The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-30 00:00:00

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WlWltll taunt% NORTH DEVON COAST.-111811 OF
Rix Ltenn—.• terrible gale from the W.N.W. raged dar
ing the whole of Sunday night and Monday ou the Nur gh
I4YOII tonal.Olt Sanaa, night the gale was woeful's.
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with thutider and vivid lightning, with heavy rrtr, and
bail. On Midday there were fearful faistA the
wind shifting from north-weft to north. Tv,o Imo
leretee were struggling in Bideford Bay divisor fbo whole
of ratierilee. bat notwithstaadiag the utmost elfarta they
wine both drisen ashore. The barque Grope rd,of London.
laden with guano from Siambernins, own of the Went
dolts eimais. went nhons stem the latirsef the Westward
The crew clung to the rigging for a hag time,
hot gindi ally tie vowel was driven- in tlom to the Nobble
ViJge. over which thews was tenialting grandly. The
ei sag, and w.th the rockets sent aline over the ship. and
olm m the emotes:sardines named Johns attempted toga
u board. Ile, however, was knocked oat of the Stli.
r:114:1t1 leeket by the waves, and was drowned. The
true afters a dii were lo ought ashore, and were eared
f. r at tl.e bathe The other barque was an Austrian,
the l'aeo da Waite Gidoina Turwick, master, from
low
a In 'Venice with coals, having an
r.. sh pilot sou hoard. She aurae on shore at the
bail of lie Barietes. Two lifeboats went to her moist-
en. e. The Aippledore lifeboat by the gallant exertions of
her row biesoght off woe of the crew iu a most exhs isted
state. The crew then made a second attempt, but memo
to i helwavyma the lifeboat became disabled and caromed ;
fortutiately,the crew were tared. Three of the eight poor
fellows renaming in the vessel were drowned. The five
were kid in the rigging when the telegraph &nee closed
for the sight and it was feared that both vessels would
go to pieties bemire the morniug. The Brauuton lifebaat
could net get mar to the Austrian ship, the bead era and
wind being too strong for be.— Madera Moraine News. •
GREAT FI.COPS IN TILE FEN COUNTRY.—WO
kern le.,4telegraph from Ely last night that great finals
lave secemulatml in the P.n., between Ely and Peter-
lorough. Lett night many thousands of acres were
suleserged : the weather had. however, moderated.
THE FI.OOTIS IN THE VALLEE OF THE THAMES.—
Yesterday the swollen waters of the Thames at Windsor,
Don end the vicinity were ri in; rapidly. an advanoe of
two itches in their loot having been made between Mon-
day night an 1 the following rearnine. The dren hing
mean of yesterday and the previous showers have ai led
greatly the ritine of the river, while every hour the tribe-
times and water-courtes are pouring into tho Thames
Mem me quantities of surface &einem from
the sodden and saturated lands near its margin.
Between Maidenhead-bridge. Bray. and Windsor a
great deal of the low-lying ground and use 'dews
tit on the hands of the stream is inumlated. In
many places the towing paths used by the horses for
ebaw ng the Metres lie deep in the water, and their pod-
lion is let, This fact, together with the strength of the
-current. has for the present stopped naveration in these
I arm of the 'I homes Va'ley. At Eton Pie water has
great ,y enemas-Led uron the north bank of the Taaarsat.
iris of the Brocaas near the stream are flooded.
The broad i nth in front of Toilalay's boat-hoam
has ill-appeared. and tie fond now roll along
r reptielly Mere by the boat-hones thelf, and into
t' a• of Mr. T. Coolman. Between the grounds of Eton
College and the tooth bank the width of the Thames TO .st
he nearly doi.hde what it is at ordinary times. All the
lower petit of Romney Island are submerged, and large
trees wand sweet in the midst of the w Miing stream.
Verge Eternespred Brdge the wake shave enemsehed ran-
federally upon the grounds at the rear of the Collette
build DIP. nod n email extent of the portion of the
piss ing field," near the rivers coarse is doodad. Toe
erkkk p med. celebrated for the matches which take p 1 see
throughout the season, has also sphered cousiderably from
the recent gale*. A portion of the east end of the dos
avenue has leen destroyed by the uprooting of two of the
wizen. e trees. One of them giant% the let but two of
the row bounding the cricket field. and a short distance
from the lone which separates the "playing fickle" from
Dutchman's Farm, now Lies prostrate upon the until& The
last tree of the next row is also down. Both trees are of
great goth and length. and present a remarkable sight,
their immense and gnarled root.. holding some tans of soil,
Minding many feet 'theee the level of the ground.
The holes left ate tilled with water. In the
" south meadow" and soliacent fields the water
is rising. Cpon the south bent of the Thames
the water has encroached upon the land, more
especially near the racecourse at Cewer. At
the part a Windsor which borders noon the river the
path urea the " camp-shed" is flooded, and commanica-
hos between the lower past of Beer-lane and the " Gos-
wets" cut off. except by boat or pent Parts of the
Home-pork near the river are inundated, while the
water, too, is using upon the portion set apart for the use
of the public opposite the north terrace of the ea dle.
The towing-path beneath the South Western Railway
bride is tut merged, and communication between the
biome-park. opposite " Blackpotta'• and the mead +w on
the other side of the bridge is thus clewed.
In the vicinity of Datehet and Old Windsor the river has
alto flooded its hanks. The gale of Monday night and
Tuesday morning has blown down one of the fine old elms
forming the beautiful avenue in Windsor-park known se
the Lung-walk. The position of the tree was nearly in aline
with, though at some distance from, the royal mausoleum
at Frogmore. The tree is probably upwaids of 200 year
old, and it was doubtless planted shone! aleint the tame
tim• as the two in the "playing fields" at Eton College,
which have also succumbed to ?levant weather. During tin
height of the gale the trees in the Long-walk bent before
the wind. and were sway( 4 about like reed& Other
(Mirage has leen done to the trees in the Great Park, and
in many I laces the ground after the gale was strewn with
broken branches. _ _ _

FAIL OF A CHAPEL SPIRE.—On Sunday and
Not clay the wind blew at Colchester • perfect hurricane,
am' a ;arge aicouut of damage Las been dose to private
l•nil4:t re. ten ihnilay evening • portion of the spire of
the Ctioreratknal Church, situate in Laois-walk, fell
wali a. mut crash, breaking thenaub the roof and doing
damatze in the 4,terior fittings. The Lion-
walk church is qui'e • new Iniilding. haring boon built
ouly Lot five years. at ae, ,t of about .5,000/.

B.‘Y CoMP.tNY.— Sir Staff ar•l
Nett, rote has consent, d to fill the pn4 of gov..rnor of
ti er rbT. v.bj vet, of coarse. to the eam•rinn of the
mutt out. at tie mettieg to be h• ld on the sth n_ rox;mo.
for filling the vacancy caused by the retirement of Earl
Himt.er ey.
fit'Srlt TETI ATTF.III7 TO PoISON A TEA PARTY.
—Abo•:t 1,41,0 or 1,500 men. women, and children assem-
bled in a ball hurt eta iting at Wolverhampton, at a fare-
wm ll tea mectibg to Fiddler Joas and his wife, on the con-
e:to-ion of nine weeks' revival services which they have
been holding in that hall. Ample preparations were made
for satiafying the demands of the keened ametitet ; but
no soontrbad the tea been poured out, and -milk added.
than it was evident that something more than mutually
ciders into the composition L•f a cup of tea was there. On
tatting, it produced, though in a stronger degree, the
sentation upon the tongue which is felt upon taating alum-
water. The greatest excitement prevailed, and at once
the cry arose that the water had been poisoned. In the
midst of the excitement. Mr. Cooper came upon the plat-
form and announced that some one acquainted with
chemistry had tasted the tea, and was of opinion that the
alasming characteristics it present. d were due to a lump of
green copperas having been thrown into the water.—Bir-
ssisghate Gaulle.
THE SECOND Co LLIEk Y EXPLOSION sit
WIGAN.— WIGILN TL'ESTOAT.—NO more additions have
yet teen made to the number of persons who have lost
•thez lives by the explosion of fire-damp at the Nutley
Colliery. Pemberton. near Wigan, on the fist inst., bnt
two of the injund men are so seriously hurt that it is
• more than isolable iu a day or two they also will be
.numbered among the dead. These are Taylor and
Shamrock, who. as already recorded, were working in the
Umbel at the time of the explosion. The inquest on the
raven deceased. whose names have already been published,
was resumed this morning at the It. Lion, Pemberton,
by Mr. Priffield, district coroner. but was sumin adjourned
-until the government inspector has eomplsted his exami-
nation.

linittEltY OF A MAIL BAn.—Yosterriny morning
,fi wh:ch had been -ing from i.rinesrter since
ChrLtmits-ere, was found in • coalyard, just no:tide the
tarn. It had Leen broken open and the whole of Its con-
tents, with the exception of • few newspapers. extracted.
It is •iiiiirsed to Imre n .ti len from the INP•in station
err the loidlarid Railway, where it had bccri left with
other gs for crnrryanee to Lanca-ter. It rousts:li
&Lout :.0 Pittr tl, in several of which then: were presents
fort htirtma. The fiagnwnti of a few of the letters
Lay,. I• en and Letwr en Milton and Lancfpfer.

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A «11 r..vi moat I.TrirmiN“.- A flineking a,mi-
"esti is lei otted to Lave rreurred at a farmhouse.) at
1:11-1'. near We-too-super-Mare, last week, dining the
_pire‘alstion of a very severe stone. A young holy named
Ware ens itmeling in front of • looking-glass when a
vivid flash of lightning first played upon the glass and
then struck the ulifsirtunate lady. The effect of the
stroke was to I.lsek.n and amspl_etely paralyse one half
of Nim Ilar-eF body. Br. Martin, of Weston, was
sent for, and under his treatment the sufferer is said to
I,e progressing tow:ails recovery. Afton striking 114,
liaise the flash appi sp. to have travelled through the
Louse, smashing glass and doing other damage in a
meet extraordinary manner.— Wtsfern Limily Preis.
Sup anditt AND FATAL ACCI DRNT.- —but even-
ing Mr, W. J. Payne held an iiiqucet at Guy's Hospital,
respecting the death of Mr. George isiAap, aseed
sampler, aged 51 years. It appeared from the evidence
of several witnesses, that on Chrietnuis eveniag, about
*even o'clock, the deceased was standing on tit. Bride's
WLarf, near Lredon-brklp, when from some W 12-
plainid gum* he fell front the quay, 4E4 striking against
a vessel width was alosursid_ rekennficout and falling
into the river was drowned before he be got out.
A verdict of accidental death was returned. _

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