English Shipping.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 101, 5 July 1854, Page 2

English Shipping.

In the Australian and New Zealand Gazette of the 11 th Fcbnnry, the following vessels woro advertised for this r.olony •. — By Mc»«r» Willis and Co. Tliciin, to anil Feb. 15, for Otago", Canter, bury and Wellington ; Eliza Moore, March 5, for Nelson and Wellington ; Cashmore in March, and Crenawell in April, for Auckland and New Plymouth ; Simlnh in March, Maori in April, for Wellington and other ports; also (now building by Messrs Fletcher, Brothers, Limcliouso, expressly ior this line of packets) a near ship, 1,500 tons, in April, for Auckland nnd New Plymouth ; a now "hip, 1000 tons, in Mfcy, for Woliington and other ports. By F. Young and Co. NormanMorrison, on the 4th March, for Canterbury, Wellington, and Auckland,

Sm John Franklin.— The following extract from a private letter of the promoter of tho American arctic searching expeditions, one of which, under Dr. Kane, is'now afloat, will be rond at this moment with interest :•— " Now York, Jan. 30, 1854- I agree, with you that reaignaiion is not required of the relatives and friends of the missing nrctic expedition for a result not yet ascertained. — Sir John Franklin, I lupposc, went through Wellington channel ; ho then would Imnke for Behring Strait ; but in doing- so he would probably be compelled to go on as far west as the meridian of that Strait, and porhnpn farther, before ho got an oppor* tnnity to p;ct south. Ho would then make ft bold push ; in thin ho has got entangled by the ice, and cannot exlriente, himself. Until that barrier of ice j» well explored, 1 shall not anything liko despair. Where the minsing ones arc supposed to be, no ono lias visited. No judge or jury could say from tho evidence now before us that tbey no longer exist." Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, Fob. 26, Sir John Fhankun's Ex'pdditiok.— A gentleman—Mr. Harrington — has revived, in a lee« ture which he, hay been delivering, the discussion aa to tho fnto of Sir John Fmnklin and his expedition insisting that the corn pans needle Indicates that J«rKc quantities of electricity tiro continually trnn veiling towards the poles ; that, being condensed, combustion ensues there ; and that they arc the two hottest portions of the globe. He maintains that this is indicated by the loud crackling noises lieanl in those regions, and the aurora borculis, aa well as by a current of water from tho north, lie insists that there must be a temperate climate be twecn the ice bound quarter and the fire at the polo, nnd that it in said that animals in the polar regions migrate to the north during the wintor. He contends that Sir John Frnuklm may bo in a goninl climnte but that without fuel and steaTO ho may bo unable to return on account of n constant wind rushing towards the pole to feed the. ffre, — Ibid,