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MILITARY APPOINTMENTS,

PROMOTIONS, &c.

Bombay Castle, June 19, 1832.-Messrs. A. H. Leith and Fred. Forbes admitted on establishment as assist. surgeons.

June 28.-Assist. Surg. J. Bowstead to do duty under superintendent of quarantine.

July 3.-Regt. of Artillery. Sen. Major John Moor to be lieut. col., v. Campbell retired; Sen. Capt. Thos. Stevenson to be major, and Lieut. G. Yeadell to be capt., in suc. to Moor prom.; date of rank 30th Dec. 1831.- Supernum. Lieut. T. Tarleton admitted on effective strength, from 30th Dec. 1831, v. Yeadell prom.

25th N.. Capt. J. Hancock to be major, and Lieut. C. C. Rebenack to be capt., in suc. to Grafton retired; date 30th Dec. 1831.- Supernum. Lieut. J. W. Cunningham admitted on effective strength from 30th Dec. 1831, v. Rebenac k prom.

FURLOUGHS.

To Europe.-June 23. Lieut. W. A. Wroughton, 3d N.I., for health.-25. Ens. T. P. Mackay, 3d N.I., for health.

SHIPPING. Arrivals.

June 30. Sabena (Sp.), Somes, from Manilla.July 1. H.C.S. Marquis Camden, Larkins, from London and St. Helena.-5. Sarah, Whiteside, from London.-6. Cambridge, Barber, from London; and Jessie, Thompson, from Liverpool.-7. Abgarris, Tulloch, from Mauritius; and Deaux Sophie (Fr.), Donzellie, from Bourbon.-8. William, Whyte, from Greenock; and Majestic, Lawson, from Liverpool.-16. Boyne, Brown, from London.

Departures.

June 26. Cleveland, Havelock, for Liverpool.27. Protector, Buttanshaw, for London.-28. Caledonia, Lyons, for China.-29. Medford (Am.), Cunningham, for New York.-July 3. L'Alexis (Fr.), Gelot, for Bordeaux.-10. Huron, Hardy, for Liverpool; H.C.S. Duchess of Athol, Daniel, for China; and Stakesby, Johnson, for London.11. Gipsey, Highat, for Liverpool.-17. Mermaid, Evans, for China.-18. Hero, Thompson, for London.

Freight to London (July 18).-£5 per ton.

BIRTHS AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

April 30. On board the Mermaid, at sea, the lady of J. Mearns, Esq., medical estab., of a daughter. May 20. At Darwar, the lady of Archibald Spens, Esq., civil service, of a son.

-At Mahabuleshwar hills, the lady of Major Havelock, 4th Lt. Drags., of a daughter.

29. AtColaba, the lady of Capt. Maclean, Queen's Royals, of a daughter.

June 1. At Bombay, the lady of Major C. B. James, first assist. com. gen., of a son.

12. At Colabah, the lady of Lieut. Wm. Igglesden, of a son.

19. At Bombay, the lady of A. N. Shaw, Esq., of a son.

20. At Belgaum, the lady of Capt. Swanson, deputy assist. qu. mast. gen., of a son.

22. At Poonah, the lady of Charles Ducat, Esq., M.D., of a daughter.

23. At Kolapoor, the lady of Capt. W. H. Waterfield, 14th N.I., of a daughter.

At Bombay, the lady of George Adam, Esq., of a son, still-born.

At Poona, the lady of Lieut. Carstairs, 6th N.I., of a son.

27. At Bombay, Mrs. H. Woollaston, of a son. July 5. At Surat, the lady of Edward Grant, Esq., civil service, of a son.

8. At Colaba, the lady of G. W. Blachley, Esq., of a still-born daughter.

9. At Bombay, the lady of Capt. Brooks, 2d L.C., of a daughter.

DEATHS.

June 3. At Cochin, of cholera morbus, Miss Caroline Bello, aged 14 years.

10. At Fort Goa, Severndroog, Lieut. Colin S. Geddes, of the invalid establishment, attached to the European Independent Veteran Company,

19. At Beejapoor, of cholera, Assist. Surg. G. Gray, attached to the 26th regt. N.I.

23. At Cambay, Lieut. Thomas Brown, of 11th regt. N.I., aide-de-camp to Brigadier Gen. Kennett, aged 27, after a short illness.

July 1. Mr. John Fenn, of Peckham, Surrey, chief officer of the H.C. ship Marquis Camden.

7. At Oldbury, the lady of James Atkinson, Esq., of a son.

9. At Sydney, Mrs. de Mestre, of a son. 13. At Sydney, Mrs. Francis Stephen, of a son. 16. At Sydney, Mrs. George Morris, of a son. 17. At Sydney, Mrs. W. J. Willson, of a son. 18. At Sydney, Mrs. F. H. Drinkwater, of a daughter.

19. At Sydney, the lady of Philip Elliot, Esq., J. P., of a son.

24. At Sydney, Mrs. Gibbons, of a son.

25. The lady of W. H. Dutton, Esq., of Raby, of a daughter.

30. At Port Macquarie, the lady of Deputy Assist. Com. Ackroyd, of a son.

May 15. At Sydney, Mrs. Ellis, of a daughter. 17. At Sydney, Mrs. R. Brownlow, of a son and heir.

20. At Dochcairn, Bathurst, Mrs. Henry Brooks, of a daughter.

29. At Sydney, the lady of Thomas Icely, Esq., of a son.

31. At Sydney, the lady of Capt. Westmacott, A. D. C. to His Exc. Gen. Bourke, of a son.

March 24. At Sydney, H. Carew, Esq., paymas. ter 17th_regt., to Eliza, widow of the late Mr. Barker, Dublin.

April 25. At Bathurst, W. H. Mackenzie, Esq., cashier of the Bank of Australia, to Ellen, third daughter of T. F. Hawkins, Esq., of Blackdown.

May 8. At Sydney, David Chambers, Esq., to Miss Dowling.

10. At Bathurst, William, second son of Wm. Lawson, Esq., J. P., to Caroline, youngest daughter of Thomas Icely, Esq., of Devonport, Devon. 15. At Sydney, Thos. Urmson Ryder, Esq., to Jane, second daughter of Rupert Kirk, Esq.

19. At Sydney, A. Oliver, Esq., to Miss Kenyon.

DEATHS.

April 19. At Sydney, Mary, wife of Mr. Samuel Lyons, in her 23d year.

23. At Sydney, Mrs. Day, wife of Mr. Thomas Day, boatbuilder, aged 33.

26. At Sydney, Mrs. Greenaway, wife of Mr. James Greenaway, architect.

May 7. At the Government House, Parramatta, Elizabeth Jane, wife of his Exc. Maj. Gen. Bourke, C.B., governor of the colony.

9. At Sydney, Mr. Thomas Colls.

22. At Sydney, Mrs. Mary Brunton, relict of the late Mr. Thomas Brunton, professor of dancing. 30. At Sydney, Catherina, widow of the late James Hampton Garratt, Esq., of Market Lavington, Wiltshire.

Castle, James's Fort, April 30, 1832.-In reference to G.O.'s of the 27th April relative to dates of rank of certain officers therein named, the following amended orders are published:-Capt. J. B. Spiller, Lieut. J. R. C. Mason, and Ens. J. B. Alexander, date of rank 1st April 1831, v. Capt. O. Beale, placed on retired list; Ens. D. H. H. Lester, date of rank 23d April 1831, v. Ens. H. Doveton resigned; Capt. D. McMahon and Lieut. T. B. Knipe, date of rank 26th Nov. 1831, v. Capt. J. Bennett invalided.

Aug. 2.-Lieut. Matthew O'Connor, having been reported by a medical committee unfit for effective duty, struck off strength of regiment.

Ens. T. S. Reed to be lieut., v. O'Connor; date of rank 2d Aug. 1832.

Until pleasure of Hon. Court of Directors be known, whether Lieut. O'Connor is to be placed on invalid or retired list, that officer to be stationed at Lemon Valley, and draw his rations in addition to retiring pay of his rank.

Calcutta papers to the 22d June have reached us. They contain little intelligence in addition to what is already given,

On the subject of the Chooar rebellion, which has supplanted that of the Kholes, with which it appears connected, we have no decisive information. The latest intelligence from the camp, Burra-Bazar, is dated June 11th. All attempts, it states, at negociation with the Chooars have completely failed. To the proclamations and endeavours which were made to induce the ghautwals, or landholders, and the ghautwars, or ghaut-keepers, who are the police of this purgunnah, the insurgents, and supporters of Gunganarain, to return to their allegiance, no answer has been given, and no wish manifested, on their part, to

relinquish the cause of their leader, and submit to the terms proposed by the civil authorities. The consequence is, that recourse has again been had to hostile measures, and war has re-commenced since the 1st June, when Colonel Cooper, with his detachment and the guns, arrived in camp. On the 3d, the head-quarters of the 25th, with Captain Barker's detachment of the 33d, a part of the 31st, and the artillery, left camp in pursuit of the rebels, who are understood to be at Bandree, in force, with Gunganarain Sing, entrenched in some kind of a strong-hold in its immediate vicinity. Several parties of the insurgents presented themselves to Col. Cooper's detachment. A small party of sepoys, with an elephant, some

hackeries, and the dâk, for the advanced camp, were despatched in the forenoon of the 5th, and came back in the evening, having been forced to return by a large body of Chooars, whom they encountered in the jungles. The sepoys expended the whole of their ammunition, with the exception of five rounds, and appear to have behaved very gallantly indeed; a naick and four, with their muskets, having effected their retreat in the face of a force of several hundred men. The Russut was, however, captured. Colonel Cooper's party returned to camp on the 6th, without having advanced as far as Bandree. Bommonnee, the place of Annan Pater, an insurgent ghautwal, was destroyed, and from the time of the troops leaving this camp till their return, they were constantly engaged with the enemy. Many villages were burned, and several of the insurgents killed. About twenty sepoys and a number of camp-followers were wounded with arrows, some of the sepoys dangerously, the wounds occurring in the chest and abdomen. Colonel Cooper was hit with an arrow, without inflicting a wound of any consequence. The officers are all much fatigued, having been exposed to the burning sun and rain, without tents, for three days. It was supposed the troops would speedily return to Bancoorah, as it was considered impracticable to carry on any further military operations against the insurgents at that season of the year. The whole population of this purgunnah is said to be in a state of open rebellion.

A private letter, dated Camp DhakaKhend, June 8, says: "This most extraordinary and serious insurrection has assumed, at length, something like a formidable aspect, and a whole pergunnah is left in the hands of a rebel, who has defied the British government, assumed the title of rajah, is de facto zemindar, receives the revenue, and disposes of the lands, the property, and even the lives of the population at his despotic will and pleasure. This state of affairs must command very mature consideration. It is impossible that the condition of BurraBhoom can longer be treated as a trifle. The purgunnah, I apprehend, must be left in its present rebellious condition till the close of the rains, and then the force required to subdue those insurgents, owing to their numbers and the difficulties of the country, it is clear, must be more numerous than at first sight might be deemed necessary. All hope of retreat for Gunganarain, in order to ensure tranquility and enforce the allegiance of the people, should be precluded, and consequently a simultaneous movement of troops from both sides of the hills, will, it strikes me, be found indispensible. Neither the political or military talents of the leader of

the Chooars are of such an inferior description as to conduce to the idea of its being safe to allow him longer to continue the undisputed sovereign of this pergunnah; and he has managed to impress the belief, which the existingturn of affairs is undoubtedly calculated to augment, that he is a sort of an avatar of Kal, and particularly under the protection of the goddess Devi or Kali Ma, his name indicating the lion of the Ganges.' The same writer adds the following reflections on these unexpected occurrences:

"1st. The very great and unaccountable want of information respecting the population of Chota Nagpore, and the relative political and religious position in which the different classes of the district of Ramghur stood to each other, and the general state and nature of the country, anterior to the month of December 1831. 2d. The confusion which has arisen from mistaking Chooars for Coles, the indiscriminate slaughter of the latter that in consequence has taken place, and the dreadful severity that has been exercised towards them, amounting even to the extent of fixing a price upon their heads. 3d. The total want of information regarding Gunganarain, his intentions and proceedings, till the insurrection suddenly commenced by the conflagration of the moonsiff's cutcherry at Burra-Bazar on the 1st May. 4th. The misconception which exists with reference to the administration of justice by natives, and the aversion that the natives themselves entertain and perpetually manifest against the administration of justice by their own countrymen. This most important fact is decisively proved."

Another letter, dated Camp Bancoorah, June 11th, says: "The right wing of the 50th N.I. reached this station yesterday, after having undergone a series of fatigues and exposure to the sun, in the midst of jungles, not very usual in the annals of British India. The month of May 1832 has proved one of the hottest ever experienced even in Hindoostan; and to the unmitigated influence of the sun, among dense jungles interspersed with marshes and jeels, the sepoys of the 50th have been unremittingly exposed during the whole of that period. The privations to which both the officers and men have been subjected in the course of their late service in Chota Nagpore and the jungle mehauls have been very great.'

The India Gazette of June 21st observes: "The successive commotions, with which the government and the country have lately been harassed,—those of the Molavees, the Coles, and the Chooars, the last-mentioned still unquelled,-occurring in a part of India hitherto considered the most peaceable and the best governed, require that strict investigation should be made into their causes, and that publicity should be given

to the result of the investigation, since it is only by publicity that an effectual and permanent check can be put to the evils from which they have arisen. It seems probable that the continuance of these disturbances will hasten the return of the Governor General to Bengal."

The India Gazette of June 19th mentions the resignation of Mr. Stockwell, the commissioner in Cuttack, whose services are referred to in p. 120, in consequence, it is there stated, of "the animadversion, of which he has been made the object, on account of a recent public calamity, which could neither have been foreseen nor averted, and which found its sole mitigation in his truly paternal care." It is added that "he has, at least, the satisfaction of knowing that his praises are uttered by the very men whom he is assumed to have unnecessarily exposed to pestilence and death, and who with him, and by their own joint counsel, shared a common danger." The Calcutta Courier, however, states that the resignation of Mr. Stockwell was not in consequence of a censure passed upon him by government; on the contrary, the resignation has been a source of much regret ; and that the cause of it was an accidental collision with the authorities in a neighbouring district.

The Durpun reports the dismission, suspension, and prosecution of some of the native officers, connected with the defalcation in the Jessore treasury.

A letter from Hyderabad, dated the 28th May, states: "The zemindars are almost every where in a state of disobedience and complete rebellion; the country is impoverished, and the wretched inhabitants are assembling to have vengeance of their local oppressors. Chundoo Loll, the prime minister, has at last taken upon himself to inform the resident of his fears, and some of the ex-commissioners, with three regiments of cavalry, and a regiment of sepoys, and its proportion of artillery, have been ordered to take up such posi

tions, in different parts of the country, as seemed calculated to reduce them to obedience. These outrages have excited considerable emotion in the capital, and afford ample food for speculation in our cantonment. Accounts agree in stating the probable number of Arabs and Seikhs these people can bring into the field as almost incredible."

The following passage appears in the Jami Jehan Nama; it relates to a negotiation for purchasing the privilege of trade along the course of the Indus: "On the 29th April, the Maharajah Runjeet Sing asked Mohummud Durwesh, the vakeel of the governor of Sindh, what has Colonel Pottinger, the ambassador of the British government, been doing?' Mohummud Durwesh replied, that the colonel was on a visit to Khaharpoor. On further explanation, the maharajah observed, if it be true that the British envoy has agreed to pay your commissioner five lakhs of rupees annually, on account of the tax on merchandize, by the same proportion I should be entitled to six or seven lakhs for the distance from Kothan to the limits of Nunda

poor Makhoal,' The conversation was protracted nearly an hour upon this subject."

It appears that two seams of coal, of superior quality, have been discovered on the upper part of the limestone hill near Chirra Poonjee.

Arrangements are in progress, with the sanction of government, for the establishment of a Persian weekly newspaper at Agra, to contain the local intelligence of the districts in which it is to be circulated, more particularly reports of the proceedings of the civil and criminal courts, the state of the revenue, the extent and alterations of the internal commerce, with such other information as may appear calculated for the benefit of the country, and at the same time interesting to the more respectable class of natives.

LAW.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, November 24. The King, v. The East-India Company. - This was an application for a rule against the Company to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, calling upon the Court of Directors to assign a reason why a despatch, approved of by the Board of Control, was not forwarded to India.

The Attorney General said he made this application on the authority of the 33 Geo. III. On the 3d April last, the despatch in question had been agreed to by the Court of Directors, and sent to the Board

of Control, by whom some alterations were made. It was remitted to the Court, and returned to the Board, by whom it was finally settled, and sent back to the Court of Directors, who rescinded their former resolution, and refused to forward the despatch. Rule nisi granted.

MISCELLANEOUS.

NETHERLANDS INDIA.

The following is an extract from the speech of the King of Holland at the opening of the States-General, on the 15th of October: