SHIPWRECK OF THE BRIG JES...
S}IIPWIRECE OF THE BEiG J-SSIE, AN1> DREADFUL FATE OF THE CRENv.-It has never been our lot to reccrd a more melancholy catastroplhe than the loss of tkis vessel, on her home. ward passage to tbis port from the river S Lawrence. Theinteli.f' genre is brought by theMaa, Ford, rcrivedhere fbrm Pic-Pi ut,on Tuesdsy lass The Jessie, f fine new vessel of 310 tons burden commanded by tCa?ptai AI'Alpine, a rentleman distin. guushe3 far hi8 gen,eral talents, and *.rticulnrl Ar his tkill as a ieamnsan sndanal arhitect, sailed from Three Rivers, in Princ Edward's island, on the 22d nf December last, a period of the year somewhat later than usual for an European voyage. Nothing was kniown of the va;el anid crew for severaltuonths, and it vva s6 ge. aerally wupposed that she would-never again b berd of, tjat we anderatanda settlement was in coutemplation by the uedewriters with the parties interested. It chanced, howeve tihen on tbe 191th of lay last, the master of the m4il.boat from liuce Edward's 12snl:d to Pictou, discovered part of the wreck of a wessel stranded Dn the Isle of St. Paul's, a barren rock about halfa mile in drceum. ference, 200 miles trom Cape Breton, and 00 to 400. fom Three- Kivers lt was soon discovered to be the semesins f the JesRe, but no living creature wasto be seen nearher. Onladin fnthe b&ataa round a weather-beaten tempOrary but, ani within it tihe awful ofthepassengers anti crew of the Jets4, 2m in number, 11 deado Fztm the remnants of baxrrls, and other appesrances, it was evident that on being wrecked oni this dreary'inhospitalbe spot they had succeeded in erecting the hut with suclh materials as Qaz been w'taed or shore from the wre-k, and-lfid saved soime portir0 Df the provisions; but tbat, aRter the most drtedfil sufft r'rna from cold, owing to inadequate shelter, andvwaRt of food and fan: they had perished under the united rigaurd ol ufmine, and thestormg of an almost polar %winter. WVhat their suferinsgs must bave -beer; or bow long tie stoutest-2inong thint 'were deomed t6- bebold 7the pallid bodies of their comnpanions while the fiager of death pressed upon theirown thereisnownotanguecaniell. Thererwaxamongst themn, besides t'he lasoented eosDmsnder of the btig St. -Donald I'Kaay. the ownerof the versel,and Mlr.-Forbes, af-litramicht paner of Mr. prinkwater, ofthiesiown. The-naanea of the ot?er officers and crew of the buig we have-not been -uble tp ascertain. 0.1 rheintelhgence of the catastropbe reae gPnince Edwartes Island, a small vessel was despatched to brin: ihebodiits- for intetment at that lse;.butowingatohedIsnge in tie atophse, p thrc ir,4e tand to be iD s8ch 81state OE decay, that it l n neetry to peTrorm the last smd dsxti5a of humnvity-on phe spot were they persbed._ Aver,po Mereul,% . . .