The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

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No. 31.] LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 6,1846.

one on each aide, had proved entirely unsuccessful,
and it is much to be apprehended that if the endea-
vours of the following day were not more fortunate,
the wind from the south-east, which has since pre-
vailed, will have driven her farther on the shore.
The following letter from Bundrum Bay has reached
the Times:

" I arrived here rather late last night from Belfast. The
huge bulk of the Great Britain was visible for some miles
distant in coming from Downpatrick towards the beach
where she is stranded. The shore was crowded with parties
chiefly brought together from curiosity, and a great number
of men, with small carte and horses, taking away the coals.
which the people on board were rapidly I'-rowing overboard,
the coal-dust flying in all directions. The vessel was at
the time, being about low water, almost in appearance high
and dry, though, to the best of my observation, she was
sunk in the sand about five-and-a-half feet. Nothing effectual
could be done last night, and the vessel remained iu stata
quo over the time of the tide, though it is said she budged a
little at the top of high water, showing a decree of buoyanev
that indicated the probability of her being gut off by the tide
of this day.
• " I wee down at the vessel at daylight, and found her in
this position:—She is lying inside of the Cow and Calf
Rocks, on a smooth, gently-inclined plane of sands and
nearly parrallel with tie line of shore. She was mere bow
on before, but has, from the wind and seaway of Saturday
and Sunday, forged on more upon the bank.
" About half-past 9 o'clock to-day a strenuous effort was
made to get her off. Two of the Liverpool steam-tugs, Nos.
1 and 2, got alongside her larboard quarter, and steamed
away with great vigour, but without effect, the vessel not
having apparently started from her position front flotation
or otherwise. The water rose to nearly the top of that tart
of the hull which iv painted red, which I take to be her low-
water mark • and I therefore fear that, unless the tides rise
higher. which they will no doubt do to-night and to-morrow,
she will Dave but an indifferei.t chance of being got off at
all, especially if it should blow from the east or south-east
to send a seaway into this open bay.
"Captain Watson, the agent for Lloyd's, is in attendance.
The vessel appears to have sustained no damage in her hull.
She has lost her rudder, and, from damage to the screw-pro-
peller, will probably derive little assistance from her steam,
provided she be got off. But this is of little consequence,
as the steam-tugs (now again at anchor in the offing) will,
if she can be budged from the shore, get her into deep water
and safe harbourage.
" The vessel is lying in a direction of about N.N.W. and
5.5.8., so far as I can judge without a compass. The coun-
try around is romantic and beautiful, the Morne mountains
on the south of the bay, and St. John's Lighthouse on a
point to the northward.
" I have been at the Coast-guard station-house, about a
quarter of a mile north of the ship, and have obtained some
interesting particulars relative to her stranding, but, in
order to save the post, must dellr writing further at pre-
sent. The costs that were on board, or the greater part
of them, say 600 tons, have been discharged, and laid on
the grassy land, just above the sands of the bay. They are
sold, and arc being carted away. They cover a large space
of ground. On Sunday last vest numbers of people from
the country came down in Cars, &c., to see the ship ; indeed,
some thooisinds, as I learn. She looks, with her five masts
and her funnel, and her truly elegant hull, a perf, et sp. ei.
men of naval architecture, exciting feelings of sympathy in
all who see her. if she is to be gut off, I should think she
must go stern out, or, if possible, be careened, or thrown
down, with her starboard side to seaward, so as to pluck her
out of the sand.

" It is especially fortunate for all on board that the vessel
landed where she did, fur, besides the Cow and Calf, there
are other rocks about her, along the coast, of a dangerous
character, most of them being under water at high tides.
"We shall see what can be done with the ship by to-
night's tide, as the tides by night flow generally higher than
by day, and may give her a better chance."

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.-FLNAL CLOSE

[3d.

from the King's Scholar's Pond Sewer alone, assuming that
the quantity falling from that sewer is 12,000 tens a day,
amounts to no less than 621. every twenty-four hours, or
22,0301. a year. The report likewise contains much useful
information derived from the experiments of practical men in
the application of sewage water to land, showing in all in-
stances that it possesses a much greater fertilising power
than either guano or the ordinary farm-yard manure. A
Mr. Thompson, of Clitheroe, in Lansaw*, on applying
eight tons of it to one acre, fifteen tons of common manure
to another, and three cwt. of guano to a third, found that
the gran raised by the sewage water, compared with
the quantity produced in the other two cases, was
as fifteen tons against eight. The Duke of Port-
land is stated by means of the sewage water of Mansfield,
and a cost of 301. an acre for bringing the land into a proper
form for irrigation, to have raised its value from 4s. 6d. to
141. an acre. Mr. Dickinson, an extensive keeper of horses,
by the use of liquid manure derived therefrom, got ten crops
of Italian rye grass in twelve months, some of them more
than three feet high, out of land (on his farm at Willesden,
near London), which a Lincolnshire man had previously said
he would not give 124 an acre for, if at his own door; and
which a Norfolk man declared De would not farm as a free-
hold. Speaking of the present year, Mr. Dickinson stated,
that the tirA crop was cut in January, yielding more than
four tons an acre, that the second gave about double that, and
that the fourth, which had been cut in the month ofJune, bad
produced at least twelve tons an acre. From his calcula-
tions it appeared, that one horse supplied sufficient
manure for one acre; and when pressed for a direct
opinion upon the subject, be replied, that he had
no doubt whatever that every animal that lived, by his
refuse being economised, would produce more than he could
consume. This is an important fact for the agriculturists,
especially at the present moment, and it is to be hoped they
will not lose sight of it, but endeavour, like Mr. Dickinson,
to make their land more productive, and thereby, not only
benefit themselves and the couatry, but materially serve the
cause of science.