The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-29 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Mass Pa,, Met. Total, lota
31113.11r5r3. open. aengers. chandise. 10147. I,te.
Week ending Jan. 6. £ L
Grand Trunk of Canada 8,616 13,(38 22,313 `29,:,44
Week ending Jan. 7.
S. AnstrianLoesterdy&C. L
(South Austrian Line) —lO9l 6,739 26,392 33,131 :!0,631
Upper Italy Including
the Venetian Llue;
Week ending Jan. 10.
Detroit and Milwaukee—. 189
Week ending Jan. 11.
Great Western of Canada . 1114
Week ending Jan. 13.
S111)111A slot Cassaba Ol f 391 742 1.133
Week ending Jan. W.
Brecon and Merthyr W 263 808 1,121 1,114
Week ending Jan. 26.
London,Brighion,9B.Coast 314 f 11,529 4f411 16,401 17,732
Booth Lantern 330 10,4:4 4,608 21,0,7 =ASS

71401 14,310 20,4 U 34,733 30,00

4,752 4,674

12,D66

A SHIP ON FIRE IN THE RIVER THAMEA.-011
Sunday information was received at Gravesend that
a large ship was on fire about two miles below the town.
It was found that the ship sight Thoughts, 1,421 tom
burden, Captain Watt, from Calcutta, owners Carli,/e
Brothers, wee on fire when about 25 miles from lank
The discovery was made by the lotion in the forecastle,
who saw dense volumes of smoke ooming into the fore-
castle from the main hatch. Captain Watt immediately
ordered the carpenter to ascertain where the tire had
broken out. The ship was laden with jute, ginger, castor
oil, and tamarinds, and the fire was ascertained to
be amongst the jute. The main hatch and all the vents
were stopped up, and the vessel lay to all night on Thurs-
day, off Portland. In the morning the ship Kelso came
alongside, and the captain offered to remain near the
burning vesseL During the day the vessels cause into col-
lision, doing • deal of damage to both. After the vessel,
cleared, Captain Watt set all sail and ran his ship before
the wind. On arriving off Dungeness In took in a pilot to
Deal, where he ordered the ship to be towed up the river
Thames. At two o'clock on Sunday afternoon the pilot
noticed one of the planks of the deck burst up through
the heat of the flames, but the sailors battened down
wet sail over the opening. At 9 o'clock the floating steam
engine from Woolwich got alongside of the burning vessel.
ANOTHER DEATH FROM STARVATION.--Mr. Hum-
phreys, the Middlesex coroner, held an inquest last even.
mg, at the Market-house, Poplar, touching the death, from
privations,
of Richard Farrell, • rigger, aged Ri year,.
Johnson, 181, Grundy-street, Poplar. said that
the deceased was her uncle, and that for the last few
months he had worked as • labourer. On Wednesday last
she heard that he had been found dying from deetitutioa,
and that be had been removed to the infirmary of the
Poplar Workhouse. She went to see him, and asked him
why he did not tell her that he was dying from starvation.
She said, " Why did you not send to me ?" and he replied.
" Oh! pray do not ask me. I was very cold.
and I crept into a shed." If lie had applied
to witness she would have assisted him, as Fbe
had often done before. She believed that he died from
the effect of exposure to the cold and wart of fond. He
hail been out of work for a length of time. A policeman
said that on last Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock, he
discovered the deceased man lying in an outhouse in a tile
yard near the iron bridge in the Barking-road, Poplar. He
said, "I am very poor, and I crept in here at tw,i‘e
o'clock last night." He was very cold, and was lying
on the stone pavement of the shed. He had been vomit-
ing. He was covered with some sacks. A person who war
living near the shed, hearing that the deceased was dying,
brought him some brandy and • little tea. Witness thee
played him in a cab, and he was conveyed to the paridl in.
firmary. The evidence of Mr. Thomas Gray, a surgeon,
was to the effect that deceased died from diens of the
lungs, accelerated by want of proper nourishment sad
exposure to the cold, and • verdict to that effect Sal
accordingly returned.
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