The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-29 00:00:00

THE SUIiMAIUNE TELEGRAPH.

Intelligence was received at the South Foreland at 6p.m.
on Sunday, by the submarine telegraph itself, of its satis-
factory completion to the French coast, near Calais.
Communications by the printing apparatus of Messrs.
Brett were kept up by one of the inventors at Calais, and
by Mr. Cheshire at Dver, and aLm with the double needle
instrument, in a most satisfactory manner.

Fusers were successfully fired on the order to fire being
given from either side of the Channel.
Copies of the printed message announcing the gratifying
intelligence have been forwarded to bar Majesty the Queen
and the Duke of Wellington, &s.

VIOLENT STORM ON TIM COAST OF
DURHAM.

The morning of Thursday was fine, with a gentle
breeze from the west, but about half-past one p.m., the
wind suddenly chopped round to the N.N.E., blowing
"great guns.' Torrents of rain fell, and before evening,
for miles out, the sea was one mass of white foam. There
were a good many vessels between the Tees and the Tyne,
none of them bad time to get their canvas in, and with
hardly an exception the sails were torn to ribbons. The
vessels that were able made to roadsteads, mid a number
of them escaped into Sunderland and Hartlepool. The
gale continued without abatement until Friday afternoon.
There is no full account of the leas amongst shipping, as
a number of laden ,coUiers arc out, and it in doubted
some of them will not "tell their own tale." The
following are amongst the casualties that have
been reported : —The Whitcwell Orange, and the
Meridian, Tyne ships, are on shore at the Salt Rocks,
Redear. The Meridian is a total wreck: crews saved.
Some other light colliers aro on shore near 'Wear ; number
not ascertained. Six vessel, are reported to be on shore
near Whitby; and a foreign vessel, it is rumoured, has
gone down,.and all hands. Part of the Redear and Mid-
dlesborough Railway was submerged on Friday, and the
traffic stopped. Seven tshields pilots are missing. Two of
them, brothers of the name of Freeman, it is to be doubted,
are drowned. A Lynn brig is on shore near Blyth ; and a
vessel is on shore at Hawthorn Hive. As far as can
be ascertained, the crews are teased. Two keels went
behind the pier at Sunderland, but the men In them were
rescued. A scrioue amount of mischief has been done to
the southern outlets of the new docks at Sunderland by the
sea carrying away a portion of the breakwater arida part of
a temporary railway and sea walling. A breach has also
been made in the coffer dam. Messrs. Pawson, Dyson,
and Co., will be serious losers. Some newly erected houses
in Shields and Sunderland have been blown down, and a
quantity of small craft in the rivers broken up by the vio-
lence of the storm. There was some snow amongst the hills
on Friday. Altogether the gale has been of a very serious
character, and it will be some days before the extent of
the mischief is known, as it came away so sudden and un-
expected. The sea had gone down on Saha lay evening
when our correspondent sent off his parcel, and some ships
were proceeding to sea. Some over-due vessels have also
also arrived in the Tyne—about half a dozen sail.

TiE SEARCH FOR SIR 1.
or SIR I. Rose.—As announce(

FRANILLIN.—AIUUTAL
in the Express late on

Saturday, intelligence reached Uoyd's, under date Stran-
raer, Sept. 2.5, that Admiral Sir John Ross, in command
of the Arctic expedition, had arrived that day in the Felia
schooner off Streamer, and an shored in the roads. The
Felix left the ice about the 18th of August, nearly six weeks
since. She brings no news of Sir John Franklin, and the
opinion appears to be that the search can only be effectually
earned out by the employment of a screw steamer.

ACCELERATION OP Matt.B.—The long-promised
acceleration of the mail train, in connexion with the half-
past 7 p.m. boat from Kingstown to Holyhead, will take
place on the Ist of October. The delay hitherto complained
of at Chester will cease, as the stoppage there will not be
for more than five minutes. The train will arrive at Staf-
ford at a few minutes after six lathe morning—it will there
be divided into two parts. The mails for London and
Birmingham, and the passengers for the latter place, will
be despatched by an express, thatwill reach Birmingham at
twenty-five minutes after seven. The mail bogs for London
will be transferred to the 7.30 express train from Birming-
ham. This train is to be accelerated so as to arrive
in London at • quarter past ten o'clock. The letters
will reach the General Post-office in time for delivery
throughout London at a little after twelve o'clock—letters
posted in say part of Ireland in time for the up-days mail,
as also letters posted in Dublin up to six, p.m. will there-
fore be delivered the following forenoon in London. As
letters for the five o'clock express mail train from London
to Holyhead can be posted et the receiving houses until two
o'clock pm., and at St. Martin's-le-Onuid until half-part
three, a days post will be saved for the great bulk of the
correspondents, between Ireland and Loudon. Referring
back to the division of the train at Stafford, the passengers
for London will be taken over the Trent Valley line: and
although the distance to the metropolis is nine miles shorter
than by way of Birmingham, they will not arrive there
until eleven o'clock. The slow speed of the train is caused
by the necessity of frequent stoppages at the stations for
Post-office purposes. Nevertheless the arrival in London is
• clear and valuable gain of two hours in the business hours of
the day. An important acceleration of trains between Dublin,
Manchester, and Yorkshire will also come into operation on
the Ist of nest month. Hitherto passeugers proceeding in
these directionsexperieuced considerable delay at Chester; but
by the arrangementjusgreferred to a train will start fromWar-
nngton and Manchester at • quarter before five in the
morning. It will reach the former town at a quarter-past
fire, and the latter at a quarter-past six, in time for the
first trains to Leeds Sheffield, Huddersfield, and Hull, &c.
Thus a person dining in Dublin can breakfast the following
morning at either Sheffield or Leeds, as the arrival of the
trains at both these towns takes place at ten minutes before
nine o'clock ; and one of active, go-a-head habits, wbo only
requires a short delay at Hull, can reach that place at a
quarter-past twelve; and, as there is an eqnal facility of
trains both ways, he can leave again at a quarter-past two
for Dublin, where he will be at half-past six the following
morniug. The total distant- from Dublin to Hull by this
route is 315 miles ; the cost to a first-class passenger to go
there and back is 31. fss. 6d. If he prefer second-class he
can complete the double journey of 630 miles at the same
speed as the first-class passenger for the sum of 2f. Ss., or at
the rate of three-eighths of a penny per Dubfs,s
Paper.
ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.—On Saturday the
usual precept was issued to the livery to assemble in Com-
mon Hall, to-day (Monday), to elect a Lord Mayor for the
year ensuing. There arc eleven aldermen below the chair.
Alderman Hunter, of Coleman-street Ward, being the
'War, will, it is expected, be returned without opposition.