The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-03 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1868.

MUSIC.

will roe -ed the Rev. W. 111
Rev. J. Persona has base

NAVAL AND JULITABY.

We are informed that it has been resolved in the
Commit of India that all appointments to the Indian
Boatmen and Artillery shall be thrown open
absolutely to public competition, and that no nomina-
dell will be required.

THE TRANSPORT BOMBAY.
ADMIRALTY. Dic. 8 ~x.
The following telegram has been received from
Cork

" The Bombay was spoken at 2 p.m, 4R dr 29th ultimo,
In ktitade 6033 N., longitude, 16 W., wader Jvy masts,
making good progress, steering foe Baglish Channel. Wind
north-watt at the time."

ADMts•LTT, DEC. 2.—APPOINTMENT. Mid-
. Lowe, to the LIB, 61, maw stoma hisata,
at Dinnapert.

WOOLWICH. Du. 2.
'TEX L TI MILITSST &QUM 11111PICTING raa
GAMMON CILAPLAIX.—Th• troll at the 181111 logolly
shish Istesaipaed shir ot istopmees node against the
Roc W. With; Aashn to the Royal Artillery, at
Woolwich, bavisi boat farwerdat to his Royal Hilth
het roos
easarell Cemasallseis-C cilasreas mast
hms malealy esquitleil et rave es hi Nora
CCvbik war• by Widokos.
: ty. F. WOOS la dent to lon WitityMit *ad

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CHATHAM, Dan. 2.
The Childers, 12, Commander W. H. 13.eiebees,
arrived In harbour Lot night In tow of the Monkey straw,
from the More. She has been fa oommissicie tour years,
durteg which time she has been °ruining on the wait comet
of Africa, for the purpme of seeming in the suppression of
the slave trade. The Childers, ulna she ham been in commis-
sion, has railed upwards of 100,000 1:11114S. She has been
Isshed alongside the Hussar hulk, where she is being
stripped for the ;wpm of beteg paid off Into the ordinary.
Captain O. Goldsmith, C. 8., the superintendent at this
dockyard, luta received directions from the Lords of the Ad-
miralty to investigate the particulars whiott hare been made
public at Chatham, and in the columns of one of the morn-
* papers, relative to the alleged wreck of the stoop Sappho,
12, Commander Fairfax Moresby, on an island In the Pacific
°amok letter Oaring been stated to have been received to
that sleet. Captain Goldsmith has written to the Lord. of
the Admiralty to the effect that no faith is to be placed to
such a statement, as the alleged receiver of the letter at
Storehouses cannot be found, and so mainemory evidence
has been adduced as to the trash of the statement. The
Sappho riled from the Cape of Good Hope for Australia is
J..itthl7 lost, since which nothing whatever has been heard
of her, and it le conjectured by some that she hoe foun-
dered.

THE WLICI OF THE HUDSON.

BREMEN, Nov. 30.

Measures are being taken by the insurance com-
panies mom deeply intensted in the lased the steamer Rodeos,
oy firs, at Brea:herb/den, to Wm the gigantic, wreak, which lies
subs bottom of the Waste, and forms a considerable obstruc-
tion to the movements of other vessels, both inwards and
outwards. To effect this they bare had sent from England
a steant-pomp of great forte, and a couple of experienced
dime, or more properly speaking under-water ww►men.
The letter am employed on the outside al the wreak, endea-
vouring to fled out and stop op the leaky places, so that
when this is accomplished the meant-pump ma be used to
pump out the water, which, with its contalusous jet of 10
!oohs diameter, it is aspersed will not take long.

The work os which the divers are employed at pment is,
however, wandered azosedingly difficult and tedicemly stow
from the opaque and noddy ooadition of the water in tie
Weser, which prevents them from seam or distinguishing
any object ander the surfscP, en that their operettas' see
saWy accused to their sere of heeling, and as the river is
full of Boating ios, their handa are palatally tessuabed by
the cold. All the stores thrown overboard during the ihe
have beep recovered, including the chains and wire-
ri
When the wreck shall have been raised it will ramidagirtrba
emu wheelies it is worth rebuilding, or aiaY be sdil for
-up.