The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-02 00:00:00

Mr MILITIA AND "MN VOLUNTNERS.

(Prom Tuesday's fiesellt).
Commies= staid by the Qum;
20d ce &Meru Regiment of Norfolk Militia—WM=
HerdasserM, gent., to be quitsetaster.
Cosnenimissit signed by the Lord•Liestanant a of thsir resenclive
comatim.
The Ream Rllista—Willimm Hartley, gent., to be =loos, Vile
Godfrey, sapsnmisd.
Dorset Regiment el Itilitia—Fisary Thomas Bay* pat.,
to be ensign, to complete the establishment.
Royal Fliztoildir Milide—lielph Richardson the yaws',
gent., So be a
19th Lnacsaitinla Volusesese—Jareas Maxwell, Esq., to
be con= • Omega Ake:ander Mackenzie, Req., to be
°ape= ; Jima Yak Dowis,Raq., to be °spiels; WM=
Donald -Ririe, to be lisalssmat; Ala:sada Mao-
doaald 0 gent., to be lieutenant; James Ciuspbell
Frame, gout, to be =dim 21st Lancashire soh Wm-
teers—Nathsaial EoUr Isy, EN., to be (pieta; Egerton
Leigh Wright, Esq., to in
awl= ; George Willi= -
ning, goat. (late captain in the 2nd of the Dike
of Lancester's Own Militia', to beiktrleaseit ; Thomas
gest., to be lisasesst; Edward Soot; Ma.,
gent., to De ensign; Levee Robert Rowbottom, goat., to be
maga ; Thomas Joshua Mates, gent., to be smilent-
-Ist Subdivision of Laaosabits Rigs Valuate=
1-6-= Frederick Marta, gent to be Ileutimard; Wi-
liam Clarks Dailey, gent,M be align.
Liscohukke Artillery Volunteer; 2nd CompanyAd=
Ikeith, Req., to be captain ; John Whitford, gent., to be
first lieutenant; Francis Lang, gent., to be seined
lieutenant.
Her Majeety has been graciously pleased to accept the.
resignation by Captain &rasa Robertson of hie commission
in the Royal Seat Lino= Milian
Liarriambire Rile Volunteer; lit Company—This mireffels-
Sou of Prods Dolan' Walsh, Eaq. as honorary
Lto best doe the 22nd January, 1860, instead di taliM
Deonaber, 1869.
Norfolk Artillery Regiment of Militia—The Right Hon.
Jacob Henry Deland Lod Hastings, to be honorary
colonel, vice Jacob Lead Hastings, deceased.
Cityof Norwich Rine Volunteer Corps—John Davy Brett,
Esq., late major 17th Lamers, to be major omarimadeat;
Charles Foster, Req., to be oaptain • John Harwell, Jan.
gent, to be lieutmisas ; Alfred liaat'er, gest., to be ensign:
Foster, resigned; Beaumont Wilma Jolly, gest, to
be susign.
Olsaiorganektre Rifle Volunteers, 18th Company—Charles
Williams David, Req., to be captain; Clement Wahine,
gat., to be ilettienant ; Jeremiah Box Btockdala, get, to
be ensign.
llth Company Rant Rifle Volunteer.—Montagu Lubbock,
Req., to be niptalet ; Edward Osmond Berms to be
lieuesasst ; William Darwin Esq., to be ensign ; Edward
Augustus Williams, Req., to be honorary surgeon.
lot hubdivhdon Cambridgeshire Rife Volunteers—Edward
Lomas; Esq., to be lieutenant; William Harris Bowles;
Esq., to be ensign. let Cambridgeshire Rills Volunteers—
The name of Ensign Claydon is Albert Declaim Claycion,
and net Albert Nernst Claydon, as platted on the
24th instant.

idlabaret Artillery Volunteere—rte Boyd,
oa., Wit captain; Join Mainab, By., to be fest
iientement;jun., BK., to be mead
lieutenant.

13th Abertle-ineltire Bite Voinitairs—Alaxandar Simzca,
Jen., to be captain ; Atlecuider acdinald, on.,
Eq., the lientcaent; Almada. Bladkia,
to b•
let Company di tits Banff Volioatre Artillery Corps—William
Joann Wisps, ILD., to be

LONDON RIFLE BiIIOADN.—A large number of the
members al the brigade have unked in presenting a teed-
monied to Lieut.-Coked Woks, in acknowledgment of the
service he has rendered in originating their ohrp ; sod is
order to mark at the same time the ratistiotion with which
they welcome him se their first dad officer they have selected
as the object of preerettetion a fine charger fully caparisoned.
In the holsters are a pair of silver mounted pistols bearing the
inscription The Izindon Rifle Brigade, to in founder
and first oommanding officer, Lieut.-Colonel George Mon-
tague Hicks, February, 1860." A meeting of the itomecil was
held at the Mansion-house on Tars lay last, the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor, president of the council, in the chair.
Amongst thaws present were Bir Francis Doyle, Bart., Mr.
Alderman Challis, Mr. Alderman Rose, Mr. Alderruan
Alla', Mr. H. W. Kennard, M.P. Captain Wm. Gardner
Liam-Colonel Ricks, U. The liancial mellowest having
bees read, the Lord Mayor elated he had the gratification to
announce that the Worshipful Compaq of ironmongers
had premented through him 262. to the brloade. that Henley
Smith, Eat., clerk and treasurer to her Majesty's Court of
Lieu'enancy, had presented eleven guineas, Nevill Jourdain.
Ban., three guineas, &o. The mutual proceeded to isvesd-
gate applications kr the adjutancy and orf ensigns, sad after
much deliberation made their selecnoti. subject to the approval
of bar Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy, who meet on
Friday nest in order to nominate His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge as colonel of the brigade, two majors, two
additional captain* two additional heutimants, pomotions
to lieutenancies, a captain,i adjutant, and ten ensigns. The
Lord Mayor stated that 1,2'26 gentlemen had scrolled se
effective members. His lordabip exoressed a hobo that his
fellow enigmas who had sot already done 700 would aid the
feeds; and after a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor the
meeting separated.
TEE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.—ACCEPTANCE AND
NONBRILING OP Till LIVI/POOL BIC:HANOI COMPANY.
The services of this prepay have bean graciously accepted
by the Quern,
the thei:orirfiwitrobie numberedctheurndidCori-
r. griogitht ; Limbered :Mr. LawreunDoe H. Parr;a'
ELgnr.Mr.
Walsh; Paymaster, Mr. Daniels. The maximum strength
will be one captain, eft lieutenant, and one ensign, and 100
men of al maks. Sir Chants Bright (Capital' Bnghes
brother) has *dared a purse of 201. for the best ride shot
during the ensuing summer practice.
Tin CUNARD COMPANY'. ARTILLERY VOLLIN-
Yzias.-81:41141 Mae dear Charles It'lvsr, Bp of the
British and North American Boyd Mall fiteanilp Com-
pany, minified the eespleynt of that company Into • volun-
teer artillery corps, the iereless el which were shortly after-
wards graciously saseped by her Majesty, through the
medium of the Earl of BefMn. The entire force at the com-
pete, was estimated at about ISO uses, rank and file, and yes-
terday the volunteers, to the west of 300 men, headed by
their commanding ofilear,vere sworn in Wore Wm. Brown,
Req., ex-M.P. for &owl Lassaik•.

nut Bottopitim' STULL—At the weekly meeting
of trade delegates, on Tips Jay evening lest, Mr. Potter the
fiseret of the Bu,Mere' Conference, mmounced that, tide-
d the allowances from their various trade moie-
ties, the conference were this week sgain enabled to pay the
operatives on strike against the " Document" the dividend of
de. per man ; end the subscriptions from the different trades
weneeougag in so freely thee they expected to Monate this
sum next week. He also announced that the carpenters,
Micklayers, plasterers, and painters were holdiog delegate
menage of their *Wee with a vise to commence a sew and
vigorous agitation against the " Document," which it was
expected would result In its with& elMal with the omumence-
meat ef the spring. A greet number of men were now at
work without the " Document," and those still out, includ-
ing the ramose. who were not now unmated with the confer-
*are (about 9,000 skilled operativeo, expected to be absorbed
in the demand that would shortly exist fur men in the build-
ing trade. toil then the &lee* cs prompt promised the
matinned support of their modeled. It wee elan resolved
that steps should be taken to form a defees.ve league of the
whole of the node societies in &gland the t e'ret to enable
them to enlist such measures as the enforcement of the
poen:awe for the future.

COLLIERS' STRUM lit SCOTLAND —The North
Britia4 Dotty Neil of yesterday rave : —"A rumour hen
' been afloat daring yeeter&y mid to-day, which we believe to
be *linnet, if not natireiy, without foundation, to the enset
that the woe:meager, are about to blow out their formals,
and send their coala *to the Olisagow market, for the par
-
pees of reducing the ;Mee of oval, tied thus give them an
mews fur reducing the wages both of their coal and iron-
lion° miner.. Such a court., It appears to it,, would bs
suicidal to the Interests both of employere raid employed,
and is not likely to be entertained fora moment. klorsonsr,
so far es we anaware, there en, nous of the workmen in
this district out on strike for an advance of wages ; and were
snob a ems, to be adopted by ilia masters, It amid only he
looked upon In the light of a I.al-oat on the part of the
masters—a step warmly Juanita,. at soy time, end we
think not at all so in present elreemetanere."
THE FATAL PIT ACCIDENT NUN WOLVIII-
HAmrvie.—The Inquest on the bmii•ii of the sufferers in ths
accident which recently occurred at New Crow Colliery, sour
NVolverhernmos., wee brm.ght to a close yesterday aftersece.
The accident, it will be remembered, was oceesioesed by an
engine employed to lower miner. into an ironstone pit not
being plaited properly in gear, the c,miequence of which was
that the check the engine being thus removed, the cage.
containing 141•111111 miner*, descended with frightful velocity;
sad the whole of the unfortunate men were deeded to pieces
et the bottom of the pit. The two men In charge of the
wipe were immediately apprehended o• • charge of man-
slaughter. The evidence adduced at the inquest clearly showed
that these Ines, Feredsy and Jobneon, had neglected to piece
the
the
ia a proper etais Ne'64,l. rOMOMOCZ
lower the ass. The jury were of opinion list the h or
Bald eeniaiter wee also bierneable, and the inquiry was ad-
Mere* is sweernda hew tar be was reepondble. From the
widows* takes yesterday le wee, boa ever, apparent that the
responsibility lay between Feredae and Johns-at. The jury
returned a vadat of blanalsugtver" wired J *baron, who
weer * cheep d vas saltine et the Memo' the accident ; and
he was committed for trial on the ovoner'a warrant. Fisher,
the head eagfaewr, was also seeerele reprimanded.
COLCHICUM AND STOUR VALLST RAILWAY.—
The half-yearly asealeg of Ws company was bald yeast-
V.;:l the offices Colchester. Ti,. directors' report was
, and a dividend deelared at the rats at U.
per asst. ler the beg year, ekrar of Shemin an, ahat m-
asa of pealmaliel Amiss.