STATISTICAL, FOREIGN, ETC. During the period which has elapsed since the publication of our last shipping summary in April matters have beeu far from brisk, indeed this season of the year is usually a slack one with shipping; the arrivals from oversea ports have been few, and very little has been done in the way of despatching cargo to the Home markets, while on the other hand we may congratulate ourselves on the increase of our traffic with the sister colonies, to which we are indebted to our last bountiful harvest, which enabled us to supply our Australian neighbours with the grain and other produce they required. The number of vessels of all classes which have arrived at the port of Ofcago this month has been 57, with a total of 42,859 tons register against 44 vesssls with 33,151 tons, last month' The deperturen this month amount to 55 vessels with a total of 37,337 tons register; while "last month's departures were 52 vessels representing 41,042 ;tons register. Of arrivals from oversea this month we have only to record two vessels with a total of 5435 tons register, while there has been but one departure, representing 4484 tons register. Last month the arrivals were three vessels with 5392 tons, and five departures with 8726 tons register. The first vessel which reached us this month from oversea was the barque Brussels, of 961 tons, Captain Letson, from Glasgow, bringing 1450 tons of cargo, after a passage from anchor to anchor ot 84 days, during which she encoun tered some exceptionally severe weather, in which she lost her fore and main top gallant masts, and sustained other damage; iudeed, in one gale she strained so heavily that, notwith standing the fact of her being hove-to, and uMug oil bags to quieten the violence of the sea, on sounding her pumps no less than 14in of water was found in the well. She encountered the first hmvy g',]« on J.-inuwy 27, just as she hart cleared the Scilly Isles ; j t set j n from S.E. and veered to N.E., accompanied by a terrific sea. During the gale (which lasted 12 hours), she shipped immense qualities of water, which swept ncr decks of everything movable; in addi tion to this she carried away her martingale, and had several sails split She crossed the meridian of Greenwich on March 14 in lat. 