— " Army and Navy Gaxette." Shipwbkoi:.— Extraordinary Escape.— ln giving details of the wreck of the cool laden Norwegian schooner, Ssphea Key, from Newcastle to Christiansand, on the island of Unit, Shetland, the "Northern Ensign" says:— "ln the course of the afternoon the vessel was observed from North Unit light house to be in a critical position, under a heavy press of canvas and labouring in the sea. There was a heavy gale of wind at the time, and as night came on, fears were entertained that in beating up the Firth she would not be able to escape. Those fears were realised, as shortly after dark she missed stays, and soon »f tor ran alongside of a large rock, up which the captain ( J. Tailsen) and four of the crew, succeeded with great difficulty in scrambling, leaving the mate on board. During the night the sea made almost a clean breach of the rock, and two of the men wero washed off at different times and drowned. When morning dawnod on the three survivors it revealed to them the Imminence of thoir danger. They found themselves without food or any means of escape or signal, on a bare rock about 200 feet fiom the shore, and in this condition they remained until Friday night, cold, wot, and starving with thirst and hunger. As night came on, one of the men proposed, as the gale nud somewhat moderated, to mako nn effort to reach the shore by swimming, which he at last attempted, succeeding with great diffioulty in reaching the shore. The poor captain, quito exhausted, sesing the successful issue of the sailor's exer tions, followed his example, and had reached tho shore in a state of oxhiuistlon, whon, owing to his strength being entirely gone, and having to make an effort to climb up the rocks, he fell back, and was speedily carried away by the waves and drowned. The solitary man left on the rock remained there Meanwhile the other, after resting for a short time, clambered up the face of a precipice upwards of 100 feet high, from the top of which he observed a light, to which he directed his footstep v It turned out to be the house of Magnus Wlnwick, by whom the suffering seaman was rogetved with true Shet land hospitality. 