The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

' EAST . INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals.lsabella, Myth, Lane, front Mauritius, in
the Downs, sailed 12th Feb.. St Helena, 14th March ;
Posthumous, Milner, from China, in the Downs, sailed
18th Dec., St Helena, Bth March ; Corrina,
from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed 22d Dec., St. Helena,
Bth March ; Thomas, Henry, Churchward, from Bengal,
in the Downs, sailed the 17th Dec., St. Helena, 3d
March ; Gilbert, Monro, Nicholson, from Mauritius, in
the Downs, sailed 18th Jan.; Tigress, Morrison, front
-Mauritius, in. the Downs, sailed 14th Jan.; Janet, Izat,
GoldsMith, from the Cape of 'Good Hope, in the Downs,
sailed from Table Bay 24th Feb.; Mdora, Carter, from
Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed 22.1 Dee., St. Helena, Bth
March ; Camhyses, Hutchinson, from Signapure, in the
Downs, sailed 13th Dec.; Anja, 23d Dec., St. Helena
28th Feb. ; Deva• Sprout, from Port Philip, in the
Downs, sailed .6th Jan.
Arrivals. at Adelaide—Orissa. in November, from
London. and sailed 28th DecembN- to Singapore ; Sul-
tana, Dec. 19, from Singapore ;;King Henry, 20th, front
Greenock ; Water Witch, 21st, from Port Lincoln.
Departures from Adelaide—James Tuscan, 27th Dec.,
Aletnena, 28th, to Singapore ; Duke of Sussex, 28th, to
London. ,

Arrivals at Hobart Town-Adelaide, Dec. 12, from
Port Nicholson ; Marian Watson.. 12th, from Sydney,
and sailed 24th back ; Endora, 12th, from Swan River ;
Morys, 14th, from Adelaide, and sailed 21st back ; Sir
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all6litlhg, ; frlosmabe3lolrat,
25th, from Sydney ; Metborongh, 2Gth, from Kings-
town ; Calcutta, Chalmers, froth London.
Departures from Hobart Town-Hebe, Dee. 19th, for
Loudon ; Maria, Miller, 24th, to Singapore.
Arrivals at Launceston-Tar, Dec. 2d, and Psyche,
Dec. 4, both from Bristol ; Royal Mail, 16th, from Port
Philip ; William, lith, from Sydney ; Will Watch, 17th,
from Port Philip ; Emu, 22d, at Circular Head, from
London to Hobart Town.
Arrivals at Port Phillip-Frances, Sharp, Nov. 29,
from Liverpool, and cleared, Dec. 29, for India ; Mary,
Nixon, Field, Nov. 30, from Cork ; Brankon Moor,
Smith, Dee. 3, froM Cork ; Supply, Browne, 9th, from
Sydney ; Caroline, 10th, from Hobart Town ;. Asia,
from Sydney ; Ward, Chapman, from Bristol ; William
Mitchell, from Leith ; Agostina, lith, from Cork ;
Mary Hay, 18th, from London ; Lady St. Kilda, 22d,
from Sydney ; Gilmore, 24th, from Plymouth ; Naiad,
26th, from Hobart Town ; Alexander, 27th, from Ply-
mouth ; Salus, 29th, from London ; Sarah, 31st, from
London.and Rio ; Sarah Bell, Jan. 2, from Launceston;
Bolivar, 6th, from London ; Timbo, Dec. 29, Sydney.
Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales.-Faith,
Nov. 23, from Whaling ; Martha, 20th, from Bay of
Islands ; Joseph, Cunard, 28th, from Liverpool ;
Catherine, Jameson, 30th, from Port 14hillip ; Comet,
Dee. 3, from Cork ; Triton, 3d, from Hobart Town
Jupiter. from Bay of Islands ; Talent, from Clyde
City of Adelaide, from Adelaide ; Tamar, from Hobart
Town ; Columbine, 4th, from Liverpool l Brlstolian,
sth, from the Cape ; Falcon, 19th, from Bay of Islands ;
Water Lily, 19th ; llritish SoYerogn, 20th, from Hobart
Town ; Margarot, from the Cape ; Tamar, from Laun-
ceston ; Cheerful, from Manilla ; Louisa, 21st, from the
South Seas ; Arrow, from Port Nicholson ; William
Wise, 22d, from the Bay of Islands ; Jessie, from the
South Seas ; William Jardine, 23d ; Tropic, Chatham,
and Emerald Isle, ' 23d, all from London ; William,
from Manilla ; Susannah, Ann, from Port Nicholson ;
Water Witch, from the South Seas ; Charles Hartley,
24th. from Batavia.

Dopartares from Sydney—Alcsandria, Nov. 6, to
Porth Phillip ; Countess of Minto to Now Zoaland ;
Marfaret, 15th.- New Zoaland; Julia, 21st, to Auckland;
to
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Sha -nrook, 24th, to Auckland ; Bright, Planot, 24[11,
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Akaroa ; Tigress, 20th, to ; Supply, 20th,
to• South Seas ; Middlesex, to Port Nicholson ; Martha,
Dec. ¶,
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sail 28th, for-London.

TILE TRANSIT THROUGH EGYPT.—TIIO Desert of
Suez bids fair to become, in a very short time, almost as
much a frequented thoroughfare as the Great North Road.
Arrangements on an extensive scale are in the course of pro.
gross by the Epptian Oriental Transit Company for fapi;i~
taking the intercourse with India, &c., through Egypt, both
for passengers and goods ; and the Pacha had offered his aid to
the undertaking by the appropriation of 100.000 doll,rs
01.1,0000 from his treasury, to be laid out for improving the
road, in building a large hotel at Suez, in transit depots, &c.,
which were to be rented of him by the company. Meantime,
cmpetiturs against Hill and Co. have started, for the con-
veyance of passengers between Cairo and Suez, who have pro.
vided a considerable numbc.r of carriages, horses, &c., and
have issued circulars, offering to convey passengers across tt'e
De,ert on much more moderate terms than what have hitherto,
been demanded by Hill and Co. Opposition hotels and statio-,
houses in the Desert were even talked of.

PARLIAMENTARY GRANT FOR SCIENTIFIC L:EC-
TuitEs IN Coax.—The Government, says Lord Elkt, has
finally determined to increase from 2001. to 3001. the, grant for
the purpose of enabling the Royal Dublin Society, upon appli-
cation, to send qualified venal-is to give lectures vilienever the
travelling expenses of the lecturer, and a reason•iblo proportion
of the temuneration, shall be locally subscribed by the parties
making the application. This addition to the amount of the
grant will, it is hoped, enable the Council of the Royal Dublin
Society to further the wishes expressed by the inhabitants of
Cork to receive the benefit of lectures during the whole of the
year, instead of only a portion of it, P.B at present.
The Committee of the wine-growers of the Gironde
have just published in the Bordeaux journals a declaration of
the principles by which they are guided. They declare that,
whilst they will neglect no means of fixing the attention of
the Government arid the Legiileure to the distressed siate of
the important branch of industry, in the name of wind) they
are acting, they will set. no exAmple of a disregard for the
laws, but will, on the contrary. scrupulously respect them.
Alluding to the reported refusal of sonic of the wine-
growers to pay their ttxes, they say that no such insur-
rection against the law has been contemplated; t
has been called for was permission to pay the taxes in
kind, in consequeace of the impossibility of the growers to sell
their produce and pay in money. This proposition not being
acceded to, the Committee remind the growers that to proceed
to such an extremity as a refusal to pay taxes would be illegal
and revolutionary.
The stuns which the city of Paris has since the
year 1833 ;rented to the hospitals as its contributions towards
their maintenance, amount to nearly 50,000,OWL• being an
average of 6,2450,000 f. per annum.
The Strasburg journals relate that one of the band
of the theatre in that town, having been sentenced by the Cor-
rectional Tribunal to punishment for some slight offence, was so
overcome by shame that on Wednesday morning last, while on
the publip promenade, he blew out his brains with a pistol.