The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-16 00:00:00

HIGH TIDE AND DAMAGE TO SHIPPING.

Yesterday morniog, at half-past 1 o'clock, it blew
• gale on the river below bridge, and there was a strong
Vele roaring. Four vessels, named the Juba sad Elisa-
beth, Naples packet, Northumberland, and Lavinia and
Mary, lying at living and Cooper's coal wharf, Wapping,
broke from their moorings, and did considt:able damage.
They drove up the river, breaking adrift, and bringing
with them the barges and platform composing the
Wand pier, and a groat number of other craft, Nome
laden with valuable merchandise and some empty,
and mull the whole of them drove athwart the Aberdeen
steam-ship lying off the Thames Police 'wino. There was
a tremendous crush, and the ships and barges wero forced
on shore. One of the protection piles at the Thames Police
causeway was torn down, and a Thames Police galley
swamped and nearly destroyed. One of the vessels was
sank, but was subs quenily raised cod will have to go Into
dry dock for extensive repair.. Several bit gel laden with
valuable cargoes were sunk by the violence of the collision
with the steamer, and a lag-boat belonging to Mr. Chisto-
pher Hinds. lightermau, of %Yapping, wee totally destroyed,
with a cargo of guano valued at GO guineas. A man was
crashed and killed, and a beat con'aining barrels of beer
belonging to Mr. Rice, disappeared under water, and has
mot bees resovend.

Yesterday was the highest tide along the ncrth shore of
Southampton Water that ha been kncwn for many
years. The wind bad been blowing bard for eee aa 1 boors
from the south-west. The gardens at Blachynden-terrace,
inside the Dorchester Railway, were inundated, and consi-
derable damage done. At Redbridge, at the top of South-
empton Water, the roads became fiJoded and impassable.

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At Northam, a shipbugding village on the river Itabati,
about a mile from Southampton, the high tide did tonsider-
able damage. The shipbuilding yards, wrest+, and me►dows,
were overawed. A ship was anted off the stocks, and •
mac and woman in a travtllh:g cumin were rit arly
drowned. Workmen were oblig. dto walk home up to their
nalddlas fa water.

The Correctional Tribunal of Mentz hu just con-
demned to four months' imprisonment M. Jean Caerski,
preacher of the 011fM111 Catholic Church, for havieg in a
pemphlet, entitled Manifesto to 11. de Knitter, Bishop of
Urn's." turned into ridicule the rites and ceremonies of
the Ronan Catholic Church. The court also ordered the
pamphlet to be seised and 111 stroyed.
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The Union of Le Mans contstee the following:—
"On Saturday lest en alarm of fire was raised in the theatre
of this town, and created the greatest slum. A general
rush to the doers was made, and the manager experienced
the greatest diele•lty in calming the apprebetu ons of those
who remained. After • time it was diseorere4 that the
alarm bad proceeded from en elderly gentleman, who bad,
in some mysterious manner, concreted the roise made by
four little boys rennin up the gallrry staircase i• their
weeders shoes with an escape of gm As soca as this wu
made public, the spectators returned, and the performance
continued."

A letter from Alexandria, in the Considutionnel,
says :—" The Viceroy prelims% to his return remained a few
daps at Beeirroneff, in order to set. et a dwellir g-pleee for a
troop of 1,500 Bedouins, wt.o belorgcd to the revolted
tribes, end have asked pardon. This pardon had been
treated ►r the Viceroy, on condition that they should re•
■oasead their wandering eshtenee, and betile on some spot
where territory would be a•vgned them. These agitations
were sceepted, and the Vizerop has himself selected the
territory which is to be given to them for cultivation."