The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-28 00:00:00

(Stamped, hi. Additional.)

WRECK OF 4 LARGE VESSEL IN THE MERSEY

On Saturday, n vessel of nearly 2,000 tons, the
Telemach, just arrived from Bombay, with a full cargo of
cotton, linseed, hemp, and wool, was about to enter
the Albert dock when her keel struck upon a sandbank
opposite the dock wall, and her head swung round with
such force that the bow, over which one of the anchors was
suspended, came with great violence against the wall. The
starboard bow was immediately stove in, and the great
struin upon the ship, her hall' having tot across a sharp
ridge of the bank, caused her to break her back. The
water rushed is through a hundred severed timbers
and planks, and she rapidly sank. On the
receding of the tide, however, and when she was
loft comparatively high and dry, the must vigorous efforts
were made to remove the cargo, which front herbeing almost
alongside the pier was fortunately not difficult. Gangs of
men were at once set to work, and by their efforts, tinder
the direction of the various cloak officials, it was anticipated
that the bulk of the cargo, would be removed before mid-
night, when the tide would be again full. The unusual car.
cumstance of a complete shipwreck dose to the dock walls
attracted crowds of spectators. So soon as the vessel can be
removed she will be placed id oiled the graving docks which
are close at baud, and partially unoccupied. These large
banks in front of the South docks are a source of great
danger to shipping, and though frequent (aorta have been
made to reduce them, the elitism at this point is so constant
and rapid as to baffle all the skill and vigilanceof the Marine
Surveyor.

FRANCE.

(MOW OUR OWN CORTURIFONDINT.)
PARIS, fiLTURDAT EVENING.
The great Bonaparte case was not brought to a
conclusion yesterday. M. Allou spoke till 6 o'clock,
and I believe finished, but the legal journal,
entirely filled with M. Berryer's speech, contain no
report of his. The cause is postponed till neit
Friday, for the reply and the speech of the Public
Minister. Ga/igsani says that the affair will oc-
cupy three or four sittings, but I think this is a
mistake. There is little doubt that the arguments
will be brought to a close on Friday next. The
judgment probably will not be given till a day or
two after.

At the reception of Father Lacordaire at the
French Academy on Thursday, he entered with his
colleagues and took his seat at the table, having
Count de Montalembert on his right, and K.
Berryer on the left. The new member swore the
white robe of a Dominican friar, with the ordinary
black cloak. His head was shaved with the excep-
tion of a narrow coronet of white hair. There was
some curiosity evinced respecting one trifling detail
of M. Guizat's addrees, in which he began by eV-
lug " Monsieur " and not "Mon Phre." It is the
usage in the academy never on such occasions to
address the new member by an other form of com-
pellation than "Monsieur." The Duke de Noailles
was addressed as " Monsieur" only ; and the same
designation, not " Monseigneur,' was used on the
reception of the Bishop of Orleans. This is done as
a sign of perfectequality and academic confraternity,
at least for the day of reception. No one but
Cardinal Maury ever insisted on being called
" Monseigneur " nor did he gain his end without
negotiations a;rl an order from a high quarter—a
circumstance which drew on him many epigrams.

A very curious story is told of M. de Lacordaire
by M. Stephen, a barrister, who write.) legal arti-
tides in the Opinion Nationale, and who it must be
presumed does not promulgate fable.) as facts. You
are aware that Lacordaire b%an life as a barrister.
Some years ago on a cause being called on that was
undefended, the presiding judge asked a young man
in a cap and gown, who was sitting on the back
benches, to act as counsel for the defendant. The
task was accepted, and the junior acquitted himself
so well as to call forth a warm commendation from
the bench. The next case was the Abbo; Lacordaire
v. Le Lyode (a public school). The same young
barrister who had just distinguished himself ruse
to speak, and the judge, astonished to see the tyro
with a brief, said, with a smile, " What, are you in
this r The answer was, " Sir, I am the Abbd
Laconlaire, and I appear to plead my own cause."
He had then just taken priest's orders, and with
those enlarged but nut generally accepted ideas
which led him afterwards to sit as a representative
of the people in the National Assembly, he saw no
harm in wearing alternately the clerical and the
forensic gown. The Council of the Order of Advo-
cates, however, gave him to understand that there
was an incompatibility between the two callings,
and his own cause was the last that he ever pleaded.
The Bourse was remarkably firm, but the amount
of business done was not great. The Rente rose
10c. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at 67.55
and 67.60. Mobilier rose 260. The Lyons Rail-
way rose 3.75 ; Orleans, 2.50 ; and the other
lines 1.25.

A legitimist journal of the South of France an-
nounces that Francis IL has dug a grave in his
casemate at Gaeta in which he means to be buried
if the bombardment should go against him. His
heroic resolution will probably be brought to the
test before long. It is reported that his favourite
and most devoted general, Bow), has left Gaeta to
foment the reaction in the Abruzzi, and cherishes
the hope of attacking the Pledmontese army in the
rear, and so causing a diversion. Bannchawe
Bosco.

After February 1 there will ben oonsiderable re-
duction in the oast of telegrams from France to
England, and, 1 suppose, rice vend. A despatch of
twenty words from Calais or Boulogne to London
is to cost only 3f. instead of 6f. • and despatches to
any other part of the United Kingdom will be re-
duced from 6f. to 4f. 25c.