The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-18 00:00:00

LOCAL SILLRB MARIBTS.

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The Financial Committee of the Upper Chamber
at Berlin has decided by a majority of 13 to 3 to recommend
to the house the following resolution concerning the duty on
tobacco •—" To Invite the government to direct all its efforts
to induce the abaft of the Zollverein to increase the duty on
tobacco, so u to permit a reduction in existing taxer."

Mr. James Hannay, the popular novelist, delivered
an interesting lecture at the Philosophical Institution, Edin-
burgh, on Tuesday, on " Soothed's Pleh in Literaturs.".

fROTECTION.OF PROPERTY ON RAILWAYS.—Mr,
Berry, solicitor to the London and North Western Railway,
appeared yesterday before the Liverpool police magistrates to
prosecute Isaac Holland, a berther of waggons, who was
charged with having broached a cask of ale which had been
placed in one of the waggons in his berthing section. The
magistrate said that the property of the public must be pro-
tried, and committed the prisoner to the serious.
INCOME OF THE WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Pon 1867.—We understand that the appeals addressed to
the friends of this society, first on behalf of the Care tor-
lion in the early put of the year, and more recently on behalf
of India, have met with a liberal response. We believe we
may repri that the total receipts for the year eueeded
1201t0001. Warehouse.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—As the Diadem was pass-
ing the Needles on making Spithead on Tuesday about noon
a singular accident happened to her steering apparatus,
which for a moment or two pieced her In a 'Rorke of great
jeopardy. It appears that in consequence of the threatening
=oe of the weather outside she bad her yoke shippe4
steering by the ward- room wheel, as well as that
upon the upper deck, when suddenly ohs would not answer
her helm, nor could the rudder be moved. A vessel
close on the port bow was rapidly approaching,
which luckily backed her head yards. The first
lieutenant (Mr. Hiadey) at the captain's desire, rushed
down to no what was the matter; perceiving
nothing wrong in the ward-room, and that the
rudder still remained immoveable, he luckily went
into the captain's atter-cabin, when he discovered that the
iron fastening which secures the block to the stern of the
ship bad snapped, and the block forcibly driven assinst the
yoke• head would not allow the helm to act. With great
presence of mind. and on his own responsibility, he seized
a tomahawk, and cut the spare tiller-ropes that were thus
jelpardising the ship in two, close to the standing-post-
thea
helm immediately acted, ld the Diadem luckily cleared
the vessel, but there was not a quarter of a minute to spare.
Moreover, had the ropes attached to the upper-deck-wheel
been carried away in the interval nothing could have saved
the ship going ashore. Lieutenant Mickley's presence of
mind, doubtless, mired the ship.
THE LATE MCRDER OF THE GREER SEAMAN
AT SwAtisiA.—On Saturday morning neat, at eight o'clock,
the two men now under sentence of death at Swansea for
the murder of the Greek seaman will be executed at the
beads of Calmat, the common hangman. The scaffold will
be erected at the southern extremity of the gaol, directly
opposite the infirmary, where, doubtless, a large concourse
of spectators will assemble to witness that solemn vindica-
tion of English justice, which is calculated to arils the
contemplative with awe and the guilty with terror. The
unfortunate principals in the mournful affair appear to be
perfectly resigned to their fate, and nothing in the shape of a
confession has, that we have been able to learn, tree roads
by either of them. They have been unrenituingly attended
by the Rev. E. B. Squire, chaplain of the gaol, who has
paid the greatest aseidnity to their moral preparation for the
awful alternative which awaits them. On Friday the Rev.
Mr. Morphine, an emiorat dignitary of the Greek cher&
will earn attend from the metropolis. se adminietsr the last
ritual in accordance with the raglan bait cites condemned,
and will attend them to the scaff is old. He of as •
kind-hearted, benevolent, old nom, and a=the most
affectionate and painful interest in the fats of his two unfor-
tunate fellow-oonntrymen.Seerrea Herald.