The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-09 00:00:00

CONFEDERATE CRUISERS AND BLOCKADE

RUNNERS.

Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's, under
date New York. August 27, that two more Confederate
cruisers Lad evaded the Federal war steamers and success-
fully run out of the harbour of Wilmington, and since
then bad destroyed no less then 33 Federal merchant.
men. The Tallalmasee had eluded all the effort, of the
Federal gunboat, to overhaul her since she ran out of
the harbour of Halifax, Novia Scotia, and on the 23rd of
August destroyed no lea than 25 Federal coasting ships ,
and vessels on their homeward voyage from Europe, many
laden with valuable cargoec All this destruction was
effected off the mast of the State of Maine. The Federal
mercantile marine, and the coasting trade especially, is
completely paralysed by these daring exploits of the Con-
federate cruisers. The Federal gunboats have hitherto
been foiled, as the commanders of the Confederate cruisers
will not risk an engagement, their only object being the
destruction of property, and not fighting.
Advices from Bermuda to the 21st ult., report eleven
arrivals of blockade runners. On the 3rd ult. the steamers
Lynx, Captain Reed, and Florio, Captain Gilmore, arrival
from Wilmington. On the 6th, the steamer Alice, Capt.
Grant, arrived from the same port. On thelOth there were
three arrivals—via., the Little Hattie, Captain Libby ;
the Flamingo, Captain Atkinson ; and the Helen, Captain
Wardell. On the 12th the steamer Mary Bowers, Captain
Horsey, arrived, having been chased by a Federal gunboat.
ithe was obliged to throw overboard upwards of 60 bales of
cotton, which were picked op by the Federal gunboat R. Y.
Cnyler, end *old at Bermuda. The Old Dominion had also
arrived with 1,025 bales of cotton. The other arrivals re-
ported were the Let Her Be, Let Her Rip, and the City of
Petersburg, all with full cargoes of cotton.
The Anne, Captain Taylor, arrived from Naomi on the
3rd alt. It was reported that the steamer Falcon Fisher bad
broken down when on her passage to Halifax, being bound
to that port for repairs. The fie* ship Storm King. 1,500 tons
register, was loading cotton for Bermuda. She had a cargo
of 3,000 bake, a large portion of which was on account of
the Confederate government, being part in liquidation of
the loan. It was expected that she would leave Bermuda on
the 22nd ult. Most of the bales were repacked and pressed
for the veinal. The fine steamers Owl sad Wild Rover
(bloskede-runners) had arrived from Ragland. The Little
Hattie was chased and had to throw overboard upwards of
270 bales of cotton. The departures had also been large.
The Buy, Celestia, Old Dominion, Alice, Florio, Chicora,
City of Petersburg, and Ella being reported as sailing for
blockaded porta. The Annie, the North Heath. the Little
Hattie, and the Helen, bad sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia,
for, it was supposed, repairs.
Late advice report the blockade trade almost suspended,
most of the steamers either having been injured, or their
officers suffering from fever.

Tag BISHOP AND VIZ PAPAL LOAN.—The Bishop
of Rode' has issued an address ooastituting his curio agents
of the Papal lam, and instructing them to pay the coupons
as they become dire out of the funds of the Peter's Pence, or
asy other money that may have been given to them for
religious or c►aritable purposes. "We know," ha says
" how devoted you are to the papacy, the key of the arch of
the church and of human society—how you deplore with
us the trials which beset the heart of the august Pius IX.
is these unhappy days through which the world is pamisg.
It is not only, you will understand, an act of secular life,
financial act, which is here concerned, but an act possessing
a religious and filial character; and the realisation of this
lota in the majestic conditions on which it comes
to us should be a solemn proclamation of oar faith
and of our love to the Pontiff Bing, to whom it
has been said, in the person of the Prince of the
Apostles, ' Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build
my church, and the gates of bell shall not prevail against
it.' " But the bishop does sot rely solely upon religious
motives, be has ecosionsirel ones in support of the lose.
"To lead," he says, "to the Holy See, is to place your
capital in entire safety, a thing which cannot be dose in
numbers of our commercial and industrial enterprises. It
is, moreover, to make an advantageous investment; for
if oa the one side the loan is at par—that is to say, at the
real capital of 100 fr., the guaranteed ieterest is 5 went,
and the repayment is likewise to be made at per I. the
space of 36 years by way of annual drawing." The Si/de
remarks, "Now that the bishops publish financial circulars,
we should not be astonished to sea bankers writing par
herels."

SINGULAR CASE or SAVING Live ET A Yourro
LADT.—On Wedsesday moroieg a young lady, on • visit to
Bexley-heath, Bent, saved the life of a man under sin.
plat circumstances. About 5 o'clock oo that morning
the fellow proceeded to the back of some homes in the
Mill-road, where there was • well 180 feet deep, with the
intention of committing suicide by drowning himself. The
water from the well is drawn up by means of a double.
I action pulley, which raises Gee bucket wit lowers the
other. By this moue he daseseded to the bottom, but
the water was cot deep enough to oover him. He
therefore coiled himself up to await the water increasing
in depth. At 9 o'clock soros young ladies were
walking in the garden of one of the houses which
WON supplied by thin well, when they observed
that the rope was being shakes. Fooling rather curious
as to the cause they wont to the well in company with •
potleman, and began to draw up • bucket When it
was near the top, they were peatly startled by bootleg
a groan. The paths:tee, with all the yang ladies ex-
cept one, immediately let go the handle of the windlass,
and fled. The young lady, however, kept hold of the
handle, mod waited until other ansisianos arrived, when the
man was drawn up, and he presented • most miserable as-
pect. Bed the young lady referred to let go her bold, like
the others, the man must have fallen to the bottom, and
been dashed to pieces. It is supposed that the shaking of
the rope was canoed by the man himself, whose suicidal in-
fectious were damped by hie lying four or five hours at the
bottom.