The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-16 00:00:00

TIIE " PRACTICAL FARMER.? SOCIETY" held their I
annual 'meeting at Shrewsbury on Tuesday, but the More
stook is described a' having been far from satisfactory. '
.old
Hill mussed contributed severed epecionens u extra st
Suffolk stallion (two years old), and two very fine
bulls, one of which was a fine anions.: only clever, sao,abi,
old. The pigs sent by his lordshir were uinque both in wise
and symmetry,aW was also 6am :cat by C'-,Main Hill. .
Jervis, of the New Hal' .•
sent no tricortited stallion, '• The I
Can.:Penni" had gained prises at Liverpool and I
Maitchoiter, At the dinner which took place after
:are el'Abition, W. Ormsby Gore, Er said so-
Metre: like this would stand in an enviableq.,
position, if
landlord and tenant would pull together, and by doing so
they would confer • vast benefit on the agriculture of the
country, in all its branches.—Viscount Newport said, he
trusted that the depression at the show-yard, which had
been witnessed that day, would only be temporary. Though
the landlords hail been to blame in this matter, there was
great apathy on the part of the tenant-farmers in competing
for the premiums offered. Such • society ought to meet
with general support.—Viscount Clive trusted that the
society would obiain more suhecriptions by next meet-
ing, though many persons will say—it is of no use
or me to joie such a moiety, for I have al-
most as many hedge-rows as acres. Then he would say
" You are the very man who ought to belong to the Shrop-
shire Practical Farmers' Society ; we will put you in the
way of bettering your farm will show you what your
neighbours have done. We will show you how you can
plough as much with two horses as you used to do with
four; and we will show you how as much work can be done
with one horse in • cart as you could formerly have done
with four in • waggon, and by doing so we will put many
61- notes is your pocket." Quick veto-ns wire good things,
but the greatest thiag of all to be attended to on • farm was
economy—economy in money, in time, in labour, and so
forth. In this pert of the county, where the roads were
g vod, be coitiidered the introduction of the Scotch one-horse
cart would be beneficial, as it would be a saving of horse.
upon the farm.
CORNWALL._ _

A SHIPWRECK, WITH Loss op LIFE, occurred on the
rocks near the Lizard on the night of Sunday last. The
filleted vessel was a large three-toasted Rutsian ship, called
the Iris, Capt. Kellen. belonging to Blomberg, from Volo,
laden with nearly 2,000 quarters of Indian corn, and bound
to Falmouth far orders. She made the land within the
Limed about 10 o'clock on the night in question, but un-
fortunately at so short a distance that there was no prevent-
ing her running ashore, and in such a gale as was then
blowing her destruction among the rocks was inevitable.
Her anchors were let go, and her masts cut away, in
the hope she would ride out the gale, but in a few
minutes she broke away, and was carried against tlas rocks,
midway between Molhou and (Mow&Hoe, where she was
dashed to atoms. The master and two of the seamen
were washed up into a nic►e in the cliff, from which they
succeeded in scrambling to the summit, and proceeded to
a neighbouring house, where they were hospitably shel-
tered. Name of the wreck was immediately forwarded to
the coast guard station of the district, and as quickly as
possible Lieut. Drew arrived with the necessary apparatus
to communicate with the wreck. At daybreak three men
were observed clinging to a small isolated reek, the sea
breaking over them most terrifically. After considerable
difficulty a line was thrown to them front the overhanging
cliffs, and stronger ropes added. It was impossible to obtain
any other means of communication. The first object
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was to supply theut with some brandy, it being too per-
ceptible that they were almost in the last stage of exhaustion.
Soon afterwards they were drawn up safely by the aid of
havellers, and other contrivances, to the main land. The
fate of the remainder of the ship's crew was then learnt.
They were never seen after the vessel parted, and the pre-
sumption is that they, eight in number, perished with her.
The survivors received every attention their distressed con-
dition required. Some of them were sadly bruised, but they
have all metered, and have been forwarded to Falmouth.

fine *ns.
DEATH OF MR. C.,'OTTINOHAN, THE ARCHITECT.—
Mr. L. N. Cottingham, the well-kaown ecclesiastical archi-
tect, died on Wednesday last, in the Waterloo-road, after a
long and painful illness. Mr. Cottiogham was well and
widely known by his " Working drawings for gothic orna-
ments, selected and compiled from the best examples ; " by
his " Plans, elevations, and details at large of Westminster-
hall and Henry the Seventh's chapel ;" by his " Grecian and
Roman architecture," • useful work, wherein the plans,
views and details of each are given in the same plate ; and
by his " Smith, founder, and ornamental metal workers' di-
rector," comprising a variety of designs for gate', piers,
balcony railings, window guards, and other useful details in
ornamental art. But his labours were not confined to mere
compilations of examples Magdalen college, Oxford,
and Rochester cathedral have recently been restored in ex-
cellent state under his superintendence. Coombe Abbey, the
seat of the Earl of Craven, received large additions from his
designs: a. 4 Snekton.hall, in Derbyshire, was wholly erected
by him. He was sometimes an unsuccessful competitor with
his fellow.architects. His design for the new houses of par-
liament was rejected, properly enough, in favour of Mr.
Barry ; end his design for Fishmongers'-hall, somewhat un-
fairly, in favour of an inferior architect. His last great work
was the restoration of Hereford catbedral—a noble structure,
wherein he has exhibited, with great success, all the know-
lefts, he had accumulated of the science and details of gothic
architecture. The cathedral is atal unfinished, and a public
meeting, in aid of tha fund, was held at Hereford on Tues.
day last, the day before the death of the architect under
who e superintendence the restorations wore being made.
MR. WYON AND THE NEW COINAGE.—In conse-
quence of the serious injuries which Mr. Wynn received in
the recent accident on the Brighton Railway, the issue of
the two-shelling piece is likely to be delayed longer than was
expected. We trust, however, to hear of Mr. Wyoa's
speedy and perfect recovery. "Is it possible," Voltaire
wrote to Pope, " that those finfers which have writ-
ten the ' Rape of the Lock' and which have dressed Homer
so becomingly in an English coat, should have been
so barbarously treated ? " While on the subject of the new
coinage, we may mention that the new five-shilling piece
(Mr. Wyon's masterpiece) will
in consequence of the trilling expense occasioned by the extra
working, which the Company of " Moneyers," u they are
called, who farm the working of the Mint, resist because it
lessens their profits a pound or two. A proof of the five-
shilling piece (with the edge unmilled) sells fur • guinea,
and cannot now be had even at that price.