Hon. Gro. BANCROFT, Sec'y of the Navy.
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InE LOST STEAMSHIP PRgslpEST.-W have been show copy of the Cork (Ire- land1 Examiner, ot January 29d, which states that the Madrid Gazette asserts that the Min- ister of the Interior had received commu. nication from the Political Chief of Guipoz- eoa, announcing that bottle had been found floating ill the water near Montrieo. Spain, containing paper of the contents of which the following words only could be ciphered.

 Ship President. We are blocked up in ice, aud we can't live much time Kind friends will aeqnaint We are dying of hunger am iaiuting If, fs. =

 The bottle was found by solhe fishermen, and handed to the Alcado of Montrico, a lew leagues from s.. Sebastian. \ copy of the paper has beens communicated to the Bri- fish Minister. asf

 The London Literary Gazette, ill aluding to this account, says

 "fhe probability is that the unfortunate | steamer went down nearly where last seen, aud, owing to tie weight of her machinery, IS floating new, uubroken and without frag- mehti sent te the surface, at a sad mid-depth ol ocean, as the strong current of these seas walt her hulk to and fro. Al some future time, when tic pershing wood is separated from tho heavy iron, and the latter sinks, the last vestagos Of the President may be met with on the Atlantic wave This opinion IS much strengthened by the following notice fom the Pacilic Ocean 'oa the 30th of December part of the hulk of the lIambro or Cleopatra's Barge, wrecked some fifteen or tweaty years ago, siarled up from it's wa- tefy bed and washed upeA lAe shore. Many of the oak timhers are in qui,oa sound state, except so flr as perforated by the ship- wormo l