SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 148, 4 January 1845, Page 173

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED. None. SAILED. Deermber 23, brigantine Cornet, 100, Cork, for Sydney. Passenger, Mr. Dun. — 28, schooner Lady Leigh, 109, Reid, for Wellington. Passenger, G. Duppa, Esq. IN PORT. Cutter Lively, 32. Cutter Moonraker, 12, Gill.

The Rival Pretenders. — Some of our contemporaries are tearing their hair, and rending their garments, and scattering ashes on their heads, because the Duke of Bordeaux has a tail, a regular pig-tail, of French Royalists, paying homage to him and he-kinging him. It is said that Louis Philippe is made miserable by this ado, and that all availeth not to comfort him while the Mordecai sits in the gate of the Queen's Pimlico. We have never undertaken the office of comforter to the King of the French, but it is time that we should begin. Solomon says there is safety in a number of counsellors, in which he is quite wrong, but there is safety in a number of Pretenders ; and Louis Philippe has to observe that we have in this realm another claimant to the French crown, in the person of one self-styled the Duke of Normandy, and these two Pretenders should settle their rival claims before either should inspire any uneasiness in the breast of the King of the French. Each has had his followers, though of different sorts, the Duke of Bordeaux having been followed by French Carlists, and the Duke ofNormandy by English creditors, The Duke of Bordeaux has not been noticed in any way by the Court, the Duke of Normandy has had much of the notice of the Court for Insolvent Debtors. The Duke of Bordeaux has not been received at the Court of St. James's ; the Duke of Normandy has been not only received at the Court of Requests and the Court of Conscience, but specially and urgently summoned to attend them. The Duke of Normandy has been shot at in proof of his claims; the Duke of Bordeaux has no such evidence to show in support of his pretensions. So far, how much the balance of credit is on the side of the Duke pf Normandy. But it is not enough to compare the two. Louis Philippe has shut up in one of his prisons a third Pretender, who went in the City of Boulogne steam -boat to take France, and who did take nothing but Champagne, a province for which he had a peculiar capacity, till he himself was taken in turn. Let Louis Philippe instantly release and send over to England this third Pretender, and then they may fight the triangular combat of Captain Marryat, the Duke of Normandy firing" away his pretensions against the Duke of Bordeaux, the Duke of Bordeaux against Prince Napoleon, the Prince Napoleon against the Duke of Normandy. Defendit numerus is a good maxim, especially in the case of Pretenders. . Let the, gentlemen first settle- it amongst .themselves. The alarms of the King, of the TFrench^may wait till the rivals have adjusted their 'conflicting claims.— Examiner. » • . .-