On Wednesday morning at 4 a.m. the Great Eastern Railway
Company's steam-packet 'Amsterdam' collided in a dense fog off the Hook of Holland with the New York steamer Axminster.' The damage sustained by the 'Amsterdam' was so serious that the passengers were at once transferred by boat to the Axminster.' There was no panic, but one of the boats, containing twenty-eight persons, went astray in the fog, and in spite of continuous search by pilot-boats, tugs, and lifeboats, no news was heard of it till Friday, when its recovery was signalled at the moment of our going to press. The mishap cannot be assigned to any difficulties of naviga- tion peculiar to these waters ; but its occurrence so near to the scene of the terrible loss of the 'Berlin' last year cannot but be regarded as a most unfortunate coincidence.
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