The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-14 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

CHATHAM, Sere 13.
PRESENTATION OF DI STING U I 811 RD SERVICE
TPA 111 TO Aar:mews TROOPS, —The whole of the
officers and teen of the Itoyal Engineers were drawn up
(II the parade-ground at head-quarters, Brompton-
barracks, yesterday morning, on the occasion of the pre-
sentation of silver medal., awarded by his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, KAI., to those non-commis-
sioned officers and men of the Royal Engineers who had
beet' selected to receive that honour "for distinguished
service in the field." The order from the Horse Ouards
for the presentation of the medals having been read,
Major-General J. L. A. Simmons, C.B. director of the
Royal Engineer estahlishment, addressed the assembled
efticers and men at some length, during which he alluded
to the arduous nature of the campaign in which the
Abys:rinian troops had been engaged, and the distinguished
part taken by the 10th ouni any of Royal Engineers,
who as well-sinkers, telegraphists, photographer,
aignalkrs, and in various other capacities,
rendered great and important servioeato the expeditionary
force. The valuable services rendered by the 10th com-
pany of Royal Engineers had been recognised by the
Commander-in-Chief, as out of 70 medals presented to the
Abyssinian army for distinguished conduct in the field
nine had been bestowed on the Royal Engineers. The
non-commissioned officers and men to be decorated were
then called to the front and presented with the medals by
ilaier-lieneml Simmons, who fastened the medal to the
left breast of each. The following received the medal for
distinguished service in the field :—Sergeant John Dean,
Sergeant John Harrold, Second Corporal William Cham-
berlain, Second Corporal Hugh M'Donagh, and Lanes
Corporal Henry Bailey.

APIITTEALTT, SEPT. 12.—APPOINTMENT/J.—Lic•a—
tenante Cecil O. 8. Fo'jambe to the Malabar; Philip H.
Wergan to the Canopus; and John G. J. Haunter to the
Satellite. Midshipman Charles U. W. Aylen to the
Galatea.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE GREAT WEATP:IIN
Ruz.w.m.—The guard of • goods train on tialurday
morning got in front of the up night mail, between the
Southall and Ilaym station of the lireat Western Railway,
and was killed.

lIIIm)ItTANT FISHERY CASE.—A case of great
importance to the proprietors of minion fisher's, came
before the county magistrates at their petty seeion. at
Carlisle on Saturday afternoon. David Linton, of
Longburgli, on the Solway, was charged with fishing in
a bd tl Fla of the river Filen with a fixed engine, eon-
traryto the provisions of the statute. The case had beer
twice adjourned, and now came on for decider'. 'the en-
gine used by the defendant, and which the tutiplaimints,
Items. Oman and Graham, lessees of Lord Lowslale's
fisheries, higher up the river, alleged to be • " fixed en-
gine" within the meaning of the Act, was what it locally
known as a "haat," or "half net." This engine is a net
or pocket about left. long and oft. deep, fastened upon an
oblong framework, with a centre pole depending from the
top horizontal bar to the bottom one for greater conve-
nience of handling. The fisherman carries this net down
to the shore upon his back, and entering the water while
the tide is either ebbing or flowing, places the lower bar
upon the sand, stands behind the framework, which, by
means of the central pole, he elevates as soon as • fish
"strikes ;" and by the weight of the salmon, the net falls
into the shape of • poke, anti is so captured. There was
no dispute as to the net having been used; the only ques-
tion at issue was, whether it was • "flzed engine,' and
consequently illegal It was contended by the complain-
ant that the central pole projected below the lower hori-
zontal bar, and sunk into the moil, thereby making it for
the time being a fixed engine. On the part of the de-
fendant, it was submitted that the engine was moveable ;
that the fishermen must move it constantly to suit the
ebbing or flowing of the tide. The magistrates had the
net before them on Saturday ; and after ezainuung it, the
chairman (Mr. W. ii. Dodgem, ILP.), said there wee so
much difference of opinion among the magistrates on the
bench, that they thought it better that the Special Salmon
Fishery Commissiooers for England and Wales should be
asked to hold a special court to decide the question. It
was arranged to communicate with than.
TIIE 24.7Ew Imixiiwo-H01.1311 REOULATIONS AT
()ironic— A meeting of the lodging-house keeper of On-
tent will be held in the Town-hall this day, to oon‘idor
the new nrilations proposed by the authorities of the

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tortaxitadit.l

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Its tr4klOAl) NUSTAICU I E UR LI fICAL
4774188.

candidate for North De•roa,

the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northoote and Mr. WalranC
addressed the electors of North Devon at ariniataple do
Friday. Colonel Banana occupied the =arr.
Sir STAFFORD NoRTRoOTR, who was I.:screed with
cheers, after some introductory remarks raid—Wilb
regard to our past policy, I will refer just to the prilielp)
measure that occupied our attention during the last two
year—the measure of Reform. Having reviewed the
history of the reform bills of the last two vans, the *
hon. baronet continued—There is one Wiwi/ qu
which I will address you upeo—a question which is non
coming forward for conmderation—l mean the =such
establishment. (Hear, bear.) You are aware drat the
leaders of the liberal ppaartrty7 have challeurged us upon a
question of the eatablisbment or diseitab werrient—whist-
ever that may mean—of that Fart of the united church of
England and Ireland in Ireland. tilenderneu' there is
ao man who has a wanner sympathy w.ua the Issidi
people than I have. I feel that there is no t oedema this
empire that mere down= our sympathy and our
careful consideration than Ireland. (gird, hear.) I
feel that we owe to Ireland a debt not wry deem= Mho
is • part of the nation in which we are a I e pull, inte-
rested, but more especially because she is a peat of the
nation towards which we have pursued in fu. user tinier •
policy which ought to make us blush. (Um , near.) 1 for
one wul never conceal my opinion that the e ormeof policy
punned towards Ireland daring the time the penal laws
were in existence wee such as ought to make England
ashamed of herself. (Hear, hear.) And wiser. I hear com-
plaints made of the uneasiness of Ireland, in toe bad feel-
ing towards England, and of this or that r.usatisfactory
condition of the people. I am tempted to -ay, " Alter
afl it series us n'tht." ("Bravo. ”) It is bit naturil
that centuries of wront2should produce such • feeling.
Let me tell /on t • that you are not gettaig
rid of centuries or a long see= of SSears of aiss
government by • single measure, or by the a.lminstration
Of any panacea or Henson's palle,rifarwever rys:l eit may be.
(Clem.) Evils that have been in cr eaten, evils of
long 'tending, must be cured by patience and by a long
course of justice. But I say that those evils must be cured
by treating Ireland as if she were an integral part of the
erm ire, and not by a counsel legislation dint must end—
=l believe is deeired by manyof the mo,t violent of the
Irish party in the legislature.--in the separutam of the
two countries. I say that the remedy for the wronged
Ireland is censistent, steady, just treatment of all classes,
of all pet suarrions, and all deneseinatone (' • Yes, yes,"
and uproar.) I eayyou are doing harm and riot good if you
throw Jaen the firebrand and intricate • new cause of
diffr niaie in Ireland. (Cheer; and vertu-ere.) For the
Fake of Ireland itself, I preterit against any in Imre that
*heirs the inanity of property, became I ray the want
in Ireland is to pmduee confidence, and if o i shake the
foundations of property, be it corporate p operty or be it
trivate proFerty, you are destroying that mularg of confi-
dence which is that above all things. you most want to
encourage. (Cheers.) What you want in Ineand isnot to
stir up protestants against catholic* or wit:holies against
protestant& but you want to treat all w.ts that impartial
justice with which ferrets% past England haa been endea-
vouring to treat Ireland—(" No, no," •• Yes, yea," and
uproar)—and by which, to a very great extent, England
has succeeded in improving the state eri feeling between
England and Ireland. ("No, no," and cheers.) Do you
say no? Perhaps that gentleman has net road history.
(" Rho wants to establish the catholic chinch in Ire-
land f") Upon my word Ido not brow: (Laughter.)
That gentleman has not read history. and compered
the state of feeling which existed in Ireland, during.
for instance, the Repeal movement of ?dr. O'Connell
and Yr. Smith O'Bnen, and the state of feeling which
has existed, despite this wretched Fen.aa agitation, of
late years. (Cheers.) I believe we see Ireland makhig
great improvement in material and moral progress. Let
us assist that progress, and not be in a hurry to pull up
Fiend that are only just beginning to take root—(oh, oh,
and uproar)—in order to introduce a fictitious plantation
of your own. These are questions we shall have to dis-
cuss not only here but in parliament and throughout the
country, and let me assure you that though you may
think they are =ally rattled by an exclamation here or a
laugh there, they are questions of the mo t delicate and
difficult statesmanship, and questions not to be settled in
a bun yif you desire peace in that reentry. (Cheers.)
lily is bef is that you will be doing bum to Ireland by
leticduting this new measure of contLeation—(no, no,
and uproar)—and that its immediate eruct will be to
shake that confidence, which it is so de "ratite to restore,
and that in its ultimate effects it will be eta the one
I and the EC) aratlon of Ireland from England, or on the
other hand tit will iced to the dctrration ra your church
establ.shment in England. (I;proar.) Three being my
oFimoos, of coupe I am prepared to do the be- t I can
to maintain the existing potion of araire. lam quite
aware that it is ea d that there is a commie-km of inquiry
into the state of the Irish church, and thata great deal may
come out of that, and that sometbing may be done to put
the church in belted upon • better feritarg in various
ways; but 1 tell you frankly I do not expect by any
tinkering or tampering with the details of this arrange-
ment to meet or satisfy the views of those who wiah for
the abolition of the establishment. I am perfectly pre-
land to give my best consideration to the report, bat I
do not expect that it will take the place of ttre proposal
now before ur, and against which we must tight tooth and
nail. (Cheers end uproar.) There are great principles at
stake in this election. We shall esprret from the liberals
that they will do everything thee can to turn oat the pre-
ss et government ; but of one thing I am:Le-need. and that
is, that this contest will be fought out, as it ought to
upon the ground of principles, a= not upon any petty per-
sonal grounds. (Cheers.)

THE " CAPTIVE " BALLOON EXPERIMEVTB.
ALABNINO ACCIDEXT.—it had been arranged that the
experimeuts with the "Captive •• balloon, winch were com-
menced on 'Thursday at Ashburnleun-park, should h. con-
tinued on Saturday at, when the public were to be ad-
mitted; but on account of an expkistion occurring on
Friday afternoon at the gasworks. all farther experiments
with this monster balloon will, it is feared, be postponed
till next year. A gasometer had been built elate to the
balloon for the purpose of holding the gais, which is manu-
factured on the ground, and a a quantity is consumed in
each ascent, it is necessary to keep a stock on hand. The
gas used u not •uydrogen, but oxygen, its principal com-
ponent being sulphuric acid. The gasometer, o seems,
had not been received as finished by the proprietors of the
balloon, who had contracted for its building. and in order
to test the same, water had been poured into it. Within
twenty feet of this gasholder stood sixteen batteries,
or thirty-two retorts full of the explosive substance ;
and in the space between one of °hand and Mason's
steam-engines had been stationed for the put pose of pump-
ing the water out of the gasometer. The men who had the
management of the engine were advised rot to work so
Gloss to where the gas was umuufaetured, and were asked
to remove the engine toanotherpwtt of the grounds where
the operstion of pumping out the water could be quite as
easily effected. However, this good advice WAS not
blamed to, and between 5 and 6 o'clock on Friday evening,
s fe w minutes after the engine bail begun G. work. mine
of the pieces of fire flying out of the funnel talon some of
the retort. and exploded almost simultaneously the °ou-
tage of fourteen out of the sixteen batteries—in other
words, 28 of the barrels full of eas. Thu funnel of the
engine had not, it is raid. even a 4`opark reserver," so often
used, being a sheet of knitted wire laid over the chimney
to prevent the marks issuing. The explosion naturally
els aged great excitement among those in the grounds, but
happily not so much clan.age was done as might have been.
If the gasometer had ban full of the explosive substance,
and a leading limn that to the balloon, there is no tatting
the extent of damage that would have ensued. A man who
wasnesrathandatthetin.efortutuately escaped wit hit Airing
more than a slight injury to the face fnim be.ng struck by
some of the fragments of. ood. The pieces of hirrele and
pipes flew about in a.l directions, and several ware hurled
over the in m: use set len which encircles the balloon. As
it had been announces' that the pubic: woold be admitted
on Saturday, people kept arriviug at Aslihurnhain-park in
the afternoon, but wets dieippiinted when they found
the entrances, to the grounds closed, and admission granted
to none except those where blueness took them within.
It is understood that the experiments will be imitpoued
till next year, when probably in April they will he recom-
menced. The dimensions of the balloon are as follows:
Diameter, 30 feet; cube, 300,e00 feet; haght of moults,
2,000 feet ; power of engine, *2OO horse power ; number
of passengers. 30.
A BOY'S HEAD BLOWN OFF. —A torrible
casualty occurred at lustow, North Devon, on Friday
evening. A little boy, son of a fisherman called Fiaher-
leigh, wise in the habit of taking the road bags scrods the
river, from Appledore, to meet the mail train at lustew.
He came screw in a boat with two gentlemen. One of
them had a gun at the bottom of the boat. On getting
out at lnstow the gentleman took up the gun, which ex-
ploded. Thu boy was close by, and his head came cleanly
off the lady.
Torso TO ITALY AND THE HOI.Y LAND.—OD
Saturday Mr. Cook completed his autumnal tourist party
of nearly sixty ladies and gentlenieu for Italy, the but sec-
tion leaving on that day. After travelling with this P 4
through most parts of Italy, Mr. Cook will leave them:3
go to Egypt and Palestine to complete kis arrangements
tor a tour to Jerusalem, itc., early in the new year.
CPT BTAL PALACE.—HALF-A-CROWN DAY.—
San" pray, SEPT. 12.—Admissions by rearm taiketo,
F, 78; ditto on puma; MN—total visitors. 9,06,
DUI ILLY and livifeet, ant the lament
holders of Whisky In the world. Their 01.1 Irish iithlekp is seem-
mended by the utedienl profeseics In preference to Proneh &witty.
dupplled MIAS and owe for home use or exportation. (Wahi-
awa on sppErwlion to Mesas. TOunrUle and 00.. &Mart; at I
beemiet-ecidisioa Woad, Leaks. W.C.-iXtrattleasist.

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