The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-24 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

CHATHAM, MAT 23.
The following officers at this garrison have been
selected to embark for India with the reinforcements 19th
Regiment: Lieutenant C. J. Bockats, Ensigns C. C. B. Tribe
sad H. Stokes ; 20th Regiment: Lieutenant' C. H. Web-
ster and C. Faye, and Ensigns T. A. Davies and Z. Ma-
outlay ; 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers: Ensigns A. P. Hutch-
inson sod W. H. Adams ; 24th Regiment:Lieutenant H. C.
Ma/sack, Ensigns W. Blander and H. T. Bronnekar
35th Regiment: Ensigns W. Poste and W. Talon ; 43rd
Light Infantry: Lieutenant H. C. Gorton, Ensigns L
Hillier' end R. M. Tod; 52nd Light Infantry: Ensigns L
Pakenham, V. E. Knox, E. S. Ker, H. F. Barker, and
F. E. Dowler ; 73rd Regiment: Lieutenant W. Clarke,
Ensigns B. J. A. Monsen, H. Synge, and W. H. Richardson ;
75th Regiment : Ensigns H. P. Dawson and A. S. Leathern;
77th Regiment : Captain W. J. Cnlen, Lieutenant A. T.
Butts, Ensigns 0. H. Blount, and E. N. Mosley ; 81st Regi-
ment : Captain K J. Lowe, Eaaips H. Matunn and R. J.
Msalonnell ; 91st Regiment: Ensign R. B. Wesley.

ADMIRALTY, MAY 22. —APPOINTRIART. —SeCOIId
Claw. Assistant Engineer G. T. Gibbs, to the Bacchante.
The examivation of candidateKi for admission to
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, by the Council of
Military Education, takes place in the Royal Hospital,
Chelsea ; commences on Monday, J une 4, and will extend over
the five following days. The next examination of candidates
for admission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, is
to be held before the Council of Military Education, at the
Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on Saturday, the 30th proximo,
and will terminate on the 14th of that month. The exami-
nation of candidates for direct commissions by the Council
of Military Education is appointed to commence at the
Royal Hospital, Chelsea, on Wednesday, the 20th proximo,
and will occupy six days.
The Adjutant-Gemara], Sir James Yorke Scarlett,
has issued a circular memorandum to the army at home
and abroad, dated the 14th instant, wherein it is stated
that the General Conuranding-in-Chief desires it may be
unienitood " that no soldier who has been sentenced to
the forfeiture of all advantages from future serviceis to be
restored to the first class, until after the expiration of
one year from the date of his being relieved from the con-
sequences of such sentence."

Screen or • LirgarOOL Bicogrg. —Mr. Frede-
rick liobitoson, metal booker, of Liverpool, committed sui-
cide at the Scariabrick Arms Hotel, Southport, on Tuesday
morning, whilst in a state of mental derangement. The
deceased was found suspended by a strap to the curtain rail
of his bed about half-past ten in the morning. Two doctors
were immediately sent for, but their sermon proved of no
avail, as the unfortunate gentleman had been dead some
hours. The sum of 191. Its. tai. was found in his pocket,
together with the following memorandum :—" Sairi•briek
Arms Hotel, May 21.—Brain fearfully congested. Take
me home to LiverpooL Chah in pocket, 191. As. Gil."
SHUCKINO OCCUILILINCE.—A few weeks ago a
sad occurrence happened to a poor fellow, a pilot, who fell
overboard from a pilot•bosit engaged with the British mail
steamer Karnak, coming out of Nassau harbour; and
although assistance was speedily' rendered by throwing over-
board an oar, to which he laid hold, he, after piteously
watiout to his mates, " For hod's sake save me !" was
lilhe oar carried down by an enormous shark and never
seen again. A few days after the fatal accident a shark was
eratured in Kaman harbour, and, on being opened, the
I • 's right hand and wrist, with a portion of his shirt
by which the hand was identified), a goat's heed with horns
nine inches long, and a turtle's head, were found in the
belly. The hand, he., have been given to the poor fellow's
relatives.—es NI 'preload Parquet.

ALLOTMENT Or FREEHOLD LAND AND GROUND
Riegle—The allotment of the Conservative Land Society's
estate at Oxford took place yesterday at the society's offices
in Norfolk-street. The property is about a mile from the
city, and is laid out into about sixty building lots, for villas
and other houses. Early rights were sold to secure plots on
this agate. Several freehold ground rents on the Battersea
estate, let on building lease of 99 years, were also offered to
the inembers,and taken by early right* of choice.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. —The adjourned
extraordinary meeting of this company was held on Tues-
day at the railway station, King's-cnsei ; Mr. G. H. Parke,
M.P., in the chair. The Chairman stated that the extra-
ordinary meeting held • fortnight ago had been adjourned
to that day for the consideration of the remaining bills on
their list, in compliance with the standing orders of the
House of Lords. The only bill he had to submit for their
appro,el was • bill for establishing railway communication
between Bedford and Cambridge, and for other purposes.
The bill was promoted by an independent company for
power to oonstruct • railway from the London
and North-Western line at Bedford to Cambridge,
end to form • junction with the Great Northern Emil-
way at Sandy ; also to authorise contracts to be entered
into between the proposed °emptily and the Great Northern
and other companies for working the traffic, and for the
interchange and forwarding of traffic, and the divi-
sion and apportionment of the receipts arising therefrom. It
was a railway in which they were in no way intereated,
except as to its pulsing across their line at Sandy, and form-
ing a junction with it. Mr. Leech, the solicitor, read the
heads of the bill mid the clauses relating to the Great North.
ern, Loudon and North Western, and Eastern Counties
Railway Companies. The company were to have power to
purchare a short railway made by the late Captain Peel, and
to use the Redford station a the London and North
Western Company, and the Cambridge station of the
Eastern Comtism Railway Company. A formal resolution
approving the bill was carried unanimously, and the meet-
ing separated.
CRYSTAL PALACE.--ONE SHILLING DAT.—WED-
, NISDAY, MAY 21.—Admissions on payment, 2,580; ditto by
mason tickets, 689 ; total visitors, 3369.
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