EAST INDIA SHIPPING. SATtraDAF MonsTmo.
Only one arrival from India has been reported this week, notwithstanding the strong westerly winds which have prevailed in the Channel.
By way of the Red Sea and Alexandria despatches have been received at the India House, from Bombay, to the 20th March. A great and simultaneous advance has suddenly taken place at the three Presidencies in the rate of freight for Europe. At Bombay, the quotations were 51. 5s. per ton ; at Bengal, 41. 10s. for dead weight, and 81. 8s. for light goods ; and at Madras the Claudine was daily expected, from Vizapatam, to fill up for London, at 101. 10s. per ton. By this conveyance we learn that a settlement of the dispute with the Chinese appeared to be as distant as ever, and that the Company's ships had been ordered to proceed to Manilla to winter. The Bombay Gazette of the 18th March contains a Proclamation issued by the President and Select Committee at Canton, on the 11th January, prohibiting all vessels bearing the British flag, from entering that port. This will put a atop to the free trade between India and China, which had hitherto continued open, notwithstanding the disspute in which the Company's servants had involved them. The Bridgwater may now be hourly expected. It is stated that she left China It day before a Dutch ship, which has arrived at St. Helena, and which is supposed to have sailed about the 22nd Jan.
The Superior, salmon, which we stated last week was ashore near Java Head, got off without damage ; and after discharging her cargo at Batavia, proceeded on her voyage to Singapore. Arrived.—At Gravesend, June 2, City of Aberdeen, Duthie, from Singapore. At the Cape, March 25, City of Edinburgh. WICInnon, from Bengal and Mauritius; 27, Premium, Young ; Hebe, Douglas; and Luna, Knox, from London. At Bombay, previous to 20th March, Triumph, Green, from London ; Clyde, Oldham, from Liverpool ; and Tamerlane, Miller, from Clyde. At Bengal,°Feb. 0, Thalia, Biden, and 16, Providence, Ford, from London. At Batavia, Superior, Salmon, from Liverpool. At New South Wales, William, Young ; Dee. 2' Morley, Harrison ; Lucy Davidson, Wiseman ; and Mary Ann, Bunton; 8, Sarah, Columbine, and Claudine, Heathen, all from London ; 17, Medway, Wright, from Liverpool ; 21, Harriet, Buckle, from Cork.
Sailed.—From Gravesend, May 29, Mellish, Vincent, for New South Wales ; 30, Lady Kennaway, Monerieff, and Bengal Merchant, Fox, for the Cape, Madras, and Bengal ; and Ann and Amelia Richards, for China, Ilalifax, and Quebec. June 4, Coromandel, Boyes, for Madras and Bengal.
Spoken.—Aurora, from Bengal to London, 29th March, 33 S. 29 E.
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