WALKER, Lieut. C. W. 5th N.I. in ext. to Dec. 31, to rem. at presidency, on m. c. WILLOUGHBY, Lieut. H. J. Nov. 15 to Dec. 1, in ext. to rem. at Bombay. LEESON, Maj. com. art. at Kurrachee, to assume com. of art. in Scinde, on dep. of Schuler, Oct. 29. LEMESSURIER, Capt. A. P. 2nd Eur. L.I. to be maj. in succ. to Thornton, ret. fr. Nov. 24. LITTLEWOOD, Major R. J. 9th N.I. transf. to inval. est. Nov. 13. MARRIOT, 2nd Lieut. W. F. eng. to be 1st lieut. v. Curtis, dec. fr. June 2. MOORE, Lieut. col. G. 2nd Eur. It. inf. to proc. and join his regt. at Aden by the steamer fr. Bombay, Dec. 1. MORRIS, Capt. to act as qr. mr. 4th N.I. (rifle corps) Nov. 17. MUNGAVIN, Jas. ast. supt. of roads and tanks, to receive a commission as lieut. on the vet. estab. for bis meritorious services. PELLY, Lieut. H. J. 8th N.I. to be capt. to rank fr. Aug. 26, 1846, in succ. to Richards, retired. PHILLIPSON, Ens. F. R. B. 27th N.I. to join his corps, Nov. 26. RENNIE, Lieut. G. art. fr. b. brig. to 4th batt. Nov. 28. SAUNDERS, Capt. A. E. 2nd Eur. It. inf. to rank fr. May 15, 1846. SCHULER, Lieut. col. to proc. to Bombay in anticipation of com. of art. at Ahmednuggur, Oct. 29. SCOTT, Lieut. 4th comp. 1st batt. art. to proc. to Kurrachee, and make over the accounts of the company to Capt. Blake, making over ch. of the battery to Capt. Hicks. SCOTT, Ens. S. 9th N.I. to be lieut. in succ. to Littlewood, inval. fr. Nov. 13. SCOTT, Chas. to rank as 2nd lieut. Engs. v. Marriot, promoted. STEWART, Capt. 14th N.I. to join at Hyderabad, Oct. 29. THORNTON, Maj. Geo. 2nd Eur. L. I. perm. to retire from the service on pens. of his rank, Nov. 24. THACKER, Lieut. S. 9th N.I. to proc. and join his corps, Nov. 19. TURQUAND, Lieut. L. 2nd Eur. It. inf. to rank fr. May 15, 1846. WARDEN, Lieut. R. P. 16th N.I. to act as interp. and qr. mr. dur. abs. of Lieut. Evans on m. c. Nov. 20. WATSON, Ens. J. H. 24th N.I. attached to 23rd It. inf. until arrival of his regt. at pres. WILLOUGHBY, Lieut. H. J. 2nd Eur. L. I. to be capt. in succ. to Thornton, retired fr. Nov. 24. WHEATSTONE, Lieut. 7th N.I. to join at Sukkur, Oct. 29. WHITTAKER, Lieut. B. R. 2nd Eur. It. inf. to rank fr. May 15, 1846. WRIGHT, Brev. capt. J. C. 9th N.I. to be capt. in succ. to Littlewood, invalided fr. Nov. 13. ALBAN, Ens. H. Sth N.I. 1 mo. fr. Nov. 25, in ext. to rem. at Ahmednuggur, on m. c. ANNESLEY, Lieut. J. T. 26th N. I. fr. Dec. 15 to Jan. 15, 1847, in ext. to rem. in Bombay. BELL, Lieut. G. K. art. 3 years to Europe on furl. on m. c. BOLTON, Ens. G. N. 10th N.I. in ext. to Dec. 31, to rem. at presidency, on m.c. BOLTON, Ens. H. F. 12th N.I. fr. Nov. 30, to await the arrival of his reg. at the presidency. BROWNE, Ens. G. F. S. 24th N.I. fr. Dec. 20, to March 31, 1847, to Bombay, to be exam. in Hindostanee. BURTON, Lieut. R. F. 18th N.I. in ext. to Dec. 31, to rem. at presidency, on m. c. COMYN, Lieut. L. B. 15th N.I. in ext. to Dec. 31, to rem. at presidency, on m. c. CRACKLOW, Lieut. col. H. 9th N.I. in ext. to Dec. 31, to rem. at presidency, on m. c. DUKE, Lieut. G. F. N. vet. batt. 3 years to Europe on furl. on m. c. GIFFORD, Ens. A. 16th N.I. fr. Nov. 1 to May 1, 1847, to the Neilgherry hills. GOODWIN, Lieut. R. T. 1 mo. fr. Dec. 1, in ext. GORDON, Ens. J. H. 6th N.I. in ext. to Dec. 31, to rem. at pres. on m.c. GRAHAM, Ens. A. S. 6th N.I. Nov. 25 to Mar. 1, 1847, to Bombay. HARDY, Lieut. E.P. 1st L.C. fr. Nov. 1 to Dec. 21, in ext. to rem. in Bombay. JOHNSTONE, Capt. S. G. 10th .I. to Bombay, on m.c. MAYOR, Lieut. 1st Belooch batt. fr. Nov. 6 to Dec. 31, to Bombay. RENNIE, Lieut. G. art. 3 years to Europe on furl. on m.c. SCHULER, Lieut. col. F. art. fr. Nov. 14 to Feb. 1, 1847, to rem. at pres. SHEPPARD, EDs. J. L. Nov. 11 to Dec. 11, to rem. at Bombay. SNOW, Capt. R. T. 24th N.I. fr. Dec. 20 to March 31, 1847, to Bombay, to be exam. in Hindostanee. SORELL, Lieut. C. F. 17th N.I. to Bombay, on m. c. till Dec. 31. THOMPSON, Ens. A. 15th N.I. fr. Nov. 8, to remain at Tanna, on m. c.; ext. to Dec. 31, to rem. at presidency, on m. c. VAILLANT, Brev. capt. A. 27th N.I. 1 year to the Neilgherry hills, fr. Nov. 1. WOODHOUSE, Lieut. col. J. E. 3rd N.I. to Europe, for 3 years, on m. c. MEDICAL. APPOINTMENTS, &c. CAMERON, Asst. surg. to rec. ch. of 3rd troop h. art. dur. illness of Impey, left at Seeroor, Nov. 13. CARR, Asst. surg. attached to 1st gren. regt. to proceed on duty to Ahmedabad, Nov. 28. COLLUM, Assist surg. to assume ch. of the staff details, at Baroda. FORRESTER, Asst. surg. to rec. med. ch. of details, &c. at Vingorla. on dep. of Weston, and to rec. ch. of left wing of 27th N.I. fr. Nov. 2. FRASER, Asst. surg. J. G. to take med. ch. of one wing of 1st grens. on its march to Poona, Nov. 21. HARRISON, Asst. surg. to ass. med. ch. of 26th N.I. until arrival of surg. Burns, Nov. 21. IMLACH, Asst. surg. assd. ch. of Bhooj agency, Native gen. hosp. and disp. Oct. 27. LARKINS, Asst. surg. to assume temp. med. ch. of 2nd N.I. LORD, Asst. surg. to do duty with 86th N.I. Nov. 16; to proc. to Hursole to aff. med. aid to troops at that station, Nov. 21. MANLEY, Asst. surg. 48th N.I. to return to Maligaum, Nov. 21. MILLAR, Asst. surg. to aff. aid to 25th N.I. and convicts en route to pres. until relieved by Wright, Nov. 13; to med. ch. of the subsid. jail in Salsette, Nov. 20. MONTIFIORE, assist. surg. to aff. med. aid to 1st gren. N.I. MOSGROVE, Assist. surg. to accomp. inv. of 2nd Eur. L.I. fr. Vingoria to pres. Nov. 13; posted to 1st L.C. but to join the 22nd N.I. at Baroda, Nov. 30; to proc. to Baroda and assume med. ch. of 22nd N.I. dur. abs. of Nicholson. SANDERSON, Assist. surg. to rec. med. ch. of the staff at Asseerghur, v. Mackenzie. SKELDING, Assist. surg. W. to join 21st N.I. for the purpose of taking med. ch. of a wing of that regt. Nov. 21. WRIGHT, Assist. surg. 25th N.I. to aff. med. aid to the staff and details at Malligaum, Nov. 28. WYLLIE, Assist. surg. M.D. 16th N.I. to rec. med. ch. of duties of the Bhooj agency, Nov. 18. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. BIRD, Surg. J. to Nov. 30, in ext. on m. c. GRAY, A. 2nd assist. to coll. and mag. of Sholapore, pl. in ch. of HARRISON, Assist. surg. F. leave canc. Nov. 21. M'KENZIE, Assist. surg. F. W. 8th N.I. 1 mo. fr. Nov. 16, to Bombay, on m. c. M'LENNAN, sup. surg. 1 mo. fr. Nov. 16, in ext. to rem. at Khundalla. own. GIBBON, Mr. purser fr. the Euphrates to the Clive. HUNT, Mr. Mids. N. F. to be mate. JACKSON, Asst. surg. serv. plac. at disp. of sup. I. N. Nov. 17, rel. Asst. surg. Moore. JOLIFFE, Mids. Q. K. leave of abs. on m. c. ext. to Nov. 30. MONK, Mr. Mids. perm. to reside on shore, on m. c. DOMESTIC. BIRTHS. BARR, the lady of Capt. N. 2nd Eur. L.I. s. at Bombay, Nov. 29. JACKSON, the lady of Capt. Thos. 10th. N.I. s. at Kurrachee, Nov. 11. LOCH, the lady of Lieut. Wm. 1st L.C. s. at Ahmedabad, Nov. 8. NASH, the wife of Lieut. Alex. eng. s. at Poona, Nov. 15. RIVETT, the wife of L. C. C. s. at Malabar Hill, Nov. 13. WINGATE, the wife of Capt. G. eng. d. at Dharwar, Nov. 16. MARRIAGES. ANNESLEY, Lieut. J. T. 26th N.I. to Harriet, d. of Robert Winn, at Bombay, Nov. 19. BIGGS, Lieut. Thos. art. to Mary, d. of the Rev. W. Beynon, at Belgaum, Nov. 17. HARRISON, Asst. surg. Francis, to Harriet, d. of Thos. Robinson, at Ahmedabad. Nov. 8. JEFFERSON, Joseph, to Isabella, d. of M. Briggs, at Byculla, Nov. 25. LARKINS, Thos. B. M.s. to Julia M. d. of Lieut. col. Soppitt, at Baroda, Nov. 25. NASH, Rev. to Caroline Whittell, at Kurrachee, Nov. 23. POLE, Wm. to Matilda, d. of the late Rev. H. Gauntlett, at Bombay, Nov. 26. WRIGHT, James, to Alexa, d. of Wm. Fraser, at Bombay, Nov. 18. DEATHS. BAKER, Wm. K. at Byculla, aged 38, Nov. 24. CRANBROOK, James Wm. at Ahmedabad, aged 22, Nov. 3. STANLEY, Lieut. T. B. 2nd batt. art. at Kurrachee, Nov. 24. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS. Nov. 18. Steamer Carnatic, Beyts, Surat.-19. Agnes, Scowcroft, Calcutta.-23. Currency, Wainwright, Newcastle; Stalkartt, Howard, Calcutta ; steamer Phlox, Church, Sea.-24. St. Lawrence, Newlandy, Liverpool.-25. Dorisina, Freeman, Liverpool.-27. Steamer Sir J. R. Carnac, Beyts, Surat.-28. Mor, Alston, HongKong.-29. Steamer Seaforth, Higgs, Colombo and Cannanore; steamer Indus, Kingcombe, Kurrachee; William Stewart, Jamison, Greenock; Lascars Thompson, London.-30. Steamer Sir C. Forbes, Litchfield, Ceylon.-DEC. 1. Malabar, Pare, London. PASSENGERS ARRIVED. Per Carnatic.-Professor A. B. Orlebar. Per St. Lawrence.-Mr. M. Malone. Per Dorisina.-Mrs. Freeman. Per Seaforth.-J. Drummond, H.M.'s 10th hussars. Per Indus.-Mr. A. Dawes, Mr. J. Stockham, Mrs. Wallace, Capt. Ramsay, H.M.'s 14th drags.; Capt. Neynoe, H.M.'s 17th regt.; Capt. Jones, 12th N.I.; Lieut. Rigaud, H.M.'s 60th rifles; Lieut. Cohan, H.M.'s 86th regt. ; Asst. Surg. Wicers, M.D.; Asst. Surg. Hyslop, M.D.; Lieut. Teschemaker, art.; Rev. J. C. Marchetta, R. C. Chaplain, and Mr. Spark. Per Sir C. Forbes.-Sir W. Hoste, Bart. Comdr. R.N. and servant; W. Simpson, Esq. Ben. C.S.; Capt. Gribble, H.C.S.; Capt. F. J. Banks, Capt. Blogg, 7th Mad. L.C.; Lieut. Rich, 46th Mad. N.I.; Lieut. Kane, 15th Bom. N.I.; Khaikusroo Hormurjee, and Ardaseer Rustomjee. Per Malabar.-Mrs. Cavaye, Mrs. White and Child, Mrs. Parry and child, Mrs. Rowland and child, Mrs. Pare, Mrs. Elliott, two Misses Elliott, Lieut.-Col. Cavaye, 3rd N.I.; Major F. White, Lieuts. Aldridge and Steward, H.M.'s 8th foot; Dr. Deas, Bom. army; Messrs. Kays and Gow, Cadets Bom. army; Mrs. Shaw and two children, Mrs. Loughnan, A. N. Shaw and Loughnan, Bom. C.S.; M. B. Binning, Mad. C.S.; Mrs. Smith, Misses Frazer and J. Frazer, Messrs. Chitty and St. Clair, and Master Smith, Mr. Huxham, Mesdames McArthur, McIsley, Maseron, Abbott, Bateman, and Martin; Miss Ann McArthur, Messrs. B. Hunt, C. Monnet, and H. Handley; Lewis de Souza, Shaikh Essa, Shaikh Ismael, Mary Ann, Rose, and Salma. DEPARTURES. Nov. 14. Claudia, Peele, London.-16. stm. Indus, Kingcombe, Kurrachee; Tigris, Leeds, Aden.-17. Sulimany, Monk, Calcutta ; Lysander, Sangster, Madras; Helen Mary, Winn, Malabar.-20. Victory, Potter, Glasgow.-21. stm. Berenice, Barron, Kurrachee; Charles Forbes, Willis, Calcutta.- 23. stm. Phlox, Church, Surat.25. Julia, Jones, Malabar and Calcutta.-26. Hydree, -. to Cochin and Colombo.-27. Persia, Morrise, London. DEC. 2. Stm. Victoria, Barker, Suez. PASSENGERS DEPARTED. Per Sulimany.-Mrs. Hutchinson and child. Per Lysander.-Mrs. Campbell and two children; Miss Richetts; Mr. Arthur Taylor. Per stm. Cleopatra (in addition to those published in our last No.) -Lieut. Richard Hughes, 16th M.N.I. to Suez. Per Charles Forbes.-Mr. C. B. Baxter. Per Helen Mary.-Mrs. Winn. Per Phlox.-Lieut. E. P. Arthur and Lieut. Hardy. Per Julia.-Mrs. Jones and child. THE BOMBAY MARKET.-Since the departure of the last Mail our market for imports has continued in a very depressed state. The sales of the past fortnight are limited in amount, and prices, generally, exhibit a considerable reduction upon those current a few weeks ago-this state of things has been caused entirely by the gambling bargains in opium, to which we alluded in our last issue, and until the result of the Government sale of opium, which was to take place on the 30th ult. at Calcutta, becomes known here, we cannot but have commercial distrust amongst the native mercantile community, and serious interruption to business. The Marwarrie dealers are deeply involved in these gambling transactions, and in the meantime their purchases, usually large at this season, have been entirely suspended. JAVA. THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF NETHERLANDS INDIA, &c. &c. &c. Makes Known, Wishing to promote the trade and industry of the manifold islands and possessions of Netherlands India, by the establishment of a main central point suited for trade by barter, where the different articles of produce from the said islands and possessions can be readily realised, and where on the other hand all their wants may be supplied in sufficient quantity and variety. Considering that the capital of Macassar, from its excellent geographical position, good roadstead, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants, appears destined in preference to any other possession in Netherlands India, to become a great central point of trade beween those possessions and the neighbouring countries. And wishing to remove all the obstacles precluding the full enjoyment of the natural advantages which Macassar offers, and by which trade and navigation are impeded and obstructedHas thought fit and understood To decide. 1st. That from and after the 1st of January 1847, the town of Macassar shall be a free port, where goods of every description whatsoever and without reference to the flag, may be freely imported and exported without payment of duties, either on the cargo, or of tonnage, harbour or anchorage dues on the ships, and without the traders being subject to any formalities on the score of import and export duties. 2nd. That therefore the regulations bearing on the importation, the sale, and possession of fire-arms and gunpowder, fixed by the decree of August 8, 1828, No. 26 for the harbour and town of Macassar are abrogated, and consequently the free admission and exportation of munitions of war at the place is granted by these presents. 3rd. That the importation and exportation of opium at Macassar will likewise be free and subject to no restrictive regula. tions, with the understanding, however, that the traders in opium will have to conform to the local regulations in reference to the opium farm. 4th. That of the Chinese junks which are discharged at Ma. cassar, the tax, imposed by article 20 the publication of 28th August, 1818, and the resolution of 4th October, 1819, No. 20, will no longer be claimed, nor that on behalf of the Chinese Hospital prescribed by resolution of 5th March, 1832, No. I. 5th. That on the remaining places, situated in the govern ment districts of Macassar no import or export duties will be levied on goods imported or exported by native craft from or to Macassar, whilst no square-rigged vessels will be admitted at those ports. 6th. That the Governor of Macassar will be at liberty to admit foreigners, and to allow them to establish themselves temporarily at the said place for the purposes of trade. And that no one should pretend ignorance on this score, the present will be published and pasted up wherever it is customary. Ordain, &c. &c. &c. Given at Buitenzorg, 9th Sept. 1846. - Singapore Free Press. CEYLON. DOMESTIC. BIRTH. WISE, Mrs. Wm. s. at Uda Bulargame, Oct. 21. DEATHS. DE HEAN, F. L. at Colombo, aged 8, Oct. 29. KELSON, C. H. M. s. of Capt. Ceylon rifle regt. at Brambragaha, aged 29, Oct. 26. WONTERAZ, A. J. at Colombo, aged 66, Oct. 20. SINGAPORE. DOMESTIC. BIRTHS. LEWIS, the lady of W. T. s. at Penang, Sept. 27. VEIGE, the lady of J. H. s. at Malacca, Sept. 21. DEATH. BAUSUM, Maria, wife of Rev. J. G. at Penang, Oct. 21. CHINA. THE EXPENDITURE OF CEYLON FOR 1846.-We are enabled to lay before our readers an abstract return of the expenditure of this colony for the past year, which will be found especially interesting at this moment, when reforms and retrenchments are called for on all sides. In juxta-position to this abstract we place a similar document for the colony of New South Wales in 1839, not so much to shew any difference in the gross, as to direct attention to the remarkable disproportion of the amounts under particular heads, and amongst these we may instance Military and Pensions. Governor and Civil Estb... Judicial and Police do. Survey and Roads, and ƒ 24,958 3 Ceylon Expenditure, 3 Public Works 44,919 15 63 Military and Military Works... Commissariat (Civil).. Ecclesiastical Establishment. 1845. £197,096 7 34 53,310 1 04 69,907 18 93 75,645 9 12 7,418 5 31 8,182 0 24 25,191 8 4 8,671 19 6 3,806 2 4 448,729 11 10 £240,673 11 8 BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF CEYLON. Head- Quarters, Colombo, 20th Oct. 1846. 1. The following movement of troops will take place when the deputy quarter-master general shall have made the necessary arrangements for carrying them into effect. 2. The 95th regiment, now stationed in Kandy and Trincomalie, will be held in readiness to embark for Hongkong in the transports which are to convey the 37th regiment to this island. 3. The head-quarter companies of the 95th regiment from Kandy will be removed to Colombo when the weather permits, and be replaced by head-quarters of the 15th regiment: the detachment of the 95th regiment at Trincomalie, when relieved, will embark there, and proceed direct to their destination. 4. Six companies of the Ceylon rifles will be held in readiness to proceed to Hongkong at the same time as the 95th regiment. Lieutenant-colonel Braybrooke will be pleased to make the necessary preparation for carrying this into effect, and he will also take immediate steps for completing the regiment under his command to twenty-two companies (according to orders from the Horse Guards) of 100 men each. He will submit the details and the names of the officers to proceed to Hongkong, and also those for the recruiting service, and where he proposes stationing the latter, for the lieutenant-general's approbation. (Signed) E. CHARLTON, Lieut. col. Dep. adj. gen. DOMESTIC. DEATH. CAMPBELL, Capt. of the brig Royal Exchange, at Cumsingmoon, on board the Great Britain, Sept. 27. ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL, LONDON, TUESDAY, January 5, 1847. OUR friendship for the cause of Teetotalism is well known; and as a mark of that friendship we should recommend the advocates of this cause to merge it with that of the Peace-people who conjure up LUNNS to write falsehoods: for the moral improvement of the world. The two sets of reformers might work wonders by a coalition, and we hope that they will take the matter into their serious consideration. We have been led into these remarks by reading in the Bengal Hurkaru a paragraph announcing the formation of a "Hindoo Temperance Society." The calm and truly temperate character of the pledge was what particularly struck our notice and directed our thoughts to the pacific professions (we say nothing of their acts) of the Peace Society. A Hindoo Temperance Society we should have thought about as much called for as a Society for preventing the Dorsetshire labourers, at five shillings a week, from indulging in luxury and extravagance. But as, whether necessary or not, such a society has been formed, we congratulate its members on their adherence to their title manifested in the language of their pledge. They really do beat the Peace Society in this respect. The pledge is in the form of a letter, which is to be addressed to any member of the society "with whom the writer may be acquainted, or may choose to address." The Coggeshall men made it a sine quâ non of their embodying themselves in a corps of volunteers, that they should all be officers, and this seems to be the case with the Hindoo Temperance Society. It has as many officers as members, for every one is entitled to act as an officer. But the pledge itself is a curiosity in its way. Thus it runs: -"I beg to acquaint you, by way of pledge, that from this date I abandon the vicious habit which it is the object of your society to restrain. I further pledge myself not to recur to the practice in future." This, indeed, is not very definite. What is the object of the society? Is it Teetotalism proper-universal abstinence-or Teetotalism spurious, which proscribes the vulgar elements with which vulgar people seek to exhilarate their vulgar souls, but leaves the rich man in the full enjoyment of his port and his sherry, his claret and champagne? We say nothing of the little gentle stimulant after soup, or the fragrant liqueur which qualifies the coffee. These, we suppose, are stolen enjoyments, or if avowed, are excused on the plea of health. Does the Hindoo Temperance Society keep both its eyes open, or does it wink with one turned to the rich, and cast a horrible scowl with the other bent upon the poor? This seems uncertain, but the style of the pledge is so silky, that it might have been framed for the especial use of gentle Master Slender. As Bottom the weaver would roar like a sucking-dove, so squeaketh the pledge of the Hindoo Temperance Society. Perhaps, however, this is in good taste and keeping, provided the society be a real, genuine teetotal society, and not a sham. When men declare that they will never drink any thing stronger than tea, there is a degree of fitness in making the declaration in milk and water. THE Bengal papers are overflowing with mesmerism. A Dr. ESDAILE has long been amusing himself with this science, or pretended science, and we some time since called attention to the ill success of some of his experiments. It seems, however, that the attempts to push mesmerism into notice had been so successful, that it was deemed proper by the government to appoint a medical committee to inquire into the merits of the new practice. The committee consisted of the Inspector-General of Hospitals, and six other members. After fourteen days' laborious investigation of cases selected by Dr. ESDAILE, and treated in his own way, the report is, on the whole, decidedly unfavourable. There were many remarkable facts connected with these experiments, which we cannot undertake to notice, but they are narrated with much minuteness and care in the report of the committee. Wishing to pursue their inquires further, they proposed to Dr. ESDAILE that he should take a hundred patients at random from Dr. JACKSON's wards (Dr. JACKSON is surgeon to the Native Hospital), subject them to mesmeric manipulation before the committee, and shew what proportion of the number could be brought into the condition of insensibility to pain. But this did not suit Dr. ESDAILE at all, and he refused to undertake the experiment. 66 The cases actually examined were selected by Dr. ESDAILE himself; but even in them he was not invariably successful. Three cases were dismissed, say the committee, without satisfactory effect. One of the parties was suffering from a slight cough," and thus we learn that a slight cough is an invincible impediment to the successful operation of mesmerism. What! cannot mesmerism, which can totally subdue sensibility to pain, silence "a slight cough?" No, people with slight coughs, it seems, are out of the reach of mesmeric influence, and they must withdraw. Another patient was dismissed for having taken spirits. Now, whether the dismission was a penalty inflicted by the virtuous indignation of the Doctor to mark his disapprobation of the pernicious habit of dram-drinking, or whether alcohol and mesmerism are two antagonist powers that cannot subsist together, is not clear. We incline to the latter opinion. We have seen many of the effects attributed to mesmerism produced by whiskey, and we conclude that each of these vanquishers of human consciousness is jealous of his power, and will "bear no rival near his throne." It seems that in several cases the pulse was evidently raised by the application of the mesmeric fluid-a result corresponding with a very common effect of coarser fluids which produce ordinary intoxication. Besides the two already mentioned, a third individual was rejected "for having resisted the mesmeric processes for eleven days, without conclusive results:" and most properly was he rejected. This man was evidently actuated by a deadly spirit of hatred to the noble science which he was to have illustrated. Resist for eleven days! This was direct and protracted mutiny; and it is to be regretted that there was not some mode more effective than mere dismissal, of punishing such awful contempt of the great science of sciences. The Doctor bade him be mesmerized; and after eleven days' labour, he would not. Can human perverseness go beyond this? All who are worthy of the name of men would rejoice at the discovery of any mode by which necessary surgical operations could be rendered painless; but, then, before we are called on to rejoice, we have a right to be satisfied that the object is attained. Dr. ESDAILE failed of satisfying the medical committee, and he refused to enter upon a course of experiments which, if successful, might have removed their doubts. When a man has no faith in his own professions, how can he expect other people to have faith in them? True science woos the light; it courts inquiry and challenges experiment. Quackery shields itself in darkness, and requires confident assertions to be taken as proofs. Whether Dr. ESDAILE be a philosopher or a quack, we shall not determine. Let him settle the matter with the committee or let time, the great arbiter, settle it. In concluding their report, the committee solicited a communication of the intentions of Government on this point - whether, should further inquiry be resolved on, it should be limited strictly to such experiments as Dr. ESDAILE might wish to perform, or whether the committee were to extend the investigations as they might think desirable. The Government determined, strangely enough in our opinion, that Dr. ESDAILE should do as he pleased; that he should have a small experimental hospital under his own management, in which he might mesmerize to his heart's content those willing to be mesmerized, and turn out without let or molestation, or even remark, all obstinate rebels who refused to be mesmerized, after giving the operators eleven days' labour to no purpose. He is to encourage the resort to this famous hospital of all "respectable persons," non-medical as we understand it as well as medical; and as we know what sort of judges in such cases are "respectable persons," ignorant of the very elements of medical science, we may look for a repetition in India of the ST. JOHN LONG madness in London. There are indeed to be medical "visitors" appointed by Government, but they are to have no power of interference. They may look and shake their heads, but that is all. Mesmeric quackery is therefore looking up in Calcutta, and we may anticipate for it a long and triumphant reign in that city of palaces. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. DEC. 3.-MUMMI RAM AWASTY V. LHEO CHURN AWASTY.This suit was commenced in 1815, in the Provincial Court of Patna. The appellant had entered into a compromise, on an agreement that he should do what amounts to entering satisfaction on the record of the Court in this country, in consideration of the payment of Rs. 200. This he afterwards refused to do, and asked that the decisions of the Courts in India, by which he was ordered to enter satisfaction previous to the receipt of the money, might be set aside. Lord LANGDALE dismissed the appeal. The question of costs was reserved. Messrs. Wigram, Q. C., and Moore were for the appellant; Messrs. A. Buller, Q. C., Jackson, and Forsyth for the respondent. RERVUM PERSAD V. MUSSUMUT RADHA BEEBY.-This case was but partially heard to-day. For the appellant, Messrs. Buller, Q.C., and Forsyth; for the respondent, Messrs. Wigram, Q. C., Lloyd, and Moore, who were heard on the following day. Judgment was reserved. DEC. 11.-CRAWFORD V. SPOONER.-Sirs E. H. FUST and E. RYAN having taken their seats, this case, an appeal from Bombay, was proceeded with. Mr. Serjeant Channell and Sir J. Bayley were heard for the appellant, and Mr. Wigram, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Forsyth, was in part heard for the respondent, when the case was adjourned to the following Tuesday, on which occasion, after hearing the counsel for the respondent, and the reply for the appellant, judgment was reversed. The case was one of ship registration, and wholly uninteresting to the general reader. DEC. 15.-ATTORNEY-GENERAL U. BRODIE.-This appeal was allowed. The case involved a point of practice in the Supreme Court of Madras, and was uninteresting except to the parties concerned. For the appellant, the Attorney-General; for the respondent, Messrs. Wigram, Q. C., and Lloyd. MISCELLANEOUS. A PUNJAB ANECDOTE.-General Avitabile, whose character and habits have been drawn to the life in the pages of "The Adventurer in the Punjab," had a daughter (the child of some favourite beauty in his harem) on whom he doted. He brought her up and watched over her, with jealous care, in a cloisterlike building which may still be seen in the garden of the general's house, now occupied by Colonel Courtland. Here she spent the years of her youth, and grew up a lovely girl. So carefully was all access to her guarded, that even her meals were conveyed to her from without by means of a tour such as are used at convent gates. The very shadow of a man had never crossed the threshold of her retreat. And for what high and romantic destiny does the reader think this fair recluse was reserved? Does he picture to himself some young Sikh warrior, who had heard the tale, crouching solitarily night after night among the roses beneath the windows of her prison, and singing in low melting voice the charms of liberty and love, until she forgot her father and fled with her lover to his fort? Does he hear that shout for "a horse and sword!" and see those fifty iron cavaliers spurring madly after one who seems to press a damsel to his broad breast and bid her be not afraid? The old leader of the fifty, far, far, in front, with grey hair streaming in the wind, and his Italian eyes lit up with the prospect of revenge, comes nearer at every bound. The gallant beast on which the young warrior rides sinks deep into the sand at every step beneath his double burden; but mad with the spur still staggers on. But fifty yards and the Raví is gained. The old man draws his sword. It flashes in the moonlight, bright, cold, and merciless as him who wields it. Not a word is spoken; there is not time to curse or pray; not a horse's length between the pursuer and pursued! and ten yards further to the river. The old man strikes his heel into his horse; they are together; his left hand drops the reins, and reaches out greedily towards the foe; his right is in the air; another moment and-a scream-a plunge-they have missed the ford;-the young warrior and the old man's daughter are deep beneath the swift waters of the Raví!-Is this, we say, our readers' dream of Avitabile and his daughter? Alas for romance! Alas too for fact! he married her to his cook; a young Mahonimedan to whom he also gave with her a large dowry of money, jewels, and precious stones. Time passed on, Avitabile had returned to Europe to receive a jewelled sword from the Hon. East-India Company, and many honours from the kings and princes of the civilized world. cook and his bride had sunk into private life; wishing for The nothing more than to be left in quiet to enjoy their wealth. But they lived in times when the government being poor it was lèse majesté in a subject to be rich. To hunt out traitors of this kind, and confiscate their property, was a favourite branch of Pundit Julla's administration. The story of our little heroine and her culinary spouse therefore soon reached his ears and excited his cupidity. In the service of General Avitabile there had been a Kashmir Brahman, named Jodha Ram. He was a handsome, dark featured man, with ability enough to rise to be the general's dewan; in which capacity he continued for many years; and when Avitabile returned to Europe, succeeded to the command of his battalions, and became a general. By a sort of Punjab propriety he was now selected by the minister as the fittest person to plunder his patron's daughter: and the pundit seems not to have been mistaken in his man. The spoilt, petted, prisoned, ill-used daughter of Avitabile was stripped of her jewels and robbed of her riches. But retribution soon overtook the ungrateful servant. Pundit Julla was murdered, and Jowahir Singh sat in his place. Jodha Ram gave offence to the new minister and was given over to one of those cruel sentences which Runjit Singh was accustomed to call mercy. But Jodha Ram was a Brahman, and no Hindu would do the deed which would secure to himself damnation through a hundred generations. The Kotwal of the city of Lahore,-a Mussalman, and no very particular person, who had for years been the municipal instrument of violence,-was therefore ordered to cut off the ears and nose of the wretched man. He too refused; and we blush to record that the only man in Lahore who could be found to execute the barbarous decree was a European. Mr. Gardener, or Gordana, in the Sikh artillery, took a razor, and with his own hands in cold blood, without personal enmity of any sort, inflicted the punishment which Sikhs, Hindus, and Mussalmen had shrunk from with disgust. But then he was made a colonel; and, as Walpole observed, Every man has his price. The only thing is to find it out!""-Calcutta Review. AN INDIAN MARCH.-What a motley and amusing scene is an Indian line of march! Here, Jack sepoy, bitterly cold, has tied up his head like a stage-coach traveller, and then stuck his full dress chako on the top of it,-much askew. Behind him, rejoicing in the privilege of his rank, jogs along on a miserable bare-ribbed tattú a grey-haired subadar; his very oldest clothes are put on economically for the occasion; but round his throat glitters through the dust his gold-beaded necklace; and on his left breast perhaps dangles on a ribbon, twice too long, a medal or a star. Next, covering the whole column with dust, canters by a devil-may-care subaltern; his forage cap cocked knowingly over his ear; a cheroot in his mouth puffing away like a chimney; and under him the best Bombay Arab that could be got "Bless my for money, though it could not carry his bills. soul, Sir," croaks a wheezy voice on the other side of the road, 'how often must I tell you to keep that beast in the rear?" It is the fat major, who has pulled up in his buggy to spit the ensign's dust out of his mouth, and knuckle it out of his eyes. On one side of the road a hackery has fallen, in the dark, into a ditch; and on the other, a gun. The former will be there half the day; for the gariwan is smoking his hukah and waiting till Providence sends somebody to help him. The other will be all right in ten minutes, for a dozen strapping horse artillery men have " put their shoulders to the wheel," and are hauling away to a jolly chorus. Chaque pays, chaque mode! Look at that half-clad knock-kneed wretch, shuffling along at one untiring pace, with a pliant bambú over his shoulder, and, at either end of it, a heavy green box slung by ropes. He is a banghy bearer ; and you may take an inventory of his load without opening the pitarahs; one of them is always devoted to a guthri,† and the other to plates, dishes, and a teapot; for woe betide the khidmutgar who has not breakfast ready the moment the regiment comes upon its ground. But mind your head, or it will be knocked off by that half-mad camel who is overladen with tent and "tots," and is dancing about the road, furious at the clattering on his back. That red haired grenadier, with the yellow facings, is one of the gallant 9th foot; and if what he is now swearing at the camel was not pure Irish, there could not be a doubt about his country, for at the end of his bayonet he has slung his boots, and is walking barefoot to warm himself. Whose hackery is that with a slipper bath in it? There are no ladies in camp; it belongs to one of the hospitals; and those three black heads poking out at the mouth of the bath are the hospital cook's children, who live in it when it is not wanted. Such are some of the queer incidents and characteristic scenes which Sharp work, *The culprits, bleeding as they were, were driven out. "We Bellasis," observed the king, as I looked after the mutilated thieves. do not take life, but we punish."-Adventurer in the Punjab, Chapter 1st. †The Indian vade mecum; a bundle containing a change of clothes, and something of every thing that "master" possesses. Tin pots out of which European soldiers drink. " |