The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-20 00:00:00

COTTON—HAVRE, Nov. 19.

The market has been to•da' more feeble. Sales up to 2
o'elock,6Bo bales. Tres-ordinatre New Orleans, 84fr. to a•ifr.

COALS.-LosnoN, Nov. 19.--Ctosn or TllB M.\ R-
KET. - Bates West Hartley, 16s. ; Buddies Wed
Hartley, 16s. ; Can's Hartley, 15s. 6d. ; Davison's West
Hartley, 16s. ; Hastings' Hartley, 16s. ; Ilolywell, 17s. ;
Longridge's West Hartley, 16s. . • North Percy Hartley, 16s. ;
Ravenworth's West Hartley, 161. ; Tanfleld Moor, 16s. ;
West Wylam, 15s. 6d.; Wyman, 164. 64.; Walls End Nor-
thumberlsud, 171. 3d. ; Walls End Riddell, 18s. 6d. ; Walls
End Walker, 18s. 6d.; Walls End Braddyll, 19s. 6d.;
Walls End Heston, 19s. 6d.; Walls End Haswell, 19s. 6d ;
Walls End Kepler, 19s 3,1. • ' Walls End Kcpier • Grange,
19s. 3d.; Walls End Litsnbton, 19s. 6d.; Walls End
Stewart's, 19s. tM. ; Walls End Whitwell, 19s. ; Walls
End Laradoe, 19s. 3d. ; Walls End Ileugh Hall, 16s. Jd. ;
Walls End South Hartlepool, 19s. 6d. ; Walls End South
Kelloe, 183. 9d. ; Walls End Thornlcy, 19s. ; Walls End
Whitworth, 15s. 6d. ; Walls End Adelaide Tees, 18s. 9tl. ;
Walls End ?eases' West, 15a.; Wahs End West Comfort's,
18s. 3d. ; Derwcntwater Hartley, 16s. ; Hartley,
15s. 6d.; Nixon's Merthyr and t'ardiff, '2ls.; Sidney's
Hartley, 163.-Ships at market, 59 : sold, 46.

THE DESTRUCTION OF A WHALE Suit' PT A
WALLA is thus described in the J'atiansa Herald, Oct. 16,
which gives " the narrative as furnished us by Cap-
tain Deblois, and which is fully authenticated Tay nine
of the crew in a protest under the seal of the
United States Consul, Alex. Roden, Jr., at Paita." The
ship Ann Alexander, Captain S. Deblois, sailed from
New Bedford, Mass., June let. 1850, for a cruise in the
South Pacific for sperm whale. On the 20th August last
she reached what is well known to all whalers as the •• off-
shore-ground," in lat. 5 deg. 60 min. south, lots. 102 deg.
west. In the morning of that day, at about 9 o'clock, whales
were discovered in the neighbourhood, and about noon, the
same day, they succeeded in making lust to one. Two haat•
had gone after the whales—the larbmud and starboard, the
fonner commanded by the first mate, and the latter by
Captain Deblois. The whale which they had struck, was
harpooned by the larboard boat. After running some
time, the whale turned upon the boat, and rushing
at it with tremendous violence, lifted open its enormous
jaws, and taking the boat in, actually crushed it into frag-
moots as small as a common-nixed chair ! Captain Deblois
immediately struck for the scene of the disaster with the
starboard boat, and succeeded against all expectation in
rescuing the whole of the crew of the boat—nine in num-
ber. There were noweighteen men in the starboard boat.
consisting of the captain, the tint mate, acid tee crews of
both boats. The frightful disaster had been witnessed from
the ship, and the waste-boat was called into readiness and
sent to their relief. The distance from the ship was about
six miles. As soon as the waste-boat arrived, the crews
were divided, and it was determined to pursue the same
whale, and make another attack upon him. Accordingly
they separated, and proceeded at some distance from each
other, as is usual on such occasions, after the whale.
In • short time they came up to him, and pre-
pared to give him battle. The waste-boat, com-
manded by the first mate, was in advance. As
soon as the whale perceived the demonstration being
made upon him, ho turned his course, suddenly,
and making a tremendous dash at this beat, seized it with
wide-spread jaws, and crushed it into atoms, allowing the
men barely time to escape his vengeance by throwing them-
selves into the ocean. Captain Deblois, again seeing the
perilous condition of his men, at the risk of meeting the
same fate, directed his boat to hasten to their rescue, and us
a short time succeeded in saving them all from a death little
less horrible than that from which they had twice so nar-
rowly escaped. lie then ordered tiro boat to jut for the
ship as speedily as possible ; and no sooner had the order
been given than they discovered the monster of the deep
making toward them with his jaws widely extended. For-
tunately the monster came up and passed them at a short
distance. The boat then made her way to the ship, and
they all got on board in safety. After reaching the ship •
boat was despatched for the oars of the demolished boats,
and it was determined to pursue the whale with the ship.
As soon as the boat returned with the oars sail was set, and
the ship proceeded alter the whale. In a short time
she overtook him, and a lance was thrown into his head.
The ship passed on by him, and immediately after they dis-
covered that the whale was making for the ship. As he
came up near her they hauled to the wind, and suffered the
monster to pass her. After he had fairly passed, they kept
off to overtake and attack him again. When the ship had
reached within about fifty rods of him they discovered that
the whale had settled down deep below the surface of the
water, and as it was near sundown they concluded to give
up the pursuit. Captain Deblois was at this time standing
in the night-heads, on the larboard bow, with craft in hand,
ready to strike the monster a deadly blow, should he
appear, the ship moving about five knots, when, work-
ing on the side of the ship, he discovered the whale
rushing towards her at the rate of fifteen knots I In an
instant the monster struck the ship with tremendous
violence, shaking her from stem to stern! She quivered
under the violence of the shock, as if she had struck
upon a rock. Captain Deblois immediately descended
into the forecastle, and there to his horror discovered
that the monster had struck the ship about two feet from
the keel, abreast the foremast, knocking a great hole en-
tirely through her bottom, through which the water roared
and rushed impetuously. Springing to the deck, he or-
dered the mate to cut away the anchors and get the cables
overboard to keep the ship from sinking, as she had a
large quantity of pig iron on board. In doing this the mate
succeeded in relieving only one anchor and cable clear, the
other having been fastened around the foremost. The ship
was then sinking rapidly. The captain went to the cabiu,
where he found three feet of water ; he, however, succeeded
in procuring a chronometer, sextant, and chart. Beaching
the decks be ordered the boats to bo cleared away, and to
get water and provisions, as the ship was keeling over. Be
again descended to the cabin, hut the water was rushing in
so rapidly that he could procure nothing. lie (tams upon
deck, ordered all hands into the boats' and was the lest
himself to leave the ship, which he did by throwing
himself into the sea, and swimming to the nearest boat !
The ship was on her vans-end, her topgallant yards under
water. They then pushed off some distance from the ship,
expecting her to sink in a very short time. Upon an els-
mination of the stoma they had been able to _save, he dis-
covered that they had only twelve quarts of water, and not
a mouthful of provisions of any kind. The boats contained
eleven men each • were leaky, and night coming on, they
were obliged to bail them all night to keep them from sink-
ing. Next day, at daylight, they returned to the ship ; no
one daring to venture on board but the captain, their inten-
tion being to cut away the masts, and fearful that
the moment that the masts were out away the ship
would go down. With a single hatchet the cap-
tain went on board, cut away the mast, when the ship
righted. The hash then came up, and the men, by
the sole aid of spades, cut away the chain cable from
around the foremast, which got the ship nearly on her keel.
The men then then tied ropes round their bodice, got into
the sea, and cut a hole through the decks to get provisions.
They could procure nothing but about five gallons of vine-
gar and twenty pounds witetimbrperauendd.Ttheto
remain by h
ship threatened
to sink, and theyat
kaiser, so they set sail in their bats and left her. Oa the
21nd of August, at abont five o'clock, p.m., they had the
iadesaribable joy of discerning a ship in the distance. They
made signal, and were soon answered, and in a short time
they were reached by the good ship Nantucket, of Nan-
taaket, Mass., Captain °Robe, who took them all on
board, clothed and fed them, and extended to
them in every wa the greatest possible hospita-
lity. On the day, Captain Gibbs went to the
wreck of the ill-fated Alexander, for the purpose
Of trying to procure something from her, bat, as the
sea was rough, and the attempt considered dangerous, he
allandonsd the project. The Nantucket then set sail for
Pacts, when abs arrived on the 15th of September, and
whore she landed Capt. Deblois and his men. Capt. Deblois
was kindle and hospetably received and entertained at PALS
anpt WS; an initials gentleman, residing there,
d neatly took on board the schooner Plan-
, doss% Capt, fetarhick, he tkfs port, arriving here on Sun-
day last, the Oft 'ass. As Pain, Copt. Deblois entered
his prolost at the U. P thnoulate, which was authenticated
be the foriowiteg 'Saws and seamen, on board at the time
of thiamine/ • the twa dicers and the rest of the crew
harbor' WTI on board other vela/1s; Joseph A. Green,
filet nesta; mar &abb, third do.; John Morgan, carpen-
ter ; Jamie Easy, .wryer; James Meliabora, John Smith,
Wailers Imith, 'Remy BMA, and Chubs F. Booth, seamen.