Shipping Intelligence.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 373, 10 November 1849, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVALS— NOMB. DRPARTURKB-- NOME. CLEARANCES. NoYtinhur h'-Louis and Miriam, 127 tone, Pilfold, for Mini!*. I). Nnthau agent. November 7 —John WWey, 2V ton«, Buck, for Sydney, in billou. Pat either* — Rev. Walter Lawrj, Her. J. Wauford, Mn. Wutiford and two children, •mi Mr. Smith.

Jfhe John Wuley cleared out for Sydney on Thur«. «Uy, but owing to the ttrong northerly wind that prevailed up to yesterday etening the was unali'e to put to taa. She it to tail about eight o'clock thii morning, and will to«ch at the Buy of lilanda on her way to Sydney, to laud the Rev. Meaan. Hobbi and Warren there, on their way to Hokianga. The Hoa is uctrly ready (or tea, and will leave for Sydnry early nest wtek. The Susan may be daily tipeet^d from Sydney. The Thamet, which «as to •ail from London ab.iut the middle of July, with Buhop Ponapalier and i num. ber of Iriih Roman Catholic PrieiU on board, for this jiort, via/ ulto be bhortly ezpectid to arriye.

The Mount Stewart Elphinstone baa made a pood passage of ninety-seven days from Cork. She has on hoard 227 convicts for Moreton Buy, and tuu merely •ailed at thja port for instructions from the ,Go*e nmfnt. Among the number are Martin and CVDohcrty, miio were couvicted of felonious writing in Uie repeul newipaperi. Three deatln occurred during tlic yoyHge. The conduct o f the whole number we understand iini been very good. The guard is under the command «f Lieutenant Honey, of the %th Regiment, formeriy in this colony ; and the Rev. Joseph Kidd Walpolc, ,/oruieriy connected with the ptnal eitaUli«hmeaU of thin colony, ia the Chaplain. On ihe stli ultimo, at 4 p.m., the Mount Stewart Elphtnttone lighted a ilun apparently ditmaited. Being unable to reach her before dark, the hove to for the night. At 8 a.m , the following day, she came up with her, aud ascertained that it wat the Mahomed Slub, Captain Macmeikan, from Plymouth the 22nd Jane, boynd for Fort Phillip, with emlgnmU. She bad loit her foremast, maiOmait, And mixtn toymiat, during a Jieavy north-west gale, which oocarrcd on the 3rd September. .Eight of the crew had been carried way -with the wreck of the maati, and lott; and,- with the exception of four, the remainder wer« unable to work, from having broken limb*. Captain Loney mpplied her with four teamen, and they Immediately commenced rigging jury,niM'». The veaatU parted company at noon on the 6th of September, In latitude 40'«9 S., longitude 66-51 E.— Svdntv Herald,

fiUftNINO OF THE SHir " PhILADHLPHU" IN THE Harjsouh of San Fbakcisco.— Tl»c extraordinary spectacle of a burning veasel was witncised In our harbour ou Sunday morning last, and a fine Urge ahip entirely consumed by fir*. Particular* of this disastrous event bare been furniabed vi by Capt. Stmual Weare, owner and matter oMhe unfortunate PhiladelphU. He itatei that about 5 am. the alarm of fire was given by the crew on bo^rd, afcd rery soon the entire forward part of the ship was wrapped in flainei The joint crews of aereral vested in the harbour, who | wire promptly on the spot to render aisiitance, proved of no avail, the^re communicating aft, and spreading with auch great rapidity at feut barej.y to give time to ■ecure tb« personal effects of Qaptatu W. and lady, which, together with the ahip's booki, were all that mvi aavad from the devastating element The fire originated in the forecastle, a crew of ten men having been employed in getting the ship nady for tea. Burning to the water's f t)gc, her cablet were ordered <o be cut and the wreck drifted down with the tidt. For the active and praiieworthy exertions made to extinguish tlie-tUe fire by the officers and crews of the United Statfß vesneU in port, and auUiauoe rendered j l>y Captain PearMms and crew 0/ the steamer Oregon, together with those of several merchant sliipv Captain XVeare expreites a gra eful feei ng. The Philadelphia was A 43 tons register, hailed from New York, and was undsr charter by Messrs. HowUnd and Aspinwail of thai city. She was insured for fifteen thousand dollars, and was to have sailed on the Ist July for Manila via the Sandwich Islauds.-vlfta California.