The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-31 00:00:00

MALTA, JAN. 25.
The seamen of H.M.S. Melpomene wrote a letter
making a complaint of the harsh treatment thev received
from the doctor of that ship, Lowry J. Monteith, and a
court-martial was ordered to try him. It assembled on
boerd H.M.S. Hibernia, on the 24th. There being 30
witeemee to examine, it is likely to continue some days.
The Second Master of H.M.S. Himalaya was tned by
court-martial at Corfu, for creating a disturbance in the
theatre, and was sentenced to lose two peers' time, dismissed
his ship, and severely reprimanded.
A court-martial was to have sat during the week at Corfu
to try Mr. Taylor, Assistant Paymaster of H.M.S.
Man. Several other courts-martial are reported to be about
to take place.
The Renown, Agamemnon, and Queen are refitting, and
will proceed to Corfu when reedy.

THE LOSS OP THE SHIPS FLORENCE GRAHAM,
CITY OF YORK, AND EMPRESS EUGENIE
STEAMER.

Yesterday the Board ofTnda received the report
of praiedings instituted by the Receiver of Wrecks, con-
taining the ezatirloadobs ba oath of Teivesid• Cullen, the
steward and survivor if the ship Florence Grisham, lost
with nearly all hands •; of Captain 'Charles Corell, late
master of the ship City of York, of Gkegow, stranded ; and
ef.Cap‘sin Iliggius,, late sneerer of the Empress Eugenie
screw steamer, which foundered 'oft Cape Lynn last Satur-
day morning. Redpeetiug the •Florenee Grahato, the ite•
ceivet ascertained that the serrirort ceased* only of the
steward, Cullen, and tour seamen. The master, Captain
Dickson; Mr. Brown, the • thief officer, • aad the re-
mainder of the chip's company met with • watery
pyre. The ship belpoged to Liverpool, and milled
from the Coast of Africa in November "last, with •
valuable cargo of palm oil, and daring the gale of the
Nth inst. shit was cut ashen, at Tales, where she
beam a wreck. None of the survives were in charge
at the time, and cannot speak as to the course of
the ship before she struck. They state they owe their
lives to the assistance rendered by the people on the beach,
The ship and cargo were insured. The City of York be-
longed to Glasgow, to which pert she was bated frost the
Mauritius with a cargo of 12,1104 bags of sugar. the wse
569 fans register, and belonged to Mesas. Hartle and Sons.
She arrived at Cork on the 10th inst., and re-sailed on the
13th for Glasgow, reaching between Wicklow Head asst
Dublin Bay on the 11th. They encountered very had. wea-
ther, and a heavy gale from the E.S.E., in the Metres of
which she bad her rudder carried away, end for a thee bar
came unmanageable, until • steamer called the Rrsterprise•
came up and offered to tow the ship safe into port, an offer
which the captain accepted. The steamer lashed herself '
alongside and commenced proceeding for entrance of
Carlingford Lough, when la entering she towed the ship.
on to a reef of rocks, where she eventually fell on her beim-
ends and filled. (The Receiver endorses his report with a
remark that the steamer went. on the wrong side of a 'buoy,
whether by accident or otherwise he cannot ay) The City
of York and cargo were valued at 27,0001. The report on
the loss of the. Empress Eugenie steamer attributes the
casualty to a sudden leakage in the hull of the vessel, pro-
bably by the starting of some rivets or a plate. Both ship
and cargo were Insured.

MYSTERIOUS DRAYS OP A YOUNG WOMAN IN
GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

On Tuesday, a rumour was rife in the city of
Bristol that at the village of Hambreok, a rural place, soma
Ave or six miles distant, in Gloucestershire, a young woman
had bean brutally murdered by her sweetheart, her dead
body being found at midnight in a field near her father's
house. At first the story was regarded as a fabrication.
The following particulars are from information obtained on
the spot.

At two o'clock on Monday morning, Sergeant Browning,
of the Gloucester County .Constabulary, when returning
borne front duty observed as he erased a field from
?doomed to lianarook what he supposed at a distance to
be a drunken person resting against a wall. On going
up to it he found it was the body of a decently-clad
woman. He moved her head in order to rouse her, but the
head sank into the position whence he had moved it ; he
then took her by the band, but was shocked at discovering
that the arm was rigid, and that he touched a corpse. The
body rested on the gnus, the back being supported by the
wall ; the arms were crossed on the breast, and the head
trooped on one side. The officer then carefully regarded
her face, and he fancied the countenance was that of a
young woman whose father, William Reed, a gardener, lived
hard by. A quantity of blond was oozing from the lips
and dnpping on the grass alongside, where about a pint had
collected. lie at once went to Reed's house, knocked
the poor man up, and inquired if his daughter was at home.
The old man replied that she was not, that she bad gone to
Winterbourne Down church in the evening (Sunday), and
had not yet returned. The sergeant told him that there was
a young woman in Mr. Clouter's field, sitting under the
hollow of the wall. With Kenn trepidation he, with his
eon William, accompanied Sergeant Browning to the fatal
spot, and was painfully shocked to perceive that the body
was that of his daughter Mary, a fine young woman,
scarcely twenty-four )wars of age. With much lamentation
and sorrow the aged man assisted to convey the deceased
to his cottage. Mr. Edwin Day, surgeon, was sent for, and
was shortly afterwards in attendance, but he pronounced
her to be quite dead, and from a cursory examination pre-
sumed she died from palpitation of the heart. The field
where the body was found is about a mile from Winter-
bourne Down church ; and it appears that on
Sunday evening the young woman attended service nt
that place of worship, and afterwards met a young man
named John Bowyer, with whom she kept company. Thu
lovers sat for some time and had some drink together in
Fowler's beer.house, on Winterbourne Down. The young
man is a collier, about 21 years of age, and lives at Winter-
bourne Down. On the following morning (Monday), when
the discovery had been noised about the neighbourhood, he
went to the police-station at Hambrook and voluntarily ac-
knowledged that ho returned home with the young woman,
Mary Reed, as far aa the gate leading into the held where the
lifeless remains were found. He likewise visited the cottage
of the afflicted family. Subsequently, however, on Monday,
the police ascertained that at half-past 11 on Sunday night
Bowyer was seen in compauy with the poor girl, who was
then sitting entire spot where Sergeant Browning found her.
The young man Bowyer was then standing in front of her,
and a villager named Alfred Coombe, who peened along the
path near them at that hour, noticing her being unwell, ached
" what was the matter?" To which Bowyer responded,
"Oh, she's only a bit feisty, and ull get better presently.
Comae consequently left them. At half put 12, however,
two young men, brothers, named Holbrook, residing in the
village of liambrook, crossed the field on their way home,
and as they went along the path they saw Bowyer and the
girl seated side by aide, resting against the wall in the same
place as before. The pair appeared to be asleep, for both
their heads were drooping ; the young man, however, was
seated on a stone, while the young woman was seated on
the gram The Holbrooks were rather surprised at the
sight, and shouted out to the young man in order to awaken
him, as they thought. "Halloo! we do know who
thee hist. 'Tis thee, Jack Bowyer." The young man looked
up and made some trifling reply, and the Holbrooks then
left him with the young woman, who was so soon after-
wards found by the police sergeant lifeless and alone.
The deceased bore an excellent character, anal earned her
living as a dressmaker and milliner. She kept company
with Bowyer some time ago, but for some reason or other
the affair was broken off, to be, however, as it appears,
subsequently renewed. Mr. Day, the surgeon, made a more
careful external examination of the body on Monday, and
failed, it is said, to find any marks of violence or rough
usage upon her person. For some time past she has lava
suffering from palpitation of the heart. One very prevalent
rumour was that there were marks un her throat of having
been "throttled," but it is stated that the u.adieal Man
considers the partial discolouration of the throat to result
naturally from sudden death Iron. palpitation of the heart.
In favour of the young limn there is au explanation to the
effect that after spending the evening with his ill fated
sweetheart be was returning with her to her fatli..i'scottage,
when, from having walked quickly, it may I o she was
suddenly seized in the field with an attack of her complaint
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with her, still hoping to see her better, when the;fearful
fact was revealed to him that she hail breathed her last ;
and that then, dreading to make tho announcement, he god
trembling to him abode.

THE LATE FATAL AINALLT BY BOYS IN THE
ClTT.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest wu held at the
Coleman-street Wartbrooms, London Wall, by Mr. Payne,
the City coroner, to inquire into the death of Joint Silverside,
a silversmith, lately residing at No. 4, Brown's•buildings,
Finsbury. and who, it wee alleged, had met kin death from a
blow from a stone thrown by one of four boys now in cue-
tody, under the circumstances reported in oar columns yea.
',ratty under the heading of Guildhall Pekoe Court. Evi-
dence of some length having been taken, the jw7 after &
abort mesultation returned & verdict that the " Deceased
died from the effects of excitement caused be an assault
committed on him by several boys now in custody."