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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1865.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—TO-MORROW.—
(SATURDAY). CONCERT and AFTERNOON
PROMENADE, Vocalists : Madame Louisa Vining and
Mr. W. Coates from the Royal English Opera • first appear-
ance). Solo, Pianoforte, Madame Araoella Goddard. Con-
ductor, Mr. Manna. Programme includes Symphony No. 4,
in B fiat, Mende ssohn ; Solo, Pianoforte, Fantasia on Airs
from "Mirella," Lindsay Sloper ; Overture, " Melusine,"
Mende' ssohn. Palace lighted up.
Admission, Half-a-Crown ; or by Guinea Season Tickets,
free. Numbered Reserved Seats, Half-a-Crown, on sale at
Crystal Palace, and 6, Exeter Hail. The number of these
sear s being limited, early applic ition is necessary. .
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EMEMBER! WE WAIT SUPP E R
It, FOR YOU, after the Pantomime, at E VANS'. Fail
not

of the bark had been transferred to a schooner, in
order to get at some defects forward below the
water line.

The iron screw steam troopship Megxra, 6, Capt.
Montague B. Dunn, was removed yesterday from
No. 2 dock at Devonport, and was placed on the
Rubble bank to complete the reception of her stores
and provisions. .

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NOTE.—"A more agreeable means of passing a Winter
Afternoon can hardly be imagined than is now provided every
Saturday at the Crystal Palace."—Vide Newspapers.

The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Commander Henry
W. Allen, promoted to be a retired Capt. ; Staff-
Commander Timothy W. Sulivan, to the Fisgard
for the Vivid ; Staff-Commander George H. Blakey,
to the Saturn for the Lightning; Alfred F. Gib-
bons, master, to the Niger ; W. S. Taylor, mid-
shipman, to the Enterprise ; John Edwards, naval
cadet, to the Sufi* Andrew S. Pringle, nominated
to a naval cadetship ; David Duncan, surgeon, to
the Niger ; William Johnston, assist.-surgeon, to
the Hector ; James 1). Smith, assist.-surgeon, to
the Niger ; William E. Kelly, paymaster, to the
Niger ; Charles W. King, assist. -paymaster, to
the Victory; Henry D. Panamore, assist.-pay-
master, to the Niger ; D. Acheson, assist. -paymas-
ter, to the St. Vincent ; William Gill, chief en-
gineer, to the Indus for the Lord Clyde ; Thomas 0.
Lewis, chief engineer, to the Fisgard for the Spite-
ful ; Thomas Carter, George F. Greaves, William
H. Moon, John Lea and Walter Crichton, promoted
to the rank of first-class assist.-engineers ; and Geo.
C. F. C. scaeler, clerk, to the Wellesley.

Foundering of Another of the West Indian
and Pacific Steam Navigation Company's
Steamers.

This company has lost another of its fleet of
steamers, and in the same storm which caused the
destruction of the Colombian off the French coast,
near Cherbourg, with so disastrous a loss of life.
This second ill-fated vessel was the Askalon, Capt.
Hoare, a fine iron screw steamship of nearly 1,000
tons burden, bound to Port-au-Prince, in the West
Indies, and some of the adjacent islands. Laden
with a general and valuable cargo of merchandise,
she left the Mersey about a week before the Colom-
bian, and seemed to have experienced bad weather
almost from the commencement of the voyage. On
the 14th ult. a fearful hurricane was encountered.
The sea broke over the ship, sweeping away the boats
and other movables on deck. She continued in this
condition for two days, the vessel rolling and straining
severely. The sea broke in the skylights, and the water
rushing down into the engine-room, put outthe fires.
The crew exerted themselves to the utmost, in the
hope of keeping the steamer afloat, but on the 15th it
was found that she had ten feet of water in the main
hold. Providentially, at this juncture the Dutch
barke Almonde, bound to Bremenhaven, hove in
sight, and seeing the critical condition of the Aska-
lon, she bore down to the sinking steamer, and after
extraordinary exertions, succeeded in taking off the
crew, 37 in number, and a passenger, and the
Askalon was accordingly abandoned, her position
then being lat. 46 50 N., long. 25 3 W. Sin-
gular to remark the barque had sprung a leak,
having encountered the full force of the gale, and
but for the presence of the crew of the Askalon she
must have gone down, as the pumps had to be kept
constantly going, and her own crew:were becoming
exhausted. The barque continued on her passage,
and, on arriving off Folkestone on Tuesday night
Capt. Hoare and the passenger were landed, the
crew remaining on board to assist in working her
to Bremenhaven. The Askalon was classed A 1
nine years, and, with her cargo, was heavily insured.

ANOTHER STEAMER LOST.—Another fine steamer
is reported to be lost on the Yorkshire coast, near
Scarborough. She is the Volunteer, iron screw steam
ship, classed A 1 for 12 years, 670 tons register,
and belonged to the same owners as the Cronstadt,
which was recently lost with all hands on a return
voyage from St. Petersburg. The Volunteer was on
a passage from Leith to Rotterdam, and the tele-
gram states that she was totally wrecked in Filey
Bay, a few miles to the northward of Flamborough
Head.

Terrible Hurricane on the Isle of Man
Coast.

LOSS OF A SCHOONER AND DESTRUCTION OF

THE DOUGLAS BREAKWATER.

One of the most terrific easterly storms that have
visited this island for some years broke over it on
Sunday noon, and has continued with scarcely any
abated violence until Monday night. Its ravages
have been dreadful, as will be seen by the follow-
ing. During Sunday there was blowing a strong
wind from the eastward, and about noon in-
creased into a violent hurricane, accompanied by
snow and sleet, causing the roads to be impeded to
some extent. Some time during the afternoon the
Jane and Agnes put into Douglas Harbour, hailing
from Ormshead, and bound for Chester, whither she
had been driven by the gale ; but, becoming unable
to steer against the wind, was driven in here. She
anchored behind the breakwater, but the storm in-
creasing, she began to drag her cable, and was finally
dashed with much force against the peer, then
rebounded upon the rocks beneath the Imperial
Hotel, where she shortly became a total wreck.
The crew, conssting of three men and a boy, were
saved by means of ropes. Shortly after they had left
her she became a heap of broken timber and planks.
The most disastrous affair, however, is the almost
total destruction of the Douglas breakwater. This
structure was originally intended to go into the sea
to a distance of 1,100 feet, but this was deemed im-
practicable, owing to some of the timbers becoming
displaced, it being a wooden structure. About one
o'clock on Monday morning this piece of engineer-
ing skill began to give way, and huge piles of balks
were hurled with terrific violence from the stanchions
which supported and held them in their places, and
strewed the whole length of the shore, and in several 1
places through the narrow passages leading from the
shore into the middle of Strand-street and Duke-
street, impeding the pathway. In some cases these
passages were heaped up three or four feet in height
with these huge balks, and the irons which attached
them together were twisted and turned as with
a vice, into several grotesque shapes. The break-
water presents a most dreadful wreck, only 17 up-
right piles standing out of 45 ; and these are so
much damaged that they are worth nothing. A
length of about 120 feet has been cleanly swept
away. The damage is estimated at about £20,000,
which amount it will take to make the structure
as complete as it was at the latter end of the
week. Besides this, the contractor estimates that he
has lost plant, &c., to the value of another £l,OOO.
Some of the homes, too, in Strand-street have been
flooded by the sea washing in, and chairs, tables,
and sofas floated promiscuously about. The damage
in this instance is not at present known. The portion
of the promenade which has only lately been erected,
and was not completed, has sustained severe damage,
the sea having washed the upper part of the wall
for some distance entirely away, and made a large
breach in the wall itself. So great is the mischief
caused by this storm that it will be some time ere
its full extent is known. The storm abated at mid-
night of Monday, but on Tuesday night at 12
o'clock, our correspondent informs us, it was again
blowing a fresh easterly gale, and it is momentarily
expected that the remaining portion of the break-
water will be washed away.

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