The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-29 00:00:00

FRIGLITFUL 8111PTV.RECK.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
This morning Messrs. IV. Sinclair and Co., of
this port, owners of the ship Sardinia, received a
letter from Captain Nelson, master of that vessel,
dated Rangoon, Dec. 12, in which the writer gives
the most harrowing details of the sufferings and.
loss of life of a portion of the crew of the ship
Queen of Martaban, from Moulmein to Calcutta,
which was wrecked near Akyab.
It appears from Capt. Nelson's letter that whilst
on his passage from Ahyab to Rangoon he fell in
with the wreck of the Queen of Martaban, which
had lost all her sails, the mainmast cast away, and
it appeared that when on her beam ends the cabin.
was stove in, and she filled from the deck.

When Captain Nelson came up to the wreck he
found those of thecrew and passengers who had re-
mained by the ship (18 in number) in a most wretched
state. They were suffering frightfully from hunger
and thirst, not having tasted any food for 13 days,
the sea having swept everything away, and no
means existing of communicating with the stores.
The poor fellows when taken on board the Sar-
dinia were in a state of great exhaustion, and more
dead than alive, from the exposure to• which they
had been subjected, and the time during which
they had been without food. They were taken, on
to Rangoon, and provided with fresh clothes and
other necessaries.

Captain Nelson further reports that during his
passage, he spoke the ship Inkerman, by which he
learnt that the Inkerman had picked up four of the
men belonging to the Queen of Martaban, who
had abandoned the ship on a raft. In all, it ap,,
peared that six of the crew took to the raft, two of
whom perished. The body of one of these had been
kept on the raft, in reserve for food, until they saw
deliverance at hand.

THIS DAY'S 111.A.REET8.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—niatIOW hay, £2 Os to £5 5s Od ; clover
0., £3 lOs to £5 15s ; and straw, 10s to £llBs per load.
dull trade.

CUMBERLAND.-- Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 lOs ;
clover, £3 lOs to £ss 15s Od ; and straw. £1 10s to £2 Os
per load. Both hay and straw moved off heavily, at our
quotations.
WHITECHAPEL. - Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 5s Od;
clove), £3 10s to £6 Os Od ; and straw, D. 108 to 18
per load. A slow trade.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—There has been a fair demand for the finer descrip-
tions, and previous rates are generally well maintained.
SOGA.II.—The market has continued very quiet, and
prices have shown no material variation, and in refined
geods the dealings. have been restricted to immediate re-
quirements at former rates.
COFFEE.—Good and fine qualities of plantation Ceylon
have been in request at slightly advanced rates. Other
descriptions sold steadily at previous rates. The stocks in
bond, compared with those of the same period of last year,
show a falling off of about 400 tons.
RICE.—The market has continued very quiet, and the
few dealings recorded have been at previous rates.
SALTPETRE. —There has been a moderate demand for the
better qualities at the recent advance, but inferior descrip-
tions have been neglected.
TALLOW.—The market has been very quiet, and Prices
steady, and only a limited amount of speculative businessi. rch
has been done. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 698 9d; A
delivery, 60s ; and last three months, 57s to 57s ed per cwt.