The boisterous weather experienced in Shanghai on the 3ist ult. led to the general impression that typhoon was blowing at of July, and had favourable weather, fresh breezes aiid passing clouds, until thie inioning of the Slat, when the wind freshened from the East with a strong S.E. swell, but the sun was shining with passing clouds only occasionally. About ten o'clock in the forenoon the Barometer began to fall, and the weather suddenly changed with every indication of a typhoon coming up from the southward: The usual preparations were at once trade by Securing everything moveable of deck. The vessel was have to, heading N.E., but tie wind was too powerful to keep her in that Position, and at noon a veritable typhoon was raging, surpasifng in violence, during the afternoon and evening, all the storms her veteran coiniiander had previously experienced, and this is the fourth typhoon he has been in on the coasts of China aiid Japan. The vessel could not be kept within five points of the wind, which was now from theS.E. and one after another the three boats on the starboard side were blown away, weerched clean from their davis, and carried further than the eye could discern in mid air. The skglighls—two over the houses above the saloon, anid ofje over the galley, were torn i a similar manner from their fastenings. One of these it, required six men to move, but it was carried away by the wind, a described by. an eye-witness, like a shuttlecock'; while the glazed covering over the whee house and Captain's and officers' cabins was ripped off by one gust in a single sheet, These are a fow of the diversions of the wind during the afternoon, apart from the erratic motion of the vessel, which laboured and strained considerably and was often on her beam ends, Besides, there were 200 jars of sulphuric acid on deck, aid about three o'clock in the afternoon the lashings around them gave way, endangering the safety of the vessel by fire as well as by water. The jars were thrown overboard as quickly as possible, a dangerous proceeding for those engaged in it, and four or five of the sailors were rather severely burnt. But this was only as it were a foretaste of the greater perils which followed. It was feared the vessel was drifting in the direction of the shoals extending out from Shaweishan, and when in thirteen fathoms of water the starboard anchor was let go, with the view to bring her head to wind. This had no effect on her, and the anchor, with 150 fathoms of chain, was lost. Then, shortly after six o'clock in the evening, a large sea struck the vessel on the starboard side, carrying away the sliding shutters, bulwarks and the covering of the paddle wheel; flooding the engine room, putting out the fires, choking the pumps, and leaving 33 feet of water in the fireroom.
This naturally created estisiderablé consteration Oh board; but mosooriet wai the actual positidh of affairs ascertained atid comninilicatéd to the passengers on board than willing blands were offered to do their best to Save the vessel and their own lives, But ate told there were exceptions as regards aéiné of the Chinese, who lost all heart, 3 teca; whieréver they could hidetheirheads, stowed thetiigelves away below and in the
sonic with life belts round their waists and others armed with revolvers, daggers and ives, presumably for the purpose of despatching themselves in preferéti¢e to death by drowning, or to attack any person who used pressure on: thei to take part in the ivory mutually engaged in for one atiothers preservation, Captain Tucker, we are told, was the man in the right place; he acted like a true English: man, to use the words of our informant, who by the way isan American; Mr. Denny, the United States Consul at Tientsin, who had been confined to his cabin through indisposition, left his wife and daughter in the saloon to give a hand; the Rey. Mr. Dyer did the same; the Rev. 'T. P. raw. ford was nobly to the fore; while Mr. Shorter, one of the knights of the gue now travelling in the East, and Winter and Mr, Dick rendered moat valuable service, while equal praise is dite to each and all the officers of the ship. Aut the passengers mentioned repaired to the roohi—Mrr, Denny being blown down the wind in his efforts to get peared Blowi out of their davita on thio port side of the ship, and thie covering of the paddle wheel atid the deck houses near it had also been smashed in. Ttmtiay be shéittioned asian illustration of the strength of the wind, that one of the amidship Boats Was cut in twain, the bow part of it hanging to the davit; three davits w torn entirely aay, atid. nearly all tHe others were bent, while one of the paisengers assures us that he saw two of the boats carried by the wird over the ship, away out-of vidir. Shortly after nine o'élodk the Barometer begin to rise, and when the gladsome news to the passers of the buckets in the fire room was given "glass up arid head up half a point," the work of baling was continued with renewed vigour, amid varied signs of thankfulness; and the danger of drifting on the spit had also considerably diminished. At midnight the barometer stood at 29:15; the wind had hauled from 8.E. to $.8.W:; and by five o'clock the next morning, the water had all been baled out of the fireroom and the fires were relighted. Steam was got up and a little after six o'clock the vessel was again under control. "It wad found that during the gale she had drifted 161 miles to the N.W. and N., and that she was then only in 11 fathoms of water. At 3.30 p.m. in the afternoon Shaweishan bore North, atid "at-7.20 p.in.
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