The Press.
London, England, 1855-01-20 00:00:00

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DISASTERS AT SEA.—ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY•F'OUR
LIVES LOST.—The Hamburg mail, which arrived on
Sunday, brought intelligence of further losses offthat
coast during the terrific gale on New Year's-day.
Three coasting vessels foundered, every soul belong.
ing to them being lost. The reported loss of the
George Canning, one of the Hamburg and New York
packet-ships, on the Sornhorn-sands, at the south
side of the Elbe, is unfortunately confirmed. Every
soul on board met with a watery grave. One account
states she had 104 persons in all, among whom ware
186 passengers. A spar bad been washed ashore
with the corpse of a beautiful little girl, about tan
years old, lashed to it. The ship was insured at
Hamburg and New York for 80,0001. The Mlle
mail brings tidings of the burning of a ate steamer
belonging to Hull, called the Lady Seale, Captain
Bailey. She arrived from that port at Hamburg on
Tuesday evening, and early the following morning
was discovered on fire. Notwithstanding all the
exertions made to save her, the fire continued to
rage, and the vessel was burned to the water's edge.
Another very large transport-ship, called the Neap-
syke, No. 119, is reported destroyed by fire on her
way to Balaklava with provisions and rum for onr
troops in the Crimea. She was the property of Mr.
Allen, the shipowner of Leadenhall street, and the
fire is said to have originated ip the bold among the
cargo, but under what circumstances Lloyd's agent
at Constantinople, where the disaster occurred on
the 27th of last mouth, had been unable to ascertain.
The ships-of-war sent their Are-engines and boats to
aid in the suppression of the fire, but without avail.
She was burned to the water's edge. This makes
the twentieth transport-ship that has been lost since
the war was declared. A Liverpool emigrant ship,
the St. Patrick, 1,000 tons, Captain Whitman, which
left that port for New York on the 15th of last No-
vember, has been totally wrecked at Barneget. The
passengers, 417, and crew, were all saved.
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THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN, a few days ago, laid the
foundation-stone of a church at Memsfield, Nous,
containing as usual, in a cavity, a glass bottle hold-
ing some coins. A few days afterwards the workmen
discovered that a smith's shop had, been broken
open, and two crowbars taken therefrom. On further
examination it was discovered that the crowbars bad
been used by robbers in forcing the stone at the
back of the one laid by the Bishop of Lincoln. After
the stone had been raised by the bars, the robbers
had propped it up by placing a plank against it,
while they broke the glass and abstracted the bottle
containing the coins.

AN ACCIDENT which proved fatal to two persona
occured on Monday, at Kingswood, near Bristol.
Some workmen were making a well near the Rodney
Tavern, while two of them, named George Crew and
William Humphries, were digging at a depth of
several fathoms, the earthwork of the sides of the
shaft gave way above them, and a large quantity of
stuff fell down and buried the unfortunate men. An
immediate alarm was given, and assistance being
procured, the earth was got out with as much
rapidity as possible. Some considerable time, how-
ever, was necessarily occupied, and upon the bodies
being got out from among the &twist, it was found
that the vital spark was in each case extinct.

THE house of Fould, Oppenbehn, and Co., bankers
in Paris, was robbed on Monday in an extraordinary
manner of five ingots of gold, worth 120,000 f. A
partner in the house was accompanying a hand-cart
drawn by two porters, containing several ingots,
which had been sent to a sworn assayer's. By col-
lusion, it is supposed, between the porters and the
robbers, some planks of the cart were taken out, and
live of the ingots abstracted.