The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

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DESERTIONS FROM AND
Asnr.—lt swan from a return issued this morning that
in 1869 the total desertioes from the army were 20,360,
and the total number of sollatesents 91,971. On the 31st
of December, 1858, the tots! number remaining ta the ranks
was 42,234.
RRMARIABLE EsCArt.—On Wednesday after-
noon, as the express train which leaves London at 2 o'clock
was passing at fall speed between Chichester and Havant,
the fireman, named Clare, had a narrow escape of hi lib.
He was On the seep on the outside of the tender, in a stoop-
ing position, holding on by the hand-rod, pouring oil into this
axis-box, when, projecting his body too far, he wee struck
violently in the side against the gate-poet of en accommoda-
tion road which aeons the line. Stephen Clark, the driver.
observed the dangerous position be was in, and safeim hold
abbe, retreated Ids destraceion, though not without hazard-
ing Ids own We, as, bat foe Clarke weight sad streagth they
mast both have been precipitated on the line. Clare wan
taken as mem as possible to the Brighton County Hospital;
his injuries are 'sly severs bruises.—fressees afivertisir.
EAST KENT RelLWAT.—Yeetarday totals/1
morning Lord Ikeda and the directors of the t K
Railway C,ompsay, accompanied by the engineer, Mr.
Cabin, and the, secretary, Mr. Holroyd, proceeded to aspect
the works now in program between Canterbury and
Faversham. They first proceeded along the line by
engine over a coesidarable portion, and then Tithed the
large embankment and cutting In Boughton parish,
where the works are very extensive and In an advanced state
of progress. Prom this point, having being conveyed about
21 miles to the mouth of the Enaden tunnel, they pissed
through the tunnel, which i• now approaching cnnpletion,
and then proceeded to inspect the line at the IftllnerOtth
points at which the works are in operation up to Canterbury.
On the whole they expressed thermopile, much gratified
with the stair of the troths, and the proapects of an early
opening of the line. In the afternoon they inspected the
line between Cawerbory and Dover.—lfaishat Gasatte.
THE BILLS OF QUANTITIES FOR THE NORTHERN
Mon Levet, Sews,. or LONDON.—The quantities having
bees referred to Mr. Baralgate for eliminators, he finds, we
perceive, wider the bead of " excavation" every item in the
can of twenty-one sewers too large. His redaction is consi-
derable, bet Mr. Leslie makes it larger Mill. Thus, to take
three or four histamines : fee the sewer 9 feet 6 inches by 12
feet Mr. Roberts has put down 64,131 cubic yards. Mr.
Bazalgette 40,110, sad Mr. Leeks 33,931. For the sewer 10
feet by 10 feet 9 inches : Roberts 71,662, BazalgotAe 64,443,
Leslie, 62,400. Far the 8 feet 6 inch barrel sewer : Roberts
49,167, Basagetto 40,637. Lathe 38,812. For the 7 feet 6
inch sewer Rare. 14,697, Bazalgetts 10,641. And so on
throughont, the result being that, according to Mr. Basal-
get's, now that the matter Is moiled, there are 77,000 cubit'
yards too much provided for in the bills of quantities, and
according to Mr. Leslie 104,000 cubic 'ads I This is
strange enough, bet glaring through the bills of quantities
we light upon some lIMOMOM equally extraordinary.—Bethfer.
THE ELDEST SON.—As for Wee, Troe Tyrieves,
is all one to him. He only roads the opening annonamments
in the Norwich paper. S r long al there is good scent, bedew
not care about the state of the cmntry. I believe the rascal hoe
never read my poems, much more my traged'es (re. I min-
Doped Pocahoatea to him the other day, and the dunce
thought ohs wee a river in Virginia); and with respect to my
Latin verses, how can be understand them, when I know he
can't construe Cattalos? Why this note-book lies publicly
on the lade table at my corner of the fireside, and anyone
may read it who will take the trouble of lifting my (pacts,-
elm off the rover: bat Miles never huh. I insert in the
loose pages caricatures of Mike: jokes against him : but he
never knows nor heeds thaw. Only once, in piece of a neat
drawing of mine, in Chins-ink, /presenting Miles asleep
after dinner end which my Mead Banbury would not disown,
I found a rude picture of myself gaze over my mare Sultana's
hoof, and entitle] " The Squire on Horseback, or Fish oat of
Water." And the fellow to rear with laughter, and all the
girls to titter, when I came upon the page! My wife mid
she never was in such a fright as when I went to my book
bat I can bear • joke against myself, and have heard many,
though (atrium to say for one who hes lived among /01114 of
the thief wits it the age) I never heard a good one is my
life. Never mind, Mies, though thou art not a wit, I love
this was the worm (there never was any love lost between
two wits in a family); though thou bast no great beauty,
thy mother thinks thee a. handsome se Apollo, or his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wider, who was bon is the very
sante year with thee. Indeed she always thinks Coates',
picture of the mina is very like her eldest boy, sad has the
print in her dreming-room t this very day.—Tier Virginians,
No. 19.
SHOCKING STEAMBOAT EXPLOBION IN AMERICA.
—On the 24th of April the boilers of the !darner St. Ni,holes
exploded during the peonage between New Orleans and St.
Louis. The lass of life was between 30 and 40 persons. A
large number were fejtued. The captain met his death in •
frightful manner. A heavy piers of timber, displaced by the ex-
plosion, caught his feet and held him feet. By almost
superhuman effort he di,ongaged his right foot, but his
left /till remained fast. Daring thin time he exhibited
great solicitude for the safety of pi rsons on the boat,
and not until the flames had come within reach of his own
body did he exhibit any anxiety for isiorif, Tien, finding
he could not relearn himself, he implored those in reach
of his voice to relieve him from him dreadful dbletama„
requesting at lut that 031:011 one would bring an axe and cut
off his leg. Every exertion was made to rel eve him, bat
without avail, end the noble captain and true man was con-
sumed by the flames, meeting death manfully at his poet.
One of the most affecting incidents of the entire tragedy
• yawed in the conduct of Miss Kennedy. She was thrown
by the explosion from the state room into the river, and
floated down to the stern of the boat. shot obe caught her
hand ht one of the rings attached re the bull, and hung in
that perilous dilemma, when death Mood threatening her
upon either hand. To locus her bold was to dek into the
waves, and to hold on was to bare with the wreck to which
she was dinging--every moment tang an ass of alternating
hope and dal tar. She
themained a this position until the
flames actually burned hair end skin hum hire. te,a
the only part of her body ab the water
weserpt the
by. which the dime to the wreck, and that b
to a
amp. While In this awful muipewer, and !offering inkeeely
from the beat, such was her preacce of mind and her won-
dead's! beraern, that as a who was worm stunoed
polara than herself by the explodes, was floating by lige
in • drowning condition she No zed him by the hair with
be, gien.g.rel hand. slid held bia i.e., out of tt r
water
until a skiff was brought to the rescue of both.—YempAi
Aakwicwts.
ORTSTAL PALACE. ONI SHILLING DAT.,—.
110NDby aLY.Admisskes on paymont, 2,452;
ditto, s eratickets, 362. Total etaltars, 2,804.

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