The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-10 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADEEALTT, MAT a —ATM/MIXT& —Lies-
tenant A. Batas, to the Challenger.
Mates J. C. Drew, to the Medina ; and G. G. Hunt, to
the Hersey.
Chief Engineers J. Sangster, to the A. for chez:fete
machinery of the Shamrock ; J. Nova. to the C
and A. Dunn, to the Asia, for charge of the machinery oi
' the Admattwe, after the letter ship shall have bora paid off.
First.Claes Aratetant Engineers W. M. Rundle, to the
Wm, for charge of the machinery of the Buzzard ; J.
Ryder, to the Rinaldo, in lieu of a chief engineer ; W. R.
Yabien, to the Driver, is Ike of a Mist engineer ; A. IWO%
to the Challenger ; and G. Wynhall, to the dam for charge
of the machinery of the Cygnet.
Elsoned-Chies Assistant Engineers J. Ireland, to the
Rinaldo; J. San, to the Driver; sad J. year to the
Challenger.
Third-(lass Aseistant Engineers E. Keen, to the Rinaldo •
G. Kaye to the Driver; J. Mather, and J. Bell (B) to the;
Clatissese.
Actin Third-Class Assistant Engineer, J. Nelson, to the
&Imelda; P. Erskine, to the Cumberirea, for temporary
charge M the Bulldog ; J. truer. to lief Cambwkaki for
armee in the Itranee i, J. A. Dicks, mid bytes (C) to
the Cumberland.

The Creasy, 80, Capt. T. Harvey, put in at
Plymouth yesterday. She left Gibraltar tia Me 944 h ult.,
and by been besting moss the Bay spinet adverse lauds.
Shea •
We following invalids from the Mediterranean
fleet ought
Ahison, chief engineer, a carpenter of the Stet
class, aid 71 mama amid inertias ; 411 of the (hooey's wear
were also reported on the sick bet. The crew of the gunboat I
Quail, paid off at Malta on that vessel being coademasd and
broken apt aim home also in the Cressy. The supwan
meridiem brought by the Croaky were discharged into the
Impregnable to-day, and her hospital caws seat to the
Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehowe. f3he coaled today and
was expected to leave in the evening far Shararra, these
to be paid off.

CHATHAM. MAT 9.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Cyclops, 8, 320
horse power, Captain W. J. S. Pollen, salved at Sheerness
last night, and minted the flag of ViceAdmind W. J. Hope
Johnstone, commander-is-chief at the Nom The Cyclops
hes been in commie's:a nearly four years, during which
time she has been attached to the Bag India and China
Mations. She was impeded this morning by Admiral Hope
Johnstone, and will immediately strip to be paid off into
ordinary.

The officers of the several volunteer corps who
were brigaded last, year in Hyland's-perk sad at Naming, in
Essex, purpose dross together id the labial, in Alderegete-
street, es Weduesday, the 6th of Jens, upon whisk madam
they will entertain liejor-Geoaral Robert Wd, C.B.
Os Wednesday there was launched,from the
building yard of Yenta. Tod and Wm,
of et Olazgovr, the
Lady Nyasa sa, elegant screw steam about DO tees
0.m., built for Dr. Livinptoos, the tardier, sad
nodal for the navigation of the river Shire. above the Net.
canton Falls, and of the greet lake Nyasa. The Lady
Nyasa is to have a pair of high pressure iiireotsetieg en-
Ones, and will have the novelty of two drew
separate shafts. She has been built for • lartreogoltat
of water, being intendaekwhen reedy for sea, to draw sot
more thee 13) feet ; as she hail to be abut to the
river Ti in pieces, she e has been constructed on • new
piaci*, sad 'sassed with screw bolts, so as to be tiled
up without riretting on reaching bar destinstiou. Won
being taken to pieces, previous to shipment, she is to be
bad on the Clyde.
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, at their
weekly martin yesterday, agreed to advance the salaries of
the harbour sod dock muted ia the service of the hoard by
aa aggregate amount of TM, and also to pay all the taxes
to which these Acids would, ender lime happy circum-
stances, be sebjset
STRAY PIMP 1011 Saiernece Prleo6llL—The
seeretwry of the hemelation for the Protection of Wracked
and Damaged tagin a commonicatka addressed la
the Nanny Dock and reed at their isimeing pater-
day, data that the ainociation has bad cessameted a
powerful steam pump, moviag on wheel{ sad suitable
for pumping water out of 1 ships and Into vessels on
fire. The saeretsry requested that the bard would allow
the pump to he pt on some convenient portion of the
dock estate—the Prince's landing-stage being indkatedas the
most suitable.

11111ii07W AID BRAZIL MA/lA.—SOUTHAMPTON,
MAT 9.—The Royal Nail Company'. steamship Oneida,
Captain Bevis, sailed hence today at 3 p.m., with the
monthly mails far Lisbon, Cape Verdes, Bahia, Pernam-
buco, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, &c. The Oneida took
out 67 mementoes, and on freight: Bar silver for Rio de
Janeiro, 15,00 W. ; sovereigns, 8,9601., of which 8,0001. are
for Lisbon ; diamond., value 3,9001, ; English jewellery
2,6271. ; French jewellery, 5!8131.; also • full cargo
French and English manhandles.

WORM murnro Ar BIRMINGHAM.

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On Wednesday evening a meeting of the Bir-
mingham Reform League was held in the Music-hall, for the
purpose of hearing an address or the subject of podia-
mentary reform, by Mr. Washington Wilke, the secretary
of the London Political Union. Mr. Alderman BALLO=
was called to the chair. There were present on the platform.
Alderman (Jameson, Alderman &urge ;Councillors Trenes.
Palmer, Joseph Taylor, Lees, and Guest ; Miens. J.
Taylor, jun. . • and the following deputations from other
towns : Mr. G. Turton (Mayor of Kidderminster), Mr.
Brooke(Kidderminster), Mr. T. S. Webb (Bilstou), Mr.
Anbury (Walsall), Mr. Vaughan (Wolverhampton), and
Mr. John Hargreaves (of Carlisle).
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said he had
lived many years in the hope of seeing a iced mane el
radical reform, and had as yet been &sapted. He ism
however, quits content to labour • little rw. in the good
old cause, he was sure that, if they all worked
heartily ogether, they would shortly obtain what they de-
sired. (Cheers.)
Mr. Jana TAYLOR moved the following resolution :
" That this meeting is deeply grieved by the fact that the
great majority of the people of these realms are unrepre-
sented In parliament, and that therefore times are imposed
and the national affairs conducted without their consist;
that the number of adult males in the United Kingdom ie
upwards of six millions, of whom only about one minks
are entitled by law to vote in the election of members of
parliament ; that of these one million electors many are un-
able to vote honestly, by mama of the compulsion exer-
cised upon them by landowners, customers or employers,
and that many more are habitually bribed by gifts, pro.
mime, or payments ; that the representation of the one mil.
hue electors is unequally distributed, many small towns
returning the mine number of members as • populous
county or city, whereby • majority of the House of
(Ammons is chosen by • minority of electors.
That this meeting believes the only just and effectual
remedy for these gross defects, abuses, and inequalities to be
such an alterstion of the laws as shall condom the franchise
every adult male who shall have been duly registered as re-
sident for twelve months in any county, borough, or other
electoral division ; protect the independence sod purity of
the voted by a system of secret voting, like that used in
the Australian colonies • and fairly apportion repressed*.
tivee to the population and rideable property of the consti-
tuencies. Thst this meeting has regarded with indignation
the failure or refusal of parliament, year after year, even to
mitigate the admitted evils of the prompt system, notwith-
standing that measures for the amendment of the repreeen-
tatiou have been proposed not only by private membenof
the house but by the Queen's ministers." In doing so he
expressed his regret that the working classes did net take
more interest in the great question before them. (Heir.)
It wee purely their question, and be was grieved to see
TWISON SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY.-100 BIRDS that they bestirred themselves no more than they did. If
KILLED IN 100 SHOTS. they had done as they ought to have done In 1860, they
Squire Chantrey, who is in his 80th year. arid who was would have had two millions sod • half or three millions el
Doted as • "cock shot" in the palmy days of the old voters instead of one million in the country. (Applause.)
ii Rd House," was backed some few weeks arm to kill This apathy, too, furnished inn of the strongest arguments
Pi pigeons out of 100 shots, and Thursday, May 9 was the used by the gentlemen who loved the loaves and tithe* fee
day appointed for the match, to take place at Mr. Roberts's, withholdieg reform. And yet, whilst these men wore
West Id.ndoe Cricket.grounibi, ()Id Brominism for 251. • Millie the working dame that they could not have ea net
side. The conditions of the match were that " t'auld of parliament without they asked for it, they were peeling
squire " should shoot at 25 birds at 5 yards rise, 25 at 10 acts upon acts directly contrary to the desire of the very
yang rise, 25 at 15 yards rise, sad the remaining distance people whim request they pretended to desire, when it
21 yards rise, at two birds in the trap, a single barrel gun I suited their cam. (Hear, hear.) He believed that the
oaty being allowed for the performance of each event. The j present House of Collieries was the very worst that had
betting was against Mr. ('hantre at the commencement, and . ever eat since the day when Oliver Cromwell told an English
1 rid nose so after he bad got off his first two events—the 15 ' leaflet to begone and make room for better sees.
and 10 yards rise, as the birds ie the latter distance faced ' Cheers.) And as to Lord Palmerston, he bad never con-
him too touch, and got away, although some were • erred an obligation upon his country. (Hear, hear.) After
very hard hit. He finished- his 5 yards' birds Is ' again inns upoe the working men the necessity of personal
• first-rat• manner, although he would not take ; action he resumed his seat.
advantsge of some two or three that flew over the : Several other gentlemen having spoken to the resolution.
beads of the spectators. In his distance of 15 yards be Mr. WaIIIMOTON WILIta addremed the meeting at some
brought down his first five, missed two, slaughtered seven, tenth.
miss the eighth, killed three and missed three, killed two, ,' The resolution was carried by acclamation.
missed one, and killed one ; total, Itkilled, waged 7. In) Mr. Tuning (Mayor of Kidderminster) then proposed the
the wood round, at 10 yards', he mimed his *scored, eighth, following resolution :—" That this meeting recommends the
eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth, nineteenth, tweet -first, reform union, and associations throughout the country to
twentythird, and twenty•fourtli, making a total of 161114. unite with the London Political Union, the Norwich Poli-
In the third round, at 5 yards, although he stood at • much tical Union, and the Radical Reform League, Birmingham.
longer distance be wee sore successful as only the second, in the preparation of • national petition, based upon the
third, eighth, eleventh, sad twelfth 'birds got out on bail, foregoing resolutior, for presentation during the next see-
the others all coming to grief, 20 being killed in this mood. eke of parliament."
For the first three 25's the score stood, 18, 111, 30 lulled, I
Mr. Wass (of Bilsion) wooded the resolution, which
total se; so that the Squire bed 45 bird, to kill to wig. WM supported by Mr. .1. 8. Wainer, and carried UalLai•
Nothing daunted, he went in at his 21 yards ries, std per- measly.

Till &Ulla HANDICAP, of 5 sova each, with 30 added.
Three.quarters of a mile. (7 nubs.)
Mr. W Harriet Jet* Polyolbloo:, by Cothar-
stone., 3 yrs, est SDI alldariey) 1
ford Coventry's Mousetrap, 3 yrs 7st 211, . . . . (Dickenson)
Captain Christie's Mir Swift, 3yrs, est Mb ...(Wbeatley)
Mr. John Dawsoo's Confession, 3 yrs, 7st Sib
Bettis; : Even on Mousetrap, 7 to 4 apt karriet, sto 1
apt Mims Swift, who jumped off with a lead et a couple of
laagtbs,, Mousetrap and Harriet lying next side by side,
Coafewion three lengths in the rear. As they receded the
Gresvenordwidge turn the three leaders came on abroad,
and ran no up to the distance post, when the favourite and
Harriet cups away, anal ran a good race in, Harriet at the
Ankh winning easily by two !Ninths. Mine Swift was a bad
third.

TOIL CHIsHIRS WILT= Cur, of 10 sots. each, with 60
added ; 3-yr-olds, 9st 6th ; four, list 31b; five, list 11lb;
Dix and aged, 12.121 b ; gentlemen rider. ; jockeys to carry
61b extra • winners extra ; penalties sod allowances. Nile
and a quarter. (12 subs.)
Mr. Barber's Ben Webster, by Barnton, 4 yrs, 116131 b
(Mr. lidwards) 1
Baron NiviCres Cosmopolite, 6 yrs, Ilst 1316
(Mr. W. Bel
Mr. H. Coretdale's Abunan, 4 tr., Ilst Sib In. Cab nitre
'John Osbnroe
Battier : 5 to 2 as Be. Webster, who wort is a mater
by a length.
The meetleg ham certainly been attended with a fair
=aware of emcees. 'The assemblage of company was very.
lame, mid all the inftuential patrons of the turf were—with
the imeeptaos of those whose political duties detailed them
is Lesees--present in their accustomed plans, The
settling us the Cup passed off mast satisfactorily, sad dr
spite sinister reports, the result showed the favour which
it was alleged had been extended to certain animals was
widely exaggerated. Mr. Topham has too large an interest
in the Cheeter meetlag to abuse his trust, and whatever
errors he may commit is framing his handicaps are merely
mon at leftmost.