4 JUNE 1859, Page 9

The Stewards of Epsom Races have declared Marionette to be

the second horse in the Derby, and that Ticket-of-leave was placed second by mistake.

The Eastern Monarch, a troop ship, bringing invalids, officers and others, nearly 600 in number, from Kurrachee was destroyed yesterday at Spithead. In the early morning the people on board were awakened by an explosion —a quantity of saltpetre in the hold exploded by spontaneous combustion. The ship was soon on fire. Captain Morris instantly ordered out the boats, and would have saved all, had they remained calm. But a panic seized them and many jumped into the sea. Men of war's boats came to the rescue, and in an hour all were got out of the ship ; but some were drowned. Two men of war then fired into the ship and sunk her.