The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-18 00:00:00

LIVE-BOAT SERVICE.

MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND, Ttmulav Nrerr.
This morning intelligence was brought to Maryport that
• schooner was ashore on Dub Mill Scar, about 8 miles
&N.& of this place, with a flag of distress flying (says H.
Lindsay, Esq., Collector of Custom). It was blowing a
strong gale at the time from W.S.W. The life-boat
of the National Lifeboat Institution was at once
launched, and went away through the heavy surf
under canvass in the direction of the wreck, which
was reached in about an hour. The life-boat's
anchor ware then let go and she dropped down alongside
the vessel, which was then alloat. Finding the master
ignorant of his whereabouts, the coxswain and four of the
hfebost's crew went on board. One of the crew was in
the rigging, and the sea was soaking a complete breach
over the ship. Shortly afterwards one of the cables
broke, when the coxswain slipped the other one
and ran the schooner into Silloth, thus saving
both life and property. The lifeboat was taken
bast to her station in tow of a steam-tug
which had come out to the vessel. The schooner
wu the Treaty, of Goole, bound from Newcastle, Ireland,
to London, with a cargo of granite. This is the first ser-
vice performed by this lifeboat, which has only recently
been placed by the National Lifeboat Institution on this
station, through the munificence of Henry Nixson, Esq., of
Manchester. The boat is reported to have behaved ad-
mirably in the surf and better than the crew ever ex-
peeteeL

THE SOUTH EASTERN AND LONDON' CHATHAM,
AND DOVER RAILMAYS.—The boards of the South
Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway
Companies met yesterday and approved the heads
of an agreement for a united system of working
and developing the traffic of the two lines, with
the view of furthering the mutual interests of the
two undertakings and extending the facilities of
both systems to the public. It was arranged that
application should be made to parliament for
powers to effect a fusion of interests on the prin-
ciple of the North Eastern agreement ; that is, by
a division of the total net profits earned in propor-
tions to be agreed, the existing capitals of the two
companies remaining distinct ; but a joint capital
to be created for general purposes. The whole
arrangement is to be subject to the approval of the
shareholders of both companies.

The Owl says that the man who attempted the
life of the Emperor Alexander is a Russian landowner of
Mali means, who conceived himself injured or ruined by
the emancipation of the serfs. The would-be regicide
fired his pistol when close to the Emperor, and would no
doubt have shot him, but that a police agent, who noticed
his sudden movement, rushed at him just in time to turn
aside the aim as the weapon went a within a few feet of
the person of Alexander. The Emperor, with perfect
presence of mind, himself seized the culprit, asking him
quietly—" What have I ever done to you that you should
leek my life ?"

The New York World states that seven ICnited
States men-of-war, carrying 86 guns, are to be sent to the
North American coast. The tonnage of the seven ships is
10,473.

Rte OVER AND KILLED. —Last evening Mr.
Richards, deputy coroner, held an inquest at the Tiger
Tavern, Wick-road, Hackney, touching the death of Ed-
ward Chapman, aged 54. The deceased was a bricklayer,
liv[ng at 3, Elvid-cottages, South Hackney. Last Satur-
day night, while crossing Shoreditch High-street, a cab
mine along and knocked him down and ran over him. He
was taken home, and when a doctor was sent for it was
discovered that his spleen was ruptured, and that he had
received other dreadful injuries. He elated that no blame
1,116 attributable to the cabman, and that the accident
was entirely due to the crowded state of the street. He died
in greet agony on the Sunday morning. The jury returned
I verdict of Accidental death." Mr. Pare, the City
coroner, held two inquiries at Guy's Hospital relative to
the death of two children, who had been run over and
killed. The first case was that of a girl named Mary Lush
_l,
the daughter of a labourer living in the Borough. Mr.
Nance, of No. 18, Royal Exchange, said that on last
Friday evening he was on an omnibus ggooing along Black-
man-street, in the Borough, when the ran across
the road, and, finding herself surrounded by vehicles, she
loot presence of mind, and fell right under the wheels of
an omnibus. She was run over, and died immediately after
being taken to the hospital. The other case was that of a
boy named John Philp, aged 12 years, son of a compositor
reading at 31, King-street, Lambeth. On Wednesday last,
at 12 o'clock, while the deceased was in Great Tower-street,
be fell in crossing the road and was run over by a railway
Tit. He received injuries from which he died on Friday.
Verdict' of "Accidental death" were returned in each
case.