The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-25 00:00:00

SERIOUS COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.

LOSS OF THREE LIVES.

On Saturday night, between 10 and 11 o'cluck,
&collision took pleat between two mousers, the Cognac sod
the Golden Pledge about halts mile below the Rook Light-
house, by which three men belonging to the latter vessel
lest their lives. The Cognac is a regular trader between
Liverpool and Cadiz, under the command of Cap-
Min Willis..., and when the accident occurred was in-
ward bound from that plasm. The Golden Pledge, Gapbsim
Bartlett, acesmander, wee outward boned for Havana, and
heavily laden with a cargo of mak It appears that the
collision was so severe that the Cognac cut the other vessel
down nearly to the water's edge, and she began to
sink immediately. The °dicers and crew made the
most desperate efforts to save themselves, but we
regret to say that three of the mu bsloog.
tog to the Golden Pledge were unsuccessful. The captain,
mate, and pilot, on the vessels oomiog into contact, clung
to the Cognac sod were rescued. A boatman named Plun-
kett, who was towing a boat astern of the Golden Pledge
succeeded in saving ten others who were struggling in the
water until they could be picked up. The three hands
missing (two engineers sod one fireman) seat down with
the vessel. It is thought that the Cognac has not
sustained any serious damage. The wreck of the Golden
Pledge lies on the west aide of Crosby Channel, and yester-
day portions of it were observed floating about at the month
of the river, where the occurrence took place. As to the
name of the accident, there are, as in all similar owe, •
variety of statements pat forth, to which we forbear to
give currency, seeing that the matter will form the subject
I of inquiry.
The Golden Pledge=xd to Messrs. lingeoder and
Co., merchants, of Li

SUICIDE THROUGH DIALIHZ OF • WIFII Some
writs, while walking through the park of St. Cloud the
evening beton last, discovered a young man banging by the
seek from a tree. Some of them ran off in search of the
gendarmes while the others cut him down, and, after •
while, restored him to life. When the gendarmes arrived
they took him to their barracks, where be was soon perfectly
recovered. When interrogated, he replied that about three
mouths before he was forced into a marriage, and that
having Wee ever since most unhappy he had determined to
take awe) his life rather than live with his wife. He was
afterwards put to bed, sod told to compose himself, but
when the gendarmes returned in the morning they found
that he bad again hanged himself by his braces to an upper
bar of the window, and was quite dead. The body was con-
veyed to the Morgue. The deceased is supposed from hi
'aeries to be a German.
A FIGHT BETWRILN AN ELEPHANT AND A BULL.—
Whoa the elephant was brought to the Place dm Taurean:
a fiery young bull was turned out. The bull advanced
against his terrible adversary without evincing the slightest
fear. He attempted to dank him, in order to wound him ;
but the elephant, exhibiting an equal agility in his motion,
did not suffer him to approach. Finally the bull attacked
hint in front ; but, everywhere °entreated by the formidable
tusks which interposed an impregnable barrier' he did not
succeed in wounding him. At lest, in one of the assaults,
the bull succeeded in thrusting his heed beneath the tusks ;
but, before be could penetrate the tough hide of the
elephant, he fell to the earth. The spectators only saw the
elephant bead his head slightly, sod rest the extremities of
his tusks, which had been plugged, upon the back of the
bull. From that moment the bull was hors de combat, and
when they afterwards killed him it was found that three
ribs were completely crushed by the almost imperceptible
movement the elephant had made in holding him with his
taalm—Madrid paper.

BLOCKADE IiC;NERS. —lnstructions issued by the
Secretary of the Federal Navy, bearing date the 9th of
May, relating to the disposal of persons found on board
vessels seized for breach of blockade, direct that bona fide
foreign subjects captured in neutral vessels are not to be
treated as penmen of war unless guilty of belligerent acts, and
are to he immediately released unless reqnired as wiliness'.
Foreign subjects captured in vessels without papers or
colours, or those main under the protection and flag of the
insurgent government, or employed in the service of that
government, are subject to treatment as prisoners of war;
but if passengers oak., having no interest in the vessel or
cargo, and in no way reenented with the insurgent govern-
ment, they may be released. When there is reason to dacha
that those who claim to be foreign subjects are in reality
such, they are to be reqnired to sti.te on oath that they
have never hese naturalised in the states, have never elec.
caged the privileges of • citizen thereof by voting or other-
wise, sad have never been is the pay or employment of the
.o-called Confederate government, and then they may be
released if there is no evidence of their having sworn falsely.
When there is good ground for doubting the neutrality of
the Mag, or for believing that it is supped in transporting
supplies and munitions of war for the insurgent government,
foreign subjects captured in the vessel may be detained until
its neutrality is satisfactorily established.
HOMRWARD AMERICAN Manx—The American
mail steamers due at Liverpool this week ere the City of
Baltimore, Nova Scotia's. and Asia. The City of Baltimore
from New York oo the 16th, end the Nova Scotian from
Quebec on the same day, may be expected to reach—the
former Queenstown, and the latter Londonderry, in the
course of to-morrow or early on Wednesday morning. Os
Saturday the Cunard steamer Asia will probably arrive off
Quienstows, with dates from Bootee to the 20th.
DRAKE AT NIAOAZA.—A youth of 16 has just
come to his death at the Falls, being swept into the torrent
while visiting the Cave of the Winds. lessons he insisted,
in spite of the warnings of his guide, upon stepping on to a
certain rock aside from the usual slippery path trodden by
visitors An instant after making the rash venture be
slipped and went down. The guide returned and told the
sad story.—Buffalo Courier.