The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-11 00:00:00

FEARFUL GALE AND LOSS OP LIPS.

SHIELDS, TIIIIIDAY, Nom.

The sudden break up of the autumn weather on
the Peat of Northumberland has been followed by a fearful
gale of wind from the S.E., which has brought in as fearful
sea as we have experienced far years. During the night
the lifeboat men and the life brigade have been upon the '
watah, but though several ship ran for the Tyne during the
night and this morning, they all got in in safety until about
20 miontee to 11 this forenoon. At that time the banks at
the mouth of the Tyne were crowded with spectators The
sea was breaking in a complete whit* wall across the mouth
of As harbour, and the cart pi-muted all the features of
a raging storm. About the time mentioned a laden
brie was observed running for the harbour. She
omit in tolerably well until she was half way
over the bar when she was struck by two heavy
sees, which pooped her and carried away part of
her stern, aid disabled her steering apparatus. The vessel
was thrown athwart sea, and exposed to its full fury. The
master, however, managed to fill the sans thrice., but while
doing his best to pick his ship up in her crippled state, and
while several steamboats and three lifeboats were making
to the assistance of the crew, another terrible sea
struck the vessel, setting the sails and all the gear adrift.
In a moment she was observed to sink, stern
foremost, carrying every soul on board with
her to a watery grave. A couple of sea.
' rushed over the bar, and when they had spent themselves
not a vestige of the unfortuoate ship or her helpless crew
I was to be seen. The lifeboats are still out trying to pick
up some of the bedlam.

SUNDERLAND.
A VESSEL CAPSIZED AND ALL RANDS LOST
The gale which raged along the coast yesterday bas
proved diantrous at Sunderland. Early in the morning the
Gauntlet, a fiahine-smack, which had been at sea all
night short-handed, on entering the harbour,ran spinet the
potato garth. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a
ship was seen making for Sunderland, making sig-
nal of distress. The No. 1 lifeboat went off to her, and
found that the vessel bad been abandoned, sad that she
was the Favourite, of lowish., which left fleaham, on
Saturday, coal laden. A screw n. was st some
distence, and it is supposed that the Favourite's crew
were picked up by her. The ship's boat was washed
ashore, but the crew may have been picked up by the
steamer's lifeboat. The Favourite afterwards ran
ashore near the South Dock, and soon went to pieces.
At i o'clock in the afternoon, a small schooner was seen
making for the harbour, and beating heavily, every ass,
threatening to engulf her. As abe neared the bar it was
seen that she was too far to the south, and gigot& venoms&
from the lighthouse to keep her away to the north. The
pin. were by this time crowded by thousands of penoss, and
the greatest excitement was manifested in the fate of the
vessel Gallantly she struggled on until those on board saw
they could not makethe harbour, and the schooner's head we.
put to the north instead of attempting to run her on to the
beach. By the time she had got amongst the broken water
clan to the Stone bead, when a tremendous sea struck her
on the broadside, and she quivered with the shock, another
sea stronger than the last, swept her decks, and a third
quickly following, caught her broadside, turned her right
over, and caused cry of tenor from the spectators ; the
*cheeps/ instantly 114111 A from sight. lt is supposed that the
second sea had carried away the greater part of the crew
though before she sank a man was seen at the helm. The
name of the vessel is unknown, and it la not known
whether she was laden or not. The lifeboat was got down
to the water's edge, after a great deal of difficulty, but ahe
was sot launched, asit ins not possible far • sail to have
kept The name of schooner
afloat
before
lifeboat
couldts unk was k the
Fintierick the
Seventh, formerly yacht to the Prince of Denmark ; par-
chased six weeks ego by Mr. Scott, of &ahem. She was
• from Hontleur to Sadism Light, commanded by Captain
- Juvay, and had on board one anima and • boy. No other
Petunia have occurred.

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131111FFULLD, WOOLY.
The interest in the sections begins to flag, and
this wet day has not enlivened the somewhat
heavy subjects of the papers and discus-
sions in the departments. The general ad-
dress foe the day was .in the hands of Mr.
Edwin Chadwick, who presides over the board of
tradeof the Social Science AMSlOCiation, and discussed
the variousbranchesof tradeeeonotny ateousiderable
length, but not without his usual ability. The
address, if not to be called exhaustive, Witched
upon the many important points connected with
commerce, such as land and sea conveyance, with
their risks of loss, and insurance against it. I
observe that Mr. Chadwick assumes to have given
Mr. Gladstone the hint for his great railway com-
mission. He says the address given by, him in
London " served to promote the appointment of a
royal commission." The assumption is a mild one,
and the share in the service of the public claimed
is modest. I think few were prepared to hear
upon statistical evidence, however, that the death
rate of our mercantile marine is very high, and
that Dr. Johnson's description of a ship "as a
prison, with the chamois of being drowned," is still
so true. The death rate in the merchant
ships is three times that of the royal
navy, says Mr. Chadwick, though that
is not as low as it might be. He
asks very justly why the death-rate of a ship should
not be as low as that of a well-managed
prison, whereas it is twice as high. The legisla-
tion of Frenoehe thinks "in advance of ours in con-
centratisg responsibility," and that amount which
has been put upon the shoulders of the railway direc-
tors and all employers of machinery by Lord Camp-
bell's Act, Mr. Chadwick thinks only a limited
application of the principle. He would extend it to
captains and owners of ships. With regard to the
destruction of insured property in warehouses by
tire, Mr. Chadwick stated that " the unguarded
extension of insurance really involves the extension
of danger and the extension of incendiariems." He
suggested as a remedy the discouragement of full
insurances, or such restrictions as will prevent the
entire exoneration of the insured from due care ;
all fires and ship losses he would, as I understood,
place under judicial examination, and where incen.
diadem or wilful loss of a ship was suspected, a
public prosecutor should proceed against the
defaulter at the public expense.
But I leave Mr. Chadwick's views to be studied
more fully and fairly from the report of his address.
Mr. Norvise, a surgeon, contributed a paper on in-
fanticide, while Dr. Lankester confirmedall thatthst
gentleman stated as to the prevalence of this
moist cruel and degrading crime. As coroner of a
large metropolitan district, containing a population
of a million, he held nearly two inquests a week on
infant children found in various places, and in his
opinion there were as many more never found.
The remedy for this most serious social evil which
Dr. Lankester suggested is, that no burial of any
kind, whether by clergyman or sexton, shall be
permitted without certificate and registration,
and that a surgeon shall examine every body
found, to enable him to certify as to the
cause of death. It appears that, according to the
existing law, a clergyman must not refuse to
bury without certificate, although he is compelled
to give notice to the registrar that he had per
formed auch a burial. It is quite possible, as was
indeed suggested by Lord Stanley at the late
meeting of the British Association, that this matter
of infanticide is being a little overstated, just as
the garotting was when two or three real cases
oecurred ; but I think if all the coroners through-
out the kingdom were to send in the number of
their inquests on these unknown innocents so bar-
barously destroyed, we should find it impossible to
doubt or deny the existence of direct infanticide
as a common practice in this enlightened country
of ours.
The section of Education was closed to-day, after
a short discussion before Mr. Chambers upon Mr.
Hodgson's paper "On Classical Education." Miss
Mackenzie and Miss Irby contributed a paper "On
Education among the Slavonic Christians of Turkey
in Europe," founded upontheir own personal (beer_
vationa when travelling amonpt the people. I cannot
say that the subject possesses much interest for us,
who have so much to look to at home the ladies,
however, are interesting as lady travellers. And
this reminds me that other ladies who
attend these meetings should not be unnoticed,
as instances especially of at leaat one remarkable
feature, which is showing itself in rather a promi-
nent manner in our modern social system, I
mean the effort of women to educate themselves
like men. In the intricate subject of municipal
law, there is Miss Sheddon, a young lady who
proved herself quite able to defend her arguments
against Mr. Hastings and other regular barristers.
Miss isa Craig performs the duties of one of the
secretaries of the society, and seems to have as much
as any one to do with the business of the meeting.
Misses Mary Carpenter, Dorothea Beale, and Mary
Wolstenholme read and contribute papers about edu-
cation, but the best example of all is that of Miss
Gsrret, who, though not yet a full blown M.D.,
like Anna Blackwell, bids fair to be, as she has
takeu.the diploma of the Apothecaries' Society ; and
we must take this as a proof that sheds as well
qualified in the science of the healing , and pos-
sibly better than many of those young scapegraces
of the great medical schools.
The deputation of the Liverpool Financial Reform