The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-07 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.)[TWOPENCE.

NAPAL AND MILITARY.

CHATHAM, OCT. 6.
•The Trusty, 14, floating steam battery, is moored
k the river innate Upset Castle elan she returned
kola Shoeistrynine, where she was e tea upon with
the Armstrong gun. Prone on exam nation of the sides of
the baftry made *ass she returned to this port, It has been
Mad that several of the thick inn plane with which the
battery is covered axe broken to pieces by the shot, and
altogether a great deal of injury done to the hull and sides of
the vowel. esweel of the shoes having passed completely
through her. It is the sa.aisoes epistles that hatterhe of
title desarlptioa are of no service against the effect of the
I shots bed from the Atneeleoag woes.
This neorning twenty-ez nem-oonendeilened allows sad
men, recently returned from India wounded and dinabbrd,
wire discharged from the invalid depot, Bt. Mary's, in con-
sequence edthrr mimes for further smoke.

PORTSMOUTH, Oar. 6.
The Roadie squadron at Spitheed, under the comenal of
Rear-Adatral Nutt:tunas, got up Man this events( to
proceed to the Meditates/ea. The squadron =Nista of the
snow line-of-bettle ship Garwood, 116 gees, Captain
DutreW ; the Ifie Mainmasts, 63 eons, Gthe Meal
Often the !Walters Bag) ; and the Pohl, 11 guns, Caplan
Tehicharecheff.
Another Hanka r meet* the first of a second squadron
Nine* trots Cronstarit sod destined kr the Anne river,
arrived at Spinier! to-day.

The Admiralty yacht Vivid, H. W. Allen mailer,
left Woolwich yesterday for Dow, to embark the royal owe-
relsiosers engaged is the survey of the meet* and the merles
fortilestioes of Great Britain.

In order to Indus skilled mooluulia and handl-
araftmorn to join the one of Royal Engineers, the authori-
ties bare it in onatemplation to raise the bounty money now
Oren to recruits from 31., the sum now handed to each re-
cruit in that branch of the melon to at least double that
mount.

SIR W. ARMSTRONG'S 00NS.—lit Order to benefit
by the adverted progress of Sir W. Amostrang's rifled
ordnance facto', at Woolivicb, it has been decided, at
meeting of the select committee of the Anesaal, to manufsc-
tem forthwith, so the BJewiek end Woolwich factories, s
large nowise of rifted gnus of various dam—eamely, of
100, 50, 25, 12, and 6 pound telibet—to aarry the elongated
shot and shell. It is said to be in contemplation to one-
Osts with ss little delay as passible a .mbar of 12 and
6-pounders to be referred foe trensmindoe, if required on
any future emergency, by the overland conveyance to China
[aerobium oar. Om-carriages, tnemded for Sir W. dna-
@UMW'S 12 sad 6-poand gnus, am to course of construction
on an improved principle, surgemed by Colonel Tollott,
superintendent of the royal carnage depart/nest. Ms mew
cameos ars fitted with mechanical applianoss, under the
contra of a single gunner seated os the limber. so as to
point the gun in any direction, and elevate or realms the
rears, without Wrier or moutice. A sem* miriade rd the
above-named deemiptioe ►has berm employed oe trial, and
approved.
Tug CRIMIAM MEMORIAL IN WATIRLOO-PLACE.—
For genie psi the pedestal easpeaing part at the "Gouda'
lisenceier of the Crimean war has been in course of erection.
The model of the principal drum Funs has beta plead on
its summit, bat Erma ths absence of the other portions, as
alas the baeso-relleves, it Las yet impossible to say what will
be the effect when oumpleted.
EAST Esszx MILITIA.—The regiments of Essex
West at Chairmaned and ths Bast at Colchester—
will complete their 21 days' training an Wednesday next,
*Mather will be distended, sad .gal. MA to their respective
Imam. They will, however, each be officially inapecled by
Colonel Bletedlidd, commendast el Coldwater garrison, at
• the dose of the present week. Daring their brief training
the men have made extreordinsry peeress', and both are in
all reopens most oddest and soldlerlike regiments.
WARWICKSHIRE RIFLE CORPS.—Tea regiment
mg sow be considered es formed, the minimum outthink-
meat of loos companiee having been attained, and in all pro-
bability the odious will be gemmed shortly. The °meanies
will be m follows .—No. 1, Birmingham; No. 2, Coventry ;
No. 3, Birmingham; No. 4, Rugby. There la every remelt
to believe that emend other compsake will be rates:lie
Binaialam
The first Surrey Rifles will meet at Kennington
Oval at Wes o'clock to-morrow, for skirmishing end other
light ielleatry [hid evolutions, mild will then touch to their
beed-quartere, Hanover-perk, Peckham, preceded by their
bend.

The Second Regiment of Warwickshire Militia,
°endwise of 24 officers and 666 men, together with 62
women, 51 children, end I l hones, left Plymouth by the
South Devon Rahway, on Tuesday morning, for Newport,

SPORTING.

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