Washington Sentinel

A YEAR OF WRECKS.--The past year has been one of unusual calamity on the sea. The New York Times publishes a list of all the vessels lost during the year, as far as known, together with the number of lives lost. The total number of vessels is one hundred and thirty, involving the loss of nineteen hundred and ninety-four lives. In this computation, the loss by the San Francisco is put at 150, and the Staffordshire 140. The number lost by the former is generally admitted to have been about 200, and by the latter 170. These additions will bring the number of lives lost quite up to 2,000.

The following is a list of the steamers lost, the circumstances attending which will readily suggest themselves to the reader: Independence, off the coast of Lower California; Tennessee, near San Miguel; Duke of Sutherland, off Aberdeen; S. S. Lewis, off the coast of California; Albatross, near Vera Cruz; Ocean Wave, burned on Lake Ontario; Monumental City, on passage from Melbourne to Sydney; Cherokee, burned at New York; Yacht, from New Orleans to Brazos; Ajax, off Cape Cod; Winfield Scott, off California coast; Humboldt, near Halifax; San Francisco, wrecked in the Atlantic; and one or two others, belonging in Europe.