The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-27 00:00:00

THIS STORM ON THE ALGARINR COAST.

The Akhbar of Algiers gives a graphic description
of the violent gale which raged along the Algeria@ oust
from this 16th to the 18th December. "On the morning of
the 16th a heavy gale compelled the Marseilles packet to
return to Algiers after it hod struggled for an hour to pin
the offing. Towards (icon the barometer fell rapidly, and
the approach of night was he:sided in by heavy snowers of
rein; at the same time the rein rote with fury, and lashed
itself into a hurricane. The entire population wee streak
with terror, and many houses in the upper part of Algiers
were abandoned by their inhabitants. At half-put
two o'clock in the night, the storm was at In
height; telegraphic posts were thrown down; win-
dow-shutter,, portions of roof., acd the window.framse
were blown about, and endangered the lives of the notelet.
who were alone sun in the streets. Toward., morning the
wind subsided, but the rein condoned to tall in torrents.
On the 17th the spectacle offend by the waves was en
awful one ; they hurled the immense blocks of stone which
serve to strengthen the jetty into the interior f the port.
The ships anchored in the latter were dreadfully tossed
about, and presented the appearance of being encircled by
• whirlpool. The Eeglish ship Undaunted, which wry
ready to sail In bellatt, was tIiTIO ashore, and will not, it
is feared, be saved. Tim dant& Maris, a French brig, had
the same late. The quarantine boot, which was e:lidly
moored beyond the supposed reach of the warn, was
swept away end driven about the port. • col-
lier brig was washed out of the port, and hue
disappeared. It is supposed that'll' seek neer the entrance,
as mute 'poem above the endue ct the water in that
dir.ction. The Marie Antoinette, of Cette, laden with
wine, and bound far Algiers, was lost in face of Yeralde,
near S.di-Fertech, on the coast of Morocco; the craw
perished, with the exception of one 'Min and the mate. The
Napoleon 111., with coal from Eoglend, sank in the same
direction, and lost two of her crew. The mate of the Marie
Antoinette, who had been saved by on inhabitant of
%noddle, succeeded in p 'mg the life of one of the
Indira of the Napoleon 111., at the peril of his own.
On land, several dieutr•re took place. On the 17th, a
Moorish house, in the Rue d'Atlas at Algiers, fell in and
crushed a matinaker and his wife. In the Rue de la Osselle
another house fill in, but caused no Ina of life. The bal-
cony of a house, near the Porte Bab-Azion, gave way and
killed a Spanish woman and her two children, who were
passing. Several bowie in the upper town are in danger
of fdliog. The road St. Regime was rendered impress-
, liable, on account of the retool of timber and of boats in
course of building, that bare been washed anon it. The
111417 sunned by the towo io broken windows is enor-
mous."

TRAGEDY Ili FRANCE—An extraordioary affair
has just taken place at Toulouse. The wile of a restless's,
Gamed B—, cm Wednesday Informed her busbies% that a
sculptor, named B--, of the Rue tire 00111tielti Saint
Ambits, had committed • gnu outrage upon her. The hus-
band at once procured a pistol, went direct to the studio of
the sculptor, sod dischsrgesi the pistol right at him. The
ball passed completely through the artist's neck, and thee,
breakleg • pens of glass, fell toil the street. Thu
moots/ad soon rushed from his workshop into his draw-
ingroom, which adjoiesd it, Burg open the window,
stepped on to the balctry, twice cried s. Murder I"
and then fell spinet the Iron bahrtrade. His crisp,
and the sight of blood dropping from the Weeny, caused
the taaserr-by tl toter tic house, but to their horror they
found the unfortunate men deed! As to M. B—, after
• firing hie pistol he ti•d boos the house, end was ens pro-
ceadieg towards the canal ; dace ihro, though the most
V active search his been mute everywhere, nothing ha been
seen cm heard of him, and it is suppoeed that he has tom-
'
mined suicide. From the position of the head of a sta.
Witte found is the centre of the workshop, it weans that
the sculptor was at work on it when he was shot; and,
tram the astute of the wound, it appears that the pistol
Gas fired last as he tureen round hie head to see who had
opened the door.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OP CANADA.—MILEAGE
COST or Tag Legions SICTIONS —The milesg• cost of the
various *folios* of this important communication has been
se follows: from Montreal to Portland, a distance of 292
miles, the cost was 9 5001 per mile, making the argregets
espenditure on that portion of the lice 2,775.541 ; from
Montreal to Toronto, 335 miles, the sot was 3,131,3001., or
9,3471, per mile; from Toronto ti Stratford, 68 miles, the
cost, iacludiog the parch... of land and surveys throughout
to Sarnia sod the rolling stock, amounted to 1,119,335/ , or
12,7201. per mile; from Q asbec to Richoicud. end 'Mansion.
96 miles, the expenditure was 774.8831, er 8 0711 off mile;
sad from Quebec to St. Thomas 40 miler, 317.1001., or
13.6771. per mile. The total espendeure upon the Tarifa
motions is thus shown to h.' A 148,125/., which, upon 85/
Sala, gives et p coat of 9,5761 per mile.

THE POLICE COURTS.
THIS DAY.

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