The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1866.

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CHATHAM, AUGUST 15.

NAVAL COURT-MAILTILL. -A court-martial assem-
bled this morning on board the Formidable, 84, flagship of
Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, Bart., X.C.8.,
Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, for the trial of Mr.
Walter Charles Batty, second-dais assistant-engineer,
belonging to the Cumberland, 70, guardship of the steaM
reserve. The court was composed of Captain S. S. L
Crofton, Cumberland, 70, president ; Captain D. M. Mac-
kenzie, Formidable ; Commander J. P. Thurburn, Welles-
ley, 72 ; Commander H. M. Bingham, Formidable ; and
Commander H. B. Crozier, Cumberland. Mr. G. H. Knight,
Adiiiiralty solicitor, Rochester, officiated as deputy-judge-
advocate, and conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was
arraigned on two charges : first, for having refused to obey
the signals made from the Cumberland to the Mars, 68,
for him to proceed on board the Cumberland ; and se-
cond, for having, on the 4th inst., been drunk on bOard
her Majesty's ship Cumberland. The prisoner pleaded
guilty to both charges, and threw himself on the mercy of
the court. After remaining some time in deliberation,
the court sentenced the prisoner to be dismissed her Ma-
jesty's service.
An order has been received from the Admiralty, di-
recting that no alteration is to be made in the bow of the
Blanche, 4, 350-horse power, one of the " improved"
Amazon clam of sloops, building at this dockyard from
the designs of Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy.
Seven officers and 200 men of all ranks of the Royal
Engineers have proceeded from this garrison to Shoebury-
nese, to carry out some engineering operations at that
station.

PORTSMOUTH, Arcust 15.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty dined
last evening with the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral
Sir T. S. Parsley, Bart_ and, with the exception of the First
Lord, afterwards attended the ball given in aid of the funds
of the Royal Seamen and Marines School and Female
Orphan Home. This morning they inspected the Royal
Clarence Victualling Yard, Hasler Slip-way and Hospital,
and the Marine Barracks at Forton. In the afternoon
they proceeded to Fort Cumberland and Eastness Barracks,
and will to-morrow inspect the shipping in harbour.
The Helicon, paddle despatch vessel, Commander Morgan
Singer, arrived at Spithead last evening from the Channel
squadron, with supernumeraries and invalids, and came
into harbour this morning. The Bellerophon, 14, iron
screw frigate, Captain Edward Tatham, steamed out of
harbour to-day, for a preliminary trial of her engines, and
will test her speed at the measured mile in Stokes Bay
to-morrow.

ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 15. - APPOINTMANTS. -
Staff Surgeons T. R. Pickthorn, to the Saturn ; F. Neon,
to the Hibernia. Surgeon J. S. Adams, to the Cumber-
land (additional), for Sheerness-yard.
DISTRIBUTION OF NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.-NOLiOO
is given that the distributions of the tonnage bounty
awarded for a slave dhow, name unknown, captured on the
4th of May, 1865 ; and for a slave dhow, name unknown,
captured on the 15th of May, 1865, by her Majesty's ship
Rapid, will commence on NVednesday, the 22ud inst., in
the prise branch of the department of the Accountant-
General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house. The
following are the shares due to an individual in the several
classes for the first dhow:-Commander, 71/. ss. 10d. ;
third class, 221. Ba. sd. ; fourth class, 141. Bs. 4d. ; fifth
class, 81. Os. Id. ; sixth class, 71. 4s. 2d. ; seventh class,
V. 16s. ld. ; eighth class, 2!. Bs. ld. ; ninth class, 11. 12s.
For the second dhow :-Commander, 38/. Is. 7d. ; third
class, 101. 15s. sd. ; fourth class, 61. 18s. 6d. ; fifth class,
N. 16s. 11d. ; sixth class, 31. 9s. 3d. ; seventh class,
21. 6s. 2d._.; eighth class, N. 3a. Id. ; ninth class, 15s. 4d.
THE MILITARY FORGES IN CANADA. -The Quebec
Daily News of the 4th says :-" It is understood that
Lord Monck has urged the Imperial government to increase
the Royal Artillery in Canada by three additional field
batteries. With this support to the regular and volunteer
forces the authorities here are confident of being able to
meet any incursions that may be attempted into the
country, east or west."

take intelligence.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—AUGUST 15.
(Before Mr. Oommierioner Holroyd.)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
Harriet Droniord, 30, was charged with the manslaughter
of her child, Emily Dromord.
Mr. Collins and Mr. M. Moir conducted the prosecution.
This case was one of a very shocking character. It ap-
that the prisoner was a married woman, but she
Cadreether left or been deserted by her husband, and had
two children under her care—one, the deceased, who was
about four months' old, and a boy about three years' of
age. The evidence appeared. to establish that the pri-
soner was in the habit of leaving the children at home in
the most miserable and destitute state, while she went
out and got drunk, and upon one occasion, when
she was in a public-horse in a partially intoxi-
cated oondition, she was seen to throw the de-
ceased child upon the ground, and after it bad
been picked up she gave it gin and beer to drink. The
evidence given by Dr. Rogers, the medical officer of the
Strand Union, who saw the deceased child shortly before
its death, and made a post-mortem examination, was of a
most painful description. It appeared that on the 17th of
July the prisoner went to the union with the deceased
child, very drunk, and she was admitted to the casual
ward. On the following morning Dr. Rogers saw the
child, and was struck with its emaciated condition, but
upon the prisoner representing that she was a married
woman and desiring to go home he allowed her to
depart. She went to the union on the following night,
again drunk, with the child, which was taken from her
and placed in the charge of a nurse, and every necessary
attention paid to it, but it died a few days after-
wards. Dr. Rogers, in describing the condition of the child,
said that it was blind of both eyes, one of them
having completely sloughed away, and the blindness being
the consequence of disease. The child only weighed four
pounds and a half, the weight of a child of that age being I
ordinarily about twelve pounds, and it was in the most
emaciated condition, and there was an entire absence of
fat. There was extreme pallor all over the body, and
from all the appearances that presented themselves he
was of opinion that the death of the child had been cer-
tainly accelerated, if not occasioned, by want of proper
food and nourishment, and the administration of improper
food to a child of such tender age.
The prisoner, who had behaved very flippantly during
the roceedings, put several questions to the different
witnes p ses, and she abused them when they did not give
her the answers she expected. When she was called upon
for her defence, she declared that she had always taken
care of the child, but it bad been ill from its birth, and
she asserted in an impudent tone that the child was not
properly treated in the workhouse, and that she be-
lieved if the child had been left in her charge she would
have been alive now.
The jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict of
Guilty against the prisoner.
The learned judge said there was no doubt that the pri-
soner had been leading a dissipated and immoral life, and
that this had been the cause of her grossly neglecting her
child and accelerating its death. He then rentenced her
to 12 months' hard labour.

TO BOMBAY VIA BRINDIBI.

The report from the select committee of the
House of Commons on the subsidised " East India Com
munications " states that a weekly servies to Bombay alone
is strongly recommended, and that " the separate portal
service between this country, i
Madras, end Calcuttashould
be discontinued ;" and this decision s arrived at in the
prospect of the early completion of the main lines of rail-
way communication connecting the port of Bombay with
Calcutta, Madras, the North West Provinces, and the
Punjab.
There can be no doubt that Bombay is destined to
become, on the completion of the great lines of railway,
the chief port in India for the arrival and departure
of paseengers, as well as her Majesty's mails,
specie, and the entire light traffic of the overland route.
The London and Bombay Steam Transit Corporation (Li-
mited)," which was formed and registered 'here in Novem-
ber last, are again exerting themselves to secure the esta-
blishment of the company on a sound, comprehensive, and
substantial basis. This desideratum has been delayed
solely in consequence of the severe monetary crisis at home
and in Bombay, as well as in other parts of British India.
By the latest advice' from Bombay, however, every en-
couragement is now held out in favour of the immediate
prosecution of the undertaking, in which several European
and wealthy Parsee and other merchants and bankers take
a deep interest. We understand, moreover, that the di-
' rectors are sending out their agent by an early mail to re-
, open the subscription list, as numerous applications have
already been recorded in Bombay.
By the prospectus of the corporation. it appears that
their vessels are arranged to start from Falmouth, Liver
pool, or Milford Haven, or some other port in England, and
from Brindisi (the ancient port of Brindusium), in the
south of Italy, and thence to Alexandria, from which port
I the transit will be continued rid Suez to Bombay, and
vice next By fixing on Brindisi as the port of departure
from the continent, in place of Marseilles, a saving of
800 miles, or about three days of sea passage, will be
effected and other collateral advantages secured.
The official report of Captain W. H. Tyler, of the Royal
Engineers, to his Grace the Duke of Montrose, her Ma-
' jesty's Postmaster-General, dated the 19th ult., which has
Bet been issued, is strongly and conclusively in favour of
rindisi as the beet port in the Mediterranean for the
' arrival and departure of the overland mails rid Egypt,
because the time of transit between London and Bombay
I will be shortened by several days. He says in his most
' able, exhaustive, and elaborate report, that " under all
the circumstances of the case, I am of opinion that the
route rid Brindisi may properly be adopted for the Eastern
mail service, as affording greater advantages at the time
than any. other route, and, further, that it might be
brought into operation by the let of June, 1867. It
will thus be possible next year to convey the Eastern
, mails between London and Alexandria punctually in 110
I hours." _ . . .

The Italian government, Captain Tyler says, are ex-
tremely favourable, and have volunteered to grant every
assistance, and to facilitate the rapid transit of the mails,
as well as to cause special attention to be devoted to the
comfort and safety of the passengers by every means at
their command.
In the transit to Brindisi there is the option of two
routes overland, which the directors of the company
intend shall be made available—viz., the one through
France, rid Macon and over Mont Cenis to Buses in Italy
—thence to Alexandria, Piacenza, Bologna, &c., along
the Eastern Italian coast ; the other by way of Ostend
and the European Central route from Lucerne, in Switzer-
land, to Bellinzona, Como, Milan, and thence by the East
Coast Railway, which is now complete, to Brindisi.
The contract time for the conveyance of the mails,
rid Marseilles to Bombay, is at present twenty-four
days, but the new company point out that, by laying on
a superior class of vessels and of larger tonnage, time rid
Brindisi would be reduced to about seventeen or eighteen
days, which would be a great boon to all who are inter-
, ested in our vast Indian empire.
The present government have, with a promptitude
' highly creditable to them, agreed to carry out the re-
commendation of the " select committee " to despatch a
mail from London to Bombay weekly ; and on this point
we would venture to suggest that this mail should be
made up every Friday evening, and thus permit our East
India merchants to enjoy relaxation from business until
the following Monday.

THE BALA LAKE SCHEME I,)R THE LIVERPOOL
WATER .SUPPLY.—The Liverpool Town Council held a
special meeting yesterday fur the discussion of this sub-
ject, which has of late caused a good deal of attention and
anxiety. Mr. Duncan, the engineer to the corporation,
has reported in favour of obtaining water from the Bala
lake un North Wales), and the estimated expenditure is
about one and a half million. At present the supply of
water to Liverpool is obtained from the Rivington works,
from wells sunk in the red aaudatone rock which under-
lies the town. The opponents of the Bala scheme con-
tended yesterday that the Rivington works had already
coat 2,000,0001., and that the supply obtained from them,
with the added and improving supply from the wells, was
sufficient for the demands of the town for seven years.
If the new scheme was carried out, the Rivington
works woud have to be disposed of at an enormous
sacrifice. It was stated too, on this aide of the question,
that Liverpool had already spent far more than Man-
chester and Glasgow, and quite as much in proportion to
population as London, on the water supply. On the other
side it smui urged that the town now contained half a mil-
lion of inhabitants ; that there was a very largely increas-
ing demand for water for trading, domestic, and miscella-
' neous purposes ; that in eight or ten yews the population
would be increased to 800000, and in 20 years to 1,000,000 ;
that the wisest plan in public works of this kind was to take
time by the forelock ; that the present area of the town em-
braced 60 square miles, and that in the periods men-
tioned this area would be very largely increased,
while this increase would naturally tend to the
deterioration of the existing wells. Mr. Boloe (chairman
of the Water Committee) moved that Mr. DIUM/119 re-
port be submitted to one or more engineers of eminence
for their opinion as to its advisability, the cost of carrying
out the Bala scheme, and as to how far the existing
sources of supply might be largely developed ; but ulti-
mately an amendment by Mr. Clint was adopted to the effect
• that the committee be empowered to employ engineering
talent to investigate the local sources of supply before pro-
ceeding to the cousideration of larger and more distant
operations.
SUDDEN BREAK-UP OF THE FRASERBUROH HER-
arso FINDING. —lt now appears that what at the time
was thought to be unjustifiable and cowardly conduct on
. the part of the Highlanders, in violating their engagements
and dying from the cholera, wag only the prelude to a more
general, and, for many reasons, more serious flight of
almost the entire fishing population from the same enemy.
The cholera for the past week, so far from abating, had all
the appearance of becominmore calamitous ; and, being
chiefly confined in its attacks to individuals of the sea-far-
ing class, a timorousness gradually stole over them
until Monday, when it culminated in a sudden and
general breakup of the fishing, by the hasty departure
of the crews from the place. During the whole of Monday,
cartloads of furniture belonging to the fisher families from
the Banffshire coast were driven to the boats • and the
wind being favourable to their purpose, the boats one by
one put out to sea A greater calamity than this untimely
end of the fishing could not have befallen the commerce of
the town. Besides the heavy losses which are certain to
accrue to tradesmen, whose business iu the fishing season is
mostly of a credit character, through the non payment of
the accounts &heady contracted, the stocks provided by
every class of tiaders on the calculation of former years
will now remain unsold, and must necessarily prove ruin-
ous to not a few.

Tue Rai'may WHisree NumaxcE.—Last even-
ing Dr. Edwin Lankeeter, the coroner for Central
Middlesex held en inquest at the City of London Tavern,
City-road, relative to the death of Edmund Scott, a cab
proprietor and driver, 54 years of age, whose life was de-
stroyed by injuries received through & gentleman's hone
being frightened by the shriek of a railway engine whistle,
as a train passed over the bridge in the Waterloo-load,
approaching the South Western-station. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental Death" and appended to
their verdict the following resolution:—" The jury em-
panelled at the City of London Tavern, on the 15th day of
August, on the body of Edmund Scott, having returned •
verdict of accidental death, are of opinion that the de-
ceased came to hie death by a horse which struck him
having been frightened by a railway whistle at the
Waterloo-bridge station, and they would respectfully call
the attention of the President of the Board of Trade to
the dangerous practice of railway engine whistling in the
midst of the traffic of the metropolis, as they have had it
represented to them that this practice is the cause of nu-
merous accidents and frequent deaths in London."
EXTRAORDINARY DREAM AND ITS FULFILMENT.
—At an inquest held on Tuesday, at Sunderland, on the
body of a boy, named Jones, who was accidentally killed
at Pemberton colliery, on Saturday, it transpired that the
mother of the lad, on Thursday night, had an extraordinary
dream that her son was killed while at work, and this pro-
duced such an impression on her that she refused to allow
him to go to work next day, and he stayed at home on
Friday. Next morning, however, he had gone to work at
four o'clock, and it appears that within half an hour of
entering the mine, some full tube ran amain, and in trying
to stop them, the lad, who was only 12 years of age, was
thrown down, some of the wheels passing over his
neck and almost severity; his head from his body. lie
must have died instantaneously. The pitmen, in accord-
ance with a superstitious belief, immediately knocked off
work, and the shaft was laid idle for the day, rendering a
loss of several hundred pounds to the proprietors. Within
an hour of the deceased's leaving his mother's house, in-
telligence was conveyed to her of the fulfilment of her
dream. Another brother was drowned a year ago while
bathing in the pit pond of the same colliery.
A woman named Hutchinson came a day or two
ago before the North Shields magistrates for the 61st
time, and was sent off to her old gaol kuarters for •
month, for thrashing • policeman.
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