The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-09 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

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AbletßAM, Nov. 8. AnoMmwris. Sub-
Lisateneet 8.. it Eyre, to the BristeL
Muter I'. W. Wetwtee (additiosal), to the Asia, for the
('Raiser.
Aesistaat.Payaisater G. J. Sparks (superasseseary), to the
I ideleide.
Nowa Cadet (soadoet4 R. J. Lane.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 8.
A. singular accident happened last evening at the
Ganwharf Bertsch. at Portman* 000 spied by a &molt-
meat of the Royal Artillery. It appears that about 7
o'clock number of mea were occupying two rooms an the
cued floor of the west wiag of the heaths; whin they
were startled by ea ominoue mead, se thong, the
wars about to collapse. They st mei ruined 1146 Z
'sported the matter to the authorities, sad upon examination
M wee foiled that there were extensive marks in the walls of
W bathig, sad that it had sunk into the pound to the
depth of about a foot. This wing of the burettes ie within
a short dietetic,. of a sew dry diode, built of granite, by the
seeporation of Pvrtanioalls, for the repair of creek of the
aercastile natio& at a cost of upwards of 30,0001., sad
fears are expresesd (whether groendless or sot we cannot
lay) that the dimplaermast of earth under the barracks
denotes as equivalent displacement near the dock, sad
that thee is therefore a possibility of its esll=
tabus; some isory
_searcely lees serious.
parte( the barrack Wilding has boos sureeyed by the al-
ai, of the mightier department, mud we uoderstsod that it
has been condemned es tuxedo for the habitation of the
troops.
WOOLWICH, Nov. &
GREEN wica Hoserrat. —ln accordance with Ad-
miralty instructions, all persona employed at the Deptford
Dock and Victuelling-yards ?squiring hospital treatment
will be received at Gresswich Florpital, instead of bring
employed to the Royal Marine lefirmary at_ Woolwich as
beretofore. The committee of the Dread sought Bee-
11111111'11 Hospital Ship, who had recently resolved to erect a
bedding for the purposes of the charity on Lod at East
Greenwich, are now ia oomeauskatios with the Admiralty
with a views obtain a portion of Greenwich Hospital for
the rectiof their patieat&

Tax Bra Tomes HAMLETS VoluNTEE3B.—This
ears, matured by the East sad West ladia Dook Coco-
pony from their extensive body of employis at the docks
and town warehouses, met is fall fore* oa Tuesday even.
Sag sad marched bo the oomputy's sew Leetureatall in the
'Watt ladie Docks, where a large sad influential party had
amembled to wanes' the annual protestation of prim
SUICIDE 07 AN Ormuz AT PLTMOUTS.—.PLT-
MOUTH, Nov. B.—Captain Dameport. of the Wad Bee-
mans, hallooed at Trophle Fort, Whitened Bay, near
Plymouth, bee oommitted wield* by aboofin himself to
lie bedroom with a revolver. As *nett bulge. held ca
tie body today before the esenty eoroaer, wire a medial'
of "Temporary Imlay " was retuned.

17111vizairrY CoUlos, LONDON.--.ThO council
held their but swim for the therhiroieal year, 1865-66. as
Saturday last. The Longridge pries of 401. for general pro.
isieney in medicine and surgery was awarded, on the re-
thenneadation of the Focalty of Medicine, to Mr. Bryan
Moline Allen, of Ludas'. The Miter Exhibition of SOL
fee the eacouragement of proficiency is pathological ana7-
toiny, sea, ell the report of the examiners, Probuor Shar-
pay, M.D., Professor Erichaeo, sad Professor Wilson Fox,
IL D., costarred as Mr. John Williams, of Blessellynant.
In accepting the resigaatios of Prologue Maros, the council
waded their ewe of the greet beeefititho Wisp hes
received from his valuable liertiCie during the period that be
has Sled the chair of English Language sad Literature.
The secretary having reported that the setting up of the
Mannor B.:murices'', presented to the collage by Mr.
Grohs, had been completed, and that for the more con-
venient viswieg of the work at all seasons, Mr. Grote had
awed three arehes of the cloisters to be whined with
glum at his theorise, it was unanimously resolved—" That
the council desire, on the manioc of this splendid gift to
the college, to rimed the sleep sense which they entertain
et the liberality and zeal and sacessiog devotion to the
interests of the Gallop, ss well as to thou of the University
of London. of which it is the parent, which have marked
the coodoct of Mr. Grote daring the keg period of his con-
nexion with this iastitutioo."
Tits POOS-LAN SOLID AND THE EAST LONDON
illoorf.—Yestarday afternoon, at a meeting of the hoard of
Cvortof the End Lades Union, held at the offices ie
haire square, Biehopegate, under the presidency of
Mr. Cuthbert, the chair:nth of the board, Mr. Baylis,
Meek to the guardians, read a letter from the Poor-law
Board, enclosing a communioatioa which the board had ad-
dressed to Mr. Joshua Williams, ow of the relievies 0(6
ofthe action, with 'thermos to the we of the poor woman
Sarah Treaty, who, it was alleged, was refused relief by him
ea Monday, the 2nd ult., and into the particulars of whose
we an inquiry was meetly bald by Mr. Forma, the pooc-
h, inspector. hop the widow* taboo at the itheiry the
Poor-law Board had thrived at the orroclosios that, in the SuoCSING DESILTUTION.—The Liverpool coroner
absence of any evidence of Sarah Trusty sot being destitoto had under his notion yesterday • ease in which it was
when she made application to Williams, be erred in poet. I
shown that • whole family had bean for some time staring,
Ciag she osier for the workhorse fa which she applied end that the youngest had died of want. The deceased wee
board further considered that to intimate his opinion of ne infant of niesitesa mouths, the daughter of a wedge-
the character of a woman who most have been already i lamed suss" who lived with his wif sad four
known to the authorities at the workhouse, by writing in children (besides the one deceased) in No. 4, Court, Gore-
the order ot admiseion that she was a disreputable woman, street, To:kith-park. The father as been almost entirely
sets ant improper MUM to adopt, and ought sot to be lo" out of work for some time, and attributes this to the ia-
Pat.& The ssessuaa'ahiasa was* ordered Sa be "Wed crease of bra ship-building, and the use of the eivorder
sew
as the minutes. for making wedges. It was shown that be bad frequently
VALDE OF LAND IN GRACICHDICH-STSZET.—A eso without food that the children might have it, that
large plot of vsoant land is this important thoroughfare Ls wife bad dons the same, sad that they had parted
was yesterday offered to othipetitioa by Yew. Fox end with their clothes till they bad scarcely any left, in order
Botodiad, end attracted so 'logs •• indiums to 04r1•°*71, to get mosey for food. Tidos last week the man had done
that the sale had to be adleeirned to the Leedom Taws, a whole gav's week with so other seetwoce thee me
San estate eormprieed the Bile of the, ,/310"1 Meal, erwisiieg of throe potatoes and a herring. A ems-
••• at the s'assasass" ofd"Wili" the of .table charged the parents with drunkenness ; bat when be
which so troth now remains, sad cuisine an area of 12,600 questioned, he admitted that he had seen the man in
leek dTwat lend, 5,600 feet of which are leasehold far a Zs., °sly ogee, and that was two years due, sad that
keg 181•2,3„4"_thellMiladar _,h°ltL The finl bidding be thought the woman wag drunk when some meathe
50,0001.,with 50,50,0001.,&hit after a Minot= eetePettlhee the Om alses be hod .scrim to go to the how ; bet it appeared
part_y was Winked down at 96,0001. • that they wen bola mailable people, sad lie miss have
HOSPrI'LL FOR DISMISS. or TIM MUNI 67k bees mistaken 14 to the Vattern. Savage said spirit
Xasomirr-ersszr, CAVKKDEIN•eQUARL-11r sear:tier of would not let him go to the parish. The jury hand that
twits relieved at this hospital daring the past week was deceased had died of want of food. The meow pee the
testily Si. cot the poor boz sad some breed.
of