The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. MAY 11, 1.863

Loss of the Anglo-Saxon Steamship,

The steamship Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool and
Londonderry, for Quebec, while in a dense fog,
some three miles distant from Cape Race, on the
27th of April, went on shore, and in a short time
became a total wreck. Of 444 passengers and crew
who were on board 180 have reached land, or been
picked up in small boats; the fate of the others is
not yet known. Steamers have been despatched
to the scene of the disaster, with the hope of res-
cuing any of the survivors who may have taken to
rafts or boats belonging to the steamer, which have
not yet been heard from. Among those saved are
the Hon. John Young, of Montreal, his wife, and
seven children. A despatch from the mail officer,
dated the 29th, states that all the mails are lost,
and that 237 lives are lost out of a total of 445 souls.
The following telegrams contain all the intelli-
gence received at Boston before the Arabia's depar-
ture :
" St. John's Newfoundland, April 27 (via Port
Hood, April 28).—The steamship Anglo-Saxon,
from Liverpool 16th inst. and Londonderry 17th,
for Portland (or Quebec, should the St. Lawrence
be open), was wrecked, it is supposed, about three
miles east of Cape Race. Three of her passengers
arrived at the Cape Race telegraph station about
four o'clock on Monday afternoon. They report
that the Anglo-Saxon was broken up and a great
number of passengers lost. The crew of the Asso-
ciated Press news yacht left immediately for the
wreck, and will on their return make a full report.
A ateamtug has gone down to the wreck."
" SECOND DESPATCH.

" Pictou, Nova Scotia, April 28.—The steamtug
Dauntless picked up two boats' crews of the Anglo-
Saxon between Cape Ballard and Cape Race, and is
returning without landing at Cape Race. The
steamer Bloodhound has gone to Cape Race."
" THIRD DESPATCH.
" St John's Newfoundland, April 27 (via Port
Hood, 28th.)—The Anglo-Saxon had 360 passengers
and a ship's crew of 84 men. She was wrecked
four miles east of Cape Race on the noon of the
27th, during a dense fog; 73 persons escaped from
the wreck by means of ropes and spars, and 24 in
two lifeboats. The total number saved is 97. Boats
Nos. 4 and 6 have not arrived off the Cape in con-
sequence of the dense fog, and seven more on a raft
are also missing, There is a heavy sea, with a
dense fog.
" The commander of the Anglo-Saxon is supposed
to be among the number drowned. The purser,
first and second engineers, and the doctor are among
the saved, as also one cabin passenger. Lieutenant
Sampson, of the Royal Artillery. The Hon. John
Young and family are supposed to be in one of the
missing boats.
" The deck broke up in about one hour after the
Anglo-Saxon struck. Nothing but the mizenmast
is standing. Severel persons clung to the fore rig-
ging until the foremast fell. No assistance could be
rendered. Guns are being fired at the Cape to at-
tract the attention of the missing boats.
" The Associated Press boat's crew went imme-
diately to the wreck."

first officer; John M'Allister, second officer; Robert Allan,
third officer; George Scott, fourth officer; Alfred Patton,
surgeon; Wm. Jenkins, purser; Gilbert Little, assistant
ditto; John Allan, carpenter; Wm. Read, carpenter; Ed-
ward Newall, boatswan ; Hugh Jones, boats wain. Able-
bodied seamen—Wm. Cape, John Williams, Andrew Gib-
bie, Robert Cain, John Johnson, Win. Bennett, Thomas
M'Cormick, Thomas Lloyd, John Larkin, Thomas Quayle,
John Pritchard, James Wilson, Wm. Edmonston, Joseph
Heasley, Thos. Chapman, Fredk. Hunter, Thos. Phelom,
George Taylor, John M. Ellis, Peter Patterson, James
Martin, George Moffat, Thos. Hannibal, James Redmond,
John Halloran.

Engineers' Department—Wm. M'Master, first engineer;
Alex. Mackay, second ditto; Wm. Ritchie, third ditto;
James Henderson, fourth ditto; Charles Cardle, fifth ditto.
Firemen—John Dow, Michael Toole, Thos. Murphy,Henry
M'Kenney, John Williams, George Roberton, Thomas Da-
vidson, John Murphy, John Riley, Henry Norton, Thos.
White, Berry Bridge, John Howard, Jas. Baxter, Patrick
Purcell, James M'Cartney,
Stewards' Department—Thomas Wood, first steward;
'William Jones, second steward; Charles Barlow, 'William
M'Stay, Henry G. Davies, John J. Carr, George Purcel,
John Davidson, Robert Corlett, William Montgomery,
John Reeve, George Woolner, John Leah, Edward Emans,
John Haggup, John M‘Dermot, Martin Cleary, John Pen-
nington, and Edward J. Lloyd, assistant-stewards; Mrs.
Parry, stewardess ; Arthur Grace, first cook ; John Harvey,
second cook; Henry Weston, Alfred Costello, and Robert
Hodgson, ship's cooks ; Andrew. Kennedy, baker's mate;
William Jones, butcher; William Carrol, baker.
The following is a list of the steerage passengers
saved from the Anglo-Saxon :
Parker, Parsons, Saint Marie, Collogan, Dallie, Cooth,
Fleck, Ferguson, Callaghan, Pautrie, Wilpolm, George
Wood, Stanley, Naglies, Lahn, Barbour, Coulter, Finlay,
Morgan, Rooke, Lloyd, Furrc, Jones, Graths, Churehard,
Wickett, Burrow, Nance, Blouse, Jones and wife, Fideles,
Jones, Lubrier, Barclay, Jamieson, Small, Bishop, Gourley,
Corder, Mackillarey, Johnston, Drusmon, Reid, Howell,
Mackay, Murtagh Garretty, Christianson, Davies, Tupper,
Macnally, Atkinson, Rees and child, Townsend, Damsell,
Cross, Cronen, Berry, Crawford, Gauley, and child, Chris-
tiana Brown, Elizabeth Wood, Dance, Pale, Harrison,
Walter Bruce, Jones, Wamby, Mary Ann Thomas, Mary
Ann Adams, Mina Christian, Jessie Christian, Mary Wal-
dron, Mary Lenwick, Martha Lenwick, Maggie Lenwick,
Ann Gouneley, Jane Colton, Mary Ralston, Ann Stevens,
Mary Callan, Mary Callighan, Alice Stewart, Mary Ken-
ney, Fanny Mackenzie, Mary Reed, Jane Walker, Ellen
Ryah, Sarah Smith, Kate Early, Margaret Evans, Sophia
Davis and Child, Eliza Gritty and two children, two
children unknown.
The New York journals say

The terrible disaster to the Anglo-Saxon would undoubt-
edly have been avoided but for the unaccountable refusal of
the British Government to permit the Associated Press, the
New York underwriters, the Transatlantic steam companies,
and other parties in New York to place one of Daboll's
powerful air trumpets at Cape Race, which could be dis-
tinctly heard in foggy weather from six to ten miles at sea,
and would save millions of property and hundreds of lives.
Naval and Military Intelligence.

mouth, and will thereafter be despatched to relieve
the Ariadne, 26, 800 horse power, Captain E. Van-
sittart, on the North American station.
Admiralty orders have been received for the line-
of-battle steamers Hood, 79, 600 horse power, and
Anson, 81, 800 horse power, belonging to the 2d-
class Chatham steam reserve, to be completed with
all possible despatch for the first division.
The paddlewheel steam frigate Valorous, 16, Capt.
Forsyth, having embarked supernumeraries for dis-
tribution among the fleet, left Plymouth, on Friday
evening, for the Cape of Good Hope.
The amount of subscriptions paid in to the Com-
mittee of the Orpheus Fund, at the Royal Naval
College, Portsmouth, to this date is, as nearly as
possible, £1,500. His Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, following the example of her Majesty the
Queen, has sent to the committee a subscription of
£25. The Committee have also received, as the
proceeds of Capt. Coles's lecture on Wednesday
evening last at Hirst's Portland Hall, Southsea, on
" Revolving Shields and Ironclads," £24 Bs. The
sums handed in from the officers, seamen, marines,
and boys of her Majesty's ships are as follows :
Asia, and Portsmouth steam reserve, £lO5 8s lld ;
Victory and tenders, £36 lls ; Victoria and Albert,
Royal Yacht, £l7 15s 6d; Defence, £29 9a 6d;
Duke of Wellington (Ist donation), £25 10s 4d ;
Excellent, and marine cadets on board, £B2 8s 7d ;
Black Prince, £5; Resistance, £26; Sealark, £1 9s
6d; colonel commandant and officers of Royal Ma-
rine Artillery, £18; Britannia and her naval cadets,
£6B 13s ; Indus, £62 19a 9d ; flagship at Queens-

town, £6 17s 6d; Borcawen, £6 18s 6d ; Impreg-
nable, £l2 5s 4d ; Colossus, £lO 7s 6d ; Cadmus, £4
lls 4d; Pigmy, £1 Os 6d ; Herring, £1 13s 6d ;
transport department of the Admiralty, £4 is ; offi-
cers and men of Haulbowline Hospital, £6 15s 6d.
From coastguard stations have been rt ceived
mouth, £5 15s ; Isle of Wight, £37175; Clyde, £4;
Carlisle, £3 lls ; Queenstown, £6 17s 4d.
The following commanders were on Saturday pro-
moted to be captains :—The Hcn. T. A. Pakenham,
A. C. Strode, H. F. W. Ingram, F. S. Tremlett, T.
Brandreth, and J. G. Goodenough. The following

!lents. were also promoted to be commanders:—G,
M. Temple, T. Stackhouse, E. S. Meara, J. D'A/cy,
A. A. W. Onslow, J. P. J. Parry, E. F. Lodder,
and R. 0. Leach.

The following appointments and promotions were
made on Friday at the Admiralty :—Commander
J. C. Soady, to the Royal Oak, mid not to the
Warrior, as stated on Friday; F. Day, assist.-
engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumary ; J.
Smethers, of the Jackal, J. F. Hattersley, of the
Edgar, W. M'Glashan, of the Electo, Peter Thomp-
son, of the Pembroke, E. E. Williams, of the Rha-
damanthus, and Thomas C. Cameron, of the Prin-
cess Charlotte, promoted to be let class-assistant-
engineers; Thomas Marsh, of the Orlando, Robert
L. Owen, of the Charybdis, Henry J. Packer, of the
Algerine, Matthew Blank, of the Bacchante, Chas.
Wiggins, of the Coromandel, and James B. Scarlett,

of the Encounter, promoted to be acting Ist class
assist.-engineers.
The following appointments were made on Satur•
day at the Admiralty :—James 0. Jones, master ad-
ditional, to the Cumberland, for the Arethusa ; Jas,

Fisher, second master, to the Fox ; Wilmot H

Fawkes, midshipman, to the Liverpool ; Albert W,

Whish, Henry C. Aitchinson, and Henry C. Kane.

midshipman, to the Defence ; PhilipMusgrave,
naval cadet, to the Royal Oak; James Melrose,

assist.-engineer, to the Warrior; Thomas S. Gissing
in the Asia, for the Foam, promoted to engineer;
George Bolster, assist.-surgeon, to the Triton, and
W. L. M'Dermott, acting assist: surgeon, to the
Egmont.