The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-25 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Atmospherical privantre la less In the north and eart than ft
was 011 Saturday morning at Valenti* It is about the same; and
In the loath It Is greater. Temperatures have Inareaaed in the
north and east, awl are generally high. The winds on the south
coasts are southerly, (reside strong : on the east coast westerly,
and In Scotland variable, light. Much rain has fallen, except on
the east of England.

THE HUDDERSFIELD TENANTRY AND SIR J. W.
SAINDEN.—An action at law, concluded by an appeal to
the House of Lords, has decided that Sir J. W. Hamden
has the power of refusing to grant leases to those persons
who have built houses, &c., upon his estate, without having
first obtained a lease. Since this decision a considerable
number of these tenantry hare memorialised Sir John to
oldthem leases for 99 years, under the powers of the
PO &tate Leasing Act, 1859 ; and in his reply to the
memorialists Sir John said he wished to forget all past
differences, and "to make such arrangements for the
future as shall he just and satisfactory to all parties."
Since then, in a letter addressed to Mr. Wright Mellor,
Huddersfield, Sir John announcesbia intention of applying
to parliament for powers to grant !caws for Lutgl years
and states that a petition to the House of Lords to that
effect has already been presented, and the bill which has
been prepared willlbe introduced as quickly as the forms of
parliament will allow. In 1859 Sir John made a similar
application, but at that time the Lords refused to grant
ham power to give leases for a thousand years.
FOUNDERING or FOUR SHIPS AND Loss OP LIFE.
—Uygur-sm., Sarcamtr.—The intelligence received here
to-day from Ireland is of the most distressing character. .1
Queenstown despatch states that a heavy easterly gale
prevailed off that port on Thursday and Friday, doing
great damage to the shipping in the neighbourhood. On
Thursday afternoon two vessels were observed to founder
off the coast, and it is feared that all on board have
perished. The barque Helga has foundered off Bally-
cotton, and portions of wreckage found near that place
lead to the general belief that some large steamer had
foundered in the vicinity with all on board. On Thurs-
day evening a vessel firing blue rockets was observed close
to where the wreckage Is being washed ashore. The
Queen Hortense, which left Trinidad for the Clyde on the
2nd February, was abandoned on the 21st February in
lat. 39 N., lon. 59 W., in a sinking state, having encoun-
tered fearful weather shortly after leaving Trinidad. The ,1
crew were saved by the ship Westmoreland, bound from I
Liverpool to New York. The stoamtug Cruiser has been
deepatched from Queenstown in search of the abandoned
ships. The steamer Andalusia, bound from New York to
Charleston, has been destroyed by fire off Hatteras. The I
ships Washington and Rimy Glover are reported ashore
on 'Vancouver's Island. The former would be a wreck, and
had been abandoned, but it was expected that the Mary
Glover would be got off.

METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIER-
EQUARE, CITT.—The aggregate number of petienta relieved
during the week ending Bloch 23 was—Medical, 808 ; sur-
gical, 529 ; total, 1,337 ; of which 585 were now cases.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week eniting Muth ?.3 was 3,104, of which 1,032 were
now eases.