East-India House, 17th Sept. 1845. HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST-INDIA

THE COMPANY do hereby give notice,

That the Finance and Home Committee will be ready, on or before Wednesday, the 8th of October, to receive proposals in writing, sealed up, from such persons as may be willing to supply the Company with

THREE THOUSAND HOGSHEADS OF EXPORT LONDON
PORTER.

And that the conditions of the said Contract may be had on application at the
Secretary's Office, where the proposals are to be left any time before 11 o'clock
in the forenoon of the said 8th day of October, 1845, after which hour no
Tender will be received.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

CONVEYANCE OF STORES TO INDIA.

East-India House, London, 23rd Sept. 1845. HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST-INDIA COMPANY hereby give notice,

THE

That the Finance and Home Committee will be ready, on Wednesday, the 1st October, 1845, before 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to receive Tenders for the freight of Stores from England to Bombay, in ships of the burthen of 400 tons register and upwards, O.M., or 500 tons register and upwards, N.M.

The Tenders to be made according to a form which may be had at the Marine Branch of the Secretary's Office, at this House, with conditions annexed. The freight to be payable thus, viz. one-third part in England, and the remaining two-thirds in India, on the delivery of the Stores at Bombay, after the rate or exchange of 1s. 104d. per Company's rupee.

N.B. No Tender will be received unless made and filled in according to the form prescribed.

The Stores consist of about 238 tons of Dead Weight (Coals).

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

CONVEYANCE OF TROOPS TO INDIA.
East-India House, London, 23rd Sept. 1845.

THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST-INDIA

COMPANY hereby give notice,

That the Finance and Home Committee will be ready, on Wednesday, the 1st October, 1845, before 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to receive Tenders for the conveyance of Troops from England to the City of Calcutta, on board ships either of 400 tons register and upwards, O.M., or 500 tons register and upwards, N.M.

The number of Troops under orders for embarkation is about 90, and they must embark between the 20th and 30th of October next.

The Tender must express the rate per head for the passage, diet, and accommodation of the men for the whole voyage, and be made according to a form which may be had at the Marine Branch of the Secretary's Office at this House, with terms and conditions annexed.

Two-thirds of the passage-money will be payable in India, at the exchange of 1s. 10d. per Company's rupee.

N.B. No Tender will be received unless made and filled in according to the form prescribed.

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

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The Hon. Company's steamer Acbar, which left Bombay August 27, arrived at Suez Sept. 19. The mails reached Alexandia on the following day, when they were put on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Iberia, and arrived at Malta on the 27th, whence the portion conveyed through France was forwarded to Marseilles. The mail intended to be conveyed via Southampton, will have to await the arrival of the steamer Duke of Cornwall from Constantinople.

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Seik state, in virtue of which a British subsidiary force is to be received in the Punjab, and the present Seik troops either incorporated with the new force or dis-. banded. Should it be deemed expedient to resort to the latter course, it is not improbable that some future SUMMARY may be provided with more stirring material than has lately fallen in our way. The success of PESHOORA SINGH in obtaining possession of Attock (a feat which was accomplished with great ease, in consequence of one of the gates being found conveniently open) was followed by an appeal on the part of that prince (if he be a prince, a point of difficult solution) to the chiefs, who, with the prompt submission which waits on good fortune, presented themselves at his durbar, to tender their humble duty. He is represented to have said that if they would assist him in the emergency which would shortly arise, he would remit the whole of the revenue payable by them. This was striking in the right place. The conqueror's liberality of promise charmed them, and they retired from the presence to collect their followers, while the Prince set himself vigorously to work to add to his strength by all other means in his power. The news of these proceedings was not at all pleasant at Lahore, and measures were ordered, countermanded, and again ordered, to counteract the proceedings of PESHOORA SINGH. That personage, however, continued to strengthen himself, and to make provision for the attack which he anticipated; and the Minister of Lahore, JOWHAIR SINGH, thought it best to use his most zealous endeavours to conciliate the troops, who before were in somewhat evil odour. The men belonging to AVITABILLE's battalion, who had been disbanded, were enrolled in the artillery, and vigorous efforts made to induce a movement upon Attock; but, owing to the general insubordination of the troops, to the very troublesome and frequent demand for gratuities, and to other causes inherent in the state of affairs in the Punjab, it was found difficult to effect any thing, and the probability of PESHOORA SINGH being threatened by a very formidable force did not seem great. PESHOORA SINGH, however, did not have his own way in all things. An encounter took place between him and PERTAUB SINGH, in which both sides claimed the victory, but РESHOORA SINGH. was obliged to retire within his fort, from whence he opened fire on his enemy, who had ensconced himself in a serai. "This," says the Bombay Times, was the state of matters at the date of our latest advices, and it cannot be denied that the aspect of affairs is any thing but favourable as regards the stability of the Lahore government. PESHOORA

SINGH seems to have found little difficulty in obtaining money, the sinews of war,' and, supported by the Affghans as well as by the Seikh chiefs of the surrounding districts, there can, we think, be little doubt that, even if eventually overcome, he will succeed in prolonging the struggle for a considerable period." The minister of Lahore, JoWHAIR SINGH, was believed to be acting in correspondence with the British Government; but it is matter for regret to learn that this illustrious person is so greatly addicted to drinking as to occasion very general scandal. If he be on terms of friendship with the English, it would be very desirable to prevail upon the Governor of Scinde to give him an admonition, and point out the pernicious consequences of intempe

rance.

From Scinde there is no intelligence of any great importance. Major CORSELLIS, with the troops ordered to Kumsoor, as noticed in our last Summary, is encamped at that place, and this seems nearly all that there is to report on the subject. Some lives were lost on the march, from the intense heat, and the loss of more may be feared, as the country all around was flooded, and the encampingground the only dry spot to be discovered. No enemy has been seen, but the Governor, according to some accounts, had ordered the junction of the whole of the 18th Native Infantry at Major CORSELLIS's post; according to others, he had ordered the detachment to return to Hyderabad. The state of health in Scinde appears to have improved. There seems an expectation that Sir CHARLES NAPIER would be summoned to the northward in the event of any hostile proceedings against the Punjab. He would certainly be far less likely to do mischief in the field than in any other situation in which he could be placed.

The Governor-General is probably by this time on his way to the Upper Provinces; so that before the end of the year we may look for some tidings decisive as to the fortunes of the Punjab.

The usual quantum of miscellaneous intelligence from various parts of British India will be found in its proper place; but there is little of sufficient importance to justify especial notice here. At Bombay, a fierce opposition has been called forth to the imposition of a shop-tax-a measure which in this country some sixty years ago had almost proved fatal to the then popular administration of WILLIAM PITT, the younger. The shopkeepers of Bombay and its vicinity are loud and vehement in their remonstrances, and the press bears the note of resistance even across the ocean to our own shores.

A similar measure in China has provoked similar opposition. All experience attests that the "Shopocracy," as Sir CHARLES NAPIER has it, do not like to be taxed, and that the statesman who seeks thus to replenish his exchequer plunges into troubles and vexations innumerable, for which even success can scarcely compensate. With the exception of a great storm, which has done much damage, China furnishes nothing else very exciting.

Railways are rapidly rising into public favour in India, as they ought. They are destined to be the great instruments of improving the country, and both Englishmen and Natives have the deepest interest in their success. Before many years are past, we doubt not that India will be traversed in every direction by these " iron roads," and that the consequent increase of prosperity will surpass the expectations of the most sanguine. To every country railroads are important to India they will be the commencement of a new existence..

BENGAL.

THE 78TH HIGHLANDERS.

From the zealous and praiseworthy way in which the Bombay Times took up the cause of the 78th Highlanders, with reference to the atrocious charge of intemperance preferred against them by General W. Napier, in the second part of his "Conquest of Scinde," on the alleged authority of his brother Sir Charles, we felt assured that, sooner or later, the real facts of the case would transpire; and indeed from the extract from the Times of the 19th ultimo, which we published in our paper of yesterday, we saw that matters were approaching a crisis, and that the correspondent of that paper was more behind the scenes than he wished it to be supposed. But we confess that we did not think the cat would be let out of the bag quite so soon; and we are the more indebted to our very kind correspondent at Bombay, who has laid us, and the public, under a deep debt of gratitude, by procuring a copy of the letter which the officer of the Highlanders received in reply to one he had written regarding the injurious reports which were in circulation, affecting the character of his regiment so materially. We give our correspondent's letter, and beg to reiterate our best thanks to him.

"Dear Sir,-I saw in the Times of yesterday, a letter from a correspondent, in which he brings to notice that the commanding officer of the Highlanders has not contradicted the assertion, that he had received a letter from the Governor of Scinde, denying ever having made a charge of intemperance against that regiment. Now, with all due deference to the Times' correspondent, I do not see how Major Twopeny could have done so, as he would have subjected himself to a severe reprimand, at the very least, for publishing any such public document without permission. The writer goes on to say: I have spoken to several who have read the letter, and I am told that it concludes, with a 'wigging' to the commanding officer, for his officious inquiries on the subject.' No doubt he had; and if he had taken the trouble, he might have procured a copy of it, as I have seen several here! And to put the matter beyond dispute, I send you one, merely omitting the name which had been introduced by the commanding officer, of a medical officer, who he supposed had made an unfavourable report of the Highlanders to the Governor of Scinde.

To Major Twopeny, commanding the 78th Highlanders, Poona. Sir, Having had the honour to lay before his Excellency the Governor your letter of the 14th inst. covering copy of a letter addressed by you to Dr. I am desired to inform you in reply1st. That Dr.- neither gave, nor sought to give, his Excellency any unfavourable impression of the 78th regiment; nor did he ever make any report to him.

2nd. His Excellency never heard that the sickness of the 78th was caused by drunkenness of the men.

3rd. His Excellency never heard of any report derogatory to the character of the 78th; if he had, he would have corrected it, as it is well known he has the highest opinion of the regiment.

In conclusion, I am desired to observe to you that your letter seems to his Excellency to be wholly uncalled for and improper, for you should first have ascertained if the character of your regiment had been attacked, and then have defended it, if necessary, which is not the case, for the character of the 78th stands as high as that of any regiment in the service, and, in the estimation of his Excellency, has very few equals.-I have, &c.

(Signed)

JOHN NAPIER, Capt.

Mil. Sec. to H. E. the Governor of Scinde. Kurrachee, 28th May, 1845.

This I think settles the matter completely."

We quite agree with our correspondent that this is a settler; but with General W. Napier's printed work before us, what are we to say? On the one hand we have the above distinct and emphatic denial from Sir Charles, certified under the hand of his military secretary: on the other we have, at page 412 of the 2nd part of the Conquest of Scinde, written by his brother, the following:

"The unusual sickness which afflicted the natives as well as the troops in the latter part of this year, was expressly attributed to the General, and the soldiers were excited to look upon him as the cause of their sufferings. Unfortunately the principal cause is their own intemperance."

Extract from a private letter from Sir Charles Napier, dated 19th Dec. 1844.

"I sent the 78th up to relieve the 13th at Sukkur, and hoped, by their arrival very late in October, that they would escape fever. It suddenly broke out, and raged in the beginning of November, and has killed 125; not one man has escaped, and it is raging now. No one can account for it. I shall arrive at Sukkur to-morrow, and I will send them down the river directly. The cause is their drinking. It does not give the fever, but it so inflames the liver and brain, that the fever takes too firm a grasp to be got rid of. Why, their ration is two drams a day, and eight of these drams make a quart bottle! So the sober soldier swallows one-fourth of a bottle of raw spirit

every day. You and I know them too well to doubt that the other three-fourths go down after the first. Dr. Robertson, of the 13th, a clever man, supposed to know India better than most others, tells me that át Jellalabad, where no liquor could be had, where they could only get water, he had not a sick man the whole time. The great disease, with officers and men, is drink; but the soldiers drink worse liquor, namely, arrack, which is made with any thing and every thing but rice, &c. &c."

Now it is very apparent that the discrepancy here cannot, in any way, be explained, and that either one or other of the statements is untrue.

We cannot suppose that General W. Napier has falsified his extract; therefore it follows that writing officially, Sir Charles Napier declared, on the 28th of May last, that he never heard the sickness of the 78th was caused by drunkenness of the men; whilst on the 19th of the preceding December, writing privately, he mentions 125 deaths in the regiment, caused by drinking. He asserts that the men of that regiment drink a bottle of raw spirit a-piece daily; yet here we find him asserting that he never heard of any report derogatory to the character of the 78th! Yesterday, before we had read this letter, we said we thought it would be hard to induce the Napiers to retract; we were wrong, for it appears plainly enough on the face of these documents, that one of them, at least, if he find no calumny too foul for the utterance, is as ready to deny as he was to spread the slander. In all this there is hope for Scinde, as well as for the Bombay civilians. The Governor may keep his appointment, and withdraw his calumnies. It will be as easy to address a denial to the Court of Directors, as it was to the commanding officer of the 78th Highlanders. In fact, it will give the secretary no trouble, beyond the substitution of names and dates; with that alteration the precious document before us may -serve the purpose.

But then in what an unenviable position it will place the Governor of Guernsey! The two illustrious brothers are like two well buckets,-whatsoever pulls one up must depress the other: and though the family affection of the historian, whose imprudent publication has made the mischief, might induce him to be the sacrifice, yet we fear it would be of no avail with the public. Sir Charles Napier must remain stigmatized by his own pen, much more completely than he was exalted by that of his brother.

It is a pity that these men, in addition to the great ability which they undoubtedly possess, cannot boast the gift of prudence. Vanity has outrun discretion; and not contented with the fame of great actions, Sir Charles Napier appears to have sought to elevate his own character on the ruin of other men's reputations.-Englishman, August 2.

MISCELLANEOUS.

We mentioned yesterday the loss of the French ship Mareambie; we have since received some particulars of the same. She was homeward bound and weighed from Saugor anchoring buoy on the morning of Sunday last. In Thornhill Channel she refused stays, being then in five fathoms, and the anchor was let go in four and a half. After the ship's boat with the leadsman had been sent to sound, the vessel was got under weigh again, and from being in a quarter less five fathoms, she shoaled suddenly into three fathoms and struck heavily, breaking her rudder and springing a leak. This was about three P.M., and she continued bumping for about an hour when she floated, and was anchored in five fathoms, being unmanageable. On Monday morning an attempt was made to get into Saugor, but it was necessary to let go the anchor to prevent her drifting on the Long Sand. The anchor was again weighed, and the vessel got into Saugor Roads, when the Portly, inward bound, took ont the crew, as it was evident the ship was settling. She sunk in the course of the night. As this is a total loss, of course there will be a full inquiry into the matter. By the last report the tops of the vessel were just above water.- Calcutta Star, Aug. 14.

Umballah is named, by general report, as the place of rendezvous for the various corps to be formed into the army on the frontier. The exact time for their assembly is not yet known, but it is beyond a doubt that Mr. George Russell Clerk is now on his way out from England, deputed specially by the home authorities to afford the Governor-general the benefit of his matured and most valuable experience in the settlement of the Punjaub question. He will meet Sir Henry Hardinge at Agra, and thence proceed with him upwards.-Delhi Gazette, Aug. 9. A rumour prevails, of which we can as yet neither say that it is true or otherwise, that it is the intention of Government to nominate a number of deputy-collectors for the Sikh Protected States, which are to be made over to us; and that they

are to be placed under a Governor-general's agent or commissioner, to be nominated as a general superintendent.-Ibid.

It affords us great satisfaction to learn that several of the dakoits engaged in the murderous attack on Mrs. Maddock's house, at Meerut, have been apprehended, and that most of the others are known, so it is hoped the whole will soon be in confinement.-Ibid.

THE 2ND COMPANY QUESTION.-The following decision of the Commander-in-Chief on this point, conveyed in a letter from the Adjutant-General to Major-General Fast, commanding the Sirhind division, on the 7th May, 1844, is further confirmatory of our view of the question, and has been obligingly placed at our disposal:

EXTRACT.

"As it is desirable that but one practice should prevail throughout the Army, I am instructed to acquaint you that a regimental staff officer is not considered entitled to a second company until every qualified officer, not a regimental staff officer, shall have a double charge assigned to him."-Ibid.

We understand that the report about Sir Hugh Gough's anxiety to appoint his son-in-law, Major Grant, adjutant-general of the Army, in the event of the retirement of Sir James Lumley, was perfectly unauthorized by the parties interested in its accuracy. We likewise learn that it has given great dissatisfaction to them, and in other quarters.-Agra Ukhbar, Aug. 13.

LOODHEEANA, 6th Aug.(From our native correspondent)."Some ten koss this side of Roopur, there is a village belonging in Jagheer to Sodee, Gooroo of the Sikhs, who is a very wealthy man and generally keeps up between two and 3,000 men with some guns. A dispute having arisen in the Sodee's district regarding the ownership of a village, the British had sent an Ameen to inquire into the case. On the Ameen reaching the place, he was abused by the Sodee and desired to return, which he did, reporting to the authorities the circumstances of the case. In consequence of this, it is said that some cavalry have been warned to hold themselves constantly in readiness. The grass-cutters of the cavalry are frequently exposed to gross insults whenever they go on any of the Sikh lands to cut grass. Heavy rain has fallen for the last three or four days, and sickness is greatly on the decrease."-Delhi Gazette, Aug. 13,

We hear by letters from Gwalior of the 8th inst., that Dr. Hope's attendance on Ram Rao Phalkea has been productive of favourable results, and that the Gwalior Guizot has resumed his ministerial duties, though we doubt whether his recovery will prove as interesting to our readers as that of the French Minister. We alluded in a former issue to the probability of a new contingent station being formed at Augur. The plan, we learn, is to be carried out during the ensuing cold season, and it is understood that the force at Sepree will be reduced in consequence of this arrangement. One cavalry corps, and an infantry regiment, with Captain Warburton's battery, will probably be stationed at Augur. The situation of the place is said to be good, being about equi-distant from Indore, Neemuch, Seronge, and Bhopal, on the fine high table land of Malwa. As a military station it appears to us likely to prove far superior to Sepree, but its occupation at the present juncture will entail a very serious loss on householders both at Sepree and Lullutpoor, and it is more than a pity that the measure was not proposed on the first formation of the contingent, instead of waiting until the officers had built or bought houses at all the present stations, on the full understanding, as we believe, that they were to be permanent. We are advocates in all cases of the kind, and they have been numerous of late years (Kurnaul, Simmeereah, and other places to wit), for an equitable compensation being bestowed on the sufferers, especially in a case like the present, where permanency had, if we are correctly informed, been guaranteed; and we trust that the justice of such will be recognized in this instance, as it - Delhi Gazette, ought to have been in all the former ones. August 13.

SAILOR'S PROCESSION.-Yesterday, the sailors in harbour, out of employ, walked in procession with pipe and cymbal going from house to house, the resort of seamen, to forbid any man taking less than seventy shillings a month as wages. The present rate given is about fifty shillings, with which Jack is not satisfied, thinking that he is entitled to a better remuneration for h's labour. There were eventually about one hundred and fifty to two hundred mustered, all apparently sober and steady, with the exception of one or two, who seemed to have taken a cup or two in honour of the occasion.-Hurkaru, Aug. 9.

PHENOMENON.Our readers are perhaps not aware, that a very curious meteorological phenomenon took place on Saturday evening last, the 2nd instant, in the south part of Calcutta. It was a very smart fall of rain, with a bright star-light sky without clouds! between eight and nine o'clock in the evening. The fall did not extend, unfortunately, as far up the Chowringhee