The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-24 00:00:00

DISASTER AT SEA,

Tho schooner President Jeremie, lying in this
port, got under weigh on Friday morning last fur St. Vin-
cent, but hail only got as far as opposite the Five Islands
(a few miles from the anchorage ground of Port of Spain),
when en accident of a most unusual and very terrifying
nature occurred to her. The muter of the vessel had ob-
served some threatening weather coming on, and hail
prudently taken in all sail, when he addilenly found
his vessel enveloped in the vort:a of what is
commonly known as • water speuto—of water, how-
ever, ho saw none ; but of the wind—or whirl-
wind—more than In all probability he would like to
see again, or seeing, be lucky enough to survive to tell the
tale. His little vessel, as ho describe, it, was carried down
into a kind of well (or vertex), and there thrown on her
beam-ends. She recovered her position; was again thrown
down in the same way, recovered herklf a third time, and
was a third time prostrated. In the court, of these throe
upsets, 7of the 11 persons on board were thrown off the
deck into the water ; the master himself was thrown over-
board a second time, after once getting on board
out of the Torte:. Finally, the whirlwind passed
over, and of the seven overboard, five ascended
in getting on board again, but two, unfor-
tunately, were drowned—they were both sailors of the
vessel. One oldie two men drowned was an elderly min.
A passenger, who was supporting himself by a hencoop he
had been lucky enough to find floating about, gallantly
gave it up to him, seening his age and infirmity, and swam
off to a watercuk floating at a greater distance; but the
poor man could not keep his hold of the coop, and was
drowned. The other man who perished was not seen
from the moment he fell from the deck into the sea. The
deck cargo fell or was swept overboard, the long boat was
partially Moved in, and the mainsail, although it had been
previously lowered, was much rent. The vessel returned
to town to report and repair damage, and sailed again on
Sunday.
A brigantine coming into hairier very narrowly escaped
being involved in the same catastrophe.—Port of Spain
(Trinidad) Gazette.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Friday last a coroner's
inquest was held at the Swan Inn, before Alexander Cuth-
bertson, Em., touching the death of Thomas Thomas,
labourer, aged -19, who was unfortunately deprived of life
under mreumstances singularly painful and horrifying.
From the evidence adduced before the coroner sad jury, it
would appear that the deceased, together with a lam named
John Sullivan, was at work on the day preceding, at the
Maesteg Iron Works, and was engaged in tilling black band
in a calcined state from a " clamp," preparatory to its being
conveyed to the blast furnaces. The two men had just
completed the process of " driving the piles," a kind of
massive iron wedge, down into the clamps by means of
sledge hammers, for the purpose of separating the molten
ore, and were, at the moment of the accident, engaged with
a large iron Isar in detaching portions of the cre, which
often consists of solid lunips of several tons weight. and
which having succeeded in effecting, they Beth unfortu-
nately lost their footing, and were in an instant precipitated
,into the burning chasm, between the clamp and the lump
which had just separated from it. Sullivan succeeded in
making his escape, severely, though not dangerously, huger,
; while nil less fortunate companion was iu the space of a Tew
minutes literally roasted alive, the smoke and sulphur ren-
dering it impossible to know the precise spot where ho lay,
until the devouring element had effectually done its work.
The charred remains of the deceased, who but a few
minutes previously had so vigorously wielded the ponderous
iron sledge, were eventually taken out of the tire by means
of a coker's " rabble." Verdict, "Accidental death."
Deceased was a man of good character, and wm a consistent
member of the Calvinistic Methodist Society.—Sicanse.l
Herald.
THE SVLTAX, Captain Brooks, Admiralty agent,
Lieutenant Lyster, arrived at Southampton yesterday, with
the heavy portion of the India Mail. Iler dates were—
Alexander, Sept. 9, Malta 13, Gibraltar 18. She brought
86 passengers, and the largest and most valuable cargo of
hale goods ever brought to Southampton. In addition to
her own cargo, she brought the valuable freight of silks
conveyed by the Erin from Bombay to Sues, and which
missed the last Alexandrian steamer from not arriving at
Sues in time. On board the Sultan there were 2,245 bales
and boxes of ailk, 9 bolos of wool, 26 cases of shawls. 62
packagescoe ofan edl,e3,l2linta'eeth 03i16gebnoexes
ral mocraciiisainnsd,i,le6S Ix:
railway across the packagesgyptian Desert was progressing tapidty
—everyman from the army and fleet was sent to assist. It
was feared that the Austrian 'team-packet Australia, bound
from Trieste to Alexandria, was lost. ~in Au,st,rian baiE of
war bad been lent is scorch at her.