The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-06 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

AIMMIAI/rT, Barr. 5. —ArroL__ _ -
au : H. Brown, to the Rpiteful, in
ken ti a aid ;W. D. Boston, to the Ariel. Acting First
Clue Assistant Wooer W. Dennison, to the Foxhound.
Second Class Assielsot-Engineers : S. Swim, to the Land-
fall ; J. Mather, to the =broke, few service in the
MaCet.
ird Class Assistant Engineers : E. E. Williams, to the
Spiteful ; J. R. Agates, to the Landmil ; W. A. Hough-
ton, to the Foxhound; R. Dixon, to the Ariel. Acting
Third Clam Assistant-Engineers : A. H. Ernles, to the
Foxhound ; J. T. Kelley, to the Ariel ; J. Jones, to the
Dasher.

First

PORTSMOUTH, BEM. 5.
The Megvera, 6 iron screw tro(p-ship, Comman-
der Samuel R. Henderson, arrived at Spitheod this after-
noon from Male and Gibraltar, from which places she
Lome a number brialsds.
e 51, .t
w 'frigate, steamed out of har-
bour to-day sad made a trial of her engiaes.
The Emerald, 31, KIWI frigate, which hang last week
upon a sunken ruck in Alderney harbour, was, upon exami-
nation, found to have sustained only trifling damage, which
is }snag repaired.
The Dasher, 3, peddle-wheel steam vessel, Captain
iPshade Simmers; arrived this morning from the Channel

GENERAL ORDERS.
The following general order has been promul-
listediee
" Horse Gaud,. 25th Aloglet, cr'= eel&
den of the officer commanding the Royal Artillery
mei the officer commanding the Royal Retie/pen at ree
vibes, state or other ceremonials, or when impeded by a
=4.pollioer, not being clearly defined, his
the General Comomodinrin-Ciref directeßt
upon such occasions, as a general rule, these officer . receive
the reviewing or inspecting officer at the head of their re-
spective commands, but that they immediately afterwards
joie the staff. Field offices in command will opt, how-
ever, be required to take the head of single batteries or
companies under their owp captains, but will join the staff.
All general off cen must be aware that the maintenance
of close and confidential relations between themselves and
the heads of the Artillery and Engineers under
their command is essential to the performance of
their duties as regards those great branches of the service.
With an army in the field this principle is always recognised
to the fullest extent, and this recognition should prevail atoll
times and in all pieces. His royal highness having fixed
the pleas of these commanding officers at the formal re-
ception of general officers on parade, would impress on the
latter that he considers this arrangement as an interruption
of the usual relations between themselves and the heads of
the Artillery and Engineers, and be therefore desires to
make this interruption as brief as possible. In so doing he
isonsults alike the benefit of the service and that of the
general officers. In the came of a captain of a single battery
or company being also the commanding nicer of Artillery
or Engineers on the spot, the general aloe! commanding
will use his diacretion as to this officer's pition during a
review.—By command of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in Chief,
"Jean YORKS SCARLZTT, Adjutant-Conran
The annexed order has also been issued :
"Hone G August, 27, 1860.--The General Com-
manding-in. Chief meg intimated to the Secretary of State
for War his opinion, that in conaideration of the men of
regiments of cavalry armed with Sharpe's breech-loading
carbines being required, in addition to their special duties
as cavalry, to be instructed in the theory and practice of
musketry, and of their having mach more labour than other
branches of the service, they should receive the rewards
allowed for gond shooting in the same manner as infantry
moldiest', and Mr. Sidney Herbert having been pleased, in
concurrence with Sir Charles Wood and the fords Corn.
nnuioners of the Treasury, to signify hie assent to the pre -
arrangement, him royal highness accordingly desires
hat the first and sicced pecuniary rewards, and the
supplementary prize for the negating of the best shooting
troop, be granted to regiments armed with breech-loading
i:sebum sighted up to 800 yards, subject to the conditions
contained in the existing regulations modified as follows,
viz. That the beet shot of the regiment shell be that
dragoon who, in the piastre. of the second class, Snag be-
tween 400 and 600 yards, both IigAIICCII inclusive, obtains
the greater number of points meg 12. 2. That the first shot
of the troop will be the dragoon who, in the practice of the
second dam of lia troop, firing between 400 and 600 yards,
both distances teel_.obtains the greatest number of
palate ever 11 cavalry regiments hereafter be
mesa vela euhineemligiMed up to 906r55, they will then
be allowed to contend for prizes sem • to the regula-
tious heretofore applicable to infantry on y.—By command
I of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief.
Janet Yonne fictittrcr. Adjutant-General."
The following circular memorandum has been addressed
to the army abroad and at home :—" Referring to pages 8$
and 64 of the Queen's Regulations and Orden for the
Army,' his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-
chief desires it to be notified for general information and
guidance, that candidates for the appointment of assistant
military secretary will have to undergo the same examina-
tion as is prescribed for that of deputy-aasistant.adjutant-
genera —B command,
"JAMS Yogis SCARLET?, Adjutant-General."
The following circular has also been limed :—" His Royal
Highness the General Commanding- i n•Chief desires that men
who surrender themaelvesas deserters and are retained in the
corps in which they hsppen to be serving, but are not
brought to trial, shall *cal in the second clam —By
command,
"JAI= Yon's SCARLET?, Adjutant-General."

LAUNCH or A RUSSIAN CORVHFFIL—Ou Tuesday
afternoon the screw steam corvette, • Hydamack, built by
Mr. Henry S. Pitcher, for the Russian government, was
successfully launched at Northileet Dockyard, in the pre-
sence of Admiral Count Poutiatine, Admirals I/saline and
Popoff, Captains Pestehouroff and Samaria, of the Impe-
rial Russian navy. The customary ceremony of naming
the vessel was performed by Mademoiselle Poutiatine. The
principal dimensions of the Hydamack are as follows
Length between perpendiculars, 213 feet 5 inches ; extreme
breadth, 31 feet 4 inches ; depth in hold, 14 feet 9 Maw ;
burden in ton, 1,000. Her armament will animist of three
pivot 8-inch guns, 95 cwt. each ; and four 32-pounders, 25
cwt. each. The engines for the Hydamack are direct-acting,
of 250 nominal horse-power, and have been con-
structed by Messrs. Mandalay, Sons, and Field.
After the launch Mr. Henry 8. Pitcher enter-
tained nearly one hundred of the visitors in the capectione
mold loft of the establishment, and, in alluding to the
event they bad met to celebrate, observed that more than
seventy years had Famed away since the first vessel, the
Royal Charlotte, was built at and launched front Northfieet
Dockyard, the reputation of which it would ever be his
pride to sustain. It was subsequently remarked by Mr.
Joshua Field that, his firm having constructed a peat
number of the engines and boilers placed in the vessels
built at Northfieet Dockyard, it affonled hint much plea-
sure to state that in no instance had any one of those vessels
failed to sustain the builders' reputation or to satisfy the
expectations of the owners. The launch of the Hydamack
will shortly be followed by that of the Amelia frigate, now
building for the Oreek government. It appears the appli-
cations made at this yard by European governments re-
specting the building of vessels of war h►ve lately been us-
email numerous.

Tar Nrw Acr oN Law AND EQUITY.—The act
for the further amendment of the proms?, practice, and
mode of pleading in and enlarging the jurisdiction of the
superior courts of common law at Westminster has just
been printed. It is to come into operation on the 10th Oc-
tober, and will simplify some proceedings in the law under
the ale of "The COMmore Law Procedure Act, 1860." In
the case of every ejectment for • forfeiture brought for ucm-
payment of rent, the court or judge is empowered on • rule
or summons to give relief in a summary manner, subject to
an appeal as to the payment of rent, mate, and otherwise.
Similar relief is given as to a forfeiture for non-inoariag.
With regard to interpleader proceedings, which often in-
volve great expense, the court or judge !nay direct the ode
of gadsalad in execution, and in certain cases to decide
I summarily. A special one may be natal where the fads
are undisputed. There are several clauses in the ad with
regard to procedure and practice. In an attachment of
debts under the Common Law Procedure Act of 1854, •
judge may refuse to interfere where, from the smallnem of
the amount to be recovered, or of the debt sought to be
attached, or otherwise, the remedy sought would be worth-
lora or vexatious. In future ooeta are not to be recoverable
in an action for injury where the verdict is lees than 51.,
eaten the judge certifies. The power of ordering amend-
ments is extended with or without meta. theml roles
may be made to carry out the act, sad by an order in coup-
en it may be adopted in any court of record.
NNIIIIPAPAZ ENTERPILIsZ lit BOMBAY. —The pro-
prietoes of the Bombay Tints and Standard, follow* in
the wake of linellialt enterprise have imported • patent
printing mashies, which, though not to be wavered to
the marvellous machines required for the daily press at
heir, is a sevaity in Bombay. The /wince Dalin? says :
Whores, the platten mono, hitherto in use here,wuuld
tele seem ins hours in printing • thousand copies, this
animber can b the machine be struck off in lees than one
bow. When ones set in motion by a large dy.wheel, which
is Inept at • short distance from, but connected with the
machine by loather straps, it draws. in the PoPer,
togarbs.
ink the types, gives the re u quisite npressioo, and t rein
out the printedshest on a weit board This useful machine
is a sight worth assisia"