The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 23rd speak of a con-
flict between the cabinet and the Senate, arising out
of the expressed determination of the latter to con-
tinue the discussion of a bill relative to railways al-
ready before it, although a new bill on the subject
has been presented by ministers to the Chamber of
Deputies. This conflict gave rise to reports of a
change of ministry, and of a dissolution of the Cortes.
General Narvaez had officially announced his inten-
tion to the Minister of War of retiring to Loja. Some
gentlemen had presented a protest to the Queen
against the concession of the Northern Railway,
made by decree of the 31st ult.; they complain that
that concession injures the rights of those to whom
the first concession was made.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT LIVERPOOL.—On
Monday night, at half-past eleven o'clock, a dreadful acci-
dent occurred at the Great Howard-street station of the
East Lancashire Railway, which resulted in the death of
the guard of the train, named William Parker, and a
female passenger, named Hurst, residing at Liverpool.
It appears that the deceased had both arrived at the usual
time, 11.30 p.m., by the luggage train from Ormskirk, and
that the engine, after being disengaged from the train, and
proceeding ahead a short distance, was brought on the op-
posite line, and returned parallel with the waggon from
which it had previously been detached. The deceased had
by this time alighted from the train, and were in the act of
crossing off the line, when the engine, which had returned
sooner than was expected, ran over them, and killed them
on the spot. The bodies presented a most dreadful spec-
xacle, the man's skull being literally crushed together, and
the features of the face totally obliterated, and the woman
had both legs nearly severed from her body. A person
named George Gillester, who was near the deceased at the
time of the accident, was knocked down by the buffer, and
remained insensible for some time.

was made kilo"- 'ed.
SHIPWRECK OF A BRllTrsiiip_‘
OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY Lilloss
LI S.
Yesterday the wreck of the 13ritish "hi Led,
Evelyn, Captain MtClellan commander while on yee;
from Hong-Kong to San Francisco,
Lloyd's. No fewer than two hunt:red and fifty lien wen
ft
lost. The previous mail furnished some brief inn Iligire:ea
of a serious loss having occurred on one of the liLdj* e.-
group of islands, and through the representation of Lle, 7
estate her Majesty's steamers Hermes, Capt. Fishboun' de
and Salamander, Capt. Ellman, were despatched to
the
scene of the reported catastrophe. It was then ascertained
that the ill-fated ship had gone upon a reef know, se
Richard Rocks, off the south-east end of Typuisan eat ei
the group previously named, situate in lat. 24.42 N 1 "
125.26 E., and of the number of souls who weee on becard-.
only thirty had escaped, who were taken off the isLod be
the steamers, after being there upwards of two mood;
The Lady Evelyn was the property of Messrs.
of Liverpool. She was a fine vessel of 87.5 WWI, built at
Herring,
Quebec in 1851, and registered at Lloyd's as A 1, for fact
years. Towards the latter end of last year she left Load
for Melbourne, and on her arrival at that colony proceeded
to Hong Kong, where she was taken up fin the conveyaoce
of a number of Chinese labourers to Slll Francisco see
left that port on the 29th of June with a cargo consisting of
granite slabs, 450 tons of rice, sugar, and other nierchaa.
dies. In addition to 220 emigrants, of whom 40 were fe.
males, who were shipped in her, she had several pannier%
amongst whom was an English gentleman named Sutton,
Major Poore, of the American service, and two Portuguese
merchants; her crew, comprising 22 European gallon and
two mates, Messrs. Mackey and Al'ltae. It wa• observed
on her leaving that she was down pretty deep in the
water, although not so mush as some that had
quitted the port. For about a fortnight after hav-
ing she encountered contrary and baffling winds,
in the course of which she carried away her 'Raiment,
Captain M'Clellan bore up for Amoy, and having re.
plenished his stock of provisions and water, and making
good the damage which the ship had sustained, he resumed
the voyage on the 16th of July, taking on board at dewy
another and a third officer, Mr. Livingstone. Oa the night
of the 17th the ship cleared the north end of Formosa. At
daylight on the 19th the mercury in the barometer beg's%
descend, indicating the approach of had weather, sad
shortly afterwards a breeze set in from the S.S.E., with
squalls. At ten o'clock the wind increased to a gale, carry.
ing away the jibboom and maintop-gallant mast. At four
o'clock the next day (the 20th) an island was sighted which
was supposed to be Tripura', about 60 miles to the nit.
ward of the North Cape of Formosa. The gale chopping
round to the north east, the crew wore ship, and later in
the day Captain M'Clellan, finding the storm gaining fan.
fully, shortened sail, bearing away under furled main-
sail and close-reefed fore and mizen topsails. The
wind again veered round to the northward, and
the ship's course was shaped E. by N. for 17 hours.
The storm continued to rage tremendously, splitting the
sails to threads, and causing the vessel to labour heavily.
She was then hove to with her head up to E.S.E. There
was so abatement in the violence of the weather on the fol-
lowing day, and the mercury had so far dropped as to be
scarcely visible in the tube. The ship rolled away the
main and mizen masts heads, spanker, and main spencer
gaf. At 1 o'clock, p.m., a reef of rocks was noticed m
the lee beam. They wore the ship and cleared it, still no
land was visible, the weather being thick sod hazy. Aboat
en hour afterwards land was sighted on her lee team, two
miles distant. Its close proximity immediately created the
greatest germ. All hands were instantly employed to
clew up fore-sail and fore-topsail, together with a spare
fore-topmast staysail on the stump of the mainmast ; a tre-
mendous sea, however, prevented the possibility of their
weathering another reef, which they observed close in on
shore. As a last resource, both authors were let go, one
took out 30 fathoms of chain, and the otter 7.5 fathoms, but
such was the force she was driving as to cause the
cables to drag on her bows. The ship held
on notwithstanding, although at times lying com-
pletely on her broadside, until about four o'clock,
when her stern struck on to the ridge of the reef with such
terrific force as to break the vessel right in two. She
parted just abaft the mainmast. Long before this the
helpless Chinamen crowded the decks. Their whole ener
glee were devoted to filling the air with toss papers, sad
shrieking frightfully. The moment after; she struck the
stern and after-part of she ship :drifted away, loaded with
human beings, not one of whom escaped, each succeeaiag
sea sweeping them off into deep water. The long boat re-
mained on deck, and some 20 or 30 were collected round
I hoping to preserve themselves by it, and in their effort to
get the craft clear the mainmast came down lengthways
upon them, crushing the boat and every one almost whit
was near it, to death. The second mate, Mr. *Rae,
one or two of the cabin passengers, and about 39 others,
took to the fore-rigging, which happily for them continued
in an upright position, no doubt kept so by the granite
slabs which were in that portion of the vessel which rested on
the reef. They had scarcely taken up their position, before
the fore part of the ship opened out in two parts,
one chain cable dragging the windlass through the bowl.
The chief ate, Mr. Mackay, and 3 or I seamen, were swept
away on the bowsprit ; they were seen clinging to it for
some time afterwards, and then disappear. Those who had
taken refuge in the fore-rigging continued holding on till
12 o'clock the next day, when they determined upon
attempting to reach the shore. 'Whether they all suc-
ceeded has not been correctly ascertained; but amongst
those who were fortunate were Mr.M•Ree, the steward, Mr.
Gee, three able seamen named Purdy, Peter Josephs, and
Benjamin Tucker, one of the Portuguese passenger?, two
females, and 22 Chinamen. Witte had sunk before he
reached the land, and, but for two of the natives of the
island, who swam to him and kept him up, be must have
perished. On gaining the shore, they found that one of the
Chinese women had, by some extraordinary means, been
cut on the beach on a spar during the previous night, and
had climbed up to the summit of the cliff. The survivors
were sateen into the interior by the natives and were mat
' kindly treated. The chief of the place caused them to be
sheltered and fed with much liberality. They remained=
the island for two months and four days,when H.M. stemma
Hermes arrived, and a party, headed by Mr. Williams,
a midshipman, who had come off from the ship to explore
the country is search of the survivors, came upon their
"settlement." As may be imagined, the arrival afforded
I much joy to the poor fellows, who, from the position of the
island, had given up almost all hopes of being taken off.
Of the wreck of the Lady Evelyn not a vestige re-
=tined. It is understood that she was insured, but not to
the extent stated. Nearly the whole of her crew were
shipped in London, and many of them have left families.

REALM OF LONDON.

The Registrar-00[mnd'; report announces that
the mortality of the metropolitan districts has risen con-
siderably during the week. In the preceding week the
deaths registered ware 1,162; in the week that ended on
Saturday last they were 1,339. The mean weekly tempe-
rature has suffered a great fall. In the last week of October
it was 65.5 deg., in the four weeks that followed it was 48.9
deg., 45.7 deg., 38.5 deg., and (last week) 36.7 deg.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52 the
average number of deaths wee 1,093, which, raised in pro-
portion to increase of population, becomes 1,202. There is
an excess in last week's return, amounting to 137.
Last week the births of 777 boys and 66.3 girls, in all 1,442
children, were registered in London. The average number
in eight corresponding weeks of the years 1815-52 was
1,387.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was '2J 998 in. The mean
temperature of the week was 36.7 deg., which is 5.1 deg.
below the average of the same week in 38 years. The mean
daily temperature was below the average on every day of
the week, and the depression on Tuesday was nearly S deg.,
and on Wednesday nearly 12 deg. The mean dew-point
temperature was 3513 deg.

FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Monday afternoon a
scaffold at the tower of the new church of St. Matthew,
Ilvdford New-town, St. Pancras, now in the course of
erection, suddenly gave way, and five of the men upon it
were threwn to the ground from a height of sixty or
seventy feet. One of the poor fellows named Donne', about
twenty-five years of age, lived only a short time afterwards,
but the rest escaped with trifling injuries. A sixth caught
a rove is his descent, and hung by it till he was rescued.
THE EXPENSE OF MAKING A IiARON.-Yetterda
a return of Mr. Hume's was printed showing how 4.501
charged in the civil contingencies of hest year was expended
in creating General Lord Fitzroy Somerset a Baron of the
United Kingdom. The Crown•office charges were
3901. lbs. 4d., and the Patent-ollice charges 291. 181. 6d.
The expenses are remarkable. To the Stamp-office, 150/.214
Lord Chancellor, great seal fee, 21. 6s. Bd. ; clerk of the
Hanaper, 241. I3s. 44.; deputy ditto, 1/. ls. ; Lord Chan-
cellor's purse bearer, 51. ss. ; porter to great veal, 11. Is. ;
gentlemen to ditto, 61. • sealer, 11. 2s. Gd. ; deputy ditto,
10s. 6d. ; chaff wax, U. 2s. 6d. ; deputy ditto, 10s. 6a. ;
royal household, 104/. 6s. 10d ; prim. ipal usher of Scotland,
61. 13s. 6d. ; Scotch heralds, 161. ; Er,clih ditto, 361. ; Earl
Marshal, 51. ; garter king at arms, 20/. ; gold emblazoned
skin and boxes to hold patent and seal, 9/. Of the Crown-
office charges 201. went to the Attorney-General, and
71. 7e. 6d. to the clerk of the patent to, the Attorney-
General, and 11. 10s. the stamp duty on warrant. To the
engrossing clerk 1/. le. for engrossing the warrant and fot
parchment. Thus was spent 4201. in malting a member d
the Rouse of Peers. The authority is " ancient usage."