The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-24 00:00:00

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CHATHAM, Ocr. 23.
After several months' delay, consequent on the
dock in which she is intended to be constructed not being
completed, the building of Mr. Reed's double-turret iron-
clad ship Monarch, 6, 5,100 tons, 1,100 horse-power, was
commenced to-day, the first of the plates for her keel
having been lowered into the dock this morning. The
work of building this vessel will be pushed forward as
rapidly as the resources of the dockyard will allow, and in
order that no time may be lost the whole of the hands
employed on her are to work during extra hours each day
during the approaching winter.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 23.
A court-martial was held on board the Wolve-
rene, at Halifax, Nova Bootie, on the 2nd instant, under
the presidency of Captain Gibson, of her Majesty's ship
Duncan, to try Mr. John Moore Ross, acting second master
of the Wol7erene, on a charge of swimming ashore from
the ship without leave. He was found guilt, and sen-
tenced to be dismissed from her Majesty's service ; but, in
consideration of his previous good character, he was recom-
mended to the very favourable consideration of the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty.
The iron screw troop-ship Orontes, Captain H. W. Hire,
which left Queenstown on the 13th ultimo for Quebec,
with the 61st Regiment of the line on board, put into St.
John's, Newfoundland, on the 26th ult., to coal, having
been delayed in her voyage owing to the prevalence of
heavy gales in the Atlantic, and she did not reach Quebec
until the 4th of October. She disembarked her troops on
the following day, and they went into barracks at Quebec.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 23. —PRAMOTIONg. —Mainers
G. D. Percy (additional), from the Asia for the JUEODI
H. Bead, from the Flapid for the Seraphs ; A. F. Boxer,
from the Fisprd for the Crocodile. Second Master
E. 3. T. Behenna, to the Lord Clyde. Assistant Paymaster
in Charge E. Thenkstone, to the Vindictive.

WORKING MEN'S CLOD FESTIVAL. —Last evening
a festival in connexion with the Working Men's Club and
Institute Union was held in the lecture-room of the Agri.
cultural-ball. Islington. The hall, which is capable of
holding upwards of 601) persons, was filled with working
men and their families, their appearance being creditable
in a high degree. The chair was occupied by Mr.
DPCullegh Torrens, M.P., and on the platform were several
friends of the movement, which has for its object the in-
tellectual culture and social improvement of the working
classes. The programme of the evening's entertainment
consisted of songs, instrumental solos, and recitations, the
performers being members of the club, and the choruses
being rendered principally by the female relatives of the
members. Au excellent amateur band played several
popular overtures. The chairman, when a portion of the
programme had been gone through, addressed the meeting,
and said be believed working men could do more good foe
each other if they found an economical and pleasant way of
proving they could help each other than could be effected
by any amount of mere class routine or class instruction.
The working classes should convince the middle classes
that they could not be in any more instructive company
than in that of those who lived by skilled labour. What
was required was to bridge over the gulf that the mere pos-
session of money was digging in the midst of society—to
bridge over the chasm between labour and capital. They
lived in a time when it seemed to be the interest of a sec-
tion of the state to make it odious, hateful, and a matter of
reproach to vindicate the worth, intelligence, and perse-
verance of those who lived by labour and it therefore be-
came the duty of those who abhorred that species of poli-
tical vilification to take every legitimate opportunity of
protesting against visiting upon classes the sins of
individuals. The working man would never be in
that position they all wished to see him placed in until
he can show his fellow-man that he is every day more and
more worthy to be entrusted with political rights and pri-
vileges, and more capable, by improvement, of exercising
them for the common weal. The Rev. H. folly,
having explained the objects of the club, said if the
working classes desired an extension of the franchise, they
would be much more likely to obtain it by endeavouring to
enter into that inheritance of education, knowledge, and
refinement which thousands of their fellow-oountrymen
were yearning to give them. At the conclusion of the far•
rival a vote of thanks was accorded to the chairman.
CltrareL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAT.—
TUESDAY, OCT. 23.—Admissions OD payment, 1,440 ;
ditto by season tickets, 1.341. Total visitors, 2,783.
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