By letters of the 30th December, from Ceylon, we learn that the barque Jane Gifford, Captain R. Paul, of about 500 tons, bound from Madras to Colombo and Bombay, being in a sinking state; was run ashore about eight miles to the eastward of Tangalle. She struck on some rocks near the Little Bassa, and was making so much water that the Captain was compelled to run her ashore. On the 27th December, the ship yeas only thirty or forty fathoms from the shore, and it was thought could only hold together for two or three hours. She has since become a total wreck.-  
Bombay Monthly Times, Feb. 1, [1844]