The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-25 00:00:00

GREAT LOSS OF SHIPPING.

CADIZ, Jan. 17.—Several persons belonging to a Bri-
tish ship left this port for Buenos Ayres, and was
wrecked a few nights ago towards the coast of the
island, have arrived here.
The French schooner Jeune Nanon, of 74 tons, Capt.
Ma,6, with a crew of 6, and a cargo of lead from Adra
for Nantes, has gone ashore towards the south of the
Torre Gorda, and broke to pieces on the spot. The cap-
tain and first and second mates were drowned, and three
of the sailoiF, who seized hold of a plank, were driven on
shore, but succeeded in saving themselves ; they were
conveyed to the hospital in an almost lifeless state.
The French brig Fenix, with a crew of 10, from Mar-
seilles, bound to Holland, was wrecked at midnight on
the Bth. She struck on the rocks near St. Sebastian
Castle, breaking immediately to atoms. Two of the
crew were drowned, and eight saved themselves with
the assistance of ropes thrown to them from the castle.
The Portuauose schooner Cainois Segondo, of 88 tons,
Machado, master, in ballast, from St. Übes, went ashore
yesterday beyond La Cortadure.
On the morning of the 6th, the French brigantine
Marie Louise, Captain Gallen, in ballast, from Cette
and Gibraltar, bound to Casabianca, was wrecked off
Osne Trafalgar—crew saved.
Elrly in the morning of the 9th, the 13ritiAi barque
John, Captain James Farthing, from Liverpool for
Gibraltar, was wrecked on the east shore of Conil ; she
is dismasted, and cargo. damaged. Of the ten in-
dividuals who composed her crew, seven were saved, and
three drowned, including the captain.
The French schooner AO" Ross, of 99 tons, Captain
Constant, with a crew of seven (captain included), and
a cargo 0 f lead, from Carthagena from Rouen, foundered
on the coast of Chipiona in the night of the 5th—crew
saved in the boat.
The British ship Plicenix, of 330 tons, Captain Robert
Parsons, laden with wheat, from Alexandria, and which
was seen on the morning of the 11th, anchored off the
mouth of the old canal, parted from her moorings dur-
ing the night, and was observed this morning sunk op-
posite
Saint Philip's Point ; the crew, twelve in number;
were saved in launches sent by the captain of the port.
At three o'clock in the morning of the 10th. the Sar-
dinian brig Francisca Catalina, from the Brazils to
Gibraltar, with a cargo of coffee and a crew of twelve,
went to pieces nine miles distant from the coast of
Conil ; one of the crew, named Domingo Esporra, saved
himsef on a plank—the fate of the others is not known.
On the Bth, a brig which had left Gibraltar went
ashore off Cape Trafalgar—crew saved on the coast of
Veger.

On the morning of the same day a Portuguese schooner
from Madeira, bound to Mogador, was wrecked on the
east side of Cape Trafalgar—crow saved.
French ship, Jeune Susanne, Master Vincent Chines,
with a general cargo for Marseilles, wrecked near Kotu.
Crew saved.

French ship, France et Angleterre, wrecked at Cabo
de Piata,

French brig L'Arni, Master Le Doux, wrecked at en-
trance of the Guadalquiver. Crew saved.
American ship,' Meteor, of Boston, Master E. P.
Sprague, from New York for Marseilles, with wheat,
wrecked near Chichorra. Crew saved.
Ayrshire Lags (nation not named), Master Mont-
gomery, from Alexandria, with wheat for Queenstown,
put into Cadiz on 17th inst. ; cargo shifted, having
thrown the vessel on her beam-ends.

GIBRALTAR, JAN.
Twelve wrecks were to be seen on the West Beach,
awl t,..0 ,)fr the King's Bastion ; amongst which were
the Mecklenburg I rig 'Navin., 1.d..n with wheat. br
Cork—crew On board of Tagus ; American barque Jer-
mott, with rags, for New Orleans.
The Durham (s.s.), laden with Government stores
from London for Balaklava, coaled at the New Mole
yesterday, and left for her destination during the even-
ing. Her Majesty's steamer Spitfire and steam trans-
ports Prince of Wales and Levant, likewise took in coal
and left for England.
The British Barque Sea, Robert Duncan master,
which arrived yesterday from Sunderland with coals for
Gibraltar, fell in with, on the 7th instant, the British
schooner Zephyretta, of London,iSamuel Parnell, master,
with loss of rudder, sails, and in a leaky state, bound
from Cadiz to Southampton, with a cargo of wine. Cap-
tain Duncan took the master and crew of the ZeThyretts
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