The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-27 00:00:00

113202 OP TEE HAZE AND SILISTILL

CONSTANTINOPLE, JOLT l&
About area years ago three large screw steamers
were belktr the Takla government, in the Clyde. Them
were the lere, the SWAN mid the )(Idaho, For KIM
Um pest them and other government steamers have been let
to a company for the conveyance of goods end paseagers,
but with very questionable benefit to the finances of the
state, whatever may have been the result es regards the
managers of the company and the authorities at the Ad-
miralty. Intelligence has now been received of the total
loes of the Ears and Miami% the detail* publlabed by the
Constantinople journals respectleg dm latter being so re-
volting that they cannot fall to create a sensation in Europe,
end to deter, for years to come, Europeans from delis(
their lives or property on board Turkish steamers. The ist-
ootnpetenee and apathy of the captain and orew, who were
in the Turkish naval service, ma the bestiality and same
character of the Turkish peasengers, nbiedy pilgrim', call
for moms serious interference, if proved, on the pert of the
European powers. A country in whirls' s& things can exist is
unfit to be coosidered se forming pert of the comity
of nations, and unless the government ten and will put an
end to such a Mate of things the wooer it b transferred to •
stronger power, and the heritage of Use sick man divided, the
better.

The Kars, it appear', left Alexandria on the 23rd el May,
with more than 300 wimples, and baa not since been heard
of. But between Damietta and El Arish a boat haa been
found with a small flag Man ibed Kars, and several dead bo-
dies, so that a total loss is famed. It waa, however, stated a
few days ainee that she had reached Cyproa, bat this needs
confirmation.

The Silistria, on it. °alined voyage, had acquired an
unenviable notoriety, a young Rosie* passenger having
made his escape from her at Beyront, through the interfe-
rence of the Rosa= consul, having been subjected to most
bestial violence on the part of the captain and his crew.
The Safari* left Aluandriafor Constantinople on the 231
of Inas, with about 350 persona on hoard. The met day,
about noon, a loud crash was heard among the timbers of the
ship, and the engine stopped. It was shortly set in motiqn
again, by whose orders is not known, and the crash wessmain
heard, the screw was broken, sad the water was entering the
hold rapidly. The bed condition of the machinery had been
entsrktd on at Alexandria, and eves, it is raid, at Constan-
tinople, where the oplaisers formerly employed in the Kars
left her. For as low welkin was done towards stopping
the leek, but at last a Remiss meager as board roads hie
way to the hole and attempted to stop It with tarred hemp,
which probe* prevented the ship from sinking tepidly,
The captain embraced him when he came on deck, and re.
lapsed into his former state of bewildered incompetence.
The same 'spines' found the tap of a bilge pump, but there
wee no hose, and it was consequently useless--ice fact, with
the Gumption of a pump on deck, out of order, no means
existed of clearing the ship of water, and they had to take
off the after skylight end empty, or try to empty, the cabins
by buckets.

Not a soul of the mew or Turkish paseengera affaded the
least assistance, and the pump was manned and the buckets
worked by the European passenger* and 28 Austrian sailors
who were on board. The crow refusing to work, there were
two few to keep the water under, and it soon began to enter
at the stern ports. An unsuccessful 'Unapt was made to
stop the leak by passing a tarpaulin under the keel, and the
eeptain at last consented to throw over part of his cargo and
coals. The danger Decease mote and mete evident, and then
the Turkish peonage's, in a paroxysm of stupid fanaticism
apparently, rose on the Earopeans and threatened them with
their pistols end daggers if they attempted to speak to the
I captain.

The night of the 25th was employed in Ineessamt labour as
regard. the Europeans, while the Tnritiah crew also ow the
deck. Oa the morning of the 26th aa Egyptian government
brig laden with wood, commanded by Reis Ibrahim, hove in
sight, bound for Alexandria. The captain of the Silistria
sent on board offering hint an indemnity if he would abandon
his cargo sad take the passengers of the steamer on board,
and endeaveur to tow her in to Alexandria. The Egyptian
would do nothing, except oast them a tow rope, having pro-
bably little faith in the promises of the respectable Mustafa
Bey.

This iadividnal did not even know where he we., for there
wee so chronometer on board, not even a sextant, and only
one compass. He marched about with a pistol la each hand,
threatening all who approached the boats which he had
towered and guarded by marine/. About five in the evening
the women were at length allowed to go on bond the brig,
and in the course of the night Bald Nobs, the Turkish
Commissary at Djeddsh, followed with his mite,
carefully removing all his effects, including a water melon,
but the three boats which conveyed him did not return to the
steamer. The captain of the brig mill refused to abandon
hie cargo, and finally cut the tow rope, going off with the
boats, and leaving the Maria to her fate.

Then came a horrible scene of pillage and violence, the
Turks plundering the baggage of the Europeans, in which
they were joined by the crew, And a regular saturnalia
ensued. They then seisid the sole remaining boat, throwing
into the sea the Europeans who attempted to embark, end
cutting off the head of a young Austrian with an axe, in the
melee, On the 27th the wake had reached the bulwarks, and
theworkers were exhausted. Happily the Egyptian brig reap-
pawed, the boars canoe back, and a mem piper ocnn-
menced, but the freedom Turkish passengers opposed (very
attempt on the part of the Europeans to save those who were
exhausted by the labour at the pumps. Shortly after, the
Silistria went down, with 77 mesons= board, the brig carry-
ing into Alexandria 273 pteseerere and sailors, the
Europeans being exposed during the purge to the violence
and brutality of the Turks. A commission of inquiry has been
opened at Alexandria ea to the muses which led to this
disaster, which will leave on the minds of all to whom the
mails become known, en impression which the Turks will
do well to endeavour to remove by serious reforms. A corn.
mission is appointed Lure elm, and on the arrival of the
survivors an inquiry will be held, the preceding account com-
ing from Egypt, and if through a Greek source, as is pro-
bable, the Turks justly observe that it needs some confirma-
tion.

The electric csble is laid between ChM and Smyrna, about
thirty miles on the Smyrna side being overland. A message
we. received yesterday in about seventeen hours, and In
about a month ft will be open to the public, and Smyrna,
steer hutummable delays, will be in
_eozontimication with all
Europe. . _ _

The Sultan does not decide on his journey until Beturday
week, the astrologers being probably responsible for the
delay.
The sovereign has risen to 164, having been u low u 156
within the last this. days.

SUPPOSED MIDIDEE ON BOARD SHlP.—Advier a
from Boston, Jaly IS, say, "The United States
cutter, William Appleton, Lieutenant-Commander Randolph,
arrived at Key IN ere cm the 26. h ult., trout a cruise ro the
south-eta cart of Florida. She brings the mate and two
seamen of the echo. nee eisterprism, of New Orleans, loot on
the Bth inst., on Hilaboro' inlet. The men are charged wleh
the murder of Captain Morientes and the robbery of Lit
Wants, and with runuiag the vessel on shore, after throw-
lag the captain oveibmrd. Thi y say the ovoid woe bound
from Havana to Carthmereno, and that she au to brig, s
cargo of Indiana, who were to he sold as slaves on their
arrival at Hewing; that when off [filiation? Captain Mort-
imer accidentally fell overboard, and while they ware endea-
vouring to Moe him the schooner .truck ; that they, on finding
the vessel would be a wreck, were obliged to abandon the cent. in
so his fate; and that dier getting the moveables from the
vessel on chore, they broke open the captain's track took the
specie, and divided it equally mesa them. Afterwards
they launched the longboat, furnished her with s oail, pro-
visioned her, end set mail down the coast. At Jupiter heir
they saw the United States 'chooser Delaware, sad were
token on board. To Captain Owen they mid nothing about
the robbery of the money, but told the moil of the captain's
death and the vowel's lose. One of Captain Owen's crew
discovered a belt heavily loaded with moory upon the ',trim
of one of the men, and revealed the fact. They were not
anted until Lieutenant Randolph came up with his cutter,
when Captain Doane gave them into hie chirpy merrier
two, who, fearing that they were inspected of arum, had at
night taco their boat and made their make. There are
semeral very suspicious cirasmuano,s about the affair, which
bed the authorities hare to believe that murder u well as
robbery his has maitted. Comarierkser Brown has bad
as assminedom sod committed them for trial. I,,eutenant
Readolph seerched the men after the street, and found over
1,000 dais., la gold secreted uses them. The two who
escaped
_hove goes op the west most, sad wEI no doubt be
bresMuled, ea the cutter is es emir tweak."
ROBBERY AT THE SCARBOROUGH MUBEUN.—
Daring fluoday night, or early as Monday morning, the
!kerb...suet Museum as. entered by thieve.' who took away
all the valuable gel l and silver miss, Whin weeper.' set is
gold and verbose stones, sad other arileles. Ore of the
tympana wee shaped like s miens Jr chasm. The miss.
leg coins Mande British edam of the time of Canute
Herold 11., Envy 11. end II 1., • peas, of the time of Ed.
ward the Black Prince, • g4d snored of the time of Ricked
111., • be 61. gold pawls, a 11. gold steer, • 10s. niece. and a
aver ds., le. Id., sod la. phone; mew reels fromTaiga-
robe ; mom end lalf.arcrerms Wdliam sad Misty, '
Clams AN" said severel of the period of Carlo, lames,
smith, Comm. nwealtb. The gold was tors away tem ems
ult the scabbards of the swords, the matte only bawls. liii. '

Lab) itittlttgenct.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Joty 28.
APPBALB.
DlOlttflqyfell DrI.OICS.

At half-put thr;;;O7clOC"kr the—feaseri-70—g divorce one was
bronght!hdore the house. kwaa n petition from Edward
Dicionsoo, a Nugent is the RM. Kan India Company's
Civil &nice, in the PAM Indite, 'riming that his marriage
with Fisatietta Lordsa, his wife, might be dissolved on the
mound of her adultery. No coped appeared for the peti-
tioner ; and the proceedings of the differnat courts in the Suet
Inter having been gat in,
The Lord Chancellor, in moving that the bill be read a
second time, elated that, notwithstanding the establiehment
of the Divorce Court, in which persona domiciled in Ragland
might sue for dissolution of marriage, even where the adul-
tery was committed elsewhere, yet where, as in this case, all
the parties raided odt of the jarisdielion et the English
courts, it wee competent to them, and necessary,
that they should prowled as before, by bill in
parliament. In the pwat cam, the petitioner Dr.
Dickinson, was ma, an the 9th of August, 1861, to
Miss lienriela Louisa Hughes, at St. *Benue's Church,
Hammersmith, In the county of Middlesex. In 1864 they
west from Madras to Rangoon, whore Dr. Dick:neon filled
the appointment of civil souneen. and at that time they bed
one child. There wee great difficulty in getting a amiable
house at Rangoon to acoommodate en English lady. and Dr.
Dickinson and his wife went to reside temporarily at the
house of Captain Henry Peach Keighly, then execative
engineer of Rangoon, and a widower with seven children.
Th lived there during the remainder of 1864 and part of
1865, during which time a second child was born According
to the evidence, Dr. Dickinson wee kind and &freedmen, to
hie wife, and also mode every effort to obtain a house for
himself without success. In consequence of some &oust-
stances that came to his knowledge he was anxioue to remove
from Captain Keighly's house, although be had no reason to
believe that any impropriety had taboo place between him
sad his wife. On the night of the 19th of Juno, 1855, he
stated to hie one his intention to remove her from the boom
of Captain Keithly, upon which she refused to go, saying
that she loved Captain Keighly too well to leave him, and
all his efforts to induce her to leave being in vain, he left
with his surviving child and his servants, and never lived or
cohabited with his wife afterwards. On his lesviog, Captain
Eighty and Mrs. Dielloson proceeded to live together in
adultery, which wart fully proved. Dr. Dickinson had ob-
tained a verdict and damages 7,000 rapes., which hod been
paid in an action for ammul convereatitot, and a divorce
I maul et thole is the Boelesinatical Court in Beogel.
All these fees having been duly proved, the petitioner wea
entitled to have the prayer of his bill granted.
Tha bill was theorem(' a mooed time.