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Awful Collision in the Channel.
LOSS OF A SCHOONER AND ALL HANDS.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday.
A collision, attended, we regret to say, with loss of life,
occurred in the Channel yesterday morning. From all
that can at present be learned, it appears that about two
o'clock yesterday morning, wnen the screw steamer Aleppo,
Capt. Langland, bound from Constantinople to this port,
was about two miles south--west of Bardsey Island, the
men on the look-out sighted a vessel ahead, though the
stranger was showing no light. A dense fog immediately
coming on, the look-out on the Aleppo lost sight of the
schooner, and the steamer continued her course. In about
half an hour afterwards, and while the fog still hung, a
terrible crash occurred and the top-gallantmasts of the
steamer were snapped by the force of the shock. It was
soon ascertained that the Aleppo had struck the schooner
fairly amidships, cutting into her like a knife. The
schooner wont down immediately, the only sound heard
being the piteous cry of a child. When it ceased all was as
silent as if no such catastrophe had taken place. The boats
of the Aleppo were lowered in less than three minutes, and
continued to pull round the scene of the disaster for some
hours, but failed to pick up any of the people who had been
on board the schooner. A head-board, on which was
painted " Charles Edwards," a bed, a blanket, and a bag of
corn were, however, found. That was all. The schooner
carried with her when she sank every soul on board. The
ill-fated vessel belonged to Chester, and when the collision
took place was bound from Duddon to Cardiff with a cargo
of copper ore. Captain Langland states that when the
collision took place his vessel was under a full head of
steam and a fair but stiff breeze, and that he did all that
could be done to save life, but unfortunately failed.

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The French Fleet at Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 31.
More splendid than the dinner on board the Duke
of Wellington, because given on a grander scale,
was the banquet at which the Admiralty enter-
tained the officers of the French fleet last evening.
The spacious tent in which it was served, and
which to-morrow night is to do the duty of a
ball-room, stands, as has been already stated,
in one of the quadrangles of the College, and is
reached through the entrance-hall of the College
itself, a substantial and rather handsome building.
The approach to this building from the dockyard
is about a quarter of a mile in length, and along
each side of it poles were erected, from the loops
connecting which hundreds of Chinese lanterns, shed-
ding lights of various hues, were displayed. On the
plot of green sward in front of the College, whose
ordinary decoration consists simply of a few beds
containing shrubs and evergreens, innumerable small
oil lamps, hung on fine thread, running round and
round again from slender rods, so as to take in the
whole surface of the sward, twinkled brightly within
a foot or two from the gr'ound. Similar lights simi-
larly placed glittered also all over the surface of
the larger piece of green sward which lies a little
further from the College on the left of the approach
to it, and were surmounted by a coronet of lights
encircling the statue which stands in its centre.
Over the entrance-porch of the building was an
illuminated circle, in the middle of which the flags
of England and France were represented twined
together, and topped by a crown. On each side of
it were two brilliant stars, with a somewhat similar
device. The steps leading to the hall were covered
with crimson cloth, which extended all the way to
the banqueting-room and down its centre. The
tent-like roof of the room, which at its apex is 36ft.
from the ground, as well as its walls, were covered
with a fine calico, broadly striped with red, white,
and blue. On the outside three coverings of canvas
and waterproof cloth rendered the tent impervious
to rain. Ten magnificent chandeliers, dependent
from the ridge-pole at the apex, and hanging at
short intervals down the centre, along its whole
length of 165 ft., with as many more on each side,
and numberless wax candles, filled the room with
a flood of light. Flowers and shrubs and plants
lent their beauty and their fragrance to a scene
which, when 150 guests, almost every one of
whom was in full naval or military uniform,
was indescribably dazzling. The Duke of Somer-
set presided at the banquet, having on his
right—the French and English guests being in alter-
nate order—the French Minister of Marine, M. de
Chasseloup-Laubat, SirM. Seymour, Admiral Guey-
don, Sir F. Grey, Admiral Jurien de la Graviere,
Admiral Sir L. Curtis, Admiral de la Ronciere,
Rear-Admiral Drummond, Admiral Saisset, Sir S.
Dacres, the Aumonier, and Mr. Childers. On the
left of the Duke sat Admiral BouU-Willaumez, Sir
R. Buller, Admiral Page, Lord C. Page, Admiral
Paris, Sir F. Cochrane, Admiral Fabre, Rear-Ad-
miral Eden, Admiral Pothuan, Admiral Wellesley,
Dupuy de Lome, and Mr. Romaine. The other guests
included the chief officers of the allied fleets, Ser-
geant Gazelee (one of the members for Portsmouth),
Mr. Whitworth, Sir C. Wyke, and the Russian
Admiralßoutahoff. The banquet was admirably and
sumptuously served ; and when grace had been said,
The Duke of SOMERSET rose and spoke as fol-
lows :

"I am desirous, on behalf of the British Admiralty, to
tender our sincere thanks to the Minister of Marine and the
authorities in the harbours of Brest and Cherbourg for the
kindness and hospitality with which they received us when
we recently visited those ports. I may add that the plea-
sure which we derived from our visit to the French coast
was greatly enhanced by the kind feeling which was shown
towards us not only by the inhabitants of those towns; but
by the great numbers of the French people by whom they
were crowded, during our stay. I rejoice in these inter-
national visits, because I feel the great advantage of a meet-
ing of tho officers of the two services. Hereafter when they
meet, in whatever part of the world it may be, they will be
able to look back with satisfaction to their visits to the
harbours of Cherbourg and Portsmouth, which I trust will
tend to strengthen those feelings of cordial friendship
which subsist between the two Governments and the two
nations. I am happy to avail myself of this oppirtunity
to return our sincere thanks for the readiness with which
the admiral and officers of the French navy came to the aid
of the sufferers on board the Bombay when that line-of-
battle ship was destroyed by fire. The French officers and
sailors supplied them with clothes, relieved their wants,
and mitigated by every
means in their power that great
disaster. Such acts of charity and kindness must bind the
two services together by the ties of friendship and command
the gratitude of the British nation. Animated by those
feelings, I am confident that every Englishman is prepared
to concur with me when I assure the officers of the French
navy that we bid them a hearty welcome. Following the
courteous example which was set at Cherbourg, I beg to
give you the first toast, the " Healths of the Emperor, the
Empress, and the Prince Imperial."
The toast was drunk with marked enthusiasm, the
whole of the Company rising, as were the others by
which it was suce eeded.

M. DE CHAS SELOUP LAUBAT, in proposing " The
Health of her Majesty the Queen," said—
"Messieurs,—Ce sont d'heureux joursque ceux dans les-
quels les ofticiers des marines de la Grande Bretagne et de la
France peuvent apprendre ase connaitre s'apprecier. Si
les visites que vous avez faites aux port de Cherbourg et de
Brest, oh nous axons eu taut de bonheur h vous recovoirsi ,
l'empressemcnt que nous mettons la venir ici pour re-
pondre h votre gracieuse invitation, temoignent des excel-
lents rapports qui existent entre nos deux pays,—ces
f ranches et atnicales reunions sont aussi un sur garant de
leur duree, car ones feront naitre, j'en suis certain, parmi
tent de braves et illustresmarins qui m'ecoutent le desk do
to revoir encore, et sur quelques points du globe, dans quelles
que circonstances qu'ils soient places, de se serrer le main
qu'ils se seront si cordialementdonnee dans ces jours de fête.
Sans arriere-pen see, nous nous montrons tousles progres quo
de part of d'autre nos marines ont faits ; nous ne nous
colons Hen de ce qui pent servir h de nouveaux progres. En-
semble nous avons pu etudier les admirables constructions
bordees d'epaisses cuirasses, et qu'il y a quelques annees
pains l'imagination la plus hardie n'aurait ose raver .; en-
semble nous avons vu ces formidables engins de guerre, ces
terribles instruments de destruction, devant lesquels l'esprit
s'arrete comma epnuvante, et dont it est presque tents de
demander compte au genie qui les cree. Mais, Messieurs,
l'esprit se rassure en songeant quo l'humanite a d'autant
moins >a craindre de la force quo les moyens dont la force
dispose sont-plus puissants, parceque plus desastreux l'em-
ploi en devient aussi de jour en jour plus rare. L'esprit se
cicu'ei pour les nations civilises
st le respect de droit. Je
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fait dans cette circonstance chacun de vous le fait tons
les jours, cbacun de vous est prat h le faire sans cease,
car, permittez-moi de vous le dire, moi qui n'ai pas l'hon-
neur de porter une epaulette, ce qu'il y a d'admirable chez
l'homme de mor, ce qui le place si haut dane l'estime des
peuples, c'est ce devouement, cette abnegation qui, meme
prix do sa vie, l'entraine toujours h eider son semblable.
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The following is a translation

Sir,—These are happy days in which the officers of the
navies of Great Britain and France can learn to know and
to appreciate one another. If the visits you have paid to
the ports of Cherbourg and Brest, where we enjoyed so
much good fortune in meeting one another--if the eager-
ness we have displayed in coming here to respond to your
gracious invitation, testify to the excellent relations which
subsist between our countries, these frank and friendly
meetings are at the same time a sure guarantee of their
wshiollulgdivsee:iosne one another again, and
ma ma,ont permanencehge thedesinumerous:s f:hratihlve they
rave and illustrious slaialmors sure
ohfeiat;
at whatever points of the globe, or under whatever circum-
stances
of grasping hands which have
in friendship during these festal
days.
extendedreservation we exhibit to one another the
been
s o theycordially
without m
ay
progress which our respective navies have made ; we con-
ceal from one another nothing that can serve as the basis
of still further progress. Together we have been enabled
to study those admirable structures encased in thick cui-
rasses, which only a few years ago not the boldest imagi-
nation could have dared meditate. Together we have seen
our formidable engines of war—those terrible instruments
of destruction in the presence of which the mind pauses as
if appalled, and is, tempted to bring to account the genius
that created them. But, gentlemen, the mind is reassured
on reflecting that humanity has less to apprehend from

force in proportion as the means of which force disposes
are more powerful ; because the more destructive are those
means, the employment of them, also, becomes every day
more rare. The mind comforts itself, above all, in the re-
flection that among civilised nations real force is modera-
tion and the respect of right. I thank the noble Duke
of Somerset for what he has just said respecting those
attentions which, in the Plata, one of our divisions was
fortunate enough to render to the seamen of Bombay, only
his expressions were too flattering. What we did under
those circumstances, every one of you is prepared unceas-
ingly to bestow ; for, permit me to say so—l who have not
the honour to wear an epaulette—what is admirable in the
seaman, and what places him so high in the esteem of
nations, is that devotion, that self-abnegation, which, at
the cost of his life, always impels him to aid his follows.
It is in that circumstance that our navies are indeed
sisters ; and as sisters, too, they will acclaim the toast
which, with the warmest heart, I offer to your gracious
Sovereign.

Sir M. SEYMOUR, in giving the next toast, said,•—
"1 have the honour and great pleasure in using the privi-
lege conferred by my official position, to propose to you to
drink to the health of the French Navy, represented as it
is at this port by officers of the highest distinction and of
eminent professional services, as well as the magnificent
fleet now floating in these waters, which is exciting our ad-
miration and calling forth our voices of heartfelt welcome,
not only from the officers of the British navy, but from the
nation at large. Few naval officers have had better oppor-
tunities than myself of seeing and appreciating the skill
and gallantry displayed by the French in various climes,
and under circumstances of no common danger and diffi-
culty, and the result has invariably been to command my
admiration, respect, and esteem. It is therefore with the
authority derived from experience of their high qualities
that I call upon you to join me in drinking The health of
the French Navy.' "

Vice-Admiral BOUET DE WILLAUMEZ followed,
and said—

" C'est avec un veritable banheur que je me retrouve ici
avec d'anciens et braves compagnons d'armes. Its figurent
aujourd'hui soit dans l'Amiraute, soit dans vos ports, soit b,
la tete de l'escardre de la Manche. Mais la mort, qui
depuis quo nous nous sommes connus, a &lakes nos rangs,
a frappe de nobles amis dont le souvenir m'est cher comme
vous. Avec eux j'ai toujours marche on parfait° commu-
naute de sentiments, et j'ose croire que cette franche cor-
dialite n'a pas existe sans porter d'heureux fruits. Per-
sonne plus qua moi n'a done plus apprecie la valour de
votre noble marine, personne n'est plus heureux de Pamitie
qui l'unit b, la, flare. Enfin, Monsieur, personne ne lui
porte avec plus de sincerite ce toast., Ala Marine de la
Grande Bretagne.' "
The folloiing is a translation :

Sir,—lt is with real good fortune that I find myself
here once more among old and brave companions in arms.
They figure at this time either in the Admiralty, in your
ports, or at the head of the Channel fleet. Bnt death,
which, since we knew one another, has thinned our ranks,
has stricken some noble friends whose memory is dear to
me as to yourselves. With them I have always lived in
thorough community of sentiment, and I venture to believe
that this frank cordiality has not existed without bearing
happy fruit. No one, then, has more appreciated than I
have the value of your noble navy; no one is more rejoiced
at the friendship that unites it to our own ; and lastly, sir,
no one offers to it with greater sincerity this toast, " The
Navy of Great Britain."

The company separated shortly after ten o'clock,
the French and English officers to return to their
ships through what was literally a sea of light; and
the Minister of Marine, with his staff, and the Lords
of the Admiralty to their respective quarters in the
harbour on board the Reine Hortense and the Os-
borne.

Just as the health of her Majesty had been
proposed by the French Minister a signal for
the commencement of an illumination of the fleet
was given by the discharge of a rocket from the
Victory and the firing of one of her guns. One is
liable to exaggerate the effect of scenes, however pie-
ture,sque, made brilliant at night by a profusion of
light, but no words could depict the surpassing bril-
liancy of the scene which followed instantaneously
the last flicker of that rocket from the Victory. As
if by magic, every ship in the allied fleets was illu-
minated. A salute of 21 guns was fired from the
fleets, and as the echo of the last shot died away
every ship in the two squadrons was so illuminated,
by means of red, white, and blue lights placed in
every port, at both broadsides, and both yardarms,
that the object which only a few moments before
looked, even at a short distance, so grim and
shadowy became at once transformed into a ship
of light, revealing to view the outline of her slen-
derest spar. Rockets were then sent up in clusters
from the whole of the fleet, which, as they burst in
the heavens, expanded into bouquets of red, white,
and blue, and then gradually melted away in the
still air, but only to be followed at short intervals
by other clusters of rockets bursting and descending
in an equally brilliant shower. As the long lights
only burn for a couple of minutes, three were lighted
in succession in each port, and as each set of lights
died away, and the illumination seemed to be coming
to an end, the full blaze of its splendour was again
restored with the same magical rapidity with which
it was first created. When the three sets of long
lights were nearly burnt out a bouquet of 24 signal
rockets was fired from each ship, and immediately
after the fleet faded from the view of the thousands
of spectators who lined the ramparts at Portsmouth,
and all was comparative obscurity at Spithead. The
illumination lasted for about 20 minutes, throughout
the whole of which time the St. Vincent, the Duke
of Wellington, and the other men-of-war in the
harbour displayed lights at every porthole, causing
the gentle ripple on the waves to sparkle like dia-
diamonds. The town itself was also most exten-
sively and brilliantly lit up during the night, the
combination of the illumination of the houses near
the dockyard gates with the magnificent illumina-
tion over the gateway itself shedding a radiance
like that of a bright summer sun at noon on the
roadway and the pavement below. A very grand
spectacle could scarcely have been witnessed on a
fairer night.

This morning broke beautifully, but the sky in
the course of the day became slightly overcast, not
so much so, however, as to alarm the mayor and
corporation of Portsmouth for the success of their
fetes this evening. The forenoon was passed by the
French and English officers for the most part in the
interchange of friendly visits. By 2 o'clock an im-
mense crowd had assembled at the sally-port near
the Grand Parade to see them land on their way to
Governor's Green, where they will in a few minutes
be partaking of the municipal hospitality.
The Queen of the Sandwich Islands and Lady
Franklin paid a visit in the course of the day on
board the Solferino.

DISCOVERY OF A STONE COFFIN AND SKELETON IN
COLLEGE-GREEN, BRlSTOL.—Yesterday much interest
was excited, and a large number Of people attracted to Col-
lege-green, from the fact of its having become known that
the men employed in excavating the road on the south side
of the Green had come upon a stone coffin containing a hu-
man skeleton at a depth of about two feet from the surface.
The lid of the coffin was gone, and five stone slabs had been
placed over the coffin, apparently to protect the human re-
mains inside. The excavators unfortunately, in their zeal to
discover some valuable treasure, proceeded to dig up the
bones and earth which were in the coffin, and placed them
in a heap. The bones were afterwards collected and put
in a wooden coal-box, and then removed into a room ad-
joining the cloisters. The ribs were quite gone, but the
skull, the vertebra) of the neck and back, and the bones of
the arms and legs, were in a state of preservation. From
the circumstance of the coffin being found at so small a
depth from the surface of the road, it is evident that there
must have been a reinterment of the remains subsequent to
the formation of the raised ground adjoining the Cathedral,
which is supposed to have taken place in or about the
thirteenth century. A large stone slab, broken in two
pieces, was found near the same spot. It bore no inscrip-
tion, but the sides were ornamented with Norman tracery.
Westem Daily Press.

THE LANCASHIRE BUTCHERS.-011 Monday 300
of the butchers of Preston, along with their wives,
paid a visit to Knowsley, in compliance with an invitation
given a short time ago by the Hon. F. A. Stanley, M.P.
The party were received most hospitably by Lord and Lady
Derby. An excellent dinner was provided for the butchers:
and their wives, at the request of the Countess, partook of
tea at the hall. During the day Lord Derby joined the
company, and expressed the pleasure he had felt in enter-
taining them. The butchers of Preston have long been
stanch supporters of the Derby family, and whenever Lord
Derby has visited Preston have always given him a most
enthusiastic reception. When the Hon. F. A. Stanley
made his entry into Preston at the late election, the
same party were first and foremost in welcoming him to
the place.