The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-23 00:00:00

APPALLING SCENE ON A WINDERVIII,E

STEAMER.

Os Tuesday, in nousulueuce of the large number
el eseaniewista from Preston for Windermere, and the
cheap trains thither from other towns, Bownese was very
mai memded, and the three steamers on the lake were
leaded with passengers from the various landing places,
wards= te view the beauties of the locality, and to
wiry the pismire af • mil on the Queen of the Lakes.
Oee et the do Of the Windermere Steam Yacht tom.
:oat.
y the lady at the lake, left the pier at Boomer for
•mkleefisy at • quarter pest twelve o'clock, with deck end
ashie pemisegars, variously estimated at from 3/0 to Mk.
bug eowddsrably MOM than the legal number, and more
than she was able to carry. Persona left behind ea
rprilerrwere astounded to see her lurching and rolling on
the inter Es though in • heavy ma, as she passed low
the paddlewheels being alternately lifted entirely out at
the wager, Before she had proceeded a mile on her Jamey
WSW made its appearance in the cabin, to the eurpries
of the pasesegers and this surprise was heightened
to eionetweatien. and even to terror with some, when
they fined that it increased in height. The rebut pee
sews embed on deck in • state of the wildest alarm,
the lea= shrieking for help, and the panic became Ude-
satibahle, whet. the trey that the vessel was sinking went
through the dense mem of people on deck. The captain
W seeseteined boyocel doubt that the vessel had sprung
a sucker leak, ran her whore 00 the lenceshire ode at
the lake, where the Hawkaworth road approaches the
water, end • little to the north of Careen's Island.
Here the cenfecion became worse confounded, some of
the pessingen leaping into the water and struggling to get
ashore, te the imminent risk of their lives, and many
received severe ejrsir and brunet. Two females were
Nair*aserss is the water, one of them being the
deteghtar if Hr. Peen:day, of Lune-street, Prestoa, who
kept hate the Ike from sheer terror ; happily, both were
safely mewed. The majority, however, were got
ashore without either bruise or immersion. The passengers
remeleed en the hank of the lake until the returnee steamer
bus Andiseide, it having been signalled for by the SWIM.
Addle of the ainkiag vessel, came up and took them a for
Dolma Tketright of the passengers was greatly inc reued by
the enapiaten that the holler had burst. This arose from
the eutinetias of the fire by the water, which rose rapidly
after the haw was discovered. The great volume of
deem thee created caused the same feeling to be shared by
perminee heard the other versale ma the lake, who, when
=is:w the steamer run ashore, were convinced sums
ankient had occurred.

Blomlin, of Niagara celebrity, arrived at South-
ampton Wm zooming from Now York.

ANOTH/LI CULNOLL/II ACCIDINT accident
occurred yesterday at the mediates of Mr. X Ward,
Sousersereetteet, Whitechapel, which, it is feared, will ter.
mimeo fatally to Miss PluebeCrinley, aged 114. Tu. unfor-
tunate sufferer is weak in intellect. Her chiseller took firs,
and she me from the kitchen into her bed-room, enveloped
in flames. Her screams brought assistance, and she was
conveyed to the London Hospital, where every assistance
was rendered, but nut the alighted hopes are entertained of
her recovery.
RAILWAY Couturreme.—ln their report to the
Committee of the House of Commons, jest presented by
the Admiralty, on the South Yorkshire Cuenpany's Exten-
sion, the undertaking is approved of, on coalition that the
pro posed railway •iaduct &crow the Trent is constructed
with two openingsof rill feet span each, soil that the other
bridge be constructed on plans approved by the Admiralty.
The same requirements are also insisted upon from the West
Midland and Severn Valley Railway in the construction of
their line over the Severn. A committee is appointed to sit
and consider the following bills, on the reeseembling of the
house :—Neweastle.on.Tyn• Railway Extensions, North
Eastern Railway Extensionsand Amalgamation, Carlisle and
Silloth Bey Railway, Cleveland Railway, and West Hattie.
pool Railway. The total number of schemes for eaeryieg
out the Thames Embankment and Ittilway before the com-
missioner, amounts to about 40, :mil it is stated that in the
event of their recommending to parliament the construction
of an embankment between Westminster and Loodon-bridge,
they will couple with that recommendation another for the
embankment ..f the river to a still greater extent both above
and below bridge.
A nivel •I AL PROPAOATION OF SALMON. —Sron-
troxxwino PONDIL--flu Saturday last Mr. liuieß Super-
intendent of Fishing, accompanied by Mr. Bertram,
Edinburgh, visited the ponds at Stormondeld, for the
purpose of giving instructions respecting the migration of
, the admen fry into the Tay, as during the previous week
the keeper of the ponds had observed strong nidisigions of
a desire for freedom on the part of the finny tribe. On the
sluices being raised, • large number of smote, of good
size and flee condition, got into the reservoir at the
side of the river, as also one trout, which had been
kept in ward for three years, in order to afford
evidence as to whether the salmon fry will
grow in heels water without going to the sea. The fish,
however, was found to he only as large spin as an ordinary
smolt. The parrs in the ponds, of the same age as the
smelts, were only about the sins of minnows, with, however,
the parr murk clearly defined. The ova of the fry, sent
into the river on Siturday, was taken from salmon aloae,
awl was depeeited in the boxes between 15th November and
the 13th Deember. 1.159. The ova deposited is estimated
to have produced 210,000 fish. As already 'gated, the ova
in the boxes was wholly that of rinse, yet only about one.
h.ilf of the fry have reached the roodition smoke ; the
other moiety have all the appearance of continuing, as usual,
porn for another year. This is, perhap., the net impor-
tant feature is last year's opecttions. it may be added that
the smote emit from the ponds into the river are fully as
large and well-coodittotred as those which have been bred in
the open river. —Selessais.
11. Proutlhon's long expected book, "La Paix
et la Game," is to be published to-day at Paris.
The San Francisco papers may that the richest
gold mines yet discovered are the Pine Alto mines, in the
Amman temtory. They are lasted on the summit ..f the
Sierra Metre, and are densely wooded with tall pine trees.
Soon after they were iliscov.re, what was • howling
waste became peopled with :t,OOO inhabitants.
The lIONO trade between the Anatnilian porta
and the Indian markets still continues to nourish. Two
splendid horses, the Relaelava and Ahgrs Khali. have re-
costly been introduced jet° Adelaide from India for the
parpese of ages breeding and improviag the Australian
imenne. •
Lontoox GIRRiltaL UtlsllCa COMPANY (LIMIT/0).
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