The Express. — London, England, 1863-04-14 00:00:00

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Mr. BgmMe sad NW Mika HIGH WATER, AT WIDOW 1121 Dill TO DAT —*ii Ilk Is.....Allersom 111. Wm ING3sHow—>taki& 11l 1110.....Msaasa. Gk. Isa. LONDOTI, TUESDAY, APRIL 14. In his prose-epic on the Crimean War, Mr. KINGLLIZ speaks of the Guards going into action as an event of far more than merely national importance; as something only comparable to those Homeric episodes in white a god or a goddess is engaged in combat with mortal foes. A list of killed and wounded in a regiment of the Line fills many ordinary English homes with mourning, but when a battalion of the Guards takes its privileged place is the foremost ranks of danger and of death, a thrill of agony is felt through the se leetesteireles of England, and the "cream" of Society is shaken, and its habitual superiority to vulgar emotions made to feel what wretches feel when their dear ones die. The distinction which the writer from a Pall-Mall point of view ' and with skew mythological instincts, would draw, is one which, whether on behalf of the Guards or of any section of English society, we should most un willingly accept. This nation knows no graduated morrow for the brave men of high or of humble birth who die at the post of duty in the service of their country. We should be sorry to imagine a "fashionable column " devoted to Guardsmen fallen in action, or to "set class against class" among those who lie together in the proud equality of heroic graves. But if there be one national loss more than another which stirs the hearts of Englishmen all over the world, it is such m i that which last February struck the great communities of our countrymen in the South Pacific, and fell upon its here a week ago. It is happily so seldom that one of Her Mmierv's ships is lost, that an e►ent like the wreck of the Orpheus is felt like the sudden death in a family of a siren son, full of health and hope, and in the prime of his days. There is everything to make the loss of • British man-of-war the most unexpected of all accidents within mortal ken, the mart difficult to &mount far. In the case of • merchant ship it is easy to conjecture mamma, or negligence, or went of skill, or unseaworthiness. The ship may ha►e been too eager to make a pump, or to discharge a valuable cargo ; she may have been ill found, ill-manned, ill-handled. But in a man-of-war every precaution against all calculable mischeroes which skill, and science, and discipline, and perfect equipment can provide, is always primmest and always in active operation. It seems like an in jury done to the laws of Nature when one of her Msreerr's ships founders at ma and is no more beard of, or strikes upon • ehoal or reef un marked on the charts, or goes to pieces on a harbour bar. Bran when there is no loss of life, as in the case of the Conqueror, we all feel it as • sort of domestic misfortune; but nothing like this km of the Orpheus has happened sines the Avenger struck a sunken rock sad went down with all hands in the Mediterranean. Assuredly, in such a case as this, it is net the met of the ship and her armament that we begin to count, though the Orpheus was a crack ship of her clam, and it was her first commission. It is the grievous and irreparable loos of one hundred and ninety as gallant men and lads as ever trod a deck, out of a ship's company of two hundred and sixty officers, seamen, boys, and marines, that is mourned in every English household, as to each and all a private and personal lem. Ships we cm replace ; but seamen, such as those who met death as calmly and as dutifully an the shattered wreck of the Orpheus, in the broad day light, and almost within hall of a friendly shore, as in storm or fight—how shall this true defence of England be spored? Who can read this short, sad story, as it is told in the simple, manly language of Lieutenant Hxr.r.'s Report, without the pang of a miser from whom the most precious treasure is wrung 1 If there is any con solation, it is to be found in the noble example of the lamented Commodore Bonwerr and Com mander Burrow, who refused to leave their sh;p till the last, and in the resolute and even joyous constancy and devotion of the men, who gave three cheers as the masts fell over the aide. Every man on board the Orpheus, from the moment of her striking on the bar to the moment when she parted asunder, behaved as if each was responsible for the honour of all, and as if all were sealing with their deaths an inheritance of honour. Still it becomes a duty, when the tribute to the dead is paid, to inquire how so pievous a disaster came about. Her Marnerr's ship Orphans was admirably officered and manned, a happy and a smart ship, and had won good opinions in every port where she had touched since she sailed from England in the winter of 1861, convoying the Melbourne trans port to Halifax, in the crisis of the " Trent " affair." Her first and last cruise was destined to be throughout an eventful one. She encountered a tremendous gale on her passage across the Atlantic ; at St. John's, we believe, she got ashore, but same off without damage. When the Trent affair blur SARIS FIRST CLASS sad LONDON PRIZE ii 1010•18. WATIIISITON aad 31.0GDIN, ouraurnis and JIIIII.LINI liasaboata. u ilawtotaactreek Cowstgattlaa. W.C.. Lades. lt.ll astabtlahmant V eked al la Oa nada& awl as Imbrdays at I o'clock. HARMONIIIMB.-NEW MODEL may= BL UM and WOOD. 201. Zegentainbit. lIPKRA, FIELD, and RIFLE GLASSES. NEourn and ZAMBIA'S DOUBLY ACHROMATIC GLASS, pcsamaing great power, complete In eme, Ila sad He Sent on receipt of pottnifice order.-4 Hatton-garden; 69, Cornhill ; lw 2 , Imentetreet : and Crystal Pekoe, Sydenlani. TROUSERS.—SpociaI attention is called to the NEW SPRING GOODS, ead gentlemen who do not mind part a etuW tab price tor a good par a en can &pond on sad patterns that cannot be raceßed. at RAMILTON and RIMPTONR, TAILORS, 100. tilesad (omega Rader Hal). IfFSCIAL 110TIC1—TO OINTLIMIN. MitMILES (Alfred Webb Miles), 73, Brook .tereet, Hanoversquan, rprepared to submit for pubUc approval all NEW TROUSERS PATTERNS for Spring mad Summer wear, which will be totted is greater variety and better than ever. The coatineat remark of pestle men to their friends to, Why pay more that 106. for your summer growers t EVEAYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILD removed from Head strong in 111111. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1863. over she sailed from Bermuda to the Son* Pacific I station, to which her Commodore was appointed, and after remaining some time at Sydney, she sailed on the let of February for New Zealand. Those islands, though not deficient in good anchorages, are remarkable for the dangerous approach from the sea to their principal settlements. The coasts have been most carefully surveyed, it is true, and the surveys show that the sites of the settlements were not always very happily selected from a sea man's point of view. On the coast where the Orpheus has met her fate there is • lee shore in the prevailing winds, and the harbours have shifting bars of sand. Nothing can be more un satisfactory at the best of times than • bar harbour ; but a harbour on a coast exposed to tremendous gales, and with a bar that from one gale to another may be shortened a fathom in depth, or shifted out of the bearings on the chart altogether, is a danger beyond calculation, and that may defy the utmost skill and prudence. The Menu ken Bar, on w hich the Orpheus was lost, is one of the worst of the kind. Siam it was surveyed by Captain Danny the middle channel has shifted to the northward, so that the fair way laid down on the Admiralty charts is become • spit of sand, and on this very spit the Orpheus, moat carefully handled, and steered accurately by the Ad miralty directions, with a strong leading wind and fine weather, and with the signal, " Take the Bar," flying from the pilot station, strikes as if by deliberation and design. The Orpheus, it appears, after a fine and rapid pomp from Sydney, made the Menu kau Bar, eight miles distant, about 1 p.m. on February 9. It was high water over the bar at 12.30. The course by chart, E. and then N.E.E., the wind blowing strong from S.W. to S.S.W., the ship under all plain sail ; and keeping a very sharp look out. It was therefore on the first of the ebb, and going almost before the wind, that the ship first struck slightly in the after-part at about 1.30. The Commodore instantly ordered full steam to be put on, to drive her over the bar into deep water. But ten minutes later she struck forward, and then when the order was given, " Astern " full speed," it was found that neither her engines nor screw would move, and she became unmanageable, broaching-to in the trough of • heavy rolling sea. Nothing that perfect self-com mand and discipline could do to relieve or save the ship we omitted; but the ebb was making' fast, evening coming on, the wind and sea in creasing, the ship striking more heavily every moment, and literally tearing herself to piece'. The sequel is a melancholy but an inspiring record of the heroic virtue of English seamen. Commo dore Bomar ordered the boats away ; the pinnace and the cutter with the ship's papers ; the launch filled and went down with from 80 to 80 officers and men ; others were swept from the rigging into the surf, and among these the Commodore, the Commander, the First Lieutenant, and the Muter. Next morning at daylight] nothing could be seen of the ill-fated Orpheus but a stump of one mast and a few ribs. Now the public grief impatiently asks who or what is to blame for this terrible catastrophe " Take the bar," was the signal flying from the Pilot station. The ship was seen waiting off the bar some hours before; no pilot went out to take charge of her ; she was signalled to come in according to the chart, when it must have been known at the Pilot station that the bar marked in the chart had shifted, and that there was actually a spit of sand over the fair way which the ship would take. Was Commodore 131711NNIT imprudent in taking his ship over the bar, without a pilot on board, with a strong leading wind, and on the first of the ebb t He had his Admiralty chart to steer by, and the signal to "take the bar" before his eyes. Under what conditions could he have craned the bar or approached it with lees apparent risk t What seems lamentable is that there was no coed pilot in readiness to take charge of her limarrr's ship when she appeared in the offing ; and thatorlule twenty-two miles away anotter of her Museum's ships was lying utterly unconscious of the disaster, and a Colonial steamer unemployed, neither was signalled or sent for until the Orpheus bad gone to pieces. The steamer that saved a portion of the ship's company, might, it should seem, have saved the ship herself if she had boarded the Orpheus in the morning, and put a pilot on board. No doubt every aid was ren dered and every effort made—too late. It is easy after the event to suggest what might have been done. Still, whether it be ignorance or the mweasonahle impales= of grief, we cannot, on a calm review of these melancholy circumstances, conclude that the has of the Orpheus was a calami.y beyond human prevention or control. DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR QEORGE CORNWALL LEWIS. It is with deep regret that we ainiounee the death of the Secretary of State for War, the Right Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, Bart., M.P. The melancholy news reached the War Department this (Tuesday) morning, and, as may be conceived, cast a gloom over that department of the government. The re spected baronet died yesterday afternoon at Harp ton Court, his seat in Radnorshire. The lamented baronet was the eldest son of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, Bart, of Harpton Court, Radnorshire, by Harriet, fourth daughter of Sir George Cornwall, Bart. He was born in 1808, and was educated at Eton, and subsequently proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, at which University he took high honours, being let clam in classics, and 2nd class in mathematics, in 182& He adopted the law as his profession, and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1831, but has not prac tised. In 1835 be was appointed one of the Com missioners of Inquiry for the Relief of the Poor and into the State of the Church in Ireland ; and in the following year was placed on theCommisaion of Inquiry into the Affairs of Malta ; and was a Poor Law Commissioner from January, 1839, to July, 1847, when he was first elected member for the county of Hereford in the House of Com mons. The late baronet sat for that county till 1852, and has since March, 1855, represented the Rad nor district of boroughs. He had filled several im portant offices in the government He was Secretary to the Board of Control from November, 1847, to May, 1848 ; Under Secretary for the Home Depart ment from May, 1848, to July, 1860 ; Financial Secretary to the Treasury from July, 1850, to February, 1862; and Chancellor of the Exchequer from March, 1855, to February, 1868; and was appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department in June, 1859. On the resignation of the late Lord Herbert of Lea (Sidney Herbert) Sir George was selected by Lord Palmerston to fill the difficult and arduous office of Secretary of State for War. The late baronet suc ceeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1866, and married in 1844 Lady Maria Theresa, widow of Mr. Thos. Henry Lister, and sister of the Earl of Clarendon and Right Hon. Chas. P. Villiers, IL P. The late Sir George C. Lewis was a distinguished scholar, and the author of several political and historical works ; and for several years was editorof the Edinburgh Review. Among other works, he was the author of "An Essay on the Use and Abuse of Political Terms," "An Essay on the Origin and Formation• of the Romania Languages," " On Local Disturbances in Ireland and the Irish Church Question," "An Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion," "An Inquiry into the Credibility of the early Roman His tory," "An Essay on the Government of Depen dencies," and "A Glossary of Provincial Words used in Herefordshire." LAU:IST IN TELliairitiCira RUSSIA. T►e Nord of to-day has the following paragraphs Authority has just been &worded to several capita& in Russia for the establishment of a Grand Bank of leaded Credit. Sixty millions of francs have already been sub scribed. The founders have entered into relations with bankers in order to °Maio the amidesce of foreign capital. The construction of the railway so much desired in Rued , and of which so much ban been said, between Kiev and Odeon, may now be considered as a certain fact. The oommissionaries are MY. le Comte Branicki, Rjevnalri, Sabaniki, he., with whom are associated many English capitalati. The °mansion is made for 85 years ; the government guarantees 5 per cent. ; the capital Is 220 million francs. A general of bridges and roads, Y. Martchenico, is to leave St. Petersburg, furnished by the eommasionaries to carry co negotiations with foreign capitalists. Another line, which will complete the grand network of Emden railways, has also just been conceded ; it will continue the Riga-Dunabourg Railway as far as Vitebsk, priming, it is said, by Polotek. ITN Court. WLNDSOIL wpm; AMU. U. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louise, walked sail drove is the pounds this amnia& Ilialor-Ossand &gracile has asseeldei Limalomat °emend Haw. O. Orgy aa Equerry ha Wei Veg. The felhswiag WM& at the health al the Thaws Lads a/ Hem was honed this day : " Waimea CABTSA Aran. 13, 1863. " Her Royal Iljgbasas the Prioress Lea el Haase has bed a moat favourable raeo►Ry. " The infant Prise= cioatia;aes well. " Ciwurs Locoac, M.D. "Arms ?Lau, M.D. "No I urther bulletin will be *gibed.* A &plastids, corwlstiair cat Jura Mao', Esq., Mayor of Sunderland, Xr. Athenian Anima, Yr. Alderman Can& WA, Yr. Lindsay, and Mr. Sisowbell, latrodaael by Yr. R. S. Lindsay, ILP., had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at Ow Hornwoffies, on the subject of the erten_ asa of tits public park at Sunderland. . . Vitoosat Palmettos returned to London yesterday Mut bis mat, Broodleads, Heats. The Bight Hes. W. Hutt arrived is tows yesterday frets hie test, Melds. The isdinial Committee of the Privy Carpal out yester day. The Muter of the Rolls gave judgment oa en appeal from the Admiralty Court, the Kelvins., that their lord ships would advise her Majesty that the appeal be &mimed with cods. The 'hater of the Rolls gave judgment co an appeal from the Admiralty Court, the Egiptiaa, that their lordships would advise her Majesty that the judgment el the High Court of Admiralty be oonizmed with meta. • petition for • prolosgation of BovUre patent far grinding emu was meameoced. The lords mean were—the Nader of the Rolls, Lord ChisfJostice Ede, and Sir E. 8y... Delimitates were received yesterday at the Coloall-ofilee from the GUIVNINWS of New Zealand, the West India last* and of the fiettlemento en the West Cadet Afrks. MA Excellency the Belgian Mulder and Madame Vsa as Wryer sad badly hare strived sa &a w rad dales is Grosyssarsquare, from Now Lags Mabee Pow; for tlis Issas. Lady Egerton of Tattoo will have an seeembly this wawa, at her ladyship's residence In St. James's- The Countess Apponyi will give a dancing party at Cheades Roue ea t►e ewe* of Tuesday sort, the 214 Irk Lady Hamilton Seymour will bare an meembly to Thaods, arming sax; and alma an tie Wow* Timaday _. _ • Sir John Campton (the British Minister at the court of Madrid) and Lady Crasaptcm bars antra at Paris ea their way to Lasioa. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. SANDPINGHMI, MOIDAY. The charming weather of the last day or two hat lad to their royal highness taking several equestrian lOLCIIIIIIOOI in the neighbourhood of Sandringham. Os Saturday afternoon his royal highness rode on horseback, after Wiring a drive with the princess. The Rev. G. B. Maths, vicar of Sandringham, preached before their royal highnesses on Suaday. Is the afternoon the Prince and Princess of Wales walked is the pounds to the summer house. VISIT TO BENG'S LYNN. KING'S LYNN, MONDAY EVISIZIO. This ancient and loyal town received a visit this ahem= from their Boyal Rigleassms the Prince and Prinessa of Wales. Suisse was sespesdsd, shops deserted, and the streets occupied by thousands of spectators. The sun shone brightly on the seem At four o'clock the chid magistrate of the town, L. W. Jarvis, Foq., rode oat es horeetack to reset their royal highaesses. At about Ave o'clock the Prince and Primers entered the town, pose. * through the triumphal arab erected at the Sandringham estrange of] Lynn. The Prime looked rather pale but bore so other evidesce of his indisposition, and the arraika seemed to be very gratifyi.4 both to Ida sad the Primmer, who looked remarkably well. The Prises drove slang Norfolk-street, into High. street, resod the Tuesday Market lime, through Kin dred, Queen-street, Saturday Market-place, High- Wrest, Norfolk-street, Gayweodwold, the Chaos, Chia. reek-reed, London-rod, St. James's-road, Blackfrthra. reed, Littleport street, and returned to Sandringham by the Herat °aka The people along the route behaved most re spectfully. hats were raised, handkerchiefs waved, and here end there good English hurrahs burst feeds. flair royal highnesses bad a good sight of the town, and arrived at Sandringham Hall, after a pleasant drive, at about 6 o'clock. The town of Lyon pve itself up to • spirit of rejoigjog for the honour doss it, and to-night we have bad the illuminations, and bands of music enlivening the quiet borough. The illuminations in front of the Mayor's residence consisted of the plumes, a Grows Mmes. wick star, sad the initials " d- A., " a ll i n balutifnlly calmed crystal. Amerding to pressed arrangements, their royal higbucems leave Sandringham on Saturday aext, and proceed by special traia, Lynn and Wished'. At the latter place the greatest efforts are beiag made by all dames to give their royal highways • mad reeeption. The Prince will receive an address from the eorpor•tion, to be presented by the mayor, Richard Young, Eq. After receiving the addrew, the " special " will proceed on to Match, and theme to Windsor, where the Prince will stay on • visit to the Qum, for • few days, and will take peweedon of hie town residence, Marlborough Home, on Weimeday, the 22nd feat. Immediately after the elseartare of their royal highborn from Saadringham, the preheat ball will be w ildly unroofed, and • large number of workmen, under Maws. Holland and Soo, will proceed to make the exten sive additions that have been decided upon. The "Nor wich gates" are to be fixed at the end of the avenue of lime teem, and will be embellished, not only with the arms of Reiland and Denmark, the duchy of Cornwall, and the Prince's plume, bat also by it. MIN of Norwich, Lyme, Yarmouth, led Thetford. Earl and Lady Constanoe Grosvenor, Viscount Balgrava, and Lord Ronald Levee* GPM have arrived in Paris Iron Loudon, and alighted at the Bred de Louden., no Camden**. Lord and Lady Rendlesham and Sir Watkin and lady Wyaa have arrived at the Hotel Bridal. Patio, from Raglan& _ Tai PROPOS= AZILLOAMATION OP VIZ CITY AND XITIOPOLITAN POLICZ POIZZIL—PubIic meetings were Leal yesterday, of the ishabliaon of various City wards, to sounder the proposal now before purl amest for the amalgamation of the City police with that of the metropolis generally. At each of the meetiogs speeches were delivered etwoogly denouncing the proposition as beteg uncalled for, wi se is missapt to infringe upon the municipal rights of the corporation et the city of Load= by the advocates of sestralisatico. Resolutions and politicos to parliament prolostisg against the measure wore unanimously adopted. Ta Loan CHANCULOMI LIVING& —ill2ooWit the bessiess which will be disposed of hamedotely after the Lord Obsseeller's bill becomes law are the following in Senn sobs.* of moos, to deaths sad resignati4os :—The notary el SR Mildred, Castertsery, with the maim,' of AU Heists mod Mary the Castro ; the vicarage of Dreohurch ; the oodory of Hope All Hunts; the vismege of flt. Mary, gai n . ; alis Mange of Chalk, mist Chsvemod.—dertfish O wns. liorzoroums Fs= Houvria, Dsvoluxisir, warm, CWT.—The aggregate sember of patine% relieved during the week imam - April 11, was /Loliesl, g6O ; snorkel. 636—wital, L 486 ;_ at which 536 were new as OILYITAL PLLACIL --OWZ MULLING DAL—Mow. 54z Arum 13. - Admhskos en payment, 1,644 ; 41440 by mum Woks* 745; Uhl, 9,310. WIDNISDAY. TEMUAW. Easterly, light, floe. 1100MAND. XL to S.W. sad LW., light to moderate, tote. &Z. to S.W. sad N.W., Isamu N.W. to &W., trash, moderate to fresh. showery. Lto 8. sod W., mode- w.carrisa. LW. to LW.. 'node rate, fine. rata Ms to fresh, some N.& to B.E les. . and S., W.Faaaell. &to W. sad N., mode- LL tem )70., variable, &&W. to N.N.W., mo showely. dente to fresh, some Ws. As Au. shove. LL LIQUID. &W. to N.W., fresh, Wowery. Z. to 8., variable, lee. X mare. &S.W. to to to N. fr N.W., mo deraesh. The ex-Queen of Naples left Marseilles on Sun day I. a Spanish frigate, tat retire forpivite Vecchia. - _ A Vienna letter says :—" Miss Pustowojteff is now a famous personage. She is now living is Procne in th e Rot e l de Saxe, and will, it appears, semin there for some time. A number of curious folks gathered before her windows to endeavour to get a sight of her, bat failed ; the l►dy would not gratify their curiosity. She is mostly with another distinguished Polish lady, who is also wrapped in mystery, no one knowing who she is She is young, well shaped, and of an interesting appears:les, welkin always alone in the promenade. Nis P. km an old servant with her, and makes use of the hotel eqiiipage. She has an els. pat bearing, sod on her pale cheek is an imprint o{ sorrow which is further deepened by the mourning she wears. She is graceful in her assails, which peint to a liVlloiolll mind now subdued by grist. She speaks very good Gowan, end user Polish only with her serveet. She is without a guard, having gives her parole not to mix up any more with the Polish movement." There are now 228 money order poet towns in Canada, 66 is Victoria, 45 in the Oape of Good Hope, 39 is Soeth Australis, 24 is New Zealand, 22 in Welters Ans. teslia, 1.13 is New /oath Wales, and 2 in Queensland. At Louisville, in Kentucky, there is an annual tobacco show, at whisk prime are gives for the beet spool mss of mannfactetine leaf, shipping lief, mules leaf, cigar leaf, &c., and ass of the prises this year was a coffee mid tea set of plated silver ware for the lady in whose same is adored tie boa bapbaid of loaf tobacco. GREECE. Letters from Athens of the 3rd give fall details of the scene in the Greek Assembly when the re commendation by the government of the election of the second son of Prince Christian of Denmark was made known and unanimously accepted. The en thusiasm which prevailed was referred to in the telegram. It appears that when the election was pro posed one voice was heard to cry, " And the lonian Islands !" but it was lost in the general applause. However, the following day, on the Ist of April, the Assembly unanimously adopted a decree In which, after a reference to the royal speech on the opening of the English parliament and to the communica tions of the British envoy, it is said that the Greek nation ardently desires to see the Seven Islands brought as soon as possible under the constitu tional sceptre of George I. King of the Greeks. Thanks are also given to her Majesty for the kindly intention she has already manifested in this matter. After the adoption of the decree a deputy from the lonian Islands, known for his hostility to England, attempted to speak, but so fearful (say the accounts) were the deputies that he would ray something annoying to England, that they would not allow him to speak, and shouted him down. A journal of Athens publishes the following let ter from K Drouyn de Lhuys to Gen. Kalergis, Greek plenipotentiary Paris, March 17. My dear General, —A thousand thanks for the comintini miles you have been so good uto make to me. You brow better than anyone that it would be uojaat to attribute to indifference the reserve which events and the viaduct of the Greeks themselves have impend epee as in the late crisis. A day will omne when rear country will know better how to appreci►te the old friewilehip of France, and we await that day patiently—Rocadvit, Ougasza's maasata.) PORTUGAL. PROROGATION OF THE CHAMBERS. LISBON. Aran, 13. The chambers have been prorogued until the 20th May. It is reported that a marriage is intended to be ooncluded between Prince Augusto of Portugal and a princess of Brazil. TURKEY. THZ SULTAN'S PROGRESS. 10PLE, Anm 12. The French Consul was not present at the recep tion of the foreign consuls by the Sultan in Alex andria, and was also absent at the audience given by his Majesty to the consular agents in Cairo. It is asserted in explanation that the French Consul has expressed his opinion that the Sultan's visit to Egypt constituted a danger for Europe. AREJLVAL OF THE EUROPA. LIVERPOOL, Nosakr. The Royal Mail steamship Europa, Captain Muir, from Boston on the Ist, and Halifax on the morning of the 3rd instant, arrived in the Mersey shortly after five o'clock this evening. The Europa cali,ed at Queenstown on Sunday, and a summary of her news telegraphed from thence has already been published. WIATIIIIR BAPORT.-(THIE3 DAY.) TWXIIIA.T, AIMS 14 II AX. ILO.I v. W. F. Ix. 1. 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The iron-clads have at last, by the latest ad vice., left Port Royal for Charleston, the pre parations having been finally completed, and by this time the issue between them and the stone walls has probably been tried. The last delay was caused by the loss at sea of three ingenious machines, oonatructed by Ericson, to be attached to the bows of the gunboats, to clear the channel of torpedoes and piles. ♦ fresh supply had to be forwarded from New York. In its main features it is a framework of iron, somewhat like the " cow catchers," placed in front of the American rail way engines. It is thus described by a corre spondent of the Philadelphia Press : An iron frame floated to the water's edge by ken spawns is pushed ahead of the Monitor as she rune in. Its length from the bow of the Masker is from twenty to thirty fest. An aperture is made next to the vessel of the s ha pe of her bows in:ended to receive it. The breadth of the ,obsletio tion remover " is twelve tett. From each side of the ex tremity • strong iron bar or shaft rues down also twelve feet, the Monitor drawing from eight to ten feet of water, thus rendering it imposeible for any torpedoes over which this " obstruction remover" perm to injure the vessel. A number of iron bars are mcd, not only so form a net-work i so es to either push forward or explode every torpedo leas ' than twelve fest under water, but also to atrent,hen and steady the meats. At the bottom a heavy tie -ber unites them two vertical rode, upon which reds the wearies torpedo, containing seven hundred pounds of powder. Above this is a hammer which catches in a spring so stiff as to require two men to est it, but constructed so that the lever which proirodes in front, forming the handle or other and slips hammer, will mum the spring to give with ads pressure. This is to remove piles. ----- - • -•- There are eight Monitors to take part in the fray, besides the Ironsides frigate. Nothing since the war began has been looked for with half so much interest, and the result will certainly be of vast importance in its bearings on the art of attack and defence, however it may affect the for tunes of this war. THE CHURCH ESTATE COMMISSION. TWELFTH REPORT. This morning was issued the report of the Cater& Metes Oormaimiesers for the year ending the let of March Lat. It same that during the year this body bays traasforrod to Use Eoclosiutical a nun al 200,0001. ash, and a gam of stook equivalent to 100,0004 cash, in rennet of the surplus proceeds of eskarwhisements completed. The aggregate amount which has been pad over or transferred to the amount of the Heelesiestind Com missioners is now 1,000,2171. 2a. 2d., in addition to 100,0001. in respect of interest which has accrued on the surplus. The Church Pontes Commissioners have during the year approved the terms agreed spat in 143 cases, 126 being mem of salsa of reversions, and 17 cases of pur chases of leasehold interest., and the value is fee of the estates eo agreed to be dealt with is approxi mately 700,0301. The aggregate number of cams approved of is now 2,417, and the value of the property dealt with amount' to about 9,540,0001. In 13 camas the commis sioners declined to approve the terms proposed, but in seven of these the terms have been modified so as to meet with their sanctioc. " The traneactious," observe the com missioners, "continue to be effected with facility, and the oommiasioners have reason to believe that the tome are 'morally satisfactory to the lextesa, so well se bestelkial to the church." LIFIBO.Ar SERVICES. SEATON CAREW, Moaner Nun. Let night (Sunday), writes the Rev. J. Lawson, the brig Regalia, of Whitby, from Hainburgh, in ballad, 'treaded dunag blowing weather from the west, aod in • heavy sea, at the estrum, to the River Tees, about a mile to the south of this place. The caw of the vessel beret tar barrels as signals of dickers, sad these having beta oh. served by the crow of the lifeboat of the Madam' Lifeboat lestikatica at that *es, the boat was immedistely maimed and lauoched to the aedatanos of the shipwrecked crew. The lifeboat soca reached them, and brought them all, pewee in number, is ad sty to the ahem The cast of this valuable lifeboat was pressated %the Natiseal Life boat Institution three odour years sip by WLliem WlCar rell. Esq. She hes since than bees the messmvfsgthe crews of the following wrecked reseals ;-15rig of Middlesborough, 7 ; brig May Flower, of Newcastle, 8,• brig Providence, of Shields, ; barque Robert Warns, Bandeaus', 5 ; and brig Regalia, of Whitby, 7 ; total num bs, of lives saved, 35. A letter from Rome of the 7th says :—" Sunday evening being as magnificent weather as the preceding part of the day, the illumination of the cupola of St. Peter's at tracted many thousands of spectators. A strong detach ment of Anglo-f3azon sight-seen got into the meadows be yond the ankle of St. Angelo, pasting the Tiber by the ferry-beat from the port of Rime* and had an admirable view of the illurninatioo and its subsequent change from with* to red lights. But their reweave 'radius was diem kens ; for when they retraced their step to the banks of **Tiber, in expectation of regaining the central part of the city as they had left it, by the ferry-boat, no bast was to be had, it being contrary to the polies regulations for that mode of aquatic transit to be continued after dark. In vain our disconsolate countrymen shouted ' A boat, • boat unto the ferry !' sod they were ultimately obliged to trudge round by the Ports Angelica, and perform a pro menade of three miles before reaching their hotels or WOW." _ _ _ It has been proposed that a lighthouse should be erected on Menicoy Island, where the Colombo steamer was recently leek The Rev. W. M. Bingsmill, assistant curate of Broad Clyst, sear Exeter, has forwarded a cheque for 211. 12s. 4d. to the Nader' Lifeboat institution, being the amount deposited is the alms-boxes of the parish church during Lent, for that great sod valuable institutioe. The parish is only an agrionitund sae, but many of the parishiocen, adds the Rev. W. M. Ringamill, feel that Devoe, as a maritime cionsty, enjoys great advantages from the n umerous lifeboat establishments the society has on the Devoeshire coast, and have therefore manifested their op. precdtioc of the institution's philanthropic objects by thus contributing liberally to its funds. The society has now fourteen lifeboat stations on the Devon and Cornish made Sinned these boats have during the past winter been the mesas of saving many a shipwrecked crew. Tim PENINSULAR AND ()MENTAL COMPANY'S Itizar.—Two of the eight new vessels by which the Penin sular and Oriental Company's already numerous and power ful deem fleet is about to be animated, visa., the Poonah sad the Carnet* are now completed and ready for sea. The find of them had her official trial trip on Saturday, and the other will peas through the sans, ordeal at the mad of the present week. The Rangoon, built by Marra Sansuda, was breached a week since ; the Syria, building by Messrs. Day and Clo., of the Northam Ironworks, at Southampton, will be ready about September next ; the Goloooda, by the Thames Ironworks Company, at the end of the ear;y the MDby Masers. Wirers, in the spring of 1864 ; the by Messrs. Sanimia, in the summer of 1864 ; and orders have just berm gives to the Thames km Company to esastrast a new peddle Ammer which is Dot yet named. All thine meals are screws, with the *cove= of the Syria and the nee last mentioned. Tess COALAND IRON DISTRICTS. —lt is rather surprising to mooed that the emigration from the coal sad iron distracts of South Wales at the present time is larger . than Ina ever been known. At several of the prism:Spa works es many as 30 have left at one " pay," and not a week guises without a few leaving. The majority of the emigrants are able-bodied young men, and it is more sur prising. still to mention that the destination of nearly all of them is New York, or some other port of the once United State.. Higher wages and ready employment are the mesons given for emigrating, but as the stile of things in the Northers States is so wall known among our working population. the matter has naturally created suspicion, and it is feared that agents ere at work holding out induce ments to the emigrants with the view of Wing them eventually useful in the prosecution of the war against the South. _ _ _ LA3I3 Ericarn—On Wednesday night, between 11 snit 12 o'clock, Mr. Onun, the laadloed of the Burma Arms New Shoreham, wee around frau his slumbers hymn extraordinary noise, which literally shook the hoses. Os proceedion upstairs to ascertain the MINN he found the swage and staircase filled with smoke, and a very strong smell of gunpowder. He rapped at the bedroom door of a young man named W. Wicks, who wits sleeping therein, who immediately let him in, when, to hi e horror, be discovered the toilet cover and :window cur tains on fire. He directly set to work sad extinguished the Hama; then turned his attention to the sufferer, whom he found •err much disfigured, his moustache, whiskers, and one _aide of his head wire frightfully scorched, eyed very much swollen, and his wrist burnt. It ap pears be bad Incautiously plead hie powder fleet too near the media, when It immediately exploded. The top ben not yet been found, the rides were divided In two, sad low he escaped instantaneous death Ropier' a wirer's. Dr. Puller was womedietely seat for, and under his skilful treatment the paint Is progressing favourably.—Surrty. Standard. THE &WOLK' MURDER. EXECUTION AT IPSWIOH.—(THIA DAY.) This morning the extreme penalty of the law carried into execution at the Suffolk Comity G.,* Ipswich, in the cue of John Ducker, convicted 4 the moues of the murder of Ebenezer Tye, at Maestro* The deceased was a police constable, staticsed at N.. worth, and was set to watch the prisoner's house, , lay in his beat, on the night of the 23rd of November. Th primmer wm • hay-binder, working for a farmer ref Georg*, about half a mile from Halmworth, end suspected character, in consequence of numerous de ft .. time committed by him. Tye was last seen alive ne v th e prisoner's booze about 6 a.m. on the 24th of Nov. R. fte mimed from his beat, and nothing being heard o f hi e , , a ant day, search was made, sod his body was diseee ed about 20 or 31) yarcle„ from the place where the pm mit lived, known m Clark's-yard. When found the body et t h deemed wee lying in • brook or river which ram it the bottom of the yard, on its back, with the right arm ci on, the left rigid, the feet crowed, and the head turned teem& the sided the yard, away from • pies of the " Osierhed." The water was two sad the body, wine totted, was cold, wen covered with slimy mod mad similar mad sad weeds foimd on soaks souses house. The handcuffs and staff had with him were found in the otierbed sad his h►t was discovered %boat six yard, dotting with the stream. There was • the head, sad the infereDoe rabid wee stoweed by s blow ea the head, sod then rime; air ells is s struggle had remised had nude him fell into it while insensible, &este& To bring the eon home to mikesot svideace Ina called to prove baud an of two men going down the the time in questioc, volt:lesbang also than of Tys sod the prisms ; that shortly mama via board, sad thou a pain or Gas in didai ; th►t the primer, on aosoewhst Lierthaa tumid, was mot dressed was la the habit of wearing ; that eserahed in theevening, he being there, his m►rt►d with wounds, wbich • witness when he went to his work on the morning question ; that he mach, 000tlictiog statements by way of explaining thews . girl at work at • hayrick at Mr. George's, and to the Wi t , man who searched his home ; and that under the cull* of the chair on which he was sitting when taken, a *z i t trousers, racially washed, were found stained with he mud sad weeds, and a stocking oleo foul and smelling offensive mud (the mud of the brook at the sod of amr. yard being fool from the sewage of the tows). It se also proved that after Tye's death the primmer was ea sweeping his yard in another dram thee his usual so k with • broom ow which were reninasts of hay; theory es to this part of the was being that be se found with stolen hay in his possession when ha seen by Tye ; that he had thrown It dews, and, is* romped across the brook to the osier.bed, was punnet y the doomed, and that then • deadly straggle mood Is order further to complete the evidence, • cap was probesf which was picked up neer the bode of the drowned ma which tap two or three witnesses identified as one bebop, to and worn by the prisoner. Since his ecoviction, about three weak. ego, Dude's derneenear his been quist,.and he hoe listened with its.. lien sad respect to the ministrations of the Rev. J. Dag, the chaplain at the gaol. On Sunday aftersocm he attewlel service in the chapel, when the rev. chaplain plentyt from the text, " The wages of sin is death : bat the gilt Gad is eternal life through JINNI Christ oar Tend." The convict, however, seems eststrally to pawns • stolid at animpeaeiorble elisracter, as nOtwitbekending the 'Old position in which he had been placed, with an ignomiewas death Bening him hour by hour more inaisetly in the fee, he has taken hia meals with regularity and slept soundly . - . The last solemn scene in theconviet's dismal comer took place this morning. The time fixed for the execution WU 8 a.m., and, an that hour approached, the executioner Cal mat proceeded to the discharge of his dreadful task. The struggles of the wretched man were sot severe. The crowd, which numbered about 4,000 persons, was orderly in behaviour. It ia understood that the criminal mode no confession. roe of prig 4.7 1 or three feet de l% 1, while ;the cl weeds, N clothes is the N i if which the red above • yards from the body mark of a blew i that Tye bad heel dun thrown into red the blow, • • Ile, when be war the priaoner, a that foretops the yard troths, • Do noticed resemblo g shortly aftorwarth ; or shriek, as of soot a going to his w et eased in the clothes!. when his house m his fro and head we declared he had to nom* of the day sod susastittade l as wounds, both 4, . . DISPERATI INCOUN'tER. On Friday morning early Leavewhonse, the re aiding* of Mr. Jobs Huderecm, as. of theiwincipal part urn in the firm of Mama. Henderson o itted b Uo-, chi P e t. me nso idelrine profeesios, and a Durham, was brok n quantity of silver plan was takes oat of Use drawisproom, with the wine sal bawdy. A terrier dog that had been allowed to go • Lege in the hum was found half stupefied in the kitche in the morning, having been drugged. There have bee several burglaries committed in the neighbourhood d Newcastle, Durham, and Shields during the eluter mouth. and the police of the district have for some time se pedal a ticket-of-leave 000vict named Daglish of beh ocusersed in them. A party of notorious thieve among whom was Deglish, had takes rap their residue at Ottashaad, but they had been so doily watchel by the police that they betook themselves to Nes audio, taking up their residence in liiadhatighetrot searthe barracks. With a view of satin( himself tin Daglish was staying in fiiadhaugh-street, Detective Late of the Gateshead police force, along with Detectives Park aed Morino, of the Newcastle force, preosedsd klb home on Sunday afternoon. On knocking - A the door, was opened by a woman who, on seeing apparels he very mush alarmed. The of pushed past her, she made off into the street with considerable alacrit proceeded upstairs, and oa enteriog the room found the man they were looking for, and another ticket.c4- 1 man, who afterwards gave his name as Brown, two otle men, and two women. The two latter-mentioned men ad the women made their escape whilst the meta tin immediately took place was going en. One of the men p out of • back window, slid down a spout into a backyart and so got off. As eon aa Dsglbk saw the officers le Mead • poker, which at that tine was in the fire, and Mil , a murderous blow at the head of Leitch. Parker, borrow. wee too quick for him, ter be caught the poker before could reach Leitch's head, though be burnt his hash severely thereby. Dogfish let go his bold, but Me • bace and bit, with which he struck Leitch over the Mei iailicting a severe wound, from which the blood Bowed stream. Leitch closed with him, Daglish resisting le apprehension with tremendous strength; but Parker* lusted Leitch. In the desperate affray that earned Leitch pt hold of the brace and bit, and inflicted some severe blows upon the burglar, whose face was covered with blood. The struggle was moss desperate, both the Aims end Dighe beaag soured with blood, but Parker at last got the low by dm seek and completely overpowered him. Morbid' in the meantime had been wiped with Brown, a big, power ful man,who, like Daglish, resisted his apprehension wilt much desperation. Tborburn, however, was helped by a cirb lien who looked in, sod his men was overcome. The twe prisons were shortly after removed to the Wert. gate police station, followed by a Lame crowd, and both burglars and policemen had to be immediately attended by a surgeon. Upon searching the house in If .street, the silver to stolen on Friday morning from Leaver house, Dtirm, Mr. fiendenceie mansion, together with quantity of other valuables, evidently the proceeds of forms robberies, and some pick-locks were discovered by the polies. The prisoners were brought up yesterday before the Nee , male magistrates, and were remanded. The capture of Deglish has given great satisfaction in the northern tom, for he was known to be a most desperate fellow, and the fact that be had been liberated upon a ticket of-leave in the early part of the winter mused vary great dimatiefactio There appears to be little doubt that immediately owe reaching the north he had mourned his old ways, for coos oldest with hie eippearanu in his former haunts the poles o =to receive information of burglaries committed in de home. Firm TIRM. —To-morrow raster Term int: 4011IMISCO without the Lord Chapatilac holding his levee, or giving the usual breakfast to the Lamed judges cif other legal functionaries. Os the last occasion the recee Lion took place at the Middle Temple Hall, sod it was es. petted that his lordship would have received the judged customary on the commencemeat of Fester Term. The domestic malty which has occurred in the death of lady Westbury will prevent the gathering. It was fallY expelled lc the Maces of the common law courts that the courts at Westminster would not commence business until 2 o'clock, bat it is now understood that they wdl alt at the usual hour in the morning, es in other terns. The business before the courts of law and equity is in s satisfactory state. The arrears of the common law roans are under 200, and in the courts of chancery they are of trifling character. The Divorce Court has a good share of business, and will forthwith meanie its sittings. Yews , day, at the Judges' Chambers, three learned judges at . tended for the drat time since the eiresit, sad Mr. Justice Blackburn, who bad remained in tows, was relieved from the dation - 1111011ATION TO AMIILICL. The steninship 'United Kingdom, host Glasgow for Quebec sad Kootreal. arrived in Belfast laugh at an early hour on Saturday moll' cog for the purpose of taking oo board pameogers from Betted. At eleven o'clock a steam tender was despatched from Belfast with 141 paeseogre for the United Kingdom. They were sosompasied Yr. Samuel Gowan, the agent for the ship, and also by Dr. Moore, who crammed all the la.- stingers before going on board, at 1.30 p.m., and harlot altogether 428 pasosegere and latest telegrams on board, mine steamed away for Quebec, amid loud cheering. THE C] TH. This morn of the Thames favourable to a of the compstit a Newcastle Everson, of the coat and championship to-day's comae eaters asaembl steamers were the tptthering so respectable spot by the si oanmen. The of the ehanipi bolder of the and the wit Lowdown' to U being the be the Tyne cc enhanced or that the mod laurels against Feathers at was crowded wi Head at Barnes beakers of Ever the betting was The &dos 0 Middlesex ado, dm yards from offeetod at see which Eve sou I quarters of a lo lag was the ad wall as Tyne nao keg* which 1 smith Bridge, everything hie loottbi or abet' erode of Evern had gained his d crowdiog upon start those win being the " bee spinet Chainba By the rend hold the Champ shortly to delete man, of Ositsda, will Mad s fermi Ar a ut e WV"— charged Mr. Slsigh, Thin nen in N Nt il = Ind bun far au absconded, with, lestazday wee onarad. Prom MIT ourgooo, pky wisp,* was ow Jouph Ifoomo Jumuy hot. o• 6o play Itr. bm pasamer to irks I Maned Ida • Den." Ho so - 7117 Ler7D; pallsoo, said i time of d] loodwriting. so' giy? !t, and Mr.. A letter arsa p &meatiest Mr. abmladect. It r " Ely deer Fi shall be no more Yours truly, Polies. xmstab having been ph apprehend the j another charge, On marching hi, blankets, which and which had bi It i;ii - ansaiii wilk upon resia Primmer was r BIIIIVOLIPCI. deriak Plies the who ohloosolod i opeltlas lit 71 the tam. sad w ni0•117 was Ind The imagist • reeolutioa at q eying oat mot resobtlios ie fai /lobed Glad*" objecenel to by exception. the the magieleatee gather. It was should wait we rootial. A BAILII r all4sirorieg to' a frame Axil Daman sad Oot Io the warm al Connie made m that the latter, fellea-ceaacillor gentlemen, amid to mei redraw is Tax Boa= Wing Inquiry glad to learn the patients remain yet be prowonnoi of recovery. TI lag's ontastrophr oorratipondeat :- to tho wad bar child, wb, Waugh the roof on bearing the ri barrow, which p Another man, 01 1111130 Val found t of the boiler end hie sentry :box, &brio ; the roof the old fellow e workmen found' Sugotrua F the Surrey forhc It wee asythoc exceeded Gaped plea brim settled to one at o °tunas wood Bombe, turned 14 Bromley-comma tom, sod then tl where he wee t Peg main faced I *Farnborough Lobboa's *oh stead, where be Ice Issikl-Psrh Bromley statioe through Lear* oe his way to Pii • sheep dog ono the docc bele' oi the Ire with • p ney, where he q sa-hour he wee II Zeigerst Gawk. CURIoVe Mt!bourse Arg , steer creek 15 = a r i a whit last saw tom I Boise closer, I el tare, sad the vsi =what is Mato el /to., are as pert them has reap a Now, eiT i ltr e : with a view to them altoaathe government, or opinion, I am, Creek, Jan. 4.