Me3srs Shaw, SaviH and Co.'s fine iron ship Je3fie Readman arrived from London shorty before nine o'clock this morning. The vessel has made a splendid ran of 81 days from land to land, and 90 from the Docks. This is the best passage made to our port for aGonsiderable time past, and Captain GiD3on and his officers have reason to feel proud of the run. The Jessie Headman is a fine iron ship of. 9C7 tons regis ter, and was built on tho Clyde by Scott in 1869. Thi3 is her first voyage to Auckland. She comes into port in fine order, and this is more creditable when it is considered that she brings nearly 150 passengers. The passage has been a very June ventful though remarkably pleasant one, aud the passengers speak in higt and flattering terms o£ the care and attention which they have received at the hands of Captain Gibson and his officers. The following is the report of tho passage:—Left Gravesenc: on June 27 with light winds, ulxporiencedahcavy southerly gale on the 30th, andeventually cleared the land on the 3rd July, with moderate weather. North-east trades wero carried down to 10 deg, north, and the Equator was crossed on July 26th in longitude 23J west. Picked iup tho south-cast trades in 3 deg. north. They proved good and carried the vessel down to 22 dcg. south latitude and 33 deg. we3t longitude. Crossed the meridian of Greenwich on tho 18'h Augi.st, with unsettled woather and thunder and lightning, and subseq. eutly north-east gale, which shifted to the west during a heavy hail squall. Gougfl lalund was sighted on the lothof the same month. Passed the meridian of the Capa of Good Hope on August 2lßt, in latitade 43.47, south, and was off the coast of Tasmania on tho 18th September, F. om August 15th till sighting the Three Kings at 6 a.m. on Wednesday last, oxperionced unsteady winds, strong gales, and heavy seas. Down the Coast had northerly wind?, Captain Gibson reports sighting the ship Superb, from London to Melbourne, which left ten days bafore the Jessie Readman on Angus; 11, also the ship Pleiades, from Welling ton to London, 56 days out, in latitude 28deg. south, and longitude 31deg. west, on August 7. The Jessio Readman briugs cargo valued at ■£27,100, and the following passengers :—

Saloon: Hugh Nisbett. 