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REGISTER OF INTELLIGENCE

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BRITISH & FOREIGN INDIA, CHINA, & ALL PARTS OF THE EAST.

No. 42.]

PUBLISHED ON THE ARRIVAL OF EACH OVERLAND MAIL.

LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1845.

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to go on nearly as well without such a functionary as with one. The Ranee exercises the powers of the state, as far as such powers can be said to be exercised where every thing is at the mercy of an insubordinate and licentious soldiery. LALL SINGH appears to have some measure of authority, but GOLAB SINGH keeps his distance, having, it may be presumed, a reasonable regard for his life. A short time must now bring the affairs of the Punjaub to a crisis of some sort, and it would, therefore, be as foolish as it would be vain to waste words in speculation.

Scinde is quiet, but the reports as to health in the Upper country are not so favourable as could be wished.

The Nizam's dominions continue disturbed, and his finances embarrassed. It is the general impression that there, as well as in the Punjaub, the employment of British interference is inevitable.

The Governor-General had reached Agra, having performed the journey with unexpected rapidity. On the 22nd of October he gave a grand dinner to the Lieut.-Governor and the principal civil and military officers. On the morning of the following day the troops were reviewed, and the Governor-General is reported to have expressed great satisfaction at the manner in which their evolutions were performed. In the evening there was another dinner, and on the 24th the Governor-General held a levee in the morning, and was present at a splendid ball given in his honour in the evening :

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These gaieties must soon be followed by occupations of a graver character, either negotiation or war, or both. But soldiers are as gay on the eve of a battle as in the "piping appeal to arms be requisite, it will be made with as much time of peace," and we may be quite certain that if an spirit as was displayed in the festivities at Agra. Whether or not it may be requisite to deal with other parties as well as the disputants within the Sikh dominions, may be doubtful; for, from the following passage extracted from a local paper, there seems some ground for suspecting that DosT MAHOMED KHAN and his precious son AKBAR KHAN, may yet be looking with longing eyes towards the province of Peshawur, and may not despair of once again annexing it to the Affghan dominions.

The news from Cabool is to Sept 5. The constant desire which seems to agitate the breast of both the Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan and of his son, the Wuzeer Mahomed Akhbar Khan, of resuming the once Affghan province of Peshawur, has been fanned to a considerable degree by the rebellion, so long as it lasted, of Prince Peshora Singh; and it seems beyond a doubt, that a correspondence was kept up between the ameer and the prince, the latter urging the former to assist him by an invasion of Peshawar, the ameer de

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claring that he had not the means to do so at the moment, but making, in the mean time, preparations to avail himself of such an excellent opportunity. It was thought at one time, that he bad actually made up his mind to proceed in person to Jellalabad, as his tents were sent out to Boodkhak; but the resolution died away. There is, however, little room for doubting that Mahomed Akhbar Khan has actually left Cabool for the lower provinces, but whether with hostile intentions, or merely to visit the seat of his peculiar government, we cannot at present say.

CALCUTTA thus says the Hurkaru-" has for the last fortnight been a more than usually dull place." There has been nothing to keep the good people of the capital of British India alive but the formal transfer of Serampore from the Danish Government to that of the East-India Company, and this seems to have been no great affair. In fact, there was little more of ceremony than accompanies the transfer of the key of an ordinary dwelling house. Messrs. HARVEY and BAYLEY representing the British Government, and Mr. ELBERLING, embodying for the occasion the "Majesty of Denmark," proceeded from the Government house to the flag-staff as quietly as if they had been on a pleasure trip, and, on their arrival, the British flag was elevated to the place vacated by the Danish. The change of flags was followed, in the course of the day, by a change of garrison, a party of English sepoys marching in to discharge the duties previously allotted to the Danish force, whose occupation was gone.

The French we suspect would have got up something of an imposing spectacle on such an occasion. Having mentioned our lively neighbours, we may advert to a report that the purchase of Serampore from the Danes was likely to be followed by that of Chandernagore from the French, but the report was not credited, and we must say we think it highly improbable. The French would think the surrender of this insignificant place, a sacrifice of glory, which no money could compensate. It would be regarded as an additional evidence of the English partialities of their ministry, and the Prince DE JOINVILLE might be almost expected to head a rebellion on account of it. At the first outbreak of war we shall take Chandernagore, and it is to be hoped never again part with it. It was one among many great errors of the arrangements of the last general peace that this place was restored to the French, and thus a footing, though a miserable one, allowed to that nation in Bengal. The earth cannot bear two SUNS nor two CESARS, and India cannot bear the presence of two such nations as England and France if once they come to war.

Madras seems to furnish no exception to the general quietude of the British possessions.

Bombay, according to the Courier, is not more lively than Calcutta. "Every thing," it is stated, "has been more than unusually dull in this dullest of all Eastern cities." This, as well as an almost identical sentence of condemnation passed on Calcutta, comes from a resident, not from us, and our good friends at either Presidency must not hold us responsible. Mr. CHAPMAN had left Bombay for Jooneer, for the purpose of making observations as to the best line for the Great Peninsular Railway. "It is supposed," by the Courier, "that the Malsay Ghaut will be chosen as affording the greater facilities for the mountain ascent, and the descent into the Deccan, the former, by a gradual slope, the latter, by an inclination almost imperceptible." A dreadful fire had occurred in the native town of Bombay, which destroyed 190 houses and property of the estimated value of seven lacs. Still more lamentable was the loss of life, it being believed that fifteen persons had perished. The accident originated at the shop of a maker of fireworks.

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Humbly sheweth,

1st. That whereas consequent on the recent accessions of territory to the British dominions in India, the establishment of large and important military stations along its north-western tendence therefrom resulting, it is impossible for the existing frontier, and the greatly increased sphere of medical superincomplement of superintending surgeons to fulfil the duties demanded of them with strict conformity to standing orders on the subject; your memorialists respectfully solicit such augmentation to the abovenamed grade of your medical servants as may, in the opinion of your honourable Court be considered expedient for the purpose of ensuring the greatest amount of benefit to the state.

Your memorialists would invite your honourable Court's attention to the Orders of the Government of India, dated 6th April, 1835, and 25th May, 1835, in order to make evident the impracticability of rigid adherence to the regulations therein laid down being maintained, more especially as regards the province of Scinde, the superintendence of the medical duties appertain ing to which has hitherto been carried on by the superintending surgeon of the Ferozepore division of the army.

the grade of full surgeon, your memorialists are almost invariably 2ndly. That whereas owing to the slow rate of promotion to superseded by officers of junior standing in the military depart ment; and whereas this tardy rate of promotion to the higher grade is in great measure dependent on the extra number of admissions into the service during the year 1825; your memorialists most earnestly pray your honourable Court to grant such an increase to the grade of full surgeons as may neutralize the disadvantage under which the junior grade labours on the above

account.

promotion extended to assistant-surgeons admitted into the serYour memorialists would also respectfully solicit your honourable Court's attention to the still further delayed prospect of vice during the past few years, in consequence of an increase having been made to the latter grade, which must eventually operate in effecting their supercession by the medical officers of the other presidencies.

3rdly. Your memorialists beg to submit for your honourable Court's consideration the serious drawback under which their department labours, inasmuch as it is debarred from attaining those most highly-prized acknowledgments of assiduous and meritorious discharge of public duty, namely brevet promotion and honorary distinctions; a species of reward which extends in the other branches of the army the strongest inducement to, and most precious recompence for zeal and industry.'

Your memorialists would draw notice to the fact, that when the other portions of the army have benefited universally by brevet, the medical service have not been favoured with corresponding tokens of your honourable Court's approval; notwithstanding that its members have invariably partaken of the same dangers and' difficulties, and been equally ready to risk life for the good of their country as the purely military officers of the

army.

Your memorialists would further specially crave your honourable Court's attention to the circumstance, that although necessitated to enter the service at a much more advanced age than ensigns, the intermediate period having to be passed at great expense in the acquisition of the diploma necessary for the appointment; no analogous certain promotion is held out to them, as is extended to all subaltern officers after 15 years' service. Thus producing in nearly every individual instance a supercession in rank by the military over the medical department: whose elevation to the next higher grade rarely takes place under a lapse of 17 years.

4thly. That whereas by general orders of the Governor. General in council, dated 18th December 1813; surgeons and assistant-surgeons attached to civil posts, if obliged from ill health or any other urgent cause whatsoever, to be absent from their charges for a term exceeding six months, are deprived of their appointments; notwithstanding that during such period of absence the staff salary incident on the civil charge is disallowed, and bare pay and allowances of their rank sanctioned: your memorialists respectfully and earnestly trust your honourable Court will nullify an exception to their serious detriment, which is not insisted on in the other branches of the civil or military establishment; the more especially as in the case of

medical officers, such absence very frequently becomes called for, in order to recruit health impaired under the execution of professional duties. 384 10

5thly. Your memorialists are induced, by the repeated assurances expressed by your honourable Court, in regard of its being your desire that no saving should be effected to the state, by the locum tenens of any medical charge being only allowed remuneration for his services at a rate under that which the actual incumbent would receive, were he present, to pray that your honourable Court will order a revision of the regulations relating to staff salary of assistant surgeons, and head-money for all extra charges.

Your memorialists beg to bring to your notice, that although the immediate difference in rank of full and assistant-surgeon is already provided for, inasmuch as the former ranks with, and draws the pay, &c. of captain; whereas the latter ranks with and draws the pay of lieutenant; a difference amounting to nearly the half in amount of staff salary, is sanctioned to officers of these respective grades, for medical charge of civil stations and regiments; the labours being the same to either grade, and in both instances the expenses for visiting patients having to be defrayed out of the above staff allowance.

Your memorialists therefore solicit your honourable Court to grant to assistant-surgeons the same amount of staff salary as is extended to full surgeons; and, as a precedent, would respectfully draw your attention to the fact of a subaltern officer in the army being permitted to draw command allowance in full, whilst holding command of a regiment.

6thly. Whereas the regulations regarding extra charge, and the capitation allowances therefrom derivable, operate with unequal effect under various circumstances, your memorialists pray that some more general rule than has hitherto been in force may be enacted, whereby remuneration may be afforded without dependence on accidental fortuitous causes. As an instance of the fact of how completely a medical officer's labours are subservient to causes over which mere numerical strength of his charge can exercise no control, your memorialists would mention that it frequently happens that a surgeon or assistant-surgeon in charge of a wing of a regiment of native infantry, amounting to 500 men, and placed in extra charge of another wing of similar strength, has infinitely more professional labour consequent on local peculiarities, such as climate, &c., without drawing any allowance whatsoever for the extra charge than under other more favourable circumstances he would have to undergo whilst holding an original charge amounting to the complement of an extra regiment, together with an extra one of equal strength, whereas in the latter case he would be entitled to head money for every fighting man over and above the numerical complement of the original charge.

7thly. Your memorialists respectfully solicit that the like regulation as obtains with regard to head money for "fighting men," may be extended in the case of camp followers, namely, grasscutters, syces, and all such as are by existing orders entitled to the surgeon's attendance, as it frequently happens, that individuals of the above denomination, amounting in aggregate number over the strength of the regimental charge constitute in their treatment under disease, a most laborious portion of a medical officer's duties, yet yield no manner of recompense for the same.

In conclusion, your memorialists respectfully beg to assure your honourable Court, that they have been induced to submit the before-mentioned points for your consideration, from the conviction that it was only necessary to bring the circumstances of their case clearly forward, to ensure the attention they now most respectfully and earnestly solicit.

And your memorialists will ever pray.

MISCELLANEOUS.

HORSES FOR THE CAVALRY.-Most of our readers are aware that Capt. Apperley, accompanied by Capt. Dallas, of the military board, and Mr. Parry, proceeded last year to New South Wales, for the purpose of purchasing horses for the cavalry. Through the information of a friend, who paid the above-named officers a visit, we are enabled to give the following brief account of the progress that has been made, and of the establishment already formed in the colony. "An estate comprising 2,500 acres, and belonging to Mr. Charles Smith, at a place called Bungarabee, had been rented, and nearly six hundred horses had been purchased and branded. The price given ranged between 67. and 221., and the majority of horses are as fine animals as need be seen. The colonists are beginning to raise the market -but for some time to come there is no doubt of the company being able to buy cheap enough. Five excellent horses were sold at a sheriff's sale lately for 1. each!!!-Mofussilite.

CALCUTTA DOCKING COMPANY. →Pursuant to advertisement, the seventeenth half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Calcutta Docking Company was yesterday held at the office of the secretary, Rustomjee Cowasjee, esquire, when the following papers were brought up for inspection, and were finally passed and approved:

No. 1. Statement from 1st January to 30th June, shewing the estimated profits for the half-year, amounting to Co.'s Rs. 27,263, being at the rate of rather more than 10 per cent. per annum on the present capital.

No. 2. Balance sheet, 1845.,

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No. 3. List of timber and stores on hand, 30th June, 1845
No. 4. List of shareholders, 30th June, 1845.
No. 5. List of property on 30th June, 1845.

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No. 6. List of work done from 1st January to 30th June, 1845. No. 7. Abstract of establishment of Howrah Docks from 1st January to 30th June, 1845.

It was stated at the meeting, that the business of the company was considered as slowly increasing, and it is thought that, at the close of the current year, the committee will be enabled to report a better result than that of the last year. Thanks were voted to the chairman, Mr. J. Homfray, and the meeting dissolved.-Economist.

COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY. We hear that the committee which was appointed to investigate the complaints made by the military officers, who came out in the Lady Macnaghten, is still sitting, although the inquiry commenced on Monday.-Bengal Hurkaru, Oct. 17.

MILITARY MOVEMENTS.-The Queen's 80th regt. leave Agra shortly for Umballa, and the 14th light dragoons are on their way from Bombay to this station, but whether they will remain here is doubtful. The difficulty of procuring forage for the horses of a cavalry corps is the chief obstacle to their appointment here. We have heard that grass might be fo ind in sufficient abundance, if at intervals in the year it was cut and stacked: but we imagine that a great deal of land in the environs of Agra would thereby be thrown out of cultivation. We wish it were otherwise.-Agra Ukhbar, Oct. 8.

HER MAJESTY'S 53RD FOOT.-Her Majesty's 53rd foot have received orders (direct from the Governor-general, says one of our letters) to march on the 20th instant for Agra, there to relieve the 80th foot, who received orders on the 3rd to hold them selves in readiness to march on the 15th, or on as early a day as the medical officers think they may leave with safety. This will probably not be before the 1st of November,

The sick

list, we are happy to learn, is diminishing fast, and the men are regaining their strength. The destination of the 80th is Umballab, and the order says they are to be "encamped there till further orders," from which we may safely infer that there is no present intention of sending the 31st home. The 16th genadiers have, as we suspected would be the case, been directed to hold themselves in readiness to march to the N. W. as soon as relieved by a wing of the 53rd from Meerut. As the gallant "Hosainees" were not included in the movements indicated in the relief, we may again safely set their march down to coming events. The general impression throughout the country is again, and more strongly than ever, in favour of the early assembly of an army, and we may reasonably look forward to the orders for the formation of the same by the 15th proximo.Delhi Gazette, October 8.

FEROZEPORE.-Extract from a letter.-Yesterday the remains of Major Delafosse were brought in from about 70 miles distance, where he had died two days previous. He was coming up in charge of boats, but finding it too hot, he travelled dâk, and was found dead in his palkee by the bearers, at the distance I have named.-Mofussilite.

OCT. 18.-FEVER AT FEROZEFORE.The Calcutta Star sets out an extract from a letter, dated Feroze pore, Sept. 25, which mentions that fever and dysentery were extremely prevalent in that station. H. M.'s 62nd had 140 in hospital, and had lost in two weeks no less than 21 men!

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INUNDATION AT TIPPERAH.-We regret to hear that the Sudder station of the Zillah of Tipperah, as well as several villages in its vicinity, have been overflowed by an inundation. The disasterous effects produced by this visitation are similar to those lately felt in the zillahs of Hooghly, Midnapore, and Burdwan. Many of the houses have been completely swept away. The cutcheries of the judge and the collector, though built upon an elevated site, have suffered considerably from the inundation. The water rose so high as to enter them and to destroy some of the records of the office. The destruction of the crops also cannot be too much regretted. Hundreds of people have Feen reduced to utter destitution. We earnestly hope something will be done by government for their relief.

THE WEATHER.-Calcutta was agreeably surprised last even.. ing, about half-past two o'clock, with a smart north-wester, and

a pleasant shower of rain, which lasted about an hour, laying the
dust, and raising the spirits of the few melancholic-looking per-
sonages who, during these holidays, take the air and the dust on
the course and the strand, according to social law, for the purpose
made and enacted, by custom immemorial... The few trees left
to adorn Tank-square made an attempt, not quite a failure, to
look green, though the literary ambition of the brick-dust walks
of the same locality to appear deeply red, was generally considered
the more successful. Star, Oct. 16.

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DOORGATHE HOLIDAYS.-The eleven days which the Hindoo devotes to the worship of Doorga and Luckee, and the Christian to that of the goddesses of health and pleasure, are numbered with the past. To-day, the Ditcher of all classes, from the civil servant to the Sirkar, returned from their rambles over land and water, to take their places, each at his desk, to make up by double diligence for lost time, or to lose a little more in thinking or talking of the adventures of the vacation. The weather bas been greatly in favour of the holiday-makers, as with the exception of yesterday, they have been blessed with almost uninterrupted sunshine by day, and moonlight by night. The mails, out going and in-coming, have also been by chance arranged so as to interfere very little with the plans of the idlers. The Hindostan going away on the 8th, did, it is true, keep some fretting and fidgetting in town two or three days longer than they liked; but since then no mail has come in, nor any gone out, the holidays closing just in time for the latest safe day" to-morrow. - Hurkaru, Oet. 17.

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EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR CHRISTIAN NATIVES. prospectus has been issued at Madras, inviting subscriptions for the establishment of a Protestant Educational Institution, for native Christians and East Indians. One gentlemen has sub, scribed 50,000 rupees, and as much more is to be collected before the institution is opened.-Hurkaru, Oct. 18.

- MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. A troop of the 5th regiment light cavalry, marched from Muttra on the 13th, for Agra, under command of Capt. Gascoyne, to attend on the Governor general until the camp be formed, and the whole escort arrive. The entire regiment to follow immediately.

The 38th light infantry have, notwithstanding the positive manner in which their march to Umballah was spoken of, gone on to Moradabad. They marched from Meerut on the 15th.

The 27th regiment Bengal infantry, on being relieved by the 38th, would move vid Bijnore, Daranuggur, and Sharunpoor, towards Umballah, and is, we understand, one of the regiments appointed to guard the Pontoon Bridge at Ferozepoor. The 33rd will, it is said, have to share in the duty.

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Her Majesty's 29th foot marched from Meerut on the 15th in progress to Kussowlee, but were detained at Sirdhannah for want of carriage; fifty-six more hackeries were, in consequence, sent out to them on Thursday morning.

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The 43rd light infantry, marched from Futtyghur on the 15th inst.

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The 74th regiment have been instructed to march to Hoshungabad, on the arrival of the 65th, from Allahabad. The latter are expected at Naogong, about the 2nd of November.

The 39th marched from Naogong in progress to Berhampore on the 15th. (pagal voora

Her Majesty's 9th lancers, or Queen's royals, were to march from Cawnpoor on the 17th, yesterday, and have received instructions to encamp at Meerut, until the decision of the Governor-general respecting their ulterior destination shall be made known.

The 53rd regiment left Meerut on the 15th, in progress to Mynpooree and Etawah, there to relieve the 16th grenadiers and 42nd light infantry, respectively. Delhi Gazette, Oct. 18. DEPUTY GOVERNOR.We learn that our respected deputygovernor, Sir Thomas Herbert Maddock, contemplates a pleasure-trip to the Sandhiends, as soon as a pilot can be found for the steamer in which he will proceed Economist, Oct. 13.14 36 NOR-WESTER AT BARRACKPORE. A person who returned from Barrackpore last Saturday evening informs us that a terrible nor-wester was experienced there at about twelve o'clock on that day; about which time we felt a fresh breeze here, and that three or four dinghees were lost, and that a large budgerow, having on board a number of ladies and gentlemen, on a pleasure-excursion, was nearly capsized by a gust of wind. - Hurkaru, Oct. 11.

34 EMBEZZLEMENT at BackergUNGE. We noticed, some time ago, that an embezzlement had taken place in the Collectorate of Backergunge. We have been since informed that the commissioner has brought home the guilt to the eazhanchee, or the treasurer, and has attached the zemindary of the person who stands surety for him. We have every reason to believe that the whole of the amount embezzled (about fifty thousand rupees) could be recovered. - Ibid., Oct. 15.

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BENGAL

AGRA.-On Thursday evening, the 8th inst. his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor gave a ball and supper. The bands of H.M.'s 80th and of the 2nd Grenadiers were in attendance, and played with great skill. Dancing commenced at half-past 9 o'clock. We have seldom seen a party so crowded. There was a perfect galaxy of youth, beauty, and fashion amongst the ladies, who in numbers graced the apartments. The quadrille, the waltz, and polka were danced in rapid succession.Hurkaru, Oct. 20.

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AT KURNAUL The GovernorGeneral has ordered Capt. Baker, Dr. Dempster, and Lieut. Yule to form themselves into a committee for the purposes of reporting on the causes of the unhealthiness which has existed at Kurnaul and other portions of the country along the banks of the Delhi Canal. They are likewise required to report whether an injurious effect on the health of the people of the Dooab is likely to result from the contemplated Ganges Canal.-Friend of India, Oct. 9. 1: THE NERBUDDAH.-We understand that the Nerbuddah steamer has met with an accident, which obliged her to anchor fourteen miles below Allahabad, whence she and her flat, the Bhagurette, were towed up to the city by the Jumna steamer, It appears that the Nerbuddah's boilers have been seriously burned, owing, it is said, to some carelessness on the part of the engineers, Unless the damage can be repaired at Allahabad, which is doubtful, she will have to be towed down to Calcutta.-Hurkaru, Oct. 17.

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EAST INDIA RAILWAY We learn from an advertisement in the papers that the whole of the shares of the East India Railway Company, amounting to 10,000, which were appropriated to the Bengal presidency, have been taken up; the deposit of three rupees per share is therefore required to be made at the Bank of Bengal by the 14th of November, in default of which the allotment will be cancelled, and the shares re-allotted to other parties. ---Friend of India, Oct. 9:49 qvat tyg nichoan ti

THE BRITISH FLAG AT SERAMPORE. The English flag was hoisted at Serampore on Saturday, a little before noon. It was expected that some grand display would have marked the event, and all the inhabitants and holiday visitors were on the quiseive for the anticipated tamasha; bût, much to the disappointment of the expectant throng, the settlement was transferred to its purchasers with as little ceremony as is the subject of a bargain in the China bazaar.- Messrs. Harvey and Bailey, representing the British India government, and Mr. Elberling that of Denmark, proceeded, without pomp or parade of any kind, from the government house to the flagstaff, where the British bunting was at once displayed by a common kalashie. In the course of the afternoon a party of sepoys arrived from Barrackpore to relieve the Danish force from its duties. And thus was Serampore absorbed into the vast empire of British India! A sad event for thwarted lovets, henceforth compelled to seek the more distant Gretna of Chandernagore! A sad event for the gentleman in difficulties, whose nearest city of refuge has ceased to afford him a sanctuary! Hurkaru, Oct. 13.

THE LATE MRS. EVANS. The cause of Christian benevolence
in India has sustained a severe loss in the recent death of Mrs.
Evans. She arrived in India more than five years ago, and imme-
diately assumed charge of the female department of the Benevo-
lent Institution in Calcutta, the duties of which she continued to
discharge till within two or three weeks of her lamented death,
with a degree of zeal and assiduity of which we have few examples
among us. It was the delight of her life to cultivate the minds
and feeelings of the large body of children, amounting to between
100 and 150, committed to her charge, to train them up in Chris-
tian virtue, and to fit them in e
ments of good to others in the various spheres they might be
way to bacome the instru
called to occupy. The kindliness of heart [which was so happily
blended with the duties of tuition, won her the affection of the
children, and gave her a strong influence over their minds, which
she well knew how to turn to the best eccount.—Ibid. Oct. 16.
POWER OF STEAM. Though belonging to the English depart-
Summary, we cannot

ment of news which is not mentioned in the Har-
avoid noticing a fact re
karu. A special engine, conveying a messenger, was despatched
et regarding
from Bishopwearmouth to London, 305 miles, and actually
performed the distance in eight hours. On some parts of the
road the speed attained was a mile in forty-eight seconds, or at
the rate of seventy-four miles an hour. Yet even when travelling
at this rate, the operation of writing was performed with ease. At
this
rate,
te, we shall be able to reach Allahabad from Calcutta in
less than fourteen hour-tat is to say, when we have got o
rail.-Ibid.

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Consequent on its sickly state, the 60th N.I. (which has never yet The Relief seems to be undergoing considerable modification. recovered from the Kurnaul fever, we understand), at present under

orders to march from Benares to Barrackpore, when relieved by the 21st regt. will, we believe, in all probability not come to Bengal this year. It would certainly be the height of folly to send a sick corps to Barrackpore, where the duty is, as we have frequently observed, unusually heavy. If the 60th does not come to Barrackpore, the destination of the 21st N.I. will, we presume, be changed. We have heard Delhi, Mirzapore, and Cawnpore all assigned to it, and the 61st or 62nd regiments N.I. mentioned as likely to take the place of the 60th at the Presidency; but nothing is yet known definitively. We also observe that the destination of the 53rd N.I. is changed from Nowgong to Etawah and Mynpooree, where it will relieve the 16th grenadiers; the latter corps "being, we presume," says the Delhi Gazette, "required for service on the north-west frontier." If such is the case, we cannot help thinking that something of the nature of a slight is put upon a very gallant regiment. The 53rd, we know from the best authority, is in a perfectly efficient state, its rolls complete, and with only about fifty recruits at drill. It has, at least, the average number of officers present; and to remove such a corps from the frontier, to take "chokeydar's' work” at Mynpooree and Etawah, in order to set free even the gallant 16th Grenadiers for service, is, we humbly conceive, a deviation from that strict impartiality in the selection of regiments for active service which ought to influence the Commander-in-Chief. The 20th N,I. left Cawnpore for Barrackpore by water on the 5th instant. The 64th N.I. will probably not leave the former place in progress to the presidency till the 15th of this month, owing to the difficulty of procuring boats."

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THE Poojah holidays not being yet over, all business is, according to custom, at a stand still. The " heathen rage" in the midst of their idolatries, whilst the Christian community are gladly taking advantage of the welcome season by indulging in aquatic excursions, for change of air, to neighbouring stations on the river. The Governor-general (who, of course, you by this time know to be absent) arrived at Benares on the morning of the 7th inst., and was to leave the next day. His absence, of course, takes away all the heads of departments, and of course all people of "ton," and we are left here with nothing but a parcel of little folk, in the shape of the smaller officials; the everlasting. “adjutants," who continue to “statuarize" on the tops of the government-house, although they, too, like other well-bred birds, are about to follow the example of emigration, by quietly going out of town, whilst scarcely a remarkable creature is to Le seen on the course save some half-dozen old Scotch doctors, who roll up and down in the pride of their fat, and greasy gold-lace caps. Society (if, in its real sense, there ever was such a thing in these regions) is quite at a stand still, whilst November and cold weather are anxiously anticipated by longing maidens. Some of the sporting rajas dashed out in quite a new style the other day, by exhibiting at their hitherto “native" nautches the wonderful feats of a rope-dancing, French company, thereby gaining great popularity with all classes, and much delighting, and much enlightening, the minds of the wondering native community by the pleasing" exhibitions" and elastic feats of les messieurs et les demoiselles ;-the latter more particularly.

The arrival of the Precursor, on the 4th inst., tended a little to diversify the scene, by the usual monthly supply of new faces poured out among us-birds of passage who, as it were, hover a little time about Calcutta, and then disappear, no one knows where; amongst the rest, a strong party of moustached wouldbe-heroes, in the shape of dragoons, who have hurried out to flesh their swords upon the unwilling Sikhs, and are distinguishable by the freshness of their looks and lace, and the trifling difference in various points of their uniforms, from those of the perambulating shippies of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-Navigation Navy Company.

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In the mean time, a little farce has been going on at Serampore, which has, in consequence, been quite a scene of excitement; in short, a kingdom in miniature turned upside down. On Saturday, the 11th instant, the transfer of this town to our government was concluded; an event which was given out as to taken place some days previously; but such not immedi ately occurring, the anxious natives took the alarm, and fearful of some misunderstanding having occurred in the important negociations, at once commenced preparations by a hasty retreat, with bag and bagage, for the anticipated sacking by the British troops from the other side of the river. Their fears were, however, somewhat quieted by night, in stil, to their astonishment, finding themselves in whole skins,

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of warfare in their town; and their suspense was at Tength brought to a conclusion, by the conclusion to which the commis

sioners with the Danish government had brought their proceedings. On the appointed morning the native crowds had the melancholy satisfaction of seeing descend from its wonted position the flag which although it had not braved many battles, still had withstood many a smart breeze, during the eighty-nine years in which they had lived beneath its protection. The British flag was in silence hoisted in its stead, no salute of thundering guns, or even a solitary cheer, giving eclat to this strictly mercantile transaction. In a proceeding of this kind of course there could hardly be any pretext for accompaniments of such a nature, more than the mere compliment to the national colours, it being furthermore surmised, by some, that they would have given an unseemly appearance of rejoicing in regard of a transaction tending to the unwillingly received territorial aggrandizement of the poor, constrained East-India Company.

The Commissioners were warmly received by the populace, if crowding around them, to the exclusion of all fresh air, can be so construed; whilst their sense of the strong dependence placed upon British justice was greatly flattered, by their finding themselves immediately possessed of numerous documents claiming compensation from the late government on various grounds, which had been dexterously thrust into their hands by both Europeans and natives. Upon the whole, the change appeared to give considerable dissatisfaction to the excited native community, the speedy justice, always at once and on the spot, obtainable from the supreme local authorities, being alleged as a reason, by the poorer part, whilst the more wealthy and litigious Bengalee rejoiced in the transition, from the opportunities that would now be afforded of appealing from inferior to higher courts. A couple of hundred sepoys, transported by steam from the opposite sation, shortly landed and formed up by the flag-staff, whilst the officer commanding the party proceeded to government-house, whence he returned, accompanied by the two native commissioned officers of the Danish sepoys. The scene of the conference with these men of the olden time was interesting to a degree: and with their old-fashioned uniforms, long white beards, and general appearance, strongly brought to mind, some of the old representations of former similar scenes with native powers in the gone-by days of India; the solemn visages of the serious old men (generally mutineers or deserters from the English service, by-the-bye), the great pains which had been taken to polish their accoutrements for the last time, their flowing white beards, and their almost ante diluvian appearance, in comparison with the modern subadar of “young India," to whom they handed over by order the different emblems and places of authority, tended to form a strange contrast to those around them; while the knowledge of their being thrown out of employ, and their now appearing in a public capacity for the last time, in behalf of a state which they had served so long and so faithfully, contributed not a little to give a dash of melancholy to the scene.

They are, as well as their men, doubtless pensioned by their late government. Although the native crowds did not entirely disperse until evening, no other occurrence of importance marked this eventful day, saving mention be made of a rather ominous and unfortunate accident which befell the ex-governor in his evening ride, who, by the sudden starting of his horse, was thrown, happily, however, without receiving any injury. |_ 9

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The whole of the late authorities of Serampore, and Tranquebar, who are similarly situated, are to return shortly to their -native land, in a frigate, dispatched for that purpose by the Danish government.

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BROWN, J. to be dept, coll. under reg. 9 of 1833, in Purneah, with
full powers under reg, 7 of 1822, and sec. v. reg. 9, 1825.
BRUCE, T. to be memb, of loc. com. of pub. instruct. at Kishnagur,
CRAWFORD, J. H. to be memb. of loc. com. of pub, instruct. at
Burdwan.

DEEDES, E. to be memb. of loc. com. of pub. instruct. at Bankoorah.

DONNELLY, A. F. to be memb. of loc. com. of pub. instruct. at

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HARVEY, J. J. to be a comm. on the part of the Hon. EL-Company for receiving possession of the town of Frederick's-nagore or Serampore, transferred by treaty to the Hon, Company by his Majesty the King of Denmark, Oct. 1.

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