The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-25 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Ann Powell, from Akyab to Falmouth, March 22, iat. 7N., lon. 09
Moons, of I.2verpool, bound south, July IS, la.. 43.00 N., lon. 10.51 W.
Eleven (brig), from Odeon, July 3, 39 miles N.W. of Cape Bt.
Vincent.
Glasgow `chip), bound loath, with emigrants, July 13, lat. 11.17 N.,
ion. 10.51 N.
John, 01 Newfoundland, from Liverpool, July 1, let. 44 N., lon. U W.
Jager (brig), of and from Liverpool for Demerara, July 13, let. 40.34
N., lon. 12.41 W., out eight days.
Lara (barque), from London for Demerara, all well, July 13, Ist.
42.45 N. toe. 12.45 W.
Mary, Hedger, from London for Moreeton, out 25 days, Jens 13, let.
11.25 N., low. 21.43.
Mary Frances (brigantine), from Liverpool, July 12, let. 50.9 N., lon.
1/1.51 W.
Moulton, for Australia, June 2. let. 9.5, lon. 20.13 W.
flapmina, from Liverpool, June 3, out 42 days, lat. 2 9., lon. 11.3 W.
New World, from Liverpool foe New York, July 10, let. 47 N., lon.
29 W. _ _ _

Ileft;;l'us, from London for Melbourne. June 4, let. 1.56 N., lon.
LH W.
Serinaspetato, from Bristol for Ceylon, June 4, lat. 1.56 N., lon.
21.54 W.
Undaunted (British barque), 50 days from London for Port Phillip,
all well, May 31, lat. 2ifaz S., lon. 23 W.

DISCOVERY op AMBER.—Pieces of Amber have for
some time past been found on the Coast of Courland, but
in such 'mall quantity that it was hardly considered worth
while to collect them. In recently cutting a canal for
draining a lake near that of A:nerd'', on the eastern coast
of Courland, between 67 deg. 10 min. and 58 deg. 20 man.
of north latitude, and not far from the Gulf of Riga, pieces
of amber were found, and, on the search being continued,
more pieces were picked up on the banks of the Lake of '
Annear' itself. At lint the discovery was kept secret, as
the lakes belong to the Crown, and the amber was secretly
sold for small sums by the persons who found it. But the
inhabitants of the adjacent villages gradually became ac-
quainted with the fact, and they made a practice of going
en mesas on Sundays to collect the amber. The priests,
annoyed at seeing the churches abandoned, made inquiries
as to the cause, and, on learning it, made it known to the
authorities. The quantity of amber already sold by the
peasant' to Jew dealers has brought them in not less than
4000 silver roubles (the rouble is 4f. Sc.); but that is consi-
derably less than its real value. The pieces of amber are
for the most part transparent, and some of them are so
large that they fetch from five to six roubles. In some of
the pieces winged insects have been found.
MURDER of AN ENGLISHMAN IS GALLICIA.—
The German journals relate an 'unordinary and improba-
ble account of the recent discovery of a murder saki to
have been committed 14 years ego at Lemberg, in Gallica'.
In 1839 en Englishman a-rived in that town, having in his
possession, says, the account, 00,0001. (1,500,000 f.) Soon
after his arrival at an hotel, he requested a waiter to con-
duct him to a bath. On reaching the place, the waiter and
the master of the establishment agreed together to wand-
nate the foreigner and to divide his property between them.
The disappearance of the Englishman was the less remarked,
as he had hut just arrived at the hotel when he went to
the bath, and had not yet been inscribed an the police book,
and the house besides was very full. The master of the
bathe accounted for his sudden acquisition of riches by say-
ing that he hail a legacy left him ; and the waiter went into
limitary, where be fought in the ranks of the insurgents
in 1848 and 1849, and afterwards took refuge in Turkey,
where he revealed the fact to some of his companions in
exile. Among them was a native of Lemberg, who on
returning lately to his country, revealed the fact to the
polies, and the skeleton was discovered in the place
pointed out.