A private letter from an officer in the fleet with Admiral Seymour, which has been kindly put at our disposal, says Viadivostock, 8th July.
We'were going into Korniloff, and she was the fourth ship of the line. When we got just inside the entrance, the Buwaventure was ordered to haul out of the line and come up abreast of the flagship. She increased speed to 12 Iniots to pass us, when just as she yot abreast, she stopped dead, "her: nose went up and her stern down, and' there she was stuck fast with arock through her bottom. The Awrura cand Undawited have been trying to tow her off for the. last. three days, but have got no forwarder. It's, very bad luck on them, as everything. is in' an awful state board, the ship full of working parties from: the- fleet working day and night, hoisting-out'gues, ammunition, boats, etc., cand throwing coal overboard."
The! following particulars are from a private letter-dated Viadivostock, the 16th Inst.;"whieh hae been kindly placed at our "Tesuld have sent you a telegram the other day when the Bonaventure was re-Ported badly ashore in Kornilof Bay. The [iphigenia came in here for assistance and the next morning with two lighters in tow. Two days after, the Whiting came and reported the Bonaventure had got off and gone to Nagasaki to dock.
"The Alacrity is here to-day, also the Centurion."
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