The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, Ocr. 1.3. APPOMMENTS.—Lien-
tenants W. C. Bandake, to the Leopard; and It. H.
Thompson, to the Galatea.
Muter D. Batt, to be additional to the Indus, for service
is the Liverpool.
Second Muter E. R. D. Mayne (acting), to the Fiagard.
Muter's Assistant C.-R., H. Robinson, to the Chanticleer.
Assistant Surgeon H. Maodonaell, confirmed in the

Allistant Paymaster F. Breddon to the Leopard.
Acting Assistant SorgSons Dr. J. Simpson, Dr. A. Robert-
eon, and Dr. D. A. Riordan, to the Royal Adelaide, for 'or-
rice at Plymouth Hospital ; W. H. Cox, to the Nile ; Dr.
T. Brisbane, Dr. D. Donovan, Dr. R. More, Dr. E. J.
Sharood, and W. Ashford, to the Victory, for service at
Healer Hospital.

Amistan‘ Clerks F. H. Page, W. T. Fermock, and D. J.
Low, to be additional to the Nile.
Engineers C. Beal, to the Asia ; E. Taylor, to the
Himalaya; and W. Williamson, to be additional to the
Bacchante.

First-clan Assistant Engineers J. Baptist, to the Bee.
chaste; A. Morton, to the Indus, • for service in the
Tilbury ; B. Ditchburn' to the Asia, for service in the
Cracker ; sod F. W. Itohinson, confirmed as first-class
assistant engineer.
Stcood•claaa Assistant Engineers B. Grant and F. R.
Dosaisoi, to ha additional to the Bacchante ; B. Pheldoe,
to the Blasheim; W. Nelson and J. S. Pidgeon (acting) to
he oddities'sl to the Bacchante.

PORTSMOUTH, Ocr. 13.
The royal yacht Victoria and Alberto Captain
Seymour. C. 8., sails to-morrow for Antwerp, to convey her
Majesty back to Osborne bowie, Lila of Wight. •
The Chanticleer, 17, screw-sloop, Commander Stirling,
saik this evening or to-morrow morning early for the Medi-
terranean.

RIFLE SHOOTING.
Last week a match between the No. 8 (Broad-
wood) company and the No. 9 (St. Margaret's) company
of the Queen's (Westminster) Rifle Volunteer took place
at Wormwood Scrubs. The match excited considerable
interest in the regiment from the fact of the No. 8 coin-
posy holding the highest place for general skill in @boot-
ing ; and of both companies including among their members
several distinguished show, of whom we may especially
mention Anderson, of No. 8, and Porter, of No. II com-
pany, who both won Whitworth riles in the first stage of
the competition for the Queen's prise at Wimbledon this
year. Each company was represented by eight of its mem-
ben. Wimbledoe targets and scoring were need. The day
was fine and clear, with a strong wind from the right rear.
The ranges were 200, 500, and 600 yards ; 5 shots at each
nage, Hyde position. The match, which it is worthy of
remark was for honour (no prize being allowed), commenced
at 7in the morning, and, after a sharp contest, ended in
favoar of the No. 8 company, whose aggregate score ex-
ceeded that of the No. 9 company by 12 marks. The fol-
lowing are the names and scores of the competitors :

No. 8 (BROADWOOD) COMPAIII.

200 yds. 600 yds. 000 yds. Pointe. Ent& Mark,.
Ensign Elect 9.6 9.6 G. 4 .. 24 14 38
Private Tinto
Sergeant Andeeson 8.6 .. 3.3 .. 10.5 .. 21 13 7.4
Private Heath
Private Cook
Private Garbutt
Private Ff enhance 0.6 .. 7.4 .. 2.2 .. 16 11 26
Itergeant Allen

Deduct i (*ate.

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Total
No. 9 (ST. Blum/Jun* Coxturr.

SOO yds. 500yds. Way& iotzta./14444. 11514 a.
Private 1111Ung.... &6 .. 34 7.4 .. 23 13 36
Private Porter .... &5 &4 6.4 .. 10 >g &1
Sergeant Carter .. 4.4 &6 34 .. 19 13 32
Private Uremia .. 86 .. 8.4 .. 6.3 .. 19 13 31
Sergeant Nye .... 7.6 .. 7.5 .. 1.1 .. 15 11 28
Private Begg .... 84 .. &4 .. 4.3 .. /5 11 28
corporal Nye .... 415 .. 6.4 .. Ll 10 22
Private Batumi . 7.5 .. LI .. 3.1 .. It 7 16

Total

THE SANDYFORD MURDER.—The torturing Mn-
peons which has existed in the public mind as to the person
by whom the Crown investigation into the circumstances of
this case was to be conducted is at length at an end, and au
appointment his been made which we feel assured will be
bailed with namingled satisfaction. On Saturday the &genie
of the prisoner, Mn,. M'lachlsn, received first a telegram,
and afterward a letter, from the Crown agent, officially inti•
mating that Mr. George Young. advocate, Edinburgh, bad
been appointed sole Commissioner of the Crown to conduct
the inquiry into the we. Mr. Young desires to meet with
the agents Utley in reference to the future procedure, and
we understand that they will proceed immediately to Edin•
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THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION•HOUSE

Jane Daley marine Illio7loae.r.;. residing in 111. /Lary at
Hill, %Duel upon her ewe recogalauce under
before R. Carden, who woe mittlag for the Lettlirmytd,
e
°barged with having ia her possession a quantity of gait*
paella, to the value of about 101., which was supposed to
hare been stolen.

Mr. Bosley appeared for the defendant.
The defendant is • widow ; her husband, who used for-
merly to carry on the same business, ems well known to the
police, and bad undergone • term d impriesmest lee
purchasing stolen goods. On Tuesday het the relit*
received information of some wool bay* bees stoles
from a bale by the water side, and Mihaly Wilson
Monger and Walter Betts, swo deasettres, went to Mus.
Daley's chop, and asked bar if she bad peireassied soy wed
that morning. She said she had not, and told the album
they might search if they liked, and they did so. They
found no wool, however, but they found amongst other
articles a large quantity f gutta percha (unmanufactured)
and indiarubber, and a large quantity of dried fruits, quite
new, all of' which she said was in the home before the
death of her husband. The officers had received infornia-
tion of a large quantity of. gutta_ perelia having
_been
stolen, and they brought the before the Lord Mayor,
who remanded the cue un it yesterday to give the oaken
time feu obtaining an owner. The vats perch* was In largo
cakes, and marked XL Yesterday Mr. Biet, &clerk in the
employ of Means. Dewsbury. and 00., Mincing-larie,brekers,
produced an invoice of a conswumentof gutta perch% bearing
the same marks as that found at the shop of Mrs. Daley. He
stated that the pate parch" was consigned in Its raw state
solely to Messrs. Dewsbury, and that they immediately sent
it to the manufacturers, the Cutts Percha Company,
where it was melted down, and that it was never sold in the
market ia its unnianufactiirod state ; under those circum-
stances be was able to state positively that the gutta perch*
had been stolen, but he could not say when. The consign-
ment of which he held the invoice arrived about the month
of April or May, but that produced by the officers might,
fer aught he could say to the contrary, have arrived five or
six years back. They lost so immense quantity, and could
tot trace how it was stolen, and were anxious to Sod out
whether it wan taken from the ships or from the barges.
Sir Robert Carden asked the officer Monger if the defend-
ant's statement about her husband was true

Monger said he knew it was true, and be believed it was
somas/bare about two mouths since be died.

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Sir Robert Carden then said that the evidence did not
satisfy him that the gutta percha wee not there before(her hus-
band died, and if it wail, of course she wee not answerable.
He should, therefore, discharge her.
Monger asked if he should give the gotta percha up to
Messrs. Dewsbury !
Mr. Begley submitted that there was no clear evidence
that it was stolen, and rid that the paaexators had their
remedy to recover the property in another court.
Mr. Blot said they would certainly do so, for they in-
, tended to press the matter to the utmost, as their loss was
very large, and amounted to as much as 15 or 23 par cent.
Sir Robert said he thought the defendant had better give
up the property and have done with it.
Mr. Bosley, after conferring with his client, consented,
and the defendant was then discharged, after receiving •
caution from Sir Robert.
ROW-STREET.

John Joseph Parker, described as a grocer's shopman, was
charged before Mr. Henry, with attempting to murder his
brother, Matthew Parker, by discharging a pistol at him.
Matthew Parker— -I live at 57, Museum-street. I have
no profession. I live on my own private meson. The pri-
weer is my brother. He is a grocer's shopman, at present
out of employment. Thin morning, about half-past 11
o'clock, I was iu George-street, St. Giles's—l had been
collecting my rents—when the prisoner came np from be-
hind me, end, without saying a word, discharged a pistol in
my face. I staggered for a moment, turned round, and
then, thinkieg be might fire again, I ran up George-street
into Great Russell-streak

Mr. Henry—Was the pistol loaded?
Witness—Yes, I had some of the shots extracted after-
wards. I ran away without either of us saying a word.
He followed me, and as I turned into Great Rowell-
street I saw him drawing soother pistol from his pocket. I
then called to the people to stop hull, as I continued to run
on. I raa as far as Armoury-street. Some of the people
stopped him, and took the pistol from him. I gave him
into custody. I went to the hospital, where two or three
shots were taken from my face. He was only a few feet
from me when he fired.
_ _ _

The prisoner did not put any question to his brother, but
observed, "Abase frequently asked him to assist me, being
in great distress."
Peter Shepherd, of Hamilton-straet. Camden-town, piano-
forte manufacturer, confirmed the evidence of the prose-
cutor.

The prisoner—l deny that I pointed the second pistol at
ray brother. I was stepped too soon for that.
John Used, police-constable E 89- About half-past 11
o'clock this morning I was on duty in Tottenham-court-road,
and saw a crowd in Hanway-street, where I found the pri-
soner in custody of a private constable on duty there. The
latter told me he was charged with assaulting somebody.
He did not state the nature of the assault. I did not know
that it was firing at his brother with a pistol. The prisoner
said, " All right, polineman, I will go with you." On the
way to the station the prisoner said, •• He has does me out
of some money, and my wife and child are starving." At
the station-house I searched him, and found on him a pistol,
which I now produce. It was unloaded, and bad an ex-
ploded cap on the nipple. It bad apparently been recently
discharged. I also found on him ad. in money, but tothing
else. . _

Dir. Samuel Jour Gee, house surgeon at University Col-
lege Hospital-1 was in attendance this morning when the
prosecutor was brought to the hospital. I found about
seven or eight small circular wounds, about the size of a pea,
scattered over hi hoe, especially the forehead and the right
cheek. Except two they were mere abrasions of the skin.
From each of the two spoken of I extracted a shot, buried
underneath the skin. I delivered the two shots to Inspector
Honey, and they were just like the two which he produce*.
In reply to the charge the prisoner said—l have been in
very great distress and destitution, and in very bad health.
I have frequently applied to my brother to assist me, and he
has promised to do so, but has never kept his promises. He
made promises before my father on his deathbed. The
property was to be divided amongst us, but he he. kept It
all to himself.

The prosecutor said there was no troth in this statement.
&r. Henry—l did not interrupt him because a prisoner
may my anything. Bat there is really no OCCA6OI3 to answer
it. It is Got material to this charge. MO the prisoner)—
You are committed for trial for shooting at your brother
with intent to murder. . _

Au application was made for the delivery to the prisoner's
wife of the sum of 9d. found on the prisoner by the offioer.
Mr. Henry ordered it to be given to her.
LAMBETH. • ..

Yesterday Elizabeth Wilaaw, a young woman dressed in
deep mourning, who was said to be living under the protec-
tion of a "gentleman " at di, Walnut-tres-walk, Lambeth,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliot, end charged on 'mi-
racles with being concerned with a Freedman, not in
custody, in steeling a diamond ring of the value of 651.,
the property of Mr. Richard Attenborough, pawnbroker, of
Knightsbridge.
Charles Palmer, assistant to Mr. Attenborough, deposed
that on Saturday afternoon, between the hours of four and
five, a middle-aged foreigner called at the shop of his master
end requested to be shown a diamond ring which was exhi-
bited for sale in the window, and which was marked at 75
guineas. Mr. Basset, the foreman of the shop, took the
ring from the window. and placing it on thecounter the 211112
took it up, examined the number of stones which formed the
cluster, and, taking out his pocket-book, appeared to calcu-
late their value separately, and ultimately purchased the
ring for 651. He then requested that a person
might be sent with him to his residence, 64. Walnut-tree-
walk, Lambeth, where be would pay for it. Witoess accord.
iogly accompanied the man to the house mentioned, the
door of tibia was opened by a female, then present, and the
man, on meeting the prisoner in the passage, addressed her in
the moat endearing terms—calling her his darling, and said
he had intended to be home much sooner. They then
entered the parlour, and he (witness) went in there also,
when the man wrote one or two notes, which he banded to
the prisoner, and she left the apartment The foreigner
then said he kept his money upstairs, and asked witness to
let him have the ring to show it to his friends upstairs,
and he should then bring him down the money. Not sus-
pecting anything wrong, he let him have the ring, and he
l‘ftthe parlour, closing the door after him. In about five
minutes after the prisoner returned to the parlour with •
dog in her arms, asked him if be were • judge of dogs, and
began to speak of the qualities of the amine!, for the pur-
pose, as he believed, of engaging his attention while the
man made his escape. He at length asked her
if the man was not her husband. The prisoner
replied that he was not, and that she knew no more
about him than having met him in the street on the night
before. Witness finding that the man was gone away with
the ring went to the station-house, moil having obtained the
assistance of Sergeant Shepherd, • detective, he gave the
prisoner into custody.
Sergeant Shepherd said that on going to the hones, 64,
Walnut-tree-walk, with the last witness, the prisoner in-
formed him that all she knew of the Frenchman who had
stolen the ring was her merely meeting him for the first
time on Friday night in the Kennington-road. and his
sleeping with her for that night only. The prisoner also
said that on leaving her on Saturday morning the man
said be was going to call on the Fiend; Ambassador to get
some money. sod should be ba:k in the came of the day.
He (witness) had ascertained that the prisoner bad occupied
the two parlours of the house for some months, that the
was under the protection of a gentleman, but saw other
visitors.

The defence set up was, that the foreigner who stole the
property was a perfect stranger to her beyond one night's
acquaintance, and that ■he had DO participation whatever
in the robbery.
For the prosecution a remand was requested. and Mr.
Elliott granted it. bet consented that the prisoner might be
allowed to go at large oe geed bail.

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