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

THE GALWAY PACdIIW.

This morning a return was made to Parliament
of the sakatance of the reports of the Admiralty and Board
of Trade surveyors ca the steam ships employed by the
Adantlo Royal Company in conveying the mails between
Galway and America. Yr. J. Luke, the Admiralty sur-
veyor, reports of the NAG ou the inat of July last, that
in his opinion the general strength of the venial was not
satisfactory for the traamtlaatic mail service✓ and that she
could not justly be regarded as constituting a fair coin.
plisses with the true spirit and meaning of the oontract.
The Parana was reported on the sth of August to be fit for
temporary but not for permanent service ; and on the fird
of the present month the speed attained by • trial on •
previous day is reported insufficient to secure • fulfilment
of the stipulations of the contract. The Admiralty surveyors
report on the Prince Albert in October last, and on the
Adriatic List month, were • satisfactory. An in-
spection of the Hibernia on the 6th of last
mouth, after she had encountered • heavy gale on her
peerage from Southampton to Galway, indicated such •
deficiency of strength (according to two surveyors) as to
render her unseaworthy. On the lst of April the report on
the Columbia mentions several faults, but the surveyor con•
elders the vessel fit to carry the mails for two or three
voyages during the summer service. Several deficiencies
were indicated by the Board of Trade surveyors last year in
the Brazil and the Connaught; but the usual certificates
were granted. After the Board of Trade survey of the
Hibernia last month, her aerialists we; on the recommenda-
tion of two amnion, ourselled.

A Dublin letter of yesterday says :—" The
friends of the Galway packet+ who era busy e►oking public
opinion in Ireland upon the withdrawal of the subsidy, re-
ceived s heavy blow yesterday. When the sews arrived
that the Columbia, which was promised to mil at an early
day, had talks out of her stays at Liverpool, and been
damaged, blank dismay was visible on their faces. The
Rockiest could not, indeed, base occurred at a more tin-
fortunate moment. The directors were making energetic
Wane to complete their arrangement+ for carrying on the
lies, sad the delay that will be caused by this untoward
sent cannot bat interfere with their intimations."

PZINONINS IN ENOLBIII GAOIA. —A parliamentary
return issued thin rooming states that on thelst of this month
there were in Brix-too prima 549 females ;in Chatham, 796
males ; Dartmoor, 1,037 make ; Fulham, 176 Teal= ;
Millbaak, 16t males, and 450 female; Parkhnnt, 238
males ; Prates Mlle, 391 ; Portland, 1,518 ; Portsmouth,
964 ; Woking. 459 ; in all, 5,890 soaks, and 1,175 females.
Oa the same date there were 316 priemem al Wake6ekl in
cells rented by the government for convicts ; and 97 at
Leicester. The prisoners at Perth were 593 in number ;
and in the Irish ormolu, in all, 1,400.

The Bishop of Cremona has adhered to the
wishes of the municipality of that town, end ieformed
them that he would himself, on the 2ad of June, cele-
brate biglt mar in the cathedral, and sing the To Deems.
Tits MALTA AND ALZIANDRIA TELIORAPIL —ID
oosempiesee of the damage stale of the steame Weer"
having ma heard the Tripolid aid Yalta porika, r sad about
MB a the Tripoli and Bowl pieties of the Naha and
Akashi& Telegraph cable, eared by the foul weather
imeesetseed drziog the voyage fresh England, some delay
will mewls commencing the operation of laying adapts, of
the Mee. She is now in her Majesty's dockyar under repairs,
sod it is not expected that stie will be out of the heads of the
workmen for some dam!. The amble has bees tested mace
its arrival here, and, with the exception of a few
knots of it, which weredansegad,,aail have bees coiled under
water in the dock, has been found in petted working order.
I Mr. Wildman Whitehouse, who was the ehist electrician
employed in laying the Atlantis sable, has arrived here ea
the part of Meters. Glare, Elliott and Ow Part of the
eleetrie staff of the soverammit waived by the Bahasa,
and News. Ohms, Elliott, sod Ow's Mal lashed this
about a forbskot since by the Marseilles route. The hiker"
sustained 4. Malacca was the loosening of several d
her ins Notwithstanding these contretemps tie
paha are forward with onalldesce to the sacesesfal
termination of is great undertaking in submarine talm
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