SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 634, 12 May 1852, Page 2

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. May 10— Cicely, schooner, J. Liddle, from New Ply moiitli, with 1 cusp books, 1 package, 1 ditto tobacco. Passenger — Mr. Powell. May 11 — Waterwitch, 10 tons, Jones, for the East Coast, with 150 bushels incize, l.) lbs. tobacco. — W. S. Gialiame, agent.

DEPARTURES. May B—Daniel8 — Daniel Webster, baique, 296 tons, P. Jones, ibrMdhuiangi, in ballast.— J. Salmon & Co., agents. CLEARED OUT. Muy 10— Eclair, 30 tons, Maiks, for Wellington, via Taianaki, with 1 case anchovies, ditto sauces, 1 cask ale, 1 cask vinegar, 2 do. blacking, 1 bag walnuts, 1 bag nee, 1 bag salt, 1 cable 4 cans oil. 1 tons Hour, 4 tin«, 2 casks nails, 1 bhd. brandy, 2 do. mm, 6 coils ropo, 1 ca;;e, 8 casks, G barreL tut, 20 chests, 39 half-cheats tea, 2 boxes, 1 keg tobacco, 1 cask biamly, 1 hud. gin, 1 case draperies, and sundiks. Passungers — Mr. Norman, Mr. lla«ling-. May 11 — Glencoo, batque, 159 tons. John Lilcwall, for Melbourne. Pahsengers — Messrs. Ponrosc, E. Donavan, A. Colombon, J. Fibber, J. Kelly, R. Dillon, J. McLcnnaud. — T. Levvi^, agent.

KXPORTS — rOKEIGN. Per Glencoe : — 1 case slops, 1 do. stays and brnrns, 1 bale bags, 1 do. shuts, 1 do. blanket*, 1 case lnb< jrdtisheiy, 1 do. hosiery, 1 do. blops, 1- qr.-casks slaeny, 6 do. do., 2 cases habeulasliery and caps, 18 do. mustard, 12 do. anchovies, 25 do. pickle*, 2) do. and sauces, 20 cases geneva, 1 case guns, 97 boxes onions, 10 cwt. fish, 6 boxos cheese, U 5 tins do., 521 bags oats, 20 cases cheese, 4 casks butt<r, 4 cases Miidines, 3 cases bams and bacon, 1 do. boots, 2 do. slops, 3 bales canvas, 18(i8 pieces sawn timbei.

English Shipping. — The Boiulicar arrived on the 19th, and the Emma Eugenia on thu 21st December, fiom Sydney. The Lauia, hence via New Zealand, ailived on the 24th December. The lloj'.il Shepheidcss, from Adelaide, wasorr Falmouth on the Jtith December. TheVictoiia, from Adelaide, arrived at Gr.ivesend on the Blh December. The Columbus, 45 i< tons, and Jane Cathenne, were laid on for Ilobart Town. The bug Adelaide was laid on for Launceston. The Janios Alexander, for Port Phillip, and Mary, for Swan River, sailed on the 6th December. The Bemecin, for Melbourne, sailed thp 20th, and the Aramauth, for Hobart Town, the 22ndJDecember. The John Phillij s, for New Zealand, left Deal the '24th December. Ihe Salopian sailed on the 11th, and the Aleto on the 22nd December, for Launceston. The Calphurnia, from Melbourne, arrived at Deal the 27th December. The Caiohne Agnes was to leave Plymouth on the 24th December, for Adelaide and Port Phillip. The Stag, chartered by the Canterbury Association, was to sail for Port Lyttelton on the 31st December. The Roman Empei or and the Sdlacia were to sail on the 20th December, and the steamer Clarence, from Liverpool, on the sth Jan., for Sjdney. Ibe Inchinnon wos to sail for Auckland', wich emigrants, on the 10th Januaiy.— Sydney He) aid. a

sliip cairies nway any of h»r impou.mt spais, oi, on cnteiinj liei port, stiiLes heavily against .: P't'i", wheieb}' sprious damage is occasioned, the accident is duly registered m tins pithy ( hromc'.e of Llc^d's. Nevertheless, as we glance up ami down the columns, it ib no exnggeiation to say lliU tv\ o-tlm ils of the accidents recorded nip of the nio-t senous desciiptum. Ouphliip is crushed in the ice neat Liehau — niiolhoi is hmnt out at si a — a sloop is. capsized at St. Kitt's — 01 a buije merchant-nan ii>undtM« oil Cape do Gait. Tims the nroid continue;) for u-ell ingli two liundii'd pages, dlled wuh these brief memoranda of loss, and misery, and death. Wo are unable to say to what degree this rfgistpr of Lloyd's can he accepted as s fair index to the tragedies which aie of such houily occunence upon the suif.ice of the* ocean. The machinery biought into action by the dnectois of tins gieat establishment for the information of the undei wnteis and oi the meicantile community ceriainlv appeals to act upon every quarter of the globe. Would it, liowevei, embody the information collected at New Yoik for the benefit of the United Statea ? In short, doos this register contain an abstiuct of all that is known \uth legaul to accidents at sea ? How does it deal with the cases of those .ships concerning- which nothing is known titliei than th.it they sailed away fiom a particular port, and hava since not been hea d of] We can leadily concive that whatever information is received at any Uiitish port, or any port within the British possessions, is tiansferred to the centrtl establishment at the Royal Exchange. Are we also informed of what is Known in foreign countiies as to the losses o'l then own shipping on their own slioies, when no litilish seaman, or seaman trading to a British prrt h.is bt en a witness of the disaslei 1 We cinnot tell how tins may he. It would have been very desirable, tor tlte infoiiuation of the geueial leader, to whom the system ot Llojd'j register is not a matter of course, had tho letuin been accompanied with a few prefatoiy remaiks, explaining the sonicrs of these letuins, and the puncipal points on which the}' were defective. If all wero known, we feai that this aveiage of accident or wieck evei\ 2^ houis would be fearfully increased. Let u<= tale the case of the small fishing craft which sail horn our Cornish and northern poits to the herring- and oibei nsheues. A gale might swamp one half of the little squadrons — would Lloyd's books lecoid the fact? So throughout tho world. A very heavy peicentage of the loss of life winch occurs by peril of the wind-, and waves happens in the small coasting boats, whoso owncis, in one fashion or another, seek a livelihood on the fringes of the sea. We much suspect that, could we obtain a ppifect know ledge of all the mishaps that occur on the suiface oi this unstable elpment, the aveiage loss would he feai fully increased in amount, and would be represented by a still more untoward pioportion than 1 lojs to 2£ hours*. In all piobability a serious 10->s or total wreck eveiy hour would tally moie closely with the truth of the facts. It would not, however, he to mtnli purpose turning over the leaves of this teinble record unless we* could dei ive from them some practical information wheieby such disasters may be pi evented, or at Ibast greatly di- | minished in number i'or the future. It would be in v<nn for us to hope that nautical skill and the science of shipbudding can ever be brought to that degr c of perfection, that sea and land ti availing- shall be brought to the same level of security. But a veiy cursory glance will suffice to show that the accidents winch occur to ships suited to the stations upon which they are employed, and— according to the natural presumptions of the case— ably manned and commanded, are comparatively few m number. Bad ships, bad crews, and bad commanders afford but a sorry chance for a successful voyage. The natural tendency of the great extension of commeicial mtei course, of the increased necessity of high speed, and, consequently, tho employment of lmgerand better craft, under the command of more competent men, will infinitely diminish the number of accidents at sea. How often is it that we hear of a disaslei occuriing to any of the noble ships owned by the leading membeis of the shipping inteiest? The liuth, too, must be told. The incapacity of too many of the masteis in tho British meicmtile marine has been the pregnant cause of loss to their owners and death to their ciews. Men scaicely competent to take the iosponsibihty of an ordin ny day's woik, or, if competent, ot notoiiously intempei ate habits, weie placed m command of sea-going- ships, through the parsimony or nepotism of the owners. The consequences that might have been expected natuially ensued. We find theiosults of these improper appointments in Lloyd's books There was no kind of security, no guaiantee of any kind that a man is compptent for the discharge of the duties he undpitook. The romaik, we are ashamed to say, applied with gr. ater sliingency fo tho British merchant service than to any other. The masteis in charge of ships from the United States and Baltic poits weiefar above the average of their 15 lifish compeers, if wt ex cept the commandeis of the very best class of ships, tiading to the Indian and Chinese seas. This evil, too, is in course of lemedy. The lesult of the educational clauses m the Meicantile Marine Bill of last session will no doubl he to provide a much larger body of wnlltiained men, from among whom our shipowners can select the most competent persons for command, We will not, even so, piesume to say that there will be an end of all petil from tempests and collision, but at least it is not too much to predict that one-half of the accidents which occur to se going ships might bo avoided. The meic statement that, accoiding to Lloyd's hooks, a disaster at sea occurs once every 2\ hours, should call attention to the point.

psio'. On i\v day of liei dppiitiir> accounts v\t>ie brought from the Commandant of Mehll.i that live Clnistiiiiis were in the hand 1 ! of tlio Bedouins. di'mmdcd (he sum of 100 dollars foi th»h unsoni. The Commandant oileied them sixty dolitus, aud immediately informed our Consul at Malaga of it, undcts'.indin^ tint the five Cl) i istiaiis weie lintksli subjects — and it is un dfistood that the Governor of Algucnas had d<-s,palchid ft w.ir-sti'amei to Manila, tho Janus bem^ at Tangier. " 'I'lie mishap to the Janus will probably be shortly followed by a more oft'ectim demonstintiort against the pirates. The Governor of Gibraltar on fie 2Jlh forwarded despatches by the Pomnsul n % and Onental Company's steamer, Sultnn, to Admiral Sir W. Pailcor, at i\la!ta. Despatches werp also sent l)y the Monti osc to Commodoie Mai tin, at Lisbon, on receipt of which, the Aretlmsa, fifty, and screw fiigate Dauntless, verp instantly ordeied to Gibialtar. It was also understood that reparation would be demanded from the Emperor of Moiocco for the aggressions and piracies of his subjects on tho Riff coast.