The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-22 00:00:00

GALLANT LIIIIIO4I 8311VIC&S.

The following account of the circumstances con-
nected with the moue of the crew of se Amelia brig no the
Irish oast, ce Wednesday, the 17th but., by the Ilhhost of
the Ifetkeel Lifeboat Institution etatieued at Sherries, as
nanated by H. A. Handltem lee., has. secretary of the
Slurries breech of the Seeley, will be read with iamb
interest :

" The brig was boned kr Trieste from Talon with e cargo
of cede ; regitored tamp, 333 Hagfish measneemeam
The ameler is the lea= with a anon of 11 WI tad en
=past, 13 area loath On fthaday, the thilt last., in
iSti
iff ll= bed the east (treptrfa pled ar two
Lifteir at fltmej, the mom to sa straw them lathe the
se Meth. Oa Monday .err iie Mk
litliM hig
Porly leffeljteses the
'lliad p errartrend. At sled
o'clock the eat aay the eases ; Mee
sehore at the nob Pe and s theft time aft= Ilk
boated the Method Mimed lasittedon strelledefiatilhea
ries was seat by lit. 0. t. lout, chief Garai si Net
ward se alas, to the lionentamt ' safer 'lf the
continent service at- Rush, at his squsuh ' About
two o'clock I reached the strand oomisg from Dub-
lin to the • math of the town of Bash, when
deparattres were melded to thus= the lathed of the oar
doge. Sir Roger Palmer, Bert, his 4a., Mem Peel,
Ile flea. Bt. John Butler the Eev Lai= th., Mr. Tight,
died Mr. Oseg, were on the spa, resdirress =ley seddlace
la their power. The lifeboat was moon eileOweeeled, with
bar own mew, Joseph Clerks, chief boatman, lied coxswain,
in the themes et her °entrain ; Alexander Hlemilies, scar
esthioned beatmen, who hes sot se yet ratievered train the
Wades he received at tat wreak of the Mary = the 18th
October lest; David Wilma, boatman, mend meanie,
both seseringt with the threw Thane was a whole gale of
easterly wind, and the sea running high in on the fiat strand,
with it straw ebb tide carrying us to the southward. In
dent two hours we had pulled off into about two fathoms of
water, through some of the heaviest se= I have over seen,
many of no being twice ready waahed out of the boat, the
gram water at these times unbroken on the top of us. We
had great difloulty in getting deer of the made of a whoopee
that was sank awe five years ego, es they =II show over
the water. Seeing that some ot the men were completely
exhausted, and that there was no thaws of madam the
hull, sad, above ell, fearing that thestrong ebb dde
would awry us up on the rocks of Portrand, I delved the
lifeboat to beer up for the entrance of Rowdy= stream.
There was great difficulty in preventing the lithboat brake-
lug and going in over the her. At helf-past five I get be
crew into the watch-house at Hagerstown Strand, and had
them provided with food, sending to nem= for their day
clothes, not allowing them to leave the dread, sad beeping
the life-boat afloat, in hopes of being We to get of to the
hull at every moment, but the night weed over without any
solifor the batter in the worher. With path seal and
Mr. A. Townsead, barboareasther, Bed
by Mr. Hamlet end Mr. Casey, brought up byblarrn'the
anall Blab= between to 0. A. -Hamilton, Req., U.P.,
which, whim memaed by James Carton and his family, had
beat itre mesas of saving the whole of the mew of the Mani
on the 19th et Oct. Carton and his sons remained on ties
Redondo= thread, and petered to go off to the hull, if a
favourable moment arrived. At daylight, on Tuesday morn-
ing, the leth last., we saw the has still riding to an anchor
in di Whams of water, in the same spot. Just then a large
idle-wheal steamer bore down on her from the (=tweed,
the ma breaking over her meets' times ; the kept ahead sad
then astern of her, and about her, for more than an
hoar, but ending it Impossible to render any moist-
saw, she seemed to bear away for Hingtowa Harbour.
At three o' clock Ceptain Boyd, R.N., of her Majesty's
racket appraise
arrived by railway, and inenteditr= ordered the
appraise to be sent to the coos thaika over
the reeked Pertreatkindlag that if the he l parted from her
antihero ea an ebb Vie she mar go ashore there. He eon-
din= did we bed brought the lifeboat to the bast point of
the most, flailauthat in ease the hull broke away on the
Seed this ohs wadi eons ashore on this 'trend, either north
er moth of the month of Rogardown Stream. A 6 o'clock,
Cebu= Taykr,M.P., oneedown to the watch-house, sad se-
oftrapd the enter of the lifeboat to persevere in their under.
trither. As ties night death in, we cheered the men working
ha= at the pe ; but there wee no change for the better
to the and the sea broke more heavily and with
pester wheals then ever on the shore. At three o'clock
on Wednesday morning, 17th lost., we found the wind
began to lessee, and at four o'clock we prepared to off again
in the lifeboat. About five o'clock, aocompanied by my
skipper„ Peter Carlon, we got down the stream towards the
bar, and afters hard pull of two hours and a half, we neared
the hull, the sea breaking over the lifeboat for the first hour
with the same violence it had dime on Monday. On coming
alongside two ears wan broken in trytng to keep off
irta
that a rope we. not at once thrown aboard us, we
astern and hod our grappling iron on board.
of the mew seemed anxious to save their cloth= but
the first coxswain milled oat that we were there only to save
life, and that a esoment's delay would not be given. Tb.
mate moored the ship's papers, and as opportunity offered
we took the 13 men off the ship's quarter by twos and
threes at a time without an accident. I ordered the,
line to th cut instantly, leaving our grappling iron l
ei
ebb booed, and bore up for Rogeestown the first of the I
ebb now making strongly against us. is the additional
weight of the lifeboat mused the water to ries through the
valves to the height of four inches in the boat, the English
pilot had some difficulty is calming the fears of the Andra=
Some of them became much i anted as we entered the broken
water. We hod only four oars of a aide, so kept her hard
on, allowing the seas to kick her in over the her, the sea
still breaking into her at times. Meow-lag that there wore a
number of men on the hull, Mr. 0. A. Hamilton's smell
lifeboat (in the steeds of the Cartons) was launched by
Thomas Jones, commission boatman, Rush station, William
Johns, William Farrar, John Butler, and Francis Cosgrove,
Req. With the utmost daring they creased the bar after the
lifeboat, with the praiseworthy object of reediting stray
assistance I. their power. They would have reached the
hull, but air we were returning I hailed them to make in
again for the shore, thinking it safer not to run the risk of
putting any of the Austrians into the small lifeboat in such a
heavy sea. In craning in over the bar one of their oars
broke abort, wlvis they were In the greatest danger of
being swamped. At half-past nine o'clock ell were safely
landed, the master and owner apparently much hurt, and
one of his men had his head bound up, both being severely
injured in the cutting away of the masts. The English pilot
with the Austrian. Week CO to Dublin from the Rush Rail-
way station at 11 o'okek, having in the mean time received
every attention from Mr. Carey. He had food prepared for
them on their landing on board one of his own vowels then
lying in Hagerstown.
" Mr. liamthea adds that the whole of the lifeboat's Crew
behaved admirably and to his entire satiefacithe daring the
three days and two nights. This lifeboat has proved herself
in every way to be well adralated for each a =eke as that
she performed so eddy to the poor shipwrecked =dial=
on this owed= Assess pererrering and determined tat of
gall= on the port of the lifeboat's mew him seldom been
The greatest credit is due to Mr. Hamilton for
his intrepidity la woos ring the lifeboat's crew in Um
boat, and his deleteelnstfm net to lead the spot until the
&thew/abed saw mire mesa= hem their appereaffy kope-
k= position. He has en preview cochlea dietispithed
himself in saving life at the imathent =halide own."

LIYABOAT SERVICEIL—CANTLITONN,ItLI or MAN,
Nov. 18.—At one o'clock yesterday mania( a ..all lugger,
the Qneea of the Isle, When with coals, endeared I. Caddo.
term Bay, It blowier; a gale of wind from the eastward et
the time, and no communication with the dare being radi-
oed'. About 8 a.m. it wee nreppocrsttsedd by proem vim bed a
knowledge of the edger' equipseale that she bed se table
es board whith could be trusteedd to bold spied so hard s
gale, which appeared to be bernasiag, sad half jib, issiedi,
and mites having been carried away, the Drat of the crew
wen is the greatest imager. It being the frisks as shoe
that It was inidsodoeble to render nastier is ea twitaery
boat, the swirled some time ego by the Repel
limner Lifeboat Institution at this place was launched, red
' a mall an lor and hawser brought oat (the Nev.
.Perrier, owe oldie load lifeboat committee, ewoompen beg the
drew). Os arriving at the lugger, her crew, f
two nes sad • boy, was touad is • end etheared
Are from exposure to the cold, sad the s err wee
food to be • eery light cher la Ind ea which it
my be rid the preerneks of the vessel sod tits new &-
=The resod washer was got eat, gad three of the
s new left as beset, who dipped the amber and
rad* Castistowa Harlem roe hoer &reside, as seas se
• saiabroy et water was sanisani tress the sheen Had it
wet bra for the anareale of the liestor, the poor
lessee iftllll bre bar .....read, for whew
the lifelisa(s grew aerwea the' faggot sir appeared to be a
tostyiete Trek and te be driving as a rooky err, when
the new meld ware* bsve bees saved.
Poulos Man/,—The Alhambra, with the Penin-
sular noir Is awl sled the Artairden, with
the Akira roils, is dew at livrpeel ea Web/easy. The
I.ll=wilt the Bombay malls, lad the MIL the
arise rain, re der st tionimeglea as ;
sad she Ceiertaasii, Mareilles, dne k Leader es -
tansy. The with the Vaked_lllahr warnakm=e
Limped art Tier wilik•fe
will Ism Lanais ea „ and the Mak with the
Hearse gad, ell have essim~o! dm Fab, with
the Veiled Mom wen, MI lime Lftwiems a'de
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the whip eta groat pre birth le Isar Mfr.. Al Med,
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NAVAL AND MILITARY

WOOLWICH, Nov. 21.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD TEE BLACK
Rennes—The Admiralty steam yacht, Black Bails, Master
Ommeander him B. Peden arrived In harbour yesterday
Amore hem Odom% to whiol port she °named life
Boyel Higharn the Prism of Wake. Whilst on her pas-
sage tram Dover to Ostaad ca Wadamisy bat, a Wel ad-
dent mowed to the essead eagisere, Abrahams Alamo. At
ltzt 10 o'clock, a.m., the naketunate man was in a
e norition, attending to the nmobinery in the mew
room, what by sane mean at mama tuszSghi.
dogma bassos astaagled in the revolving , end
the shaft Cl rho mew streak Ids on the le:low his
death anima Isimediately. Ha hes left a and two
Waltham.
Li/wawa Thaw, LA., b transferred tram Captain
'Twee maw 11th battalion to Caphda Rosair's
lOtk Auld hie inland the latter company at
Wedwieit Mir hayeot sbeenoe.
. . . . .

;45; arm-- Velothlng, Of the nom patters, bas bent
the Kew Clothing Sams, Woolwish, for Air
lantra, Wm/tar, Corfu, .ad other ibmign willow of
1M
aztl ale": 7.
Tbs mnd, 4, ben width-wind stsam-vesssi, nantly at
ths awned Ms Harbour Cothathelsows os tthr north east
with of fitailesd, is now undsbudalf Malt to bio
shinny.
Tbs Firebrand, 6, of 410therse power,
myhisk Ms bath wader =M. 11. lota shipwrignn if
w& Ilsohyasd kr apwardaal Wen asaths, is about to be
ithessol inn Ink congththwa. Iths bin ism to theca-
onwthod as Mt bamlimsagramos afs sew vessel.

_ • CHATHAM, Nov. a
Orient ItiMe been received at Chatham foe the
bllowne animbet to be held to reedleam to premed from
the Rem 1 and mote& IA Ginmeenat tar Ceit•
oath and OIL : 2& mat d tbe Bth (dee I.Ws)
liestses" t! dam Skit lAmessest; 14 men of Se Mb
Bestmeat, SO UM oldie The km=lasa d the 81st
ltdematt, and 20 mea of the 94th

PORTSMOUTH, N0v.•21.
The Avon, steam vessel, Seoond-Useter
arrived yesterday from Plymouth with mamma and marines
paid eel trona the Castor, 'team trip, al Ders, sad
having leadsd these, riled again aa e't
he'r seam ..
The Court is wooled to arrive at Osborn* about the,lattot
Deossbwr, and will remain until a Mr days before Claistsamt.
We volesstsad dot a court at inquiry assembled 7=4
am board the Arrogant, steem•frigate, (Copal&
mad-ship la Southampton Water, to investigate theatedtw*
ot ate el dm dawn of that ship. The court was
ie
of Captains Harry Byres, C.B. the St. Viatentrrt
Seymour C. 8., at theproosedsd Victory ; 'and El. F. Gordon, et the
Hannilesi • and thithar he the Sprightly, steam-
vessel, laser G. Alas, Commodes.
The them, saner transport, Oaremandar Jobs Macdo-
nald. boat suits yesterday.

HOLMONING Dime—Captain Ot T. dcgdon,
enminandialt bee Majesty's stesaa•ship liannibal, 91, civet
of the Wawa lest in Nom it Portsmouth. has made an
sitsration is the matins dation of the crew white is most

conalderato and humane fa itself and salutary and comfortable
to the case. It is the practice in the fleet to "rouse oat" at
4 o'clock in the morning to holystone and scrub decks. This
in the winter is work which may be considered equal to
=ll:7the cold water frequently freezing on the
t
6,911 then damp all day. The crew must
be s hardy and we linasoned one on which such a system
would not introdnoe a large quota to the sick by. Captain
Gordon has ordered the discontinuance altogether, fur the
water months, of bolyaicesing—a paretic* which some offi-
cers hay* carried In snob an talent as to war through the
decker—enhedtating washing once a weak with warm water
ham the bailers ia lien of cold from over the side, and the
weer te tarn oat at half-past dye o'clock instead of four in
the moesiag. Time are upwards of 1,160, all ranks in-
chided, on OW books of the Hannibal, about 600 or 600 of
whom was heard.—Thess

ATTZXPTID SOICIDI BY A ROYAL MARINE.—
Thomas Paths, • private belonging to the Woolwich divi-
sion of Royal Marines, was taken into the Marine Infirmary,
Woolwielt, on Saturday, almost dead from the eases of a
dose timer-M-186d, which, it appears, he had that c
swaowed at a howls of ill-fame situated in the Roreliairl ll
rails, the Emend resort of the mast abandoned characters
at both sass. It that the marine had broken his
leave, and that amder the fear of being discovered by
the plaint ha had resolved on self-destruction.
Having purchased • packet of anger-of-lead, which is
commonly used in cleaning the leathers forming a part of
their kit, he returned to the house, dissolved the drug in •
glass of water, which he drank 04 and, ha viug furnished
his brother's address, informed the inmates that h. had
poisoned himself, pointing to the empty glue. The soviet-
ante of Dr. Richardson was promptly obtained, and by the
erne), ot • powerful emetic the norJous drug wee removed
from his stomach, when he was conveyed to the Marine
Infirmary, and I. expecsted to mover.