The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

COLLISION AT SEA AND LOSS OF LISA

(Br ttserate

TI7IIIIDAT, 10.20 A.M.

A fearful collision occurred late last night by the
Prince Penick strainer coming be =taut with the iron
islearr /aphis. from Liverpool, for Ardrousa, Wen with
and almost bussatly delft her. The master,
Ms wife red child, end two wereen, unhappily west down in
the slily and yodelled. The reminder of the crew escaped
by marks( hold el the aterner's tieweprit es their noel
lint ben wader dim. The iniener, which trades between
Ilde pert sod Ileillert, put beck, sad mew to be
eauidenebly dnineipi by she eollbles.

TIM Cowszon ni nu CHANNI

Fu*. 2.L-11se Dutch ship reported In the Herr of
day es having been in collision with a Orr& tempo in the
channel wee towed into Portsmouth ribose this afternoon.
Her ems is the D'Elmina, Captain Temp, from Batavia
for ibas.ardens, sr she hie lost her bowsprit and Sower
mar ; her bow is stem in, and she h." remised other da-
mage. The cobra seemed bares riming, of
Bray Heed, with re Spurrre Captor
IJrquiola, from Doran (rat reed te The
crew of the fi pudat beers is herd the Dutch .hip
end were landed this. The Mears ime bra
towed Into harbor to repair.
THE NAVIGATION OF TUT RIVINS OF INDIA.—
The mailyur strived trees India brings released the arrival
there the twelve vessels d
by the Other In espatched ter
area Coo Liverpool le
lbet land Coop
Thad
=asiof
vends ere greatly needed terser yew chesty her
re whale tenor of the &dykes lealaid*. sad the
Anon Y sore tweet kris( seers, bee dinged par-
Es lissoe to this saterrise r a the smog '
roads/se of the pretreat day. The item wersis at resent
plying In India, the Indian correspondent ef the Mom sheen
ere Fey ing a dividend of 100 per cent„,sed • furt
el vessels la anxiously expects& The rare herP2
Oriental Inland Steam Cagey he. already in bra, end
those which It has sow la preparation, will do aeseerine to
airier this want ; sad the array, we re, bee West Is-
tined= that it is shoat to doable Ire capital. With the
=her the Indira goverment which it hr treacly
• the greats of lied sad other privilege' it he. ob.
err ;'the aaticipare et a prosperous furze for this or
• e petty safe angry.
Tam IWish—The following notices wee• issued
ban the General Post-dice yesterday, ris. :—Maile kr the
Mediterranean, Egypt, India, bleurionie, Ceylon, red China,
yid Marseilles, will be despatched on the evening et the lOtis
inst. Behar, for the Miqiiierranaan, Egypt, India, and
Mauritius, rattle red touth•mpton of the morning of the
12th hist. The next mail from Calcutta direct, Penang,
Singapore, sod China, old Marseille., is dos in London on
the 14th lost. The next mail from India rid Bombay and
Marseille is doe in Load= on the 18th inst. .

A CHILD ACCIDENTALLY POlSONRD.—Yesterday
sousing Hr. Ceder held as inquest at the Prince Regent
Tavern, Ihirerferd.atrest, Welworth, on tha body of the Want
dent~ of Mr. W. Seawall, whose death natured wader
the MeWng eircometamm. Oa the seeming of Teasley
ha, a manse who weed as norm to Mrs. Benwell rushed
lap the room, and raid that she had given the child a spoon.
ful of some embrocation hist-ad of its proper medicine. The
child was found in • kind of stupor, from which it could
not be unwed, Dr. Nora, who bad been attending the
mother, was rent for, but the deceased never rallied, end died
on the following day. The norm aterwards elated that she
mate • mixt site is the two bottle., which stood aide by as
on the mantelpiece. The bottle containing the embroestion
was long and thin and was labelled, but the one that oce-
tensed the medcine wee not, sad was abort and thick. Roth
of them nem whits slam, but they were by no means alike
in share. It appeared, from the eridenoe of the medical gm-
Heenan referred to, that the embrocation was composed of
camphorated oil end laudsnure, one-fourth beteg landens.
The andicine supplied for the derea.ed was a very simple
eae,toeomfoetth. bowel., wed he did oat think It amessery to
Mel the bait, In the do,e given to decemed there were from
kniMen to fifteen drops of laudanum, to log more than sample
to eases death. The coroner raid, if an act of parliament
woe passed compelling chcmisis t r medical men to dispense
all pekoe or polantom mixtures in coloured bottles instead
at white, such fatsl mist ski aae the pretest would be pees
vented. The Jury, having concurred in the remarks of tha
coroner, returned • verdict to the effect that the doomed woe
Accidentally Poisosed."
DREADFUL DIA= OX TIM NORTH-EASTERN
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday (Monday) morning, • fatal accident
occurred at the Rilliegton Junction of the above railway,
four miles from Mahon. whereby Mr. Robert Smith, a
lamer, reeiding on his property at Thorpe
Pet with a dreediul death. Deesseed was upwards
mai et see. Ile left home yesterday morning to
=4 to the ffickeriag market, end for that purpose
le take the min from Killiaston. The mail train
ken Yak to ilearbAosit before the Rillingtoa
Inds Immo, sad Mr. limitral atpspears to have recognised
sew am in the well train, and, as it Ish the station, Is
valid along the platform, enlivening with the person in
the twinge. Near the end of the Oedema the has diverges
to the rigid, and Mr. Smith appears not to have indeed this,
mai kept walking forward (some ..y heeling hold of the
beadle of ths carriage door), and stepped lowa between the
ttiband the train. He was almost lestattly killed, his
blei eng eat of by the carriage, and his body seriously
kelared.—Nestedeafer Itrawsmer.
ESCAPE OF A CONVICT FROM DURHAM GAOL.--
During Thursday night a convict escaped from Durham
Gaol, and be. not since been beard of. Groat excitement was
ceased in the town next day on the occurrence lung made
known, the edlcialis declaring that they are totally enable to
secoent for his obtaining p.m...anon of the mean. by which
he made trig escape. Hie name in James Gray, aged 21. by
trade a shoemaker. He had got through a skylight, haring
previously gemmed a quant.ty of rope aufliefent be let himself
down from the roof. As a now wing is in tonne of erection,
he bad ample means at commend to scale the high wall which
surrounds tie prison. Gray arse convicted at the July rte-
of MSS for highway robbery, and sentenced to twelve
months' bard labour. -

TUN WZATIIEIt AND TITS CROPA.-80 far as the
punt month has gone it bids fair to earn • gmel t tie to its
name of Fe l euary -till-dyke. A renseter.ble quantity of rain
has fallen, sad Dia rbovers have 1..-n Leerier and wens "la
earnmt " than three whicb have been experienced f a the last
month ue two. There are. navert'.elma, at U the MOW toes-
pleinte of the want of water in vet-ions parta of this district,
which wr hare front time to time ree-rded tor so tag a period.
It is however, to he hoped that the late downfall will 'inlay
this, and that the sprints will shortly be "broken tip," so it
Is termed. There mild be no stronger proof of the effeet of
the protracted drought than in sanded by the ipaamity
of rein apparently reeaired to permeate ant tiltee
through the mil to a refl. lent depth to set our springs
and water • mere. running. A. regent. wgetivion every-
thing 1. rem .rtably f award. The young wheat crop. are
looking vigorous and of • h-elthy colour. Poetur,s ars very
fresh be the time of yew. The hedges are g:rug many Indi-
anians of the approach of sung, and various bush,. and
bare are shined,' hiseltiag. The t-mparattun has on the
whole hews Ma, although we hem bad two or three bard
der witkla lba past week when the trial was extremely
and hating—gMte cold enough to lead to the belief that
mew end sharp weigh. r were at hand. But daring the lest
dap ee two this, Inillestions have pered sway, art .he tem-
p/mum her Oen; the weather bring as we write (Monte')
madorithbrlglA lad cheerful smash ne.—Sweeirx Attroliser.
Peetneeler•Geseral has given notice that ir
him only them ream whe are wholly employed by the
roilPslaso Depstmeat w6l receive aimstame boat the
depitummi WNW. frpuriag their lives,