The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-26 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICE.

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WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX, FIUDAT.
Dt" ing fogy./ weather and in a fresh breeze from
W.S.W. on the 22nd inst. (states Beaty Bo' ra,
i"foimation was received that a vessel was ashore abreast
of No. 35 Mai.ello Tower. The Solicitors and Proctors'
lifeboat of the Not:onal Lifeboat Institution, the Storm
Sprite, mil therefore promptly hunched and proceeded to
the spot. The "shoat rendered good Bernice to the die.
tressed vereel by getting out her anchor and heaving it.
The lifeboat then remained by the vessel all night.
it being thoulht &thimble to do so. Subsequently with
the assistance o two steam-tugs the chip was got off and
=ded on her voyage. She was the ship Michaels
ot Antwerp, 1,240 tons, bound to that port from
Callao with a cargo of guano, and having a crew of 24
men. 'leis is the first service pei formed by this lifeboat
which was placed at Winchelsea seine months since,
having been presented to the Lifeboat Society by the
solicitors and proctors of England, th,oubh F. 00•12,
and W. M. Wilkinson, Esq.

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DEATH OF MR. WEISS, THE VOCALIST.—WO TO-
pet to announce the decease of Mr. W. H. Weiss, tie
popular baritone, who expired on Thursday night, in his
forty-seventh year. Mr. Weiss made his first apposition
at the Princess's Theatre, in January, 1843. as Cunt
Rodolphe, in the opera of La SoutnalaGala, and had ever
since held a prominent position before the public, both en
the lyric stage and the concert room.
THE FENIAN TRIALS IN DUBLIN.—DUBLIN, FRI.
DAT NIGHT.—At the Commission Court to-day true bill
for treason felony were found against les persons, including
General Farioli and Halpin. Both were placed at the
i bar, and the hearing of an application on the part of
Farioli for • postponement of his trial was fixed for Mon-
day. It was announced by the Attorney-General that the
trial of Halpin would be proceeded with on Monday.
THE FENIAN OCTRAGES AT MANCHESTER.—Mr.
Robots has addressed the following letter to the Home
Secrete:3, :—" Reg. a Allen and :el others. Sir,-1 have
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter this morning re-
fusing to postpone these trials. My attention Las been
just directed to a leader in the Timisof to-day in reference
to the approaching trials, and especially to its concluding
paragraph. No counsel are yet engaged. The means at my
disposal are so small that they do not enable nie to pay the
fees which, inaooordancewiththernlesandestablishedusage
of the boar, are necessity for retaining the services of coun-
sel usually employed in London. For reasons it is not
neoessair to enter into, it is most desirable that, in addi-
tion to the barristers who live in Manchester. the prisoners
should have the t anefit of the experience and learning el
gentlemen whose practice has been principally in London.
The prisoners are very anxious to have the assistance fax
their defence of Mr. Set jeans Dallantiue, Mr. Digby Sep
moue, Mr. Setjeant O'Brien, Mr. Ernest Jones, and Mr.
Cettingluun, together with the aid of some three or fore
gentlemen of our local bar. Permit me humbly
to ask the government to bear the expense of
the defence; or, if that cannot he done, then I ask
that the tees of the gentlemen named may be paid by
the government. The time is but short, but I will give
myself unreservedly to the work of properly instructing
the gentlemen I have named. Perhaps, under the circum-
stances, you would also grant a week's delay, or a few
days, more or lees, 1, in the meantime, 'treeing counsel in
town in oonsultation. I have struggled a,priust nip diffi-
culties as attorney for the prisoners, and to avoid the pre-
sent necessity, but feel that I should not be doing right if
I neglected the present mode of protecting the ptimoncre
—the only one I can think of. Under circumstances of
much difficulty I am very desirous of doing the best lota
for them.-1 hsve the honour to be, sir, your most obr
(bent servant, W. P. ROBERT."
Mr. Prevost, a famous silkworm breeder in
California, writing to the American Board of Agriculture,
says :—" Just a month sgo I was in Sacramento, and think
how pleased I was to find that over 3,09,00 of mulberry
trees were growing there finely in different places. And
I found, also, that Mrs. Haynie had a fine crop of
sermons—the finest I have ever seen yet. The question is
now settled that the melba y tree and the worms succeed
finely all over our State ; but by what I see Sacramento
will be the first silk district of California. I think that
for the next season they will have there food enough for
10,000,000 of silkworms.
It is well known that musical Cittnpeisers take
great liberties with the poetry which they net to murie.
Lewes, the musical composer, the friend of Milton, and
who wrote the original mule for the songs in the masque
of Comes; made serious alteration- iu the words one
particularly in the last line of the beautiful echo song.
Milton wrote, " And give resounding grace to all Heaven's
harmonies." Lewes altered this to " Aud hold a counter-
point to all Heaven's harmonies."
A paragraph has just appeared in the papers
stating that the late Lord Cokhr,ter commanded the
Alceate at the time of Ler memorable wreck in the Chinese
seas. This is an error: Captain Murray Maxwell Wu the
commander, The wreck took place in 1817, when Lord
Colchester was only 19 years old.
DEPRESSION OF TRADE IN THE ICON WORKS.--
The Cambria Dad, Leader says dullness reigns around in
the regions of coal and boa. Blaenan works are stopped.
Hundreds have been thrown out of employment. They
have wandered about the hills seeking employment
where the men are obliged to work four in-
stead of six turns • week. The prospects ere
gloomy at Rhymney. Orders see becoming few. Mdla
are partially stopped at Ebbw Vale. Where the works
are going on well many have not too much for themselves
and families.