Ships Loading at London. [From the Home News, June 2.]

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 673, 25 September 1852, Page 2

Ships Loading at London. [From the Home News, June 2.]

For Sydney — Kate, Coldstream, Bank of England, Lydia, City of Poonah; Windsor, Marian, Frances Walker. For Port Phillip — Brilliant, Hyderabad, John Taylor, Formosa v Melbourne, Holyrood, Kent, Bangalore, Scindian, Statesman, Hebrides, Cossipore, Lady Eveline, Sbanghae, Frances Henty, Ferozepore, Abel Gower, Panama, New Orleans, Invincible, Aqueta, Meteor. For Pokt PmLLir and Adelaide — Prince Regent. ,For Adelaide— Sultana, Adelaide, Jane. For Hobart Town — Dorwent, Tasman, Elizabeth, Wellington. For Launceston— -Stirlingshire, Sarah Anne. For New Zealand — St. Michael, Tiue Briton, Slams Castle, Duke of Portland. For Portland Bay — May Queen, Dominion, Helen. For Swan River — Anne Maclean. LOADING AND ADVERTISED AT LIVERPOOL FOR AUSTRALIA. Ascendant, Mirzapore, Seraropore, Lady Head, Hibernia, Gambia, Thorwaldaeo, Ottittia, Flora, Tippoo Saib, Araminto, Maria, Marco Polo, Birmingham, Effingham, El Dorado, Lockwoods, Cleopatra, Northumberland, Argo, Beejapore, Mobile, John Leech, Ellen, Phoenix, Dundonald, Bhurtpore, Blanch, Archer. IN THE CLYDE. For Port Phillip — Boomerang and Montgomery. AT BRISTOL. For Port Phillip — Deborah.

Australian Emigration. — Mrs. CbishoWa Family Colonisation Society have taken up tbe three following ships, viz. :— The Scindian and Nepaul,for Melbourne, and the Francis Walker, for Sydney.— Home News, June 2. Arrival of Sm Harky Smith. — Her Majesty's steam-frigate Gladiator anived at Spichead from the Cape of Good Hope on tbe 30th May, bringing the exGovernor, Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith and staff", Lady Smith, and mails and Government Despatches. Sir Harry's staff consists of Lieut. -Colonel Garvock and Major Holdicb, aide-de-camp. — Ib. Australian Emigration »— From tbe returns issued by the officers of tbe Emigration Commissioners, of the vessels and passengers that have left the poit of Lon« don for Australia during tbe past month (May), we find the number to be— vessels, 72 j emigrants, 4872. — Ib.

Steam. — The half-yearly meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company took place to-day (May 3 1st) when the report was unanimously adopted. The dividend was declared at ihe rate of 8 per cent, per annum, free of income tax, but no accounts were presented — these being furnished only at annual meetings. The points principally alluded to were the contracts made with the Government under the new arrangements including the communication once every two months be. tween Singapore and Australia, taking the western route via King George's Sound, Adelaide, and Melbourne, and a proposal for providing a fund for the benefit of seamen, their widows, and orphans. The new vessels which are being constructed to increase tho fleet of the Compnny arei it is stated, progressing favourably, and the Bengal is expee'ed to be ready before the close of the present year. The purchase of the new screw vessel Formosa, intended for the Ausira'ian line, and the con« (rue's made for two paddle wheel vessels to be put on the Marseilles and Malta service, are also mentioned Although the period fixed for the conveyance of the Australian mails, will not arrive until January next, the directors think it advisable to make early arrangements. It is therefore proposed that the Chusan and Formosa shall perform a few experimental trips between Singapore and Sydney, to allow opportunity for tbe necessary organization on a route as yet wholly new to steam navigation. The differences ot Abbas Pasha with the Porte having been concluded, the railway will, it is be lieved, be actively proceeded with, as well as further improvements iv the transit through Egypt.— London Evening Mail.

Steam Navigation Company for the Settlements of !New Zealand. Under this heading we find the following as an advertisement in the Home News of June 2:— - Committee of Management formed at Nelson, October, 1851.— David Frazer, Charles Elliott, S. W. Caxton Samuel Stephens, G. Sclanders, «nd W. T. L. Travers, Esquires. Capital, £150,000, in shares of £l each, one-third being reserved for New Zealand. These shares to be paid in full on allotment (to the Union Bank of Australia, old Broad-street, London), to avoid further liability, although it is intended to apply for a local ordinance or charter of incorporation aa the proprietors may hereafter determine. Shipping Agents.— Messrs. Stayner, 1 1 0, Fenchurch street ; Messrs. Morrison and Sclanders, at Nelson ; Messrs. S. Curtis, New Plymouth; Messrs. W. Bowler, Son, and Co., Wellington; Messrs. Cookson, Bowler, and Co., Lyttelton. The present undertaking is founded on the necessity for a more peifect system of inter colonial cominunicttion by means of iron screw steamers, adapted for the service, radiating from the port of Nelaon, in the immed ate vicinity of the great coal fields. These vessels will \iiit, in their weekly course, the chief ports of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago. in time to connect its operations with the Ocean Ste&meis from Rurope, and thus complete the circle of regular communication, extending commerce, and increasing the value of land by opening fresh markets for its producr. This Company starts with the patronage of the entire British populat on, of the Governor- in-Chief, the Lieu-tenant-Governor of Wellington, and the Bishop of New Zealand. It is already assured of the local mail se> vice of a grant from the Legislatures, and the available part of the Nelson Trust Fund, exceeding £12,000, independent of the resources arising from passage, conveyance of merchandise produce, or stock. Applications to be made to John Edwards, Sec. pro. tern. 39, Lothbury, London.