The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13.

Oc Friday night Lord ALFRED CHURCHILL is
to bring under the notice of the House of Commons
the recent increase of the rate of postage on letters
sent from this country to our colonies at the anti-
podes. Those who have business transactions
with Victoria, New South %Vales, South Australia,
Queensland, or New Zealand, or who have friends
there with whom they keep up • correspondence,
are aware that, pursuant to a Treasury letter,
dated January last, the postage on letters to those
colonies was raised at the beginning of this present
month from sixpence to one shilling the half
ounce letter rul Southampton, and from ten-
pence to one and fourpence nil Marseilles. At
the same time, as a concession to the poorer
classes of emigrants, the postage of letters con-
veyed by private ship was reduced to fourpence.
Lord ALFRED CHERCEILL has given notice that he
will move that this increase is opposed to the prin-
ciple laid down in the Treasury minute
of 1855 ; that it is at variance with
an agreement between England and Aus-
tralia, under which the latter contributes one-
half of the postal expenses ; that the change is un•
wise in policy; and that the sixpenny rate ought to
be restored. The two first of these propositions
will probably not be disputed by the authors of the
recent change. In the Treasury minute of 1855
postal communication between the Australian co-
lonies and the mother country on easy terms was
dealt with as an object of Imperial concern. It
was foreseen and acknowledged that • heavy
charge would be imposed on the public Ex-
chequer by the improved service which was
then instituted ; but this burden was neverthe-
less assumed in view of the willingness of
the colonial authorities to defray • share of
the loss, and in the reasonable expectation that that
loss would rapidly diminish through the increase
of the postal revenue in consequence of the
growth of the population and the establishment of
a frequent and regular sei vice. The only question that
can arise on this branch of the subject is whether that
steady annual increase of the postal revenue which
we believe has since taken place corresponds to the
expectations on which the minute of 1855 was
trained. As to the agreement with the several
colonial governments, it is difficult to acquit the
Home authorities of precipitate action. The first
intimation of the change which reached the colo-
nial governments was a circular despatch of the
late Secretary of State for the Colonies, announcing
it as a measure that had been finally resolved on.
The rates of postage were fixed years ago,
together with the amount of the yearly contribution
of the colonies, and the Executive Council of
South Australia are justified in their remark,
"that it is only equitable that each contracting
" party should be consulted before a change is
" effected." These, however, are matters of in-
ferior interest. The Treasury has a right to profit
by second thoughts, and as it could never have
been the intention of the Colonial-office to put a
slight upon the colonies, any apparent signs of
such • disposition must be capable of explanatior.
The practical question which the House of
Commons will have to consider on Friday is
whether the change recently effected is one which
on the whole it was wise to make, and which it is
expedient to maintain. The Home authorities
appear to have proceeded on the simple principle
that every service ought to maintain itself. Under
the recent postal arrangements with Australia an
annual loss to the public Exchequer was incurred,
notwithstanding the large contribution of the
colonies, and it is merely to get rid of this loss
that the Post-office and the Treasury have agreed
to make this augmentation. There is no doubt
that the Post-office has acted in this matter, accord-
ing to its wont, on sound departmental principles.
As a rule every service ought, no doubt, to be
required to pay its way. For several years past
the profits on inland letters have gone to make up
the loss on those sent to Australia, which seems
improper. The question, however, is now whether
this particular service ought not to be regarded
and dealt with on political rather than upon
departmental principles. What is it worth to
keep up • rapid interchange of letters between
England and the Australian colonies? It must be
remembered that sentiment, of the kind which is
nourished by correspondence, is fast becoming the
only bond uniting us with the people of those colo-
nies ; that Australis is the most distant of our
possessions, the one, therefore, which most needs
to be attached to us and to our civilization by the
intercourse of thought and feeling. The large and
profitable trade between the Australian colonies
and the mother country is probably well able to
take care of its own communications ; but the
feelings which bind the emigrant to the old
country are weakened quite soon enough, under
the most favourable circumstances, amid the
strange scenes and hardships of the early
years of colonial life. This increase in the rate of
postage will hinder the writing of many a letter
by fathers and mothers to their children in the
colonies, and prevent many • filial reply. It is

certain that the

ship lettere will.

their virtual exeli
vice. We all

ever kept up withou
in the delivery •

impossible to insure when • private ship is the
means of conveyance. Private ships are not only
slower than the appointed mail steamers, but they
proceed by a Tug mach longer route. It is for
the House of Commons to consider whether for
the sake of the saving to be effected by this change
it will sever an important bond of connexion be-
tween the most numerous class of the colonists and
the mother country. In Atietr.lis there is no pro-
bability of a correspondent increase in the rates of
postage. Public opinion there has been pro-
nounced strongly in favour of making communica-
tion with England inexpensive to individual corre-
spondents, even at a loss to be made good from the
taxes, because it is felt that the matter is one of
public concern.

be from.

0311ORNY. JCI.T 12.

Her Majesty and the Royal Family arrived at
Osborse yesterday eveoieg at a quarter before eight o'clock,
having crossed over from Oeepact is the Royal Yacht FaiVy.
The Queen landed at the Osborne tier, sad isesechately
drove to the loner

The Prime of Wake rode on hamebank yesterday fore-
noon, atteoded by Captaia Grey.
A deputatios of %dies, consisting of Lody Wriotheiley
Borah, lady Haddock, **Hon. Mn. Loy, the Hasa
Mn. Warbtutos, the Hoe. Mn. Locke Kmg, lady Pete,
Lady Havelock, Mrs. R. Hogged, Hiss Hawassici Rio
Hamilton, sod Min Harrington, had the booms: of present-
ing a Bible ova behalf of the Women of the United Kingdom
to the Prioress of Wales.
The Prince and Prided of Wales drove to Chisoick in
the oldness' and visited the Dowager Dachas of Suther-
land.

Their royal highnesses had a dinner party in the evening.
The company included the Comte and Comtism, de Paris,
the Duke of Lander, the Marchioness of Ely, the E•• 1 of
Sandwich. the Earl of Sefton, Vi count Chelsea, Viscount
and Viscountess Stratford de Redclifts, Lord and Lady Foley,
Lord and Lady Rokeby. Lord Henry Lennox, Lieutenant-
General and Lady Alice Peel, the Hoe. Frederick Byng, the
Hon. Mts. Sionor, Major•Geeeral Sir Henry Storks, Major.
General Forster, the Marchloner de Cela in attendance on
the Comtesse de Paris, Lientaaant•Ganeral and Mrs,
Koollys, and Captain Grey.

The Hoe. M-e. Stoeorhas succeeded the hfirchicsiese of
Carmuulien u Lo ly in Welting to the Prince.. of Waits.

Nepetthes were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Newfoundland.

Home Missioes.—His Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales hes most kindly consented to become Vice Patroa
of the Society for promoting the Employment of Additional
Citrates in populous places (7, Whitehall), of which society
her Majesty the Queen is patron.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL ROCIITY.--ThOlf Royal
Higinewies the Prince end Primus of Wales ere =piloted
to arrive at the Royal Hortieultural Gerdes this eves*
(Wednesday) at half-pest tan o'clock, sad it is particularly
requested that all fellows who intend to be pressed will be
there before that hour.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales hon-
oond Mews. Lock and Whitfield with a algae for his
portrait at Marlborough Howe, yesterday morning.
The paddle-wheel vessel Vivid yesterday returnei
to Woolwich, having conveyed the eon of Prince Frederick
William of Frani& and the Prisms= Royal from Oalale to
Dover, on a visit to her Majesty. The Vivid left Woolwich on
Sunday, having been despatched hastily on the receipt of
telegram from the Admiralty for that purpose. Os the receipt
of her orders she was stripped, be crew hulked on board the
&keit' for rep&re and the ship had already received a
coat of paint throulbout. The mew were berthed, how-
ever, dorm were reshipped, and the Vivid duly under way
sailing at the appointed time. The prince and his attend-
ant. crowd from Calais to Dover on Tuesday. The
Primes Royal is expected, it was stated, to arrive also in
England is a few days.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Pitmen Mary have issued cards for an after-
noon party on the 19th inst., at The Cottage, Kew, to meet
their Royal Highnesses the Priam sod Primes of Wale.
A select circle are invited to meet their royal highnesses.

PONIZRALkOP CuLONEL BREWSTAR.
(THIS DAL)
Thin owning ths remake of the galieldt sod
deeply-lashisted Coleaded the Iwo 4 thort Rifle Value-
Week Os' enaraysille a* last rialfee plat* fu the
prassaae of all the uteodases of the ear* eal a large num-
ber of distinguished *Moen of the wiry and volunteers
indadiagOolosel Willard% the lospector.Geseral of

Valanto;ra, sad Colonel Brakiaa, C. 8., Deputy.loopsotor.
Se bra of Chart Rifle. aoadarad la fall faros at half-

pest 9 o'clock, in Boalestosoquare, Pimlico, tinder the corn-
mood of Captain Lydney, Briefed by Captain and Adjutant
Andover Wood, Captain Rennet, he., and at batiste'
10 o'clock, having bean marshalled in the order neosmary at
military funerals, =imbed to the residence of the dero...ed,
to Warwiek-square, when the driog patty, consistieg of
about 00 members, were thsw• up io front of the Doses.
The coffin was placed is thalamic) shortly afterwards and
the cortege moved off in the followingol der :—Firing party in
foB dna, ride, reversed, band, the hearse, with four horses,
the hone of the late Colonel Brewster led by his valet,the
mourning coaches, two parties of the lons of Court Rides
without inns, the officers of the Corp., the rortige being
dosed with a large number of carriage&
The funeral procession was followed to Brampton Ceme-
tery by some thousands of spectators, and as the hand
played the "Dead Merck" in Saul thousands more joined it.
On arriving at Brampton Cemetery. the moane was of the
most imprestive character. At the close of the burial service
the coffin was lowered into the grave with full military
beams.

All the members of the Inns of Court Riess, and the
gallant officers who atteoded the Nears', bore marks of
mourning on their an= and sword-handles, &c., while the
instruments of the bend were completely enveloped in crape.

MIDDLE-CLASS ZDI7CATION.

An important step was taken yesterday in the
work of middle-class education in the laying of the founds-
ties atone of the first wing of the new building at Ardingly
(Swat), in which it is proposed to provide aooommodation
for the adoration on collegiate principles of 1,000 pupils of
the lower middle and upper lower chases. The Ardingly
establishment is an offshoot of St. Nicolas College,
Lancing, which was founded with the special object of im-
proving middle-clue education. At the heed establish-
ment at Lancing, a grammar school for the sons of gentle-
men has been in operation since 1848, besides which the
society has a college at Hurstpierpoint, in Sumer, for train-
ing middle schoolmasters ; • public boarding-school in the
ems building for the upper clam of tradesmen, farmers,
clerks, &a., at a payment varying according to circumstances
from SDI. to 30/. a year, and • cheaper board-
ing school at Shoreham (the lower middle school) far
the sons of small shopkeepers and artisans, at which the I
payment foe board and do atiou is fourteen milieu a year.
The pupils in the latter school are for the most pert pro-
vided for is • house hired by the permits, who pay 11. • year
rent for each boy, the payment earring u vacancies occur
in the college bedding. The number of boys in this lower
middle school is 230, which cannot be extended in mow
q neoce of the limited amount of domiciliary scoommodatisn.
Mr. Wooded, the Proust of the college, to whose mor-
tices the gnat mosses which has hitherto attended the
several branches of St. Nicole@ College is mainly due, bas
devoted his gurgles to the removal of this difficulty,
end, instigated by him, the two national universities
of Oxford and Contaidge ham bestirred themselves in fur-
thering • ahem' for eroding a noble school or college for
the class which hitherto has limo, both in our collegiate
system and ie the provision made by the State for the sup-
' port of the national schools, practically excluded from irdtica-
timal advantages. The lower middle schools at Ardingly
are intended when complete to accommodate 1,000 boya,
besides mestere, cheekier, and other of ponces. The
piano( the college is arranged in two large quadrangles;
that in the front is epee the month ; the inner quadrangle
is divided from the outer by a lofty tame of build-
ings, comprising the dioieg-lialla, schoolrooms, chapel,
sod Moister. The priacipal mimeos is through • lower,
placed in the centre of this block of buildings, dividing the
die* halls from the chapel. In the buildings oe the
various other sides ef both quadrangles am ermined the
dormitories, day-rooms, class-roonia, and other
accommodation for the boys, and living-rooms, ,*l=
rooms for the airiest junior MAWS and the chaplain.
Some of the masters are plead in the blocks of building, at
the ends of the wimp of the south quadreogle. The bead
meeter's house vett**, to the south east in the extreme
?net of the building, and the second master is accommodated
in the centre of the north side of inner quadrangle at
the other end of the college. The principal kitethee and
offices form • separate court by themselves, sad
are situated on the west side of the college. The dual.
twist; are placed, as before stated, in the wings or aides of
the two quadrangles, and are made to accommodate, some
of them 52 and others 20 boys each. The dining-hells, two
in number, are untamed or over the other in the western
half of the great central building, extending, that lath my,
from the kitchen. to the central tower. The portion of the
central buildings eastward of this tower is sued for school-
rooms and for the chapel, the former occupying the r=
floor. The dining balls ate each 100 feet lea( by 32
The sides of the quadrangles, with the exception of the ma'
trot building, are in three Molise. The design of the college
is in the early pointed style. The materials ere red brick
for the walling generally, and the window@ and other
features are of Smimes Hill stone. A terrace 60 feet
wide extends along the entire south front of the building.
ooggAt pprre.mrwat it is proposed to erect use wing of the build-
y, nfloisat to accommodate 200 boys. The toterest
@thick mutinies@ to he felt in the educational movement
wee mimed by the well-known names of three assembled to
I audit in yesterday's oeremoniaL There was Lord Brougham
—almost the pioneer of middle and lower clam education ;
Earl Greaville,the Pmeideold theCommittes of PrivyCoun.
oil on Manatee ; Lord Ly molten; the Archbishop of Armagb;
the Keel of °area/woo ; Earl Powis ; the Bishop of Ox-
fed ; the Bishop of Chichester ; the Bishop of Gloucester
ad Bristol ; Lord Forbes ; Earl Nelson ; Lord Robert
084 M.P. ; Mr. J. G. Hubbard, Y.P. ; Colonel 1100111001 ;
Walter Bartell, Seq. ; Hon. Claude Luis ; Menem. Bam-
ford Hope, P. Osseous, and Hope Scott ; Arch-
deacons Otter and Garbitt ; Dean of Chichester; Sir
Walter Farquhar ; the Revs. Dr. Lowe, A. D. Wagner, T.
J. Batley T. W. Perry, S. Minim, A. Vegan, J. H.
Lanier, .1. O'Brien, A. Wilson, P. Notion. and E. H.
Merges ; the Mayor .1 Brighton ; Menne. W. &nixie,
Mostegue Smith, and nonoereas other gentlemen.

The marriage of Mine Emily Cavemilab, third
daughter of Mr. Richard Cavendish, with Mr. Noel Mandy
wee solaranisid yesterday at St. Patire Church, Knight&
bridge, by the Rev. W. Cbarltoo Frampton, rector of More-
ton, Newt, misted by the Roo. and Rev. IL Liddell.

. .
The marriage was celebrated yesterday at St.
Stephen's, Paddingtoo, of the Maures of Wastreeath, to
Elisabeth Charlotte, sewed daughter of the late David
Verner, Esq., and niece of Cot. Sir W. Verner, Bert, lit.P.,
IS .C. H.

Count de la Bourdonnaye and Count Edmund
de Laiabartye have arrived at the Clareados Hotel from
Paris.

A small balloon, constructed of goldbeater's skin,
scaraely Wt. in diameter, amended from Highest* es the
30th alt., at 7.45 p.m., the vied blowing moderately from
the N.W. A small tube fitted to the neck allowed the
gas to serape se it expanded, and • paper car filled with
sand, which fell slowly through • small sperture fa the
bottom, wan attached to the bedlam in order to ropes-
sate to • certain extent for the gradual loos of gas, At
8.30 cm. the following morning it descended at Hirer-bald
sear Bamberg. is Barris. The distance is about 500 miles
in • direr line, and the time occupied, allowing for the
differeece of longitude, r nearly as possible 12 hours.
According to a return just issued from the Hdtel
de Ville, the number of births In the city of Paris during
the year 1862 was 52,312, of which 26,506 were boys and
23,507 girls. Of the whole number 14,501 were illegitimate
and 37,721 born in wedlock. Of the natural childrea 6.711
were recognised sad bear their father's name. The number
of deara was 42,185, mid the IMMO of hirthe 10,127. The
maref•g.s eelebrated were 15,916. The population of the
20 arroedissetnents, at the last omens, was 1,696,151.

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A great number of distinguished visitors are
expected at the Viennese Court at the end of the mouth.
The first to anise will be the hereditary Grand Duke of
Russia, who will probably peal some days there. A short
time after his departure the Emperor of Ramie will arrive,
on his way to St. Petenburg, and will also stay a few
days. It hbelieved that the Empress of Russia, who has
never seen Vienna, will accompany his Majesty. Prince
Gortchakoff will probably profit by the occasion to visit
some of his old friends in the Artetrian capital.

A letter from Homburg of tho 9th says .—"On
the 4th the Americans hem made a pleasure excsueloo to
the little watering-place of Nanheim, about 10 miles from
here. They had ordered a dinner there, and 'leveret carriage
loads of Americans went. In some of their carriages they
bad the United States Bag eying, and I learn that it ex.
cited much attention in Nanheim, particularly with the
police, who thought it was a political flag, and at coos
arrested some of the party and marched them off to the
judge, who asked the objects and purpose of this show of
bennses. One ef those arrested explaised that it was an
American nag, and it belonged to the United States oomol-
general at Frankfort, who was one of the party, and who
was also cooed for ilmenCitesel, in which Nautili= win
situated. The judge, on hearing the explanation, dismissed
the charge, ezpreesieg regret that the stupid police should
have been guilty of such an act,"

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CARDINAL WISEMAN AT THIS CRYSTAL PALACE.—
Cardinal Wiseman presided yesterday at a dliebter at the
Crystal Palace, for the benefit of the Brook.gmen Whelk)
Almshoesse. There were present Bishop Morris sad
other climumm, and several leading catholic layman sad
their families. Spoiling of the Pope, Gardinal Wiseman
said that a distinguiehed emlesiastical guest of his just come
from Rome assured him that the Pope was now in moonset
health, sad was even able to diatomite laborious duties
recsatly. The Cardinal spoke of the Omen with much
feeling, and referred to the wisdom which had marked her
reign. Of the Priam of Wales the Cardinal said that it was
ratifying to God his royal highness intaglios with the
people every day, sod assisting to advance the nodal well-
being of the eountry. The Pope's health sad the Quota's
health were both duly homers& the company staadia
while " God Bless the Pops" and " God Save the geese
were sung. Mr. Cook conducted the music.
CZYNTAL PALAGIL —.ONZ SHILLING VAT....
TORRDAT, JOLT 12.—Admiesioss on payment, 5,837 ; ditto
by MOM debits, 1,289 ; Intel, 7,146.

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY :WRPTING, JULY

ne,A.IAST INTMLLIG rL
THE I)ANISH QIIKS
REPORTED INTERVENTLVirOF THE
EMPEROR NAPO
The Indipendance Beige of yesterday evening Acs
the following statement
One of our correspondents transmits to us &We which
we Maid as all bat certain as to the motives whin have
lei King Christian to attempt direct negotiations with
Tam* and the means which he has employed for that per-
paw The King of Denmark, seeing kionelfbetrayed by the
fortune of aro" deprived of all foreign support, and
'need in the poestesiou of the Danish throe, by new
menders, addrased himself to the Emperor Napolsoe,
not to invoke his mediation, already refused at London, but
to consult hire on the alternative of making a last appeal to
England, or waling to a direct understanding with Prussia.
The Emperor regarded this last alternative as promising the
meet wild result ; moreover, he promised to interpose
with Prussia, in order to dispose her to Bytes favourably to
the overtures of the court of Copenhagen. In con-
sequence of this reply the journey of the Duke
of Glnoksburg to Carlsbad was decided upon. The journals
of Germany do not contain any information ei*her as to the
arrival of the young brother of King Christian at his desti-
nation, which may be explained by the circumstance that
the Prince went first to Vichy, or as to the nature of the
proposals which he in charged to nuke to King William. But
if ft be true that the Emperor of the French has this tin.e
enameled to favour the mission by his interveetios, be has
accepted actually and officionily the functions of arbiter,
which he haddeclined officially os the part of the Conference,
and the solution of which he will recommend the adoption
will naturally be of a nature to gain for him in (annoy
all the ground which England has of late lost there. England
wootd thus find herself, as respects the definitive settle-
ment of the difference, absolutely put aside and condemned
to isolation. This resell would sot be of a mature to facili-
tate the reconstitution of the Anglo-French alliance, and it

is doubtful whether England will resign herself pa-
tiently to aooept the negative part which is in-
tended for her. We must, then, wait for new diplomatic
incidents. At Paris it is believed that the Emperor ham
recommended the absolute abandonment of the Duchies,
already indicated by him before the °pallid had assumed
so 'orlons a character, as the most rational sod radical solo.
tiro. Is Germany, oe the contrary, there are anxious fears
that King Christian may be willing to return to the personal
union—a solution which the great German court. had
themselves proposed at the eommencement of the crisis,
which must be more favourable to the dynasty of Gluck&
burg than the abandonment of the Decades. However
this may be, the presence of M. Benet, at Fontainebleau,
and the attentions of which he has there been the object,
seem to ooefirm the presumption that he bus found himself
in perfect accord with all the views of the Emperor. Here►
forth there will be no fear that a combination, rejected
by the national German sentiment, will be supported by
France.

luvrn's

THE PASSAGE OF THE LYM FIORD.
FLENSBURG, Jecy 12.
_ _

The pusage of the Lym Fiord has been successfully
effected by the Prussian troops under General
Falkenste;n.

The headquarters will be removed to Attruppard
to-day, and in all probability to Frederiokahaten on
Tbursday.

NORWAY.
CHRISTIANIA, JULY 12.

According to a statement in the Morgenblaci of
to-day, the whole of the army intended for active
service has been disembodied, the men being sent
sway on furlough.
One portion of the fleet has been recalled, but
the other is still held in readiness for service.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 13.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steam-
ship Tasmanian with the above mails passed the
Needles at 12.25 p.m. to-day.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
The Salsette,with the above mail, arrived at Suez
at 8 a.m. this day.

FRIGBTUL STEAM-BOAT ACCI-
DENT IN FRANCE.

'WARDS OF THIRTY PEOPLE DROWNED.

I shocking loss of life was caused on Sunday
last by a steam-boat accident on the Seace. The Lyons
Soaraale fang& M with the following :

" The Moodie No. 4 is one of the first pinny beats built
for the service of the Satins. She is like the other four,
very high oat of the water, adso very Darrow that
a sodden movement of the redder, or having too
many passeogers on board causes her to roll very
violently. At about half-pest 2on Sunday afternoon, the
Moodie, which bad come from Pe:mho, and was on her
way to Yeas, with a great Dumber of puesegers on board,
stopped at the laDdiag place at the Qui St. Antoine, where
she embarked so many others that her deck was acmpletely
thronged arid her cabins also filled. The passeageraceasisted of

all claims—ladies, chiklren, work rose, fie., die their holiday
clothes. On leaving the landing place, the steamer, in order
to avoid the different sandhsaks Dear the Poet de Nemours,
had to steer a serpentine coarse and take a number of sharp
=nes. Duriug those movements she rolled violently, bat
the massage's for the moment did not pay much attention
to the movement. At length, however, a sodden action of
the rudder canoed her to give so heavy a lurch that the water
came in at the scupper•holse. An indescribable sceoe of 000-
fusion then took place ; the compact mass of pamengers on
the deck were premed with moth form against the heed
rail which ran along the side, that it suddenly gave way,
and fifty persona were precipitated into the river in a mass.
The captain of the boat moat overboard with the rest. The
scene which followed ROA most heartrending; the
surface of the water was covered with heeds, and
arms were seen making desperate efforts to re.
lease themselves. The pumas who fell in were
so compactly thronged together that e►eryone clung
to his neighbour in the agony of despair, so that those who
might otherwise have escaped be swimming were prevented
from using any exertion in that way. The captain lost his
life in that manner, for he was seized bold of by two females,
one of whom clung round his seek, and the other round his
body, and the three sank together. What added to the
horror of the scene was that the accident bappased at
a part of the river where no small baste ware
kept, and it being Sunday, few of the Wawa In other parts
were engaged in their usual moupatioss, so that a omeider.
able time *lapsed before any amietaaos came to the spot.
Only about ten persons were able to save themeless by
swimming ; four or five others ware restored to animation
after being got no oboes ; leaving the number of drowned to
amount to from 35 to 40. As the bodies were afterwards taken
oat of the water they were deposited on the deck of
the Abei le steamer, lying alongside the quay. At
six is the evening 30 were ranged them. Those
who were recognised were afterwards removed to their own
homes, and the others taken to the Hotel Dieu, to await
further inquiries. Oa the following morning those who were
claimed by their friends were taken away, sod the others
carried to the Morgue. After the accident, the Mouche,
instead of stopping to render assistance, oontie mid her course,
• conduct for which the persons halogen to her are severely
blamed. Various reasons ars given for that act. A per-
son on board slates that the pamengere who still remained
on the steamer were so alarmed that they clamorously
insisted on being laoded. The captain h►ving been moo(
those who fell overboard, the man at the helm was the
only one left to manage the steamer. He wee
about to order to stop her, when one of the paganism
seized him by the throat sad polled him from
his place, sod then taking the tiller steered the
vessel to the nearest landing-place. Another account
states that the engineman, seeing the quantitity of water
the vessel had shipped, and which had rushed isio the
boiler, feared an explosion, and therefore made all haste to
get the other passengers to land in order to prevent a 'locoed
calamity. The owner of the bait has been arrested, and •
judicial investigation into the affair will immediately mike
place. The emotion and affliction produced at Lyons by
this dreadful occident are indescribable."

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