The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-11 00:00:00

ilabai an iftiiitarg.

ADMIRALTY, APRIL 10. —Al'POlNTMENTS.—Lien-
tenants M. R. M. Griffith, to the Gladiator; and H.
Studdy, to the Bellerophon.
Paymasters S. Wayniouth, additional, to the Royal Ade-
laide ; F. J. Long, to the Fisgard, additional ; and M. G.
Autey, to the Challenger.

Asa.istant Paymaster; T. W. Moore, supernumerary, to
the Victory ; F. North, to the Royal Adelaide ; W. B.
Beveridge, to the Challenger ; and Arthur Hughes, to the
Dauntleal.

Clerks F. R. Gilbert, to the Challenger ; and H. A. Ed-
wards, assistant, to the Challenger.
First Glaze Assistant Engineer R. H. Griffiths, to the
Victoria.

TILE LATE VIPLI:NTEER REVIEW.—The Mayor of
Brighton has received the following :—" Sandringham,
King's Lynn, April 7, ltoki. Sir, —I have received the com-
mands of the Prince of Wales to convey to you his Royal
Highness's perfect satisfaction with the arrangements
which you took so much trouble to make for the comfort
and convenience of the Princess and himself on Mondey
last, and to thank you for having contributed so much
towards the gratification which the events of the day gave
their Royal Highnesses.—l have the honour to be, &c.,
W. KNOLLYS.—The Mayor of Brighton."

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 10.—ROYAI NAVAL COL-
LRGE.—The April examination of candidates for naval
cadetships took place at the Royal Naval College, Ports-
mouth, last week ; and to-day the following successful
candidates received their certificates :—Augn,tus B. Todd,
Cecil F. Oldham' W. Moore, Peter J. D. Hawke. Henry
Pearson, John B. ltennett, Hugh B. Rooker. Henry .1.
May, Conyers Lang, Gordon S. Gunn, William De V.
Hamilton, Charles H. Cross, Francis S. Rice, Algernon E.
Thomas, W. H. M'Dougall, John W. H. Myers. Hugh
R. Evans, F. S. Jackson, A. B. Hampton, Percy H. Brid-
son, Baldwin H. Wake, Rowland A. Berkeley, D. D. C.
111`Gillicuddy, William G. L. Hodgson. W. D. S.
Weinyes, Frederick Alexander, A. J. Chancellor, P. Hos-
rns, C. B. P. Hume, KT. Tyack, E. B. Scott. T. J.
Montgomery, H. C. Hawker, R. L Monday, G. W. Tyler,
W. T. S. Clarke, Ennis D. Chambers, Nelson S. Girdle.
stone, H. C. A. Hurstin, W. A. H. Thorold, H. S. Wyl-
lice, H. C. Akaster, J. S. Brewer. Richard J. Lucas, E. 0.
H. Tobin, A. E. C. G. Grant, D. L Lang, L Hubbard.

THE HEALTH OF LONDON.—It apt ears from the
return issued by authority of the Registrar-General that in
the week that ended on Saturday, April 7, the births re-
gistered in London and twelve other large town of the
United Kingdom were 4,419 ; the deaths registered 3,506.
The annual rate of mortality was 30 per 1,000 persons
living. In London the births of 1,175 boys and 1,099 girls,
in all 2,274 children, were registered in the week. In the
corresponding weeks of ten years 1856-65 the average num-
ber, corrected for increase of population, was 2,072. The
deaths registered in London during the week were 1,574.
It was the fourteenth week of the year ; and the average
number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for
increase of population, 1,471. The deaths in the present
return exceed by 103 the estimated number. Zymotic
diseases proved fatal to 343 persons. 36 deaths occurred
from small-pox, 71 from measles, 21 from scarlatina,
8 from diphtheria, and 51 from typhus. 196 per-
sons died from phthisis, 176 from bronchitis, and 77
from pneumonia. A labourer, aged 69 years, died
on the Ist of April, at 8, Chapman-road, Hackney,
from " cholera (48 hours)." A cabinet-maker, aged
54 years, died on the 27th of March, at 3, Stacey-
street, St. Giles', from " phthisis accelerated by
want of proper food." A porter, aged 54 years, died
on the 28th of March at 9, Eagle-street, Holborn,
of " injuries from a fall in the street by stepping on a
woman's crinoline." The following 4 deaths were regis-
tered in the week as having been caused by carriage acci-
dents :—A cabman, aged 72 years, died on March 22 at the
Royal Free Hospital from inflammation of the brain after
an injury to hand by a van. The son of a lighterman,
aged 2 years, died on March 29, at 165, High-street, Shad-
well, having been run over by a railway van. Ajeweller, aged
39 years, died on 31st March at Poplar Hospital from man-
slaughter. (It has been omitted to be mentioned in this return
that the death was canoed by the collision of two omni-
buses) A widow, aged 75 years, died on 28th March at
, Charing-croar Hospital from shock to the system wee-
aimed by her having been run over in Long-acre. The
annual rate of mortality last week was 27 per 1,000 in
London, 29 in Edinburgh, and 21 in Dublin ; 32 in Bristol,
32 in Birmingham, 42 in Liverpool, 35 in Manchester, 44
in Salford, 33 in Sheffield, 35 is Ueda, 26 in Hull, 25 in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 33 in Glasgow.

•

-

'RESS, WEDNESDAY

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before the Deputy-Recorder.)
Joseph Henry Carter, 25, servant, pleaded guilty to an
indictment charging him with feloniously forging and
uttering an order for the payment of DR. 195., with intent
to defraud Mr. Sterling, a gentleman residing at the west-
end of the town, his master and employer.
The prosecutor recommended the prisoner to the merciful
consideration of the court.
The Deputy Recorder adopted the recommendation, and
sentenced the prisoner to six months' hard labour in the
House of Correction.

Charles Bewley, 20, labourer, was indicted for stealing a
box containing silver plate and other articles, to the value
of 701., the property of Richard Albeit Bailey, and Edward
Morgan, 18, mason, and Willian Bull, a respectable look-
ing man, described as being a general dealer were indicted
for receiving the said property, well knowing it to have
been stolen.

Mr. Metcalfe conducted the prosecution; Mr. Coleridge
defended Beasley and Morgan, and Mr. Ribton appeared
for the prisoner Bull.
The case occupied the attention of the court for a con-
siderable time, but the facts may be thus narrated. It
appeared from the evidence adduced that the prosecutor,
Major-General Bailey, was about to remove from Lad-
broke-terrace, to No. 3, Lansdowne-terrace, Bayswater, on
the 9th March last, and for that purpose there had been
employed a person named Dagworthy to remove his goods.
To assist him in this task, Dagworthy employed the pri-
soner Beasley, and on the day mentioned the removal of
the goods took place, Beasley taking the active part in the
removal. The box mentioned in the indictment, which
was really a plate chest containing silver plate and other
valuables to the amount of between 70/. and SOL, was
packed by Mn.s Bailey herself, and she saw it conveyed to
the first van load by the prisoner Beasley. The van so
laden arrived at the new residence at lanadowne-terrace,
and the other boxes were delivered there about two
o'clock on the same afternoon, but the plate chest
was discovered to be missing on the following
Sunday, the 11th of March, but under the steps
of the area there was found the canvas covering of the
chest, carefully wrapped up. The next that was heard of
the chest was that it was seen by Beasley's landlady in his
bedroom. She also proved that about 3 o'clock on the same
afternoon she heard a scuffling upstairs in Beasley's room,
and saw Morgan descending the staircase with a bag over
his shoulder, and on seeing her he turned to Beasley, who
was locking his room door, and said, " All right ; these are
old boots and shoes,which my old man will make into new
ones." The theory of the prosecution was that this expres-
sion was made to distract the attention of the landlady
from the " clatter" she had heard up-stairs ; but after
Beasley and Morgan had left, she, by the advice of •
female lodger, inspected Beasley's room, and in the bed
she saw the plate chest in question now produced, and the
removal of which from her house she refused until Beasley
had paid her the amount of rent owing to her.
This Beasley did, and Morgan was seen to carry
away the chest, which was found under a railway arch at
Notting-hill divested of its valuable contents, with the
exception of two silver spoons, which were identified by the
presecutrix. To fix the complicity of the prisoner Bull in
the transaction the evidenoe rested upon that of a lad
named Berry, who swore that he went with Morgan to
Bull's house after Beasley was in custody, and when
Morgan said he had seen Beasley, who was locked up on
remand for stealing the plate, he asked 801 l to help
them to get a solicitor to defend him. On this the pn-
soner Bull replied that "he had paid more money for the
stuff than it was worth, for it was not like the Cornhill
stuff which could be put into the metal pot, but this could
not.'l Morgan then said if you do not get a solicitor for
Beasley I will round upon you, and so will the landlady,
who saw the box taken away. On thin Bull said he would
stand a sovereign to get Beasley • counsel at his trial, and
he threw down two shillings, which, he remarked, would
get Beasley, who was locked up, something to eat.
In cross-examination the witness Berry admitted with
some reluctance that he had been convicted of felony seven
years ago, and whipped, and had frequently since been
locked up for the camoroffences of gambling and drunken.
ness.

The learned counsel for the defence addressed the jury
on behalf of their respective clients, and
The Deputy-Recorder summed up the evidence with his
usual clearness. _

The jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict
of Gudty against Beasley and Moorrggaan, but acquitted the
prisoner Bull, who was at once discharged.
The Deputy-Recorder sentenced Beasley and Morgan to
twelve months' imprisonment in the House of Correction.
Alfred Martin, 38 was indicted for stealing a quantity
of fish, the property of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway Company, in the course of its tranidt to Billings'
gate-market.
Mr. Poland appeared for the company.
The facts were these. The prisoner was a carman in the
employ of the company, and had had to convey fish from
the Blackfriars-road Station to the different salesmen in
Billingsgate-market. On the morning in question he was
despatched at an early hour with a vanload of fish as usual,
with a boy named McCarthy as vanguard. In oonsequence
of suspicions entertained by Inspector Tyrrell, at the head
of the van and police department at the Blackfriars-road
Station, that vigilant officer obtained the assistance of Mr.
Thorogood, one of the active officers of the Great Northern
Railway Company in Billingsgate, and by the evidence of
that officer and the boy, the prisoner was given into custody.
The prisoner, who made an ingenious defence, was con-
victed, and _ _ _

The Deputy-Recorder sentenced him to be imprisoned
for nine months in the Howe of Correction.
The grand jury in the course of the day ignored the in-
dictment preferred against Daniel Elmore for the murder
of his wife, but returned a true bill for manslaughter. The
grand jury also returned true bills against Edward James
Lindsay, the City merchant, charged with forgery and
fraud.

The Second Court, before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, was
occupied with the trial of Mint prosecutions, which were
wholly destitute of interest.