The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-08 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

(PROM LAST NICI9T.B riazargx.)
WAIL-OFFICE, JAN. 7.
88th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Horatio George
Broke to be colonel, vice Lieutenant-Getters' Robert liar.
clay Macpherson, C. 8., deemed.
MZMORANDUM.—An examination for direct commissions
will be held at Burlington-hone, on Monday the 7th Feb.,
1859, and following days.
THE MILITIA.
COMMialliollll signed by the Lords-Lieutenant of their
respective counties.
Royal East Kent Regiment of Mounted Rifles Yeomanry
Cavalry—William Deeds, jun., Esq., Captain in the Rife
Brigade, to be lieutenant.
The Galloway Rifles—Thosnas White Houston, gent., to be
ensign, vice Austin Mauston, resigned.
The Essex Rifles—Lewis Hodgson, gent., to be ensign, Viet
Knobs!, promoted.

PORTSMOUTH, 7.

A court-martial was held on board the Victory
flag-ship this mousing to Investigate the circtunstanote
under which one of the boilers of her Majesty's ship Urgent,
Commander ]. W. Macdonald, sustained damage on her
return voyage from Gibraltar, and to try Mr. Freaks,
asiristant-engineer of the second-ciao, who wee ofßoer
of the watch when such damage occurred, for his
conduct on that 01,3116i0/1. The court wee com-
posed of Rear-Admhsl the lion. George Grey (Pre.
trident), Captain Seymour, C.B. Captain Harris, Captain
T. Meson, Commander Harston;and the Deputy-Judge Ad.
vorAte of the Fleet, W. J. liellyer, Bp. The evidence
presented no femme of public Interest, and the court merely
reprimanded Mr. Franke, and admonished him to be more
careful in future. .

The TTria:sliznt oath to day, sad it is expected that ohs
will aabark lays oa the 19th ast.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 7.

The Alecto, 5, paddle-wheel ateam-eloop, Com.
mender Junes Hunt. arrived in harbour this afternoon feu
Sheerneen, at which port she was detained, pending the re-
stilt of courts-martial, held to investigate certain charm,
made against the surgeon and • portion of her crew. The
Alecto was fitted out sad left Woolwich during the summer
of 1855 for the west coast of Africa, where she has been most
successfully employed on the slave preventive lentos, having
captured a number of prime, which were subsequently con-
demned by a legally constituted Court of Admiralty. The
able seamen, most of whom sawed from the Figura, flag-
ship at Woolwich, will share at inset 1601. each in the shape
of prize money, and the ordinary seamen about half that
proportion, in addition to the usual wages. She to ordered
to proceed down the river to-morrow under the charge of se
Ulcer from the factory department, on a trial trip, in order
to tes: the condition of her boilers and machinery ; end she
will them be admitted into the basin to strip and return
stores, previous to being surveyed for ?maths. Her crew
will be paid off at this yard during the ensuing week.
The system of weekly lectures to the artioans and la-
bourers employed at the Royal Arsenal having proved highly
successful, the heads of the mural departments have suc-
tioned its extension for the remainder of the winter mum.
The specious new paper factory, capable of holding 3,000
persona, will be fitted up on each Saturday afternoon with
seats, de., and a progcamme has been issued of • Berke of
scientific lectures on Saturday evenlege. A charge of one
penny will be made for Umbrian, which will meet the
necessary expenses, as the average number of the audience
has been 1,600.

CHATHAM, JAN. 7.

This morning an Admiralty order was received by
Captain Superintendent G. Goldsmith, C. 8., for the follow-
ing officers at this dockyard to retire from the service on the
pensions named, the superannuation allowance being used
according to the periods they have held the office —Mr.
Burton, master ropemaker, 27W. lle Bd. per annum ; It,.
Edward Cheesentan, foreman of the yard. 2291 3.. 44.; sod
Mr. Wm. Stigant, timber convertor, 1331. 6e. Bd. Each af
the above gentlemen hes been in the dockyard upwards of
WI a century.
The Trusty, 14, Boating battery, ham boon towel oat
thie port by the Airmen and Adder stem vessels, to Sho►
baryons, whore she im to bound for a firedog tura far Ihr
Enns of tne Royal Artillery.
ARRIVAL OF WOVNDSD TROOPS PROM INDIA.—TWN
shaman a larp party of nearly 200 wounded and disable'
troops arrived at Fort Pitt hospital from Agra, Delhi, Lock-
now, and Cimino», having disembarked at °ravened from
the screw summer Asia, Captain Darks. The invalid hoop
left Calcutta on the 25th of September, and arrived in Qs
Thames this morning, eft& • tedious passage of 103 days.
During the voyage 16 deaths occurred on beard, vie.,l4
troop. snd 2 children. The invalid troops belonged to the
2nd Dragoon Guard'', Oth Dragoon Gouda, 7th Hums,
12th Lumen, sth, 6th, Stb, 10th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 23rd,
32nd, 34th, 35th, 37th, 42nd, 63rd, 64th, 60th, 64th, 7bl,
7511 t, 77th, 79th. 80th, 82nd, 84th, 86th, 88th, 90th, 93ed,
and 97th Regiments, Royal Artillery, and Rifle Brigs* lo
the number of 178 men of ell ranks, together with 611-
sane men, and 2 soldiers who had been discharged be.
the service with ignominy. The troops were in charge ef
i Captain C. J. Patterson, 35th Regiment, and Ensign C.
Ramie, 93rd Highlander.. On striving at Fort Pitt, they
were immediately impeded, when 36 men who had been
very severely wounded were taken into hospital, and the
remainder sent to St. Mary's Barracks to await their die.
charge.

Tin Amumrr.—Vice-Admiral Sir Riebud
Dundee le at premed as a visit to Sir John Pakingtos d
Droitwich. Vico-Admiral Mazda and Rear-Admiral
are the only members of the board in town ; but Mr John
Pakington may be expected on Monday next, after which
the other members will re-suemble at Whitahall.—Datted
Service Gazette.

The Vice• Chancellor of the University of Cam-
bridge annousces the resignation of the pro-procton—the
Rev. G. Williams (King's), and the Rev. F. J. Jarman
(St. Catherine's). An explanation of the full facts is to tete
place in the Arts' School on the last day of the month.
Professor Owen will read a paper, at the meeting
of the Zoological Society, on Tuesday melt, "On the Exter-
nal Character' of the Gorilla," which will he illustrated by a
mounted specimen of the animal, recently received from the
G.boon.

The Committee of the Hampstead Convenaziohe
have prepared their programme foe the year. Their 6i
meeting will be held—et the Aseembly Ram, es before—as
Wednesday the 19th inst. The other meetings are maga
for Ftbriamy 16, March 16, and May 4.
The sessional meetings of the London and Mid-
dlesex Arcbm ilogicol Society will be held as noted t—that on
Jemmy 11, at the Merylebone Institution, Portman-soma
April 13, at Christ's Hospital, :th excursions to London
Wall, St. Batholoraew's, sad Harbor's Hell. June 14, at
Guildhall, with a dip into the mypt of Bow Church. Jely
27, at Haerow-on-the•ldill ; and December 13, at Crosby

A grand poultry chow was opened to the public
this morning at the Crystal Palace. The display includes
upwards of 3,000 birds of various more, and the coops, if
ranged in single row, would be very nearly a mile in length.
The din of all the cocks crowing at once is something
astounding. The imitative parrots and cockatoos in the
tropical department are quite alive to the shrill clangour war
them, and do nothing but crow like cooks all day in reply.
Witte.—The will of A. Boyer, Esq., Marlborough-
read, St. John's-wood, who died on the 6th of August last,
wee admlnisteed to by a creditor, to whom was granted
letters of admiaistration with the will amended, the execu-
tors and residuary legatee having reneuneed. A caveat was
entered, which had delayed the wring of the grant until
the 23rd of December. The personalty was sworn endue
1,500/. The will to very short, being cootaiord on cue dde
'of foolscap, and the signature is very feebly writhes. It
dated the 19th of June, 1858. Ile bequeathed to the
National Gallery tha following pictures Earfuls Came
"Young Israelites," " Young Bavarian.," "A Ceder.
riga," and the portrait of Madams Soya, his late wife. To
Mr. Blackwell, of Soho-equare, sod his partner, Mr. Crows,
Import oilmen, each a picture—to the hid, " The Donkey
Boy," sad to the other any picture he may ailed ; 504 to •
niece ; 1001. to the Kineal-green Cemetery, abate he has •
vault ; and the Nide, to MIS. Cooke, many years hid
housekeeper.—llhatrated London News.
STOTRAED'S ORAVE.—WiII no one set up a mono-
mers to mark the "Ric jout" of Thomas Stothard in Bon-
, hill-84We ? There our English Raphael eleepa. near to Da
Foe, and not very far from John Bunyan. Surely the Royal
Academy of Arts might within its own body do something,
land at once. for so bright an ornament of its body. Look at
' Rogers's " Italy," the best illustrated bob England has set
yet eel forth! and is not Stotbsrd euperior to Turner,
Turner is, in that matching edema(
Bt
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Stothard died very poor—it was not his Mit'
sad Turner died very rich. &tithed's grave, in a diostatmat
mastery, iswamarked. Turner wee buried, by his own duke,
Sc.to Fade Cathedral; and Turner left a thousand pomade
--poet Prier like--tor his own statue to be erected in the
masterpiece of Wren in Lendon's cathedral.—lllestrated
Losdos News.
THE LATE J. M. KEMOLE.—A friend in Dublin
wishes to inquire, through the burial
whether any step
is likely to be taken foe the Initial or mooed of the
sakes of the late J. M. Ramble. Our great Salsa
scholar has been dead yearly two year'. Be remains
unburied. On the temporary stone shelf in the Ceme-
tery of Mount Jerome, near Dublin, on which bit dud
wee placed by strangers, hie dust still lies. A ovetleste.
teetifying then strange facts, is now before v. Now surely
this ripe whaler deserves hero those who were his fiends la
his, if set • mosuinent, at Sao • grave. if they think
sot, blithest say so; end the pidgin will then have • right to
Asp is. The dorm pounds*, so required to hones him in
hie red will not be wasting, so soon as thous who enjoy the
fast eight to discharge this pious office shall distinctly yield
their eLim. M all 11•11141, thils wasted et ea unburied hody
ought to arse.-4 Uinta-am.