The _Stag-Hound_ arrived May 26th. She sailed from New York in January, and when six days out in a heavy southeast gale, her maintopmast and three topgallantmasts came down by the run. She was without a maintopsail for nine days and without topgallantsails for twelve days; nevertheless, she crossed the equator 21 days from Sandy Hook, arrived at Valparaiso in 66 days under jury rig, and, allowing for her detention there, reached San Francisco 107 days from New York. Captain Richardson reported that she was a very fast ship in moderate breezes, while in strong winds she frequently logged sixteen and seventeen knots, although her best day’s run was only 358 miles. The _Witchcraft_ arrived August 11th. She, too, had suffered aloft and put into Valparaiso for spars and repairs, and, allowing for this delay, she had made the passage from New York in 103 days. The _N. B. Palmer_ arrived August 21st in 108 days, and the _Flying Cloud_ on August 31st in 89 days--a passage never surpassed and only twice equalled--once three years later by the _Flying Cloud_ herself, and once in 1860 by the _Andrew Jackson_. The _Flying Cloud’s_ abstract log on this passage is as follows: Sandy Hook to the equator 21 days. Equator to 50° S. 25 “ 50° S. in the Atlantic to 50° S. in Pacific 7 “ 50° S. to the equator 17 “ Equator to San Francisco 19 “ -- Total 89 “ It was during this passage that the _Flying Cloud_ made her famous run of 374 miles, while steering to the northward and westward under topgallantsails, after rounding Cape Horn. This was the fastest day’s run, under steam or sail, that had ever been made up to that time, and exceeded by 42 miles the best day’s run that had ever been made by a mail steamship on the Atlantic. A few extracts from her log will, I think, be of interest: