The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-05 00:00:00

Maxi ant( inflitarp.

PORTSMOUTH, Ocr. 4.
The Esk, 21, screw corvette, Captain J. P. Luce,
arrived at Spitheacl during the night from the Australian
station, and this morning she exchanged salutes with the
flag ship of the commandir-in-chief. In the afternoon
she was inspected by Sir Thomas Puler, Bart, and will
come into harbour tomorrow morning to dismantle and
pay off, having been four years and a half in commission.
The Tamar, screw troopship, Captain F. W. Sullivan,
C. 8., is expected to sail on the 12th inst. for Hong Kong
with supernumeraries.
The Golden Fleece, hired screw transport, sailed on
Thursday afternoon with military stores for the Abys-
sinian expedition.
The Danish screw corvette Dagmar sailed from Spit-
head yesterday afternoon for Cadiz and the Mediterranean.
The Hottgomont, convict ship, arrived at St. Helen's
this morning from the Thames, to embark convicts for
Australia.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 4. —APPOINIIIIXI/1.--Captain
B. H. G. Lambert, to the Palk', vies Captain Matthew
Connolly, Wet.

LOSS or THE SHIP TIIDOR.—It is now believed
in Liverpool that nothing more will ever be heard of the
ship Tudor, which sailed from Liverpool for Bombay, with
• cargo of coals on the 17th of Jaauary lark She is sup-
posed to have been loin in the gales which at that time
prevailed in the Irish Channel, as a life buoy with Tudor
painted on it in black lettere was found on St. Agnes
Island, one of the Scilly islands' on the Bth of February..
The Tudor was an old colonial built vessel, belonging to '
Mr. Callao, and chartered by Mesas. 0. Lawrence and
Company.
THE LATH STEAMBOAT COLLISION ON THE
Tstanan.—The dimmed Instinct at Degenllani, touching
the death of the steersman of the Nets, wee held yes-
, lordly by Mr. C. O. Lewis, coroner. Four witnesses who
had been subpoened by the coroner was examined, and they
stated that they were watermen, and on the ocesaion of
' the collision were in their skiffs dragging at the stern of
the Wentworth. Three of them laiXl the blame of the
oollision on the Meth for starboarding her helm
while the fourth entertained the opposite minim;
that the collision would have been avoided
had the Wentworth starboarded. The coroner
in summoning up, laid down se the law on the river as
well as at sea, that vessels meeting end on, or nearly end
en should port helm. He, at the same time, said, If he
were on the jury the verdict he would return would be,
that death was attributable to accident and nothing else.
If the jury thought the accident was owing to en error of
judgment on the part of the captain of the Metis star-
they might say so ; and, on the other hand, if
they thought it was owing to the pilot of the Wentworth
not starboarding, they would say so • and the jury, after
nearly two hours' oonsultation, brought in the verdict
that death was owing to accident, and they added that
the accident was owing to an error of judgment on the
part of the pilot of the Wentworth in not inarboarding his
helm when the position of the Metia wu seen. The an-
nouncement of this finding caused the legal gentlemen to
laugh, as at Plutustead the verdict was just the opposite,
the Metis being blamed. The coroner observed, " Well,
gentlemen, there's the verdict, and it is no lees extraordi-
Mthan true."
ETROPOLITAN BOARD OP WoRES. The usual
weekly meeting of this board was held yesterday, Sir
John Theseus", in the chair. A deputation from the
Wandswoeth-oommon Preservation Society waited on the
board, and drew attention to some building encroachments
being made on Wandsworth-common. The deputation
requested the board to assist them in resisting these en-
eroachmenta on the common, end preserving it to the
public. The request of the deputation was embodied in a
mernocial, and that document was referred to one of the
committees for inquiry and consideration. Mr. Lowman
Taylor drew attention to the reports which had been
circulated to the effect that there had been some serious
mud deposits at the southern withal of the main drainage.
He wished to know was there any truth in these
and, if so, what wee the nature and extent of reports
posit? He was given to understand that the expellee
of removing the accumulations would be enormous. He
thought it right to draw the attention of the board to the
matter, so as to afford the engineer an opportunity of
giving as explanation either now or at the Dent meeting.
Mr. Basalgette, the engineer, said that one section of the
works referred to was made in 1861, and another in 1867.
No doubt some considerable deposit had taken place be•
tween the years 1861 and 1987. The works of the board
were not opened till 1864. The question, therefore, was
how much of the accumulation bad taken place since 1864.
There had always been • tendency to mud accumulations
at the site of these works, particularly at Barking, but be
had no hesitation in saying that the account. which bad
been published were very much exaggerated. In some
places there bad been as increase of mud accumulation,
and in others there had been • decrease. The whole sub-
ject was, however, under consideration, and nothing would
be left undone to get at the truth of the matter. The other
business transacted was of a routine character.

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