The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

WALES.

A BOILER EXPLOSION attended with loss of life occurred
onThunday, on board the Troubadour, which trades between
Swansea, Bristol, and Liverpool. The vessel had just
arrived at the Mumbles, and turned off her steam, when
one of the principal tubes of the toilers exploded, filling the
engine-nom with scalding steam, which rose in a dense
cloud, and was seen from the shore. Two men were below
at the moment, and their sufferings were frightful. One of
them rushed out of the d.or which communicated with the
engine room, and fell ex:masted. The other mode for the
ladder, with a view of getting on deck, but the scalding
steam drove him backwan!s, and he sunk. When extricated
their appearance was truly appalling—they were actually
boiled. They were conveyed to the Swansea Infirmary,
where one shortly died : the other remains in a dangerous
condition. None oldie passengers sustained any injury.

PROVINCIAL.
_ YORKSHIRE.

BREEDING AND BEED1;0 0E• CATTLE.—F. H. Fawkes,
Esq., of Fernley Hall, has addressed a letter to the president
of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, on the very impor-
tant subject of the proper encouragement of the rearing of
horned cattle. Mr. Fawks s considers the principles adopted
in awarding prizes in this department of farming pursuits
arc seriously inimical to the reproductive and milking pro-
perties of cattle ; that the over-fed and "gaudy " condition
of the animals " will prevent all usefulness in the cow, and
is preparing the heifer fur no other power of profit to its
owner than the prematurity of its prize beef, end the post-
humous, but very questionable, honours of the shamble',"
He approves, on the ezperi .nee of 10 years' close attention
to the hoed, of the society's judgment in sAecting as most
deserving of patronage the improved Durham or short-horn
breed, than which none "can be brought to an earlier or
more profitable maturity of usefulness to the proprietor and
the public, and none under rational treatment c •mbines so
large an amount of the desiderata of butter and beef"
But," Mr. Fawkes premeds, were It a point of any doubt or
dispute whether the Melt hAnded
earl the porpoise( reproduc-
tion were injured or set by that besity whiehom far from
attempting to correct be Muir 'Moral temperament, me, through the
medium of your judges' ellnelle, do all In your maw arOlsisft to
I promote, I had sal peaselled the great rcluetaase that I Mk to Bid
any fault with your premolinp, to be sußicient some Is weir Ise
I o more protracted limes. Bee as I Mae reser had a
dos hanitded, and sum REpoliar, as well es ZVI=
practical men of the pest awls she primal agate Midi I havehed
; mew, mum am thathet tallsgaraldy mortraml, It Is lerwed,
• show ceotlitiond the anima, as yes teml us leraything
but that state of its is whisk whiter lathebeihrs ww,
Worth the public, or Ms emir Bs posit ameba of his
calling and hie • the present pries dai edged bed, so cos-
ermaory of the otkarielse imeeetone but
VW the terms et settle
In the ouuntu sheeri becoming lemehrlM mewl to the INNEIIINESI of
the community, tt rites that I ehoidd hesitate
to denounce the &Teton Mt pee RN pealed In your aheolZ
taxoniging a wasted the kid of Maria, sad a motet the of
ma. And if that prematate md emdasitlag, atrebrossarAls, we
ell know, to your show-mediMiny ken(en I that you game ohm It to
be), mums:eery to the Meg gewlegmest of the frame and lane-
tiros of the adult female, a what glee, I wail eek, You, whose
magemol object it is so to Mead Me operelieme of agriculture ' that
the 'mica amount of peahen may he elowlead r the hest partible
coat of producti.n,' justify*, gamma me
then-
wk ant only
provoke to • waste of foods had ere, ia ahem of It which they en-
courage, converting nutriment has Omar • • • "I am ask
you to retied of what useful kulesotien M tin pews home you
are by the permissicat of this theerdeadltise degetthe your-
selves ; —for what em be mows Imonaws Ike the pow Mem to
know, what more adrannameas ea him than IMAM AMER learn
by a promo less costly Mon Me see tasted amalgam, beets
select for purebam in the ler Me the mini that re sad Wen-
lated to realist his cascades ea their reeds Is the la earetets
But it is not that:x4m imereemey Melee yewslwe, fa the
awards of your et this limelientimtrantim to the young
farmer that I re My hs esaaptsbr, bat that indeed et directing
Ms to a right judgment. yea me misting !Ilia to a mews one, and
teralting him to Immo OM raft else is requisite le szeenenee la
the wow than whet is le miketica In the a: you are elm
demblag him Of the sight, "OW abets, of the Mt ealmets for
as Male far his gaiime in warts" er gterehas-
tgli=smemeed hie eird to the exis=gelmara
Pardwa dam ask Is the spirit of Ile mere faul
bls samarticae of a meaty. Be erm), ',As nothing ea& be be the
sagarimead ta aide are sem le Meet than the primes et a
sambaed sad per* rolidelei Mule at seadhise, a MMg era be
Wee dm Is maw sea meets eels mind a maned et mebeelss
framed ef eingeltilm l,—am I would gs ferthsr„—frsea
all et Memo Ws mar eltermerdu Such • Ms se this,
rig~meewed a It mot be, te be et say snag woahl assmarUy,
I matey slab temestibiliannany, beams trremedlebly fat,
oßerwhe MOM, Mode; bet It le air* pregnable that these
devil be mated, lha thr dera dwir eft/20ft se brew rod
dew Mimi of whet tamtitates the elidea et the animal for repro-
ductive seal other unto' putymee, Mold be engrafted on the
tanner . . . .

In ceselnewn, Mr. Fawlms Eye that the show-yard shall
be sionsible to all classes of exhibitors of cattle, and that the
short horns shall be allowed to show the powers of general
usefulness, of which he knows them to be capable, for the
instruction of every condition of farmer.

CLIPPED SILEEP.—A large number of clipped sheep II
wldch were on their way to, or had arrived at, Rotherham
market on Monday lost, received so much injury from the
severe weather, in the abwoce of the ll.ece, that awes found
necessary to slaughter them immediste".y. This circumstance
shows the impropriety of early clipping, unless the state of
the weather is of so mild a character as to justify such a
proceediag.
T5.,13-0 SS

DIMINO A VIOLENT OALE on Friday night, two of the
groins, established at great cost, as a breakwater for Sun-
derland Docks, were destroyed by the sea. They were
formed of large stones, cemented together and clasped with
iron; yet the water washed away two manes, each about
twenty-five yards long. This untoward circumstance has
created a great sensation in the town, Ella givea rise to fears
that the final completion of the docks will be attended with
great danger and expense; but as yet no official account of
the accident has been given, and it is impossible to say
whether the masonry has been insufficiently put together, or
it Is one of these casualties which the greatest care cannot
always prevent. The expense of repairing the breaches will
be very considerable, but it will not fall 'Jinn the contractor,