The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-30 00:00:00

Admission, is.

29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM,
(Private Entrance, 44A, Maddox-street, Regent-street).
containing upwards of 1,200 Models, Natural Preparations,
Monstrosities, &c., illustrating every part of the Human
Frame ; also the Moving Anatomical Dying Zouave, Julia
Pastrana, and other life-size figures. Admission, One
shilling (for Gentlemen only), from 11 till 10. Lecture at
Four. • ...

MR. T. CARRICK. begs to announce to his
Artist Friends and the Public, that his Photographic
Establishment, 32, Regent-street, Piccadilly-circus, is now
in full operation.
Cartes de Visite, 10 for 106. 6d ; 21 for Li. Miniatures on
Ivory, Marble, and the Photographic base in his former
styles.

DEATH OF A LADY FROIVI VACCINA-
TION—Reported in " The Medical Times " of this
day, the 30th May.
Death followed within four days, the arm swelling as
if from the bite of a snake !! ! Happy those whereon it does
t
not tAke "beautiful." Like Frankenstein, Doctors are recoil
mg from the monster they have created-they now advise
not to re-vaccinate ! ! What have Englishmen to sa
Compulsory. Vaccination Act? Will they allow it to stand?
Surely not.
Hygeist Office, 262, Strand,
May 30, 1863.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
• (Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATuoNEss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PutsinEXT —Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CnArnmAN—Thos. Raring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., P.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of Eng!and, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
tor' which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£10,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,C00 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-cart ;ages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the gcnerouq support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enab'ed them to establimli their resent magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whilt can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefUlly acknowledge the following con-
tributions :

X 5. d
Her Majesty the Queen
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. .• .. annual _
annu 550 00
00
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. .. • • .. annual 11 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers •
.. •
.. annual 10 00_ Currie, Wm., Esq, .. .. •• • . 4th don.lo 0
II
Erie, Lord Chief Justice ~. • .. don. lo 10
'Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K..C.8. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwiek, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and 'Fran-
-0 0
sporting' Carriage — • • '' • ' 250
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart.
Harvey, Rev. G. G. anciMrs.
Moore, Rev. G. 13. • • • • .. don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Gre•enwieil • • „
.. 3 0 0
:: 7th don. 130 00
00
Smith Mrs.
Col. Sir Anthony, R.C.B. :: .. annual 20 0
TI TrU2s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
Ladyship
Willoughby d'ErO•sby, Lord .. • • • • an•n•ual 165
106 00
eived by tbe Rankers of nip Institution, Messrs. Willi-
Co.,
and Annual SuLseripti.ns ;ill be thankfullY
70, Lomb,
Vereival, and Co' 7R'
ner;,.r,,,i;
Co., 59, Strand;
James's-street, London ;by alestreet ; Messrs. Coutts and
liingdmornby the Secretary
InSts.
Ntaer. €ctuhollarecloanradof Co.C•uls6to•
and Bankers fn the 'United
Richard Lewis, Esq., at the ee of he Institution, 14,
John-strcet, Adelpbi, London, W.C.

N Osr-tilniern
.' Ellt
) in the immediate vicinityOYAL FREE R irr
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of ilie„G rGe ar
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
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without free
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Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCII. li:
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Eaci. K.
This was the first hospital to introduce theprtihnc
and instant admission to the destitute sick, wi
mality of Governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tutionfor-
in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is ac ni:
p; Hied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
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. . . _
The Weekly Board feel it theirimperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued suppar,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing- cases that
daily present themselves.

COnirlbutions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Masterman, Esq. Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co-; Drummond' and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne. and Co. ; Giyn
and Co. ;'Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
Co•Co ; W lliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. :T. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital

STANFORD S.
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THE LOSS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON.

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LETTER FROM THE HON. JOAN YOUNG.

The following are extracts from a letter from the
Hon. John Young, who was a passenger on board
the ill-fated Anglo-Saxon, received this week by
gentleman in the nei,,,hbourhood of Edinburgh :
" After leaving Londonderry, we had rather heavy
weather and high seas ; but nothing remarkable occurred
on the voyage until Saturday, the 25th April, when we met
.ca about 9 o'clock p.m. The ship was slowed, and during
the night, in consequence of the heaviness of the ice, the
engines were stopped. In the morning the fog partially
cleared away, and we slowly tried to push our way through
it. Fortunately, there was little as hid, and as the day ad-
vanced the weather became clear, and from the masthead
clear water was discovered to the north-west.. We con-
tinued to push through it, and succeeded in clearing it at
two p.m., when the weather was clear and fine. The ship
was then put under full steam and sail, and we started on
our course at the rate of 114 miles an hour. An observa-
tion of the sun was taken at 12 a.m., when in the ice, show-
ing our position at that time to be 46 64 N. lat,, and 47 24
W. long. On getting clear of the ice other observations
were taken to confirm that of 12. The captain had instruc-
tions from the agents of the ship at Liverpool to call at Cape
Race, Newfoundland, for a telegram, which would inform
him if the Gulph and River St. Lawrence were clear of ice;
and, in conversation with me that afternoon, he congratu-
lated himself on the weather being clear, and that he would
be able to sight the Cape early next morning. During the
night, the weather became foggy. I got up at 7, and went
on deck; saw the captain, and expressed my regret at the
change in the weather, and asked him if, under present cir-
cumstances, he still intended to make Cape Race. He re-
plied 'No, I have changed the course of the ship, and will not
now make Cape Race.' I expressed my satisfaction, made
Rime reinark s on thetreaffilr eniability reati g oft hitn, with'
so many people on board, to which he replied that he deeply
felt that responsibility. I could not wick' being anxious,
with my knowledge of our proximity to Newfoundland in
such foggy weather, and at 10 a.m. I again availed myself
of my intimacy with Captain Burgess to ask him where he
thought we then were. His reply was, We are now about
16 miles south of Newfoundland, and at 12 o'clock we shall
be 20 miles south of Cape Race.' We were then going half
speed, or six miles an hour. This reply of the captain made
me feel satisfied,

" About an hour afterwards I was down in Miss Young's
state room; and Florence, looking out of the dead light
shoreward, cried Oh, papa, look at the iceberg,' I glanced
out, and to my horror saw, at about 20 feet distant, what I
supposed to be an iceberg ; but what I thought an iceberg
was merely the white spray of the broken sea running
down the precipitous sides of a cliff. The ship had not
then struck. I ran on deck, but before I got there she had
struck with her bow heavily. Engines were stopped ; she
swung alongside the cliff, and struck with terrible force on
the side of the ship. Engines were reversed with the view
of turning out the stern seaward, but the wind and a very
heavy sea prevented this ; and instead of the stern swing-
ing out, it struck on a rather projecting part of the rock,
rendering useless the screw and rudder. As she came down
with each receding wave on the side and stern on the rocks,
the terrible noise of the crashing thus created, joined with
the noise of the surf beating on the rocks, was perfectly
awful. The fog was very dense, the cliff on which we had
struck was very precipitous, nor could we see the top of it
from the ship. lat once saw that the ship would become
a wreck, and would soon break up, and believed it impos-
sible that many could be saved. I went at once to Mrs.
Young and told her plainly our situation, said I would do
all I could, explained to her that as there was no rock under
the centre of the ship that the saloon was as safe a place
then as any other. and that I wisbed her to have all
the children, Miss Inglis, and Charlotte together in one
corner of the saloon, not to move from there without my
personal request, to get some warm clothing, and to put
some bread in the pockets of their dresses, Nothing could
exceed the quiet resignation of all my party. Charlotte
was quite calm, and busied herself in helping to dress the
children, and showed great forethought about everything,
and no signs of fear. I have frequently seen evidence of
the nerve and resolution of Mrs. Young, but her conduct,
and that of Miss Inglis, on this occasion was beyond all
praise. I went from them on deck; saw the captain on the
bridge, who, remarking that this was a terrible affair, gave
an order to let both bow anchors go,' I saw that his order
was not heard in the tumult of voices, and asked if he would
allow me to give the order. I went forward and did so.
Orders were then given to lower boats, and the captain
superintended the rigging out of spars to the rocks, getting
a rope ashore, and rigging on it a kind of basket, in which
the women steerage passengers were being put on the rocks,
about 40 feet distant. Tho captain and second officer per-
sonally attended to this. Few of the sailors were there, for,
I regret to say, they made early for the boats, and kept
outside of the ship, without making those efforts to save life
which, I believe, should and could have been done. I came
back to the stern, feeling convinced that there was no
chance for ray people forward, among so many, struggling
for their turn ; but nothing was being done for the cabin
passengers. I cried to five sailors in tho long boat, about
100 yards distant, to come alongside, but they paid no at-
tention to my request.

"I ran forward again to the bow, spoke to the captain,
and asked him what was to be done for the women and
children in the cabin. He said, " See Mr. Hoare, first
officer, and tell him from me to get a boat alongside at
once.' The only boat left was the starboard. quarter
boat, which was small, She was coming alongside,
when the captain came aft, and joined with myself and
first officer in entreating the five sailors in the long-boat
to come in with their boat. At this juncture, the
captain requested Mr. Green. the mail officer, to go out,
and, if necessary, compel the men in the longboat to come
in. This Mr. Green accomplished, The ship was now fast
sinking, but most of us thought she would hold on to the
rocks for some time. A derrick to lower the women was
ready to lower them into the boats. Mrs. Young went first.
My party, by my orders, were all round the spot from whence
i
they were to be lowered. The children were mostly dropped
the boats by hand as the boats rose on the wave. One
sick lady was lowered down, then the stewardess, and only
Miss Inglis, Anne, and Charlotte remained, and their turn
had come. The captain here spoke to me. I told him all
will be on board at once. I said I could be prepared to
assist him in any way I could. His reply was—' The ship
won't last many minutes; save yourself if you can.' Char-
lotte then having come, and the captain promising to see
them over, I sprang from the ship, and fortunately reached
the boat, with some bruises, and had the satisfaction of
seeing them all on board, when we bad to push out from
the ship. All the ladies in the saloon were saved except
three. The boats had barely time to get away from the
ship when she fell over, and in a very few minutes was
submerged. The shrieks of the dying and of those on the
upper deck when the ship fell over will never be forgotten
by those who heard them. Mrs. Young, I, and the seven
children were in the small boat, besides two other children,
a boy and a girl, from the steerage, whose mother threw
them into the boat as we were leaving, but could not reach
it herself. Besides these children, we had 17 full-grown
persons in the boat, having picked up Captain Cassiday, of
the 30th Regiment, and the Rev. Mr. Eaton, of England,
swimming in life preservers. The long-boat had 43 persons
on board, and there was another boat with 23 on board. The
long-boat was under command of Mr. Hoare, first officer.
Our boat was under command of Mr. Green, mail officer.
and the third boat under Mr. Scott, fourth officer. We
met and agreed to keep together. To lighten our boat our
water casks had been thrown overboard ; we had no bread
and no food of any kind; there was no time to take any
of the warm clothing made ready. The fog was very dense,
we could only see a short distance ahead. We pulled some
distance, as we supposed, alongshore, for the noise of the
surf breaking on the rocks enabled us to distinguish the land
side. Late in the afternoon we determined to try land, but
we soon got into broken water, showing us the danger and
impossibility of landing. The sea ran very high, and the
pitching of the boat made the children and some of the
elders very sea. sick.' As night came on, I packed the chil-
dren in the bottom of the boat as close as I could. They
were all very wet, and Freddy had no shoes on; and being
all thinly clad, we suffered from cold and shivering. It
rained heavily during the night, and we got thoroughly
drenched. This, however, we rejoiced in, because we knew
that the fog is generally thereby cleared off. We had the
three boats tied together with their painters most of the
night, and managed thus to keep together; still, in such a
sea it was difficult to prevent collisions. About midnight
the fog cleared away—we commenced rowing and steered
north, and anxiously wished for the morning. We did not
know where we wore, and all of us thought our chance of
life a pour one. Had the fog continued, or had the wind
came from the shore, we would have been driven to sea and
Oaneteahmer,and we
probably perished miserably—but God had willed it other-
wise. As day broke we thought we saw a light ; we made
to thtellotsoepwohf
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