The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-12 00:00:00

ACCIDENT TO THE PENINSULAR AND
ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP SURAT.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company have re-
ceived information that the Stunt, having on board the
mails and passengers for India, China, and Australis,
which left Suez on the 4th inst., ,grounded on a reef
about 90 miles from that port, at 2 a.m. on the sth,
Operations are in progress for lightening the ship, sight
the meantime the mails and passengers have been treas.
(erred to the Nubia, which vessel was to have left Suez at
midnight yesterday.

WEATHER RIPOKT.-(THIS DAY.)

THCLIDAY, 3IPTIXIER 12. 3 3.11 L

iis. T.l W.
I_l

Nara 29.7166 N.W.
Aberdeen 29.73 66 B.X
Leith 39.6260 X
Ardroessn 9.64 80 XB.lB.
Greencastle 9.6169 L
Valenti& 9.6666 N.W.
Rorhe's Point lAN 64 W.
Uverpoot
29.6663 &
20.6860 8.8.11.
Penance 29.74 03 W.
Brest lO.BO 61 &W.
Lorlent
Rochefort— 9.9366 N.K
Plymouth 9.7661 W.S.W.
Weymouth 29.80 62 W.B. W.
Portsmouth 26.7963 SW.
London 29.78 64 B.W.
Yarmouth 9.8363 8.
ice/borough 9.7360 8.
3hlel6i 9.7269 X.
fielder —

R6MARKS.

The diminution of atmospherical pressure, accompanied by aii
Increase in temperature, began yesterday in the southdres4 el
Ireland. A pale has dace passed over that region from Ih
north-weet, and the fall of rain there has been very great—we
than an Inch at Talent's. strong south-easterly winds bare
blown at the entrance of the English Channel this morning the
winds there are south-westerly. Atmospherical pressure is nes
siderabiy leas too. the British Islay: twin-yen Holyhead al
fireencastle is abollt the area of least pressure. Winds are lilt
at Bachelor' and Nairn.

Last night the Amalgamated Society of Engineers
at Han resolved not to accede to the proposed reduction ci
their wages.

A letter from Biarritz lays :—" Biarritz from the
beginning of the season has been thronged with Spaniards,
some involuntary, some voluntary emigrants—persons who
are either debarred from returning to Spain without the
express permission of the stern marshal who once man
rules that country with • rod of iron ; or these
who, if not forcibly driven from it, deem it more pre.
dent to keep for the present out of harm's way. The
military are numerous ; two or three field marshals,
14 or l 5 gener►ls, colonels by dozens, with a handsome
amount of ca-ministers and ex-diplomatists. Marshal
O'Donnell, Duke of Tetuan, occupies ► commanding pad
tion so far as his house is concerned, it being situate on la
eminence a little outside the town, on the terrace of which
he may be seen any morning inhaling the breeze fern the
glorious ocean spread out before Lim."
A party of American tourists had an interview
with the Czar on the 26th ult., and presented an addres
him. Nothing, it is said, could exceed the hearty sad
frequent expressions of welcome to the party as ArneriCia
citizens by the Emperor, Empress, and their officers is
attendance.
With reference to the statement in the Lihati
that the Sultan has granted the English government per
mission to enlist volunteers in Arabia for the Abyearaiss
Expedition, the Times is authorised to say th►t no sad
permission has been applied for by her Majesty's goverr
ment.

The crime of infanticide is increasing in France;
and on this recount the juries who are called upon u
deal with these offences have recently found their verdicts
unaccompanied with any allusion to mitigating circus.
stances. Thus at the assizes of the Gironde a you:
woman of 25 bas been condemned to five years' in'
prisonment with hard labour for throwing her new•bou
infant into the river ; and another woman has been es'
traced to eight years' penal servitude at Strasburg in
disposing of her child down r water-closet. At the asaims
of Sabne-et•Loire a girl of 18 was committed to prison wail
hard labour for seven years for burying her shill alive.

Yesterday afternoon the coroner's inquest Vi
held at Peak Forest, on the body of the little girl who
killed on the Midland line on Monday evening. The girl'
man at Peak Forest admitted having made a move of td
telegraph needle, which would practically contain • 1001
of " line clear," although that was not hie intention. TW
really led to the collision in the tunnel. The JUT
allowing for the man', proved inexperience, returned eve
diet of " Accidental death," and expressed the opine
that he had been appointed without sufficient trdnild
for hie duty. The inquest on the persons killed at Ner
Mills by the second collision, which resulted from the fird
one, will probably (whatever may be the result) turn nps
the same evidence of the conduct of the signalman at Pik
Forest.

A Kuswicu POSTMASTER AND HIS DUTIV.--
When we had a mail-coach three times a week, it tool
three days and two nights continuous travelling to get It/
to London, and a letter from London cost thirteenrieno
Consequently, letters were comparatively rare event',
ssi
in manner public property Mall concerned and unenneevesi
Mrs. Mailsetter was no fiction. A beloved brother of ell
had fallen into an evil case on the Continent, whither kt
had gone during the Polish rising of 'JO. He had tee
taken by the Russians, thrown into prison, sent to work°
a sand island in the Vistula, and otherwiesevilly entreat(
and we had not any tidings of him for veryminy month
my father being ignorant whether he was alive or d
One day, when a younger brother went to the pot for
letters, as usual (there was no house-to-house deli,
there is now), the postmaster, banding him a lette
our long-lost beloved, gave with it an abstract of it
tents. He had recognised the handwriting, end bei
tended in the fate of one who was confessed)y' the
sourest and bravest youth in the county, he had
read the hiatory, and before we up at the Vicarage
what happened, half the town bad heard the neva IC°
unfriendly notice was taken by my father of this Tidbit
strong case. It was accepted for what it was meant to 1:401
an act of stamina interest in the fate of • ' one o' nor so
and it was charitably presumed that the seal nicht lao
oome asunder of itself.—Tinsiey's Magazine for 9,
Umber.