The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-17 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

The riuy and Nary Gazelle says that Rear-
Admiral Ryder has been ordered by the Admiralty to
a•sociate himself with three captains, for the purpose of
examining more minutely into the causes of the late War-
ner and Royal Oak collision than did the late court-
martial. The court did iteduty—tried Captain Boys, and
very properly acquitted him—and there its office was at
an eed: but the value of our signal system has yet to be
ascertained, and we have to learn if it was in fault on
that " greasy- dark, autumnal night in the Channel, when
two of our ponderous iron-clads were finding work for our
cicckyanl artisans.
The same journal says of the royal yacht, Vic-
toria and Albert, a comparatively new vessel, that she is
in dock at Portsmouth, and will require repairs of a most
extensive kind before she can be made fit to receive her
Majesty again. On opening her out, it was found that iu
many places she was so rotten that whole handfulls of her
•• bread-and-butter " planking could be removed with
little or no effort, but as it will be cheaper to build her up
than construct another yacht, particularly as she will be
as good as new when she leaves the hands of the efficient
body of men who now have charge of her, it has been de-
cided that the necessary work shall be commenced fuith-
with.

It i• stated that Major-General Renny, now
commanding a brigade at Aldershot, has been offered the
command of the troops in Ceylon and the Straits Settle-
ments, and that, in the event of his accepting it, Briga-
dier-General Lysol; C. 8., will, in all probability, be
moved from Malta to Aldershot.

MlBB BATEMAN AT THE HAYMAIMET.—This
popular actress will make her re-appearance on the Lon-
don stage on Monday next at the Haymarket in the
character of Leah—a part that she has created and per-
formed with renewed success in the provinces. During
her engagement, a new drama by Dr. Mozenthsl will be
prcduoed under the personal superintendence of the
author.

SUSPECTED WIFE MURDER AT NORWIcII. ^
NORWICH, FRIDAY NIOHT.-A man named Francis
Howard Clare has been taken before the magistrate* here
this evening on a charge of murdering his wife by cut-
ting her throat this afternoon. Clare works as a shoe-
maker, and was formerly in the army. An inquest will be
held to-morrow.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE A CONSTABLE IN
Lncrticz.—We learn from our Cork correspondent, that
Mr. Murphy, sub-inspector of police, was fired at at
Rathkeale, county Limerick, last night, and slightly
wounded. His assailant escaped, and there is no clue to
him. . . .

Yesterday the autumnal session was brought to
a close by a public breakfast to the Board of Education, at
the Queen's Hotel, Leeds. There were about 250 ministers
and gentlemen present. Mr. SAXI7EL Moluxr occupied
the chair.

FORLIGN-OFFICE, Or-T. 14.—The Queen has
been pleased to approve of Mr. Gerhard Friederich Isomer
u consul at Montreal, and of Mr. C. Pitt as consul at
Quebec. for the North German Confederation.—Gesrtte.
hi VALIEROVS ASSAULT By A FARMER. —A lament-
able case of shooting occurred in the village of Milton
Keynes on Thursday. Mr. W. Riley, farmer, is about to
relinquish his farm, which Mr. W. York, of Etuberton, has
taken, and some differences have arisen respecting the te-
nancy, which weresettled by arbitrathai on Mond Oast. On
Thursday, however, an altercation took place, considerable
provocation being offered to Riley by York. The former
at length wr ut and fetched •his gun (a double-barrelled
one) and deliberately tired at York, wounding him in the
back and arm. Mr. Halley and Rogers, surgeons,
were promptly in attendance, but it was impossible to
ascertain fully the extent of the injuries sustained. Mr.
York, however, lies in a very precarious state. Riley
woe apprehended by Inspector /tall, and is in custody at
the Newport Parnell lock-up. —Barks ,Adrerliser.
l'llo4 K NI: DEATH.- John Sharp, a labourer, in
the employ of Mr. Richard liright, of the Stocks, All.
bury. near Ti itig, on Tuesday night met with an accident
which caus..l his death. Ile was assisting two other mini
to brew on Monday night, and was carrying a wick of
malt ins hi- f,i11•111,1(TM to empty into the mash tub. In
ing so he lost his halance and fell in. lie called out.
" For God's sake, pull me out" and the butler and
another man did so. He stood up, shook himself,
and said, " I shall get over this. I shall lie
all riplit directly. Oh, pray take me home!" He
idol welds fill down and said, " Oh, my lord oh, my
lord ! I shall die !" The butler and another man then
helped hunt° walk home, a distance of nearly half a mile.
He was put to bed, and lingered on in great agony till
the next night, when he died. An inquest was held on
the LW, ar Wednesday, before Mr. H. Day, coroner,
when a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned.

CHARGE OF DRI7OOINO A MAN WITH SNUFF.—
At the Woolwich Police-court yesterday, John Sewing,
a determined-looking man, deacribiA as a seaman, wan
brought up ou remsuid, charged with drugging and
robbing a gentlemanly-looking man, named William Doar,
of Loudon, the manager of a large building firm, who
appeared to prosecute in the tint instance, but was
removed in a state of semi-wiconsciousuess. Detective
Randall, of the War-office, depoeed that him utteution war
called to the prisoner by the landlord of the Waterman's
Anna, Woolwich (Mr. Langham), who met him on Thurn-
day week last, and said he feared something was wrong.
The prisoner was leaving the North Kent public-house,
Spray-street, Plunuitered, at the time, leading the prose-
cutor by the arm, who seemed to be in • state of torpor.
The primner also carried a silk umbrella in his hand, and
on being salted whose it was and what lie wan
doing, he amid it belonged to the prosecutor, who
bad given it to him to carry, and he was sowing
him off side to lAIIIIOII. An the proeecutor seemed iu a
very strangely !whiles* state, as if poinoned, witness took
charge of the prisoner, and sent for a medical man to nue
the gentleman, who wan seriously ill, and fora long time
after in a precarious state. Witness then went to the
North Kent public-house, where he saw the landlady,
and was shown some 11110 the prisoner 10111 tlm proi,cutor.
Lad been having, and one pot hail a quantity of ale with
snuff in it, wane of which be produced in a bottle, tLick
and dark. The id..motor had Inns re d home, and
was attended by his own medical num' Who raw no hope
of Isis rersivery, as on of the brain had remilted.
Some further evidence totaling 1.0 I. A the prisoner with
the commission of the offence was taken, unit another re-
mand was granted.