THE Saviour gave, as one sign of the approaching end, the roaring, or unusually violent commotion, of the sea and waves. The thoughtful reader will be reminded of his language by the following exhibit of the unparalleled losses by sea during the past few years:— The marine losses of the United States during the year now passing away have reached the heavy figures of over $17,500,000, inclusive of the values of the several cargoes of the vessels lost or missing. The last quarter of the year is always the hardest upon shipping, and the month of October was the most disastrous of the three so far reported. It has to answer for sixty-six vessels lost or missing. Of the lost ones, forty-two were burned at sea—an extraordinary number to be thus destroyed—and a fact which almost forces upon the mind a suspicion of very great carelessness among those who go down to the sea in ships. Of the remainder (including so much as is reported for the month of December), 250 were wrecked, fifty-six were abandoned, twenty-five from one cause or another were sunk, twenty-seven foundered, and forty-five were missing, some of which, however, arrived at port safely during some part of the year. The total losses in the United States marine since 1865 are, 2,821 vessels, valued at $129,067,700. The total losses throughout the world for the last year, from Jan. 1, to Dec. 10, 1870, as reported to the British Lloyd's were 1,887 vessels.