The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-31 00:00:00

BRITISH SYRIAN RELIEF FUND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS.
811,—Will you kindly give publicity to the fol-
lowing letter received this day from his Excellency the
Governor-General of India?-1 am, be.,
CYRUS R. EDMONDS, Secretary.
12, York-buildings, Adelphi, Jan. 30.
" Camp, Benams, Dec. 9.
" Sir,—Your letter of the 10th of October, and the papers
accompanying it, did not reach me until three or four days
ago, 1 will take steps immediately towards acting upon the
appeal made in it.
Very soon after the first news of the massacres and
atrocities perpetrated upon the Syrian Christians readied
Calcutta, a subscription for the relief of the sufferers W. 04
set on foot in Calcutta by Mr. Fitzwilliam the manager of
the Mercantile Bank in that city. Ido not know the parti.
cedars of the subscription, whether it has been local or
general, and whether collections still continue to be made,
ion' at the distance at which lam from Calcuttait would
take some time to obtain this information, but I believe
that Mr. Fifer/Slim has remitted about eight hundred
pounds to the Ottoman Bank at Beyrout for dignbution
through the Anglo-American Relief Committee.
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" I will write to Sir Bartle Frere, the President of the
Council in Calcutta, who will readily communicate with
Mr. Fitswilliatn, and you shall be informed hereafter of
the measures which it may seem advisable to take in reply
to your appeal It is one which needed no apology, remem-
bering, as we in India do, the prompt and large generosity
with which our distresses three years ago were met tint-
versally.—l am, Sic., "CANNLYG.
"To Sir Culling Eardley, Bart.,
Syrian Relief Fund, London."

FATAL STEAM SHIP COLLISION.—SIX LIVER LORI.
—The particulars of a serious steam ship collision, involving
the leas of a vessel and six of her crew, have been received
at Uovd's. The unfortunate ship was the Magyar, Captain
Beer, belonging to Exmouth, and on the afternoon of the
26th she left Hartlepool for the Ere. Between amen and
eight o'clock the same evening, when off Whitby, she was
run into by the Rouen screw steamer, which was on a
voyage from London to the Tyne. Such was the fearful
diameter of the collision that the brig immediately began
to fill. A seaman named Graves, who was at the wheel
at the time, succeeded in getting on board the
Ronan. The jolly boat was then launched with
the view of saving the crew of the sinking brig, Shut before
she could be got alongside, the Magyar went down,
with her Captain Beer, the master ; his mate, and cr.t/Trnci
the crew. A lad stated to be the captain's son was picked
up by the brig Mary, of Yarmouth but the state of the
weather prevented his being put eels:aid the steamer. The
Rouen remained near where the catastrophe had happened
for some time, with a view of rendering assistance, and then
Meefed on her voyage. It is stated that when the col-
iiecurred, Captain Beer called to his hands to jump
' on beard the steamer,butonly one succeeded in doing so. The
brig is insured.
BURNING or THE LILLY Dam—On Tuesday
evening a despatch was received from Holyhead announc-
ing the destruction by fire of the ship Lilly Dale, boned
from Liverpool to Bombay. The vessel left Liverpool
for East India on the 21st inst., with a large general cargo ;
but she must have made but little progress in getting
out of the Channel, as early on Tuesday morning she
was observing making for Holyhead, showing signals
of distress. A stuam-tug wax sent out, when it was
found that the ship was on fire, and at about nine o'clock
a.m. the seams of her upper deck emitted large quanti-
ties of smoke. In the meantime, however, ,reparations
were being made for scuttling her ,• and the tug-boat, having
succeeded in getting a hawser on hoard, took the burning
ship in tow, and proceeded towards the inner harbour at
Holyhead. No sooner had the Lilly Dale got inside the
breakwater than the tire, which had been kept below until
then, burg through the decks, and enveloped the ship in
flames. Happily, however, the scuttling operation had been
aocompliahed, and all the hands on board transferred to the
steam-tug, before the ship sank. The Lilly Dale was a fine
North American built ship, of G5O tons burden, owned in
St. John's, N. 8., by Mr. Anderson, and chartered for the
voyage to Bombay Ly Mears. Fende Brothers, of Liver-
pool. The vessel and cargo are said to be fully covered by
insurance.

-71;:i. ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH SEA.—SHIELDS,
WEDNLBDAY.—A most fearful accident occurred off the
bar of the Tyne this morning. A steam tug,
the War Eagle, had proceeded round to Sunderland
last night with a number of boatmen aboard, to bring a
vowel round that had been stranded They eaten:led this
morning, and were lying off our bar, waiting for the title to
bring them into the harbour, when one of the boatmen,
Job Taylor, had gone below into the engine room and fallen
asleep. The engineman was unaware that he was below,
and had set the engine ou. The unfortunate mon im-
mediately fell over amongst the machinery, and was
crushed to death. Taylor was 45 years of age, and has left
a faintly.
THE RECENT MVILDER IN LIVERPOOL—At the
Liverpool coroner's oourt yesterday (Wednesday) an inquest
was held on the body of James Casday, who was killed in
Johnston-street, on Saturday night last, in a street row by a
man named Thomas l)ounegan, who stabbed him in the neck
with a knife. From the evidence of several witnesses, it
appeared that a row began in Mellor and Llewellyn's vaults,
which trout IWe-street and Johnston-street, and that when
those quarrelling were turned out by the police, they began
fighting in the street. Dounegiui stabbed both Cessidy and
his uncle, also named Doonegan, and the former diced while
being conveyed to the hospital by the police. Ilonnegan
escaped, and is still at large, and his uncle lies in a very
precarious condition. Mr. R. Coote, surgeon at the North
Dispensary, stated that he was called to the deceased about
half-past twelve on Saturday night, and found him dead.
He haul since made a post-mortem examivation of the body.
He found an ineised wound on the left side of the neck,
about an inch below the angle of the neck. The wound was
abort an inch or an inch mid a half deep. The internal
jugular vein was completely divided. The cause of death
was loss of blood, in consequence of the jugular vein being
savoy& The wound must have been inflicted by some
sharp instrument. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder" against Thomas Donegan.
THE BODY OF A CHILD IN A RAILWAY PARCEL.
—A few days since nn extraordinary discovery was made
at the terminus of the London and North Western
Railway, which shows the facilities which railways them-
selves afford for the perpetration and effectual concealment
of the most diabolical murders. On the 26th November
last a tin box arrived at the Ettston Station from Liverpool,
addressed to P. P. Williams, 60, Regent-street. The box,
which from its size appeared somewhat heavy, was duly
conveyed to Rogentatre-A as directed, but it was discoverwl
that no such person as P. I'. Williams resided there. On
being brought luck to the station it remained in the un-
claimed parcels mbar till Friday last. in the expectation
that there would he some claimant who would describe it.
It was, however, then opened by the authorities, end was
discovered to contain the remains of • child coverts' with
via( lime, which had so far done its work that little
beside the hoses of the skeleton exist. It was taken to the
detublionso of St. Pancras Infirmary, but whether the
coroner will hold an inquest has not been decibel.
The Ituaaiau gunboat which hew been for aome
days in Southampton Water went into dock yesterday to
have her screw examined. She is a large boat, and was
built at Havre. She carries upwards of twenty guns, and
is bound for the River Mauer.