The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-03 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

DISEMBODIMENT OP THE MILMA.-I,l* foUowutg
sixteen regiments of isdlitia am ordered to be Memb
England Royal Serbs, South Davao, North (Rau-
avatar, Lelosetershim, 4th Ro• South • Muth-
&raptors, let West Norfolk, Shropshtre, let Royal Surrey,
Worcester, let West York. Ireland: Royal South Down,
Roscommon. Royal Tyrone. Scotland: Royal Aberdeen
(Dumfries. Roxburgh, and Selkirk.)
Naw REGIMENT OF CAVA/RT.-1U first imps,-
tios of the 18th Harms, one of the two new regiments winch
the govarnment resolved an refiring, was made at Leeds on
Thursday by the Earl of hispector-Gemeral a(
Cavalry. Nis lordship area amass by Colonel Cotton,
Assisisat-Adjutant.Oeneral of Cavalry, and Captain Lowe,
aide-drounp. We understand .bat the Illiajor. °emend ex-
pressed much satisfaction at the proper which has been
already made in the orgsaisatisa at the saw regiment of
Rimers.

ONION STEAM-afizr COMPANY.

The general half-yearly meeting of this company
was held as the London Tavern, on Saturday; Mr. Harrow
in the chair.

The report stated that another vessel, annewlest larger ,1
than the other ships, had winos be= bought, and OW of the
small ships, the Saxon, unlit for the mail service, had been
disposed of. The other small ship, the Union, remained to
be sold. Besides this ship, the fleet now consisted of the
Dims, Celt, Norman, Phoebe. and Athena. These five vessels
were tired for the sum of 81,0004 From the state of mone-
tary matters during the last winter the directors found it
then impracticable to exercise the powers given them to bor-
row money for the purchase of the wee= required, they
therefore invited the shareholders to !advance money on de-
bentures, and from the sums obtained in this way, and by
temporary loan oat these securities, the directors had been
enabled to discharge all the Well= shown in the laid ac-
counts, and to meet the present requirements of the mail
service. Those voyages that had been completed in
the Cape service showed a result which the directors
considered highly satisfactory. The mail service had
been performed in most instances within the contract time,
and the receipts on account of freight sod passengers had
been mach as to confirm the opinion the directors formed of
the trade. The sum of 3,0901. per annum had been added to
the subsidy for the mail service for calling at St. Helena and
Ascension on the homeward voyage. The directors were
glad to report that the greatest satisfaction bad been ex-
pressed at the Cape of Good Hope at the way in which the
service had been hitherto performed. As only two voyages
had been completed up to the time of preparing the amounts,
and the necessary expenses for adapting the =eel' for their
present employment had been considerable, the directors did
not deem it expedient to recommend any division of profits
at this meeting ; but they hoped that the result of the year's
operatic= would be such as to warrant the payment of a
dividend at the next annual ordinary meeting.
The profit end lam account, made up to the 28th Feb.,
six months from the date of the last belanoe.abast, shows
the company—Dr.: To balance hem lam year, 12,2511.
12e. 2d. ; expenditure on voyages, 5,3631. 14e. bd. ; general
expenditure, 4211. Ils.; weer and tear 1end,4,6531. 14a. 10d.;
depreciation fund, 1,6091.; interest an loans. 1491. 11a.
balance of capital account Saxon," 1,7411. 4s. 86.; total,
25,9711. 10s. 2d. Cr.: Tiede and Cape nail servies,
1,2861. 6.. 7d. ; mall =held to dean 14,11081. Itle.; draw-
back on insurance nod 2221. Ba. 4d. ; total, 18,494.
Se. 11d. ; balance, 9,4771.0..

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE NEAR NOT-
TINONAII.—A dreadful case of murder and attempted
suicide took place late on Thursday night, at the village of
Bernath, seven miles from Nottingham. On the night in
question a men named Leosy and his wife went to bed at the
meal hour. Their youngest child, Harriet, about six menthe
old, slept in a cradle in the next room. Lacey retired to
net, leaving his wife in settling posting en the bed, when in
• short time she left the chamber. la • few minute, after-
wards he heard the child scream, when he got up and pro-
ceeded to the room, where he was met by Lie wife, who
exclaimed, " I have murdered the baby—l have cut its
throat !" She then fainted, and it yes discovered that she
had nearly severed the infant's bead from its body, after
which abe had inflicted several severe wounds en her throat
by a maw. Medical aid was immediately pro3nred, and
every mew adopted to save the life of the 'man, who
remains In a meoarkus state. Aa inquest was bold on
Saturday ea the body of the child, but the mother was sot
in a fit state to be examined, and the *mot was adjourned
until Thursday next.
CRUELTY ON BOARD AN AMERICAN SHIT„-AE
the office of the county 'NOM rase at Liverpool, oa Satur-
day, Henry Wilms, the boatswain of the American ship
Excelsior was Awl Mk er in default sired to be impr-
essed for six Nasatlia, hr elesulthsg three seamen ea board
that noel, who travel*
umsescoleres.vee overboard and'orwasa so
shore, at the rich downed, to escape sailing in the
sued lS , whichthe an rday for New Orleans.
A deteedveaffia=er, said that both the neer
owl m Ohs cruel behaviour of the prl-
mmeximi anlie.
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