Shipping Intelligence.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 300, 14 April 1849, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVALS. April 8. Maukin, brig, 106 torn, Hughes,master, from Sydney, with sundries. Passengers—Mr. and Mm. Jones, two children and servant, Lieut. Harrison, R.N., and Lady, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Dodds, and two children, Captain Nagle, Mr. Lang, and 5 in steerage. W. S. Grahame, Agent. April 9. Inchiwum, barque, 5C5 torn, Pearse, master, from Newcastle, with cattle, horses, sheep. Passenger"—Mi. McDowell, Mr. Leek, Mr. Ryan, Mr. McDonald, Mr. Verge, Mr. Swan, and 9 stockmen in bteeragr. J. Macky, Agent. Apnl 11. Mayuasha, biig, 152, toni, Howe, master, from Wellington via Poverty Bay, with wheat, barley, and maize. Passengers —Mr. H. Williams, Mri, Williams, and Miss Williami, and 4 in steerage. D. rsalhan, Agent. April 12. Sister, srhoone^ 44 tons, Read, master, from Sydney t with sundries. John Salmon, & Co., Agent*.

DEPARTURE. April 11. John Bull, schooner, 71 tons, Robinson, master, for Hobart Tuwn, with sundries.—Passengers—Mr. Clayton, D. Nathan, Agent.

The Nancy arrived from Russell on Monday. The (Jbilders, of Hobart Town, Capr. Brown, ha I arrived at the Bay of Islands during the last week, and reports having spoken the Lexington, Capt. Saunders, off Sunday Island, * few days previous to hit arrival. Captain Saunders had teen a vessel, bottom up, near Sunday Island, which he supposed, from her new copper, a* well as apparent size of the hull, to be the Juniui, of New Bedford, that had lately been at Hobart Town, getting newly coppered. He took from her a topsail yard, but owing to the weather being to bid, his boats were unable to keep by the hull to ascertain particulars of umne, &c, and be was obliged to abandon her. The ship Richard Mitchell, Capt. M'Clive, of Nantuckets, seven muntbi out, ISO barrels iperm, had touched at the Bay to refit, and tailed again on Fiiday latt. The Mechanic, American whaler, had juit arrived at the Bay from the whaling ground, on Saturday evening as the Nancy sailed.

MAiLi dote for Sydney per Maukin ; and for Wellington and Neibon, per Victoria, Thii-Day, at 12 o'clock. For Hobart Town, per Espewnjs, at half-past tea thii £*y

DIED, At his residence, near Wexford, on the 7th of October, LiKUTENAifT- Colonel Thompson, formerly of the 27th Regiment, after a long illness, bora with the moit exemplary patience and resignation^ Lieut. - Colonel Thompson commenced his military career in 1794 in the Donegal Militia, from which he was soon alter appointed to the Derry Regiment, railed by the loyal citizens of Londonderry, at the com* raencemi'iit <f the war with France, and commanded by Colonel Napier, father of the historian. On tins regiment hen-g drafted into the 43rd Light Infantry, he was Gazett-d to that most distinguished corps, the 27th or Knniskellen Regiment of Foot, and proceeded with it immediately afterwards to the West Inriiei ; served with the force there under Sir Ralph Abercrombip, at the rapture of St. Lucia, and was present as Lieutenant of the Grenadier Company at the storming of Moine Fortuned, when both the other office s of the company were killed; present at the capture of Grenada, and the various engagements with the Maroons ; in the expedition to Holland, under the Duke of York, in 1799, he wag present at the actions of the 27th of /ugust, 10th and i 9th of Septembtr, 2nd and 6th of October; •frved in the expedition to Quiberon Bay, the attack on F«ncJ, under Sir James Pulteney, in 1800, and expedition to Vigo ; at the Egyptian campaign of 1801 ; afttrwnrds at Naples, Sicily, and Calabria; commanded the Grenadier Company of the 27th at the battle of Maida, in 1806 ; present at the capture of I- cliia and Procida, in 1809; at the campaign* on the caVern coast of Spain, under Sir John Murray, including the taking of Alcoy, battles of Biar and Ca*>ta!la, and siege of Tarra-jona ; and finally at the capture of Puns by the allied army in 1815. His ron»m,ssions bore elate— L-eutenant 27th Regim.nt, September, 1795; Captain, May, 1800; Major, February, 1808 ; Lie v.'ii rt-Colntiel. June, 1814 He closed lis lon«[ and distinguished service in 1825 ; and after tuffering nuny years from a sue« cussion of paralytic attucks, died beloved aud respected by all who knew him.