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his opinion the very existence of our rule in India had depended on Sir G. Pollock. He trusted that if the health of that gallant officer enabled him to return to active duty, that he would be appointed to the command of one of our armies in India, for he thought it more proper that the Indian troops should be headed by one who had passed his life among them than by an officer who was recommended by the Horse Guards.

General GALLOWAY most heartily concurred in the vote. The circumstances attending Sir George Pollock's campaign were of a most extraordinary nature. (Hear.) One act of General Pollock's, far surpassing all others, was the restoration of the British honour in the rescue of the captives. (Hear, hear.) No pecuniary grant, he contended, could sufficiently reward the eminent services of Sir George Pollock. (Cheers.)

Mr. Serjeant STORKS said the compliment was not in the amount of the grant, but in the grateful feelings that prompted it. It was delightful to him to contrast the unanimity on the present occasion with the stormy discussions frequently witnessed in that room. The object of the present vote could not be too highly honoured. (Hear, hear.)

Colonel SYKES said it was impossible for an Indian officer to ensure respect and attachment except by personal intercourse with his men, and sympathising in their wants and objects. (Hear, hear.) When General Pollock's camp was attacked by sickness, that galiant officer visited continually the hospital, cheering and encouraging the men. Such conduct was sure to invigorate the spirit and insure confidence. (Cheers.)

Mr. JONES thought that as it was very questionable how long Sir George might live to enjoy their benevolence, it would be better to grant a sum of money, say 20,000l. Precedents for such a proceeding were not wanting.

The resolution was then put, and carried nem. con., amid loud and continued cheering.

Yesterday, a second Special General Court was held for the confirmation of the resolution passed on the previous Wednesday. Previously to the minutes of the last Court being read,

Mr. LEWIS asked if he would be at liberty to give notice of a motion for the next General Court.

The CHAIRMAN said the hon, proprietor might hand in a notice, but could not speak except on the business for which the Court was summoned specially.

The CHAIRMAN laid on the table certain papers presented to Parliament since the last Court, and, in announcing the object of the court's assembling, stated that so strong and so unanimous was the feeling expressed on the last occasion in passing the resolution granting the annuity to General Pollock, that it was quite unnecessary for him to say any thing on that occasion. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he moved the confirmation of the resolution passed at the last Court.

The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN Seconded the motion.

Sir PETER LAURIE regretted that he was unavoidably prevented attending the last Court, when the proposed grant was submitted to the proprietors; not that it required support, but he seized the opportunity now presented of giving it his support, as a very old friend of Sir George Pollock. He would not waste the time of the Court, but would only refer to one circumstance. In 1844, at a meeting of the inhabitants of Calcutta, it was proposed that a gold medal, to be called the Pollock prize, be presented annually to the most distinguished cadet of the season at Addiscombe, to commemorate the name and services of Sir George Pollock. Books were circulated in the three presidencies, for subscribers' names (the subscription being limited to Rs.50), and the sum collected amounted on the 8th Magh last, to Rs.11,000; the Court of Directors were then requested to become trustees, which they did, and he now thanked them for their kindness. He trusted that Sir George Pollock might be restored to health, and be able to come down and see his prize distributed by the Directors, whose liberality on this, and all other occasions, was deserving of the very highest praise. (Cheers.)

The resolution was unanimously confirmed amid loud cheering.

Mr. Lewis now rose to give notice of motion for the next Court, and was proceeding to make some observations in justification or explanation of its purport, when

The CHAIRMAN called him to order, and requested him to hand in his notice to be read by the clerk.

This the hon. proprietor refused to do. He preferred reading it himself. He again essayed to speak, when

Mr. WIGRAM rose to order. He believed the strict law was, that when any Court was specially summoned, no other business whatever could be brought under the notice of the Court. The hon. proprietor had better hand in his notice, lest some proprie

tor, standing on the letter of the law, should debar him of the opportunity. (Hear, hear.)

Mr. FIELDER also spoke to order.

Mr. LEWIS continued speaking amid great confusion and loud cries to order. The Chairman in vain called on the hon. proprietor to desist. His reason, he said, for giving that notice was, that it had been asserted in a public journal that the rajah had had a fair trial, and he contended that such was not the case, and the contrary could be easily proved. He concluded by reading the following notice of motion :

"That the Rajah of Sattara having been deprived of his throne, plundered of his property, and driven into banishment, without having been heard in his defence concerning the charges imputed to him, this Court is of opinion that such proceeding is repugnant to the principles of justice, whether moral, social, or political, and that the honour and true interests of the British Government, no less than the regard due to the rights of the natives of India, require that it be reversed."

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Operations at Canton.-Lord SANDON wished to inquire of the noble lord whether the operations against the Chinese fortifications at Canton had been undertaken by the Governor of Hongkong upon his own responsibility, or whether he had acted under instructions from the Home Government?

Lord J. RUSSELL, in answer to the question of the noble lord, could only say, that the Governor of Hongkong having reported to the Government that certain injuries and insults had been inflicted upon British subjects in China, he had been instructed to demand redress from the Chinese government. When the papers were before the House, it would be seen why the Governor of Hongkong had resorted to those measures, and why he considered that without adopting them he could not obtain complete redress.

JULY 5.-Dissenters in South Australia.—Mr. HINDLEY pre sented a petition from colonists in South Australia, objecting to the grant by the local legislature of certain sums to particular religious bodies.

The ex-Rajah of Sattara.-On the motion being put, that the House resolve itself into a committee of supply,

Mr. HUME rose and said, he could not consider he had done his duty if he omitted to bring the case of the ex- Rajah of Sattara again before the House. The object of his advocacy was at one period an independent sovereign, and in the year 1818 had been placed upon the throne. By treaty, entered into in the year 1819, he had that independent sovereignty assured to him, and his (Mr. Hume's) charge against the East-India Company and the Board of Control was, that they had removed him from that sovereignty, taken away his property, and made him an exile in Benares without a fair trial. The quarrel between the Bombay Government and the rajah arose out of two jagheers, or estates, which the Bombay Government claimed to have the power over; but up to that period the rajah had received numerous testimonials in his praise and favour, and the charges which were finally brought against him were most absurd and ridiculous. These charges were, that he had endeavoured to seduce certain native officers of sepoy regiments from their allegiance to the British Government; that the rajah had, in violation of the treaty, entered into a correspondence with the Don Miguel Viceroy of Goa, for the purpose of introducing a Portuguese force of 30,000 men to overturn the British power in India, and that he had also entered into a correspondence with another native rajah, the ex-rajah of Nagpore; and supposing these charges to have been true, the Rajah of Sattara should have been put on his trial, which he was not. He (Mr. Hume) had presented a petition to the House in 1842 from the rajah, in which he denied all the charges which had been brought against him, and solicited the House to take his case into consideration, and

grant him a fair trial. The rajah's petition concluded in these words:

"While he implores from your hon. House that justice which, had his lot been that of a peasant, it would have been his right to claim from the British realm, he cannot forget that it is as a dethroned prince that he appeals to your hon. House. He trusts that the vast power which has been placed by Divine Providence in the hands of the Government of Great Britain will not be exercised to his continued wrong; and he hopes the injustice and degradation which he has suffered in innocence will not be permitted to appear on the page of history to tarnish the glory of the British name and the conduct of that government in India towards a sovereign, once its honoured ally, now its helpless prisoner."

The hon. member for Shrewsbury had, upon a former occasion, when the question was before the House, appealed to the right hon. baronet, and expressed his astonishment that the right hon. baronet could have given credence to such charges as that the Portuguese Government of Goa, that had only about 1,500 men under their control, could have entered into a conspiracy with the Rajah of Sattara, to whom they were to have supplied 30,000 men for the purpose of destroying the British power in India. But now, he (Mr. Hume) would ask, had the British Government ever applied to the Portuguese Governor of Goa to ascertain whether any such application for aid, or any application whatsoever, had been made to him by the rajah? That governor was at present in Portugal, and he (Mr. Hume) had a letter from him, in which he said that he considered it fair, for the advancement of justice and for his own honour, to declare that, for the whole time during which he governed Goa, he had had no political correspondence whatsoever with the Rajah of Sattara, and that, whatever documents might have appeared on that subject, they were all false. But he (Mr. Hume) wanted to shew the House how easy it was for the Government to ruin any man they pleased in India, and he would allow the right hon. gentleman, the member for Edinburgh (Mr. Macaulay), to be his witness. That right hon. gentleman, in an essay on the life of Warren Hastings, had described the conduct of the natives, when they considered him a fallen man, as like that of a crowd of crows pecking a wounded vulture to death; and he added, that an Indian Government had only to let it be understood that it wished a particular man to be ruined, and in twentyfour hours it would be furnished with grave charges, accompanied by depositions and evidence so full and circumstantial, that any man unaccustomed to Asiatic mendacity would not believe it possible that such charges could be got up. So much for the facility with which charges and evidence could be obtained in India. [Mr. Hume then proceeded to read a great number of documents from various persons, chiefly officers in India, declaring their belief that the charge against the rajah would not be believed by any unbiassed man.] He censured the conduct of the Bombay Government, and observed that the charges of conspiracy brought against the rajah commenced on the very day on which the sword, that had been voted to him as a mark of honour and distinction for his services, arrived. The Governor-General subsequently, in a despatch dated the 31st of July, assented to the general amnesty which had been granted to the rajah, and approved of the appointment of Sir J. Carnac to proceed to him and effect an arrangement. Nothing could prove more satisfactorily the innocence of the rajah of the mal-practices so falsely laid to his charge, than his conduct on occasion of the interview between himself and Sir J. Carnac, when he indignantly refused to accept the proposed amnesty, unless he was entirely acquitted of entertaining any hostile designs towards the British Government. The letter of Sir J. Carnac proved that he had acted in this manner, as also did a letter written by Colonel Ovans to Mr. H. St. George Tucker, in which the former stated most distinctly that, at the interview in question, the rajah refused to accept the conditions of the amnesty if there were to be an understanding that by so doing he should tacitly admit his guilt. Nothing could be more noble than his conduct in replying that he would rather lose his principality, and forfeit his throne for ever, than confess himself guilty of that of which his own conscience acquitted him. (Hear.) [The hon. member read a passage from a letter written by Sir James Lushington and Sir Richard Jenkins, members of the Secret Committee, stating that it would be discreditable and detrimental to the British Government to carry on any further proceedings in the case of the rajah.] That argued very significantly a conviction of the rajah's innocence, and it should be remembered that no new charges had been made since 1838. Sir R. Grant, in a minute bearing date the 15th August, 1837, declared it to be his opinion that the rajah should be afforded the amplest opportunity for exculpating himself, but such opportunity had never been given. He would next read a letter from a gentleman who was now in London, and who had been a police ma

gistrate at the time. [The hon. gentleman read a letter which described the arrest of the rajah in the dead of night, and then continued to observe that he was prepared to prove, before a committee, that Colonel Ovans promised to restore the whole of the rajah's private treasure and property, and that the promise had not been fulfilled.] [Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE.-It is all disproved in the blue-book.] He repeated, that he would prove all his assertions, if a committee were granted to him. He would prove that the promises made to the rajah had been falsified, and yet such were the acts and the parties that the right hon. gentleman pandered to. ("Oh, oh," and laughter.) The facts had been already exposed by Mr. George Thompson, and, in mentioning that gentleman's name, he begged to tell the right hon. gentleman who spoke in so disparaging a manner of Mr. Thompson the other night, that if Mr. George Thompson got into the House in the next Parliament, the right hon. gentleman would be like a pigmy in the hands of a giant if Thompson got hold of him. (Roars of laughter.) The first charge against the rajah was in the shape of an anonymous letter sent through the Post-office. That charge was at once made use of against the rajah, but when a person came forward afterwards and admitted that he had been offered a bribe of 1,200 rupees to write that anonymous charge, they had to complain that Colonel Ovans kept it secret for eleven months, without making the circumstance known to the Government. Another charge which he had to make was, that all the letters that passed between the rajah and his native agent in this country had been opened in the Post-office, but still his accusers had failed to shew any ground for their accusations. Rewards had been given for persons to come forward and make charges against the rajah, and papers were at length produced with forged seals, at the same time that the real seals were in the possession of Colonel Ovans, who could at once have detected the forgery by examination. He had also to complain that the rajah, at the time of petitioning the House of Commons, had forwarded a petition to the President of the Board of Control, and he (Mr. Hume) waited on the Earl of Ripon, who then held that office, with a number of papers exposing the conspiracy against the rajah. These papers were returned the following day, it being stated that the Board could only receive them through the Indian Government. They were then forwarded to Sir Henry Hardinge, with a request that they might be laid before the Court of Directors, but although application had frequently been made to the Court, they had not been produced. He then called on the President of the Board to produce officially the paper that had been found on Mr. George Thompson's table, and which the right hon. baronet had accused him (Mr. Hume) of having purloined from the Bengal Government, but how he could be in Bengal and London at the same time he could not say. He was quite satisfied that, if the truth could be once elicited, and all the facts made clear, the injustice done to the rajah would appear as clear as the sun at noon day. No one had been more hostile in the first instance than he himself was to the rajah, and no one had more confidence in Colonel Ovans; but he was now convinced that the rajah had been made the victim of fraud and forgery, and the House would also be convinced if the facts were brought out. Why should any papers calculated to throw a light on the charges against the rajah be refused? A good deal had been said about the manner in which the papers had been obtained by the friends of the rajah, but why had not the right hon. gentleman stated whether the contents of those papers were true or not? Why did the right hon. gentleman dare to refuse papers of this degree of importance? He (Mr. Hume) held him to be culpable in the highest degree in that conduct. Was it not too bad that the rajah should not be granted a trial?—that the prayer of his petition should not be granted,-namely, that he might be allowed the same trial which would be accorded to a peasant in England? This question was looked to by the natives of India with the greatest anxiety and interest, and he hoped the Government would not refuse what he claimed for the rajah,-& fair trial. The hon. member concluded by moving,

"That a select committee be appointed to inquire into the charges against the Rajah of Satara, now an exile in Benares, and the grounds of his degradation and exile."

Mr. EWART seconded the motion, and, on the motion of Mr. HENLEY, the debate was then adjourned.

[From the extraordinary press of matter we are compelled to defer till our next publication the remainder of the Parliamentary intelligence, which is unusually heavy in consequence of reiterated attempts to bring the case of the Rajah of Sattara before the House.]

MISCELLANEOUS.

GOVERNORSHIP OF MALTA.-It is reported that Major-General Sir Harry Smith, the hero of Aliwal, will succeed Sir Patrick Stuart as Governor of Malta. The vacant appointment could not be conferred upon a better qualified officer, nor one to whom its emoluments will be more acceptable, as, if we are rightly informed, Sir Harry is at present in the enjoyment of only a very moderate income. He derives no benefit from his colonelcy of the Rifles until twelve months after the date of his appointment to it.

The Duke of Wellington's relative, Lieutenant-General Sir Hercules Pakenham, just relieved in the Lieutenant-Governorship of the garrison of Portsmouth after seven years' tenure of it, is also named as the probable successor to Sir Patrick Stuart, but Sir Harry is "the popular man. - Times.

BALLOT AT THE EAST-INDIA HOUSE.- On the 30th ult., a ballot for a director, in the room of the late General Robertson, was taken at the East-India House. The candidates were Capt. Eastwick and General Caulfield. At six o'clock, the ballot glasses were closed and delivered to the scrutineers, who declared the election to have fallen on the former gentleman.

COLONIAL BISHOPRICS.-The new arrangements with respect to the bishoprics of Australia have been officially announced in the Gazette. Dr. Gray has been appointed bishop of the new diocese of Cape Town.

CHINESE SHIP.--A Chinese junk is on her way to this country; a description has preceded her, in a St. Helena paper, but we defer any notice of her appearance till she arrives in the river, when no doubt we shall be there to see.

ARRIVAL OF TROOPS FROM INDIA.-Part of the 9th regiment have arrived from India, having embarked at Madras, on the 22nd March. They served under Sir G. Pollock, and each man bears a Cabool medal. Part of the 17th have also arrived. PRINCE WALDEMAR.-This illustrious foreigner arrived here on the 1st instant. Since his arrival he has been visited by all the élite, and has been present at several grand entertainments. To chronicle all his visits would require greater space than we have to afford. Cambridge was graced with his presence, and in return made him a doctor. The order of the Bath he has received at her Majesty's hands. Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Tower, and the East-India House have been visited by the prince; at the last-named place he partook of an elegant cold collation with the Directors.

OPERATIONS IN CHINA.-Lord Palmerston has conveyed to Governor Davis the entire approbation of her Majesty's government of his conduct during the late transactions in China.

SIR H. SMITH.-There is no truth whatever in the report that Sir Harry Smith has returned to England in possession of a large fortune. The gallant general has three times declined offering himself as a candidate for a seat in Parliament, on the distinct avowal that he cannot afford to remain in England. The fact is, that his income is limited to his pay as colonel of a regiment; the emoluments of which, we understand, he is not enti tled to receive till July, 1849. A suggestion has been made for raising a sum of money to purchase for him the manorial estates of Whittlesea, the place of his birth, which were advertised for sale early in August.

SHIPPING. ARRIVALS.

JUNE 30. Sophia, Saxon, Bengal and Demerara; Duke of Bed ford, Thornhill, Bengal and Trinidad.-JULY 3. Medway, Coombes, New South Wales.-5. H. M. S. Vestal, Talbot, China and Cape; Janet, Henderson, Mauritius; Olinda, Crickmay, New South Wales.-7. Windermere, Ross, Van Diemen's Land; Chanticleer, Putt, Zanzibar.-8. H. M. S. Conway, Kelley, Mauritius and Cape; Earl of Hardwicke, Weller, Bengal; Stag, Parish, China; Northumberland, Pollock, Madras; Tamerlane, M'Kenzie, Bengal and Mansoorcottah; Aden, King, China; Hindostan, West, China; Jane Prowse, Nicholls, Stranghae; Lord Hardinge, Tracey, Bombay; George Fyfe, Murray, China; William Woolley, Vertue, Mauritius; Eleanora, Wallace, Stranghae; Troubadour, Graham, Bombay; Winifred, Christie, Bengal and Jamaica; H. M. S. Helena, Ricketts, Cape.-9. John O'Gaunt, M‘Donald, Stranghae; John Edward, Kell, Bombay; Georgiana, Williams, Bengal; Duncan, Henrichsen, Bengal; Surrey, Keyzer, Maulmain.-10. John Brewer, Brown, Bombay; Mary Ann, Guy, Algoa Bay; St. George, Jones, New South Wales; Breton, Atkins, Mauritius; Packet, Squire, Mauritius; George, M'Vicar, New South Wales; Pekin, Laing, Bengal; Alice Brooks, Jackson, Mauritius; Belle, Mitchell, Bombay; Isabella, Hatch, Maulmain; Mary Stoddart, Dean, Bengal; Dauntless, Putt, Akyab; Vectis, Baker, Zanzibar; Jenny, Ericksen, Batavia.-12. Indian, English, China, Chamois, Brooks, Mauritius; William Nicol, Bushell, South Seas; Success, Adam, Bengal and Jamaica; Henry Curwen, Vickers, Mauritius; Imaum of Muskat, Riches, Bengal; Vanguard, Robinson, Ceylon; Kyle, Boyd, Singapore; Crest, Smith, Ceylon; Gazelle, Ramsay, Port Phillip; Jessie Mitchell, M'Caull, Mauritius.

-13. Glendaragh, Kissock, Bengal; Arena, Jackson, Singapore.14. Royal Archer, Scott, South Australia; Medora, Seaton, Cape; Crown, Johns, Bombay; Blundell, Daniell, Bengal; Ellerslie, Pagen, China.-15. China, Livesay, Bengal.-16. Iron Queen, Black, Singapore and Mauritius; Chaucer, Elder, Ceylon.-19. Steamer Hindostan, Lewis, Bengal, Madras, Point de Galle, Mauritius, and Cape.-20. H.M.'s steamer Spiteful, Hoste, Ceylon and Cape; Alice Maud, Williams, Port Phillip.

DEPARTURES.

From the DoWNS.-JUNE 29. Anna Rsbertson, Munro, China. 30. Agostina, Volum, Launceston; Edward Robinson, Leyland, Bordeaux and Calcutta.-JULY 1. Minerva, Coleman, New Zealand; Calcutta, Wrankmore, Hobart Town; Cecilia, Pearse, Port Phillip; Collingwood, Crawford, Calcutta; John Line, Palmer, Aden.-2. Lalla Rookh, Hains (from Hartlepool) Aden; Carib, Heaton, Singapore; Richard Thornton, Maxwell, Batavia; Cecilia, Pearse, Port Phillip.-3. Trafalgar, Morrison, Sydney; Lady Valiant, Turner, Mauritius.-7. Mary Nixon, McDonnell, Aden; Norfolk, McGildowney, Bordeaux and Mauritius.-8. Urgent, McFarlane, Calcutta. -9. Sea Park, Humphris, Calcutta.-12. Vanguard, Garwood, Port Phillip; Antilla, Pearce, Adelaide.-13. Rattler, Goldsmith, Hobart Town; Hereford, Raeburn, Ceylon.-14. Agincourt, Nesbitt, Cape and Calcutta; Apame, Neish, Algoa Bay.-15. Simon Taylor, Brown, St. Helena and Calcutta ; Achilles, Pritchard, Hartlepool and Cape; Robert Clive, Mercer, St. Helena; Jannet, Chalmers, Mauritius.-16. Zion, Lash, Calcutta.-17. Stratford, Butterwick, Mauritius; Winchester, Milligan, Launceston.-17. Hamlet, Wilson, Sydney.-18. Ellenborough, Lambert, Calcutta; Catherine, Matthews, Aden; Helen Mary, Legg, Algoa Bay; Nile, McFarlane, Calcutta.

From HULL.-JUNE 26. James White, Turner, Bombay. From BRISTOL.-JUNE 28. Pauline Houghton, Nicholas, Mauritius.

From CORK.-JULY 4. Sir Robert Sale, Loader, New Zealand. From the CLYDE.-JULY 17. Geelong, Wyse, Calcutta. From BORDEAUX.-JULY 8. Lady Sandys, Pentreath, Madras and Calcutta.

From LIVERPOOL.-JUNE 29. Anna Henderson, Cole, Calcutta ; Mars, Dupré, Bombay; Mary Imrie, Boyd, Calcutta.-JULY 3. Constant, Garnock, New South Wales; Sarah Louisa, Oldham, Shanghae; Dickey Sam, Thompson, Batavia; Eu, Williams, Aden. -6. Anne Jane, Rigby, Singapore.-7. Mischief, Lewis, Mauritius ; Rokeby, Trotter, Hong Kong.-8. Socrates, Randle, Calcutta ; Christabel, Harding, Hong Kong.-12. Harry Lorrequer, Jaffrayes, Bombay.-13. St. Lawrence, Newlands, Bombay; Punch, Grierson, Cape.-14. Gunga, Bowman, Adelaide.-16. Sir Henry Pollinger, M'Wean, Calcutta.-17. Vigilant, Reynell, Mauritius.

From SHIELDS.-JULY 11. Nile, M'Farlane, Calcutta ; Zion, Lash, Calcutta; Kensington, Baxter, Manilla.

From PORTSMOUTH.-JULY 10. Marquis of Bute, Bannatyne, Hong Kong.-9. Maidstone, McBeath, Cape and Calcutta.— JUNE 30. Malacca, Consitt, Bombay; Barham, Gimblett, Madras and Calcutta.-29. Bucephalus, Bell, Madras and Calcutta.-JULY 17. Simon Taylor, Brown, St. Helena and Bengal.

From PLYMOUTH.-JULY 1. Lady M'Naughten, Hibbert, Adelaide.

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For MALTA.-Lieut. Rotten, Ens. Holmes, Mrs. Charles and Eur. female servant, Mr. P. Clark, Mr. C. White, Mrs. Blakeway, Mr. Rankins, Mrs. Anderson, Miss Maudslay, Dr. and Mrs. Kayat, governess, four children, and two servants.

For ADEN.-Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Miss McPherson, Eur. female servant, and native man- servant; Mrs. Geddes.

For ALEXANDRIA.-Lieut. Griffith, R.N.; Mr. Maxton. For CEYLON.-Rev. J. Johnston, Mrs. Johnston, Lieut. Annesley, Miss Smith, Mr. Brice, Miss Sweeney, Mr. Florence, Mr. G. Lawson.

For CALCUTTA.-Mrs. Napleton, Miss McIntyre, Mrs. McCallum and infant, Mr. S. and B. Urmston, Mr. Oliphant, Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore, Mr. R. Watson and native man-servant, Mr. and Mrs. Curnin, Mr. C. Terry, Capt. Renny and Eur. female servant, Miss Fortier, Mr. R. Ausley.

For MADRAS.-Mr. Eidam.

For HONG KONG.-Mr. J. G. Von Aschen.

For GIBRALTAR.-Mr. W. Thornton, Mr. Gray, Mrs. Willis.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Agincourt, Neatby, London to Sydney, July 2, lat. 39 N.; long. 14 W.-Chusan, Laird, Clyde to Bombay, June 6, lat. 8 N.; long. 21 W.-Mohawk, Morrison, London to China, March 28, lat. 2 S.; long. 22 W.-John Hullett, Paddle, London to Mauritius, March 29, lat. S.-Madagascar, Hight, London to Bombay, March 30, lat. S.

-Rockliffe, Glendon, Bordeaux to Mauritius, May 23, lat. 1 S.; long. 22 W.-Menzies, Whetten, Liverpool to China, June 3, lat. S.-John Dugdale, Kellock, Liverpool to Singapore, May 31, lat. 7 N.; long. 19 W.-Collingwood, Crawford, London to Calcutta, July 6, lat. 47 N.; long. 13 W.-Persia, Morris, London to Bombay, May 26, lat. 15 N.; long. 25 W.-John Bibby, Cawkett, Liverpool to Calcutta, June 6, lat. 8 N.; long. 21 W.-Thomas Lee, James, Bordeaux to Calcutta, June 8, lat. 9 N.; long. 23 W.-Carib, Heaton, London to Singapore, July 9, lat. 45 N.; long. 9 W.-Brahmin, Taylor, London to Bombay, lat. 1 S.; long. 23 W.-Benares, Brown, Liverpool to Calcutta, lat. 8 N.; long. 24 W.-Julindur, Howlett, Shields to Calcutta, June 6, lat. 8 N.; long. 23 W.

DOMESTIC.

BIRTHS.

June 27. The lady of Capt. W. H. Delamain, Bengal art. s. at Rose-hill, Cheltenham.

28. The wife of the Rev. W. Pennefather, d. (still-born), at 16, Lowndes-square.

July 1. Mrs. Langford Kennedy, s. in Devonshire-place.

3. The lady of the Rev. W. Lloyd Collett, A.M. d. at Newburgcottage, Gillingham.

9. Mrs. Thomas Dent, d. at Hyde-park-terrace.

12. The lady of the Rev. Henry Vigne, d. at Sunbury Vicarage. 15. The lady of Major-general Frederick, C.B. s. at Shawford, near Winchester.

MARRIAGES.

June 22. John Barker, Esq. Madras medical service, to Isabella Hutchinson, daughter of the late Major Campbell, at Walton-park, Kirkcudbrightshire.

25. Edward B. Eastwick, Esq. of Harleybury, to Rosina Jane, daughter of the late James Hunter, Esq. at Hafton-house, Argyleshire.

28. Capt. Frederick Knyvett, Madras army, to Laura Frances, daughter of the late Major D'Arley, at St. Michael's Church, Chester-square.

-S. H. S. Inglefield, lieut. royal artillery, to Charlotte, daughter of the late Col. Coore, at Hawxwell, Yorkshire.

29. Alfred Stevens Erwin, Esq. to Emily Maitland, daughter of Capt. Addison, Hon. East-India Co.'s service, at St. George's, Hanover-square.

July 8. Rev. Thomas Watson, M.A. to Caroline, daughter of the late Francis Gibbs, Esq. at Staveley.

12. Charles Plowden, Esq. of Florence, to Anne Eliza, daughter of the late George Bryan, Esq. at the Roman Catholic Chapel, George-street, Portman-square.

Capt. H. Skinner, of the Nizam's cavalry, to Rose Ann, daughter of Samuel Cardozo, Esq. at St. Mary's, Bryanston

square.

15. Henry Daniel Scholfield, M.D. to Myra Caroline, daughter of the late James Taylor, Esq. Bombay civil service, at St. Luke's Church, Chelsea.

17. Edward Henderson, Esq. of the Bombay military service, to Judith Hutton, daughter of the late Dr. William Cookson, M.D. at Lincoln.

DEATHS.

March 16. Lieut. W. F. Anderton, 9th lancers, on board the Glendaragh, on his passage from Calcutta to England.

April 17. Lieut. H. Scott, Bombay artillery, on board the ship Troubadour, on his passage from Bombay to England.

29. William F. Hicks, Esq. Ceylon civil service, at the Cape of Good Hope, on his way home on medical certificate, aged 26.

June 17. Margaret Teresa, daughter of the late Major Henry Delafosse, c.B. Bengal artillery, at Marlborough, aged 18.

18. Capt. Charles Frederic Sorell, 17th Bombay native infantry, at Laibach, in Illyria.

23. Rev. John G. Lawford, at Brussels, aged 35.

27. Major Lockyer Willis Hart, 22nd regt. Bombay native infantry, at Paris, aged 43.

Jane, widow of George Templer, Esq. late of the Bengal civil service, at the Vicarage, Shapwick, Somerset, aged 87.

29. Sarah Serra, wife of Lieut. col. Hanmer, and daughter of the late Sir M. Ximenes, of Bear-place, Berks, in Devonshire-place. 30. Capt. Robert Allan, formerly of Calcutta, at No. 47, Brompton-crescent, aged 69.

July 3. Jane Hall, the wife of John Cunliffe, jun. Esq. at Bankparade, Preston.

4. Louisa, daughter of Robert Barclay, Esq. of Lombard-street, at Leyton, Essex, aged 13.

10. Rear- admiral Colquitt, at Bishopstoke, Hants, aged 71. 13. George Augustus, son of the Rev. George L. Fenton, assistant chaplain in the Hon. East-India Company's service, in the presidency of Bombay, at Reading, aged 1 year.

14. Georgiana Mary, daughter of Lieut.-general Sir Thomas M'Mahon, Bart. in Bryanston-square, aged 15.

15. Jannett, daughter of the late Thomas Galloway, aged 64. 16. Jane Ellen, infant daughter of Dr. Robert Wight, Madras establishment, at Chapel-terrace, Bayswater.

19. Matilda Lewellyn, daughter of Joseph Pugh, Esq. of Porchester-terrace, Bayswater, aged 17.

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Bengal Estab.-Lieut. Francis Whiting, Engineers.
Capt. Stuart M. Fullarton, 39th N.I.
Capt. John Knyvett, Invalids.

Lieut.-Col. J. A. Thompson, C. B., retired.
Assist. Surgeon Alexander Gibbon.

Madras Estab.-Lieut. Edmund J. Ferrars, 4th Cav.
Lieut. James L. St. Clair, 17th N.I.

Lieut.-Col. Thomas M. Cameron, 20th N.I.

Lieut. George Aitken, 20th N I.

Lieut. Montague Cholmeley, 27th N.I.

Ens. John C. Wyse, 34th N. I.

Capt. John Kitson, 45th N.I.

Lieut.-Col. Joseph Garnault, 46th N.I.
Capt. Arthur Salmon, 47th N. I.
Assist. Surgeon Charles W. Pickering.

Bombay Estab.-Lieut. W. Anderson, 1st Lt. Cav.

Ens. De Lacy M. Gleig, 2nd N.I.
Major John D. Browne, 10th N.I.

Brevet-Major John G. Hume, 10th N.I.

Assist. Surgeon James Mackenzie.

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Bengal Estab.-Lieut. Col. Commandant James Tennent, Artillery, on the Marlborough.

Brevet Capt. George P. Salmon, Artillery.
Capt. Thomas Renny, Engineers, overland,
July 20.

Brevet Capt. Richard C. Pennington, 11th N.I.
in July or August.

Major Clements G. Macan, 16th N. I. viá
Cape, Sept.

Lieut. Alexander C. Boswell, 19th N. I.

Brevet Major George Farmer, 66th N. I. per
Bucephalus.

Lieut. John J. Murray, 71st N. I.

Lieut. John Ross, 71st N. I.

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Major Robert H. Miles, 1st N. I., 6 months.
Brevet Capt. John Coke, 10th N. I., 6 months.
Capt. Joseph Towgood, 35th L. I., 2 months.
Lieut. John D. Lander, 47th N. I., 6 months.
Asst. Surgeon John R. Whitcombe, M. D., 6
months.

Asst. Surgeon Henry N. Nugent, 6 months. Madras Estab.-Lieut. John W. Tombs, engineers, 6 months. Lieut. Mowbray H. O. Smith, 1st Cavalry, till October.

Capt. Duncan Littlejohn, invalids, 6 months.

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To rank from the 12th June, 1847, agreeably to the Court's resolution of the 9th Dec. 1833, and in the following order, viz. :

James Charles Hamilton (abroad), via Southampton, 20th
March. Appointed 17th March.

Octavius Ludlow Smith (Alwa), ditto, ditto, ditto.
Alexander Mackenzie, Seringapatam, 26th April. Ap-
pointed 2nd March.

Henry John Fitzgerald, Robert Small, 28th May. Appointed 12th May.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ship by which they proceeded, and in the following order, viz:— James Head Lindsay, Barham, 26th June. George Edward Hill, ditto, ditto.

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William Hanson Chippendall, ditto, ditto.
William Underwood Eastment Gompertz, Kent, 30th
April. Appointed 13th April.

John Corstorphine, Robert Small, 28th May. Appointed
31st March.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ship by which they proceeded, and in the following order, viz. :William Cunningham, Wellesley, 12th June. William Probyn Hurst, ditto, ditto.

To rank from the date of his departure from Southampton by the overland route, viz. :

John Simpson, Indus, 20th June.

To rank from the date of the sailing from Gravesend of the ship by which he proceeded, viz. :

Weir Johnston, Bucephalus, 22nd June.

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