mission to make his leading columns the vehicles of untruth, assumes that Sir CHARLES NAPIER has been attacked for "having ventured to recommend, in the most emphatic terms, the disuse, as much as possible, of spirits, or indeed fermented liquor of any kind, among the troops under his command." Now this would be sad trifling, if it were not something worse. We need not say that Sir CHARLES NAPIER has never been attacked for any recommendation which he may have given as to the use of fermented liquors; and the writer must know it, unless he be in the situation of one who rushes into a controversy and chooses his side without any acquaintance with the grounds of the dispute. This, however, is not his situation. He knows something of the letter published in the second part of the History of the Conquest of Scinde. He not only knows that such a letter appeared, but he knows-what few can know whether the letter was published with the authority of the writer or not-a question often raised, but never before, as far as we know, answered. See with what confidence he speaks on a point which could be known only to a NAPIER, or one instructed by a NAPIER: He (Sir CHARLES NAPIER) has, moreover, in a private letter to his brother in England, published no doubt with the best possible intention, but CERTAINLY WITHOUT HIS AUTHORITY, had the temerity to intimate his belief that the great disease, with officers and men (on tropical service), is drink. Now this charge, directed, as it was, against officers and men, indiscriminately was sufficiently offensive; but it was not all. In this letter, "published no doubt with the best possible intention," a specific charge was made against a particular regiment, which had suffered frightfully from disease. "The cause," said their gallant general, "is their drinking." We shall have more to say on this point shortly; we merely pause upon it here to direct attention to the glib manner in which the NAPIER champion attempts to get over a most disgraceful matter. We proceed to something more striking. The writer says that the publication of Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S letter was "certainly without his authority." We should like to have something better than an anonymous assurance of this. Let Sir CHARLES NAPIER come forward himself and state it, and then-not before, no! not before-let the publisher of the letter be gibbeted as a betrayer of private confidence. His position is bad enough if he be regarded as the authorized publisher of such a letter-what will it be if it should turn out that the publication was unauthorized? But now for the other brother. Suppose it should be made evident that he did not intend his letter to be published-that he did not expect it to be published, and shared in the astonishment felt by all other men on seeing it in print. What then? If he contemplated its publication, he may pass for a "gay, bold-faced" libeller; if he did not, he can be set down only as a man who aims in the dark a blow at the reputation of his brave and suffering countrymen, whom his own folly had sentenced to wasting disease and premature death. But we are delaying the reader too long from the new NAPIER advocate-new at least as to dress-and this is the less desirable, as at last he comes to the point in the following passage :— -It is imputed to him (Sir CHARLES NAPIER), moreover, that in some after-dinner speech he intimated his opinion that much of the mortality which took place in the 78th Highlanders had been undoubtedly occasioned by the too frequent use of stimulating liquors, and there appears to be little doubt of the fact. Whether by accident or design, it is the fate of this writer never to be accurate. The charge to which he refers was not one made in an "after-dinner speech." Sir CHARLES NAPIER has made some marvellously foolish after-dinner speeches-speeches to which it could not have been supposed any man could have given utterance till he was pretty far advanced in his third bottle; and which coming from a professed-we say a professed waterdrinker, cannot be easily accounted for. But the charge. against the 78th Highlanders was made in a more deliberate manner; it was committed to paper, and in the morn ing, for any thing we know to the contrary; but at all events it was committed to paper, and deliberately transmitted by Sir CHARLES NAPIER to his brother at home. It was contained in that very letter to which the writer of the article under examination had just before alluded-with the history of which letter he is perfectly acquainted—the letter which he knows and says was "certainly not intended for publication," but of the contents of which, though he knows so much about it in other respects, he is happily ignorant. But the charge which he supposes, or affects to suppose, was made in an "after-dinner speech," but which was actually made in a much more deliberate manner, the writer is prepared to maintain. He says, "there seems to be little doubt of the fact," that "much of the mortality which took occasioned by the too place in the 78th Highlanders” was frequent use of stimulating liquors." "Little doubt of the fact." Why truly there is no doubt of the fact, that is, there is no doubt as to the real state of the fact-no doubt that it was the reverse of that which it is the object of this writer to establish. In answer to a charge made "at the distance of ten thousand miles," as General WILLIAM NAPIER has it, we call the evidence of a witness on the spotand that witness the man best calculated to speak to the question-the surgeon in attendance on the unhappy suf ferers. Here is the testimony of Surgeon BURT: 66 After leaving Kurrachee, there were few opportunities for the soldiers getting more spirits than their daily allowance, and in consequence, there could not have been much drunkenness on the line of march. After their arrival at Sukkur, the same steadiness and sobriety prevailed; when sickness appeared, the canteen was nearly deserted, and continued so the whole time the regiment remained there. I have examined the Regimental Crime Book, and find that only eight men were brought before the commanding officer for drunkenness, from 23rd October, 1844, to the 6th March, 1845; seven of the eight are now living; one died on the march up to Poona. Indeed, during the seven years that I have done duty with the regi ment, I never knew a period in which there was less drunkenness than that from 25th August, 1844, when it left Kurrachee, till its arrival in Bombay in March, 1845. The disease which proved so destructive to the Highlanders at Sukkur was marsh fever, arising, as I have already stated, from malaria and intense solar heat, and in no way connected with intemperance. The sickness and mortality amongst the women, but especially the children, was greater than among the soldiers. Perhaps the infants were as great drunkards as their fathers. Lamentable is the position of Sir CHARLES NAPIER. It is one from which no effort can extricate him with honour. If he did not authorize the publication of this unhappy letter to his brother, the latter acted most unjustifiably in giving it publicity. But Sir CHARLES NAPIER is not thereby exonerated, for the charge under which he lies is not that he wrote something simply offensive, but that he wrote what was false; and no man has a right to utter falsehood, even under the seal of confidence. Further; having written to his brother with regard to the sickness of the 78th Highlanders, that "the cause is their drinking," he subsequently allowed his secretary to write, by his authority, to the commanding officer of the libelled regiment, that he never heard the sickness ascribed to that cause. Can any human reputation survive this? We leave those in whose minds the words "officer" and "gentleman" are held in almost sacred association to answer the question. As for poor General WILLIAM NAPIER, we almost pity him, for he is evidently at his wit's end. He has addressed another letter to the editor of the Naval and Military Gazette, -very short, and very feeble. Its chief purpose seems to be to settle the precise degree of relationship or non-relationship (for General WILLIAM NAPIER contends for the latter) in which two gentlemen of the name of Curling stand towards the Governor of Scinde. For ourselves, we do not care much about the matter: for the benefit of those who do, we state, on the authority of the historian of the Peninsular war, that the CURLINGS are the grand-nephews of his brother's first wife; and we hope this is precise enough to satisfy every body. Moreover, the grand-uncle (by marriage) of these gentlemen never saw them till he went to the East, when his avuncular sympathies were drawn towards them as strongly as suddenly. The account of one of them, and of Sir CHARLES NAPIER's motive for inviting him to India, is too good to be left unquoted. One of them was in the service of Mehemet Ali, Pacha of Egypt, and Sir Charles Napier, thinking his experience of Asiatic customs would be useful in Scinde, invited him to the latter country. The Governor-General was duly informed of this, and approved of it, and of the motives of the general, which were as follows:-Large sums of money pass through the hands of the deputy collectors, and it is necessary to select the persons employed; Mr. Curling was therefore appointed, with the approbation of the general Government. We positively started when we read this. We rubbed our eyes to satisfy us as to our waking condition, and read again, when we found that the recommendation of Mr. CURLING to the favour of his grand-uncle (by marriage) was his knowledge of ASIATIC customs acquired in EGYPT! We turned to an infantine niece, deep in the study of Guy's Geography for the Use of Schools, and inquired in what quarter of the world Egypt was situate. She answered, in Africa. We requested the loan of the book, and there found that, according to GUY, EGYPT is where it used to be. MEHEMET ALI has changed many things, but the country stands where it did; and it follows that Mr. CURLING, grand nephew to Sir CHARLES NAPIER's first wife, obtained in AFRICA that acquaintance with ASIATIC customs which so powerfully pleaded in his favour with Sir CHARLES (to whom he was no relation) as to procure him an invitation to come to Scinde. We have heard that country called YOUNG EGYPT. Was it the transfer of Mr. CURLING thither from OLD EGYPT that gave rise to the name? But Mr. CURLING'S Egyptian experience was not, it seems, his only recommendation to office and emolument in Scinde. "Large sums of money," says General WILLIAM NAPIER, " pass through the hands of the deputy collectors, and it is necessary to select the persons employed." So! as there were no trustworthy persons nearer than Egypt, -at least, we conclude so, or Sir CHARLES NAPIER would never have sent to that country for a relation or non-relation, and it being necessary to select the persons employed as deputy collectors, because large sums of money pass through their hands, the Governor selected for one A MAN WHOM HE HAD NEVER SEEN. So says Major General WILLIAM NAPIER, Governor of Guernsey, histo riographer of the NAPIER family, and champion thereof against all assailants. It is melancholy to read such pitiful drivelling from the pen of the once fierce and uncompromising general, who was wont to defy all the world in periods, forming the choicest specimens of "prose run mad," which the world ever rejoiced in. We wonder whether he ever read Gil Blas,-and if he did, whether he remembers the story of a certain archbishop. Let him be assured that he is not what he was. Whatever might be the degree of honour due to his former self, he is no longer the same. He indeed feels it, for he concludes his miserably weak and twaddling letter by invoking the authorities of India to silence Colonel OUTRAM. A pretty specimen of the NAPIER love of fair play. The FAMILY are to abuse every body, civil and military, at their will,-they are to invent and circulate the most scandalous charges against one of the most distinguished regiments in the Queen's service, they are to insult and beard the authority under which one of them is serving, they are to do all these things with impunity, and no one is to interfere; but the moment THEY are assailed, and find it impossible to defend themselves, authority is to be put in motion to silence accusers whom they cannot answer. What glorious notions of justice these NAPIERS have! The following case lately appeared among the police reports. Two impudent bullies were walking along the pavement of Regent Street, annoying and assaulting every passenger on whom it pleased them to expend a portion of their insolence and violence. One gentleman, whom they tried to knock down, stood on his defence, and, adroitly tripping up his assailants, laid them both on their backs, to their own utter astonishment and the great amusement of the bystanders; whereupon the chop-fallen disturbers of the public peace began to bawl with the whole force of their lungs for the police. We need not pursue the story further. Every thing-even a police report, has its moral, if we search for it; and whether or not that which we have quoted be capable of any particular application, our readers must determine for themselves. MISCELLANEOUS. MADRAS MILITARY FUND. - Messrs. Arbuthnot and Co. have transferred their agency of this fund to Messrs. Grindlay and Co., who have been appointed by the Home Committee its future agents. The business will, in consequence, be carried on at 16, Cornhill, but the meetings of the committee will be held at the East-India Rooms, 8, St. Martin's-place. The members of the Madras Military Fund Home Committee are, Major-Gen. SirJ.L. Lushington, G. C. B. (chairman); Sir Henry Willock, K. L. S. (deputy-chairman); Sir J. L. Caldwell, K. C. B.; Sir J. Russell, K. C. B.; Sir J. Doveton, K. C. B.; Major-Gens. A. Fair, C. B.; C. Macleod, C. B.; H. G. A. Taylor, K. C. B.; J. Briggs; Lieut.- Cols. J. F. De Havilands, Purchas, Short, Bomer, Limond, Mass, Sir J. Carnac, bart., Sir J. N. R. Campbell, K. L. S., J. Dalzell, J. Smith, A. Macarthur, J. Oliphant; Capts. N. L. Austen, F. H. Balmain. THE BISHOP OF CALCUTTA has nominated the Rev. C. W. Cahusae, M. A., late of St. John's College, Cambridge, to a chaplaincy in Bengal, placed at his lordship's disposal by Sir H. Willock. DWAKANAUTH TAGORE was, we understand, present at the Eisteddfod, held a short time since in Abergaveny. [The "Eisteddfod" is an annual meeting for the distribution of prizes for native (Welsh) musical talent]. INDIAN COTTON.-With respect to the capabilities of British India for supplying the British manufacturer with an adequate quantity of cotton wool, there cannot be two opinions among those who have paid any attention to the subject. Cotton is indigenous to the soil of India. Its inhabitants have been famed in times past for the extent, texture, and beauty of their cotton fabrics. It is the opinion of scientific and practical men that India can produce cotton in the proportion of millions to hundreds. Dr. Royle says, "The three presidencies contain land capable of growing cotton to an illimitable extent." Malte Brun observes that "the cotton tree grows on all the Indian mountains, but its produce is coarse in quality. The herbaceous cotton prospers chiefly in Bengal and on the Coromondel coast; and there the best cotton goods are manufactured. Next to these two provinces, Madurée Marawar, Pescaria, and the coast of Malabar produce the finest cotton." He elsewhere says, "Cotton is cultivated in every part of India. The finest grows in the light rocky soil of Guzerat, Bengal, Oude, and Agra.” Mr. Crawford, the author of "The History of the Indian Archipelago," says-" There is a fine variety of cotton in the neighbourhood of Dacca, from which I have reason to believe the fine muslins of Dacca are produced, and probably to the accidental discovery of it is to be attributed the rise of this singular manufacture; it is cultivated by the natives alone, not at all known in the English market, nor, as far as I am aware, in that of Calcutta. Its growth extends about forty miles along the banks of the Megna, and about three miles inland." Central India is at the present moment the great source of supply; but we must not omit to mention that in the districts of Surat, Guzerat, and Broach, cotton is also grown in large quantities, and that these are nearer the port of shipment, and consequently more easy of access. These districts offer, therefore, a balance to the difficulties of transit which materially presents itself to the mind when Central India only is mentioned. Though British India still manufactures cotton goods, it does not export them except to a very limited extent. Capital and machinery, combined with the high rate of duties levied on Indian cotton goods imported into this country, have destroyed its power to export. Those duties were, until the new tariff came into operation, 10 per cent. ad valorem, whilst those on British fabrics imported were only 2 per cent. British India now imports largely both cotton yarn and cotton goods, and will import more largely still if this country takes what she can supply in exchange for her raw material. Cotton goods imported into India in 1815 amounted to 263,000 rupees; in 1835 to 4,000,000 rupees; cotton twist imported in 1815 to 8lbs. ; in 1830 to 6,000,000lbs. -Anti-Slavery Reporter. STEAM ROUND THE WORLD.-It is stated on good authority, that the Lords of the Admiralty are desirous of carrying out the line of steamers from the western coast of America, and as an arrangement has already been made for a line from Sydney to Singapore, the Indian Mails will complete the circuit of the globe. LETTERS TO CEYLON.-The Postmaster-General has announced that, "On and after the 1st of November next, the British packet postage of ls. the half-ounce, and so in proportion, on letters posted in the United Kingdom, and directed to the island of Ceylon, via Southampton, may be paid in advance or not. Letters not addressed via Southampton will be forwarded by the way of Marseilles, and the postage of them must be paid in alvance." THE MAILS.-Southampton, Oct. 23. - The Oriental Company's steam-ship, Capt. Soy, left the docks this day, at three o'clock p. m. for Alexandria, taking out the East-India and China mails, 85 passengers, and a very fine cargo of bale-goods. -Times. ORIENTAL BANK.-The directors of the Oriental Bank have declared a dividend for the half-year ending the 5th August last, at the rate of 8. per cent. per annum on the capital paid up, which is now payable on the Indian shares at the office of the Bank in Bombay; and on the English shares at the Union Bank of London, 2, Princes-street. The next annual meeting of the proprietors will be held at the office of the Bank, 7, Walbrook, on Saturday, December 20th. CEYLON RAILWAY.-We understand that the applications for shares in the Ceylon Railway amounted to near half a million, while the entire number to be distributed was only 20,000, of which a considerable portion was reserved for the colony. STEAM TUGS.--Among other projects which have recently come to our notice is one, suggested, we believe, by Messrs. Aylwin and Co., of Calcutta, which has the support of several shipowners, including Messrs. Wigram, Dunbar, Somes, Ward, and many other mercantile firms; of Messrs. Enthoven, of London; Ricketts, of Bristol; and Bainbridge, of Madras. The object of this undertaking is the establishment of steam-vessels on the river Hoogly, adequate, both in number and power, to meet the increasing demands of the commerce of Calcutta; and it is proposed, in the first instance, to despatch six large and powerful steam-tugs from this country, any one of which shall be sufficient, at the very height of the monsoon, to tow vessels of the largest tonnage; while, owing to the scale of moderate charges to be levied, vessels of the smallest size frequenting the port of Calcutta may be able to avail themselves of the advantages of steam power. We have no doubt that there is abundant room for the proposed company, and that its operations, under judicious management, will be attended with complete success.London Mail. BOMBAY GENTLEMAN'S GAZETTE.-John Connon, Esq., M.A, who has for some time assisted in the conduct of the Economist, proceeds by the next mail to Bombay, to undertake the editorship of the Gentleman's Gazette. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have placed the Achille, a vessel of 1000 tons, and 430 horse-power, with splendid accommodation, on the Constantinople line. This vessel will convey Bombay passengers to and from Malta, as do the Tagus and Cornwall. BANK OF CEYLON.-At a meeting of the Bank of Ceylon, held yesterday (October 23rd), a dividend of 3 per cent. for the last six months was declared. It was agreed to double the capital by issuing to existing proprietors a new share of 251. for every share they now hold, the new shares to be taken at the current value of the day. THE BISHOP of CALCUTTA, whose health we rejoice to hear is greatly improved, arrived at the residence of the Bishop of Chester, in the college, Durham, on a visit to his lordship, on Saturday last. Both the right reverend prelates attended divine service in the cathedral on Sunday. On Wednesday a special convocation was held in the university, for the purpose of admitting the Bishop of Calcutta to the ad eundem degree of D.D., and on the same day his lordship left Durham for Sherburn House, on a visit to the Rev. G. S. Faber, master of Sherburn Hospital. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.-Under the Liverpool shipping news of yesterday in the The Times is announced the loss of the Mary, from Sydney, in Bass's Straits-17 passengers drowned. The Sydney Morning Herald, May 15, 1815, under its shipping in telligence, gives the names of passengers by this ship as follow:Clearance May 14.-The bark Mary, Captain Newby, for London. Passengers, Captain Collins, Mrs. Collins, four daughters, and son; Mrs. Evans, five daughters and sons; Mrs. Newby, and three daughters; Mr. and Mrs. Busheli and child; Mrs. Heather, and three sons; Mr. and Mrs. Hofferman; Mr. and Mrs. Reaves; Messrs. Heather, J. Abbott, W. S. Hall, M. Nicholson, S. Guire, G. Hannon, G. Jones, J. Neale, J. Wilkin. son, and P. Newman, Sarah Guy, Eliza Robinson, Susan Larson, and Sarah Folks.-Times. OCT. 3. Varuna, Mould, Bengal.-4. Rajah, Ferguson, Port Philip; Africa, Hart, Ceylon; Charles Carter, Broad, Cape; Hamilton Ross, Douglas, Madras.-6. Protomelia, Finlay, and Assam, Currie, Bengal. 7. Thomas Jones, Hamilton, Ceylon.-S. Hashemy, Sexton, Bengal.-9. Isabella, Cauvin, Cape.-10. Waterloo, Grim, Batavia; Eliza Johnson, Grayson, Port Beaufort.-13. Phabe, Dale, Ceylon; Sarah Scott, Butcher, New South Wales; Margaret Skelly, Topping, Bengal; Palmyra, Daniell, Bengal; Charles, Bennett, Cape; Ulverstone, Smith, Bombay.-14. Kelso, Arnold, Bengal.15. Monarch, Percival, Shang-hae; Palinurus, Roman, Bombay.16. Patriot King, Roddocks, Bengal; Lemnos, Rowell, Ceylon.-18 Bombay, Furley, Bombay.-20. Thomas Worthington, Valentine, China; Flora Muir, Brown, Breadalbane, Hamilton, and Syren, Hoskin, Bengal.-21. Triphena, Hindmarsh, New South Wales Callao, Whiteside, and Science, Rees, Bengal; Bucephalus, Small, Bombay.-22. Lord Glenelg, Johnston, Bombay; W. and M. Brown, Banton, Ceylon; Isabella Watson, M'Donald, Adelaide; John GrayM'Donald, Bengal.-28. Corinna, Bray, and Kirkman Finlay, Luc kie, Bengal; London, Gibson, Bombay; Fortitude, Christmas, Ceylo 23. Eliza, Valrent, New South Wales; Glasgow, Hildreth, Mmein DEPARTURES. From the DowNS.-OCT. 3. Kate, Glendinning, Algoa Bay.5. Midlothian, Morrison, New South Wales; Lord Hungerford, Pigott, Ceylon; Herefordshire, Richardson, Bombay; Enmore, Wilmot, Adelaide; William Wise, Loire, Port Philip; Herald, Coubro, Maulmain; Underwood, Fowler, West Coast of Africa.-6. Thalia, Robinson, Cape; Plumstead, Falconer, Algoa Bay.-12. Posthumous, Marshall, Sydney; Romeo, Pollock, Calcutta.-11. Resolution, Park, South Seas; Advocate, Garrick, Cadiz and Calcutta.-12. Coquette, Bruce, St. Helena; Neptune, Punchard, Cape; Susan, Ager, Cape and Madras.-14. Devonshire, Godfrey, Cadiz and Calcutta.-16. Dartmouth, Stewart, Bombay; Prince, Lumsden, Cape; Duke of Wellington, Duncan, Calcutta.-20. General Hewett, Hart, New South Wales.-21. Belle and Majestic, Calcutta; Eagle, Sydney. From PORTSMOUTH.-Oct. 7. Windsor, Friscot, Calcutta.-13. Thomas Arbuthnot, Smith, Cape and Madras; Humayoon, Cameron, China.-14. Cumberland, Sinclair, Cape and Swan River. From BELFAST.-OCT. 7. Amoy, Clarke, Bombay. From NEWPORT.-OCT. 3. John Pirie, Pattison, Cape.-7. John Dalton, Moss, Aden.-9. Eliza, Stewart, Aden. From FALMOUTH.-OCT. 7. Vesuvius (steamer), Cape and Batavia.-5. Kingston, Harwood, Adelaide; William Gillies, Clarke, Bombay. From BORDEAUX.-OCT. 8. Solway, Spence, Mauritius. From LIVERPOOL.-OCT. 2. Lena, Nagle, Singapore; Sir Henry Pottinger, M'Wean, Calcutta; Elizabeth, King, Cape.-3. Old England, White, Stranghae; Cressida, M'Fee, Calcutta; Rambler, Simpson, Cape.-6. Bengalee, Boadle, Hong-kong; Glen Huntly, Barr; John Moore, Withycombe, and James T. Foord, Lingard, Calcutta; Courier, Johnson, Mauritius; I dare! Adair, Cape.-8. Dido, Smith, Mauritius; Aqua Marine, Connolly, Calcutta ; Chatham, Ilberry, Hong-hong.-9. Harrison Chilton, Kay, Bomboy.-10. Eagle, Kerr, Madras; Camillus, Ashton, and Nabob, M'Nutty, Bombay. 13. Ellen, Burnet, Cape. 14. Ganges, Corkan, Maulmain; Joseph Bushby, Sparks, Calcutta.-22. Mary Somerville, Johnson, Calcutta ; Earl Powis, Wilson, Hong-kong. From the CLYDE. OCT. 4. Sarah, Watts, Singapore. - 7. Soubahdar, Umfrevilie, Calcutta.-8. Juliet, Thompson, Calcutta. -14. Alan Ker, Gray, Ardrossan and Aden.-17. Lady Colebrooke, McLean, Bombay. From HARTLEPOOL.-OCT. 5. Idalia, Burton, Calcutta. From PLYMOUTH.-OCT. 7. Persia, Stevens, Ceylon; North Briton, Heard, Hobart Town. From CORK.-OCT. 2. H.M.S. Apollo, Ratcliffe, Cape. PASSENGERS DEPARTED. Per steamer Tagus, from Southampton, on the 3rd inst. For MALTA.-Mr. Bourchier and Mrs. and Miss Fitzwilliams. For ALEXANDRIA.-Mrs. S. Shorte and two friends, Mr. and Mrs. Woodcock, Miss Neyland, Mrs. Twemlow, two daughters, and female servant; Capt. Seton, Miss M'Killop, Miss Birch, Mrs. Kane and two ladies, Major Forbes, Mrs. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Morse, Capt. Wright, and Messrs. Graham, H. Gibb, Pollexfen, Anderson, Drew, Rodgers, Blunt, Richards, Saulez, Thomas Scot, Dun, Fife, M'Indo, and M'Neill; Mrs. Mathieson, Mrs. Tibaldi and servant, Mrs. and Miss Moresby, Mr. Fraser and Miss Hughan. Pr steamer Oriental, from Southampton, on the 20th inst. For CEYLON.-Mr. and Mrs. Keir and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Cowan, Messrs. Lindsay, Thompson, Fraser, and Emerson. For MADRAS.-Mr. and Mrs. Peters, child, and servant; Mr. and Mrs. Kaye and servant, Capt. M'Braire, Mrs. Onslow and servant, Miss Margell and servant, Col. and Mrs. Bell, Cornet Wale, Messrs. Monckton, Bridge, Bain, Highmoor, and Winscow. For CALCUTTA.-Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Monckton, Mrs. H. Beadon and servant. Mrs. Innes, Mr. and Mrs. Beadnell, Mrs. Sherriff, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, Mrs. Harcourt, Dr. Davidson, Mr. and Miss Colvill and servant, Miss Earle, Major Fraser, Rev. C. W. Cobusac, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Wilkinson. Rev. Mr. Herdman, Lieut. col. Ross, Miss Dickson, Miss Tomb, Mrs. Thomson, Messrs. Stuart, Henderson, Palsgrave, H. Raikes, Trahern, Shearwood, A. Hope, Crane, Moore, Thompson, Molloy, Hughes, Sawers, McKillop, Robison, Wyllie, Bushby, Wilkie, and Patten. For HONG-KONG.-Messrs. Dale, Gray, Jacson, Wiltshire, Norton, and Sayce. To embark at Malta for CALCUTTA.-Mrs. Morton and son, Messrs. Exshaw, Attaras, Nopitsch, Anderson, and Dupeyror. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Marchioness of Douro, Leith to Suez, Aug. 15; lat. 13 deg., long. 25 deg. W. Laura, London to Algoa Bay, July 8; lat. 35 deg. S., long. is deg. E. Lysander, Sangster, London to Calcutta, July 16; lat. 7 deg. S., long. 23 W. Edward Hayes, Gilbert, Liverpool to Ceylon, Aug. 8; lat. 13 deg. N., long. 27 deg. W. Ramilies, McLean, London to Sydney; near Madeira. Rajahstan, Stewart, London to Bombay, Aug. 16; lat. 41 deg. N., long. 12 deg. W. Titania, I'Anson, London to Hong-Kong, Aug. 1; lat. 13'10 deg. N., long. 25.20 deg. W. Hindostan, Bowen, London to Point de Galle, Aug. 30; lat. 38-30 deg. N., long. 15'10 deg. W. Aden, King, Liverpool to China, and Malabar, Pare, London to Bombay, Aug. 13; lat. 7.20 deg. N., long. 22:10 deg. W. Daphne, McMillan, London to Algoa Bay, July 26; lat. 10'43 deg., long. 21.22 deg. W. Zoe, Boult, Liverpool to Mauritius, Aug. 17; lat. 3.15 deg. S., long. 20-40 deg. W. Bleng, Stewart, Liverpool to Shanghae, Aug. 5; lat. 14 deg., long. 25 deg. W. Monarch, Walker, London to Calcutta, Aug. 26; lat. 6 deg. N., long. 21 deg. W. Lascar, Green, Clyde to Bombay, Aug. 5; lat. 8.50 deg. N., long. 24.42 deg. W. Georgetown, Bell, London to Bengal, Aug. 9; lat. 14 deg. N., long. 27 deg. W. Elizabeth Buckham, Bewley, London to Launceston, Aug. 9; lat. 15 deg. N., long. 25-30 deg. W. Glencairn, Nicol, Clyde to Mauritius, Sept. 21. Tiaga, Eldridge, London, to Calcutta, Aug. 9; lat. 15 deg. N., long. 25.30 deg. W. Britannia, M'Gregor, Newport to Singapore; long. 13 deg. W., out 14 days. Royal Saxon, Ingleby, Liverpool to Bombay, Aug. 23; lat. 2 deg. S., long. 13 deg. W. Bittern, Foss, Newcastle to Mauritius, Aug. 24; lat. 3 deg. N. long. 14 deg. W.; sprung topmasts and other spars. Elizabeth, Law, Marseilles to Mauritius; and John Bull, Crawford, Port Talbot to Calcutta, Aug. 25; lat. 5 deg. N., 13 deg. W. Jane Goudie, Goudie, London to Sydney, July 31; lat. 29 deg. S., long. 34 deg. W. Earl of Hardwicke, Drew, London to Calcutta, Sept. 25; lat. 46 deg. N., long. 10 deg. W. Duke of Portland, Hamlin, London to China, lat. 5.55 deg. S., long. 19.15 deg. W. Reginald Heber, McFarlane, Liverpool to Batavia, lat. 12:59 deg. N., long. 23 18 deg. W. Malabar, Pare, London to Bombay, Aug. 23; lat. 1.10 deg. S., long. 18 deg. W. Rajasthan, Stewart, London to Bombay; and Eliza and Hester, Kruger, London to Bombay, Sept. 2; lat. 13:30 deg. N., long. 25.41 deg. W. Brunette, Cousens, London to Ceylon, Sept. 7; lat. 10 deg. N., long. 24 deg. W. Symmetry, Elder, London to Adelaide, Aug. 21; lat. 6-10 deg. S., long. 23'11 deg. W. Agincourt, Nisbet, London to Calcutta, Aug. 18; lat. 5.38 deg. S., long. 16 deg. W. Gloriana, Webb, London to Calcutta, Aug. 19; lat. 15 deg. N., long. 12.30 deg. W. John Hayes, Woodward, London to Adelaide, Sept. 1; lat. 12:58 deg. N., long. 24 deg. W. Castle Eden, Baker, London to New South Wales, Aug. 28; lat. 17 deg. S. long. 32 deg. W. Lanchester, Conway, London to Singapore, Sept. 14; lat. 10 deg. N., long. 24 deg. W. INCIDENTS. ST. HELENA, AUG. 18.-The Shepherd arrived here from Saldanha Bay, experienced a severe gale five days after leaving that place: lost main and mizen top-masts and sprung main-mast; obliged to throw fifty tons guano overboard. AUG. 29.-The Julius Caesar, from Saldanha Bay, is still under repair, and will probably sail in a few days for Liverpool. The brig Highlander, of London, and schooner Cornelia, of London, have been condemned as unseaworthy. The Duke of Gloucester, from the Coast of Africa, will be hove down for repairs. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, AUG. 15.-The Crishna, from Liverpool, arrived here on the 10th inst. with the captain and ten men of the late barque Drummore, from Leith to Aden, the cargo (coals) having ignited and the vessel abandoned. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14.-The Undaunted, Scott, from Saldanha Bay to Cork, sprung a leak on Oct. 7, off Cape Finistere, and was abandoned in a sinking state. The crew were taken (on board The Favourite and landed here. DOMESTIC. BIRTHS. Oct. 6. The lady of Capt. G. H. Robertson, 25th Reg. Bombay Army, daughter, at 71, Blessington-st. 8. The lady of Capt. Sandeman, daughter, at Mimwood, Herts. 9. The lady of the Rev. Edward Leigh Bennett, son, at Long Sutton, Lincolnshire. 13. The wife of Alfred Parker, Esq. daughter, at St. John's Wood. MARRIAGES. Oct. 7. Melcher Gamer Todd, Esq. to Marianne Emelia Frances, daughter of Capt. Henry Bryce, R.N. at Clifton Church. 8. W. J. Irwin, Esq. H.E.I.C.'s service, to Margaret Martha, widow of the late Ellis Hadley, Esq. at Trinity Church, Brompton. 14. Major George Macgregor, C.B., Bengal Artillery, to Harriott, daughter of Major gen. Sir Thomas Whitehead, K.C.B., at Preston. 15. Mr. Griffith G. Todd, Hon. E.I.C.'s service, Calcutta, to Augusta, daughter of Thomas Porter, Esq., at St. Mary's, Isington. 16. Major William Stirling, Hon. E.I.C.'s service, to Susanna, daughter of Trenham Old, Esq., at St. James's Church, Bath. 23. Charles Decimus Crosley, to Mary, daughter of John Ford, Esq., late of the Hon. E.I.C.'s service, at St. Giles's, Camberwell. DEATHS. Sept. 21. Sir Charles D'Oyley, Bart., late of the Hon. E.I.C.'s Bengal civil service, at the Adenza, near Leghorn. 24. Lieut. col. S. Fraser, late of the Hon. E.I.C.'s service, at Drumdecan Forres, N.B., aged 65. Oct. 1. John George Richardson, Esq., late of Sydney, in Upper Berkeley-street. 2. Thomas Hayley, Esq., Hon. E.I.C.'s service, at Teignmouth, Devonshire, aged 53. 6. Harriette Charlotte Suart, daughter of Capt. W. Goodfellow, Bombay Engineers, at Carlton-villas, Maida-vale. 9. James Johnson, M.D., of No. 8, Suffolk place, Pall Mall, at Brighton, aged 69. 17. Mary Anne Joanna, the wife of George Parbury, Esq., at Mansfield-house, Russell-square, aged 34. 19. Major John Tongue, at Brixton, Surrey, aged 66.. Bengal Estab.-Major Archdale Wilson, artillery. Lieut. Charles L. Showers, 14th N.I. Madras Estab.-Capt. Andrew J. Kelso, 3rd Lt. Cav. Lieut. Richard A. Bruere, 33rd N.I. Bombay Estab.-Capt. James Ash, artillery. Ensign Allick B. Burge, 69th N.I. MARINE. Bombay Estab.-Commander John P. Porter, Indian Navy. PERMITTED TO RETURN TO THEIR DUTY. CIVIL. Madras Estab.-Mr. Charles T. Kaye, per Oriental, 20th Oct. ... Mathematics Fortification Hindustani 150 150 ... 60 40 ... 30 40 Military Drawing French and Latin, the numbers in which are not, by the Regulations of 16th Jan. 1828, allowed to reckon in the selection of cadets for the engineers and artillery, are now to be included in determining the merit of individuals for those corps. CHANGES AND PROMOTIONS IN H.M.'S REGIMENTS SERVING IN INDIA. WAR OFFICE, 10TH OCTOBER, 1845. Bengal 10th Foot.-Ensign John William Medhurst to be lieut. without purchase, v. Lysaght, deceased; dated 15th Sept. 1845. Ensign John Teomas Chandler to be lieut. by purchase, v, Taylor, who retires; dated 10th October, 1845. Patrick Brown Lucas, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, v. Chandler; dated 10th October, 1845. Charles Rowland Berkeley Calcott, gent., to be ensign, without purchase, v. Medhurst; dated 11th October, 1845. |