The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The recent proceedings in Belfast have not had
the effect of suppressing the practice of open-sir preaching
either there or in other parts of Ireland. Last Sunday Mr.
Hanna, deferring to the wishes of his brethren, abstained from
moot-door demonstration, bat we learn from Sound,* that
Mr. Mader, ea-licentiate of the Presbyterian Church,
preached on that day toe times in different districts of the
town to sery numerous and attentive congregations. Thera
wee not the slightest attempt at disturbance. The Armagh
Owen:lard data; that the constitutional right of press hing the
Gospel in the open air woe exercised in that city on the 20th
by Kr. John Clarke Adams, end on the following Tuesday
evening by Mr. Adatus, primitive methodist minister. On
that day week the Rev. Robert Hewitt, travelling miisionnry
of the Wesleyan methodists, also held an open-sir service.
The congregations were large sad attentive. At Galway,
too, on the 20th, the Rev. O. 0. Brovrnrigg preached, but
a scripture raider who attempted to follow his example on the
neat day was booted end chased away.
Tits klaavnev—Tau Clore.—There is very little
standing corn now to be seen anywhere. N all the
rain* arra, has been safely the
g
hsggard. Never has the fanner been blas=h More
propitious weather. Everything bas been got in safely, and
In -good time ; and as • considerable amount of the new grain
has already undergone the operation of therahing. a pretty
correct opinion may be formed of the season's yield. On the
whole we believe it will be condderably above an average.—
Western Star. _ . _

FAIR.—It is believed from the prment
as-
pect of affairs, end from the prices lately obtained for cattle,
that the value of stock at the coming fair will be rather in-
creased than otberwise.—lbid.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 28.—APPOINTMENT.—Corn-
monde. J. 0. Bathurst (1M), to be Ifni:eating commander
of the Coast Guard, vice Macrama, promoted.

CHATHAICR.I.T. U.

General Sir J. F. 8urg0yne:6.6.17,714r arrive at
Brompton Barrack. to-usonon morning, to lamest the hoops
of the Royal Sappers and Minim about to proceed to India.
The rompanee under orders to embark are the 4th, 10th,
11th, and 21st, under the command of Lieutemant-Colonel
E. D. Harans, commanding Royal Engineer at Malta.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 28.

Great activity prevails in this dockyird in the
coostruction and completion of the new men of-war on the
various building slips. Amongst them are the Victoria, 131
guns; Prince of Wales, 131 ; Duncan. 101 ; Royal Frede-
rick, 116; and Bacchante, 51. AU are, with the exception
of the Royal Frederick (but she is to be altered to one),
screw chips, and wiU be propelled by --twines of from 600 to
1,000 bores-power. The Victoria, Duncan, and Bacchante
will be especially magnificent and powerful chips.

THE LATE GEE/LEAL SIR GEORGE 11. F. BERKE-
LEY, K.C.B.—We haws to announce the death of General
Sir G. Berkeley, K.C.8., which event happened at Rich-
mond on Friday Sat, the 25th instant, after a short illness,
in him 73rd year. The deceased general was the eldest son of
the Lb el Sir G. C. Berkeley. G.O 8., some has
Lord Admiral of Portugal, by Entity Charlotte, daughter of
the lan Lard George Lennox. and was conaequcntly first
amain to the present Earl Berkeley and to Earl Fitzhar-
dings. He sea bons in 178.5, and entered the army in 1802
a• cornet in the Royal Ilona Guards Blue ; he proceeded
with the 36th Regiment of Foot to Sicily and Egypt, where
ha served during the whole campaign under Lieut.-General
M. Frazer. He subsequently joined the British forces in
the Peninsula under Lord Wellington, and served
as sisistantsdjutaut-general. Among other engagements
he mu present at Bunco, Fuentes d'Onor, Bakis, Sala-
manca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, and Rim and neared • crow
and three clasps for his Peninsular minks's. He was subse-
quently engaged in the campaign in Flanders, and war pre-
ant at Waterloo, and for his gallantry on that field received
the order of St. Vladimir, 4th clam', from the late Emperor
of Russia, and was made • Knight Commander of the Bath
in 1816. He was also a Knight of the Tower and Sword of
Portugal. In 1846 be was appointed to the colonelcy of the
35th Foot, now vacant by his decals'', and attained the rank
of general in the army in 1854. Adopting • different sort of
political opinion from thou maintained by the rest of hi•
&roily, Is was Surveyor-General of the Ordnance under the
government of Lord Derby, from February to December,
1852, and rot for Devonport during the last parliament In
the conservative interest. In 1815 be married Lucy, eldest
daughter and no-heir of the late Sir Thomas Sutton, Bart.,
by whom he has left • &roily of three sena, and a daughter
married in 1838 to Limit -Colonel Randal Burnley.

SUDDEN DEATH OF DR. lONS, AT NEWCASTLE.—
An inqueet was held at Newcastle, on Saturday, on the body
of Thomas lons, Esq., Mum. Dr., organist of St.
Nicholas Church, and long sod extensively known by hie
talent am a masking. It appeared from the evidence that
on Friday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, the de-
ceased was in the shop of Mr. Marley, chemist, in Grainger-
street. when be complained of fatigue and of spasms in the
stomach, which be thought arose from &Wiener; and Mr.
Marley gave him some essence of ginger and mint water, by
which he said he was much relieved. Between 11 and 12 he
went in a cab to the residenos of Mr. R. W. Hodgson, at
Gateshead Fell. The cabman was ordered to return in the
afternoon, and the deceased then proceeded to the house of
Mr. Sowerby, to whose family he was giving lessons is
music. Dere he complained of a pressure at the chest ts-
cribing it to indigestion caused by eating an apple on the
previous day' ;r but he remained an hour and twenty minutes,
and sung himadf in one of the lessons without any apparent
difficulty. When the cab returned to bring him home be
walked the distance of twenty yards from the door, and got
in hiumelf, appearing to the cabman to be as well as
usual. At the High Level Bridge the tollman looked
into the cab and remarking that the gentleman was
asleep, said the cabman had better pay the toll without dis-
turbing him. This wee done; and, on reaching the de-
ceased's residence in Westmoreland-terrace, he was found
reclining in a corner of the cab insensible. Mr. R. B.
Brown, jun., who lioes close by, melded the cebman to
carry him into the hones end lay Lim on a sofa. Dr. Gibson
was immediately prat for and speedily arrived, but the de-
ceseed had then expired. After being taken from the cab,
be once opened his eyee but never spoke, and only lived
about • quarter of en hour from the time be was carried Into
the house. The jury returned a verdict of desth from natu-
ral causes. A post =mem SZAMIRROOII was not deemed
eessrry. but the cause of death acs probably diseme of the
heart. The doomed was forty years of age, and a doctor
of music of the 'University of Oxford. Netentette Exprese,
THE LATE MURDER 1N LEICU WOODS, NEAR
BRISTOL.-The police are actively engaged in tracing the
movements of the prisoner Beale between- tbe time of his de-
parture from Freshford with the deceased girl, Charlotte
Pumiley,snd his return to Daventry on the Saturday sfter the
murder. At the sdjounted examination on Friday next we
are informed it will bastion% that Beale was seen in the neigh
bourhool of Leigh Woods, is company with a woman an-
swering the description of the deceased on the afternoon of
Thursday, the 10th, and that he was afterwards seen alone
coming from that direction on the Berne evening. On Psiday
it a certain, from the evidence of many wittiness, that he
remained in Bristol, and that he left on Saturday for
Dscenu7.

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