Glasgow Courier. — 1866-02-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

IIVEIMN4,  FEARFUL DISASTER AT SEA. Captain Brayley, of Messrs Teighe & Smith's sailing Indiainan Gresham— which vessel arrived at Spithead on Thursday from Hong Kong and the Cape of Good Hope —reports having sighted, on the 27th January, in lat. 47 14 N., and long. 18 24W., at s3me distance to windward of his ship, a vessel apparently dismasted and very deep in the water. Captain Brayley worked his vessel up towards the wreck, and on nearing it launched one of his boats and proceeded on board. It was found to be a large vessel water-logged, and evidently of old build. There was no living person on board. Her decks had been swept by some tremendous sea, which had carried away bulwarks fore and aft, boats, deck-houses, and one cathead with its anchor. The broken part of the chain cable lay amidships on the vessel's deck, and on the top of a heap of a wreck, composed of broken spars, the ship's capstan, winch, and other gear. Underneath this wreckage were lying, jammed on the broken deck by the weight, three human bodies, frightfully mutilated. One body was apparently that of a ship's officer, the others those of two seamen. Captain Brayley supposes these men to have formed part of the ship's watch when she was struck by the sea. Where the bodies lay the deck had been torn up by the ringbolts which held boats' fastenings to the deck amidships, and which had been dragged out by the boat when carried away by the sea. Through the openings in this torn planking projected parts of the bodies of two more of the crew, the limbs jammed in between the broken planking. These had no deck clothing on, and are therefore supposed to have formed part of the crew below. No other bodiea could be found. The ship's stern was carried away,' and part of the cargo—timber, in deals and balks-=-Washed out. The bowsprit, with all the head gear and cathefid; was gone. On the other cathead hung its anchor, with the greater part of the chain cable run out, and hanging down in a long bight from the hawsepipe. The fore and mizen masts were carried away about a foot below the trestletrees. The maintopmast was carried away near the mainmast-head, and no yards remained aloft but the fore and main lower. The sail itself had been blown out of the bolt ropes, and fluttered from the mainyard. The maintop was covered round as securely as possible with canvas, and here had evidently been the last refuge of the survivors after the catastrophe had taken place below. Bags of clothing, the ship's en.lign, a doinpass, a chronometer, a carpenter's axe, saw, and tin were found there, but there was no trace of food or 7.4v.t. A further search amoug the wreckage pn th 4 deck by Captain trailey ana big Men, -after leaving tUs maintop, led to the discovery of a hell, which had on it the name "Jane Lowden." Captain Brayley teok the chronometer away with him from the wreck, 'but left all the other articles on board, removing them down, however, from the maintop to the vessel's deck, and tearing away the remains of the mainsail, which looked so like 4 sigcal for assistance to wpising ships. There was no evidence either of the rescue or death of the men who had eadeayoured tp flnd a temporary place of security in the Masthead of the waterlogged and disabled slip. They may certainly have been rescued, previous to the wreck beinc, fallen in with, by some passing vessel; but this is hardly probable, looking at the fact that the chronometer, bags of clothing, &c., remained in the top. It seems far more likely that they all perished o • . I board their A- telegram from Plymouth of the 2d inst. says:---: " The captain the sole survivor of the barque Jane Lowden, of PaClstow, which was reported by the troop, shir. enSliam to have been at sea waterlogged, has arrived at Texel, in the Ida Eligabeth. lie states that nine of the crew were washed overboard, and six dle4 on board of injuries, cold, and hunger. The eaptain was 33 days in the maintop, and during the last S daysi never tasted food. He was taken off the wreck m 4 the 23d January. One man lived in the maintop to within ten days of that date.  Miss Longworth, or Mrs Yelverton, is about to give a series of public readings, the first to be given at Edinburgh on the 16th inst. On Thursday morning last, a man committed suicide by leaping from the Caledonian Railway bridge, crossing the Clyde at Meadowbank, Uddingston.  We understand that the beautifully situated ani compact small property of Drydenham, near Hawthornden, has been purchased by Mr James Lindsay, merchant, Edinburgh. The ship Transit of Bristol, Capt. David Moor, at Greenock from Australia and East Indies, lost the mate, Mr David Burnet (34), of Aberdeen, at sea, from asthma; and Charles Johnstone, seaman (25) of Hartlepool, was drowned at Melbourne, while the ship was alongside of Williamstort Pier. He fell from the pier, and the body WM 110 t recovered, although ever effort mos made.