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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 115, 19 March 1853, Page 7

We regret to learn that OAving to the continued prevalence of the wind from the North East, the bar at Sumner has been impassable for the last fortnight, and but one coaster, and that by sustaining some damage, has succeeded in crossing. The owners of our coasting craft are sustaining serious loss by this untoward circumstance, and where the remedy is to be found, quien sabe /

. The : Rev. Thomas Jackson, formerly principal of the Battersea training institution, and who was nominated but not consecrated to the bishopric of Lyttelton, in New Zealand, has been appointed to the rectory of Stoke Newington, by the patron, the Bishop of London.

We have files of the Otago Witness to the sth instant, but have no room this week for several passages we have marked for extracts. "Mr." Shand, the Sub-Treasurer, when on his way from Port Chalmers to Dunedin, was precipitated into the water by the boat capsizing, and Avas nearly droAvned. About £130 in gold was lost by the accident, and a memorial has been addressed to the Governor praying that Mr. Shand may be exonerated from the loss, which, under the circumstances, it Avas hoped his Excellency will comply with.

. Submarine Navigation—Extraordinary Discovert.—A letter from Cherbourg, of the 18th October, after stating that the first visit paid by the .Minister, of Marine, on. his arriving in that port, was to the diving boat, adds— " Dr. Payerne has not only discovered means to descend to the bottom of the sea, and to Avork there at his ease with a body of operatives, and to remain there as long as he pleases, replacing by chemical proceedings the oxygen absorbed; but he has discovered, a mode of di-

recting the boat under water by steam, as if ij were.on the surface. He has engaged to start from any harbour in France, and to reach the coast of England, although navigating tinder water. " Napoleon," continues the Avriter, " deceived by the report of his engineers, refused the oifer made to him by Fulton to introduce steam as a motive power. Louis Napoleon will not refuse the application of steam to submarine navigation. M. Ducos, the Minister of Marine, gave a most friendly reception to M. Lamiral the partner of Dr. Payerne, and promised to, introduce the discovery of submarine navigation to the notice of the Prince President."

Pomology.—A treatise on a recently discovered science, 'British Pomology,'has been published. The author deems it the 'most important, most instructive, and intellectual branch of horticultural science.' The Avork is, in point of fact, a dictionary, alphabetically arranged, of all the kinds of apples cultivated in Great Britain, with-brief and pithy descriptions and notices of each sort. No fewer than 942 kinds are enumerated.