The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-12 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 11. —PaomovoNs AND AP-
rournmgre. —Engineers J. J. Bluudeo, to tbeCumberland,
for charge of the machinery of the Grillo ; C. A. Roebuck,
acting engineer, to the Cumberland, for charge of the me.
chinery of the Carnatioo ; and H. Parry, confirmed as first.
class usiatant engineer in the Indus, se supernumerary.
Lieutenants W. F. Johnson, to the Cornwallis ; and H.
C. °aglow, to the Megiera.
Midshipmen C. T. & C. Michell, to the Revenge; and A.
S. Philpotta, to the Ariadne.
Acting Chief Engineer W. H. Houghton, to the Dragon.
First-Chin Assistant Engineer P. Greetam, to the
Dragon.
Secoud•Clase Assistant Engineers B. Oliver and W.
Allan, to the Dragon.
Acting Mecond•Class Assistant Engineer R. S. Human, to
the Dragon.

PORTSMOUTH, Joie 11.
The Bosphorus, hired transport, arrived at Spit-
head to-day from China, having on board the nth Regi-
ment The ship is anchored at Spithead, but will, we
understand, proceed to Ireland to disembarkher troops.

CHATHAM, JuNz 11.

•
REINFORCEMMII row INDIA. —The following
officers and troops at this garrison have been placed under
orders to embark for India as soon as the necessary amount
of tonnage lam been taken up for them by the Honourable
Council of India, viz. :—Enaiga Stone, Ensign Kemp, and
118 men of the 4th (King's Own) ; Captain Martin, Lieute-
nant Hackett, Ensign Irvine, Ensign Moir, and 120 men of
the 19th Regiment ; Ensign Dourly, Ensign Leeming, En-
sign Mardou, and 60 men of the 20th Regiment ; Captain
Armstrong, Lieutenant Stanley, and Ensign. Haddon, 23rd
Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; Ensign Drought, Ensign Trenchard,
Ensign Nugent, and Ensign Bird, 51st Light Infantry; En.
sign Twining and 21 men of the 35th Regiment ; Captain
tho Hon. E. Curzon, Captain the Lion. D. Manson, and En-
sign Knox, 52nd Light infantry ; Captain Malan, Ensign
Vandaleur, Emile Day, and 86 men of the 75th Regiment ;
Captain Brown, lAentenant Weir, and Lieutenant Bevan,
Slat Regiment; Captain Minhear, Captain Sweeney, En-
sign Ford, Ensign Fuller, Ensign Smith, and 48 men of the
83rd Regiment; Captain Wood, Ensign Rogers, Ensign
Pasaingham, and Ensign Cauldwell, 91st Regiment ; Ensign
Symms, Ensign Jones, and Ensign Hansard, 94th Regiment.

BURGLARY AND MURDER AT ZINGSWOOD,
SURREY.

On Monday night a barbarous murder was com-
mitted in the borne of the Rev. Mr. Taylor, incumbent of
the sew &arch built a few years since by Thomas Alcock,
Esq., X.P. The house where the foul deed was perpetrated
legislated in a very secluded spot, the Dearest house being
that of the schoolmaster of the National Schools, about 200
or 300 yards off. The Rev. Mr. Tavler and his family were
on a visit at Chertaey, and left Sirs. Holliday, aged 55,
wife of Mr. Holliday, lodge-keeper to Thomas Alcock,
M.P., to look after the house. We were informed the
rev. gentlennua wished to leave some other person with
her, but deceased said she was not in the least afraid. Her
husband left her soon after six on Monday evening, end
agreed to go again at nine the nest morning. He did so,
and not finding the shutters down, and the front door
being open, Le became rather alarmed. On proceeding to
the room where he knew his wife slept, the unfortunate
woman was found in her night drew lying deed at the foot
of the bed. It appears the murderers filet out a peas of
Ltfrom one of the front windows, and out their
~ as there is a little blood on the woodwork. They
then proceeded to the back of the house, the lower windows
of which are protected by iron bars. They then took the
stump of an old tree, about 12 feet long, and placed it
against an outhouse joining the dwellinchouse, and thus
got oe the roof and meshed the window of the bed-room
in which the deceased slept, knocking down a looking-glen
that stood on a table just under the window. The noise
probably awoke deceased, who no doubt made an alarm. It
would seem as it the murderers then dragged her from the
bead of the bed, ea there is a streak of blood on the floor
from the head to the foot of the bed, where they bound her
tightly, hands and feet. They then thrust an old stocking
so forcibly into her mouth, that the tongue was pushed
back as ter us the glottis. A formidable weapon was foiled
in the bedroom, about 20 inches long, with a heavy knob at
one end, and a piece of cord to twist round the wrist at
the other end. Active measures are being taken to appre-
hend the guilty parties,

FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE ON THE LONDON
AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.

Yintertlay morning, shortly before day-break, a
frightful and fatal occurrence took place on tiie Coventry
and Leemiogtun branch of the London and North Western
Railway, by which two unfortunate persona, an engine-
driver and fireman, were killed on the spot, and a seat
amount of property destroyed. It appears that between
Learoingtaa and Kenilworth, which are distant from each
other between 5 end 6 miles, there is a road passing between
the embankment of the railway crossed over by the line by
means of a wooden bridge. Although the structure Mut
been erected for some years there was no appearance
and no apprehension that there was any decay in the
material of which it was composed, and the ordinary
number of passengers and goods trains had passed over it
during Ilooday and Rowley evening. Shortly before day-
break the first up-goods train, consisting of the engine,
tender. and several trucks, laden with general
goods, left Leamington on its way to Coventry,
for London and other places, and proceeded at the
mud speed, when on arriving at the wooden bridge ia
nuestiou the bridge suddenly gave way, and the engine and
tender, followed by a considerable portion of the train,
were precipitated to the ground beneath with& tremendous
crash, which was heard both at Kenilworth and Leaming-
ton stations. The only other persona with the train besides
the eogine-driver and fireman were the guard and porter,
who, fortunately for themselves, were in the break at the
rear of the train, and which by force of the collision with
the preceding part and snapping of the coupling irons was
driven back upon the mile.
On searching for the bodies of the unfortunate men they
were found in the midst of the debris of the fallen bridge
and engine, mutilated as well se scalded in so frightful •
manner that death must have bees inatentaneous. Tele-
grams were forwarded to the authorities at Eustoncquare,
but more especially to the engiteer• department at Wol-
verton. The traffic along the Coventry and JLearnington
breech line is entirely suspended, and will ho so until the
fallen bridge is entirely rebuilt, as well as a thorough in-
vestigatio• into the mum of the catastrophe has taken
place.

CAMBRIDGE CIIVRcII or ENGLAND SOCIETY AND
THs MCIINCE Mintrrz.—On Monday evening • 'ergs meet-
ing took plarre in the King-street School for the purpose of
hearing a statement from Mr. Buckmaater on the nature
and conditions of the aid afforded under the recent Science
Minute of the Committee of Council. The chair was
occupied by the Rev. J. Scott, and in the room were a
largo number of young men who seemed deeply interested in
the object of the meeting.
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