The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-17 00:00:00

SLOUGH STEEPLECHASES.

These chues are now fixed for the Bth and 9th of February.
The conditions of the Metropolitan Hendsoap han been
altered; the added money has bees reduced from 2001. to
1001., but the entrance tee has also been reduced from 6 sou.
each to 3 love. Twelve names hue already been monad
among the list of subscribers. The stake will close en the
24th of January, and It is intimated that those owners who
wish the horses already entered to remain is, most supreme
their intention to the Clerk of the Course by Thursday nest.
Of course, those who have sent their entrance fee of 61. will
have their money returned. Tito Railwey Plate, to which
the Great Western Railway Company liberally adds 301., has
=b &ght nominations, and for the Slough rhea there are 20
lathers.

THI CONTLIS TOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF MI
Won Lo.—lea " BIXICIA B01"-Mr. J. C. Heenan, the
American who is to Gowen the cbempionebip of the world
with Tom Sayers, smelted Liverpool at dye o'clock yesterday
morning, in the royal moil stem ship Asia, from New
York. Mr. Heessea, on ng from the creamer, wee met byseveral of the We of the "fa cy," Including numerous
admirers—chiefly the American uaiptains visiting the port
of Liverpool. In appearance the 'Yankee boxer presents a
very gentlemanly aspect. His face la oval, and wears the
expulsion of a opnedent man, the eye is quick and piercing,
hitt nose a fine aquiline. The head, unlike the generalty
of our prizefighter,, is °preparatively small. Heenan, who
biLeito be a men of about 26 years of age, is close on
r.2lnobee fa height, was dressed, on landing, in • large
overall coat, trimmed with • short, black kind of for on the
collar and wrists. Mr. Aaron Jones, we believe, accompanied
Heenan from AMMO\ ; and as the fight takes place on the
14th of Apnl, the batter will bender Mr. Jona' s care till
that time.

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The details of the dreadful loss of the clipper-ship
Mara Temple, Captain Johnson, enter, from Macao for
Havennab, to which we briefly alluded a few days since,
hams coins to hand, from which it will be seen that the
whale of the unhappy creatures on board, coolie labourers,
noroberrag 860, perished.
The Flea Temple wee • first-clam Alp, sad having been
chartered for the maveyanos of coolies, ended from Memo
on the morning of the Bth of lest Octohw. Her mew,
Including °Moses, were shoat 60 men, and four days after
leering port they encountered a heavy gale of wied frota the
south-west, with a high sea. Bell wee mimed; sad
although oo the moraine of the 14th the gale had abated,
it continued south- weet, and Captain Johnson declined
waking more sail, being apprehensive that a =MO
might set the ship to the eastward, in the direction of nth
wMch were marked upon the chart. The eights obtained at
noon were geed, and the position of the ship appeared to be
to far (38 notioe) to the westward of the most wasted, reefs
in the laths& in which they them were, that the captain,
having directed a good look-out to be kept, apprehended no
dears from standing on until 8 p.m., at -which hour he had
given inotructioes that the vessel should he put about. At
7.20 p.m. he mine on deck from the tea table, and in •111111111 W
to Inquiry, was informed by the alma of the watch that a
good look-out had bees kept from the topsail-yard. The
officer was sent forward a see, however, and had bandy
reached the forecastle, when the my of " Hard up" was
beard from the look-out. The helm was immediately put
hard up, and the spanker lowered, and no sooner was Oda
den%thaw `Hard down" was heard from the °Moir, '
lOW hp.this time bad some aft again to the gangway. It
wig thim discovered that the ship was within a short dis-
arms of the breakers, which could now be distinctly seen
and beard, and which extended In a curved line from about
bar points on the starboard bow to about three points on
the port bow. It seemed impossible a long ship like tee
Flora Temple maid esosps them, end although the tads were
braced round, and the ship hove aback, she struck first
slightly, and then very soon afterwards several times with a
tremendous crash, the breakers running very high alongside.
Pisces of her timber and planking floated up on her ppoorrtt
side, and after soma more very heavy bumps she rmeined
apparently immoveable, with • heavy list to port, and the
water rapidly incresred tall It reached between the decks,
where the coolies were. It was found impossible to extri-
cate her.

While this was going on (indeed, a/mcet Immediately
after the ship smack) • fear that the coon= would rise
and warder all oa board seemed to have possum= the
minds of the crew, and to such a height did Ws rise that
the captain (having at the time, however, no intend= of
abandoning the ship) had the two quarter boats lowered, sad
plead en officer and five men in each, with orders to re-
main close to the ship so that mho sod =skeane' sight
be at hand. The mew appeared be have been thorougaly
unmanned, their only swim, was to get oat of the ship,
and but for the captain and his brother, and a few others on
board, the boats would have left the ship absolutely =two-
aided with the neossearis of life.

Them boats ware lowered at 10 o'clock. At 12 o'clock the
other boats wen got out, sad there remained the long
boat, which the panic striken men had declared it was ha-
possible to get oat. Only 16 of the crew remained on board,
and the labour and difftoulty in getting the boat out was
immense. At length it was got over the side at 4 a.m., and
with its crew parsed safely through the breakers. Before
leaving the ship the lead wee hove ; four fathoms was got
ander the bows and stern, and three fathoms amidships.
Immediately through the breakers there wsa no bottom at
14 fathoms.

At break of day the ship appeared to be almost without
motion. Bee masts were standing, she had a strong list to
=her boot was broken, and the ma making a clear
over her starboard quarter. The oodles, who had
remained below all night, were now up and clustered on the
upper decks. The captain, after passing round the northern
extremity of the line of Weaker., joined the starboard
quieter boat, which had the smaller boats in compuiy, the
part boat, with the second mate in charge, having
during the night, alarmed, probably, at the guns
which were Bred from the ship, and which to them seemed
to denote the dreaded outbreak of the coolies. The mews
of the dines. were Una teensilured to the longboat and
gauger boar, sad at 9 a.m. sail was made to the westward.
The wind this rose to a severe gale from W.B.W. with 'a
tremendous sea and heavy rain, and the boats parted com-
pany. From Saturday, the 15th, till the following Friday,
the gels continued without abatement, and serious epics-
, Imam was lit for the safety of the starboard quarter-
boat, whuh contained Mr. Marshall, the mate, nine men,
and two boys, and the port quarter boat, which had in her
the second mate, Mr. Walton, and five men. The long-
boat contained thirty•one including Captain Johnson, his
brother, and Mr. A. d' Child., the surgeon. Throughout the
WWI days while the gale beeed, this boat wee hove to under
a close-reefed mainsail with a bucket veered out to 20 fathoms.
Most of them had saved nothing but what they stood
in. The boat was an open one, and they were drenched with
the sees that broke over them, and with the rain which
fell night and day. They were covered with salt water
boils and suffered much pain. A biscuit and half a pint
of water a day was all they dared to venture on, and sleep
was shoat inipo.sible. On the Saturday the wind and
sea abated. Fortunately the captain bad saved his sextant
and a chart, and as they found the boat drifted by the gale
as far as 13 degrees N., it was determined to make for
rourou, the French settlement In Cochin China. On
the Wednesday, twelve days Idler leaving the Wellole, land
was made to the south of Towne. The boat was nude fast
to a fishing stake all night on account of the atroag current
which had swept her to the south the day bedew, and on
the following evening they cases is sight of the French
squadron. Finding it impossible to weather the Cape that
night they put into a small fishing harbour, where they were
most hospitably treated, and on the next evening, the 28th,
they reached Tawas. They were received on board hie
Imperial Majesty's steamer Oiroade, and Captain Johnson
at owe pat himself in communication with the French Ad-
miral, M. Page, end begged him to send in search of the
missing boats, as well as to rescue the coolies. With the
readiness the request woe complied with, and the
greatest readiness
was despatched to the scene of the disaster,
Captain Johnson, his brother, and Mr. Childs, the surgeon,
accompanying her. They came in sight of the reef on the
afternoon of the 2nd et November. The sea Will tolled and
broke as before; but no remnant could be man of the ship,
till, on proceeding closer in a Lost, her port side from the
main chain forward could be observed floating. Of the 860
coolies no traces remained. Close to the rest, within a shott
distance of the wreck on the 8.8. side, the boat sounded,
and found no bottom at 27 fathoms, and within a mile to
north-west there was no bottom at 70 fathoms. The breakers
extended about half a mile in a curved line. The
were
very narrow not over 160 yards in width. The position ac-
cording to die calculation en board the Oironde,was 10 1921.,
113.18 E., while Captain Johnson made it in 10.16 N. and
113.20 B. Nothing remained to be done. The unhappy
coolies had doubtless perished, and the Gironde at onoe
shaped a course fir Manilla, where she arrived on the even-
ing of the Bth of November.

It is stated that it wee impossible to make any attempt to
save the coolies. Captain Johnson sad his brother are said
to be very humane and GOUTS/MOOS OWN but the crew were SO
terrified that it was almost by exert/ow beyond belief on the
part of the captain, his brother, and a few others, that the
safety of the crew even wee second. It appears, however,
that they had some reason for distrusting the coolies at this
crisis. On the Monday after they left Macao ell seemed
comfortable end cheerful ; their food was plentiful and
good, and their state was well cared for, the necessary order
and discipline among them being enforced by their own
bead men exclusively. An outbreak was the last thing an-
ticipated. On the Tuesday morning, at 7 o'clock however,
three days after leaving Macao, the watch on de& being
law teed about the ship, and the guard at the port gate of the
barricade which was erected between the coolies and crew
(who dept alt), being sway from his post, the 000 lies, who had
collected on deck in large numbers, suddenly fell upon the
guard at the starboard gate, struck him on the head with an
iron belaying-pin as he was stooping down, drew out his
sword and having cat him frightfully, afterwards, with cruel
ferocity, despatched him with a hatchet. They then made a
rush through the barricade towards the cabin. While this
was
_going on aft, others of the coolies were calling " Fire,
dre," to Induce the wet* who were in the fore part of the
ship, to go down below. Fortunately the captain had ooms
on the poop just in time to see the rash sit. Henn to his
cabin, mired his revolver, and called the surgeon up. The
captain's brother armed himself also, and half a dos-n shots
put them to the rout—not before one of the crew was backed
to pieces and killed, and others wounded.
The coolies were armed with the cook's axe*, the chain
hooks, iron belaying-pins, handspikes, and every weapon they
meld lay their bands upon, and but for the sudden panic
which the unexpected shots from the revolvers produced,
it was Impossible to say what would have saved the crew.
On inquiry It turned out that a deep-laid scheme had
been pleased for killing them all and taking possession of
the ship, and it wee this design, and the crew being con-
stantly on the guard, that produced snob apprehension and
terror among them when the ship struck. _ . .

It is reported that the boats mere no more than sufficient
to says the crew, 49 in number. The ship was 300 miles
from land, and it is stated that it was impossible to raft 860
men so great a distance, much less feed them, even bad the
orses been justified or encouraged in trusting their lives to the
000BIls. forbearance. It was felt that the only chanoe of
saving even one of the unfortunate coolies was their falling
in with a ship which perhaps might be induced to go to their
assistance. AlthiJugh the longboat crossed the Mg fre-
quented pert of the China Sea, not • sail of any kind we.
mew.

MOGADO6.—By the arrival of the Peninsular and
North Aerteen Steam Navigation Compasy's steamer War-
rior, Captain Hoary Cooper, we have *deices from Testerifie
to 76th Thmember ; left there a Preach double beak steam
frigate with troop. for China, and the sailing ship Joseph
Sheppard, of London, leaky, and discharging part of her
cargo to repair damage.. Mogedor dates to the 2nd instant
by this vessel. All quiet there at that date, and the In-
habitant. evincing she best feeling towards the English.
60,000 tame, the pick of the M vriett army, are encamped
on the hills beyond Illorsdor, and ready for .ction. homier
bed AA arrived from Morocco stating that the Moors bad
takes to all 600 primers, for which the unmet. had paid
four dollars w Wed for having brought them alive to the
capital. TheWarrfor beings data• from Cadiz to the 4th, and
Lisboa the 7th Waist. Ohs ozporisooed 'tithing but melody
winds ennetei the Bety el Blsoky.