Shipping Intelligence.

Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 24, 12 January 1853, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

The True Briton, fiS5 torn, CnpUln H. W. Norrls, with troops nnd panscngcra on bonrd, from London, arrived in pnrt on Saturday mornint; last, the 18th inst. She left Denl nn thn II th August, liavine on the day previous shipped the troops and part of the passengers She afterwards put into Spithcad, where she rpmnlnc/1 about 12 hours. It was not, however, until the 20th of August, having met with foul winds in tho ohnnncl, that «ho tonic { her ii<ht of departure oft" Lund's End. She enmo here louth about. The pasaago throughout in Ac- , •vuKribcd as bavin? been a very plonsant one, with the exception of two very heavy (sales of-wind which she encountered, one off tho Cape, and the other off tlir Ulsnds of St. Paul and Amsterdam. About 2 o'clock on Saturday, bcini; three hours after her nrrivnl hero, the landed 84 men, 14 wt>find 13 rhllilron belonging to tho 05th r'gt., tinder •hi 1 rnmmaml of Lieutenant Priestly nnd Ensigns Burk ami W'cmy-g. Sho also landed here eight cabin and nine steerage passengers. A detachment of Ihn !ißth, under the command of Captain Policy, will proceed on to Auckland by the Trno Briton. The Midlothian and tho Cashmere arrived in the Downs on thc-7lh August. The latter vessel wan immediately laid on by Messrs. Willis and V.o. for this port direct, nnd wan to sail nbont the fint or second 'week in September.— Wellington Independent, Dee. 22. [We heor tho abovo vessel will call at'Nrtv Plymouth, having passcngero and goods, on her way to Auckland.] A report hni reached u>, authority of which we entertain not the slightest doubt, Hint a cammunu ration has been addrcanrd to Sir George Grey, by one of the stnam packet Companies recently formed in London, requesting tho requisite information as to the formation of n coal depot at Wellington, nnd nifio whether It Is practicable to erect a jetty to such n dintanco from thn shore tlint tho depth of wstcr At the extremity of it should not bo less than 18 or 20 feet, so an to cnnblo tho steamers calling here to go alongside and land tbeir passengers and freight.— lbid. The Government brig Victoria , after a pannage of 13 days from Auckland, arrived in pnrt on Wednesday Innt. She has brought with hrr the New Zealand Constitution Art, ah well no some v. ry important despatobes nnd Instructions Iroin tho Colonial Office for his Excellency tho Governor-in-Chief. The«o tfespatchen it appear* came via Sj rf ncy to Auckland, but by what o|>por f unity we >(ri> nnt informed, but prciumo it to have been l>v he Great Britain which had arrived ut Sydney.— l <id, Dec. 25.