The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-29 00:00:00

THE KEAREARGE.

Mr. Lancaster, the owner of the Deerhound ob-
serves, in the course of a letter to the Daily .11'?ews :
" I come now to the more definite charges advanced
by your correspondents, and these I will soon die.
of. They maintain that my yacht was in the
harbour of Cherbourg for the purpose of essistinL,
the Alabama, and that her movements before at
action prove that she attended her for the saw-
object. My impression is that the yacht was in
Cherbourg to suit my convenience and pleasure, ail
I am quite sure that when there I neither did,
intended to do, anything to serve the Alabama. St
steamed out on Sunday morning to see the engage.
ment, and the resolution to do so was the meit•
of a family council whereat the questb,.
'to go out,' or not to go out,' was duly
discussed, and the decision in the affirmative wa-
, carried by the juveniles rather against the wish 0i
both myself and my wife. Had I contemplated
taking any part in the movements of the Alabama
Ido not think I should have been accompanied
with my wife and several young children. One of
your correspondents, however, says that he knows
that the Deerboned did assist the Alabama, and if
be does know this he knows more than I do. As to
the movements of the Deerhound before the action,
all the movements with which 1 was acquainted
were for the objects of enjoying the summer
morning, and getting a good and safe place
from which to watch the engagement.
Another of your correspondents declares that since
the affair it has been discovered that the Deerhound
was a consort of the Alabama, and on the night
before had received many valuable articles for safe-
keeping from that vesseL This is simply untrue.
Before the engagement neither I nor any of my
family bad any knowledge of or communication with
either Captain Semmes, any of his officers, or any
of his crew. Since the fight I have inquired from my
captain whether he or any of my crew had had any
communication with the captain or Grew of the
Alabama prior to meeting them on the Deerhound
after the engagement, and his answer, given in the
most emphatic manner, has been ' None whatever.'
As to the deposit of chronometers and other
valuable articles, the whole story is a myth.
Nothing was brought from the Alabama to the
Deerhound, and I never heard of the tale until I
saw it in an extract from your own columns. After
the fight was over, the drowning men picked up,
and the Deerhound steaming away to Southampton,
some of the officers who had been saved began to
express their acknowledgments for my services, and
my reply to them, which was addressed also to all
who stood around, was :—• Gentlemen, you have
no need to give me any special thanks. I should
have done exactly the same for the other people if
they had needed it.' This speech would have been
a needless, and indeed an absurd piece of hypocrisy,
if there had been any league or alliance between the
Alabama and the Deerhound."

FISII/203 BY ELECTRIC LIGHT.—A first attempt
was made to fish by electric light • short time awe at
Dunkirk. The light was supplied by • pile as Baosetis
principle, composed of about 50 elements, and it suereeded
tolerably well, but the employment of the pile was mamas:l
with much ineouveniesee. It was then determined to
repeat the attempt with • magneto-electric machine.
The new experiments tried at Dunkirk and Ostend
had • double object-1, to prove how the light pro.
duosd by the machine would act coder water; and,
2, to discover the effect the light would produce on the
fish. The lint object was completely accomplished, and it
is now demoustrated that magneto-electric machines sad

the light they produce are applicable to all submarine
works. In fact, this light was constant at 180 feet under
water, and it extended over • large wades& The insoldne,
nevertheless, was plead at • distance of more than 300
feet from the regulator of the electric light. The glom
sides of the lantern remaieed perfectly tranapeoent, sod
the queotity of mat eossaused was less than if it were in
the epee air.
COLON ILL AILISTOCRAC V. —South Australia 18
looking up. We are to have an " upper tee," if not an
" upper ten thousand." The ambition of hosourable
geetlernee who with great devotion are willing to undertake
the cares and responsibilities of office will now be properly
gratified. Not only during the period of Aloe, but after-
wards, they are to be entitled, under certain conditions, to
the honourable prefix to their names. A premier of on.
year's standing, and a member of the executive of thres
yews', will, on the recommendation of the governor, be
invested by bet Majesty with this distiactioe.--South Aus-
tralian Ikqister.
LOBBIIN or Aitzeicax Orman& —We have lost
• very large number of mast valuable offlaere of all grades in
the present campaign. We refer not mil), to general °doers,
but to colooebi, lieutenant-colonel*. majors,c. pude& The pro-
portion of alone who have fallen to the entire loss has been
greater than in say previous campaign. The priaeipal reason
of this has heal the nature the actions. They have bean,
to • great extent, of the character of amanita upon the
enemy's fortified positions; and in these aesaults and charges
the officers dismount sad lead their men forward, and are,
of coons, apical and prominent targets for the sewer.
Nor York Times.

A FIOHT in • C•N AL —Two boatmen, named
Samuel Ashley and Joseph Chambers, were charged ^t
Wolverhampton police-court on Friday lust, with being
drunk and disorderly, wider the following singular circum-
stances :—Police. constable Cooper, Mat:weed at Wedges-
held, stated that on the previous afternoon, from informa-
tion he had received, he went to a branch of the mural, near
the Dog and Partridge pnblouse. Old Wed...-
field, mad there found the defendants drunk and
fighting, and from what be saw they were apparently
endeavouring to drown one another. At the time be
arrived at the mot both men were in the water, rieg
which could hold she other's head longest under the surface,
and in spite of his (witness's) interference, as fast as they
got out on to the bank, each dragged the other beck into
the canal, both of them being eocouraged in what they were
doing by the cheers and shouting of • number of man and
lads who were 'Moiling watching the proomdings with
evident interest. At length one of the combatante was
thrown with great violence to the bottom of • canal boat
that wee lying alongside, from which he received • severe
wound on his left eyebrow, and was also rendered in-
sensible • the other man was likewise so oompletely
eahausad with his frequent i'nmenioee in the water,
that Cooper, fearing lest dangerous roomqueeres might
ensue, at once procured a conveyance and brought them to
the policastation at Wolverhampton, where be then called
in the assistants, of Mr. Drhasse, surgeon. ltestoestives
were administered to them, and their wet clothes having
been taken off, they were both wrapped epic blankets, and
placed before • fire, but io one case it was sometimehellortr

Consoioussees was restored. The defendants denied that
they IMO fighting, they said they were only wrestling. and
sa they expressed themselves as being sorry for their
foolish conduct, Mr. Spooner agreed to set them at liberty
on payment of 10.. each to defray the expense of the sur•
gene and the oast. The money was at once fortbouning.
HARVEST Pll,o6l4krfli IN IKELaND. —The progress
made by the growing mope during the past four weeks has
been unprimedentedly rapid. It ts probable that the oldest
fanner inUlster dose not rm.-Meet • more favourable maim
or cos in which is the last week of Julie the aspect of the
cultivated lands was. no the whole, so satisfactory. Emir
pleated potatoes, which bad noffered sei eerily by the frosts
that same no them shout the close of the past month have
not only fully recovered that " cheek," but are now ex-
hibiting • degree of luxuriame rarely seen at this period. of
the some. Tbe wheat and oat lauds are very Bowie*.
and it the best month be favourable. there will be ample
yiehl of pain as well as a great abundance of etraw—this
hid Intim a matter of much more importance than is
usually attached to it. Not only asfodder, but as the the.
tonal for manure, a large turnout of straw ever proves a
valuable addition to the products of the farmer. Upland
jr1111111.61 are likely to bulk mach above tbe average, and late
meadows look promising.—Nortlicrii Whig.