The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-28 00:00:00

STEAM NA VIGATION TO INDIA.

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has been already stated that the project for a steam
communication to India by way of Egypt was about to be
revived under the sanction of the present Government.
The views of the India Board on the subject may be
collected from the annexed letter from Lord Ellenborougla
to Mr. Waghorn, the enterprising officer who has already-
done so much to promote it, on whom (and there weld
not be a fitter man for the purpose) the management of
further proceedings will in great measure devolve
INDIA BOARD, JAN. 24.
Sir,—l am happy to learn from you that so st:•ong a dis-
position exists, on the part of private uterchar:Gs at Calcutta
and at Liverpool, to establish a regular inmmunication with
India, by means of steam-vessels, ant y the route of the Red
Sea.
" You are aware, from thP.,lntercourse I had with you when
I nas at this board befo7e, that I am very anxious to see such
a communication `!..;tablished, believing that it would produce
to the county; considerable commercial and political advau-
ag te3' it would greatly contribute to public convenience.,
•
- am inclined to think that the measure would be best and
most economically conducted by a company of private indi-
viduals, and that it would be advisable that such a company
should undertake the transport of passengers and letters be-
tween England and Calcutta.
" The Postmaster-General has consented that no higher
postage shall be charged on letters sent to Alexandria by the
King's packets than may be charged by the King's packets
to Malta ; and his Lordship has further consented that the
postage of letters taken in private ships from England to
India by the route of the Red Sea shall, be the same as may
be fixed on letters sent to India in private ships by the route
of the Cape.
" The King's Government can go no further. If a com-
pany should be established for the purpose of undertaking the
transport of passengers and of letters from England to India
by the route of the Red Sea, I shall strongly press upon the
Court of Directors the expediency of encouraging the enter-
prise, during the first four years, by a liberal contribution in
money.

" I atn, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
_ " ELLENBOROUGH.

ti To Thomas Waghorn, Esq." _
Notice was given at the Post-office yesterday, that the.
Mediterranean mail will take letters for Egypt and India,
the postage, which is to be paid here, being the same to
Alexandria as to Malta. This will ba in operation with
the mail of the 2d of March.

STEAM NAVIGATION IN THE MEDITERRA•
NEAN.— We have noticed the progress of steam navigation on
the fine shores of the Mediterranean. A new undertaking has
recently been projected, likely to interest travellers and mer-
chants. The French steam-vessel the Mediterranean will sail
on the 15th of February for Alexandria, in Eg3pt, touching at
Nice, Genoa, Livorna, Civita Vecchia, Naples, Malta, and
Navarino. The Ocean steam-packet will sail on the 25th of
the same month, for the same destination, touching also at the
same ports. This mode of communication establishes another
link between our commerce and the East ; it also facilitates,
the connection with India by way of the Red Sea. ID a few
weeks we may receive letters from houses in India,..-Gazette
du Midi.

Our leaders may have seen a paragraph describing
udicrously the various preferments of the present rector of
Wrotham, in Kent, when he came up to the poll at Canter,
bury. He is a grandson, we believe, of Moore, the Archbishop
of the province, and by that Archbishop this mass of property
must have been diverted from deserving claimants in the church
and heaped upon his offspring. Hodgson, whose various re-
venues we have described before, is some connexion of the
late Bishop Porteus. The Pretymans or Tomlines, no matter
which they are called, in the diocess of Lincoln, and the
Sp,rkeses in that of Ely, are disgracefully proverbial for their
accumulation of benefices. We really are astonished how
those men can have the hardihood to get up and exhibit their
persons to preach before their several congregations. The
Goodenoughs are loaded with benefices, and yet none of these
various dignitaries are, as far as we have ever heard, in any
way distinguished or known in the annals of literature or
science I The jobbing among the superior grades of the clergy-
exceeds credibility ; for it must be observed, that in order to
get various preferments, each differing from the other in kind
and character, into the hands of one individual, there must
have been exchanges, negotiations, bargains, everything, in
short, constituting simony in spirit, though avoiding it in the
letter. There arc at this moment four Bishops with each a
stall in Westminster Abbey. Every one of them may be saidi
to undermine a pillar in the venerable establishment. The re-
venues of the bishoprics should undoubtedly be made to maintain
the whole body, by commodious transfers of property. But it
may be said that the estates of one see are remote from ano-
ther. This is not wholly so ; but if such were the fact, they
are not so far apart as the Deanery of Carlisle is from St..
George's, Hanover-square, or the Deanery of Wells from Ca.r-
lisle. We hope and believe that Sir R. Peel's Bill will put
an end to these iniquities, at least after the demise of the pre-
sent incumbents ; and the practice being once declared illegal,
as it is at all times morally unjust and grossly offensive, it
will then be seen whether such incumbents will have the con-
fidence to persevere in it even to the end of .their lives. With
respect to the lay impropriations, undoubtedly they:ware plun-
dered from the Church ; we do not, however,
.detriand such
an unreasonable alienation of property which has. been the oh..
ject of bona
.fide transfers into the hands of innocent holders,.
as must be the consequence of its total restoration to peelesi-
astical purposes, but they oughttobe -InadePNlltr*te in: to
improvement
fair proportion -to theof the poor: yicaßgesu
which they retain the property.--Times.