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

FRIGHTFUL SHIPWRECK OF COOLIES.
200 LIV/21 LOST.

(From the Friend of ladle, Ingest 3L)
It any other arWmment were wanted to prove the
Inesesity of the lodise goverment giving gamed attendee
to the coolie ernigrattoe Made, it is to be fund in the tale
of horrors with which Calcutta has been occupied during
the past week.
On Sunday, 19th August. the Americas built skiie, Eagle
Speed, Captain Brindee, left Port Canning with 497 coolies
for Demerara. Of these 300 were men, 93 wane. Obey,
and girls wader 10, sad 39 infants—in all equal to Moduli
coolies. AU the formalities 'Winding the departure sad
the arrangements el an emignat ship were duly
observed. The crew was aufßciently strong as to num-
bers, being of the same strength as whoa they lett Eoglasd.
There were twenty our sailors and officers, exelasive of
cabin boys, nooks, sad *mignon. Captain Hoskins, the
portniester, appointed Mr. Vardy, con of the three Mullah
pilots, to pilot the vete* and he himself, with the port
doctor and three other Europese, west dove the river
in her. He was aware that some of the drew
were sick, bat did " sot know whether the number
was over the average l" he knew that " three or four"
were drunk, including the second officer and the bottom*
sod they motioned drunk the nut day. The Lady Elan,
Captain Heath, which had been not rand from
Clidoutts, towed the ship down to Halliday's Island
where she anchored for the sight. On Monday
morning she went on down the Eaton Chu-
ng'. The barometer was low end the wind
from the west ; and soon the sea rose so high. as the wind
veered to the math. that the ship feared the steamer would
not be able to tow her. At 4 in the afternoon, in sight of
the Mutt* reef buoy, with the water low, the tide setting
in and • fresh breeze blowing, the rope ounectieg
the steamer and the vestal parted. The suds
were • mile off, sad dudes the two hours
spent is passing another rope, she drilled towards
the nods, without meting sail, which was impossible ; or
letting go the anchor which, Captain Brineden coefeeses it
would have been better to have dose. She struck at half-
peat 6 fa 41 fathoms, sad thee the anchor was dropped,
while the sea rolled in " very high." After half-so-
hour she out off to the southweld, but with nineteen
inches of water in the hold. At 9 o'clock the .
ma.
ninon of the steamer became deranged, end the ship an
chorea in the western neon' at 10. The coolies bad been
at the pumps from the first, but the water ineresesd, and
I at 3 on the morning of Tuesday, the 220 d, with darkness
around and a heavy see, the Eagle Speed signalled to the
steamer that she wee sinking. At 4 the steamer's boat
reached the ship, sad the steamer herself approached. But
no attempt was made to pass roper, though this could have
been done by daylight, sod she might have,treco at lieUiday's
Island by 10 o'clock. On this point Captain Hoskins
evidence is clear —" Coder the circumstances, it would have
taken two boars to per hawsers, they woad have bees
readily passed by daylight. Supposing that the wind was
favourable and sails were set, the steamer could have
towed the resod to safe anchorage in four hours. She
would have ben at 10 cm. at Halliday Island.'
Now we come to the tale of mismanagement. toltmasrelyi
and horrible sacrifice of life. Three of the Erato 's
boats were launched, moaned by the mew, and commanded
by Captain Hoskins, by the pilot at Captain Brinedn's
request, sod by the sewed officer, thefint being ill. Leda&
is; the coolies who threw themselves into the water on ha*
coop, the boats need 109, and all the Europeans. Captain
Hokum' boat made five trips,
_bat the Wren were soon
smashed ; one of them had at half•put 12 brought off the
captain, whom hie own crew refused to help. The steamer's
boat was also smashed after one trip. Her two large
boats were never launched. Captain Hoskins said,
" Had the steamer lumbered ahead, and • raft
been made, many more line might have been
saved," but there was no material to make •
raft of and Captain Brineden in vain " asked the steam er
to anchor on the bow or asters, and pees hats, in order to
keep up a quicker and safer communication." Before the
captaintswain left, the boa b owne
ad dd, the compounder
and some topaues had broken ioto the breadyoloort,
the interpreter was not to be found. and the
pilot, who knew the language, did sot estrum to
the ship. " From first to last the crew acted badly.
There was some difficulty in getting them to man
the boat' latterly. They were shamed into it by the pas-
norm" The steamer left for Pert Ceasing ; no hint was
given to the three hundred miserable wretches who were
sinking to launch the ship's cutter, which had sot been
used, though the one European left and five negroes
did do no, and with thirty coolies were afterwards *sod
by the steamer. The ship continued to float all that
night, sad did not sink till 7 on Wednesday morning,
justifying the opinion of Captain Hoskins. " Considering
the rate at which the ship was sinking. I was sanguine that
we would have encoded in getting the greater portion of
the coolies out." Two steamers were at once sent round
from Calcutta, and the Lady Elgin returned from Port
*mining. They food three Coolie lads on the coast
of the wreck, sod saved about 60 more who bad floated to
Halliday's sod Butcher's Island, where the tigers are said
to have destroyed some. The °polio assert that the last
European attempted to fire the ship. Of the 497 coolie*,
260 seem to have perished on that terrible Medowidey
morning or afterwards in the jungle.
We have sosfined oureelvee to facts. The Court of
Enquiry held on the pilot, before a jury in whom the public
have confidence, and the arrest of four of the crew with a
view to trial in the Vice-Admiralty Court on • charge of
ending fire to the vend, reader it seesaw, for us so
abstain from any attempt to fix responsibility. Caputia
Hoskins, who seems to have don his duty better at least
than any other white man, in hie evidence ascribed this
horrible disaster to "the force of eireumstanage."
The court and the jury will doubtless analyse thew
circumstances, and fix the blame on the right shoulders.
The court will doubtless make it clear why, hen in two
hours the steamer might have again taken her in tow after
she was reported to be mintier, sod in four more might have
deposited her freight in safety on shore, she steamed off with
169, end abandoned the rest to their horrible use the
or why,
before steaming off, she made no attempt to use the three
beats each trip of whin would have saved fifty lives. Even
the tigers at Butcher's Island would have been preferable
to the slow and silent approach of a fete equal to a thousand
death., as the shrieking victors were swept off the wreck
till with its clinging burden it at last disappeared, leaving
only the top of • mast, three bar, and "lots of clothing,"
to tell of inhumanity and ineompelmenee each as are fortu-
nately rare in the annals of Schlemiel*.

PAx VOBISCCIA. —The sth of October being the
!OM anniversary of the foundatieu of the University of
Kiel, it was Weeded to celebrate the day by a (ft*, and
some subectiptiesse bad been received for this object. The
rector of the noiversity has, however, written the follow-
ing hotter addressed •• To the inhabitants of the
Duchies. Two hawked yarn ago the University of Kiel
was opened with great solemnity. We hoped to have been
able to commemorate worthily with the country and with its
prtooe, that grand event. But times like the proses; are
Oat suitable to festivities." The Prussian official Onrush,
the Knot: Zeduol and the Nord Deutsche Zettemg, exclaim
against the audaerty of the rector, ends:preps themselves in
bitter terms. " Never," says the latter journal, "was there a
time better calculated to isepire joyful emotions, and to call
for festivities than that wherein German nationality and
the German I ge have been for ever secured in the
IDuchies. lostead of giving expression to this sentiment
i the rector publishes a miserable Jeremiod which proves
I that he has not risen beyood a provincial ideal and the
pretensions of the Duke of Augusteoburg." The Press of
Vienna, after blaming in strong terms the enduct of
Prussia, which it says has taken for its motto, " &arts-
'ion by force, annexation by compulsion, unity by sub*.
tion," adds the following—" Thie situation cannot endure
long ; Austria must once for all give up that unnatural
compliance which she has exhibited towards Prussia on
the German questios."
AN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONORTRq. —At
the French National Craves which Is at this moment
holding its third meeting at Bordeaux, IL Henri Giutrac
proposed that an international conceal of medical men
should be held in Paris, in 1867. The proposal was re-
ceived with unanimous applause, and on the motion of M.
Jessnel a provisional committee wee at once appointed to
make the necessary arrangements.
The Russian Universities have been ordered to
restrict the number of Polish @Waists to one-tenth of the
total of undergraduates admitted. Al no university re-
mains io Poland many Polish youth' will now have to go
without a university education who otherwise might have
wished to be initiated into the rudimestsof liberal culture,
or to obtain the necessary testimonial' for entering the
civil service.
The Prefect of the Pas de Calais has established
an international exhibition of fish at Boulognit.sur-Ifer,
under the patronage of the Marquis de Ohasseloop•Lsairat,
Minister of Marine. The object of the prefect is to give
the fishermen in his department an opportunity of learning
the manner in which fish are caught in other countries, both
is mit and fresh water.
The Lunatic Asylum at Warsaw—a government
institution, of course—has jest been visited by the police
On this occasion some 50 out of the 144 patients were dia..
covered to be political offenders who had fled for refuge to
the abode of madness, and spent already a couple of Taus
within its terrible walls. The physicians have been striated,
together with the delinquents.
"Strikes of workmen," says the Side, `care
succeeding each other at Rome as if in a great manufac-
turing city. For a fortnight the pavioors refuted to work,
although their dai's pay had been raised from five francs to
six. The carters, who remove building materials, and
whose pay if 4fr. 500., have else struck. The 6shwomen
have also got up a strike become they are not allowed to
ery their wares about the streets ; and finally, the lower
orders of the clergy, the priests who live on the proceeds of
the mew they celebrate, are about to imitate the swims.
carters, sod 'Savarese, es they maw* Dew live fro the
present price of masses-20 balocchl, or lfr. 80e. each. The
Pepe has proposed to raise the rate to 25 bajoechi, but that
ecarmasioa appears to be insoMeiest."
M. Victor Hugo is at this moment at Brussels,
eeerecting the proofs of a volume of poetry, entitled " Les
Chasms' des Rues, et des BOLL*
Sing Victor Emmanuel bas just conferred an
annual allowance of 450fr.ea No sou ciGieglial, the Neer,
to facilitate his admission into% noval sehrsol. •

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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FRIGHTFUL SCAFFOLD hOCIDENT.—ggia DA).
—This morning a serious oxidant occurred near ChndO
reed. It appears that a logo building is in mews
erection in the Hi:drop-road, doe to the Bee hm& ins h •
and hawses 7 and 8 o'clock the entire scaffold, on shish* ..
number of men were employed, fell to the grated isOl a ,
trogeendoes crash. The noise made by the lea 10 '
a omber of rsons to es an the poor
buried beneath pe a
roes ofth timbeport, andd building MOO
were eerie-wed mad taken to the North Ledo ad
University College Hospitals. Two of them. sawed aria
Fox and Edward Smith, are so much injured that lOW
are given of their recovery.
SHICIDS FROM LAMBSTH-BILIDGIL—Leet FM*
an inquiry was held by Mr. John Humphreys, Middlor
0010111111 r. at the Crows Tavern, Misdeal, relative le 1111
death of Mr. Michels Moos, aged 56 years, whe conwilisi!
suicide by leaping from Lambeth-
bridge. Mr. FOWL
Cripple. 11, Ranelaghwtraet, Pimlico, eaid that Me tie
ceased was an Italian. lie wee a hair marehant. and ._
some 011
in the ono profewieseal hair-drover at C 0...
.....diareotillue
Opera-house. For time past be had bon
being much depressed in spirit through lows de
and through ill health. He had lost 5001. is two moo
sod be was in posuniu7 difficulties. Mr. John Yr* ,5 -
Ranelsgb.strect, Pimlico, said that the doom „..
lodged with him for ten years. and had hoes a WOWI. '
the house for four years before witoos took it; was modal
and sober. Latterly he had been very nervous sea Ae'l
jested. in consequence of serious losses through led
,IO
sod also through Woos. Witness lest saw bin W Wise in r
Saturday wok, at 7 o'clock in the evening. Re cams to
wailer and gave him the key of his room, sayiok:' If 4
Madame tames home, hero is the key for her. Re lb.
went out. His wife came noon afterwards in goat Alin
and the polio, during the night, brought word that hi wt.,
committed suicide. James Shaw, 3, Chntoirstrast, For(
wieder, mid that on the evenieg of last Saturday week 210
was crowing the new bridge, Lambeth, who be Ow 1
person lode, over the parapet, end laboriously tryillg_l
lift himself over. He was evidently partly paralll&
i therefore found it difficult to get up oe the pertak 2".,,..,
DESPATCH OF TIM BRAZILIAN ilium —Sorra- i witnessand a fraud ten to prevent him, but they got eiHr:
AMPTOR, Oct. 9.—The Royal Mail Company's steamship I soot tee late. The non bad lumped off into the Mire '''' •
Rhone,
mallsCapai Wool ward„ sailed this afternoon with the ' alarm was raised sad boats were put off, but the oferfomill
monthly as for Lithos. Cape Verdes. Pernambuco, man over rose to the nerfoo. He wen no doubt atoll* •
Bahia, Rio Jaseiro, Mont. Video, Buenos Ayres, E. She the river by the tide. Oa the pavement witness food the'
took oat 92 peowiegere, a large cargo of Froth sad Foglia desmiesed's hat with his same and address written Walk
swerchandire, fooludieg 200,000 f. in sovereigns and 8.0001. The tolloilleotor said to the witting' that a quarter al
sisill
baz silver, consigned to the Minister of Finance at Rio, hoar before some parses' had seen • mac walking up
For other porta—Gold coin, vales 111.6601.; French jewellery, dews the bridge in groat excitement, but
whet bad no o
wl`ts
6,4304 ; and English jowellsry, 1,0941. Ave.:asset the pas. seed I. him. The body of the deomeed found fl
senors are Sir A, Moeuis, for Lisbon • Dr. tiendsli, for in the river off elbederell oe Saturday last. The Coroner
Pernambuco ; and Mr. Riad, paymaster RN., for Rio de having summed ur. the jury
,returned a verdict ta Thal
Jaeiro.—iteufcr's Expess. diseased drowned himself by jumping off Lambeth-WO
Removal, of
ARll6.—On Wednesday, an otSorr's , while to seta's ed usermad mind."
Feud of the 36th depot eow lying at Belfast, oonieting A F.driteox Doo.—Oo Saturday en inquiet 111.
1 of one *Mow, and 'Waage rank sad file, arrived brie to laid at Charlton, Kest, on the body of Elizsbetglimetfok
remove the arms of the enrolled local pearionen. The arms aged six owe She was left in a room on the isle
—numbering fifty studs—wore Oared In the county jail, at No. 10. Ashford-plena, with two ramie &Omit kr
and were delivered up by Sergeant-Major Natoli, of the their mother, who had goes out to market. BY rile.
• local Germ is whose charge they have bees for some yeses mere she set herself cm tire, and wheel& wirearoodi • bdis •
I pot. As ermouror gergemit sad his assistant secompusied dog *sod though a pane a glue into the MOO: sag___.o.
ithe
tee of to peek the mow TM clothing and aorioeteo. the reottior's ester., which was le a few mioutes, she lel,.
mete the posiosiero were sot removed. The press. him testis. away the child's clothes with his awn* if
....„........otesieptiesal lie meet& Durapatetati paws. 17pan his seeing the mother he west op to Mr
bet bring serried oat ow the coast', weeetnity..4lwirk laid bold of her goat to draw her 100 s& deadecil
Recorder. shild was removal to the legionary. bat frog the a
PATENT °Mei NifalltlY, Soo= Releerwovow. stein ei the lejeries. Verdict, " Aceidesisi dee*" ..,
Weather of visitors for the week embus (Mew, 7, 0114? NORTHIRN HOSPITAL, CatignotrialfW3.,_o9
2,967. Tagil slumber Woo the omen et theitasseum trio Tatularm., N.—Number r 4 paints fee the week 01.10
i did, (Mar 13. 16613), 904106. Osteher 7, 71.1; el wWsk 299 emery sem.
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