The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-10 00:00:00

LOSS OP THE BARQUE SSRENUS.

Q 17131981. OCT. s.—The total lose of the barque
Serenus, of Sanderhad, Captain Richardson, while co her
voyage from Tapaerog, with a eerie of wheat, for Cork or
Falmouth, has been reported at Lloyds. The diameter it re-
corded me follows by the captain The 111-fated vessel
imadered on the monolog of the 28th September, is ht
48 19 N., 100. 10 30 W., about 320 miles from the Lisard.
At about 2 30 am., blowleg at the time a harries.* from
the N.N.W., sad for twenty-four hours before we left the
ship. • The ship broke out la her quarter first. We did all
in our power to stop tte leak by patting sails over, bat to
so purpose, u she still Oared ea both pumps unit the
water made its appearance la the foothold. Ws them tried
to bale her, and kept the pumps gnat, bet she eta imbed
oa m—we mill persevered, minis; to keep bee op sWI
daylighL The sea wee tremeadouly heavy, thaw *Mk the
ship none lm broken out at soma mama phi% ho at Violist
she fpidael me al fast. We continued at it WS themater wee
ia the Mn—'mte sad stele decks, sag we fogad the ship ank-
h. lath Ws Una tried to get the boars inc m the last
nieleMle he grave& We got the MINN Seth bat she
Wed dimity she meat Into the water. We than tried the
leng-boat, mad stoneeded in gettiag her lab the water, and
we, with peat &fleshy, got lab her safely out of the
main rigging, sad got Meer of the ship, and about tea
Wanes alter the ship west dowu. We were Una left,
14 heads half naked, la aa spot host 320 Wise hors the
lead, without water or provision of say kind, and is the
middle of asters, and the sea mane, treemendovely and
tereakieg over the heat, sad she being leaky kept as coo-
neatly baling. We rigged a derrick to keep the boat's
Mad on to the eta; we oy this way sail about 7 a.m.,
whoa we observed a sail to leeward. We got the boat
before the wind, sad made towards her, and about seas we
got aloapide of her, mod with great difilealty we were get
oat of the boat, awe were so beathhed sad the ship wee
ening is heavily, Oa ionise oa beard wet found It to
be the .Up Xthee. Captain Brown, of Greenock,
oa bee hem abed for Bombay, and in dinner,
she lawn( hsa ellemethed ea the 87th of September, and
got aU her boats atom, god one nth killed by the fall of
nth spin, but the Alp wee tight. We them got to work
mod misted the mew of the Menai to get same eaU oa the
ship. We lay with that lb p with then gales atYl the Ist
October, whoa the salad got round is the S.W. The sepals
thought It prudent to one for Been, is it was the merest
port; wit ontinued smell eight p.m. en the tad of Weber,
when the ship Ileum shack, Movie' a gale of said et the
lime from the 8.8. W., end thick. We were thou ia as
awful state, is we hod me beets and 41 hoods so board. We
spent the night at the pumps to keep the MINT out of the
ship, sad stadia, rockets .p es shush of distress, ulna
daylight, when we observed we were don to time than; sad
about eight Lull. a host pat of, and the neuter sad crew of
the Sermon gut safe on shore. The place when the Meteor
Is wrecked is willed Lothians, sad we are sow oa our way
to Ragland."

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BBRIOUS COLLISION ON TER SOUTH WALES
RAILWAY.

As aeoideni of a Tory serious mature occurred os
this Ilse cm Monday, sera after Midnight. A train of
tweety-two wagger. of octal, from the Vale of Reath to
Berms.., was brought to a stand-still about three-quarters
of a mils to the eastward of Lander. statioa, sad my sear '
the sreselag ef the Bentsen Volley Railway at Pwllmawr,
ls minsequems of the kienbisi of one of the valves gibe
engine. TM dewy /be Wag thus blocked up, the pum-
ps Mks, du at Swim at balt-past tos, was shunted on
to the up Mao, sad Churn in safely. Another coal wain
of twasty-eigit wee babied, and it we. intended,
so we are YMmedr In Wes this train down, and with
its wham Is perk henard the me which bad
brakes dom. Tie snow at the Swaim Valley
ereselag telegraphed to Llaasealet that the Me was clear,
et the same tine males ea the dallier signals at his woes-
lag. whisk it was it:posted the doming train would be
is up time. TM Me, however, from Llansamlet
is es • dolman, pradnat, sad the night being wet and
IMMO/ liffie very slippery. The engine driver,
obeened We danger Meals, bat from the
emus we have mentimed, sad the train Wing a very heavy
one, be was unable to pull up in time, and the train ran
with tremendous term into the one which was standing on
the Ilse disabled. The engine of the admiring train was
throws off the nib and fell right moss the up line, and
was completely knocked to pieties; the tender wes
faced to a distance of several yards from th.
minim. The minim driver and stoker of too
advancing train were very 'Manly friend—the
former se smack so that his lib is dtspaired of. They were
both carried to the lafismary with the greatest possible de-
spatch, and it yes fosad that the driver had both legs
broken, one above and the other below the Mee. Amps.
Utica of are limb he idea keen performed. The stoker
has received some severe out about the bead, sad internal
arise, but it S. mowed that be will recover. His me
Is Nether Ridge. He is • miss men, unmarrWd, and is
believed to be a native of Hertford. The name of the en-
gine driver is Anthony A 11... He hes a wife and five or
six children, and is a North eountry mu," from the
neigibeetheed of Shields we have been told. Both have
Mein sloe Oise la the employ of the Booth Wales Railway
.o=any issa., end have the character of befog remarkaWy