The New York herald., 1869-01-26

one The liverpool Courier OF to-day says:-As the
report reached us originally. stated that the brig
evening fron ceara, had on Christmas bay spoken
,ae ssneriean snip Ocean spray which hai reported
geTs y the 5erns. Prom further info urorms,eS a sas
Piled b5 Captain eyes, OF the Hannibal. 1t appears
iua, we yeSse sRosea on December 3, n latitude
10 IS noftii iongitute s2 60 west, was the Bremen
bark America, bound from Bemen to New York.
which reported having on board thirty nine OF the
crew and passengers OF the saling ship hlbcrnia
from Quebec who had been picked up some days
previously In Q very exhausted condition Captain
Gyles, IN reply 70 an inquiry whether he could
tase any OK the rescued persons on bsas1,
offered 10 receive fourteen, shortness OF room and
provisions preventing hm from Gndng accommoda.
ton for more, The shipwrecked persons preferred
remaining on board the America, ana it Is though.
that the latter vessel may have borne uo for Madeira,
in Liverpool by the African man steamer expected
here on the lsth Inst 1t IL now surnised that the
America in 1850 Of a. ioi tons measurement owned
" Nessrs. John Marlin s Sons. OF Dublin. ana COM
nanded py Captaln Williams: THIS llibernia Is
said to have sailed from Quebec for England on the
10Th OF November. and therefore would experience
the terrible gales which swopt the Atlantic during
November and December. The agents In Liverpool
OF the owners OF the steamer Hibcrna (iessrs Han
dysde Henderson. OF Gasgow) still cling, how
ever TO the hope that the persons referred TO as on
board the bark America were some OF those from the
steamer which founderet ths Atlantic on the 10Th
November. under circumstances with which the pub
lie az familiar. review oftne whole facts however
i fatal 20 this hope Five boats left the Htbernia be-
fore she went down. or these two ths captains ana
Hore third the chief oiicers was 81 en- 10 capsize
and all on board were believed To have persisted: a
fourth the second ocers reach ed the coast OF ire
land with only very few survivors those who origi
naly embarked ia her. having capsized two or three
tiines or the journey. Thts left only one boat tSe
third onlcer's 70 be accounted for. According to
Captain Monro's evidence at the oical inquiry this
boat had only twenty one persons on board when
sae pcats parted company after leaving the HbeTna.
She cold not, therefore, very well have supplied
nrty-nine persons said to have been rescued by the
narS America. Captain Cyies Is OF opinen that
those on board the Bremen bark spoke Of the persons
whom they had saved as belonging to sailing ship;
but, ON the other hand, the mate thinks that they
were described as belonging to the steamer Hber-
MA Some OF the crew OF the Hannibal noticed that
those on the deck OF the Bremen vessel wore uni
form such is usually by the officers Of steam
vessels, and 1t seems doubtful II sailing ship OF the
tonnage OF tie Hbernla could have had so large
crew as thlrty-ninc.
The discrepancy in the number is thus accounted
for by the North British Add:-sThe number OF pas
sengers and crew board the Ocean Spray Is stated
10 be thirty nine. and as there only twenty-one
persons known to have been in Atkins boat, the
is that he succeeded In saving the lives OF
several others wnen No. lifcboat capsNed.'