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London, England, 1868-03-31 00:00:00

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WRECK ON 711 E NORFOLK COAST.

CAISTER, NEAR GREAT YARMOUTH, March 30.

A very strong north-east wind sprung up on Friday
afternoon and increased. much during the night
(says the Rev. G. W. Steward). A vessel was
seen coming up from the northward between 3 and
4 a.m. She had been driven back by the weather, and
hail made for the Cockle Light, intending to get int o
Yarmouth Roads between the Scraby and the out-
side of Ihe Barber Sand, but coming along past the
Cockle she was " set in" by the forco of ebb tide
with the wind, so that she got to the west-
ward of the Barber Sand, between the Sand
and the shore. She came along past Scraby
and Caister, with the breakers of the Barber on the
left, at first at some distance from them ; but get-
ting past Caister, she came into a narrow passage,
and finding the breakers on the shore upon her
right hand nearer and nearer, she steered more to
the left a little, and drove upon the Barber. There
she remained, the sea breaking over her stern and
filling her with water. The crew of the Birming-
ham lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution,
had mustered and were getting ready to launch their
boat during this time, and were afloat .almost as
soon as the vessel struck. They put off through a
heavy sea, and when they arrived at the Sand they
found that the vessel was already half full of
water, and the master assured the beachmen that all
they could do 11 ould be take off himself and crew, as
it was impossible to save the ship. However, by great
exertion, they succeeded in getting the vessel off the
Sand, thus saving both her and the crew of four men.
She was the schooner Wave, of Boston, and was
bound from Ipswich to Inverness, with a cargo of
guano. Much credit is due to the beachmen for
their promptitude. No other means of rescue than
a lifeboat would have been of service on this occa-
sion, as no ordinary boat could have approached
without the greatest peril. The schooner herself
had only a small boat, which was broken in; nor
indeed could it have lived through the breakers
had it even been whole.

NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE.

MALTA, March 19.—Her Majesty's screw troop-
ship Crocodile, Capt. G. Watson, arrived this
morning, nine days from Portsmouth, with detach-
ments of troops for India. She met with rough
weather in the Bay of Biscay, which caused her to
roll to the extent of 40 deg. She will leave to-
morrow morning after coaling for Alexandria. Her
Majesty's despatch vessel, Psyche, Lieut.-Com-
mander Balfour, left Malta on the 17th inst. for
Alexandria, to be placed at the disposal of Lady
Lawrence, wife of the Governor-General of India,
who is proceeding home via Trieste. Communica-
tion was bad yesterday by telegraph with her Ma-
jesty's corvette Racer, on the coast of Bengazi, when
she was informed of her having been ordered to
England to be paid off. She will, however, re-
main with the cable expedition until the re-
pairs are completed. Communication with Alex-
andria is still interrupted. Her Majesty's frigate
Endymion went out of port to-day to try her en-
gines, which have been four months under repairs.
It will be remembered that they broke down when
she was conveying the brother of the Tycoon of
Japan from Malta to Marseilles. This vessel will
proceed on Saturday direct to Naples, with Rear-
Admiral Kellett, C. 8., who is suffering from ill-
health. The Arethusa will leave the same day for
a cruise, in the course of which she will also visit
Naples. Lieut. Nuttall, of the Endymion, has been
lent to the Enterprise, in the absence of Lieut.
Wallace, in hospital. Lieut. Littledale, of the En-
terprise, goes home to-day in the Southampto❑
packet. The English schooner yacht Daphne left
Malta on the 10th inst. for Corfu. The Swedish
corvette Gefle, Capt. Rosengren, left this port yes-
terday for Naples.
Her Majesty's Indian troopship Crocodile arrived
at Alexandria on the 23d inst., all well. The, troops
she had on board (principally draughts) will pro-
ceed in the Euphrates from Suez to Bombay.
We are requested to state that, owing to unavoid-
able circumstances, the First Lord of the Admi-
ralty's levee, announced for the 7th of April, will
not be held.

Several of the departments in the Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich, were closed yesterday, and will be con-
tinued closed to-day, for the purpose of taking
stock. The men, having worked up the time
during the past week, are now enjoying two days'
holydays, with but few exceptions, where the men
are required in stocktaking. It is also said that the
departments will be closed on Easter Monday, the
men working up the time during the present week,
and that the authorities will give the Saturday fol-
lowing Good Friday as a holyday, without requiring
the time 'to be worked up. This will be a great
boon to the men, who are employed working at the
furnaces six days out of seven.

THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.—Both crews performed
some good practice yesterday. The Oxford crew started
immediately op?osito Chiswick Church, rowed hard to the
aqueduct at Putney. Their time to Hammersmith bridge on
a fair ebb was 4min. 45sec., and to Putney ]3min. 37sec.,
thus occupying Brnin. 25sec. in covering the space between
the bridges. The weather was fine, and there was
no wind, so that a more favourable opportunity
for good rowing could not well have been selected.
In the afternoon they were again out for a paddle. The
Cambridge eight took a brief paddle in the morning, while
their opponents were up at Chiswick, but saved themselves
for the evening's work, which consisted in rowing the course
throughout at top speed. Between five o'clock and half-
past, at which hour some hundreds of lookers-on had
collected at Putney and Hammersmith, the crew slowly
went down against tide to the aqueduct and rowed the
course. The flood tide, which for the first hour after its
turn bade fair to run apace, visibly slackened before they
got away, and notwithstanding the absence of wind, the
river could scarcely be pronounced favourable for good
" time." Notwithstanding this, and the fact that their
boat was kept too close to the Middlesex shore, and out of
the tideway in Putney and Barnes Reaches, the crew made
excellent practice, rowing 35 effective strokes front first to
last. Their time to Hammersmith-bridge was barely Bmin.
40sec., to Barnes-bridge 18min. 4sec., and to the Ship at
Mortlake 21min. 21sec.—the space between the two last-
mentioned landmarks being completed in 3min. 17sec.
THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.—Mr. John Fowler, Engineer-
in-Chief, Metropoutan District Railway, replies as follows
to the letter of Mr. Bazalgette, in reference to the delay
in the completion of these works :—" The Thames
Embankment Works from Westminster-bridge to the
Temple-gardens have been oarried on without interrup-
tion for several years, but nothing has yet been done
to the works for continuing the Embankment from the
Temple-gardens to Blackfriars-bridge. I need scarcely say
that until the works are extended over this intervening
space the Embankment will be of little use to the public,
and none to the railway company. The Metropolitan Board
of Works have Parliamentary power to execute this part of
the Embankment according to one of two alternative plans
—either on arches with a roadway 70 feet wide; or by e
solid embankment and continuous wall, with a roadway
100 feet wide, corresponding with the whole of the Embank-
ment and road way from Westminster-bridge. It is obvious
that to contract the roadway to 70 feet at this part
and adopt a different mode of construction for the
embankment wall would be a great public misfortune, and
ought not to be permitted; and I believe many members of
the Metropolitan Board of Works are sincerely anxious to
escape this misfortune. As between the railway company
and the Board of Works no doubt a different proportion of
compensation would result from the adoption of one plan or
the other ; but, to place themselves in a position perfectly
free from any charge of a cle,ire to act in the matter with
a selfish regard to their own interests only, the railway
company have proposed to leave to the decision of the same
arbitrator as already named in the Act of Parliament
(Lord Stanley) the proportions to be borne by the two parties
if the solid embankment and the hundred-feet roadway
ie adopted. The anxiety of the public to have the works of
the embankment completed from Westminster-bridge to
Blackfriars bridge at the earliest possible day cannot exceed
that of the railway company, since they have always ex-
pected that a very considerable part of their remunerative
traffic will arise between those points ; and if the Metropoli-
tan Board of Works will proceed vigorously with their em-
bankment-and roadway from Temple-gardens to Blackfriars-
bridge, the Embankment, the Embankment roadway, the
railway, and the walks and gardens may all be completed
and in the enjoyment of the public in less than twelve
months hut the present