Shipping Intelligence.

Taranaki Herald, Volume IX, Issue 443, 26 January 1861, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

ARRIVED.

Jan. 20.— Sea Gull, 61 tons, Farnie, from Wanganui, with 100 sheep. Jan. 22.— Rita, brig, Firth, from Sydney, with a general cargo. W. Weston, agent. Jan. 23. — Caroline, gunboat, Marks, from Ma. nukau. Jan. 23. — Star Queen, ship, Barber, from Bombay, vid Auckland. Passengers — Major Butler, Captain Brown, Lieuts. Baynton, Hasted, Thompson, Cox, Waller, Ensigns Clarke, Murray, and Clayton, Asst.-Surgeon Davis, 16 sergeants and 314 rank and flle of H.M. 57th Regt. W. Weston, agent. Jan. 25. — H.M.C.S.S. "Victoria, Captain Norman, from Nelson, Passengers — Messrs O. Carrington, G. Curtis, Miss Oxenham, Lieut. Forstei, 12th regt., 2 artilerymen, J. Covbett. Jan. 25.— Traveller's Bride, ketch, Reid, from Manukau, with timber.

SAILED.

Jan. 20. — Sea Gull, Farnie, for Sydney. Jan. 20. — Jane, schooner, Jacobson. for Nelson. Jan. 22. — H.M. colonial steam sloop Victoria, Capt. Norman, for Nelson. Passengers — Messrs O. Carrington and S. Newell. Jan. 23. — Tyne, schooner, Linklater, for Wanganui. Passengers — Messrs Watt, Russell, Mr and Mrs Steer, and Old. Jan. 24. — Caroline, gunboat, Marks, for Manukau.

A ship was signalled, outside Tiri Tiri, at an early hour on Monday morning, and as the wind was fresh a«d fair, we were speedily informed that she was a trooper, that her name was the Star Queen, and that she came from Bombay, which poit she left on the evening of the 23rd November and has therefore made a good, as well as a pleasant, passage of fifty-one days. The Star Queen is a ship of 835 tons registei, is commanded by Captain Barber, and is onlj 6 months out from England, whence in 84 days she conveyed detachments of the 56th and 72nd regiments to Bombay. There were five soldiers died from dysentery, — that fatal complaint to our soldiers and seamen in the Eastern seas — on the passage : in other respects, the ship was generally healthy. The mystery with respect to the In. dian regiment has at length been solved. Notwithstanding the explicit extracts of letters to officers here, and despite the more remarkable letter in our Post Office to the officer commanding the Rifles, the Star Queen brings neither the 13th, 23rd, 35th, 60th, or 66th, all of which had been named, but the gallant old 57th — the glorious Die-hards — a corps well known to Australasian colonists, honored and esteemed wherever they have served, and who, thirty years since, took a leading part in the war which ensured to Tasmania her speedy emancipation from the murderous attacks of her aboriginal savages. We are glad to welcome this, the first division, of- the brave 57th to our shores. They are under the command of Major Butler ; the other officers being Captain Brown ; Lieuts. Baynton, Hasted^ Thompson, Cox, and Waller'; Ensigns

Clarke, Murray, and Clayton; Assistant-Surgeon Davis; 16 sergeants, and 314 rank and file. She has a quantity of service ammunition on board. — Neiu-Zealander, Jan. 16. The Head Quarters of the regiment were to have sailed, from Bombay, three or four days after the departure of the Star Queen, on board the Castilian, a London ship of- 1060 tons register. They may, therefore, be looked for shortly. The remainder of I the regiment, with the women and children, would I speedily follow. If we 'nay judge of the 57th regt. from the sample we beheld on board the Star Queen, we should say that the Indian Government have sent us a regiment in every respect equal to the work they have to expect. — Ibid.