The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-10 00:00:00

LONDON. MONDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 10, 1869.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

THE RETOILE OF LORD CLYDE.—Wa hear that the
Commander-in-Chili has decided on leaving Simile as the
20th of September, wheat' be would march down to Leek-
now In order to meet the Oommer-Oeseral, who was
exps:oted Is the capital of Dade Meat the Idut or 10th of
October. It is probable that Lord Clyde would then take
lave of Lord Cumin', se the latter is ea his way to visit
Agra, Dahl, Lahono—porisps Pashawir—belore he lake,
up hi. quarters at Simla, whiob will be the mg ad govern-
ment next summer. Lord Clyde will Irv, India at tbe
clam of ebb year, or early In Jemmy, rat prima advised.
Excel* in escaping the beat. be had sot derived meek benefit
from Ilia f fay in Simla, and he is mid to have suffered=
ell the cafes from • semi* cold. The staff have all
more or lase from Blame, with the acomptioe, perhaps. of
Colonel Sterling, military mummy, who has enjoyed most-
lent Malik-74ms.

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Tint CHINA COMMUISION.—Tbe commssioners,
who here been appoimed to inquire into and report spun
the nature and proportion of stores, to., to be trenemitled to
Chins, proceeded on Friday last, the 7th hag., to the Royal
Arsenal at Woolwich, sad made a most mimes end personal
inaprctios ref the ammunition stores is that ymtaesf. air-
ing. we are given to understand, many peeotloJ angpedese
se to the mode In which thee, .to should be peeked.
Nothing, however, bee yet tremplrod es tithe salt of their
deliberation., but Is a kw days their report will be trier
muted to the authorities at the Rone-peotts. Tim thinned
troops, it id ended, are to be adored forthwith has India to
Mass, and the et t, comprising the omeasies emelioal,
sad military ours departments, to., am to overland
es Gent Chaim the reedeleem et present or.
1.3111 .001,1311011112 P 101151021 00IWIMSCL—The
Admiralty hes essepted tenders for the sandy of meth at
for the gob of the nary for WM sad 111011, Vie; 4,Min Who
sod 3,000 barrels beet of which 1,000 ere takes fierareerken.
1,0110 Rembews, 2,000 Gabor, and the remelader for. Irish
&coma, st se sewage of about 64 9.. per theme sad M. 14e.
per barrel; and 9,000 dame and 13,000 barrels perk, prig-
Mealy of Irlet cam, at as sewage of Most 71. ha per Wars
and 4/. 17.. 6.1. per banal.
.Notwithstending the prim of
beef and pork is 2g per ant, lees than the average of Ism
per'. sestrect, maselmtorers are utopias of mining good
molts.

PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 9.
The Clio, 21, wow oorvotto, Captain lhomal
Miller, felled this morales foe Plymouth.
The Des, 4, steam stoat ship, Master Thomas Pullen,
ronimaadsr, arrived rids morale( teem Plymouth with sum-
aunewariss.

The Lrgenr, 2, iron screw steam stout ship, Commander
Henry W. Hire, is ordered to have her torrid' fitted with
Cunrunatruis prase for ruing.
The Perameriuma, 2, iron screw steam store 'hip, com-
mander Edward R. Power, had bar compares swung on
Siourdey for trial.
The Probers, freight ship, arrived oti Saturday from the
Wm', to embark troops for the island. of Ceylon.
The Adelaide. merchant screw steamer, arrived this fore-
sees from the River to embark troops for China ; she i. to
come into harbour to-morrow morning to embark them.

CHATHAM, Ocr. 9.
The Vivid 2, paddle wheel steamer, Muter Com-
mander H. W. Allen, arrived in harbour lets on Friday
with the Coast Detaches Commissioners on board,
sedge! spin yeett rday morning, the commissioner, making
• very 'beet stay at ibis port.
The 2kd Royal Wraith Fusiliers, the last of the depots
which owaapled the testa at Bpur battery, Port Amherst,
having returned into Chatham barracks for their winter
quarters, ties camp which was formed et the commencement
of the summer has now been brakes up. The experiment
of placing a number of young robbers under canvass
ha. resulted mod satisfactorily, the troops encamped having
been far more healthy than those occupying quarters in the
berracks ; ehil.t, on the other hand, the barrack-rooms
have not been so crowded, and consequently Uwe has
hem Its sickness than bat usually teen the care during for-
mer summon. It Is the intention of the authorities to ea-
camp • much larger three at thus garrienn during next sum-
OM.

We (Inverness Courier) understand that the ball
and banquet to be given to the officers and men of the 78th
Highlanders ars to come off on the 2Lot lament. His Grace
the Duke of Richmond is expected to be pretest, and there
is a probability that his Royal Highnesi the Duke of Cam-
bridge, who is to visit Gordon Castle in the °owes of this
=oath, will basally the meeting with his presesce.
Yesterday (Sunday) there were in Plymouth
Sound ships of war belonging to eve different nations •
carcumatsies said to be unprecedented.—The English Alpe
of the line Aboukir, Algiers, Donegal, Hero, and Nile;
frigates Diadem, Emerald, Melpomene, Mersey, and Togliatti
corvette Pearl; the Dutch frigate Admiral Koopman, and
sloops Visualise and Rainier ; the Russian sloop Rszboynik
the Brazilian corvette Bahian+ ; and that Turkish line-of-
beak ship Shells. In all 17 pennants. The whole of the
skip, with the exception of the Brazilian corvette, have
Maim power.

COURT MARTIAL.—A court martial was held at
Plymouth, on Saurdry, on boor.) the 6 *ship In able,
104, C.v. W. lloulsion Stewart, for the Intl of Dsvid Wale,
private, Royal Marines, and ter ring on board to. D.inegal,
for having, oa the 9.h of tkpuirober, between the hours of
6 end 6 p.m.. deliberarely and maliciously cabbed with •
knife Beery Fireaah, eargeant of the same corps, moms-
paying the deed with threats th►t he would tail his life.
♦ woad clue". laid against the primmer wee of having
✓websd after First-Lieutenant Henry Colon, with a
drawn knife ut his head, saying, " That is the I want,"
or horde to that effect. Toe wonede initiated wwe
net of • nature to endanger life. The prisoner's de-
! DOI was that he unaudited the act in • state of frenzy,
and that he did not tow what he was doing. The court
found the first and more sorrow charge proved, but not the
second, and sentenced the prisoner to be mulct of all pay,
receive fifty lash., to be imprisoned in the county gaol at
Hzeier for two years with herd labour, and to be dim:aimed
her Mejegy'a service with diereses. The same court then
prosy. ded to try William Kitchen, ordinary seaman of her
Majesty's ship Dourg.l, for deeerting, at Liverpool, on the
14th I,f September. 'rho prisoner had been sent on shore
with a num Ler of other semen tossaiat in extingniehing a Cre,
and took the opp irtimity of deserting. He pleaded "Guilty,"
and wee encased to eta month: imprisonment at Bleier.
LONDON Raul BIIGADL—The London and
Brighton Railway Compare y have, with much liberality,
agr.4 to the anggestfon of Mr. Aldermen Rose, Vice Presi-
dent of she CAISCII, and filed the f ace fir transit to sad
from the Crys.al Palace for the members of this brigade when
fa uniform es follows.-6d., tint clam, to and fro; 4d.,
second clam, to and fro.

MARTLiBONE VOLUNTEER RIFLEB.—OR Satur-
day everting the oouncil and gentlemen of the Maryloboos
Volunteer Rifle corps held a meting in the Pavilion of the
Lord's Cricket Orouad. Lord Rodsiock, the captain of the
Marylebons Ingo., pr, eided, and rood the following letter Its
had renived from the LordsLientenent :—" 24, Spring
Oadiths, Oct. 6, 1859. My Lord,—l em dasind by the
Lord-Lleutenant to inform you that her Majesty has bean
grodeualy pleased to accept the offer of service of two com-
patriot riff* volunteers for Maryleboos under the set 4 i
111.. cap. U. The companies are numbered reepectively as
the 9th earl 10th divisiorm of the Rolla Volunteer force in the
county of Middlesex, and the maximum ertablishment of each
will amulet onts captain, one lieutenaet, one ensign, sod
100 men of all ranks.—l em, to., RICHARD NICHOL,
sore, clerk to tk• Lieutenancy. The Lord Radstock."
Tee choirmaa further stated that the roles of the carp. had
been submitted to, and revised at the War-office, and a copy
bad been seat 4. the Lord Lieutenant for hie approval, end
that the official menction would be received in the counts of
seat week. On this It was revolved that on their receipt
the rube be printicl for circulation. Mr. Matrinrr, this bon.
asornary, announced that a considerable number of gentles
linen had enrolled themselves In the corps daring the past
work, and that a sufficient apace was not provided in that
pavilion to accommodate the number. attending for evening
drill. It wee then resolved—" That the hon. seen tory be
empowered to arrange with Mr. Dark tb.t the Tennis Court
be liOted with gas for tbe future exercise sod drill of the
menibmi of the cnrps." A plan and epeoitica.l.n of • bum
to he erected at Wormwood Scrubs was submitted, the o-ti-
mate for which, including • storeroom, was 4901, After
considerable discomfort, it wee reenlved that an endeavor
should he made to reduce the cost of the butt, and that sub-
seriptimm should be requested from the wealthy inhabitants
of the borough to enable the council at once to erect the

IiEdERTIONS TROY THE MILITIA.—In the new
YlNtia Acr, are of the last of the late worker. there is a pro-
*tea making en important alteration ia the lA+ with respect
to dawdler's. It enacts that every deserter from the militia,
sad every parses deemed to be a deserter, may, whenever he
Y apprehended, and +tether his term of service has or Lea
sat expired. be tried by a regimental +nut mirtial, or
emn-
marily by justices bi say pert • f the United Kingdom,
and when +evicted shell forfeit ► *UM not lees than 40a.,
and net exceeding 20L, and in &dealt he committed for
notions than two months or metre than sax months. The
Secretary et Wee lea direct in which of the two node. de-
ostlers are to he tried.

A firs of a dntructive character happened yesterday
(Sunday) morning, betweets the hoar" of 2 sad 3 o'clock. fa
the prowler' belonging to Mr. Redford, No 72, Qnsen's.roed
War, Regeat'a.park. The It,yel Society's neaps', sad
the Brigade engines free the verkas sottaaa, ware early fa
attabdeace, bat itut flames were act eallegatatted until veva-
ea boars had elapsed. The origin ef the fhb 1. eakeowa.
itTAL PALACIL—IiALF-Clow DlA.—Marrs-
DaT, Ocr. 8. Abigekar ce barman 692 i bl
sum Noising 1,430; ma Tikes. 2.1.31.

SPORTING.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.