The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-01 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

A MILLS; MAT 31.--Arrommss7s.—Captain
Sir F. L. M'almieek, to the Bulldog. commissioned.
Midehigesee : G. H. J. Elliot, to the Cressy ; WAFT. C.
St. Clair, to_ the Aboukir ; G F. M. Gordon, to the Han-
nibal ; g. D. Campbell, to the Marlborough ; H. S. bandys
arid F. A. Wetherell, to the Donegal.
First Chas Anistant Engineer G. H. Beaton, to the
dumberland, for charge of the machinery of the Racehorse.

WOOLWICH, Mar 31,
Several of the new screw despatch vessels re-
cently launched, sad new bending for the government at.
various private Ards, s
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Wended to be 'applied with
ArTdrvett gums while will be filled an s wirriesee of
Si improved dasxfplipt. espetswebed. fee** meg wire
with a tie; to
the Ineeneellpase aching Iran
the powered ordnener earltruadet'S
heavy an
different =liteirC nrivaldtradiftary service,
have been turned out at the Royal Arsenal, and will be sub-
jected to experiments.
Mr. Whitworth's experimental 80-pounder gun recently
tested off Shoeburyness is ordered to remain in store at
Woolwich, pending instructions from the Lords of the Ad-
miralty as to a renewal of the experiments. The same re-
gulations as to secresy which formerly prevailed relative to
air W. Armstrong's gun have been renewed with respect
to the gun of Mr. Whitworth, which is ordered to be
packed nod carefully kept from the examination of all
persons"

CHATHAM, MAY 31.

The following vessels have been taken up by the
Indian government for the conveyance of troops to India :
Agincourt, Clarence, Eveline, and Vittoria.
The officers and men of the Ist battalion, 24th Regt., who
were engaged in the suppression of the Indian mutinies,
have received their India medal, ; and as t 4,011 as the neces-
sary returns have been received by the authorities, the
whole of the officers and men entitled to them will receive
them.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 31.
The Waap, screw steamer, arrived at Spithead
this afternoon from Sheerness, and saluted the flag of the
Commander-in-Chief.
The Portsmouth Volunteer Rifle Corps was inspected
last evening on Southees-common, by Major-General Lord
William Pullet. His lordship expressed himself highly
pleased with the efficiency of the corps, and urged the
members to persist in their drill practice, in order to main-
tain that efficiency.

MALTA, MAY 26.
Her Majesty's ships Oreaey, Renown, St. Jean
d'nere, sod London, which were cruising off Malta, entered
port ou the 'l.3rd. dannibal, with Adnural Rodney Mundy,
at Palermo; also Atnphion, and Neptune at Marsala; Scylla,
Argus, Intrepid, and Assurance, visiting the ports of Sicily.
Her Majesty's troop-ship 31regcra arrived yesterday, and
leaves for Corfu to-morrow.
Her Majesty's ship Terrible is an ready to start with Sir
Arthur Fanshowe and suite for Plymouth after the arrival
of the Melpomene, hourly expected.
On the 26th a coirrtmartial met to try Captain Butcher,
commanding Royal Marines of her Majesty's steamer Lon-
don, on a charge of insobriety. The prisoner admitted the
charge, and the court very shortly broke up, after sentenc-
ing the prisoner to be dismissed from her Majesty's steamer
London, placed at the bottom of the list of captains of the
Rcyal Marines, and there to remain.

TiE LATE RIOT AT RAMILTON.-011 Wedneaday
some of the police authorities of Hamilton arrived in Edin-
burgh for the purpose of making further investigation into
the cause of the late riot. The West York Rifles having
been turned out for parade, ten men were taken from the
ranks and sent off to Glasgow prison, escorted by one
odicer and twenty mend the 78th
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