EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
At a Court of Directors held at the India House on Wednesday, the following re- ealar ships were thus stationed for the ensuing season : viz. Buckinghamshire, Capt. -Glasspoole ; Duke of Sussex, Capt. Whitehead; Hythe, Capt. Shepherd ; and Herefordshire, Capt. Hope, for Bombay and China ; General Kyd, Capt. Nairne for St. Helena, Bombay and China : Lady Melville, Capt. Clifford; Thames, Capt. Forbes ; Farquharson, Capt. I. Cruickshank; Repulse, Capt. H. Gribble ; and Van- si ttart, Capt. Scott, for Bengal and China ; Duke of York, Capt. Locke ; Waterloo, Capt. Burnett ; and Scaleby Castle, Capt. Blakely, for China direct. On the same day seven vessels which had completed their former contracts were again taken up formic voyage as regular dismantled ships at rates of freight varying from 121. to 12/. 15s. per ton, and were stationed as follows : viz. Marquis Huntley, Capt. Hine, for Bombay and China : Warren Hastings, Capt. Avarne, for St. Helena, Straits of Malacca and China; Rose, Capt. Marquis ; Inglis, Capt. Dudman; Winchelsea ; Bombay; and Lowther Castle, for China direct. Eight other ships of this class were unsuccessfully tendered for one voyage at 121. 16s. 6d. to 13/. 19s. per ton. Among these were the Windsor and Kellie Castle, which bare just completed their first contract of six voyages at 261. 4s. and 26/. ! Till now it has been the invari- able custom of the Company to charter such ships for two or three additional voy- ages without forcing them to compete with older and inferior vessels, which in their season had enjoyed all the advantages of a monopoly.
By the John Taylor, letters have been received from Calcutta to the 6th of May, at which time the Bridgwater had not been docked. Fears are however still ex- pressed that she will be found unworthy of repair. Arrived. At Liverpool, Oct. 14, John Taylor, Largie, from Bengal : she left the Sand Heads on the 12th May. At Cadiz, Sept. 20th, Sarah, Colombine, from Ma- nilla. At Madeira, August 20th, Mary, Beachcroft, for Van Diemen', Land ; 24th, Sir E. Paget, Bouchier, for Bombay ; Sept. 3d, Sir David Scott, Jackson, for Ben- gal, all from London. At St. Helena, previous to 17th August, Lady Flora, Fever, from Bengal and Mauritius, with rudder unshipped; and Claremont, Macaulay, from Bombay. Sailed. From Gravesend, Oct. 11th, Clyde, Ireland, for Bombay. 12th, Frances, Chalmers, for Mauritius; and Red Rover, Chrystie, for N. S. Wales. 18th, Mary Ann. Hornblow, for Madras, From Bristol, Oct. 9th, City of Edinburgh, Mc Kin- non, for Calcutta. From Liverpool, Oct. Otis, Fame, Watson, for N. S. Wales.
Aequila, Taylor, for the Cape.
Spoken. Neptune, from Greenock to Bombay, 234 July, 31 south, 42 east.
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