In sending us the following report of the recent experience of the steamer IVenchot, Captain Robert A. Binns remarks that it shows whut pluck will do in cases of emergency, and that a ship may be saved in the last extremity by letting go anchor at the risk of your life, when not doing it_means Iozing the ship and lives as well, Captain Binns report The Wenchow left. Newchwang on the morning of the 22nd Nov. in very unsettled weather, and with thick rainy weather until she lind nearly run her distance to Chefoo Plug, when, it being very dark and rainy and not having sighted anything, the ship's head was turned to the North, engines going slow, until just before day-bronk, when she was put' on her course again. We just saw some Innd on our star-Vourd bow which ought to have been the Bluff, but before making anything out, the late hard N.E, gale (the hardest T can remember) burst upon us, the sen getting up all ina minute, Got ship round head to it, and-only just in time, as there came along three of the biggest seas I have ever seen on the coast, curling over. 'The Wenchow cleared the Grst, but the aicond broke on board, bursting in. wheelhouse and captain's room, flattening bridge rails, and if it had not' been for the foremast going down through the centre of the cxptain's room and the bridge being up against the wast, I think it would have swept the decks, "Aa it was, it flooded the engineers' and officers' quarters down the mess room deck, damaging all clothes and effects, also flooded captain's room where everything nieveable, such as charts. books, clothes, ete., was sven reduced to pulp. We then kept her head to sea as well us we could, but she was inclined. to fall off now and ayaiu and carried away everything moveable the decks, breaking steam pipes and bursting in chief offic-r's room, and gutting it and water clovots, carrying away,; rails on starboard side and doing. other
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