The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-18 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additional.) I TWOPENCE.

NAVAL AND ifILITAIZE

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 17. APPOINTMENTS. —• SW-
gem J. Jankimoo, M.D. (1854), to be additional to the
' moose, 8, 'crew ream atop *hip.
Amistani-Sorrenne R. Evans (1861), to the Wear. and
J. B. Murphy (1856), to the Formidable, 84, at Sheerness.
Amistant Engineer of the Third Clare A. H. Henke, to
the Wellington, 72, at Devooport, ea etiperoatnerary.
Acting Third Chute Assistant Bushier, J. Finlay, to the
Diddern ; sod 0. Boyd, to the Drama, as supernumeraries.
Oar. 16.—Oommander 8. Skipwlth (1866), to the Prome-
thium, 5, paddle-whrrl steam sloop, et Woolwich, commis.
doped.

fia;ters W. H. Faterkner (1856), additional ro the Wel-
lington; and T. Liert (111t6), addittonal to the Plagued, 42,
at Woolyieit,„
Burgeon J. Andrews, M.D. (1855), to be surgeon eu-
periatandest to the Sir John Lawrence, convict .hip.
Acting Bscond-Class Assistant Engineer J. A. Kite, to
the Nile, 90, screw otoara nag strip, at Plyny uth.
Acting Third Clue Assistant Engineers D. Dann, to the
Asia, 84, guard skip, et Porugoouth. ea supsenrunerary; J.
Robertson end W. Welker, to the Wellington, ea suporna-
tatirarleu,

CHATHAM, ocr. 17.
A WOUNDED SOLDIER FLOODED.—This morning
the troops belonging to the depots attached to the three
battalions of intantry were merched, aeon after daylight, to
the Spur Ramey, for the purpose of whamming thalaffiodon
of the punishment of the lash on • private belonging to the
8311 Conaaught Reagent. stained Norton, who has recently
totarned home wounded from Delia, mad woe etteched Wilke
Invalid depot, tit. Mary's, hie discharge. Tke
crime for which the prisoner was vied a few days since by
mart-martial, and of which be was found guilty, was that
of having struck a non-commimioned officer whilst in the
execution of his (bay. The prisoner served in the Crimea
during the Rawl= campaign, and is decorated with the
Crimea medal with three clw_ps He subeequently served in
India against the rebel& MO- he wee invalided home a few
weskit ego, having riceive4 two wounds, Daring • disturb-
ance in one of the stream of Brompton, Serjeent Gavin, 3lst
llegineent, one of the garrison military police, was in the eat
of ordering a soldier to the guard-room, when the primmer,
who bad been drinking, walked up to the non-ootateisidosed
officer and struck him a sadden blow in the hos with his
Sat. The court, taking into consideration the prieoaer's for-
mer bad character, and that he bed been before tried several
times foe various effaces., and once flogged for striking a
nos-commissioned officer, laminated him to receive 60 lashes
and to be imprieoned for 188 days. After the sentence bad
bees read to the assembled troops by the Adjataat, the Ml'
weer, although it was raining heavily at the tams, was
fastened up to the triangles and the full number
of Imams administered. On being released he was
conveyed to the garrison hospital for musical treattnenulligl
as soon as be is able to leave that establishment will
hie term of imprisonment in Fort Clarence military prison.
Orders were this morning feuded at Fort FM, directing
Staff Surgeon Lewin., M.D., to proceed to China, and
Assistant Staff Surgeon Crow to Shorncliffe.
The depot of the Cape Mounted Ride Regiment, number-
lag upwards of 160 men of all make, formerly quartered at
the garrisoc, bee been removed to Canterbury and attached
to the infantry depot battalion at that city.
The following of joined the depots of their regiment
at this garrison this morning:—Captain O. Taylor and
Lieutenant H. Helaham, 63rd Regiment.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 17.
Some of the younger members of the royal bendy em-
barked on bard the Fairy, at Comes, this morning, at •
quarter to 10 o'clock, sod craned over to the Rota! Clarence-
yard, whence they proceeded per Mato to Loodon at half-
wit 10.

LONDON RIFLE BRIOADE.—The Right Hon. Sid-
ney Herbert, M.P., her Mejeny's Secretary of State for
War, has forwarded 101. for the use of this brigade. The
tight hon. gentleman states that he does so from the sympa-
thy he hem with the undertaking.
BARNET VoLuraria RIFLE CORPS.—The offer
of service made through the Lord Lieutenant, as tar back
me lest Jane, by the corps formed at tads town, hes jest been
graciouidy accepted by the Queen, the ens at the same time
bang formal, recognised under the title of the 12th Mid-
dlesex Rills Volunteers. Through the kindness of Viet:mat
Beheld, oolobel of the Edmonton Militia Blase, the corps
bee been enabled to avail itself for drill of the advantages
Worded by the barracks in Barnet, and of the services of the
eerge.nta and buglers of the regiment; advantages which
are enjoyed to an equal extant by few volunteer corps in
the kingdom. The corps la rapidly approaching • high state
of efficiency, having undergone drill twice daily since
the return (two months back) of its able and energetic con-
mai:dins officer, Captain Wilbraham Taylor, from a course
of musketry inetruction under General Hay, at the School of
Musketry at Hythe. Mr. Charles Hsaliwy, brother to the
member to the county, is the lieutenant elect, and Mr. F. Z.
Baines has been appointed sergeant. The corps presents •
soldierly appearance on parade; the amines* of many of Its
'antihero in the bayonet exercise, as well ea in the manual
and platoon exercises, being fully equal to that of veteran
troops. Mr. Joseph Etaxendide, the deputy Lord Lieutenant,
bee given the munificent sum of two hundred gains".
towards the necessary expenses incidental to the establish-
ment of the corps, and other subscription' have been given or
promised for stuns var)ing from one to fifty aniline. A
thoroughly sernoeable uniform has been eelected, viz. a
Ride Brigade tunic, knee Bowers with leather gaiters from
knee to encl., and • stiff wide-awake hat with small black
feather. The whole cost is about 41. 10..
_ .

A deputation of gentlemen from Liverpool, con-
gaing of Mr. J. Heathy, Mr. S. R. Graves, and Caput*
Powell, attended by J. Ewan. Esq., M.P., bad ea interview
yesterday afternoon, with hi. Grace the Duke of Somerset,
at the Admiralty, respecting the Conway school frigate.

A CAPTAIN PLACED IN IRONB BY £lB CREW.

Much excitement was crested in Queenstown last
week on the arrival in port of the skip Spve, with a general
cergo,from flavanaah•la-blar for Glasgow, the captain of the
slap, Franca B. Duff, Wag a clan prisoner on nosed, and
charged
by the mate sad the rest the maw with being
and preventing loaded pistols at them, threatening to
shoot them. The crow thereupon took the captain into cus-
tody, and, having pieced hint in Bone, kept him a clime pri•
goner to his own cabin until they brought the ship into Cork,
when they tame on shore, and the mate, on behalf of tamest,
sad the rest of the crew, swore an information against the
captain for harlot preeknted loedod firearms at the crew, and
the captain rem thereupon taken into custody by Constable
Sperling, and conveyed on shore, where he the same evesisg
gem bail to stand his trial before the magistrates. On Sitar-
day afternoon the captain swore an infortnation against the
men fir entity sad assault.
Alter the master's evidence, Mr. Julian then addressed
the bench on behalf of the mate sad crew, end contended
at some length that the men were perfectly justified in what
they had done.
At this siege of the proceedings the investigation was
lei adfoarned.

OFFICIAL RRCOGNITION OF HEROIC CONDUCT.—
Cassalsolonees of Emigration have preeented b!Cap.aln

Johnston, now contmandini the &mon; Black Bell clipper
Marco Polo, • gold chronometer, as • recognition of his
heroic earrioes while captain of the emigrant chip Eastern
City, burnt at sea near the Cape of Good Hope, in August,
1858.

Tag WRECK OF THE ECERRATEs.—The Euphrates
is considerably damaged by having gone on the rocks the
other night at Inchkeith. She doss not rise to the tide in
Leith Harbour. There is • large hole in her botiotn, and
her keel is said to be broken. Her cargo, composed of timber
and railway sleepers, will, as a neoemary consequence. have
to be disoluuned where she is.—%orth Brenda Daily Yea.
SIGAMT.—On Friday, at the Bury petty sessions,
Mary Booth was charged with bigamy, having married John
Booth, in Bolton, in June, 1813, and Samuel Brooks, collier,
Black-lane, onthe 3rd inst., her former husband being
alive. In daemon she said i—" Will you allow a woman to
live with a man who has lived with her more than 12 years,
duriag which nine she has been always in danger of ber We?
The way In which be spent his Saturdays and Sundays was,
as boon as he wee at liberty from the mill on the Saturday,
to go to the beerhome, and stay there until l l or 12 o'clock,
playing male. Oa &today morning, before he had time to
wean- himself, he would go with his associates into the liar
hole of the faotory, taking drink with them, where they
would drink until the ashcans were open, and then,
after they bad drunk as long as they could, be would manage
to meth himself and go to bed to pt reedy for his work on
the Monday. When I Tea conftned of my last child I wee
11l in bed three months, sad one night I asked him to
_get up
and go go to the druggist foe something to soothe it. He m-
ho wished both me and the child would be
corpses befall morning. Lest Saturday night he said to some
of his associates that he had a barrel of ale at the Han and
Chicken Inn, Bolton, which ha would give, and they must
pay sornethhig each to it, and they would have a supper, and
a molar 'pros on the oomsion of my being married, and be
world hoes me punished severely." She said she did not
know bow he could punish her more than he had done,
unless be took her life. She was committed for trial. The
magistrates agreed to aooept hail, herself 601. and two swe-
ats 261. oath.

PAVING TIIN GRAVB-INN-10AD.—On Friday the
imathoetthw of Bt. Papaya commewoed the Davie( of the
Gray'riaa-road, which for months past hie his. fa •
daaiwoue condidon. The diets•oe to be paved is at heel
half a mile, exteediag from Gaildford-etryot t• Ilaerercwa
and the a:Wyatt has bees seeepted, sad to he easidsted
leh weeks, by Moire. Fr•tt sad Sera, tlts nod fratrootas,
it a cost of 9,7001,