Shipping Intelligence.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 467, 5 October 1850, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVALS. Oct. 2—WHUiam, 15 tons, Bell, from Kawsu. Paseengen—Mr. and Mrs. Bourne, Mrs. Doddi and child. W. S. Grahame, agent. Oct. 2— Ben Lomond, 35 tons, J; McLean, from Kawau, with I horae, 1 cow, and a qaantity of household furniture. Passengers*-Mr. Yewling, Mr. and Mrs. George and family, Mr. and Mn. Harper and family, Mr. Campbell.

DEPARTURES, Oct. 2 — Sister, 44 tons, King, for Sydney, with 15 cases tobacco. Pnssengcra— Mn. Wood aud two children. Salmon & Co., agents. Oct. 2— William, 15 tons, Bell, for Kawau via Maurangi, in ballast. W. S. Grahame, agent. Oct. 2— Oliver Cromwell, 478 tons, Alexander, for Waiheke, in ballast. J. Macky, agent.

The Oliver Ciomwell, Capt. Alexander, proceeded yesterday to Waiheke, to take in a cargo of firewood ; ■he will return to our harbour in about ten days, and ■ail hence to Valparaiso direct on the 18th instant, Captain and Mrs. Rough have engaged passages by thii vessel. The Faby Queen, Captain Doyle, for London, has been defined and will not sail before the 14th instant. This veisel presents a favourable opportunity for letters to England. The Oliver Cromwell will also afford a good medium of testing the advantage! ot the Panama route for homeward letters. The Glencoe, Captain Lilewall, sails to-day for Sydney, to load with coals, &c. The Minerva, Captain Reid, has been chartered to proceed to the Bay of Islands to load a cargo of timber for Melbourne.

Baynes Discoveby. — Ihe following remarks on the effect which Payne'* great discovery may have on Steam Navigation and (he commeice of the World, are from the Polynesian of the 15th June:— A desideratum in steam navigation now is» tome lees expensive mode of generating steam, than by the agency of coal. 3a performing long voyages across the Pacific, of many thousands of miles, the place required for fuel is so great, that but little freight can be taken, and in this respect saling vessels have the whole advantage. We have heard this argument used quite recently, as proof that a line of steamers can never be sustained, from the West Coast of America to the East Indies and China. While we are not quite willing to relinquish this favourite idea, we confess the facts are somewhat startling, and force upon us the necessi y of seeking some more simple and less cumbersome agent for " raising the steam." And in this the world will not be disappointed. Science will find it out, and apply it. We have great faith in the capacity of the human mind. Wonders of great magnitude have been achieved, and results as brilliant are now blessing the human race. But prove the necessity, and a remedy will be found. The inventive genius of man has not been rxhauoted, by the tteam-engine, the locomotive and the electric telegroph ; nor will it be, so lung as obatel cs remain for it to surmout. If the account of a discovery ia America, pub ished in our last, is true, what will prevent its applicut on on a scale sufficiently large to answer the end now contemplated ? "A steam engine furnace and a parlor stove have been invented for buroin* these gases, and measures taken for securing a patent." If Mr. Payne can perfect his invention, so as to render it efficient in the propelling of vessels at sea, his name will never be forgotten, but will go down to posterity in company with that of Sir Isaac Newton, Fulton, Watt, and Morse. The last obstacle to universal steam navigation will be over* come, and the very element that buoys the vessel up, will be the agent for propelling her, with the speed of the wind, over its immense surface.