The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-28 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 27.
The Serapis, iron screw troop ship, Captain
John C. Soridy, arrived at Spithead shortly after four
o'clock this afternoon, from Alexandria, last from Malta.
She will enter Portsmouth harbour to-morrow and dis-
embark the military invalids and time-expired men
brought home from India. This is the last voyage of the
Indian relief troopers, running between Portsmouth and
Alexandria, until the corning autumn. Great anxiety
was manifested hero yesterday and to day in consequence
of a rumour, widespread and general, that the Serapis
was lost at sea.

gratulisting themselves.= the suo;ess of their seltesse. He I
would next speak of the boy Wheeler. When first taken DR. Liv INGsrone. —The meeting of the Royal
to identify him he turned away without being able to re- Geographical Society was more than usually onswded at i
cognise him, but after going • considerable distance he was Burlington.house last night, in consequence of the under-
seized by a police officer, or rather a wretch wearing the 'tending that letters would be read from Dr. Livingstone.
uniform of an officer, brought beak in front In opening the proceedings, Sir Roderick Murchison, the
of him, sad held there until he was compelled president, inadvertently referred to the news from Abyss-
to acknowledge that he knew him (Barrett). He ainia as • subject for general rejoicing. The chief business
could not express his utter contempt for each of the evening, however, was the reading of official and
THE PATRIOTIC FP/in.—The first meeting of a wretch, who could m intimidate a child for the purpose other despatches from, or respecting the explorations of,
the commissioner, of the Patriotic Fund, under the new of swearing away the life of a fellow-man, and there was no the great African traveller, upon whose safety the prma-
commission, was held at the Palace, Westminster, yestor• one who saw that child in the box but would believe that dent congratulated the society and the country. Letters
day. The following cominiasioners were present :—His he would say and do whatever he was desired. But how- had been received by various parsons in the country
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge (President), the ever repulsive the act might be, it was quite in harmony confirming the glad tidinp that Livingstone was alive and
Dnks of Wellington, Earl of Lauderdale. Earl of Hard- with the principles of the man who introduced treachery well. There wasnothing new to add,except as to theeeeflra-
wick., Earl Nelson, Earl Grey, Earl De Grey and Ripon, and deceit into the officialism of Scotland-yard. He would phial features of his perilous journey, and this was einho-
Lord Lreden, Sir John Pakington, General the Hon. J. now 'peak of the man Bird—that miserable Bird ! When died in along letter from thedoctorto Sir Roderick himself,
Lindssy,RishtHon.W.E.Gladstone,Col. J.Wilson Patten, he (the witness) came to identify him his name was dated Beudsa, Feb. t, 1867. The letters poke very hope-
Sir James Yorke Scarlett, Sir John Acton, Sir John Bur- called out, mod Bird at once took the cue, being rep- fully, but gave one item of information of no small un-
Eve,.Sir Hew Ross, Sir Edward Lugard, Sir Richard dared desperate for fear of losing his portion of portanos to the African traveller—Dr. Livingstone bad
Sir Peter Richards, Admiral Baillle Hamilton, the bribe. He then referred to the evidence lost all his medicines, which he said was the sorest loss of
General Eyre, Brigadier-General Lefroy, Mr. T. Baring, of the witless's, from Ptilseney-court, and said their goods be ever sustained. " If," he added, " fever comes,
M.P., Kr. J. A. Smith, M.P., and Mr. J. G. Hubbard, statanents were full of contradictions, and no one could lam hoping to fend it off by native remedies, and trust in
M.P. give credit to them. The prisoner than went on to say the watchful care of • Higher Power." Other letters were
Flirt MEN DROWNED IN THI SOLWAY. —A fatal that the next witness he had to speak of was that prince read from Mr. Churchill, consul at Zanzibar, to Lord
accident of a very disastrous kind occurred in the Solway
Firth on Sunday afternoon. Five young men who lived of perverts, Mullany, and his satellites. This man pre- Stanley, and from Dr. Kirk, fully corroborating the wet:
had= that be had gone to his house on the night of the come intelligence forwarded not long ago.
After these
at Annan, named Thorburn (a fisherman), Kerr and Con-
nell (painters), and Ross and Irving (gardeners),on with his neck covered with black, es though it documents had been read, Sir • Rodenek repeated the joy
from that port in a small boat rigged up with a sail, :ilicl
set p Vaalbson caused by gunpowder. The story he told was he felt that nis distingiPshed friend was safe, and the
nothing in the world but ridiculous fabrication upon the admiration he had of hie indomitable perseverance and
crowed the Solway Firth to Boynton, on the Oumberiaad face of it. And then witnesses were called for the
shore. They rftehed their destination in safety, and in , pluck. Passing to the future, he thoncht that if Living-
khe i ht be in
the afternoon set out for home with the ebb tide. The as was said by her Majesty's Attorney General of = stone took the short route bade in g England in
corrobang the evidence of this man Mullany, and the metstmn,but that if he oontinued his explorations north-
ry
had not proceeded half-way across when it was
from the shore that their mast had got wrong, and the sail every one of these witnesses contradicted himself. The pri- ward he might be absent 18 months longer. Sir Samuel
sway= over the side. Shortly afterwards the boat cap- weer then referred to the evidence given by some of those Baker rose after the president had resumed his seat, and
witnesses as to the state of his beard and whiskers at the in the course of a very hearty speech said he never acknow-
sized, and all the five men were thrown into the sea. Three thee in Ouretioni and repeated three times in • malt l'ir- much pleasure in his
of them musk almost immediately,
being quite =able tolodged himself to be' wrong with eo
eosins tone, " And thins what her Majesty's Attorney- life as he now did ; but he caused much good-humoured
resist the powerful force of the ebbing tide, and were
drowned ; but the other two clung to the overturned boat, uponlaughterbyinsisting
Go:moral of Bagisodoells corroborative evidence, and
whisk ha seeks to lake awn my life." The jury believed upon practical evidence, and Sir Itodenck' upon mere
which drifted down to the railway bridge which c these wharves ; hat be believed that them were very few faith. He added that the next question they would have
the Firth below Bowness. Thaere it is conjectured, le in Englond who could possibly come to to dimes was where to receive Livingstose when he
the boat swung round. The two men who were dill clinging
the anchor dragged against the piles 'of the viaduct, for people
conclusion that they were speaking the truth. returned, and he thought that as them was no public
The prisoner then said, with regard to Mullany, that he building large enough, there was nothing for it bat to ask
to it made a desperate effort to save themselves, but th
boat filled with water and sank, carrying with it the on; felt when mentioning his same as if he were Inhaling permission of Mr. Realm and the Reform League to use
two survivors of the pleasure party, and thus I the most dirty poison, and he would leave him in his own Hyde park for the pourposs. Amongst the company there
maming ; wretchedness and misery. He would obtain his liberty were the Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Wellington, the
the number of deaths to five.
LORD SnsTrEsisritY AND MR. llPtritiatoN. The I thi
1 and save his wretched life at the cost of merifici- Count de Parts, Sir R. Rawlinson, he.
everything that was dear to an honest and ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL.—The 33rd anniversary
Earl of Shaftesbury writes to the editor of the Record:— honourable mind The prisoner then proceeded to re- festival of this bistifutles teak platy last evening at the
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this I have received a rebuke, and I shall, poseibly, receive • "gm,. bpZir Pee any P
many more. May I, once for all, through your cOIIMUIL, fatly ciaolescloaus that no declaration of his .. prosperity to the Hospital," that the number of patients
give an answer retrospectively and proepectivelyl would influence his lordship in the course he was about to remind shoe the tomedotion of the institution in 1833 to
to an pursue. But thishe would and could most solemnly declare, the mod of December, 1867, was 20,753. Previous to the
=eh doubts and castigation,' In the first nista I
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member of the church of England ; and, by God's bless- 1 ,see,... of the
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