The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrival.—Mayflower, Headley, from Van Diemen's Land,
off Portland—sailed from Hobart Town, Oct. 13.

Arrivals at Hobart Town.—Harriet, Kreeft, Sept. 4, from
London ; Waverley, Margaret, 12th, from Dublin, and sailed
Oct. 6, to India ; Westmoreland, Brigstoek, from Sheerness,
and sailed Oct. 6, to India ; Brilliant, Ritchie, 13th, from Port
Philip, and sailed Oct. 7th, to New Zealand ; Cicilia, Jackson,
from Manilla, and sailed Oct. 6, to Sydney ; Hebe, Wishart,
22d, from Sydney; Aurora, Ross, 27th, from London, and load-
ing for Manritius • Sir John Byng. Ellis, from Launceston ;
James Todd, 30th, from Sydney ; Caroline, Wooden, Oct. 1,
from Port Philip ; Gulnare, Stevenson, from Liverpool ; Ro-
bert Pulsford, Clough, from Boston ; Indian, from whaling ;
David Clarke, 4th, from London ; Naiad, from Adelaide ;
William Wise, and Gar land Grove, 10th, from London ; Tyrian,
from the Cape ; Tasmanian, from London and Port Philip ;
Water Lily, from Sydney, Margaretha, from Port Philip.
Arrivals at Port Philip —Strathfieldsaye, Aug. 30, from
London ; Tasmania, Sept. 14, from London ; Middlesex, 30,
from London.
Arrivals at Launceston.—William, Le Grand, Sep. 24,
from Sydney ; Timbo, 25th, from London ; Lady Emma,
from Adelaide ; Countess of Wilton, Oct. 2, from London ;
Fox, from Adelaide ; Henry and Lowestoft from Port Philip;
Nerio, Hill, 6th, from Singapore.
Departures from Launceston.—Tamar, Sep. 23, to Port
Philip ; Chiltnark, 25th, to India ; Scout, Oct. 2, to Port
Philip.
Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales.—William Abrams,
Sept. 4, from Port Philip ; Stratheden, 6th, from Port
Philip; Harrington, 11th, from Port Nicholson ; Canton,
Crouch, from Cork.
Departure; from Sydney.—Regia, Aug. 31, Martha Por-
tenia, Sept I, all for New Zealand ; Pearl, 13th, to India ;
Margaret, 13th, to Lnmbeck.

It is matter of surprise to many that after the
enquiry instituted by the Commander.in-Chief, in reference to
the Vindictive having got aground on the Dean Bank, and
which resulted, as we understood, in the exonerating from all
blame those in command, that a court-martial has been ordered to
try the Captain. We do not pretend to know all the springs of
action in such matters, and therefore leave it with our readers to
draw their own inferences. Time proves all things.—Hampshire
Independent.
A Paris Corrrespondent of the Augsburg Gazette
writes on the 7th inst. :—" M. Guizot lately addressed to the
English Cabinet a note founded on the release of the Marabout,
pointing out certain modifications as necessary to be made in the
Treaty of December 25, before it could be ratified by France.
New negotiations must be opened, and the Plenipotentiaries of the
other contracting Powers will have to apply for further instruc-
tions; so that several months must elapse before all the parties
can be again of accord."
GEESE V. TURKEYS.—About a century ago the
Lord Orford made a large bet with another Nobleman that a flock
of geese would beat an equal number of turkeys in a race from
Norwich to London. The event proved the justness of his Lord.
ship's expectations, for the geese kept on the road with a steady
pace, but the turkeys, as evening approached, flew to roost in the
trees adjoining the road, from which the drivers found it very diffi.
cult to dislodge them ; in consequence of which the gees. arrived
at their destination two days before the turkeys.

The requisition in course of signature in the city,
calling on the Lord Mayor to call a public meeting of the liverymen,
citizens, and householders, to take into consideration the necessity
of a petition to the Queen, or to either House of Parliament, relative
to the proposed measure of Sir It. Peel on the Corn.laws, has
already received nearly a thousand signatures.
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KIDWELLY.-The ceremony of laying the founda-
tion.stone of the new Viaduct now erecting, near the River
Gwendraeth Fawr, near this town, took place a few days ago. A
structure which no doubt will prove all important to this long.
neglected district, and render valuable many hundred acres of the
finest marsh land in the kingdom, and will connect the whole of
the mineral districts of this fine county, and open a communication
to the commercial world long sought for.—Cambrian.

THE INDIAN MAIL.-It was the practice some
months ago, and may be still, that the Indian despatches for the
British Government were delivered at Marseilles to our Foreign-
office messenger and an agent of the French Post-office. On ar-
rival at Paris the English messenger was not allowed to proceed
immediately on with them to London—no, he must wait for the
estafette ; but, what was more extraordinary still, he was not al.
lowed to have in the interim the custody of the despatches. They
were seized on by the Paris Post-office authorities, and so
detained until the departure of the estafette. There were
no open grounds for this detention of our despatches, and the
suspicion was, therefore, natural that the proverbial dexterity of
the Paris Post-office was exercised in opening the confidential
despatches of an Indian Governor. We know well that such a
suspicion did exist, andt hat an intelligent agent of the British Govern.
ment suggested that the despatches should be enclosed in boxes so
constructed as that it would be impossible to open them without its
being instantly discovered that they had been opened. We chanced
to have an opportunity of examining the proposed box, and cer-
tainly it was full of ingenious contrivances. We know not whe-
ther the French Government has as yet relieved itself from this dm-
reputable suspicion, but this we do know, that the boxes contain.
ing the confidential despatches, sent from London to India, are en.
closed in iron boxes which it seems to us almost impossible to vio-
late. The lids close down by springs which cannot be reached
from without, and upon their arrival in India they have to be en-
tirely broken up with hammers before their contents can be ex-
tracted. But the grand question is, why did the French Govern-
ment detain so tong in their Cabinet Noir the confidential des-
patches of the British Governors in India 7—Sunday Paper.
INcENDIARism.—Some villain, on Monday night
last, set fire to a rick of wheat, containing about 50 bushels, the
property of Mr. Major, of Gadlys, in the parish of Llangynwycl,
Glamorgansk ire, and it was almost entirely destroyed.— Welsh-
man.

A worthy Boniface at Newcastle, a day or two ago,
purchased, " under the rose," what he supposed was a hen phea-
sant, (now out of season by act of Parliament) but on proceeding to
have it dressed for supper, he discovered that it was " all outside
show," its internal organisation being composed of straw, with a
stone for ballast. Since the affair has got wind, Boniface himself
has been well "roasted," instead of his bird.—Stqatrordshirs
Mercury.