The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

The Wreck of the Royal Victoria,

Yesterday the Board of Trade received from the
receiver of wrecks at Lerwick the deposition of Mr.
John Pearson, chief officer of the iron ship Royal
Victoria, 1,444 tons burden, which was lost off the
Shetland Islands a few days since, within a short
time after her sailing on her first voyage to Calcutta.
The 'crew abandoned the ship in the boats, and
several of them died from exposure and starva-
tion. Mr. Pearson states that the Royal Vic-
toria belonged to Messrs. Fermi° Brothers, of
Liverpool, and held the class of A 1 on Lloyd's
register for 22 years. The officer is of opinion
that her crew, 36 hands, was insufficient in num-
ber for the management of the vessel, especially
as she was overmasted and rigged. On the 16 hof
January, on sighting Cape Wrath and St. Kildare,
the wind b!ew fresh from the westward, and in-
creased ; and on the 18th it blew a gale. The ship
was laid to, under a lower maintopsail, and heading
about W.N.W. till four p.m., when a heavy squall
struck her, and threw the ship on her beam-ends.
An endeavour was made to get the vessel off before
the wind by hoisting the foretopccast staysail, but
it would not recover. At six p.m., Captain Leslie
caused the mizenmast to be cut away, and shortly
afterwards the mainmast, which in falling alsocar-
ried away the foretopmast, leaving the ship in a
more unmanageable position. The officers and crew
stuck to the vessel until four o'clock the next day,
when, finding that there was no lilcelihood of her
righting, they took to the boats and abandoned
her, He (Mr. Pearson) had commend of the pin-
nace, with seventeen hands, and Captain
Leslie took charge of the lifeboats with fourteen
hands. It was blowing a heavy gale, with hail end
a fearful sea running. Soon after dark the two
boats parted company, and did noc again see each
other. The pinnace reached Shetland at noon on
the 233, her crew having suffered the most fright-
ful privations, and two of the men died in the beat.
The captain's boat was driven ashore two days
afterwards, in another part of the island, with only
two of her hands oat of fourteen living. Among
those who perished were Captain Thomas Leslie,
the master'; John Brown, the boatswain; Scott,
Ellis, Mears, and Kelly, seamen. The names of the
Kennel!, Henry Nemis, Jeremiah Driscoll, Henry
°, Henry Scaswell, Mike
survivors are—John Sparg
Birch, John Dove, Peter Lawless John Hayes,
William Davey, Charles Tooley, Joe. Taylor, Thos.
Warren, and James Jenkins. At the time the beats
abandoned the ship she was lying in about lat. 59
N., and long. 121 W. The loss of the ship is esti-
mated at £35,000, and the cargo at £1,600.

DIARKETS—This Day.

DIARK-LANE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES —Wheat, 405 841;
and peas, 335 7d.
barley, 315 Ild ; oats, 19e ld ; rye, 298 id ; beaus, 53e 7d ;

. .
TIIR SIX WEEKS' AVERA.ORS. -- Wheat, 40A 8(1;
barley, 32s Od ; oath, 188 10d ; rye,peas, 33s 3d. 29e 2d; beans, 338 8d
ENOLTEM GRAIN SOLD LSAT W
aux.......wheat, 103,806;
barley, 84,464; oats, 19,906; rye, 69; beans, 6,458; peas;
1,501 quarters.

CATTLE.
demand
ma aOt ne METROPOLITAN
all
breedsto-day
ruled .
emarket
was
steady t fullyvery
limited,The ytMheeEf
Monday's currency. The best Soots sold at 6s, in some
instances at 65 2d per 81bs. Sheep, though in very mode-
rato supply, moved off slowly on former terms. The best
Downs,e were in the wool,
li
disposed The few lambs
on off
81bs. Calves were
in moderate request at from 4s to 55 per 81bs.
we readily realised
6 o .f
p at er
78 81
per be,
The supply
was limited. In pigs and mulch cows very little was doing
at drooping currencies.
Per 81bs.to 5
s. d. a. d.
Crse. & inf. beasts 3 8 4 0
Second quality do. 4 2 4 4
Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8
Prime Scots, etc. 4 10 6 0
Crse. & inf. sheep 4 0 4 6
Second quality do. 4 8 6 2
Suckling calves, 18s to 26s
20s to 255 each.
TOTAL SUPPLY.
Beasts 720

ink the offal.

d•
Primecra-wool d 0.5 4 6s. d. R• 8
Pino- gthdowndo.s 10 6 0
Largo cm. calves 4 0 4 6
Primo small d 0... 4 8 5 0
Large LoKs ... 3 6 4 0
samnadlllptioarrktoorra.o.l.(i.
a4tor'u2 1441",

PORRION SUPPLY.
Beasts ..... .... 2"
Sheep and lanibti 901)
Calves 75
Pigs

Cows llO
Sheep
Calves
rigs 312

MEAT MARKETS.

NEWOATB AND LEADENNALL.—A soasonablv good sup.
ply of meat is on side to-day, and the trade rules steady
at the annexed currency :—I3, ef, trotu 3s Od to 4s 2d ;
mutton, 3m 8d to 4s 6d ; veal, 34 8d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s
4d to 4s 4d per 81bs by tho carcase.
SOUTHALL, Feb. 17.—The supplimt of stock were only
moderate; nevertheless the trade Wm+ inactive,
fol-
lowing prices :__Beet, from 3a 6d to 4m lid ; ruuto
Om Od ; veal, 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; and pork,
3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81ba, to sink tho Aral. , t4hseod
-- -

cesat.oc Its mfoolivoewd off
vile z, @fir% winly3,l3 atBd btoar,ilByosta. tip°,
untawryn.p4rsi
Pigs, 208 to 268; and
Itompottn, Feb. 17.—A1l kinds of
4d
to
6a
od ;
veal,
4s 2d to 4s 8d ; and pork, is 8d to 41 6d per 81bs; totaling
calves, 16s to 245; quarter-old store
milch COWS, £l4 to £l3 :Os each.