The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE ORION.

LATEST PARTICULARS.
(Prom the Gleams Med.)

To the list of the sufferers who had been recovered,
w►en the Testae lett the port, we have only one name to
add. It is that of a widow lady, belonging to Montreal—
bin. Smith. She was found by the divers on Thursday
lying at the foot of the compeaion ladier. The arduous
labours of the divers have been rewarded by the recovery,
Pram the captain's cabin, of several hundred pounds starling,
and the greater part of the ship's silver plata. The divers
despair of recovering any bodes the berths may contain, from
toe present state of the cabin, which is almest entirely
blocked up with broken furniture, and baggage of the pas-
sengers. The anziouly-looked for peasenger list which the
steward was supposed to possess, we. nowhere to be found,
akhough the ship, in every accessible put, we. searched
from stem to stern.

It may be mentioned that the wild rock-bound coast of
which Portpatriek forms part, is subject to dense fog banks.
Oa the afternoon of the catastrophe, one of those " banks "
descended right over the wreck, enshrouding it, and • wide
space around. A few minutes and all was again clear.
The following statement, supplied by Mr. T. Hidston—a
gentleman who was the last to reach the land—will be
found interlining : —Mr. Kidston was awakened by the
shock of the collision, and imagined the vessel to have run
aground on a send bank. Not anticipating any danger in
conseqsence, unlike others, he dressed himself before pro-
ceeding up to the deck. When he got there, and looked
over the starboard quarter, the first thing that caught his
eye wee a boat upset, and the crew that had crowded it
finals, here and there in the water. On running to the
other side be found another boat lowered there, and fall of
pamengers. They, however. wanted the oars, sad were
shouting for them. He tamed road to the paddle-box, sad
had them handed to ha. He then pat them dome over the
aids to those in the boat, and they rowed o(. Daring the
time the captain was an the bridge, betwixt the paddlieboxes.
Mr. Kidston went up to him, sad having still the notion
that no danger was to be II ded,said—" The confusion
on deck is very great, @holed:: not endeavour to set the
minds of the people at rest ? call out that though the ship be
aground she cannot via." He replied that he had told
them so before ; he had mentioned that though she was fast
aground it was impossible for her to sink. Mr. Slaters thee
looked about, and saw distinctly the rocks and the lighthouse
quite close at head. There was then no fog. Alm et imme-
diately after, he was undeceived in the opinion he had been
led to entertain, Ey observing the water rushing into the
ship with great rapidity, and that she was sinking at what
he considered to be at the rate of a foot per minute, He
then descended to the outside of the paddle-boa, OR the
starboard side, and helped to pull out saather beet.
While doing so the vessel gave a lurch, sad he was palpi-
tated tato the water. Finding himself imams& he bedi•
with struck out astern and swam anon, pain the beat
which bad been pushed of previously, and mashing the land
before any one else, and before any boat. had been put off
boa the quay.
During the brief but fearful and eventful period between
the ship going awe sad the deliverance of the survivors
many act. of leroiem end gallantry were performed. One
of taws was Ike case of a child who came up to Glasgow
In its mother's area by the Tartar, who was found by a
Cr:4swimmer dusting on the WitAr, just as a beet
dto the gunwale with the sand was iteesing hle
track. He seised the tablet and jerked it among the people
ea board. The child was consequently saved, as we 'k-
eenly treat was also the "albeit swimmer. There was
another still wee astonishing feat of heroic gallantry at
noblest seltaalaL It was that of a gentleman who We
aliened swagging and swimming freighted with a lady
under each arm sad his own child held in his mouth, sup-
porting himself on a board, which he held under his chin.
Some lees scrupulous swimmer same meet him and drew
away the plank which enabled him to support hie bead, and
he was forced to lot go held of his infatuate And, which,
leeasequenme, lasts watery grave; the ladles, however, be
safely biased to lead. We hen not learned this noble
ppeseseeoaoa's Name, but ft is worthy of being recorded. Assam
instance was that of a gentleman who,liaving got
eta mill pine et ire*/ weed, wine pea( rer:
peoleg. be souled bb bad le bar, RA, wisp " mey
sew us belk" enabled le keep bliesell aid bar up IUI
Illey wee *lied up by a pain beet

Dentaw, :own U.
The shout raised against the Poet-aloe Sabbath
humbug finds a cordial echo on this aide of the chan-
nel. Nobody appears to have imagined beforehand
the amount of the inconvenience to which the coun-
try was to be subjected, or that one day's holiday at
the post-office was necessarily a two days' loss to the
public; and sow every one is amazed at their own
short-sightedness, owlet the absurdity of such a bloc-
dering experiment being permitted eves foe one week.
Toe post-office people have very properly carried out
the experiment to the fullest, and have not helped to
mitigate the inconvenience by any act of theirs. This
is well as the bubble must burst the sooner, and that
the resolution of the Sabbatharian wiseacres will im-
mediately be rescinded is looked upon as a matter of
coarse. The Aromas observes A month of such
outrage would bring a clamour about the ears of the
Commons to which they have not been accustomed
since the nest day of the Reform Act."
The result of the experiment made by the Viceroy,
in her first trip from Galway to America, is than,
apparently very fairly, stated by the Freeman
J 's
ournal:
The Canada, 2000 toss Umiak, with engines of 850
Isorwpower, left Liverpool at tea o'clock on Saturday
meriting, the Ist aflame ; at the same hour, out the we day,
the Viceroy, a boat built for the channel trade, crowded with
coals above her gunwale, of 350 horse power, tailed from
Galway. WWI'S were laid in Liverpool that the Canada
would °veletae and per the Viceroy on the filth day. The
weather meet have been tempestuous at sea, for the Canada
was nearly two days more than her usual time on her voyage
to Halifax. This fact told terribly against the little cockle
shell's speed, yet what is the result—the Canada arrived in
Halifax on the 11th of June at sine o'clock in the moraine
the Viceroy arrived in eight hones after! L^t us put the
reveres of the present use of miling. Let the Canada sail
from Galway and the Viceroy from Liverpool, the Viceroy
would have been at loom thirteen days making the
while the Aeneas are that the Canada would have done chi
voyage In tight, but certainly at farthest, nine days—thus
skewing a clear gain of from four to five days in laves, of
Galway, or equal boats being on both stations, of two days
is favour of Galway !

At the Commission Court on Saturday, a lady, Mrs.
Jemima Philips, the wife of a solicitor, was indicted
for conspiring to aid Miss Octavio Henrietta Thomp•
eon to escape from the Four Courts Marshals Pri-
son, where she was confined for debt. It appeared
that Mrs. Philips was in the habit of visiting Mies
Thompson in prison. A party was invited to sup
with Miss Thompson on the even►ng of the escape.
The servants of the prison were employed in prepar-
ing for the festivities, and Mrs. Philips west in and
out several times on various messages. About dusk
Miss Thompson attired herself in the bonnet, cloak,
and dress of Mrs. Philips, and effected her escape. It
appeared, however, on the cross-examination of one
of the witnesses fir the prosecution, that the seal had
not been affixed to the writ of execution under which
Miss Thompson was detained until sfer her escape,
and on this point Mrs. Philips was acquitted.
A great tenant right demonstration is to take place
at IModalk on Saturday next.