The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-14 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY. I IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

EMBARKATION OF THE ROYAL MARINE
FORCE FOR CHINA.
WOOLWICH, Acacia 13.
Thin afternoon, at half-past three o'clock, the
Royal Marine force at Woolwich under orders for China
assembled ea parade for 'action thy the colonel comma-
dent, previous to embarilen on board the screw steam
vessel Adelaide, at the Royal Arsenal Per. ThL division of
the force animists of a company of Royal Marine Artillery,
commanded by Lientenint-Colonel Thomas Holloway, aide-
de-camp to the Queen, Major George A. Schoenberg, and
lieutenant. Williams, Feeling, Crease, end Crawford. The
Artillery company number. 6 sergeants, 3 bombardiers, and
84 runners, and will form the headquarters of the corps in
China, Colonel Holloway being appointed commandant of
the entire Marine force. Three companies of the Royal Marine
Light Infantry, numbering 300 officers and men and 60
supernumeraries, for malice in the gunboats and other
easels in tho Chinese waters, complete the force now under
orders, and three, with a detachment of the 3rd company
oth battalion Royal Artillery, for Hong Kong, formed in
Disrcbing order at four o'clock, and proceeded to the Royal
Arsenal pier for embarkation. The troop were headed by
the two s k ¢did bands of the Royal Artillery and the Royal
Marine • t Infantry, Colonel Blooadield, acting com-
mandant o the Royal Artillery prrison ; Captain neigh,
deputy-amistant quarterstaater-general of the same corps;
Colonel Brown, commandant of the Woolerici division of
Royal Marines ,• and other officers of both reginenta. The
march from the Royal Marine Barracks to the pier
was a most interesting and mating scans. The street. wise
crowded with people, who incessantly cheered the troop,
and the latter responded in • most hearty manner, amebirs
of the men euthustratically waving their rep on the point
of their sword-scabbards—a latitude which miler the cir-
cumstances wee not rebuked. On arriving at the Royal
Arsenal pier the troops immediately embarked on board the
noble iron screw repel named (which he been fitted up in a
very remnant manner), the bends playing the popular air
of Cheer, boys, char." The Artillery company during
the pent week Ilea been through a course of instruction
under experirneed officers of the Royal Artillery, and is
now in a high elate of efficiency. The Adelaide has still to
receive a quantity of warlike store* from the Laboratory
Department of the Royal Arsenal, and will leave Woolwich

ADMIRALTY, AVGICST 1 3.—APPOISTMENTI.—Pay-
meter B. Beat (1847) to the bleoaDder, 44, in the Portland
Roads.
Second Modem—H. J. Sutton (1853) to the Sbipjack,
Awn gunboat; J. 11. W. Rowlett (1b62) to the Farmyard,
stem gunboat.

Major-General Sir Frederick Love, who has suc-
ceeded-General Sir Colin Campbell, 0.C.8., as It:wpm-tor-
General of Infantry. entered on the duties of his appointment
on Wednesday. Yesterday the gallant general made an
ottltvl visit to the camp at Colchester.
It is said that the command of the camp at
Shornclitio, vacant by Haior-Heneral Sir Frederick Love
becoming Inspector-Oasecal of Infantry, will not be tilled up.
The Champion of the Seas, from Liverpool for Cal-
cutta, was left llth August at 10 a.m., 110 miles W. of Scilly
Head, by be Blazer tugboat, vied S.W., fresh. The James
Baines, in tow by the Resolute, was still in eight. The He-
eolute tugboat was off Holyhead, inward bound, at 11 a.m.
yetterday.

LETTERS TO OFFICERS IN INDIA.—Many persons
who have friends and relatives amongst the officers of Indian
regiments that have mutinied, and been disbanded and dis-
persed, are at a loss how to address their letters, which have
hitherto been directed to the number end name of the regi-
ment, and the plane where it was stationed. The best way
to direct much letters, if the whereabouta of the officers
not accurately known, in still to mention the number and
name of the regiment, and also the Presidency to which it
belonged.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS DAY.
The house met at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE Busnises.
The Lords' amendments to the Mayor's Court of the City
of London Bill, and the litilF end Enniskillen Railway
Bill were considered and to.
DIVORCE AND MAT tIMONIAL CAUSES BILL.
The house then went into committee on this bill, mum.
log the coneideration of clam° 25, upon which
Lord J. MANNERS moved an amendment, giving the
right of petitioning for divorce to the wife, if her husband
had committed adultery, preceded or followed by any crime
punished by penal servitude.
Sir 0. GREY objected to the amendment, that it would, in
the event of R husband committing any offence punishable by
penal servitude authorise the wife to found her petition for
divorce upon an act of adultery committed years before, end
condoned long ego. He hoped the amendment would not
then be pressed, but that the noble lord, if he really wished
so to modify the clause would put it upon the paper, and
leave it for more mature consideration.
Mr. HENLEY supported the amendment, upon the
ground that a sentence of penal servitude ought to be eon-
Adored a case of deeertion, and at least a sufficient ground
upon which to found an application fora divorce, the grant-
ing of which would be discretionary with the court.
'r. GLADSTONE recceamended the postponement of the
amendment until the bringing up of the report. So far his
opinion was adverse to its adoption.
Lord LOVAINE thought that divorce ought to be granted
in came of adultery followed by hopeless lunacy.
Mr. HOPE opposed the amendment.
Sir W. HEATHCOTE supported it.
Mr. MALINti could not support the amendment, because
be thought that desertion,' as it steed in the clams, !should
be confined to abandonment with intention to desert, in con-
sequence of adidterms connection.
Mr. DE VERE denounced the bill as being entirely op-
posed to all sound religion, and the amendment se being
calculated to extend • pernielotui principle.
After soma further diecwtsion,
Lord J. MANNERS withdrew the amendment, with an
intimation that he should re-introduce it on the report.
Mr. STAPLETON then moved en amendment to the
abet that an act of adultery committed by a husband,
sob-
sequent to a decree for restitution of conjugal rights, should
entitle his wife to divorce a timid° in the event of the hue•
band refusing to comply with the decree.
Sir G. GREY opposed the amendment as being unne-
cessary in practice and inconvenient in principle.
After a long conversation it was withdrawn.
No other amendments were proposed, end upon the gum-
Son that the clause, as amended, stand a port of the bill,
Mr. GLADSTONE, although he would not himself move
its rejection intimated that he was prepared to support any
motion to that effect ; and then proceeded to review the course
of ditcussion in the four airtime, during which the clause hid
occupied, exclusively or partially, the attention of the
committee, and to vindicate the conduct of its opponent.'
from the charge of obstructive proceedings.
[Left speaking.]

LONDON ..15D POSTS WESTERN IMILWAY.-
(Tins DAY.)

Thu morning the usual half-yearly meeting of the
proprietors of the above railway, wee held at the &lami-
nation, the Marquis of Cum :um, chairman of the beard of
directors, in the chair.
The report has already appeared in the Express.
The CHAIRMAN observed the since they had adopted the
practice of publiaking the report, the attendance of proprie-
tors bad sadly fallen off, a result which he very much
regretted. It would be seen from that document that
they were enabled to pay dividend at the fate of
tire per cent. ; it might have bem greatly increased had the
improvements of the line been charged to capital rather than
revenue ; as it was the dividend wae most eatiefac-
tory, considering that this was the haat productive
half of the year. It was proposed at UM meeting
to take powers to raise additional capital for the purchase of
additional nuclei and erection of homes on the Stour Valley
line, for the accommodation of the revenue of the company,
who were too often demoralised by the wretched
state of their dwellings and the bad characters
with whom they were thereby brought in contact
Adverting to the tire at Camden-town he ought observe that
the lose that had accrued bad been very much exaggerated;
instead of its being a quarter of a million, it was only
• few thousand pounds. The warehouna and shaft
were to be rebuilt upon extended and improved
plans. The proprietor', no doubt, were aware that
the government had attempted to 141411 a bill for securing
riots punctuality in the carriage of the Poet-office ensile by
railway ; that bill this company, with others of equal influ-
ence, had successfully opposed, and they should continue to
oppose all similar measures, as they had no faith either
in the expediency or the efecary of securing eyed
and punctuality en railways by legielative enactments. The
Manchester, Sheffield, and Liccolnshire had broken its agree-
went with the company, and joined the Great Nonbern
with. view of extracting a portion of the London and North
Western traffic; eo far however, as it had gone, the attempt
had [Ailed, and the directors believed it would result in
lore to those who had made it. They feared nothing,
from such unjustifiable aggression; the profits of the com-
pany did not, and could not rest on agreements with other
companies, which were liable to be broken and disturbed at
any moment, but upon the accommodation the com-
pany afforded the public—upon the efficiency and
certainty with which they canted the public over the
different parte of their railway. The ietereste of
railway proprietors and the public were identical ; while the
first were entitled to a fair return for their capital the
second bad a right to the beet railway accommodation that
could be obtained. That wes the policy upon which the
company was tuaneged, and so long as the directors had the
confidence of their proprietors indoors and the public
out of doors, they should hove no fears for the
continued success of their management. (Cheers.) The
noble marquis concluded by moving the adoption of the
the report, which waa seconded by Mr. Benson, the deputy
chairmen.
elr. RILET, of Liverpool, condemned the conduct of the
Manrheed er, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire; and, at the
request, he said, of a large and influential body of
proprietore, he wished to make an addition to the motion be-
fore the chair, expressive of confidence in the directors, and
urging them to persevere in the policy they adopted towards
their competitors in the north. (Cheers.)
Mr. DOLLAN BASSETT seconded this special vete of confie

drove.
Mr. Jo.rest LOCKE, M.P., censured the direction for
having dismissed one of their most efficient officers became
he bad been instrumental in saving 30,0001. to the company.
The. officer had been the superintendent of the locomotive
department at Crewe.
Dlr. Pe Mental! complained of the expenditure, which he
characterised as excessive ; their receipts this half-year had
increased 05,0001., and their expenses 62,0001. The directors
put the working expenses last year at 41 per cent, whereas
this year theywere 60per oent., and this increase he attributed
to a want of proper supervision on the part of the direction.
Mr. HADFIELD, M.P., eked for some further explanation
of the falling-off in the dividend; last week the receipt&
were 74,0001., approaching very needy 4,000.0001. a-year.
and yet the proprietors got comrsratirely nothing as some
pared with their set rants and the puttc at large. Last yen
they paid 51,139/. 17.. in the shape of duty; now he wanted
the directors to Dec their in fluent* to get that to removed,
and also tojpractise more economy in working their inereesing
traffic. V. ith proper management their divide.nde might
never be less than 7 per cent.
Mr. DEAN found taut'. with the amount charged for legal
and parliaments 7 exp. nee& Daring the last five years the*
charges amounted to 'no lees than 144,0004., and every veer
there appeared to be an addition of from 10,0001. to 15,000 i.
lie deprecated the deo. of entering into any reckless comps•
tition with the lire at Northern as the proposed sddition to the
motion seemed te, imply.
Mr. HALEY dwelt upon the necessity of shengthening the
hands of the xenon by unsuinumsl) adopting the addition
to the roeobsti on.
Mr. DICY.INSON expressed his fibrin at the growillg
increase of the capital account; it appeared to inereee at
the rate of 300 000 i., and within the lest year and a half the
exneedie yre charged to capital amounted to no less thin
Aft Jr some further discussion the Chairman replied and
the *.erort was adopted.

'BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY comr4Ar—
(THIS HAY.)

This morning the usual half-yearly meeting of the pro.
prietora of the above rtilway was held at the Euston sten=
—Sir Harry Verney, Bart., in the chair.
The statement of the revenue account to the 30th
Juualqq
supplied with the tepart, shows that the balance of dividend
unpaid on the 31at December last was 6041. lfs. 3d. Thereat
received from the London and North Western Company
to 3let December amounted to 24,5001., making together
atotal of 25,5041. IGe. 3d. The payments during the half.
venr amount to 24,8.151. 12e. 10d., leaving a balance of 612/.
ss. bd. to be carried forward to the neat account. The nest
dividend will be payable at the company's banters on Ur
2.lth of August. Ihe trate receipts during the past IA
months again show au increase, as compared with the our'
responding period of last year.
The report was adopted.

Focs IN TUE CHANNEL.—The density end sudden
appearance and dieeppearence of the fog. in the Channel ers
remarkable. On IN edneeday night the Channel Wood mai
packet Courier could not enter the Solent on account of • far.
The oommander of the Courier, Captain Ooodridge, know-
, hag he must be near the Needles (the rocks at the month cd
the Solent), got into a boat to explore his precise whemsbouta
He soon came to the outer Needle rock, where the lifhtlSAS
is being erected. He rpoke to the workmen, who live trt
the rock, and defiled them to knock their crowbare togs Mer.
ao that l;e might be guided by the sound through the narrow
Ion&
entrance of the Solent. By this means he got &
safely. About one hour after this the Brazilian mail park*
Avon arrived off the Needles, and the fog was then well'
&tid , y cleared away for her to enter, although her
I were makable at the Hurst Castle telegraph station. ittal
the Needles lighthouse is completed, the difficulties of lb,
=lmo to tile Solent by toga will parody esist,