Shipping Summary.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1317, 31 July 1860, Page 3

Shipping Summary.

The comings and goings of our good ships, and of those of our neighbours, have excited moie geneial interest during the piesent than dining the pievious month. Our amvals and depaituies have not, it is true, been many , but they have been unpoitant ones, and anxiously looked for in consequence. The general inteiest seems, however, to have centied on eveiything either directly or mdnectly connected with the piesent war, and the Manukau is looked to as the quarter whence news of inteiest way be expected Thanks to the number of steamers on the coast we have not had hitherto to wait long for tidings of what is going on at Taranaki, for either the Cordelia, ihe Victoria, or the Ahedale, has been pietty certain to be tiying the bai immediately aftei anything had occurred at the seat of war. The inteiest attached to the aiuval of anything fiom Taianaki, Sydney, or any Austiahan poib, is consideiably on the increase ; moie paiticularly since the depaituie oE old Australian boldieis for Taianaki, has served to give oin brother-colonists, acioss the watei, a peisoual inteiest in the war. The libeial manner too in which the Melboure Government have placed their man of-war at our service, has done not a little towards chawing closer the bonds of friendship between ourselves and oui Australian couutiymen. We have only one Enghbh aiuval to chionicle during the past month , our old visitor, the Egmont, Capt Gibson. She bungs a large number of niimigi ants, who knew not of wais nor of lumouis of wais when they left England for their promised land. She had a pleasant and not over long voyage one death only occurred on boaid, and that aftei a ling ci ing and incurable illness, of long standing pievious to the sufferer's depaituie fiom England. Theie has been no depaiture for England direct since the White Stai Liner, Phoenix, which cleared out for Liverpool on the 28th of June, the date of our last Monthly Summary She took, we regret to say, alm ge number of passengers, piincipally families, back to England. The intei colonial tiade during the month has been confined to amvals and depaitiues to and fiom Sydney, Hobait Town, and Newcastle. The number of steamers on the coast has given an impetus to trade with the last mentioned poit. The Maigaietha Eoesner left here on the 29th ult for a cargo, having been charteied by the ICEM Company , and the Kate, barque, ariived on 21st inst. , the Moa & Union weie similarly engaged for the Government, the foimei having been purchased for the puipose of acting as> tender to the men-of-war on the station. In consequence of stress of weather the Moa, instead of going into the Manukau, as it was anticipated that she would, bore up for the North Cape, and ariived in a leaky state at Auckland, on the 19th. Gieat anxiety for her safety was at one time felt during the voyage, on account of the extiaordmary quantity of water she was constantly making. The schooner Union, which bailed fiom Newcastle for the Manukau, with 200 tons of coals, on the 29th, was less fortunate. As will be seen from a paragraph below, part of her wreck has been picked up near the Manukau heads, and no tidings have reached us of any of her crew. Theie has been about the usual number of anivals from the South during the month, and the impoitation of wheat and otl'er Maon pioduce coastwise has continued. A falling off, however, in the latter trade may be anticipated during the ensuing month. The vessel next to arrive fiom England is the Persia, with a laige general caigo, and nearly 200 immigiants. She is 91 days out