The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-05 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, BEPT. Atl'olNlMEßFB.—Lien-
tencnte liichaid B. Lambed and Frederick J. Mendell, to
the Indus; Edward L. Trafford, to the lost.; and A. C.
liar- is, to the Cambridge. Bub-lieutenant., Albemarle
I'. I:ation. kilward J. Deed's, and Heusy C. Cane, to
the torte. Navigating sub-lieutenants HenryC. Tre-
asapie to the Lapwing, and Frederick C. L. Neville, to
the Forte, additional, for &petal. Alideliapsnen W., F.
Konen, to the Victory; Jared (Judd, sod }Alward It. B.
Slithers, to the F. rte. Navtgatmg• to shslaptnen W. V.
Jai nb and A.E. :Sin!, to the Forto. as!ilit 1. rod. fur disposal.
!save' cadet,' Edward L. Wilsoss, dully I'. Oilman.
Fmk-rich ht 'Binary, Arthur 11. C. Fre syth, Murray U.
L. lieurie, and Hubert B. D. Cumming, to the Forte.
Clerk Themes Guard, to the Forte. adisitional, for die-
!krill; and Naval Cadet nominated St. John It. H.
Ax IRox-FLATED CUPOLA 8111 P FOU ROM VY.
We ate informed that theTbaineelShipbuilihnit Company
are to be entrusted with the eourtrueLon of au iron
annoerplated cupola clop fur the (Victim of Bombay
iiatbour. This rhip Ws, out of compliment to Lord Napier
and his Abyssinian comrades, to he called the Magdala.—
At my end Amy Gazette.
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Tux 33nn itzonktvrr.— A new drum, Learing
the name of Magdala, wee first used on panule et Ports-
mouth yesterday. Medals of distinctmn are to be pre-
rtnted to Corporal Lialord and Privets Colims of the
come regiment, for their gallant defence of the Imam',
during the storming of Magdala.

PALM FOR HMOOTIIC(3.—It may be worthy
of notice at the present moment, when the ',hooting of the
regular troops at Wimbledon Lai teen so severely
commented on, that If, or Captain It. Blontat's
company of the 2nd battalion, WM Regiment, sta-
tioned at Natal, has sueeeedeil in obtaining •
figure of merit which, we believe (ai a company), has
never been previously attained iu either the regular
at my or volunteers. The shooting is as follows : Hum-
la rof men exercised, 53; average first period, 3rd class,
46•18; per osntage of Ist clefs, 90-56; average points
volley bring, 25.11; figure of merit, 161-85; number of
3id claw, net The regimental figure at present 148
pints, a fact which speaks well for the interest in in-
itruction which must be taken by the men and Akers as
well as for the way that knowledge is imparted by the
regimental and company inatructors.—Army mod Navy
Gazette.

We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that
Colonel Jeffreys has been allowed to withdraw his resig-
nation of the command of the depot battalion at Park-
hunt. Colonel Jeffreys has been over forty-three years
on full jay.
By the death of General A. F. Macintosh, colonel
of the 93:d Highlanders, the following promotions will
take plain :—Lieutensuat-General the Honourable Claris
Crsy, co.onel of the list, to be general; Major-General
Studholnie J. Hodgson, colonel of the ,4th, and com-
mending the hoops m Ceylon and the Straits Settlements,
to be lieutenant-general; Colonel Henry Percival de
Bathe, from the Scots Fusilier Guards, to be major
general ; Major Cironow Davis, V.C., Royal Artillery,
lieutenant colonel ; and Captain C. O'Donoghue, 76th
Regiment, to be major in the army.

The Tipperary constabulary have arrested
another tenant-farmer, bearing the name of Dwyer, at
Ballycohey, on the suspicion that he had a connection
with the late outrage. The mark of a recent wound was
found in his head, and when brought before Mr. William
Scully he was identified as having been in the yard of the
far m-liouse 4AI the day of the attack on theyolice party.
ALLEGED FENIAN DRILLINGS IN IRELAND.--A
telegram from Cork, yesterday. says:—•• Last night
another incendiary fire took place within two miles of this
city. The precise locality was a farm at Bathpriwou.
Sev. cal large ricks of hay were burned, and it is raid by
Greek fire. The farm of were saved with some diffi-
culty. Two bodies of men, supposed to be Fenian,,
were found drilling IsiA night, and some of them were
arrested. There have been no arrests for the malicious
buntings of the pan week, although the amount of pro-
perty dertroyed has been very considerable."
I% ARROW ESCArE OF AN EXPRESS TRAIN.—
On Tuesday moaning an accident of an alarming elm-
racier took place un the Midland Railway. near Stanton-
gate. Two I.orses belonging to Mr. Guisaacre, farmer, of
Trowell, were gluing in a field running by the side of
the line, when they got out and strayed for a considerable
distance down the iailway. At 3 o'clock a goods trail'
running from Lenv-ti n to Leeds came up, and the driver
being unable to discern the animals, the train run into
and killed them both on the
.spot. The collision was so
revere that several of the carnage, Were thrown right off
the line and greatly damaged, and I.th the driver and
stoker narrowiy ercaped injure. The express was ex-
pected to pass the place on the r.cuue line soon after the
accident occuned. and a man was rent on to apprise the
driver of the accident. and get hiw to stop. The Jimmie.
Lion war only just taken in time, as the train was shortly
afterwards seen approaching. and it was only stopped
some forty yards in the rear of the goods train.

A:W*l'ff R FATAL BOAT ACVIDENT.—An secialent,
by which Mr. Saudi-noon, of Hull. lost his life, is re-
potted from Bridlington Quay -a watering place hitherto
almost free from such melancholy occurrences. The de-
mated, along with his daughter and a Mr. Norton. also of
Hull, were ciajaaing a sail outside the harbour, when the
boat was capsized, apparently through carelessness on the
yart of the men in charge, and the whole of the party
were submerged. Miss Sandersou, Mr. Norton, and
the boatmen were saved. but all effort.' to restore life
in the case of Mr. Sanderson proved fruitless.
FATAL QrAREEL BETWEEN Two BOYS.—A sad
arum nos has just taken place at Windsor. A boy named
Meer, the son of Mr. Mear, hair dresser, of Thames-
street, Windsor, and another named Bradley, the sun of a
hatter. also of Windsor, bad been playing at cricket on
Wednesday week, in the Horne-esul. At the end of the
game they quarrelled, aunt as they were getting some
water from the pump close to the toot of the t• Hundred
Steps" in Thames-street, Brielley threw sonic water
over Year, who retaliated by squatting over Bradley.
The latter kicked Mear upon the knee cap, and he was
taken home in pain. On Sunday it was found that the
knee laud swollen considerably. Pr. Pearl was called in.
but inflammation and other dangerous svmptams in-
cowed, and extemiing to the stomach the boy succumbed,
and died early on Thursday morning.
A LAni BURNT TO DEA Thmaday
e‘eulag the Brighton cornier (Mr. D. Black) held an in-
quest on the body of an old lady. aged 73, named Louisa
Lamina who hid been burnt to death. Deceased, who
was the widow of a solicitor, had been staying with her
married daughter, Mrs. liuruard. of Croydon, at a house
on the King's-road, Brighton. On Tuesday night about
ten o'clock, she went to her bedroom, and a few minutes
afterwards piercing screams were heard. When the room
was entered, she was found enveloped in flames, anal was
FO severely burnt that she never rallied• but died early on
Thuniday morning. She wore a muslin dress on Tuesday
night, and, while emotions after the accident, said the
sleeve of this had caught tire from the candle, the flames
afterwards getting to the skirt of the dress, andso spreading
to all her garments. The jury returned a venlia
accidental death.

Tim LATE BVEGI-UIT AT SYsTON, LEICEBTER-
-0/inv.—Yeterday morning, John Hickey was brought
up at the Leicester County Police-offloe, before Major
knight, eharg,d with burglariously entering the dwelling-
house of Joseph Cooper Moore, at Syrian, on the 29th
ult., and stealing various articles. Prosecutor's slate-
meat was in effect the same se that which has already
been published. Prisoner, who appeared to be suffering
severely from the effects of the wounds inflicted by Mr.
Moors
.was aoronunodated with a tat..T./grin the pro-

grew of the ease prisoner noticed Kr. Moor' nit at
some [arts of the evidence, upon which he remarked.
" It's all very well to laugh, but you may thank God that
you got off 60 well as you did. Iliehaval too well to his
—I behaved a good deal better to him than he did tome."
When leaving the I yesterday, be remarked to the
Aker who bud him in cv " I was not aware ;what
Kr. alOOlO had got in his hare; I thought it was a bit of
stick or something, or I shouldn't have allowed him to do
as be did with roe: 1 should have be= charged with a
more 'inflous offence, but I am giati now that it is rut so."
Hr inis committed for trial at the u..rizre. _

Tux Aus,tato Anournox or• A JEw&we. —We
understand that on the 3rd instant Mies Esther Lyons met
her father by anungenient. and that they had a privets
conversation together, which lasted an hour, at the con-
elusion of which elle was caked. in the presence of her
uncle end brother, two Christian friends, and a solicitor
he each party. whether she would go with her father, who
we.. U. another ro.es awaiting her deciai. n, or remain
with these friends with whom she lately resided. She ins-
itiatul) repLeil that she would r•nuttn with the Meade
with whew •Ite hail beet. staying. It had been previously
amid that both parties should acquiesce in 3ftsa Lyon?

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