The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-22 00:00:00

THE WHICH OP MB Jolla, DUNC,ILV.

THIRTEMI LIVES LOST.
The chief officer, Mr. 0. Lamb, of the ship John
Duncan, ban just arrived in Liverpool from Gibraltar,
where be and sir of the crew of the ship John Duncan
had been landed from the American brig Dirigo.
Mr. Lamb tells • terrible tale of the sea. The
ship John Duncan, Captain Randall, sailed from
St. John, N. 8., for Liverpool, on the red nit.,
with • full cargo, and • deck load of deals. Immediately
after leaving port she mcountered fearful weather, which
coettnued up to the 10th, when it blew • hurrtcane from
N.N.W. At night there was • tremendous sea running,
and • heavy storm of rain and hail, almost every sea
pooping the _ The cabin skylight was washed away,
said the cabin flUed with water, thu stores being snaked
about in all direction,. The ship was still running before
the wind and sea, the cabin was full of water, all the cloth-
ing, nautical inatrumente, tee., were deritreyed, and every
sea broke over the ship, which was fast becoming water-
logged, and stewed very badly. An attempt was made to
throw the deckload overboard, and two of the crew were
washed away. The rernalider of the seamen were then
lashed to the standing rigging. At 4 p.m. on the 1 lth, the
ship pooped • tremendous sea, which cleared the poop of
everything, carrying away all the boats, hurricane deck-
house, the wheel, wheel charm, four of the crew from the
wheel, the captain, his wife. infant eon, and a male pa.-
senger. The stern WY knocked in, end the poop.iluck torn
up. The ship then broached to split three lower topsails,
and lay on her port beam ends, the sea breaking wetr. end
washing away the deck hod. The Nurriving crew took to
the fore ragging, and afterwards to the top-gallant foie-
castle. At 7 pm., the ship fell over ou her broad-ids.
with her masts and yards in the water. Tlb^ fare and
main to) niuit were carried away, as was al-o the Edwin-
mast, with all the yards; the diakt were *weld of every-
thing:, and the port site turn up. The ship Veil ngle • .1.
having her foremast and nuiihmast standing. but thre • of
the crew wile drowned. The weather eon:inlet fear:ul
until the Lith, when it nederated, and »ate of the
wreck was cut away from alongside. to prevent the ship
from breaking up. It was thou f. d that al; the pr..
visions were destroyed, but a pig was foun 1, and at
once killtd. The remainder of the crew suffered eery
truth from want of fre-h water and the eating vi the raw
roar, until the 17th. when a hrig lin.ve in ,ight, but lore
away without offering any assistance. On the '2..1 d, the
American brigs Dingo sod liadboni tell in with the ship,
and rescued the unfortunate survivers. The names ui
those who perished were Captain C. O. Randall, Mr..
Randall, and infant 1,00 ; Mr. Reed, sou of the owner of
the slip; W. Itiddey, carpenter ; W. Wy.io, sailmaker
Jae. Smith, James tinting J. Silver, M. Ander-oft, T
Traver. —111.• Allister, and the boatauadr, whose name is
unknown.

We have to announce the death of the Marquis
il'Ei-cnyrae de facture at Fontainebleau in hit 43rd year.
after having received the last vaeramenta from the hand,
of Mgr. July, former Archbishop of S-114. The health of
the dictascd had suffered grievously from illtxeatmeut
amov g the Chinese prcrious's to the Fri neli expedition.

The Journul de Puri. states that the imperial
diet( a naming M. Pittard senator had been actuAlly sent
to the official journal, but was in type when the order
awe for it. withdrawal. To employ priutur's phrese-
aogy, the matter had to be di,tributail.•'

TIIE QUERN'S NEW YEAR'S GIFTS TO TILE Pooh
os WINLsOR. —Her Majesty' new year's gifts to the poor
of the pari.hes of St. John, Wiudsor, Holy Linity, end
Ckwer will be distributed on Friday week. New Year
Day. The sum intended for the purpose will be spent in
beef and coals, tickets for which will be disponied by the
aid of the local cleri-ty. The distribution of the meat
will take place in the butchers' market at the Town-
ball, the nails being sent to the homes of the uumezons
recipivnts.
THE " RECORD " AND THE LATE M:t. DEMI-
VORD.—The Iterord. in a notice of the approaching cele-
bration of the marriage of Lord Percy, Wirt sou of the
Puke aid Duchess of Northumberland, to Ledy FiLth
Campbell. eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of
Argyll, pays the following unconscious testimony to tho
erratic brilliancy of the late Mr. Henry Drummond, and
lord Percy's suppo-ed inheritance of his eccentric
humour. Our oontempoiary says, •• Lord Percy is ma-
ternally, the grandson of the late Henry Drummond.
and it is announced that there will be a grand display of
rockets at 8 p.m. on St. Martha's Hill-
DULWICH COLLEGE. Last evening a public:
meeting of the inhabitants of Camberwell and Dalwieb,
convened by the Camberwell Vestry, was held at Cam-
berwell Hall, Grove-law, for the purpose of opposing the
scheme proposed by the governors of Dulwich College for
doubling the capitation fees now paid by the boys attend-
ing the upper school of the college. Mr. IL A. they
occupi. d the chair, and was supported by a large numbs:
of the vestrymen and leading inhabitants of the district.
The chainaan said he thought the proposal to double the
preeent amount of capitation fed fur the pupils was
deeply to le regretted and most unjustifiable. The reason
awaited for the finer use was the great expenditure now
being incurred in building a new college ; but he con-
hidered it the duty of managers of all charitable funds
to limit their expenditure in n to their means.
Co The expenses of Dulwich College were much larger
than they ought to be, and the funds that should
be expended upon education were being wasted
in unnecessary and extravagant expenses, and thew
expenses viers continually increasing. Mr. Gull,
one of the parochial governors representing the
pariah of Camberwell, detailed at length the present posi-
tiou of the college. Its endowment fund for educational
I=was now 18,000/. per annum, with anther 1,0001.
the pupil., and this be contended was amply sui-
Ui. mt for an purposes. There were now only Me boys in
the school paying a capitation fee of 6/. and 81. per an-
num. which it was proposed to rake to 121. and IV. re-
spectively, because the governors had mod unwisely
resolved to build a new college as an expense of over
100,0001., to give school eimommodation for boys only.
A resolution 0011411 _ the proposak of the
governors wee carried isonely. It was also resolved
" that a deputation be appointed to wait upon the go-
' remora for the purpose of -inducing thane to reooneider
theirteropdal" deputation of 12 wee then ap-
Palk
MERCHANT TAYWItie SCHOOL.— The winter
speeches of this school were delivered yesterday, and were
attended by a very large number of old Merchant Taylors'
men and their friends. At 2 o'clock the Head Mader, the
Bev. Dr. Homey, istroduced to the large school-room the
Mader of the eenipan_y. Sir James Tyler ; the Wardens ;
the Exanehisse, the V. Archdeacon Browne and the
Bee. C. Maeda ; and the chief members of the °cud,
when the pedormanom immediately commenoed.
IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL INQUIRY IN FRANCE.
The Msedrar publishes a report, eatemilng over sir
columns of tint easal. ham IL de rereads In Roquette,
late Minister of Agrisnikern on the peened dad of the
q_ah7 decreed on the 28th Mach, MK
Criiiiiteulteirrilto the effects of the new desonsie eiride
applied to the trade la earn. Twenty-eight departmental
committee. were than pieinisil, and have End held
neeetnip in 270 than
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bowed besides visiting farms
and rural disiziote)rtatilleakag ciativittors on the spot.
Oral or written evidenee Imam been received from more
than 10.000 genies. The central superior committee ap.
pplated to 1k the fads no obtained met on the 23rd
Nov.,andheid mien ecamoutive sittings ; it has elatidded
the dingiest gamboge to be solved under the nine fol-
lowing beads Landed property, its division, trans-
uded's, besniarke. and Idnai ; Capital and credit
3. Wave and Meer ; 4. Improvements of tw soil ; 6.
Outlets kr sale and reads • el. Oedema' legislation • 6.
to S. Colionee oPrilj_mad 1611 Vailm ; V.
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has Wm to &Ma that it will only pronounce basn
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mew .1 the mai ad the ; that wre AA In
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a eanamey shall le Irma up at Vie whim expressed is
the odium of tholapOry.
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amid to tie aollendo WI the edialaistraliss.