Potter's Electric News

SAUJTDERSFOOT SHIPPING.—Arrived.—Hawkr JVaGcis, Lymington, timber; Jane, Bushen, Bide ford; Agatha, Willis, Brest; Swift, Bond, Bridgwater; Intrepid, Roch, Waterford Elizabeth, Berry, Plymouth; Prince Albert, Watkins, Swansea-all in ballast. Sailed.— Antelope, Codd, Wexford, coal; Jane, Bushen, Bideford, culm; Agatha, Willis, London, coal; Swift, Bond, Bridgewater, culm; Intrepid, Roch, Waterford, coal; Hero, Amon, London, coal. SAU)lDERSFOOT.- W e always feel pleasure in having to notice any effort or improvement, made by owners of mines, that are at all conducive to the safety and well- being of the men in their employ. With respect to the 'workings' of our own neighbourhood, we, not long since, had occasion to remark that we believed the ut- most solicitude was shown by the proprietors as to the Safety of their miners, and that all necessary precautions were taken, so that, humanly speaking, with ordinary care on the part of the men themselves, accidents could rarely, if ever, happen. Thorough ventilation, which of course implies a full supply of pure air, is of the most extreme importance to those who labour and toil in the bowels of the earth and in proportion, as due regard is paid to this essential, so the miners' bealth is improved, and the chance of accidents greatly diminished. With this fact before us we cannot but be glad when we inform our readers that a new ventilating engine has been set up at the Bonville's Court Collieries, by the proprietor, C. R. Vickerman, Esq. The engine, which is a direct action,' is built by Waddle, of Llanelly, erected under the direction of Mr Cadman, manager of the collieries, and can be worked up to 80 horse-power, .giving to the ventilating fan a maximum of 160 revolutions per minute. It is placed at the mouth of the Old Bonville "Court Pit, is intended to ventilate the workings of the Tower Pit some half a mile distant, and, we are given to understand, is the only one in use for that purpose in 'the county. On the 17th inst., an experimental trial was made, the machine was duly christened and named the Æ-:>lus,' by Mrs C. R. Vickerman, (a name, by the way, far more appropriate than are the majority of those -pertaining to locomotives.) Steam being turned on, and the engine started by the youthful son of the proprietor, the JEolus began its important functions in the presence of JO. R. Vickerman, Esq, several scientific gentlemen, and others interested in the success of the undeitaking. The trial, as far as it went, was most satisfactory. We bear that the Government Inspector (Thomas Evans, Esg.), for the district intends visiting these collieries shortly, when he will thoroughly test its capabilities. We will, therefore, withhold any further remarks until we are acquainted with the result of the inspector's 'Visit.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, & DEATHS. Notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, should be sent to us in Manuscript, properly authenticated. We cannot under- take to search other papers for these announcements, which are frequently found to be incorrectly printed, or turn out to be untrue. BIRTHS. On the 24th inst., at City Road, in this town, the wife of Mr William Harries, Trinity Service, Neyland, of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at St. Thomas Green, in this town, the wife of Mr Anthony James, turner, of a son. On the 24th inst., the wife of Mr Wyatt, National Schoolmaster, of this town, of a son. On the 23rd insl, at the Old Bridge, in this town, the wife of Mr George Smith, of a daughter. On the 18th inst., the wife of Mr Philip Tombs, Little Dumpledale, in this county, of a daughter. MARRIAGES On the 24th inst., at St. Martin's Church, in this town, by the Rev. W. B. Harris, uncle of the bIide, assisted by the Rev. S. 0. Meares, John Beynon, Esq., jun., of Trewern, in this county, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Charles Prust, Esq., of St. Martin's House, in this town. On the 24th inst., at Woodstock Chapel, by the Rev. G. Davies, of Aberystwyth, assisted by the Rev. Daniel Evans, Woodstock, the Rev. John Davies, of Blaenanerch, Cardiganshire, to Martha, only daughter of Thomas Harries, Esq., of Henry's Moat, in this county. DEATHS. On the 2ist inst., awfully sudden, Mr Robert Jones ironmonger, Pembroke, aged 62 years.

GENERAL INTELLIGENOE. PRICE or BASE COINs.-The following is a regular base coin price-list, compiled from reliable resources. Bad sovereigns cost from three shillings to three-and- flixpence each; half-sovereigns eigbteenpence to two shillings; crown pieces, ninepence to a shilling; half- crowns, fourpence-half-penny to sixpence; a florin, four- pence; one shilling, threepence; sixpence, twopence; fourpenny-piece, three-half-pence. Base coin is divided into soft and bard. The soft will not ring, and is only passed at races and fairs. The bard rings well, and is difficult to detect.-Once a Week. A BARONET'S DAUGHTER IN Pais ON.—A woman named Phillis Fettes or Lindsay, who resided in Alison's-square, Edinburgh, and is in a state of great destitution, has been sentenced in the police-court to 30 days' imprison- ment for pawning some articles belonging to her landlady. Her daughter has also been apprehended on the charge of uttering base coin. The mother is said to be a daughter of the late Sir William Fettes, Bart., who omitted to make a suitable provision for her in his will when arrang- ing for the endowment of the hospital or college for the upper classes about to be erected at Comely-bank, Edin- burg. The trustees on Sir William's estate, hovever, gave her an allowance from the funds under their control; but it is stated that, after the decease of the late Lord Rutherford, this was discontinued. SHOCKING CRUELTY TO A DONKEY.—On Friday at the Portsmouth Police-court, three respectable men of the town, named Lapthorne, Owen, and M'Donnell, were charged with cruelty to a donkey. From the evidence it appeared that about a month ago Lapthorne pulled the donkey into the parlour of the New York beer-house, in spite of the resistance of the owner of the animal, Henry Smith. Owen, it appeared, then procured some nitric acid, and handed it to M'Donnell, who lifted up the donkey's tail and threw the acid upon the animal, Smith on was then allowed to remove his donkey, but in the street he soon discovered the desperate condition the poor beast was in. A veterinary surgeon gave evidence as to the shocking injuries-the donkey had sustained, and the ma- gistrates, after a short deliberation, dismissed Lapthorne, and sentenced Owen and M'Donnell to six weeks' impri- sonment each, with hard labour. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—On Friday afternoon an inquest was held at the residence of the bailiff of G. O. Thirkell, Esq., Leeds, Kent, before Mr J. N. Dudlow, coroner for Mid-Kent, upon the bodies of Harriet Bean y, j and Elizabeth Beaney, her daughter, who were acei. dentally burnt to death. It was stated in evidence that the deceased, with about one hundred other persons, had been employed during the hopping season upon Mr Thirkell's farm. The whole of them slept in huts built of hop-poles, hop-bines, straw, &c. The tents were nine in number, and were all under one roof. On Wednesday the pickers were paid off, and deceased and others went; to the various public-houses and beer-shops in the neigh- I bourhood, and then returned to their temporary lodgings about one o'clock on Thursday morning, in a state of into ication. The son of Harriet Beaney said that after sleeping three or four hours he was awakened by the smoke, and he then found that the but was in flames. lie endeavoured to arouse his mother, and take her from the place, but was obliged himself to run out. He saw bis sister outside, and she rushed in and also tried to save ber mother, but the roof fell in and smothered them. The whole of the huts were destroyed. The bodies of the deceased presented a most frightful appearance. The Unfortunate woman, Harriet Beaney, was in an advanced ,to of pregnancy. The jury returned a verdict of Aocidentally burnt to death.' There was no evidence 10 to how the fire occurred. j Lofd Brougham (who completed Kis 83th year on the 19th imt.j is ttt Brougham fi&M; BWt leaves thefe next week for Iwllflbiii'gb, The noble a.^d learned lord is in excellent health. IRON STREETS.—A project hs*been BROACHED in I>EW York for paving the streets with Jfon, anu conducting the traffic by steam carriages moving'o*f these iron floors. It is urged that the saving to clothing". furnitli.,el ani; goods, from damage by dust and mud Weald bS' enor- mous that the resistance on clean iron floors wodifcd be small, the wear on carriages slight, and the neiise but trifling in comparison with what it is at present* Shoes, it is represented, would wear much longer on irotf I sidef walks than on stone. The noise in most great cifies- is frfghtfal. THE WAT OF THE WORLD.—Mr Dickson, a coloured 1 barber in a large New England town, was shaving one of his customers, a respectable citizen, one morning, when a conversation occurred between them iespectinjc Mr Dickson's former connection with a coloured church in that ptace:—' I believe you are connected with the church in Elm-street, are you not, Mr Dickson ?' said the cus- tomer.— No, sah, not at a)).'—' Why did you leave your connection, Mr Dickson, if I may be permitted to ask?'— 'Well, I'll tell you snh,' said Mr Dickson, it was just like dis; J jined the chutch in good fait;' I gave ten dollars towards de stated gospel de fus' year, and de church people call me Brudder Dickson, the second year my business was not so good, and I gib only five dollars. Dat year people called me Mr Dickson. Dis razor hurt you sah ?' No, the razor goes tolerably well.' —'Well, sah, the third year I fell very poor; had sick- ness in my family; and didn't give nothin' for preachiu. Well, sah, arter dat dey call me 'dat o!e nigger Dickson and I left 'em.' DISTRESSING AFFAIR.—The wife of a gardener at Leeds, named Major, has committed suicide under very melan- choly circumstances. She was seen by a policeman to stagger in the street, as it under the influence of liquor, and on the testimony of the officer she was fined 5s. and costs for intemperance. The imputation, which she stoutly denied, preyed upon her mind, and she afterwards went and drowned herself. At the inquest the surg"on who had attended the deceased for the last twenty years, stated that she had a highiy excitable temper, at times amounting to a species of madness, and under such cir- cumstances she would appear to strangers as if in liquor, but he had never known her to indulge in drink. The jury were unanimously of opinion that the deceased was not intoxicated, as alleged by the officer, and they urged upon the attention of the watch committee the desira- bility of ascertaining by other evidence than that of a policeman, and with greater certainty the exact state of I every respectable person unknown to the police. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. — The grandest and boldest enterprise of modern times—the connecting of Europe and America by a telegraphic cable submerged across the Atlantic Ocean, from Ireland to Newfoundland -is again about to be attempted, with, it is to be hoped, better prospects of success than attended the first ex- periment. The requisite capital has all been subscribed, and Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Co., the successful con- tractors are already at work on the cable, which they undertake to have laid in 1864. With the experience gained in sub-marine telegraphy of late years, the most eminent scientific and practical men do not doubt that, should no unforseen accident occur, we shall next year be in instantaneous communication with our colonies, the Republics, and the Empire trans-Atlantic. The cable will be one of the very best description, capable of transmitting at least eight words per minute across the Atlantic, and of a light specific gravity, the external protection being partly of the best Russian hemp. THE ABSCONDING BANKRUPT AT LEEDS. At the Leeds Town Hall, on Saturday, Charles Henry Wood Hirst, late a woollen merchant in that town, was charged with several misdemeanours under the Bankruptcy Act. Hirst was a young man, who had commenced business last February, and up to the Is,; day of September had managed to run into debt to the amount of £ 5,000, leaving little or no assets to meet these liabilities. On the 1st of September, it appears that his creditors became exceedingly clamorous for their money, and as he had failed to keep certain appointments he had made, they went down to his office in South Parade, in great force, with the view of obtaining a settlement. They were not successful, however, in finding him, and as it was be- lieved that he intended leaving the country, he was followed, and ultimately apprehended at Gravesend on board ship, on his way to New Zealand, with a friend named Charles Carr, whom he had known fifteen years, and who was to accompany him. At the Moor Lane Police Station, in London, the prisoner was charged in the usual manner, and in reply said, 'he could not pay his creditors, so he was determined to run away with what he could rise,' or words to that effect. Witnesses in support of the charge having been examined, he was committed for trial. In answer to the application tor bail, the magistrates intimated that they were willing to accept the prisoner's security for £ 500, and two securities of L250 each. A warrant against the prisoner's father was then obtained, for it is alleged that he received some of the money raised by his son. DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.—On Wednes- day an inquiry took place before Mr Langham, Deputy Coroner, in the Vestry Room of Saint Martin's-in-the- Fields, respecting the death of Mr George Beamire, aged seventy-five, a gentleman possessed of considerable pro- perty, and formerly a barrister-in-law. The deceased, for the past twenty years, resided at No. 1, Adam Street, Adelphi, but in almost total seclusion, no person under any pretence whatever being allowed to enter the three rooms in his occupation on the first floor. His meals were prepared by his housekeeper, and were left on a tray at the door of the ante-room, and then taken in by the deceased. Although many times in a state of ill. health, he refused to have medical aid. but used to have sent in from a chemist's a quantity of different medicines. All communications to him were received in the same way as his meals, and for more than a year he never left the house. Mr James, solicitor, Ely Place, said that he was a gentle- man of considerable abilitv, and although very eccentric in his habits, of a perfectly sound mind and quite ca- pable of managing bis property, which consisted, among others, of very large estates in Cumberland and Cardiff. His time was for the most part spent, it is believed, in reading and writing, the society of men being entirely dispensed with. The housekeeper, Mrs Palmer, deposed to many of these facts, and further added that on Wednes- day week she sent up as usual with his dinner, but received no reply at the door, and although she frequently called him she did not again see him alive. On Saturday morn- ing, becoming alarmed, she made a communication to the police, and the door was broken open, when a scene was presented which almost defies description. On entering the ante-room the room was found to be strewn with hundreds of newspapers, writings, chairs, table, and other articles of furniture. The left-hand room (forty feet in length and overlooking the river) presented a still more extraordinary appearance. At one end was a handsome chimney-glass, some 12 feet in height, covered with dust and cobwebs. The furniture, very handsome, was in an equally dusty state, while the dust lay on everything to nearly an inch in thickness. The floor was strewn with a mass of articles, consisting of trunks, papers, and valuable booksonlaw and various branches of science. There were also three large bags filled with new boots, several silver spoons and packages of candles, clothing, &c., heaped up in all parts in the utmost confusion. Near the doorway, and leaning against the wall, was a painting of the Crucifixion, about 12ft. by 4ft, said to be of great value, but which was covered with dust. The right-band room displayed a similar scene of dirt and confusion- furniture, books, paintings, &c., being piled up in different parts of the room. The shutters having been opened, a dreadful sight was presented. The deceased was found lying back in an arm-chair quite dead, and in a rapid state of decomposition, having no doubt been dead several days. He was dressed, but in a very dirty state, and by his side lay the remains of some food. There was not the slightest vestige of bed or bedding, and the deceased must for twenty years have slept in the same chair. In other parts of the room were scraps of bread and bottles of wine and medicine. This as well as the other rooms were almost impassable, while the light of day had evidently been shut out for years. Upon a further search made by the police £717s in a bag, a gold and silver watch, 26 silver articles and other valuables were found; while upon the floor were scattered 30 keys. Dr. Alfred Harvey afterwards examined the body and mad. a post mortem examination, from which it was shown that death had resulted from ex- haustion, from low fever accelerated by neglect. Other evidence showed that the deceased was a single man and had no near relatives; but a will was made by him, which is in the hands of his legal adviser, Mr NensoB of Carlisle. He is said to have been very charitable and honourable. The coroner in summing up, alluded to the case as one of the most extraordinary in his experience and the jury returned a verdict That death was caused by exhaustion from low fever, accelerated by the de- ceased's neglect.' DUBL BETWEEN LADIES.—On Monday aeveral htdies, while on a visit to a friend's house, a short distance from Gray's Ferry, were amusing themselves by sinKflsr flftd dancing, when one of them, a resident of Baltimore, sang a verse of the 'Bonny Blue Flag;' one of the other ladies jestingly said, You're a rebel,' at which another commenced the Southern Marseillaise;' when it was finished, the lady who had been called a rebel said, I wish Vp had pistols, I'd fight a duel with you for calling me a rebeL' At this, a daughter of the gentleman at whose house they were, said, 4 We have pistols in the house, but they are not loaded.' They were brought, and in order to give it the form of a duel, distances were measured in the room, the ladies took their places, word Was given, one, two, three, when the lady who had called the other 4 rebel,' said, f I will sit in this chair, as I wish to die easy.' Word was again given, and the Baltimore lady, who had a self-cocking pistol, pulled the trigger, and bang went the pistol, a piercing scream was heardr and in an instant the room was filled with mem- bers 08 the family, when it was discovered that two of the ladies hadiswoorae^ the Baltimore lady was standing motionless-, and' the one who wished to 4 die easy,' sitting pale with terror in her disaar one ball bad passed through her dress oa the left side, grazing the skin, while in the leaf of a table on which she rested her arm were eight distinct shot&oles, and one bullet embedded in the wood. The pistol had been loaded by a boy on the 4th.of July, but the charge had not been Sred. The ladies we.re soon restored to consciousness, and corantesced to realise the danger of meddling with a warning, it is need- less to say, they will not disregard for the future—New York Tribune of Commerce. CURE FOR BURNs.-The long sufferings, ending but too often in death, which result from injuries caused by fire, invest every suggestion tending to remove them with peculiar interest. We, therefore, borrow the following from Les Mondes, a scientific review, which advocates the application of electricity by means of a Volta-Faradic apparatus. We must here premise that "Faradisation' is an operation first proposed by Professor Faraday, in which electricity is applied to the human body in inter- mittent currents; for instance, in the painters' eholic, in which case the pain caused by the apparatus overpowers that caused by the deceased, and ultimately removes it. The modus operandi proposed for burns is a& fa>IIow-<: The part of the body which has suffered from the effects of fire is immersed in a basin, or if necessary a bath of water; the negative pole of the apparatus is pat into communication with the water by "means of the usual conductor, while a wire from the positive pole commu- nicates with some point of the body out of the water, and not far distant from the part affected. The electrical current is thus carried over the latter, its force being regulated according to the patient's strength. T. ascer- tain whether sufficient electricity has been administered, the patient exposes the burn for an instant to the air; and it he does not feel the inflammation any more, the operation may be suspended; in the contrary case it must be resumed until that effect is produced. So long as the part affected remains immersed in water under the influence of electricity, the patient feels no pain. In mild cases an hour's exposure to electricity is sufficient for a complete care; in more serious cases it must be continued for three or four hours, but the cure is stated to be prompt and certain. When the whole person has been injured by the flames, the patient must be put into a bath with the negative pole in the direction or the feet, and the positive one placed in contact with the nape of the Heck. Part of the water must be changed every quarter of an hour to prevent the bath from getting warm. The discoverer of this method is Rebold.- Galignani. THE FREE CHURCH MOVEMENT.—St. Alban's Church, Manchester, is one of the completest exemplifications we possess of the objects of what is known as the 4 Free and Open Church Movement.' The site upon which it stands was conveyed to the trustee by the Earl of Derby in a deed the principal stipulation in which is that the seats in the church to be erected thereon shall be free and un- appropriated for ever. The subscriptions for the fabric have been given upon the same express condition. And the temporary church, which has been in operation for some years past, has been conducted on the same system, the seats being free to the first comer, and the mainten- ance of the clergy and the services being defrayed from the weekly offertory, The new church has been com- pleted and is ready for consecration some considerable time past, and those who are acquainted with the auto- cratic and petulant spirit in which his lordship administers the affairs of his diocese will readily understand that it is the Bishop of Manchester who stands in the way. In a word, the right reverend prelate has refused to con- secrate the church until the clause which makes it free and unappropriated for ever is cancelled. And the Soli- citor General, to whom the case has been remitted for his opinion, intimates that while the trustees cannot eliminate this clause, the bishop cannot be compelled either to consecrate or license the building. Sir Roun- dell Palmer adds, with a caustic irony rarely found in legal opinions, that the only thing to be done is to wait until there shall be a Bishop of Manchester who will waive the stipulations demanded by Dr. James Prince Lee, nominee of Earl Russell. There is no occasion for any indignant heroics on a matter of this kind: the trans- action, gross as it is, speaks for itself. All we will say is, that the bitterest enemy of Bishop Lee could say no harder things of him than what the bishop apparently desires that posterity should record of him, that he is the first Christian prelate who refused to consecrate a church because it to he the home of rich and poor alike, where the sacraments and teaching of the Church were to be dispensed to all without money and without price.-The Church Times. AN AFTER-DINNER SCENE.-A contemporary gives the following ludicrous description of a scene which took place last week at an agricultural dinner in Cheshire:- Ample justice having been done to the good things pro- vided, and the cloth withdrawn, a curious scene took place on the president's platform. This structure had evidently been put together with an eye to 'table- turning,' for the movements that took place thereon were of the most laughable and ludicrous description. The boards, which had been put down in a ginger-bread and loose manner (there being no nails, we suppose, in Moor), by some mysterious agency, became displaced. The table gave way, the vases of flowers were thrown down as if by an earthquake, the wine glasses staggered about in all directions, and the 'rosy god' escaped in copious quan- tities. A sort of unanimous effort to save the table and its contents was made by those who sat thereat, and one of the gentlemen, while engaged in this laudable move- ment was suddenly thrown under the table, after the style of shooting a letter into the post-office. It appears that the legs of his chair became unsteady (whether in consequence of the wine that was spilled thereon, or through the spasmodic jerks to which the boards were subjected, we cannot say), and this accounted for its occupant coming so suddenly and unexpectedly to grief. The climax of the fun had to be reached. Several hats had been placed upon the unruly boards' for safety. In the operation of putting the boards together one of the hats (apparently a new one) slipped through the planks, and was so wedged that the body of it assumed a pancake shape, while the brim exhibited a few comical twists. The 'situation' of the beaver having been observed by a keen-eyed guest, it was extricated and held up for ownership. This created roars of laughter. The battered head-piece was claimed by a gentleman who did not sit a hundred yards from the chairman, and who at first appeared to have a doubt about its identity, but who at last said it was his. Just as the chairman was about to proceed with the toast list, another twitching of the boards was experienced, the table and its contents being once more placed in jeopardy, the whole affair being subjected, as it were, (and as many thought) to Satanic influence. On going outside the tent, the mystery was cleared up. It appeared that the ends of the boards extended beyond the canvas, and were stepped upon by persons who went to the stables. The merriment, hpw- ever, did not cease when the discovery was made. The chairman was proceeding with the first toast when he was interrupted by a man, who was very loud in the affirma- tives, in the yard, while I blowing up' a rompant Hiber- nian. It so happened that the observation addressed to this son of the Emerald Isle formed a sort of contradiction to the chairman's remarks, and chimed in with comic effect. For instance the chairman observed, I was going to say,' when he was met with the injunction Shut up,' which came from the man (a stable official) who was haranguing the Irishman. The chairman again observed 'Gentlemen, I was going to tell you,' when 'Don't you say a word' was the response. This caused the chairman to say (without further interruption), Gentlemen, I remember a story which I will tell you, as I think it bears upon the present incident. A man was speaking at a public meeting, when a donkey put his head through the window and brayed. The man exclaimed 'One at a time, if you please' (roars of laughter.) t and English.' Loss OF A HULL STEAMER SEVEN- LIVES. ta- telligencebas been received in HuH of the total loss of the screw steamer Zealand, a fine steamer of seven hirsw dred tons register, the property of Messrs Baily and Leethatn, shipowners, of Hull, with ceviilof her crew, during a storm in the Baltic on the] Itll September. The ill-fated vessel was on her passage from Konigsbetg to London with a cargo of oats, having on bosrd, in addition to a crew of fourteen men, twelve passengers. During the progress of the voyage, on the 11th instzHt, aad when distant about forty miles from the Horn Reefe; the Zea- land was caught by a heavy gale of wind from the W.N.W. There was also a very heavy sea, anS'the vessel owing to the light nature of her cargo, rolled very1 much. One of her engines broke down, when all her sails were set, and the remaining engine ws kept in motion,-bu.t of course the progress of the steamer was seriously ir-peded. The second engine soon broke down also, and the- vessel becoming unmanageable, she was left to the mercy of She raging seas. This latter mishap was accompanied' with one of far more serious consequences, for the engine in its fall started one of the iron plates in the ship's* bull, and caused a considerable leakage. Water waa-fm; gaining on the vessel, the fires were quenched, and the position of the Zealand appeared hopeless. The ooat!' were then lowered, and the mate (Mr Walker), tile- chief engineer (J. Spibv), carpenter (J. Andsell), sari' four of the crew, named J. Brenton, E. Morris, W. Page, and W. Andsell, with twelve passengers, left the steamer, and were received safely on board the Norwegian barque Christina, which, vessel was luekily in sight about three- quarters of mile distant from the Zealand. Captain' Lewis ttnd seven of the crew of the Zealand remained on; board that vessel in order to save some valuables and, await the return of the boats. The mate, as soon as hit had placed the passengers on board the Christina, en- deavoured to return to the Zealand, but owing to tht violence of the gale it was found to be impracticable. The barque attempted to approach the Zealand, but as she was lightly laden, she was driven considerably off to the leeward, and as night set in she lost sight of the steamer. During the nigbt, however, the men on board the Christina observed that rockets and blue lights were being fired periodically as signals of distress from the Zealand, but at length they suddenly ceased, and nothing more was seen or heard of ber. The barque waited about during the night, and when the morning broke not a vestige was to be seen of the ill-fated steamer. The Christina made sail for Laurvig, in Jutland, where she landed the crew and passengers that were saved. From that port they left in the steamer Scandinavian for Hull, where they arrived on Thursday morning. Nothing has as yet been heard of Captain Lewis and the remainder of the crew, and it is supposed they have met with the same melancholy fate as attended the vessel to which they be- longed. The following telegram from Thisted, dated. September 17th, has been received :—'Yesterday a vessel was observed ftom Steenberg Strand, distant from the coast one English mile, sunk in ten fathoms water. She was examined, and found to be a ship with three masts, one of which was broken, and, according to the distance between the masts, supposed to be a steamer. Some yards were driving by the wreck, but nothing else to be seen of it. Weather very bad.'

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