The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-21 00:00:00

FEARFUL WRECK AND LOSS OE LIFE.

SOUTHPORT, Nov. 19.
Soon after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon (reports
Admiral Barton) a vessel was observed in distress about 6
or seven miles from this place. The lifeboat of the National
Institution was launched as soon as possible, and proceeded
to her assistance. It was blowing a hard gale from the
westward with heavy squalls of rain, and the night hazy and
very dark. Four blue lights were burnt by the lifeboat,
but unhappily no light could be seen in answer. After
pulling about for several hours in a dark tempestuous night
without being able to discover the vessel, the lifeboat re-
turned, having been out about tip hours. This morning
(Saturday) about 7 o'clock the crew again assembled
at the lifeboat house, and the wreck of the vessel
she failed in finding last night being seen upon
the Hone Bank, the boat was launched, sod on
reaching the vessel she was found a total wreck, with
mainmast and foretopmast gone. On boarding the wreck
one man only, a coloured man, was found alive under the
topgallant forecastle, and be said the whole of the men,
except the master acid himself. bad taken to tbe rigging
when the vessel struck, and they had all gone overboard
with tbe mast, and were drowted. The survivor was taken
off by the Lytham lifeboat. also belonging to the National
Institution, which bad likewise gone off to the wreck. The
Southport lifeboat brought on shore the dead bodies of the
captain, found in the vessel's bold, and of one seaman,
found on the bank. The venal proved to be the brig
Chimera, of Liverpool.
The reports of these two services show the determined
efforts that are made by our lifeboats to save life. During
the fiercest storms these lifeboat men on the Lancashire
coast never falter for a moment, but go out through the
dark tempestuous night to endure fatigue, exposure, and
risk of life with a readiness that excites the astonishment of
the ordinary obs .

A letter from Rome, of the 12th, says :—" Fre-
quenters of the opera are looking forward to the production
of Thc Iluqutnots for the first time on the Roman boards. It
will, of course. be a complete travesty, as the admission of
conflicting catholics and protestant. on the stage of the
Apollo Theatre would never be allowed by the governor of
Rome. The music will be 3leyerbeer's, but the Ittrato
will be completely changed, and the scene transferred to
V.e low countries ; the catholic. will be royalists, and the
Hugueoota republicans, and all idea of a religious struggle
will disappear in a political revolution. The title will, of
coulee, be entirely changed also. These transformations
are ' strange, pawing strange,' but most operas have to
undergo them before production in Rome."

Melauctlion's house at Bretteu, io the Grand
Duchy of Bailee, has just been purchased by the Evange-
lical Congregation of that village, It is intended to devote
the house for the future to the purposes of an ioetitution
for the maintenance and education of poor orphan children
of parents of evangelical faith who were natives of, or rut-
dent in, that put of Baden.

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