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No. 43.]

CONTENTS.

737

Shipping and Commercial Intelligence

CEYLON

SINGAPORE

Miscellaneous Intelligence.... 739
Civil, Ecclesiastical, Military, &
Medical Establishments..
H.M. Forces in the East.... 744
Births, Marriages, and Deaths 745
Shipping and Commercial In-
telligence

MADRAS:

... 745

Miscellaneous Intelligence.... 746 Government General Orders.. 747 Civil, Military, and Medical Establishments...

Births, Marriages, and Deaths 748 Shipping and Commercial Intelligence

BOMBAY :

748

Miscellaneous Intelligence.... 749 'Civil, Ecclesiastical, Military,

and Medical Establishments 759 Marine Department. 730 Births, Marriages, and Deaths 750

751 752 752

753 754

Testimonial to the late Advo .... 754

cate-General of Bengal

755

755 Debate at the East-India House 757 Military Seminary, Addiscombe 758 East India College, Haileybury 760 Miscellaneous Intelligence.... 762 Shipping Intelligence 763 Births, Marriages, and Deaths 764Arrivals, &c. reported at the East-India House.. 764

ARRIVAL OF MAILS.

The Precursor (S. T.) left Calcutta on the 8th of November, Sau. gor on the 10th, Madras on the 13th, Point de Galle on the 18th, Aden on the 28th, and arrived at Suez on the 5th of December. The Lady Mary Wood (S. T.) left Hong Kong on the 1st of November, Singapore on the 9th, Penang on the 11th, and arrived at Point de Galle on the 17th of the same month. The Precursor received the mails brought by the Lady Mary Wood on board at Point de Galle, and left for Suez. The mails arrived at Alexandria on the 8th of December, and were put on board the Great Liverpool, which left on the 9th for Malta, at which place she arrived on the 14th inst. She would leave on the 15th for Southampton, with that portion of the mail not despatched through. France. She may be expected at Southampton about the 27th inst.

DEPARTURE OF MAILS.

A mail for Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, the Straits, and China (also carrying letters to Bombay), rid Marseilles, will depart this evening. A mail for Bombay will leave Southampton on the morning of Saturday, January 3. Letters, to be in time, must be posted in London the previous evening; or if marked via Marseilles, on the evening of Wednesday, the 7th of January.

The Bentinck (S. T.), from Suez, Aden, Point de Galle, and Madras, arrived at Kedgeree on the 7th of November, with the London mail of the 24th of September.

The Hon. Company's steamer Victoria, from Suez and Aden, arrived at Bombay on the 9th of November, with the London mail of Oct. 7.

tinue to hold the power of the state; and though the army ardently desires the return of GOLAB SINGH to the capital (bearing an affectionate eye to his wealth), there does not seem much probability of their being satisfied, unless they have resort to force, and "buckle fortune" (good or evil) on the chieftain's back whether he will or no. GOLAB SINGH appears duly to appreciate the comfort of sleeping in some sort of security, and stands aloof; but, according to report, the troops are resolved to stir him up in his lair. There have been a few cashierings of officers by the troops under their command (we are obliged to use this word, however inapplicable, in order to avoid circumlocution), but these things are of such every-day occurrence that they attract little notice in treating of the affairs of the Sikh government. TEJ SINGH, the ex-governor of Peshawur,, had arrived in Lahore, and it is said was offered the Wuzeership by the Ranee, but politely declined the honour. Indeed it seems almost as difficult to get a prime minister in the Punjaub as it is at this moment in England. The services of TEJ SINGH appear to have been greatly in request, for certain battalions coveted him for their com mander, and talked of turning out the gentleman actually (or nominally) in command to effect the desired arrange. ment. Turning from these minor matters to the important one of the education of the infant prince, who, some day or other, if he have good luck, may exercise the sovereignty of the Punjaub, we are gratified by a very agreeable little anecdote, which we give as we receive it :

The little Maharajah had been amusing bimself in somewhat of a dangerous manner, of late, viz. by having pictures of the Sikh sepoys hung up in his room, and then cutting at them with his sword, declaring that they were his enemies. The attendants of the Maharajah are greatly alarmed at this freak of his, and the Ranee has declared she would not allow him to continue this amusement, as, if it came to the ears of the sepoys, they would certainly revenge themselves on him. But the Maharajah persists, and says he will do as he pleases.

This "little Maharajah" seems to be by no means a small person in his ideas. He bids fair to be "every inch a king," as kings go in the Punjaub, and if he ever wield the sceptre in good earnest, he will not disgrace his predecessors. The proper business of childhood is to prepare for the duties of after-life, and this prince is duly training himself for those which are before him. A girl caressing her doll is only anticipating the soft duties of maternity; and the Maharajah cutting up paper sepoys is but educating his hand for performing the like operation upon sepoys of flesh and blood.

which the infant Maharajah (infant in years only) possesses of his own incontrollable power. His attendants are alarmed; his mother forbids the continuance of the favourite exercise, but all in vain-the "prince persists, and says he will do as he pleases." He really raises great hopes of his future eminence, if he should not be cut short in the career of greatness which he has so early commenced.

In the mean time, while the soldiers, the chiefs, the Ranee, and the miniature Maharajah, are each and all amusing themselves in their own way, Sir HENRY HARDINGE is approaching. He has ere this met the Commander-in-Chief, and, in the words of the Hurkaru, “we shall soon know whether it is to be peace or war.”

CALCUTTA does not seem to manifest any greater degree of liveliness than at the date of our previous advices. This unhappy state of things is lamented in very affecting, though rather irreverent terms by our fellow-labourer, the Englishman:

If there is any one thing in which we can keep pace with our London contemporaries who supply us with summaries, it is in the complaint they make of want of news. If, in the midst of European activity, the pomp and bustle of courts and the travels of sovereigns, they can find little worth recording, what can they expect from us who, in a provincial city, have not only no great local luminary in whose rays we may bask, but have even been deprived of our own farthing candle of a Court, and live in a happy state of forgetfulness of the existence of the public authorities, until we hear that they are off to sea to recover their health. This is the case with our Deputy Governor, the Honourable Sir Herbert Maddock, whose absence, however, it is hoped will be only temporary, but another member of Council, Sir George Pollock, is obliged to proceed to the Cape for the recovery of his health, and is expected to embark in the Ellenborough.

The only movement in the city of Palaces seems to be an educational one-a step certainly in the right direction, though some of the details may be open to discussion. It is proposed to establish a University, which shall have power to grant degrees in arts, sciences, law, medicine, surgery, and civil engineering. Constructed on just principles, such an institution would be invaluable; and it may be hoped, that due thought will be bestowed upon the project before its projectors are committed beyond the power of return.

At MADRAS, notwithstanding the imputation of slowness on the subject to which that presidency has been supposed to be liable, the cause of education is not sleeping. Perhaps we cannot do better than report the state of things in this respect in the words of a local authority, the Athenæum :

Education is on the move in all parts of India. The Madras Council of Education have issued a circular letter to all heads of schools, public and private, calling for full returns on all matters connected with their several institutions, in order, we presume, that that they may have the means of instituting a judicious educational test for parties who wish to become candidates for government employment. The notification of the council only refers at present to the five appointments and the three prizes that are to be annually given by the Madras government; but as soon as sufficient data have been collected, a test, it is probable, will be instituted, which will be applied to all parties becoming candidates for public employ, whether in an inferior or superior capacity. The missionaries of the free Church of Scotland at Madras are making strenuous efforts to raise the sum of twenty-five thousand rupees, necessary for the erection of suitable premises, in which to carry on their valuable labours. Upwards of eighteen thousand rupees have been subscribed within the last month, and the amount still wanting is sure to be forthcoming before the end of the present year. The fund in aid of the proposed Collegiate Institution is not filling up so rapidly as could be wished, when the great blessing it will confer on Madras is taken into consideration. Exclusive of the 50,000 rupees so liberally offered by one gentleman alone, provided an equal sum be first raised, the subscription list only shews donations to the amount of about 21,000 rs. and annual subscriptions to the extent of 6,000 rs. The East Indian community have, for the most part, done their best to aid in the establishment of the College, and considering how poor even the richest of them are are in comparison with the merchants and manufacturers of England, their donations of a hundred pounds, or fifty, according to their means, speak highly in their favour. The question, however, whether we are to have such an institution as

the one proposed, is only one of time: the money needed will be raised; our only regret is that it has not been raised already.

BOMBAY is we think altogether exempt from the charge of furnishing news of any kind. We do not find that any one (either living or dead) proposes to

Endow a college or a cat.

A

From CEYLON there is nothing of importance. planter had been convicted of manslaughter in shooting a cooly, and sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour. The judge in passing sentence, observed that there was good reason to believe that the criminal act was committed by the prisoner while in a state of intoxication, and that an infirm state of health under which he laboured was the result of habitual intemperance, adding that the discipline of the gaol might be of essential service in checking his unhappy propensity for drinking, and giving him time and opportunity for reflection. The inhabitants of the colony have, however, taken a view of the matter differing from that of the learned judge, and have petitioned the Governor for a commutation of the sentence. Whether they think that shooting a cooly is no great matter, or that a drunken man is at liberty to do what he pleases without being required to answer for the conse quences of his actions, does not appear. It is suggested, however, in a Madras journal, that the Governor has no power to comply with the prayer of the petition, and that the petitioners can attain their object only by an application to the Queen in Council.

From CHINA there is nothing excepting complaints of the damage done to the letters received at Hong Kong by the Lady Mary Wood, which were much in the same state as the letters for Madras referred to in another place. The editor of the China Mail remarks:

There is much blame, at all events, attachable to the Post-office for the manner in which they suffer the Southampton Mail to be packed up. While those vid Marseilles are secured in iron chests, the others are put into wooden boxes, not so much as lined with tin or zinc. A stationer would not send a consignment of writing-paper, or a merchant a bale of goods, in the same careless manner as the post-office despatches an important foreign mail, for its management of which, however, it takes no little credit to itself. Would it were better deserved!

With submission, our China friend is a little unreason. able to expect that in a public department of the British Government as much care should be taken of the articles committed to its care as a tradesman or a merchant would take of his goods. He forgets that there is a stimulus in the one case which is wanting in the other. If goods be damaged in consequence of being packed improperly, they will either be returned upon the hands of the vendor, or sold for what they will fetch to his loss. But the servants of the Post-office know that neither they, nor those to whom they are officially accountable have any thing to lose by their carelessness. A few boxes of letters are damaged, and rendered unreadable. Will the Post-office make any reparation? Not it! Will it even return the postage of the letters destroyed? We suspect that it would require a very long correspondence with St. Martin's-le-Grand to obtain this latter boon, and perhaps it might not be obtained after all. There is an important difference in the two cases compared by the China editor. Why should public servants look after the interests of the public who pay them? Let every man look

to his own.

In the BURMESE dominions there has been another revolution, for information respecting which we refer the reader to the letter of our Calcutta correspondent.

BENGAL. MISCELLANEOUS.

THE MILITARY FUND.-The subject of the five propositions which were circulated to the subscribers of the Military Fund in January last is now exciting that notice and discussion which they ought to have received at that time. However, the afterthought is better than no thought at all; and as it is generally admitted that the voting on those propositions was very incomplete and insufficient, considering the vastness of the subject, as well as that there now exists a general desire to reconsider the votes, we are happy to observe that at this and other stations of the army, requisitions are being made to the directors of the Fund to submit the five propositions again to the consideration of the subscribers. It appears that the late explanation on the third proposition, lately made by the directors, has stirred up this feeling, and there can be no question on the subject that the voting was given on false data, and therefore, in the name of common sense and justice, it is expedient to revote. All we have to say on the subject is, "take a pull altogether." We shall soon have an opportunity of publishing more of the requisitions, but we shall not be able to afford space for the numerous signatures. Here is one of them, and another will be found in our correspondence columns :—

Delhi, 1st October, 1815.

$ We, the undersigned subscribers to the Military Fund, believing that the feeling with regard to the five propositions (for the increase of subscriptions, &c. which were carried by the votes of the army) has changed considerably since they were circulated, and believing that a general wish exists that they should be re*submitted before being brought into operation, beg to suggest to the directors of the Fund the advisableness of their being eirculated again to the army for reconsideration.

F. R. Bazely, Capt. artil.
G. Biddulph, Capt.
H. Templer, Capt. 7th.
S. R. Bagshawe, Capt. 7th.
Wm. Dollard, Surg. 7th.
S. C. Starkey, 7th N.I.
G. Holmes, Maj. 7th N.I.
J. Robertson, Lieut. 7th.
R. N. Mainwaring, St. 7th.
A. G. Austen, let it. artil.
J. D. Magnay, Lieut. 36th.
T. Smith, Assist. surg.
H. M. Garstin, Lieut. 36th.
C. C. Weston, Lieut. 36th.

Thos. Flemyng, Capt. 36th.
F. A. Carleton, Capt. 36th.
W. Hamilton, Capt. 36th.
A. N. Thompson, Lieut.
Ed. Smalley, Ens. 36th.
J. N. Auldjo, Ens. 36th.
F. S. Bagshaw, Ens. 36th.
S. B. Faddy, Lieut. 36th.
A. MacD. Stuart, Assist. surg.
72nd

R. W. Gibbs, Lieut. 72nd.
R. Angelo, Capt. C. P. Gd.
E. A. Cumberlege, Maj. 73rd.
A. Sprenger, M.D.

-Delhi Gaz. Oct. 11. INDIGO COMPANY AT NUDDEA.-Another Joint-stock Company for the purchase of Indigo has been established at Nuddea, on the principle of the Tirhoot Indigo Association.-Englishman, Oct. 21.

METCALFE HALL.-The contributions towards the Metcalfe Hall, in furtherance of Sir Lawrence Peel's proposition, amount to about 4,400 Rs.-Ibid.

HOME EDUCATION OF ANGLO-INDIANS.-A public meeting was held at Allahabad on Monday the 13th September, with the view of carrying out a plan proposed by Dr. Bedford, for the formation of a College in Great Britain, for the education of AngloIndian children, the sons of covenanted servants of the Company. -Ibid. Oct. 23.

PORTRAIT OF THE LATE SIR W. Norr.-The plate engraved by Mr. G. Raphael from Mr. G. Bridgstocke's portrait of the late Sir W. Nott has been received at Calcutta by the secretary to the Nott Testimonial. Ibid. Oct. 25.

KELAT-1-GHILZie Regiment. We understand that our worthy brigadier issued a very complimentary order, on the departure of the Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment from Agra. They well deserved it a finer regiment and a better set of officers never entered the field, or were garrisoned in a station. The society of Agra, amongst whom they have numerous friends, has suffered by their removal to Saugor. We wish them prosperity and success wherever they go.-Agra Ukhbar, Oct. 25.

GRAND REVIEW AT AGRA.-On Thursday morning the troops in Agra were reviewed. The Governor-General arrived at the parade ground at 6 a m., and was received with a salute of 19 guns from the artillery. He was accompanied by Col. Benson, Mr. Hardinge, P. S.; Capt. Hore, Dy. Sec. to Gov. Mil. Dept.; Major Herries, A. D. C.; Capt. Hillier, A.D.C.; Capt. Munro, A D. C.; Capt. Hardinge, A.D C. The review passed off in splendid style; nothing could have been better. After the general salute, the Governor-General cantered up to the brigadier, and expressed his gratification.-Ibid., Oct. 25.

Ma SIMMS' PARTY.-The following is an extract from a letter from one of Mr. Simms' party, dated 16th instant:→→→

"H1th October. - We arrived yesterday at Culnah, from whence we proceeded to Mirzapore in the same night, which we reached the following day. We are really travelling at a railroad pace, namely, ten miles a day, five in the morning, and the other five in the evening. We are not to go so far as Agra, as was at first contemplated, and out return, therefore, at the presidency may be expected in the course of three months, or a little more. "16th October.-We have been detained at Mirzapore on account of the rain, which is pouring in torrents; but if this prove to be a fine, clear day, we shall leave this for Burdwan." Englishman, Oct. 23.

GOVERNOR GENERAL'S DINNER PARTIES. On Wednesday evening, the Governor, Genel gave a grand dinner party to the lieutenant-governor and civilians, the brigadier and commanding officers of regiments. He gave another dinner on Thursday evening. Agra Ukhbar, Oct. 25.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S LEVEE.-The Right Hon. GovernorGeneral held a levee yesterday morning at half-past ten o'clock. It was well attended. The Hon. Mr. Thomason introduced the civilians, and commandants of regiments, and the officers of their respective corps. The presentations did not take up more than half an hour.-Ibid.

BALL TO THE GOVERNOR GENERAL. -The ball given to the Governor-General last evening went off splendidly. Sir Henry Hardinge and suite arrived at the Metcalfe Testimonial about half-past nine o'clock, and the Hon. Mr. Thomason shortly after a guard of honour from the 2nd grenadiers and another from the 8th N. I. saluted these high personages. The building and approach to it were brilliantly illuminated. Dancing was commenced at, and continued to, an early hour. On account of the ill-health of his son, the Governor-General was compelled to leave the party earlier than he otherwise would have wished to have done.-Ibid.

PRINCE WALDEMAR.-We learn from Ferozepore, that Prince Waldemar was expected there soon, and would thence return to Umballah, to take possession of the camp provided for his special use, Delhi Gazette, Oct. 25.

CAUTION TO ALL PERSONS WHO KEEP HORSES.-Several persons have of late been grieved on hearing from the syce the first thing in the morning, that the horse, which went to bed with a tail, is minus that elegant appendage, A gentleman's syce, who has been accustomed during very close nights to leave the stable door open and to sleep in the doorway himself, with the idea of affording a kind of protection against the horses being taken away, related to his master how Tommy, one of the two horses under his charge, had had his tail cut off by some one who must have entered the premises in the night. On the gentleman going to see the horse, he found the fine flowing tail of his noble beast reduced to a stump Those who wish to preserve this great ornament to a horse, the tail, will do well to see that their horses are carefully secured at nights from the attacks of the depredator's scissors-Hurkaru.

SIR GEORGE POLLOCK.-We are sorry to say that ill-health compels Sir George Pollock to quit India for a while. He has taken his passage in the ship Ellenborough, for the Cape of Good Hope. Sir Herbert Maddock, the deputy governor, also finds it necessary to try the benefit of a change of air for a few days; he is about to proceed to the Sandheads in a steamer.-Ibid.

THE WEATHER-The bad weather which Calcutta and the neighbourhood have experienced for the last few days has given place to a better state of things. It is now bright and cool, with every appearance of being likely to continue so.- Hurkaru, Oct, 21.

DISMISSAL OF MR. MACLEOD.-Mr. McLeod, uncovenanted deputy magistrate of Tirhoot, stationed at Durbangah, has been dismissed, he having engaged in sugar-cane speculations on land, leased from the Rajah of Durbangah, within his own jurisdiction. -Ind., Oct. 22.

NOVEL QUALIFICATION FOR A CLUB. It is announced that in Entally, near Calcutta, there is a "Hell-fire Club," the qualification for which is, the power of drinking a bottle of brandy at & sitting. [Horace Walpole says, " Every thing among Englishmen generates a contravention." We suppose this club has been called forth by the tee-totallers].—Ibid.

FLOWER SHOW.-There was a show of flowers, vegetables, and fruit, at the Town-Hall. yesterday. The display was not so fine as on previous occasions, but was considered promising for the time of the year. There were several specimens of early vegetables, such as carrots, turnips, beet root, cabbages, but all in an immature state. Ibid., Oct. 25.

DUM DUM THEATRE.-The Dum Dum Theatre has been removed, to make room for H. M.'s Glet Foot, lately received. -Ibid,

NATIVE PREACHER AT THE OID CHURCH. The Hurkaru mentions, on the authority of a correspondent, that on the Rev.