The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

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RELEGATION OF GENERAL PRIM TO

OV lEDO.

(azure's airansa.)
KAMM, Access M.
The Iberia refers in the following terms to what
occurred prior to General Prim's departure from
Madrid :—Within • few days after the events of
the Montana del Principe Pio (the mutiny in the
s•boys regiment) General Prim was summoned to
the Ministry of War by an aide-decamp.
On presenting himself in obedience to this sum-
mons General Prim was informed that the
government would be glad to see him avail
himself of the leave of absence for foreign
travel which he held. The General replied
that he did nut require to travel. The Minister
for War then said the government bad deter-
mined upon his quitting Madrid within twenty-
four hours, and that he should await orders at
Corunna. General Prim protested against such
departure without prejudice to his right of subse-
quently making protest first by memorial to the
Queen, and afterwards from Lis place in the
Senate. He finally declined leaving Madrid before
the 15th inst., and explained his reasons for not
accepting Corunna as • place of residence. The
Minister expressed his concurrence in what the
General had said, but added, " that he should
consult his colleagues by telegraph." The reply
did not fail to arrive very speedily. It was the
11th instant, and the government could not wait
longer than the 13th. The General might select
any town be wished except Cataluna, Aragon,
Valencia, Logrono, or any other district connected
by railway with Madrid. Oviedo was therefore
chosen as the place of residence.
The Correapondencia de Espana says :—" A re-
quest was addressed by the Minister of War to
General Prim to travel by • different railway route
to Oviedo from that announced in the progressist
journals. This request has been censured by some
who misunderstand the motives by which it was
dictated. It was made for one very simple reason.
The government knew positively that the progres-
sista, this time supported by the democrats, had
taken measures to make the departure of
General Prim one of those political manifestations
styled pacific, to which flock not only politicians
but the curious, the idle, and all those of whatever
class they may be who see in any novelty a di-
version.

GREAT FIRE AT WOOLMER FOREST.

LISS, SITIDAT EVINING.

An extensive fire occurred in Longinoor incloeure
on Wednesday evening,and in its course, which has only
just bee. arrested, has rendered a belt of country seven
miles in breadth and three in depth a scene of black deso-
lation. Hundreds of acres of fir plantations, the property
of the government, have been destroyed, besides 'event
plantations belonging to private individuals, sad an im-
mense quantity of game. The fire commenced just below
Slesforth gate, to the right of the Petersfield-road. It
was observed to break out simultaneously in • dozen
different places, and, owing to the dryness of the heath
and furze, it spread with alarming rapidity. It was not
long before the plantations became • sheet of fire, whisk
roared and crackled with ominous fury, sod tinged the sky
for miles with a lurid glare, which inspired the belief in
distant places that • whole town was in flames, At God-
aiming, Uuildford, and Aldershot, the fire was plainly
MOM and when the authorities of the latter
place had ascertained its situation and magnitude,
• body of troops, consisting of the 75th
sad Bfied Regiments, and a detachment of the Royal
Engineers—in all about 1,000 men—were despatched
to Woolmer, to dig • trench and employ other military
mew for cutting off and subduing the fire. By the time of
their arrival, however, the flames bad extended over • vast
alas of fir sad lb was evideat that the reduction
of the weeded be • work of some time, if not of
difficulty. Notwithstanding the active erections of the
military, the fire continued to rage duriag Thunday, Friday,
and • portion of Saturday leaving little but the blackened
embers of thousands of fir trees in core flourishing
plantations, and transforming the landscape for • long
distance into a dreary and blighted-lookieg wilderness.
The fire was evidently the iwork of inceodianes. There is
se ooe who ventures • contrary opinion ; end the supposi-
tion is strengthened by the fact that the gipsies sod broom-
sellers, who were allowed to gather broom and heath, and
to depasture their cattle in the neighbourhood, have this
year beers denied those privilegek Some althea' were heard
to say that they would be revenged on this account, and
the extensive conflagration is pretty generally wandered
as the fulfilment of their threat. A considerable number of
pumas visited the neighbourhood of the fire to-day, and
gazed with no small astonishment upon the scene of wide-
spread ruin and desolation. At least 1,200 acres of timber
in various stages of growth have beets destroyed, and the
total value of which cannot at present be estimated, but
which must have represented • large sum of money.

brma.—The London and Eastlndia Screw Steam
Shipping Ompsny's WOW steamer Lady Jogslye, Captain
Stewart, left Plymouth on Saturday afternoon for Madras
and Calcutta. She takes out ten paseengers for Mll=
sad twenty-om penangers for Calcutta, with a fall i
°MOTS IN JCILSZY.—On the night. of Wednesday
and Thursday last, serious riots took place in Jamey. It
appears that Mr. T. G. Owens, of Leedom, bad undertaken
to deliver, in the Prince of Wales's Assembly-Booms, a
course of three lectures on " Bible Truths and Roguish
Errors." The first was delivered on Tuesday evening, and
efforts was then made by a number of Roman catholic, to
seise the lecturer, whose life they had threatened. They
were foiled by a few friends of Mr. Owens, who secured hie
escape by a aide entrance to the hall. On Wednesday
night, however, soon altar 7 o'clock, while Mr. Owens was
lecturing " lodulgeocies," • large number of Roman
catholice, many of them armed with blndgeons, collected
at the doors of the lecture ball, and commenced yel-
ling end hooting. They were aided and urged on
by between twenty and thirty women. After crest-
ing immense uproar outside, they smashed the
wiudows of the ball by throwing stones through them,
while some of the women yelled " Fire, fire !" The audi-
ence, many of whom were ladies, now became greatly
alarmed. Mr. Owens did all that lay is his power to pre-
vent a panic He stood opal the platform, end was in the
set of entreating all to keep their seats when • large stone
was thrown with great force through the window directly
opposite to hint. Upon this he quickly gathered no hh
books and papers, sod took refuge in • small room at the
end of the hall. Thither he was followed by all
who failed to make their escape by the frost
entrance. The proprietor of the hall then extinguished
the lights, and Mr. Owens and between 30 and 40 of
the audience remained primers in this anteroom. As the
most serious consequences to life and property were now
apprehended, more policemen were ordered to the place. A
large number of the inhabitants also came forward and
watched the ringleaders closely. Efforts were made to cap-
ture
two or three of the most waive, bat without moms.
The Homan catholic*, seeing the dames by which they
were surrounded, awed to yell, and, upon • signal being
given, formed in proemial and marched along the street
hootiag and cheering. Os Thursday morning Mr. Owens
and other perms waited upon the lieutetautgoveroot of
the island (Major-General Burke Coppage), at Govern.
meet Hones This led to an interview with the bailiff
(Mr. .1, Hammond) end the °Pourable or mayor of the
Lowe (Mr. John Gibant). The whole of the honorary and
paid police were sow summated, and arrangements were
also made for ceiling out the military from Fort Regent.
Shortly before 7 o'clock on Thursday evening at least 500
peens collected in frost of the Assembly-rooms, expect.
tog admierioa to Mr. Omen's third lasture. That gentle.
man arrived ea 7 o'clock ; but the proprietor of the rooms
(Mr. Mom) determinedly refused to apse the door, and Mr.
Owens *Tatman) left greatly dimatalled, but not before
he had addressed the seeemblege outside. A few mantle
after he left, the constable of the pariah, who was
accompanied by a strong force of the bosomy and paid
police, arrived, and ordered that the lesture-ball should be
thrown open. This was instantly dose. He then asked for
the lecturer, and on being informed that he had jai left
because he could not obtain admindos, directed menespie
to go in search of him and bring hint as soon es parable. Is
the Marvel the lecture-ball became densely crowded, and I
sad there was at least 1,500 persons Made, enable to pis
admission. Mr. Owens aeon made his appearaooe. Oa
passim to the platform he was loudly cheered. After
cordially thanking so may hundred, of the inhabitants for
coming forward as owe mae to maintain end defend the
▪ ht of free discomicto, be proceeded with his lecture, the
ea
act of which was " Tramaketantation sad she &Mies
of • Mass." The sadism cheered him repeatedly. and
as no improper interruption or violence was offered, all
ended in pesos At the acclaim of the lee n" the
coestalde and kis force smarted Mr. Owens the
prlsoipal strata, followed by an immerse vibe
cheered lustily. No further rioting took place, keg
before midnight arrived all excitement had died away.
CITY or LONDON HOSPITAL roc, Disgusts. OF
rag CalteT. VICTORIA-PAM—The number of patinae
relieved at this institution during last weak was 809, of
which 221 were sew ems.

[TWOPENCE

THE STRANDING OP THE COSSACK STEAMER.

The following official report has been made to
the Board of Trade relative to the stranding of the Commit
steamer :

My Lords,-1 have the honour of reporting, for the
information of Jour lordships, that, in conjunction with
Captains Harris and Baker, I have bald an inquiry, as
directed by the Board of Trade, into the ciecumstauces of
the stranding of the steamship Cossack, on the Sviiiboes
Shoal, is the Kettept, on the 9th of May last. The
Cossack is an iron screw steamer of 871.58 ton, and 90. horse power, built at Hull in 1859, the owner. being
Meows. Bailey and Leathern, of that plies. She left
Hull Docks oo May 5 for Croestedt, sod anchored in
the River Humber, being et that time commanded by
Fred. Horatio Ford (holding a certificate of competency,
dated 21at of June, 1853), and had on board a general
oargo chiefly cotton, of about 600 tone, 70 or 80 tons of
coals 'and 43 bales of cotton being on desk. Her crew num-
, bored 21 all told, and there was one passenger on board.
When in the river she wu.swoug, and her alto compares
were adjusted She lay in the river all night, opposite the
citadel, but some accident having occurred to her anchors
she returned to dock on the 6th. and finally proceeded on
her voyage on the evening of the same day, passing the
Spurn Light about 10 o'clock p.m. Nothing of moment
occurred prior to the 9th, though it would seem that
the accuracy of her compasses (the card of dei istiou of
which is shown to have been given to Captain Ford) is
proved by the bearings taken ofEihertkilmfits, Bartacball,
Skew, and Knobbio Lights. At 10'30 p.m. the Kellam Light
bon E. by N., supposed dietetics about four or five miles,
which war not verified by either a cross bearing or a cast of
the lead. The course up to this time appears to bare been
S. 4 E., lied was then altered to S. by E. 2 E Whilst going
on this course, at • speed. of eight knots per hour, about
11.30 p.m., the weather puts calm, the Cosear.k struck
on the Swabian Shoal, her lying, immediately after
striking, S. or S. 4 E.., and the Kam Light bearing N.,
while Nekke Lights bore W. J N., and Elainore Light was
seen immediately after she bad struck, right ahead. After
passing the Konen it is not asserted that the bearing of any
of the lights was takes till after she struck, nor was there
any recourse to heaving the lead, though it is stated that •
haze bong over the land, which made it appear further off
than it really was. Looking at the position of the vessel
when abreast of the Kullen, with a navigation before her
beset with difficulty, I can suggest no excuse for neglecting
to take the bearings of the lights, nor forthe omission to
heave the lead. The adoption of either of these precau-
tions would have at owe pointed out to the captain the
positiau of his vessel, and would have enabled him to avoid
the dangers before him. It would seem, however, that no
precaution was taken, and almost as if the captain had
trusted to the deceptive judgment of the eye alone to
determine his distance from the shore. Under these cir-
cumstances, that the Cossack was not totally lost most
not be attributed to any vigilance on the part of the
captain previous to the stranding, but must be
comaidered to have boon the accidental result of
the weather being very fine, and the proximity
of the appliance that enabled the captain to save part
of the cargo, and get his ship off the shoe! before she was
broken up ; the stranding having, beyond all question,
oocurred in coussquence of a neglect of many of the precau-
tions that ordinary prudence would have dictated. I find,
therefore, that Captain Ford was guilty of default, and that
the grimed' of defence met up—namely, an unlooked-for
deviation from her course owing to defect; in the compass',
a set of the current, and a list in the venal—are wholly
untenable, and entirely at variance with the evidence ad-
duced. It is fair to state that the steps taken, after the vessel
was aground, for the preservation of the cargo and the ship,
appear to have beep judicious, and it is no doubt owizg to the
having procured steam pumps from Copenhagen and the
other appliances used (u detailed in the evidence) that the
Cossack was saved from sinking. I have thought it my
duty (with the economises of the useenors) to scispeod the
Impieties certificate for six months from this date, and I
have now the honour of placing it at your lordships
posaL —1 have, dm,

T. H. Titans, Police Magistrate, Hal
Perim Court, Hull, Aug., 17, 1864.
We °amour is this report,
Hr. HAMS, 1 Natitiral daemon.
R . B. Batas,

THE PrentiT or MIILLIIS, THE SUPPOSED NCR-
DIRK& —ln addition to the knowledge that Inspector
Tanner, chief of the tookepolitan polka, has, with Sergeant
Clarke and the two wheelies' who went out in the City of
Manchester, safely arrived at New York, we now learn from
a private source that Inspector Serrieney, who has the
second warrant, has also got there is the City of Cork
steamer. Every preparation has been made, and every
facility given to Chief Inspector Tanner and his subordi-
nates by the goverment and polio) authorities, and a
steamer has been kept in readiness with the steam up night
sad day, so that as soon as the Victoria is sighted the
°Meets can at owe proceed out to see before the pilot boat,
and arrest the 'unpaged murderer before any communica-
tion ma possibly reach the Victoria, either by design or mili-
tiamen, to let Muller know that the officers of justice are in
moult of him, the fear being that he may in his despair
non commit suicide, and so evade the punishment which, if
guilty, he so richly merits.
ATTACK AND DEFENCE OF WOOLWICH DOCKYARD.
—On Saturday afternoon some interesting volunteer evolu-
tions were ranted oat is the shape of an attack and deism*
of Woolwich Dockyard, in accordance with a programme
which bad been paWrMd. The attacking foroi was the
2ocilFasez Artillery, with the Woolwich Arsenal Rifts',
whilst the defenders of the dockyard consisted of the bat-
talion of volunteer artillery belonging to that establishment,
comprising six batteries. The tint divisions of picked gun-
ners were employed in defending the Whets battery of
four guns on the dockyard wharf, the second and third
divisions being stationed on the right end left of the battery,
and the fourth stationed in the rear as a reserve. The
garble Fiegard. and the seamen and marbles attached to
that ship, also took part in the evolutions, and an attempt
to land in gunboats was repelled in the first instance, but,
under cover of the. guns of the ship they succeeded in
landing, and in driving the enemy from the works, but
submquently, the defeedere rallying, drove the assailants
from their position, forcing them to monthark cm board
their gunboats, ultimately compelling them, as well es the
Engird, to retire out of danger.

FATAL ACCIDZHT ON THE GHIA? EASTERN RAIL-
WAY.-00 Saturday aftereoon as inquiry v lasid at the
London Hospital, by Mr. Richards, deputy mireeer,
apostles the death of William Andrew, a sioalmaa on the
Great Eastern Railway. Mr. Jobs M'Kemta said that he
waseiatiou-roaeter at the Brozboaree statioa as the Great

Eastern line. Deceased wee signalman under his. o;tbis
22nd of last month the train from London to Cambridge
stopped at 13rombourne, and witness started it again at 8.40.
As it was leaving the platform • passenger cants ruining
on to the platform. and the deceased, contrary to the
opened a carriage door to let him in. The carriage being in
motion, there was a sort of struggle at the door is trying to
get the pismire into the carriage, and the deceased was
Hung on to the metals under the train, which reseed over
him. The damned was a steady and obliging MID, and it
was entizely through kindness that be went to assist the
gunman into the train. Mr. Welter Coleman, surgeon,
said that decreed was brought in mach injured from •
train having palmed over his limbs Amputation was per-
formed, but death supervassid on Wednesday lest. The
' jury returned • verdict of Death by misfortune."
NRITSPAPICItn WY RAIIWAY.—The Caledonian
'tail way has just adopted • plea for the traaemiesion of
angle copies of newspapers by mil which is likely to prove
of great use to newspaper media on that line and the locali-
ties it traverses. The seldom is simply an issue of farthing
stamps, prepared after the fashion of postage stamps; per-
forated and gummed like these, they an told in sheets
containing • dozen, the pries of the sheet being
of course threepence. The stamp bean the improve :
" Caledonian Railway. No. ( say j 2861 For Odd
newspaper only. To be called for by consignee
at the station as the Caledoeiaa railway to which it
is addressed." To all subecriters who esa conveniently
seed for their newspapers at any statics as the Caledociaa
lime we are now enabled by this system to traasmit the
paper by the lint monde( train at a coat of one farthing
per day for carriage—that is, at a fourth of the cost of
postage. Besides residents on the line, gentlemen in han-
soms who may desire to read the paper is the train on their
way
.to town in the morning may thus arrange to have it
washing them at the station from which they !Wt. It is
to be hoped that other lines will not be slow in following
the Caledonian in the adoption of this simple and cos.
vecient plan—Seotseion.
GILT NOWIII3JiIe RAILWAY.—The directors of
this pompon have let the costract for the works on the
March and *althea lies to Mama Jackson sad Bean. of
Beet. The aninant ol the contract is 100,0001.-91,0001.
lees than the highest tender delivered.

Great quantities of rain fell in Jersey last week.
Homceopatbic practitioners, and the medical
profession amenity. moommend cams as betsg the most health-
A 1 of aL beverages. When the doctrine of hammopathy was
Met introduced Into this country, there were to be of ealned no
preparations of coons either attractive to the Mate or acceptable
to the stomach . the mat use either vuppiled le the crude state
or to unskilfully manufactored u to obtain little notice.
J Epps, of Loudon. Homeopathic Chamig, was induced in the
year IMO to turn his attention to this subject, and at length
succeeded. with the waistlines of elaborate machinery. In being
the Int to medium an article pure in its composition. and so
refined by toy perfect UtturtUou it receives In the process It
ftrtlinegh, as to be most to OW delicate stomach.
geaeral use • Cocos is as an invigorating,
reOreakimil posemetag • most delicious arenas.
irgassall, in his work, " adulterations of Yood," says --
"Comm eentelas a gust mast, of tsportant nutritive pried •
plee—every Ingredient necusary to the growth and surtenanoe
of the body." Again 'As • nutritive, cocoa stands very with
higher than either coffee or tut" Directioes—Two teaspoonfuls
of the powder in a breakfast cup, tilled up with boding water
or milk. told to tin-lined jib , ilb., and lib labelled plane by
grooms, sontedioems, and disable --(advertisement.]