The City Of Washington

Hai.ifax, July 17.- The decisión of the court of inquiry into the loss of the City of Washington oonctudes us follows ; On the 2d and 3d of July soondings might have been obtainod, and by tliat nieans a fres.li departan taken, but unbappily the presumption thitt they were too tur to the sontbward tor SOUfldings preTftilod, and led tho niasfer to oeglect tliis nocessiiry precantion. To this oiuission, together with the discrepancy or the deviation of the com passes, may he attributed the loss of this tiue bhip. It wou ld appear that a good lookout was kcpt during the voyagp, and that no blame can bo attributed to miy of the junior officers of the ship. It was priiacm to ignore the dead reckoning between the 2öth and 27th of June, which showed that the ship was cousiderably to the northwttrd; ind this could no't have ben dus to a curren t. It mnt hvae been shown thut the 0OIupa=s had a Urge amoiiiit of eastorly doviütion. It was also imprudent to pass the Grand Banks of Newt'oundland without trying tor Rouiidings to correct th reokouing, Beeing tliat fot six day( no observations could be obtained, and that tbick weather pre-railed tor two days. Alter so passii'fï tln;B;uiks it was bighly imprudent to uoutiauta at fallspoed. without tuking a east oï the lead to show thut. thn aliin Wiis off the soundings, and particularly so when it ought to have been known by hi. maeter that so rauch iron and stee bad been placed on board the ship ginc the ootupasa correotidn had been oh tainnd. Under titete circiimstances I ra oí the opinión that lbo mutei'l tu-rt.ifi oate of servioe held by Williaiu Rober Phillips niaster, shüuld kn suspended fo the space of one ycar Irom tlie data o the tosa of the stfiitnoshrp City of Wush Bgton, und !iis certifluüte is heruby sus jjeudud icooidingly.