The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-15 00:00:00

GALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICES.

RESCUE OF EIGHTEEN SHIPWRECKED PERSONS.
LOWESTOFT, Tnuatinar Mawr.
This morning (says Captain Joachim, R.N.) at
Mae o'clock, the Lowestoft lifeboat, in mane:ion with the
National Lifeboat Institution, was launched to the rescue
of two vessels riding to windward of the Holm Sand.
They were lying close to the breakers of that rod. The
pie was at the time very heavy, and the two vessels were
expected to be blown every moment on the sand, where the
destruction of everyone on board would be inevitable.
The first vessel was the Whim, a pilot cutter, with
seven men no board. The harbour steam tug had gone out
to waist her, but was quite unable to venture even near
her ; but the lifeboat having anchored to windward of the
cutter, and having dropped down, was enabled to take her
crew out. The lifeboat having been hauled up to her
anchor, the steam tog removed her to windward, when the
boat was again fortunately enabled to repeat a similar mer-
ciful operation in rescuing the crew of eleven men of the
Haney Lam, a fishing lugger. By the assistance of the
steamtug the lifeboat was again, for the third time, re-
moved from her perilous position. and, I am happy to inform
you, landed the eighteen handy all safe.
I have great pleasure on reporting the gallant, skilful
conduct of the boat's crew, with two of the North Sea pilota
who favoured us with their assistance. I must add that
without the valuable aid of the steam tug we could not
have accomplished these important services to suffering
humanity.
It may be mentioned that Captain Joachim has been
instrumental himself in rescuing a large number of ship-
wrecked persons, and hail previously received the silver
medal, second service clasp, of the National Lifeboat Insti-
tution in acknowledgment of his gallant services.
It is also worthy of notice, at this season of the rear, that
the lifeboats of theiNational Lifeboat Institution have been
instrumental during the last 22 months in rescuing 475
shipwrecked persons from a watery grave.

RESIGNATION Or THIARMENIANPATRIARCH.

The tragi-comedy between Patriarch Serkie and
his spiritual subjects has reached its catastrophe in him
holiness's abdication at the " request" of the Porte. This
is a result on which both the Armenian community and
the government are in every way to be congratulated.
Want of space alone prevented our reporting last week
• series of disgraceful scenes which bad taken place be.
tween the now ex-chief and his party, on the one side,
and the great majority of the metropolitan members of
the " nation," on the other, and which were neither
more nor less than a scandal to any Christian society.
The upshot of all this, however, which we have today to
report happily undoes all necessity fur placing these
disgraceful episodes on record. It is sufficient, under
the circumstances. to mention that a special commission,
consisting of leading members of the nation, and presided
over by fiabri Effendi, has been named by the Porte to
exercise. provisionally, the supreme ecclesiastical control
of the community. This committee is in session at the
Patriarchate, and will function till the election of a new
spiritual chief. In every interest of peace, decency, and
religion, it is to be hoped that the prelate who may be
chosen will deserve and enjoy the general confidence of
his co-religiooists.
A similar change, we may here add, is daily expected in
the ?boner, where an ecclesiastical revolution of nearly
equal violence to that thus happily terminated within the
Anaconda pale, has for some tame past been actively going
on.—Lesiant Herald.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

PUDAT. NOVZIONIS 14 a L/11.

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