The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OC TOBER 3, 1857.

It is as well that this point should be
cleared up. The issue raised by Sir CIidIILIS
is an immaterial issue. The Tooth= is not who-
thee Ministers, when at length moused to the
danger, sent enough men, but whether the seat
them the right way. Upon that point, with the
whole common scan of the country to back se, we
maintain that they did not, and that for not doing so
they are greatly culpable. There is an absolute
went of good sense in such a proceeding as sending
oat a large army in such an emergency, and not
winding at least a portion of it the shortest way. By
the very act of sending out 36,000 men, Ministers
showed that they were properly convinced of the
serious magnitude of the danger. To send 36,000
British troops a distance of 14,000 miles is a step
which would hardly be resorted to for the suppre•-
sion of a mutiny which would be over " in three
months," or of an insurrection which, in the Minis-
terial phrase, would speedily " burn itself out."
Ministers then were aware of the gravity of the
crisia, but as men of ordinary understanding
they must have been perfectly well aware that the
peculiar gravity of the crisis consisted principally in
this—the necessary tendency of the insurrection to
spread with rapidity, if not checked with prompti-
tude. They knew our military fares in India was
weak—they must hare been certain that, in spite of
their utmost exertions in the way of relief, it would
hare a dilleulty in bolding its own till reinforce.
meats arrived. None know bettor than they how many
valuable lives—how mach maintenance of prestige
sad inflame might depend on the earliest possible
arrival of British troops Atha England. They could
not have been Ignorant of the fact that 5,000 men
landed in Bombay by the middle of August would
Ism been well worth 30,000 landed at Calcutta
by the beginning et November. And yet, know-
ing all this, they mimed sending all their re-
intbeemisets round by the Cape, rather than send
any portion of them through the Desert. And
why Not beanie it was impossible to take the
Jaen TOUIO--110183114 CIOBIEY'S rejected offer has
Ow the lie to that subterfuge--but solely because
it was dithealt.

Minister of the Interior. The speech delivered on
this occasion made no allusion whales& to the dif.
femme existing with the duchies. M. Bran has
been elected president of the First Chamber, and
M. Rottwitt of the Second.

UNITED STATES. :':

ARRIVAL OF THE ARAOO.

The United States mail steam packet
arrived at Southampton yesterday from New VX
having left that port oa the 19th of September. 'he
brought eight passengers for England, and 78 for
Havre; 27,000 dollars specie for France. She had
•to encounter Mint days' easterly wind, with rough
and boisterous weather.

The matter in the news brought by the
Arago which is two days later than we had before
received is the awful calamity which has occurred
in the all of Mexico—the wreck, or founder-
ing, of the steam ship Central America, and the
loss of nearly five hundred lives, together with some
two million dollars' worth of specie. The particulars
of this terrible affair we give in another column.
The Central America was the same vessel as that
which was formerly named the George Law; she
belonged to the United States Mail Company, and
was employed in the conveyance of Californianpao-
senrre and treasure from Chagres to New York,
calling at Havaanah. She had a tremendous gale
to encounter, in which she foundered on the 12th of
September, and it is supposed that only one hundred
out of over five hundred passengers were saved. A
statement furnished by one of the passengers landed
at Savannah gives the cause of the disaster. It ap-
pears that the ship sprung a leak, which extinguished
the fins, and left her at the mercy of the waves.
The telegraph announces the prevalence in Ncsth
Carolina and Southern Virginia of a severe hurri-
cane, accompanied by heavy rains. The telegraph
lines were prostrated and railroad travel suspended
south of Petersburg. The steamer Columbia, from
New York, arrived at Charleston, reportsencountering
a heavy gale off Hatteras, which lasted 20 hours,
during which her paddle boxes were carried away.
The gals proves to have been very severe along the
southern coast. Already we have intelligence of
the loss of the barques Colin Melte& and John W.
Blodgett, and the schooners Emily Ward and Abd-
el-Kader, and also of several vessels being ashore on
the coast of North Carolina. The steamship Empire
City, from Havannah for New York, put into Nor-
folk short of coal. Her officers report having en-
countered a succession of heavy gales, during which
she received some damage.
A large and enthusiastic meeting, mainly of Irish-
men, assembled at Sturesent Institute, in the city'
of New York, to express opposition to British enlist-
ments in the UniW States for the war in Ladia, and
sympathy with the sem mutiny. Some very
strong resolutions and an address to the working
classes of Great Britain were adopted, and speeches
were made by Colonel l)oheny, Oliver Byrne, and
others. Mr. John Mitchell, formerly editor of the
United Irithman, at Dublin, having beenalluded to
es one who should have been present, writes to the
New York Herald, saying :—. I deem it needless
and superfluous to go to any meeting in order to
prove that I sympathise with Sepoya, Russian,
Persians, Chinese, or any other enemies of the British
government."

WRECK OF AN AMERICAN STEAM-

BHII'.

LOSS OP FIVE RUNDBRD LIVES.

(From do Wire York Florid at Bes, 19.)

On Saturday last, the 12th instant, the United
States mail steamship Central America, Cepa& Herndon,
bound to New Teak witla ths Peale mean, pismagers and
new to the amber of same ME husked and twenty-five
pawns, end tremenre Is the ■aoat of suer two millions of
dollars, Haden& Y s Maims of Oslo MOM&
The Cannel Amain woe due et Ude pert an ensilay leat,
and slue than lia meet panful sashay as le to, Ye w-
ooded the whole earnestly, but airs perdmisrly those
whose Mesa end amiliss were supposed to have been pea-
mien on board if hr.
Is the Ihrisigial yieeirdey we announced the lamentable
baths& she hod whited In the tale, sad that bet few of her
pmenars wars rasened. It is Impomfble at this time to tell
the numb« of Ilwa lost, but that it must have beat Immense
there is little room to doubt. The mamba well probably
Met eve hundred.

On Tuesday, the 6th test., the Central America. in com-
pany with the Empire City left Havana bee New York, and
up to the evening of that day they wen In sight of each
=a• • but towards night the Central America oat-dietanced
her companion. On the following ermine a hen gals set
In from the northwest, and continued without absent
until Saturday, the 12th inst. when It isenesed to a perfect
hurricane. Thb was disestrOualy etpniemoed by the Empire
City ; the Cohunbla, bound from this port to Charleston;
and the Southerner, bound hence to Savannah, The effects
of the storm on these ships we have already published.
It is supposed that when the ill-fatal Central America met
the fell force of the gale she was about 60 miles ahead of the
Empire City, and about 150 miles to the west of the Wand of
New Brendan*, between that island and the American
cont. It is sea that the Central America meet have
broken her and drifted up the Gulf stream. Her
regular distance from the coast is about 76 miles when nut-
kmethar usual mane.
la little doubt that the henbane bad a cheater
motion, or was, In fat, what le commonly called a whirl-
wind. From the direction It took it Is probable that OM Cen-
teal America wee caught In the very centre of the whirl. The
eater edge of the whirlwind doubtless, struck her on Wed-
nesday, the 9th, the time which the Empire City drat nye-
rimmed It, and ham that time until Saturday, the 12th, also
meet have gelhatly bathed with it, until the centre of the
gale em We sod she could no longer hold out.
Up to the lime of writing we have intelligence of 100 per
known to be saved, em follows:—By Norwegian
beat et Norfolk, 49; by York,y, at Se
6; bY brig bound to New 46; total, 101172a0h1
! those on bond the Mar= tweedy-az en females. How
many more may have boa picked up we cannot new tell, but
it is to be hoped that when farther news arrives the 1W tithe
send will be had ealisidenbly them=
The Cent= Ameedus wee net bimetal, and the for to the
eimpany on= WM sheet 0(1160,000 doh.
Thee amount el spiels as /WOK is put down at 1,600,000
dole But we Weer that the on them steamer.,
et lade saisea, large amounts in gold en
their pen= soft in their hergege. Any one who has ob-
served them =lag et the piers must have been struck with
the peculiar smithy they bestow Ron their trunks, and the
greet difficulty always experieneed lift= and camnyleg
them—two men Whig ataaally neessesq for this
We remembir that when a rstened enian =Pr=
some tune ago, at Ennek's Hotel, these was some 3,000 dole.
in his trunk. It would net be an undue avenge, then, to
put the amount carried seek returning Californian et from
two to three thawing. dam She Is reported to have taken
in 126,0 W dots. at 111•11111•111 In addition to the 1,600,000
dole. she had en her algid height list; and this, added to
ry 300,000 doh. in the peiresiem of threw= world
make the enswed at triannt lost a little over two million
of dollars. _ -

/di; many years bee a gale of equal WM=
Lied oar oomph es this one by which Central
was destroyed. livery ship ea the line of its travel rd.
fired ermeely, NM the whale Want of the Menge dome le
not and never mop be Yawn. The omen he mike amend
we strews with townsmen of wrecks; end the Is no
hoist mew this the order et wheal Mews, deer panels
sad familiars, sem the ships Palma sod Commercia,
belonged is pmt le het Cannot Amnion The isles
City, he her earls is get
_Ys theism at Sertolk, was
compelled to he.. It wird bows., lake. theirs, and
every available 'Weird weed week Mhos, be Ins {oboe.
TM ColtZa7 deameldp, white MS New Tea tut Wed-
nesday, the he Cherlesten, meehed poet with the
an hserdsg. For Is beers the templet
=en arm bar. end sway mement of that time elm
was la knelmet Amur debar • t waiting or foandesing,
every Umber quimelagendm the lonia heal of the gale.
The &Howbeit the sleteemmt of Homy H. Childs, one of
the pamengers wits wed bleaself by serbmaing for several
hours until he was plated
I left Havana or the stem-ship entre] America for
New York on Sept. I. The weather was delightful end
the sea calm on their born Aspinwatl. On the after-
noon of the day teem Havana, fresh westerly
tweezes sprung up. Os following morning the whtd
blew very strum the gale continuing to Menem is vio-
lence as the day advanced. At might here we. or gar
meat In the hey of the gale, and it onmeeemd raining
la torrents. On Thursday it blew • hierken leimrinesa
running very high. On Friday the slams aged y.
At eleven o'clock in the morning of this day it wee ine
known sang the outliners that the eteemer had wrong
• leek and was making water feat • We is ass was
immediately formed, end hey went le work cwt erg
the water hoin the.ws rooms, the bee baring
been eatinguished We gained on the water is—n;74
that wo were able to get up steam age* bet we held
it but • few minutia, and than It Mopped Sr ever. Bell-
ing continued, however, end wm ihrS up in ell parts is the
ship until she inally wan dews. During Friday night the
water raised petrify, but all or beard being ha
good spirits, they worked err beet of heir ability,
that when the rooming they possibly mien
soma vessel, end thus he reed. The fatal Saturday PM at

Let. but but Inormed fury in the gala.
NI we y=4, mu:2 shout 2 o'clock In the Marmon
the dorm Idiot aMe and the clouds broke away. Rope
wee renewed, mg ill new worked like Mend. At c m. we
spied a sail, and ereo3taine mad pieced our lag at halt-meet
awas MIN and Se Ilartae, of oks, down upon
We dm misty Bo
mega. Usbore 011010 sear us,
end we spoked, end told our cesdidon. filie laid by
shoat a mile &kat, and we, in the only three boats saved,
placed all the women end children, and they were safely put
on board the brig. As evening was fed approaching ere
discovered mother IM which responded to our call, and
cense layue. Capt. Minim Mit oar condldos, and asked
them by sad mad a boat, as we bed sane Idt. She
promised to do ao, but that wee the Lm we saw of her, el-
crept at a diem:toe, which mew grater and Sonny
moment At 7 o'clock we oily so prodbutly of akin
much loner, although we hit that if we could so until
sole sea would be saved. In • short thee a hoary
forret time broke over the upper deck of the wend, end
than ell hope faded away. lale pmervere were saw sup-
plied to eO, and we sent up two rocked, when • Inumndou
ma swept over le, and the steamer in II moment wee does.
I think some her Imadmi re four handred sad flay souls
were lamoisad upon the omen at the mem ot the waves.
The Mem alt this time had ratirely amid.: We all kept
suer tegother, aid west se the warm took se. Them wee
we or very littlemidosespt that each me domed hie
Mow comrade es. Como we thus kept up for two or
Wee hours, and I Aisle ter that spare of thee nose bad
drowned but three, who could ad swim became dhanitiL
After this gmdually me by one pared away to etwelty.
The hope that boats meld be sent to us from the two me-
seh we had inches secs fed from es and our trod
was In Providence—' and whit bolts, arid could you or I
ask F.' I saw my comrades sink feet, and at me realeek that
night I was newly alone upon the ocean, some 200 adhe
from lend. I hard, however, shoots from d that amid do
so, that were not far from me, but I °mild sot see them
Within an hour from this time I saw a vessel, which I
jodgel to be about one mile from me. Tains fresh omen"
I struck out for the vessel, and reached it when nearly es.
boated, and they drew me on board of it by ropes. It proved
to be • Norwegian harme, from Beam Honduras, bound for
Falmouth, England. I bend on board of her some three of
my comrades, and at half-past nine o'clock the next morning,
we bad 49 noble fellows oe board and theme are all I know of
hart( been saved. We embed about the place until we
thought that all alive bad been roomed, end than set sail.
We found the barque short of providom and the crewdviog
on grad. We had some tea and coffee to refresh ourselves,
and at noon on Sunday we spoke the American barque
Saxony, bound for Savannah, which supplied us with pro-
visions."

rill HULL 7.4111188 ff.

(Rom thi loam§ Crowstia Em sl4)

. .
Scarcely had our townsmen mode themselves ac-
quainted with the fads which we published In our test with
minenos to the condition of the Heft Flax and Cotton Mill.
--its Moline from an apparent date of exulteranta=sta
to one of disastrous collapse—than they were
aetoandad by en samenacement of • it more portentous
character. Lost Thursday martin, Indeed of the resump-
tion of business at the usual hoar, Keen; Harrison,
Watson, and Ca., the beaker', of No. 54, Whitefriarpte,
In thi• town, pedal nie a notice to the effect that they
wens ander the semetty of seameding their payment'.
This came an the town like a thunder-clap. Up to the
zu....moment of dosing, the beak had maintained the
repatatioa. Not the 'lightest suspicion of the into-
ay-7f the partners or the solvency of the firm had been
entertedned. It was known that the two principals were
Ladd prombitore of some extent, and coupled with the
hot that the beak wee chiefly one d deposit, we may
saythe& Ito elmecter was on a per with that of any
to Hutt. On Thursday, then, the whole town
woe moved frees its promiety, aa well it might be. Hants
el hula. son wee
of to be aeon diatoms's( the
mime rumours which ware afloat. The Cotton Mill col-
lapse, the anonymous though perfectly well-underelood
in the Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday
which lre reported in our teat), and the doing of the
is question, seemed to be Immediately connected with I
each other; and oat of that 'edam and lamea4ble con-
to
itualsii
jmas; on hand Academe at food wherewith
o cmin rumour. Nor did this same for some days
nor, in he it ceased yet. One muse of Meson. Har-
rison and alum's ampension wee mid to be the feet that
they were under heavy 'dreamt to the ineeflead Cotton
Mies ' • mother statement me to the sad that the advances
to the Cotton wan Company amounted to only 22,0007., end
that the stopper" had been precipitated by the fact that two
deposited; ahem united botenoss reached 70,0001., wished
to draw out a Ivy proportion of them. We believe that
neither of there AfteseMs h puree; The impettrion arose
from other eiramelnaess. It is addend, stalled that the
whole of Wednesday's Weiner was completed Indus form, and
that, both so regards their Hull bustmes (with one exception)
and the Lodge gleam made( amerred to preoWtate the
bank's doing. Wednesday week's proosed, whkh wen
well known to have rehrence to Kr; H. S. Mght, furnish
the beet solution of this Ismentable catastrophe. As sour
as the suipesaion was announced, most extrecedinary
rumours of the beaks liabilities no. into circuladon,
and various estimates were famed as to the pro-
boble dividend which would amine to the 600=
M ors whose confidence had so matieviatingiy been
to it. There were not weft( those who re red to believe
anything but that the event bed bees raced by un-
wonted pregame, and Mama the wham an not We la
a moment to extricate themselves trash a seeks ooneentra-
don of difficalace. But it is not too melt to my that, as
every day revealed the existence of other depoltoes, 031110
at them to • serious amount, so vanished the hops of a ma
ionarLM.:_n_ll badness by the bank, and the pab=l,la full of
attacked
to th=eaklylatha: report of its hes; yammer te two
which are undaytood to be its chief deli... WhemaQ
it stated in the Shipyppey GerUs that the firm of Taylor
and Bright are indebted in • sum of between 70,0001
and 80,0001.; and the Daily News has It that Mr.
Hama another of the Cotton Mill directors, is on their
books to the extent of 130,0001. We are not in a Fealties
to contradict either of these nations. But we may add
that the joint sum o,llcLthoos two accoonta best
down as something on a curter of • talks
of money. Of the sad assets of the bask,
no statement has yet been bead ; Mt imports place me
fret at Mont 400,0004, and the averiable Mils at
The leaded property of Mr. Hierima end Mr. Waters is
mid to be mortgaged, but the rumour of an entail le Moor-
rect. The partners in the bank yesterday formally surren-
dered to the bankruptcy registrar. Yesterday afternoon, the
of the investigation led to ea anticipation that the
di will be areal to 10e. hi the
Of the effect et this theater upon ObitrMe of the town for
the remainder of the year, there unfortunately is but one
opinion. Nor ma there be any doubt that the calamity wilt
be aver to many individuals, whose meths resources were
locked up in the concern. One very wad case was mentioned
the other day with reference to the failure of the British '
Bank ; three ladies, past the prime of life, had quite
sufficient to live comfortably on for their live; but it
we ell invested in British Bank shame; enry penny Is
lest, and even their hashers has been taken, and they are I
now In situations as governesses. Were we at liberty to
publish names, we oaM give Marmon semally se pain-
ful, in the case of thee beak under notice—where the entire
saviap of may years lave been swept sway at owe, and
whoa ossenisi prat, he. soddenly Mtn upon those who
of to this den week slimmed theasseives la ea poseeeeion
mecum; In Mali n% to the hews which
individuals is this way sustained, the valises friendly
societies end themeelvel serious lasers. The great bulk
of them deposited their surplus funds in Mmes. Harrison,
Watson, mad Co.'n beak. We are informed that the
amount of the Shipwrights' Society deposit was so lees thin
0251. The Mawr lattarm Deity of Odd Fellow is • loser to
sid.pm.serisee extent. Nine lee of this Noddy were
to the amount of 2,2 M., which with the large
men of 7051. belonging to the widows' and orphans' fund of
that body, nukes a total of 2,9661. It is true that this is
only • portion of their tondo ; but the only amount of the
latter fund at present in the tressure's hands is 661. 12a.
The lodges of the Kingston Unity of Odd Follows are cre-
ditors to the .most of something like 1601. The Druids'
deposit I. about 4604 In addition to thee', the Fishermen's
Society had also entrusted their money to ail Wall =
and it is probable other sum; the property or other
established for similar benent and bodahie purpose', will
hereafter ho found to have been deposited.
The isepeetioa of the firm of Messrs. Taylor and Bright,
which bee been ohleielly declared, has not occasioned any
Urto those who knew the relationship of the bead of
~ both with the Cotton Mill Company, of which he
me the adman, and with the beak of which he me so 1
large a debtor. For many years thie firm ha. bon at
the head of the corn and treed trade in this town, and their
transactions were of the widen possible extent. Of course
the deficiencies of this firm, which wee one of the leading
muses of the bank's suspension, are likely to have • serious
effect in diminishing Mama Harrison and Watson's meet;
though we believe full allowance ha. been nude for this tom
in the estimate which is given above.
During the sitting of the Bankruptcy Court yesterday,
Mr. Jae. Hoiden inquired if Mr. 11. S. Bright had hem ad-
judicated a bankrupt.
Mr. Payn; sitting for his Honour, replied la the eferma-
tire, remarking that the adjudication took _ place on Bator-
My, and that the bankrupt surrendered on Monday night.
The choke of Wirth!ee I. lined for Oct. 21, and the exa-
roinatko of the bankrupt for Nov. 26.
The bank of Masers. Harrison, Watson, and Co. we. flat
opened la 1796, under the firm of Pease, Harrison nod Co.;
subuquently, on the accession of addltionalwpartners the
firm was altered to that of Pease, ?MI%
and Locke, and a bank at illaiton,ll=ne I=s Pelee,
Dunn, and Pease, wee carried on In connection therewith
by some d the partners in the Hull establishment ; but, In
the course of yeses, the bank of Melton was wound up, and
the late Mr. R. C.
M Pam, the senior partner to both firms,
retired from bushes; r. Henry Pease, however, con-
tinued in the concern, under the flan or Harrison, Watson,
and Lock.. The partnership of Mr. Locke expired by
i Bunion of titssoma you. ego, and wee not renewed, and
the firm then became Harrison Watson, and .Co. The
house versed to tame its own bank notes about thirteen
years ago.

METROPOLITAN AND PROVINCIAL LAW MOO-
manoN.—ln consequence of the royal peoclamatke ap-
pointing Wednesday, the 7th of October, for • day of solemn
ihst, the days selected for the mfg of this unclad= to
be held at 14ssebester have been alined from the 7th sad
Bth to the Bth and 9th of October, 1857.