6. Ernest John Craigie, Esq. son of the late Col. Craigie, of the Bengal army, to Mary Jane Frederica, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Hatch, at St. John's Paddington. 11. J. G. Currie, Esq. to Mary, relict of the late Col. P. M. Hay, of the Bengal army, at St. James's, Paddington. 12. James Pearce, second son of W. H. Allen, Esq. of 50, Porchester-terrace, Bayswater, and Sevenoaks, Kent, to Mary Anne Fanny, eldest daughter of Henry Butterworth, Esq. of Upper Tooting, Surrey, at Streatham Church, by the Rev. J. R. Nicholl, M.A. rector. DEATHS. Feb. Walter, son of R. Silk, esq. off the Cape, on his passage from Bombay, aged 18. 18. Alethea Duke, wife of Major Edward Bond, H.M.'s 39th regiment, at sea, on board the Gloriana, on the voyage home from Calcutta, aged 28. March 10. Major R. H. De Montmorency, 65th Bengal N.I.; at sea, on board the Monarch, on his passage home, aged 38. April 30. William Griffith, son of Colonel Manson, of the Bombay artillery, aged 18. May 4. Major Henry H. Watts, 2nd Madras Native Veteran Battalion; at 9, Hamilton-terrace, St. John's Wood. Bengal Estab.-Lieut. col. John F. Bradford, 1st It. cav. Brev. capt. William J. E. Boys, 6th It. cav. Lieut. col. Henry Lawrence, 2nd Europ. regt., Bret. capt. George O'B. Ottley, 6th N.I. Capt. Henry H. Say, 45th N.I. Brev. maj. Patrick Hay, 54th N.I. Assist. surg. Francis Thompson. Madras Estab.-Lieut. Henry E. Hicks, artillery. Lieut. John E. Monckton, 2nd It. cav. Col. Frederick L. Doveton, 8th It. cav. Bombay Estab.-Lieut. col. com. Bentham Sandwith, C. B., 1st lt. cav. Lieut. col. Charles Cathcart, 5th It. cav. Ens. John Govan, 14th N.I. Madras Estab.-Brev. capt. John W. Goad, artillery. Lieut. Henry Le F. Hughes, 31st N. 1. Lieut. John A. Grant, 34th N.I. Lieut. Alfred Joyce, 36th N.I. Capt. Charles F. Compton, 48th N. I., overland, Bombay Estab.-Lieut. Vernon B. D. Carter, 12th N.I. GRANTED AN EXTENSION OF LEAVE. Maj. Patrick Henderson, invalids, 4 months. Assist. surg. James Cornfoot, M.D., 6 months. PERMITTED TO RETIRE FROM THE SERVICE. MILITARY. Madras Estab.-Lieut. col. John Smith, 1st lt. cav. ECCLESIASTICAL. Madras Estab.-The Rev. George Trevor. LIST OF RANK. CADETS FOR THE BENGAL INFANTRY. To rank from the date of their departure from Southampton by the overland route, and in the following order, viz. : George Gordon Cunliffe, Ripon, 20th March, George James Dalrymple Hay, ditto, ditto. Herbert Holmes Armstrong, Oriental, 20th April. To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ship by which he proceeded, viz.:- Richard D'Oyley Compton Bracken, Seringapatam, 26th CADETS FOR THE MADRAS INFANTRY. To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ship by which they proceeded, and in the following order, viz: Edwin Gardner Ingram, Essex, 17th March. George Bligh Bowen, ditto, ditto. To rank from the date of their departure from Southampton by the overland route, and in the following order, viz. : Charles Henry Riley, Ripon, 20th March. Henry Corbett Lee, ditto, ditto. Patrick Plunkett Leslie Stafford, ditto, ditto. Charles Edward Boileau Pollen, Oriental, 20th April. To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ship by which he proceeded, viz. : Sidney French Turner, Seringapatam, 26th April. CADETS FOR THE BOMBAY INFANTRY. To rank from the date of their departure from Southampton by the overland route, and in the following order, viz. :-Frederick William Knight, Tagus, 3rd April, Mossom Boyd, ditto, ditto. Francis William Skottowe, Madagascar, sailed 25th Feb. 1847. To rank from the date of the sailing from Southampton of the ship on which he embarked: Alfred Bainbrigge Brooke, Erin, sailed 3rd March, 1847. To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ships on which they embarked : Richard Carey, Monarch, sailed 4th March, 1847. John Alexander Turner, Gilmore, sailed 19th March, 1847. William Archibald Dyer, ditto, ditto. Edward Gambier Pym, Royal Albert, sailed 10th April, 1847. Charles Forster, ditto, ditto. CHANGES AND PROMOTIONS IN H.M.'S REGIMENTS SERVING IN INDIA. WAR OFFICE, 7TH MAY, 1847. Bengal, 10th Foot.-Major George Sheaffe Montizambert, from 62nd foot, to be maj. v. Goode, who exchanges. Dated Feb. 16, 1847. Lieut. John Maples Webb Ensor, from 39th foot, to be lieut. v. Emerson, who exchanges. Dated Feb. 16, 1847. 39th Foot.-Lieut. William Henry Emerson, from 10th foot, to be lieut. v. Ensor, who exchanges. Dated Feb. 16, 1847. 62nd Foot.-Major William Henry Goode, from the 10th foot, to be maj. v. Montizambert, who exchanges. Dated Feb. 16, 1817. 80th Foot.-Bevet maj. Charles Lewis, to be maj. without purch. v. Nunn, deceased. Dated Feb. 3, 1847. Lieut. Hercules Atkins Welman, to be capt. v. Lewis. Dated Feb. 3rd, 1847. Bombay, 78th Foot.-Lieut. Thomas James Drummond Reed, from the 2nd foot, to be lieut. v. Rocke, who exchanges. Dated May 7, 1847. Ceylon Rifle Regiment.-Ensign Frederick George Syms, from 3rd foot, to be 1st lieut. without purch. v. Bagenall, appointed adj. Dated May 7, 1847. Lieut. William Bagenall to be adj. Dated March 13, 1847. WAR OFFICE, 14TH MAY, 1847. Bengal, 21st Foot.-Lieut. Alfred Andrews to be capt. without purch. v. King, who retires upon full pay. Dated May 14, 1847. Second Lieut. Philip Charles Deare to be first lieut. v. John Thomas Dalyell, gent. to be second lieut. v. WAR OFFICE, 21ST MAY, 1847. Bengal, 80th Foot.-Thomas William Hunt, gent. to be ensign without purch. v. Crawford, appointed qu. mast. Dated May 21, 1847. Lieut. and Qu. mast. George Bodle to be adj. and lieut. v. Welman, promoted. Dated May 21, 1847. Ensign George Crawford to be qu. mast. v. Bodle, appointed adj. Dated May 21, 1847. Madras, 63rd Foot.-Maj. gen. Sir Henry Watson, C.B., to be col. v. Gen. William Dyott, deceased. Dated May 17, 1817. Lieut. Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley to be adj. v. Bookey, who resigns the adjutancy only. Dated May 17, 1847. Bombey, 28th Foot.-Lieut. George Frederick Moore to be capt. by purch. v. Vignoles, who retires. Dated May 21, 1847. Ensign Edward Collins to be lieut. by purch. v. Moore. Thomas Beattie Grierson, gent. to be ens. by purch. v. 78th Foot.-John Hunter, gent., to be ens. without purch. EMBARKATION OF TROOPS FOR INDIA. Per Edmunsbury, from Gravesend, April 22nd, 79 troops; officer, Brev. Capt. James Murray, 9th N.I. LITERARY NOTICES. In The British World in the East: a Guide, Historical, Moral, and Commercial, to India, China, Australia, South Africa, and the other Possessions or Connexions of Great Britain in the Eastern and Southern Seas. By LEITCH RITCHIE. two volumes. London, 1847. W. H. Allen and Co. THE title of this book will shew its comprehensive character, and those who wish to have an encyclopædia of information on Eastern and Southern History, Government, Literature, Manners, Productions (natural and industrial), Commerce,-everything, in short, but physical science, and not without a good deal even on that, will here find what they require. It is a condensation of the contents of multifarious volumes, and may justly be termed "many things in few words." If read, it will impart to the student nearly all that is known on the subject to which it relates, and afford him withal much entertaintment. If kept as a book of reference, few questions relating to Eastern affairs can arise for which it will not furnish a complete answer. We shall offer a few extracts as specimens of the work. The first is of a gratifying character, as it tends to illustrate the marked improvement which has taken place in the character of the English in India since the days when men went out to make fortunes how they could and as soon as they could, and sometimes accomplished their object in a year or two. "Before the time of Clive the English appear to have been, for the most part, reckless adventurers-greedy, debauched, and profane; and it was long after ere the taint was entirely eradicated from their character. Indeed the miserable salaries given by the Company afforded them hardly an alternative between dishonour and destitution after the trading system we have described in a former chapter was abolished. In 1796, Mr. Shore's salary as a writer was eight rupees a month; and that of Sir Thomas Munro, in 1780, five pagodas a month with free quarters, or ten pagodas, finding his own lodgings. This left the latter gentleman one pagoda for food and clothing. Mr. Forbes, who arrived a few years after Mr. Shore, was frequently compelled to go to bed at sunset because he could not afford himself a candle or a supper. Munro complains that he was three years in India before he was master of any other pillow than a book or a cartridge pouch, and that his bed was merely a piece of canvas stretched on four cross sticks, with his great coat for a blanket. At this time civilians were allowed to trade, but the privilege was hardly worth having. How then were fortunes sometimes made as large as when the whole traffic of the country was in the bands of the English by the remission of the duties in their favour and in theirs alone? Shore explains the mystery by telling us what he did not do. In a single mission to Dacca his scruples prevented him from pocketing 100,000l.; and at a subsequent period he refused five lakhs of rupees and eight thousand gold mohurs offered to him as a bribe by the Nabob of Lucknow. We may readily conceive what chance the mass of the natives had of protection, or what opinion they were led to form of the European character, under such circumstances. "The extreme apathy of the English with regard to religion was another great cause of the dislike and distrust of the natives. The Hindoos are sedulously attentive to all the forms of their superstition; the Mahomedans are religious bigots; the Parsees watch their sacred fire with unceasing attention; the Roman Catholics have exhibited at all periods of intercourse with the East a devout regard to the ceremonial part of their faith, and frequently a heroical devotion to its duties. The English alone were cold and indifferent. Some were infidels, some scoffers, even the best lukewarm. They had no churches, almost no priests; family worship was unknown; and Forbes must have had much awkwardness in answering the simple question frequently put to him by the wondering Hindoos'Master, when an Englishman dies, does he think he shall go to his God?'"' The following notice of the events in China connected with the cessation of the trade of the East-India Company, is not without an important political moral.. "Hitherto the British had appeared, like other nations, at the gates of Canton, humbly soliciting permission to trade; and it was the chief part of the duties of the select committee of supercargoes to take care that the prejudices of the Chinese were respected, and all cause of offence avoided. Disagreements, notwithstanding, did occasionally occur, in the course of which it became manifest that the supreme government was kept in profound ignorance of the real character and position of the foreign merchants, who were completely in the hands of the local officers. The emperor continued to treat them as ignorant and troublesome barbarians, whose trade would be worth something, if that part of it could be done away with which had begun to absorb the silver of the country. Under such circumstances, prudence would have dictated that the old regime should be overturned, and the new one erected with extreme caution; that a change which could not possibly be concealed from the emperor should be communicated to his majesty with due formality by the King of England; and that the local man. darins should be empowered, by communication with Peking, to recognise a political officer of the British government intended to supersede the supercargoes with whom alone the hong merchants were permitted to transact business. It does not appear, however, that any caution at all was considered necessary. Lord Napier, the chief of three royal superintendents appointed for the trade was directed to proceed to Canton, and announce his arrival by letter to the viceroy; and he was not even authorized to appeal to the emperor in the event of the provincial authorities being found impracticable. "This event occurred as a matter of course. The viceroy refused to recognize Lord Napier, or even to receive his letter without the imperial permission; and in all probability he would have lost his head had he acted otherwise. The superintendant, on his part, declined communicating with the hong merchants, who thereupon stopped the trade, and matters at Canton at length assumed so hostile an aspect that two British frigates were called up to the British anchorage at Whampoa, and were obliged to fight their way thither through the batteries of the Bocca Tigris. Lord Napier, however, did not persist in remaining at Canton, and indeed his declining bealth ren lered him quite unable to continue the contest. He repaired to Macao only to die; and on the frigates being at the same time removed to their ordinary station in the outer waters, the trade was re-opened by the hong. It is difficult to say whether the war we are now rapidly approaching could have been avoided under any circumstances; but unquestionably the rude and reckless manner in which the British government announced the changes they had decreed to take place was one of the proximate causes of the mischief. The Chinese had been insulted and bullied; the viceroy of Canton had been forced into the position of becoming either the open enemy of the foreigners or practising a new deception upon the emperor of too great magnitude and danger to be contemplated for a moment; and after all, the royal superintendent of the British had yielded the question, retired from the southern capital as the authorities had all along insisted, and withdrawn the forces with which he had outraged the national flag. Independently of the manner of the announcement, the opening of the trade itself, however proper as a commercial measure, will be stated by impartial historians as another cause of the war. When permission was granted to all who chose to rush into the business, it ought to have been anticipated by government that the principal extension would take place in the contraband department. This department, while it offered to adventurers the usual charms of gaming, was not associated, like other kinds of smuggling, with ideas of crime; or rather, in strict morality it ought to be said that in the case of the opium trade the very magnitude of the crime rendered it respectable. The British were associated with the hong, the provincial authorities, in fine, the people themselves, against the government; and certainly not for the purpose of defrauding the revenue, since they would only have been too happy to pay customs instead of bribes. In fact, although of course an illegal trade, it was by no means, in the common sense of the word, a smuggling trade." The Dutch it is known have long had the entrée at Japan, though the access of other nations has been rigorously forbidden. Life in Japan, as enjoyed by the favoured people, does not seem very lively or delightful. "The first thirty-six years of the seventeenth century passed away in peace for the Portuguese. But by this time a new enemy had come upon the scene; and here, as elsewhere, two nations of Christians grappled at each other's throats for the sake of what both are in the habit of terming the 'mammon of unrighteousness.' The Dutch endeavoured, by means of an intercepted correspondence with Portugal, to get their rivals excluded from the empire; and the result was a proceeding on the part of the Japanese which, both as regards its own singularity and the determination with which it has been carried out for more than two hundred years, is one of the most. surprising events in history. They not merely excluded all foreign nations from Japan, but themselves from visiting foreign countries. They shut themselves up in their own islands, where a population of from fifteen to forty-five millions, as it has been variously estimated,. remain to this day in a state of isolation which is the wonder of the world. A Portuguese embassy was sent to remonstrate against this curious resolution; but it was received like that of Kublai in th: thirteenth century, the members being all put to death with the exception of two, who were permitted to carry the tidings to Macao as a warning. A still more terrible lesson, however, had preceded this. In 1638, the Christians of Japan, now reduced to seventy thousand in number, rose in despair, and concentrated themselves in a fortified place. There they were besieged by the Japanese and Dutch, and being overcome, were massacred to the number of forty_thousand.. Persecution now assumed its most stringent form. The native Christians were commanded to prove the abjuration of their faith by trampling on the crucifix, and almost universally preferred the alternative of death. Multitudes of them were at length shut up in dungeons, and annually offered wealth and freedom on the same terms: but in vain. Executions continued to take place til 1665, but by degrees the whole of the prisoners died off. The ceremony of trampling on the crucifix became from that day a religious rite of the Japanese, and is performed annually on one of their holy festivals. "The Dutch had been about thirty years in the country, and had been well treated, notwithstanding the edicts they found in force against Christianity. Their conduct, however, to their co-religionists excited the contempt and distrust of the Japanese; and in three years they found themselves restricted to a little island artificially constructed in the harbour of Nagasaki; where they remain to this day, and where the state of surveillance under which they live has no parallel, even in the former degradation of the Europeans at Canton. The trade for which they literally sacrificed both earth and heaven, was rapidly cut down by their scornful hosts, till in 1743 it was confined to one ship, although that is now increased to two, carrying cargoes limited to the aggregate annual value of 75,000l. chiefly in camphor and copper. Even these vessels are received with as many precautions as if they were a powerful fleet. They must deliver up their guns and bibles, and those who land on the prison-island-where the residents are limited to eleven-must submit to a rigorous search. It may be imagined bow annoying the imprisonment is to persons who have this view before them on entering the bay : "The bay becomes more animated as we approach the town, and offers on both sides the most delightful variety of objects. How inviting are the shores, with their peaceful dwellings! What fruitful hills, what majestic temple-groves! How picturesque those green mountain-tops, with their volcanic formations! How luxuriantly do those evergreen oaks, cedars, and laurels clothe the declivity! What activity, what industry, does nature, thus tamed as it were by the hand of man, proclaim! As witness those precipitous walls of rock at whose feet corn-fields and cabbage-gardens are worn in terraces from the steep; witness the coast, whose Cyclopean bulwarks set bounds to the arbitrary caprice of a hostile element.' "The prison-house of the Dutch, called Dezima, is connected with the town by a bridge, but all view is intercepted by a wall. No European servant is allowed in the fortress, and native servants must not on any pretext remain on the island after sunset; but this rule does not apply to female attentions, which may be paid at all times by the ladies of the tea-houses-for no other class of the sex are permitted to visit the Dutch. Even these women are obliged to present themselves to the police at the bridge once in twenty-four hours a precaution which is perhaps intended to guard against any subject of the emperor being born or dying at Dezima, both of which proceedings are forbidden by law. When we add that the island is six hundred yards long, by two hundred and forty-three in breadth; that it affords only a distant view of the sides of the bay; and that no Japanese boat is permitted to approach it, some notion may be formed of the pleasures of Dutch life in Japan. "Still, even this life has its varieties; for occasionally the petition of a Dutchman to take a walk is granted by the governor after twenty-four hours' consideration; and in this case, attended officially by twenty-five or thirty persons, and conventionally by their friends and acquaintances, all of whom he is bound to entertain, not to mention an escort consisting of every boy in the quarter big enough to run, shouting "Dutchman! Dutchman!"-he sallies forth on his promenade. The town, with its low, neat houses, projecting triangularly into a landscape garden, small or large, according to the circumstances of the proprietors-the lovely country beyond, with its temples crowning every hill, and opening their doors to parties of sinners and saints alike-and finally the tea houses, with their singing and dancing Dalilahs, all are explored, all are enjoyed; and the happy reveller-who, in the course of the day has perhaps been permitted to give his company the slip, and take a solitary ramble nayboen-with a sigh of mingled satisfaction and regret, returns to his prison, which he must reach before sunset." Truly, apostasy is, in Japan, but indifferently rewarded! As JOHN WESLEY said on another occasion, "the devil gives no great wages." A Sketch of Assam, with some Account of the Hill Tribes. By an Officer in the Hon. East-India Company's Bengal Native Infantry, in Civil Employ. With Illustrations from Sketches by the Author. London, 1847. Smith, Elder, and Co. THIS is an interesting account of a part of India concerning which fewer books have been written than on most other portions of our Eastern empire. The position which the author occupied, that of second in command of the Assam Light Infantry, afforded him many favourable opportunities for the observance of men and manners, and of these occasions he never failed to avail himself, as is amply testified in the very agreeable volume before us. The account of the Assam tribes, which forms a second part of the volume, will be found especially interesting to all to whom the study of Indian subjects is a duty, and not the less so to those to whom that study is only a pleasure. The illustrations shew a degree of artistic taste, unusual in an amateur; one of them, a view of Omanand Island, is especially deserving of commendation, as a peculiarly happy specimen both of drawing and chromolithography. The warm glowing look about it can be fully appreciated by those only who have visited the "far far east.' A map of the country described accompanies the volume, which, in every way, will well repay a perusal. MUSIC. Handel's Sacred Oratorio: The Messiah, in Vocal Score. Arranged by V. NOVELLO. Nos. 9 and 10. London, 1847. J. A. Novello. Haydn's Oratorio: The Creation, in Vocal Score. Arranged by V. NOVELLO. Nos. 6 and 7. London, 1817. J. A. Novello. The Musical Times. Vol. II. Nos. 35 and 36. London, 1847. J. A. Novello. THE extraordinary excellence of these publications is only equalled by the unflagging spirit with which that excellence is sustained; each number seeming, if possible, to surpass its predecessor. To the musician in the concert-room, the student at his instrument, and the country choir in the village church, these editions of the productions of the mighty masters must prove invaluable. The great hindrance to the dissemination of good music, high price, vanishes before the magic wand of Mr. Novello's genius, as "ice before the noonday sun." We have so frequently spoken in praise of the printing of these works, that it may seem supererogatory. to mention it again; but we cannot refrain from expressing our warmest admiration at the lucid and beautiful manner in which that "mightiest of music's gifts," the Hallelujah, in the Messiah, is presented to the reader. Of the Creation we need not say more than that it is worthy of its repu tation, and fully sustains its claim to the high patronage bestowed on it. These two oratorios will be completed in June, and, we perceive, will be followed by Judas Maccabæus and the Dettingen Te Deum. The two numbers of the Musical Times possess unusual interest. The "Life of Purcell" is concluded in the last number, and cannot fail to please from the abundance of illustrative anecdotes. In it we find it stated that PURCELL performed at the opening of the Temple organ, built by Father SMITH, in competition with RENATUS HARRIS, the builder of some of our best metropolitan instruments. This must have been an interesting meeting, the conjunction of three such men not being of frequent occurrence. The musical contributions are an Anthem by Mozart, adapted to the Collect for the fifth Sunday after Trinity; and the sublime "See the Conquering." The arrangement of both is deserving of the highest commendation, but of the latter more especially so; it is indeed magnificent. THE East-India House, 28th April, 1847. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST-INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, That the Transfer Books of the said Company's Stock will be shut on Thursday, the 3rd June, at 3 o'clock, and opened again on Thursday, the 15th July; and That the Warrants for the Dividends on the said Stock, payable on the 6th July, 1847, under the 11th sec, of the Act 3 & 4 Will. 4, cap. 85, will be ready to be delivered on that day. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. THE EMPIRE OF THE EAST. Just published, in 2 vols. demy 8vo. cloth lettered, price 24s. THE BRITISH WORLD in the EAST; a GUIDE, LIA, SOUTH AFRICA, and the other possessions or connections of Great Britain in the Eastern and Southern Seas. By LEITCH RITCHIE. The object of this work is to embody every thing of a practical nature that is known of the countries in question, in an historical description of the course of that great eastward stream of commerce and colonization which has com menced a new era in the destinies of the world. 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The better to secure the accomplishment of this desirable end, and to render the publication in every respect what it professes to be, an ATLAS FOR INDIA, the management has been placed in the hands of a gentleman recently editor of one of the leading daily journals of Calcutta. The ATLAS FOR INDIA is not a mere reproduction of the principal contents of the weekly paper, but is in a great measure written expressly for Indian circulation. It contains a compendious narrative of the principal domestic and foreign events of the fortnight; military and commercial intel ligence; literary and social chit-chat; items of personal news, &c. &c. Every number embraces a general summary of the news of the past fortnight, written expressly for this journal, regard being had to the relative importance and interest of the different events touched upon, in the eyes of the AngloIndian reader. 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