unreasonable to deserve attention. Lieut. Stirling arrived at Dundhootee on the 29th ultimo, and from the inadequate effects which he found to result from his earnest and frequent appeals to the garrison, he, with an ardent spirit of heroic fortitude and gallantry, seized a favourable opportunity in the morning of the 3d instant, and assembled the government troops which had been ordered there from the adjacent districts, amounting to about 700 men, and put himself at the head of them with his escort of twenty dismounted cavalry, advanced to the attack with great impetuosity, and slew two Arabs outright with his own hand; but being so exposed to the fire of the garrison, he was unfortunately killed in the very door of the ghurry, and the force was ultimately compelled to retreat, after losing a good many men, killed and wounded. On this intel ligence reaching the Resident, a force utder the command of Major John Sutherland was ordered to besiege the place; who immediately advanced to Dundhoores on hearing of the affray, and arrived there on the 11th, being a distance of 15 mies in four days; however, much a ur faction, it appears that Capt. Ene Sither land had arrived some hours bere fie force with civil authority, and securet the three delaquents, who had it treacherous a manner commencet lion, and just as die fire at a tie place, the Arabs with intimte thagin and vexation were evacuating the gr Lieut. Stirling was shut firmgi fie ung by two matrack tale, aut insanly fel dead against the four of the guy. Those whose pecular amines i vas ar live with him in units ať numar lave to deplore a friend, wiose varmt at a fection has left an intelline sensation of regret: and, on account of us eminent talents and integi, i was elected or the important care if cui commissune in a large tract of country in the Naan's dominions. In arter a jejena is memory, a pubic auf manimons shenj tion has been opened as erect a nmn wer his remains.

refractory Ramunser have sinner ag n the line of frantier tenveen bangour and Ahmedsagger, and Major butter and las received instacus median opérate with the Bomurale Company's troops, in speedily puting a ent a heir depredam, and we dae in tante he Ramosets will aufer for dier g tos-BUL E

P. Anstruther, Esq., to be collector of customs of district of Colombo.

G. Turnour, Esq., to be revenue commissioner in Kandyan provinces, v. H. Pennell, Esq.

none who have, in real earnest, declared themselves on the Lord's side. Two or three, for a while, seemed to be under impressions of the truth, but as soon as they saw clearly the uncompromising nature of the Gospel, and that their selfish ends could not be promoted by professedly embracing it, they either withdrew from instruction altogether or became cold and indifferent.

The mission in the Concan has lately been strengthened by the arrival of the Rev. Mr. Nesbit; but as soon as he has made such progress in the acquisition of the native languages as will enable him to take an active part in the business of the mission, the Rev. Mr. Stevenson will remove to Bombay.-Bom, Courier, Jan. 19.

Dec. 13, 1827. At Mhow, the lady of Capt. G. W. Blachley, 13th N.I., of a daughter.

Jan. 5, 1828. At Poonah, the lady of John Warden, Esq., of a son.

10. At Ahmednuggur, the lady of Capt. Soppit, 26th regt., of a daughter.

11. In camp near Sholapore, the lady of Major W. H. Sykes, of a son.

13. At Bankote, the lady of the Rev. Alex. Crawford, of a son.

16. At Bombay, the lady of Geo. Simpson, Esq., marine storekeeper, of a daughter.

19. At Byculla, the lady of Capt. P. Maughan, of a daughter.

21. At Bombay, the lady of Lieut. Col. Whish, of a son.

28. At Bombay, the lady of Edw. Grant, Esq., civil service, of a daughter.

29. At Bombay, the lady of Lieut. Edw. Marsh, superintendent of bazars with the Malwa field force, of a son.

MARRIAGES.

Dec. 17, 1827. At Bombay, John Burnet, Esq., of the civil service, to Harriet, eldest daughter of the late Sam. Bourchier, Esq.

Jan. 31, 1828. At Poona, Capt. H. D. Robertson, to Miss J. V. Dunlop.

Feb. 4. At Bombay, J. H. Stocqueler, Esq., to Miss Spencer.

DEATHS.

Jan. 16, 1828. At Bombay, Lieut. and Adj. S. C. Spence, 13th N.I.

17. At Vingorla, Lieut. Col. Rob. Place, commanding H.M.'s 41st regt. (late of the Queen's Royals).

Feb. 2. At Bombay, Lieut. Wm. Reynolds, 12th N.I., aged 28.

Ceylon.

CIVIL APPOINTMENTS.

Jan. 8. H. Pennell, Esq., to be provincial judge of Colombo in room of J. G. Forbes, Esq., proceeding to England.

P. A.Dyke, Esq., to be collector of Trincomalee, and agent of Government for Tamankadowe, v. P. Anstruther, Esq.

M. Wilmot, Esq., to be agent of Government in Kandyan province of Saffragam, v. G. Turnour, Esq.

J. W. Huskisson, Esq., to be provincial judge of Trincomale, v. P. A. Dyke, Esq.

D. A. Blair, Esq., to be collector and provincial judge of Batticaloa, v. W. Milmot, Esq.

14. H. R. Scott, Esq., to be sitting magistrate and fiscal of Jaffna, v. J. W. Huskisson, Esq.

general during absence of Capt. G. Stewart proAndrew Walker, Esq., to be acting post master ceeding on leave to England.

The chief justice opened the business of the meeting by an appropriate address, in the course of which he took a short but interesting view of the operations and success of the various missions now actively engaged in communicating the blessings of Christianity to the native inhabitants of this island. Among the great number of very important facts which the chief justice brought before the meeting in the course of his address, was one which claimed peculiar attention, viz.

That

there are at this time, not fewer than from nine to ten thousand children receiving Christian instruction from the different missions established in this island. Of which number upwards of 4,000 are under the instruction of the Wesleyan missionaries.

Several resolutions connected with the object of the society and suitable to the business of the meeting were brought forward and proposed by several ministers and gentlemen of the settlement, and were carried through the meeting with a num ber of animated speeches, which excited considerable interest in the very respectable congregation that attended.-Ceylon Gaz. Jan. 5.

Penang,

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE,

The following gentlemen have been nominated as justices of the peace for Penang, Singapore, and Malacca, viz.-K. Murchison, J. Anderson, T. Church, W. E. Fullerton, P. O. Carnegy, C. W. H. Wright, R. Caunter, E. Presgrave, J. Pattulo, W. T. Lewis, S. G. Bonham, A. L. Johnston, C. R. Read, J. A. Max. well, and H. Syme, esqrs.

MURDER BY PIRATES.

In noticing, in our register of the 28th Nov., an official report made from the H. C. schooner Zephyr, of her falling in with a piratical force of twelve prahus, we mentioned that two natives belonging to a boat recaptured from the pirates, stated that an European boat's crew of six men, said to be from Malacca, were murdered by the pirates a few days before the Zephyr discovered the latter. We regret that we have now to confirm the fact of five unhappy men out of six, deserters from the H. C. ship Inglis when she was at Singapore, having fallen victims to the fury of those barbarians; the sixth, by name Benjamin Sly, having been most miraculously preserved "to tell the tale;" which will be found in the following substance of his deposition made to the police magistrate. The scene of this horrid tragedy must have been a little to the southward of the Sambelang islands; but the wretched weakly state of the poor survivor does not at present admit of his very distinct recollection of circumstances.

"That deponent was a seaman on board the H. C. ship Inglis. That himself and five others named Simon Powers, Hugh Cooper, Edward Jones, Smith and John Driscoll, deserted with the ship's jolly boat in Singapore harbour, about dusk on the evening of the 7th October last. That the sixth day after leaving the ship, and third day after passing Malacca, they de scried four large and one small pirate prahus in the straits pulling towards them. On coming alongside, about dusk in the evening, several of the pirates, armed with spears and other weapons, jumped into the boat, speared and wounded the Europeans, then threw them overboard, and killed them whilst in the water, except one who attempted to escape by swimming, but sunk and was drowned, Deponent being but slightly wounded with a spear, and being able to swim, escaped unobserved to the shore, which was a considerable distance off. The name of the place depoAfter nent landed at he does not know. wandering in the jungles for five days, he again arrived at the beach, and seeing a fishing boat pass, hailed it, and was taken on board and carried to a place which de

THE TARTAR REBELLION.

Recent accounts from Peking, after detailing the third great victory over the Mahommedan rebels, who in the last two conflicts, brought in the field 100,000 men, state that after the last battle, along the whole course of the river Yangta ma, all the Mahommedan villages and people were exterminated by the imperial troops.

On Chang ling, the commander-inchief, the emperor has conferred a "purple bridle," the badge of kung yay, or dukedom. On the two next in command he has bestowed the title of guardians of the heir-apparent.

On the inferior generals and officers he has conferred the Tartar title of Pa too loo, prefaced by the words braye, valiant, enterprizing, &c. &c.

To these he has added, archery thumb rings, with "fourfold joy" written on them; gem-handled swords; flint firestriking pouches; a right to walk before the imperial gate, &c. &c.; inserted, with all the proper names of persons and circumstances, to the extent of several pages of the gazette.

To these is appended a promise, on the part of his imperial majesty, that on the day to which he can now point when their victories will be completed, that he will confer still higher rewards and honours on the victors.-Malacca Observer.

a great extent, by hanging, taking poison, cutting the throat, and drowning. The married and unmarried, wives and concubines, mistresses and servants, from disgust, from suffering, and from revenge, are all occasionally guilty of this crime against nature. And from some superstitious opinion that virgins will become superhuman beings, called Shinseen, it occurs that seven young women swear not to marry, and if urged to do so, join hand in hand and drown altogether.

The Fooyuen of Canton has published a proclamation interdicting a sort of lock-up place used by the police. He reveals great cruelty and injustice practised by the understrappers in this pagan plausible country. In litigations about marriages and lands, a summons being issued, a police runner puts himself into a chair, gets boys to follow as servants with his lictors under command, and seizes the whole kindred of the litigating parties; brings them bound, and puts them into what they call a "fire-room," which is a room swimming with water on the floor, which water is raised into steam by fires curiously applied, and there the innocent are confined till they pay for mercy and admission to the fresh air, &c. &c. The chair, and food, and fees amount to tens, or hundreds, or thousands of taels, according to the wealth and number of the implicated.

The Kwang-chow-foo has issued an official document, enforcing greater decorum on the students who attend the public examinations. The struggle and conflict for precedence manifested by them, he considers quite unbecoming literary men who "love themselves."

The Aso-tang of Macao has subjected himself to a pasquinade for having with one hand received a bribe of 250 taels a month to connive at a gambling-house, and with the other issued a moralizing proclamation, à la Chinois.

In Shan se province, during the 2d moon of the present year, earthquakes occurred, which drew down hundreds of houses, and crushed beneath their ruins thousands of human beings.

To Brig.-General Alexander Walker,
Governor, &c.

Sir: The warm interest you have at all times taken in the welfare of the farmers, since your arrival in this island; the considerate kindness which you have invariably evinced in your intercourse with them; the strenuous efforts you have made to alleviate as much as possible any distress which, owing to repeated bad seasons, did exist amongst them; and the station to which, owing to your patronage, they have been raised during your government, render it an imperious, but at the same time most pleasing duty for them, not to let you depart, without offering you some testimonial of the affectionate regard and esteem which they entertain for so many acts of consideration and kindness.

It is therefore, that the undersigned farmers respectfully beg you will be pleased, Sir, to accept this cup, as a mark of the sincere feelings of gratitude and esteem which they have for you; sincerely trusting you will allow them to flatter themselves with the hope that, when far removed from them, it will at times recall to your memory the affectionate regard with which the farmers of St. Helena look upon an individual to whom they are under so many obligations.

(Signed by eighteen persons.) St. Helena, 10th April, 1828.

10 No-2.5**£ be dam From the Members of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of St. Helena. 1, bir their 10

riously called upon to express their deep regret at your appproaching departure from among them, and to testify to you, Honourable Sir, the grateful and respectful sense they must ever entertain for your unwearied zeal, continued exertion, and friendly counsel, in every thing that could encourage and promote the interests of the members of the Society.

We cannot but call to mind, Honourable Sir, that at the time of your arrival no such society existed on this island. Your enlarged views of political economy induced you, on your passage hither, to frame a plan for its establishment; and you had scarcely commenced your auspicious government, when you proposed it for our consideration, and with truly parental regard carried your designs into effect. The happy consequence has been, that agriculture, which before was followed rather as a trade, has now become a productive science; emulation has been excited, and every individual has been proud to receive the encomia of his superiors and of his fellow-citizens, when the successful results of his labour have gained him the reward of public notice. No less pleasing is it to record, that the half-yearly shows, which by your wisdom have been established, have proved a powerful auxiliary, by ex citing an anxiety amongst the candidates of all classes to distinguish themselves by the superiority of their produce. By these exhibitions the industrious have been encouraged to still greater assiduity, and the indolent stimulated to activity and reform.

The establishment also of our local market, which we owe, Honourable Sir, to you, must be considered as an essential improvement, as well to the interests of the agriculturist, as to the community and the shipping. The steady and judicious man ner in which it has been conducted, under your watchful care, has afforded a plentiful supply of fresh provisions both for shipping and island consumption, and at the same time put a considerable check to depredations and abuses, the existence of which was before but too justly to be lamented. It is indeed acknowledged on all hands, that while these measures have proved the source of great comfort and convenience to the inhabitants, the visiting stranger is also now assured of an abundance of those refreshments, which he so much needs after a long and tedious voyage.

Allow us to add, Honourable Sir, that your constant and unwearied attention to the welfare and interests of this community; your countenance of all our exhibitions by your personal attendance; the efforts you have made to promote every description of improvement, physical, moral, and intellectual; your own elaborate and instructive addresses, which will be preserved for the information and sim

provement of future generations, in the sciences of agriculture and horticulture; your encouragement of liberal discussion and fair argument in all matters relating to our welfare, and the general improvement of the island, added to your own personal condescension and urbanity, have justly acquired for you the respect and veneration of this community, Although we are, therefore, but too well aware of the difficulty under which we labour, adequately to express the grateful sense of obligation which we feel, Honourable Sir, for all your kindness and attention, we venture nevertheless most respectfully to solicit your acceptance of a piece of plate, which, though trifling in value, is offered as a sincere token of our high respect and

esteem.

At the same time, Honourable Sir, we beg to express our ardent wish, that you may arrive in perfect health and safety in your native land; and that with your amiable consort, whom we shall ever remember with sincere and grateful regard, you may long enjoy a happy and honour able retirement, in the pleasing task of forming the minds of your promising sons, to fill their future stations in life with as much honour to themselves, and as exten sive benefit to their fellow-creatures, as their worthy and respected parents.

We have the honour to be, &c.

(Signed by forty-eight persons.) To the foregoing addresses the BrigadierGeneral returned suitable replies.

Honourable Sir: Upon the occasion of your approaching departure from the island, permit us, the undersigned inhabitants, to express our grateful sense of your zealous and persevering solicitude to promote the welfare of our little community. Your unceasing endeavours, Sir, have not been in vain. The various public institu tions either established by yourself, or receiving an invigorating impulse under your auspices, exhibit results which leave no doubt of their efficacy and success. In proof of this, we have merely to refer to the pleasing and affecting annual exhibi tions of the state of education, particularly amongst the lower orders, the number of children put out apprentices to useful trades, the free population of colour taking an active part in rendering themselves independent of parochial relief, and assuming a new place in the community; and above all, Sir, the measures for accelerating the total extirpation of slavery. These are circumstances which alone are sufficient to indicate an advance in moral and Intellectual