SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 571, 4 October 1851, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. October I.— Sarah, foil*, 130 ton", L. Grant, from Newcastle, to the Kinvau.— W. S. Giahame, a»ent. Oct. I—Alnxauder,1 — Alnxauder, 36 tons, A. Miller, from Corouiandel Harbour, with 10,000 feet sawn timber, 800 posts. Oct. I— Benlomond, 35 tons, D. Campbell, from the East Cape, with 10 tuns humpback oil, 200 bushels wheat, 200 bu&hels corn. Pnwntfer— Mi. Law&on. Oct. 2— Victoria, 17 ton*, E. Ilaiioen, irom Wailield, with 30 toas firewood.

DEPARTURES Oct. I— Simlah, barque, 597 tons, Cnptain C.Robertson, for Otago Dia New Plymouth. Oct. I— Mary, 15 tons, J. Shearer, for Wangarei, with 1 bale blankets, i case tobacco, 1 case prints. Passenger—Mr. F. Arnibon.— P. Philips, agent. Oct 1— Alexander, 3b tons, A. Miller, for the River Thames, in ballast. Oct. I— Napi, 17 tons, J. Tautari, for Russell, with 2 casks beer, 5 bags salt, 10 bags rice, 1 case gin, 1 bag flour, 1 bag rice, 1 bag sugar, 1 package nails, 1 cask beer, 1 box soap, 1 barrel beer, 1 ton bar-iron, 2 boxes 24 bags flonr, 14 do. bran, 1 bag salt, 1 bag sugar, 2 bags flour, 4 cans paint, 1 can paint oil, 6 small paicels, 1 cask beer, (5 packages groceries. Pas&engera— Mr. Tomes, Mr, Davitt, and wife, and f iur Mnoriea. Oct. 2— H.M. Brigantine Pandora, Commnnder Drury, for Hokianga. Oct. 2— Naiad, 21} tons.W. Monro, for Hokinnga, with 1 steel mill, 2 cwt. salt, 2 bags rice, 3 bags sugar, 2 gallons vinegar, 1 cask saddlery, 5 gallons oil, 1 sieve, 2 saucepans, 1 box soap, 1 case hardware, 1 clock, i bag coffee 1 saddle, 2 buckets, 1 campoven, 4 spadps, 1 bale drapery, 1 case ditto, 1 chest tea, 2 baes sugor, 2 bags salt, 1 package 1 barrel merchandize, 1 camp-oven, 2 bars iron, 1 bundle spades, 1 bag snddlery, 1 bag blankets, half-chests tea, 1 bag salt, 2 bags sugar, 20 lbs. tobacco, J-ton potatoes, 1 box tea. Oct. 2— Samh Jane, 17 ton"?, James Campbell, for the East Coast.— W. S. Grabame, agent. Oct. 2— Victoria, 17 tons, E. Hanson, master, for Waibeki, in ballast. Oct. 3— Maukin, 106 tons, James Bowden, mnster for Sydney. Passengers— Messjs. P. Melville, P. Mevlille junr., J. Kelly, E. Elmes, Wm. Bolum, Henry Duncan, John Contauche, Iloni, Peheti, James Barclay, Mr. Angus, Joseph Hobson.— W. S. Grabame, agent. Oct. 3— Lavinia, barque, 253 tons, Captain C. M'Phee, for Sydney. Passengers — Mr. and Mrs. Badkin and three children, W. Campbell, wife, & child, Messrs. P. Dunn, C. Bloomgrean, W. Ostland, Robert and "William Yates, William Martin, Joseph Yardley, George Nickerson, Catherine Riggings, James M'Conroy, James Blackett, C. Tomhnson, John Barlow, John Brown, Henry Cooper, Hemy Burrows, and wife, Dr. Thompson, Mrs. McCleaver.— Jameb Macky, agent.

CLEARED OUT. Oct. I—Sarah,1 — Sarah, brig, 150 tons, Lewis Grant, for Sydney. — W. S. Grahame, agent. IM POUTS — FOREIGN. Per Sarah, from Sydney, to Kauwau— lso tons of coals.

EXPORTS — rOKEIGU. Per Lavinin, for Sydney — 50 cases oil, 10 barrels of currants', 40,978 feet timber, 13,350 feet timber, 27 spars, 1 box saddle-trees, 30 tons coals, 21,000 feet timber. Per Sarab. for Sydney — 50 tons of copper regtilus. Per Maukin, for Sydney, (i,OOO fuet sawn timber, 10 casks salt pork, 37 casks bumpback oil, 33 do. 7 cwt whalebone, 37 casks humpback oil, 5 casks varnish, 12 packages tea.

The Sarah brig, arrivpd, at Kawau on Tuesday ovening from Newcastle. The Moa arrived at Sydney on the 12th ult., and may be expected in the course of' the next week.

An article in the Shipping Gazette, of last .Monday, expressed a complaint on the part of tbe London shipowners, that the Emigration Commissioners, after advertising for vessels to call at Deptford and Plymouth to take emigrants to our Australian Colonies, accept the tenders of Liverpool vessels, allowing them to call at Plymouth only. Two most convincing letters from parties in Liverpool, deeply interested in the trade, appeared in the Shipping Gazette, of Thursday, in reply : but, while giving them inbertion, the editor denies that they meet the case, the complaint of the London shipowners remaining 1 unanswered, that Liverpool vessels are not compelled to call at Deptford, though on that point the letters state, that Liverpool vessels embarking emigrants at Plymouth have to pay their expenses from Deptford to that port. We cannot understand the justice of euch sm unreasonable complaint. That Deplfoid, placed as it is in a corner of the kingdom, should be made the depot for Australian emigrants is n cause of much greater complaint, as it gives a monopoly to the London ships, instead of making the expense of emigration as light as possible by throwing open the currying trade to the shipping at large. Liverpool, as the most central pavt of the kingdom, and of che.apest access to the emigiant, would save thousands of pounds annually in the expense of emigration were she made the depot, for ships from this port could take passengers direct to Australia at 10s. to 15s. less per head were they not compelled to call at Plymouth. If there be any injustice in the case, the Liverpool, and not the London shipowners, and the emigrants themselves, suffer irom it. — Liverpool Albion, May 19. Some months back we announced that it was the intention of Mr. Sydnpy Herbert to move for a Select Committea to inquire into the workings of the Passengers' Acf, and we pointed out the special bearings the investigation was likely to assume in immediate reference to Liverpool ; adverting incidentally to the papers then called for by Mr. M'Cullagh, and &ince laid before our readers, in connexion with Mr. Vere Former's complaints against the officers of an emigrant ship trading between New York and this port. Mr. Herbert's committee has now been named, or will be thia evening, consisting of the right honorable gentleman himself, of course, for chairman, and Mr Ilawes, Mr. Clements, Admiral Bowles, Viscount Melgund, Mr. Adderley, Mr. Vernon Smiih, Mi. William Miles, Mr. Pole Carew, Mr. Divett, Mr. liunbury, Lord Naas, Mr. Serjeant Murphy, Sir John Young, and Sir Thomas Birch. These constitute a most unexceptionable tribun.il, very fairly representing, as it seems to up, all the interests involved in the enquiry contemplated, Such enquiry, we have reason to repeat our belief, will be seat clung and comprehensive, and will be directed chiefly to Liverpool, at least in the first instance; and we shall not fail to keep the local public duly apprised of the proceedings Aom time to tune. Meanwhile, we understand that parties will be here, in the course of the w»ek, or early the following, to determine upon the witnesses it may be most expedient to summon at the outset; but gentlemen who conceive that they possess data of value likely to explain away the odium that attaches in many quarters to tlie emigration agency and machinery of Liverpool, would do well to put themselves in communication with our Lonorable representative, who will no doubt take care that all testimony essential to the vindication of tl*e character of his, constituents and ol the locality, shall be submitted to the committee, and thence to the public. — Ibid.

Reminiscenses of Fulton*, Finsr Steam Voyage.— Some twenty years since more or less for J cannot fix the date with more certainty, I formed a travelling acquaintance, upon a steamboat on the Hudson River, with a gentleman who, on that occasion, related to me some incident of the first voyage of Fulton to Albany in his steamboat the Clermont, which I have never met with elsewhere. The gentleman's name 1 have lost but I urged him at the time to publish what he related, which, however, so far as i know, he has never done. I have several times related the /act", as they were told to me and have been often requested to secure them fjom oblivion by giving them to the press: — " I chanced s.ud my narrator, "to be at Albany on business when Fulton arrived there in his unheard-of-craft which every body felt so much interest in seeing. Being ready to leave, and hearing that this craft was to return to New York, I repaired on board, and inquired for Mr. Fulton. I was freerred to the cabin, and there I found a plain gentle* manly man, wholly alone and engaged in writing. <Mr. Fulton,' I presump. ' Ye?, sir.' 'Do you return to New York with this boat V 'We shall try to get back, sir.' •Can I haveapassagedown?' 'You can takeyour chance with us, sir.' I inquired the amount to be paid, and after a moment's heeitntion, asum — 1 think, six dollars was named. I laid the amount, in coin, in his open hand, and with his>eye fixed upon it he remained so long motionless (hat 1 buppotred there might be a miscount, and said to him, *ls that right, sir?' This loused him as if from a kind of reverie, and as he looked up at me the big

tear brimming i» bis eye, his voicp faltered as he said ' Excuse me, sir ; but memory ws bu-y as I contemplated this the tiisf pecuniary reward 1 have ever leceived for all my exertions in adapting stpam to navigation. I would gladly commemorate the occasion over a bottle of wine with 3'ou, but really I am too poor even for that just now ; yet I trust we shall meet again, when this will not be so.' The voyage to New York w:is successful, as all know, and terminated v\ ithoul accident, about /our years after this, when the Clermont hud been greatly improved, and hpr name changed to the North River, and when two other boats, namely, the Car of Neptune, and the Paragon, had been built, making Mr. Fulton's fleet three boats, regularly plying between New Yoik and Albany, I took passage in one of these for the latter city. The cabin iv that day, was below; and as I walked its length to and fro, T saw Twas closely observed by one I supposed a stranger. Soon however, I recognized the features of Mr. Fulton; but without disclosing this, I continued my walk, and awaited the result. At length in passing his seat, our eyes met, when he sprang to his feet, and eagerly seizing my h.ind, exclaimed, " 1 know 11 must be you for your features have never escaped me ; and although I am far f'om rich yet 1 may venture that bottle now." It was ordered ; and during its discussion Mr Fulton ran vividly over his experience of the world's coldness ami sneers, and of the hopes, fears, disappointments and difficulties, that were scattered through his whole career of discovery up to the very point of his final crowning triumph, at which he ro fully felt ho had at last arrived. And, in viewing all this, said lip, '* 1 have a^ain and again recalled the occasion and the incident of our fir-it interview at Albany; and never have I done so without its renewing in my mind the vivid emotions it originally caused. That seemed and still does seem, to me, the turning point in my destiny, the dividing line between light and darkness in my career upon earth: lor it was the first actual recognition of my usefulness to my fellowmen." — Buffalo Commercial Advei tiser.