The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-04 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, 0‘..7. 3. —APPOINVIViTs.--Asaistant
Paymaster IL Winstsnley, to the Dauntless.
Assistant Clerk It. B. .Applin, to the Impregnable, as
superountentry.
Midshipman H. T. Credal, to the Warrior.
Naval Cadet Y. J. De Lisle, to the MaLieca.
The uotlenuentioued gentlemen have been nominated to
naval cadetships :—Messrs. B. 0. B. Carey, V. Isaac,
IL r. P. Blunt, V. Bradshaw,J. H. Chasm, J. L. Hammel,
L. J. Jones, KJ. Itawtree, H. Tn!oy, J. F. Kerr, H.
J. Knight, S. A. Hobert', C. 11. Western, and Lord L.
t/ordon.

PORTSMOUTH. Ocr. 3.
Corot-MARTlAL.—Yesterday a court-martial
assembled on board the flag-ship Victory, at Portaniouth,
to try Elijah Kemp, a marine, for stealing a puree coo.
taming four sovereigns, the property of Mr. t. E. Disks,
master's assistant on board that ship. It appear► that on
the 2iith of Sept. prisoner was a *entry in the cockpit, and
that the young gentleman who lost the money placed his
purse on his chest, it being in his trousers pocket. The
next morning a boy belonging to the sank, ship saw the
empty purse floating alongside the ship. The money was
also missed by Mr. Drake. Suspicion fell on prisoner, and
he was questioned, but he denied all knowledge of the
purse. He was afterwards taken into the signal cabin
by Mr. Hodges and searched, when in one stock-
ing two sovereigns were found, while another was
discovered sticking to his leg. A fourth was
shaken from Lis shirt. He said while putting up his
hammock he picked up the purse, threw it away, and kept
the sovereigns.
The charge being fully brought borne to prisoner, he was
called on for his defence. He had nothing to say, or any
one to speak as to his previous character, and therefore re-
quired no time to prepare hie defence.
The court cleared, and after an hour mid a hair. delibera-
tion found the prisoner guilty, awl adjudged him to be
reduced to the second class for conduct, to receive forty-
eight babes, and to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
in W inchoate& Gaol for six calendar months.

The court compewed Captain Wilwo, Captain A. Cum-
ming, Captain Hoc. A. Cochrane, C. 8., Captain itoehfort
Hawaii.% and Captain Jinni J. Napier, C.H. Captain
Clouts prosecuted, aod Mr. Haskins officiated u deputy.
officiating judge•advocate.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the
Warrior inn screw frigate at noun to-day, and at balf•past
12 o'clock embarked es board the Fire queen stami-vessel,
and proceeded to Hurst to aspect the fortifications in the
dolma.

WOOLWICH, OcT. 3.
The troops in garrison assembled on the common
this day, fix inspection by the commandant, Major-General
Sir R. Decree, K.C.B. The proceedings were uodenitood to
be a rehearsal in anticipation of a visit from the Grind
Duke Constantine. As DO previous intimation bad been
given, the number of spectators was comparatively limited,
but the evolutions turned out were of a moat iutereitiug
nature and occupied souse hours. At the termination of the
proceedings, which included the details cf a sham tight, and
exhibited the moist skilful movement., of attack, defence,
and pursuit, the commandant and stall proceeded to the
Royal Military Repository, where a series of experiments
were tried on the ornamental water, fur the purpose of tast-
ing some improvements recently effected in pontoon bridges.
After leaving the garrison General Decree, awl other often,
proceeded to the Royal Arsenal, and witnessed the proving
of several Armstrong guns.
Moms weeks since the coroner's jury who attended the
inquvit held upon Benjamin Bradshaw, a priv.ite of Royal
Marines, who was killed at the government practice range
whilst acting as a marker for volunteers, pronounced io
their verdict a strong opinion that the government mantlets
behind which the makers ere screened were unsafe, and
the coroner was directed to write to the military authorities
requesting that no more rifle practice should be allowed to
be carried on until an alteration had been made. Notwith•
standing this recommendation, the same inantlets are still
used, and the markers are still exposed to the rick of being
shot by some incompetent marksmen, or one who mistakes
hie target and Ares from a wide range. The defects in the
existing mantles admit of a must simple yet efEcieut
remedy, and it is somewhat surprising that the military
authorities have taken no steps in the matter.

CHATHAM, Oct: 3.

The WeHealey, 72, Captain Fa7ol.awii,
at the port, is to be used as a training ship for boys sod
lads entered for her Majesty's service. About zoo boys and
lads are to be transferred to her from the other ships, about
150 of whom have already joined her.
The Defence, 22, iron fragste, is being fitted at this dock-
yard with Cunningham's patent topsails, under the direction
of the inventor. The Resistance, 2'2, at Sheerness, is also
to be . fitted with the same invention.
. . . . . .

The Duke Constantine, of Hum*, tv expected to visit
Chatham to morrow to inspect the garrison, dockyard, and
other goveramont eatablishmente.

THEATRICALS IN HOLY WEEK.---In future the
compulsory closing of the theatres in Lent is to be limited
to Good Friday. The announcement of this chmige was
officially made on Monday last at the special annual
court held at St. James...palace, by the Lord Chem's:dein,
for the purpose of granting the yearly licensee to the
theatres. All the Loudon managers were present, and the
Lord Chamberlain informed them of the determination
which the executive had arrived at, and which would be set
forth in their licenses. The managers having briefly st-
rewed their grateful thanks for the indulgence, withdrew.
We believe that the matter, which had been long under con-
sideration, was first mooted by Mr. John Douglas., who'
pointed out the injury which the old restriction inflicted
upon the poorer employes of the theatres.
MADAME TtTiiiiAti D'S, —A life-like figure of the
Baron de Vidil has been added to the "Chamber of Horrors"
in the gallery in the Baker-street Bazaar, and is so attrac-
tive that the visitor. crowd the place with their &Readapts,
nearly ell day keg. It represents the original precisely es
be !Seared at kis trial
FEMALE ORFIIART HAY Lt-M, WESTMINSTER-ROA Di ,
The quarterly plural court was held yesterday. Mr. Carr
its the chair. The new secretary, Mr. Booth, officiated for
the first time. There was au unusually large attendance.
The chairman said he was pleased to see so numerous an
attendance. The governors had seen with regret that for
acme time past the expenditure of the charity had exceeded
its Income from annual subscriptions and donations, and
they had been compelled to draw upon the legacy fund for
the deficireacy. An audit committee had been iiinted,
but its report was not yet reedy. Messrs. G. C. DM/Dart
H. Pigeou, C. Browning, D. Kidd, and E. Slee were then
elected members of the general committee. The Hey.
Stephen Bridge, of Deorrutrk Chapel, and the Rev. Mr.
Chevasee, were elected life guardians. The *screwy an.
emceed that during the past quarter several legacies had
been left to the institution, among others one of 1,0001. by
the late Mr. R. Forrest, payable on the death of Mrs. Forrest. A donation of 1,00111. had also been revived from
the Rev. George Gaineford, on behalf of himself and Kim
tleindord. The court then dissolved.

The Rev. Mr. Sums, diocesan inspector, read his
re-
port, which stated that the number of children attending
the schools during the year was 12,814, being a diminution
of those above 10 years of age of 2 per oeut. The opera-
tions of the society had been most satisfactory.
The Earl CAMDEN rose to move that the report be
adopted, printed, and circulated with the other docu-
ments of the board, and in doing so, said he believed
the meeting would agree with him that the principles it
enunciated were such that any one who head it, and three
throughout the country who read it, would cordially ogres
with it. Whatever might be the regulations under the
Committee of Privy Council on Education, or whatever
alteratioos might be made in their present school system,
he trusted their boys and girls would still continue to be
brought up ,in • strictly religious education. The laity
could do little to moist the clergy, who had taken upon
themselves the trouble and expense of providing education
for the poor, but what they could do they would moat cheer-
fully, and they could not do better than by aiding them iu
increasing evening schools, where children might obtain that
instruction which through being called upon to go to work
they were necessarily obliged to curtail.
Mr. DEEDEK seconded the adoption of the report just_pro-
posed by the noble earl, and said that society bad We*
established for the purpose of giving the children of the
poor • souud, useful, and a religious education in the prin-
ciples of the established church, and he trusted that no
temptation whatever that could be offered to the members
of their society would ever induce them to depart from
those principles, as he believed that on uo other system
could education be successfully carried on in this Christian
country.
The Archbishop of eta-ruiner put the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
Mr. GATHORNE HARDT moved the second resolution—
" That Mr. Deedes and the Rev. John Hodpou be the
auditors fur the year; Mr. A. Mott, Mr. W. Mott, Mr.
Burr*, Mr. W. Carter, Major G. Deedes, Mr. D. Deane,
Mr. J. D. 8. Douglas, and Culooel Cater be requested to be
lay members of the board fur the ensuing year.
The motion was then put and agreed to, sod after some
formal resolutions hail been put,
Earl CAMDEN moved, and Mr. HARDT seconded, • vote of
thanks to the Archbishop of Canterbury for presiding on
that occasion, which was unanimously agreed to.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said he was pleased at
the compliment which they had pealed on him, and at his
being able once more to appear in that mom, to nee the
great additional interest which was felt in the cause of edu-
cation. The subject was one of the greatest importance,
and recent circumstances had that day brought it more pro-
minently before them. There was • proposition for a re-
visal of the national grants, but be could not say whether or
note revisal was necessary, but there was one part of the
present system which had been over-rated. He did not
think it would be possible to employ so large a number of
pupil teachers as had been produced of late years,
and although they had been drafted into other
situations, it was not the intention of the state
that they should become pentioners upon it.
As to the present system, it was not extraordinary that
after so many years it should require revision. He trusted
that in any change which might be made that opt which
was really useful would not be diminished, and the pub lica-
tions of the last two or three weeks clearly showed that
they might mitigate the severity of the subject, by bringing
it down to the standard of common sense. As the atten-
tion of parliament would be called to it, he trusted some
good would come to the cause of education. He believed
that a great deal had been done iu the manufacturing dis-
tricts by the agency of Sunday schools, fur the teaching of
the children in them served to mitigate the character of the
parsata. He mentioned that his predecessor could scarcely
go into Manchester without arms in his carriage, but now
all was peaceable, and although there bad been a want of
employment, yet there had been no disturbance for the
last twelve or fourteen years, which he attributed to the
spread of education. His Grace then pronounced the bene-
diction, and the proceedings terminated.

TEE REGISTRATIONS.
_ _ MARYLEBONE

Yestenlay Mr. Tyrrell held hiv court at the St.
Pancras Vestry-ball, Gentles-town.
The conservative party had, through their objector-general,
Mr. James Martin, of Liuon-grove North, objected to some
150 or 160 voters who had been un the register for yam,
and of whom a large majority were present to defend thew
right. Mr. W. Albert James, of 40, Parliament street, ap-
peared to support them, and he was aided by Mr. Douglas
and other members of one of the St. Pancras Parochial Au*.
ciations. Mr. Henry Smith, secretary of the Conservative
Registretion Associatiou, of Nurfolk-street,Strand, attended
as the agent of Mr. Martin.
The learned Barrister said that on the previous 4+13,14
the Marylebou court a question had been raised upon a
antics of objection, signed by a Mr. Martin, against which
be had, on behalf of the objector, been asked to grant a case
of appeal to the Court of Common Pleas. He had well COlllll.
doted the matter, he had consulted with one of his col-
leagues upon the point, sad had come to the determinationof
not granting such appeals. He considered that Mr. Martin
was deserving of no consideration whatever. Martin had
appeared before him to prove his identity with the signa-
ture attached to the notices, and stated that he had signed
a great number of these objections, several hundreds, at
the instigation of Mr. Henry Smith, but that the parties
against whom he had objected were totally unknown to
him. This was a most serious proceediug, for in signing so
many notices he made himself liable for a heavy sum of
penalties for groundlege objections. It seemed to him (the
Revising Barrister) a monstrous evil that any person should,
without consideration, put hundreds of the elector' to
senous inconvenience and trouble in attending these
courts. He certainly should do all in his power
to carry ouf the act of parliament, and protect the
voters against this unwarrantable system of annoyance.
In any further cases brought before him upon objections,
though the objector might not choose to appear, the re-
ceipt of the notice of objection being proved by the parties,
he should, guided by the 46th section of the Registration
Act, award the full amount of costa, 20a. in each case,
against the objector, as having made or attempted to sustain
a groundless or frivolous and vexatious objection. He would
now proceed with the business of the day.
Mr. Smith—l appear here on behalf of Mr. Martin, and
I beg
The Barrister—lie is not now before the court, and I
decline to Mar you.
Mr. Smith—After the remarks you have made I must in-
sist upon being baud.
Mr. James submitted that there was vet no case before
the court upon which Mr. Smith could be head.
The Barrister—l have already made several orders for
costs upon Mr. James Martin to be paid here this morning.
Is he present Y iNo reply.)
Mr. Smith again attempted to address the court.
Barrister—When Mr. -Martin is before the court you can
"Criimith —Sir, I did not anticipate such a reception.
I came here to represent Mr. Martin ; I desire to reply to
your remarks.
Barrister—l sit here as the judge of this court. The re-
marks I have made are in the nature of a judgment deli-
vered upon an application for • case of appeal against my
decision, and I decline to hear any remarks in reply thereto.
When a case is before me in which Mr. Martin is concerned
you can appear.
Mr. Smith (indignantly)—l did not anticipate this treat-
ment ; it is beyond all precedent. I attended here for
Mr. Martin, but after the course you have thought fit to
adopt I shall not remain or appear at all. I wish you •
very good day. Mr. Smith then packed up his papers and
left the court amidst general laughter.
The list of persons objected to was thee called over, and
all purest having their notices with them, on proving
their receipt, were supplied with • written order made
by the barrister upon the objector for the payment of
Mt costs in each case, to be made at the sitting of the
court at St. Parser's Vestry-hall, this day I Fridiy).
The whole of the comer/stirs objections have thus

_
Alderman Wn.sos having been called to the chair, briefly
introduced Mr. Lindsay to the meeting.
The HoN. 111111119KII in the course of his speech said they
might remember that the question—wooden versus iron ships
—was one which had been occupying the attention of the House
of Commons a considerable time. They might know the fact
that • neighbouring power, for these last six years, had
ceased building wooden ships entirely for the purposes of
war, and had devoted its attention to the construction
solely of iron-cased ships. The experience which we had
in the Cnmean war had proved that the time had gone by
for those large line-of-battle ships, yet our government
had been going on building great hoe-of-battle ships ever
since that time up to the present moment. A resolu-
tioo, however, was brought forward by himself, and the
building of those great hulks, or line-of-battle ships, had
to • great extent now ceased. In fact, they were be-
ginning to turn the other way, for he found, just as he was
leaving town, a notification from the Admiralty of eight
wooden ships of war which were to be sold. (Laughter.)
Now, this led him to• question which had been a very vexed
question during the last session 'of parliament. It was the
rivalry in arms between England and France. Scientific
men said to the Admiralty that in some respects France
was likely to move ahead of us in iron ships. Well, that
might be very true, but if they bad got into error whose
fault was it It was the fault of the government not using
their money in the proper quarter, and for the right article.
Well, we had now jumped into it, and just before the House
rose, besides the vote of 12,000,500 f., they took a vote of
250,0001., being the instalment of 2,000,0001. for the
building of six more Warriors. He said, at all
hazards, we must maintain our maritime superiority. (Loud
cheering.) But it was a most lamentable fact, that
as we spent, France spent —as France spent, we
spent ; and when we, perhaps, had got 100 Warriors, France
might have got 75, and the relative position of the country
was exactly the same as it was then and was now. What
was the value of our Foreign-office, or our ambassadors
abroad, if they did not endeavour to come to some under-
standing, and put • stop to that tomfoolery? (Hear, bear,
and cheers.) But was it the case that France was marching
onwards at such rates, that France had ioteutious of
invading England? Why, it was an idle dream. It
was a cry got up to tax them fur the benefit of
others. From an analysis, the hon. gentleman showed
that while we were spending 13,000,01101. on our army end
navy, the expenditure of Frame upon her army and navy,
in all its branches, did nut exceed 5,000,0001. How then,
he asked, could France be marching ahead of us in maritime
superiority if we were spending more than double what she
was doing? Mr. Lindsay went on to refer to the navigation
laws, remarking that beyond the repeal of the differential
dues, nothing had been done on that question. He
complained of • similarly unsatisfactory result with
respect to the reciprocity duties and belligerent rights.
Nothing had been done in reference to the liability of
shipowners' question, light dues, compulsory pilotage,
which, in justice to the shipping interest, ought to lave
been dealt with by the present government. (Hear.) As
to international questions, no government had given the re-
quired amount of attention. (Hear, hear.) The terrible
civil war in America had deliyed the settlement of mari-
time affairs between our country and the States, but he i
had no doubt when order was restored, the matter*
discussed during his visit to America would be satifactorily
dealt with. The hon. member then referred to the
cotton difficulty, and said that if cotton could
nut be got down from the plantations to the depots before
the rainy season came on they would not get it in Englund
next season, sod until the blockade was removed cotton
certainly could not leave the plantations. Now, as it would
be some time before cotton was received from India,
Jamaica, and elsewhere, he considered it the duty of our
government to endeavour to induce the Federal government
in the cause of humanity to remove the blockade.
(Cheers.) Considering the bold stand made by the Con•
federates, and the strength of the South, he thought it
almost time that the governments of England soil
France thought of recognising the independence of so
numerous a body of people. (Cheers, and some hisses.)
It wax evident that the North was not sincerely anxious
to abolish slavery, which would never be removed by
a servile war. The separation of North and South was
much more likely so aeoomplish she objeot. (f yeer. hoar.)
In conclusion, the boo. gentleman said he would endeavour
to do his duty, and carry out the principles upon which he
was elected two years ago. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. E. C. Roosos moved a vote of confidence in Mr.
Lindsay, in a humorous speech.
The motion was seconded by Mr. TAYLOR Torre, who
announced himself a right down radical, and said he wished
the present government turned out of otitis.
The resolution woe put, and carried amidst loud cheering.
The meeting shortly sites wards broke up.