The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-12 00:00:00

THE GREAT EASTERN.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
The following is an extract from a letter dated '
New York, August 29, gathered by Captain Paton to
Mr. J. FL Yates, secretary of the Greet Ship Company ;
(Limited) :
" i
I have to advise you of our arrival here oe the 27th
lest, after • very rough passage across. We sighted Cape ,
Race during the night, about 9 p.m. of the 23rd, but the ,
bad weather prevented the boat from communicating with ,
us, although the people at the lighthouse saw and reported ,
us off.
"It is my duty also to inform you of the ship having
tonched a sunken rock off *Wank Point, which is not laid
down in the chart. The ship when she beached erne,
stopped, about two miles to the N.E. of the light-
house, to take the pilot oo board, in a position
which I considered perfectly ode from the depth of water
laid dowel on the duo% • part of which I enclose, with the
sh
ardbo ip'.
Thes h marked cm it, for the information of the ,
ip did not hang on the ground a moment.
We felt her touch slightly once or twice, when she careened
over a little. My first impression was that some of the
machinery had broken down, but the ship keeping the list
at once undeceived me. The pilot came on board in about
tee minutes alter, and informed me that although it was
not laid down on the chart there was • reef laying off the
point in • north-easterly direction, called by the pilots the
North East Kipp*, upon which the sea breaks in heavy
weather. He also states that • vessel, deeply laden,
drawing nineteen feet, struck on the same shoal,
even farther out than we were from the point.
All the pumps were instantly set to work, but the water is
entirely confined to the tubes cifi the port side aft. Imme-
diately on arrival I engaged a diver to examine the ship's
bottom, to ascertain the nature and amount of the damage,
and up to the present time it is ascertained that a fracture
similar to the one sustained in Milford exists under the
Ifi =-room on the flat of the floor. There is no damage
of this; but abaft of it has not vet been e ;
but, owing to the form of the vessel shaft, I do not a
bend much further injury. The diver can only wo2ri:i
slack water. By noon to-morrow, however, we will have
ascertained the whole amount of damage. We have not yet
definitely fixed the Om to be adopted in repairing. One
plan is to place • caisson, or cofferdam under the injured
part, with a combing round the said aperture, on which
would be placed some elastic substance which would fill up
any irregularity in the ship's bottom and the dam water-
tight ; then pump the water out of the dam, and as it
emptied it would bind still firmer to the vessel's bottom.
We would then be able to work inside, and put a plate over
the injured part. lam in favour of this plan if we can
work it, as it will enable us to makes permanent job.
" The cargo, I am glad to say, is being discharged rapidly
arid in fine order. The sailing of the thip has, of comae,
been postponed. My agents here are making every effort
• to mitigate this uafortunate affair, and to have the repairs
, effected with at little delay and expense as possible, and
should we determine to-morrow to adopt the 'caisson, I
think • fortnight will see us ready again to take in cargo.
" I have every prospect of • large freight list back to
Liverpool.
By the log of the Groat Eastern, it appears that she
, was off Montauk Point about midnight on the 26th, then
working easy to her moorings in Flushing Bay, where she
arrived at noon on the 27th. She reported strong gales,
I principally from the north west, and high seas nearly the
, whole distance."

RIOTS AND VOLUNTEEKB.--011 Wednesday, Mr.
Drebble, the Mayor of Chesterfield, received the following
letter from the Secretary of State in references to the part
which Captain Brown and the Mounted Rifles took in some
recent disturbances occasioned in that town by the attempt
of a certain Baron de Gamin to deliver a lecture against
popery :—" Whitehall, Sept. 9—Sir,—The attention of Se-
cretary Sir George Grey having been called to certain occur-
rences which lately took place at Chesterfield, when the let
Derbyshire Mounted Rite Volunteer Corps were called out
without any order from the Lord Lieutenant of the county
or the Secretory of State, for the purpose of quelling some
alleged disturbances in the town, and were subsequently
employed in clearing the streets, I am to inform you that
the conduct of the officer in commend of the volunteers has
been disapproved of by the Secretary of State for War, and
that it is desirable that the volunteers should not be em-
ployed for much purposes except in cases of extreme fleece-
sity.-1 am, air, your obedient servant, H. Vi'snriniovos.
—The Mayor of Chesterfield."
Tin YORK RIFLE Cusco.—Lord Londesborough
having recently accepted the position of lieutenant colonel
of the 3rd West York Rifie Volunteers, and being deirous of
making himself acquainted with the volunteers under his
command, the head-quarter companies assembled at York on
Wednesday. A t 4 o'clock the tenvalof Lord Loodesborough,
who was accompanied by Earl de Grey and Ripon (colonel
of the regiment), Major Harrison, Lieutenaut-Colonel Har-
man, and Colonel Bnggs, upon the parade-ground in Boot-
ham, was marked by the artillery volunteers of the city firing
fourteen rounds from their guns. The companies, of which
there was a fair muster, were then put through a variety of
difficult movements, volley firing. &c., after which Fail de
Grey and Ripou addressed them in congratulatory teems on
their state of efficiency. He then expressed Lis gratification
at the fact that Lord Londesborough had joined the corps,
and enured that uoblemsu that he would find the corps
earnest in their work, and really desirous of serving their
Queen and country, by training themselves in a time of
peace for a possible darker future ; while on the other band,
in Lord Londesborough the corps would find a commending
officer determined zealously to uphold their chameter and posi-
tion. Three trines three cheers were given for Earl de
Grey, after which Lord Londesborough bnefly addressed the
men, assuring them of the pleasure he felt in taking a posi-
tion in the corps, and hoping that they would not thereby
in any way suffer is their efficiency. Cheers were then
given for Lord Londesborough. Each of the volunteers was
served with a pint of ale. after which they marched. to the
Guildhall. In the evening Lord Loodesborough, Earl de
Grey and Ripon, and • large party of volunteer officers,
dined together at Harkeee York HAUL—Leah, Mercury.
RECILLEM Usa or Fins/Lama. —A somewhat seri-
ous occurrence happened on the afternoon of Saturday
last at the farm-house of Meioside, in the parish of
Middlebie, occupied by Mr. Robert Hunter. The only
persons in the house at the time were Joanna Henderson, a
servant, aged about 17, • farm lad named Andrew Neilson,
and a child two years of age. It appears that there was a
loaded gun in the kitchen, resting on two hooks in the ceil-
ing, and this gun the lad Neilson took down and appears to
have put on full cock, there being • cap on at the time.
While the girl Henderson was going about the house, she
says that Neilson raised and pointed the gun at her, using
the words, "How should you like if I blew your brains out.
when in an instant the gun went off, and the contents
! struck the girl on the right temple. Fortunately she was in
each a position at the moment that the shot instead of
penetrating the skull took a lateral direction, though de-
stroying a portion of the bone in its progress. The gun
was loaded with small shot, and part of the shot lodged in
the doer-post of a closet at which Henderson was stand*
at the time. The girl fell to the ground covered with blood,
and Neilson, who lays he was ignorant that the gun was
loaded, at once hastened to Waterbeck, a mile and a-half
distant, for Dr. Anderson, who was shortly thereafter on
the spot and dressed the girl's wounds. In the meantime
she is going on favourably, but the use is not free from
danger. On Saturday evening Constable Robertson, of
goetefechan, arrived at Meieside and took Neilson into cus-
tody. He was on Monday removed to Dumfries, examined
before the sheriff, sad committed to prison for the reckless
discharge of firearms—Dumfrite Courier.
A MlDNioar ADVENTURE—In connexii.-
the garden robberies that have been rife in the neighbour-
hood of Newcastle of late, a droll circumstance occurred the
other night. An elderly gentleman, the proprietor of a
garden, having long observed with feelings of indignation
and day that his fruit became nightly smaller by de-
grees and gradually less, had come to the conclusion that
unless steps were at once taken to *scum the depredators,
ultimate measures would be fruitless. He resolved, there-
fore, to watch his garden himself, and one night (having
fortified his inner man with sundry potations) he shut his-
self in his garden house to await the expected marauders.
Bench= and Morpheus, however, combined sweat Peewee
and Argos, and the old gentleman fell sleep. Hours
lagged slowly on with his spouse at home, until at a late
period of the evening that good lady proceeded in search of
her husband. Not finding him in any other place, she con-
cluded that he must be in the garden, but on seeking an
entrance there she found the door securely locked. She
then attempted to climb the wall. and had nearly accom-
plished the feat, when lo! a policeman, who had been, like
Mr. —, watching for the thief, fondly thinking that his
time had oome, eagerly pounced upon the supposed dere.
dator. In vain did Mrs. remonstrate; it was not until
her screams aroused the dormant faculties of her watchful
lord that say prospect of release from the fangs of the law
appeared. At length, however, the lady was liberated, and
Mr. and the policeman proceeded to refresh themselves
afterthe fatigues of the night.—Ncioccutle Chronicle.

with

ITWOPENC:

PUBLIC MONUMENT ro AN ARMY SURGEON.

A statue of the late Thomas Alexander, 0.8.,
erected by subscriptioo ram n ties place, Premse Paws,
was an Tuesday inaugurated with doe ceremonial, sad an
flues on the intents of the deessesd was prosouneed by
Lord Elcho, M.P.
In the course of his speech, Lord &ciao read the
following letter from Mies Nightingale :—"1 tea truly
say that I have never seen his like for dire:tames of por-
poise, unflinching moral courage, sod honesty. These Wee
the qualities which made his loss a public disaster. His
indepeadeoce, his high disinterestedness, wore undoubted.
He never sought advancement for his own ambition—never
except to carry out the politic service. And when he hied
obtained it, he sever used it except to do the highest ser-
vice be was capable of. Through the whole of the Ruskin
war his published correspondence shows that he cared for no
man or thing, if either stood in the way of the public
interests. He might have gone on smoothly enough
in his routine duties, would he but have let ill alone.
But that was sot his character. Everywhere—at Gallipoli,
where
ere hehe fseougizedht stuhcelibiga tightfor "a f°r
1 his
is men in—ithn
prologue to the Crimean tragedy—and again, throughout
sickatßo opening
Ji
the Crimean tragedy itself, he showed the same fearless
devotion, incurring thereby a serious personal responsibility
in order thereby that his rues might not perish. Most able
in the discharge of his own professional duties, he at the
same time knew that the army medical officers were not
dealt with as they ought to have been, and he was looked
up to as the representative of all the best of then,
and of their wishes and amhitaons. Even In the Crimea,
his character had pointed him out to all observers
for the highest position in his de went. When
_As meal commuletua ea the • lialitsts.
was issued, Mr. Alexander's service oo t rail eo "sei •-''"'".""'."
necessary that he was sent for from Canada. He afterwards
served on a no less important, though less well-known com-
ruisaioo, for drawing up the new ' Army Medical itaguls-
tissa,' which gave our army medical officers
rip= power.
ands position of usefulness which so army officers
in Europe have but ours. In all these he showed the same
clearness of sight in discerning, the same directness of course
in bearing down on his object. On the retirement of his chief,
Lord Panmure called him to be Director-General ;
and in the short time he occupied the office he
showed high administrative ability, as well as his
old firmness and honesty—his great characteristics.
He had greet difficulties, but he manfully breasted them
all, doing the work personally of nearly his whole office,
lest any failure at so critical a time should ensue. At this
time he used to keep medicines beside him in the office to
relieve the effect, of hard work, which no inducement would
make him lay aside, because he was convinced that it was in
the way of his duty. As wee predicted more than once to
him, he fell at his post, as true • sacrifice to duty u if he had •
fallen on the field. His death caused a regret extending tar
beyond the limits of his own department ; for the public
instinctively knew that it had lost ow of its best servants
—Ever yours. FLOIIMICZ NIGHTINOLLIL"
A number of complimentary resolutions having been
weed, the meeting dispersed.— Edinburgh, Courant.

REPRESENTATION OP STOKE-ON-TRENT.

Mr. Serjeant SURE addressed some 2,000 persons at Tne-
Mall on Tuesday evening. The weather we, unfavourable
for an out-door meeting, and, at therequat of his nu-
merous audience, the learned serjeant adjourned to the
Market-hall, where he was listened to with the closest at-
tention for nearly two hours, while he explained hie
views on several public questions of the day, espedally the
question of the poor laws. He strongly condemned the
laws and their adruinidmtion, sod more particularly the
law of settlement and removal. The enormous sur of
6,000,0001. was raised in this Country miry you for the
relief of the poor, and unhappily—oh, it was the greatest
possible unhappiness that the heart of man could conceive or
words express—every man who received a portion of that
vast sum at money was branded, was diapason, by the ob-
noxious name of pauper. The whole system of the poor
laws had an inevitable tendency to degrade and deprave
the poor. The mosey was raised, not upon the real wealth
of the country, but often upon the poverty of the country.
In many parishes—the richest parishes—there was no, or
scarcely any, poor rates, while in the poor districts, where
in many cases the ratepayers; themselves were
but little better off than those who received
parish relief, the rates were the highest. This
was most unfair and unjust, sad, what was even a stall
worse feature of the poor-law system was, it was allowed
rich landed proprietors to get rid tittle poor altogether from
the parishes in which they lived, by rensoviog cottages tram
their estates, and by compelling those they employed te
live in another wish—ibis neighbouring parish being
generally a poor one, and its iuhaltitaote ill able to afford
it, compelled to maintain the poor which the leaded pro-
prietors of the neighbouring perishes could better afford
to pay, and ought to pay. He advocated the repeal of the
law of settlement and removal, which was aeot oppres-
sive feature of this poor-law system. He °moldered that
the whole of the country ought to bear the burden of
maietaining the destitute poor, and that no parish should
escape because it was rich, sod had few or no poor in It.
His trieed, the late Mr. Pashley, Chairman of the Middle.
sex Quarter Saslow, proposed that three fourths of the
1 amount required for the relief of the poor should be raised
by taxation all over the country, the other fourth to be
raised by parochial taxation. This latter proposition was
for the purpose of keeping up the present parochial system,
throwing epos each parish the duty of looking after its
own poor, and ambling it to keep up its necessary staff of
officers and establishments. A measure of this kind, com-
bined with the other charges to which be had alluded,
would reader the poor law system a benefit to the country,
and not, as it wes now, a system of injustice sad iengutl,;at
Mr. Shoe said if he had time to meet them again Ise .
speak to them on some of the other public questions of the
day. He was frequently applauded both in the course of big
long address and at its close.—Mr. Hope has withdraws
, from the contest.—Biessimpharn Pest

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