The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-07 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1853.

IRELAND.

Dom.'''. Nov. 5.

A very melancholy occurrence took place yesterday
in the vicinity of Balbriggan, Lady Langford, who
was on a visit at Ardgillan Castle, the seat of Colonel
Taylor, having been drowned on the sea coast where
she had gone, accompanied by her maid, to bathe.
The sea was at the time in a very
.boisterous state,
and she was carried by the waves into deep water
and drowned before any attempt could be made to
rescue her. The body was conveyed to Ardgillan
Castle, where an inquest would be held in the course
of this day. Lord Langford and Colonel Taylor are on
a grouse shooting excursion in Scotland, which
renders the accident still more melancholy. The
deceased lady, who was very generally esteemed, wes
daughter of the late Col. Couolly, M.P., of Castle-
town, and sister of the present member for the county
Donegal.
The disastrous floods in Cork have not failed to
evoke a speedy and practical expression of public
sympathy. Yesterday, one of the most intiueatial
meetings ever held there took place in that city,
presided over by the Mayor, for the purpose of (yen-
ing a subscription list to afford relief to the poorer
class of the sufferers by the inundation ; and in little
more than an hour the sum received amounted to
800/. A committee was appointed to receive further
subscriptions, and to take the necessary measures to
afford the intended relief. No approximation has yet
been made to so estimate of the damage; but as all
the shops and offices in a considerable portion of the
city were under water for a couple of days and nights,
it must amount to a very large sum. The Cork ESII•
miner of yesterday, is giving some additional details
of the disaster, says :
The impetuosity with which the water rushed into the
houses was one of the most terrible features of this inunda-
ties, es it left the people but little time to escape from them.
A melancholy exemplification of this was seen in the lane
Leading to the Spa, where three persona were suffocated in
their houses, being unable to escape before the rush of
water cut off all hope. The number of persons drowned
has been erroneously stated at live. The statement of an
officer connected with the railway will OS some idea of
the fearful velocity with which this deluge overwrehaed
the town. His house is situated close under the railway
bridge which crosses the river, and he was at home asleep
when he was awoke in the morning by the sushi°, noise of
the water, and the loud bleating of some gouts which
he had in the lower part of his house. When lie came
down, anxious to find at what rate the water was
coming, he placed a sod of turf upon a step, the only mark
he had, and in the course of one minute the step, the height
of which was about one foot, was covered. In forty
minutes the flo id rose to the height of ten feet. II is house
was completely insulated, and in his alarm, he gathered
his family about him, and began to break through the
slates of his house in the hope of effeetiog his escape,
when to his joy he found that the flood had just began
slightly to subside. It was long, however, before he could
get out, and even yesterday the family could only reach
the embankment by means of a ladder from the top window.
A curious circumstance occurred in the residence of Mr.
Braddell, of Mallow' whose house *hared the fate of the
rest of the town. A large and valuable collection of books
was kept by him in a glass case, and tale, owing to the
pressure of the flood, fell, and the whole collection became
completely saturated with wet, and of coarse destroyed ; I
but strange to say not a single pane of glass was broken.
In the counties of Waterford,Tipperary, Limerick,
Kilkenny, and Kildare, there have also been floods,
attended in the two latter—as they have probably
been in some remoter districts—with loss of life. Ac-
counts from the north state that the greater part of
Newry was under water.
In the Court of Exchequer, this day, James Birch,
proprietor of the late if newspaper, obtained a
conditional order for a new trial in his prosecution
against the proprietors of the Freeman 's Journal, for
libel.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, an application was
made on behalf of Gass, the engine-driver, and
O'Hara, the stoker of the goods train which caused
the late fearful accident on the Great Southern and
Western Railway, to be admitted to bail. The ap-
plication was granted for bail to be taken for the
engine driver in two sureties of 501. each, and him-
self in 1001. ; and for the stoker, two sureties of 201.
each, and himself in 401.'
Dr. Bull, a highly-respectable physician of Cork,
put an end to his life on Thursday evening by hang-
ing himself with a leather strap. No cause, unless
temporary insanity, has been assigned. The deceased
stood at the head of his profession in Cork.
The Dowager Lady Power, of )(Wane House,
county Kilkenny, died on the Ist inst., at the age of
77. She was niece to the great Henry Grattan.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. s.—This morning being the
anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, an appropriate sermon
was pinched at Great St. Mary's, by the Rev. Harvey
Goodwin. The customary Latin speech was afterwards
delivered in the Senate House by the Rev. E. H. Perowee,
of Corpus Christi College.
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1t.,. Temple Hamilton Chase, A.M , to the Perpetual
Curacy of Lydbrook, Forest of Dean, diocese of Gloucester
and Bristol, vacant by resignation of Rev. W. W. Deeriog;
patrons, Visitors of the Michel Foundation in Queen's Col-
lege, Ozford.
I Rev. Edward Layng, A.M., to the Curacy of Dawn Ha-
therley, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol.
Rev John Rawksley, A. 8., to Curacy of Aylburton and
Hewelafield, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol.
Rev. John Kynuton, A.M., to Curacy of St. Briave:e,
diocese of Gloucester and Bristol.