The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-13 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Atmo►pherdd premiere Is greater In the north end east than
It was on Saturday, and less hi the south : bat Is now lacreaidng
generally user the &Walt Wee. Temperature has decreased,
end the *lnds hare become northeasterly, moderate to fresh
Rain bets been general the tall on the east coast has been
large.

A steamer left Southampton last week with
1,300 German passengers. The passage money amounted
to 70,000 dollars. There were, • few days ago. 7,000
persons in Bremen waiting to emigrate to the United
Stake.

LIFEBOAT SERVICE...I.—WEXFORD, IRELAND, MAY
10.—A ship was seen to strike on the Long Bluth yester-
day during blowing weather front the R.S.R. (reports Win.
Coghlan, Req., the collector of customs). The Civil Ser-
vice lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was
thereupon promptly launched and taken is tow of a
steam tag to the spot. The master gladly accepted the
service' of the lifeboat, and by throwing sonic of
the cargo overboard, and with the assistance of two steam
tugs, the vessel was ultimately got off the bank, and con-
ducted clear of the Tinker. Four of the crew of the ship
had left her previously in a fishing-bout, and at the desire
• the master three of the lifeboat men were left on board
to assist him in taking his vessel into harbour. She was
the brig Ayrshire Lass, of Ardrossan, bound from Liver-
pool to Halifax with a cargo of salt.
THE LATE &roam .—The Rev. A. Baker writes
from Addington Rectory, Winslow :--" Sir—We have ex-
' perienoed here this afternoon (Friday) one of the most
awful hailstorms that I ever remember to have read of,
11 accompanied with thunder and lightning. Time, about
4.21, and lasting about 15 minutes. I measured • hail-
stone exactly five inches round end two inches across. The
largest weighed was one ounce, :out it had somewhat
melted. The ground was covered with such all around.
The formation of all seemed to he threefold—an inner
kernel, surrounded by an opaque covering, and • transpa-
rent exterior of irregular shape. They appeared like three
distinct oongelations into crystals of different forms.
The destruction of foliage and fruit has been
enormous. In one room of my house twenty panes
were broken, and all the windows facing west have
suffered more or less in the saute proportion. But at the
Manor-house (the residence of Mr. Hubbard, M.P. for
'Buckingham) I believe every patio in the roof of very ex-
tensive hothouses and forcing-houses and a large conserva-
tory has been thoroughly broken through, and many of
thuse at the aides of the same houses. The plants below
are sadly riddled and destroyed, amp whole bunches of
young grapes cut off. The tips of almost every branch of
the SRO timber trees are also stripped off, and goselierries
and currants are thickly strewed beneath their bushes. I
I have never before seen such a complete wreck after •
storm. At the time of my writing, nearl 6 p.m., the ah..
tent thunder is still murmuring, chiefly in the south."
The storm has been very destructive to the crops, espe-
cially at Stowe and Akeley ; and the borough authorities
at Buckingham have stated their intention of opening a
subscription list to assist the poorer class of the inhabit-
ant., who have suffered very severely by the calamity.
CHARGE or MANSLAUGHTER BY A SOLDIER.--On
Saturday morning Peter Byrne, a private soldier in the )rd
battalion of the 60th RifillS, who has been 11 years in the
regiment, and who bears two good conduct stripes on hie
arm, was brought up at the Guildhall, Winchester, before
the mayor (Hr. W. Fielder) and a full bench of magis-
trates, charged with the wilful murder of William Brown,
of the same battalion (who had only joined on the first day
of the present month), on Thursday night, in the barracks
at Winchester. The prisoner is a line-looking man, and
has an open, intelligent countenance. The first witness
called was William Colley, who deposed that be is a pri-
vate soldier in Winchester barracks, and at about live
minutes to 10 on Thursday night was in bed in Nu. ll I
room. There were four other soldiers there besides the
deceased. The deosased wan sitting on witness's hed-cut,
when the prisoner came i oto the room and asked th e deceased
if he could fight, to which be replied " No." The prisoner
then locked the room door, and after taking off his belt
and jacket went back to the cot to the demised, and asked
if he could fight, when the deceased again replied " No,"
and added, " You ha better be quiet, or I will tell the
colour-sergeant." The prisoner then struck the deceased
I with hie fist under or on the left ear, and knocked him
down upon witness. The blow was a violent one. The
prisoner then turned off the pa. Witness lifted up the
deceased, who said "I am dying." Sergeant Marshall
then came to the door, and it was opened to him, and the
prisoner was reported. The deceased was taken to the
guard-room, and thence to the military hospital. Witness
saw the deceased at 11 o'clock the same night, when
he was dead. He had not heard of any quarrel
between the deceased and the prisoner. The pri-
soner did not appear to be drunk. Privates T. Cause and
Henry Jones corroborated this witness. Sergeant Mar-
shall deposed that at about five minutes put 10 o'clock on
Thursday night he knocked at the door of No. 11 l room,
and was admitted, when his attention was called to the d--
ceased by the witness Jones. He was lying on the floor
between two cots. Witness took him to be drunk, and
ordered him to be taken to the guard-room, where he was
put in • celL Soon afterwards in the guard-rnom witness was
told that the deceased had been struck, and one of the
guard said he was dead. Witness then felt him by the
aide of the neck, where it had been said he had been
struck. The sergeant of the guard ordered deceased to be
taken to the hospital, and witness went with him. This
was about 20 minutes pest 10. The prisoner was after-
wards ordered to be confined in a cell. He was then
drunk—not fit for duty, yet capable of taking care of him.
self. The bench committed the prisoner to take his trial
at the next Winchester Assizes for manslaughter. Ile also
stands committed upon the coroner's inquisition on a
similar charge.
THE HYDRAULIC VCSAIII. NAUTILUS.—On Satur-
day a large party of noblemen and gentlemen, with Mr.
Ruthven, the patentee, assembled cm board this vessel to
witness the results of the various experiments made in
stopping, going ahead or astern, and taming. On arriving
at the dockyard, Woolwich, the party proceeded to view
the Waterwitch, the new ironclad boat, which is being
fitted up by the government on the hydraulic principle.