The arrival at New York of the Ship "Rhone" from Havre brings to us the painful intelligence of the loss of the Ship Lion of Boston, commanded by Capt. Allen Bursley of this town.

The following particulars relative to this disastrous shipwreck are from the Liverpool Albion of February 6th.

"Intelligence has been received of the loss of the fine American ship Lion, which sailed from Liverpool on Friday. - She was bound to New Orleans, and was commanded by Captain Bursley, brother of Captain Bursley, of the American packet ship Orpheus. The crew consisted of fourteen men, including the captain. She struck on a ledge of rocks about 3 o'clock on the morning of the 1st of February, a short distance from Port Patrick nearer to the Irish than the Scotch coast. The wind at the time was blowing from the northwest, and she immediately went to pieces. - Three of the crew succeeded in reaching the nearest land, and were saved but the remainder, consisting of the captain and ten men, have found a watery grave. The Lion sailed from the highly respectable house of Haggerty & Jerdien of this town."

The friends of the crew of this ill-fated ship are left in painful suspense concerning their fate; the foregoing being all the particulars, as yet come to hand, relative thereto. -

Capt. Bursley was an active citizen of this town, and the sympathies of our community are seriously commingled with the afflictions of his distressed widow and relatives.

We do not know that any others of the crew belonged upon the Cape, than D. C. Chipman, son of Capt. Walter Chipman of this town , whose safety is as yet uncertain to his friends, but most devoutly prayed for by them and his numerous acquaintances.

The Boston Globe recently gave an account of the loss, in 1835, on the Scotch Coast, of the Packet Ship Lion, of Boston commanded by Capt. Allen Bursley of Barnstable. The ship went, down at the base of a high cliff, and the officers and crew went down with her. In the churchyard of the little hamlet in Scotland, near where the disaster occurred, is a memorial tablet bearing the following inscription:

"Sacred to the Memory of CAPTAIN ALLEN BURSLEY Who was drowned about a mile to the south of this port, On the first day of February, 1835, at 1-2 past 2 o'clock A. M., by the wreck of the American ship LION OF BOSTON, which he commanded. On the left of this stone are interred the remains of seven of his ship's company, who perished with him on that fatal MORNING.

CAPT. B. was born on the 10th day of May. Anno Domino 1800, at BARNSTABLE, in the state of MASSACHUSETTS, in which place he has left a wife and infant son.
The surviving relatives of the deceased are deeply grateful to the humane inhabitants of this place for their kind exertions in recovering these bodies from the deep and ' depositing them with Christian rites in this holy spot. A. D.1837."

There are no direct descendants of Capt. Allen Bursley on Cape Cod to-day. The few surviving members of the family of his son are thought to reside in Vicksburg, where they took up their abode shortly after the close of the civil war, going there from New Orleans.

Capt. Allen Bursley was one of a family of five brothers, four of whom followed the sea and became master mariners.

Capt. Allen married Sophia Ainsworth of Barnstable a few years before he sailed on the fatal voyage across the Atlantic, and the widow and her son, Allen Ainsworth, lived in the old homestead in Barnstable village for nearly 20 years after his death.

The young man was educated in the village schools, and at the age of 20 entered West Point. In youth he had a desire to follow the sea, but his father's tragic death, and the drowning of his uncle Ira in foreign waters when the young man Allen was but 16 years of age influenced him to stay ashore.

After the young man left home for West Point his mother went to New Bedford, where she took up her residence, and later became the wife of Daniel Wood, a well-known resident of that city. She lived there until her death.

At the outbreak of the civil war Allen shocked all his relatives by declaring that his sympathies were with the south. Hi hastened there and enlisted in the confederate army.

Little was heard of him until the close of the war, when it was found that he had served with distinction as an adjutant on the staff of Gen. Beauregard. He was with Johnston when the latter was taken by Sherman. The bitterness among his relatives in the northern States toward the young man was lessened somewhat after the close of the war, but his relatives still speak with regret of his espousal of the confederate cause.

After the war Allen went to New Orleans, where he was married.

His wife died of yellow fever, but Allen escaped death and a few years after again married.

Several children were the result of his second marriage. He was engaged in a prosperous business in New Orleans when the fever again broke out there, and he was numbered among its first victims. He was about 50 years of age at his death.

His Wife and family left the city, and when last heard of they were living in Vicksburg. The Bursleys and Ainsworths are two of be oldest and largest families in the town of Barnstable. The first Bursley to settle in America, John, took up his residence in the little village of West Barnstable soon after the town was settled.

Mrs. Ruth E. Chipman of Baltimore, who spends the summer season at the old Bursley homestead in Barnstable, daughter of the late Sheriff David Bursley, a brother of Capt. Allen, is well versed in the history of the two large families and their descendants, which were connected by the marriage of Capt. Allen Bursley and Sophia Ainsworth.

For years in the early history of these families the men were among the foremost seafarers of New England. The tombstones in the little family burial places at Barnstable and other places on Cape Cod tell a sad but interesting story of the lives of the Bursleys and Ainsworths.

In almost every instance the prefix "Capt." is found before the name of the male members of the two families and on many, like the case of Capt. Allen Bursley, is related the sad story of their tragic death at sea by shipwreck.

The older inhabitants of the villages near Barnstable who relate stories of shipwreck and disasters at sea say that in every instance the captain of the ill-fated craft, if a Bursley or Ainsworth, was always found sticking to his ship to the end.

Capt. Ira Bursley, brother of Allen, commanded the ship "Hottinguer", which was wrecked off the Irish coast, near the Black Water Bank, Jan. 14, 1850. Capt. Ira had his son with him, and while the vessel was breaking up and it was feared that all hands would perish, he took hold of his son and said, "Ira, make for the shore and return to your mother that you may comfort her. I shall stick by the ship." The young man was swept from the wrecked vessel and washed ashore. He recovered, and after a long time reached his home. His father perished.

Two other brothers, Isaac and Samuel, followed the sea from boys until their deaths, and both became master mariners. Samuel died when he was but 28.

Five stalwart, hardy brothers, leaders among the seafarers of their town, and widely known throughout New England, the brothers, Allen, Ira, Samuel, Isaac and David, formed a generation of the Bursleys of which their descendants are justly proud.