The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY Amon 18. Arroyo-3,lllM's.
Conroe dei I. D. YgDomald (1865), to be [su=
oonannisr of tbo Omit Osord, Ti.. Commie' p .
*bon tinio et sunk* bos implied.
Watering W. J. H. Gribbe (1854), to the Purl, 21,
ear" dun all Paiiiioath.
Atektont W. N. Blaynty, to the Carsick, 20,
mow Noun wow% tl Slaionneoe.
Clark W. P. Albin, to tits Nile, 90, screw Worn Sag ship,
at Queenstown.
Ana van 18.—Popsostor R. Cargeaven (1862), to the

K;seers' Assisiewb J. rim. to the Scylla, 21, mew
Maus ettevatee. at fammesee; sad W. J. Grandy, to the
Stlmitapsiello-wlteel AIM frigate, at Portamouth.
'Permian B. E. Kitchell, to the Hastings, 60,
screw Maim a p, cm oreet-goard @Grebe at Liverpool ; acrd
J. B. Warier, to the Edger, 91, screw steam idly, at
Woolwich.

WOOLWICH, AUGUST 16.
EXPERIMENTS AT THE DOCKTARD.—This night,
ham 8 until 10 o'cloek, a melee of interesting rawriments
wen carried oat in the Them., opposite the Doeard sad
Royal; Aroma, for the perms of testing an invention of M.
Ferdinand Silas, a France genthme, showing the practica-
bility of fleeting lights, wash esay be used as signals, or for ,
of tlestraceion. Ooodore Superintendent J. R.
eceompeand by the inventor and muumuus
asitatillo ratiuma, sad officers of the Dockyard, embarked
onboard tin Bathe steam vessel, from which the combus-
tible materW woo thrown into the water, and a moat intense
illumination was the molt, the Are Boating about a unarms
of a ;WM and even paining order the watts without being
mtieguished.

PORTSMOUTH, ..1191/81. 16.

The Sidon, 22, paddle wheal steam frig►te, Cap-
tale R. B. Crawford, went oat of harbour this morning and
and ored at Spithead, to take in powder, shot, LI. She
saluted the commander-in-chief on rounding the Spit buoy.
The Yukon, steam troop ship, Commander A. C. Strode,
went out of bmbear at noon to-day, end proceeded to the
westward for trial al her enema. Site retired to harbour
in the afiansoon.
The Insperimme, 61, mew, Captain A. Maguire, will be
paid in advance to-morrow.
The mows of the Hero, 91, screw, Captain Seymour, and
the James Watt, 91, screw, Captain Codd, will be paid bounty
mew to-toorrow.

CHATHAM, Acorn. 15.
The following changes and appointments have
been made at this garrison :—Captain J. K. M'Adam, com-
manding the depot of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, appointed to
the Bad batiahon of that regiment; Captain F. B. Drew,
late of the 94th Regiment. to be sdjuiant of the 3rd depot
battalion, vice Captain Raclin, appointed paymaster of
pemmican ; Captain R. B. Scoytlia,M.B., appointed to the
hospital; Lieutenant C. D. Baynes and Ensign
$2.1770n5a, flth Regiment, to embark foe Calcutta, eaoh to
gar his own pump.
In wassequenos of the press of business at the head-
quarters of the Royal Bagimer establishment, canoed by the
late Inman of the cone, the Wer-offlos has ordered as
alimentation of three clerks to be made in the Assistant
Adjutant-Gewerars department, Beceopton Barracks.

" BLACK MONDAY " AT WOOLWICH.—Under the
epplication of the new system of flagging on conviction of
.11 anew of deeenton, the " Black Monday," which come
time ago obtained its denomination in the Artillery Garrison,
Woolwich, has bean revived, with increased severity. For
several weeks pest each enteomeive Monday has been ushered
in by " punishment parade," and the corporal punishment
of moms three or four m.n. Yesterday various detach-
ments of the batteries belonging to the depot brigade of
the 11,yal Artillery were mustered at 6 a.m., and
were marched to the riding-house establishment to wit-
less@ the flogghag of nix men, mostly remnite, who have
recently joined the brigade, and have since deserted. For
this crime they ware adjudged by regimental and district
aura-COUTTAT to melee be lashes, and to troffer a teem of
imprieonmeet of from 60 to RIO days in Fort Clamart or
same other of her Majesty's pole. A man belonging to the
let Garrison Brigade, named Michael Crof on, who only
enlisted about three weeks ago, has been arrested
in a mune of nightly depredations and plunder-
ing, commencing from the tint night of his admiesion
into the corps. It appears the aytem be pursued
wee that of a well-practised hand, mad that it wee com-
menced shortly after hie enlistment. One night he succeeded
in robbing a sergeant of 161., with which he pot successfully
off, and did not make his appearance afterwards in the day
time, but after nightfall he wag in the habit of repairing to
the barrecke, which he had made himself well acquainted
with, and, after undressing himself in the corridors end pas-
sages leading to the elerping-roome, he stole softly in. and
geode honed, master of whatever money or portable articles
ha could. On the last occaeion, however, having been
accosted by the /entry on attempting to pass the gate, he
wee unable to give a ottisfattory reply, and was marched to
the guard-room under cornet. During his examination he
treated the matter with much apathy end metronome, in-
forming his commanding officer that he was a ticket-of leave
convict, and had no fear of military regulations. The list of
prisoners now under oonfteement in the cella of the Artillery
Barracks la unuattsily long; many of them will to tried by
garrison court-martial, their crimes being held TO be be-
yond the jurisdiction of the minor regimental end district
courts.
FRENCH FoRTIFICATIONB TEE CHANNEL.—The
French Emperor has booed en order for the immediate fortifi-
cation of the Chensay Wands. These islands, es most of our
readers must be aware, Ile between Granville and St. Melo
on the one hand, and Jersey on the other. Tarty are little
more thee mere rocks, tome of which am entirely sub•
merged at high water, and offer no footing for any living
thing. The principal one is totally destitute of ell vegeta-
tion except the sparest, herbage. There is a lighthouse
upon it, which is rueful to the small craft employed in the
oyster fishery. The present importance of the Choosey
Islands consists in the shelter which their lee affords as an
anchorage in gales of wind. As affording each shelter they
were of hornetse use to the British cruisers blockading
Granville and St. Maio, during the late war with France.
No doubt, therefore, their being fortified has originated IA
the prospective contingency of a not distant war with Eng-
land. With our own works at Alderney in progress, we
have, however, no right to complain of the French fortifying
Chantey.—Gasresey Mar.

CuLoaoroww Amu:Pr-rm.—Two deaths from the
unskilled nee of chloroform have been notified to the Regis- ,
tier-General during the last few days: one occurring in the
borough of Southwark, the second in Westminster, both
followed by deep sorrow end mounting in several families.
Very genera regret is felt and complaints made, that in our
public inatitutiono and begonias this appliostion of chloroform
is falling Into desuetude, and as vaccination Is dying out in
this country and Ireland from too much interference of the
" circumlocution offim " and privy council, so chloroform,
which requires the deepest study, is entrusted to young
medical students or unmet to apply. hence so many aoci-
dents. It is officially stated to tt Emperor of the French
that chloroform was used In 30,000 surgical operations in
the Crimea by skilled maistant-surgeons without a single
death ; a timiler succors baa followed its ainanistration at
Sotferino and Magenta; but In English hospitals there have
been about 100 deaths in carthird of this number of or-
rations in the Crimea! reu mean deaths from chloroform
in fact are only to be found in the return, of the Registrar-
General, as such accidents bier. to be so common that
coroners' inquests era only called for. In one of the deaths
in the present instance, that in Southwark, a new and
curious fact was discovered, that the gentleman took chloro-
form before, leas than • month ago, and was folly under its
effects for half an hour, which was thought to preclude the
possibility of any submiqueot accident, showing that every_
thing depends on the mole of adminietration I
EXPLOPION OF FIRE-DAMP AT TEE TREDEGAII
Wonze.—On Saturday morning an explosion of fire-damp,
aimed by the intentions use of the naked light, moaned at
oolliery No. Bof obese works. There dentno a tall on the
Friday at the put of the pit whore the acc ccurred, and
a quantity of implosive gas had coasequently accumulated.
Oa Saturday morning two of the miners, named Williams''
and Bortey, went to work, carrying with them • naked
media end the moored light had no moose come In contact
with the intlaroombie gas than an alarming explosion took
1 plum by which both of the men were burnt in a dreadful
meaner. Swim! wohdoace wee procured for them with all
redid, &vetch ; and it la that their lives may be
epor4 bat they were both paP *me&