The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-09 00:00:00

DESTRUCTION OF SHIPP
LIFE.IN AND GREAT LOSS
OF G
r VIICINI THE

II OP PHI DAILY NSW)
HAMBURG, JAN. 4.

The moat bearterending accounts of the devasta-
tions caused by the hurricane and flood of the Ist
January are beginning toyour in from every quarter,
and go to prove that their disastrous effects are of
nearly if not of equal magnitude to the memorable
storm of 1825. As far as I have learned at present,
the hurricane appears to have swept with equal force
over the wide district from the Dutch coast up
to Lubeck. How far it went up the Baltic
remains to be ascertained. In all the nume-
rous islands of the Elbe the embankments
which surround them, and which are raised ar.d kept
in order at a great annual expense, were broken
through in many places and the land laid under
water. The bathing island of Wangeroog, off the
coast of Oldenburg, has guttered very considerably.
The bathing establishment, the school-house, and
several private dwellings are completely washed
away. The church was presaved, but the church-
yard was so furrowed up by the waves that the
cone have been disinterred and are thrown about in
all directions. The lighthouse escaped.
The following outward bound ships were caught
in the gale at the mouth of the Elbe, and have re-
turned to this port distnuted and otherwise damaged :
Mercator (et.), Smith, for Leith; Sophie, Wessels, for
Panama; Amazone, Captain Hinrichsen, for Rio
Janeiro; Catharitsa, Captain Clausen, for Guayaquil;
Robert and Louise, 'Captain Hansen, for England;
and Ludomilla, Captain Sehat, for Singapore, Wham-
pa, and Hong Kong. The Hamburg full ship,
George Canning, Captain Jacobs, from New York to
this port, was lost at the mouth of the Elbe. She
cleared cut from New York on the sth December.
Of the fate of the pareengers and crew nothing is
known yet, bat there is no doubt of the lees of the
vessel from a number of the ship's papers being
picked up on the exult. This vessel belongs to our
enterprising countryman, Mr. Sloman, the owner of
the unfortunate iron steamer, Helen Sloman, lost
on her voyage to New York two years ego. and com-
manded by the same Capt. Jacobs. However as a set
off to this heavy lore, it will bo a consolation to
Mr. Sloman's friends in England to know that he
has just sold a new steamer, lately launched in Scot-
land, to the British government, with a clear profit
of 10,0001. and the right of taking ber back at the
end of the year if she is no longer wanted by govern-
ment for the transport service at halt her cost price,
making an estimated total profit of 30,0001.
The English schooner Stately, Captain Whiting,
from Harwich to Bremen, was totally lost at the
month of the Elbe, near Neuwerk • crew saved and
arrived at Cuxhaven. The English barque Maxim,
Of Shields ; the ships Johannes and Helene. Captain
Bock ; the Nayade, Captain Deneko ; and Johannes,
Captain Linde; the Italian brig Ruggiero, and the
Danish barque Carl Eduard, are stranded near
Glacicstadt. The English barque Lady Raffles,
Captain Marienberg, is gone on shore near Bremer-
hafen, in the Weser, and is expected to become a
wreck. The British steamers Rob Roy and Leipzig,
put back, and were fortunate enough to reach Cur-
haven before the gale reached its climax; the former
with everything swept clean off her decks, the tatter
with lees of her wale-boxes.
Some remarlmhle cases which occurred will serve
to give your readers an ides of the fury of the storm.
At the neighbouring. village of Ham the congrega-
tion were assembled in the church (on New Year's-
day service is performed in all the chanties in Ger-
many), and whilst the clergyman was in the middle
of his sermon, a gust of wind took off the whole roof,
and swept it to a considerable distance, dashing the
hams to fragments when it reached the ground.
Singularly enough the roof was taken off so clean
that not a single pawn in the church was injured.
Vitten the embankment of the island of Wilhelm.-
burg rive way and the water rushed in with over-
Wbelming fnvon; Owe" fishermen'_ cottage., with all
their inmates, were floated away, and left high and
dry, when the tide receded, at a distance of two miles
from their original locality. Some of the inhabitants
of Wilhelmsburg were not so fortunate, and several
lives have been lost, whilst the destruction of boom,
cattle, and farm property is very considerable.

P.B. The new and peaseagers of the unfortunate
George Canning are all lost. The former emulated
of 23 men, the latter of 135 persona The cargo is
party insured here (230,000 marks balm) and partly
at New York (100,000 dollars). •

THE POPE, THE MADONNA, AND THE
QUEEN OF SPAIN.

(IZOII THE COIILBSPONDIN? 01 TEE DAILY mews.)
ROME, DEC. 30.
A strong body of galley-slaves has been
into the Denies of the Madonna, to aid in trees:d -
rier, and erection of the ancient column destined to
commemorate, in eternam rei memoriam, the Pope's
decree in favour of the immaculate conception ; and
the huge mass of marble, under the impulsion and
guidance of the pepper and salt coated fraternity
(themselves guided and guarded by a detachment of
soldiers), hu consequently for the last few days been
"dragging its slow length along" the Corso, and up
the Via Frattina, to the Piazza di Spagna, where I
found it this morning, supinely reposing before the
Propaganda College. On this spot it will receive its
architectural and sculptural embellishments, and then
assume its destined position, erect and "pointing to
the skies," a lasting monument of the theological
acumen of the reigning pontiff, and the devotional
acquiescence of the clergy and laity of the present
age.
The assembled prelates have beta slowly moving
homewards, but there was still a strong gathering
of them round his Holiness on Christmas-dry at Sr.
Petted, on which occavion the Pope wore for the
first time the magnificent tiara just sent to him as a I
present by the Queen of Spaiu, glittering with a
triple row of splendid diamonds, and valued at half a
million cf francs. In the present critical condition
of the Spanish throne such extent of piety and purse
cannot fail to excite surprise. The remainder of her
Majesty's offering, in the shape of six Andalusian
horsey, is said to be on its way to Rome. The cus-
tomary exhibition of Oar Saviour's cradle at Santa
Maria Maggiore on Christmas-eve, did not take
place on account of the Pope's absence from the
church.

The wrath of the King of Naples against his
quondam friends and allies, the Jesuits, has had its
effect even here, in the headquarters of the long-
robed brethren, and one of the most influential mem-
bora of the synod has been offered by his colleagues
na a scapegoat to appease the royal Feedinand's ire.
This is no other than the well known Father Curti,
elletretiesaly published a work entitled " Origin and
Peeress of the Civilta Cattolica" (the Jesuits' Re-
view), in which the conduct of serious governments
was criticised, and especially that of Naples, alluding
to; its expulsion of the Jesuits last century, when the
minister Tanucci was in power. King Ferdinand,
already chafed at these remarks, became still more
angry on perusing some articles in the Civillo Cat-
tolica, more favourable to the allies thaa to the
King's dear friend and patron, the Czar. Warned
by these symptoms, the wary Jesuits, by a stroke of
policy peculiarly their own, had two editions of their
review published, one for the King of Naples nod his
subjects, and the other for Ruche and Nortberh
Europe—the first omitting the expressions hostile to
Russia contained in the last. As murder will out,
his Majesty oue day got hold of the wrong
edition, and burst out into a tremeedous rage against
the Jesuits, whom he would have expelled forthwith
from the Boarbonio dominions, had not the Arch-
*shop of Naples and the Pope himself interceded
to avert so dire a stroke. Although this extreme
esessure was not carried out, the King insis•ed on
tiffsmissing the Jesuits from all spiritual superin-
tendence and professorships in the Royal Seminary,
the Marine School, and the prieous, feat forwarded a
demand that the editors of the Civilta Cattolico
should be immediately banished from Rome. This
has been recently modified by the departure of Father
Osrci for Milan, at the prudent suggestion of his
alarmed brethren.
The Pope's harangue to the cardinals and prelates
at St. Peter's, and his homily at the consecration of
Bt. Paul's, have appeared in the official paper, but
'Wain no matter of interest beyond allusions to the
00148i01111 on which they were severally delivered.
The conspirators of tho 15th of August have all
obtained a diminution of the penalties awarded by
the first sentence of the Consults Tribunal, in
consequence of tho Court of Appeal having rejected
the s,, cification of the consp.racy as an attempt at
revolution. One of the principal prisoners, Signor
Casciaui, has just been married in his cell previous
to being sent off to the genies, a young milliner, who
had some pretensions to his hand, having obtained
the powertul interest of the authorities to that effect.
No capital punishment is to be MA:led.
The commercial world is all in the u'most confusion
here, on account of the anomalous state of the
currency, and the suspension of discount operations
by the bank. The smugglers in the legations have
hailed the recent increase of duties with rapture, and
are preparing for an active campaign, declaring that
the government intends to make all their fortunes.
Exchange on London : silver, 4G5); paper, 474;
Commis, paper, 81i.

MARITIME CAMUALTIES.—The Precurseur of Ant.
werp gives the following account of maritime casualties:—
"
Out of 30.000 vessels, of which an account has been kept,
there were lest in 1852, 18.50, or more than 6 per tent in
1553, 1.610, or more than 5 per not. ; and in 1854, 2 120,
or more than 7 per cent. Of the disasters of 1551. the
greatest number occurred in the mouth of January, and the
Main in the months of July and August. In the total
ins figure 233 vessels which have never been beard t.f, and
which therefore mast have foundered at sea; and of them
11 were destined for Antwerp, 41 were French, 13 had left
or were destined for French ports, 108 were English, 17
Dutch, 15 Ilenoverien, 22 American, 26 of different ear
tries. The number of vessels running into each saber
was not fewer than 702, which shows a marked it
over that of preceding years. Indeed, the is.
crease during the last ten years has been progressive ; and
the lesson of it is not so much the constant increase
lin the number of vessels at sea as the greater rapidity with
which Oey sail, owinc to improvement* in buil ling. By
the 702 collisions, 81 total losses were occasioned. The
number of vessels destroyed by tire was 73; it was 55 in
1853. Of groomers lost in 1851 the number was 05—
namely, 12 French, 38 Beglish, 81 American, and 14 of
Id fferent nations. In 1853, the number w s 38. The ether
disaster at set, which make up the total of 2,120, were of
various kinds "
PIEDMONT.—The Municipal Council of Genot bee
ordered all coffee houses, taverns,and wine-shops to be el rid
at 10 in the evening.
A Rtlitstert PalZE.—The Vronw Houwine, a galtiot,
with a cargo of saltpetre, which cleared from London with a
declaration that the saltpetre was intended f consumption
in I'crtugal, has been seised in the Tagus, hy a French
steamer. It was on its way to Homburg, and evidently
was intended for invitation into Russia. The French TOW
eels in the Tapia have now instituted a rigid search of all
vessels leaving the river, as it is discovered that the Russians
have organised, through false documents, a regular system
ef trade in the munitions of war.
TOI3aCCO FOR THE CRIMEA.—A weekly penny
e•Veription for providing tobacco for the soldiers in the
Bast has been originated and collected by Mr. Richard
Paddoe_(torneerly of the Ist Life Ouse le), now guard on the
Great Wstera Railway, and some of his brother guards,
Policemen, and porters, and their frieude, and upwards of
61. hes been realised on the Greet Western, South Wales,
and S tuth Devon railways. Other large establishments
may fo:low their example with advantage to our heroic
bands in the E Ist. We understand that it is intended to
continue the subscription durieg the winter.—Orford
Chronicle.
THE. BIRKENHEAD " HORSE CASE."—At the Birk
enhead Police Court. on Thursday, Peter M.Nalty, pre-
vision dealer, Park-street, Birkenhead, wes conei red in
the penalty of 20.. and cute for having the body of a dead
horse up,n his premises in such a state as to be injurious to
the health of the neighbours. It appeared that the de-
, fondant's bons had died, and the C•Tefills was searaqa,a,i,
found in his yard, on clean straw, dressed and cut up with
se much care as if intended for the meet market. About
33Ibs. of the flesh was missing. This, defendant said, he
had fed dogs with ; but neither dogs nor kennel were fumed
on his premises. Rose Grant, neighbour to the defends*
having given ev.denoe es to the nuisance, was further qua&
W
Mr. Wale : Have you ever bought anything Ewa
the shop of the defendant ? Witness : Nothing different
ins baron and potted meet. (Lane, ter.)—Mr. Rents
How ? Witness >lt was potted meat made in a tin ant
eseensed. (Renewed laughter.)—Tee Bench: le lamps
Witness : Tes. (Here the court was convulsed with
isimbin4—The Bench; What quantity at a time did you
inns: I only bought one plena, but Si other
yours have bought it.—fdr. Wain : Did you like lit:
Witness : No, sir; I did not like it. (Re-
=l4etimeghter.)—Bir Ildward Cost : Did you buy it a
MONA VIM W item No, sir. (Roars of. laughter.)
Tin itiesidast further pleaded guilty to keeping a pig in
misr, and thus creating a nuisance dangerous to the
Mak, and for Wirth he was convicted in the eats
riterad.
NORTH OP SCOTLAND RAILWAY.—
1111 meek wading Dn. 23, 6831. 16s. 4d. Milts open, 40Trafk .