The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-26 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals.—Union, Surfleur, from Bengal, in the
Downs, sailed 11th June, Cape 18th Sept. ; William
Mitchell, Harvey, from Singapore, in the Downs,
sailed 29th June, Anjer 29th July, Cape 16th Sept.,
St. Helena sth Oct.; Lord Keane, Roberta, from
Ceylon, in the Downs, sailed 12th June, St. Helena ;
Bth Sept.; Hebe, Younger, from Ceylon, in the
Downs, sailed 6th July, Cape 18th Sept.
Arrivals at Singapore—Fort William, Hogg, Sept.
8, from Bombay ; Anthony, Anderson, 9th, from
Liverpool, and sailed 13th to China • Conrad, Camp-
bell, 10th, from Bally ; Champion, New Zea-
land; Minerva, Brown, 11th, from Penang, and sailed
12th to China; Hero, Fowler, from Calcutta, and
sailed 12th to China ; Buckinghamshire, M'Gregor,
11th, from Madras, and sailed 13th to China; John
Moore, Withycombe, from Bombay ; Himalaya, 12th,
from Madras ; George Ann, Strong, from Bombay ;
Siam, 14th, from Madras • Psyche, 15th, from Bally;
Ariel, from Calcutta; Kestrel, 16th, from Madras;
Jessore; 17th, from New York; Moulmein, John
M‘Vicar, Friends, and Elizabeth, 11th, from Cal-
cutta ; Hebrides, previous to 20th, from Bombay ;
Malacca, Stremer, f'rom Calcutta.

Departures from Singapore—Lord Auckland, Sept.
6, to Calcutta • Cynosure, 10th, to Liverpool; Mary
Charlotte, Weber, to —; Juliana, 11th, to China;
London, Gibson, Lloyd's, Green, 11th, Sarah Bots-
ford, Wallace, 12th, all to London ' Colonist, 12th, to
China; George Henrick, 14th, to Manilla ; Princess
Royal, 14th, to Batavia • Esmeralda, to China; Pyen
Bown, to Rangoon; Batavia;
to Manilla; Llangoth-
land, 17th, to Sydney; John Dugdale, to London
Actress, Clarke, 19th, to Penang.
In the Roads, Sept. 20.—Princess Charlotte, Caro-
line, Palatine, Malcolm, lona, Scotland, Frances Ann,
Mary Bulmer, Christina, Rockliffe, Henry Woolley,
Donna Carmelita, Royalist.

NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " PAUL PRY."—
The laughter-loving public are again indebted to Mr.
Poole, for an infinite store of amusement, by the publi-
cation of his "Phineas Quiddy." It is not at all un-
likely that this new work will outstrip in popularity
even Little Pedlington" itself. In it Mr. Poole has
presented us with a set of characters, at once so
mirth-provoking and so strikingly original, as it would
be in vain to look for elsewhere in the wide range of
modern fiction. Phineas Quiddy;.:the shrewd, grasp-
ing, usurer, who, by dint of " Sheer Industry," as he
terms it, wins his way to the summit of his ambition,
" A Hundred Thousand Pounds"— his future wife,
who traps him in his own snare, the ambiguous Miss
Honoria St. Egremont—her friend, Mrs. Fleecer, the
bustling, intriguing, yet honest-hearted lodging-
house-keeper-:-.-.Mrs. Niobe Woefield, the " Woman
of Sorrows," and proprietress of " Starveleigh Cot-
tage, Pesterton"—lscariot Hitchflat, the rascally
attorney, and his companion Lord Fitznoodle—the
dashing, sporting banker, Mr. Harry Scott, " of the
firm of Whabble and Scott"—the gentle Janet Grey,
and her benevolent benefactress old Widow Sander.
son—the acute and eccentric Scotch Doctor,
It'quills—Grubb, the laconic lawyer—the turtle-
loving Sir Gog Cheshire—his matchmaking lady, with
their unmarried" daughters and Little Pickle of a
son—form a series of personations of character as
satirically humourous, as they are true to life and nature.
The pension granted by the East India Company,
of 801. a year between the four daughters of the late
Colonel .Dennie, is in addition to the pension given
to the same ladies by the Crown, and is also the first
instance in which the East India Company has granted
a pension in consideration of services rendered by
officers not in their own service. It may not be
known, perhaps, that the East India Company pay an
annual sum of 60,0001. to the Home Government to
meet such casualties as happen to the Queen's troops
serving in India.
FRENCH COMEDIANS.—The total number of come-
dians in France may be estimated at ten thousand.
Of this number, between three and four thousand are
in a situation of mediocrity or of prosperity ; the re-
mainder, by far the greatest number, lead a precarious
life, little esteemed, and in general little worthy of
estimation; they are frequently without engagements,
and during this interval are plunged in the most ab-
ject wretchedness.—Dramatic and Musical Review.