ARRIVAL OF THE EMPRESS

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2064, 1 March 1864, Page 10

ARRIVAL OF THE EMPRESS

Till' "Empress, a splendid vessel of 1,313 tons, commnndi'd by Captain E P. Ellis, ai rived in liatbaur .it n late horn on Feb. 19ti>, after n. good passage of 95 days f i om hei final start She sailed fiom Woolwich on the Bth No\embei, and Portsmouth on the 14th, talcing her final departuie fiom Bcilly on the 16th. She passed outside Cape de "Veide Islands, and sighted St. Antonia The N.E. trades weio met with much to the eastward. The equntoi was crossed on lGth December, in long 30* W. The SE. tiades weie soon caught, after leaving the line On the ISth December she sighted Fernando de Neichano, and passed the meridian of the Capo on 14th Januaiy, in lat. 47° 42' S. The longitude was iuu down in 51°; fiesh steady gales jviul fino weathei pievailing throughout. On the 23id J^miaiy sighted the Desolation Island, and experienced for two or thiee days heavy gales flora the west, "\% itU hiil and snow. Tasmania was not sighted The fiisfc point of land made on the New Zealand coast, being 87 da><3 out, was Snare's Islands, since when she has experienced fine wentlier until Thursday, when she caught hold of the N.E., which biought her into haibout. Captain Ellis repoits that on the lfith Januaiy, in latitude 48* 39' S. and 25* 30 s E., ho pn<sed a larcre iceberg; and on the 16th of the same month, in 40° and 29* E an immense iceheig was passing within tlnoe bundled ymds of the \esscl. Several small ones weie afteiwaids seen. The following vessels weie spoken with dining the passage • — On the 23id Novembei, the baique Japan, fiom Leith to Sydney, 28 days out On the 16th December, HM. s.s Feloius. On the 22nd December, the ship King Aithm, fiom London to India, with the 55th "Regiment. On the 29th Decembei, the Castle Howaid, from London to Sydney, 47 days out, fbhe was to put in at the Cape of Good Hope The Empiess is one ot the finest vessels that has enteied the wateis of the Waiteinnta. She lias made a \eiy good passage, and the healthy condition of the olficeis and men icflects the highest ciedit upon Captain Ellis and the officers under his command She bungs twenty officers, and 2SB non commissioned offioeis and men of the 4th battalion Militaiy Tmin, and 38 women and 64 childien , also 14 non commissioned o^Kceis and men, C women, and 11 clnldien of the Aimy Hospital Coi ps. Her cargo consists of 100 tons gunpowder and 500 tons militaiy stoics Tlieie have been four buths and four deaths dimtie; the \oyage, two children, ono sailoi, and one soldiei.