The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-12 00:00:00

THA ATAANDING Olr AN AMERICAN

IMIGLINT 8K!?.

PORTSMOUTH, Aram 11.
The American barque Petrea, Captain Samuel
Osborne, bound from Havre to New York which ran 'shore
off Chichester Harbour on Sunday morning last, with 217
French and German emigrants on board, was, by dint of a
week's exertion, floated yesterday morning, and turned into
Portsmouth harbour for repairs. The Petrea left Havre on
Saturday afternoon at two o'clock, end had so far deviated
from her course as to run ashore on the south met of Eng-
land, in the parish of West Wittering, by two o'clock the
next morning. The unfortunate emigrants, who were not
landed until Monday morning, have been in a distressed
condition during the week ; but have received the
utmost kindness and attention from the Aker of the
Coast Guard (Lieutenant Wollaston), the clergyman of the
, end the inhabitants of West Wittering generally.
parish end
the French consul, in the early part duke
week, communicated with the collector of customs at Arundel
to ascertain whether any relief could be afforded them under
the Passengers Act ,• but was informed that that act, which
would have given him the power to relieve them, had been
repealed. On Friday afternoon they were removed
to Portsmouth, and provided with suitable worn-
=dation. Seven of the emigrants have made a
declaration to the receiver of droits at Arundel,
which is to the effect that they considered the cam of the
wreck to be attributable to the want of sobriety, and to nts
moo on the part of the second mate (officer of the watch),, Le
having drank nearly a bottle of ram when leaving Ham•
and this caused him to neglect taking soundings afterd
o'clock at night. They else complain that the master did
not allow them sufficient provisions and lodgings attar they
were landed. One of the mamma, an old man, went on
board yeeterday, and sooitally fell down the hatchway
into the hold. His life wee despaired oL

The notorious Madame Anna, after undergoing
four months' imprisonment and hard labour in the bo-
rough gaol at Walton, was liberated on Monday, the fine of
M. (to which she was subjected in addition) having pre-
viously been paid. Since her apprehension her establishment
in Hothion-strest has been :broken up, and the furniture
brought to the hammer. Several other hones of aocommo-
dation in the same neighbourhood have also been closed, the
occupants having taken alarm at the fate which at last
&grafted the most barefaced and infamous of their class. The
imprisonment to which Madame Anna bas been subjected
has, we hear. worked a oonsiderable change upon her, and
she ham stated her determination to proceed at once to Osr-
nteny.—Lieerpeol Mercury.

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OPi.RA BIN9Pii IN A)1 EHIC.A.—WO 011ilnOt IRO
why there should be such s disparity Wire* thil vow
to first class dramatic artists and opera singers. Tledtitt
salary of an actor in any stook company is two h iced
My dollars pee week ; but that Is a single Instants de my
great public favourite who appears u • snot-star. There
are • few dramatic salaries, say three or four, which come up
to ono hundred dollars per week, but the saris@ of
motors rang* from Mesa to fifty dollars; perrally
they are nearer to the smaller than to the =
amount. At the opera the principal singers
six htandrad, fire hundred, end four hundred pee
week each, whilst the smallest pipe of them all does act
deign to emit its harmony under two hundred dollars per
math. The ady way that the 'Reneger can afford to pay
the Werke et all is by using the artists to drag in oonourts
and extra performances. The Waring are much higher than
in Europe. Or prier lame les been threatening to go
home fat the last two serees, but she hie not gone yet,
because she knows that she sea never make so much money
there es In the country Of the Yankees. A baritone, who
was glad to get two hundred dollars per month
when he came here, is now considered a cheep
and desirable article at eight hundred. It it true
that salaries, both dramatic and operatic, have M-
erced very much within the past five or six
years, end have shared in the general expansion. Of orris,
when the pink came they had to share in the general or -
treaties. The *etas took It with • good gar bat the
trl2with see or two exceptions, absolutely rather to
sigmas, or to give the manager an hour's aedit
over the time that their pay wee due. A prima 11~1 gets
se much sorry r the President of the United States, a rear
is paid bra then • cabinet minister, • baritone more than •
amiss of the Suprinne Court, and so on. Been the char
are paid three time O
ssalary that is given in Strops.
= good for nothing at that. After all Is done many of
the Mire take every err= to abase the country and the
people who pay than OD well, and will for the slightest arse
••OrtOli, • he beige too much wine, refusal of fie.
Mite for •• Minus et ehmirsn—decline to sing and throw
err the pat& sag meager without the slightest hesitation.
!BM and esNel Ilkepelesse wed princesses, the artists tamest
heght is link they nit/ have despotic sway over the public,
re NM Is isy the Sea that they are °oast:ring a favour
hr Maw the monay hem "you Yankees.' it is to be
boil dui ere peruteitsd with proper, respectful, hum-
Ms petltadw—Yew Yak Herald.

Tax FAILTIREN TN ANERICA.—The New York
BAJA of the 30th nIR, publishes & list of the &dam
leash have oserarrid in the United States from the La of
Jemmy to the nth of March of the present year. The
maw el Mimes for the lost eighty-five days of the year
sio.nadMrats.the tititalweardanttoolttbilifortieveset down
prevlacei, limb, up 1.014,000 dollen=
here the mod Mil tbs Volta States and
1.644 Isams, awl $1,724100 dollars of liabiltisa
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