ENGLISH SHIPPING.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 1286, 28 November 1857, Page 2

ENGLISH SHIPPING.

Arrii-ed —Aug. 22—Steamer Great Britain, Gray, from JJelbourne. September s—Barque yionsoon, Turnbull, from New Zealand. Sailed.— August 15— Bosicorth, from the Downs to Otago. August 22— George Lanning, from Gravesend to Oiago. August 24— William, from Gravesend to Auckland. September 4— A cast er, from Gravesend to Wellington and Nelson. September 20 —Tamar, from Gravesend to Auckland. Sept. 20— Creswell, from Gravesend to Wellington and Kelson. September 20— Palmyra, from Gravesend to Otago, Canterbury, and Nelson. September 27 — lloehdtnpion, from Wellington ami Canterbury. (From the Correspondent of the AryusA Jhe nrmdgatmn of the West Indian and European and Australian ?»lail Companies has been eom-umniatcd, and the Australian line is now in tiic hands of the Royal Mail Company. Ju my previous letter, J referred to the uneasiness which began to be felt in consequence of the non-arrival of the Great Britain, it was the 22nd oi August uefore she was announced. During the entire run from Melbourne she met with nothing but adverse winds. Notwithstanding the protracted character of the voyage, all the passengers have passed the highest encomiums on the ship and her popular commander, Captain Gray. The cabin passengers have presented him with an address ami a piece of plan?, and the second and third cabin passengers have also presented addresses, thanking him for his kindness ami attention to them whilst on board. The Great Britain was taken into the Graving Dock, ami after the lapse lew W(M ' ks Wi ; s ‘lespatehe.l to India with troops. “ c it on lue authority of the CfinadiuH iVews, tuat t;.c Great Eastern, steamship—tluii miracle of marine architecture—is to be luum-hed during the first spring tides oi October, probably on the sth, on which day the tides will be highest.

The. Columbian with the ’Europ.-au Mails and English I fitelligence to the 16th Sep turn her, arrived o.';‘.’‘'ort Phillip Heads at !) p.m. on the 13lh i’ist., ;nnl anchored in Hobson’s Bay about 8.15 to-day. She arrived at Suez on the 7th September, at 3 a.m., ami wa, detained there until the 27th when she received her mails, ami started at 9 a.m. She called nt the following places: Aden, 3rd October, 12.15 p.m.; Point d< : Gallc, I Jth October, 1. lu p ; m., ami left on the 17th ; King Sound, ou the sth November, 11 mm., ami left on "the (th. at 8.40 a.m. She Ims consumed dmim' the trip 5,327 tons coal, and will receive 230 tons here She will proceed as: soon as possible to Sydney where her machinery will have to umh rgo a. thorough’ refit, as she has broken down several times on her passage lienee.