The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-11 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals.—The Fortitude, Payne, from Van Dieman'a
Land, off Hastings, sailed from Hobart Town, April 14,
Bahia, June 24 ; Reliance, Hall, from Bombay, at Liver-
pool, sailed April 5, St. Helena, June 26.
Arrivals at Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land.—The
Piscator, Mac Queen, March 26, from Sydney ; Ann,
M'Alpin, from London ; Argo, Billing, 27th, from the
Mauritius ; Lord Hobart, Sinclair, 29th, from Port
Philip ; Anne Howard, 29th, from New London ;
Maria, Miller, 29th, from Greenock ; Regia, Gray,.
April 5, from the Cape of Good Hope ; Erebus, Capt..
Sir John Ross ; and Terror, Capt. Crozier, 7th, from a
voyage of discovery ; Sea Horse (steamer), Browning,.
9th, from London and Lisbon ; Brothers, Mackenzie,
11th, from Port Philip.
Departures from Hobart Town.—The Maguasha,
Taylor, March 27, for Port Philip ; Miranda, Hayes,
April 1, for Lombock ; Nerio, Hill, 2d, and Argo, Bil-
ling, for Sydney ; Agenoria, Hurst, for Port Philip ;
Transfer, 7th, for Sydney ; Naiade, Carr, Bth, for Port
Philip ' • Indian, Herbert, and Curnaroon, Irving, 9th,
for the South Seas.

Arrivals at Launceston, Van Dieman's Land—Hawk,
Brown ; Challenger, Robinson, March 25, from Ade-
laide - Blossom, Paul Pry,
'and Lowestoft, 25th, from
Port Philip ; Peter Proctor, Armstrong, and Samuel
Winter, Sargeant, 30th, from London ; Lady Emma,
Buckland, from Swan River ; Lively, Davies, from Port
Philip ; Masden, Dare, April 1, from Hobart Town.
Departures from Launceston—Lowestoft, March 30,
for Portland Bay ; Gem, April 1, and Paul Pry, Apra.
2, for Port Philip.
HOBART TOWN, APRIL 9.—The Hindoo will sail on
the 26th for London. ; the British Sovereign proceeds to
King George's Sound, Madras, and Calcutta ; the Lady
Raffles to San Blas and West Coast of Mexico ; the
Laura and Glemualiere for Sydney ; Maiih, Launceston.
Arrival at Adelaide—Charles, Parker, Feb. 27, from
King George's Sound.

Airivals-at Port Nicholson, New Zealand—Her Ma-
jesty's ship Favorite. March 3, from Hobart Town ;
Ullswater, 9th, from Launceston ; Lapwing, 26th, from
the Coast ; James, Todd, April 5, from Hobart Town,
and sailed 16th, to Auckland.

BRITISH EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE.
SOUTH POLE.

The following is an extract of a letter received at
Lloyd's, from their agent at Hobart Town, dated ApriL
17, 1841 :

"By the last list you will have perceived the return to
this port of her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror,
Captains Ross and Crosier. Nothing official has as yet
transpired here, but it is generally understood that the
expedition has been very successful, and that it pro
proceeded eleven degrees lower south than the Astrolobe
a Zele, and four degrees more than any other vessel has
ever yet reached ; that they were enabled to fix the
exact position of the south magnetic pole at about one
hundred miles distant from them, and that some extra-
ordinary mistake appears to have affected the calculation
of the Americans who approached these regions." .

,
"
Sir Robert Peel's late remarks:—" I have
r jastFecei ,
The following is M. Von Raumar s notice of
he says, " the last speech which Sir Robert Peel
odelivered
at Tamworth. justly affirms thatonation, and. thatcni commerce
is by no means in a hop_etleossot
condition,
be laid to the charge of.
temporary difficulty oug.hs,
however, no justification or
the Corn-laws.
Tahisonitrary, Sir Robert Peel observed,
very justly, in
these laws. Oin,st
iilinement, on the 18th of May, 1841, it
to remove restraints on commerce. The may be salatao, in times both of commercial prosperity
and adversittY,at
id° protecting duties are necessary for corn,
poor-rates, may be answered by an-
otherthat poor-rates become necessary and
are increased by 'these protecting duties. Besides, the .
Pbree Pau saper-o-tip:oersei t
iaorlei
amount of the protecting duties is in no correct propor-
tion to the poor-rates. Robert Peel says further, by
-
a fixed duty you will be inundated with foreign corn in
cheap years,
while in years of famine it will be impossi-
ble to levy eight shillings. And once taken off, who will
again be able to re-impose the duty ? 1. Now, even as-
suming that the same years should be fruitful, both in
England and the Continent, it is inconceivable that foreign
agriculturists (who pay the protecting duty and freight)
should send so much wheat to England precisely in cheap
years. 2. With free trade, and regular cultivation, the
danger of famine diminishes extremely. But should such
a rare case occur, the rule must be suspended, as it has
often already been on extraordinary conjunctures. It is
to us a subject of congratulation that our country knows
no Corn-laws, and no discriniinating duties, and that in
this natural state of things we are strangers to all those
bitternesses, the result of this artificial condition, which
so much convulse England. That this artificial state of
things will soon be changed into a more natural state, I
do not for a moment dout ; and what benefits the Eng-
lish must also be beneficial to the Germans, connected
with them by race and by alliances."
It is said that Peel has agreed to give Lord
Londonderry the Russian embassy, to reward him for
his previous disappointments, and for the services he has
since rendered to his party. We know that Lord Lon-
donderry has long been looking to this appointment ;
indeed, that lie has been working for it. It was by the
Noble Marquis's machinations, by his busy representa-
tions and disinterested counsels, that the late Tory fight
vas got up in this county, and with such honourable and
brilliant success. Twenty-five thousand pounds were
spent in South Durham in an endeavour to purchase a
seat for Mr. Ferrer and other means, equally credita-
ble, every where resorted to. The hope of Wynyard—
Lord Seahain—a youth who never before took to any
more serious occupation than catching hies--came ex-
pressly„from London "to manage the interests of his
to give directions to the Wynyard tenantry"
on Mr Farrer's behalf. By these exertions the Tory can-
didate succeeded in approaching within 800 votes of Mr
Bowes, whom he was enlisted by Lord
to
supplant.—Gateshead Observer.