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London, England, 1835-02-14 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Earl of Dartmouth, from St. James's-square, for Dover ;
Mrs. Fitzherbert, for Brighton ; the Rev. Mr. Wood, for
ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Trevor; for their seat in Essex ; Capt.
and Mrs. Stephens, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Preston,
from Brook-street, for their scat in Herts ; Lady Dover, from
Whitehall, for her seat Roehampton; Captain Hickey, N. N.,
F. Hickey, Esq., and J. Hickey, Esq., from Marshall Thomp-
son's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; Rev. J. B. Atkinson, from
ditto ; Rev. C. - Erle, from ditto ; Lord Marcus Hill, from
Arlington-street, to Ireland; the Hon. Miss Sophia Town-
shend, from Charles-street, Berkeley-square, for Windsor
Cattle ; Mr. and Mrs. B. Hartopp, from Symmon's Hotel,
St. James's-street, for Brighton • Mr. and Mrs. Williams
Freeman, from Dover-street, for their seat, Henley-hall, Ox-
fordshire ; the Hon. Mrs. Dudley North, from Raggett's
Hotel, Dover-street, for Norfolk ; Lord Elphinstone, from the
Hyde-park Barracks, for Edinburgh ; Lord Colville, from
Portland-place, for ditto ; Earl O'Neill, from St. Leonard's-
on- Sea, on a tour ; Hon. Capt. de Roos, R.N., for Brighton ;
General and Mrs. O'Connell, for Bath ; Sir George Palmer,
Bart.,-and the Rev. Dr. Hutton, from Crawley's Hotel, on a
tour.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

ECCEESIASTICVL PREFERMENTS.

OXFORD, FEB. 14.—The Rev. F. A. Dawson, M. A. of
Brazenose College, in this University, appointed to the East
India Chaplaincy, lately placed at the disposal of the Chan-
cellor of the University of Oxford, has been transferred by spe-
cial favour from the Bombay establishment to that of Bengal;
patron, the Chairman of the East India Company.
The Rev. John Pearse, B. A., son of Theed Pearse, Esq.,
Clerk of the Peace for Bedfordshire, was presented on Tues-
day last, by the Corporation of Bedford, to the living of St.
John's, Bedford, with the hospital annexed ; vacant on the
resignation of the Rev. Dr. Hunt, Prebend of Canterbury.
The Rev. H. T. Day, S. C. L.,of Clare-hall, Cambridge,
to the vicarage of Mendlesham, uffolk, on his own petition,
vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Robert Field, B. A.
The Rev. John Henry Steward, M. A., to the Rectory of
Hethel, Norfolk, on his own petition.
At a Court of Aldermen held at St. Alban's on Thursday,
the Rev. Henry J. 5. Nicholson, M. A., was unanimously
elected to the Rectory of
Alban's, vacant by the resigna-
tion of the Rev. H. Small.

On Wednesday the Rev. Mr. We was inducted into the
living of St. Bride's, Fleet-street, Lon,:l.nn•

COMMUNICATION BY STEAM WITH

EGYPT AND INDIA.

The Lords of the Admiralty being desirous to promote
the new arrangements of the General Post-office, which have
been for a long time in contemplatien by that indefatigable
gentleman Sir Francis Freeling, to open a direct communi-
cation between Great Britain and her Indian possessions,
by way of the Mediterranean, the Isthmus of Suez, and the
Red Sea, have given orders for the immediate construction
of six fine steam-vessels, which are to be built on an entirely
new principle from those employed at present as His Ma-
is:tsty's packets, so that they may either act as steam-
vess,:.!s, or in case of necessity as regular sailing vessels
without .nterruption to the machinery. These ships when
completed :;ill be employed for the conveyance of the mails
and passenger; from Falmouth to Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malta,
Corfu, Zante, Cei:balonia, and the various Greeks islands,
to Alexandria, in Eg,"`7l3t, where arrangements are making
with the Pasha, and the other authorities, to establish an
open and direct communicatit;:., with the Isthmus -of Suez
overland, and that commercial por, so as to render the
voyage from this country to India not ioizer than 12 or 1.5
weeks at the most, avoiding by that means the disagreeable
route of the Cape of Good Hope, and the contra;;' winds
which are so prevalent in the Indian Sea.

The Hon. East India. Company, anxious to encourage so
grand an undertaking, of such importance to the commerce
of this country and that of India, as a speedy and certain
communication between the two empires, have decided upon
the immediate construction of four large steam vessels, at
their own expense, which will run between Calcutta, Ma-
dras, Bengal, and Suez, where they will take on board the
mails and passengers from England, arriving by way of
Alexandria in Egypt. This new arrangement will com-
mence with the Mediterranean mail of the 2d of March
next, and the mails will, after that period, be made up in
London on the Ist day of every month, unless that should
fall on a Sunday, then on the following day, and forwarded
from Falmouth to Malta direct, where branch steam packets
will convey them to Egypt and India.
The passage-money, according to the new regulations of
the Board of Admiralty, is as follows :

Cabin. Steerage.
From Falmouth to Cadiz or Gibraltar £l7 £9 10
From Ditto to Malta
From Ditto to Corfu
To or from Gibralta and Malta
To or from Gibraltar and Corfu 22
To or from Malta and Patras .
,8
To or from Malta-and Corfu (via Patras) ... 10
From Corfu to Malta direct •
To or from Malta and Alexandria
From Corfu to Falmouth
From Malta to Fahnouth
From`Gibraltar or Cadiz to Falmouth l 7
Each passenger allowed to carry any weight of linen,
wearing apparel, and books, not exceeding 4001 b.
The passage-money to be paid, so as to realize the ster-
ling amount in England.
Until the vessels now ordered to be built are ready,
arrangements have been made so that the mails and passen-
gers arriving at Alexandria will experier.ce no delay in being
forwarded to India by land.
This grand project of opening a communication between
the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, by way of the Isthmus
of Suez, was one of the great ideas of the late Emperor
Napoi•on, who intended to have had a navigable canal cut
froM one port to the other, but in consequence of his con-
tinual wars aid the large maritime force and influence of
Great Britain ii the Levant, his ambitious views to take
possession of India and destroy our commercial intercourse
with that vast and rich empire were completely frustrated.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 12.—The
Cotton Market has been steady to-day at last quotations.
The sales amount to about 2,500 bags. From the accounts
received from America it is calculated that the crops will fall
short of the actual consumption.. Sales this day-1,750 Ame-
rican, 9d. to lid. ; 200 Pernams, 14d. ; 300 Maranhams,
12d. to 131 d. ; 100 Egyptian, t7i-d. ; 150 Surats, 7d. The
arrivals this week have been considerable, amounting already
to about 22,000 bags.
VULGAR ERRORS.—That when a man designs to
marry a woman that is in debt, if he take her from the priest
clothed only in her shift, he will not be liable to her engage-
merits. That there was no land-tax before the reign of Wil-
liam 111. That if a criminal was hung an hour and revives,
he cannot afterwards be executed, That a funeral passing
over any place makes a public highway, That a husband has
the power of divorcinc, his wife by selling her in open market
with a halter round her neck. That second cousins may not
marry though first cousins may. That it is necessary, in some
legal propess against the King, to go through the fiction of
arresting him, whit)) is done by placing a riband across the
road, as if to impede his carriage. That the lord of a manor
may shoot over all the lands within his manor. That pounds
of butter may be of any number of ounces. That bull-beef
shall not be sold unless the bull had been baited previously to
being killed. That leases are made for the term of 999 years,
because a lease of 1,000 years would create a freehold. That
q,erids executed on a Sunday are void. That in order to dis-
inherit :,-;,2ir-at-law, it is necessary to give him a shilling
by the will, TO 04 9,titcy.wiPe he would be entitled to the
whole property.