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142 so far relieving her as to insure her safe conduct into port, whither Arthur, his brother, and two others, in the course of the next few hours, found her safely conducted. That his warfare with the elements was ended, his crew saved, and his ship in port, could not fail to be satisfactory to him whose steady courage and untiring efforts, under an all-seeing eye, had been blessed to this end, we cannot doubt, but the joy, the rapture of the hour, were all for his brother. Exhausted nature demanded rest and food ere she admitted those warm emotions of pleasure and gratitude, which, we trust, may be oft renewed and enjoyed to the latest moment of existence. It will be evident that much care was still required for a crew so situated; and the surgeon and his mate, who had been invaluable to their young commander, might have been compelled to extend the help so greatly needed, if the whole place had not been moved, as the heart of one man, to succour and assist the sufferers; so that, with the responsibility, the care and watchfulness of Arthur's situation was removed; and Lord Meersbrook, knowing that the arrival of the long missing ship, under the care of Lieutenant Hales, was telegraphed early in the morning, applied himself to writing various notes, the first being sent by express to Lord Rotheles, in order that he might have the