The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-14 00:00:00

THE LOSS OF FISHING BOATS ON THE EAST

COAST.

ANTICIPATED LOSS OF ONE HUNDRED LIVES.
GREAT YARMOUTH, Dir. 12.
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To-day the crew of the steam-tug Volunteer,
five in number, were brought into Great Yarmouth by the
smack Elite. The tug. which belonged to Mr. 8. J. Fill, left
the harbour on Thursday with three other steamers, for the
purpose of cruising in the German Ocean and obtaining
intelligence of the miming boats. The weather woe ex-
ceedingly boisterous, and the sea ran fearfully high. After
cruising about for twenty hoar, at &distance of from sixty
to seventy miles off hod, without falling io with any of the
miring smacks, it was found that the Volunteer had
sprang a leak and was in a sinking state. The crew
at once took to the pumps, but it was with the utmost
difficulty that, in the heavy sea, the steamer could be kept
afloat. At about five a.m. yesterday, seeing a light ahead,
they made for it, and came up with the smack Eliza, of
Great Yarmouth. The tug was then on the point of
foundering. The crew of the Volunteer got out a boat,
but it was instantly swamped. They then ran their vessel
alongside of the Eliza, and, at great risk to themselves sod
to the smack, they jumped on Ward the latter and were
saved. The Volunteer, which was valued at 1,6001., and
bad been recently fitted with new boilers and thoroughly
repaired at an expense of 61.0/.. soon afterwards die-
appeared. She was uninsured. It appears that the total
number of smacks belonging to Yarmouth, and still un-
accounted kr, has been reduced to-day to 11, but little
hope is entertained that these boats or their crews will
ever again be beard of. Each smack, with nets and fishing
gear, cost from 6001. to 7C3/., while the average crew car-
ried by each ranges front six to seven hands. The lum-
ber of Yarmouth fishermen drowned is already known to
exceed 30, and should the worst fears be realised with regard
to the 11 smacks still missing, the total deaths will be car-
ried to somewhere about 100. It is computed that about
20 smacks have been lost with the greater portion of their
crews during the late disastrousgales ; and, as may be sup-
posed the utmost distress prevails among the bereaved
families who have been left in circumstances approaching
destitution, and on whose behalf aid is urgently needed.

The Bishop of London will not hold his usual
wetly levee at London House, SL James's-square, to-mor-
row (Tuesday), as hie lordship is engaged at Fulham this
week by the onlination einminatioos. The levees will, as
Uallid, be resumed after the Christmas recess, so Tuesday,
January 12.

Lady Adioe Cowper, second (laughter of the
ConutessiCowper, was thrown from her horse at Florence a
few days face, but, beyond some painful contusions, nothing
serious has occurred. The countess and daughter, together
with the FArl Cowper, were on the eve of leaving Florence
fee Rome when the accident took place.

We have to announce the death of Mr. Henry
Lister, brother-in-law of the Earl of Shaftesbury, who died
at his seat in Nottingh►mshire on Saturday last. He had
suffered from paralysis for some time past. The deceased
gentleman married in 1824 Lady Charlotte Barbara Ashley,
third daughter of the late Earl of Shaftesbury.
The eastern division of the Channel fleet, con-
sisting of the Edgar, the Warrior, and the Resistance, sailed
from Spithead on Saturday afternoon for Plymouth Sound.
A smart shock of an earthquake was experienced
on Wednesday night at Nimes, Avignon, Montpellier, and
other towns in the south of France.

At the Monday Popular Concert this evening
Beethoven's septet is to be repeated ; the quartet will be
Mozart's No. 6 (in C), led by M. Lotto ; the duet, l)uasek'a
moats in B flat for piano and violin (Madame Arabella
Goddard and M. Lotto) ; the solo sonata, Waelfl's famous
Se Plat Ultra (Madame Goddard). Mr. Sims Reeves (his
Grit appearance) and Madame Rudersdorf are the singers.
The Christmas MesaiaA of the National Choral Society
(under Mr. G. W. Martin) is announced for Wednesday;
to. wood Christmas Messiah of the Sacred Harmosic So-
' ciety (under Mr. Costa) for Friday ; and the first concert of
the regular series by Mr. Henry Leslie's Choir (at St.
James's-hall) for Thursday. Add to these Mr. Balfe's
Blanche de Never*, at Corset-garden. Mr. Macfarrim's Jean
Lea, at Mr. German Reed's Opera di Camera (Gallery of
Illustration), and M. Jallien's Promenade Concerts. at Her
Majesty's Theatre every evening, and there is no lack of en-
tartainmeat during the current week for amateurs resident
in or within visiting dietetics of the capital.

The Andover and Ramsey Railway will, it is
expected, be opened for traffic iu Much test.
The memorial to the late Prince Consort erected
in Bt. Thomas's Church, at Newport, in the Isle of Wight,
by Baron Marochetti, has cost about 2,101., which has bees
raised by public subscription.

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Green peas were gathered from an open garden
at Ventnor, in the Isle of Wight, last week.
The little Archduke Rudolph, the heir to the
Austrian throne, is now out of danger. The canes of his
illness has not been officially made known to the public,
bat it is said that he fell in his room and injured his head.
if there was any concussion of the brain it must have bees
very alight, for he will be allowed to go out in a day
or two.

DESPATCH Or THE BOMBAY MAIM—The Penin-
sular and Oriental Oompaoy's steamship Coylos, Capt.le
Evans, sailed oa Saturday, at 3 p.rn:, with the mail far
Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ade°. Bombay, sod
Upper Bengal. She took out 35 first, and 38 mooed class
passengers ; and on freight 1,630 boxes specie, mitt,
529,2861., of which amount 15.3001. is sovereigns and 2,9001.
in silver coin is for Ale:am:lris, and the remainder is for
Bombay, consisting of bar silver 3110,8401., silver cola
68,5301,, bar gold 73,400/., gold teen 4,7001., sovereigns
2,5004 and watches, jewellery, &c., 1,7961. The Ceylon
also took out a fall cargo of postal morohaarliao.