and distinctly disclaimed having imputed, or intended to impute, subornation of evidence to Lieutenant-Colonel Ovans.

We have, therefore, thought it unnecessary to continue the correspondence with Major-General Lodwick

We feel it due to Lieutenant-Colonel Ovans and Mr. Willoughby to record our opinion that the investigation and discussions which have taken place have left not the slightest stain on their characters, public or private, nor have tended in any way to lower the reputation they had justly acquired by their previous public services.

Mr. FIELDER condemned the repeated discussion of this question.

Mr. WEEDING repelled the imputation cast upon the great body of proprietors on account of their usually supporting the Court of Directors, and avowed that he thought as a general course it was the right one. He pleaded guilty to the charge of maintaining a conservative policy upon this point. At any rate, was it more reprehensible that some proprietors should invariably support the executive (if such were the fact), than that others, like the honourable mover, should be always found in opposition?

Mr. G. THOMPSON replied, and finally withdrew his motion, with an intimation that he should return to the subject in three months.

EXECUTION OF MUTINEERS IN THE SIXTH MADRAS LIGHT CAVALRY.

Mr. SERJEANT GASELEE put a question as to the execution of two soldiers of the 6th Madras Light Cavalry, who had been brought to a court-martial nine months after the offence for which they were tried had been committed, sentenced to death, and executed.

The CHAIRMAN said that, according to the highest military authorities, the course taken was perfectly legal.

Sir J. L. LUSHINGTON deprecated the discussion of such matters as likely to produce mischief. The Marquis of Tweedale had done much for the Madras army, and had uniformly manifested the most kindly feelings towards it. Of the guilt of the men selected for execution there could be no doubt, and those who had been sentenced to the milder punishment of transportation had admitted that they amply merited the fate which had overtaken them.

Mr. SERJEANT GASELEE declared himself not satisfied, and determined, unless intermediate reflection should change his purpose, to suumit a motion on the subject at the next Quarterly Court.

Mr. TWINING implored the learned serjeant to reconsider the matter, and not provoke a discussion on such a subject.

CAPTAIN CONOLLY.

Mr. WEEDING called attention to the unhappy fate of this officer, and suggested that some testimonial should be offered to his merits.

Sir JEREMIAH BRYANT eulogized the genius of Captain Conolly and Colonel Stoddart, but he thought it better, before taking any step like that now suggested, to await the return of Dr. Woolf, who might soon be expected home, having last been heard of at Trebizond.

Mr. WEEDING offered no objection to this, and the Court adjourned.

AFFAIRS IN ADEN. (From the Times.)

Aden, Feb. 10, 1815. The Government monthly steam-packet Victoria anchored in our harbour at seven this morning, bringing melancholy accounts from Scinde. The 78th Highlanders are almost annihilated, and must be relieved from such an unhealthy climate, to be replaced by some other European corps, to be in its turn sacrificed. The 94th are daily expected at Aden to relieve the 17th, who will probably be sent to Scinde to replace the 78th. This will be a melancholy change for them, as they have only six in hospital at Aden; indeed, Aden still proves to be the healthiest station occupied by British troops in the East. The native troops also continue in excellent health. The sickness (ulcers and scurvy) from which they suffered so much on their first arrival has almost entirely disappeared.

The attack by the Arabs has not yet taken place. The Scheriff of Mocha has still a large force in the field, with which he is overawing and exacting contributions from the inferior tribes. From the proceeds of these exactions he is collecting magazines of grain and munitions of war. There is undoubted proof that the Imaum of Sennaa has given him permission and authority to do so in his name, and also that he is preparing at the capital to join him with as large a force as he can collect, and that when united, they will attack Aden, or sit down before the place with such a force as to cut off all communications and supplies from the interior. This method of proceeding is more to be apprehended than an attack, as it would

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tend very much to distress the place, now containing upwards of 25,000 inhabitants, who draw their principal supplies from AraThe whole of the powerful and warlike tribes in Yemen are at this present time in a very unsettled and agitated state, and merely require some master-mind to collect and direct them to some given object. Any adventurer, with cunning and a few thousand dollars, could in a few months collect 100,000 men, tolerably armed. With such turbulent and combustible materials in our immediate neighbourhood, it requires us to be at all times, and under all circumstonces, on the alert, and ready and fully prepared to repel their attacks. Our whole garrison at present does not exceed 1,600 bayonets; but, from the peculiar nature of the place, these, when told off to their different stations, are very much scattered, and unable to support each other. What serious effect would a scattered fire from 200 or 300 muskets have against such masses as they could bring against us? Even the inefficient and temporary works which have been hurriedly thrown up are fast crumbling to pieces, without any means available to rebuild or repair them. One heavy fall of rain, not unfrequent at this season of the year, would most effectually destroy the whole of what are most inappropriately called defences. That the Indian Government have most unaccountably neglected Aden is a fact too notoriously evident to be contradicted. There may be reasons, both financial and political, for such a state of affairs. Nothing, however, should induce the home authorities to so utterly neglect a place of such present and growing importance as this Bab-el-Kooat (gate of strength) between Europe and the East.

It is most sincerely to be hoped that the Crown will see the absolute necessity of directing the place to be at least secured from surprise, and prevent the troops from undergoing the almost incessant harassing duties which they are called upon to perform. In no other possession of the Government in the East could troops perform half the fatigue which they do at Aden. The garrison should consist of one entire European regiment and one regiment of native infantry, with two companies of European artillery, in all 2,000 men.

The

Small-pox has again appeared, with great severity, in the town. Fortunately, the garrison has as yet escaped its baneful effects. How long they may continue to do so is uncertain. VaccinaMany casualties have occurred amongst the natives. tion has been repeatedly tried, but invariably failed. This failure is not easily to be accounted for, as the lymph procured from India appeared to be fresh and genuine. Whether it was owing to the matter being spurious, the medical men cannot say. civil surgeon has, we understand, brought the circumstance to the notice of the Court of Directors, through Captain Haines, the resident, and requested a supply being forwarded direct from the Royal Jennerian Institution, from which it is to be expected that successful vaccination will follow, and that ultimately from this source it will be disseminated throughout Arabia. The question has been put to different chiefs of the tribes, who say they have no objection to have vaccination tried amongst their families. Should it be tried and succeed, what a field of interesting investigatiou would thus be opened to a medical officer travelling from one town to another in the interior, spreading the blessings of vaccination around him!

Many important discoveries might be the result of a tour under such favourable circumstances through a country so imperfectly known to Europeans as Arabia is by all acknowledged to be. Many geological and botanical discoveries yet remain to be made in its lofty mountains and fertile plains, also amongst the ruins of ancient grandeur and extensive cities which have never been visited by a European.

The Arabs, who frequently visit Aden from a distance of from 200 to 300 miles, describe the country to be beautiful, well-wooded and watered, with extensive towns, with dense population, interspersed with numerous ruins of cities built with immense blocks of stone, which have not even a name amongst the Arabs, of such antiquity that even the people or nation who built them is unknown.

The Victoria leaves at 10 o'clock p.m. this evening.

by the British Government.

Should the means at the disposal of Mohammed Ali be properly used, his highness will always insure a monopoly of the transit by keeping all competitors out of the field. As regards the monopoly of the conveyance of passengers through Egypt, it appears strange that a subject of a friendly power should be permitted to proceed on his journey through the country only through the medium of the Pasha's private speculation of the Transit Company; yet such an order is at present in force, that travellers cannot cross the Desert by the same means of conveyance that would cost them no more than one-sixth of the charges of the Egyptian Transit Company. The disadvantages arising to the public from the present system were very strongly felt on the departure of the Great Liverpool, at the beginning of this month. The Hindostan's passengers, to meet the Great Liverpool at Alexandria, were despatched from Cairo in two steamers on the morning of the 7th. The Lotus, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, left Cairo with the first batch of passengers, who arrived here soon after the mail; but about fifty passengers were forwarded in an old steamer of the Pasha's, drawing nearly six feet of water, which soon got aground on a sand-bank on her passage down the Nile, and the passengers arrived here thirty-six hours after the proper time; very fortunately, the Great Liverpool was detained by bad weather, or else they would certainly have lost the passage to England. A few months ago, the Egyptian Transit Company got out a new iron steam-boat, well adapted for the navigation of the Nile and the conveyance of passengers; but, on her arrival here, she struck the fancy of the Pasha, who appropriated her to his own private use, and gave the Transit Company, of which his highness is head, his old steamer, which, besides having no accommodation for passengers, is unserviceable during six months of the year, on account of her great draught of water.

It is said that Mr. I. Galloway, the engineer, has received instructions from the Pasha to begin to lay the rails, at present existing in the country, for the line between Cairo and Suez. It is expected that, when these rails are used, there will not be found more than sufficient for twelve or fifteen miles, although there were twenty-five miles of rails imported nine years ago, as they have been used for many purposes since that time.

The steamer Delta, which was sent to Egypt four months ago by the Peninsular and Oriental Company for the navigation of the Nile, and whose services are just now so much wanted, is still lying in the western harbour, where she is suffering considerable damage from the immense number of barnacles and shellfish that get attached to her bottom. The Egyptian government refuse to allow her to be placed on the Nile, and the representative of the company has received instructions not to take any steps whatever with regard to the boat until further orders.

Mohammed Ali seems so well pleased with the accounts received from his son, Houssein Bey, who is at present residing in Paris, that his highness intends sending his fourth son, Hulem Bey, to the French capital, accompanied by his chief secretary, Khosrew Bey.

The French direct steamer from Marseilles, due on the 11th, reached this point on the 13th. This steamer has brought the overland Calcutta mail, despatched from London on the 24th January to meet the Hindostan, but was detained at Marseilles on account of there being no English steamer to bring it on. This mail, with the exception of the boxes for Ceylon, will be sent to Bombay by the Hon. Company's steamer expected to leave Suez on or about the 22nd inst.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Hindostan left Suez on the night of the 9th inst., with eighty-seven passengers, for Aden, Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta.

The French schooner Gazelle, which was advertised to run regularly between this port and Beyrout, has, after making a few trips, discontinued; and it is understood that, unless she obtains some support from the French government, her voyage to Syria will not be renewed.

We have had no news from Syria lately. The packet is, however, hourly expected.

Sir W. Pym arrived here on the 17th inst., in the French steamer, from Constantinople.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Iberia reached this port early this morning with the Indian mails of the 8th, and twenty-eight passengers.

Telegraphic intelligence was received this morning of the arrival at Suez yesterday of the Bombay steamer, with forty passengers, and the Iberia will most likely start on her return voyage to Malta on the 22nd inst.

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MUSEUM. Pursuant to an order of the House of Commons, requiring an exact annual return of the number of visitors who shall have frequented the

Number of visitors (1843) ... The maximum number on any one day during the year was 902, on the first Saturday in April; the minimum number, 80, on the first Saturday in November.

SUGAR. From a volumnious return obtained on the motion of Mr. Hogg, M. P. for Beverly, the greater portion of which contains a mass of memorials and communications on the subject of discriminating duties, the following brief history of the discriminating duties heretofore imposed between Muscovado and clayed sugar, and under what authority imposed, the length of time such duties were continued in force, and the authority by which they were repealed, or at any time suspended, may not be out of place on the present occasion. It does not appear that the term "clayed" sugar, as applicable to sugar from the British plantations, was used in any act of Parliament until the year 1803 (vide 43 George III., c. 68), the terms of which act are, "sugar, white or clayed, 21. 16s. the cwt.; and sugar, brown or Muscovado, 1. 17s. 4d. the cwt." By an order of the Lords of the Treasury, issued on the 8th of December, 1821, the duty on clayed" sugar was reduced to 32s. per cwt. The words above recited, included within the inverted commas, continued to exist, until the year 1825, when the following alteration was made by the act of the 6th of George IV., c. 111, viz. “ sugar, brown, or Muscovado, or clayed, not being refined, 11. 7s. the cwt. ;" and these terms still exist; but the rate of duty payable was reduced in the year 1830, by the act of the 1st of William IV., c. 50, to 11. 4s. the cwt.; and the same words and the last-mentioned rate of duty are still in force, under the authority of the act of the 7th and 8th of Victoria, cap. 28, dated the 4th of July, 1844. As regards sugars imported from the East Indies, no distinction was made until the year 1821, when, by the act 1 and 2 of George IV., cap. 106, the following rates were established, viz., sugar, clayed, 21. 5s. the cwt.; and sugar, brown or Muscovado, 21. the cwt.; but this differential duty was repealed in the year 1825, by the beforementioned act of Parliament, the 6th of George IV., cap. 111.

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ORIENTAL VISITORS AT SOUTHAMPTON.-The Scindian chiefs with their suite, in all twelve persons, who arrived here in the Great Liverpool, are come to this country as an embassy from the ex-Ameers of Scinde, to endeavour to effect an arrangement with the British Government, to obtain the release of their princes and the restoration of their country. They have been staying with their suite, at a house in Portland-terrace, but are to leave for London, we are informed, to-day or to-morrow. The native costumes of the chiefs are remarkable for their richness, and excited considerable admiration on the part of those who witnessed their landing.-Hampshire Independant, March 8.

THE BISHOP OF CALCUTTA.-We have seen private letters from India, which, we regret to say, contain the melancholy intelligence that the Bishop of Calcutta, the Rev. Dr. Wilson, was suffering from severe indisposition. His medical advisers had recommended a sea voyage as the best means of restoring his health. His lordship intended returning to England directly, but as he was at a distance of eight hundred miles up the country from Calcutta, it was apprehended that this great distance would be too much to accomplish without very great fatigue. It is now thirteen years since his lordship left England. -Globe.

MARSEILLES, MARCH 12.-The mail for India, which left London on the seventh, reached this place last evening, a few

minutes before eight o'clock, and was immediately placed on board the Locust stamer, for Malta. Owing to a strong northwest wind, the Locust did not sail till late this morning.Times.

THE MAILS.-Southampton, March 20.-The Great Liverpool, Capt. Macleod, left the docks this day for Alexandria, with the East-India and China Mails, 30 passengers, and a full cargo of bale goods. The Oriental Company's steam-ship the Braganza also left this day for Calcutta, to which station she is destined for three years, to run between that place and Hong-Kong, &c.

SHIPPING.

ARRIVALS.

MARCH 8. Cookson, Patterson, Mauritius; Heroine, Todd, Singapore.-11. Token, Cheyne, Bengal; Minstrel, Burton, Bengal.— 19. Arabia, Skelton, Ceylon; William Gales, Venus, Mauritius ; Cleopatra, Early, China.-22. Montrose, Ferguson, Bombay; Uruguay, Kelso, China; Roding, Ashton, Bengal; Duchess of Buccleugh, Straker, China; Mary, Mackie, Mauritius.

DEPARTURES.

From the DoWNS. MARCH 7. Mount Stuart Elphinstone, Holton, Hobart Town.-10. Universe, Ritchie, and Volusia, Finlayson, Aden; Charles Carter, Broad, Cape.-11. Isabella Blyth, Lane, Mauritius; Vanguard, Longridge, St. Helena.-12. Woodman, Good (from Shields), Bombay.-14. Orlando, Cockerill, Calcutta; Lady Clarke, Laurence, Madras and Bengal.-15. Amwell, Trayte, Cape. -18. Persian, Grange, Sydney.-19. Robert Matthews, Phillips, Sydney; Galatea, Owen, Algoa Bay.-20. Larkins, Heidrich, Bengal; Pekin, Laing, Madras and Bengal; Santa Librador (a), Corchuela, Raminez, Manilla; Ann Falcon, Bowness, Mauritius.

From LIVERPOOL.-MARCH 8. Bolivar, Fenwick, Bombay.11. Earl of Chester, Blackstone, Hong-Kong.-14. Bidston, Harmer, Calcutta ; Princess Royal, Hoodless, Calcutta; Hartland, Hooper, Bombay.-16. Delhi, Horner, Bombay.-21. Thomas Lee, Salkeld, Bengal.

From PORTSMOUTH.-MARCH 6. Samarang, Howard, Madras and Bengal.-9. Mary Bannatyne, Picken, China.-10. Chilena, Wylie, Batavia and Singapore.

From PLYMOUTH.-MARCH 19. Louisa Campbell, Darby, New Zealand.

From the CLYDE.-MARCH 5. Roseanna, Chrichton, Froon and Aden.-8. Cheshire, King, Bengal.-10. Mogul, Oliphant, Batavia; Mandarin, Brebner, Calcutta; St. George, Wright, Mauritius.12.-Countess of Durham, M'Laren, Ceylon.

From LEITH.-MARCH 11. Royal Shepherdess, Scott, Ceylon. From SWANSEA.-MARCH 12. Tom Cringle, Mitchell, Cape. From NEWPORT.-MARCH 6. Avoca, Harvey, and Helvellyn, Tulledge, Singapore.

From ABERDEEN.-MARCH 8. Acasta, Webster, Cape.
From BORDEAUX.-MARCH 14. Woodlark, Clarkson, Mauritius.

PASSENGERS DEPARTED.

Passengers per Great Liverpool, from Southampton, on March 20th, and to proceed per Bentinck from Suez.

For MALTA.-Miss Scott, the Hon. Miss Abercromby, maid servant and man servant, and Mr. and Mrs. Allan.

For ALEXANDRIA.-Mr. Conyeare, D. Patherick, Esq. and Mr. Pitcairn.

For SUEZ.-Mr. Ryan and Mr. Grant.

For ADEN.-L. Josephs Esq. and Major Dennis.
For CEYLON.-Mr. Davidson and Mr. Fraser.

For MADRAS.-Mr. Collett, G. C. Robinson, Esq. Mr. Pearse, Mr. Meyers, and Mr. Lovekin.

For CALCUTTA.-Mr. Murray, two Misses Cumming, Mr. Frith, Mr. Currie, Mr. Barber, Dr. Macaulay, Mr. Dickenson, Dr. Allan, Mr. Parnell, Mr. Robertson, Mrs. Burkinyoung, Mr. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Snow, and Mrs. Jackson and

servant.

William Thomson, Esq. to Margaret Cuninghame, daughter of the late Maj. J. Cambbell, at 23, Moray-place, Edinburgh. 12. Capt. Rawson J. Crozier, 26th Bombay N.I. to Emily Jane, daughter of John Brightman, Esq. at Brighton.

13. Robert Jaques, Esq. formerly of the East India Company's maritime service, to Eliza, daugher of W. Pettit, Esq. at St. Giles's, Camberwell.

14. Lieut. col. Cavage, 6th N.I. to Isabella Jane, daughter of the late Maj. T. F. Hutchinson, Bengal army, at 9, Regent-terrace, Edinburgh.

DEATHS.

Feb. 1. Lieut. col. R. Gordon, late 23rd Lt. Drags. 'at the Crescent, St. Heliers, Jersey, aged 84, deeply lamented by his afflicted family. This venerable officer commanded his regiment throughout the campaign in Egypt, under General Sir Ralph Abercromby.

Lately. Maj. gen. W. Roome, late of the E.I.C.S. at 19, Cadogan-place.

March 7. Emily Jane, daughter of H. Young, Esq. of the Bonbay civil service, at 11, Hanover-terrace, Regent's-park, aged 5. 9. George King, Esq. late of the Bengal medical establishment, at Brighton, aged 62.

John Broome, Esq. late of Calcutta, at Great Marlow, aged 89.

12. James Tomlinson, Esq. late major in the 11th Hussars, at Cheltenham, aged 52.

13. Elizabeth, relict of Robert Grant, Bengal civil service, at 17, Hamilton-terrace, St. John's-wood, aged 79.

14. Maj. gen. Sir T. Corsellis, K.C.B. at 52, Edgeware-road, aged 52.

16. Admiral Carpenter, at 26, Cumberland-street, aged 86. 20. The Right Rev. Joseph Allen, D.D. Bishop of Ely, aged 76.

7th, 12th, and 19th March, 1845.

ARRIVALS REPORTED IN ENGLAND.

MILITARY.

Bengal Estab.-Brev. maj. Henry Clayton, 4th It. cav. (lancers.)
Lieut. Augustus Turner, 1st N.I.
Capt. Augustus H. Dyke, 25th N.I.
Lieut. col. Richard Home, 47th N.I.
Capt. Charles J. Lewis, 50th N.I.
Surg. Hugh Guthrie, M.D. 20th N.I.
Ens. John A. Conroy, 58th N.I.
Maj. Onslow Baker, artillery.
Capt. H. Nicholson Pepper, ditto.
Maj. Benjamin Ashe, retired.
Lieut. James Clarke, invalid.

Madras Estab.-Capt. William E. Gibb, 14th N.I.
Lieut. George Baldock, 28th N. I.
Lieut. William E. P. Cotton, 41st N.L.
Surg. James Eaton, M. D. 48th N.I.
Bombay Estab.-Lieut. John Alexander, 2nd N.I.

MARINE.

Bombay Estab.-Mr. Thomas G. Beazley, I.N.

PERMITTED TO RETURN TO THEIR DUTY.

CIVIL.

Bengal Estab.-Mr. Robert Montgomery, overland, in Oct.
Bombay Estub.-Mr. Edward C. Jones.
Mr. George Coles.

MILITARY.

Bombay Estab.-Lieut. H. E. Pattullo, 1st Europ. reg. right wing.
Capt. Charles W. Prother, 4th N. I.
Lieut. Sir Francis J. Ford, Bart. 20th N.I.
Capt. John S. Leeson, artillery, overland, 3rd
June.

Madras Estab.-Lieut. the Hon. Patrick O. Murray, 5th N.I.
Lieut. George Selby, artillery, on the Sir Robert
Sale.

MARINE.

Bombay Estab.--Lieut. William B. Selby, I.N. via France.

William Croughton Stileman, ditto.

Roderick William Richardes, ditto.

George Edward Thomas, ditto.
Joseph Miles, ditto.

Charles Vyvyan Bryan, ditto.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ships by which they respectively proceeded, and in the following order, viz. :

James Turner Hill, Berkshire, 18th Feb.

Henry Sparrow, Hindostan, 23rd Feb.
Francis Raleigh Jardine, ditto.

To rank from the date of their departure from Southampton by the overland route, and in the following order, viz.:

Charles Edward Moberly, Duke of Cornwall, 1st March.
Hugh Reid Bell, ditto.

Henry George Harris Reid, ditto.

ASSISTANT-SURGEONS FOR BENGAL.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ships by which they respectively proceeded, and in the following order, viz. :

Thomas Turnbull, м. D. Madagascar, 11th Feb.
Hartwell Samuel Garner, ditto.

John Nicholas Tresidder, Bangalore, 1st March.

ASSISTANT-SURGEON FOR MADRAS.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ship by which he proceeded, viz. :

Walter Alexander Leslie, Madagascar, 11th Feb.

ASSISTANT-SURGEONS FOR BOMBAY.

To rank from the date of their departure from Southampton by the overland route, and in the following order, viz. :

:

Robert Nicholson, M.D. Duke of Cornwall, 1st March.
William Carey Coles, M.D. ditto.

Joseph Furlonge Shekleton, A.B., M. B. ditto.

VOLUNTEERS FOR THE BENGAL PILOT SERVICE.

In continuation of the List dated 17th December, 1844. To rank from the date of the departure from London of the despatch announcing his appointment, viz. :

Robert Burton Yates, via Southampton, 1st Feb. (proceeding to India.)