The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-21 00:00:00

PERILOUS VOYAGE FOR A SMALL VESSEL.

The arrival of the steamer Hotham from Mel-
bourne on Thursday (says the Sydney Herald), in the face of
the late heavy weather, is • rare instance of what may be
accomplished by perseverance sod judgment. The fact of
a vessel of only ten tons starting on • voyage from
nd an eresk
Mel-
bourne
to this port is of itself extraordinary u ;
but when we add that her voyage may be murdered as
commenced (her destination being the Gulf of Carpentaria
it appears something wonderfuL This miniature ship is
• screw steamer, as before stated, of oaly tee toes ; built in
London, and brought out on • vessel's deck. Her length
is about 35 feet, and she is fitted with • pair of oscillating
engines of the collective force of 14 hones, and is capable
of carrying three days consumption of fuel. The after
Dart, of the steamer is fitted ma • cabin for the accommoda-
tion of the mew, which consista of five persons, including
her master and engineer ; and we are informed that she will
steam in smooth water at the rate of eight knots per hour,
besides being remarkably fast under canvas, which consists
of fore and rosin lug sails. The Hotham is commanded by
Captain Wye*, whose successful and rapid parse from
, England to Hobart Town in the yacht Spray, of 20 tons, is
familiar to our readers. She left Melbourne in tow of the
Australian Steam Navigation Company's steamer Rangatira,
on the Nth inst., but on the following day itcame on to blow
hard from the eastward, and she had to be cut adrift.
Owing to the heavy sea, the vessel shipped Lowe quanti-
ties of water ; the raided forting was Ito:sardiney set, and
she stood to the northward. During the afternoon the
wind fell light, and she was hove about and stood to the
S.W. On the 10th, at daylight, the wind again freshened
at E., the vessel standing to the S.S.E. for the purpose
of keeping well to windward of the Ninety-mile Beach.
At two p.m. it blew very heavy, with high sea, the vessel
ender close-reefed forting. At five p.m. it was blowing
• violent gale, when it wee found necessary to furl the
lug, and, by means of a spar and a hawser, the little
craft has kept head to sea, At four a.m. on the Ilth the
hawser parted, and she was thee hove to under a
close-reefed main lug. Throughout this trying time she
behaved admirably, and, all through a succession of gales
from N. W., S.W., N. 8., and S. E., which continued to her
arrival in this port, she proved herself a splendid sea boat.
Of course, in such weather, she shipped large quantities of
water, which not only completely drenched everything on
board, but precluded the possibility of lighting a fire for
five days. Some little defect in the stuffing-box of the
main shaft will have to be corrected before she again pro-
ceeds on her long voyage for the Gulf, for the
of searching after Burke's exploring expedition, fromiTrhe
place she will probably go on to India. Captain Wyss is
anxious to return his sincere thanks to Captain Hutton, of
the steamer Phantom, for his kindness and attention in
towing the Hotham from Manly, where she had anchored
on Wednesday night,

A Constantinople letter of the 11th says :
" Ste William Codrington left last week, and as his pos.
session already of the first class of the fdadjidie put it out
of the Sultan's power to promote him in the order, his
Majesty presented the general with a very valuable diamond
mounted sung-box, and gave two of less value to Colonels
Temple and Fane, his sides-de-camp. Sir William's recep-
tion from the first to the last could not have been more
flattering, nor his niissiou of compliment more successful."
The Ost-Dentedie- Post states that portraits of M.
Desk, produced in great numbers both by lithography and
photography, are being sold for the benefit of the Orphan
Asylum at Perth. Up to the present time 8,000 copies have
been disposed of, producing a sum of 5,318 florins.

The bagbladit of Copenhagen say. :—" It is very
true, as stated by some journals, that King Frederis VII,
has no paned heir any more than Prince Ferdinand, who
is the nearest successor to the throes, but Prince Christian
of Denmark, who, by the treaty of London of theBth say,
1852, has been recognised by Europe as the heir presump-
tive to the crown of Denmark, has, by his marriage with the
Prieoun Louisa of Hesse, numerous descendants. In addi-
tion to three sous, the eldest of whom is 18 years of age,
and the youngest 3, Prince Christian has three damthters,
the eldest of whom, the Princess Alexandre, was born 01.1
the Ist December, 1844, and is now nearly 17."

A letter from Salzburg says :—" King Maximilian
and Queen Marie of Bavaria arrived hers on the evening of
the 15th, by express trails from Munich, sad left again soon
after for Berehteag►den, Chevalier Schroerling, Minister
of State, is sow here, residing at the estate of his brother,
who is a general in the Austrian service."

The Journal ties Debate of to-day contains an
article by N. Ilit. blare de Girardin, in which the English
protectorate of the lonian Islands is denounced in very
strong terms.

A letter from Spa, dated the 18th, in the Bras-
-eels indetpendaisce of yestaday evening, says :—" To-day, at
three o'clock in the afternoon, the body of an Englishman
who bad just arrived at Spa was found lying in a wood in
the suburbs of this city. The following note was found
a memorandum•book on him person :—' Sunday, Sept. 15. I
kill myself with hydrocyanic acid, which I have brought
from London. lam weary °Mite. May God have pity on
my soul, and especially on my noble wife and poor children,
whom I have so dastardly abendoned.' By the side of the
body was an empty bottle inclosed in a wooden case. In
the same memorandum-book was a long letter written by
the deceased to his wife, clearly explaining his motives.
Motives of delicacy preclude us from making this letter
public."
An Ostend letter of the 17th says :—"The
weather has been very rough here for the last two days,
aid then is reason to Per that many 'anteaters have hap-
pened on the French and Flemish coasts. We have already
heard of two vessels in distress at Nieuport, one of w►ieh
may perhaps ride out the dorm, but the other his bees
driven on shore at Coxyde, west of Nieuport. It is a
Prussian vessel, the Frederick Wilhelm, bound from Memel
to Glouoester, with a cargo of timber. The crew were
saved by the Nieuport lifeboat?'