The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-04 00:00:00

"INDIGNATION warms" OP VOLUNTEER
OFFICERS AT LIVERPOOL.

Yesterday (Thursday) afternoon a meeting of the
volunteer officers of Liverpool and the hundred of Wirral
(Cheadle) was hell at the Cotton Sales-morn, for the pur-
pose of eceskieriog the remelt resolutions relative to the
I premotation of volunteer officers at court. From 80 to 80
diem% were present ; and, on the motion of Mr. George
Ards, Lisut..Calwed &mum, of the 4th Division Lama-
shire Artillery, was called to the chair.
lArat.-Oolooel Wu. Brows (deputy-lieutenant of the
scianty, and late IL P. for the Southern Division of Lanca-
shire) this moved the following resolution :—" That inas-
much as by the 28th section of the General Volunteer
Act, under which the officers of volunteer corps receive
their commissions, it is enacted that all Akins in corps of
volunteers having 001111111/Mio4lll from his Majesty, or
lieutenants of counties, shall reek with the officers of his
Majesty and militia officers, as the youngest of their
respective ranks, we officers of volunteer corps in public
meeting assembled, having been informed that attempts to
interfere with the full meaning of the law have been re-
cently made, and feeling that such proceedinp are calcu-
lated seriously to dimunah the mflueuce which our
commissions are intended to confer, earnestly pro-
test against any infringement of our just privileges."
The resolution was seconded and carried nee. eon.
Captain BOUBIMILD (Ist Lancashire) then moved that •
copy of the previous reeolution be forwarded to the lord-
lieutenant of the county, with • request that he would'
exert his influence to maintain the rights of the volunteer
body as defined by Act of Parliament.
Captain V. A. Kum (2nd Cheshire) seconded the resole•
tion, which was also carried.

B3lllBlFlZZlizerrox.—The election of a mem-
ber to fill the vacancy in the representation of Berkshire,
occasioned by the decease of Captain Leicester V. Vernon,
took place at the Shire-hall, Abingdon, on Wedneeday,
Mr, Robert Palmer (who represented Berkshire in
meat for thirty-four years) proposed Mr. Richard Benyon
as a fit and proper person to represent the county in twin.
went. Mr. Floyd, of Friltham, seconded the nomination
and, no ether candidate bowleg been proposed, the High
Sheriff declared Mr. Bryon to have been duly elected.
ZooLoolcm. Bomar or LONDON.—At the
monthly =eating held yesterday, at the society's
house en , Admiral Bowles, C. 8., in the
chair , the Hon. Egerton, R.N., and Mews. J.
J. Goes^ A. R. Durinin, R. B. Follett, and J. B. Bate-
man windings! Fellows ; and Mews. E. Blyth, Curator
of the Maasenn dthe Royal Asiatic &Mat of Bengal. end
Harr Oaths, of Helisoland, as .4
member' of
the misty. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Oommose, Viscount Ashley, M.P., Viscount Falmouth,
Miss Geraldine Clesdianing, and Messrs. G. J. Rust, H.
Stevens, F. J. Rooper, C. Gibbs., and A. Coulon were
se candidates for the Fellowship ; and Mr. John
=dck, her Britannic Majesty's Consul for the Sudan,
and Mr. George N. La of New York, as correspond.
lag members of the society. The report from the council
stated, among other things, that on Faster Monday 17,727
poisons visited the garden., being the greatest number of
visitor+ on any Easter Monday since their opening in 1828.
The total number of visitors during the year had amounted
to 74404, exceeding the same period of last year by nearly
16,000. Several interesting additions to the menagerie by
presentation and purchase were also aanounced.

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