The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

TRH EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1851.

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abort is embark for Earope.-22nd do. Lint.J.C.B. Perks,
to be Lieut. fr..m Bth Nov., v. Buttotho ex.-24th do. Betel
Lieut..Colosel A. O. BleeleOrd nu obtained leave from let
December, 1850, to let November. 1861, to remain at
Landow., at medical ctrittioate. 25th datto, Captain 8.
Wells has obtained two yearn' leave to Elgland. 29th ditto,
Captain W. F. Stehalia ant Lieut. R. J. Evans, have
obtained three months' leave to Caligula aad to Bogland
ter tw3 years from the date of embarkation. 32nd ditto,
Lieut. IL J. Davies has obtaioed two yeses' ink Wive to
&aglow/. Pay =Ater 0. Moors has obtained three months'
' leave to Calcutta cad to England for nine months from the
date of embarkation. 61st ditto, Ensign T. O. D. Pays,
promoted to lieutenant, from 25th October, the Armstrocg,
deceased. Lieut. E. It Berry has obtained leave to Bombay,
from 9.k October, 18.50, to 9th February, 1851, and to
Eogland for two years from the date of embark
atioa. 75th ditto, bent. A. J. B. L, Butt to be Lieut.,
tram Bth November. vice Parke, who excbanges.-87111 do.
Lieut. B. W. Fulther has obtained two months' leave to
Calcutta, from let November, end to Bullhead for eighteen
mutin from date of embarkation.-9521 do. Lieut. C. B.
Wilmot has obtained leave in extension trout 21st November,
1850, to 31st March, 1851, to appear before a board of medi-
cal olBcers.-98th do. Lieut. J. W. 8. Moffat has obtained
leave in extension from 12th °sober, 1050, to 15.0 Novem-
ber, 1851.-98th do. Lieut. M. Dillon has obtained three
months' leave to Bombay. and to England for two years
from date of embarkation. _ _ .

bizolcet. Eacest.tensturt.—Surgeon R. Wood, S7th
Foo., has obtained two months' leave from lst li,,veinber, to
proceed to Calcutta, end to Ragland for eighteen months
from date of embarkation.
BOIL BAY.

STAFT.—Lient..Colontl W. J. Brown has been appointed
• brigadier of the 2nd clam. to complete the intabir,henent.
Capt. T. A. Rawlins, bee Msj,sty's 86th Foot, has been
appoiated aide-de.camp to Brigadier Robertson.
ARTILIARY.—Lieut. A. It. Mark has been coafirmed in
the appointment of quarter-mater and interpreter to the
3rd oattslion. Lieut. Graham has been appointed to the
veerinary charge of the horses of No. .5 light Sid hammy.
ENOISEZUS.—Lisat•CuI C. W. Grant ham been allowed
a turloogh to Europe for three peen, agreeably to the
rainalir tam.
Noma Israterax.—Lieut-Colonel (brevet colonel) G.
J. Wil,on promoted to colonel, from 21st October, vies
Seamus dammed. Lient-Colonel Troward to take rank,
from 21st October, vice Wile .n promoted. Major H. Leone
pro noted to lieut., colonel, from 26th October, vice Bulkley
cussed. 2nd do. Resign O. Graham promoted to lieutenant,
from 19th November, vice O'Neil deceased. Unposted
ensign E. Owen lusted to the corps.-sth do. Captain
C. J. Symons bu bees teed by general court martial, en 4
seater cad to transportation from rank, pay, and allowances,'
ior six months.—ienteaced confirmed.-7th do. Lieutenant
W. M. Brodie appointed line adjutant at Abinednaggur, vice
Luca'-9th do. Lieut. D. H. Jameson, promoted to czptain,
and ensign C. J. Mellias to lieutenant, from 16th N ,vsmber,
vice Cr.etall deceased. Unpaired ensign M. W. Parker
posted to the corps. Unposted *taigas Fletcher, Moore,
and Way attached to the corps from 14th N.1.-9,h do.
Lieut. C. B Baugh has obtained a three years' furlough to
Europe.-14:b do. Ensigns Milford, Mainwaring, La Touche,
Witter!' nt, and Keeps, attached to the corps.-18A do.
Ensign T. W. Brown has /mud a colloquial examination.-
19th do. Lieut. C. T. Pali., appoitited aojutant, vice Briggs,
promoted ; and Lieut. C. E. Naylor, appointed acting quer-
tormentr and interpreter, vice Palm. Ensign G. Gordon
hat °trained one year's tuelourri to Europe, without pay.
beat. J. A Anderton, appointed line adjutant at K ila.
pore.—'23id do. Lieu% R. Bainbrigge, appointed second in
a immand of the Sawant Wane* local corps, vice Arrow,
placed at the dopiest of the commander in chief.-
26:h do. Lieut. J. G. Hart, appointed line adjutant at Att.
enecnogger.-27th do. Lieu; R. Golds* bas obtained •
three year.' furlough to Europe. Major J. Bowmen, cop
tats L. 8. Hough, sad Limn. J B. H. Mackses", to take
rank from 21st Oct., vice Tr...ward promoted.-29th do.
Capt. (brevet main?) A N Maclean promoted to major,
Lieut. W. 0. Arrow to captain, and Enrign L. B. Donate,-
vit., to lieutenant, from 26. h Oct., vice Lyons, promoted.
11.1npo.tscl Ensign T. It. Niemen posted to the corps, vice
Deutervi'le promoted.-19itt do. Lieut. A. H. Davie, ap-
pointed tort adjutant at Surat.
Mantuan ESTABLISHMINT.AIIiiitaIIt-thrlittOn F. Lod-
wick has been appointed deputy medical storekeeper at
Neenalcb. Assistant Surgeon G. J. Young, appointed te
medical charge of the 14th 14.1, J. 11. Wilmot to that of the
2nd troop li A., Vice surgeon Carotgie proceeded to Europe,
and assistanteurgeon Buren, M.D., appointed to medical
charge of the 3rd troop H.A. Assis•ant surgeon Pule
aopout ad to medical charge of the 29. b N.I. Vice assistent-
surgeon Wilmot. Surgeon Barrington, tad E.L 1., direct. d
t 3 restive medical charge of the 19ck N. 1., from simian.%
surgeon Davey. Assistant•urgeon Broughton, civil surgeon
Kolapore, appointed to medical charge of 14th N. 1., and
staff at that station, on the departure of surgeon Pigott. The
services of assistant surgeon Yowls hare been placed., at the
disposal of the cominantler-an chief. Assistant uremia
C. R. 0. Bloaham, appointed to so, cheat charge of the camel
baggage vice Huury deceased. Amistaut surgeon Gil-
bert has pseud a colloquial examination.

MALTA. DEC. 25.

This morning early her Majesty's steamer Medusa,
with the homeward mail from India, arrived in port,
followed closely by the French boat from Alexandria,
and the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Sultan, from Conetautinople.
Yesterday, after a very long absence, Sir William
Parker, with the fleet under his command, reached
the harbour. The order of arrival was—Queen.
towed in by the Firebrand steam frigate;
whish had arrived during the night, and went out
for the purpose of giving assistance. Powerful, towed
in by the Oberon, steam-packet, which had on that
morning arrived from Corfu. Ganger, under sail only
Caledonia, in tow of the F,rebrand; and Superb, in
tow of the Senrge, steam-frigate. It is hardly possible
to fancy the sudden change from dull monotony to
lively joy that took place in the city—one only thought
seemed to pervade, viz., the return of the fleet, and
the advantage to be derived to the island by the
money that would be spent. The Dragon (et.) is de-
tached, to relieve the Spiteful, at Naples. Racer,
brig, was at Smyrna on the 16th, and was to leave on
the following Saturday for the Gull of &lonics.
The officers of the 40th have been committed by
Mr. Harper for trial. There was not, however,
proved a particle of premeditation (on which alone
they are committed), and Ensign Culpoys was de-
dared even by the prosecutor to have acted through-
out as pacificator. Mr. Vaughan, the midshipman,
was liberated. A mountain seems in the case lo:fore
us to have been made out of a molehill.

A letter from Athens, under date 18th inst., says :
"We are quiet here, but we know nothing of our
king ; when he is coming, or why he we :t, or what
it is that keeps him. The ransom that he is to bring
with him—bis little nephew, second son of his
brother Luitpold (who ts the presumptive heir
to the throne). This little boy, only four
years old, is 'o be brought up, it is said,
in the Greek religion ; his father Luitpold will
resign hie pretensions, and then this lad will
become heir to the throne. It would not be a bad
arrangement, but the rumour requires confirmation.
" The brother cf the Queen, Duke Peter of Olden-
burg!), is expected hero on a visit every day."

TITS SPLENDID ROTCON PARK ESTATE, near
Birmingham, for a ling period the property of the Noels, of
Worcestershire, hasjust been purchased by Mr. Dillon, the
steel-pen maker, for 95,0001.
SUICIDE IN THE MANCHESTER BOROUGH GAOL,—
An inquest was held in the Manchester New Prison on Mon.
day before Mr. Rerlord, coroner, upon the body of a man
who was supposed to hare committed suicide under the in-
fluence of the 'ohm, system of confinement there practised.
I The name of the deceased was Obadiah Tunicliffe, aged 21
years, and he had been committed to prison in default of bad
which he had been required to find on the 18th December
for assaulting his wife. On the 27th December he was
left in hie cell, in solitary eonfilement, at ten o'clock
in the morning by the warder, and in consequence of
the sub-warder of the corridor in which hie cell was situated
being absent at the torsions court, there was no officer in
attendance for upwards of two hours end a half in that
corridor. On the return of the warder, he was ceasing by
the door of the min:tare' cell, when he found the hand-
plate of the door turned up, and thinkiec there was acne
thcne remarkable in the circumstance he unlocked toe door.
He then found the unfortunate ram 'ascended by the neck
from a gas-pipe at a point where it is about three feat as
inches from the Bur, quite dead. The deceased had
thrown himself into • partly recumbent position to
effect his &ruction. The jury made some inquiries to
ascertain how far the system of punidicsent adopted in the
gaol might *enema for the rash act, and with that view. Mr.
Walker Gotland, the official medical men, and the Rev.
P. J. O'Learr, the gaol chaplain, were examined.—Mr.
Holland said the deceased had been astbject to epileptic fits,
sad hadbers attacked with

ste Court.

WINDSOR, TVZSDAT, Dan. 31.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes, sad
Windsor Park. Tim Royal Pauli, took their MM.
tuned airings. Sir Charks Lock Eastlake had an audienes
of the Qum& yesterday. Sir Charles took his departure
from the Cloth te-day. Sir Frlikilis and Ludy Arabella
Basing are ezpeotod to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit
to the Queen sad the Prince. The Royal dinner party this
evening will include his Excellency the Chevalier and
Diadem Boom, the Marquis of 1) wro, and the Right Hon.
Sir Francis sad Lady Arabella Baring. The Band el the
Coldstream Guards will attend during dialer.

The Duchess of Gloucester paned a good night on
Meads', sad was going on well yesterday.
Dr. ?McLachlan had an interview with Esrl Grey
yesterday at the Cclonial-oflice.
Count de Reventlow, the Danish Minister, left
' tows on Saturday.
' Sir Francis Baring arrived in town yesterday
•orning. The Right Won. Baronet left his residence in the
Admiralty in the afternoon for Winnsor Castle.

LORD JOHN Roseau, will give his first parliamen-
tary dinner on the 15th inst.

THE TRINITY HOLM—A vacancy is Occasioned
snots the elder brethren of this corporation by the demise
of Captain Aaron Chapman, the senior of the brethren,
basing been elected as far back as 1909. Captain Cbspraan
died on Saturday last, at his residence at Bighbury Park. in
his 80th year. The deceased gentleman was long krona
and Mealy esteemed in the City of London, and is four
successive parliaments since the Rotorua Bal:, misstated the
borough of Whitby in the Howe of Common..

(From lest night's Gamier.)
WHITEHALL, Dhc. 31.—The Queen hal been
pleassd to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great
Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kiog-
dots ot Great Britain and Ireland unto the unthrmantwned
gentlemen, and the respective heirs male of their bodies,
lewlully begotten, via. :—Mejlr General dir Walter Raleigh
Gilbert. G.C.8.; James Matheson, of the Lens, in the
county ot U3lll, and of Achsay, in the county of Sutherland,
E.; and Richard Yahoo, of Appleby. Castle, in the county
of Weatmorlani, Skipton Castle, in toe county of York, and
Ilothlield.place, in the county ot Kent, EN.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 31.—The Queen hes been
pleased to appoint Sir Junes Emerson Tennant ,
, Knight, to be governor of St. /Liens ; also, to
:appoint
James Vickery Drysdale, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary;
and Robert G. McHugh, EN., to be bet Majesty's Treasurer,
fir the island of St. Lucia.

CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 28.—Member returned to
in this present Parliament for the B )rough i.l Saint
Album : Jacob BeU, Big., in the room of Alcxan..er Raphael,
E.q., doomed.
COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT
Or COMM/LAND —John Dixon Fidler, Gant., to be surgeon
in the Boyal Cumberland Regiment of Militia.