The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-14 00:00:00

NAVAL.

ADMIRALTY, JAN. 12.—APPUISTYMIT.—Totor—
Surgeon : C. T. S. lievern.

fimeramourn, JAN. 13.—The Sidon having received on
board her sea stores of all descriptions, and having received
ballast to the amount of weight of provisions, pox der, &c.,
is now coaling. She will take on board between 200 and 300
tons of fuel, and will probably be tried on Tuesday 11011 a
the mile in Stokes Bay. She will then complete her coal,
and be tried on Thursday at her load draught —The Argus
was brought into dock on Thursday, to be prepared for going
round to the Thames for her engines by Messrs. Penn.—The
Termagant, screw st.-fr., having had her new anew properly
fixed, was taken oat of dock on Thursday, and will be tried
on Wednesday next. As her sails, cordage, &c , have been
put on board, it is probable that she will soon be commis-
aioned.—Tne Ajax, GO, steam guardsh'p, is ordered to be
fitted for the first class of the steam squadron at this port,
i. e, made in all respects ready for comfaission.—The
Bull-
dog, 5t.41., Commander Key, and Rosamond st-sl., Com-
mender Foote, an neared home from the Mediterranean.
DEVONPORT, Jaw. 12.—The Myrtle, st -tender, arrived
from Portsmouth on Thursday, with marine artillery and
seamen gunners for the Gladiator steam-venal, Capt. John
Adams, fitting at this port. The Myrtle having received
some supernumaries on board, left the same evening to re-
turn to Portsmouth. The wind, however, shiftieg to the
east after she lett, and commencing to blow a heavy gale,
she put back in the course of the nighr, She has sprung a
leak in her boiler, which will be repaired by Tuesday, when
the will pree Ad to Por:smoutit—The Sampson, et-frigate, is
ordered to be made ready for commission with all possible
despatch.
DITONPORT DOCILTARD..--The system of individual pay-
ments was introduced in this estsbli•hment on Saturday.
The whole of the officers of the yard were present to witness
the Introduction of this system of payment, which originated
with Mr. Jenkins, the storekeeper of this yard, and was
communicated by him to the Lords of the Admiralty while
he was at Portsmouth. Eight clerks were engaged to con-
duct the payments which were accomplished in about a
quarter of an hour.
WooLwlcie, Jas. 12.—The Monkey et.-v. which had
been employed during yesterday in conveying coals to the
Arctic discovery ships, left Woolwich lest night for Green-
hithe, to be in readiness to tow the Investigator through the
downs. A steam tug from Sheerness, probably, the Arrican,
will tow the Enterprise, and both vessels will leave Green-
hither this morning and proceed direct to Devonport. Niger
screw st. sloop, which was to have accompanied the Arctic
ships to Devonport, is to undergo some alterations in her
machinery and will not, therefore, leave Woolwich for some
time.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE.—At •
meeting of the shareholders of Gainsborough, just held, it
was resolved that the disastrous paid Ai of this company im-
peratively required • thorough, unrestricted investigation
into the Seances, affairs, and put policy ; and that the un-
expected determination of the diranors to apply for an act
of parliament in the ensuing end in to enable them to create
new preference s:ock to the amount of 500,0001., was inex-
pedient, and that it ought not to be prosecuted until the pro-
posed inquiry had been instituted.
MURDER AND FOROERY.—GLASGOW JUSTICIARY
COVET, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9.—Margaret Lennox, or Ha-
Whom, was plaoed at the bar, chanted with theft, forgery,
and murder, in so farm, in the month of June lest, in the
house in Kirk-street, Btratkaven, occupied b Jean Black or
Hamilton, • widow, the prisoner did wickedly and felo-
niously at, el a batik deposit receipt for 2W, in favour of the
now decassi d Jean Hamilton, daughter of and residing with
the said Jean Black or Hamilton. She was further charged
with having, on the 21st of June last, indorsed the document
with the name ot Jean Hamilton, and procured the same to
be cubed in the Ain of the Bank of Scotland. The third
charge in the indictment was, that on the night of the 7th,
or morning of the Bth of July, the prisoner administered to
the aforesaid Jean Hamilton a quantity of arsenic or other
poison in some articles of foot., or in some calomel, mag-
nesia, or other medicine, in consequence of which the said
Jean Hamilton spired on the Bth of July. The jury gave
in • Teri iet fiudiug the prisoner guilty as libelled, with the
exception of the theft ; but, by • majority, recommended her
to mercy. Lord Cockburn then senteaced her to be hanged
at Glasgow, on Thursday, the 31st of January.
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FIRL—On Saturday morning, between one and
two o'clock, a fire was discovered by the polio* on duty, on
the premises 01 Mr. Blagg, • fishmonger, in Bpi,altields-
mukra, supposed to bate originated in over heating the
room used for drying fisb. The eat/hies were promptly on
the 'pot, and there being • plentiful supply of water, the
fire was extinguished, but not before considerabls damage
bad been done. The premises are uninsured.

MILITARY.
Annweax.—Capt. Ireting's Comp m of Royal Artillery,
(12th battalion) was relieved frees field battery service on
Saturday, by Capt. Warburton's Company (6th battalion),
and is under orders to leave for Birmingham and Pembroke
to relieve Captain Hill's company, which is ordered to head-
quarters preparatory to going on foreign service. Captain
Townsend's company will lean Woolwich oa Tu'sdey for
Dover to relieve Major Moe. company, which will soon be
ordered en foreign service,
Poaramourn, JAN. 13.—The Rants Teleyroph of yester-
day announces that among the military arrugements for
the ensuing spin, the regiments in this Retrace will be
removed u follows : the 4th, or King's Ogre, to Dover ;
the 77th, or Rest Middlesex, to Manchester ; and the 91st,
or Argyllshire, to Glasgow.
ROYAL EZOIMINT OP 110111111 OIIAADS.—Thia regiment,
which had received orders to return from Canterbury to
Hyde Park barracks, has received farther order. to inure on
the 21st instant, and is therefore still at Canterbury.
Writ FOOT.--COIRI.—It has now been arranged that the
Bombay, a troop-ship of 1,200 tone is to convey this regiment
early in February to Gibraltar, instead of the Hercules, still
is the Mediterranean.

RIMPONSIBILITY 01 GOTIIRRMINT TO DRPOSITOWS 111
ARMY fLivisos' Bute —The fiecreterpat-War nee noti-
fied to regiments shut the government is resportnlsle to the
depositors in regimental savings' banks to the amount of
each sem deposited.
T. MILITARY Lana AT THE HORIIR,GUAIGNI—To.
morrow (Tuesday) Lord Fitzroy Sunerset will hold his
usual levee as military secretary to the commender.ineltief.
MOURNING FOR TEI QUZIN DOWAGER.—Circulars to
officers both of the army and navy have been lent, to the
effect that black crape is t be worn round the lett arm until
the 20th inst., when the mourning will cease shot/ether.
CHALSZA COLLROI.—LieGL-General 84 A. Barnard,
the new lieutenant.govemor, Au removed into his 'swim*
in the college.