The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-16 00:00:00

WRECKS ON THE IRISH COAST.-OALLANT
LIFEBOAT SERVICE&

ARKLOW, Barr. 12.
We were visited yesterday (says Dr. Halpin),
with one of the fiercest gales for its duration, that bas
ever been experienced on this coast. About 9 o'clock in
the evening the services of the Arundel Venables lifeboat
of the National Lifeboat Institution on this station were
called into requisition. The smack Kate and Mary, of
this port, was riding at anchor in the bay, where a rely
heavy sea was running. She bad but one boy on board as
the rest of the crew were ashore. The lifeboat proceeded
out but she had only got a shoi t distance outaide the pier
head when she was regularly filled, took stem away, and
got broadside on the north pier beat The men stood by
the boat greatly stunned; at this juncture Captain Edward
Kearon jumped off the pier into the boat and by his
judicious and elvveling advice the boat got clear and a
secoud time attempted to get through the broken water,
but was again driven back and would have been forced
against the pier had not a cross sea took her and
canted her away. With Captain Kearon's persuasion
the men made a third gallant trial, and this
time succeeded in getting through the surf and in
reaching the smack, when one of the lifeboat men was
placed on board, and the boat in returning was beached. as
it was not considered safe to run between the pier heads.
Subsequently the smack's anchor was slipped, and she got
out of the roadstead. The lifeboat behaved admirably,
and I must also add my testimony to the gallantry and
perseverance of the crew of the boat.
HOWTH, DUBLIN BAY, SEPT. 12.
During a strong gale with heavy sea this morning (re-
ports Staff-Commander H. D. Burney, R.N.), a schooner
was seen making for the harbour in a disabled state with
her mainsail blown to pieces. The Howth lifeboat belong.
ing to the National Lifeboat Institution was at once
launched to her assistance. The vessel had by this time
anchored near the ltaldoyle Sands, but drifted. The life-
boat took off the captain, and also brought the schooner
safely into Howth Harbour, and moored her alongside the
West I'ier. The crew of the lifeboat deserve groat praise
for the gallant manner in which they boarded the vessel,
and saved her at the very great risk of their lives. She was
the schooner Splendid, of Dublin, bound from Liverpool to
that port with a cargo of coal'.

The Lirerpoo/ Albion hears that Mrs. Forbes
Yelverton has recently inherited a considerable fortune,
and is living with her husband on an estate in the south of
France, which she has purchased.
The venerable Auber, ten years older than
Rossini, has a new opera in rehearsal, which, he says, will
be hie last. It is to be called Un Jour de &adorer. A
young artiste, hitherto only heard at concerts, Madame
Cremieux, will be entrusted with the prima donna's part.
Auber, who, according to an inscription on the fa,:aele of
the new opera, was born in 1782, and is consequently 85
yeah old, gets up at 5 in the morning to work at his com-
position ; and every afternoon be may be seen holding the
ribbons behind a pair of particularly high spirited horses,
bowling along at the rate of 12 miles an hour in the Bois
de Boulogne.
FOOLHARDTWESB is THE ZOOLOOTCAL GAREN&
On the afternoon of Friday hat an accident °mired in the
Zoological Gardens, which would have proved most serious
except for the vigilant and energetic interference of one of
the keepers named Cocksedge. A foolhardy man, about
50 years of age, who seemed fresh from the sea, went under
the iron guard is front of the bear-pit, adjoining the dens of
the lions and tigers, and began teasing a brown bear. The
result was thatßruin caught the right arm of the man in his
jaws, after having Arst taken a piece out of the shoulder of
is coat, and was beginning to operate with his teeth.
when a my warn raised, and Cocksedge immediately ran to
the spot, and by vigorously jobbing the animal's jaws with a
stick, caused it to release its foolish victim. Had the
keeper not been at bend, the incautious fellow, who seemed
to be in liquor, might have lost his arm ; but he =lunged
to escape with comparatively little punishment beyond the
damage to his coat.