The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

LAMBETH-BRIDGE.

The report of the directors stated that the arbi-
trator bad made his award in the action brought
against the company by Messrs. Porter, the contrac-
tors for building the bridge. The sum claimed was
£8,466. The amount awarded as due was £3,914,
with £3OO for costs and £219 for half the expenses
of the award, making in all £4,433. The directors
had required payment of an amount of unpaid calls
on the shares on which £1 only had been received,
sufficient to meet this sum. As Mr. Davis's lease
was now drawing to a close, the directors recom-
mended that the dividend fer the last half-year be
made at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum only,
as they were at present not aware of the actual
amount of traffic. This would leave £1,020 in
hand. The directors believed that £5 per cent.
I would be the lowest dividend paid by the company
in future. The capital account showed that £45,749
had been expended, leaving a balance against the
company of £1,789.

Birmingham Working Men's Exhibition.

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The working men's industrial exhibition for Bir-
mingham and the Midland Counties was inaugu-
rated yesterday. At half-past one o'clock yester-
day a procession--in which the exhibitors were
joined by the magistrates, the members of the Town
Council, the local clergy, the volunteer rifle corps,
the fire brigades, &c.—started from the Bull-ring,
Birmingham, to Bingley Hall, where the exhibition
is held. At Bingley Hall, the different bodies form-
ing the procession were received by a committee of
working men, and conducted to seats. The Rev.
J. C. Miller, D.D., rector of St. Martin's, Birming-
ham, presided. He was supported by Lord Leigh,
Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire ; Lord Lyttelton,
Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire ; the Mayor of
Birmingham (Mr. Henry Wiggin), tha -Yen. Arch-
deacon Sandford, the Ven. Archdeacon Hone, Mr.
C. N. Newdegate, M.P., Mr. W. D. Bromley,
M.P., and a large number of gentlemen of local in-
fluence and position.

The 100th Psalm having been sung, the Chair-
man offered up an appropriate prayer, and then
made some observations introducing the business
part of the proceedings.

An inauguration ode, composed by a working
man, Mr. Coombes Davies, and set to music by
Mr. Thomas Anderton, a promising young musi-
cian and composer, was then performed, under the
direction of Mr. Anderton.

Lord Lyttelton then delivered the inaugural ad-
dress. He said it would be unbecoming of him to
take up the time of the meeting by any professions
of his ability to perform adequately the function
which he was about to attempt, though he could not
but remember with some uneasiness that in other
parts of the country a similar function had been
discharged by several of our most distinguished
public men. By discharging that function they
had shown their sense of the importance of those
exhibitions, and therein of that larger subject of
which those exhibitions might be looked upon as a
part—the voluntary and intelligent intercourse be-
ween different classes of the community. He
observed that it was, he thought, too much the
fashion to speak of it as being au obligation resting
peculiarly upon the rich to promote that intercourse ;
whereas the great middle class were really just as
much called upon as either of the other two classes
to promote intercourse with those above and below
them. He thought that intelligent and voluntary
intercourse between the different classes of society,
for purposes of good, might be looked upon as a
new feature in our times. He did not say it never
existed to the same extent before. He put on one
side the question whether in the middle ages and in
earlier times there was that greater amount of kindly
intercourse between the several classes which some
persons supposed there was. But looking to com-
paratively recent times, Daniel Defoe wrote, 150
years ago, that although the rich necessarily knew
something of the doings of the poor, still the suffer-
ings and the vices of the poor were confined to them-
selves,
and were carried on, so to speak, by them-
selves. Twenty years ago a remarkable book was
written by one of those distinguished men of whom
there had been but too few in history, who combined
literary with political eminence. 11e
Two Mr.
was
Disraeli, and the title of the book
Nations." If he was not misinformed the purport
of it was that the working classes, and especially the
manufacturing working population, were as little
known to the upper classes as if they were a separate
and distinct nation living within the borders Of
England. He doubted whether that assertion could
with truth be made now in as broad a sense as it was
then. There were persons of a cynical and satirical
disposition who complained somewhat of the many
attempts to draw the different classes more closely
together. " Why dont you let the working classes

alone ?" they said. He thought such persons went
against the whole tendency, not only of the upper and
middle classes, but of the working classes themselves
—(hear, hear)—for it was constantly found that the
co-operation of the upper and middle classes was
directly requested and solicited by the working
classes, as was the case in the instance of that exhi-
bition. (Hear.) It was a great mistake to suppose
that the working classes were trying to keep aloof,
and that the upper and middle classes were running
after them. There was on the part of all classes a
very strong desire to know more of each other ; of
which the literature of the day in its lighter and
more popular form afforded sufficient indication.
For many years past he knew very well that the
works of fiction in which the upper classes took the
most pleasure were those which purported to deal
with the daily life of the classes below them ; and
taking the converse, the small and cheap works of
fiction and periodicals which circulated amongst the
poorer classes of London, and which were to be
seen in the shop-windows of the humbler streets,
all—without one exception in a hundred—related to
the lives of the upper classes. Ile knew very well
there might be evil mixed up with this ; but he
spoke of it as a matter of fact, and it was a matter
of fad that on the part of all classes there was a
very strong desire for closer intercourse with each
other, and a more intimate knowledge of each other.
His lordship then went on to say, that every man
ought to work ; according to the words of Scrip-
ture, "To every man his work," and he said that
exhibitions of that kind were valuable, because he
believed they were an encouragement to men to
work. To men employed in the higher walks of
labour it was encouraging to know that their works
would be • appreciated by the classes below them.
When in the National Gallery, or at a fine collection
of sculpture, men of the better classes were found
admiring great works ; or when Mr. Dickens saw
the labouring
„people of this country literally devour
his writings, that was a great part of the encou-
ragement which men of genius looked for from their
countrymen, and which he was sure they would
be very sorry indeed to be without. (Cheers.) Why,
then, should it not be encouraging to the artisan to
see his works admired ; and he was sure that the
admiration of the visitors to that exhibition would
be ungrudgingly given to the very beautiful collec-
tion of articles exhibited. (Hear.) His lordship then
went on to say that on account of the great variety
of trades in Birmingham, that town was peculiarly
fitted to furnish an excellent working men's exhibi-
tion, and he concluded with an expression of hope-
fulness for the future of the working classes and of
mankind.

A vote of thanks was passed to his lordship for his
address. A vote of thanks was also passed to the
Mayor.

The exhibition was then formally declared open.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's

Steamer Corea•

Yesterday the following communication was re-
ceived from China, relative to the missing com-
pany's steamer Corea, which it is feared foundered
with all on board during a fearful typhoon :
" Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's Office, Hongkong, July 11.
_ _ _

" Gentlemen,—lt is with the utmost sorrow that I have
to inform you that the company's steamer Corea is missing,
and that the greatest fears are entertained of her having
perished in a typhoon, which she is known to have en-
countered on the night of the 29th ult. She was despatched
from this port in the evening of the 29th at 6 o'clock, on the
usual east coast voyage, to Swatow, Amoy, and Foo-chow.
Eor some days previous the heat had been very intense,
the barometer inclined to be low, and the weather had the
unsettled appearance so common here at this season of the
year; still there was no striking indication of immediate
bad weather, and at the moment of leaving Captain Bird
expressed his belief that if it should blow at all, it
would be nothing more than a monsoon breeze. This was
at 6 o'clock,. and the suddenness with which the storm
burst on the coast may be gathered from the report of a
steamer called the Oriflamme, which left this only two
hours More the Corea, and narrowly escaped foundering,
having been more than once on her beam ends and with her
fires extinguished, and several feet of water in her libld and
engine-room. This report has been extracted from the
newspapers, but has been verified by reference to the officers
of tho Orifiamme, so there is no doubt of its correctness.

" The Oriflamme steamship, Captain Lane, reports that
she left Hongkong June 29, 1865, at 450 p.m., for Shanghai,
weather fine, with a fresh breeze from W.S.W., barometer
2975, being about the same as it has been for sometime past;
6 p.m., Nine Pins bearing N., found a rolling swell from
S.E., could see no indication of a cyclone; made sail, as we
had a gentle breeze from westward; 8 p.m., barometer 2968,
thermometer 84; Single Island bore N. by W., lightning over
the land; 1020 p.m., Pedro Blanco bore S. by E., five miles;
11 p.m., barometer 29 60, thermometer 81, blowing a gale
from N., thick rain, a screw steamer in company supposed
to be the Corea, sea beginning to be quite high. June 30.-
1 a.m., barometer 29.40, wind still N., and blowing a hurri-
cane, sea high, and confused wind so strong that it blows
the boat in the trough of the sea, we laying badly ; 2 a.m.,
barometer 29 30, wind blowing apparently as hard as it can ;
put over port bow 100 fathoms of 10-inch hawser, to help to
keep us up to the sea ; 3 a.m., barometer 29, thermometer
80, still blowing, some of the squalls terrific, fires all out in
furnaces, &c. ; 4 40, barometer 28.50, thermometer 82, wind
came in terrific gusts from S., till 8 a.m., it blew with
perfect fury, sea running high ; 9 a.m., barometer 29 65,
moderating and clearing up in the east, the bad weather
about west of us. During the gale we lost three boats, two
blown to pieces, one filled at the davits and left us, stove
in wheel-houses, decks to guards, and damaged things
in general about the decks; 6 p.m., barometer 29 70; ther-
mometer, 80, midnight, wind and sea going down. July 1,
—All night moderate and pleasant from S. and W. ; 1135,
came up with one of our lost boats, sent a boat for it and
took it up the davits ; saw a bark with loss of foretopmast,
maintopgallantmast, main yard, &c., bound here. On the
way in from Pedro Blanco, passed three junks dismasted,
one bottom up, and five fishing boats wrecked, also passed
large quantities of wreck stuff—china, cargo in mats, dead
hogs, one dead body ; 35 miles outside, picked up two men,
and within 20 miles of Nine Pins picked up 37 Chinese from
off different rafts.

" The intelligence of the Corea not having reached
Swatow was first brought to me very early on the morning
of the Bth by the Azof. On hearing that the Corea was
missing Captain Baker very properly obtained immediate
despatch from Swatow, and came down as close along the
coast as it was safe for the ship to do, but without obtaining
any tidings of the missing steamer.
" I then applied to the admiral for a gunboat to visit the
various bays between this and Swatow, and make inquiries
of the Chinese authorities whether any seamen had been
wrecked on the coast. But there happened at the moment
to be no vessel of this class ready for sea. lat once de-
spatched the Azof again on this errand, sending in her an
armed party of sailors and marines, with a lieutenant in
command, whom the admiral placed at my disposal, as on
many parts of this piratical coast it would he dangerous to
land without due protection.
" My instructions to Capt. Baker were to visit all parts of
the coast as high as Swatow, and on arriving there, if no
intelligence had been obtained to induce him to proceed else-
where, he is to return to this port in a more easterly direc-
tion, and on his way to examine Pratos Shaol, if by any
remote possibility the Corea might have been driven there.

" Besides the Corea there is also another steamer missing,
which left this port four hours before her on the same
voyage, the Chanticleer, belonging to Mr. Douglas Lapraik.
No trace of this has been heard of either.

" In estimating the chances of the Corea having escaped,
the fact of another steamer being missed is not favourable,
for were either of them safe the probability is that in the
12 days which have elapsed since the gale she must have
been heard of. The direction of the wind and current have
been continually from the south ; and this fact is also omi-
nous, as had the steamer run off in the only safe direction
—viz., the south to east, the prevailing win Is, even had she
been disabled,Nioul d have driven her towards the coast again,
the only ground of hope then appears to be that she may
have been dismasted, or her machinery also disabled, so
that progress of any kind is for the time impossible. I can-
not hold out this as a strong hops, but I deeplyregret to say
it seems the only one—one which professional men enter-
tain, taking all the circumstances into consideration.

" The Corea had on board a very small cargo and only
three European passengers, besides the commander's wife,
Mrs. Bird. That lady had only been here a few months,
but she was in delicate health, and Capt. Bird asked to be
allowed to take her to Swatow on a visit to some friends.
Of the other passengers one was Mr. Noble, manager of the
Agra Bank, one was a Portuguese, and one a German.
" I communicate these details with much pain, and would
gladly smother the fears I have been compelled to express
were the hopes of safetygreater; but it is my duty to narrate
the plain truth, however painful. It is the common dread,
and one which I.eannotbut share, that an awful catastrophe
has befallen these two steamers within a few hours of their
leaving this port.

"I have the honour to remain, gentlemen, your most
obedient servant,
" THOMAS SUTIIERLAND, Superintendent of
the Company's Works, Hongkong.
" To the Managing Directors, London."

It will be observed that the above letter is dated the 11t11
of July. The managing directors have received telegrams
from Hongkong up to July 31st. Nothing further was
known of the Corea.
The following is a list of the officers who were on board:
—Capt. J. W. D. Bird, commander; Mr. J. M. Guy, chief

officer ; Mr. J. D. Muir, acting second officer ; Mr. Richard-
son, third officer ; Mr. Young, fourth officer ; Mr. H. Map-
pleback, head steward ; Mr. J. Forrest, chief engineer ; Mr.
R. K. Arr, second engineer ; Mr. R. Campbell, fourth en-
gineer; and Mr. A. C. Alford, boiler maker. Her crew num-
bered in all 100 hands.

The Corea, was 600 tons register and 200-horse power.

Another Attempted Murder by a German
or Germans.

On Sunday night, about 11 o'clock, the inhabitants of
West Ham were alarmed by the report that a brutal mur-
der had been attempted in a house inhabited by foreigners,
No. 1, Edith-cottages, near the Chandos-road, Stratford,
and that the two men concerned in the outrage had made
their escape.

The rumour, and cries for help, on the surrounding
neighbours arising from their beds at hearing the calls of
"murder," had too great a foundation, as a man named
Joseph Kruchen was found in the road in the arms of his
son bleeding from six wounds about the shoulders, and one
large stab in the abdomen, from which the entrails were pro-
truding. Dr. Mugliston, of the Leytonstone-road, was im-
mediately called up, and promptly came to the unfortunate
man's assistance. After putting back the bowels he sewed
up the wound, and as the man appeared to be fast sinking,
he recommended Mr. Inspector Standage to lose no time in
having his depositions taken. A cab was obtained, and
he was at once sent to the London Hospital. From what,
in the hurried excitement of the moment could be gleaned
from the wounded man's son, he was last in company with
Jacob Brenner, aged 24, a cabinet-maker in their employ,
and also a lodger in their house, and in the company of a
man named Charles Hems, aged 24, a sugar baker, re-
siding in Whitechapel. A full description having been
given to the police, measures were taken for their ap-
prehension, and some of the neighbours also started in
search. Nothing during the night was seen of them, but
about half-past eight yesterday (Monday) morning Mr.
Philip Pride, a gentleman who resides in the next house,
was informed by some one who came there that a man
answering the description of one of the suspected men was
seen coming from a neighbouring field, but on being ob-
served made a stand, and then turned; back. Mr. Pride
then went out to see if he could find him, and on going to
the field he also saw a man resembling the one they were
on the look out for. On going towards him ho endeavoured
to walk sharply away, and succeeded in reaching a shed,
and on Mr. Pride following him there he found Jacob
Brenner crouching down under a cart. He said to him,
" What made you stab that poor man last night? They are
looking out for you, and you had better go quietly to my
house." The man then felt in his pockets, as though feel-
ing for a weapon ; but he (Mr. Pride) showed him the stick
he bad, and recommended him to come quietly. Brenner
then said,;," Me have no knife ; me have no knife at all.',
The other man supposed to bo concerned, viz., Charles
Hems, was discovered in the neighbourhood by the son of
the injured man. He endeavoured to make his escape, but
after a sharp run was taken about a mile and a half from
the spot, at a place called Stratford-grove.
On Monday morning, at a late hour, the wounds of the
injured man were considered so dangerous that the pro-
priety of sending for a magistrate from the Thames Police-
court was discussed.