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engaged the whole of the cotton goods adapted for that market that can be manufactured from the 1st June to the end of October.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

THE RECENT RIOT.

Hong Kong, Nov. 2.-His Exc. the Governor regrets to have received, in an official report from the Assistant Magistrate of Police, the following communication with reference to the suppressed riot :—

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"My information leads me to believe that other than Chinese influence has been: exerted to mature the late movement. leading part taken by the Compradore of an English firm, the meeting of Chinese held at the house of that firm, the intimate knowledge displayed by the Chinese of the proceedings of certain English regarding the registration, and the adoption of precisely similar language, would seem to mark most clearly the assistance and co-operation of one or more Englishmen."

His Exc. the Governor would fain hope, for the sake of the British character, that none could have been found capable of thus tampering with the Chinese population; but, as the subject has come officially before him, he deems it necessary to take this public notice of it, and to draw the attention of any who could descend to such unworthy practices to the consequences entailed on the ignorant and unfortunate Chinese, who have been necessarily subjected by the magistrates to severe punishment.

By order, ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY, Clerk of Councils.

EXCURSIONS IN THE COUNTRY.

In making public the following clause of "The Supplementary Treaty," signed by their Excellencies Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., G.c.B., her Britannic Majesty's plenipotentiary, and the imperial commissioner Keying, the officiating consul has to inform her Majesty's subjects residing at, or visiting the port of Amoy, that the Chinese authorities do not consider themselves authorized to grant permission to persons or parties to visit the surrounding country. The said authorities however have intimated their wishes that no limit should be fixed for restraining respectable persons from taking exercise or recreation, trusting to their own discretion that no dispute or quarrels should take place between them and the natives.

The officiating consul therefore urgently enjoins all persons desirous of extending their excursions into the country, the absolute necessity of compliance with these wishes, and to remark the confidence shewn by the authorities.

The things most likely to produce complaint and dispute, are the indiscreet use of fire-arms, visiting the houses of the natives against their will, and passing through their towns and villages.

It is requested, therefore, these acts may be abstained from, and all walled towns or fortified places be avoided, and it is advisable that all parties should be accompanied by an intelligent Chinese, conversant with the English as well as the Chinese language.

Should any cause unfortunately occur that may give rise to collision with the natives, the officiating consul, in virtue of his instructions, and in compliance with the government notification, issued at Victoria under date the 22nd July, 1843, will hold the parties implicated, amenable to the penalties therein mentioned.

Article 6-Provides that English merchants, residing at or resorting to the five ports, shall not go into the surrounding country beyond certain distances (to be fixed by the local authorities and consuls), "and on no pretence for purposes of traffic;" and that if any person, whatever his rank, station, or calling, disobey this article, and wander away into the country, he shall be seized and handed over to the British consul for suitable punishSupplementary Treaty.

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Amoy, December 2, 1843. Persons proceeding into the country are limited in distances to one day's journey from the consulate. The latter limit has been affixed subsequent to the framing of the regulations above. (Signed) Henry Gribble. &c. &c. &c.

DOMESTIC. BIRTH.

LYSTER, the lady of J. comm. Elizabeth Ainslie at Macao, d. Oct. 29.

DEATHS.

LAWRENCE, Wm. A. drowned in the Canton River, Sept. 11. MACLEHOSE, Robt. Wm. S. of James, at Victoria, Hong Kong, aged 9, Sept. 19.

Nov. 9. Regina, Quinton, Madras.

FREIGHTS.

To London and Liverpool, 31. 10s. per ton of 50 cub. ft. To outports, 10s. per ton additional. To Calcutta and Madras, very scarce. To Bombay cargoes are scarce, and shippers unwilling to submit to the old rates. Hong-Kong, Nov. 15, 1844.

MAULMEIN.

We have Maulmein papers to the 29th of November, but they contain no later news than that brought by the Ganges some time ago. On the subject of the war between the Burmese and Siamese, which we announced some weeks since, the Maulmain Chronicle gives the following:

"We received intimation a short time since, that the Siamese had made an encroachment on the limits of the Burmese on the Zimmay side, and that a Burmese force, to the amount (as said) of forty thousand men, was about to move in that direction. We did not give credence to this report, imagining that the force might have probably been intended to act against the Red Karens, of which a communication was recently transmitted by the King of Ava to the local authorities here. We were not a little surprised to learn, by the arrival of two functionaries from the Court of Ava, a few days ago, that their mission was to as certain how far such encroachment on the part of the Siamese: is known and sanctioned by the British Government, who, by the treaty of Yandaboo, have expressly provided in Article X.'The good and faithful ally of the British Government, his Ma jesty the King of Siam, having taken a part in the present war, will to the fullest extent, as far as regards his Majesty and his subjects, he included in the above treaty. To render this article more intelligible, we quote Article VI. No person what ever, whether native or foreigner, is hereafter to be molested by either party, on account of the part which he may have taken, or have been compelled to take, in the present war.' But whether this treaty be considered by Tharawadde a dead letter or other wise, it could give no assurance to the Siamese, to expect any aid or support from the British nation for any trespass or aggression she might commit subsequently on the neighbouring states with impunity. It is not improbable that the trade between this port and the disturbed region may be interrupted for a time; yet, we should suppose either of the warlike powers must be held responsible for damages done by them to persons and property of British subjects, inasmuch as these are authorized by passes to proceed, and go on the faith of their own government, on mercantile expeditions into these Burmese and Siamese dependencies."-Maulmain Chronicle, Nov. 20.

ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL,

LONDON.

TUESDAY, Feb. 25, 1845.

SINCE our last publication, the reports of Lord Metcalfe's health are favourable. His lordship, indeed, has irreparably lost the sight of one eye; but his general health is not so much broken as to enforce his retirement from the high office for which he had been selected at a most critical period, and his mental vigour is unabated. Under these circumstances, he has determined to remain at his post.

With the announcement of this gratifying fact, we might properly quit the subject, were we not impelled to continue our remarks by a desire to render justice to another distinguished Indian servant, and to offer a merited tribute of respect to the service of which he is a member. Not long since, the retirement of Lord Metcalfe appeared inevitable; and public opinion, like that of one man, turned to Sir Henry Pottinger as his only fitting successor. Lord Metcalfe belonged to the civil service of India; Sir Henry Pottinger belongs to its military service. In that country he commenced his career of honour, and in that country, till within a very brief period, he pursued it. The enter

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prising traveller, the brave soldier, the skilful diplomatist, he there acquired enough of fame to shed over the remnant of his days a steady and enduring brightness. Like too many of his countrymen in similar circumstances, he had purchased honour by the sacrifice of his health, and he returned to the land of his birth with no aspirations except for the recovery of that prime blessing of life, without which all the gifts of fortune are but splendid mockeries. But his country needed him. Unconnected with political parties, precluded by his previous course of life from the opportunity of forming any connection' with them, he was sought out to represent the Queen's Government at a spot beyond all others unfavourable to the prospect of success, and to struggle against difficulties with which no other man whose services were available was deemed able to contend. Intimately acquainted with India and the countries adjacent to it on the westward, he had no experience in China. He went thither carrying with him the qualifications involved in the possession of eminent talents, high character, and straightforward honesty of purpose; but he had no local knowledge, and the event shewed that he needed He restored the relations of which some expected peace, would not be revived during the life of the existing generation of men; he inspired with confidence a people notoriously distrustful; overcame craft by plain-dealing, and concluded a treaty which has been received with a unanimous shout of welcome from one end of the United Kingdom to the other. All ranks and classes of men have rushed forward to do him honour. In London, in Liverpool, in Manchester, and other places, public marks of admiration have awaited him; and, within the last fortnight, the corporation of London, in presenting to him the freedom of that city, have associated his name with that of a long list of statesmen and heroes on whom the saine honour had been previously conferred. PITT, the elder and the younger, NELSON and WELLINGTON, are among names that grace the roll; that of the gallant, SALE is one of the latest recorded; and most properly have the citizens of the capital of the commercial world added to the number of their illustrious brother-freemen the name of Sir HENRY POTTINGER.

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But great as is our admiration of Sir Henry Pottinger, it is not on his account only that we rejoice in the honourable reception which has everywhere attended him. We recognize in him the representative of a body of men possessing the strongest claims upon the regard of their fellow-countrymen. The officers of the army of India are entitled to take their place beside the proudest members of their profession in any part of the world. To illustrate this, if illustration were necessary, we might exultingly refer to a constant succession of officers, from the time of Clive and Hastings down to our own, whose history is immediately associated with that of the glory and power of the British empire in the East; of some who laid the foundations of that empire, of others who have extended and strengthened them. But we abstain from a labour so entirely uncalled for. The deeds of the officers of the Indian army are the best heralds of their worth, and no page of the records of British rule in India can be opened without finding some testimony to their prowess. Just and right is it that such men should not be excluded, as they long were, from all but the limited honours of their own service. Within a few years much has been done to repair this

wrong, and we trust that, ere the lapse of many more, not a vestige of it will remain; that military service under the East-India Company will be admitted as a title to the same measure of honour and confidence which the same length of service under the direct authority of the Crown would confer, and that men who, like Sir Henry Pottinger, have established their reputation in India, will, like him, be deemed worthy of employment elsewhere.

We do not know whether our readers will give us credit for possessing the power of divination, or whether they will prefer to suppose that we are deep in Cabinet secrets. We leave them to choose between the two conclusions; but in one of the twain we are quite sure they will rest. In our late article on the sugar duties, we ventured to express a hope that, whatever might be decided upon in regard to those duties, "the claims of India to be considered an integral part of the British empire", would "not be lost sight of; that neither directly, nor by any side-wind," would "any discouragement be offered to the development of its vast latent resources by the extension of its cultivation and commerce." Further; we urged the importance of previously well considering the enactments which might be passed upon the subject, so as to secure to the law, whatever it may be, a rea-. sonable degree of permanence. Constant fluctuations," we continued, "are ruinous both to the cultivator and the merchant. Let all know what is their situation, and not for this year only; let them be able to entertain a well-grounded confidence that the law will not at an early period be again disturbed." These warnings were published on Saturday, the 8th of this present month, February. On the 14th, only six days after, the budget is brought out, and among other arrangements connected with "ways and means is a proposal relating to the sugar duties, embodying both the objectionable points, the introduction of which we had so earnestly deprecated. On the face of the statement, and of the resolution, founded on it, all is fair and impartial; no British dependency is apparently favoured, nor any one apparently deprived of its just share of the protection to which it may aspire on the ground of being a British dependency. There is no distinction between East-India sugar and any other of British origin. Brown sugar, "being Muscovado or clayed, or any other sugar not, being equal to white clayed," is in all cases to be subject to a duty of 14s. the cwt., but "white clayed sugar, or sugar rendered by any process equal to white clayed," is subject to an additional duty of 2s. 4d. per cwt. Now, seemingly the Indian cultivator is placed on a level with his fellow-subjects in other parts of the world; and he cannot reasonably desire more. This is the first impression created by reading the minister's financial statement. But what will be the real effect of a law founded on the ministerial resolution? It will be like that of a poll-tax

imposed upon every person throughout her Majesty's dominions, and without avowed reference to place of birth, but which subjected every white man to pay two shillings, and every black or brown man half-a-crown. If it were objected that the additional charge would press unjustly upon the inhabitants of certain parts of the empire as compared with the rest, would it be an answer to say, "We know nothing of localities, we recognize no distinction but colour?" Would it not be obvious to all that this distinction as to colour would in effect be a distinction as to country, and that it would operate as a local grievance? The case of the

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sugar duty is much the same. Brown sugar is to be subject to a certain amount of duty, 14s.; and though clayed, —that is, divested by an additional operation of some of its impurities, it is to pay no more. But white clayed sugar,

or sugar rendered by any process equal to white clayed, is subject to a duty of 16s. 4d. Now, it happens that this provision will embrace all East-India sugar. Like coloured men under the case we have supposed of a poll-tax, it is sentenced to bear an additional burden on account (as is pretended) not of its country, but of its complexion. East-India sugar is, we believe, not usually clayed; but all sugar" equal to white clayed" is liable to the increased duty. The words, "rendered by any process," which precede those last quoted, we hold to be mere surplusage. Who is to determine whether or not the sugar has been' subjected to any process in order to render 'it equal to white clayed ?The Custom-House officer affirms the importer denies it. Are they to send to the valley of the Ganges for information to enable them to come to an agreement? Let it be rėmėms bered, too, that the sugar of other British possessions, though clayed, is not to be liable to any increased duty on that account; but the sugar of India', though not elayed, is to be thus burdened if a Custom-House officer choose to think that it is "equal to clayed," and the rule of the Customs, it is said, is to charge in all cases as high a duty as can be demanded within the rules of decency, or a little beyond them, and to enforce it if possible. Practically, then,—and it is of no use to attempt to disguise the fact, East-India sugar is to be charged with a duty exceeding by 2s. 4d. per cwt. that which will be charged upon the sugar of other British possessions. Here is the "side-wind" which we apprehended, breathing torpor over the cultivation and commerce of India. "Gentle, indeed, it is, and scarcely perceptible by the senses; but its benumbing influence is not the less certain, nor the less fatal. Not long since, the rum of India was saddled with a duty exceeding by 66 per cent. thẻ duty levied on rum the produce of other British dependencies. That scandal has been tardily removed, and we had hoped that no similar injustice would ever again be attempted. It seems we were mistaken.

But now as to the other point on which we craved the liberty of expressing our wishes,-the importance of placing the sugar duties on a basis of some probable permanence. Can any one believe that such a system as that now proposed can be permanent? The officers of the CustomHouse may assure Sir Robert Peel that they can discriminate to the five-hundredth part of a shade between sugar which, though not clayed, is "equal to clayed," and sugar which has not thus been introduced to the honours of high caste, and the Premier may believe them, ministers being very apt to believe that which promises well for the exchequer; but the thing is impracticable. We participate in the general respect which is felt for Sir Robert Peel as a finance minister, but we do hold that all men in his situation have a tendency to be misled by such representations as those upon which he is disposed in this case to act. Custom-House oaths have long been a proverb, and Custom-House promises are, according to appearances, likely to furnish another. Appreciating, as they deserve, the discrimating powers of the Customs branch,-reposing the highest degree of confidence which we feel justified in entertaining as to the unvarying accuracy of their eye, the exquisite delicacy of their touch, and the undeceivable precision of their

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scent, we are yet unwilling to trust them with a duty, in the discharge of which they would afford no satisfaction save to themselves, and perchance their superiors, and would certainly acquire no credit. Who can picture the endless squabblings that would arise about the various qualities of clayed and not clayed, and "rendered by any process equal to clayed," about white, and grey, and brown, and yellow, and the minute gradations by which they flow into one another? The distraction of a lady, entrusted by an old-maidenly friend to purchase ribbons of a particular tint and quality would be nothing to that which would beset an officer of the Customs, anxious to perform his duty in deciding upon the different qualities of sugars. Between buyers and sellers these differences now furnish a fertile source of disputation; but no mischief follows, because each relies on his judgment, though two judgments opposing each other cannot both be right, and neither party can coerce the other. But it is quite different when one of the parties is in a position to say, "I have decided, and you must abide by my decision. I have power, and you have none. It is my duty to judge, and yours to pay." It is obvious that such a system cannot work satisfactorily, and that it cannot be maintained. It has been abandoned with regard to tea: it must be abandoned if tried upon sugar, And so the settlement of 1845 will settle nothing; and after a struggle of one, two, or three years of uncertainty, excitement, and ill-feeling, during which no man will be able to say at what rate of duty the sugar which he is bringing home will be charged, another change will be inevitable. We believe such a state of things to be highly unfavourable to the interests of legitimate trade, and we call upon all who thus think to appeal to the Legislature to avert it.

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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS,

HOUSE OF LORDS, FEB. 21.-SUGAR DUTIES.-Lord MONTEAGLE moved for a return of the quantities of sugar from the East and West India islands entered for home consumption, and the amount of duty paid thereon, in each of the three years before the equalization of the duty, and the three years subsequent. He believed there was no objection to the return, and his object in having it was, that it might be illustrative of the working of the system of equalization, which had been productive of very good results, and any alteration in which would be most objectionable. The report of the committee which had sat on this subject recommended the equalization of the duty on all colonial productions; more particularly on sugars the produce of the East and West India islands, and that there should be no departure, from that system unless the national or the colonial interest required it. And if any attempt should be made, after that report, to introduce a discrimination between the produce of the East and West Indies, he thought there could not be exhibited a more signal departure from the good principles by which legislation was governed, or a more entire disregard of the experience of upwards of ten years.-Lord STANLEY offered no opposition to the production of the returns and defended the proposal of the ministers, Some sugars had undergone no manufacturing process, while others had undergone a great deal. There was consequently a great difference in the article imported, and it was therefore thought advisable at the time of making a large reduction of those duties, at the same time to attempt some additional classification of those sugars that had undergone no process of manufacture at all and those that had. He knew that his noble friend would say, that the sugar from the East Indies was of a better quality than that from the West; but if his noble friend would wait until he saw the proposal of the Government, he would find that it was not their intention to propose a higher duty upon East India sugar, unless it had undergone a manufacturing process by which not a certain degree of whiteness, but of fineness was given to it, than that which was imposed upon the produce of the West Indies.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-On Monday, the 10th inst., Mr. HUME inquired whether Ministers would lay on the table the Governor-General's minute on education, dated in October 1844, and also a paper containing the necessary explanation of it. Mr. BARING said, that there would be no objection to produce the minute, and a paper shewing the state of crime in Bengal.-Mr. HUME then asked, whether there would be any objection to the production of the correspondence "between the Government and the Court of Directors respecting the recal of Lord Ellenborough. Mr. BARING intimated, that he had already communicated the views of Government on that subject.-Sir ROBERT INGLIS put two questions to Mr. Baring, first, what had been done in Bengal as to separating the Indian Government from connection with the idolatrous worship of the natives, withdrawing the annual payment made to the Temple of Juggernaut, and, in lieu of it, restoring lands which had belonged to the temple: secondly, what progress had been made at Madras in separating the government from the management of the Pagoda lands. Mr. BARING answered that in regard to Madras, the Government had no information beyond what the honourable baronet already possessed; with respect to Bengal, can estate which formerly belonged to the Temple of Juggernaut had been restored, in consequence of which the annual payment by Government had been reduced from 60,000 rupees, to 36,000 rupees. Further steps would be taken in the same direction. On Friday, the 14th, Sir ROBERT PEEL brought forward his financial statement, proposing, among other changes, a reduction of the duties on sugar generally, and a distinction between white clayed sugar, or sugar equivalent thereto, and brown sugar, whether clayed or otherwise, the former to be subject to 16s. 4d. per cwt., the latter to 14s.-On Tuesday, the 18th, Mr. HUME presented a petition from Mr. Peter Gordon, complaining of injuries inflicted on him in India, and of the non-attention of the Court of Directors of the East-India Company to his applications for redress. On Wednesday, the 19th, Mr. HoGG presented a petition from parties engaged in the trade in EastIndia sugars, complaining of the increased duties which the plan of Government would place on that article, and which, in the case of fine sugars, would amount to a prohibition. The hon. member also presented a petition from the East-India and China Association, stating that the attempt to establish the distinction contemplated would amount to the imposition of a discriminating duty against East-India sugars, and would lead to vexation and fraud.-On Thursday, the 20th, Mr. HUME gave notice, that on that day fortnight he would move for a copy of the correspondence between the Court of Directors and her Majesty's Government respecting the recal of Lord Ellenborough; and also of a copy of the minute directing his recal.

"On and from the 1st of March next, an additional rate of 4d. per half-ounce, over and above the present postage, will be chargeable on all letters, and an additional rate of 2d. on every newspaper forwarded by the overland mail, whether via Southampton or vid Marseilles, to or from places to the east of Calcutta, and also to and from the Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, Bourbon, or Madagascar, when despatched to such places 'from ports in India, or vice versâ, this sum being levied to defray the charge made by the East-India Company for the despatch and receipt of such letters and newspapers.

"The rates of postage chargeable from the date above mentioned on letters and newspapers transmitted between the United Kingdom and India, and despatched from ports in India to places to the eastward of Calcutta (as well as those forwarded to the Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, Bourbon, or Madagascar), and vice versâ, will therefore be as follows:

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"On a letter forwarded vid Marseilles, weighing under a quarter of an ounce, 2s. 2d.; not exceeding half an ounce, 2s. 7d.; not exceeding three-quarters of an ounce, 4s. 9d.; not exceeding one ounce, 5s. 2d.; exceeding one ounce, and under one ounce and a quarter, 9s. 1d.; newspaper rate, 5d.

"Via Southampton-Not exceeding half an ounce, 1s. 4d.; exceeding half an ounce and not exceeding one ounce, 2s. 8d.; exceeding one ounce and not exceeding two ounces, 5s. 4d. Newspapers-British colony, 2d. ; foreign possession, 4d.

"This charge will apply to all letters and newspapers to and from Australia, Bourbon, Cape of Good Hope, China, HongKong, Java, Madagascar, Mauritius, New Zealand, Sumatra, and Van Diemen's Land.

"Letters and newspapers, however addressed, to Australia, Bourbon, the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, Mauritius,

FULTON V. GILMORE.-This case was decided in the Roll's

Court, on the 15th inst. The plaintiff was Marion Fulton, a daughter of Robert Fulton, of Calcutta, deceased, who, by his will of January, 1826, devised all his estates, &c., to Hunter and Smith, of Calcutta, partners of Gilmore and Co., and to John Gilmore, the defendant, a partner of Furgusson and Co., of Calcutta, upon trust to convert into money, invest, and pay the trust funds, amongst his sister, his two sons, and two daughters, in equal shares, at 21, and appointed Hunter, Smith, and defendant executors. The defendant and Smith proved the will in Calcutta, but the defendant took the chief part in its execution, and converted the property into money, which was divisible into five parts. There was a balance due to the testator from Fergusson and Co., which the defendant, a partner, permitted them to retain, and opened, after the testator's (Fulton's) death, a new account, depositing with them at interest on personal security the whole of the testator Fulton's residuary estate. Fergusson and Co., by defendant's order, paid at different times the one-fifth shares of the sister and of two of the children, but they with the defendant were in November, .833, declared insolvent, and were afterwards discharged by the Calcutta Insolvent Debtors' Court. The trust funds in their hands were, 77,198 sicca rupees, which belonged, as their respective fifth shares in equal moieties, at 21, to the plaintiff and to Robert Fulton, the testator's youngest child. Gilmore, as executor, proved this debt of 77,198 sicca rupees, against Fergusson's estate, and he or his agent (Colville) received six dividends, much less, however, than the debt. The plaintiff was 21 in 1840, but Robert Fulton, the youngest child, who was 21 in 1841, received the whole to which he was entitled in respect of his moiety, although no part of her share was received by the plaintiff, whose agents, Smith and Co. of Calcutta, applied in August last for her moiety to Colville, Gilmore, and Co. They agreed to account for it on being furn ished with a formal release to Gilmore as executor. This was refused, and the present bill was filed for the accounts, for a discovery, and for a declaration that the defendant was liable to the plaintiff for one moiety of all monies which he, by himself or by Colville and Co., had or but for wilful default might have received for dividends payable upon the proof of the 77,198 sicca rupees debt due to the testator's estate at Fergusson's insolvency. Gilmore, by a supplemental answer, stated that his discharge under the Insolvent Debtors' Act was in 1836. Lord Langdale said, the property of the testator was partly in the firm of Fergusson, and Co., in which Gilmore was a partner, and partly in the firm of Gilmore and Co., in which the co-trustee and executor, Smith, was a partner. The plaintiff was not bound to give the general release which was demanded of her, and was, upon the refusal without it to pay her, justified in instituting the suit. Leave had been given to the defendant to file a supplementál answer, to shew his discharge under the Insolvent Debtors' Act, which was later than was stated in his first answer. was entitled to that protection. Smith had proved the will, and had taken it upon himself to see that the assets were duly applied. He was dead, insolvent, and the defendant was the only person who could be applied to. He must make good the loss, and pay the costs up to the hearing. Gilmore was innocent of wilful misconduct.

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SIR HENRY POTTINGER.-At a Court of Common Council of the City of London, held on Thursday the 13th instant, it was resolved unanimously, and by acclamation, to present to this distinguished officer the freedom of the city in a box of the value of one hundred guineas. The resolution was moved by Mr. R. L. Jones, one of the most influential members of the corporation, and seconded by Mr. J. Dixon in a speech which excited great interest. Sir H. Pottinger, he said, left England in 1804, to seek his fortune in the service of the East-India Company, and embarked in that which was then denominated the Bombay Marine, since better known as the East-India Company's navy, He was subsequently appointed to the military service, having in the interval sedulously applied himself to the acquisition of a knowledge of the Eastern languages. In 1809 he went to Scinde, as assistant to Colonel R. Smith, the resident there. 1810 he went on a mission to Persia, through Beloochistan. In 1814 he became political assistant to Mountstuart Elphinstone, at Poona, where he remained until 1818. He then removed to Ahmednuggur, as judge and collector. In the capacity of a soldier he had acquitted himself with courage, zeal, and indo

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