The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-20 00:00:00

TO Tag ZDITON or THI ZJOlttila.

81e,—At the Last meeting of the Meteorological
Society, Theresa Sopwlth, Esq., F.H.8., who bad restudy
Dome frmaNcetkunheriand, slated that fess informatlon he
had received, there were grounds for supplehig &et silent
number of lives had bees saved by the caution which had
been induced by attention I. the barometers on that coast.
Captain Washington, lhN., F.R.S., Hydrepapbsr of jhe
Admiralty, who had also recently visited the coast of
Northumberlaad, in a letter to the Kathie': Lisboa* Insti-
tution, bean evidence to the interest taken in the baro-
meters by fisherman, and to their watch* the monk of
its movements day by day, as shown in chart.,
like the accompany* use, whisk I seed for
your information, which has been kid down from
observations taken daffy at tit• Lashed Institution
from sea of Sairettl and Tenthres barometers during the
month of November. In additice to the fastruments on
the mad of Nortinunbarland, the National Lifeboat Judi-
tution has placed no fewer than from forty to fifty of like
ishametes, all essential ,Isy myself, at u many different
plains vowed the mask, at every one of which pkoss a
ehart laid down like the one submitted to you is exposed to
view. It is impossible to say bow many lime may have been
kr ea daily Inspection of the rig-sag We, caused by
lift youth, preseure of the atmosphere, ia cenienetion with
Me heal knowledge of Use climate of each locality possessed
*sway thlemnin, causing caution on the one hand by
the day by day falling of the line, aid certainty of the other
by the day by day rising of the line on the chart. The chart
et era awake to the eye; the past variations of the pressure
of the atmosphere are men at a glans. For iastaece, by re-
ference to the diagram I send you, it will be seen that at
the beginning of the mouth the barometer media( was low,
being 29.22 in. on the Ist day, and decreased to 29.18 in.
by the tad. It then turned to increase, and on the
4th was 29.96 in.; decreased to 19.60 io. by the next day,
sad to 29.27 in. by the Bth ; heareased to 29.73 in. by
the 12th, then fell rapidly to 29.18 in. by the night of the
13th ; but this point, the lowest in the month, is not
shown on the chart in consequence of its occurring at night.
It then increased to 29.27 in. by the 14th ; then increased
tepidly, passing the point 30 inches on the 17th,
to 30.56 in. by the 19th, or nearly me inch and • half in
six days. This was the *hem reading in the mouth. A
fall as rapid thee set in, and the reading weed below 30
inches on the 21st to 49.39 in. by the Zdrd, and from this
time to the end of the month the readings were alternately
imenerlag sad decreasing, but generally low.
The preesure of the atmosphere until the 16th, with the
exception of the 4th, was always below Its avenge ; from
the 17th to the Wilk Mb, 16th, and the 28th above, and
the remeirdng days below. The average for the month, at
the level of the see, was 23.74 in., being two-tenths of an
itiok in defog of the avenge of the month, and when
compared with the preceding twenty years, one instance
alone of lee pressure, viz, in 1852, and one of equal
pressure la 1845, are found. In all other Novembers,
eighteen in somber, the pressure of the atmosphere has
hem pester than in the past month.
The fall of rain is the month was no less than 51 inches,
exceeding the amasses for the mouth by 41 inches. In
November, 1852, 6 Lochs. of rain fell; with this exception,
the fall of rain was greater in the past month than in any
November in the preceding 45 years. Snow fell on the
wood day.
Satisfactory as it is to know that so many charts of
weather am cesetantly on view, where se math needed,
yet I mime avoid fatting that lose of life may result on
other equally exposed coasts for the want of similar inetru-
meats, for certain it is that the number of barometers re-
quires to be greatly Increased.
It will probably be remembered that fearful storms swept
over the nordreast eosin of England ore the feed, 3rd, and
14M !dam, when the lowest points marked on she axiom.
panylog chart were reached. On these occasions great loss
of life se well as destructive of property took plase. It is,
however, patifying to find that valuable ertmeees were ren-
dered during them disasters by the lifeboats at the National
Lifeboat Institution tu saving the crows of ths foliating
wankel vessels :—Sateek, Adelman*, of Harwich, 10 ;
irbum Lees, at Lowestoft, 11; schooner, Fly, of
by, saved vowel and crew a 4 hands • pilot cutter,
Whim,. of Lowestoft, 7 ; lingua Undaunted, 'of Aberdeen,
11 ; bri& Lively, of Clay, Norfolk, 6 ; barque, Robert Wat-
son, of Sunderland, 5 ; schooner, Auchincruive, of Gahm.
mouth, 6 ; and schooner. Friends, of Lynn, 4 ; total
making an aggregate total of 288 persons relieved from a
watery pave by the Waikato of the institution during, the
present year alone.-1
JAMES GLAISHEE.
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Dec. 19.

THE zsziazous BODIES AND THE AMERICAN

VIPPICULTY.

On Tuesday, the 17th inst., the general body of
protestant dissenting ministers o 1 the three denominations
residing in and about the dike cif Lambe and Westmin-
ster, met at the. Congregational Library, Noma*ld-street,
to take into coosideration the present relations of this coun-
try with the United States of America ; Rev. Profemor
Home, 11. D., in the chair.
Resolutions were uuseimously adopted deprecating war
with America aa a calamity which the body could not con-
template without "feelings of the deepest sorrow and'ilis-
may," calling upon all Christian men on either side of the
Atlantic with whom their yoke had any d,t, to use their
almost Massa, to " *My angry feeling. that the voice of
mama mid religion be not drowsed in the clamours of pas-
sion and earnestly recommending that instead of an ap-
peal to the sword, the matter in dispute should be referred
to arbinralieo, as a method snore in harmony with Christian
prised*, sad more worthy the character of two great, en•
lighissed. and kindred nation..
Os the same day, the committee of the Congregational
Union of England and Wales met specially for the same
purpose, and pawed similar resolutions. They able adopted
ao address relating to the present crisis from Eoglish con-
pegatieneliete le the aerobes of the same faith and order
on the Whir aide of the Atlantis.

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LONDON &DUTY FOX Till P/LOINCIION OF lORNO
1 FmeaLms.—At a spacial meeting of the committee of the
: Leedom Society far the Pseteetioa of Young Females, held
at the ialitatien, Tottenham, oa Wednesday, the lel-
' lowing resolutiop was pored : '• That the coninailtee
having lensed vrith the deepest Teelinp of regret that the
' Priem COLIN" the patron of WI society, depicted thkslife
on Saturday sight lsat, the 14th of this mainth, desires to
soirees its heartfelt sorrow at this sad ; and while at
feels that the society has lost a most rained (need sad bene-
factor, is would bow with humble submits:ion to the wise
awrampowata of an Almighty Providence which cant
' en. It also desires to express the profoundest feelings of
sympathy for her Most Onions lit:qesty end the members
of the royal family under this talliCLlVe bereaveamot, and
earnestly to commend them by prayer and supplication to
the kind and watchful are of our Heavenly Father, who is
too wise to err end too good to be unkind." It may be
mentioned that the scanty has lost, by death, four of its
patrons, who were members of the royal handy, viz., Queen
Adelaide, the Madsen of Gloucester, the Duke of Cam-
bridge, and the Prince Consort.
ST. PErna's Plalei AlilD INDULOINCKI3.—A gene-
ral meeting of the St. Peter's Pence Aseecirtiou was held a
day or two since, under the presidency of Sir George Bowyer,
lien., M.P. It was annouuced that 300 i. it'd been reseed
since the last returns, and would be for the ith remitted to
the Pops to meet his present exigencies. Indulgences are
to be granted in connexion with this collection aoceediag to
the following arrangement :—Firstly, there is to be a
plenary iudalgence upon the day of reception into member-
ship; also upon the let of August, the Feast of St. Peter's
Chains, the patron feast of the association ; upon the 22th
lof June, the Feast of St. Peter and St. Pauli and at the
point of death, for all the members. Secondly, an indul-
gence of seven years on any four feast days Denied by the
. ordinary. itiittal Wivemaa has appointed the four fol.
lowing days for the archdiocese :—The Feast of St. Gregory,
March 12 ; the Feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians, May
24 ; the Feast of St. Laurence, August 10 ; the Yeast of St.
Andrew, November: 0. Thirdly, au indulgence of 100 days
for every good work performed by the members of the moo.
elation. _ _

&Tatman Dam Eirsaunos.—During the next
maim ol.pailbunent the Mersey Dock board intend to
apply for power, to borrow a million sterling, in order to
make sew steam, parte., ad mrners' docks, sad to carry
out *Qs works required by the incresong trade of the
Pod,

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