with feelings of profound regret that we have to announce the loss of the M. Mf S.8. Nil, accompanied by an appalling Joss of life. It appears from the meagre details furnished in the despatch from the Kencho to the French Consul (to whose kindness we are indebted for the infor-motion), that the Nil left Hongkong on the 13th instant. id that she was lost during a gale of wind on the night of Friday, the 20th, in the neighborhood of Cape Tdsn, owing to her machinery having bro-Ken down, So far as our present information extends, only four survivors have been saved, out of a total number on board. of 146 persons, 60 of whom composed the crew, whilst the remaining 86 were passengers. On the 21st one of the saved, who furnished the foregoing information, reached the village of Isouma, or Shiranai, at Kamo, near Cape Idsu, and: stated that of four who attempted to swim on shore, he was the only one who reached it alive. Three days afterwards, on the 24th, three other survivors reached a neighboring village named Tsumara, but of the remainder of the crew and passengers there is not any news, though it is hoped that others have succeeded in reaching the shore.
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unusual number of sengers rival of a number of reliefs for the crew of the Bourayne. he following sre the names of the passengers for this place who arrived per the Sindh at Hongkong, and who probably continued their voyage in the Nil; but the papers do not contain names of those embarking at Hongkong From Marseilles: Madame Avril. Messrs. Bateman, Lawrence, Licsioni, Muraour, Josida, and Leiseberg. From Saigon Mr. Pall impossible at present to ascertain the way of authentic information concerning the loss of the vessel; but from what can be gathered it appears that, during the storm -prevailing, the rudder, rudder bar, and the boats' were carried away. It is also said that the boilers exploded, but from what cause cannot 80 far be ascertained.
On the morning of the 26th the Bourayne left for the locality of the catastrophe, having on board the French Consul, an interpreter of the Consulate, an ofoer of the ce, and Capt. Walsh left overland for Idsu. Mr. pposed to have been one of the passengers aboard. The following letter was received at the French Consulate the same afternoon, from one of the sur-Although furnishing no additional confirms those already giv "Mora, March 21, 1874, The mail steamer, the Nil, sank during the night of the 20th and 21st, on the coast of Idsu, The vessel is completely lost, and up to the present there are only four of us saved. We cannot say what lins become of the remainder of the passen sand We remain for the moment in the village of Mora, The Natives are sheltering us until help atives from Yokohama, Formerly cuisinier of the French Minis ter at Yokohama, and a passenger on board the Nil."
'As soon as the news of the loss of the Nil reached Tokio, Mr. Iwasaki Yataro, the manger of the' Mitsubethi Company, took measures to send assistance, tnd early on the 26th the 8.8. Shoey-Leen left for the scene of the disaster, to render any possi-help: Capt. Leet, of H. M. 8. Thistle, 0 offered the service of that vessel as soon as the news renched him; but the French Minister deemed it unnecessary to avail himself of the offer, as the French gunboat Bourayne was in port.
Up to the hour of going to press, says the Gazette of the evening of the 27th, the Buwrayne had mat returned to port' from the wreck of the Nil, and we are therefore possession of no further particulars the disaster.—-Japan Herald,
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