The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-27 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.

NEW BRIGHTON (CHESHIRE), TITCSDAT Thom.
During strong weather yesterday (reports the
Rev. R. D. Fowell) the steam-tug Rover broagbt intelli-
gence that a barque was on shore on Jordon Flats,and that
the lives of the crew were in great danpr. The Willie
and Arthur lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution,
was immediately manned and taken down to the scene of
the wreck. On arriving there • very heavy sea was found
to be breaking on the Bank, and the crew were quite ready
to leave their vereL The lifeboat accordingly took off the
crew of fourteen men and • pilot, and put them on board
the steam-tug, when they were taken to Liverpool. It ap-
=a that the barque wee the Coquimbo, of Sunder-
bound from Liverpool to Alicante, with coals. She
had parted from three hawsers while being towed out
and had then gone on the Sand Bank. The lifeboat
behaved well and the men appear to have great confi-
dence in her. The cost of this lifeboat, as well as that
of the Holyhead Lifeboet, was the gift to the National
Lifeboat Institution of Mr. Joseph Leather, of Fairfield
Mount, near Liverpool.
CARNSORE (IRELAND), Fan. 24.
A fine large ship we/wrecked on the Tuskar Shoals some
time last night (states Mr. Barrett, the officer of Coast
(l uard). She was obrierved at daylight, and the lifeboat of
the National Lifeboat Institution at once pro-
ceeded off to her. On arriving in her vicinity the sea
was so heavy that the boat had to be anchored
in the broken water within • few yards of the
wreck. After remaining there some hours waiting
the return of the south ebb, the men being drenched to
their skins, it was found that the vessel was abandoned,
and the lifeboat therefore returned to the shore. It ap-
peared afterwards that the ship was the Arcadia, of Liver-
pool, on a voyage to Savannah, with salt, and that
the crew had taken to their boats when she struck,
and had reached Wexford, one only of their number being
lost. She was a nearly new vessel, but is likely to become
a total wreak.

THE PRINCE or WALES AND THE ROYAL HUNT.—
Yesterday morning, his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, attended by Major Teesdale, and accompanied by
Lord Colville, the noble master of the royal buckhounds,
left town by the 10.15 A.M. down train from Paddington
in order to have a day's hunting with their Majesty's stag-
hounds. His royal highness's hunter, a splendid animal,
war sent from the Castle-mews to the Windsor station of
the Great Western Railway, and the prince and suite and
Lord Colville, on leaving the train, which reached Windsor
at eleven o'clock, at once mounted, riding through the
town. As the prince passed through the Home-park the
rain began to descend in a drizzling shower, and the
weather altogether was far from pleasant. The meet was
at Datchet Windmill, or rather where the windmill
formerly stood, and the time fixed for the assembling h .If-
pasteleven. The visit of the prince greatly excited thecui M-
inty of the rural population, and half the inhabitants of the
pretty village of Datchet were at their doors to see his
royal highness go by. There was a good muster, the field
including many of the neighbouring gentry. Colonel
Richardson Gardner and • number of hunting men from
Windsor and London, besides the farmers. "Miss Gilbert"
was the deer selected, and on being turned out of the van
dodged about in the meadows for some time, evidently
with the idea of eventually getting away to the Thames,
near Wrayribury. She finally got away in the direction a
Horton and Stanwell, and thence to Colnbrook, and after
causing no little excitement at Slough, through which
town the deer passed was taken shortly afterwards, after
a long chase. The Prince of Wales and suite, with Lord
Colville, rode back to Windsor, and reaching the Great
Western Station just as a special train was about to leave
with her Majesty's Ministers, took their departure by the
same train. The Prince, who left Windsor at 3.45, occu-
pied a saloon with the Ministers of State and Lord Colville.
BOARD OP TRADE, WHITEHALL, PEE. 25.—The
Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State ,or
Foreign Affairs a copy of • despatch from her Majesty's
minister at Buenos Ayres, enclosing a copy of the new
Currency Law, fixing the value of the paper-money of that
state. It is published in last night's Gazette.
LECTURE By M. DU CHAILLr. —Last night M.
du Chaillu delivered • popular lecture, at the Midland
Institute, on Equatorial Africa. The room was crowded
by an intelligent and appreciative audience. A large and
excellent map, and numerous coloured pictures, formed
admirable illustrations to the lecturer's remarks. M. du
Chaillu described in brief but graphic terms his adventures
with the gorillas, his penetration into Equatorial Africa to
some 400 miles from the coast, his observations on
the manners, customs, and habits of the hitherto un-
known people, and his minute investigations into the
natural history of the various districts through which he
had passed. His large knowledge, his genial humour,
his pleasant descriptive power, the novelty of his adven-
tures and the interest of his researches, the variety of
his sketches and vigour of his narrative, elicited loud
bursts of laughter and frequent applause. A more in-
teresting or more popular lecture has rarely been de-
livered ; and when Alderman Ryland announced that the
lecture was voluntary and gratuitous, the applause was re-
newed with still greater power. Mr. Timmins briet
seconded the vote of thanks to H. Chaillu for his
kind-
ness in giving so interesting and valuable a sketch of his
adventurous travels ; and N. du Chaillu briefly acknow-
ledged his thanks, and retired amid long-continued op-
pLsuse.—Biriaingaam Post.
THE OAKS COLLIERY E xPLosicnt. —Yesterday
a meeting of the mining engineers to whom has been en
trusted the ordering of the necessary works connected
with the opening of the above colliery and the reco-
vering of the bodies was held at the King's Head Hotel.
Barnsley. Amongst those present were Mr. G. W.
Southern, her Majesty's inspector of mines ; Mr. Weed-
house, Mr. Potter, and Mr. Hirst, Newcutle-on-Tyne ;
Mr. J. Smith, Mr. Brown, Mr. Embleton, Mr. W. H.
Potter, he. The notes and observations registered
since the last meeting having been read, some discussion
ensued as to the cause of the nine-inch pipe at times be-
coming a downcast, with regard to which there was con-
siderable diversity of opinion. It was then reLolved that
the observations relative to the nine-inch pipe and the gas
should be taken and registered as heretofore, and in order
to provide against any contingency which might arise from
the action of the gas on the wire-ropes at prevent sustain-
ing the scaffolding in the No. 2 shaft, • second scaffolding
should be put down just by it, but permanently fixed, and
firmly resting on the wails, instead of depending on the
roper. The meeting then adjourned to the 26th of March.
There is now no doubt that several months will elapse
before any attempt will be made to open the shaft,.