BOYD, Maj. G. 2nd N.I. to Europe for 3 years, on m. c. CHAMBERLAIN, Ens. C. F. F. 26th N.I. 1 mo. to rem. at Bombay. COLEY, Lieut. J. C. 10th N.I. 2 mo. fr. March 15, to Bombay. COLYEAR, Lieut. E. T. A. 3rd N.I. fr. March 18 to April 30, in ext. to proc. to Mahabuleshwur, in m. c. COOPER, Brev. maj. J. 7th N.I. to Eur. on furl. for 3 years. CORSELLIS, Lieut. col. H. N. 18th N.I. to Eur. for 3 years, on m. c. CUMMING, Lieut. col. 1st B.C. regt. fus. to Bombay, 3 mo. on m. c. March 4. DUNSTERVILLE, Col. J. H. perm. to proc. to Eng. on April 1. EVANS, Capt. J. A. 2nd in com. Guzerat irr. horse, to March 1, in ext. FEARON, Lieut. P. S. 14th N.I. fr. March 10 to April 20, to Bombay. GOODWIN, Lieut. R. T. 16th N.I. fr. Mar. 25 to May 31, to GORDON, Lieut. 4th N.I. to Bombay, on m. c. March 23. GRANT, Ens. G. 9th N.I. for 1 mo. fr. March 9, to rem. at HUDSON, Capt. C. W. 16th M.N.I. for 1 mo. fr. March 1, to proc. to Bombay, on m. c. HUGHES, Brig. gen. S. c.B. fr. March 1 to 31, in ext. to remain at Mahabuleshwur, on m. c. JAMESON, Lieut. J. T. 28th N.I. fr. March 15 to 25, to rem. at presidency. JOHNSON, Ens. W. T. 6th N.I. fr. April 1 to May 15, to Bombay. KANE, Lieut. F. A. C. fr. March 20 to April 25, to Bombay. KAY, Lieut. B. 61st N.I. from April 1 to May 20, to Bombay, to be exam. in Mahratta. KEILY, Capt. J. R. 2 mo. March 24. LOWRIE, Lieut. R. N. 29th N.I. fr. March 18 to April 30, to Bombay, on m. c. MC KENZIE, Lieut. W. F. 8th N.I. fr. March 20 to May 1, to Bombay, to be exam. in Mahratta. MORSE, Lieut. C. H. 14th N.I. to Europe for 3 years, on m. c. OUTRAM. Lieut. col. J. C. B. to presidency, fr. March 21 to April 20, on m. c. PALIN, Lieut. W. H. 2 mo. to Surat, April 1. PELLY, Capt. H. J. 8th N.I. to Europe, on furl. for 3 years. REID, 2nd Lieut. J. h. art. fr. March 15 to June 15, to Mahabuleshwar, on m. c. ROBERTS, Lieut. col. H. G. in ext. to March 20. STACK, Lieut. col. M. 3rd L.C. fr. March 17 to 31, to rem. at Bombay, on m. c. TREMENHERE, Capt. C. W. engs. 3 years furl. to Europe, on m. c. WHITLIE, Brev. maj. W. T. h. art. fr. March 12 to April 30, to the presidency, on m. c. WILSON, Lieut. col. G. J. fr. March 18 to April 30, to rem. at Bombay. WRIGHT, Lieut. P. C. 29th N.I. two years to Neilgherries, on m. c. YOUNGHUSBAND, Lieut. 9th N.I. fr. April 1, to proc. to Mahabuleshwur. MEDICAL. APPOINTMENTS, &c. BARRINGTON, Surg. W. B. posted to 9th N.I. March 15. at pres. surg. to coroner, and surg. to Bycullah schools dur. abs. of Carter on other duty, March 24. COLES, Asst. surg. W. C. to be asst. to garr. surg. at Bombay, v. Ogilvie, March 12. DEAS, Asst. surg. J. pl. in ch. of coll. treasury in Khandeish. DE CRESPIGNY, Asst. surg. E. N. C. to proc. to Sciude for gen. duty under supt. surg. of that province, March 30. FRASER, Asst. surg. A. R. to proc. in med. ch. of a det. of recruits for 1st Eur. fus. to proc. to Scinde for gen. duty under supt. surg. of that province, March 30. FRASER, Surg. 12th N.I. to relieve Surg. Edgecome fr. med. ch. of civ. est. at Kolapoor, fr. date of depart. of head qrs. and right wing of 8th Madras N.I. GIBSON, Dr. A. to be conserv. of forests, March 22. ing to Ahmednuggur, upon completion of which duty he will proceed to Dhoolia and assume med. ch. of the wing of the 25th N.I. at that station, March 17. MAITLAND, Asst. surg. placed in temp. ch. of the Rutnagherry coll. March 13. MCALISTER, Asst. surg. to be att. to 1st light cav. lancers, Feb. 18, to rel. Asst. surg. D. A. Carnegie of med. ch. of 23rd N.I. MEAD, Asst. surg. C. C. to proc. to Scinde for gen. duty under supt. surg. of that province, March 30. MITTALL, Asst. surg. to have med. ch. of the subsidiary jail in Sal- PIRIE, Asst. surg. J. M.D. to do duty with 1st Eur. fus. to join. THOMPSON, Asst. surg. to rec. med. ch. of staff and details fr. Surg. Montefiore, March 20. WILMOT, Asst. surg. to rep. to presidency and placed at disp. of sup. surg. pres. div. March 13. WINCHESTER, Asst. surg. rec. med. ch. of the subsidiary jail in Salsette, fr. Asst. surg. Millar, March 6. WYLLIE, Asst. surg. D. 16th N.I. to ass. med. ch. of cantonment staff and details at Shalapoor, March 15. YOUNG, Asst. surg. staff surg. at Hydrabad, to aff. med. aid to 3rd N.I. PASSED EXAMINATION IN NATIVE LANGUAGES. GLALS, Assist. surg. W. E. MAITLAND, Assist. surg. G. G. W. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. NICHOLSON, Surg. B. A. R. 1 mo. fr. March 15; to Bombay on m. c. OGILVIE, Assist. surg. G. M. M.D. 3 years' furl. to Europe on m. c. MARINE DEPARTMENT. BONE, Purser, F. G. leave of abs. 1 year to Europe, March 19. CHILD, Mr. Mids. S. leave of abs. to Mahabuleshwur Hills, on m. c. in ext. to March 31. Cook, Mr. Mids. H. O. ret. to duty March 9. RENWICK, Mr. Mids. J. M. to be suspended fr. the service pending the pleasure of the Hon. Co. of Directors, March 19. DOMESTIC. BIRTHS. BAUGH, the lady of Lieut. Charles R. 9th N.I. s. at Tannah, March 24. BOURKE, the wife of Patrick, d. at Kalbadavie, March 12. CARVALHO, the wife of D. s. at Dharwar, March 21. SIPPE, the wife of C. A. s. at Rajcote, March 10. SUTHERLAND, the wife of Asst. apoth. s. at Hingolee, Feb. 22. THOMPSON, the lady of Lieut. C. 2nd E. L. I. s. at Colaba, March 26. THORNTON, the wife of Thos. s. at Bombay, March 25. WAHAB, the lady of the late Capt. Wm. M. d. at Bombay, March 29. WILLOUGHBY, the lady of Capt. Henry J. 2nd E. L. I. s. (since dead), at Bombay, March 20. MARRIAGES. ERSKINE, C. J. c.s. to Emily G. d. of the Hon. L. R. Reid, mem. of Council of Bombay, at Byculla, March 18. JOSEPH, M. to Nanaan, d. of E. Johannes, at Bushire, Feb. 8. LANCASTER, Lieut. Octavius D. 14th N.I. to Rosina Maria, d. of Geo. Blenkins, at Kurrachee, March 15. PEET, Asst. surg. John, to Jane Elizabeth Barker, at Byculla, March 27. DEATHS. AUGUSTO, A. C. at Bombay, March 20. JAMESON, Maj. J. St. C. 18th N.I. at Bombay, March 23. RICKARDS, Bertha G. d. of Capt. at Mhow, aged 5 mo. March 11. TUCKER, Nathaniel T. at Mazagon, aged 33, March 30. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS. MARCH 14. General Wood, Stokoe, Madras; steamer Indus, Galbraith, Kurrachee.-16. Ketch, Ceylon, Colombo.-17. Sophia, Stavers, Calcutta ; Duncan Ritchie, Laurence, Aden.-20. Steamer Berenice, Barron, Kurrachee; Glen Huntley, Barr, London.-21. Steamer Sir J. R. Carnac, Beyts, Damaun.-22. Kusrovie, Middleton, Siam.-24. William, Davis, Calcutta ; Childe Harold, Lilley, London; Eliza, Paterson, Madras; Euphrates, Lowe, Bassadore.-25. Ann Lockerby, Henry, Aden.-26. Philip Laing, Sharer, Aden.-28. Flora MacDonald, M.Pherson, Liverpool; Pearl, Gibbon, China and Singapore; steamer Medusa, Kingcombe, Kurrachee.-29. John Bagshawe, Julius, China and Singapore.30. Anna Eliza, Evans, China and Singapore; steamer Seaforth, Higgs, Colombo; steamer Victoria, Banks, Point de steamer Sir J. R. Carnac, Beyts, Surat.-31. Steamer Queen, Johnstone, Aden. PASSENGERS ARRIVED. Per Coquette.-F. J. Laight. Galle; Per General Wood.-Mrs. Stokoe and child, Mrs. Daly, and Miss Daly. Per steamer Indus.-Capt. E. T. Powell, Brev. major R. M. Hughes, dep. J. A. G. S. F. F.; Lieut. col. M. Stack, 3rd cav.; Surg. H. P. Hathorn, do. ; Vet. surg. E. Battersbee, do.; Capts. W. Stuart and G. Keane, H.M.'s 86th foot; Lieut. D. Gerahty, H.M.'s 17th foot; Lieut. W. H. Weaver, 86th foot; Lieut. W. F. Holbrow, 12th N.I.; Lieut. col. J. P. Cumming, 1st European fusileers. Per Duncan Ritchie.-Madame Desamonce, and Lieut. M'Gowan, 10th Bom. N.I. Per Sophia.-Henry Jackson, I.N. Per steamer Berenice.-Major Jameson, Capts. E. M. Clarke and F. A. Wetherall, H.M.'s 17th foot; Lieuts. A. Moxley and W. W. Johnson, 60th rifles; Lieut. Strettel, 29th N.I.; Asst. surg. Gibbons, staff; Asst. surg. Fraser. Per Childe Harold.-Miss Yarde, Messrs. Hand, Fitzgerald, Curry, Thompson, and Peter. Per Eliza.-Mrs. Paterson and family. Per steamer Medusa.-Capt. H. J. Pelly, 8th N.I.; Lieut. G. R. Douglas, 2nd troop h. art.; Lieut. E. Maude, 4th N.I. (Rifles); Asst. surg. Stock, 1st Eur. fus.; John McLeod. Per John Bagshawe.-Mrs. Dare and family, and Dr. Merritt. Per Falsum.-Mr. M. Barsick. Per steamer Seaforth.-E. Campbell. Per steamer Victoria.- Mrs. Rawlinson; Mrs. Capt. Birdwood, and 2 children; Master Birdwood, R. A. Pitcairn; Lieut. E. J. Charter, H.M.'s 8th foot; Etienne Amy, John Wells; Maj. C. R. Morton, 10th M.N.I.; Lieut. R. A. Morse, Bom. art.; Capt. W. E. Rawlinson, 1st Bom. Eur. fus.; Maj. R. J. Littlewood, Bom. nat. vet. batt.; Capt. C. Hodson and infant, 16th M.N.I.; Rev. Mr. Layton. Per steamer Queen.—Mr. Newall, cadet, Bom. army; and Mr. F. Trueman. DEPARTURES. MARCH 15. Sidney, Scolefield, Woosung; Ann, Knox, London; John Brewer, Brown, London.-15. Steamer Medusa, Kingcombe, Kurrachee; steamer Auckland, Hamilton, Aden; Maingay, Glass, Singapore.-16. Louisa, Miller, Liverpool.-17. Prince Albert, Thompson, China.-18. Crown, Johms, Liverpool.-21. Bertrand, Meacom, Calcutta.-23. Steamer Carnac, Beyts, Surat; Scotia, Strickland, London.-24. Lord Western, Rice, Singapore and China; steamer Phlox, Duverger, Surat.-25. Exmouth, Juddab.27. Victoria, Cruickshank, China; Recovery, Bryer, London.-28. Sir Herbert Compton, Browne, Singapore and China; Larpent, Bland, Liverpool. APRIL 1. Steamer Semiramis, Daniels, Suez. PASSENGERS DEPARTED. Per Sidney.-Lieut. Bolton and Capt. Cowie. Per Ann.-Head-quarters H.M.'s 17th foot, viz. Lieut. col. J. Pennycuick, C.B., K.H.; Capts. T. Prendergast and H. W. P. Welman; Lieuts. E. H. Cormick, C. Sawyers, and R. B. Codd; Surg. G. Archer, M.D.; Ensigns F. D. Wyatt and G. F. Lamert; Quar. mast. John Mulhall; 15 serjeants, 6 drummers, 203 rank and file, 11 women, and 14 children. Per Louisa.-Mr. Betts. Per John Brewer.-Mrs. Bourke, Mrs. Messiter, Miss Bonetti; Left wing H.M.'s 17th foot, viz. Col. P. M'Pherson, C.B.; Capts. O. P. Bourke and T. O. Ruttledge; Lieuts. G. H. Messiter and W. A. Armstrong: Asst. surg. J. B. Thompson, M.D.; Ensigns J. Nolan, E. J. Gardiner, and M'Pherson; 5 officer's children; 14 serjeants, 211 drummers and rank and file, 11 women, and 13 children; Mr. Angelo. Per Bertrand.-W. C. Rogers, Edmond Otis, and James Hay. ward. Per Scotia.-Capt. L. C. Bourchier, H.M.'s 17th foot; Capt. Per Sir H. Compton.-Mesdames Browne and Hemson. Per steamer Semiramis.-Mrs. Crawford, an infant, and 2 servants; Mrs. Keays; Mrs. Montgomerie and 2 children of Mrs. Bells, with 2 servants; Mrs. Stack, Mrs. Parsons, Mrs. Hunter and servant, Mrs. Boyd, Mrs. Pole, 2 children of Dr. Morehead's and servant, Miss Simson and servant, Miss Dunsterville, Brig. Dunsterville, Bom. army; Mr. Montgomerie, Bon. C. S.; Major gen. J. Hunter, Ben. army; Major J. Brocks, 2nd Bom. cav.; Major Boyd; L. A. Wallace; Lieut. col. Bradford; Lieut. col. Coreellis, 18th Bom. N.I.; Capt. Lemprerie; Lieuts. Bastard, Stocks, and Shiffner; W.W. Cargill, W. Smyttan, Lieut. Wedderburne, Dr. Neilson, Lieut. W. Browne; Lieut. Gerahty, H.M.'s 17th foot; R. W. Crawford; Lieut. col. Stack, 3rd Bom. cav.; Dr. Willis, 17th foot; Mr. V. Greenburgh, W. Pole; F. G. Bone, purser, I.N.; Capt. H. J. Pelly, 8th Bom. N. I.; Capt. B. G. Morison, 24th Bom. N.I.; Lieuts. A. E. Johnson and A. Moxley, H.M.'s 60th rifles; Lieut. M. B. Worsley, I. N.; Mons. Etienne Amy; M. C. Mounet.-To Aden. Meya Emaum Deen. The rate on London has ruled very steady at 2s. old. to 2s. 0ğd. at six months' sight: the former for bills from China with local endorsement, and the latter, local bills. The decline from the highest point of the month is owing to the large amount in Court of Directors' bills received by the last mail, with the probability of remittances to this country being continued, consequent upon the reduction in the rates at home, which was unlooked for here, while the Supreme Government have followed it up, by giving notice that a million sterling will be appropriated in the country, for advancing on the hypothecation of produce between this and May 1848, and for the present continue the rate of 2s. the rupee. IMPORTS. The import market manifests continued and increasing dulness. The scarcity of money generally felt has checked business, and there seems to be very little inquiry for transmission to the interior, while local wants would appear to have been satisfied by the purchases made in February last, and in the early part of March. The offers for nearly every description of goods are much lower than they were lately, and many parties, in consequence, are actually refusing to show their stocks in hand. CEYLON. THE Minerva, with the head-quarters of the 37th regt. anchored in the Roads to-day about noon; we have not yet obtained a shipping report. There are two ships in sight (4 p.m.) one supposed to be The Sibella, with the remaining division. The following are the names of the officers of the 37th and of the artillery by the Castle Eden and Romeo. Per Romeo.— Capt. Hamilton, Capt. Curteis, Lieut. Clutterbuck, Ens. George, and Staff Assist. Surg. Clayton, landed yesterday. Per Castle Eden.-Maj. S. Kelly, Capt. Atkinson, Lieuts. Staveley, Pelly, and Burton, Ens. Blois, and Assist. Surg. Forteath, of the 37th regt. ; remaining on board with No. 2 and 3 Co., destined for Trincomalie. Capt. Hamilton, Lieuts. McQueen, Lug, and Assist. Surg. Thornton, Roy. Art., to proceed on to Hong Kong. Lieuts. Pelly and Machel to remain in Colombo. Per Minerva.-37th regt. Lieut. Col. the Hon. G. A. Spencer, Capt. J. O. Lewis, Capt. A. M. A. Bowers, Lieut. W. J. Bazalgette, Lieut. C. Luxmore, Ens. T. Jackson, T. Stead, Adj. J. Jones, Qr. Mr. R. Hamilton, and Surg. A. Browne, M. D., 95th regt., Capt. H. Hume.-Times, March 9. DOMESTIC. MARRIAGE. OURS, Isaac, to Anne Harris, at Colombo, March 5. CHINA. REVENUE. The statement of the civil revenue and expenditure of the colony for the year 1846, which we now publish, although it still exhibits a large short-coming, is a considerable improvement on that of the previous year, shewing an increased revenue of 4,8047. 12s. 7 d., and a decreased expenditure of 6,3751. 9s. 84d.-together 11,1807. 2s. 44d.; being nearly the sum estimated by Mr. Montgomery Martin as the extreme amount that could altogether be squeezed out of "this poor and struggling settlement." It would have been desirable that the several items of income and disbursement had been more specifically stated. In this respect they are even more objectionable than last year; but, establishing a comparison as they stand, we find the increased revenue and decreased expenditure thus brought out : It is not usual to cavil at the sources of public revenue or its economical administration, yet we cannot help thinking that the largest items to the credit of Government, on both sides of the above statement, are the most objectionable. While we are without a church, and the road does not extend beyond Shek-pai-wan, there is nothing to boast of in the saving under the head "Public Works and Buildings;" and we should prefer seeing the "licenses at zero, rather than the opium farm should exist another year to ruin the prospects of the colony. It is, however, rapidly working its own destruction, for we learn that the present farmer, though he pays less by 150 dollars per month than he did last year, finds it a profitless speculation, and has offered to throw it up; and the Chinese traders, sensible of the depressing effects it has upon their traffic, have petitioned the Governor to abolish the farm altogether. The following is a translation of their petition, a copy of which was some time ago kindly obtained for us from its framers. The original Chinese is, we believe, inelegantly expressed, but that is of little consequence, so long as its argument is sound :— Petition of the Chinese Shopkeepers against the Opium Farm. The petitioners, apprehending that their Hongs will be ruined and their trade scattered, come unitedly to sue you, to secure the flourishing of all crafts. We, the people, came of our own accord to Hongkong to trade and traffic, and the small business which we obtained all depended upon opium. As the opium business last year was put into the hands of one company, so that the price was raised, therefore merchants from every quarter fell off and business diminished, which caused several of the shops to be closed. Apprehending the most disastrous consequences to our traffic, we are constrained to come unitedly and petition, hoping that you will make a thorough examination into the matter, and beg his Excellency to regard our requests, and give us the same freedom of trade as before, so that every shop may go on with its business, and all may continually share his Excellency's favour. We make our application in anxiety. (Without date, but transmitted through the Colonial Secretary in the end of December.) -Mail. COLONEL MABERLY IN CHINA. In our first page will be found a post-office notification, which we presume Mr. Hyland inserts according to instructions from home, for, with his experience here, it cannot be supposed he could approve of any thing so absurd and red-tapish. The London secretary must have been dreaming of railroads and regular despatches twice a-day, when he devised the too-late box for the Hong Kong post office, where, for a few hours after the arrival and before the despatch of the overland mails, more letters and papers are received and delivered than during all the rest of the month besides. The convenience the box will afford to the very few will be more than compensated by the mistakes into which the many will be led about pre-payments,-not to speak of the temptation to the coolies, who take the great bulk of the correspondence to the post office, to pop letters requiring to be prepaid into the slit,-a thing impossible at present, when all despatches must be delivered to a clerk at the window. Another excellent device of Col. Maberly to create inconvenience to the public is his rendering payment on receipt or delivery compulsory, instead of the system so satisfactorily followed at present with every house of any importance, of keeping a passbook-an arrangement which the currency of the colony, were there no other reason, renders indispensable. If the present system, by which letters are received and given out at once, and as rapidly as the operation can be gone through, gives rise to complaints of delays, what will it be when tens and hundreds of letters and papers must be counted, and the amount calculated and settled for in most uncountable coins, while scores of impatient applicants are kept waiting? And where will be the advantage of all this? Not to the post office certainly, which receives a larger revenue (in the shape of fees), with much less trouble, under the present system, while it will be time enough to make alterations for behoof of the public when they complain of it as an evil. If the regulation, as regards deliveries especially, be rigidly enforced, it will entail double trouble on both parties; for we verily believe that not many people could produce the requisite pence on demand: and how coolies are to adjust their accounts we do not understand, but trust Col. Maberly has fully and satisfactorily explained. Let The crowning absurdity, however, is in enjoining the postmaster not to deliver letters or papers to any agent unless they are addressed to his care, or upon production of a special mandate on every application. This is more than is required at home-as every one knows who has asked a friend to get his letters on a holiday, or done the same service in his turn, without any mandate whatever. Things may have been altered within these three years, but we can certify that the great proportion of letters given out at the windows on Sunday, in Edinburgh, used to be delivered to any applicant, whoever he might be. Col. Maberly inquire, and he will find that no printer's devil, or junior clerk, or active schoolboy who likes the squeeze, was ever demanded his name or who sent him, when the officer gave him the letters he asked for. How, then, comes it that accredited and recognised agents are to be denied a privilege granted at home to printers' devils and grocers' apprentices? Simply because Col. Maberly is infected with the official malady of carrying his authority into the details of every branch of the service, while he shews himself to be utterly ignorant of the local circumstances of the Hong Kong Post Office. He cannot be aware that the great bulk of the commercial correspondence it receives is addressed to merchants at Canton, who have paid agents in Hong Kong for the express purpose of forwarding their letters, of whom one takes charge of as many probably as the whole Hong Kong correspondence put together. It will be to little purpose that swift despatch-boats are expressly built for this purpose, if the postmaster is to demand and inspect special mandates on every application for constituents' letters, and, when satisfied on this head, to spend precious hours in settling the postage. People at home do display laughable ignorance about China, but it is inexcusable in an official like Col. Maberly, who probably imagines the five perts to be within easy distance of Peking, with steamers crossing every half hour to the pleasant watering-place of Hong Kong. But if he does not know, the sooner he is told the better, that at Canton, some eighty miles up the river, there is no arrangement for the receipt or delivery of letters except what the merchants themselves have established, at a heavy cost, and but for this the correspondence could not be carried on at all. The Consul at present is the only person the Post Office can communicate with in Canton; but though he occasionally receives, he does not deliver letters, and should the whole correspondence be thrust upon him, the Superintendent of Trade must of course interfere to prevent it. We take it for granted that these preposterous regulations do not originate with Mr. Hyland, the worst of them having been issued, but never acted upon, before he entered upon his office; but they seem too peremptory to be resisted. Indeed, as the surest means of stirring up the sluggish community to exert themselves to remedy the evil, and open the way to other reforms, it will scarcely be matter of regret should Mr. Hyland abide rigidly by his instructions.-China Mail. CORRESPONDENCE. A NEW INDIAN CLUB. TO THE EDITOR OF ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL. SIR,-There is no manner of doubt that a really good club in London, for the use and advantage of Indians, is yet a desideratum. The object sought for is to supply the desideratum in general, but more especially to the junior branches of the services, whose limited means are an obstacle to their joining in the society of their Indian friends. The proposed club will be open to every covenanted servant of the Honourable Company's services, civil, clerical, medical, military, and naval. Of these the three presidencies contain, on a rough estimate, not less than 7,000, exclusive of a large number of retired servants. If the club be generally supported, and the Indian contribution be reckoned at one rupee per month, we may calculate, from this source alone, on upwards of 6,000l. per annum. If this be added to the subscription of those retired at home, leaving alone the donation (not to exceed 5.) which will be demanded of all who proceed finally to England, and use the club, there is a prospect of our having, in a few years, a club unequalled by any in London. It will form a rallying point for all Indian interests, and will enable us most effectually to obtain and maintain that important position and influence in society and the world at large which our present isolated position precludes our acquiring, a position which is but the just due of as high-minded and honourable a body of men as ever were united in any cause, much more in one like ours, which is that of conquering, maintaining, and ruling a kingdom such as the world never before witnessed. This is not the least of advantages, numerous and obvious as they are, which will be secured by the establishment of this club. These lines are hastily thrown together, at the wish of many Indians at the Cape, merely to serve as a basis whereon to operate. As soon as the names of those gentlemen who are willing to join the projected club have been obtained, a meeting will be called to work out the plan, and to promote its promulgation throughout the three presidencies. The undersigned will receive the names of intending subscribers. Cape Town, 21st August, 1846. ROBT. NEAVE, B.C.S. FURLOUGH REGULATIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL. SIR,-As a subscriber to your paper I cannot resist expressing to you my surprise that in your last number you should have taken no notice of the subject of the new Regulations for Indian Furloughs, as recently assented to by the Court of Directors. Subscribers naturally look to your paper for information on a subject so interesting to them, but they have been disappointed; in fact, had it not been for the Naval and Military Gazette of 10th of last month, they would very generally have remained in perfect ignorance that any thing had been done at the India House. Is this not sufficient to dissatisfy them- that a subject of vast interest to them should have been completely overlooked, when there was actually information to be communicated, and which information actually appeared in another paper, not confining itself, as yours does, solely to subjects in connection with India? [We are sorry that our correspondent should have wasted upon us so much excellent indignation. Not having seen the Naval and Military Gazette of the date which he mentions, we know not what it contains. We are scrupulously careful to avoid misleading our readers, and when any thing definitive is to be communicated we dare say we shall not be behind any of our cotemporaries. In the mean time we can only recommend our correspondent to keep down his wrath, and wait the eventwhen, and not before, he will be able to judge whether our Journal, or that to which he refers, is the safer guide.-ED. Allen's Indian Mail.] ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL, LONDON, THURSDAY, May 6, 1847. WE have learned with regret that the friends of Sir CLAUDE WADE have conceived that some injustice is done to that gallant officer in a passage copied from the Bombay Times into our summary of the 24th March last. We do not feel especially bound either to vindicate the passage or to offer any explanation in regard to it, inasmuch as the statement, be it just or exaggerated, is not ours, but that of our Indian contemporary; but on a dispassionate consideration, we cannot see much cause for complaint. The military talents of Sir GEORGE POLLOCK, as manifested in the passage of the Khyber, Tezeen, and Khoord Caubul passes, are therein eulogized with the warmth which such services are calculated to call forth. But it is not said that Sir GEORGE POLLOCK was the only British commander, or the first, that ever passed the Khyber in the face of a hostile force, and we are sure that the editor of the highly respectable journal in which the passage originally appeared has too strong a sympathy with the feelings of a distinguished soldier knowingly to offer violence to them, and too strong a sense of justice to withhold from any one the honour due to him. As, however, some misapprehension has arisen, we are persuaded that he will participate in the regret which we feel on account of it, and be not less ready than we are to do justice to the claims of Sir CLAUDE WADE. No one who has paid even the slightest degree of attention to the history of the Affghan war can, indeed, require to be reminded of those claims. No such person can be ignorant of the gallant manner in which the passage of the Khyber pass was effected by Sir CLAUDE WADE in the first advance into Affghanistan, and no one who has once read the history of the transaction can have forgotten its exciting character. AMONG the smaller articles of intelligence to be gleaned from the papers brought by the last mail, there are few more gratifying than the following, which we found in the Bombay Times"Various of our allies have been induced to abolish transit duties within their territories." This statement is, indeed, very general; but it is calculated to lead the mind forward to the period which, we trust, is approaching, when transit duties shall, throughout India, be numbered among the bygones. Now that free trade is the universal creed, -the first article of almost every man's political faith,— it would be strange if such barbarous imposts as transit duties should be permitted long to linger in any place where British influence is predominant. Surely, some scheme might be devised for their universal abolition. Something of this sort was suggested some years since, and, if we mistake not, the merit of the suggestion belongs to Mr. TREVELYAN. We cannot think, that if the task were seriously and zealously undertaken, the obstacles in the way would be found insuperable. It is one, the accomplishment of which would bring the highest honour to the government by which it should be effected; and the talents, benevolence, and high principle of Lord HARDINGE, point him out as the man to execute it. Britain is the dominant power in India. What she wills must be done; and she cannot make a better use of her indisputable strength, than by employing it to strike off the remaining shackles which, by fettering trade, inflict on parts of the country a mass of suffering, of which the amount cannot readily be calculated. THAT POST OFFICE-that eternally recurring theme of denunciation, the British Post Office-is enough to be the death of us poor Journalists, who are compelled to receive and peruse never-ceasing complaints on the subject, in addition to bearing our share of the general inconvenience and suffering arising from the abuses so often exposed, but never abated. In another part of our present publication will be found an article extracted from the China Mail, by which it appears that St. Martin's-le-Grand has been shaking its mane and flinging up its heels at Hong Kong in great style. The prevailing ignorance on all subjects connected either with India or China is notorious; but it might be expected that well-paid officials, before laying down regulations for the government of officers at places some thousand miles distant from their native realm of COCKAIGNE, would take the small trouble of informing themselves slightly of the state and circumstances of the country for which they are about to legislate. If, however, they could be brought to this, the chances would be greatly against their being right if they descended to such minutia as seem to mark the instructions of the secretary of the Post Office in London to the postal authorities at Hong Kong; but without any such preparation, what must be the results? Exactly those which are pointed out by the editor of the China Mail. There is, in truth, something supremely ridiculous in a man who knows no more of Hong Kong than its position on the map of the world, sitting down in a dark room at the back of Foster-lane, Cheapside, to frame minute rules for the receipt and delivery of letters at the unhappy settlement above mentioned! If the case had not actually occurred, the possibility of its occurrence would have been inconceivable,-yet scarcely more unintelligible than is the mode in which the present director of the destinies of the Post Office, COLONEL MABERLY, was manufactured into its secretary. Where did he get his knowledge of the subject? Not in the Post Office, certainly, for he jumped into it from another department, over the heads of many who, at least, knew the routine of the establishment, if they knew little else. He had held a clerkship in the Ordnance Office, the duties of which, it is to be presumed, little resembled those which he was called to perform opposite the Bull and Mouth. He did not, it is to be supposed, inherit much information on postal affairs from his ancestors, for they, it is understood, carried on the trade of curriers, in Parker-street, Drury-lane. Currying is, no doubt, a very respectable occupation; but oil and leather have small affinity with letters. These, however, are points too nice for the pry of vulgar eyes, and we refrain from pursuing them. This much, however, is clear-that whatever may be the principle adopted in dispensing the highest patronage of the Post Office, acquaintance with its duties is not regarded as a necessary qualification. It is not less clear that even years of experience (such experience as it is) do not always supply original deficiency. A little knowledge of what is going on "round St. Paul's" may be picked up, but beyond this nothing seems to be acquired. Colonel MABERLY found the Post Office in the condition which auctioneers claim for property in behalf of which little else can be said—“the whole susceptible of great improvement." Has it received any at his hands? Not a whit. Some change has indeed been observable, but only in the way of an increase of official superciliousness, and of a reckless disregard of public complaint. Bluster, swagger, and big words have done duty for every quality that might reasonably be looked for in the management of a great national establishment. An overwhelming impression of greatness seems indeed to have turned the heads of all connected with the Post Office. It is evident that the framer of the Hong Kong rules was thinking not of a small settlement whose correspondence was as limited in extent as its means of postal communication were small, but of the long front and proud portico of the London Office, of the six or seven-and-twenty mail-coaches that used to run from and to that establishment with the accuracy of a chronometer, or the roaring, snorting, screaming engines which now await the arrival of the mails at Paddington, Pancras, Shoreditch, Tooley-street, and Vauxhall—these, with a legion of sorters and sub-sorters, and an army of letter-carriers, were in the mind of the Aldersgate official who framed the rules referred to; and the magnificent announcements embodied in these rules must have been received in Hong Kong with a hearty laugh, if indignation did not suppress such an explosion, and give vent to one of passionate remonstrance. In one of Mr. DICKENS's works, he tells of a man who kept a little circulating library in a back street of the metropolis, but who was as dignified in his language and demeanour as if he had been secretary to the Post Office. The size of this person's shop, Mr. DICKENS, with a sufficient approach to hackney-coaches; but the soul of the literary purveyor who accuracy for the purpose, assures us was about that of three kept it was not restrained by the narrow laws of space. He looked round his demesne, and while he exclaimed, "I am monarch of all I survey," compter, shelves, half-bound volumes-every thing-his imagination invested the little bit of a snuggery with dimensions and attributes worthy of him who presided within it. As the day declined, he inquired the hour, and learning that it was past eight, he called to the boy who ministered in the duties of carrying out and fetching in the dog's-eared articles of his stock, and with calm but conscious dignity gave this order-“ Close the warehouse." This person would have made a first-rate Post Office functionary of the highest grade. Like the legislators for Hong Kong, he had not an idea that could be kept within narrower bounds than those of the hall of the Office in St. Martin's-le-Grand. ARRIVAL OF SIR HARRY SMITH. THE Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Ripon, Capt. Robert Moxby, arrived at the Motherbank on the evening of Wednesday, the 28th, at 11 o'clock, from Malta and Gibraltar. Among her passengers were Lord Elphinstone, Sir Harry and Lady Smith, Hon. Colonel Ashburnham, Colonel Reid, &c. Immediately it was known that Sir H. Smith was on board, the church bells sent forth a merry peal, and as the vessel entered the docks, a salute was fired from the platform battery. Thousands of persons congregated to witness the interesting sight, it having been intimated some days previously that the gallant general would be received with due honour by the authorities. The mayor (W. J. Le Feuvre, Esq.), accompanied by G. P. Edwards, Esq, the aldermen, and common-councillors, were in attendance, and as soon as Sir Harry stepped on shore, he was ushered into the adjoining offices of the Dock Company, |