The Company's ship Glenbervie, Black, sailed from Gravesend for New
Zealand on Sunday last. Among the passengers, are the manager and accountant of the branch of the Union Bank of Australia about to be established in the Company's first settlement in New Zealand, Two convict-ships, the Mangles and the Runnymede, will sail for Australia in about a fortnight. The latter vessel will take hay-con- victs only. The guard for each ship will consist of two officers and forty men. That for the Runnymede will be selected from the Fifty- first Light Iufantry ; and the one for the Mangles from the Ninety- sixth Regiment and Provisional Battalion.—Cnited S'ervice Gazette.
Mr. Torrens' son of Colonel Torrens, lately attended a meeting at Loushrea, for the purpose of promoting emigration to South Australia. Sir 'John Burke subscribed 200/., and the Dowager Marchioness of Clanriearde 100/. towards the purchase of a tract of land. in that colony for emigrants. The Limerick Chronicle says that Mr. Torrens -will go Oat as a settler to South Australia in December.
The Great Western sailed from Bristol for New York on Saturday, with 126 passengers (all she could accommodate,) a cargo of manu- factured goods, chiefly silks, and a considerable snot in specie for the government of Canada. Among her passengers, were Mr. Van Buren, son of the President of the United States ; the Bishop of' Toronto, and Mr. Cunard, contractor for the Halifax line of steam-boats.
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