Shipping.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 112, 16 November 1858, Page 2

Shipping.

ENTERED INWARDS. November 12.—.Tasmanian Maid, steamer, 92, Whitwell, from Wellington. Passengers—Mr. Dodson and daughter, Captain Pritchard, Mr. Lee, Mrs. Kennedy and child, Bliss Kennedy, Messrs. Seymour, Conway, Kendall, Joseph, Picton, J. W. Webster, O'Brien, Mamglier. November 13.—Deva, brig, 220, Thomas, from Newcastle, N.S.W. Passengers—Mrs, Thomas and 2 children. November 14.—Louis and Miriam, brig, 127, Vanderwood, from Sydney. Passengers—Messrs. Nash. Farquhar, Barnngton, Yeo, Allan, Yeoman, Percy, Sperman. IMPORTS. Per Tasmanian Maid, from Wellington: 10 halfchests tea, 40 bags sugar, 2 casks currants, 1 ton sugar, 10 packages coffee, 20 boxes soap, 6 cases mustard, 1 trunk drapery, 4 nests tubs, 4 dozen blankets, 5 casks vinegar, J. R. Hays; 1 trunk, 1 case jewellery, Conway; 1 case drapery, Wilson; 1 case apparcel, Patterson; 1 ton biscuit, 12 cwt. pork, 4 jars tripe, 1 cask lime juice, Pritchard. Per Deva, from Newcastle: 340 tons coal, Wilson. Per Louis and Miriam, from Sydney : 2 cases cigars, 5 quarter-casks sherry, 4 cases cigars, Levien; 5 cases wine, Beit; 3 bales hops, 2 cases cheese, 10 barrels apples, 4 bags pimento, 7'ploughs, 13 bales leather, 12 enses drapery, 4 bales ditto, 2 trunks boots, 2 cases ditto, 2 cases books, Wilson ; 1 case silks, 2 cases hardware, 5 boxes soap, 5 ditto candles, 3 cases oilman's stores, 1 case tinware, 1 case glass, 1 case cigars, 1 keg nails, 2 cases, Beit; 2 drays, 15 boxes cocoanuts, 3 cases, 176 cedar boards, Vanderwood; " 3 cases drapery, Harris; 50 boxes candles, 15 cases chairs, 10 boxes clothes pegs, 1 case cigars, 30 nests tubs, 1 package isinglass, Edwards; 2 bales paper, Elliott; 2 casks sulphur, Morrison and Sclanders; 7 cases drapery, 8 ditto lobsters, 9 boxes candles, 6 bales hops, 2 pianos, 7 packages currants, 1 case sheepshears, 2 ditto ground coffee, 4 cases soda, 4 cases herrings, 10 boxes raisins, 10 boxes candles, 6 cases confectionary, 56 drums oil, Levien; 1 bale drapery, Anslow; and other merchandise to order.

The Emma was to sail from Sydney on the 6th instant, for Nelson and New Plymouth. The Spirit of Trade has been despatched for Auckland and New Plymouth. She embarked troops. ~ Home Neivs, Aug. 16. The clipper ship Pruth sailed for Wellington direct on July 23. This ship is one of Messrs. Shaw, Savill, and Co's line, and, in addition to a large cargo of merchandise, she takes out a quantity of-valuable breeding stock, including three horses and a foal, two bulls, a cow, and? a number of fine rams and pigs. The next ship of this line, for the same port, is the clipper Kinnaird, modelled from an Aberdeen clipper and of liirge tonnage.— lbid. '.'" The Prince Alfred, screw steamer, tho third vessel of the New Zealand Mail Packet Company, is appointed to sail from Milford Haven the latter end of August. The despatch of the former vessels from. Milford Haven proved-successful'from the great fscili--ties afforded for embarking passengers and the supply of good steam coals at a low rate, together with the avoidance of the dangers of the Channel passage. Whenever the route to Australia via Panama is opened, Milford Haven offers an excellent port of departure from England.— lbid, ."*■-. The Indiana, one of Messrs. Willis's vessels, sailed on August 6 for Canterbury, with 250 assisted emigrants, and a large party of passengers. This is the second vessel despatched by this firm this year for Canterbury under the assisted passage regulations, the Zealandia having sailed from Gravesend on June 14, with 300 emigrants, consisting of well-selected laborers and mechanics. The Clontarf will take out a further party of first-class laborers and their families in September. Thus, under the active management of Mr. Fitzgerald, the late Superintendent of the province, who is now in England directing this measure of "Assisted Emigration," a body of picked mechanics and laborers, with their families, amounting to nearly 1000 individuals, will be introduced into Canterbury in the course of the next few months.— lbid. Lasfc week the hull of the well-known clipper ship James Baines, the famous Australian ship, was offered for sale, afc the Cotton salesroom, Liverpool, by Mr. J. P. Campbell, ofthe firm of Messrs. Percival, Campbell, and Co., brokers for the Underwriters, 'lhe hull was offered as ifc lay, in the Huskisson Dock, with 18 water tanks on board.- The attendance was very large, including many of the shipowners of the port. The first offer made was £500, tpaedily followed by one of £800, and after a few advances, it was knocked down to Captain Pace for the sum of £1080. Ifc may be stated that, the James Baines originally cost £35,000. It is believed she will.be rebuilt, as her hull is in very good condition, being heavily sheathed with yellow metal and copper fastened. After the sale of the hull, the sails, chains, anchors, &c, were disposed of, aiid' averaged pretty fair rates.—Tiie?. " G.," in a letter to the Times, points out " the best use for the Leviathan." The big ship, at first, would not go into the river, and now she can't go into the sea. When the hydraulic power had succeeded, the money power failed. So now, from all sides, we hear that the mighty hull can never pay as a commercial speculation; acute Yankees reckon her profits and losses, and the suggestion of "G." is, that Government 6hall take up the Leviathan, as a warlike monster, a consolidated army, a giant floating citadel, capable of fighting a Baltic or Trafalgar, all. to,herself; in fact, an English Cherbourg by sea, as.,a set-off against the French Cherbourg by land. Buy the Leviathan, dress her in armour by means of an additional iron casing, perfectly shot-proof, place not a single piece of ordnance upon her decks—employing the gunmetal, instead, to fortify her breast and ribs, and then let her cruise in the Channel. Should any foreign squadron venture too near our white cliffs, let loose the ! Leviathan steamer against the rabble of three-deckers and frigates,- put up her steam, make her: screws and paddles work together, and drive right through the hostile fleet. One vessel she will pierce from broadside to broadside with her levelled Birmingham bowsprit; a score of others will founder as her hull crashes among them with ponderous plunges; she will be, in comparison with lesser craft, more mighty than a storm, and worth all the wooden walls ever collected at Spithead. The suggestion, to say 'the least, is a bold one.— lbid.