The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 0.
Three fresh cases of cholera, of which one ter-
minated fatally, had occurred up to yesterday after-
noon in the same locality in which the mortality had
taken place on Sunday night ; but it does not appear
that the disease has extended to any other quarter;
and the alarm having been &minded pretty loudly
yesterday, the authorities were aroused to the neces-
sity of abating the horrible nuisance which had been
tolerated in the immediate vicinity of the infected
place. W.th the exception of this partial visitation,
the public health is in a very favourable state in
this city.
None of the passengers of the infected emigrant
ship, M. Kossuth, have yet been allowed to laud at
Queenstown; but as the Port Admiral said he had
no authority to put the ship in quarantine, the First
Lord of the Admiralty, and other government autho-
rities were immediately communicated with on the
subject, and a hulk was prepared without delay to
receive those of the parsongers who had hitherto
escaped the disease. The Kossuth sailed from Liver-
pool on the _.4th ult., with 650 passengers, of whom
300 were Germans, and it was among the latter that
the cholera first broke out, four days atter the ship had
left port. l'revious to her making Queenstown 21
deaths had taken place, and in the course of the next
day 11 more died. One of the crew also caught the
disease and died.

Another emigrant ship. the Queen of the West, of
New York, Captain liallett, bound from Liverpool
to that port with 550 passengers, put into Queens-
town on Monday, having suffered a great deal of
damage during the late gales. She left Liverpool on
the 9th October, and had mostly bad weather while
at sea. On the 21st, while in lat. 45 north, and
long. 281 west, sailing ureter double-rceted topsails
' and reefed courses, she encountered a severe whirl-
wind, in which she lost her bowsprit, foremast, and
main and wizen topmast, win:reupon she imme-
diately bore up ter this port, and arrived with u jury
foremast. There were nu deaths from sickness en
bourd, but two by accident; one of the eases being
that of a man who received a blow from a falling spar
on his head, and the other that of a woman who got
six of her ribs broken by the shifting about of the
passengers' luggage on the lower deck during a heavy

Estates situated in five different counties were sold
yesterday in the Eucumbered Estates Cut t, bringing
various rates of purchase, from twelve years in one
part of Tipperary, to twenty-one years in another
pert of the Wine county ; and from thirteen-and•a-
half years purchase in one part of the county of
Galway, to 20 years purchase iu another. The gross
sum realised by the day's sales was nearly 79,0001.
The Cork relief committ..e had distributed up to
Monday among the sufferers by the recent flood in
that city, 2,600 Gibs. of bread, 2,900 jacks of coals,
1,250 beds and quilts, 2,200 261bs. bundles of straw,
and bOO bushels of coke.

Large tracts of country are still flooded in diKet nt
parts of Ireland, but fur the last tau days the ruins
have entirely ceased.

CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.
The half-yearly meeting of the preptietors of the
above-named company was held at their office, Eden-quay,
Dublin, on Monday, Sir J. K. James, Bart., in the chair.
According to the report, the surplus of receipts on the
half-year's trade, after payment of all working charges,
repairs of vessel=, and other disbursements, amounts to
23,2631. 13s. 4d. ; out of whizh the parliamentary invest-
ment of 1 per cent. on the capital has been 'node in govern-
ment stecle. The directors state that all effort' on their
part to induce the Chester and Holyhead and Lo.tslon and
North Western Railway Cenipanics to submit any questions,
arising out of the sealed agreement, to settlement by ar-
bitration, have proved unavailing. This is the more to
be regretted, and is the more indefensible Irons the fact
that that mode of settling disputes had nut only
been expressly provided tor by the sealed heads
of agreement, but had actually been requested by
the .irectors of the Chester and 11.1yhead Company.
The uirectors of the Chester and Bob head Company soon
afterwards proceeded, in direct violation of their sealed
greenseut with this company, to discontinue complying
with such parts of it as they considered not to be in accord-
ance with their own interests ; while the London and North
Western Company declined to fulfil their engagements with
our company for the establishment of the same through
rates for goods as well as for passengers, by way of Liver-
pool, as had been previously in operation ou the Holy head
line. This breach of agreement might have rendered it
difficult to maintain our goods teethe, had not the friends
and supporters of the company, and the public generally,
refrained front pressing fur the adoption of the through
booking system, and which (in perfect reliance on the English
railways carrying out in good faith their engagements) the
directors had expected to have established via Liverpool.
The directors take the present opportunity to correct an
erroneous impression, industriously circulated, to the effect
that the speed of the mail rackets, though equal to the rate
contracted for, is still very interior to that of the express day
beats ; a reference to the evidence and returns taken by the
late committee will show that the difference of time on the
average of ehc passage for three years is FO trifling as to be
scarcely appreciable—it has been, in fact, but six minutes.
The satisfactory result of the half-year's trade, and which
is in 110131 P degree owing to the increased passongt r traffic,
induced by the disinterested patriotism of 'William Dorgan,
would have warranted the directors in recommencing a
dividend of 3 per cent. for the nalf-year, were it cot neces-
sary to provide for the loss of the stesmor Queen 'Victoria.
The directors regret to say that they have been obliged to
abandon ill hopes of raising that vessel, and therefore the
amount at which she stands at present in the company's
books must be written off; the available balance enables the
directors to recommend the payment of a dividend of 2 per
cent. for the half-year. The report was agreed to, as well
as a dividend of 2 per cent. for the half-year, and a resole-
, tion expressing warm thanks to the directors, and entire
confidence in their management, was passed unanimously.

THE BURNING OF THE VICTORIA LX
THE CLYDE.
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ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
The following is the account of the occurrence
given by Mr. James It. Collins, the second mate. He pays
that : " About two o'clock, p.m., the vesasl left the north
quay of the harbour, on an outward voyage fur New York,
with a general cargo and a few passengers. The Victoria
was in tow of two stean-tugs, and she had proceeded down
the river as far so Whiteinch when the tire occurred. As I
was sitting in the cabin at dinner, along with Mr. Cassidy,
a passenger, and Frederick Smith, the ship's carpenter, my
attention was attracted to a more than usual quantity of
I smoke which was issuing out of the cabin, and, as I thought,
I from the stove there. I called the steward, and desired
him to see what was the matter, and he at on ce went away,
but immediately titer came back, without being able to
ascertain the cause of the smoke. I then went on to the
peep, along with the pilot, and we discovered flames issuing
from the sternporta. I immediately communicated the
alarm to the chief mate, Mr. Wallace, and we both went to
the cabin, but found the fire so strong and tLc dames com-
ing in so tierce that we could oat stand it. I then made an
endeavour to get down the hold, but was prevented by the
smoke and flames. I could not get down ; hut, from what
I could see in the hold, I observed that several packages
there had been removed, and shifted from their original
position. At this time, the cook, Samuel Graham, came up
to me on deck, in a state of great excitement, and said,
knew the vessel would bum down ;' but he (the cook) did
not state his reason tot saying so. I then oreiend Graham
to be put in irons till full inquiry should be made. Front
the state that 1 saw the bales of goods in, and the rapidity
of the fire, I have no doubt that it was the act of an incen-
diary." Mr. Wallace, chief mate, said: "The vessel left
the harbour between one and two o'clock, and proceeded
down the river, towed by the Vixen and Vigilant, steam-
tugs. When about a place culled Govan, I went into my
room to get some tobacco, and shortly thereafter the second
mate came to me and said : ' Mr. Wallace, Mr. Wallace,
the ship is on tire !' I then went and opened the hatches of
the ship, to see how the tire looked down below, and the
flame" came right up into my face ; but 1 put the hatch
down again, in order to prevent the air getting down. I
don't know how the Cue occurred, but it commeaced below
the ship's hold. lam confident the hire could not have
arisen from the stoves. She was loaded with pig-iron
chiefly, but I know that there were other light goods on
board. There were gas-pipes, boxes, and other things."
The two negro men, Graham and Somerset, have hem
des-
charged. The county tiseed made a miuuteinvestigation in
the course of Saturday ; but the evidence of the crew, who
comprise a strange mixture of Brazilians, Plll3blllllll, !Imo-
'serious, and Norwegian?, was not such as to sustain the
charge of wilful tire-raising. At the same time it was
alleged that the lumped', when loading the vessel, Ought
have used a light iu the hold, contrary to the harbour regu-
lotions. The men in custody were consequently dachargod
I on Saturday night.

Mk: PACIFIC AUSTRALIAN ItotTE.—The Ameri-
can papers received in Loudon yesterday by the Atlantic
contain Australian intelligence received via Wilde, which
comes down to within four dayo vf the dates brought by
the Argo from Port Phillip. The mad was conveyed by a
sailing vessel. The ship, Plymouth Nock, Captain Farn-
ham L. Tucker, from Melbourne, Port Phillip, whence she
sailed on the 20th of August, arrived at Callao on the 20th
of Sept.,—thus making the passage in thirty-Mae dayo—
the shortest on record. She came to the southward of the
Shears. Off New Zealand, passed tie parallel of 53.30
south, when she was driven to the n.:rthward by au eas-
terly wind, which lasted two days ; thence she steeita to
strike her original track to the eastward ; passed to the
eastward of St. Felix Island, and made the islands of Chin-
tha on the thirtieth day ou'. She was becalmed two days
.X Ci.riao. No sp.)LeL EI:(1 Cu the simehfic
until land was made.