The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-15 00:00:00

agMARKS.
The winds have moderated this morning with rising baro-
meters and rather lower temperatures. A fresh dim,nution of
letrometic pressure, appears, however, to be eomiusuising in the
west, sad the weather Ls still in an unsettled state.

Rear-Admiral the Hon. George F. Hastings, ii
C.E. is, we understand, appointed to succeed Vice-Ad- 81.
miral the Hon. Joseph Denman as commander-in-chief in ;
the Pacific. The Zealous will be the flag-ship on the s

station.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 13.—The Queen has
been pleased to approve of Mr. Charles Fenian) as Consul
at Calcutta for his Majesty the King of the Belgians.
THE REPRESENTATION OF HULL.—The Yorkshire

Ga:ctie says the conservatives were defe .ted at the
last election through the dissensions between Mr.
Sornes's party and Mr. Hoare's. Each party of the
conservatives have now agreed to bring forward
fresh gentlemen, upon whom they can mutually agree.
Accordingly, at • meeting of the committee of the
Hull Conservative Association, it has been agreed to OM.
munieate with Mr. George Lyall, who contested the City lj
of London, and Mr. Christopher Beckett Denison, who
contested the southern division of the West Riding at the S
last general election. Subject to the nature of the answers s
received from those gentlemen, their names will be placed I
before the association for approval.
THE NEW TOWN-HALL AT KNOTTINGLEY. —Yes- 1
tertlay, at Knottingley, a new Town-hall, which has been
built by a local company, at a coat of nearly 2,0001., was
publicly opened. It is intended to provide, in addition to ;:
a ball for public meetings , accommodation for the Me- I,
chanice Institution, Lc. Mr. S. Wood, who has been mat B
active in promoting the scheme, presided, and Mr. Childers,
M.P., and Major Waterhouse, M.P., were present, and
delivered addresses.
END OF THE JOINERS' STRIKE IN CARLISLE.— 8
We are glad to be able to announce that the joiners' strike, S
which has for many weeks caused the stagnation of that
department of the building trade of this city, is now at an
end, masters and men having come to terms. The men get
their wages advanced to 275. a week.—Carlide Journal.
FATAL FALL FROM THE ROOF OF THE INTERNA-
TIONAL HOTEL—Lad evening (Friday) Mr. S. F. Langham
held an inquest at Charing-cross Hospital, on the body of
Thomas Crebbin, a bricklayer, 27 years of age, who WAS
instantly killed by falling from the roof of the International
Hotel, Strand, on Wednesday morning last. The deceased, I
it appeared, was making some repairs on the parapet of I
the roof at the back part of the above hotel, when, by some
unaccountable means he fell to the pavement, receiving
such injuries as produced instant death. Verdict, "Aeci.
dental death."
ROMANCE IN Low LIFE. Yesterday, Peter
Heap pleaded guilty, at the Dewsbury police-court,
to a charge of being a deserter, and he was ordered
to be committed to gaol to await the orders of the
War-office. It transpired that he enlisted a few
years ago in the Royal Marines, and left behind a
sweetheart who was much attached to him. In
June, 1805, she went down to Deal, in Kent, where
he was stationed, to see if she could induce him to
cut his connection with the service, and on her arrival
she bought a suit of civilian's clothes for him out
of her savings as a domestic servant. After a few
interviews with the fair one he was induced to
accede to her wishes, doffed his military attire, and
Put on the new habiliments, and quitted the ser-
vice of the Queen. They then returned to Leeds
together, and were married, but afterwards re-
' moved to the quiet village of Holden Clough, near
Dewsbury. At this place they lived comfortably
together, until the wife ascertained that her hus-
band was carrying on an amatory correspondence with a
young woman in the south of England, and was actually
promising her marriage. In • fit of passion Mrs. Heap
determined to be revenged on her faithless husband,
and informed the police that he was a deserter. He was at
once apprehended, and then she saw what she evidently
thought was her folly, and appeared in court crying
bitterly, bat her husband was marched off to limbo.
MURDER IN LINCOLNSHIRE.—LBUTBDCO Carluid,
aged 77. James Garland, aged 40, Patrick Garland, age/I:I:I,
and Barney Garland, aged 30, father and two sons and •
nephew, all Irish, were charged yesterday at the Sessions-
house, Boston, on remand, with the murder of another
Irishman named Hugh Kelly. It appeared that Kelly had
occupied in Ireland a piece of ground from which the
mother-in-law of one of the Garlands had been evicted,
and that they in consequence bore him a grudge. He was
on Sunday, the 12th, in a barn at Algarkirk Fen, where he
hail been permitted to sleep, when the Garlands, who had
been working close by, went in, dragged him out, and
kicked him with their boots in a most frightful manner, in-
flicting injuries of which he died. Six other Irishmen
were present at the time, but they did not interfere to
save the deceased. The prisoners were committed for
trial.
LIFEBOATS ON THE DEVON AND CORNISH COASTS.
—Most of the lifeboats on the Devon and Cornish coasts
have just been visited by the secretary of the National
Lifeboat Institution. He found the establishments every-
where in excellent order, and reflecting much cm edit on the
assiduity of the several local committees, and on the care
of the coxswains of the boats. The secretary was gratified
to learn from the crews of every one of the boats that they
possessed the utmost confidence in them, and that they
were ready to go afloat in them in the stormiest weather.
During the past winter some noble lifeboat services were
performed on the Cornish coast. The St. Ives boat was
twice upset during • hurricane, yet her brave crew perse-
vered, and were determined that they would themselves
perish rather than the shipwrecked Frenchmen should
meet a watery grave on their coast. Ultimately the life-
boat crew saved four of them. They belonged to the brig
Providence, of Granville. The Emperor of the French
was so impressed with the bravery of this service
that he has sent a gold medal to Lovett, the
coxswain, end • silver medal to each man of the crew.
These honours are about to be presented at • public meet-
ing to be held at St. Ives, Lady St. Aubyn having been re-
quested
to hand them to the brave fellows on the occasion.
Again noble services were rendered by the Fowey life-
boat in rescuing during a fearful storm 22 men from the
barque Dryden, of Shields, and the brig Vi'earmouth, of
Sunderland. And the Penzance and St. Ives boats saved
Last spring during • gale of wind the whole of the crew of
the steamer Bessie, wrecked on Hay]. Bar, where the Isis
lifeboat rescued on Monday last nine of the crew of the
brig Nicholas Harvey. The Bride lifeboat saved four men
from the schooner Johnson, of Exeter ; and the St. Ives
lifeboat again rescued four men from the schooner Earl of
Zealand, of Audwoh. In times of yore some of the Cornish
boatmen were conspicuous for their wreckage ; but in the
present day no men distinguish themselves more than they
do in readily prilling their own lives to save those of
others. The institution has now ten lifeboats on the coast
of Cornwall, and seven on that of Devon. In fact, all the
lifeboats on the shores of both counties belong to it.
°then are nearly ready to be sent to Late, in Cornwall,
and to Brixham, in Devon. Altogether the Lifeboat So-
ciety has • noble life-saving fleet of 172 boats under its
charge, and it contributes every year to the saving of be-
tween 700 end 800 lives from shipwreck.