The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-28 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADM I li/LTT, SEPT. 27.—APPOINTMENTS. —Sub-
Lieutenant C. F. Pardon, to the London.
Surgeon W. M. Saunders, to the Britannia.
Assistant Paymasters D. Wise, to the Victory, and T. T.
Wood, to the Formidable.
Clerk A. Hunter, to the Narcissus.
Acting Second-Class Assistant Engineers R. W. Allison,
to the Indus, for service in the Avon, and W. Joue.v, to the
Warrior.

WOOLWICH, Barr. 27.
Major-General Sir R. Decree, G B. , commandant,
has been engaged during the peat fortnight in conducting
his annual inspection of the several departments- of the
garrison, which has now bees completed, and General
Dacres will next week proceed to Pureeet and Warley for
the purpose of inspecting the artillery force at those stations.
A large quantity, of machinery has keen received at this
yard for shipment for the new screw steam-vessels Albion,
Aurora, and Perseus, now being completed at Devamort
and Pembroke.

CHATHAM, SEPT. 27.
The utmost exertions are now being made by
the shipwright department at this dockyard to complete
the Royal Oak, 51, the first of the wooden iron-plated
steam frigates now being built. Upwards of 200 hands are
employed on her, and although only commenced • short
time since, she is now in frame, and ready for planking.
She will be covered to four feet below the water line with
iron plates upwards of four inches in thickness. Although
nominally a 51-gun screw frigate, it is not probable she will
carry more than 32 of the Armstrong guns of the heaviest

---By direction of the Secretary of State for War, the bar-
racks at Warley, occupied by t►e Royal Artillery, are to be
enlarged at an expense of 6,0001.

MALTA, SEPT. 23.
Charles Jones, a smart, active, clean looking lad,
with an honest intelligent countenance, but very seentily
clad, was brought before the magistrate, Charles Harper,
Esq., charged with having concealed himself on hoard one of
the steamers running from Liverpool to Malta. The Captain
stated that three days after be left Liverpool the accused
crawled on deck almost exhausted for want of food. He
stated he had concealed himself on board in the hope of
getting some employment, that he was willing to do any
work, however hard, without any remuneration beyond by
food ,• that be had no father, and that his mother worked
very hard to support him, but could not, so to relieve her
he resolved to run away to ON. or to try his chew* in a
foreign land, basing first told his mother what he intended
to do, to relieve her from gasisty on his account, as abs
was very fond of him. The captain further dated that the
lad had turned out a good, heed-worldeg.'asa obedient boy,
but it was necessary for him to rusks an example to pre-
vent others playing him the same trick. The magistrate
condemned him to one month's imprisonment with bard
labour. The poor boy pleaded very bard to be put to any
drudgery, rather than be put in prison ; that be was honest,
end his mother was honest, and that it would break
her heart when she heard he was in prison.
He cried very bitterly, and the captain's heart
melted, and be promised, if he beard a good cc-
count of him, on his return from the East to take
him back to Liverpool if he worked his way home. Fortu-
nately the agent at Malta, al the steamer, is a warm-
hearted Englishman, and he will doubtless do something to
relieve him from the dangerous associates he will meet with
in the prison ; if not, the government will have to pay his
jouruey to England, at the termination of his imprisonment.
There was &sincerity and honesty in the loy's appearance,
and his piteous pleadings to save his mother from disgrace
have interested many in his favour, but, unfortunately, to no
pas
erMajesty's ship Sanapareil left on the 19th inst., and
her Majesty's ship Surprise, on the 23rd, for Naples.
Her Majesty's ship Wanderer is in the Dockyard-creek,
caulking and refitting.

LAUNCH OF THE CELESTIAL.—MCSSIR. T. A .
Gibb sad Co.'s new paddle-wheel steamer, the Celestial., was
succour ully launched on Wednesday, the 25th inst., from the
shipbuilding yard of Mr. Charles Langley, at Deptford ;
and, from her handsome appearance and fine lines, will no
doubt prove a favourite in China. The machinery is ready
to be put on board, so that she will be ready to leave for
Hong-Kong by the let of December. She lout only been
three month, under construction, and is a proof of bow much
can be done in iron-shipbuilding in a short time, as she is a
vessel of SilO toes and 200 horse-power, and has been bout
to meet the requirements of Lloyds' rules.
THs GUINNESS Hitt AFFAIR. —A correspondent
of the Binning/tom Post mays :—" The public mind in
Rugby has been turned somewhat against Mrs. Hill. This
feeling is attributable to the colouring which Mr. Philbrick,
in his eloquent address on behalf of the prisoner, gave of
the circumstances of this extraordinary affair. The heir
warn exhibited in the town on Wednesday afternoon by
the young woman Catherine Parsons, and he underwent
a curious scrutiny on all hands. His leg, which
was broken, is still bandaged; and the sores on his
neck are far from healed. He must have hauls rough time
of it in the keeping of Mrs. Andrews. Mrs. Hill, with her
child, the nurse, and Mr. Maltby, returned to London on
Wednesday evening. As soon as their presence on the
platform became known, • large concourse of people col-
around the party. The latter w-ro, to avoid the
gaze of these, speedily placed in a first-class carriage. It is
singular that when Mrs. Hill came into the court to he
identified by the witness, Mrs. Jefferies (who had attended
her in her confinement at the Globe Ion), she should have
stood close behind her husband without recriguising him.
On her leaving the court for the ante-mom, she asked
Superintendent Wild in which part of the court Mr. Hill
was planed, remarking that she had looked all round, but
could not sue him. The prisoner, who up to the last mo-
ment was in the hope that he should be trailed out, was
conveyed in a cab to the railway station, and
left for Warwick, in the custody of Superintendent
Wild, by the train which leaves Rugby shortly
after ten o'clock am." In the Queen we lead:—
" Mr. Hill has spoke°, without reserve, to the police, on
the subject of his defence. He says he knew to a cer-
tainty, by the date of the child's birth, that, it could not
be his, and he, therefore, determined not to register it in
his own name. He does not deny taking the child to Lon-
don or giving it to the women ; but says that when ho
went to the address given him almond time (which would
be eighteen months ago), he could hear nothing of woman
or child. This is probable enough, from the fact that he
never had the Lincoln-court address—only • Litchfield-
street,' the address given by the ' dark woman? Mrs. An-
drew, informed our correspondent that she had often been
struck with the habits of the child ; for, although he had
all the ' usual ways of going on' of other children, he
would always, she declares, prefer • fork to his food ;
and if he saw anybody else using a spoon or knife, would
cry till behad it. These quality manners' are quoted by
this estimable woman as indications of gentle blood."
SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH KENT
RAILWAY.—On Thursday night, about eleven o'clock, a
feted accident happened at the Woolwich Arsenal station of
the North Kent Railway. A young man, II Welter at the
Hon Head public-house, opposite the station, was stand-
ing on the step of • carriage in the last up end. for town,
wishing strived good bye, when the train went 011, and the
unfortunate man, in ealeavouriog to alight on the plat-
form, missed his footing sod fell under the carriages. The
poor fellow was found to be shockingly mutilated. One
leg was cut off above the knee, acd the other was nearly
divided. He was mush injured on other parts of the
body. He was removed to the military hospital, but death
were in the
almost immediately afterwards took place. Mr. Cartier,
the
who repeatedly cautioned the young man against the danger
he was umuning.