Sydney Shipping.

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 468, 9 October 1850, Page 2

Sydney Shipping.

Arrivals.— Sept. 10. Christina, barque, 270 10n5, Capt. Spence, from San Francisco, 10,000 feet cedar, returned cargo ; Cape Horn, barque, 173 tons, Capt. Saundei's, fiotn Sun Francisco, 2 wooden bouses, 6 puncheons \vir\e, returned <;argo. 11. General Hewitt, ship, Captain Gatenby, from London 28th May. 12. Louisa, brig, 162 tous, Heslop, from San Francisco the 14th July, and Tahiti the 15th Augutt. 17. Maukin, brig, 106 torn, Capt. Bowden, from Port Phillip fie 12th instant, 20: Deborah, schooner, 121 tons, Captain Machattie, from San Francisco ihe Bth July, and Tahiti the 16th Auguat. Tl c General Hewitt, commanded by Capt. Gatenby, an old and nuch respected trader to theie colonies, arrived yesterday morning, after a fair pasiage of lt's (lays from London, and 102 days from the Lizard. Deputy Commissaiy-Gencral Bishop is a passenger by this vessel, and will pioceed to Hobart Town to take charge of his department at that place. She bring! avery large mail, and a full cargo of merchandise, and t had par icularly fine weather during the whole Toyage. | '* The Albatross, from San Francisco, brings us news' to the lQ'ih July; and amongst other shippin?intelligences announces the ariival of the Eagle schooner, 130 days from New Zealand.— Sydney Herald, 7th Sept.— [The Eagle sailed from this port, oa the 19th

of March last, and wa* wrecked fie same evening on a reef, about a mile off Cape C.olvillo ; n I'uM account of which appeared in this paper ol the 30th March.] The Moa spoke the brig S iltuin, on Sunday iust, forly mik's south-west of Lord Howes Island. 1 lie Lou.sa sailed from San Fiancisco on the Mth July, three days piior to the s.ulini; «>f the KUis, The Salncia, Captain Armstrong, was to sail in a few days after, and the brig Two Fnends in about a week, botli for Sydney. The Lousia culled at Tahiti, and remained theie six days. The Deborah, schooner, haveing a large mail on board, was coming on the day afar the Louisa sailed. The Cheerful, schooner, was recruiting there, and about to tail lor the Inlands and Sydney. The Deborah, from San Francisco, touched at Tahiti, and sailed from that port on the loth August. The following vessels were lying at Papeite, on her leaving: — Fiench corvettes, Thisbe, 32 gnus, and Bayonnaisc, 32 guns, from China, and bound to France. The Durance transport ship ; the Cocyte, steamer; the KamehameliH, late the yacht of the King of the Sandwich Islands } and the tl-e Sultana, fitting out for Valparaiso. The whalers were the— L'llla Rookh (no crew), Corinthina, homeward bound, half full; Dryade, abandoned whaling, and bound for Peru, to seek cargo for California. The Pearl was loading with oil and ehells for London. The Primui, ketch, sailed on the August to the wpstward, and the Cheerful, schooner, bound for Roratonga. Vessels for London. — It is expected that the Ajax will sail ihis day. the Tasmania about the 25th instant, and the Earl Gicy about the 30th. The Salsette is taking in her dc,id weight alongside the Patent Slip Wharf, and will have early despatch, The Duke of Richmond, Blenheim, M.uy White, and Se-mgpa tarn, Hie also piogifssing; and now the iipw clip is beguinufg to airive, the above vesbels may be ail able to sail caily in November. The following vessels were laid on in Sydney for California:-— Balmoral, ship, Rosalind, bihj, Maua, ship, and the Victoria, ship. The Oriental Qiuen from New Zealand," and the Stirlingshire, fiom Launceslon, ariived in the Downs en the 11 h May. Looking at the mom object to be secured by the establishment of .steam communication— that of quick and regular postal communication between the colony and the mother country, and also with India »nd China— it is, we thinK, to be legrettedthat the whole of the recommendations ol the committee were not confirmed by the Council. The refusal to contribute anything in aid of steam communication by way of Cape Lcuwin will piobably he taken hold of as a justification for fuither delay. As South Australia has refused to give anything towards the Torres Straits route, and this colony has nosy taken the same course in regard to the route by Cape Leuwin, the Home Government may say, and not unreasonably, that in the absence of the general and coidial co-operation of the colonies, they do not feel justified in putting the people at home to a considerable annual eipenbe in laying on mail steamers to Austialia. And io, by the time the obstacle interposed by the East India Company may be removed, another will have been cieuted by the colonies themselves, which may lead to an indefini'e postponement of the enterprise.— Maitland Mercaiif.