The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-09 00:00:00

EAsr INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals, May 6.—The Malabar, Voss, from Bombay. off
Plymouth, sailed from Vingorla, Jan. 10; the Cape, Feb.
24; and St. Helena, March 10 ; the Orestes, Shettler, from
China, at Bristol, sailed Dec. 24 ; St. Helena, March 8 ; the
Osprey, Fisher, from the Mauritius, at Bristol, sailed Feb. 1;
the Cape, Feb. 27 ; the Navarino, Close, from the Mauritius,
otr Portsmou'll, sailed Jan. 29. ; the Cape, Feb. 25 ; St. Elea_
lean, March 10.

Passengers per the Malabar, from 11,-,mbay.--J. Bailie. Esq. ;
Capt. Johnson,- Miss Morris, P. Wilkins, Esq., 4th Dragoons.
Landed at the Cape : —Mr. Strover, Mrs. North. From
Vingorla :—Mrs. South. Colonel Green, Captain Connor,
Captain South, Captain B.irker, Surgeon Griffiths, Quarter-
master Connolly, Lieutenants Longley, Smith, Crawley, He-
nessey, and Rice; Adjutant Hollingsworth, Ensign Newman,
Mr. Hollinsworth, 142 men, 17 women, and 22 children, his
Majesty's 24th Regiment.
Passengers per the Mary. from Van Diemen's Land (ex.
pasted. )—Mrs. Winch and four children, and servant ; Mr.
and Mrs. Aldridge, Mrs. Wall, Mr. Achill, Mr. Harvey,
Master H. Rowlands, Dr. Holden, Mr. and Mrs. Belford and
five children, Mr. and Mrs. Collins and two children, Mr. T.
Cooney, Mrs. Hepburn, Mrs. Henry.
Passengers per the Lord Godeiieli, from New South Wales,
via New Zealand and Rio Janeiro (expected).—The Rev.
Mr. White, Mrs. White, and four children ; Mrs. Henry Ed-
colter, Mr. Leonard, and Mr. S insum (of Swan River.)
Passengers per the Vestal, from New South Wales (ex-
pected.)—Air;. Hookey, Mr. and Mrs. M‘Dunald, Mrs. Cains,
Mr. Whitehead, Mr. R. Roberts ; Misses Jones, Macpherson,
and French ; Mrs. Roberts, and Ann Clarke.

We are sorry to say that the commercial distress
prevailing so fearfully in the north has extended to Taunton.
The principal branch of manufacture, the silk trade, is in a sad
state. Some factories are working only two days a week,
others are discharging a great number of hands, and some
have proposed to close altogether for two or three weeks, until
over glutted markets are a little relieved. The effect of such
a diminution of labour at a time when the prices of provisions
are unusually high, is of course calculated to produce the
greatest distress among the poor, many of whom are almost
starving.—Bath Herald.
By a letter from a correspondent at Bairout, dated
the 12th of March, we learn that he has just returned from a
visit to the ruins of Gerash, and had passed through the dis-
tricts which had suffered most severely by the great eat thquake
that had occurred on the Ist of January, and had convulsed all
Syria. "At Naplous, in particular," he writes, that the
havoc was dreadful ; the greater part of the inhabitants were
living in the fields ; the garden-walls almost blocked up the
paths, and in the town the houses that were not thrown down
were twisted from their former shapes, and split from top to
bottom. 1 had great difficulty in finding a lodging." After
passing the Jordan he ascended the hills, and proceeded up
the lovely valley through which that river flows, and arrived at
a large village, which was a heap of ruins, nut twenty houses
standing—all destroyed by the earthquake.
A journeyman dyer of Elboeuf, near Rouen, named
Picard; was on Friday last so much taunted and ridiculed by
his comrades on the circumstance of a pretty young woman, to
whom he was attached, having married with another man,
that, in his excitement, he swore he would go and drown him-
self. His companions, little imagining he would aarry his
threat into execution, continued to torment him and date him
to the deed. 1-le was, however, mad enough to rush instantly
from the dye- house, which was close to the river, and throw
himself in. Immediate attempts were made to save him, but
life was extinct before be could be taken out of the water.