vessel, and about 7 o'clock on the following day, the ship still settling over to port, the foremast was cut away, which relieved the vessel considerably. The weather having moderated on the evening of the same day, the crew were enabled to get into the lower hold, and found a space all along the starboard side, caused by the cargo shifting. They then got into the 'tween decks and found the cargo adrift and the shifting boards broken. Some of the grain was thrown overboard, and the bales were shifted to the weather side of the ship and jammed across to secure them. On the 8th of October the weather had moderated, and the crew threw overboard some of the cargo on the port side. About 4 p.m., while they were so engaged, a vessel hove in sight, which proved to be an Italian barque. Signals were made to her, and she bore down and stood by all night. On the following morning she was still lying off, but made no attempt to put out a boat. They attempted to get out the lifeboat of the Killeena, but it was stove in. On the same morning, about 9 o'clock,

another vessel hove in sight, which proved to be the barque Freeman Dennis, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. This vessel also bore down, and, having launched a boat, the crew of the Killeena and the master and his wife were all taken on board the Yarmouth vessel, and the Killeena was abandoned. The pumps then showed twelve inches of water in the well. About 2 o'clock p.m. the Killeena was lost sight of, and, according to the statement of the master, she was then down on port side to the gunwale. The crew were landed safely at Flushing on the 21st of October. On the 11th of October a vessel named the Victory, of Swansea, fell in with the Killeena,

in lat. 47 N., long. 11 10 W. The boatswain of the Victory looked over the Killeena, and not finding the sounding-rod to ascertain what water was in her, went down to the lazarette as far aft as he could, and found no water. She had then a list of about 3ft. to port, and there were spare spars on the deck, spare sails in the sail locker, a good boat on the skids, and another on the main hatch. The Victory was obliged to abandon herin consequence of the crew being partially disabled from sickness. But on the 12th of October she was again met by the sailing ship Nora, of Rizor, in Norway, on a voyage from Quebec to Norway. Seeing the condition of the Killeena, the master of the Nora put a prize crew on board, consisting of the second mate, carpenter, and three seamen. He then left the Killeena in lat. 74 22 N., long. 11 20 W. On the 15th of October the ship Beatrice, of the port of Annapolis, fell in with the Killeena, and found she had on board the prize crew of the Nora, five Norwegians. These men desired to leave, and accordingly they were transferred to the Beatrice, and the boatswain and three hands from that vessel took their places on board the Killeena. The Beatrice then took the Killeena in tow till the 26th of October, when the hawser parted, and the Beatrice then left her, the prize crew remaining on board. They bent a square-sail on a jury-mast and shaped a course for the nearest land. On the 9th of November the Killeena was spoken by the German steamer Leipsic, and by that steamer was at length towed into Falmouth, where she arrived on the 12th of November. The vessel as she lay in Falmouth was carefully surveyed by order of the Board of Trade. It was then found that there were 23in. of water in the

hold, and as the pumps were disabled there had been no pumping since the abandonment. To all appearance the hull seemed to be intact."

THE "NILE."-On the 16th November the barque Nile left Quebec for Liverpool, and on the 20th was caught in a hurricane, which lasted three days. Eventually struck by a terrible sea, the Nile capsized, and eight men, who had gone on the poop, were drowned. Among them were the captain and the second mate. The rest of the crew, nine in number, clutched at the mizen chains, and in that fearful position held on. The fore and main top-masts giving way, the vessel righted, and the survivors were able to drop from their dangerous situations to the deck. The mainmast soon afterwards went over the vessel's side. The nine hands first sought the forecastle as a refuge from the gale, but this becoming untenable, they were compelled to resort to the deck cabin. Provisions they had in plenty, there being sufficient on board to last them for six months. Sea after sea broke over the vessel, and she rapidly filled. The men for their own safety stayed in the cabin, but the weather was intensely cold, and, as they were not able to light a fire, they one after another became frostbitten. On the morning of the 24th the gale abated, and the ship Queen of India bore down on her and took off the survivors. Two of the frostbitten sailors died on board the Queen of India. On December 9 the ship fell in with the Dutch steamer Amsterdam, and transferred the other seven men to her, for Flushing.

distress, capsized, with serious loss of life. It appears that the lifeboat could not get alongside on account of the falling tide, and she then made for the harbour. While on her way, a heavy sea struck and overturned her, resulting in the loss of 11 of her crew of 13 men. One of her survivors swam to the land, and the other landed in the lifeboat, which righted and drove ashore. All the bodies but that of one man were recovered on the following afternoon. Captain Wm. Robert Elsdon, the local harbour master, and his brother, were among the drowned. The following is the statement given at the time by one of the survivors :"The lifeboat had just returned from saving a crew of seven hands. The lifeboat shifted crew, and then went out to the vessel, the Ocean Queen, which was making signals. The boat was towed out of the harbour by the tug, which left us when we were about a quarter of a mile from the ship. The wind was blowing from the north, and the ship was lying on the lee shore at the east point. Finding that the ship was ashore, and that we could not render any assistance, we were making for the harbour when the boat capsized. A sea broke quite over the top of the boat, and fell into her. It was a tremendous sea. It turned the boat quite over. All the crew had on their cork belts. The boat did not right for a quarter of an hour, until she had carried her masts against the sand. I saw them all drown, with the exception of two. I shall never forget it. The cries and shrieks were great. Some of them were entangled with the gear, and some of them hung on the boat. Seven of them left her and tried to swim ashore, about half a mile distant. When I got clear of the gear, I swam ashore. When I touched the ground I could not get up. But for

the assistance then given me I should have been drowned. The vessel we went after was still lying on the sands, and her crew walked out of her at low water." An inquest was subsequently held at Wells, on the bodies of 10 of the 11 fishermen and sailors drowned by the capsizing of the lifeboat. Capt. Nepean, Inspector of the National Lifeboat Institution, elicited from the survivors, that, having hoisted sail, the anchor was not secured, and, though they luffed sail when the heavy sea came, the halliards were not thrown off. When the boat rolled over, her gunwale came out of the water and the sails remained under, until, the boat having been driven along, the foremast broke off, and the boat righted. A verdict of " Accidentally drowned" was returned. All the eleven drowned men were married, and left families-one of them as many as eight children.

THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION'S boats have been recorded at recent meetings of the Institution, held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, as having been instrumental in saving life, &c., as follows :

At meeting, Oct. 7, 1880.-The Fishguard lifeboat which was several times filled by the heavy seas-had gone off twice and saved eight persons from the smack Catherine, of Cardigan, and the brigantine Osnabrick, of Papenburg, Hanover, which were in distress off Fishguard during a strong gale from the N.N.E. The St. Ives lifeboat saved the crew of six men from the schooner Jane Smith, of Plymouth, which had struck on Porthminster Beach in a strong gale and heavy sea. The Saltburn lifeboat went to the assistance of some fishing cobles which had been overtaken by a heavy sea, and were in danger of being wrecked, on

the 1st October. The Hartlepool No. 3 lifeboat had rescued the crew of seven men and the pilot from the brig Frannaes, of Brevig, which grounded on Middleton Beach, and speedily became a total wreck. The Clovelly lifeboat saved the crew of three men from the smack Delabole, of Fowey which sank off Clovelly during a strong northerly gale. A heavy sea was running at the time the boat was launched, and before she could be got afloat the crew were completely drenched, and some hours elapsed before the boat could regain the shore with the shipwrecked crew. The Hayle lifeboat also proceeded through a heavy sea and took off the crew of five men from the schooner Bonne Adele, of Isigny, Caen, which had parted from her anchors and driven ashore on the beach to the westward of Hayle Bar. The Ramsgate and North Deal lifeboats were also jointly successful in saving the crew of 18 men and nine boatmen from the ship Paul Boyton, of Yarmouth, N.S., which was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands. The master and mate were loath to leave the wreck, and the Ramsgate lifeboat accordingly remained some time in the vicinity until they were prepared to take advantage of her services, when with some difficulty and risk they were got into the boat from the spanker-boom of the vessel.

At meeting, November 4, 1880.In connection with the sad fate of eleven brave lifeboat men, who were lost from the Wells lifeboat on the 26th October, testimony was borne to the very dangerous character of the locality where the lifeboat accident occurred, surrounded as it was by very dangerous shoals, which often required the most accurate local knowledge to escape destruction amongs

them. During the recent storms the lifeboats of the institution had contributed to the saving of 113 lives from different wrecks. On these occasions the boats were manned by 500 persons, without any other accident than that to the Wells boat, although many of the services were performed under most difficult and dangerous circumstances, in frightful seas, and a hurricane of wind. The Whitby lifeboat had put off four times in one day to the rescue of shipwrecked crews. The Scarborough lifeboat was launched on five separate occasions during the week of the gales saving each time the crew of a stranded vessel. The Poolbeg lifeboat had also gone off and saved at great risk of life two of the crew of the schooner Robert Brown, of Warrenpoint, which was wrecked near Pigeon House Fort during a heavy gale from the east on October 28.

AT meeting, December 2, 1880.The Ramsgate lifeboat had performed a most gallant service in the rescue of the crew, numbering eleven men, of the barque Freden, of Krageroe, which was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands. After the shipwrecked men had made their way into the boat along the broken masts of their vessel, the lifeboat had to remain at anchor for a time, with heavy seas and surf breaking continually into her. At last she had to be run on to the sands, into smoother water, until the tide turned, when she was successful in rejoining her consort, the harbour steamer Vulcan, and returning to harbour in safety. The Caister lifeboat also performed noble service in saving, in a heavy sea, the crew of seventeen men from the steamer Ringdove, of Liverpool, which became a total wreck on the Middle Scroby Sand. A few days previously that lifeboat had helped to save the steamer Swan,

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which also belonged to Liverpool, and which had gone on the Hasborough Sands. The Ramsey lifeboat was launched, through a very heavy sea, to the assistance of the stranded schooner Ada, of Beaumaris, and the lifeboat men, who behaved with remarkable prompitude and skill, had the satisfaction of saving the vessel's crew of four men, who were in an exhausted condition. The Swansea lifeboat had proceeded to Port Talbot Bar, in Swansea Bay, and rescued from the rigging of the sunken schooner Pet the crew of five men. The Porthdinllanen lifeboat landed the crew of three men of the distressed schooner Queen of the Isles, of Carnarvon. The St. Andrews lifeboat rendered assistance to two fishing cobles which had been overtaken by a heavy sea; she also proceeded to the aid of the schooner Roseneath, of Hull, and advised the captain as to his whereabouts. The Holyhead lifeboat helped to bring in the schooner Jane Louisa, of Londonderry, which was in distress outside the breakwater. The Whitburn lifeboat saved eight men from the wreck of the steam-tug Crusader, of Sunderland. The Montrose, Staithes, Lydd, and New Romney lifeboats had also respectively rendered good service to the distressed schooner Morton Castle, of Montrose, some fishing boats of that port, the steamship Madeline, of West Hartlepool, and the barque Haab, of Moss, Norway. The Flamborough, Newbiggin, Thurso, and Carnsore lifeboats, too, had been the means of saving the following shipwrecked crews-Brig Tartar, of Whitstable, eight men; schooner Braes o' Moray, of Peterhead, five schooners Caroline, and Catherine and Ellen, of Bangor, and Phænician, of Douglas, fourteen; and barque John A. Harvey, of Windsor, N. S., nineteen.

INVENTION OF BINOCULAR GLASSES. -The credit of the invention of binocular glasses has usually been assigned to a certain Bohemian friar, Father de Rheita, who died at Ravenna in 1660. His treatise, which bears the quaint title of "Oculus Enochi et Eliæ," was published at Antwerp in 1645. In 1677 there appeared at Paris a volume entitled "La Vision parfaite," by another ecclesiastic, Père Cherubin, of Orleans, which contained an account of some improvements on de Rheita's discovery, illustrated by excellent copper-plate engravings. Lately, however, Signor Govi has unearthed, in the Bibliothèque Nationale, a printed document which proves the antiquity of binocular glasses to be a little more remote. The document is a placard by one D. Chorez, of Paris, who lived on the Island of NotreDame, at the sign of the "Compas." The placard is in old French, and is headed "Au Roy; " it states that the

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"admirable lunettes" it describes, and which are represented by accompanying figures, were invented by Chorez and dedicated to the king in 1625. In the placard of the optician Chorez referred to, the address actually printed was "larue de Perigneur aux Marais du Temple:" but these words have been struck out with a pen, and above is written "L'isle nostre Dame." The incident is curious as showing that two centuries and a half ago the same quarters of Paris were frequented, as now, by the instrument-maker. Nature.