ENGLISH SHIPPING.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 40, 3 December 1845, Page 2

ENGLISH SHIPPING.

The St. George entered outwards for Sydney on the 23th June. The Eleanor entered outIds fo. Sydney on the 27th June Ihe lismania arrived from Lmnceston on the 19th June and was advertised to sail for Sydney on the lath August The Royal Gkorgk. f ooi Port Phillip, wa* off' Deal o ; , the 30th June. The Hind, from Sydney, eirered inwards on the Ist July, me Eweretta was off Gravesend on the 2«tli June. The Nelson was advertised for Auckland. Ihe ThcMAS Hughes, from Hurt Phillip, arnwd at Gravesend on the 27th June The Gratitopk arrived from Launces-on June 22nd, and entered outwards on the following day.—Sydney Herald, October 29. .__„____„

Swan Island.—We have been favoured by Mr. John Stuckey. who has just returned to Adelaide from Hobart Town, with a description of the new revolving light placed on Swan Island, situate u-artheNE extreuv.ty of Van Dieoien's Land, iv Banks's Straits, leading into bass's' Straits. The de-criptiou is as follows .-—The revolving light comprises oce concentrated lamp, with three hundred ami fifty-two stationary eiirors, of which two hundred and twenty are placed in the form of a dome, above the concentrated lamp, and one hundred mirrors are fixe i in a diagonal line from the concent! ated lamp, and twenty-eight below the concentrated lamp, facing each other. The revolving apparatus consists of au iron column, revolving rollers which work round it. with arms and uprights, &c., which supports eight refractors or glass lenses of two feet six inches square each—made of a number of circular pieces of polished glass—the refractors work in the open space between the upper and lower mirrors. The clock-work is a splendid piece of mechanism, which will be lighted up on the Ist of November. The light-house is under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Watson. —Adelaide Obseiver.