The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-18 00:00:00

OCTOBER.

Bedford 4, 5 I Newmarket 2EI 0ct..10 to 14

Leicester

,6, i j Cheltenham lB, 19

Brumley

..43, 7 j Nuwruark•.t to 29

ti CiVEMBER.

Liverpool 8 to II I Shrewsbury 14 to 18

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES-1870.
FE IIRUAR Y.
Birmingham S, 9 I Harrow
Derby 10, 11 Newton 25, 20
M A MI

8,9, 10 8.0:u10y......31 and April 1.
iVt,st Soine:-sA 16, 17 I OheitJutiani.. 31 and April 1
Warwick /2 to 24

BOMBAY MAIL.

MESSINA, Nov. 19.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Nyanza passed through the Straits of Messina at
4.30 this morning en route for Marseilles.
MALTA, Nov. 19.

The Poonab, with the heavy portion of the Bom-
bay mail, left at 8 this morning for Southampton,
where she may be expected about the 26th inst.
The Syria, from Southampton Gth inst., arrived
at Malta on the 16th at 4 a.m., and left at 9 a.m.
for Alexandria.

The steamer Stonewall, Captain Scott, with 258
persons on board, 270 animals, 800 tons freight, left St.
Louis, Oct. 26, for New Orleans. Next evening at 6.30, a
little below Neely's Landing, 125 miles from St. Louis,
and about 45 above Cairo, a candle ;some passengers
were using for a game of cards, set on fire a bale of hay, of
which there was a deck load, and the ship was soon in
flames. With extraordinary speed the fire spread, and the
panic created prevented the crew from using whatever
means were at hand to extinguish it or even to lower the
boats. The pilot attempted to run the, steamer ashore,
but struck on a gravel bar in five feet of water. The rush
was to the bows, where the water was but.two feet deep,
but the crowd pushing behind thrust those in front over-
board, and unfortunately at the end of the bar thera was
a slough, where the larger number were drowned. Some
attempted to swim, and others threw over the (bales of
hay and floated on them, but the current [was so swift
that nearly all who made these attempts were drowned.
There were 89 cabin passengers and 60 of the crew; 11
women were on board, three of whom were saved. Mrs.
Gregg, of Texas, and Miss Caben are among the missing,
and at one time it was reported that Miss Cozzens, niece
of Captain Scott, was lost, but fortunately she missed her
passage. The entire number saved will hardly reach 60,
according to the latest account. The Belle of Memphis
came up three hours after the accident, and the people ;
Neely's Landing, who saw the light, hastened to assist.
One with a skiff saved 16, and had it not been for such aid
few indeed would have been saved. Sixteen swam ashen ,
and sixteen got ashore on planks. Captain Scott was last
seen floating down on a spar. One gentleman succeeded
in bringing a lady to the bank on his back, and nearly
perished in the attempt to save her child, for which he
returned. Only six of the crew, among whom were the
pilot, engineer, and carpenter were saved. The chief loss
was due to the panic, the crowd pressing to the forecastle,
where on the flames approaching those behind were driven
on those before, who fell overboard, and, clutching,
drowned each other. Mr. Fulton attempted to swim
ashore, but the mules around compelled him to seek shel-
ter on the paddle-wheel ; suddenly the steam-pipe burst, and
turned the wheel three times, but he tenaciously held on
and was taken ashore in the skiff. Some give the distance
from the bank on which the steamer grounded at two
hundred yards, others as one hundred. Ten minutes is the
the time in which the vessel was in a sheet of flames, so that
in that period the fate of a quarter of a thousand human
beings was settled. The latest account gives the follow-
ing as among those known to be missing :—Mrs. Gregg of
Texas, Miss Caben, Captain John W. Doty of Rapids
larish, Louisiana; Captain Thomas Cott of St. Louis,
Milton C. Elbert, first clerk, and William Chicks, second
clerk, of St. Louis, William Beebe, first mato, of St. Louis,
Isaac Mooney, stoker, Henry Bowen, steward, Joshua
Lester, barkeeper, of St. Louis ; John Hever, barkeeper,
of St. Louis, John Garrelt, watchman, of St. Louis, C. B.
Divenny, wife and two children, aged 6 and two years,
John M‘Tee of St. Louis, Owen Daily, John W. Black-
burn, conductor Hiss R. R., Charles Brennen. It is, how-
ever, to be feared that very few, except those ascertained,
have been saved.
It is expected that the Suez Canal will be ready
for inauguration next Wednesday. An Alexandria tele-
gram states that Captain 31.9iillup, of the Egyytian navy,
returned to that port on the 13th ult. with two Uoverumeu t
ships which he had been taken as far as Ismailia, and had
found the depth all the way between there and Port Said
to be from 24 to 26 feet in the centre of the canal. The
dredgiugpower was being concentrated on the part between
Ismailia and Suez, and it was expected that that portion
would be so far completed by the loth instant as to allow
the passage of the Viceroy's yacht, which draws 21 feet of
water. All accounts at present received lead to the con-
' elusion that the inaugural ceremony will not be a mere
formal affair, but that the canal will be really ready for
use. The festivities in connection with the inauguration
of the Suez Canal will commence at Port Said on Tuesday.
On Thursday there will be a ball at Ismailia. The iupu-
guration of the monument to Lieutenaut Waghorn, the
originator of the overland route, will take place at Suez
on Friday. The Empress Eugenie is expected at Cairo to-
, day.