The Express. — London, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

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MEMow- RI DAUOIITIM Or Ti* OU•O•Lot , llf 10Ilrit• WOO ACTOft. Mr. O. Maihour-401•11T POI 11 • STO aL 7. PRISOOPOW. Tau 11, DYING 7011 LOVM.—AaI MIBICHANT or tutus. ra fook.—Oommos , Tim Emma. insain a l rLek.4...... san vissear. Eakin iss No saw am A. Wk. K. lon. advi Moins.—flie trig faillb. -.Rol M 00 OM FOR 0D UM& Na mes wl Oman ; aft' at 7. _ZION WATIII AT LONDON Dav—~rMSlowsiv. 4k. i. lIPM. 111DNIL P.. Ns. LONDON. 177281)AT, OCT. 12. [WOWING INTELLIGENCL ♦ SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS," esetaining the results of the day's Reese, is pub lished every evening during the Sporting Season, at six o'clock. WE now know the particulars of that appalling catastrophe, the destruction by fire in the mid- Atlantic of the passenger ship Austria. A more frightful tale of human agony and despair has rarely been told. The Austria, a magnificent screw steamer of 2,300 tons, was built in the Clyde last year for the service between Hamburg and New York. On the 2nd of September last she Nailed on her outward voyage from Hamburg, and on the 4th from Southampton. For eight days she encountered strong westerly winds; on the 12th the weather moderated, and On the 13th she had attained a speed of eleven knots, with every prospect of arriving at New York in the coarse of five days from that time. It was a little after two o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th that the alarm of fire was first wired. Mr. BREWS, the only English survivor of the catastrophe, was then on the quarter deck. He saw a dense cloud of smoke eweepiog before the wind from the fore part of the Teasel, and some terrified women rushing aft, shrieking " The ship is on fire—what will become of us ?" Orders were instantly given, and apparently obeyed, te pat the ship on half speed, but notwithstanding this, so great was the stress of the wind and so reseal the rapidity of the flumes, that by the time Mr. Beams had reached the middle of the vessel he saw the flames breaking from the lights amidships. From this moment everything appears to have been in volved in the most frightful confusion. According to the evidence at present before us the Captain seems entirely to have lost self-possession. Rush ing upon the deck bareheaded, he exclaimed on seeing the flames, " We are all lost!" and then imme diately made for one of the boate. That he was one of the first that were lost is certain, but whether he met his death io resisting the rush of the panic stricken crowd to the boats or in attempting to effect his own escape seems involved io a doubt, of which it is only fair he should have the benefit. It is, how ever, a suspicious and discreditable circumstance, that oat et the ten survivors of the crew, three should have been the superior officers of the ship— the first, second, and third mates—nor can the most extensive charity frame a doubt that those to whom the safety of the 600 souls on board the Austria was entrusted signally and shamefully failed in their duty. It was unquestionably a situation to daunt the bravest, but it is equally unquestionable that, bad those in command evinced a doe degree of firm ness and presence of mind, the results most have been very different to the fearful reality. As it wee, everything was left to the most frightful haphazard. Mad with panic, the uncontrolled and unguided crowd precipitated themselves upon the boats. Boat after boat was swamped by overcrowd ing, or by being sucked under by the screw pro peller, which was still suffered to work on with useless and deadly energy. Out of the whole 600, lees than 30 persons were ultimately saved by the agency of the boats, and of these boats one only, the metallic life boat, was unawamped. Mr. Maws, who seems to have maintained hie presence of mind throughout, finding that the vessel was still with her head to the wind, and that the flames were consequently sweeping the quarter-deck, ran up to the man at the wheel, and bade him put her broadside on to the wind. The man hesitated, waiting probably for orders, that never came, from some of the officers ; he soon like the rest fled from his post ; and the ship, without control or guidance, went raging 00, a sheeted mass of flame, until the machinery gave way under the fierceness of the conflagration, and she gradually drifted round before the wind. Tim fury of the fire amidships rapidly est off all conimunicAtion between the quarterdeck and the forecastle. As long as the ship's head wee kept to the wind the foredeck was comparatively clear of flame and smoke. The greatest number of those ultimately waved, about 40, were taken from the bowsprit and chain., which soon became the only tenable part of the burning ship. The sweep of the flames over the quarter-deck was terrific. Mr. BREW. got over the bulwarks, and held on for some time by the davits (or irons from which the boats are slungt, leaning out as far as he could over the water to avoid the dames that were leaping to wards him. In this frightful position he wit nessed the great horror of the quarter-deck. As the dames pressed closer and closer, the despairing multitude were literally driven by fiery sewarges into the sea. Husbands and wives, parents and children, clasped in each other's arms, took the deadly leap of more than 20 feet from the lofty deck into the seething water. Two sisters sank kissing each other. An Hungarian gentleman, with a wife and seven children, one as intuit in arms, waited till the wife end the six had each taken the deadly plunge, then followed himself with the little one in his bosom. The brave Englishman Brews, slinging thus to the davits and dodging the leaping flames, caught sight through the scrike drifts of a swamped boat. spinning by seeps still attached to the ship. He slid down the rope, cut it,and pushed off, but in vain ; that boat also wee engulphed aud swamped by the stre w. The Englishman saved himself by diving tinder the ship, and tame up within reach of an other boat, or rather wreck of • boat, floating bottom upwards. lie righted her, took in a Ger- illillim THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1858. man who was swimming for life hard by, and, in default of oars, extemporised a rough kind of paddles out of some laths, which bad been nailed together am a sheathing for the sides. Meanwhile the ship had driven on, hut we. still in eight, and the Englishman and German, paddling for life with their laths, were near enough to see the end of that dismal tragedy on the quarter-deck. " I could see " the ladies and gentlemen," says Mr. BREWS, jumping off the poop into the water in two. and " threes, some of the ladies in flames. Several heal " fated to leap from the burning ship till the last " moment, as the height was 22 feet, and were only " at length compelled to throw themselves off to " avoid a more fearful death. In half an hour not a " soul was to be seen on the poop." It was at five o'clock—three hours after the fire was first disco vered—that the French barque Maurice reached the blazing steamer. Between thirty and forty human beings were still sustaining themselves, blistered with heat and stifled with smoke, in the forechains and under the bowsprit. These were picked off by the boats of the Maurice. The metallic lifeboat of the Austria, with 23 scorched and wounded people on board, including three officers of the ship and six women, soon came up. Then three or four men were picked up floating on a piece of broken boat. The second officer of the ship was taken out of the water, where he had sustained himself without other support than his own strong arms for nearly six hours. At half-past seven BaEws and hie German, with their paddles of lath, were received into the hospitable Maurice. Then night fell, and the Maurice took in no more. The next morning a Norwegian barque came in sight, and her boats were observed busy round the still burning hull. There is just a desperate chance that she may have added one or two to the 67 rescued by the Maurice, out of the 800 who were alive on board the Austria at two o'clock on the 13th of September. One of the most frightful of recorded catas trophes !—and how was it caused? By an act of the grossest and mat culpable carelessness. It had been resolved to fumigate the steerage. The mode adopted for doing this was by setting a cauldron of pitch on deck and dipping into it a piece of chain, one end of which had been made red hot and the other was held by the boatswain. The beat being greater than was convenient the boatswain suddenly relaxed his hold, the cauldron was upset, and in another instant the burning pitch was streaming over the deck. Taking this account to be correct, it seems incredible that, had proper efforts at once been made, the flames might not have been speedily arrested. Indeed, looking at the whole narrative of these disastrous facts as detailed in the evidence now before us, it is impossible to avoid the conclu sion that upwards of five hundred human beings have been destroyed in the most horrible manner imaginable, by culpable negligence, unpardonable defect of discipline, and a lamentable want of the most ordinary presence of mind. Our present impression is, that had the captain and officers done their duty; had the vessel been put about; the steam they shut off; and the boats properly guarded—the majority of these unfortunate people might have been saved from their deaths of torture. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (11011 0111 OWN PARIS, MONDAY EVININO. Notwithstanding efforts active and passive, on both aides of the British Channel, to treat the Por tuguese affair u insignificant, it still returns to the order of the day and eclipses almost every other political topic. The view which I took yesterday of the state of the question, after a hurried sum ming up of various information, is quite confirmed. It is certain that the French ►nd Portuguese Cabinets are very far from being agreed, but it is also, as far as can be judged from indications, certain that the French government has not, and never had, the least idea of war, and now thinks mainly how the Donawerth and Austerlitz, which were so rashly sent to Lisbon, may best be got away without open and palpable discredit. The bidepeedanee, indeed, says that the Bretagne, 120 guns, and several war steamers will be sent to rein force them, but I am persuaded that the intelligence is incorrect. The Press. contains a leading article upon the affair, in which it assumes that the ques tion about the ill-treatment, at Lisbon, of some French sisters of charity, of which you have heard, is one of the subjects which Admiral Lavaud's demonstration is meant to settle. I doubt this very mach. If, indeed, the Univers could be accepted as the autho rised interpreter of the feelings of the French go vernment, France entertains a hostile feeling against Portugal on many accounts, and the affair of the Charles Georges would only be a pretext for paying old scores. The Univers objects that in Portugal the press is entirely free, and that the great majority of the Lisbon newspaper' write against the Jesuits, and do not scruple to say what they think of the principles upon which France is now governed. I have no idea, however, that the French government is prepared to solve this ques tion by the cannon of Admiral Lavand's squadron. The matter of the sisters of charity is admitted to have been in a fair way of arrangement when the difficulty about the Charles Georges arose; and I do not think it will in any way complicate the settlement of the latter affair. The Press., however—and in this it chimes in with the Univers —hints that the King of Portugal and his ministers are really altogether in favour of France, and that they are secretly glad of the presence of the French ships as a means of repressing a revolutionary feeling in the country, which the King's government is not of itself strong enough to resist. This is pro bably- a most egregious libel upon the excellent King Don Pedro VI., his ministers, and his people. The Press*, however, after stating, in a tone of com mendable hesitation, that the mere presence of a government commissioner on board a French vessel seems" to absolve the captain of that vessel from any questioning whatever by any other power, says, in a very peaceable spirit, that it does not follow because France may think tit to send an ultimatum to Lisbon, that a coma belli is therefore propounded. The rupture of diplomatic relations would be, it considers, a sufficient warning for Portugal as it was in the case of Naples. This is just the insignifi cant conclusion to which I said yesterday the matter might possibly come at the worst. The Peens takes comfort in the reflection that the presence of the French flag in the Tagus will not humiliate Portugal so much as England, " which has been accustomed to regard the harbour of Lisbon as a British port." With the quotation of this neigh bourly sentiment, I leave the subject for the present. A telegram from Rheims, dated this day, gives long details of the preparations for the reception of their Majesties. The bishops of Chalons and Nancy, the prefects and sub-prefects of the depart ments of the Aisne and the Ardennes, the generals commanding in thole departments, and a vast host of functionaries, have arrived. The Mayor has issued a proclamation calling upon the inhabitants to testify their joy at the "distin guished honour conferred upon them by their Ma jesties' visit," and expressing a hope that the recep tion will be worthy of the occasion. Over the en trance to the archiepiscopal palace the following inscription has been placed: Dena digit, dens conserve!. The houses are already studded with banners bear ing loyal devices. Some of them intertwine with imperial crowns and the letters "N" and "E " the words " Rome and China." The imperial yacht the Reine Hortense, which was commissioned at Cherbourg a month ago, has re- ceived orders to proceed to Toulon, to ;wait the Prince Napoleon who, it would appear, is at last really going to Algeria. The Bourse has been depressed. The Rents fell 15e. far cash and 110 c. for account, closing at 73fr. 40c. and 73fr. 60c. The affair of the Charles Georges excited considerable uneasiness, notwith standing a rise of 1 per cent. in Consols, which shows that no serious alarm on the subject can be felt in London. Mobilier fell 21fr. 26c. The Orleans Railway fell 13fr. 76c.; Lyons, 7fr. 60c.; Eastern, 6fr. 25c.; Southern, 3fr. 76e. ; and North ern, 2fr. 600. Western was firmer than the other lines, and closed at yesterday's prices. (From yesterday's Moniteur.) CAMP OF CHALONS, Ocv. 10. To-day, Sunday, high mass war celebrated by Monseigneur de Nancy, first almoner of the Em peror, upon the grand military altar, near the imperial quarters, in the presence of their Majesties and the whole army. The infantry, drawn up in two lines, faced the hotel ; the artillery and cavalry, on horseback, were ranged on the aides of a vast square. An immense crowd, assembled from all the neighbouring departments in order to be present at this solemnity, saluted the Emperor and Empress with the warmest acclamations. After divine service the troops resumed their battle array,and the Emperor, accompanied by the Empress, passed in front of the ranks of eacn division. Previous to the Sling off, the Emperor distributed rewards to many officers and soldiers, whose brilliant services in the Crimea had long designated them to his benevolent regards. The troops filed off in admirable order, and this grand military display, the arrangements of which bad been drawn up with skill and precision by Mar shal Canrobert, presented the most imposing spec tacle. The Emperor repeatedly testified his ex treme satisfaction. The Marshal was charged by his Majesty to convey the expression of it to the troops. . _ To-morrow their Majesties will repair to Rheims. They will rrturo to St. Cloud on Tuesday during the course of the day. THE UNITED STATEB. Off ILICYZIC TILBOZAPIC) ("SOK OD OWII 0011.110111PONDMI SOUTHAMPTON. TII/lIIIDAT, 1.40 r.x. The Vanderbilt, with three days later advice, from New York, has arrived off Cowes. Gatignases Messenger announces that the Church ot %Diked hu it in omtemplelon to establish a permanent service in Paris. For the present tie service le performed at the (*moils, the Fnmeh Proeminat Chttroh, which has been genermulv Mat at stated tense *yr Ibe paeoese. bat it le expected that a more central plow of worship will soon be obtained. his capacity of a military officer at the head of the Prussian army, unless the whole of that Prussian army were called upon to swear fidelity to it, which, as is well known, was not the case, the military being only bound to take the Fahnen-Bid, or Oath to the Standard. ebt Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 9. The Queen drove out, accompanied by the Count end Counter Bream and Lady Churchill. The Prises Comet and the Count of Flanders went oat theratelibi. Mitfer-Osnerel Peal has left Halemon!. Loa Steak* bee arrived on a visit to her Majesty. Yr. Wealthy (Ikon the Sabato ea), Colonel Sykes, Mr. Clarks, Mr. Hale, and Mr. Strickland, had interviews with the Right Hon. Sir E. Balwer Lytton yesterday at the . . . Dispelshas for the Governors of the Australian Colonies woe wet yesterday from the Colotual-offioe. Desgeteha awes naked from the Governors of Canada, Vancouver's Island, sad Heligoland, and also from the Lard High Cotendadeser of the Isaias Wan& His Exeelleney the Hanoverian Minister his left Holstein, ex route to Hanover. HI. Excellency will return to London the latter end of the month. His Excellency the Minister for the Hanes Towns art Maims Recker have loft town fur Brighton. The Earl of Mornington has arrived at the Claren don Hotel from Drage:et Homan, Chipponthmn. - - We regret to learn that Lord Lyon. is lying dangerously 11l at Arundel Coot e. The Hon. Mr. Lyons arrived on Saturday from Florence, to be In attendance on his afflicted father. The Hon. Mr.. Fellow has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Manor House, Severmeks. Sir John Duckworth has left Fenton's Hotel for the Casthrest. The Speaker and Lady Cho-lotto Denison will return to Osaington Hall in a few days, from a tome In Scotland. The Chairman of the Electric Telegraph Company bee arrived in Dublin, foe the plirpleeof taking for laying down a new line of 0001UVItti0111011 between Ireland and Borland. It Is stated that the new line will be direct t 0... Kingstown to Holyhead. That at present be nee goes round by Belfast and Donaghaelee on the northern east, to Portpatelek In Scotland. The leeture programme of the Edinburgh Philo sophical Inmitation bap jot been iartpd. It Mande, on bougnral ddre• by Dr. W. F. Hook, the vicar of Ueda; appial addressee by the Bari Soanhope and Lord Hears; Malone by Preform Tulle* Protemor A. J. Scott (Ovens' Callow, Mancbootar), Dr. Marko Mackay, Proferor Georg. Wilma, Prof.... Holland, Professor Lyon Playthir, Dr. Wm. T. Gardner, dm. A Paris correspondent asks :—" How are we in Pens le put an a grave face sad look reepeetfully at Mrs. Patten, ad her friends the Misses Colts, just arrived, and who may be seen on the Boulevards daily? Here are three ladles, lit end forty (heaven forgive me for publishing their we), weans( bronse-ooloured chip hate with bathers, and a glittering sense of lace harming from the broad rim of the mid bat. Then their dreamt. (dirty-looking silt) are made be take eat emblealy and abruptly before, and behind, sad at the elbsos the ow may be, and as aocident may impose. We are aR sehismed of them, and will net admit to oar Trench hinds that they belong to Great Britain or Ireland. An we to rapper that the ladies on your side of the water bare Imported oar Preach fashions to turn them into earl ottani ? Or do English ladle. behave they an dram in any ecceutrto way they *ass beams they are twelve hours from England? All these questions are passing through the distracted nabob of we English residents in Paris, and staking am very =happy and nrvow. lest our dear gauntry wows at home rmsm►ie the odd specimens we new meet on the Boulevards." The Grasetea Misses* of the 6th states that some Aastrita mum dims Irving violated the territory of the Ocalas a law asps bear% the Federal Council bit resolved Os tiaras a °capitate cei the subject to the cabinet of Maas. " Amounts have reached the city," gays the Illossoikert see of Brussels, „ from the Belgian 111 1144011 Pent in Pada. Ow diplomatists here met with the most flatter ies recaptke from all the Persian authorities, and since they lave seemed the empire they liam been escorted by resi meele sad followed by geasesle. The local authorities are lavish in their pollutant% and overwhelm their visitor+ with sweetmeats of all kinds. This hoepitall , y does not, however, prevent the journey frau costing our envoys vary dear, and one of them, with a salary of only 5,00/fr wile compelled to expend 16,001*. bean he left Coestaatinople. Bat this is always the ewe. The seibmey to Moscow met the Priem de Ligne 200,000er., and be only brought backs enuff-blx." despatch from Madrid says :—" The steamer Vasco do Gum haying ea hood a Spaaish toloodoo. hos ammo" two islands on the exit of Africa, and has token potwooolon of thorn to the acme of Ur Qwwe of Spain." The king of Greece left Munich foe Athens 012 the ith. PRUSSIA. Ina circular, dated the 9th, M. Manteuffel in forms the chiefs of the foreign missions resident at Berlin of the regency of the Prince of Prussia, and of the constitutional regulations in virtue of which his royal highness has been invested with the new authority. A letter from Berlin of the 9th inst. says : " It is generally supposed that there will bee com plete change in the cabinet. MM. Awersward, Count Schwerin, MM. Bonin, Patow, de Bethmann, and other leaders of the constitutional party, are spoken of u likely to be the new ministers. The departure of the King is still fixed for the 12th. The King and Queen will travel in strict in cognita u Count and Countess de Zollern. The King takes with him M. de Gerlach, the preacher Snethlage, Count Keller (Marshal of the Court) two Aides-de-Camp, his Treunrer Schoning, M. de Reu• mont, and Postmaster Balde. The Queen will be accompanied by Countess Kanitz and Countess d'Al vensleben, Ladies of Honour, and by her Second Chamberlain, Count Kanitz." It is worth noticing that it is the Prince in accept ing, and not the King in conferring the regency, who makes mention of the constitution as a rule and guide to be followed on this occasion. The King, in his decree, appears as the sole author of the Prince Regent's powers. Ho invites his brother to exercise them, and he fixes their sphere. The Prince announce' that he assumes the regency " on the invi tation of his Majesty," bat also "in virtue of the 68th Article of the Constitution of the 31st of January, 1850;" the prescriptions of which be further follows in convoking the Chambers. The transaction now completed is of importance to Prussia, not merely because it puts an end to a provisional and doubtful direction of affairs which made settled resolutions and vigorous action at home and abroad impossible, but because it gives Prussia a ruler eminently national in his cha racter and unembarrassed by personal alliances with exacting neighbours, and because there is reason to believe that it denotes a return to government for the nation in a spirit of honest confidence, instead of government for a mean and suspicious party. The bureaucratic and police interest clings to power with desperate tenacity. The newspaper correspondents at Berlin, who presented themselves at the telegraph office on the morning of the Bth to transmit intelligence of the event of the evening before, found that the officials bad received lupe' ior orders net to send the news. Our Berlin correspondent writes as follows: Berlin, Oct. 9. My telegram of yesterday informed you of the fact that the question of the Regency is at length definitively settled, whilst my telegraphic message of to-day tells you the first official act of the new Regent in the dismissal of the Minister of the Inte rior. The official Prussian Correspondence was the first organ of government to publish the settlement of the question. It states that the hopes entertained by the King's medical advisers from his recent so journ at Tegernsee not having been realised, it be came his Majesty's imperative duty to take the needful measures tor carrying on the business of go vernment without any interruption, to effect which he has been pleased to appoint his brother, his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, Regent of the Kingdom till such time u the King's own health is perfectly restored, investing him with the fullest authority and power to act quite indepen dently, and in accordance with his own views and sentiments of what ought to be done to make the government of Prussia respected at home and abroad. The official and semi-official journals of this morn ing, which confirm this fact, do not mention that the pecuniary arrangements are also finally settled. In a former letter I stated that there is in Prussia no regular civil list voted every year, as in other coun tries, but that the dotations of the crown and ap pasages of the royal family are supplied from the revenues derived from the " crown entailed estates." These crown domains are more than sufficient to defray the expenses of the royal family, and keep up the dignity of the Prussian court ; and as the value of these estates has greatly increased during the last ten or fifteen years, owing to the introduction of ►n improved system of agriculture and drainage, there has been lately a considerable surplus, which the King relinquished, and which were applied to the general purposes of the state. In consideration of this circumstance, as the Queen is still strongly opposed to any abandonment of the King's rights to the revenues of the crown domains which he has always enjoyed (and on which a good many charities and pensions are charged), it is now resolved to apply to the Chambers for a suit able dotation of the Prices Regent. and a bill is being prepared for that purpose. With regard to the amount to be demanded, I have reason to believe it will be fixed at half a million of dollars, or about 70,0001. per annum. Besides this, it is settled that the King shall retain for his life the royal palaces and chateaux at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, Sans soaci at Potsdam, Erdmannsdorf in Silesia, and one or two others lees generally known in England. The absorbing news of this morniag—the dismissal of the Minister of the Interior, Baron von Westphalen, by the new Regent, it being his very first official set—has made a vast sensation in this metropolis, and has canoed a deep gloom in the camp of the pietistical party, of which he is one of the Protagonists, and for whom it may indeed be considered a very severe blow. The fall of Herr von Raumer and General Count von Wal dersee (the Ministers for Religion and War re spectively) may be expected immediately to follow, and as there is—as I have already informed you in a former communication—a dissension in the cabinet, it is more than likely that in • very short time shall have to report to you several important changes, not only in the ministry, but in other de partments of the public service. All good and loyal constitutional Prussians expect great things from the well-known sound good sense and firmness of purpose of the new Regent, and are fully convinced that, although he has not himself sworn to preserve intact the existing constitution, he has penetration enough to see the necessity of making a concession to the public opinion in conformity with the spirit of the age we live in, and now on his accession to the power if not the name of sovereignty, will take things as he finds them, without perhaps compro mising himself for the future. People who have an intimate knowledge of the Regent's character, and who from their position in his immediate suite have for a long time had many opportunities of making their remarks and forming an opinion on the sub ject, assure me that he is in every respect a jolt and honourable man, willing to do what he conceives to be right; and when once he has made up his mind on the course he intends to pursue, no arguments, no influence, can maks him waver for a moment, or induce him to alter in the least his once-formed resolution. They also deny his being so antagonistic to the constitution as he certainly has the credit of being, and excuse his decided ne gative when invited by the Bing to take the oath of adhesion to the charter, that he could not do so in THE FRASER RIVER GOLD DIGGINGS. TO THE EDTTOIL Or TEN HICPILIES. VICTORIA, VI is 'Ammo, Ara. 28. SlR,—Doubtless long ere you receive this you will have heard of the excitement which has brim caused by the Fraser River gold mines. These mines were rumoured to exist two years ago, it having leaked oat through some of the Hudson's Bay Company's subordi nates that they were in the habit of trading gold at Fort Langley, Freese River, from Indians who oame from the in terior, and In January of the present year several parties from Washington Territory and this Island proceeded up Fraser River in canoes, wader the guidance of an old employe of the Hudson's Bay Company. They prospected as they went, and at Fort Hope, about 96 miles from the mouth of the river, they found the colour of gold, also at Fort Yale, about 16 miles above Fort Hope ; and above this point, on a bar, since named Hill's Bar, gold was found in large quantities. These men worked as long as provi sions lasted, and then came down for fresh provisions, buy ing with gold dust. This caused • larger rush of people week after week, until the limited population of Washington Territory had all left for Fraser River. The peaceful little community of Vancouver's Island was distracted with doubts, not wishing to leave their snug little farms and bows steeds on an uncertainty ; but gold dust was very tempt ing, However, the mill-owners on the American side of the Straits of Juan de Face, Washington Territory, were obliged to send to San Francisco fer hands, and gradually the news got abroad amongst the Californians, and hundreds came by the first steamer in March, 1863. They immediately repaired to the reported gold fields, found the auriferous metal in good paying quantities, and sent to their friends reports more strong than their limited experience would warrant them in I doing. The cm:sequels:a war that in lees than a fortnight about twenty steam-boats, large and small, were on their way to Victoria, and about sixty sail of sailing vessels with merchandise. The floe steam-boat brought about 460, most of them intending to speculate in land about the vicinity of Victoria. There probably might have been thirty houses and the trading post of the Hudson's Bey Company at Victoria ' , at this time ; the old residents' town lots from the Colonial office selling at 60 dollars 130 ft by 120 ft : these were all bought up in a week, an area of about 2} miles square. One of the old settlers, who occupied a small cottage near the water, was offered 8,000 dollars fur his lot, and could take his house away if he chose. The man was frightened ; told his neighbours ; but no one would believe It. Were the Californian mad ? The abort time be spent in telling his wife and neighbours enbanoed the value of his property 1.600 dollars ; before nightfall of that day he had 4,600 dollars in his pocket, and the speculator bad the town lot.' Competition now oommeoced among the Californians to an extent of perfect madness ; for front lots and water frontages prices ranging from 4,000 to 10,000 dollars, 60 het by 120 fact : corner shops and good business locations renting at a frightful rate; lumber (planks) rising from 18 dollars per thousand to 110 dollars. Steamer cams after steamer, bring- I ins 600, 700, and up to 2.000 passengers each, One l ar g e ocean steamer brought 2,600 people—men, women, and &lidera. In the abort space of a month Victoria had • population of 13,000, and • town on the American side 6,000. Houses were put up as If by =aerie, and for an area of two miles the ground was white with calico tents. Victoria is still • city of tante. The Fraser, owing to the melting of the snow from the Rocky Mountains, commence,' rising in April, and often in June °verniers its beaks; in August and September it falls again ; consequently during the greatest influx of people I the river could not be worked. Depression of spurts followed this excitement; they could not realise the fortunes they anticipated making in a month. Their business would not support the enormous rents they bad voluntarily stipulated to give for six months ; consequently a reaction has taken place, and at least one-third bare returned to California (end a good job too) ruined and penniless; the market is over stocked with merchandise, selling at auction cheaper this it could be bought for in San Francisco. There are now about seven thousand men on Freer River, many of them earning from 6 to 40 dollars per day, but the balk are not doing much as yet, the river still being high; but there is not a shadow of • doubt that gold is plen tiful above the canons, where the miners cannot reach until tie water subsides. The government is cutting a tract over land, which will facilitate operations ; they have 600 TIM employed. Our present Governor is very popular, and, con sidering the great difficulties he has to contend with, if only in controlling such a mobocracy as San Francisco poured forth, has put • laurel on his brow.-1 am, Oro, W. B. B. THE EURNDM OF THE AUSTRIA. (rsom oun owrt DARTMOUTH, MoXDLY. The screw steam-skip Ireland, Lieutenant Diindas, LN., Commander, from Hong Hong, Singapore, Maarititui. the Cape, and Fatal, arrived here this day, and having landed passengers, pursued hdr voyage to London with her cargo of tea. At Fayal thn Ireland took on board L. F. Hahn, first &Boer ; 13. H. Hartmann, attoond ditto; J. C. Beinitt, third ditto, with six seamen and an sasistant-angiseer of the late unfortunate atcstri-phip Austria, who were landed at Fayel by the Frenci barque Manrice. Their accounts of the burning of the ship ogres sabots:dirtily with those which were communicated to the New Tort press. The sur vivors assert, that at tbe time of the disaster, there were three vessels in eight, bat that not one of them attempted to render any assistance. THE GALWAY PACKET SERVICE. (BY 11111111111 ♦ND TILE MAGINETTO TILISOILLT I.) (nor 0171 OWN 00/41APONDIENT.) GALWAY, MONDAY NIGHT. This evening an entertainment was given by the directors of the Atlantic Rid Mail Steam Navigation Company, on board the Pacific, lying in Galway Bay, end about to sail for St. John's and New York to-morrow, on her second voyage to America. The chair was compied by JOHN Oar.e.cr. Lavas, Esq., and among the oompany pre sent were Viscount and Lady Bary, Mr. Roebuck, M.P., Lord N. Montague, Lord Castlemaltt, Lord Dunkellia, 3LP., SW llaskeath Fleetwood, Hon. Mr. Grim Mona, Hoc. Mr. Hancock, Mr. John Ennis, M.P., the Rev. Dr, MtElley, Roman catholic Bishop of Galway; the Rev. Pater Daly, &o. The rums] loyal toasts having been disposed of, The Rev. Mr. DAL, propseed "Saslow to the Atlantic Royal Steam Navigation Compeay," coupled with the health of Lord Bury. Asa proof of the stability of the great enter prise, the reverend gentleman stated that already in a period of three months above 3,000 pueengers have peened through Galway to and from America, and upwards of 4,000 tons of valuable goods. Lord Boar, in reepondiar, dwelt at some length on the importance of the object which would be accomplished by the establiehing of thin route between England and America, and said they hoped to prove to the people of the United States and the colonies that it world be for their interest to laves, this klast His lordship concluded by proposing the health of Mr. Lever. Nr. Lttrrsa, lit returning thanks, contradicted the state ment that it was in contemplation to run weenier, from Foynse to America during the winter months, and stated that arrange manta were, in fact, being made to afford facilities mailed for carrying on trade doting those months. Yr. Lever then proposed "Diffusion of Commerce through oar Nord) American Colonies." Mr. ROEBUCK responded in en sble speech, dwelling upon the bwastlta which wonH arise from the monads of this un dereeklnn, in bringing England into closer communication with the United State. and American colonies; snd, above all, to strengthening the bond, of friendship and goodwill between England and Ireland. Several other toasts were proposed, and responded to, after leak the company separated. It is stated that Lord Bury, M.P., goes to America armed with plenary power. from the new Galway company to ("mettle!, moil contractc with the gown:monis of the United Suttee, Canada, Nov. Scotia, Now Brunswick, and Nswfoluullasd. MURDER NE.dit ROTHERHAM —EXTRAORDI NARY STATEMENT BY THE PRISONER. On Saturday the inquest on the body of Sally Hare, who had been murdered, by her sweetheart, John Taylor Whitworth, was held at t. John's, Langhton-en-le- Morthec, near Rotherham, before Thomas Badger, Esq., coroner, The first witness was the mother of the deoeued, who sold that her daughter "Sally would have been 18 years of age this very day." Mrs. Cuthbert, wife of George Cuthbert, farmer, St. John's, said the deceased was her servant, The prisoner (Whitworth) CalDe to her house on the evening of the 30th of September to see the deceased. At Dille o'clock at night the primmer and the deceased were together in the brewhouee, and witness went and asked her if she had nearly don.. In a abort time the deceased came into the house, and winter seked her if the prisoner was going home. Deceased said she did not wish him to aro home, it was Co Tote, and then asked witness's permission to sit with hit. till tie was ready to start for home. Witness said she did not like that, but she would allow it for ones. The cleansed and the prisoner eat by the kitchen fin and took their suppers together. Witneu went to bed &boat half-past ten o clock, and heard nothing more till about two o'clock on the following morning, when the deceased came running and screaming upstairs, saying, "Oh muter, Will has cut my tbroat , I'm dying Witness got out of bed, sod on getting near deceased found her covered with blood, which was swimming from her hands and a wound in her neck. Witness's husband went for a policeman ' and the manservant Cal sent for a surge o n. Deceased told her that I the prisoner had cut her throat. See wee without bonnet whim she came in, and her hair was in great disorder. Kr. George Cuthbert (husband to the Ise witness) corro borated the latter port of her evidence. He had gone to bed at eight o'clock on the night in question. He went, along with some of his neighbours, to look for her bonnet, and found it and a cap and other articles on the common, about 240 yards from the bowie. He traced blood all the way, and near wane the bonnet was found there were marks of struggling. Emanuel Turner corroborated Mr. Cuthbert's evidense. Henry Sargent, blacksmith, said he found simile on Sun day morning tut, in John Hibbert's field, about five yards from the mark. of Blood and struggling. It was open, sod had marks of blood upon it. There was also some hair sticking to it. Thomas Clarke, shepherd in the service of John Verney Machin, gsq., of Geteford (in who service the prisoner war) said : On Friday the lat ',latent I met the prisoner in a field belonging to my master. I said to him, " Now. Jack, where beet thou been to ?" He paid. "I believe I don't know where I've been." I paid, " What hart thou been doing?" and be replied, "I don't know, Clarke, what I've been doing." I said, "What do these police want thee for?' and be asked, "Do they want me P" I said, " They were inquiring for thee. What lust thou been doing Thou has out thy throat." He replied, " Yea, and the girl's too." Witness took him to the farm, sad as they were going the prisoner asked him if he had seen the girl. I re plied, "I have not ; " and be said, "Clarke, what am I to do ? " When witness met with him he was without a asp, and Ma hair was hanging over his spec his clothes were very wet, and there wee blood upon his ' Maoist, which ap peared to have come from his own throat. His right jacket sleeve appeared to have been washed up to the shoulder, and the left one op to the elbow. About eight or nine dims be fore this the prisoner asked witness if sheep salve end the stuff with which they " dipped " the sheep were poison, and on being told that they wae he asked how much it would take to poison snyone. On the morning of the 30th ultimo the salve-tin and some salve were missing, as was also some of the "dip." John Copley, coachman, and William Holmes, In the ser vice of Mr. Machin, said the cap produced was very like the one the prisoner usually wore. Superintendent Cheadle received the prisoner In charge at the Worksop police station, on the let inst. He charged him with cutting and wounding, with intent to murder (at that thus the deceived was aliveY & re illy Ha. He replied, "Hal I know thr re M inch a girl:" The next day witness ward him if the knife which was taken from him was hie, and ha replied, "Yes; but that's nut the knife. She got the knife away from rue." SUperintendent Gillett—l accompanied the Hon. and Rev. Willem Howard, resident megietnets, on the let instant, from Rotherham to the hnnee of George Cuthbert. We saw the deceased in bed iu a room there. She appeared to be very ill. Mr. /toward spoke to her, told her that she was in great danger, and thee she might die in a few hours. He desired her to tell the truth about her throat being cut, then swore her, and took down the de position which I hold in my band. He took her state taunt down la writing, and at .ached her mark to the docu ment, as she was unable to write in cons quenee of the in juries on bet fingers. Her statement contained the follow ing (sets: "The prisoner end I have kept company for chant three years. Last night, the 30th of September, he came to see me. My mistreat' went to bed, and left us up together in the kit; has. My matter went to bed about eight o'clock. The prisoner end I sat quietly together till about an. o'clock, and no angry words pseud between us. About este o'clock Its left the home to start for home, and asked me to scoompsny him a short distance. It waste beentifed starlight night, and I consented. We left the hones together, and got as far es the little common. He thee mewed me of gong with another young man, whose name he did not mention. We bad some words about it, and he salted me to take poison. He said, "If you will lake some I will take some too, and we can die together." I add I would not. He said, "If you don't, I will kill , you." I said, "Though you do kill me, I won't take sny.' Im mediately on leaving the house, and before he accused me of infidelity, he had attempte d to take improper liberties with me. I would not accede to his proposals, and he thee accused me of going with another nun. After I refused to take poiams, he got hold of me, threw me on the it= put his knee upon me, pulled out his knife, it, and cut my throat. Before he cut me I im plored him not to kill me ; but he put one hand on my month, and with the other cat my throat. I got the knife out of his hand, and managed to vs* up, but in the straggle I cut my hands and Engem very much. When I bad got up, he stabbed me in the throat yith the knife, end I got hold of his hair, threw him backwards, end eo managed to swipe. When I was on the ground, and endeavouring to rise, he stamped upon my bud with his foot two or three Scow. I ran home, bleeding all the way, a nd went straight to my mistrers's bedroom. I said that Whitworth bad mur dered me. My mistress got up, and endeavoured to stop the bleeding with some clothes ; and I was put to bad, wham I have been ever since. This morning, continued the withe I went to the prisoner in the cell, at Rotherham, and told him he must get washed, as be world have to go with me te Laughlin to attend the inquest on Sally Hare, whose thug he war charged with cutting. He made no reply; butt 01 his way to Laughtou, said he should like to see her. I leak him, and be kissed her three times, and be wanted to be left with her, He seemed to be very much affected. Mr. Latimer, of South Amnon ' surgeon, said that be bad attended the deceased. She had had her throat rut. a cut as the chin, cats on the thumb and three dogma _on the left hand, sad also on the forefinger of the right hen& The left side of her head and face was swollen. He stundad her to Wednesday hut, and on the following day abaretisy she died. Her throat was cat through the windpipe, e also through the passage leading into the stomach Th e instrument by which the injury had been isfiict . ed had penetrated to the vertebres. He had no doubt death had re• waited from the wound in the throat. He thought [heaths wound was a stab wound. _ _ Ths prisoner , having been duly cautioned by the eeetieleg said—The girl went nut with me from the house, end we went together as far as we bad often gone before, and this we stopped for a short time. She asked me when I wee goinr with her to the feast at Tattersball Thorpe. and I said I tlsotight there was no good in tor going there and that she did not want me, She sold if I . did not care foe her she did not tare for me. I said we hero not been long together, hut I hope to be comfortable. We got to farther words, end I told her I thought she went with another men. She mid before she would tell me the would lose her life. I said I did not wish her to go with any one else while she went with me. I thee slaked her if she would go any further, and she said she would not. She "We will pert as we have always done Move." See then told me to sit down, and she would sit on my knee. I sat down , with my feet in the hollow of the ground, and she eat oa my knee. When ohs eat down she said, " Whet have yea got hem f" I said, " It's my She asked me to let her look at it, and I tithed her what for. She mid the thought it was as touch her knife as mine, and then she got the knife oat of my hand, and opened it. I said the shalt not open it, and that I should shut it smile. 1 tried to get It out of her hand to abut It, and she said before I shadd hare it the would try for her life I bird to get the la* again. end it came through her lingers. She mid, " Mira have cut my fingers;" and I raid, "I'll have my Inn if it cuts , your tare of Sbe then said, " Then you shell tif for it.' So I tried to get it again, and she got hold of tea hair of me head. Irked her what she meant, and she add if I would not let her go she would let me know what the meent I raid we bad better pert good friend., end that I should have my knife. She then got hold of my heir egad. sod pulled roe down. I rolled her twice over her head, maker heed caught my feet. I said I should not stand that, of she maid she would not give in to me. I told her she bed better be eterieg, and she struck at me with the her hand. I Wert to keep it off my Sae, and it went ma/ jacket sleeve. I tried to get the knife again, but she bedfast mid of it, and she mid she would not pert with it about together, the knife went in the aide of her face, 221 tried to get it out of her hand. Sbe murk to it fast, and dm* me over agslo. She then said, "Oh, Bill, the knife lue eel into ray neck." I said "I cannot help it; you sheald hue let en of the knife, and let me go." She said, " Lees got up, and I will give you a kiss and let you go." So we got up, and I odd. "Come then, my lees, put your arms rotted my seek and I'll give you a him" Then she crane to WWI "Ott, Bill." I mil, " Whet, my lus." 81• .M. "My throat's cut." Irked her whet with, and elm Mat " Thisktnie here." She rid, " I will rim eon a kis be the lest" I said, "Coate, then," end while Y put rey ins round bar neck, she struck the knife right at my throlfs# "Goto -- with you, Bill." I thee fell es 57 sad rho nu sway. When I got up 1 saw no ens. gad Me* the beet of my way home. I was taken to the look-up, sed did not know what It wee for till this mortis,. Amodio' told me h waa for mane the throat of Scrah Here. I VW taken to see her, gave bee three kisser, and was then teargbi away. 71:Thiiito:rth,rataiFiudittetara.ceve"liordstitaill'omiamgyf co"tWetuili7edi:k,oen:iiimm.dartheeeellOr.°ll:6