properties of the merchants might have been sacrificed to the
fury of an enraged Chinese mob, but for the protection
afforded by the crews of foreign vessels, have shown that
it is imperatively necessary that their lonl4l,ips' instructions
should be carried out ; and that, with the known hostility
of the Chinese at Canton to the British, and their determi-
nation not to admit them within the city, notwithstanding
the late treaty, their lordships acted wisely in sending out
these orders when they first took office.
INCREASE OP SEAMEN FOR THE NAVY.—We under-
stand that an immediate augmentation is to be
made to the number of seamen in the navy. How
far the fact that the French government are increasing
their army and navy may have determined the British go-
vernment to increase our marine, we know not ; but it cer:
tainly is a wise precaution on the part of our government to
have at once an increase to the number of seamen for the
ltoyal navy under any circumstance' ; but more especially
when France is adding so considerably to her naval and mili-
tary resources. The Moniteur of Tuesday publishes a reyal
ordonnanee calling into active service 53,000 recruits of the
class of 1845-45,782 are intended for the army, and 7,218
for the navy.
M EMOKANDVM.—ADMIRALTY,Sept.IO.—The Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty are pleased to direct that the
issuing price of soap to her Majesty's ships' companies shall
be reduced from 84. to Gd.
The Mover, Capt. Collinson, has arrived at Portsmouth
from China. Her dates are Hong Kong, April 3 ; Cape of
Good Hope, July 12; St. Helena, July 28; and Ascension,
August 2. She arrived at Simon's Bay on the 7th of July.
The ('resident, 50, Capt. Stanley, flag of Rear-Admiral
Dacres, Commander-in-Chief, left Simon's Bay two days
before the arrival of the Plover, for Algoa Bay, where she
would re-embark her Marines, and sail thence for the Mau-
ritius. The Sappho, 16, Commander Gambier, and the
Snake, 16, Commander Brown, were in Simon's Bay when
the Plover left for St. Helena, where she arrived on
the night of the 27th of July. There was no man-
of-war at St. Helena at that date. Lieutenant-Colonel
Ross had been sworn is as governor of the island
(pro fern), until a formal commission arrivedlrom England,
appointing the sucessor of Colonel Trelawny, deceased. The
Bittern,l6, Com. Hope, sailed from St. Helena for Loando
on the 25th of July. Dr. Crawford has come home invalided
from her. The Plover merely touched at Ascension. The
only man-of-war there was the Tortoise, store and guard-
ship, Coin. Morrell. Dysentery was still raging. Captain
Manse', of the Acton, 26, had been attacked by paralysis
and was sent up the mountain to recruit. Mr. Eales, pro-
moted tram the rank of Clerk-in-charge to Paymaster and
Purser, of the Vestal, 26. Capt. Talbot came home in the
Plover. She was built at Calcutta for a pilot-boat, and
named the Lady William licntinek. This is her first appear-
ance in England, and certainly she presents rather an
awkward contrast to the Recruit, still at Spithead; but she
has, nevertheless, done the state good service.
Minute guns have been distinctly heard from the direc-
tion of Cowes, doubtless on the occasion of the arrival of
the remains of the late commodore of the Royal Yacht
Squadron, the Earl of Yarborough.
THE PLAGUE ON BOARD THE VEStrIUS STEAM-SLOOP.
—We have much pleasure in announcing to the numerous
circle of friends interested in the officers and crew of the
Vesuvius steam-sloop, Commander O'Callaghan, which ship
had proceeded to Melville Island from Vera Cruz, in conse-
quence of the fatal ravages of the plague on board, that we
have letters from her, dated the 29th of August, stating that
the terrible scourge had departed, the vessel was wholly free
from cases of fever, and the crew were in course of rapid re-
storation to health and efficiency.

SPORTING.
TATTERSALL'S—TverriDer.

15 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes (t) 125 to 1 agst The Hem (t)
20 to I Sting (t 25 to 1) 40 to 1 -- Montreal (I)
25 to I Sorella (t aft off) 50 to 1 Terrier )
1000 to 40 each, in one bet, art Sting and Sorella (t'.
Several parties anxious to back the crack, and one or two fortunate
enough to get on upon more liberal terms than we have quoted ;
betters, however, were very shy, and at the close 15 to 1 could not be
obtained. Sting and Sore& were in request; the latter, having won
at Bedford, will have to carry 5 lb extra.

DERBY.
900 to 100 aget Van Trornp (t) I 2000 to 40 art Wild Hoy (t)
6000 to 200 Camandra (t) I
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
The following addition, to the Handicap were received veWerday :
—Doleful, Bst 815; Sotadee, 7et 5113 ; Zulcika, bat 215; and Holloway,
Est 215.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT7YEsnaDAY.

OLD COL-RT.--Before Mr. Baron Platt.

CAPTAIN RICHARDSON.—The Grand Jury came into
court soon after the Learned Judge had taken his seat
upon the bench, and presented a number of bills,
and among them the one against Capt. Richardson for the
alleged forgery of a cheque for 5,0001., and whick it ap-
peared they had ignored. Mr. Straight, the deputy-clerk
of arraigns, having formally announced the fact, Mr. Bod-
kin addressing the court, said that he appeared on behalf
of the directors of the Worcester, Ludlow, and Tenbury
Railway Company, to prosecute a person named William
Richardson for forgery, and it appeared that the grand jury
had just ignored the bill that had been presented to them
referring to this charge. Under ordinary circumstances the
prisoner would be at once entitled to be discharged from
begged respectfully
but under the peculiar circumstances of this case, he
respectfully to apply to the court to make an order
that the prisoner should be detained until the grand jury
were discharged, in order that the gentlemen for whom he
appeared might have an opportunity of conferring with the
shareholders in the undertaking, and deciding whether
another bill in a different form to that which had been':
ignored by the grand jury should be presented to
them, or what other steps they might consider ad-
visable to be taken under the circumstances. Mr.
Clarkson, who wos instructed to defend the accused,
said he could not 2telp expressing an opinion that the
application which herd just been made by his learned
friend was of a very novel character, for, in point of fact,
it amounted to this, that a person against whom a
bill had been preferred, and which bill was ignored
by the grand jury should "e detained in custody until
the shareholders in some joint-stock undertaking had made
up their minds whether they Ott:told prefer another bill
against the accused gentleman, or refrain from so doing. He
would submit to the court that this was not sufficient ground
for the application that had teen made, and he begged to
remind his lordship that the prosecutors :tad already had
plenty of time to become perfectly well acquainted with all
the circumstances connected with the charge, and might
have had a bill for misdemeanor ready to be sent More the
grand jury, in the event of their failing to subetat, tiate the
charge of felony. He must again repeat that suiting t:I0 con-
venience of the shareholders ofa joint-stock speculation is a
very novel ground to ask for the detention of any individt
—Baron Platt said that he understood the substantial objec't
of the application was that the prisoner might be detained
until the grand jury were discharged ; and, looking at the
nature of the case, he did not see how he could resist the