The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-18 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY OCT. 17.—PROMOTIONS AND A.P-
-rolNTNßNTß—Leatenant C. Mitchell, to the Excellent.
Sub-Lieutenants W. E. Miller, and H. Izod, to the Con-
queror.

Enginoent J. T. Harris, confirmed as first-class auistant
in the Indus, as superutuuerary ; P. hilinight, first-class
assistant engineer, to the Doterel ; and J. J. Finch, second-
class assistant-engineer, to the Industry.

PORTSMOUTH, Ocr. 17.
SPEED OP THE WAHlllOll.—The Warrior, 40,
screw frigate, Coptala the Hon. A. Cochrane, made the
official trial of her apeedat the measured mile in Stokes
Bay to-day, under the superintendence of Captain Broad-
head, of the steam reserve. There were also on board
several of cen of distinction, the heads of the steam depart-
ment, and representatives of the makers of this engines. The
Warrior made six runs, and realised a speed of IJ, knots,
whisk is somewhat Weer the speed whirl we. anticipated.
The pressure of steam was 2Hbe. to the square inch, and the
vacuum, 2.51. Her draught of water was 25 feet 6 inches
forward, au d 26 feet 4 inches aft. As on previous occasions
the engines worked evenly and satisfactorily.
The Medea, 6, steam sloop, Commander d'Arey Preston,
will proceed to Spithead on Saturday next.
It is expected that a court-martial will shortly be held at
this port ou Commander Nelson and the officers and crew of
her Majesty's sloop Driver, for the loss of that vessel in the
West Indies.

CHATHAM, OcT. 17.
The screw frigate Chesapeake, 51, 400-horse
power. Captain IL Maguire, was paid off this morning.
after being in commission upwards of four years, during
which period she boa been actively employed, chiefly in the
Eastern waters. The crew have been granted eight weeks'
leave of absence. Seventy nos-commissional Aimee and
men of various regiments were discharged from the invalid
depiit this morning, in consequence of their unfitness for
further service.

WOOLWICH, Orr. 17.
The new Royal Marine Hospital baying been
opened for the reception of patients, orders bare been re-
ceived to convert the former hospital, now vacated, into
oaken' quarters, and various offices in connexion with the
barracks, which are now occupied by about MO rank and
file of the Woolwich division of Light Infantry, under the
command of Colonel Campbell.

LosooN RIFLE BRIGADE. —The presentation
of the colours voted by the Corporation of the City of
London, and of silo, r tugles, subscribed for by the
ladies of the City of London, and the distribution
of prizes won at the rifle competition, are to take
place to-morrow in the centre transept of the Crystal
Pithice. The brigade will parade on the upper terrace at
three o'clock, proceeding from thence to the open speoe on
each side of the raised dais in front of the great Handel
orchestra, which will be appropriately decorated for the oc-
casion. The front seats of the Handel orchestra will be re-
served for the members of the oorporatino and their friends
holding green tickets. The entrances for these tickets will
be on the ground floor, at the back of the refreshment
stands adjoining the great orchestra. The upper seats of the
orchestra will be appropriated to the white tickets issued
by the Rifle Brigi.do. The entrances to these seats will be
from the picture gallery. The entrancea to the reserved
meats will be opened at three o'clock. The Lord Mayor (the
Right Hon. William Cubitt), the Lady Mayoress, and the
Sherds (G. J. Cockerell, Esq., and W. H. Twentyrnan,
Bwi.), will arrive at the Palace at half-past three &clock,
and with the aldermen awl the committee will assemble iu
the board room of the Crystal Palace. The presentation of
the colours by the Lady Mayoress will take place at four
o'clock precisely. This will be followed by the presentation
of the silver bugles after which the Right Hoe. the Lord
Mayor will distribute the prizes won at the rifle competition
to the successful competitors. Between the presentation.
appropriate selections of music will be performed by the
bands of the brigade. At the conclusion of the ceremony
the National Anthem will be played, the brigade saluting.
Frequent trains will run from Victoria, London-bridge, and
intermediate stations.

Asr INCIDINT or PAPAL ROLE. —I was visiting
the other day the convent of San Michele in Bosco, the
delightful oinnoLium on the hill, which now, as a royal
villa, harbutus King Victor Emmanuel wh he stays
at Bologna. It was formerly the residence of the Cardinal
Legate, and Pope Pius IX. took up his abode there at the
time of his last visit to his northern dominions, in 1857.
The Cardinal Legate, bent on making grand peepers-
tams for the reception of his holy guest, sent for a
sculptor, by name Pacchioni, who since 1848 bad been
shut up in a state prison for political offences. Re
asked the artist, • distinguished master in his pro-
fession, whether he was equal to the leek of decorating a
private chapel destined for the use of the Pope with •
fee-simile of the statue of the Immaculate Conception
which had just been inaugurated in Rome by the Pope,
who, as the world knows, woe still all flushed with the
achievement by which he had added a new mystery to
the catholic dogma. The statue, with those of the four
Evangelista at the corner of the chapel, was to be made
in the short space of 28 days. The cardinal agreed
upon a handsome payment, and engaged to restore
the prisoner to freedom. The sculptor went to work
for dear liberty, the statues were executed with
masterly skill, roil nothing could equal the delight of the
cardinal on seeing the whole ready at the right time, or
that of the Pontiff at the sodden end ingenious surprise
that had been prepared for him. On the eve of the Pope's
arrival, the cardinal called the artist aside, praised and
thanked him with every demonstration of affection, and
asked hint whether he would find it too hard to go back to
hie dungeon fora day or two that the Pope might be allowed
the exercise of Lis clemency, and that the prisoner's par-
don might seem to flow from the source of all grace and
honour. In an evil hour the aculptor,who, be it olwerved, bed
been at large all the time he was at work, and had a hundred
opportunities of putting the Papal frontier between him and
ha fanner gaolers, allowed himself to be put 'gain under
lock end key, and submitted to a dursnoe which he was too
sure would be mere matter of form, and would not be pro-
longed before the first day of the Pope's visit. Well, the
Pope arrived, the Pops stayed, the Pope departed ; Pic.
chioni's prison door remained locked and bolted. Two long
years pained • the candied never paid one penny of the
stipulated bargain, and the swindled victim would, In all
probability, have perished in his chains but for the happy
events of 1869, which cense to his release, as to that of so
malty of his fellow-sufferers.—Letter in the Tines.
FIGHT BETWEEN ENOLDIII AND FRIDTCH BATMAN.'
—Tim toaster of the fishing smack Arthur, of and from
Ramage* gives the following particulars of an attack made
on Lis crew by the crew of a Lkailogno boat, which ended in
a somewhat actions encounter:—" Left ltamsgate. Oct. 1.
Proceeded to the fishing ground off the North Foreland.
On Friday, Oct. 4, at two a.m., the weather fine and clear,
wind E., was riding to her fishing gear, which was part of
le wreck or something ; had •• riding light up (a large glass
lantern), about half way up on the forestay, which was
showing a good light. when a Bottler:Kindling boat (No. 439),
under mail. dose hauled on the starboard tack heading about
N.B. by N., ran into the Prime Arthur's 'starboard bow,
carried away her bowsprit, four stanchions, rail and bulwark,
parted her haul warp, thereby causing the smack to lose all
her gear. The two vessels remained in collision far about
half au hour. The master requested the Boulogne boat to
get in her bowsprit, which was between the smack's ng-
ging and her mast, and which prevented the two vessels
from separating. The crew of the Boulogne boat then com-
menced pelting the crew of the smack with stones ; they
broke the lantern to pieces, and also, when the master went
forward to endeavour to clear the Boulogne boat's anchor,
which was hooked in the smack's bobetay, cut at the
master with an axe. Upon several of the French tither-
men attempting to rush on board over the smack's bows,
the mate of the Priam Arthur went below and loaded •
fowling piece with powder and fired it toward the other
vessel ; the third time he l'eadeil it he put in about '23 small
shot, and again fired towards the other vessel, in order to I
intimidate the French fishermen from boarding the Priam
Arthur. The master of the Prince Arthur was @truck by •
several stones, one of which cut his eye, and another
wounded his right band. Others of the crew were struck by ,
stones, a large quantity of which remained on the ship s
deck when she tame into Ramsgate harbour about five a.m.
The Boulogne fishermen had no light up."
At the Southampton borough sessions, held .
yesterday, the Recorder, in his address to the grand jury, '
lamented that while crime was decreasing in England gene. '
rally it was increasing in Southampton. The grand jury
made • presentment of the defective police arrangements of
the horoagh.
DS. DS JONOR'ti LIGHT BROWN COD LITHE
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ence and the testimony of numberless eminent medical practi-
tioners prove that a hslf.pint of Dr. de dough's Oil is equal la
remedial effects to a quart ~f Ley other kind. Hence It la In-
finitely more economical than that which is sold at the lowest
price. Dr. Reyes, Physician to the Brighton Dispensary, oh.
serves I consider that a teaspoonful of Dr. de Joules oil is
eqnnl In its effects to a tablespoonful of the pale oiL" Dr. de
Jough's Light Brown Cod Liver Oil Is sold only In imperiled
inv,rial hitt pinta, la. ed. : pints, es. 9d.: gnarl* 9s. : by his
sole consignees, Amer, Harford, and Co., 77, strand, Landoll;
and by respectable chemista.--ladverthentent.]