The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-29 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, MAY 213.—APPO ERTL —Lieub3-
mats C. C. P. Pitsgerald, to the Asi ; and J. L. Way,
to the Steady.
Second Muter W. J. Grandy, to the Dasher.
Militant-Paymaster J. H.
IFI Manley, to the Edinburgh.
W. B.Hardy, to the Hero. =1 H.
Aseletantangiasere H. Johnson, to the Asia,
as supernuntemry ; W. Powell, to the Cumberland, for ser-
vice in the Julia ; and O. A. Davies, to the Aria, for charge
of the machinery of the Pandora.
Acting Sound-Pius Assistant-Engineer A. Beattie, to the
Indus, as supernumerary.

PORTSMOUTH MAT_ 28.
tial re-aasembled on board her

Majesty's ship Victory to-day, for the trial of
prisoners implicated in the treads committed on board her
Majeety's ship Edgar, 91,flyilig at tipithead. Theihei prisoner
triad to-day was Jeremiah Connolly, a petty °facer, on the
charge of obtaining from the paymaster • larger sum for
mess savings than was due to its mess. The overt found
the charge fully proved, and seatenced the prisoner to be
Mooed from the rank of petty °dicer to that of A. 8., to be
dismissed from the Edgar, and to be imprisoned in Winches
ter Gaol for the spaced six calsodar roontbsovith hard labour.
J. C. Waits, the ship's Meward, was then further charged,
together with William lamb, • petty officer, with con-
spiring to defraud the crown of money received on account
of Incas eavinp. The prisoners, having already been tried
and found guilty on separate charges of fraud preferred
spinet each of them, Commander Waddilova, the prose-
cutor, with the emotion of the Admiralty, wiAdrew the
case, it being considered that the sentence. already Rased
upon the prisoners satiaded the demands of jesticie.--Jolut
Girdlestone, a petty °Goer, was then tried upoa a similar
charge to that of the presser Omanolly. He was found
guilty, and sentemod to ie rednesi from the rank of petty
°Moor to that of A. 8., to be dismissed from the aim, and
to be imprisoned in Winchester Gaol for nine calendar
months, with haul labour.

EAILWAT COMMITTEE&
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Yesterday, to the surprise of both parties, after
an empswave mated al some days, the committee, of which
Mr. Cobbeit is the chairman, threw out both the Mid-
Devon and Cornwall and Devoe Central Railway Bills,
without assigning any speedo memos beyoad the in -trusties
that the preamble of neither bill had both proved to their
satisfaction. The bill of the Great Western Railway Com.
posy for a line from Lightmoor to Coalbreekdale, with a
to Wednesbury, and power to take additional lands
at Wolverhamptoe, for the purchase of the Wellinton and
Severn inaction, arrangements with the Warlock and
Severn Canal, and confirmation of agreements with the Vale
of Llaagollen, wee also passed in that committee. The com-
mittee on the competing railways in the Eastern Counties
dieziota, of which Mr. Mowbray is chairman, concluded its
labours by •syg the bill of the Eastern Counties Railway
Company for wdry extensions in its integrity in preference
to the Cola. Valley and Halstead Railway, and subse-
quently the other bills referred to them, e.. fisting of the
Bishop Steettoed, Dunmow, and Braintree Railway, for a
line of 17 miles between thee) point& at an estimated
cost of ISO,OOOI. ; the Ware, Ham, sad BunV*ord
Devistious Bill, sad the Lynn and liantheston Railway
BilL After hatsrlag Mr. Denises, Q.C., in favour of the
Zline of the Hereford, Hay, cad Brecon Railway,
.=° Merewether, Q.C., and Mr. Venables, for the
Shrewsbury and Hereford Relieve , against it, the commit-
tee of which Mr. Seholtheld is aheiemas passed the mea-
sure giving the Shrewsbury sad Hereford the facilities they
required. The case of the Cleveland Railway, for severel
small ramifying railways in and about the coal sad shipping
districts of Gmslitugh and the Tees, et • proposed cost oc
120,0001., was opeeed by Mr. Serjeaat wronghsm, and
antismog evidence was adduced in another committee, on
new North Eastern railways, in favour of the Newcastle, '
Dement, and Weardele Railway. Lord Soades, the ctair.
man, and Mr. Holroyd, the secretary, of the London, Chat-
ham, and Dover Railway, were examined during the day as
to the desirableness sad public expediency of the proposed
improvements and deviations in their system ; and the pro-
moters of the rival railways between Cork. Blarney, and
Macroom having closed their came in Mr. Ingham's corn.
mittee, their attention was occupied during the remainder
of the day with soother competing plan, which was opened
by Mr. Webster, Q.C., called the Lee Valley project.

ROYAL ittinicar. BErnvouner Comae& —An
election of six pupils to the schools meneeted with this
college took place yesterday at the Freemesone Tavern
Great Queen-street ; Lord Chelmsfont, president of the
college, was in attendance. The preliminary bushier having
bean guar through, the ballot command at 12 o'clock and
stored at 3, when the following boy. were aanoenced as the
succesdal candidates:—Joseph L. Nelms, 6,500 votes;
James Parker, 6,170; Samuel Arthur Taylor, 5,946; Walter
Little, 5,668; William H. Gall, 6,285; end JAB Pritcherd,
6,036.
PROPOSED ASOLITION OP BURLEY Fwennale.—
Yesterday a deputation from the clergy and ministers of
various denominations, resident in the perish of St. Panacea,
waited upon the Burial Board of that perish, for the pur-
pose of preventing a memorial, numerously signed, Kopec
the board to take measures for the abolition of Sunday
funerals at the St. Pancras Cemetery, at Flnalley. Mr. R.
F. Brettingham presided, and the deputation consisted of
the Rev. Dr. Hamilton, minister of the Secteb presbyterian
church, Regentaquare • the Rev. C. H. Andrews, incum-
bent of Ek. Luke's, Kiekemors, ter. The memorial, which
bore the Digestive of the Rev. Cason Champneye, the vicar,
and Dearly the whole of the district clergy and dissenting
ministers of the perish, set forth that to March, 1860, a
memorial was promoted by the undertakers of the parish,
praying for the closing of St. Pancras Cemetery at
Finchley on Sundays, but that a motion to accede to the
prayer of such petition was lost on a show of hands. The
memorialists prayed a reconsideration of the subject, opon
the folip grounds : Ist. That between 2,000 and 3,000
men en in the burial of the dead on Sundays, are ex-
cluded from religious worship. 2nd. That the dosing of
the cemetery on Suoilays would considerably noonuneed
it to the patronage of the parishioners ; and thirdly, that
the expenses of funerals on Sundays are very much aug-
mented by the extra refreshments of acquaintaoces, and
that the decision of the board would tend to indium*
neighbouring parishes in their decision. After ease
questions as to whether the authorities of the City of
London and other cemeteries would also clam them as
Sundays, the board was ordered to be specially summoned
to consider the subject.
lir.sirn os LONDON.—The weekly return issued
by the Registrar-Onseral stake that the total number ci
deaths registered is the week that ended last Saturday
wee 1,237, a mortality as high as that of the last week of
March, when the ear was many degrees colder than it has
been lately. The average. number of deatlui derived from
the returns of corremosthog weeks in the ten years 1851.80,
and corrected for lace se of population, is 1,157 ; hems
it appean thin the somber of -pinions who died last week
exceeds by 80 that which would have been returned if the
average rate of mortality had ruled. The deaths from
whooping-oough are still numerous : they were 97 in the
week. while the corrected average of corresponding weeks is
only 56. Five occurred in the rectory sub-district of Mary-
lebone. 11 in Islington, 3in the west subeiistriet of
, end Ghl.town. ficariatin• was fetal in 31 cases, diphtheria
in 13. Sixteen women died after childbearing ; 10 of which
cases are referred in the tables to =stria or puerperal fever.
A in.. died at the age of 96 years, • woman at the sales
age ; and the widow of an author died in Clifford's-inn from
" degeneration of the mucous membrane of the steamek,*
whose age is recorded to have been 100 years and 8 mouths.
A woman died at the age of 66 years from 17111111•1111111 caused ,
by the um of opium, which she bed takenfor • pmtod of 27 '
years. A child, aged 7 weeks, died of enema of the whole
body. Lest week the births of 892 boys and 934 girls, in all
1,826 children, were registered in Loudon. In the ten oar.
responding weeks of the years 186160 the avenge number
was 1,640.

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AITENTTED MURDER ON BOARD AN AM:RICAN
SNIP IN THE Miauv.—Joba Crosby, chief mate of the
American ship Panama, mid • runner named Gibney, were
brought up on remand at the Liverpool police-cowi yester-
day, charged, the former with attempting to murder a
coloured seaman earned Johnson, and the Litter with Lein
'an accessory after the fact. It will be remembered that
while the Panama was lying in the Mersey, opysonts Liver-
pool, a dispute arose between the mate and the crew rebe-
-1 tive to the totally defective rations supplied on board the
ship, and that during as alleged state of insubordination
amonpt the men, the chief mate discharged apistol at Jobs-
ens, the ball from which passed through his arra, and caused
Lim to fall into the river. It was stated in evidence that so
mutiny whatever existed amongst the crew at the time the
mate used his revolver, and as the magistrate, considered
his conduct quite uncalled for, they committed him for trial
cm the charge of attempted murder. Gibney, the other
•peruser, who endeavoured to keep the mate out of the
heals of the police by landing him immediately after he
had shot Johnson, and again trying to put him on haunt the
Panama when she was outride the port, was also committed
for trial. _ _

—CIIIITAL PALAcs. OHE SHILLING DAY. ---
MUMMY, MAT 28. —Admissiaos as paymma, 2,901 ;
ditto by mum tickets, 658 ; 401•1, 4567.