The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-31 00:00:00

Til URSDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1864.

ti leader, who won easily by three parts of a length—a
length between the second and third, Umpire was fourth,
close up, Gemma fifth, Ptiwe Plausible sixth, and Touch
and Go next.

Selling Plate of 5 sous each, with 25 added, for 2-yr-olds

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and upwards. One mile.

DONCASTER GRAND STAND.—The Town Council of Don-
caster at a meeting on Tuesday last agreed to make certain
improvements and additions at the grand stand, the sub_
scription stand and enclosure, in order to give better accom-
modation to those attending the September meeting. Steps
to accommodate from 400 to 500 persons will be erected near
the west end of the grand stand ; the subscription stand
will be increased ; greater facilities given for weighing of
jockeys, to reporters, and iron railing placed in the inner
bend of the St. Leger course (starting point). The contem-
plated alterations will involve an outlay of £1,450,

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864•

APRIL.

Croxton-park 1
Edinburgh Spring 2
Abergavenny 6

Thirsk
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Craven

Llanboldy

Newcastle and Gateshead 14
Knighton
Liverpool Hunt Club l5
Lewes Spring l9
Cardiff
Newmarket First Spring 25

largest and in every respect the most complete of its kind
in the world, and is fitted up with every known appliance
for carrying on the physical education of the officers and
men at the garrison, the ample dimensions allowing of seve-
ral hundred men being under instruction at the same time,
llis Royal Highness visited every portion of the establish-
ment, with the details and arrangements of which ho ex-
pressed himself in the highest degree satisfactory. The
building was designed by, and has been fitted up under the
personal superintendence of. Mr. Archibald Naclaren, of
the gymnasium, Oxford, and is the first of several similar
establishments of the same kind which the Government
intends erecting at all the principal military stations, the
physical training of the British soldier being now under-
stood as not the least important portion of his military edu-
cation, His Royal Highness remained some time in the
gymnasium, and subsequently returned to the garrison,
where he inspected the buildings now in course of erection,
with separate quarters for the married non-commissioned
officers and men of the infantry regiments. He quitted the
garrison with his Staff shortly after 3 o'clock, under a salute
of 21 guns from the citadel, and proceeded by the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway to Canterbury, to inspect the
cavalry troops at that station, under the command of Col.
W. N, Custance, C. B.

The Hotspur, Indiaman, Capt. Toynbee, arrived at Spit-
head yesterday from Calcutta with a general cargo for Lon-
don, and the following troops for disembarkation at Ports-
mouth :-11th Brigade, Royal Artillery, Capt. Strange, in
military command— 3 men, 1 woman, and 2 children-16th
Brigade, Royal Artillery, 1 man-2d Dragoon Guards, 1
man-19th Hussars, Lieut. Carnac and 9 men-21st
Hussars, 16 men-19th Foot, 1 man-23d Foot, 1 man-
24th Foot, Lieut. Jordan, 35 men, 1 woman, and 4 children
48th Foot, 15 men, 6 women, and 9 children ; 52d Foot, 1
man, 1 woman, and 3 children-80th Foot, Assist,-Surg.
Baker, in medical charge-88th Foot, 27 men and 2 women
—9lst Foot, 1 man-107th Foot, 7 men, 2 women, and 1
child. The private passenger list comprised Lieut. Thomp-
son, Royal Artillery—Lieut. Thompson, 97th Foot—Capt.
and Mrs. Rogers and child—Capt. and Mrs. Hale, 57th
Native Infantry, and 2 children—Mrs. Davidson and
child, Mrs. Loder and child—Mrs. Riley and child, Miss
Nash and 2 children of Mrs. Ellis, and Mr. Power. Major
Sherwood, Mrs. Ellis, Miss Riley, and four soldiers died
during the voyage home. Two only of the troops on board
are time-expired men, and they will be sent on to their re-
gimental depots. The remainder are all invalids, and will
be transferred this morning by Government steamer to the
Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley. The Hotspur
sailed from Calcutta on the 20th December, 1863, having
received the troops on board the previous day. She arrived
at the Cape of Good Hope on the 22d February, 1864, and
sailed thence again on the 26th. During the last 14 days
of the voyage very strong easterly and north-east gales
were experienced, with an unusually low barometer. The
.Hotspur resames her voyage for London as soon as the dis-
embarkation of the troops has been effected.
Col. Lawrence Shadwell, unattached, to-morrow succeeds
Col. Edward Somerset, C. 8., in his duties at the office of
the military Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth as Deputy
Quartermaster-General of the South-West District, Colonel
Somerset's term of service having expired.

Disaster to the Steamship City of New York.

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QUEENSTOWN, Tuesday.

The City of New York, one of the regular packets of the
Inman line, when approaching the harbour this morning
about 3 o'clock, and while going at a speed of 14 knots an
hour, struck upon the sei.nken reef known as Daunt's Rock,
about 5i miles to the south.-west of Roche's Point. There
was bright moonlight, and the sea, though a pretty strong
wind was blowing, was very Smoot 1. Such, however, was
the force with which she came upon th, reef that in two
minutes her fires were out,' her engine compartment filled
with water up to near the main deck, and the felnel was
lifted some inches out of its place. She was at once am: ab-
solutely fastened upon the reef, so that motion in any direc•
tion, even if it had been useful, was utterly out of the ques-
tion. Those on board describe the collision of the ship
with a reef as a series of violent and rapidly-repeated knocks,
or as if a heavy anchor had been torn through the ship's
bottom. Rockets and blue lights were thrown up, and sub-
sequently guns were fired. The former being the ordinary
signals of arrival ,merely caused those in charge of the
tender to leave Queenstown in expectation of receiving the
mails and passengers as usual, and to wait within the har-
bour mouth. 0 wing to the direction of the wind, which was
from the north-west, the guns fired from the ship were not
heard for a considerable time, and it was only a faint rever-
teration of ono that suggested the idea that something was
wrong. It was therefore three hours after the ship had
struck before the tender reached her, and considerable
alarm was felt. Fortunately, however, no difficulty was
found in getti2s off the passengers (153 in number) as well
as the mails and Orfecie, and all were subsequently trans-
ferred without accidt'ut to Cork, whence they were for-
warded to their different destinations, The ship still lies
firmly embedded upon the rock, the water at high tide
rising to within a foot of the m <tin deck. The depth of
water in her hold at flood is about 2o'ct. Her injuries must
be very extensive, though not yet mea:%tely ascertained,
and doubts are expressed as to the possibilil`v of rescuing
her from her present dangerous position. As so,'ln as the
accident was made known the Pert Admiral, Sir L. eT`'Wean
do.pqtehed H.M.'s ship Advice and three gunboats to he.
assistance, and the tender of the Uunard Company was also
sent out with the same object. Several other tugs were also
employed, and during the day a considerable portion of the
cargo, consisting of cotton, hops, clover seed, st 001, &c , was
brought away; but the great depth to which the vessel was
submerged rendered the task a work of difficulty and the
result not so large as might be desired. Should the weather
continue as fine as at present, the destruction of the vessel
need not be immediately apprehended. At present the
wind is from the north-west, and blows over the land, which
shelters her from the south and west; but a southerly gale
that should raise a heavy sea would be likely to break her
to pieces.

The City of New York is a screw steamer of 2,500 tons
register, and 740-horse power, built by Todd and M'Gregor,
of Glasgow, and but three years old. She is an exceedingly
swift vessel, and has made a passage across the Atlantic
said to have been the fastest ever accomplished by a screw.
The voyage which has just terminated so disastrously had
occupied but a few hours over nine days, at a period of the
year when very rapid passages are not to be expected. Her
commander, Captain Kennedy, is a seaman of great experi-
ence, and when in command of the Great Eastern made the
only completely successful voyage ever made by that ship.
The occasion was the transport of troops to Canada in the
year 1862. Captain Kennedy was on the deck at the. time
of the accident. The moonlight, which might have been
supposed a favourable circumstance, deceived him into a
change of course. which caused the accident. Daue t's
Rock lies about a mile and a half from Robert's Head, on
the mainland. It is not unusual to take the passage be-
tween, by way of a short cut, there being a channel of great
depth. This course was selected by Captain Kennedy, and
he might have passed through with perfect safety, but that
the shadow thrown by the strong moonlight deceived him
into the belief that he was nearer to the land than actually
proved to be the case. Under this u istaken impression he
had the ship put away half a point, and the result was
that he drove in a little time right upon the rock. Immedi-
ately after the occurrence of the accident he made every
exertion to lighten its consequence to the passengers,
and an address of theirs, numerously signed, testifies their
approbation of his conduct. No attempt was made to push
the ship either backward or forward. As I have said, it
would have been useless; but, even if it were possible, it
would probably have been fatal, as there is deep water im-
mediately at either side of the rock, and the ship, if taken
from it, could not probably float five minutes.
Daunt's Rock, the scene of this disaster, is a reef about
400 ft long, by about 300 ft broad, and has a general depth
of water of about 12ft at low water spring tides. This rock
lies right in the track of vessels approaching from the west-
ward, and for some time past efforts have been made to have
a light-ship established upon it. Several communications
on the subject from the Mayor of Cork, who has taken a
prominent part in the agitation of the question, have ap-
peared in the newspapers, and the shipowners of Glasgow
and Liverpool, especially the owners of the large trans-
Atlantic steam lines, have taken a deep interest in the mat-
ter. The Ballast Board of Dublin has reported favourably
on the proposition, and the Board of Trade. has under taken
to provide the lightship, but on the condition that the ex-
pense should be borne exclusively by the shipping of Cork
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harbour. The Local Board and traders contend that the
subject is one of imperial interest, and that the expense
ought to be borne by all shipping from the westward and
going up the Irish Chaanel. In this position the matter
stands, and at present the only warning against this for-
midable danger is a buoy, which it is stated it would be
almost impossible to see at night, in a fast ship, in suffi-
cient time to prevent risk of mishap such as that which
has befallen the City of New York.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.—At the
Woolwich Police-court, yesterday, two marines of
the Woolwich division, named Henry Smith and Thomas
Haynes, were placed at the bar before Mr. Maude, charged
with violently assaulting a marine, named Thomasßichards,
and stealing from his person a purse containing 6s. The
prosecutor said that on the previous night he was walking
from Greenwich to Woolwich by the lower road, when he
met the prisoners, who accosted him, but he wished to avoid
them. When at a lonely spot near the railway bridge Smith
knocked him down, and Haynes kicked him severely on his
temple. Some persons than came along, and the prisoners
ran off, but witness then found he had lost his purse and
money. Other evidence proved that the prisoners were
pursued, and the purse was taken from Smith as he was in
the act of throwing it away. Mr. Maude committed both
prisoners for trial.
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