The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-29 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals.—Plantagenet, Domatt, from Bengal, off Penzance,
sailed 22d January, Cape 21st March, St. Helena sth April ;
True Briton, Consitt, from Madras, off Plymouth, sailed Fe-
bruary, St. Helena 2d April.
Arrivals at St. Helena.—Mary Balmer, Cant, March 27
from Bombay, and 29th to Liverpool ; Dover, Austin, 29th
from Bengal, and sailed 31st to Boston ; Tar, 29th from Ben-
gal, and sailed 29th to Bristol ; Jessie Logan, Major, 30th
from Bengal, and sailed 30th to Cork ; Princess Charlotte,
King, 30th from Bombay, and sailed 30th to Liverpool ; Ad-
miral Tromp, Keikhooen, 31st from Batavia, and sailed 2d
April to Amsterdam ; Auguste and Meline, Meyer, 31st from
Bengal, and sailed Ist April to Bremen ; Connecticut, Broker,
Ist April from whaling; Ylaspandel, Uil, Ist from Batavia,
and sailed to Rotterdam ; Anne Metcalfe, Rogers, from Ben-
gal, and sailed to Shields ; Woodman, Good, 2(1 from Bom-
bay, and sail. d 3d to Liverpool ; Jaraan, Van
Dugn, from Java, and sailed 3d to Amsterdam ;
Oud Nederland, Kuiper, from Java, and sailed 3d to Rotter-
dam ; Rattler, Brown. 2d from Zanzibar, and sailed 2d to
Salem ; Mayflower, Colt, 2d from whaling, and sailed 2d to
New Bedford ; Isabella Cooper, Gillies, 3d from Bengal, and
sailed 4th to Liverpool ; Azie, Doodenhuis, 4th from Mau-
ritius to Middleburgh ; Cherokee, M'Kellar, 4th from Bengal,
and sailed sth to Liverpool; Amazon, Smith, 4th from wha-
ling to Fanhaven ; Iron Duke, Jeffries, sth from Bengal, and
sailed sth to Liverpool.
Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope—The Sandade,
Lieutenant Wcodgate in charge, March 14, from the coast of
Brazil, detained by her Majesty's ship Grecian ; Emma,
Wa.t.,, and Ataxy, Reid, 4th, from Algoa Bay ; George the
Fourth, Ward, 20th, from London.

Departures from TO)le Bay The Rockliffe, Harrison,
March 13, to Ceylon ; Couch, to Algoa Bay ; Greyhound,
Hutchinson, 14th, to China; Gratitude, 14th, to Algoa Bay.
Arrival in Simon's Bay—George, Donaldson, Mach 15,
from London and Rio do Janeiro.

THE HALIFAX AND BOSTON STEAMERS-
While referring to the extension of steam navigation, we
may mention one most encouraging fact. Under the old
packet system, between Falmouth and Halifax, by the
gun brigs, the expense to Government was about 40,0001.
annually more than the receipts of postage. By the line
of Cunard's steam-ships, a balance of 20,0001. appears al-
ready to the credit side of the Atlantic mails. The indo-
mitable spirit of British enterprise never had a better or
more patriotic representative than Mr. ennard. Tie not
only boldly and simply entered into a contract with the
Government to build four steam-ships of 1,200 tons, and
Ivith engines of 300 horses' power each, to run across the
Atlantic to British North America, once a fortnight, but
lie has more than fulfilled his hazardous engagement. His
fine vessels have. brought one of our most valuable depen-
dencies within 1.2 days' distance front the mother country,
and that with unerring regularity. The punctual
success of the Cunard steam-ships is owing, in a great
measure, -to the .construction ; being far stronger, in
respect to timber,.planks, and fastening, than is usual in
of equal size. The strength of construction ren-
ders the working of the powerful engines perfectly safe
in combating the resistance of • the most tempestuous
weather. Not only are these vessels built much stronger
than the usually required strength, but the engines placed
in them exceed the power contracted for, being not 300,
but 440 horses' power. The fiscal success of these packets
ought, we think, to induce the Government to extend the
communication, by enlarging Mr. Cunard's contract, so
that he could increase his steam fleet, and despatch a
packet from Liverpool to Halifitx and Boston once a
week during the eight spring, summer, and autumnal
months, and once a fortnight during the winter months.
By such an arrangement, not only would the post-office
-gain -in revenue, and Mr. Cunard be amply remunerated,
but this frequent intercourse would form a rapid line of
communication between the whole of Europe and all
North America, including every country from the Gulf
of Mexico to Lake Superior.—London Journal ej
Commerce

BODY FOUND IN TILE RlVER.—Yesterday
morning about eight, a body was discovered by the policeman on
duty floating up the river with the tide off Blackfriars-bridge.
An alarm was raised, and two watermen put off and draeged the
body on shore at Barge-house Stairs, between Blackfriars and
Waterloo bridges, where a shell was procured, and it was con-
' veyed to the bone-house, Christchurch Workhouse, where, on
searching it, 4s. in silver, a pen-knife. and a silk pocket hand-
kerchief were found, but nothing which could lead to its iden-
tification. The deceased appears about 5 feet 7 sr 8 inches
high, rather stout made, dark hair and eyes, and age about
26. He had on a green dress-coat with yellow buttons, silk
waistcoat, and trowsers, wellington-bools, and a black silk
stock, in which was a union or double gold pin. There is a
large bruise on the right temple, but this might have been
caused by the drifting of the body against some of the numerous
barges in the river.
We understand that a requisition from the
working classes of Manchester to the Mayor, to call an open-
air meeting on the Corn-law, has in three days received 5,300
s gnatures. This is a proof, of the falsehood of the as-
sertion. that the masses are , indifferent to the question
of questions. It is expected that the meeting will be
more numerous than any that has taken place in the town
since the great Radical and Anti-Corn•law demonstratiou on
the 16th of August, 1819,