2nd Aug.
A Great deal, though indeed not a word "too much,' has been said about the heroism of the surviving passengers of the Aden, but the heroism shown by her officers has not been recognised nearly. so much as it deserves. It wns fruitless, unfortunately, and so far as we know-not one of them has lived to receive the honour that their gallantry deserves, Ihe 8rd and 4th officers, Mr. R. Manning and Mr, E. Hurlston, who were ordered into the life-boat in charge of the women and children, must have felt, after what had occurred to the other boats, they were going on an absolutely forlorn hope, while Mr. Hurlston had alrendy distinguished himself by jumping into that terrible sea to save the stewardess.
It was an equally forlorn hope on which the 2ud officer, Mr: A. Miller, went, when he gallantly tried in the cutter, with quartermaster and several lasenrs, to recover the lifeboat that was soon floating near the ship; and it was the death a hero that the chief officer, Mr. B. Garden, courted when he jumped into the sea with a line and a life-buoy round him, to try and swim to save the same life-boat when the cutter, with all on board, had been swept away. All these four brave men threw away their lives, og did the quartermasters and the Insears, in the hope of doing sometl to save the passengers confided to their caro; and their lames should not be forgotten.
Meanwhile, we hope there will be a stringent enquiry at home, as to how it was that forty or more persons could lie seventeen days on a wreck not thirty-six hours from Aden, without succour reaching them; and how it was that while the shipwrecked people could, with their eyes half-blinded by salt water, constantly see steamers passing them, no officer on those steainers, high up in safety on the bridge, could, even with his glasses, see the Aden's signals of distress.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.