The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-16 00:00:00

H.M.S. ELECTRA STRUCK B l A WATERSPOUT.

The following interesting narrative (lays the Bury
Past) le contained in a letter from Mr. Heaton, an officer
tf her Majesty'm ship Elwin, son of the Hoe. Mn. Hea-
ton of rim Heaton, Denbigh, and nephew of Lord Hen-
niker : _

"At Sea, Nov. 22, 1855.
"We left Methane* we the 12th of last mantle, sad,
with oar usual forum., esesentared very heavy weather
daring the whole of our passage to New ZwJaad, the
eta leasing very high, sad washing over as cmtinsally.
One day aa enormous sea broke over as, and the first
thing It ended away was the second gig; completely
erssapUeg her up, sad masking her all to bits. It then
Koss la the assrows sad captain's skylights, and
washed everytbieg off the tallies ia both plows, including
a bookshelf and a swinging lamp. They were at break-
fast In the pusroom at the time, and in • moment,
°Seen, tamps, lamps of batter, sensate, and red
herring, were all fficanderiog together on the deck la
three feet of water, and it was some minutes before the
ship INOWOred herself from the shock. Rating oar meals
au a violent gymnastic exercise, and as to writing, it was
oat et the guests's. Tea clays of this work brought op the
earth point of New Zeeland, sod it took Ors* more to
heat down the met coast to Auckland, where we arrived
on the 26th ultimo, after the longest sea roses, we have
made since oar first snivel Stria Beglead. We remained
at Auckland for 19 den. I got up • fishing party one day,
and we west down the river to bast oar net, but we caught
nothieg bat agate end • few noel! Bab. Some of the skate
win very haw, sad one of them weighed nearly tares
hundredweight, and had • tall as tkiek as my ens, and he
made an aztrardinary noise when he was landed, some-
thing between the pettifog of • pig end the bleating of a
Steep, stetting out with his flue all the time, and knocking
the sand about so that it woe so easy task to get sou him
,o give him the coup 07 roar, which I managed Id do with
my heating hails. We sailed from Auckland on the 12th
of the pre asst month, sad have bees fighting with bead
triads ever since, with the eseeptlos of two days, when the
wind favoured us for • few hews, sad, therefore, though
we are nine clan out, we hen only advanced 400 miles, and
are still 700 from Sydney.
" The day before yesterday we ensountered a most mars
cordiality dagger—oath that low ships have ever withstood ;
that we were caught in &waterspout. The day had been
vary mealy, sod we had been compelled to take la sail
venni times, sad therefore we who were below INTO not
earplug to *ad the ship heel gradually over ; but when she
went farther, end the desk became almost perpendicular,
we could WO that something bad hoppened beyond the
sesames order of aqualle, and I felt • eat of faint, sick
faits( of satiapatiou and vogue dread that shoots
stiffed the prayer that rose to my lips. The anwasse
was Maid, and the dread of being strangled below
by the teak of water gave me annals, and I climbed
over the others and meoased to reach the deck. There
everything was is *petunias, no one wss giving any
intelligible orders, sad the 'kip was lying over on her
broadside, with all of one aide hurled in the mats, ropes
sad gads flapping about, aid men standiag aghast,
with despair ta their fens. I 'attend one man in
partimelar, whet was sitting on the deck, seemingly is a
elathof wbr idiots'', w.th his hands clenched sad has face
NW, deaf to all thet was pawing around him. The sight of
m mock sweaty rotund say self ri-ention, and I bps
to dens the men to the raps to haul down the after sails,
and after a cosple of minutes' work the ship slowly righted.
lbw captain's gig was stove is by the water, and the davits
(streag neon paws of 1t.., as thick es my lee) had been
beat doable by the primer'. it memo that a whiting maw
of was r bad been saddeoly seen sear the @hip, and before
say thisg maid be done it was apes her,beiirSg her down sad
whiskiag her rased end under water, whilst the whirl clad
by *Whit wee of nurse sooompauied sad caused, premed
her over by the sails and increased the danger. It was in-
deed a feeefal minute, end ambit g but God's head amid have
saved es, for man was utterly powerless WOW the Wasen-
does manifeetaCon of eta Creator's might. As soon as I
costal get by myself, I retard Him thanks for mereitally
sparing myself and my shipmates, sad saving us in our hour
f extreme peril. This was really a very nocelentha ad-
venture, for *oath ships fnquestly we waterspouts (I have
teen meal) it does not happen one in 600 times that it
strikes a weasel. I have never heard of garb an at:idiot
scarring, sad hope seen to see anther, fee it is so very
r appalling, for that vary reason that It is es unusual, as no
one keens how to avoid its gloats after it is upon them;
though there is a way of pet audios 'aft reheard by firing a
gun at it, whoa the sthcassion of the air caused by the es-
plosion breaks the 'pout before it is near enough to de say
damage; but in oar case it moved too swiftly for that; sad
' all oar gun ere firmly lashed, on sooeuot of the had wea-
ther we inventor bereebouts, so that it would have been a
matter of time to dear our as

The monument designed by Baron Marochetti, for
the heights of Scutari, is is form ea °With ; it is allay
grats, 100 fest in height, sad surmounted by a Latin
mom The base of the monument, or at least a onside rth's
parties of it, Is of unpolished granite, whams the obelisk
above is polished. At the four careers of the pedeatal are fear
sages of victory, eoloatal in suse, sans falling down sod
anted, a mown is sae band, a palm breach is the other.
It will maresly be credited that, in a very popu-
lous pariah in the tooth-waters division of this musty, s
peeves his been fleeted to the Oboe M 'veneer fir the
mama year who, • envespondent states, eau neither rasa
use Herold. We have just beard of awe
in t►is vasty, where a paean bolding the Maces of gusto
aerator. and smears?, is usable to writs his name.—
Ewa Games.
The health of the Bishop of Norwich has bean
slowly berm's' (ass the Bdry Post) dutieg the past few
menthe. It is sow so far re•atabiished that his Lordship
has rammed the active duties of his dims's, which hh
severe and eontinmd iadisiosit:on compelled him to rolls-

THE CRIMEAN MILITARY INQUIRY.

EIGHTH SI !TIM:I.-THIS DAY.

The Board of General Officers mot again this morn-
ing atyhellea Hovit,l, when

Lord Lucas, inquiring whether the hoard had succeeded
begetting from the War-office monthly returns of the num-
ber of baggage animals in the Crimea,
The Judge-Adv,c rte acid an at plication had been made,
bat the sneerer wee that there were no such return. at the
War-office.

The President raid he believed there were inch returns
bet that they were at present in the Crimea.

Colonel Tul,o-b then resumed his ersminatien of
o 1 Sir It. Airey, who said he presumed his order
to use the skins of haves and animals which died or were
killed, for the cvnetruction of shelter, was obeyed so long
so it was necessary. He saw the hides in use all over the
carop,and for other purposes then stabling. Two shillings arid
sizpencs was paid for each skin p-operly cleaned and cured.
according to the requirements of the g 1 orders. Had
no desire in any way to cut any censure upon the report of
the commissioners, but in the questions given to him to
answer, there were many which did not refer to his de-
partment, and therefore he did not answer them, but re-
fatted them to parties who could. In consequence
of the Indisposition of the commissioner., they left
the Crimea, and his answers were sett after them ; but if
they had returned to the Crimea from Constant nople, they
might have got the information which he could not give
apm the spot. The fine series of his answers were, be
thought, inclosed to Sir J. on bosrd ship ; sad tits
second series were sent miter some delay tt Colonel Tulles*.
The ;remora of his duties prevented hint from replying to
these immediately, and he confined he might not have an-
swered them so soon as he did, if he had not received •
peremptory message from Lord Panmure desiring his to
do so. Considered his answers to the commissioners were
perfectly emplets and sufficient, so far as his own
department was concerned. The first huts arrived from
England on the 16th December ; others came on the 26th.
Lour more weasels with huts arrived before the end of Decem-
ber. His department was charged with the distribution 01
these huts. These hies famed a portion of stores into the
delay in **shipping end distribution, of which witness was
desired by Lord Engles to make inquiry, but it wu the
first instance on record of butting being sent oat in the shape
of wooden houses, and until such stores were unshipped and
actually warehoused for distribution they were in the de•
puniest of the commivariat and not of the Quartermaster-

General, whose duty was only to see that stores mere fairly
distributed amongttle different divitions of the army. The

commissioners might have got more satisfactory Guideline ulna
this suljtct if they had examined Captain Keen, as that engi-
nor officer had charge of the butting more rrtioalarly.
Thought it extremely probable that a statement made W
Lord Luna to the board, that be was ordered not to take
any huts until the tad of January or beginning of Febrility,
was perfectly accurate ; the raison for the order being the
anxiety of Lord Henan th►t the lick up in front, and the
infantry divisione,who stool moat in need of shelter, should
be supplied with butting bane the cavalry. As Lord
Llama could get no orders for buts until the sad of
January, no blame for the deity could be ae-
cribed to him or to the cavalry. Wine al wu far from in'.
pitting say blame to Lord Lusts or the cavalry.
If then was a doubt in the mind of the commissioners as to
whom th.y should cast the blame upon, they might jest r
well cut it 'Two one department as mother; and upon him
as well as up sa Lord Lucas. His own opinion at the time
we. that the 00111111k110114/S wan out to inquire into the sr.
reanimate for the tarply of the army with a view to the
future. He never imsginsd that they would take any re-
trospective view of, or that they would censure, the cm-
duct of offiesn. Thought the commissioners ought
net, in connection with the same. of officer', to have
aide allusions that were hardly borne out. Perhaps Colossi
Tailor would Mae his question a little shorter or a little
nonspecific. [Colonel Tulin% : Thank you ; I will not
trouble you.] Could cot recollect a conversation bolas's
the orminionsn and himself, in which the latter stria
their reasons for not personally examining Lord Raglan.
Had several comvenatlons with Sir J. )['Neill, and did not
think Sir 1. M•Nsill iutiaded to cast any reflections upon
Lo►d Henan.

By General Peel—The commissioners never in.istated to
him their opinion that any want of promptitude or Inge-
unity had been displayed in providing shelter for t- e hams
If they had, he eh .uld have given is their questions mote
specific answers, and inch as, he thought, would have re.
moved from their minds any inch impression.
By the Judge Advisate—The cavalry could not remove
to Kedikol till December from militaty considerations.
Thought Koss of the French cavalry were seeder cover until
long after the English, and indeed not when be left the Criv

men. He knew one French officer who scat 70 hangout of
1201 a two nights, and he believed that the French malty
suffered as mach as the English.
By Lerd Lama—Could not sly ezeotly when hie answers
were seat to the eossiselonere, bat it was after Lord
Lucan's return to England.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, examined by Colonel Tot.
loch, said he remembered that Colonel Tulloeh and Sir 7.
Nl.Neill examined him three days at the Qttertermaster-
General's department, and once at a hut, put up on pur-
port,. Itmaesabered that he told the commissioners that so
orders had been given for en engineer officer to
assist Lard Loess. No intimation was given to
the

that the order had not bon
parried eat because they had not asked for it. N.
question woe asked is to the reason why the graced was net
broken, until the middle of December, when the orders had
been hawed on the Rth end 12th November ; sod therefore
no lamination was given to the comatimionere. After his

uteri to Begland, tritium saw Sir J. M'Neill, who rota
him that although he was satisfied himself, Colonel
Tulloeh wished to ask some further que^tions about forego
and el,thing. As the commissioners never asked him ft
slosh question about hutting, he did not Nippon they
wasted any ieformition about it; and tepeeally in, as he
had asked the con Masioners before being esamined,
whether they wanted sash informat:en, and that if they did,
he sight get the necessary pspen ready.
Calmat Talloth then called the attention of the board to
a letter written by Co'onel Yorke, of the sth Dragoons, to
tte Editor of the Times, calling in qucrion the smarmy
of a statement made to the board by him (CA. Talloch),
and expressing a wish to call that officer and 'canine his
upon the entente of the letter.
[Colonel Yorke had just been called for examination when
our report left ]

THE RIGHT OF MEN TO BEAT THEIR
A as etiog of a somewhat extra, r briery character was held
Is the Town-hall, Leicester, on Monday night. The hand-
bills !Weeping it state I that the object was t• (unlade? the
laws relative to the pro'ection of women, and thtt an MOM
would be admitted tt 'scenting, of clurse, gentlemen of the
livers " At seven o'clock, the hour nettled ,n the bills. very
few had assembled, but subsequently the meeting numbered
sb at 200. The majority were female• or middle ego, 0(
the operative Owe, but in g-nerel respectabl♦ attired. A
Mrs. Woodford ess voted to the chair, cud the orluggal
speaker Ws/ II Mrs Wirfield, who made some really oleo!
speeches. The irjustice of the existing laws, by which BB
woman is deprived of all control over her own earnings and
offspring, was vehemently denounced, and it visa maid-
meetly resolved to support the motion of Bir Brads* Perry
for a revision of the warble laws. A petition to the
Ream of Commons, praying that It might be adopted, was
amanita's's') mgr. ed to. end the proceedings, which were
conducted with great crier and p-opeiet)7. terminated seen
after nine o'clock, by the singing of the Matisse' Anthem.
It was agreed, with one dissentient, not to eopport Mr.
Dillwra's lIMMIIM for introducing flogging as a punishment
tee wire-beats re.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LONDON DOCEL-011
Moeda eftersooe a man named Bent was maddealykilled
at the Welt Qesy Tea Warehouses. London Docks, through
the enutton, though prohibited, practice of aaiog the con-
rany's sechinely for personal purposes. The deceased wre
nap`oyed in the remove of oh. ate of tea from craft to a spot
in treat of the warehouses, whence they are raised by •
erne at the top of the building to their several Room Mtn
elm last draught of woods lad amended, the rope was let
down sensual to take up aome bars of wood employed Is
the engaging of the chest., when deceased, who desired to
second to the second floor, attached himself to the rem
whirl', hang less than its usual weight, ascended at an
uncommon speed, whereby the sir fortunate man's head
same in sharp contort with an iron projection, We grasp
of the rope relaxed, and a fall atm the atone pitching Was
the resale. He was at once taken to the London Hospital,
but died shortly afterwards, leering a wife and three
childno.
HEALTH OF LONDON.—In the week that ended
on Saturday the deaths of 1,115 garner, 'ie.. 65.5 males sad
840 females, were registered in London. The average
number fe ihe ten eorreepooding weeks of the yeas 1846-66
was 1,079, and if this is raised in a certain proportion as
caving to inmate of population it becomes 1,187. Tke
deaths of last week ere thereto.* less by 72 than the nee of
mentality which ruled in cones; online weeks won'd bar
prodanoi. Last week the birhe 01 862 boys and 822 girls,
is all 1,684 ebiltrea, were registered in London. In the
tea eonespetwaina weeks of the years 1846 65 the VI
samba wee 1,463.