The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-05 00:00:00

SSW star infittatil.

ADMIRALTY MARCH 3. •••-41.1141:11TIONTS. —Com-
mode= Pciwm il J. Brooks to be investing commander in
the emst-gusrd parries at Grimsby, vies tivt IL W. Bat-
tisoombe to Cromer, vice the 800. S. W. Obetwynd, whose
period of service bee expired.
Lieutenants Jamas IL Morrie to be additional t• the Ha-
woe, 22, screw oorretle, at Portsmouth, for service in the
Whiting, gunboat lender ; Charles R. IL Smyth, late of the
Doke of Wellington, to be chief diger in the 'oat-guard
terries at Charmonth.
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Rogineres James Ritchie and Jeremiah P. Lloyd to the
Sphinx, 6, peddle sloop, on the North dmerieen and Wad
India 'lotion; George W. Bivonright to the ludas, for ser-
vice in the Haman, 4 screw
demon Leslie to the &mew!" "ma'
" Pembrokell".
Pint-olass Assistant- David Francis to the Ba-
000n, for nervier in the Whiting.
Second-clean Assistant-Engineer Georg, John James to
the Racoon, for senior in the Whiting.

0H4114A11, Mazola 4.

The iron-clad frigate Bellerophon, 14, 4,270 tons,
1,000 hone-power (nominal) Captain B. Tatham, which
was maladies' on Friday afternoon, got op steam in • vor-
tical of her boners yesterday morning, aid at one o'clook
proceeded from her moorings, •bresit the dockyard, down
the harbour to Saipan reach, to the Ocean coal depot,
where she will to-morrow commons receiving on board
300 tons of coals. After being swung for the ediasieneet
of her eompaesse she will be navigated in the course of •
dy. regand to Per.o.lollill Vir • camber ...au and
stokers from the steam reserve, for the perpose of entering
on the trials ordered by the Admiralty clew the altera-
tions and additions made to her at this dockyard. The
Bellerophon is completed inboard and aloft, and is quite
ready for the pennants.

ROYAL NAVAL RIBRILVIA—The following av
poinmest has been made :—To be !sonority lisabenant,
Henry Gillespie.
TRIAL OP SIR MALCILAY Gust ,—On Saturday,
Mr. James Mackay, the Investor of the new cannon which
bear his name, tried two new ones of steel and wrought
iron, on the Orosby Banda, sear LiverpooL The glum, 12.
pounders, were fired at a target 600 yards distant, with the
greatest moms, all the shots going within a radios of four
feet of the target, and three in the very centre of the ball's.
eye, The experiments were witnessed by a numerous earn-
pany of professional and seinatids gentlemen, all of whom
expressed themselves highly plowed with the results of the

THR CHARON OF &LINING • POLICE CONSTABLII
iw Pure Oturwitg.—On Saturday Mr. Joseph Ferguson,
pianist, of St. Aubyn's-road, Tipper Nourood, appeared in
disabuse of his bail at the Greenwich police-court, charged
with stabbing Matthew Maddock, a police-constable of the
P division at Sydenham, on the morning of the 10th ult.
Mr. T. Beard, solicitor, attended for the prisoner, and Ser-
geant Best, 22 P, produced &certificate from Guy's Hospital,
stating that Maddock is now wouvairoent, and quite out of
daeger. At the last bearing of the ease •suggestion was
thrown out by the magistrates as to whether the commis-
sioner of police would not withdraw from prosecuting, but
it was now stated by Inspector Linwell that the case would
be prosecuted at the sessions, but that the constable would
not be in a fit state to attend the court for another fort-
night. Mr. Trsill said the next session et the Old Bailey
would not be held until the 9th of April, and the bail was
then enlarged until the 24th inst., when the mu will be
coalpleted.
The HIATT CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.--

The Penineular and Oriental Company's steamer Mongolia,
with the beery portion of the above mails, arrived at
Southampton on Saturday. She brings 66 passengers,
Precious stones, vans 3,000 rupees ,• jewellery, value
2,400/. ; and 3,750 packages of cargo, of which 1,588 bales
ere raw silk, value 120,0001. sterling. Across the Bay of
Biscay she experienced north-eaeterly gales and a beery
ses,'and up Chansel heavy head seas and easterly gale.
Twelve English ships of war wars at Malta. Gibraltar,
Feb. 25.—The British ship Efforts, of South Shields, bad
stranded at Algesires. The British barque Medium, from
Newcastle, bad lost her bulwarks, shifted cargo, &c. The
schooner Jonadab, of Mt. Ire., was abandoned on the 18th
ult. off Cape St. Viseeot in sinking state. The war ves-
sels Liverpool and Redpole were in the harbour. Exchange
on London, 421 ; an Paris, 5.13 ; Madrid, 11 die.

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BOMBAY AHB.—MALTA, MARCH 3.—The Para
left to-day M six p.m., and the Ripon will leave to-
morrow at eight a.m. The former may be expected at
Marseilleson the 6th, and the latter at Southampton on the
13th inst. The Chios, from Southampton, February 20,
arrived on the Ist instant as eight a.m., and left at four
p.m. for Alexandria. The Tanjore, from Marseilles, Feb-
rnary 28, arrived to-day at ose am., and left at seven a.m.
for Alexandria.

DISSPATCH OP THE INDIA AND CHINA NAM— 1
Sorrntammog, MARCH 4.—The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamship Syria, Captain Christian, sailed
hence this morning with the malls for Gibraltar. the
Mediterranean, Egypt, Adeo, Ceylon, India (except
Bombay), and China. She took out 60 first and 12 wend
elan peasempis, end on freight, 294 boxes specie, valued
824441. for the following porta, viz. :—Madras, gold coin,
2,9101. ; gold thread. 1,8911. ; Calcutta, bar silver, 50,3001.;
thalbri, 1501. ; watches, jewellery, &a.,1,2921. ; Singapore,
dollars, 8,9501. ; bar silver, 13,5001. ; and for Hong Kong,
dollars, 2,5801. ; and watches, jewellery, &c., 9411. ; also a
full cargo of general nierchandue.
A CURB TOR CONSLIEPTION.—A tailor, named
Baron, appeared on Friday before the Correctional Tribunal
of the Seine to answer several charges of illegally pm-
tisiog medicine. It appears that the defendant pretended
to have dimmed an infallible remedy for oonsun,ption,
and fuer-led advertisements in the journals announcing
that be would undertake to cure, in sixty days, any person
suffering from that compleint, however far advanced Be
charged for his consultations 10f. in the morning and 50f. in
the afternoon, the latter period being appropriated to the
wealthy. Hie remedy consisted of baths of suiphunte of
polonium ; and, strange to gay, be found medical men ready
Ito aid bim in his proceedings. Several winging were
I examined, who stated that they had onealted the defend-
eat, and paid him the fees demanded, but bad not derived
the el*lsteet benefit frrm his preeeriptioes, which were all
signed by qualified practitioners. After hearing the evidence
the *Brasil declared the charge fully established, and cos.
damned the defendant to pay the vary small line of IN.,
which, however, ie the maximum fixed by the French law
for his Aetna —Galiniaai.
HOSPITAL FOR,VIIIIABPS 01/ TRZ CHIEff, VICTORIA-
TAiz.—Thi mintier d Patina, relieved at this lanitution
rjaries last week was 1,386, of which 318 were sew new.