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

GALLANT SEEM OF TER CREW AND
PASSENGER&
_ .

We have to report the total lose of the barque
Demean, an avast which' occurred cm Monday last, ca this
=the Irish coast. The ill-fated ship,which belonged to
,and which wagon a voyage from Qaehee todtrangford
Lough, had experienced very rough weather in amain
the Atlantic. She left Quebec on the 16th of Jaly, and on
Wednesday last was about sixty miles from Tory Island, on
the coast of Donegal. Oa that day the gale raged furiously
and a suocieselon of heavy seas washed over the ship carrying
away most of her dick load and filling her with water. For.
tunately, the Oarsman was timber-laden, and could not
sink, else, no doubt, the vessel would have foundered. Her
commander, Capt. Perry, did all be could under the circum-
stances. The men were kept at the pumps,atideverytbing was
done to sue the vessel, but the storm which prevailed
rendered their efforts fruitless, sad on Friday, when the
mew were attempting to get clear of the remainder of the
deck load a sea swept over them, carrying one of the men
overboard. Of course be was instantly swallowed up.
Next day it became impossible to keep the deck any longer.
and the mew or a portion of them took to the rigging, sod
went into the maintop. The captain's wife was in the natio-
. top two days.
. . . .

Om Satuiday the vessel made Tory Island. The captain
at once meolved to run as well as be could for the Korth
Channel and make the Dearest port, and he was off Malin
Head un Sunday morning. Here the exhausted crew re-
ceived ,some help from the men in a fishing boat, and
Captain Perry sent a message ashore for a tug steamer and
for some food, as the vessel's supplies were all gone. They
had no water and scarcely any bread.
In the meantime a pilot from the station at Enoishowen
Head had been put on hoard at some risk, owing to the
severe gals that was blowing, and this .nan took charge of
the meal, bringing her to an anchor in Clanged Bay, be.
twain Malin Head and the entrance to Lough Foyle. Two
anchors were put down, and dnriog the whole of Sunday
night the captain and his wife, with the crew, as well as
a number of fishermen who had got out in a boat with
provisions, and whom the violence of the gals prevented
from returning, remained on board, although the waves were
washing over the ship every moment.
Intelligence of the vessels oddities having remised Mo.
villa, two of Captain Coppin's steamers started out or. San-
day evening in search of her. One of them, the Admiral,
could see nothing of the water-logged ship, and returned to
port. The other steamer, the Lion, was more fortunate,
and made the reseal out at author in Gleugad Bay. The Lion
steamed towards her and reached the Dovecot= about 11
o'clock on Sunday night, but, in the fearful state of the
weather, no attempt could be made to take her in tow
till daylight. The steamer, however, remained a near
her as she could during the night, and when the break
of day brought light enough, prepared to risk the towing of
the vessel into the Foyle. It waa a task of no small difficulty
to get the Devereuz in tow at all. During the night, it ap-
pears,the wind shifted round, so as to blow in upon the
el ,and had the ship attempted to raise her anchors to the
usual way she would probably have been wrecked on the
lee shore. Tbe Devereuz had to slip her chain cables
and lose her anchors, while the Lion managed to
put a rope aboard and took her in tow. The steamer
could make but little way. The wind and the sea
were tremendous, anal the ship, totally unmanageable from
bons( full of water, would not steer, but rolled about, as
helpless as a log. The tow-rope soon broke. It was expe-
ditiously replaced by another, sod Captain Neal M'Laughlio,
of the Lion, gallantly persevered in bringing the vessel on ;
but in a short time the immense cable snipped again.
Nothing could stand against the dead weight of the ship,
tossed about by the furious, sea without any helm to control
her, end sometimes actually lying at right angles to the
steamer's course.

All this time the waves were washing over the vessels
now and then, and the position of both was one of un-
mistakable danger. But the danger was yet to be so-
creesed. A third cable having beep stretched to the drug-
gliog vessel, the steamer succeeded in bringing her on to-
wards the mouth of the lough, but to enter was impossible.
The wind blew the two vessels right across the edge
of the dangerous sandbank known as the Toro, sod
in the direction of the Antrim cost; and the mouth
of the Bann, where • terrible surf bests almost unceasingly
upoe the strand, woe the point to which the Devonian was
now hastening. The beach was not more than a couple of
miles away. Those en board the Dever/tux sew that all
hops for the vestal was gone. The beech oe which she
was about to strike was close at hand, and M..
terly worn out, the crew called to the people in
the steamer to come and save them. The rope was cut
in the Amiens, so as to cast the Lioa loose, but
with a sea such as was then rousing, and with the Toes ea one
hand and the Downhill above on the other, it was no easy
matter to take off thole in the driftiog ship. The steamer
came round under the lee—that is, at the side furthest
from the wind—of the vessel, and was by this means
a little sheltered, while the fielermom in the Devereuz
got into their own boat, which had been towing
In their wake, and in a trip or two suoneded in I
getting off the captain's wife, the crew, and all the others
who were in the ship, including the captain himself. To
do this was • work of immense difficulty and of the most
imminent danger ; but it was happily and heroically ac-
oomplishad by Captain and the iiskiermee.
The steamer made for Movillm which she reached safely
on Monday afternoon.
They watched the Daum:: as long as they could weber.
Left to herself, the drifting ship, which at first had seemed
likely to go ashore at Banninouth, took a turn more to the
eastward, passed Portrush, and struck on the Sherries.
She got on a jutting point, sad for two hours those
who stood on the shore and could see her beating end
thumping sgainst the reef, as the seas lifted her
up and dashed her down on the bed of rock. The Derwin;
it is remarked, most have been • fine ship to have stood so
much battering for so long a time While she was oa the
Sherries, the Portrush lifeboat went out to her, but found

there tae no one oa board. Eventually, the sea bait the wreck
of the Sherries and drove it in near the White Rocks.—
Derr, Journal.

SERIOUS COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

Oc Wednesday night, about 11 o'clock, a moat
dreadful explosion took place in Saghill nair,, about sight
miles from Shields. At the time it occurred the night-sift
men were in, and is a moment 7 men and lade were swept
into eternity. Seghill is a pit with extensive wcwkinp,
and that part of it in which the calamity happened is
homes as the California bank. The hewers were them
working at the "broken." The explosion took place in
the hewers' boards, probably at a naked light, but that is a
matter of °connote. It came tearing down the main
rolley way, bat spent itself somewhat at the way sada sad
though the noise of it was heard in all the other
parts of the pit none of the mines. in any other part of
the mine were hurt except those in California, and
they escaped to beak in safety. Of come as soon as it
was known at bank that the pit had fired, the news flew
about the village like wild fire, cad hundreds of pompons
flocked to bank. Mr. Kettering, the head viewer, and Mr.
Sandman. the under viewer, were sent for, and the most
desperate exertions were made to reach the men and lads
buried in the far workings of California. But it was found
,that the pit was very foul, and that the rolley
way was choked up with fella from the root. Several of the
miners who have been employed to get to the buried men
have been brought to bank suffering from the affects of
after-damp; others, however, immediately descended to
taken their places in the work of clearing away the rubbish.
Eleven men and lads have been got out of the pit alive.
The following were killed : Richard Butieson, John Nay-
land, Henry Whitehouse. Thomas Heaps, William Taylor,
John Miller, and George Jackson. The bodies hare all bilMq
recovered.

PETERBOROCOR.—DARINO ATTEMPT To ESCAPE
room THE GAOL—Ii will be is the moolleetimi of many of
our readers that on the 20th ult. a fellow, who. gave the
name of John 'nos. Gibbs, was committed for trial at the
ensuing quarter sessions on a charge of having stoles a gold
watch and tart of a gold chain from the pence of Mr.
Thome' Holmes, near the Great Northern Balm* station,
on Tuesday the 9th of August (the first day of Huntiogdoe
races). On Saturday evening last Gib* was put in the pri-
me yard to pump son» water for the ass of the prison, and
Mr. Higgins, the (rovers«, left him in the yard aloe° for
• few minutes while he went to place in safety for the
night the articles that had bum in use by the prwows•
during the day. On the governor's return be, to hi great
surprise, found that Gibbs was non rat, and • strict march
wee immediately made for him, but to no OurPoot; The
governorto wthereupon
i police ocieted.wriitort delay toot pre t-
amer, and prompt steps were taken to reader his cap lbe ara
as much a matter of oirtaisty as potable. During the
• 10:411000 of Mr. Wain', his wife, the metros, beard • belie
sear one of the chimneys, sad shortly attic was slanted
by the fall of several bricks from the top of an adjoining
wall. A further search was immediately instituted, but
this wu also unsoocessful, and although the governor and
. officials now felt satisfied that the man was within the
precise* of the gaol they could get so clue to ha where-
abouts, until in his anxiety to keep out of sight he planed
oat of his feet upon a skylight. His capture was thee
only the work of a few minutes, and precautions wore at
once takes to prevent any further attempt at escape. It
seems that the moment Mr. Higgins had left the yard he
climbed a chimney running up outside the *moo, and had
barely got on the roof when he was mimed. Daring the
first search, about 7 p.m., he lay quiet babied this &Im-
lay, where he could see sums* out or coming into
the gaol. aid eousequeetly whoa . weal to the
polico4tation he (Gibbs) came down isto the yard, an
doubt intending to male two intermediate walls, each 9ft.
high, with wend courses of loose bricks on the top ; thee
get ou the wart-house, evidently fancying he would thus
be nearly at liberty ; but on trying to scale the first
wall he alarmed Mrs. Higgins, and bad again to climb this
chimney, and whom they searched for ham on 1)110 side he
eau oo the other, and it was ie hie harry to play this mime
at " hide and seek " that be broke *be skylight and was
caught. His final capture took plaits about midnight. The
prieoner wu taken before
E the
sq Rev. W. Strong, the Rev.
Sims', .
eltsq7
sad Thome , en
Tuesday, and was seutesed 'to tine weekif 1100.
finement.—Srawsford Meretny.
Tax PORT or Ittawles.—The Commissioners of
Customs have just promulgated a general order to the wiser
that Harwich has been approved as • port into which to-
bacco may be imported sod wareboueed.