ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 73, 11 April 1843, Page 3

ENGLISH EXTRACTS.

SHIPPING PROSPECTS. Every port in the East continues supplied with a superabundance of tonnage, and there appears to be no prospect of material improvement any where for some months to come. The yessels now loading at Bombay for London and Liyerpool are obtaining 2 1. per ton for cotton. . , At Calcutta there is a large amount of second class and inferior tonnage in the port; the country trade affords no employtnent for shipping. The current rates for England are ; for first-class ships 2 1. per ton for dead weight, and

3/. for indigo and piece goods ; for second class and North American built ships, 11. 10s. to 1/. 15s. for sugar, saltpetre, or lice, and I/. 15s. to 11. 17s. 6d. for linseed, with every probability of their falling still lower, as daily arrivals of the large ships of the season were taking place. Singapore appears to be much oversupplied with tonnage. Freights to London are quoted —coffee and pepper 3/., sugar in bags, 31. ss. to 31. 10s. The Colonist, Lucretia, Princess Charlotte , Lloyds, Carleton, Malcolm, Mysore, London, Sarah Betsford, Henry Woolley, John Dugdale, Frances Ann, were loading for London, and the Cynosure for Liverpool. Several ships were loading for China and Manilla at any rates they could get. More ships have also goneonto China than can possibly get freights, and many of these must return to some of the Indian ports. The nominal rate was 51. at Whampoa, and 41. 4s. outside ; but to obtain these, several vessels would have to wait for next season. At Colombo, freights continued at 31., without the slightest immediate probability of advance. Bombay Times.

Imperial Parliament. —House of Lords, Thursday. The Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom was this day further prorogued until Tuesday, the 13th of December.