... colonial rate of postage to her Majesty's ships serving on foreign stations, a letter addressed to the Postmaster-General has elicited the following reply:— Letters sent from this country to her Majesty's ships in any part of the world are now prepayable ...

... TWO BRITISH SHIPS LOST. The English ship Four Winds from Iquiqua tvith nitrate, was stranded and sank on Monday night in a heavy south-west gale at Heligoland. The crew and twenty-three persons were saved. The four-masted ship Falls of Foyer, from Junin ...

... lirilomii, iffish; Nmmith ?? lust; Oxliihnjo)e, dfi-ntosis, lost ; Proiress, Dain- afti, lost ; Veoierible, Ben ,iett. 3 fish ; Vohl mimitekr, st lal-rithain, I fish ; VVillialme, Ncirthl, lost (niaster sc mieznl) ; 'Vilhiant rt1mr, l)immatt, . fism ; Zcpjher ...

... seized three ships andl trusted themselves to the winds and waves. Driven hither and thither by storns and tides, they were at last reduced to such extremities as that they ate the weakest of their comrades, The sitrvivors lost their ships, were eized ...

... the present year, it is stated, that a farmer rushed into a Welsh Cattle Market exclaiming, A man did lost two ships (sheep), not ships on sea, but ships on land two strips goch on leg and Jonathan Maddock (the letters J.M.) on back.' ...

... and the is English steamer Triton, were highly distinguished of by their zeal in affording assistance. The crews of e the ships lost found refuge and safety on board the a packets which laboured for their safety. ;o The Triton, Lieutenanlt Lloyd, saved ...

... Hughes' (Rlhosneigr) house, which has during his time and that of his mother afforded shelter to thirty ode crews which had lost their ships near their hearth. This crew is the thirty second. Captain Jones, the able and energetic agent of Lloyd's at Holyhead ...

... Few merchantmnen were lost; for most of those that were driven to sea were safe. Rrear admiral Beaumont with a squadron then lying in the Downs, perished with his own and several other ships on the Goodwin Sands. The ships lost by the storm were estimated ...

... owners who, having lost their ships in the storm, have Ile invested their insurance moneys in new bottoms, take es the case of a worthy, well-to-do old gentleman, enter- Pt taining a friend ivith lamentations 6ver the ruin of the shipping interest, when ...

... grow- ing jute destroyed, buildings blown down, and many ships lost or damaged. At Calcutta the E storm continaed for eight, lhours, and in tthe city. and suburbs mnore thab 1,000 lives were lost, auild it is estimated that 30,000i native huts have been ...

... vessel has since drifted on to the beach, where the waves broke her up like a toy ship would be broken up vith a hammer. The captain succeeded in saving his desk and the ship's papers, and the crew threw overboard some few things, some of which drifted on ...

... steamship Rainbow had been destroyed by fire near Arkansas, and 15 persous lost their lives. Sir W. Gore Ouseley had been twice received by the President. About 100 lives had been lost on the Mississippi and Ohio during l bad weather. THE INDIA MAILS. SOU ...