The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-24 00:00:00

EAST INDIA stIIPPING.

Arrivals at 711Q11a—Frederic Warren, March 1, from
Boston ; Sarah, Bth, from Macao ; Samuel Enderby, from the
South Seas ; Semiramis, 9th, from Macao ; her Majesty's
ship Samarang, 11th, from Sooloo• Cecile, 13th, from Macao.
Arrivals at Bombay— Prince Of Waterloo, May 31, from
Liverpool ; Clara, Crow, from London ; Louisa, Wycherly,
from Liverpool.
Departures from Bembay—Earl of Balcarras and Kusrovie,
May 31, to China.
Arrivals at Macao—Royalist, March 18, from West Coast;
Amelia, 18th, from Chin-chew; Isabella, Gray, 27th, from
Singapore. _ . _

Arrivals at Hong-Kong-Her Majesty's ship Sapphire,
March 8, from Amoy; Red Rover, 29th, Harlequin, 30th,
from Calcutta; Earl Grey, Monism, from Bombay; Cacique,
Eldred, from Singapore; Vixen and Milne, from Amoy;
Pantaloon, 31st, from Shanghae ; Minerva, Brown, from
Annoy, and sailed April 2 to Manilla ; Emu, Smith, from Bom-
bay ; her Majesty's ship Samaran, April 1, from Manilla ;
Constant, Heuiery, 2d, from Madras ; Eliza, Patterson, from
TutticeirCen.
Arrivals at Maur;tius-Eliza, Sparkes, April 11, from
Singapore ; Jane Ceary, from the Cape ; Active, April 20,
from Buenos Ayres, and sai!ed, May 2, to Madras ; Amelia,
Mulpolland, 21, from London ; Guiana, Talbert, 23, from
Adelaide; Eclipse. Austen, May 1, from London.
Departures from Mauritius-Flowers of Ugie, April 25, to
Liverpool ; Marian Watson, to Spluey.
Departures from Colurnbo-Thomas Jones, May 13 ;
Eleanor, Lancaster, 28; Phcebo, 30 ; William and Mary,
Brown, June 3 ; Lemnos, 3; Louisa Munro, 7, all to Lon-
don ; the latter put back, 11, and was to sail again, 12, to
touch at Point de Galle ; James Turcan, May 14, to China ;
Melville, 21, to Cochin ; Wanderer, 22, to Mauritius ; Jose-
phine, t!4, to China.
Arrival-, at Singapore-Medina, James, April 12, from Ba-
tavia, and sailed 12th May to Liverooi ; Sydney, Scholefield,
14th, from Hong Kong, and sailed 15!h to Bombay; Arte-
raise, 15th, from Batavia, and sailed 6th May to IMa-ao ; Har-
binger, kith, from Liverpool, and sailed 12th May to Bombay;
Sir Wm. Compton, 19th, from Bombay, and sailed 21st to
China ; James, Boorman, 20th, from Bombay, and sailed 7th
May to China ; Corcyra, 2uth, from Bombay, and sailed 23d
to China,
Prince Regent, Spears, 21st, from Mauritius, and
sailed May 12, to Bombay; her Majesty's ship Daedalus, 22d,
from Plymouth and Cape, and sailed 26th to China; Queen,
23d, from Batavia, and sailed May 1 tcrPenang ; Flying Squirel,
241 b, from Hong Kong, and sailed 25th to Hobart Town ; her
Majesty's ship Cruizer, 24th, from the Cape, and sailed 25th to
Penang; Regina, from Bombay, and sailed to China; Alexander,
Apsey, from Liverpool ; Iranjce Cowasjee, 25th, from Galle,
and sailed 28th to China : Bintang, Wright, 26th, from Galle;
Sylph, 28th, from Hong Kong, and sailed to Calcutta ; Jam-
setjee Jeejeeboy, 23th, from Bombay, and sailed May 3 to
Siam ; Osprey, Hunt, 30th, from Hobart Town, and sailed
May 9 to China; Arid, 30th, from Borneo; Mumford, May
1, from Sydney, and sailed 19th to Manilla; Pantaloon, 2d,
---110 m China ; Fair Barbadian, 3d, from Lorn ; Cock, Pilot,
from !Manilla ; Sisters, fram Hobart Town, and sailed 9th ;
Passenger, sth, from London , he: Majesty's ship Osprey, 6th,
from England and Cape ; Hope, Goss, 7th, from Bombay, and
sailed 9 h to China ; Cleopatra, Alcmene, aid Victorieuse, Bth,
from Batavia Island; Queen, 13th. from Bombay, and sailed
to China; Teazer, 15th, from Madras ; Vixen steamer, from
China; Sir Charles Forbes, 16th, from Bombay; Fire Queen,
steamer, from Calcutta ; Buckinghamshire, 18th, from Bom-
bay ; Canopus, from Batavia ; Good Success, 19th, from
Bombay.
Departures from Singapore-Alexander, Johnson, April 19,
to Shanghae ; Norfolk, 19th, and Glenbervie, May 1, to Lon-
don; Felicity, 2d, to Liverpool.
Arrivals at Batavia-Black Nymph, April 18, from London;
Franklin, 21st, from the Cape.

IMPROVEMENT OF HALIFAX
HA RBOUR.
(From Willmer and Smith's European Times.)
We intimated our intention. in our last publication, of
throwing out a few suggestions fir the improvement of
lialifax harbour. In fulfilling this promise, we do so
with a becoming sense of our inability to treat the
subject in a manner becoming its importance, as our
acquaintance with the locale is necessarily imperfect.,
and was picked up dining our passage to and from the
Port in question in the spring and autumn of last year.
But, however unworthily we execute the task, we only
claim for our crude conceptions the attention to which,
upon investigation, they may be found entitled. If they
are worthy the consideration of the practical and expe-
rienced our object is answered, and being so, their
adoption cannot be too speedily enforced ; if other-
wise, nothing less humiliatine can overtake them,
than a speedy transit to that three with which, it is
said, « good intentions" ore rivc.n. In either case the
llhour, sneer as it is. will n t ! eve been fruitless, for we
shall have eased our mind of a duty which we owe to our
Mends in Nova Sieotia, chose welfare we shall ever
take a lively interest
—to the splendid str aners, and to
the lives sod property which th.•
are constantly carry-
lngml es i
to
itself and from their d on The present age
pr
upon being. par exce'llen. re, the age of me-
chanical progressi••n, and the triumphs of art over ob-
stacles which in other times have defied human in-
genuity, show that the Crest, r has not hmi,ed man's
faculties in working out his own redemption. The
chief, merit, however, of the suggestions which follow is,
that they are readily executed ; they involve, in pro-
portion to the magnitude of the interests at stake, but a
trifling pecuniary outlay, and cannot possibly deter by
their va-tness or complextrv. The present position of
the port of Liverpool—with one exception the greatest
maritime pert in the world—demonstrates sufficiently
how sciei cc and capital can triumph over-great, and all
but ininperable difficulties, and vessels of the largest
tonnage
can now at any hour enter a harbour where,
formerly, such an advantage was unknown—unlooked
for—undreamt of.
The first approach to the shores of Nova Scotia. is
marked by the inconvenience and the dangers of the
fogs so prevalent at seasons of the year; in other respects
the most favourable. The system ( f ball buoys intro-
duced at the entrance into the Mersey, at Liverpool,
Would obviate much of the difficulty and danger arising
from the state of the atmosphere on the shores of Nova
Scotia.
The establishment on Sables Island, so honourable to
the people of Nova Scotia, and so beneficial to the trade
of the world, proves that they require but a hint to for-
ward any design in the cause of humanity ; and we take
the liberty of suggesting that bell buoys Ehould be laid
down in such places as may be found, after careful atten-
tion to the subject, to be the most suitable.
The loss of the noble steamer the Columbia would, in
all probability, not have occurred, if a bell buoy had been
near the place where she struck ; and when we consider
the extraordinary difficulties which the uncertainty of
the tides at the entrance of the hay of Sundy presents,
We should say that the extreme point of the western
Coast would be a suitable place for one.
As the eastern coast is much lower than the western,
and less bold, and very dangerous ledges of rock run
tut on different parts of that coast, it would seem to be
absolutely necessary to have bell buoys there, and a
selection of the points would be easily made. For in-
Stance, a bell buoy on the Rock Head would be a great
advantage, There is at present, we believe, a buoy,
Ent it is dumb, and the bell would be found of incal-
tillable utility in giving warning to the mariner of his
position. Another bell buoy on the Polluck Rip, moored
21 thirty-five fathoms, is dssirable. In addition to these
there ought to be another bell buoy in forty-five fathoms
Vtel, which are goca iundings, off the lighthouse,
• W• by W., distanee about five miles from the light-
The dumb buoy at TI ru npcap shoals ought to
ot- converted into a bell buoy. A light on Jedore Head,
of the most dangerous parts (3f the coast, and er
°a the White
his t Islands, about ev twenty-sel miles ftanoth om the
arbour, would complete the necessary safety guides ; •
Present 150 miles of the eastern coast is without a
solitary light.
The detention of the mail for a few hours (and hours
maY be said to be days with the steamers when com-
pared with sailing vessels), in which all America, we
),1,1,ay,•'-aY the whole world is interested, is a subject of so
..'_ren importance that should it be deemed necessary
we doubt not that ali nations would readily contribute
to carry out so useful a design, even upon the most ex-
tensive scale.
ti But besides this, there have been times, and those
vines may come again, when hundreds of men-of-war
s•na,,,ve been employed on the North American station-;
we respectfully solicit the attention of the Admi-
alty to a subject in which the highest interests of the
empire are involved.
rte coasting trade of Nova Scotia, as well as the
„s
It her:es, the great business of large portions of the
People of that province, are de ply interested in what-
er would facilitate the approach to the harbours all
the world which is carried on from Halifax would like-
Wise feel the benefit of these well-intended suggestions,
should they he carried out, as we }ipe will be the case,
with the p'rie and judgment that the undertaking de-
mands,
a The just pride': f scion tee, which has produced almost
14 magical precision in the passage of our celebrated
:earners, is indeed humbled, when, at the moment the
enY!ttitt may be said to be completed, a barrier is sud-
denly presented to her entrance. Hew cheering at such
lUnsuent would be the welcome sound of the mariners'
"'"h giving confidence to the commander, and happiness
colhe P' a•zsengers ; and the splendid steamer, bursting
.dlythrough the fog, would afford another proof of
thepower of art to overcome the obstacles to humeri
enterprise, and give delight and satiEfaction to thousands
whose deepest interests are concerns d.

Mr. Vernon Smith has paired off with Mr. Buckley
for the remainder of the session.
Major-General Morison paired off with Lord
ileniker on Tuesday,the 15th inst., in favour of Lord Palmerston's
notion on the Spanish treaties.
LIGHT-HOUSE ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.— On
Saturday evening last some of the elder brethren of the Trinity
Board put down an iron tube of two feet six inches in diameter
into that part of the Goodwin Sands which is most dangerous, as a
preliminary to the erection of a light. house thereon. It is on the
Calipers and at a short distance from a bank, which forms a steep
'thto declivity to the depth of ten fathoms. The tube descended 22 feet
the sand in an astonishingly short time, by the application of
"1% Pott's process, in which atmospheric pressure is the principal
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