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SYDNEY NEWS
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
[From the Sydney Morning Herald.}
ARRIVALS.
AUGUST 19.-Deborah, schooner, 121 tons, Captain Nagle, from Auckland the 18th, and Maurhangi the 26th July. Passengers-Mr. Charles Mackintosh, and Master Nagle .
19.-Asia, barque, 523 tons, Captain Ros- kell, from Hobart Town the 10th instant. Passengers-Mr. W. Hart and servant, Mrs. Laidley, Captain Addison, Mr. Ottley, Capt. M'Allisler, Dr. Lardner, R.N. (surgeon su- perintendent), eleven women and twenly-one children- the families of emancipists.
19. - George Champlin, American barque, 381 tons, Captain Swain, from the Whaling Grounds. Left Newport, Rhode Island, 2nd November, 1844; Sydney, 22nd March, 1847.
19.-Secret, schooner, 38 tons, Captain Boyle, from Boyd Town the 15th inst. Pas- gender-Mr. Moutry.
20.-Phoenix, steamer, 108 tons, Captain Wiseman, from the Clarence River the 18th instant. Passengers - Dr. Dobie, Mr. Sharp, Mr. Aitkin, M*. M'Donald, aud fifteen in the steerage.
20.-Tamar, steamer, I08 tons, Captain Allen, from Moreton Bay the 17th instant. Passengers-Mr. Le -Breton, Mr. Morrisson, Mr. Mann, Mr. Hely, Mr. Thorne, Mr, Stewart, Mr. Horton, Mrs. Alford and child, Mrs. Egan, Mrs. Cook, Messrs. Blaze, Macarthur, Flynn, and Alsop.
20.-Lightning, brig, 182 tons, Captain Mellish, from Hongkong the 9th April, and Manila the 7th May.
21.-Blair, barque, 831 tons, Captain Mordy, from Hongkong the 27th April, and Port Phillip the 15th instant.
DEPARTURES.
AUGUST 19.- William, schooner, 62 tons, Captain Steele, for Moreton Bay. Passen- gers - Messrs. Prott, Blake, Jones, Dryden, Price, White, and Harper.
20.--Maid of Cashmere, schooner, 177 tons, Captain Ellis, for Launceston. Pas- senger-Mr. Archbold.
ARRIVALS OF COASTERS.
AUGUST 19.- Thistle, steamer, 127, Mul- hall, from Morpeth, with 760 bushels grain, 60 bags bran, 11 casks tallow, 71 trusses hay, 40 pigs; Primus, 38, Howard, from New- castle, with 48 tons coal; Lady Mary Fitz Roy, 38, Barter, from Newcastle, with 40 tons coals; Elizabeth, 32, Plunkett, from Newcastle, with 40 tons coals; Charles Webb, 27, Giles, from Newcastle, with 25
tons coals.
20.-Maitland, steamer, 103, Parsons, from Morpeth, with 36 bags wheat, 66 bags maize, 4 packages bacon, 3 hides, 19 trusses and 30 bales hay, 14 bags bran, 2 bundles, kangaroo skins, 19 pigs. ; Traveller's Bride, 30, Hodges, from Newcastle, with 40 tons
coals.
21.-Rose, steamer, 172 tons, Pattison, from Morpeth, with 52 trusses hay, 29 casks tallow, 7,000 horns. 600 bushels grain, 25 sacks charcoal, 60 hides, 40 bags flour, 16 bags bran; Harriett, 30, M'Cauley, from Newcastle, with 40 tons coals; Lucy Ann, 37, Rutter, from Newcastle, with 59 casks tallow; Black Swan, l8, Tait, from New- castle, with 29 tons coals ; Henry, 30, Mal- linson, from Newcastle, willi 30 tons coals ; Eliza, 33, King, from Newcastle, with 43
tons coals.
CLEARANCE.
A DOUST 21.- Thomas Arbuthnot, ship, 621 tons, Captain Thompson, lor London. Pas- sagers-Captain and Mrs. Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Booth, Lieutenant Aird, R.N., Mrs. Aird, Dr. Maclean, R.N., Mr. Smythe, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Dangar, Captain Snodgrass, 96th Regt., Mr. and Mrs. Sewell, Mr. Barr, six officers, and twenty seamen from H. M.'s schooners Bramble and Castlereagh.
IMPORTS.
AUGUST 20.- Lightning, brig, 182 tons, Capt. Mellish, from Hongkong and Manila: cargo from Hongkong-293 packages chairs, baskets, &c, R Towns. Cargo from Manila -4580 bags sugar, R. Towns.
21.- Blair, barque, 331 tons. Captain Mordy, from Hongkong via Port Phillip:
530 chests 4214 half-chests 365 boxes and
1543 packages, tea, 70 packages earthenware, Lyal!, Scott, and Co.
VESSELS LAID ON FOR LONDON.
Saturday, August 21.
Thomas Arbuthnot, ship, 621 tons, Thomson ;
969 casks tallow, 1230 bales wool, 14 tons lead ore, 4000 spokes, 40 tons copper ore, 1000 horns, and 3400 hides, on board. Full ship
Sunflower, barque, 341 tons, Forrester; 260
tons tallow, 50 tierces beef, 30 tons bones, 26 tons sperm oil, 100 hides, and 100 bales wool, on board.
Tory, barque, 512 tons, Young; 37 tons
oil, 395 tons tallow, 40 bales wool, 4000 hides, 20 tons copper ore, and 23 bales leather, on board.
VESSELS FOR LONDON.-The Thomas Ar- buthnot, being a full ship, has hauled into stream, ready for sea, and will sail early on Tuesday morning. The Sunflower and Tory are now the only vessels on the berth; the former is expected to sail on the 5th, and the latter about the 15th September.-Aug. 21.
The Lightning has had a lengthened pas- sage of one hundred and four days from Manila. She reports having spoken, on the 10th May, in the Straits of Bernardino, the brig Syren, hence for Manila the 18th March. The barque Rifleman was to sail from Manila for Sydney three days after the Lightning, and would shortly be lollowed by the barque Sarah Scott, which was then loading.
The schooner Terror was sold by public auction yesterday by Mr. Samuel Lyons, for the sum of £1350. Messrs. Thacker and Co. were the purchasers.
THE SCHOONERS "VIXEN'' AND "SELINA." We are sorry to say that little hope can be entertained of the safety of the above vessels, and that by most persons they are now given up as lost. The Vixen was the property of Captain Long, resident in Sydney, and sailed from this port for Newcastle, in ballast, about the 16th July, since which nothing whatever has been heard of her. The crew consisted
of four seamen besides the master (Thomas Stevens), who was a married man, and had, we are informed, his wife on board with him, The Selina was a new schooner, of about 62 tons burthen, and flat-bottomed, having been built at Moreton Bay, for Captain Deloitte, of Sydney, expressly for bar harbours. She was launched on the 15th Mav, and sailed from Brisbane for Sydney on 3rd July, with a full cargo of cedar, since which no tidings have been heard of her. Mr. Cameron (the builder) was on board, and the crew, we be- lieve, consisted of five seamen.
The schooner Comet sailed from Newcastle for Port Cooper, New Zealand, yesterday, at noon. The Sea Nymph had nearly the
whole of her coals on board when the steamer Rose lett yesterday, and was ex- pected to sail for Auckland on Monday next. The barque Ganges had also commenced loading.-August 21.
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM COCKATOO IS- LAND.-On Thursday night three prisoners attempted to make their escape from Cock- atoo Island, having got through the roof of their hut. They were observed by one of the sentinels on duty, who fired and wounded one of them, who was captuied, another of them gave himself up, and the third was found drowned yesterday evening in the water between Cockatoo Island and the
Kurth Shore-- Chronicle, August 21.
THE WEATHER.-Although there has been so much rain in the southern districts lately, we have bad very little in this part of the country for some mouths. In the agricul- tural districts-the Cowpasture, the Hawkes- bury, the Upper Hunter, &c-the settlers are becoming extremely anxious about their wheat, which is likely to fail, unless we have rain before the end of the month. The cold, dry, westerly winds, which have lately pre- vailed, have completely patched the ground, so that vegetation is at a standstill.- Herald, August 23.
INQUEST -On Saturday an inquest was held on the body of William Smith, the prisoner who was drowned in attempting to escape from Cockatoo Island on the preceding day. It appeared that the attempt took place about three o'clock in the morning, and that Smith, who was the only prisoner that entered the water, was shot at by the corporal on duty, and immediately went down. His body was found during the day, when it was found that his leg-irons were
still on, though the chain was cut. No gun- shot or other wound could be found on the
body when examined by Dr. Silver. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death by drowning.-Herald, August 23.
PARRAMATTA- PUBLIC DINNER TO C. COWPER, ESQ., M.C.-The constituents of Mr. Cowper have determined, at the close of the present session, to Invite that gentleman to a public dinner, and to solicit him to allow himself to be nominated for this borough at the ensuing election.- Weekly Despatch.
ANOTHER MURDER BY THE BÍACKS. Intelligence reached Brisbane a few days since that a poor shepherd named John Rogers, employed on Messrs. Humphrey and Herbert's station, on the Baiamba Creek, wat barbarously murdered by a party of blacks on the 26lh ultimo, who are supposed to be the same tribe thal killed the black boy Wyamba, at Ferriter and Uhr's, about two months since; as a matter of course, nothing has or can be done in the way of apprehend- ing these poor benighted savages, and they
will consequently in a few weeks have another . chance to commit a similar, or, perhaps, a worse outrage upon the persons of tbe un- offending hutkeepers and shepherds that may unfortunately fall in their way.-Moreton Bay Correspondent of the S. M. Herald.
HORRIBLE, MOST HORRIBLE!-Two recent arrivals, natives of one of the South Sja Islands, a day or two since left the vessel in which they arrived, for the purpose of ex- ploring the much talked of, much thought of, wonders of the City of Sydney. Their first essay in this direction, however, was somewhat short, and anything but success- ful ; for before they left the wharf on which they landed, they were alarmed by finding themselves in disagreeable proximity to a monstrum horrendum, informe, ingene, and with hands uplifted, mouths wide open, and eyes, like their owners, on the point of start- ing, presented a picture of pitiable and genuine horror. But presently the monster was in motion, and as fast as legs could carry them, so were our islanders, who, yelling and screaming, never once turned their heads, till, having regained their ship, they were inspired with sufficient confidence to contemplate, at a safe and respectful dis- tance, the object of their intense dread. Nevertheless, the monster was neither a flying dragon nor the long looked for bunyip, but a much less uncommon specimen of natural history than either, for it was nothing more nor less than-a horse.-S. M. Herald, August 20.
NORTHERN CEDAR.-On Monday last we noticed the arrival of some extraordinarily large logs of cedar, by the new schooner built at the Bellinger River for Mr. John Robertson, Market Wharf: Since then we have learnt that one-half the cargo (30,000 feet cedar) is the produce of only one tree, the parent of the immense logs first noticed. This interesting specimen of Bellinger pro- duce yielded about 15,000 feet sawn timber, and realised in Sydney upwards of one hun- dred guineas. The purchase, we believe, has been made for the China market; and as the quality of this cedar is correspondent with its magnitude, it will tend, we trust, to increase the growing repute of Australian cedar with the Celestials.-S. M. Herald, August 19.
MILITARY.-The detachment of the 58th, at present in Sydney, will embark for Auck- land immediately upon the arrival, which is hourly expected, of the two companies of the 99th which have recently been stationed at or near Nicholson, and were relieved by the head-quarters of the 65th regiment.
Herald.