The accounts of the sinking of the Oneida, twenty miles
from Yokohama, Japan, by the Bombay, read badly. The Bombay agent of the P. & 0. Company telegraphs that the Bombay on 24th -January was steaming eight knots an hour, when the Oneida, American steam corvette, going thirteen knots, steamed across her bows, and was cut down on the quarter. She sank with 115 men, but sixty-one men escaped in boats. " The Bombayfelt the shock so little that Captain Eyre did not think the Oneida could have been mush damaged, and continued his voyage to Yokohama." The Americana are indignant at Captain Eyre's apparent inhumanity, and according to this account, with reason. He might, at least, have stopped to inquire, but there is one point of importance still to be cleared up ? How long did the Oneida float after the colli- sion? If Captain Eyre saw her steaming on at that tremendous Tate, he might have ground for thinking her unhurt.
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