A terrible accident has occurred on board H.M.S. Ariadne. While
off the coast of Portugal, on the 8th inst., a man named Felix Richardson fell overboard. The ship was immediately hove to, though a stiff breeze was blowing, and the cutter lowered, with two officers—Mr. Jukes and Mr. Talbot—and seven seamen on board. They searched for three hours, but could not find the man, and began to return, and as the cutter turned head to wind she was swamped by a heavy broadside sea and all hands perished. A second cutter was immediately lowered; two more officers—Lieu- tenant Bromley and Mr. Egerton—and another crew immediately I volunteering to save their comrades; but she also was immediately swamped, and one of her seamen' drowned, though Mr. Ellis, boatswain, a survivor of the Captain, and Quartermaster Loram, risked their lives by going down with slip-ropes under the port quarter of the ship in the attempt to save him. When the first boat was swamped the officers seem to have struggled most. gallantly, one of them having been noticed encouraging the men, and from first to last every man seems to have done his duty without a thought of self.
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