The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, '1 HIIRSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1852.

rigged pair of calico trawlers, form the dna of the moo.
, Mt maay are all but entirely naked. One but of
firpretensions than the rest is ocentied by two Eng- i
s•t Bon, who have taken a fancy to the island, and call
themselves pilot, as they profess to moor and take charge
of the ships &era' the business of loading.
Close to the town is a rough and stoop path to the sea,
up which am beereght the provisions and water, the latter
supplied by the shipping in turns. On the north island Is a
similar but larger collection of dwellings, there, too, re-
aides the commandant, a military-looking old gentleman—
one of the high aristocracy, for he lives in a house that ha
a window in it. On the north island are about two hue-
deed men, on the middle about eighty, usually ; the num-
ber varying with the demand for guano. These people are
nearly all Indians, and appear to be happy enough in their
dusty territory; though everything about them, eatables
included, is impregnated with guano. They earn plenty
of money, live tolerably well according to their taste, work
in the night, and smoke or sleep all day. To get rid of
their wages, they take an occasional trip to l'isco, where
they spend their money much in the same fashion as sailors,
substituting piece and chicha (maize beer) fur rum and ale,
and the guitar and fandango for the fiddle and hornpipe.
In getting the guano, the diggers have commenced oriel-
natty at the edge of the precipitous side of the island, and
worked inland ; so that the cutting now appears like the
feet of a quarry worked into the side of a hill. The steep,
perpendicular face of the rock, which rises from the sea
like a wall, and the boldness of the shore—there is seven
fathom water does in—have strudel great facilities to the
loading of ships. 'On the top of the cliff is • large enclo-
sure formed of stakes, firmly bound together by strong
chains passed round the whole. This cue mare is capable
of holding (our or five hundred tons of guano. It is made
wide, and open at the upper end, and gradually slopes
down to a point on the extreme verge of the precipice,
where a small opening is loft, exactly fitting which is a
large mans show or pipe, which lungs down the face ef
the rock, nearly to the water. The ship, having taken in
by means of her boats enough guano to ballast her, Melo
into this shine, the end of which is taken aboard mud passed
down the hatchway. Tho guano is Rhus poured into the
hold in a eontiauous stream, at the rubs of about 3.50 tom a
Jay, the enclosure being filled by the Indians during the
night. They carry the whole of the guano down on their
backs in bags, taking sheet 80 pounds at each journey. 1
Some are employed in pushing the guano down the chute,
at the mouth of which is statiened an Indian, who, by
tightening a repo passed round it, regulates or stops the
descant of the manure. To various parts of the long pipe
ropes are attached, which lead to the different mast-heads
of the ship, and thence on deck, where each rope is tended
by • man who, by successively hauling on and slacking it,
keeps the chute in motion, and thus hinders it from choking.
This choking, however, now and then occurs ; and it is then
• difficult and tedious matter toast right again, as the pres-
sure binds the guano into a compact mass, which can some-
times only be liberated by cutting the shuts open. Birds
are frequently carried down into the ship's held; and at
one of the islands, an Indian, accidentally slipping in, was
forced through the sbute, and taken out at the other end
quite dead. On each island there are two enclosures and
two 'hula, one much smaller than the other, being used
only for loading boats.
After making ourselves fully acquainted with all the
economy of the island, we retrace our painful path to the
boat, and pull off to the ship, where, the day being Sunday,
there is no work going on, 11141 we can amuse ourselves
with the scenery around us. Every little hollow in the
islands has been gradually filled up, until the surface is
nearly levelled; the general dark brown hue singularly
broken by scattered projecting crags, white with humus
bleneo—newly-depcsited guano. Hound the base of the
islands little rocky penimulas jut out, bored through in
many places by the constant washing of the Pacific,
whose gentle waves have insinuated themselves many
yards into the solid rock, and have formed ca-
verns which are the resort of numerous sea-lion..
The time of these hermits seems to be divided between
dozing in their gloomy looking cells and making hungry
irruptions on the shoals of little fish which frenuestly_psee
through the channels. 1 hare often watched thus Meta
fellows—packed in such dense masses that they soma to 1
hare scarcely room to swim in—moving rapidly along, a
spray of them every moment leaping from the water and
glittering for an instant in the sun ; all evidently ignorant
of the neighbourhood of any enemy. Suddenly, in the very
middle of the party, rises a black, ugly head, and instantly
all is confusion—a dozen unfortunate are swallowed at a
mouthful. Other heads, equally ugly, pop up in annex.
petted places, and you can distinctly hear the snapping of
the sea-lion's jaws as he works through the flying shoal, and
finishes • dinner worthy of • cardinal in Lein. It is not,
however, all small fry; whales often come gambolling be-
tween the islands, rolling and playing in the sun, and saw
times leaping clean out of the water, nto which their kw
bodies descend again with • crash thati seems to shake the
sea itself, sod turns the surface into one great frothy wash-
ing-tub, amidst the suds of which the giant slowly sinks,
throwing up his broad black fluxes as if in derision.
lint now our work begins in earnest. Ballast is hoisted
up, and thrown over the side, and the long boat is busily
employed in bringing guano to replace it. Moat unpleasant
work that is. I was one of the boat's crew, and, since of
course much rivalry exists between the ships, that all desire
priority in trading, we were at work night and day, leaving
our ship at night, and remaining under the shute until
morning, so as to obtain the first load for our boat. I shall
not moon forget the dismal hours we passed there. Close to
us—every surge of the boat sending her into its mouth—was
• dark cavern, into which the sea poured with one con-
tinuous roar. A few fathoms &saint stood an isolated
rock, every wave dashing boldly up it, and then falling
back in sheets of foam, and scattering all around in showers
of heavy spray. On our right, moored to the rocks, lay a
loading ship, ter warps and cables docked for the night,
leaving some 20 feet of dark water between her and the
huge black cliff; the base of the clidemeked by the bright
line of light which ever glitters on the beshen wave of the
Peskin Glancing aloft, we saw, rWmg_asd falling with the
ship's motion, the long white shuts, tae a fairy footpath
kikthe reek ; whilst, drawa upon the char blue sky, woes
mod Wanes, bowlimes stays, Gael theas oaf
an familiar to the war Aai,
to •i/sr island; bar *dense. In, ligtiali Ilmew
whits oessadoo, which, in a hen dia seetline sub
non MOM swat of ths eattlosa dim
which sum. la the e.e the stapsolose mom
if the COMIIIieTSI. Before swan as bony dew sad
heavier spina bad tisso diluted the romance at air
'Whom,- sigi, tam day Aland, we were glad to got the I
shute inte the boat, sad sheer ourselves by shouting, to
Neste apish, to its Indian gaardiso to let p this
guano. In • few minutes down NM the anon::
eyeksoalk kW rod nose wen with the
windiesodiand to pear la sae wboatVl= to
the wales wigs. ma Me soar— looked like a was a
the son" Oas old soll, when baby back whfims sal
hag boir contained son* swan to misty • sire his,
emy easeptiselly enausilf A the hems,. in tiro Midi he
ploying alien to ed ark dial work, instead of
tannins sod claim bomb la gmetcrin 'Mir pan
el=
whaled wompos. The boat kin loeaed we pan brs
stook of lo the ship, whin Odd !arm bias, boa ailed
int* baps site pine of the arged baba This
ant of yank meilmed for about three weeks, before Gm
tars to hid oaks the larger ,hate arrived.
Our MI a boo aboard wadi have attractions he soon
=Teats was Our 00•11/11114 dish, se the shim
ft dwarf to give a dollar tor • atria
or sixty posads. an to supply us elliehmaly= as.
tractor's-lost Meg Pins. Our turtles's". isweow, "MA
net have posed antes at Goildhall, theist thigh e=
for mile's. Then we het • sort of sweet
which stabs avery Mop dosd sad Is seasrally liked by
Beim.= i pun, • rail vossablin a poods ; blase
mi. elegooplikk; plenty of sesesolog, NA me tamales,
chill and NI ; and 'hoodoos& of fruit —reelses,
par. , chiriolorkss alligator pears, Re.: the meet
boa being always well supplied with articles of this kind
It brought also, occasionally, a few bladders ofpfesse whisk
being contraband, were smuggled with the due theensiMes.
At length, one of the English sailors liritig eft Ile lied
came off and took us alongside, eating that we woe Engeli
in a proper position for receiving cargo. With lAN dal
half a dozen Indians ' • choke, we call them—that Is, a some I
applied by tailors to all the different coloured rafts to
Pent, though it is the especial property of one tribe*.
TM duty of these men Is to trim the Buono in the
hob& as it pours out of the shuts. The nature of to I
ma may be imagined. The hatchways arc quickly asked
apb aid the atmosphere becomes a mere mass of Mating
gunk is the midst of which ftio trimmers work in a state
of
ty ; the only article of drees with some of them being
• Meth of oakum tied firmly over the month and nostril.,
ise as to admit air and exclude the dust. They divide them-
selves into two panics, Ode relieving the other every 20
minutes. When at work, they toil very herd, hindliag their
sharp pointed shovels in • stgle that weeld astonish even an
English navigator, and coming 00 deck, when relieved,
thoroughly exhausted and streaming with perepieation. Bat
in this state they swallow a quart of cold water, qualifying
it afterwards with a large dose of raw rum or pisoo, and
then, throwing themselves down in_lilw coolest part of tho
ship, they VMS= there until their Ma comes again to re-
sume the shovel. _ _ _ _ _

The ship's crew is employed tending the bowlines at-
tached to the chute, and, though workiny in the open air,
the men are oompelled to wear the oakum defences, for the
clouds of dut tiring from the hold ire stilling. 1%. ship is
covered from truck to keelson ; the guano penetrates into the
captain's cabin and the cook's coopers—not a cranny es-
capee. The very rats aro set a messing.. and the old craft
is converted into ens huge wooden snuff-box. The intlie•
lion, however, does not last long, three des s being generally
sufficient for the loading of a large slfp. At the end of
three days, right glad was I to see the liatehcs on, the
mooring chains hove in, and the dying jib-boom once more
pointing towards Piseo.
Here we stayed another three days, which we employed
in washing down and trying to restore the ship to her ori-
ginal colour. When we left the Chinches, yarde, masts,
mils, rigging, and hull, were all tinted trlth one dirty
brown. This cleansing finished, we again tripped our
anchor, passed the north island, receiving end returning
the elaen always given to a homeward-bound ship, and
with studding sails on both sides, ran merrily down before
the steady trades, reaching Callao In tlairty hours. There
the heads, who shipped merely for the coasting voyage,
were discharged, said we who remained wen soon over
head in oat of the many little streams which Water the
pampas lying between Callao and Lana, eager to wash out
the alloy of gee ways which war skins had boo mule-
mated at tit. diggioge.

RSTABLIBUNENT OP METROPOLITAN TIRE IO
Bannot.—AS • most*, of the &Nisi Tswasamadmid
es Moaday, • resolstios was pinsi Ow *a of
Lades ,s iOs MN_ sod • von
84Vato •171,119teassas Isis sad as way es pilaw
and rodsons OWNS.

lain intelligence.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—YEsTERDAy.
Barns nil C.ar Coanuesum.
Ix VII /PATEII.OI, PHILIPSII2I.T. _

This insolvent, who had been in no business or profes-
sion, applied to be discharged.
Mr. Macrae opposed, on the part of Mr. Pegs, proprietor
of the Begnigge Wells Tavern ; and Mr. Dowse supported.
It apPbared that the insolvent, who bad come from India
to see the Oreat Exhibition, was respectably connected.
Ile took up his abode at the house of Mr. Page, and in-
formed him that be was an indigo planter, and talked
largely of his possessions, amounting to 30,0001. He had
the run of the house. lie had paid some money, and now
owed Mr. Page upwards of 1001., for which he had ar-
rested him.
The Chief Commissioner asked the Insolvent how he came
to contract the debt in the manner described
. . .

The insolvent said he thought they lived is this country
am they did in Calcutta.
Chief Commissioncr—flow is that?
. .

;attt7esiraVagan-- • tly. (A laugh.)
Ills Honour suggested a settlement; on which the par-
ties retired, but no arrangement was made. The insol-
vent's uncle had before offered 201., which waa refused.
Mr. Mums prayed a judgment.
Mr. Hawse was turd on the part of the insolvent.
The Chief Commissioner thought it um a fit case to mark
under the discretionary clause, and adjudged the insolvent
to four calendar months' imprisonment from the resting
order.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.—YESTERDAY.
BETOM MR. BARON MARTIN AND MIL !MICR CIONAPTON.
Arreweven blonDen or A Winn.
Thomas Henry Knight, hO, was indicted for feloniously
cuttiog and wounding Mary Anne Knight, with intent to
murder her.
It appeared from the evidence of the proeteuttix that the
prisoner was her husband, and that they occupied one room
together. On the night of August 1.1, they went to bed, and
about 12 o'clock the prisoner suddenly exclaimed that he
must get up and pray, and he left the heel and remained up
until two o'clock in the morning. At that time
by the request of his wife he again got into bed, and re-
mained there until .1 in the morning, when he got up and
dressed himself and lighted the fire. Ile continued in the
room until 9 o'clock, at which time the proseeuteix saw him
standing before the fire-place, and it appeared that he sud-
denly seined a china bell, or ornament, from the chimney-
piece, and rushed to the bed where Lis wife was lying with
it in his bond, and struck her a violent blow on the head
with it. The blow almost rendered her insensible, but she
contrived to scramble from the bed, and was about to leave
the room to o;etain assistance, when the prisoner
again attacked her, and wounded her in the
shoulder and hand with an instrument used by
him in his business as a watch finisher. Some
other lodgers in the house then interposed, and the
prisoner was secured, but it appeared that before this could
be done, the prisoner wounded one of the parties with the
same instrument with which he bad inflected the wound
upon his wife. The prosecutrix, in the course of her eel-
denee, said that the prisoner had conducted himself in a
very wild end incoherent manner on the morning in ques-
tion, and that he had been drinking freely on the previous
day.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that he had
been drinking, and was very excited in consequence, sad he
had no recollection of what had taken place.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of unlawfully wound-
ing.
the prosemitrix immediately got into the witness-bot
and entreated the learned Judge to deal mercifully with
her hushandt
Mr. Haien Martin said there was always the painful cir-
cumstance connected with cases of tie's description, that the
wife, who was the innocent patty, not only suffered injury
in the first instance, by the violeece that was inflicted upon
her, but she end her family were also severe sufferers after-
wards, from the imprisonment of the husband. The court,
however, was bound to repress such exhibitions of violence,
and with that view felt it to be a duty to order the prisoner
to be kept to hard labour fur nine months.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.
Theehold Philip Butler, 32, clerk, pleaded guilty to a
charge of stealing a post letter containing money, the pro-
perty of the l'ostmtetter-General.
Mr. Ballantine, who appeared for the prisoner, said he
was perfectly imprcesed with the very serious nature of the
crime to which the prisoner had pleaded guilty, and he
knew at the same time that it was always regarded by the
court as one which imperatively called for severe punish-
ment. Ile begged, however, respectfully to represent to
the court in this case that the poisoner was moat respect-
ably—indeed he might say highly—conneeted, and he bad
himself Riled the position of an officer in the army. In
consequence, however, of having sustained a very serious
loss, he was compelled to accept a subordinate position
in the rusbottice ; and probably his former ha-
bits of indulgence and luxury had been, to some
extent, the means of inducing him to commit
the °fleeces. He knew that this could not by any possibi-
lity be taken as a justification, but he trusted that the
misery and suffering a person in the position of the prisoner
must already have undergone would be taken into consi-
deration, and afford a grtrand for some mitigation of punish-
ment.
Mr. Baron Martin, in passing sentence, said it was a very
melancholy thing to age a person like the prisoner standing
at the bar of a criminal court, and it was painful for the
court to be compelled to pass sentence in such a caw. The
offence of stealing letters, however, was one of so very se-
, rises a kind, and fell so heavily upon the poorer classes of
the community, that it was the imperative duty of the court
to pus a sever* sentence in every case where an offence of
this description was established. He then sentenced the
prisoner to be transported for tan yews.

THE POLICE COURTS.
_ MANSION-HOUSE.

- -
Rebecca Truman, a person of exceedingly mild and in-
nocent appearance, was brought before Sir Peter Laurie,
sharged upon suapition of having robbed Mrs. Mills, the
wife of a medical gentleman, residing in Aldgate, of two
purses containing V. 135., in en omnibus.
The lady said, I got into the now and Stratford omnibus
at Aldgate. The prisoner sat neat to me on the right hand,
and was the only person in *e omnibus who could have
robbed me. When we got to the East India House she
stopped the omnibus to gotoutand I immediately disisovend
that my pocket had been picked of my purses, one of which
was within the other. A ISM who appeared to be ac-
quainted with her, and who sat opposite to her, got out
before her, and some gentlemen in the omnibus said that
na doubt she had handed my property to him.
Sir Peter Laurie—ls the prisoner known to the police ?
The Turnkey of the Compter said there were persons
present who knew her.
The prisoner's Solicitor (to the witness)—Did you see her
take anything?
Witness—l did not.
. - .

TlLipi:TancisFsicitor—l submit that there is no evi-
dence at all against my client. Some other person In the
omnibus must have taken the property.
Several of the detective officers said they knew the pri-
soner to be a most ingenious thief who frequented omni-
buses for the purpose of plunder, but notwithstanding her
cleverness, she had been several times summarily convicted
and she had been once tried at the Old Bailey.
Sir Peter Laurie (to the prisoner's solicitor).—What do
you say to that?
The Solicitor.—Thero Is nothing at all to show that she
committed the robbery.
The omnibus conductor said that the prisoner went iota
the omnibus at Whiteehapel Church. There were four of
them, two men outside, and she and another man inside.
Sir Peter Laurie.—This woman, with her mild and simple
appearance and manners, is calculated to do a great deal of
mischief in this wsv, and I eball remand her in the hope of
getting further evidence against her.
The prisoner (to her aolieitor).—Tell him to settle it at
once. There is no use in remanding me.
Sir Peter Laurie—l choose to conduct my business in my
own way. Other people might have been robbed by her
and might wish to see her, and I therefore remand her till
Friday next.
The prisoner, who was evidently chagrined at the deter-
mination of the alderman not to give a summary judgment,
was then remanded accordingly.
(harks Darer' clerk in the house of Belli, Massebini,
end Co., merchants, was charged with having robbed his
employers of a considerable amount of money.
Mr. Mulleins, of the firm of Bush and Mullen., solicitors
to the committee of benison for protection against forgeries
and frauds, attended for the prosecution.
Mr. Ambrose John Belli said—l carry en business in
partnership with Mr. Massebini, at Ns. 4, (heat Winches-
ter-street. The prisoner has been in our service since
January, 1851. On the 22nd of Meech, 1851, we were in-
debted the sum of HI. to Messrs. Durand and Co., and I
gave the prisoner a cheque for that amount to pay the
debt. On the 15th of July we owed Mr. Elmsley, of
Lombard-street, 10/. 17s. &1., and I banded to the prisoner
a chipqmo with directions to pay that debt. I learned from
Mr. Durant that the money duo to him had not been paid.
I produce our cash-book which contains an =try of the
payment of the first sum in his handwriting.
Mr. Edward .1. Wilson, a clerk in the house of Durant,
Buttemar, and Co.. silk brokers, &e., No. 11, Copthall-
court, and Mr. Elmsley, of Lombard-street Chambers,
Clernent's-fisne, stated that the accounts due to them had
not been paid by the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner bad been discharged from
his situation on account of the deficiency stated in the evi-
dence, and that upon farther investigation it was found that
he had extended the plunder to upwards of 1,0001., upon'
the discovery of which a reward of 501. was offered for his
apprehension.
'fhe prisoner was then remanded.
Elizabeth Peekup was charged with having made a despe-
rate attempt to drown herself.
Ono of flie policemen on duty at London-bridge saw the
wretched woman dash from the stain into the water,
which was ebbing rapidly. At that moment, however, •
young Waterman jumped in after her and saved her life.
Benjamin Brent, of No. 10, Potts-place, Bankside,
waterman—l saw her run down the steps and fling holed(
into the water. I jumped in at ones sad brought her
ashore.

Sir Peter Laurie—She meant tb drown herself ?
Witimm—No doubt at alief it.
The defendant—l am hdartily sorry foe it, but I had
mu Monk
bean drinking and morromAJ, sad I did not knew what I

THIS DAY. Nome.
Pere if wend. Btrowtfl of Mad. RAW of Me wember.
W. Gentle Breeze. Overcast.

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