The Governor-General has departed for the upper provinces, and the curtain must soon rise on the opening scene of the drama, the dénouement of which is to decide the fate of the Punjaub. At Madras the Government have issued a notification of considerable importance as regards the Bank at that presi. dency, as well as the interests of the public. It is to the effect of allowing the notes and post bills of the Bank to be received at the Government treasury in payment of revenue and all other public demands. If the Bank were to be of any public benefit, such a permission was absolutely necessary, and especially so with regard to the peculiar circumstances of India. At Bombay the shopkeepers continue to utter murmurs both loud and deep against the tax recently imposed upon them. A petition has been presented against this unpopular impost, and the answer is in the usual style of such papers: the petitioners are informed "that the collector will be intrusted to watch very closely the working of the new rates, and to bring to the notice of Government any instance in which they may appear to bear heavily on any particular classes; that Government will be most ready to afford relief in all cases in which it may be found necessary," and so forth. The petitioners are without doubt aware of the full value of such assurances, and of the extent of the benefit which they are likely to derive from them. From CHINA there is little information of interest. The following report of a somewhat extraordinary scene appears in the Friend of China. We give it in the original form. "A good deal of excitement has been caused by some proceedings before the court of stipendiary magistrates. A military officer of rank, at the early hour of half-past ten o'clock, took it upon him to order the police to enter the house of a neighbour, who had a party, and request that they discontinue singing. The policemen complied, though not in the polite language in which the message was couched; they entered the house of the citizen, and before his guests, ordered that the singing be discontinued. They were told to retire, and afterwards informed from the window, that a repetition of their lawless intrusion, unless under the order of the civil authorities, would subject them to an application of a horsewhip; there is some doubt, however, whether this threat was made as towards them or the party who sent them. The policemen made a complaintthe citizen was summoned before the magistrate (who is an officer of a regiment in garrison), and fined twenty dollars. Whether the fine was for the singing or for the threat, does not appear; in either case it was oppressive, and we believe the whole case will be before the Supreme Court on an application from the party who was fined." From NEW ZEALAND there is some news of an unpleasant character, which will be found in another part of our present publication. BENGAL. POST-OFFICE REFORM. We fancy it is scarcely possible for any one to have heard Mr. Simms's animated description of the locomotive postoffices, established in the railroad trains in England, with. out involuntarily committing a breach of the tenth commandment, and coveting that which is his neighbours. No one can contrast the simplicity and completeness, the regularity and speed which has been attained at home in this department, with the dilatoriness and the irregularity, and even the infidelity which marks our cumbrous arrangements in India, without a strong feeling of envy. We fear it will be five or six years before our projected railroad gets as far as Delhi, and it is a matter of some importance, therefore, to look after intermethose lines of road which the rail will not embrace, more diate improvements, as well as to introduce reform into especially as it is a fact on which, we believe, public opinion is perfectly unanimous, that nothing can be worse than our present system. Perhaps there cannot be a more seasonable opportunity for discussing the subject than the present time, when it is known to be in the hands of a fresh postmastergeneral, who is most diligently employed in tracing out the cause of the present disorganization, in order that the remedy may reach the root of the disease. The constituency of the press throughout the country have it in their power, we know, to offer many suggestions, founded on local observation, which may prove valuable; and they will be more likely to come forward with their suggestions when they are assured that they will be so opportune. The first question which meets us on the very threshold of reform is the inquiry whether the post-office pays its own expenses or not. To determine this point, the department should have been included in the matters submitted to the researches of the late Finance Committee. When we remember how admirably they unravelled, for the first time, the intricate accounts of the various departments, and classified and analyzed every item of expenditure, we can scarcely forgive Lord Ellenborough for having excluded it from their jurisdiction. It is too late, however, now to wish for the resurrection of that committee, who have done more to simplify and elucidate the finances of this division of the empire than all the parliamentary committees that have ever sat on the subject, aided though they have been with all the records and accountants of the India House. India, and not England, is the place to obtain a clear view of Indian finance, which shall be at once minute and comprehensive; and before parliament enters on the subject of a new charter, it is to be hoped that finance committees will be appointed in this country to bring up the accounts in an intelligible form, and to prevent country gentlemen losing their way in a forest of figures, like that which bewildered the House twelve years ago. This is a digression, which we could not, however, avoid, for it would be an act of unpardonable ingratitude to allude to this committee without pausing to bestow on it our editorial blessing. For the fact whether the post-office in the Lower Provinces pays its expenses or not, we must now look to the completion of those monthly returns which Sir Henry Hardinge has ordered to be published in the Calcutta Gazette. In the next place, we require a decisive answer to the inquiry, whether the post-office is to be considered a source of revenue or not. Though this notion has been often advocated by official men, and never openly repudiated, yet we think the principle of making this department contribute to the public treasury, will not be generally deemed tenable in a country so backward as India, because, it would induce a degree of economy which must necessarily destroy the efficiency of the office; and, by rendering it incapable of performing the functions which belong especially to it, inflict a serious injury on all interests, private and public. We venture to think that Government ought to regard it rather as one of the great instruments of civilization, and to rest perfectly satisfied if it bears its own expenses. If Government needs revenue, there are other and more legitimate sources to resort to. When the Governor-General can call for twenty additional lakhs of rupees yearly from the Opium, and the money comes at his beck, the income of the post-office need not be regarded in the light of a tax. On the contrary, whatever sum may be actually paid out of the public exchequer, to improve and facilitate the operations of the post-office, should be regarded by an enlightened Government as a wise and judicious expenditure, which the country will return with tenfold interest to its rulers, if not in so much cash, in that which is far more valuable, in the progress of national improvement. We cannot in this country have a better example for our guide than that which has been set us by the ruling authorities t home, who have considered the improved conveyance of the mails between England and India a matter of such importance as to justify an expenditure of seventeen lakhs a year on it. The Government of India ought not to be less anxious about the improvement of internal communication, or less ready to promote it by a direct contribution from those other sources of revenue which the post-office has so great a tendency to improve. In close connection with this branch of the subject stands the question of the proportion of public to private letters with which the mail is charged. Strange to say, the widest difference of opinion prevails on a point which, considered statistically, and as the ground of reasoning and action, ought long since to have been well ascertained. We have heard the weight of the public despatches estimated, by those who have the means of judging, at four times that of private letters. Assuming this to be the fact, it is material to inquire, as the basis of the arrangement, whether the private mails are expected to pay for the public mails: that is, whether the sum to be laid out on the postal establishments shall be limited to the postage received from the community, however inadequate it may be. The public know, that even this idea was in advance of those former administrations under whom the post-office was considered inefficient if it failed to yield a surplus; but more liberal views are, we believe, now entertained, and the present Government will not refuse, if it be necessary, to make the state bear a proportion of the expense of conveying its despatches. It will consider the post-office not only as the means of private comfort and convenience, but as auxiliary to so many national interests, that, if there be no other mode of rendering it efficient than to obtain a contribution from the public exchequer for the transport of the public mails, the sacrifice will be made cheerfully. The whole system of the subordinate post-offices requires to be recast upon a new principle. The charge of the various local offices throughout the country, upon the efforts of which the regularity and speed of the mails depend, is consigned to public officers who have other duties to perform, which in many instances they find it difficult to get through. The post-office is the weakest claimant on their attention, and, like the weakest, goes to the wall. The whole business of the office is therefore left to Moonshees, so ill paid, that we cannot in all fairness and honesty expect them to be diligent servants, and who must-we mean by a physical necessity-contrive to make up the deficiencies of their salary by means which interfere with the regularity and fidelity of the mails. The provincial postmasters are moreover in most instances not only men who have no leisure for postal matters, but who enjoy appointments of dignity and emolument in the service, and who either receive nothing for attending to them, or a mere trifle of pocket-money, which we almost blush to name. They confer a favour by accepting the office. Is it possible in these circumstances that there can be that adequate control exercised throughout the department, without which it must be utterly inefficient? Can the postmaster-general write to one who does not care a rush how soon he is relieved of the duty-to a surgeon, for instance, to a collector, or a military staff-officer, with that freedom of remonstrance, in every case of irregularity or of delinquency, which he would adopt towards a subordinate; and which he must be at liberty to adopt, if he would perform his duty with success? It is impossible that under the present system there can be any adequate superintendence of the various local subordinate post-offices; and without such distinct control, all improvement must be hopeless. The official reader has only to picture to himself the consequences of introducing such a system into any other department, civil or military, to perceive the full extent of disorganiza. tion into which that of the post-office must have fallen through it. At all the principal post stations in the country, the office must be filled by men whose highest responsibilities shall have reference to the postmaster-general. The system will never work efficiently or harmoniously till the head of the department is permitted to officer its subordinate posts with men who regard his displeasure as the most serious of official calamities. We think it would simplify and expedite the business of the Overland department, if it were made peremptory, and not optional, that the postage on every letter sent home by the steamers should be prepaid. As a general rule, which cannot be disregarded without introducing confusion where the utmost effort is required to preserve order, and without losing time, in a department in which moments are of value, the sender should invariably be required to pay for his letter. We have, as yet, received but one letter from England "bearing postage," and we suppose, therefore, that this rule prevails, though perhaps not exclusively, on the other side of the water. It is but fair and equitabl, that it should be established on our side, also, and that our friends at home should not be saddled with the payment of postage for the letters they receive, as well as for those they send. But some other arrangement than that which now exists must, in this case be established. The public will learn with surprise that a considerable portion of the letters they have posted in the offices in the interior have never reached their destination. The letters have been burked by the native officials, and the postage appropriated to their own use. This has been done in numerous instances, for the sake of the internal postage. The frequency of the crime may be estimated by the chances of detection, which are exceedingly few and very remote. The transgression will of course be multiplied with the increase of the temptation, if every man is constrained to pay for the steam postage, in addition to the inland postage. We have been thinking whether an adequate remedy might not be found by borrowing the example of England, and introducing stamps of a shilling each. These stamps might be sold at every post-office throughout the country, without entailing half the trouble which the sale of judicial stamps involves. They would render the abstraction of letters profitless to the native officials; and simplify the arrangements both of the provincial and the general postoffices, and simplicity is the life of the department. We think it would also simplify the transactions between the Queen's and the Company's Government in reference to the remittance of the sums received for postage to England. The Court of Directors might at once purchase and pay for a million of shilling stamps, and send them out by the Peninsular Company's steamers, and thus introduce regularity, uniformity, and simplicity into every branch of the Overland mail department.-Friend of India. RAILWAYS IN INDIA. We are informed that the plan which it was said the Government of India had resolved to adopt of appointing a commission to co-operate with Mr. Simms, the civil engineer, deputed to this country by the Court of Directors, is not to be carried into effect. It is deemed advisable to adhere to the letter of the instructions received from Leadenhall-street, and to nominate two engineer officers to assist him in his inquiries. On the whole, the undertaking may perhaps be all the better for not having a cumbrous and unwieldy commission, whose movements would probably be sluggish in proportion to its bulk, and might be impeded in no small degree by diversities of opinion. If all means and appliances are placed without obstruction at the disposal of the civil engineer and his assistant, and the two engineer officers appointed to aid him, the labours of the survey will proceed with rapidity, and be sufficiently advanced by the end of the cold season to enable Government to come to some determination as to the line of road to be chosen, and the mode of official co-operation; and thus insure the commencement of active operations at the beginning of the ensuing cold season. We have no misgivings as to the result of these preliminary operations. We feel confident they will lead to the establishment of railroads through the length of this presidency. If the commercial traffic is insufficient to furnish a dividend, the assistance of the state will assuredly be given, rather than that India shall be allowed to remain without the inestimable benefit of rails. The railroad is, if possible, more important on political, than on mere mercantile considerations. The same principle of enlarged polity which led the home government to connect the long series of British colonies in the eastern world with the centre of control and management in England by a line of steamers, will be called into operation in India; and similar exertions will be made to connect the remote provinces of India with the metropolis, and through the metropolis with England. The money which may be expended in this enterprise will be abundantly repaid in the compactness and security of the empire; while the feeling of universal confidence in the duration of our administration which it cannot fail to diffuse will become one of the great elements of our political strength. Tippoo Sultan was in the habit of saying that it was not the resources he saw in the possession of the English that he dreaded, but those resources which he did not see; and among these, had he been now alive, he would have reckoned the railways, which will give a degree of ubiquity to our influence, and enable us to crush rebellion long before it can be hatched.-Friend of India. MISCELLANEOUS. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.-The Right Honourable the Governor-General embarked for the Upper Provinces this morning, at half-past six o'clock, from Barrackpore, on board the State yacht Soonamookee. The body-guard were in attendance, and the troops of the station were drawn out under arms, and formed a line to the ghaut, where the general and staff-officers were in waiting. A detachment of artillery from Dum-Dum fired a salute of nineteen guns on his Excellency's embarkation. The Soonamookee is towed by the Thames, and the Jellinghee | (accommodation boat) by the Indus, river steamer. On the state yacht passing the Serampore flag-staff, she was saluted with nineteen guns from that settlement. Report says this will be the last but one fired from thence with the Danish flag flying. -Economist, Sept. 22. THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR.-The Honourable Sir Herbert Maddock was yesterday afternoon installed as Deputy Governor of Bengal, under the usual salute.-Hurkaru, Sept. 23. ADDITIONAL JUDGE OF CIRCUIT.-We are informed that a new office is likely to be created in the 24-Pergunnahs, viz. an additional Judge of Circuit; and that the favourite candidates for the berth are Mr. A. Reid and Mr. J. C. Dick.-Hurkaru, Sept. 26. CHOLERA.-We regret to observe, that, in consequence of the close and oppressive state of the weather, cholera has again made its appearance. We have heard of two cases which occurred yesterday, both of which, we regret to say, terminated fatally.-Ibid. Oct. 1. THE "FURLOUGH MEMORIAL."-We have the pleasure to inform those whom it may concern, and their number is, we know, legion, that the "Furlough Memorial" was returned to Government, with the Commander-in-Chief's observations thereon, in the early part of July. We may, therefore, reasonably expect that it has been forwarded home, and shall use our best endea yours to ascertain that such is the fact.-Delhi Gaz. Sept. 24. POST OFFICE.-We understand that the Postmaster-General has ordered a large bamboo to be set up in the compound of the office, and a white flag is to be hoisted whenever the Overland Mail comes, in order to apprise the ditchers of the arrival of the same. NEW COPPER COINAGE.-The new coinage of half annas is now issued, and is a very respectable specimen of the numismatic science. It is about one inch and a quarter in diameter, and in every other respect is similar to the quarter anna issued in 1835, except, of course, in the diminution of value.-Hurkaru, Oct. 2. NAVAL COMPLIMENT TO OUR MASTER ATTENDANT.-We have not seen the river look so gay for many a long year as it did this morning. Almost every ship on it was gaily decked with flags, and streamers, and pennants, in honour of the marriage of our worthy master attendant. The compliment appeared to us in good taste, and reflects credit on those who paid it, as well as on him for whom it was intended.-Hurkaru, Oct. 4. BACKERGUNGE.We understand that an embezzlement, to the amount of Company's Rs. 50,000, has taken place in the collectorate of Backergunge. More than one amlah is said to be implicated in the matter. We hope a strict inquiry will be instituted, and the guilty parties be broght to condign punishment. Ibid. Oct. 6. MEERUT. It is satisfactory to learn that Meerut is no longer suffering from the great calamity which overtook the station by the appearance of cholera; the disease has almost entirely disappeared. From all we can hear, the 29th foot have been the greatest sufferers, having lost above forty men. The 10th foot suffered to the extent of twenty-eight men, while the lancers, artillery, and sappers did not lose, collectively, more than sixteen or seventeen.-Ibid. THE NABOB OF MOORSHEDABAD.-The Economist states that the Nabob of Moorshedabad is about to be married, and that the Government has sanctioned a disbursement of one lakh for the expense, and Rs. 50,000 as a present to the mother of the bride. We have been favoured with an account of the loss of the Harlequin, from China, by fire, at the Sandheads, near Calcutta. It appears that, a little before midnight on the 28th, the vessel made the blue light with a steady breeze from the southwest, and continued to steer to the northward, the wind gradually decreasing, when about half-past three A.M. the captain was alarmed by a quantity of smoke coming out of the cabin. Search was immediately made in the cabin, but unsuccessfully, for the cause. When the main-hatch was opened, however, a quantity of smoke was evolved, followed immediately after by a burst of flames, consequent on the air admitted. The hatches were again battened down and buckets and a supply of water was secured for the emergency. Water was poured down the hold as fast as possible, but the fire broke out forward and burnt furiously. In fact, the whole of the hold from the main-hatch forward was in flames. The boats were got out, but at the same time no exertions were spared to prevent the fire from getting aft. Guns were fired to attract the attention of the pilot vessels, and the powder magazine was thrown overboard at daylight. The Tavoy immediately despatched assistance to the Harlequin, but the crew could not await it, and were obliged to get off as as well as they could. Attempts were made to get the chronometers and some of the treasure off, but it was found impossible to stop on board. Five of the crew were put on board of the Cape packet, and a second attempt was made to return on board of the vessel and try and save some of her treasure. Before, however, this could be effected, the mast had gone over the side and she was one mass of fire. At eight o'clock the exhausted crew got on board the Megna, pilot-vessel, where every assistance was rendered to them by Capt. Dwyer. Capt. Dwyer further sent down his boat to see if any assistance could be rendered to the unfortunate Harlequin, but it could not get near enough to the vessel. The vessel being at length nearly burnt to the water's edge, Capt. Dwyer, finding that no further assistance could be rendered, filled and stood to the north-west for town.-Calcutta Star, Oct. 3. The Enterprise steamer arrived off town yesterday afternoon. She left Moulmein on the 25th and Akyab on the 29th ultimo, at 6 P.M. The following is a list of her passengers :-From Moulmein.-Capt. and Mrs. Tremenheere and child; Messrs. Beckwith, Hugheston, Warwick, and Richardson. From Akyab.Mrs. Englebright and five children. Captain Patterson reports that the wreck of the Harlequin had not sunk, but seemed to be at anchor not far below the surface of the water. If so, there is a probability of the two lacs of treasure on board of her being got up. The circumstance of the wreck being visible under water, as Capt. Patterson supposes at least, had been reported by him to the commander of one of the pilot vessels.-Hurkaru, Oct. 3. We have received some further particulars of the accident that had so nearly proved fatal to the barque Aberfoyle. She, like the Royal Consort, was fortunately the outside vessel in the tier. Mr. H. Whickham, an assistant harbour-master, who was employed on board the ship Sophia, seeing volumes of smoke proceeding from the ship Aberfoyle, immediately went on board. This was about half-past four P.M. By a quarter past five all her chains were cast off. About this time the master attendant got on board. Information had been promptly sent to the Bankshall, and Captain Clapperton, with great judgment, immediately wrote to the superintendent of police to send engines. By the time the chains were cast off, however, the vessel appeared to be in flames, under the deck, the whole length from the mainmast nearly to the mizenmast. It was difficult to keep on deck. A steamer, the Lion, in pilotage charge of Mr. C. Rogers, came up, and took the ship in tow by the stern, as it was doubtful whether if towed by the head, she would clear the other vessels in the tier, it being flood-tide. She was towed over in this manner; and, as she could not be steered, grounded on the other side of the river, where she could not endanger any property. An engine was supplied from one of the dock-yards, which was too small to produce much effect; but two powerful ones from the police, under the orders of Captain Clapperton, soon arrived, and were so well plied, that by seven o'clock the fire was so well got under that the master attendant had no longer any fear for the ship, and by eight the fire was extinguished. The fire originated under the half-deck, where there were some bales of cotton, and where the steward had gone to draw off some liquor, carrying with him a light of some kind. The fire at one time extended ten feet up the mainmast. The beams, for full twenty feet of the quarter-deck, have been so burnt that they will have to be renewed, and the shelf-pieces on both sides are also completely charred, and will have to be changed. Great praise is due to the master attendant, to Captain Clapperton, Captain Onslow, the harbour-master and his assistants, Messrs. Chapman, Baptist, Smith, Thurlow, Ducasse, and Cornabie, and to Mr. Master Pilot John Bartlett, who was one of the first to go below and point the hose, when it was scarcely possible for any one to remain even a minute or two under the deck. Captains Johnson, of the Sophia, and Guthrie, of the Isabella Cooper, attended with their crews, and were of the greatest assistance in handing along water, and many others rendered aid and displayed the greatest zeal and activity in saving the ship. Some anxiety was felt about the powder, and it was ascertained that there were about twenty pounds on board in a barrel. It was a service of danger to get at it, and, moreover, the precise spot in which it was, not easy to find. The chief officer of the ship was lowered down amidst the suffocating smoke, with a wet handkerchief over his face, and succeeded in bringing up the barrel, which was immediately flung overboard. For this daring exploit, in which he immediately risked his life, the highest credit is due to him. We cannot refrain from expressing our surprise, that considering the fatal consequences that have so often followed from the proceeding, it should ever be permitted to draw off liquor on board a ship when a light is required for the purpose. -Hurkaru, Sept. 26. The portion of the 40th regiment that goes home in the Scindian, embarked this morning, and the vessel leaves town by steam on the 29th. As we passed Prinsep's Ghaut this morning we saw the men embarking, while the band stationed on the Ghaut was playing "Home, sweet home." The detachment that goes in the Poictiers embarks to-morrow, to sail on the 30th, and the remainder, with the head-quarters of the regiment, on the 30th, to sail on the 2nd. The total number going home does not much exceed 380, we believe, having been reduced to that limit by a second volunteering into other regiments, which took away about 120 men.-Hurkaru, Sept. 27. It is said that her Majesty's 9th Lancers are under positive orders to march towards Meerut on the 15th instant, and that the 16th Lancers will march downwards on being relieved by the 9th, provided their services be not in the mean while considered necessary on the north-west frontier. We announced the march of the 9th some six or seven weeks since.-Delhi Gazette, Oct. 1. The Right Honourable the Governor-General, and suite, passed Berhampoor at five on the evening of the 24th September, under a salute of 19 guns, but did not remain, and reached Moorshedabad at seven P.M., also receiving a salute from his Highness the Nawab Nazim. His honour left the latter place at sunrise the next morning.-Ibid. It is rumoured that the vacancy in the military board, occasioned by the departure of Colonel Benson with the GovernorGeneral, will be filled up by Major Mackinlay, of the 63rd.Bengal Hurkaru, Sept. 23. The Calcutta, Dhurma Subha, or Hindoo ecclesiastical synod, has decided that, under proper arrangements, pilgrims may be expected to proceed as passengers by Indian railroads. The Calcutta papers intimate a considerable improvement in the health of Sir George Pollock since he proceeded to the Sandheads. Her Majesty's 40th Regiment has embarked for England from Bengal in the ships Seringapatam and Poictiers. Accounts from Gwalior still treat of the corrupt proceedings of the durbar of that state, and complain of the oppression to which the unfortunate inhabitants are subjected. Colonel Sleeman, it is said, is to be relieved of the charge of the Saugor and Nerbudda territories, which are to be placed under a commission subordinate to the lieutenant-governor of the Northwest Provinces. The Governor-General, who left Calcutta on the 22nd of September, is expected to reach Cawnpore on the 17th of October, and Agra about the 20th. It is supposed that his honour's stay at the latter place will be shorter than was at first intended; and we find it stated in the Delhi Gazette that he will probably be at Meerut on the 15th of November, and there meet his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, instead of at Agra, as originally arranged. A report has gained currency that Mr. Thomason is to accompany Sir Henry to Meerut. Fourteen guns, drawn by elephants, have arrived in Delhi, on their way, it is said, to the north-west. Rumours are rife amongst the native population that our protégé, the Rajah of Putteeallah, has been refractory, and that his Sikh highness is busily engaged collecting troops. We have no authentic information on the subject. Rumours of the building of two additional boat-bridges at Delhi have got abroad amongst our native friends. We believe a second is to be constructed; but the amusing part of the story is the revival of the old tale that the bridges are to be made to afford the English a safe retreat when they shall have been thrashed by the Sikhs-Delhi Gazette, Sept. 24. GOVERNMENT GENERAL ORDERS. FORM OF REPORT OF EXAMINING OFFICERS IN HINDUSTANI. Head-quarters, Simla, 11th September, 1845.-To insure uniformity, his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief directs, that the following forms of reports may be adopted by committees assembled for the examination of officers for the office of interpreter, or for the Hindoostanee examination prescribed in Government General Orders No. 7, of the 9th January, 1837, and No. 168, of the 31st May, 1844. REPORT On the qualifications of the who was examined this day as to his fitness to discharge the duties of interpreter to a native corps. 1845. 1. Whether the candidate possesses a well-grounded knowledge of the general principles of grammar. 2. The ability of the candidate to read and write with facility the modified Persian character of the Oordoo, and the Deva-Nagree of the Khurree Bolee. 3rd. Whether the candidate possesses a colloquial knowledge of the Oordoo and Hindooee sufficient to enable him to explain with facility, and at the moment, any orders in those dialects, or to transpose reports, letters, &c. from them into English. The tests by which these qualifications are to be tried, are to MOVEMENTS OF CORPS AND DETACHMENTS. Head Quarters, Simla, 15th Sept. 1845.-With the sanction of the Right Honourable the Governor General in Council, the following movements of corps and detachments are directed to take place, on the dates and in the order specified: Horse Artillery. 4th troop 1st brigade, from Scinde to Meerut, when relieved by 4th troop 2nd brigade. 4th ditto 2nd ditto, from Meerut to Scinde, 1st November. Foot Artillerry. 2nd co. 7th batt. with No. 6 light field battery, from Delhi to Ferozepore, 15th Oct. 3rd co. 7th batt. with No. 5 light field battery, from Scinde to Delhi, when relieved by 5th company 7th battalion. 5th co. 7th batt. with No. 13 light field battery, from Ferozepore to Scinde, 1st Nov. to march with the 15th regt. N.I. Sappers and Miners. A co. to be selected by the com. officer of the corps, from Meerut to Ferozepore, 10th Oct. 6th co. from Ferozepore to Meerut, 15th Feb. Light Cavalry. 5th regt. from Muttra to Loodianah, to join the Governorgeneral's camp on the 20th Oct. at Agra, and to escort it from thence. 6th ditto, from Loodianah to Scinde, 25th Oct. 7th ditto, from Scinde to Muttra, when relieved by 6th regt. Irregular Cavalry. 2nd regt. from Saugor to Umballah, when relieved by 6th from Umballah. 6th ditto, from Umballah to Saugor, 15th Oct. European Infantry. H.M.'s 9th foot, from Kussowlie to Meerut, when relieved by H.M.'s 29th foot. Ditto 29th ditto, from Meerut to Kussowlie, 10th Oct. Native Infantry. 2nd regt. from Agra to Meerut, to escort the Governor-general's camp. 3rd ditto, from Hussingabad to Banda, when relieved by the 74th regt. 4th ditto, from Scinde to Agra, when relieved by the 15th regt. 13th ditto, from Barrackpore to Cawnpore, when relieved by the 40th regt. 15th ditto, from Ferozepore to Scinde, Ist Nov. 20th ditto, from Cawnpore to Barrackpore, 1st Oct. by water. 21st ditto, from Barrackpore to Benares, 15th Nov. 22nd ditto, from Barackpore to Futtehgurh, when relieved by the 64th regt. 26th ditto, from Loodianah to Bareilly, when relieved by the 42nd regt. 27th ditto, from Moradabad to Umballah, when relieved by the 38th regt. 28th ditto, from Sylhet to Lucknow 1st Nov., by water to Benares. 29th ditto, from Berhampore to Agra, when relieved by the 39th regt. 30th ditto, from Lucknow to Delhi, 15th Oct. 33rd ditto, from Bareilly to Ferozepore, 15th Oct. 36th ditto, from Delhi to Ferozepore, 10th Oct. 38th ditto, from Meerut to Moradabad, when relieved by the 43rd regt. 39th ditto, from Nowgong to Berhampore, 15th Oct. 40th ditto, from Saugor to Barrackpore, 15th Oct. 42nd ditto,* from Mynpoorie to Loodianah, 15th Oct. when relieved by left wing 16th regt. 43rd ditto.t from Futtehgurh to Meerut, 15th Oct. when rélieved by left wing 6th regt. 53rd ditto, from Meerut to Nowgong, 15th Oct. 60th ditto, from Benares to Barrackpore, when relieved by the 21st regt. 63rd ditto, from Umballah to Scinde, 25th Oct. 64th ditto, from Cawnpore to 'Barrackpore, 5th Oct. by water. 65th ditto, from Allahabad to Nowgong, 15th Oct. 67th ditto, from Banda to Allahabad when relieved by the 3rd regt. 69th ditto, from Scinde to Cawnpore, when relieved by the 63rd regt. 71st ditto, from Barrackpore to Mynpoorie, when relieved by the 20th regt. 74th ditto, from Nowgong to Hussingabad, when relieved by the 53rd regt. Kelat-i-Ghilzie regt., from Agra to Saugor, 15th Oct. Strict attention to be paid to the standing regulations of the service, relative to the information required to be given by commanding officers to the civil authorities in the districts through which the routes of their corps or detachments may lie, to the transmission of progress and other reports to head-quarters, and during the absence of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief from the presidency, of duplicates of all such reports to the officers in charge of the adjutant-general's and quartermaster-general's offices in Calcutta. Routes will be furnished from the office of the quartermastergeneral of the army. By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. LEAVE OP ABSENCE TO OFFICERS HOLDING MILITARY APPOINT MENTS. FORT WILLIAM, 19th September, 1845.-With reference to the general order No. 126, of the 9th June, 1843, the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India in Council is pleased to resolve, that an officer holding a military appointment who may require a second leave beyond sea, on account of his health previous to the expi. ration of three years from the date of his return from his first leave, shall not come under forfeiture of his appointment, unless he shall have been absent from his presidency, on the former occasion, for a period exceeding three months. INFERIOR COURTS-MARTIAL. Head-quarters, Simla, 23rd Sept. 1845-The Commander-inChief is pleased to lay down the following rules in modification of general orders by the Commander-in-Chief, of the 6th November, 1818, for the review and registry of the proceedings of inferior courts-martial, held for the trial of soldiers and others of the East-India Company's service. 1. The original proceedings of every district or garrison courtmartial are to be forwarded, by the president or superintending officer, to the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the division, immediately after the close of the trial, for submission, with a report by the Deputy Judge Advocate General, to the officer under whose authority the court has been convened; and after The left wing 16th native grenadiers to march from Etawah on the 10th of October; to relieve the 42nd, and take the duties at Mynpoorie, until the arrival there of the 71st regt. The left wing 6th regt. to march from Shajehanpore on the 8th of Oct., to relieve the 43rd, and take the duties at Futtehgurfi, until the arrival there of the 22nd regt. registry the proceedings are to be transmitted to the Judge Advocate General. 2. The original proceedings of every European regimental or other inferior court-martial, and those of every native inferior court-martial, finally disposed of by the convening officer, are to be transmitted to the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the division, within one week after the close of the trial, for the purpose of being laid before the officer commanding the division or field force, with a report on the regularity of the proceedings, &c., by the Deputy Judge Advocate General, and of being registered. Trials in the Benares division will be transmitted in this way to the Deputy Judge Advocate General at Dinapore and those in the Rajpootanah field force to the Deputy Judge Advocate General at Neemuch, for report and registry. 3. The original proceedings of every native regimental or other inferior court-martial, where the sentence may require the sanction of the senior officer on the spot, are to be transmitted by the convening officer, immediately after he has confirmed the sentence, to the Deputy Judge Advocate General, or at stations where there is no resident Judge Advocate, to the division or brigade staff-officer, for submission to the senior officer on the spot. But such proceedings, when disposed of by such senior officer, not being the general officer commanding the division, are to be transmitted within one week to the Deputy Judge Advocate General, for the purpose of being laid before the officer commanding the division, in like manner as other proceedings, and of being registered. Proceeedings of the nature specified in this paragraph disposed of by the officers commanding the Benares division or the Rajpootanah field force, are to be transmitted to the Deputy Judge Advocate General at Dinapore and at Neemuch, respectively, for registry. 4. It will be the duty of the officer commanding the division or field force, in all cases, and of the officer commanding the district or brigade, in any case where his sanction may be requisite to the infliction of sentences passed upon natives, after due consideration of the proceedings, and of any observations thereon which may be laid before him, to direct the release of the prisoner where the trial may be void from illegality, or the sentence unauthorized, or where the verdict may not be sustained by the evidence. Where irregularities are observed, the officer commanding the division or field force will cause such remarks and instructions to be entered upon the proceedings as the circumstances of the case, in his judgment, may appear to demand. 5. In cases where the officer commanding a division or field force, or the officer commanding a district or brigade, may consider the proceedings of any regimental or other court-martial, that may be submitted to him, or the circumstances connected with such trial, of sufficient importance to be brought specially under the notice of the Commander-in-Chief, the original proceedings, and all necessary documents, are to be forwarded to the Judge Advocate General, for the purpose of being laid before his Excellency. 6. A register, in the form now obtaining, but with an additional column between the eighth and ninth, to be headed "remarks by the officer commanding the district or brigade," in which are to be entered the decisions, &c. of such officers, on cases submitted to them, is to be kept by the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the division, whose duty it will be to prepare, at the commencement of each month, two copies of such register. One of these copies is to be delivered to the officer commanding the division or field force, for the purpose of being forwarded, with such observations as he may have to offer to the Adjutant-General of the Army, for the consideration of the Commander in-Chief, upon the system of internal economy and general tone of discipline observable in the several corps serving in the division or field force. The other copy of the monthly register is to be transmitted to the Judge Advocate General by the Deputy Judge Advocate General, who will avail himself of the opportunity to bring to notice any remarkable feature in any of the trials, and to submit any points upon which he may be desirous of obtaining information. 7. When the provisions of the 81st Article of War for the European troops, and the 65th Article of War for the Native troops, are brought into operation, it is invariably to be entered in the proceedings, and in the register, that the permission of the General or other officer so to proceed had been regularly given. 8. The Dinapore and the Benares divisions, and the Rajpootanah and the Meywar field forces, being each an independent command, a separate register for each is to be kept. By order of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. |