Wreck of the Hiram by an advice which has reached Messrs. Melchior and Co., of this city, we learn that the brig Hiram from Shanghai, bound to this port with a cargo of tea, has been wreck off Lima Islands, on a reef about seventy miles to the S.E. The letter, which is dated Batavia, 11th Novembers, does little more than chronicle the event. It appears that the Good Success, also on her way to this port from China, observed and visited the wreck on the 9th October last, when it was found with the stump of the foremast only standing, and with the sea washing over the deck, the bulwarks and the hatches having been swept away. There were no passengers on board the Hiram, but it to feared that the crew must have perished. In the letter the Hiram is described as an American brig, but it is believed that she is Danish.- Argus, January 2, 1855

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