The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-31 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETIIRNB.

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AMERICAN AND CANADIAN MAIIA.—The Quebec
sad Montreal reamer BoMedan leaves Liverpool for Port-
land to-morrow (Wednesday), with the Canadian sad Ame-
ricas mall. Letters cid Queenstown will be received at the
Liverpool post-office on that day till 9.30 p.m., with a lase ila
of one penny till 10 p.m., and with a late fee of threepence
until 10.15 p.m. To-morrow also the steamship Bangwoo
will be despatched from the Massy, tor New York, with the
United States mails. The hen at Liveipool post-office
will be open on that day till 12.30 p.m., and on the landing
step, with a late be at sixpence, anal 1.30 p.m.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON, CHATHAM"
Awn Dor= RAILWAT.—Tim ling HELLID.—AwAIair
ewer widget, involving the enmities of three lives, hes
wowed as the London, Chatham, sad Dour Railway works,
in the perish of Besksbourne, a small village Uwe about
three idles to the east of Canter, between the Dover end
Deal node In traversing the Berkaboorne hill, the cutting
ofthis new line runs el • depth et 46 feet ; end it was at the
heed et this cutting that the fetal occurrence took place, on
Friday night last, shortly after five o'olook, bat Rimiest
until midnight os Sunday that the bodies of the damned
an were discovered. The accident store hem the slipping
of an immense quantity of earth, mimed by the mint heavy
reins. At the moment the slip took place, three men,
named Richard Lee, Themes Jackson, sad John
Can, were Ailing trucks at the head et the out-
and, another man had oharp of the horse
attached to the tracks. The latter, observing the soil
coming down, had the preeence of mind to drive his horse se
het as porible from the heading, and thus saved his life and
that of the animal ; bat the other poor fellows, being at the
rear of the trucks, wire jammed epithet them by the falling
earth and buried beneath its weight. As soon as possible
after the lamentable occurrence all the available hands on
the spot were set to work to clear away the soil, so se to ex-
tricate the unfortunate men ; bet this was a task of no ordi-
nary difficulty, and they were obliged to sink a shaft at the
rotted' of the heading so as to appease h the bodies in that
direetion. Hera the earth frequently gave way, and not-
withstanding the exertions that were used but comparatively
little proignms was made. The work, however. was cootioned
without 'termite= from Friday night op to midnight on
Sunday before any trace, of the buried men could be disco-
vered. Then, however, two of the poor fellows were found
in a perfectly upright position between the trucks and the
heading, the soft earth having completely encircled them.
They were of course quite dead. Up to the time when oar
parcel was despatched lest evening the bodies bad not been
g tent. It had been discovered that the third min had
adored the same fete as his companions.
LOSS OP • VESSEL LADEN WITH BILK AND
Tu..—Bono Homo, Deo. 15—The British ship Chieftain,
Captain Da Faye, from Shanghai' for London, with a cargo
of silk and tea, has bete wrecked on the Prams. The Chief-
tain left Shanghai' on the 27th Nov. and proceeded until the
evening of the let Deo. When steering 8. by W. gW. at a
quarter theme 12 at midnight, breakers were reseed ahead,
shout four piste on the starboard bow, sad two on the port
bow. The helm was immediately put hard-a-starboard, with
the hope of keeping her off ce the port tack, but before
coming round she struck, and immediately tell over on her
port side. Finding her serge heavily on the rocks, the cap-
tain ordered the masts to be out away, as be was afraid of
their coming down and killing some of the craw. On sound-
lag the pumps, be found the ship was filling fist with
water. Al daylight he saw four Oohing-boats at mew;
the mow of ono of them came on board and agreed to
take the mew for a third of what cargo she might
carry to Bong Kong. Some time afterward, the others °ems,
with crowbars, and wanted to break open the hatches., which
the captain prevented by threatening to shoot then, bat
findi he ship was flat breaking up, they determined le
abandon her, which was done on the morning of the 2nd.
Having got as much silk and tea as the boot could carry.
they left in the evening. The remadng Chinese then took
pooseellon, and immediately commenced to plunder. Wham
the crew left her the was level with the sea, and her back was
broken. They left with moderate weather, but next day it
came on to blow, and the boat being deep, was in danger of
being filled with eater, and so they were compelled to beer
away before the wind, and heave cos boat. the greater pert
at the cargo, and nearly all their private elects overboard, or
she would have foundered. They ultimately got safe into
Macao on the fith, and came over here on the 7th in the:Sir
Charles Forbes. Only 16 bales of silk were saved, which
soatheyedbrowligithhtymerover. he 7 with them, bet of course they are

ROYAL MINT.--ThE MYSTERY OP "MILLING."
—There are few things on a small scale in the meclasnioal
way which more puzzle the popular mind than what is called
the "milling" on the edges of the gold and silver coin of
Greet Britain. The very term " mink% " conveys an in-
exact notion of the operation for procuring the serrated cir-
cumference of a sovereign, for example. The uninitiated
would imagine that each individual coin had been put iota •
lathe sad milled, in the name way that the beads of the brass
mews of tontlmmatical or optical instruments are, by means
of • revolving " milling tool" pressed closely against their
edges while running ; but this is quite • mistake. The fact
Is, that when self-acting machinery has canted forward
plain circular piece of metal of elightly lees diameter then
the coin it is intended to form, and placed it on the die of •
Mint stamping preys, • steel cellar which has been interiorly
milled in • lathe, and which is bored to the exact size of the
coin to be struck, rises over the neck of the die, end noun-
pant loosely the pins of gold ar silver, which has been pre-
viously made es nit and se brilliant es fire and end could
make it. Then • die sated to the moveable pin or screw of
the press descends with much rapidity end force upon the
metal to be acted upon ; the result is that the two Immo-
sione—hesd and revenes—are both given at that one blow,
whilst the steel collar prevents the undue expansion of the
ma metal it encloses, and treaders a copy of Its interior
I mfiling to the exterior of the coin, which is now fit for de-
-1 mistics. When the stamping prima is in motion thee:miler or
sip mould rises to maim and mill blank pieces, sad le de.
plead to allow the finished coins to be thrown off, at the
ado of about seventy times per minute. A 00111/Z of this der
Meta= will, we are told, mill many millions of &overthrew
win becoodsg union from wear. Bitch is the key to the
mystery of =Mktg.—Civil &retie Gazette.
Carom PAWN. ONE SHILLING
MONDAY. hit. 30.--Adatlesione on veranat, 490; Mao
by me* tasks , Tian% 00