The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-15 00:00:00

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XL -SHERIDAN KNOWLES ESIOWNSD. .
We have already reworded the lone of the anew
straws Amain the Baler A trepans received by the
mem gives the follow* lit 4, the drowned :—Of the!
clew—Turnbull (the mate), Lavers& (steward), Smith and
Neel (fire**, and Birkman (the stewerdeo). Passengers—
Xr. Sheridan Knowles .(dramatist), Mies Reeding, and Mrs.
Betterworth and child, 'nig cones have also received the
following particialarstrom Versestaßonea, who, writing from
Harbors, near Lemsig, Juelsete Oat lid mays :
" It is with feelings of the alp* 'beret that I have
to announce to . you the Will Are of your ens
steamer the Antic, at this plefroorrldeli beepened nadir
the following clrcumetancee :-aI lgettGeiemby on Tuesday
morning at six a.m., with • Most favourable prospect of a.
fine passage, the wind being at S.W. It continued fine
and moderate until Wednesday,, 3rd inst., when at.
six a.m. sprung up a stiff the W.& W., so
that the ship west pleasantly skeet allareon, I fond by.
observation and sounding Montville:l*i aide • good
course, she being then in 147 46 Os" 714 inii• N.,
%Ot and tweuty-five fathoms water, 80 to 90 miles
from the mainland. At one p.m. on a most terrific
ils= pie from the NW ~ which heavy eras to
break on board, whit* waledV Mar la the
doors aid bunker holes to *WIC titatile
ware immediately ettiageislied. dabhip *ea •
unmanageable, the wind Wawa/taw& neverythina in await
catch hold of. All hands were immediately set to work
with buckets, as we could not get any of the pumps to
work, to try and bail it out, bat the water pined on them,
so that by morning the engine room wee nearly full
Everything was done by the officers and crew that could be
done, but all was of no avail to save the vessel, for she
drifted fat down before the gale on ahe shore. At eight
me. the gale rather more moderate, tried to set the fore.
Sepal, bat it blew away, so that I could only get two or
three fore and aft mails set, which were sot of much tor
de 10 a.m., saw the land distant about twelve or fourteen
idles, thee prepared the anchors, which were let go about
servo or eight miles from the land, but she would not look
at them. I thee thought I would slip the cables end let
her go as high on the beach ea possible, for the safety
of all on board, so 1 went down along with the mare
Is try to do so, but could not get the end adrift, and
*Ting the time I was down she struck on an cater
reef with about 31 feet on it, when she must have
started some of her plates, for she immediately filled aft
and began to natio down in deep water. I rushed aft to
toy *diet all free the cabin to the fore end of the ship,
it berg** the eider plods, bat by lea time I got to the
bridges teemisedeen we* auk ea sad covered the sten,
meth* easy lont ol the Ammaka andemen seeped- Yr.
Bkeeidas Inswim. MM Reeding. Mee. 'Butterworth and
child, and the stewards's, were all drowned. We then all
got to the foremast es quick as possible, with the excep-
tion of Mr. Turnbull, the chief mate, and a fireman
named John Smith, who jumped overboard and was
drowned immediately. The mate was drowned in hie
shin. There were thee seventeen of us, crew sad
pansugers, in the foretop, and five in the maintop.. It
wee then four p.m. on the 4th inst., and there we remained
tuttil four p.m. on the following day, having had to
endure the horrors of a long night in our wet clothes, it
blowing and raining all the time. The ship was lying in five
fathers of water, about three-quarters of a mile from the
/sad, and the puck ea shore could render us no assistance
' aril it begeb Ia laadinate, which wee not until noon of the
Mirk, sod at 4 p*.•tissyneansged to get the lifeboat off*
es. I than got 14 intothe boat aloog with myself, and she being
not rep enough to carry more was obliged to go on shore,
where we safely landed; but the boat in coming on shore the
second time capsized in the surf, when the steward, a fire-
man named Neil, and an English gentleman named Mr.
Earle, who was residing here, were all drowned. It wee
mainly through his ureic* that the boat was got off at
1 ma None of es saved anything but the clothes we stood
fa. Thesseseurow abut ewe liar at achkese agin, balm lg.
twist, and a few light eases wombed onshore. As for ship's
shores there is only the deck work, and it is all broken to
pieces. The ship is broken in two, and should she break to
pieces there might be something washed on shore ; but I
a. mot think that will be for some time yet. It will be
searesary to seed a copy of the manifest here, so as to know
;wefts& the cargo belong. At present it is all in sharp
der enstonehouse officers. We are all at present under
themes of Mr. C. B. Chula, Lloyd's agent for this district.
I snit a telegram, which I have no doubt you have re.
solved. I await your reply and instructions. I shall get
the mew end off es soon as possible."

THE LITE MR SHERIDAN KNOWLES.

The late Mr. James Sheridan Knowles, whose
death, oa • voyage from Hull to Cromitadt, as above nar-
rated, we regret to record, was born at Cork, in 1784. Hie
father, a lecturer and teacher of elocution, when him eon
IJamee warn about eight years old, removed to London, where
the latter soon began to manifest both dramatic inclination
and dramatic ability. At the age of twelve he wrote •
drama for a company of juvenile performers, and soon after-
w•ode an opera. While still • boy he was iatroduced to the
Lae William Rani* of whose criticism and advice he for
rmeatly availed himself in the oompisition of hie earlier playa.
After residing about 14 years is Louden he removed to llubLe,
aad in that city be made his first appearance as an actor. In
this character he was anything but successful, and, after
one or two failures, he for some time relinquished all ambi
Lion in this direction. After the publication of a small
volume of poems he west to red& set Belfast, when he
gave lessons in nineties sad grammar. lie still cratiased,
however, to write for the slap, and a play, Caine °mochas,
produced about this thee, was played with great morns ;
and being reproduced in London in 1845, where Mr.
Meczeady performed the priaa4•l character, brought the
gather Into amain seam. Dories the next twenty mare
al his life Mr. Knowles wrote • long series of playa, some
of which—esch as The Henotteck and The Low Chao—
are still deservedly popular. in SW he for • sheet
bar appeared again on the boards ; and is 1836
he paid • visit to Antrim In 1849 ► peados el 2001.
per anaem was conferred upon him by the late Sir
Hobert Peel. Subsequently he was appointed Curator el
Shakespeare's Hume at flleatford-oa-Avon. Daring the
latter years of his life he entirely gave up writing far the
stage, and turned his attention to theology, occasionally, we
believe, officiating in • b•ptisl minister. Mr. Knowles pub-
hailed one or two stories, by which be did not achieve much
reputation, while se • dramatist he aas perhaps the most
pepsine writer of his time.

PAlACL—Siittirday lark was a epeoial
shaug day at the Crystal Palace, iaterded to afford a treat
to the eldidess of the metropolitan =boob, from whim is
formed the Metropolitan Schools Ohoral Society, whose
psitormancre under the eordacket Mr. blartiu have afforded
se mach eidisfactien to the public, and evideaced the im-
smines progress which has taken place in late years in the
poptabeiration of a taste for guanine meek. The programme
for the day inehaled performances by the Crystal Palace
band, the drum and file hand of the Greedier Guards, the
bead of the Royal Military Asylum, and also those of the
Sebald of Indmtry, Norwood, and of the children's meta.
inslinient, LIM& MPS, and the sweat of Mr. H. Colwell,
fs hls war balloon, "Mars." The principal attramice,
however, was a concert in the Handel orchestra by 3,000
&Urea helms* to the various schools in the metropolis,
who owe their musics/ training principally to the indefatigable
exertions of Mr. G. W. Mediu, the conductor of the
Metropolitan Schools Choral Society. This gentleman, unfor-
tanakily, awing to the recent death of his sister, was unable
to be present, but his place was very ably supplied by Mr.
H. CerviU, the master of the Liman's-um Choir SchooL
The pieces rung were selected from the programme of the
Ioth June last, and included those favourites. "
the Sabbath bells ;" " The little bird r The cuckoo?
" The last rose of summer ;" " Romans be. Several of
the pieces ware vociferously moored. As we before mated,
the chief object of the promoters of the concieet was to
afford a treat to the school children of the metropolis, com-
paratively few adults were therefore present in the or-
gisgenl/2 b,a, what was hereby lost in harmony was =
usesas we have soldom heurd a more
obeerielles of the -words of the various songs than wis did
cla
RV".
Birkeahead magistrates have committed a
siresat girl named Elisabeth Black for trial on a charge of
Ilsessolozelit of birth. The child was still-born, and was
g bolded in the sand on the shore at Trimmers.

THE GREAT EISTERN-7TS POSITION AND:
PROSPECTS.

Du ' the last week the directors have, it is
undenl received from the New Ifirk assignees of the:
great ship the sum of 14,000 L, but have not yet received the
accounts whisk will enable them telesdge as to the financial
results of the trip. le fe, however, expected that the
receipts from passengers amp visitors will very nearly
balance the expenses. There is no probability of the ship
making another voyage mail the next spring ; the tides will
not admit of moving her off the gridiron at Milford, even if
it were desirable she should be Mated, until about Christ-
teas next. The certificate granted by the shipping de-
partment of the Board of Trade, in accordance with the
provisions of the Mercantile Marine Act, was for six
months from the date of her leaving liouthamptee, and
will expire early in November. This certificate will not
be renewed until the bearings of the screw shaft are put is
the same position as they were previous to the trip to
New York, sod when that is done the surveyors will give a
certificate limited to one voyage to and from America. On
the return, however, the Board of Trade will require a num-
ber of improvements' of a permanent character necessary to
replace the inferior materials and workmanship employed
under previous contracts. The works include a new timber.
deck, the present one being so thin and so badly laid that
the water width doss not remain is pools oa the surface pears
ia copious showers into the saloon and cabins. The
for the *mew shaft, for replacing the
new injectiounTeeircedl pips. by other modes of supplying the
jbeilees, the warming apparatus, and otherdetails,will involve
an outlay oilcans Sheen ese, limey thousand pimp*. The
examiastiewef the skip made by the surveyors of the Board
of Trade has shown that the hall has sustained no injury
Whatever, that not a plate has moved nor a rivet started ;
but that in a feversiee where thOpaint bite been rubbed off
the plates have beam owrodedraway soma minute fades° of
as inch. After receidag the Aiwa} report of the Board of
Trade, and the reply to .tlie approldron of the company with
respect to the renewal of the Beier, the directors decided
upon cenferriag witk node el the principal shareholders as .
to the course to be adopted. The attempt to get the ship
ready for sea at a comparatively shoft entice would have
involved a tepetitica of that hurried sort of work which has
uniformly been followed by fresh, demands for alterations
and improvements, and which has the disadvantage of being
net only badly performed bee of requiring to be•paid for'
at most exorbitant rates. it was the unanimous opinion of
directors and shareholders that, merely for the purpose
of making a voyage to and from America, such an expen-
diture would not he prudent, and it wee resolved, as
we stated last week, to reduce all the expenses to the mini-.
mum, and lay the ship up until some well-considered plane
bad been devised, and sufficient time afforded for entering
into the °gadgets to place the ship in a thoroughly efficient,
condition. The preparations for the last voyage to New
York were made hurriedly and paid for exorbitantly, the
priacipal reason Ise them on being to enable the
ship to reach New York in the mouth of duly, as 80010 great
authorities in American affairs had secured the director'
that great results might be anticipated if it arrived
there daring the celebration of the independence fetes.
From various causes, however, these predictions were not.
realised; the amount received for exhibiting the ship was
not equal to what had been anticipated ; and so far as
the receipts from passage money was concerned, they were
more than nominal. Considerable outlay bad bee*
incurred in fitting up cabins, and providing for the
wants of ten times sa many inesengers all were carried either
on the outward or homeward voyage. The public con-
fidence in the merits et the ship, lost at the time of the
explodes, had not bias' tulilciently restored, and two or;
three voyages, suck as *Ma which have already been made
across e AWntic, apparnecessary in order to give faith
is the undoubted and fbdsputable see-going qualities of the'
ship. The financial_ position of the company is not very
satudactorje The 100,000/. of preference capital raised six
mouths since has been received, and almost entirely ex-
pended. A sum of 40,0001, and interest was required to
pay off the existing mortgage, and some pressing liabilities.
were also liquidated. Added to these items, there is now
the award against the company ou Mr. Scott Russell's claim
of 18,0001. Thepayment of this the directors are advised•
to resist, and steps will be taken as early as possible to set
aside the award on various grounds, among others that it
contains matter act included in the original order of
reference. In the event of the company having to pay this,
sum, additional capital will be required. The directors will,
it is stated, issue a report to the shareholders early next
week, which will, no rht, 'Mord more complete informa-
tion respecting the facts shove stated, the position of the
company, and the course which they are prepared to room-,
mend for adoption.

r the ant-

'ie.:B-464'M0 el-'basieli-ii4b•-list were noes
doted with comparatively lithe interruptive upon the
whole, although after the conclusion of that in the evening
there was a disturbance within the church which, occurring
is any other religious edifies, would have been considered
drafraerauL The Rev. Mr. Hansard, who has the pro.
vistaed cure of the perish, read the prayers and
ketone ; and an extempore mermen, which had for
He object to intakes, the idea of the all•perved-
ing love of God, was afterwards preached by the Rev.
Francis Garden, M.A., Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal,
Whitehall. Now and then there watt an attempt during the
&manual part of the service, and at the conclusion of the
Lemons, to provoke a general cough, by • handfull of ill-
membered people, apparently acting in concert, who had
contrived to wont themselves together in trout of the reading
desk, bet it was • comparative failure, a better feeling per-
vading She
_pessal body of the congregation. The sermon
was rairaldirely Ilitened to throughout. Among the emigre-
gales was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who occu-
pied a met is the churchwardena' pew. For some time
'at the concludes of the service, the ill-dimmed pert
of the compregenee seemed loath to leave the church.
' and once the -appearance of things was rather alurming.
A crowd of people, by chance or design, got hemmed
up in a comer in frost of the vestry door into which
the clergyman had retired, and created en uneesedy
uproar for some little time, the object of which was
hardly intelligible. Numbers who were leaving the church
relowned to see what was the matter, thus malting " me-
fusion worse conloweded ; " ethane stood up on the seats or
J umped from pew to pew • while the malcontents in front
of the vestry gave °swami°, to their dissatelection, what-
ever it was, in tones of angry altercation, which rang
through the building. But at eight of the portly figure of
Podeednerecter Allison, who was present during the ser-
=team elotras, aral who comato quell thedisturhance,
by the churchwardens, salesmen, and beadles, the
peoplegradually dispersed and retired from the church.
Mr. Gladstone witneseed the some from the churchwardens'
pew, sad did not leave the edifice until order was being
reelored.
THE SOPTH-EAITERN APPROACH TO COVENT-
, GAIDEN.—On Friday the occupiers of those premise. in
' Tevistookatreet which are required for the south-eastern
=6ll to Cover -.-gardeu (an extension of Burleigh.ereet,
were served with notices of removal. The materials
of the oases will be sold in a few drys. and the sites
cleared for the improvements. The new street will be •
great boon to growers, as will, when it is com-
pleted, avoid the steep assent of Wellington-rarest North.
THE SWuiu Or THI PIaIDCLUS. —ln individuals,
in communiaers, in portable. in little country towns, in
great nations, from hour tallow, from week to week, from
century to tuatara' the pendulum swings toned fro. Front
yes se the one side to no on the other side of ramie all coa-.
ceivable questions, the pendulum swings. Sometimes it
swinge over from vete no in • few hours or days ; sometimes
it takes centuries to put front the one extremity to the
other. In feeling, in taste, in judgment, in the grandest
matter' and the least, the pendulum swinp. From popery
to Puritanism; from Puritanism lack towards t
1 from imperialism to republicenisna. sad bask tower:T:7w
Maisel n ; from Gothic architecture to Palladian and
from Palladian back to Gothic • from hooped petticoats to
!=of the scantlera me hem that backwards to the
dirtaus crinoline ; from crying up the science of arms
to crying it down, and back; from the schoolboy telling
yea fast his computes Brows is the a fellow, to the
eatielley fillapng yea that Brown labeme.
=We
sad back il ; from My sarrisges to veryow ones
and teak; ftun very dint to very long ones and
bade sods—the psninlint raings. In matters of serious
jlt it Is cermawliby to discern the rationale
orCoscilLition r side aide. It is that the evils of
what is present are ~y left, while the evils of what is
anent are forgetten ; rod so when the pendulum has
' swung over to A, the evils of A send it flying over to 13,„
while when it reaches B the evils of B repel it again to A.
In matters of feeling it is less may to discover the how and
why of the preemie; we can do no niers than take refuge
in the general belief that nature loves the swing of the
pendulum. Thera are people who at on. time have an ex-
aminee affection for some friend and at another take •
violent disgust at him: and who (them* sometimes per-
marantly remaining at the latter point) escalate between
them positive and negative point. You, being a sensible
me would not feel veey% if sass ISM were lonoduli
crying you uwpod:;rbyeou would
loudlyaryinvey% sure Ihlaft in a
yon siliit
ever happen to feel for one day an extraordieery lightnees
and exhilaration of spirits you must know that you mud
pay for all'this the price of corresponding depresitiou---the
hot fit must be counterbalanced by the eold.—Fraser's
illepasine for October.
tAdvartieentent.l-110LLOWAT'a OINTMENT Mtn
Pll.ML—Hiperience teachoth wisdom.—The woman count of
mated des awarded* idloways remedies the palm for oar-
ing mast comp'duts whether external or internal. During the
PEA Omen ef a
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thousands have borne willing Watt-
OW ha then elkining la alleviating the sufferings of mankind.
cad la swift from Me human Andy the drat cause of dense.
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MONIMOINEm iftillymoeu and others, humanely
utehing over the welfare of the poor. atte,tang their neffits,
WWI 11001illtIfilr SCICIROVIsdied throughout the whole ehluesa
wesid. lig asksted by widow and esperienee.