The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-16 00:00:00

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PARIS, SUNDAY Rvinmeo. GREAT EASTERN, BEREHAVEN,
The papers, and more especially the government THURSDAY, JULY 12.
papers, take small note of the admonition of the News of the Corry arrived at Valentia a few
ifoniteof r not to make news where there is none. minutes before the Racoon's boat took off the party
They go on all the same with " special editions," bound here. Almost immediately after the shore
" dernieres nouvelles," and " three o'clock," and end was paid out and buoyed at three on Sunday
" half-past four o'clock" paragraphs. The short an- morning, a deep haze set in, and this, in a few
nounoement of the Moniteur, " All we can say is hours, turned into a deep, heavy, sea fog. From
that the negotiations are going on," will not do for Sunday until mid-day on Tuesday, the Corry beat
them at all. They find means to say a great deal up and down, unable to take bearings, and only
more. For instance, the Petrie, under the head anxious to keep off land. In the printed pro-
" three o'clock," says, " The knot of the situation gramme of proceedings, signed by Mr. Canning,
is now at Vienna. The latest conditions proposed and approved by Mr. Glass, this cable vessel is told
by Prussia for the establishment of peace, and to keep by the buoy until relieved by the Great
amended upon the observations of France, have Eastern. This was reversed verbally by Mr.
been communicated to Vienna. If the government Glass just before the Corry left, and wisely ; for
of Francis Joseph adheres to these conditions, an the tide was found to be so strong that at one time
armistice may be immediately signed which would she drifted for more than nine miles when attempt-
promptly lead to a definite peace.'' This paragraph ing to lay-to. Once in the dreary time which followed
assumes what was very generally believed at the the Skelligs were seen peering through the moist
Bourse yesterday, thatFranoe and Prussia (and con- pea-soup fog on the starboard bow. Once, too,
eequentlyltaly)were now quite agreed, and that the H.M. gunboat Hyena loomed up suddenly at the
only difficulty was with Austria. But if this were stern, when her oommander was at once asked if
so the Monitenr would hardly have insisted as a he knew where he was. " Nine miles off Mizen-
reason why the public impatience for news could point," gave the astute Captain Donaldson tl•.e in.
not be satisfied that it took three days and nights formation he required; and the Corry tacked and
to send a courier to the King of Prussia. The turned through the fog for some hours more. All
Petrie would have it supposed that Prussia • this time it was impossible to see more than a
has already consented to the French amendments ship's length ahead, and these was no sign of the
to her proposals, but the Pays represents the con- ! weather clearing. There was no positive danger ;
sent of Prussia as being the very thing now waited but when guessing at a ship's iwhereabouts is
for. I" The issue," it says, "is now very simple. The ' the only way of ascertaining her bearings,
Prussian conditions are refused by Austria. If the rocky character of the coast beyond
Prussia consents to modify them in the sense pro- ' begins to suggest itself with unpleasant
posed to her, the armistice may be promptly con- distinctness. Besides Mr. Dudley there were
eluded." According to this authority, therefore, the cable-hands belonging to the Great Eastern,
the " knot" of the situation is not at Vienna but and when Tuesday morning came without change
in the Prussian camp—just the contrary of what iit was greatly feared that the fog would delay the
the Petrie says. • ' expedition. About noon, however, it began to
The France does not speak at all as if an entente clear, and so near was the Corry to her destine-
cordiale with Prussia were established. An con- . tion that two hours later she fired her gun and en-
train, it seems to be writing up a ensue beUi with ' chored beside the Great Eastern. Her work being
that power. It says : ' over, and the Medway and the Albany being here,
Prussia is realising her programme which she openly it was decided to send her home, and she sailed
avows, namely, her supremacy in Germany, the ' yesterday morning for Cardiff.
aggrandisement of her territory, end the speedy ; The voyage hither in the Racoon yesterday was
constitution of Germanic unity. Her successes in the
' varied
field have given her a right to be exacting— by some gunnery practice at the smallest
: Skellig.
and she is so. And thus all the conditions of the equili- Glees
at'the request of Mr.
had
A agreed to give Captain Armitage,
Mr. Elliot, Professor
brium of Europe are radically changed. We find on our ,
frontiers, instead of a confederation of states, a great ; Thomson, Mr. Latimer Clark, and a few ether
kingdom enlarged by conquests and elated by triumphs. ' gentlemen, a passage to the Great Eastern, and
Can France look upon this new situation with indifference? 'as our anxiety respecting the Corry had been
Has she not guarantees to take and compensations to' allayed, he availed himself of the natural
require to maintain her power in Europe and her national ' target made by the quaint weird rock we
security? Would it not be the height of impru- passed to lay-to and give his gunners exer-
&nee to allow such changes to be accomplished
cise. It should be stated that the Admiralty
without providing for the formidable eventuali-
ties which may arise from them? Fur ourselves ' had given general instructions that the expedition
our conviction hesitates no more than our patriotism, for i should be aided as much as possible, and on Mr.
we put the rights and greatness of our country above . Glass showing Captain Armitage that he could
everything. I confer a considerable benefit, the latter promptly
While such " patriotic" ideas are ventilated in I acceded, and at once came round. After arriving
Paris, we hear that the Mayor of Toulon has :at Berehaven, and consulting Captain Commeral,
provided " thousands " of billets for soldiers shortly ; V.C. of her Majesty's ship Terrible, moored here,
expected to pass through that town ; and that the his senior officer, Captain Armitage arranged to
" precipitate" departure of the ironclad frigate ' accompany the Great Eastern and her little feet
Provence and the corvette Eclaireur is attributed ' to the point, 30 miles distant, where the splice
to the intention of the Italian fleet to support the' with the shore-end is to be made. The Racoon
movements of the army on the coast of the Adriatic will accordingly make for the rendezvous to-
Gulf. ! day, taking with her a limited number of
A Venice letter of the 9th says that General I gentlemen directly or indirectly connected
Ebner of the Engineers had cleared the Malamocco with the expedition. Both men and material
and Chioggia Passes of all obstacles, and that the ' for which the Great Eastern has no further
Austrian military authorities had informed France j use will be also taken charge of by Captain
that the port was now accessible. Armitage, who returns to Valentia after the splice,
Several letters from Vienna say the Prussian and the Great Eastern has been seen on her way.
troops will certainly be there ; they are now fully i The contrast between the neat trimness and exqui-
expected by the inhabitants, who are reduced to site cleanliness of the Queen's ship and the
console themselves for the presence of an enemy in crowded dirty lumber of the great vessel was
their capital by their Emperor's assurance that they very marked, when we left one for the other last
shall be spared the horrors of a siege, as he will not . night. The Racoon was the Duke of Edinburgh's
defend the city. ' ship, and his cabin and his pet monkey are both
It is remarked that this news, betokening the shown to visitors, while his frank unaffected bear-
downfall of the Austrian empire, reached Paris on , ing and the pleasant times his presence on board
July 14, the 76th anniversary of the taking of the gave to his comrades are constantly referred to.
Bastille. I The Great Eastern's deck is so crowded that
I
those unacquainted with her inexhaustibleresources
SERIOrS FIRE IN GLASGOW. —The most alarm- ' would find it difficult to understand how she can
ing and destructive fire that has taken place in Glasgow for be made ready for the start this evening. The
a considerable time broke out on Friday morning about a
quarter to eleven, in the stores of Messrs. Win. Walla and natives, eagerly bent on sight-seeing, are becoming
Co. spermaceti refiners and oil merchants, 64, North a serious nuisance. Avoiding the regular comps-
Frederick-street. The building was three tons, had on deckblock-
becn but recently built, and extended a considerable die. nion ladder, they swarmed yesterday,
tnnee back in Love Loan, in fact, adjoining Margaret- ' ing up the few avenues left free by timber and
street, a narrow street Tanning between Love Loan . machinery,and utterly impeding the men at work.
and Little Hamilton-street. An the storm eon- .
tained a large quantity of different oils, the fire Captain Anderson gave orders that they should be
spread with such great rapidity that in about ten
minutes after it broke out bin Bryson and the fire bri-
gade, sent back, when the geniality of these children of
who bad soon turned out in great force, saw that there nature showed itself in hoots, curses, and finally
was nut the slightest hope either of saving the building. or in blows. For a few minutes there was an un_
the valuable stock stored up within. Whilst pouring
water on the burning mass. they directed their efforta to seemly disturbance, for the people who had de.
save the adjoining houses, and much need was there that dined to come on board even at ss. a day when
they should so exert themselves, for the flames stretched
around, threatening the Asylum
out to • great distance there was work to be done resented permission to
the north of it,
for the Houtelesa, a large building to hamper the labour of others being denied to them.
the shops in Cathedral-street situated from the
Meanwhile, amid other absorbing work, atoms are
head of North Frederick-street to near the head of .
John-street, the dwelling houses in Margaret-street, the being rapidly penned and housed. Ten bullocks,
offices of the Messrs. Wall, and St. David's E. U. Church. 1 milch cow, 114 sheep, 20 pigs, 29 geese, 14
About noon, when the flames were at their height, the
front wall of the oil stores fell with a crash into Frederick- - ' sadturkevs 500 fowls make up the live stork on
street. As tothe roof, it had given way at an early stage board at noon to-day.; while to that must be
of the fire. Shortly after that hour the (lames abated, sad added 28 dead bullocks, 22 sheep, 4 calves, 4 pigs,
all danger to the neighbouring buildings ceased. The fire
penetrated several dwellings, and destroyed the furniture 300 fowls, and 18,000 eggs. The official telegram
which had cot been removed. The warehouses of the announcing the laying of the shore-end, which ap-
Sewing Machine Company (Limited), situated above the peered in the London journals of Monday, was
oil stores, have, with the latter, been burnt down. The
loss must be enormous, is usually a great quantity of oil is as amusingly wrong as it well could be. It stated
laid up in the stores of the Messrs. Wall. the massive coil to have been laid on Friday after-
Scierriere MARTYRDOM. The most serious
noon
lesson to be deduced from the very painful and most ' when the Corry was moored quietly in Bere-
-
even been to r ounummeram
lamentable catastrophe which hes restilted from Mr. haven, and had not
Toynbee's experiments upon himself, is the great danger while the ships "Novel, Blackbird, Pedlar, and Sky-
of such individual self-sacrifice. It is not the first time
that eminent members of our profession have, even
lately, jeopardised their lives by trying experiments lark' " stated to have accompanied her here, have no
existence. These words were part of a private
upon themselves with dangerous and poisonous code arranged by Mr. Glass, and referred solely to
substances of which the' doses and the effects
had not previously been sufficiently ascertained by the insulation and other virtues of the cable. The
experiment upon the brute kingdom. Dr. Christi- telegraph clerk copied the message literally, and
son came very near killing himself in testing the
effect of the recently introduced Calabar bean upon his
own organism, and rather carelessly beginning with a large engaged in the expedition perhaps more than
hence an announcement which mystified those
dose of thepowdered beau. He was paralysed and incapabk
of articulation, helpless. although conscious, and was as this
nearly f to face,with death as a man well can be and yet with both Medway and Albany, left early
readers at home. Her Majesty's ship Terrible,
escape its jaws. Sir James Simpson nearly fell a victim to his morning, and Captain Armitage has
airmen/its with anesthetics. There is something heroic just come off
and grand ha such a death as that of Mr. Toynbee. }leis truly
• martyr *eine earnestnessof purpose and generous zeal for Captain Anderson and Mr. Canning. Every hand
the ail rice a beneficentart. Nosoldierin the lineof battle, from the Racoon to hold a final cenference with
on the great ship is hard at work. " Halpin's
no saint steadfast in theological fidelity, ever lost his life
such a sacrifice is only perfectly sanctified by • proved ne- mining from and on a level with the bridge
in a Over or nobler cause. But heroism which involves Nest "—as the snug
little upper chamber
sessity • and although some risk must always be run by
the original investigators who prove the effect of untried
agents upon themselves, yet a risk so great as this might takes his observations, is called—at this
have been avoided; and in grieving over the fate of Mr. on deck from which Staff-Commander Moriarty
moment holds Mr. Gooch, M.P., Mr. Barber,
Toynbse, is exalting his sell-ratifier and his earnestness of
fate a 06.1 k which other investigators will hat' in close conclave. Mr. Canning and Mr. Clifford
purpose, we cannot omit to deduce from his sad the Mr. H. F. Barclay,
noble and Mr. Elliot, directors,
fail to take to iy,t,.-17te Lanky,.
Ar, 1
THE SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY.-- e egant are busily
he deck note-books in
superintending the labours of their
silver salver bar been presented by the assistants of the several staffs, or walking t
firm whose mune it bean. On it is engraved the follow- hand, seeing that no last trifle has been over-
ing : " Presented to Misers. Grant and Geskribinteir en looked
their establishment at 2 o clock on Saturdays. directing his officers, and despatching meragee to
?tree es a token of gratitude, for their Wm ' in eke,. looked. Captain Anderson keeps on the bridge,
CRYsTAL Pilacs. Frvz SaiLuxo DAY. distant districts of the vast wild he gove
SATURDAY, JULY 14.—Admissions on payment. 1,733; H ' • bi 'toes, and alternately cheers and
ditto by serene tickets, 15,867 : total rkdiollb 7.590- alp mis u quitous, rns. Mr.