We regret to have to announce the loss of the
packet-ship Sovereign, on her passage from London to New York, with a very valuable cargo on board. She went ashore on Tuesday night, on the Jersey coast, about thirty miles south of Sandy Hook. One of the cabin passengers was unfortunately drowned. We have not been able to learn his name, but hear that he was a young Englishman, on his way to visit an uncle in this country. The ship had a considerable amount of specie on board. It is known that there were 100,000 dollars for one house, and '25,000 dollars for another.—New York Mercantile Advertiser. ['I he names of the cabin passengers are—Captain Sharp, lady, son, and servant ; Doctor Sto,vens, M. Shurtley, lady, and servant ; with fourteen pas- sengers in the steerage, The name of passenger that was drowned was Labat.]
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