The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-12 00:00:00

ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.

Yesterday the ordinary general meeting sf the
governors of this society was held at the roosts, Trafalgar-
squ ire. B. HAWES, Ea i, in the chair. The mit.utes of the
pr. ceediess of the list half-year were read and agreed to.
The following per.ons were recommended by the committee
fur the silver medal : _ _ _

Ii Lauithrin;irho saved Capt. E. Stanley, R.N.
Mater liiinstirt Carter, aged 15, whs sated two other
b°l. C. E. Tarrant, who jumped into the sea near Tel-
partim and saved a marine.
Lieut. 8. Osborne, who saved a seaman.
J. Dickerson, who awed two men tram shipwreck.
Thomas Came, a miner, who saved the lives of nine out of
thirteen other perms who were upset in a boat. In addi-
tion to the silver medal the court awarded this person 51. for
his intrepid conduct.
Lieut. 0. L Jones, R.N., who saved a seaman.
Muter F. G. Powell, who saved the life of Thos. Sangster,
a follow collegian, at Winchester.
E. Gerar I, a Frenchman, who saved the miriter and crew
of the venal Thistle. _ _

William Cheesronn' who laved the lives of the Rev. G.
Powell and Dlr. 11'Donall. _ _

Wm. 1% right, wh ) went into a well 130 feet deep to save
the life of a person who fell into it.
The Court unearned the recommendations of the com-
mittee. Since December last there were 61 general co, s,
and 14 attempts at suicide. 79 had been successfully tressed.
la Hyde-park there were 13 cases, of which 14 had 'yen
successfully treated, and two attempts at suicide. The bi-
lance in hand at the last audit was 130/.95. 5/ A vote of
thank. to the chairman taminated the proceedage.

RAILWAY COMPENSATION INQUIRY.—On Tuesday,
an inquiry was opened at the Swan Hotel, Wolverhampton,
before R. W. H .nd, , under-sheriff, and a special jury, to
assess the sum to he paid to Messrs. T. and J. Moore, mine-
owners, of Tividale, in the parish of Rowley Regis, for the
value of one sere of land, and its reverence from the estate
of the claimants; the lard having been token by the B:r-
-mingham, Wolverhampton, and &our Valley Railway Com-
pany, under the provisions of the Lands' Clauses Coosolida-
tion Act.—Mr.M. D. Hill. Q.C., and Mr. Claydon, appeared
for the claimants, and Mr. Mellor for the company. Mr. Hill
called a number of witnesses in support of the claim, the
amount of which was 4001. for the value of the lard and
2,4001. for severance. It was cower ded by Mr. Hill that,
owing to the construc'ion of the railway through the estate o:
the claimants, the basin which had hitherto been used by
the claimants, Mows. Moore, would have to be removed to
the other side of the canal, and that for various reasons con-
sequent en the course to which the claimants would be
driven by the railway being constructed where it was they
would have to expend 2751. per annum, which they would
lot have had to expend if the railway had not been con-
structed at that point. Some of that expense would b' in-
' eurred in the opening of fresh shafts. This would be an
annuity, as it were, which the owners of the mines would
have to pay yearly for twelve years, until they had ex.
bausted their tw, lye acres of mineral in the neighbour-
hood of the railway. According to a calculation which
hail been made, the present value of chit annuity, or the
sum which the claimants were entitle'l to receive for the
severance, was 2,4001. In addition to this. Messrs. Moore
claimed 4001. as the surface value of the acre of laud
taken by the company. A numbrr of witnesses having been
celled in support of the ease fur the claimants, Mr. Mellor
addressed the jury on tehalf of the company, designating the
claim as a moat monstrous and extraordinary one, and c:en-
tending that even if the railway had not been constructed at
the !pot in question the coal underneath never could have
been won from any other pit than pit No. 4 except at an
expense greater than tne value of the coal itself. No da-
mage bed beta done to the estate of Messrs. Moore, except-
ii.et the tatting pont sei4n of this one acre of land, and there-
foie the qu :riot they had to decide less, what was Its value.
The jury rewwwwl it verdict for 3001., giving nothing for se-
verallXl. Wolverhampton Chrors.
DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.— THIRTEEN PERSONS
ST \lain TO DEATH.—By the Emma Sherratt, which
arrived yesterday from Sydney, particulars have been
received relative to the WI of the British ship Sarah
Crisp, Captain Taylor, master, and the appalling suffer-
ices of the crew, thirteen of whom perished from
starvation. Tte HMCO& Sherratt, on her outward voyage to
Hong-Kong, perceiving a vessel in distress, bore down to her
sesist%ncs, and she proved to be the unfortunate vessel in
question. She was lc .le-ltden and waterlogged, almost a
peer et wreck. Her mute were gone, re well as everything
en dock. With much care 19 persons, in a most shocking
state of esSaintiou, were taken eff the wreck by the Emma
&serrates boats. They proved to be Captain Taylor, the
meter, the chief mate, and 17 seamen. The sufferings bad
been truly awful. Lavin; been 27 nights and days on the
wreck with nothing to enhent on excepting a monkey and
two fishes. All the wear they had was about a couple of
b tck .ts, which they caught by some al canvass. The
s e tti.d mate a:.d twelve te,..twen bad died from exhaustion.
The ship's loss was inributal to a plank starting, as she
fined in a very drar. time, and turned over on her side. The
crew jumped on her beam as she went over, and there bald
oa anti daylight, when they succeed . in righting, the
wreck by coning away the m-s`. The vassal and carro were
I insured to Inc amount of 20,0001.