The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-03 00:00:00

THE EIPR►PBO TWURSDAX EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1861.

rss QUERY VICTORIA, WITH mit TELEGRAPH

CABLE, ASHORE AT PLYMOUTH.

The attempt to float the atatamahip Queen Victoria
has proved unsuccessful, although very powerful means have
been adopted. The starboard chain cable was passed under
her fore foot and made taut to the government lump on
the port aide forward, wad the port cable wit. fastened to a
lump o• the starboard aide; both lumps were hove down
two feet below their ordinary draught. The Admiralty
steaming Confidence was fastened to her starboard
ipiarter, the Zephy on the port ; both backed astern with
full power. The Queen Victoriiis propeller was
cried to the utmost, and two hawsers fastened to • buoy
were strained by her capstan. At high water (10 o'clock)
the combined exertions of these forces did not start her
one inch. She lies on the sand aft, and on rubble and
stones forwanl. At high water the tidal mark on her stem
was 12 feet 11 inches. Her hull seems to have sustained no
injury, and she does not leak. To-day (Thursday) part of
the cargo will probably be removed, and during the night
another effort to float her may be made.
PLYMOUTH, TIC HADAY, 10.30 A.M.
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All Attempts to float the steamship Queen Victoria, which
grounded yesterday in this harbour, have proved fruitless.
The ■tram•tup and dockyard lumps have just left her.
The cable on board will bare to be takes out.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.

HANSDRY, NORTHUMBERLAND, JAN. 1. —L_4t
night, during a heavy gale from the S.E., the schooner
Prospect. of Berwick, foundered in the Coquet Roads. At
break of day the ship's crew of six men were observed in
their boat in a moat perilous position. The Han.dey life-
boat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was
immediately manned and launches!, and proceeded off to
their help. and afterward. succeeded w bringing the six men,
who were nearly benumbed with the cold sod frost, ashore.
The crew of rho lifeboat spoke in the highest terms of her
behaviour. Several women assisted in launching the
boat. Patecrow, CORNWALL, JAN. I.—Last night, during
a violent gale of wind, with a heavy sea, the schooner
Nu4gett, of Bideford, -.trended on the boomed Bar Sand off
this place. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution
was launched about 12 o'clock. Upon reaching the ship she
was found ',motioned. The lifeboat's craw, however, while
endeavouring to t...0t her, observed a beet at anchor in
the surf, and just within the entrance to the harbour.
The lifeboat immediately pulled off to the boat,
in which was found the whooner's crew of five
men. They were all very much afraid that they
would be driven out to sea, b 0 furiously was the
gale driving, and sn strongly was the sea running, but the
lifeboat succes.fully contended with the apparently insuper•
able obstacles, and succeeded, after great difficulty, in reach-
ing the land.

The installation of Alderman Atkinson, con-
servative, as Lord Mayor of Dublin for the ensuing year,
took place oa Tuesday.
An explanation has been received of the mode
in which news from Pekin reaches St. Petersburg. The
recent speedy telegrams regarding the Chinese treaty were
transmitted, it appears, in the usual way. The Rusaiaas
hare • regular courier system from Pekin, with relay
horses, and the despatches are delivered up to the first
telegraph-office in connexion with St. Petersburg which
the bearer can reach. The route is rid Mongolia, Kiakhta,
and Irkutsk, and the common mail reaches the latter place
within 16 days of it. departure from Pekin. From Irkutsk
to St. Petersburg 17 days are required to the telegraph-
office at Casio.

A Naples letter, in the Debate of the 24th ult.,
says : " The Virgin and the Child are this Christmas-eve
quite revolutionary. The holy infant, in almost all the
m►ngers which have been fitted up, is dressed as a Garltal-
dian ; the Virgin wears a magnificent tricoloured dress over
an enormous crinoline, and on St. Joseph are placed the
moustachies of Victor EmmanueL The on and the ass
strut about in tricolour favours. The three Magi are dressed
lib M. Mini°, and they have a unite of majon in red blouses
and the tunic of the National Guard. Francis IL plays
the rule of Herod, and amongst other personages are figures
of Father Gavassi, Bertani, and all the berme of the
Claribeldian cohort."

The London Glee and Madrigal Union, under
the dhertion of Mr. Land, are announoed to resume their
egreeshle entertainments of glom, madri and Hall,Emi-
lia ballads, at the Dudley Gary, Euptiaa en
Moseley evening nat.
Mwrsorouraw Beezyrr Socteri AnYWit,
BALL'B4OIID.ROAD, ISLINOTOI, N., tog Auto AND IRrtnr
liniments OF ALL BLZIMT HOCILTEOL—The third annual
dinar of the shove asylum took place oe Wednesday last,
when 26 inmates, *hose united sees amounted to 1,888
(seem. 73 yams), sat down to good old English fare of
roast beef, plum•puilling, pies, kc. ; each inmate was also
liberally supplied with tea, sugar, cake, and tobacco, the
result of • voluntary subscription by emend members of
friendly societies.
TER ABOLITION Or THZ IRISH VIctROVALTY.
The foliowieg curious paragraph appears in the Cork
Rressiner :—" The intentios of the government to abolish
the alike of the viceroy is questioned by politicises whose
authority is of menderabis weight, and an altogether
ferent solution of the difficeltr—at least for the tinie—ie
talked cif as probable. It is said that the appointrcent will
be veNed in a perms of as less importance than the prim,
of Wales. It will at once he seen that the mend politics
of bin royal highness is different from that of tbe beim
apparent to the throne in many preceding reigns, as his
makers, him precedence of has father, who is only Prince
Consort. Br placing the Prince of Wales in the Mike of
whom of Indeed as awkward &dilation would, it is
eeld, he got rid of, and tompliment paid to the people
ay basal We only wive the above as the opted= of per.
nee who are well informed es whet we may tens political
prebabildna."
ECROPZAN BTXPATIT YOB TEI ROOTH. The
»Mae. with which the dueness seeds by the South is the
Marmor of the French wen restive& with the eamerva-
tie* tone of the Marepens rem el all shades et opiates in
Mottos to the r wumemeet, los bed a eery
tibia intimate eirthe mine al atiedlien politician:67e
are sorry to disappoint that Sadism patriot whose
letter appeared In the Ltrenleal Peet, by Woman
him that Queen Victoria will never wait an et bet sone
to rule over • Southern confederacy. He may have a Miming
monarchical government. as he seggesteihriliseennot have
one of her Majesty's diddles' for a soveraign. The new
feeling that would deprive this loyal genslevese of the ear-
vice of one of her Majesty's soon, in ems he should be
wanted to rule over the South, deprives this section of
European sympathy. Everypcesible effort is being made
by this country to moved Africa, ladis, and Australia into
cotton fields, in order to sopereede the present necessity for
slave-grown socks. Diemen will only bantam the consum-
mation of these plasm—Lewdest American.
A NEW GIABAT COAT 105 TES ARYT. —The Bth
(Xteg's Owe) Regiment, stationed at Gosport, have been
sued with the new experimental great oust, which it
is in ensimaplatioa to serve cut to the whole of the in-
fantry. It is very superior in quality and colour to the
coat at mend in use. 11 has no caps, but is double over
the shoslders and partly down the back. as also in the
sleeves to below the elbows. It is fitted with two eapernowe
pockets behind, with the edges piped with red, a band,
also piped with red, corditee the coat to the wearer's bask
at hie pleasure. Shoulder-strap' for the belts, elm piped
with red. The forepart of the skirts are made to loop hack
to the waist when on the march. The Sell sre also fur-
nished with the new shako.

A Toronto oorrem writes on the lit :
"The judges of the Court of Queen's Bench gave their
decision on Saturday in the cam of Aoderson. the fugitive
slave. Chief Justice Robinson and Justice Drum deekhd
that the priaouer should be delivered up to the United
States autlionties. Justice McLean held that the evidence
against him was insufficient to warrant his rendition. The
prseoaer's counsel have applied for an appeal to the bench
judges,of and it is to be decided next Saturday whether
an ap will he allowed. It is likely eventually to be
Moog t before the Privy Council in England for decision.
The greatest excitement prevails throughout the country on
the subject."
Sta F. B. HEAD.—It is only fair, perhaps, to
state here, once for all, that we speak of Sir Francis Band
Head from personal knowledge, that we have for many
years enjoyed his acquaintance both in and out of the
hunting kid, and have had daily opportunities of judging
I his exceiheme as a complete and scientific bantam. On
the many valudge qualities he has shown in hie meritorious
life, use is public as it has been genial in private, this II
no plum to enlarge. It is with Sir Francis as • rider and a
writer that we have now to do ; 0,4 with Sir Francis as the
soldier, the politician, and the diplomatist, but with Hr
Francis as he is depicted in the frontispiece to the book
under our notice, in his jackboots and scarlet coat, seated
by some Northamptonshire ooverteide, with • pleasant
smile on his healthy, comely face and a bridle in bin horde
mouth, of which, although his own invention, we
never could bring ourselves to admit the superexcellesee.
After taming, then, as we have said, and studying every
description of horse, in almost country that produces
the animal, Sir Francis towards middle life found himself in
the enviable sod independent volition of a man who can
settle where he likes. His lease of one residence was out,
happy man ! and he had not engaged another (think of that,
baronial proprietor, mortgaged up to your chin, and the roof
of the castle wanting thorough repair!) Dining out one evening
in London, he asked a well known sporting character where-
abouts in England he should settle, supposing he were com-
pletely at liberty, and wished to eery the 'put of fox-
hunting in its utmost perfection. "As near Market ]far.
borough en ever I could get," was the reply. A fortnight
afterwards Sir Francis was settled, bag and baggage,
in • comfortable home in the little village of Wenders,
withal two miles oh the beforementioned town. For tem
or eleven mesons be hunted regularly thence, with the
Quorn, Pytchlev, and Cotteenaore hounds. Not one of the
supporters of Aber of there famous pecks lad wishes he
L hunted with them still. --Framer's ifogazini fur January.