The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-16 00:00:00

NAVAb AND MILITARY.

41.11111111. M, MAR.Ca 15.—keronitianitt
tend Class Assistant Engineer W. X. Harvey, to the
110.
Third Chin Assistant &eater L. Brewer, to the
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CHATHAM, MARCH 15.
large number of convalescent sick and wounded
troops groin various cavalry and infantry regiments, who
have recently arched at 'the invalid establishment frogs
India, left fit. Mary's Barracks this morning for their re.
'pectins rases, •b• whole of them having been previously
inspected by a board of commissioners of Chelsea Hoepital,
and din barged as unfit for further service. Many of the
men diebarged time served in India 12 years, and received
their wounds and injuries at Luclmow and Cawnpore.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 15.
The Thetis, 36, Prussian frigate, and the schooner
Francalob, sailed from Spithead this incening for China.
The Firebrand, 6, steam-sloop, Commander James M.
Bruce, steamed out of harbour this morns, and anchored
at Spirthead. Ste will mil in the mane of a few days for
Nam •
Tb? 4riadnei 20, wrew-frigate, Captain E. W. Vansittart,
is under orders to sail for Lisbon, to loin the Channel fleet,
under the, command of Rear-Azlnswal Sir Charles Howe
Fremantle.
The Canaan, hired freight-ship, having discharged her
invalids and inswingers from Hong Kong, sailed to-day for
Deptford, to discharge storm.
The Duke of Somerset held his first levee of the
season at the Adiniralty yesAnday. The following odious
were present :—Vice-Admind Cain, Rear-Admiral H.
Austin. Captains J. R. Marsh, R. Jenkins, W. Morris, J.
Itaindone, F. Patten, C. 0. Hayes, G. liftekley, S. 0.
Cromwell, J. IL Hayes, F. A. B. Crawford Commanders
G. W. Lag, W. H. Hood, H. H. Beannah, V. 0.
field, H. Nelsen, C. S. Forbes, G. Blane, Hare,l2t.
Ann4strerJ. & Z. A. Glynn, J. S. Ross, and 0.
H.
The following circular was issued yesterday by
Sir Benjamin Hawes, Under Secretary of State for War
"War-offies, March 10.—The aserstary of State for Worley-
ing with the concurrence of his Royal Highness the General
Commentling-in•Chief, decided main transferring thegeneral
management of army schools and military libraries from the
Secretary of State for War to the General Commanding-in-
Chief, and placing them under the immediate superintendence
of the Council of Military Education, it is hereby notified
that the above change will take effect from the 15th inst.
In consequence of this change all communications relating to
the folio subjects should, on and after the 15th instant,
he addressed to the Secretary to the Council of Military
Education (all periodical returns being in like manner trans-
mitted to the same address at the periods now prescribed
by regulation), viz.:-1. Application for the training
of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses. 2. The ap.
pointment of trained schoolmaidem and achoolmas-
tresses. 3. The appointment of actingmboolmeeters and
actingochoohnistresses. 4. The appointment of civilian
schoolmasters in embodied regizatin= of militia.
5. Transfers of schoolmasters sad whoolmistreeses.
6. Promotion of schoolnuusters and schoolmistresses. 7.
Diecipline, furlough, leave to many, Lc. 8. The monthly-
school reports required by Article 16 of the Army School
Regulations, a duplicate of which report will, as heretofore,
continue to be forwarded to the assinant.inspector of army
schools in the district. 9. The supply of apparatus for the
illustratiou of lectures for the entertainmeut and instruction
of the troops. 10. Regimental and garrison libraries and
reeling-rooms. 11. Applications for new books and games
for resding-rooens. 12. The quarterly report of the state
of libraries. 13. Half-yearly reports of Royal Artillery and
Royal Engineers libraries, which are to be made in duplicate.
Communications upon all school and library matters not
specified above, and of • purely financial character, will con-
tinue to be addressed to the Under Secretary of State for
War."
Commander John Hay, R.N., has been ap-
pointed nautical examiner to the Royal Mail Steam Packet
CompanTag YCHANNEL FLEET.—The only ships belong-
ing to the channel fleet which are now at Portland are the
Conqueror, Centurion, Blenheim, and Greyhound. The
captain of the maintop of the Conqueror was killed on Sun.
daylest by • fall
LIRTIMCZON OP CAVALRY BY THE EARL OP
CARDIOAN.--CANTERDURT, THURSDAT.—The whole of yes-
terdikv was devoted by the Inspector-General of Cavalry,
the Earl of Cardigan, to a minute inspection of the various
cavalry depots stationed in this garrison, consisting of the
Ist, 2nd, 3nl, and 7th Dragoon Guards, and the 7th and Bth
Human, under the command of Colonel J. C. H. Gibsone.
The Inspector-Genteel, who was accompanied by Colonel
Douglas and Captain Lowe, as aides-de-camp, entered the
Bernick-square shortly after nine o'clock in the morning,
and was received by a 'moral salute by the whole of the
troops assembled is fuR marching order. Having been put
through the various evolutions by Colonel Gibeone, a por
ton of each depot then went through the riding drill. This'
concluded, his lordship proceeded to the nffingechool
and witnessed the officers riding and afterwards vi.
sited the hospital, and inspected its various wards.
The Inspector General then retired to the officers' mess-
room, and lunched with the officers of the depot =Malice.
The inspection was resumed bintitexamination of the cast,
the young, and the officers'horses. The garriron school
was then visited, and his lordship inspected the children.
and the arrangements made for their education. Attestors
dal next directed to the hooka of the depots, and the troop
and other books, were carefully examined. At five
!I= a dismounted parade took place, when the
were formed incolumne,,and the lospector.General mina
Weach. each. Afterwards they marched past in slow
ile, in admirable precision. The inspection eon-
with the examination of the officers and troop
stables, and their appointments. The Impector.General ex-
to Colonel Gilson, the unqualified intellection his lordship
bad derived from the inspection. The riding of the officers
and men, his lordship remarked, was uniform and good,
while the condition of the horses was excellent, and he had
sever seen a cleaner or a smarter parade.
THY M/LITIA.—A return was published yester-
day showing the numbers present at the last annual train-
ing of each disembodied regiment and
.the number of absen-
tees from each regiment on that occasion. The totals are aa
follows :—England, 30,507 present, 20,555 abseet ; Scot-
land, 4,700 present, 2,055 absent ; Ireland, 9,Kii present,
7,937 absent. Total, 44,340 present, and 30,557 abeent.

Tag AccIDINT oN run EANTERN COUNTIES RAlL-
WAY.—Yesterday morning the inquiry into the deaths of
Edward Stokes, Timothy Satchell, Robert Bean, William
Rowell, and Philip Cornwell, five al the unfortunate per-
sons who lost their lives by the lamentable accident which
took place on the 90th alt, at the Tottenham Station of the
above railway, was resumed before Yr. John Humphreys,
*Droner for East If Willmar, at the Lecture-hall, Tottenham.
Several other witnesses having been examined, the coroner
summed up, and having gone through the evidence, eft the
question to the jury to say whether the company were to
blame m• not. The jury then retired ; and after an absence
of an hour and a half returned into court with the follow.
jog verdict We And that the deceased men met with
their deaths from the breaking of the tire of one of the
leading wheels of the engine, in consequence of the defer-
}Ave weld ; aid we are of opinion that had proper caution
and vigilaoce been used, the same might have been de-
Meted. ' The broken portine• of the tire were ..rdonsl to
be taken charge of, and this important and protracted in-
quiry terminated shortly before fl o'clock.
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