The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-31 00:00:00

BRAVERY RECOGNISED.

The following letter has bete addressed by the
Board of Teed, to the Collector of Customs at Wick :
" Offise of Committee of Privy Ceased for Trade,
Marine Department, Oct. 20,1866.
" Bir,—l ea directed by the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trude to inform you that my lords haw
severally considered the report of the Comptroller on the
eireemeteson *hooding the wreck of the ship Mid, M.
Wass, and the gallant nesse of two of the crow of that
vmsel by Magid Thompson, Donald Lye'', John Bassett,
James leeway. and John Nicholson. I am to request
*et you will inform these an that my lords cheetah'
the strangest sense of the skill, courage, and humanity
which they displayed, and that to mark their approbation
they have aw.rded .medal to each of them, sad hove ales
given directress for the dhtribution amongst them of the
sum of 161, is the following proportiess : Donald Thowp-
me, 61. ; Donald Lyon, 21. 10s. ; •John Deasett, 2/. 10s.;
James Hurray, 21. 10e. ; John Nicholeos, 21.10.. The me-
doh are In enures of preparation, and, when reedy, will be
forwarded to you. A draft for the am of 161. is esclowid,
which you are requested to cash, and to divide, is the pre-
whom stated above. Yes are 6133 requested to womb
=1 from the men this department on the farm es-
to
—1 am, he., ' T. 11. FAhltlet.
"To the Collector of Customs, Wick."
The fallowing is the report made to the Board of Trade
by the Comptroller, referred to is the above letter:
" MIN-1n reply to your order of the 10th instant, re-
relthe salvage of life off Ham, from the whales/ Ahtl,
6th ultimo, it effords me pleasure to stew that the
endow, of the five fishermen of ikorlikeery has bees noble
Indeed. On witnessing the melancholy event, Donald
Thompson, fishermen, with four others, launched a heat at
If a. m. from &ref kerry, a narrow, na'nral, and trey
rani ad meek, about woe mile to leeward of the week.
Oa getting to the entrance the sea was so tends
the rowers would go so further. Thompson thee
west en the cliff opposite the wreck, and, on seeing the
people pariableg. he started from the crowd red begged
that a crew would ge with him. AU saw the great danger.
Two of his first crew volunteered—vie., 2 end 3, and
were followed by 4 and 6 ; they launched the same boat
&pis, and after a desperate struggle got through the surf
at the entrance into the Pentland Frith—rowed against •
terrific sea and heavy gale to the wreck, where they were
about half an hour, every moment in danger of being
thrown on the vowel by the strong vied snit heavy •ea.
Ater gettiog the two subsisted seamen into the boat, they
led to oneouster their greatest daager—to row against a
very sheep ebb tide with the sea meeting it, sad this is the
Pentlaad Firth, a place of terror to all who Imo, it. This
took them one hour and • quarter, the sea running so high
that at times the boat conk sot be ems by the people on
the cliff. The following la an eatreot from an ofßcial letter
from the acting peiseipel cwt °Moor at Thum, who was
m the spot on Tuesday atternoon, and who is an o:eer-
est boat sailor, -as reared on the Pentland, served his
time to the sin for the last Gee or six leers, and has
bees eonatently boardiag vessel' is ficraione roads, as
1 tidewsiter. This letter Is the more saleable, tram Ilia
set knowing that it would be made any use of for the
benefit of themes :—' 1 never witnessed push &heti& lend
serf se was at Ham I've mese lire-boats threes going off to
wrecks, bat sever thcseht • yawl could have survived to
reach the wrack, with the heavy sea that was valise oar
shore' Had not The-meson per•iv red no beat emelt have
goes off. A stronger evidiesee of the valve of the services
rendered c isnot be gives then the estimation their esselset
Is held in by the county meglatea•es, as embodied la •
testineoelal passed by them oaths 30th alt., at their half-
' yearly meeting.
This befog the first ease of the Mad here since the new
law came late opmetios, I would respectfully sapga.t that
their lordships would add their approbation to that of the
=tes, in addition to any pecuniary reward, for I feel
it would set se a great stimulus to others—should
ellah • palatal affair miser sgain—by holding up this have
aMIN. " Cius. W. Pima, Cospinikv."

-_•_-
DaIIEY-LANE.

Zir iforisumsovla wan performed last sight, with
madame Ganlse Is Ike' put :of /Luisa, Mr. Tannest (a
asbuisio V tbat of Elvis°' Mile. Sedlatsek al Lisa, mad
Goan mg Coast Raab. Madame G 514117, ma anal,
wa asikabbi. ti3te linked tke Utile many gilt diem
*O7, mod with sort and lanai. and Miff with sal-
aam Manua, sat Put =Passim Her Bask. "
nen &age," Staphyss a purer sad flazitillity of nibs and
a protadoa sf rig sad haeffal oaaboillolusat, which cull
soutaly ban bean ouparod Posoboal tot Bak. It was
salted fo: a &scud data aft: du fen e lb* sassala, sad is

repotitioa was follo weils;Teirnticas of ems knesemed
onthatissm. Mr. Tennant, who perfacused Bleb*, made
his int appeonass on the stags, sad hem, we
Mak, doss so rather prematurely, without /shed
naderpoe Me worm of dasipliso spry for
so anaidabis en ordeal. Ho has pod mama
11ftt-4 kandsous pence, as istelligeat amateasase,
sad a sweet teaor voles. Bet hi Y o mss soviet as the
etage,,sad ma, besides, so timid sad nervous as to be quite
ineepable of aotiag. The same as... deprived his Mains
of
salaries sad ours,, theashit wan pars, sorted, aid
aimed tarts sad hellos. • load odor or theatrical
elope should aot appear bean a metropelitaa ma'am tia
he hes Nerved as opproatlaslap. He shield work, loos
sad nasally, oa provissial baud', Maras to acquire saes
sad freedom la Os me of his limbs, salt-postamion in the
proems of the public, sad the thoomad thins, whisk
helms to the sothaaboa of his art, sad without width
talent sad ens genies go for nabs. Boob, we balm
het bees the train's, of almost story peat %headed per-
former, sad It has beat only is few sad szeoptisaal PISS
that mean his beta &skated without it.

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

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BEA•FOHL 81100171f0 AT THE LANDIFINDem
A rooky headland or noes about $ mile seaward—
*. peak of the ITOMPIMI whisk protects the bay front the
south—la a favourite station for esa-fowl shooting during the
autism sad spring migratioaa. The hard granite is worn
sad bleached by the inesseent turmoil of four thomand
years—eaten awey by the bitter teen of the stens. It la •
solitary sad a desolate place ; sad a mare of loneliness p-
tins mar the sportsman (far It is visited by so ene Decides),
as, misguided on all sides by the ma, be washes the great
wasn't:dia. along, like the immortal Games Mae Heel,
ohm insi. Half a rails to wiedward he can diatom the
swift beam era billow, that, with the .reaming and da-
mn= ma-bird, has been driven from some northland
ahem. With swift bat sliest footfall the bright insult ap-
moodier ; for one mosmat its flathing mane like a war
Merger's.alma= la the gals; sad this, poiag oat the
wrath sad bitterness of its steamy career in me despents
Nest, it dies vainly ipso the land I Like the apsetaele is
a theatre, or a Mature by liteadeld, am °Midas is this way
the entire speedosand subliasity of a stows at see with-
out risk of damage, or the terror which sicker the heart as
the craw theber seeks, and strata., sad 'shown in the sea-
trough. For a coo* of hour. at Itigk water gibe smarms&
cation la cat of with the mainland, sad the fowler must waft
for the ebb before be can return. 80, mining is work, he
selects a deep revise, and builds op around his a sort of
temporary shelter, in which, with lighted pipe, he makes
himself ears for the day. The moraiog is dark sad Ristx
the wind blows strongly from the north-seat,
paring birds in ups the land; sad thick clealsVsleat
pus at intervals soros the see, and

Leah with eons ti,. sinambig per.
The sportsman sleets • moraine of this kind, bemuse in
mash wee his the sew fowl are lam wary and observant, and
are, magerege, homed be approach closer to the sham, as
they tam the Opens of the coast to the south. Floes of
the purple solkpier are Bitting messily um* the reeks,
sad the epelePeeleheir, in its battered finery, approptiatee
the sillesieet pigneele. Than • mottled crew of Wash-
bowls, oils sad gamy tens wear up patiently round the
point. The times with whit& be is provided are put in
and nosoonse de the birds permits• them hay-
*ng drag the rack than, with feminine curiosity, they
hover ever theta, and noisily communicate their impressions
to sash ether. Bat these are not the birds for whom be waits,
so he forbears to fire. In a few minutes afterwards a Bock
of builds beat swiftly by, kespiog cautiously off the land.
One, however, has !legend behind, and for the advantage of
a short cut (short sets are proverbially the longest), it
passes right over:ths point, and brings itself within shot.
ifeels over hood ft gose—elowa with a smash upon the steam,
—as though every bone in its compact little body were
broken. The herald is, however, very *nation of life, and
emosdingly difficult to kill. I onto shot a drake who was
passim, overhead; he fell from a height of twenty or thirty
yards into the water ; during the time I was loading, he lay
to all appougnos quite dead, with his whit. belly tamed
up ; bat before the boat could reach him he had semi
round, sad flew aquae jauntily, as though used to a little
shock of this kind every day of his life. Cormorants, divers,
and many different gulls follow rapidly—sometimms within,
oftener oat of rug.. But the bird that best answers to the
wing has not yet made its sppuranos,—the storm not having
lasted long enounli, perhaps, to drive him from his Norwe-
gian fastness. The: greet Glaucous gull is indeed a noble
ird,—the largest and most kingly of the gulls ; and though
by all our ornithologists described r miceedvely rare
hardly • stoma from tke north-east use without yea
numbers being seen on the Scotch coast ; and so tame and
unsophisticated are they on this. condone, that I have
known three or four ikon shot in the course of • single
forenoon. Hers they come at length, a flick of some twenty.
or thirty; and as they catch • glimpse of the fluttering pi-
nions they steady thenistives as their lost wings, sad watch
it curiously and smoggy until the shot is fired which mattes"
them in all directions, amid a whita shower of feathers. •
company of ths little ask saccade—moths r bird never seen
on this emit swept after • severe end protracted stem.
At mach times I often find this dead oaths beach ; and some
years ago one was taken alive is the kitchen garden, into
which it had probably been pitched by the wind, end oat of
whisk it could not issaye—as, like several others of the gams
wing formation, tt is unable to rise trot:ohs land. It lived for
scene days, bat was ultimately killed by a Stye tinier, who
possibly took It for • rat. The rotche is a charm log little
bird—a quaint edition in duodecimo of the razor bill or the
garnet. As besides these there are many other varieties, a
couple of hours spent at such • spot on a stormy morning
is by no means unprofitable to the fisher people, most of
whom eat and nigh these sewhirds.—FraLer's Mogamins
for November. .

COMPANY AT BADEN-BADEN.—Chafferfots r Your
discerning glance has lighted upon no less a persoesgis them
his Highness the Prince C—, some time prime minister of
another grand duchy, and than and now, steles rumour
does him foul wrong, one of the greatest—Ha! ha! look
at that fellow in the white-hooded clitek, or bournone, or
whatever the thin celled. The asSis, lam sorry to my,
an Bogliebman, who has been a Beshr-Basauk in the late
war; and fawnes he is "doing it" in that costume, which,
though picturesque enough in itself, worn here simply ren-
ders him ridionloue. Do you see that tell, soldier-like,
mustached old gentleman, with an order in his button bole,
'sante ring up and dowel with a companion of like mien but
fewer years ? The elder is the Baron 'PO—, • fine old
Dutch. indents' who fought oa our side at Waterloo,-
and the younger the Count o—, a Russian intonate, and
altasaberlain to the new Czar, Alezaader 11. They tell me
that Gortobakoff, the Gortehakeff, arrived thin morning.
The lady who has just passed us—that tall strapping woman
in white, with a Greek name well known in the political
world—la a Russian spy in Paris. That long, thir, grubby.
looking perm:lags was once a partner, if not a mere crou-
pier' in the Etoblisannemi, and has retired upon his an-
godly gains. And here comes a harmless madman, who
does nothing all day bet walk hurriedly up end sown the
promenede, stopping (ecstatically to frighten a playing
child with some antic meant for its amusement, or astonish
an elderly female with some compliment to woich her ear
has been long unaccustomed. Talking of old ladies., look at
the Frenchwoman now entering the convorsesict -house on
the arm of a thin gentlemanly man with whitil heir.
Madam 111— is one of H. Bsnaset's best and most regular
customers. They say she is a millionaire. Doubtless she
it enormously rich, or she could baldly lose her heat,
anneal tribute to the lank with the careless ooncb,lance she
displays. There was a rumour that she had turned devote;
but thee, I see, is all ledge. The slightly -made MID, with the
queer shock-heed, following her, who is going to pl-y higher,
and with still greater imperterbabditi, is a Prii.ce " von
end en" a name foremost in the roll cf Auetria's nobles.
Albany: And the two splendidly-dressed ladies 'saw mount-
ing the steps ?—Chattertoes : And who ere, in that respect,
the cynosure and envy of all female eyes in Baden. Why,
they are two famous, or infamou., Parisian !metes, on a
run here without their 'woe's, for the bone fltof their
heslth sad pockets. You will fire them in the morning
under the Also, breakfasting at the espies° of fool the first,
in the afternoon at the rooge-stmoir table, playing probably
with cash borrowed from fool the second ; in the Evening at
the col*, over a tons champagas supper, for • Cch fool
the third is only too happy to pay ; end is the—Albany :
Enough 1 enough! halte•ia. One mere tens, +pigment ma
you shell be free to repose. The shoat man with the telling
gait, bushy beard, equities nose, nod quick grey eyes, tow
approaching us, who seems to catch and cooprebend at a
glance the spirit of the whole MODe aroun.i him. Chatter-
tow : What ! you, a den'aen of Loudon town, not keow the
Lord of Egypt's western hall, the mighty climber of the
minarets o °out, in whose great praise the dead, st of dead
walls bosoms, resneettate, end finds a voice ?—not know
Alhertes blegnes-Albert Smith ? Temple Facia iodig-
natio venom." Ears Poeta ! Albnis• : Re tine 2—then
will there be wagging t f beards in Piccadiily ere Christmas.
—hteekteood's Negating for November.
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A PICTURE 'PRCII VablCei—The house, on •
little d island, looked as if it bad hook. o away from
'somewhere elm, and had floated by chance into its present
anchorage, in company with a vine alma*** cinch an want
of training as the poor wretches who were lying under its
leaves. The fulfilled of the surrounding p cram wets, a
church with hoarding and scaffolding shout it who h had
toms under suppositious repair so long dist the means of
repair %oaks.' a hundred years old, end had themselves
fallen into decsy ; • quantity of wished fines, spread to
dry is the tun ; a number of boob** it odds with ore
another and grotesquely out of the perpindkislar, like
rotten pre Ademite cheeses cut into I. nto.tic shapes and
full of mites; and a feverish hewilderm. ut of windows,
with their lattiee•blinds alt hanging askew, and something
draggled and ditty dangling out of most of then. On the
first flo ir of the bonus was a Bank—a sor;+ri*ing expe-
rises* for any gen•lenien of is donsercial pissede bringing
laws for all mankind from a British city—where two spare
'duke, like dried dragoons, in green ve:v.it caps adorned
with golden tassel., stoic% bearded, bellied a *wall counter
is a small room, containing no other visible objecta than an
empty iron.sate with the door open, a jog ot water, and a
psp?eing of garlands of TOMS; but who, on lawful requi-
sition, by merely dipping their hands out of sight, could
produce eattaustless mounds of five hare piece.. Below
the Bask, was a suite of three or tour rooms wi-h barred
windows, which hod the appearabee of a jail fer criminal
rats. Above the Bank was Mrs. O iwsn's residence. Not-
withstandlog that stn walls were blotched, se if missionary
mope were bursting nut rif them to impart geeraphical
knowledge; notwithstanding that its weird furniture mu
I forlornly faded and musty, and that Nis ',mailing Veno-
m Nan odor of bilge water and an ebb-tide on a weedy store
I was vary strong; the lases was Uttar within, than it
proulast—Litils Dovit. tog lionalror.