SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 626, 14 April 1852, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. April 10 — Opbalia, 27 tons, G. Simpkins, from the Hay of Plenty, with 660 bushels wheat, 300 ditto maize, 2 tons flax. Passengers— S. Smith, W. McDonald. April 12— East Cape, 18 ton.\ Mebaura, from the East Cape, with 500 bushels wheat. Apnl 13 — lliomaroa, schooner, Emilius Le Roy, from Sydney. Passengers — JYlrs. VVoolley and 4 children. — S.ilmon & Co., ngpnts. April Hi — John, 28 tons, J. Maddocks, from Mahurangi, with 30 tons firewood.

DEPARTURES. April 10— Rosp Ann, 24 tons, John Ryan, for tl>p Etst Coast, with 8 horses, 2 saddles, 300 bags, 2 bags sugar. April 12 — Katherine Stewart Fnrbps, barqnp, 4">7 tons, W. Wright, for New Plymouth. Pdssengers — Messrs. Powell, C. Powell, R. Gilmore, \V. Yatfs, W. M. Burton, Kliza Burton, R. H. Pratt, Francis Prat I, F. Pratt, \V. Pratt. Emma Pratt, Julia Pratt, R. Button, D. M. Button, G. Patterson, Eliza Patterson, Jobn Crawshaw.— Brown & Cnmpbel), ageu ts.

IMPORTS — FOREIGN. Per Iliomama from Sydney :—2O: — 20 boxes tobacco, 20 cases geneva, 11 bhds. rum, slihds. brandy, 81)8 1 ) bundles bonp iion, 10 l)lid«, ale, N.S.W., 1 bale coika, 5 qr.casks vinegar, 30 barrels rosin, 5 cabks soda ash, 6 bales bags, 5 tons salt, 170 bags flour, 4-0 doz°n spades, 15 cwt. boop iron, 5 ewt. chnlk, 1 keg rivets, "2 casf» slops, 48 bags sugar, 47 b.jjjs sugnr, 3 cbests and 4 balfcbests tea, 2 casks bath bricks, 2 bales blankets, sdoz-n spades, 1 bale calico, 1 bale prints, 1 bale bags, 1 case drapery, 2 boxes cod-liver oil, 1 case glas9.

EXPORTS — FOREIGN. Per Katherine Stewnrt Fotbes, — part cf original cnrgo fioin London, 5 bales, 2 coils ropp, 8 hales bl.inkets, 6 ra<«ps boots and sbnps, 51 kpa;s nails, 4 package, 5 hlirls. brandy, 2 cases, 3 baits, 4 pnckasrps (pa, 6 boxes cnndlp«, 6 do. soap. 2 chests tea, 4 casks bottled beer, Sqr.-ca&ks whKkey, i' 2 packages groceries, 2 chests tea.

The lliomama arnved yesterday morning, eisrhtepn days from Sydney, whence sailed on the '26th ult., two days aker the Glencoe. She has had .in exceedingly boisterous passage ; during; one of the gales which she encountered, her lore-top-mast was carried away, and her tiller much injured. She reports th" Woa to sail on the day after— the 27th, — and tbo Nm-» in a few days. The Spencer (Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane's brig) was laid on for Port Phillip. The Daniel WebstiT is advertised in the Herald of the2sib, to sail for Auckland, on the 28th ult. A biig, supposed to be the ftloa, was signalled outside Tintir matanga throughout jesteiday; the ball was hauled down before sunset, tue vessel having either anchored or gone into Kawau.

Lieutenant Bedford Clapperton Pirn, " a zealous and able officer, who has served on board her Majesty's sur-veying-ship Herald," has proposed a scheme of explorntion in a new direction alter the expedition under Sir 'John Franklin. The plan is grounded on the probability (hutSii John Franklin made Ins way though Wellington ritrait (o ibe more open Aiciic heyond, and struggled on along 1 the > or hern shore oi the Arctic sea, till he became meiti icahl y entangled In a region which, though entirely unpeopled and unvibitedby human beings, is teem ing with animals that would supply food and fuel. The di ection of the currents, so fur as they are known, would make it pos-ible that Sir John may have passed the meridian of Bt-hiuig'a Straits, unable to t penetrate the barrier ot ice-locked idands which there shuts out the Arctic Sea from the Straits and from the North Pacific, and have reached the Not them coast of Asia in the regions of Siberia. The historical accounts of Russian expeditions make plain tlii? great difficulty they have always experienced in penetrating even the shortest disiances Eastward ; and the natural causes which produced this difficulty of leaving those shoies would be the same that would biing'to those shores any ships on thp Arctic Sea about the mendian or Behring's Straus; pieces of wreck are constantly erst on those shores by these currents irom the not th-eas>t, Lieutenant Pirn proposes to leave this country on the 18th in«tant, for St Petersburg, and to submit lo the imperial authorities there his plan fur travelling across Siberia to the mouth of the river Kolyma and thence, with two or three companions only, for exploring the whole coast of Siberia from Cape Noith, westwards to North-east Cape, a distance of some ten thousand miles. lie has submitted his plan to the Admiralty in London t their Lordships tbanked him for the suggestion, but declined to undertake its execution. Lady Franklin has requested him to carry it out by private means, and has found herself able to devote j£soo towards fitting the expedition out. The scheme was discussed at a very full meeting of the Geographical Society on Monday ; and was warmly approved by Sir Roderick Murchison, Captain Kellelt, Captain Penny, Major Caimichael Smyth, Sir Woodbine Paiish and other gentleman of high authority in such matters. Count Wie'bor>ky, of the Russian Euibist-ay, said he was confident that Lieutenant Pirn would meet every encouragement and assistance which it was in the power of the Russian Government to give. The Coqn cil of the Geographical Society empowered their Chanman to wait on the Lords of the Admiralty and solicit their assistance to the project.— Spectator, Novtmber 15.