AST-INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.-Five per

Company for 25 years. Payments in anticipation of Calls will be received from Shareholders in sums not exceeding in all £15 per Share.-Original and New Issue. The holders of Scrip Receipts are hereby required to transmit the same for registration to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, 8, Broad Street Buildings, City, accompanied by the subjoined form.

Porties sending Scrip by post are advised to write across the face of the receipts, "sent for registration," and their names and addresses.

An acknowledgment will be given for the Scrip, which will be exchanged for Share Certificates. D. L. NOAD, Secretary.

East-Indian Railway Company, Aug. 6, 1847.

FORM TO ACCOMPANY SCRIP RECEIPTS. To the Secretary of the East-Indian Railway Company. Sir, I herewith transmit Scrip Receipts of Shares in the East-Indian Railway Company, numbered as below; and I hereby request you to register me as the Proprietor, under the provisions of the Deed of Settlement, of Shares in the East-Indian Railway Company.

Christian and Surname in full........... Residence..............................

REGISTERED 6 & 7 Vict. cap. 65. GENTLEMEN

who study to dress well must use this Brace, which, being mathematically constructed, suspends the Trousers equally, behind as well as before; gives a controlling power over the back of the side-seam and straps (during riding and walking), as well as the front of the leg. Buckles and Slides are dispensed with, and it effectually suspends the Drawers. Naval and Military Gentlemen's attention is called to this Brace.

Wholesale and retail by the Inventor, ROBERT METHAM, 2, Beresford Terrace, Walworth. Retail, price 5s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s. 6d., and 14s. each,-add 8d. postage for carriage.

ICE WITHOUT ICE.

NO MERCHANTS, CAPTAINS, SHIPPERS, Resi

and every hot climate, are respectfully solicited to direct their attention to T. MASTERS'S PATENT APPARATUS for the MANUFACTURE of ICE (from spring water), Dessert Ices, and Cooling Wine, &c. at the same time. His Patent Freezing Decanters, Claret and Water Jugs, Butter and Evaporating Coolers, and Patent Cooling Filter: also his Patent Apparatus for Making and Cooling Lemonade and all other Aerated Waters, together with the patentee's newly invented Freezing Mixture, without the use of ice, shewn and explained daily, from 2 to 4, at 294, Regent-street, Oxford-street, and 7, Mansion-house-street, City. The process is so simple that eighty degrees of cold may be instantaneously produced in the hottest climate. A Bottle of Wine, &c. cooled at the trifling expense of one halfpenny.

N.B. Full and printed directions are given with every apparatus sent out, so that the most inexperienced person cannot fail; and every machine war

ranted.

W

WILLIAM FULLER, ICE PAIL MAKER to her Majesty the Queen, the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Kent and Royal Family, 60, Jermyn Street, St. James's.

FULLER'S ICE CLOSET FOR MEAT, POULTRY, GAME, BUTTER, CREAM, FRUIT, &c. This closet will retain the same temperature from seven to eight days with once charging. Rough Ice is used.

THE ICE PRESERVER, in which rough ice can be kept for several weeks, preventing the necessity of opening the ice house except occasionally.

THE FREEZING MACHINE, by which different ices can be made in a few minutes; and from the constant agitation of the mixture during the process of freezing it is of the smoothest and finest quality.

THE ICE PAIL, for ICING WINE, WATER, BUTTER, &c., either with rough ice or by artificial process.

The above articles of scientific discovery may be seen at the Manufactory only, 60, Jermyn Street, six doors from St. James's Street.

GL

&c.

APSLEY

LASS, CHINA, CHANDELIERS, PELLATT and Co. (late Pellatt and Green), Glass Manufacturers and Dealers in China and Earthenware, having for many years past been honoured with orders of Regimental Messes, Merchants, and the Public in India, respectfully solicit a continuance of those favours they have for so long a period received. Purchasers may be assured of the quality of their goods being of the choicest description, the charges moderate, and the utmost attention paid to packing. Chandeliers and Wall Brackets in highly refractive white, and in variegated coloured glass, of the most novel and artistic designs. Drawings and estimates of Chandeliers, Table Glass, and China, forwarded to all parts of India free of charge.

Address, APSLEY PELLATT and Co., Falcon Glass Works, London.

PATENT CARRIAGE-HEAD GEAR. This novel in

vention, superseding the necessity of the unsightly and awkward-jointed ironwork attached to the hoods of Carriages, is respectfully recommended to the notice of the Indian community. It enables the occupant of any description of Carriage to raise or lower the hood to any height, with the utmost case and rapidity, without the aid of a servant,-without quitting the seat of the conveyance, stopping the horses, or resigning the reins. It is light and dura ble, and has met with the unqualified approbation of the scientific world in England.

The price of this useful and elegant novelty is Seven Guineas; and the article will be properly despatched, either Overland or viâ the Cape, on application to the Patentees, Messrs. HORNE and Co. (late I. and J. HOULDITCH, No. 93, Long Acre, London.

AMERICAN ICE STORES, 302, OXFORD STREET,

London, the only Depôt for the Rock Spring Ice, and the Improved Patent Refrigerator, or Portable Ice-House.-The Proprietor respectfully invites attention to his large STOCK of REFRIGERATORS now on hand. Manufactured on an entirely new principle, by which the water is preserved from escaping until drawn off. By this arrangement the very many accidents which have occurred, in despoiling carpets, &c., are completely avoided. They are highly approved of by many families of the nobility and gentry, to whom reference will be given on application, 302, OXFORD STREET.

LASTIC SURGICAL STOCKINGS & KNEE-CAPS, of a new fabric, for varicose veins, weakness, &c., introduced and manufactured by POPE and PLANTE, 4, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall. This pervious and ingeniously-contrived elastic yields a permanent and beneficial sup affording a requisite and uniform compression without the trouble of facing. They are patronized by the most eminent surgeons. Instructions for measures to be had on application, and the articles sent by post.

THE SURPRISING EXCELLENCE OF HOLLOWAY'S

Thomas Holland, Seaton Street, Liverpool, dated July 26, 1847:-" To Professor Holloway. Sir,-I had suffered intensely for many years from bad digestion, attended with sleepless nights, frightful dreams, want of appetite, and extreme debility. The best advice I obtained was of no avail. I was in this wretched state when I commenced taking your Pills, which in a few weeks restored me to health. I feel quite a new man. My appetite is good. I sleep well, and am capable of enduring great fatigue. These blessings I enjoy by taking your invaluable Pills."

Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor HOLLOWAY'S Establishment, 244, Strand, London. Wholesale Agent for the Presidency of Bombay, Mr. FRAMJEE NASSERWANJEE, 11, Forbes Street. For the Presidency of Madras, Messrs. ASHTON, RICHARDSON, and Co., Mount Road, and Messrs. STEPHENSON and Co., Beach. For the Presidency of Bengal, Mr. J. H. Cook, Waterloo Street, Calcutta. For Meerut and Simla, Mr. JOSEPH ANDERSON. For Agra, Messrs. THOMAS HULSE and NEPHEW.

THE

for

HE REGISTERED PALETOT of LLAMA CLOTH, still retains the same moderate price which, with its usefulness and gentlemanly appearance, has secured such general popularity. It has been made by special command for their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert, Prince George of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and the several Royal Visitors to the British Court. In London it can only be purchased of the Patentees, H. J. and D. NICOLL, Court Tailors, 114, Regent Street, and 22, Cornhill. Agents:-Liverpool, DAWBARN and SON, Bold Street; Dublin, GEO. MACDONA, Molesworth Street; Birmingham, WAREING and SON, New Street; Edinburgh, CHRISTIE and SON, George Street; and the principal Tailors in other large towns. Agents abroad:-JAMES BRUCE, the Cape; ROBERT RUTHERFORD, Hong-Kong; D. WILSON and Co., Calcutta; and WAGHORN and Co., Bombay.

THE ATRAPILATORY, or LIQUID HAIR DYE; OF

re-doing, but as the hair grows, as it never fades or acquires that unnatural red or purple tint common to all other dyes. BOTANIC WATER and BEAR'S GREASE.-When the hair is becoming thin and falling off, the only effectual remedy besides shaving the head, is the use of the two abovenamed articles, applied alternately-the botanic water to cleanse the roots from scurf, and as a stimulant, and the bear's grease as a nourisher. The NEW TOOTH-PICK BRUSH, thoroughly cleansing between the teeth, when used up and down, and polishing the surface when used crossways. The hair warranted never to come out. The UNION and TRIPLE HAIR BRUSHES. The DOUBLE ANTI-PRESSURE NAIL BRUSH. The MEDIUM SHAVING BRUSH. The RAILWAY STROP and POWDER. The above new and elegant articles, in addition to a very extensive assortment of beautiful PERFUMES, are the sole MANUFACTURES and INVENTIONS of MESSRS. ROSS and SONS, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, London.

Published this day, in 8vo. price 9s. cloth,

THE SUGAR PLAaining Sugar from the Sugar-Cane, By W.J. PLANTER'S MANUAL: being a Trea

on application to Rev. G. H. at Mr. ALLEN'S.

London: LONGMan, Brown, GREEN, and LONGMANS.

MILITARY OFFICERS, for Home and Foreign Ser

vice, will find at PRATT'S CAMP and BARRACK OUTFIT WAREHOUSES, Portable Brass and Iron Bedsteads, with bedding, Easy Chairs, Oak and Mahogany Drawers and Washstands, Mosquito Curtains, Leather Sheets, Canteens, &c. A complete ENSIGN'S and CORNET'S OUTFIT, and SENIOR OFFICER'S ditto, always ready. Lists, with prices, may be obtained at 123, New Bond Street, and 19, Cockspur Street. The Patent Compendium Portmanteau, for railway and steam-boat travelling, can only be obtained as above.

T.

BOOTS FOR INDIA.

TROY, ANATOMICAL BOOT MAKER, No. 376, ⚫ Strand, London, begs to acquaint officers and gentlemen in India, that, by a new process in the preparation of leather, it is rendered most agreeably soft and pliable, and is not affected by any degree of heat; is also free from that disagreeable creaking noise, so often complained of. Bad fitting boots, however large, are not easy, but cause corns and swellings in the joints. T. TROY respectfully states that his anatomical knowledge of the foot enables him to combine ease with neatness, and that he only requires the measure and description of the foot to insure it. His prices are moderate, his goods of the finest quality.

DIRECTIONS FOR MEASURING.

1. The number of inches round the ball or joints of the foot. 2. The number of inches round the instep. 3. The number of inches round the heel to the upper part of the instep. 4. The length of foot when sitting and standing; or, if an old boot can be forwarded, nothing more will be required to insure a good fit.

Prices.-Wellington Boots, of the prepared leather for India, 30s. per pair; ordinary, 25s.; Shooting Shoes to buckle, 18s. to 20s. per pair.

ST

Orders to be forwarded to T. TROY, 376, Strand, London.

TOOPING of the SHOULDERS and CONTRACTION of the CHEST are entirely prevented, and gently and effectually removed in Youth, and Ladies and Gentlemen, by the occasional use of the IMPROVED ELASTIC CHEST EXPANDER, which is light, simple, easily applied, either above or beneath the dress, and worn without any uncomfortable constraint or impediment to exercise. To young persons especially it is highly beneficial, immediately producing an evident improvement in the figure, and tending greatly to prevent the incursion of pulmonary diseases; whilst to the invalid, and those much engaged in sedentary pusuits, such as reading or studying, working, drawing, or music, it is found to be invaluable, as it expands the chest and affords a great support to the back. It is made in Silk; and can be forwarded, per post, by Mr. ALFRED BINYON, Sole Manufacturer and Proprietor, No. 40, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London; or full particulars, with prices and mode of measurement, &c. on receipt of a postage stamp.

MOUSTACHIOS, WHISKERS, or EYEBROWS, at

pleasure, by using GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENERATOR, for promoting and improving the growth of the human hair; the only known specific that will regenerate a new growth of hair. Sold by Sanger, Oxford Street; Barclay and Son, Farringdon Street; and all chemists and medicine venders, in bottles at 4s., 7s., and 11s. each, including a pamphlet of testimonials, and directions for using this essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers. By the application of a few drops to the crown of the head, it will remove the most violent head-ache in a few minutes. It is a delightful toilet perfume. On the receipt of money orders, a liberal discount to dealers is allowed. The 7s. contains two 4s., the 11s. four times the quantity of the 4s. Retail agents appointed on receiving money orders, to WILLIAM GRIMSTONE, Herbary, Highgate, near London.

VARICOSE VEINS, WEAKNESS, FRACTURES, SPRAINS, &c.

UXLEY'S SURGICAL CAOUTCHOUC ELASTIC profession; their superiority over every other manufactured fabric, for artificial support, is admitted by all who inspect them; they afford an equal, comforting, and permanent pressure, on every portion of the limb, avoiding the excessive trouble of lacing; they are drawn on with the facility of an ordinary stocking, adding little or no size to the leg. The success that has attended every case submitted to them, through the profession or otherwise, has established the confidence of all the first practitioners. H. and Co. are therefore enabled to guarantee a comfort and support hitherto unknown in any other form of bandaging. It is remarkable that every kind of surgical stockings lately used have a tendency to impede the free and healthy action of the muscles, thereby producing relaxation and great diminution of the limb.

Only to be obtained at HUXLEY'S PARISIAN SHIRT WAREHOUSE, 5, Vere Street, Cavendish Square. Manufacturers of Patent Abdominal Belts. Directions for Self-measurement and the Articles forwarded by Post.

SARSAPARILLA.

BRIDGE'S SARSAPARILLA continues to be carefully

prepared by T. A. BRIDGE and Co., Operative Chemists, &c., 270, Regent Street, London. It is a pure Cortical Essence of Red Jamaica Sarsaparilla, and for many years has been extensively used as the best and cheapest preparation of this esteemed alterative Medicine. It has a large sale in INDIA and the Colonies, as well as in England, and the highest testimonials are inclosed with full directions with each bottle. A dessert spoonful is a dose, equal to half a pint of Compound Decoction of Sarsaparilla, as ordered by the London College of Physicians. In bottles:-Pints, 15s.; half-pints, 8s.; and quarter pints, 48. 6d. Messrs. BRIDGE beg to caution the public against spurious imitations which are now being sold, and respectfully intimate that none is genuine without having the name of T. A. BRIDGE engraved on each bottle. Also T. A. BRIDGE and Co.'s QUINTESSENCE of JAMAICA GINGER, a celebrated remedy for Indigestion, Flatulency, Gout, Rheumatism, Spasms, Debility, and all nervous affections. The great inconvenience of taking ginger in powder is quite obviated by this preparation, which, by a chemical process, contains all the properties of the best Jamaica Ginger in the highest state of concentration, a few drops being a dose. It is recommended by the first medical men in the kingdom. During sea-sickness, and afterwards, it is most beneficial, in doses of twenty to thirty drops. Families going abroad should be careful to provide themselves with it.

SAS

ASSAFRAS CHOCOLATE for INVALIDS.--By her Majesty's Letters Patent.-Dr. DE LA MOTTE'S, nutritive healthrestoring, AROMATIC CHOCOLATE, prepared from the nuts of the Sassafras-tre, and sold in one-pound packets, by the Patentee, 12, Southampton Street, Strand. This Chocolate will be found to recruit the nervous system and exhausted strength more rapidly than any farinaceous substances, or any animal or vegetable jellies; and invalids will best consult their own interests by steadily persevering in its use.-To be had of all respectable Chemists and Druggists.

IX FOR FORTY SHILLINGS.-B. NICOLLS'S superior-fitting REGISTERED SHIRT, with the best work and materials. The advantages gained in these Shirts are, that, whilst the body, neck, and sleeves are perfectly free, the front remains smooth, and during the time of wear retains its position without a crease, thus combining a perfect fit with ease. The cloth of which these Shirts are made is of a peculiar quality, and used alone by B. NICOLL, REGISTERED SHIRT-MAKER, 42, REGENT CIRCUS.

LADIES TRAVELLING, or otherwise exposed to the

scorching rays of the sun, and heated particles of dust, will find ROWLAND'S KALYDOR a most refreshing preparation for the complexion, dispelling the cloud of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity of the kin. The numerous varieties of cutaneous eruptions, together with sun burn, freckles, tan, and discolorations, are pleasingly eradicated by the Kalydor, and the skin rendered delicately soft and clear." Its purifying and refreshing properties have obtained its exclusive selection by her Majesty the Queen, the COURT and the Royal Family of Great Britain, and the several COURTS of Europe; together with the élite of the aristocracy and haute volée, from the sultry climes of India and the drawing-rooms of Calcutta and Madras to the frozen realms of the Czar and the saloons of St. Petersburg and Moscow. Price 4s. 6d. and 8s. 6d. per bottle.

Beware of spurious" KALYDORS," containing mineral astringents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and which, by their repellent action, endanger health.

ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL.-The singular virtues of this successful invention for restoring, improving, and beautifying the Human Hair, are too well known and appreciated to need comment. The very fact of its having stood the test of nearly half a century of probation, and obtained the especial patronage of her Majesty the Queen, H.R.H. Prince Albert, the whole of the Royal Family, and of every Court in the civilized world, and the high esteem in which it is universally held, together with numerous testimonials constantly received of its efficacy, afford the best and surest proof of its merits.-Price 3s. 6d. ; 78.; family bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 6d., and double that size, 21s. per bottle.

ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or PEARL DENTIFRICE, a white Powder for the Teeth, compounded of the choicest and most recherché ingredients of the Oriental Herbal, of inestimable virtue for preserving and beautifying the Teeth and strengthening the Gums. Its truly efficient and fragrant aromatic properties have obtained its selection by the Court and Royal Family of Great Britain, and the sovereigns and nobility throughout Europe.-Price 2s. 9d. per box.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION.-Unprincipled individuals, for the sake of gaining a trifle more profit, vend the most spurious compounds under the names of Macassar Oil," "Kalydor," and "Odonto;" some under the implied sanction of Royalty and the Government Departments, with similar attempts at deception, while they copy the labels, advertisements, and testimonials (substituting fictitious names and addresses for the real) of the original preparations. It is therefore highly necessary to see that the word "ROWLAND'S" is on the wrapper of each article.-All others are FRAUDULENT IMITATIONS!!

The genuine articles are sold by the Proprietors, and by every respectable Perfumer and Chemist throughout the kingdom.

VARICOSE VEINS.-BAILEY'S ELASTIC STOCKINGS and KNEE CAPS, to draw on, are made of silk or cotton, to suit the circumstances of all classes. They are so constructed as to give constant support. It is needless to say much in praise of any article made at Bailey's old establishment. Persons requiring bandages for the support of the human frame have only to ask their medical inan who is the best.

RIDING and WALKING.-BAILEY continues to make famous SUSPENSORY BANDAGES, which have prevented serious accidents by wearing them. They are made to any pattern for 3s., 4s., and 5s. each. Size of the waist is all that is required. Postage stamps may be sent for the amount. Gentlemen may have them made to their own pattern.

Address, WM. HUNTLY BAILEY, 418, Oxford-street, London.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.—BILIOUS & LIVER COMPLAINTS. ANTIBILIOUS PILLS. No medicine

DIXON'S to the public has met with such general approval as Dixon's

ANTIBILIOUS PILLS. For the last FIFTY YEARS they have been considered a safe and effectual remedy for complaints arising from affections of the liver and stomach, viz, indigestion, loss of appetite, heartburn, flatulence, spasms, costiveness, and the disorders caused from the want of a proper secretion of the bile. They are well calculated for those persons, and elderly people, who are obliged constantly to take some medicine in order to assist the action of the bowels, as they contain no drastic ingredients (or mercury in any shape), and their repeated use does not lessen their efficacy, or weaken the stomach. They have a peculiar effect in relieving headache, and all the disagreeable symptoms which arise from too much wine, or any excess of the table. As a medicine in warm climates, where bilious complaints are so frequent and alarming, they are an invaluable remedy, and strongly recommended to persons who travel, as they retain their effect for some years.

The proprietors of this excellent preparation, in consequence of repeated application, have been induced to offer a ONE SHILLING BOX, which is sold, wholesale and retail, with the former sizes, at their new establishment, 24, Conduit Street, Regent Street. None are genuine which have not GEORGE DIXON engraved on the government stamp, sealed with his arms; and wholesale by Messrs. Butler and Harding, Cheapside; Barclay and Sons, Farringdon Street; Newbury and Edwards, St. Paul's Churchyard; Sutton and Co., Bow Churchyard; Willoughby and Co., Bishopsgate Street; Dietrichsen and Hannay, Oxford Street; in Dublin by Messrs. Butler and Co., Sackville Street; in Edinburgh, Messrs. Raines and Co.; and retail by all dealers in patent

medicines,

EAS

AST INDIA SUBSCRIPTION ROOM,
NO. 127, LEADENHALL STREET,
(OPPOSITE THE EAST-INDIA HOUSE.)

W. M. BOYCE and CO. at the suggestion of several of their friends, have at their Offices, 127, opened a "SUBSCRIPTION AND READING ROOM," Leadenhall-street, opposite the India House. A large and handsome apartment is fitted up with every convenience and comfort. It will be supplied with all the Leading Journals and Periodicals of the day, particularly those treating on India and the East generally.

The advantages to Subscribers will be-a comfortable rendezvous for themselves and friends, in the most central part of the City; the certainty of obtaining every information connected with India up to the latest date; a commodious place to write letters, and a place of reference for letters and for general business.

Any Subscriber residing in India, or away from London, may appoint a proxy, who will be allowed all the advantages of such Subscriber.

Terms of Subscription :-To Subscribers in India, one Rupee per mensem. Ditto, in England, one Guinea per annum.

EAST

NAST INDIA and GENERAL AGENCY, No. 121, Leadenhall-street (opposite the East-India House).

W. M. BOYCE and CO. in returning thanks to their friends and supporters for the liberal patronage already bestowed on them, beg to intimate that their offices are now established at No. 127, Leadenhall-street.

W. M. BOYCE and Co. continue to forward supplies and goods of every description, to Messes, Families, and Individuals, on the most moderate terms, by the Cape or Overland. Passages to the Three Presidencies, or China, by sailing vessels, vid the Cape, or by steam, vía the Red Sea, negociated on the most favourable terms.

Outfits for Officers appointed to the Civil, Military, Naval, or Medical Establishments in India, procured with every attention to economy consistent with the supplying of first-rate articles.

PAY and PENSIONS drawn and remitted to any part of Great Britain or the Continent. Luggage cleared and warehoused, and Parcels and Letters forwarded Overland to India.

In order to render their agency as efficient as possible, W. M. B. and Co. would call particalar attention to the following points, which they consider of great importance, not only to their friends, but to the public generally.

It frequently occurs, that gentlemen residing in India are compelled to send their wives and children home, and remain in India themselves. Circumstances often compel ladies and children to land in England without any one to receive and relieve them from the troubles and annoyances attendant on disembarkation, after a long and fatiguing voyage, and the clearing of their luggage through the Custom-house. In order to meet these cases, one of the Firm is prepared to attend any so situated, personally, and to escort them to their friends. Parties wishing to avail themselves of this accommodation should communicate their intention, in writing, by the Overland Mail, in sufficient time to admit of proper arrangements being made for their reception. Parents in India wishing to send their children to England for education, and unable to accompany them, may avail themselves of W. M. B. and Co.'s agency, who will undertake to receive them, place them at school, and act as guardians, if necessary. If requisite, reference can be given to parties who have already availed themselves of this arrangement. Inconvenience is often felt, and great expense incurred, in consequence of families arriving from India without having previously decided upon a place of residence. This may be obviated by timely application to BOYCE and CO. who are prepared to engage permanent or temporary residences for all parties arriving from

India.

A residence of upwards of twenty years in India, the greater portion of which was passed in the East India Company's naval service, renders the head of the Firm peculiarly fitted for the business which is now sought, and which is merely reverted to here as a guarantee that the most scrupulous attention to the interest and wants of their supporters will be attended with the advantage of being able to impart, from actual experience, any information which may be required relative to India.

Overland Newspaper for INDIA, China, and the Colonies. The "HOME NEWS."

THE

"HOME NEWS," with which is now incorpo

of each Month, in time for the despatch by the Mail via Marseilles, all intelligence of interest for the reader in India being brought down to the latest hour.

Parties desiring to have the "HOME NEWS" forwarded to their friends in India, should apply to Messrs. GRINDLAY and Co. or through any respectable Newsman in Town or Country, at the Offices of the "HOME NEWS,” 16, Cornhill, and Green-arbour Court, Old Bailey.

The price of the "HOME NEWS" is 9d. for each copy, or 188. per annum, payable in advance, and the postage via Marseilles, 6s. per annum.

I

NDIA.-JOHN BESEMERES and SONS, Tailors, Ready-made Linen Warehousemen, and Manufacturing Outfitters, 61 to 64, Houndsditch, present their establishment to Officers, Civilians, and Passengers about to leave for India, as combining facilities for the production and supply of Superfine Clothing for India, ready-made Linen Shirts, and every kind of Under Clothing at value. They also manufacture Cabin and Camp Solid Furniture for outfit and subsequent use. Peculiar Waterproof Overland Trunks, One Guinea each.-Priced estimates in detail, with every particular, sent by post.

To sail from Gravesend 1st September, and to embark Passengers at Portsmouth.

FOR CALCUTTA DAN, CT Blackwall), 1,350 Lons, JOHN THOMAS

direct, the new Ship QUEEN (be

NASH, Commander.-Lying in the East-India Docks.-This Ship has excellent
accommodations for Passengers, and will have an experienced Surgeon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to Capt. J. T. NASH, or to WIMBLE and
ALLPORT, 156, Leadenhall Street.

OMBAY AND THE CAPE.-For Passage only, by Cabins disengaged. For Particulars and Plans of Accommodations apply to W. M. BOYCE and CO. 127, Leadenhall-street (opposite the India House).

NIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,

UNI

1, King William Street, London.
DIRECTORS.

SIR HENRY WILLOCK, K.L.S., Chairman.
JOHN STEWART, Esq., Deputy Chairman.

Major-Gen. Sir Richard Armstrong,

C.B., K.C.T., and S.
John Bagshaw, Esq., M.P.
Augustus Bosanquet, Esq.
Charles Dashwood Bruce, Esq.
Ellis Watkin Cuncliffe, Esq.
William Kilburn, Esq.

Francis Macnaghten, Esq.
Charles Otway Mayne, Esq.
William Rothery, Esq.
Robert Saunders, Esq.

James Duncan Thomson, Esq.
Capt. Samuel Thornton, R.N.

BANKERS.-Bank of England, and Messrs. Currie and Co. SOLICITOR.-William Henry Cotterill, Esq. PHYSICIAN.-G. Burrows, M.D., F.R.S., 45, Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Sq. The principle adopted by the Universal Life Assurance Society, of an annual valuation of assets and liabilities, and a division of three-fourths of the profits among the assured, is admitted to offer great advantages, especially to those parties who may wish to appropriate their proportion of profit to the reduction of future premiums.

The following Table will shew the result of the last division of profits, as declared on the 12th May, 1847, to all persons who had on that day paid six annual premiums. This will be found a liberal reduction if the original premiums be compared with those of other offices adopting a similar plan of division of profits:

OVERLAND RATES for PARCELS sent direct to the

Peninsular and Oriental Steam-Navigation Company's Parcel Office, 44, St. Mary Axe. To Aden, Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, the Straits, and China, parcels under a quarter of a foot, cubic measurement, will be taken at 5s., 6s. 6d., and 9s. each.

Note.-Five Shilling Parcels will carry six monthly magazines.

Three-quarters of a cubic foot and upwards charged at the rate of 20s. per cubic foot; Bombay, 30s. per cubic foot.

The above rates include every charge from the office to the port of destination, except Egyptian transit-duty.

Packages received up to the last day of the month for the mail of the 3rd, and to 6 p.m. on the 17th, for the mail of the 20th.

Detailed particulars will be given on personal application, or by writing. 44, St. Mary Axe. JAMES BARBER, Superintendent.

Communications for the Editor, and Advertisements, should be sent under cover to Messrs. Wm. H. Allen & Co., 7, Leadenhall street.

COUNTRY AGENTS:

Edinburgh, W. Blackwood and Sons; Charles Smith.
Dublin, Hodges and Smith.
Brighton, C. Booty.

LONDON:-Printed by CHARLES WYMAN, of 16, Castelnau Villas, in the Parish of Barnes, in the County of Surrey, Printer, at the Printing-Office of J. & H. Cox, Brothers, 74 & 75, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, in the Parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, in the County of Middlesex; and published by LANCELOT WILD, at No. 13, Catherine Street, Strand, in the Parish of St. Mary-le-Strand, in the said County.—Tuesday, August 24, 1847.

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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.

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The Semiramis, with the mails, left Bombay on the 19th July, and arrived at Aden on the 4th ult. Her letters were there put on board the Victoria, which left on the following day, reaching Suez on the 12th, and Alexandria on the 15th. From this place the mails were conveyed by the Ariel to Malta, where they arrived on the 22nd. The portion to be conveyed through France reached Marseilles on the 26th ult.

The Tagus, with the remainder of the mails, was to leave Malta on the 23rd, and may be expected at Southampton on or about the 4th instant.

The Flamer, with the London mail of May 24th, arrived at Calcutta from Suez July 6.

DEPARTURE OF MAILS.

A mail for Bombay will be despatched, via Southampton, on the morning of Friday next, the 3rd inst. Letters, to be in time, should be posted in London on the previous evening; but, if marked via Marseilles, they need not be posted till the evening of Tuesday the 7th inst.

A mail for Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, the Straits, and China, will leave on the morning of Monday, September 20th. Letters should be posted in London on the evening of the preceding Saturday, the 18th; but, if marked via Marseilles, they will be in time if posted on the e-ering of Friday, September 24th.

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bination found nowhere in India but under the benign influence of British ascendancy. How different this from the state of the Punjab subsequently to the death of Runjeet SINGH down to the close of the series of victories by which the British Government was placed in a condition to enforce the claims of humanity and of order in Lahore. Colonel LAWRENCE is about to proceed to the hills to recruit his health, which has suffered from a too severe application to his duties. His brother, Mr. JOHN LAWRENCE, will, it is said, act in his absence. These official movements are the most important events contained in the despatch from Lahore, whence, not long since, we expected, and often received, a monthly or semi-monthly budget of intrigues, plots, assassinations and revolutions.

This last word directs attention to NEPAUL, the scene of the latest revolution of which we are at present advised. Another account of the affair has appeared, varying in some trifling particulars from those previously given. We present it in the words of the Bengal Hurkaru. The Ranee, it is said, has gone to Benares, whether in search of her lord or not, does not appear. However this may be, the return as to the ex-king is non inventus.

"Nothing more has transpired relative to the recent revolution in Nepal, but the Delhi Gazette of the 30th ultimo gives an account of the affair, slightly differing from and somewhat fuller than that already published. From this it appears that the ex-Maharajah's attempt to procure the assassination of the minister, Jung Bahadoor, was the result of intrigues betwixt his Majesty and certain refugee chiefs, relatives of the Chountra minister murdered some time ago, who with their followers, some 8,000 men, are in exile, and burning for an opportunity of avenging the death of their head. After a consultation with these chiefs, the Maharajah sent secret messengers to Katmandoo, charged with the duty of murdering the minister. Some of these men were detected, seized, and put to death, and others were severely punished and imprisoned. The discovery of this plot led to the deposition of the Maharajah by the minister, with the consent of the soldiery, and the installation of the heir apparent in his stead. The new king and his brother are, it is said, the only members of the royal family now at Katmandoo, the Ranee and her two sons having gone to Benares, and the ex-king being yet missing. The minister is described as a young man of betwixt twenty-five and thirty years of age, daring and dashing, and liked by the soldiers, without whose favour he would stand but a poor chance against a host of enemies. As it is, he goes about with a strong guard armed to the teeth, and yet in spite of all precautions, the probability, deduced from the fate of all his predecessors for years past, is, that he will die a violent death under the knives of his foes."

The Hurkaru adds that from no other part of the northwest, nor indeed from any part of India, the metropolis included, is there any intelligence to be communicated worthy of note. In this absence of news of political importance, we must content ourselves with such lighter and more general information as is contained in the following extract of a letter from Scinde, for which we are indebted

to the Bombay Telegraph. The report is somewhat more favourable than some others which we have seen; whether more correct we say not.

"This is to me a novel country, the soil is (mirabile dictu!) the very colour of Old Egypt. The Indus is a much finer river than any part of the Nile that I have seen. The heat of this country differs more in character than it does even in height from any part of India that I have seen. Out in the desert the Sindees themselves not unfrequently are struck down dead by the sun. In India this very rarely happens, and when it does occur it is owing to some apoplectic state of the sufferer; but here it is not an apoplectic seizure at all! But while the heat is so terrible out of doors, inside of the house it is very peculiarly dif ferent from the heat within doors in India. In Guzerat, do what you may, you cannot make the furniture feel cool,-here on the contrary you have no difficulty, the furniture very generally feels cool during the hottest weather. In Guzerat the ground burns your hand for hours after the departure of the sun,-here the ground (if you except limestone rocks) soon becomes cool and agreeable. But the dust! who can describe it! It comes periodically, at present making its appearance at about nine o'clock at night, and leaving off at about two in the morning. There is something very replete with mercy in the circumstance that, subtile though the Scinde dust is, it does not seem to injure the breathing apparatus. It is blown upon the wind, from the vast deposits in the Indus; and it may be seen in strata alternating with layers of more clayey deposits. On these large flats are to be seen forests of a kind of bastard tamarisk or cypress, the height or growth of which varies from an inch (looking like a large field of grass) to fifteen or sixteen feet. This shrub or tree is called jaoo, and is very useful; indeed it is quite indispensable to the people of Scinde for firewood during the cold months. I believe little is known regarding the jaoo, and no attention has yet been paid to thinning it, in order that it may increase in size. It grows close set, and in vast abundance. I do not know how Scinde has got the character of being sterile! a river running through it like a sea, and it is sterile in its soil!-But the fact is, we all wish to get out of it, and in this state of mind people care not how much they abuse a country. During the hot months it requires some mental resource, or an abundance of official work, in order to get one through the long dreary days. The house is shut up and darkened at 8 a.m. The windows of the sitting-room and office are furnished with a small wooden door in one of the spaces for a pane; this has hinges and a small hook to shut it with; it is for the import and export of papers, letters, or books. So sacredly is the heated air excluded. Thermantidotes and punkahs are agoing all the livelong day. I sleep outside, but most people prefer sleeping within doors. The mornings are in general delightful. The ground seemingly gets easily rid of the absorbed heat. The people of the country are an interesting race; they adapt themselves to European demand more readily than the natives of India; they have become all of a sudden expert tailors; and few people appear to rejoice so naturally at the varied prospects or avenues of collecting a little money, which the occupancy of their country by the British holds out. You would like to know how they feel towards the Ameers? I will tell you. I see the utter ruin which would have befallen our civil and religious privileges had the expulsion of the Stuarts not taken place, but have, nevertheless, a kind of foolish hankering after the Stuarts; and might (with all my abhorrence of their atrocious tyranny) have joined bonny Prince Charlie the people may have some such feeling. With the Ameers they were mere serfs; what they shall be with us remains to be seen."-Bombay Telegraph and Courier, July 14.

BENGAL.

PRICE OF GRAIN IN THE LAST AND THE PRESENT CENTURY IN BENGAL.

(From the Friend of India.)

We have now the pleasure of offering the reader a valuable document, for which we are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Herklots, of Chinsurah, shewing the market price of grain at that settlement from the year 1700 to 1813; the return is continued to the present year from information furnished by the grain merchants of the place. We think it may be deemed sufficiently accurate to form the basis of a comparison of the price of provision at any two periods of the time it embraces. It is well known, however, that the inevitable result of a European establishment in any place, is to enhance the price of provisions, though this does not take place to the same extent in any other foreign settlement as in one belonging to the English. We may, therefore, conclude that during these years provisions were sold

in the interior of Bengal at a somewhat cheaper rate than in the Dutch settlement of Chinsurab.

One of the most obvious remarks which the table suggests is, the extraordinary cheapness of every article of food during the administration of the greatest viceroy Bengal has ever seen, the Nabob Moorshed Kooly Khan, who directed the administration of this soobah from about the year 1700 to 1725. It is a well. known historical fact, that he maintained the peace of the country with only six thousand troops, two thousand cavalry and four thousand infantry, and that he made a point of remitting a erore of rupees a year from its revenues to the imperial treasury at Delhi. Stewart states in his History of Bengal, on native authority, that rice (coarse, we suppose), sold at four maunds the rupee during his viceroyalty. In this there was evidently a little oriental exaggeration. On turning to the table we find that it was only during one year that the maund of rice sold for five annas in the bazars of Chinsurah, and we may reasonably conclude that it might then be obtained at four annas the maund in the interior. The cheapest year has been, therefore, assumed by native historians as the standard of the whole period. But, generally, we find the value of provisions in the quarter of a century of his reign much lower than it has ever been since that period. Rice of the first quality was sold on an average at a rupee a maund; and coarse rice at nine annas. This cheapness prevailed in spite of his total disregard of the principles of political economy. He was a true disciple of the old school, and one might almost fancy his regulations borrowed from some venerable act of our own parliament." He always provided against famine, and severely prohibited all monopolies of grain. He constantly made private inquiries concerning the market price of grain, and whenever he discovered any imposition, the offenders suffered the most exemplary punishments. If the importation of grain to cities and towns fell short of what had been usual, he sent officers into the country who broke open the hoards of individuals, and compelled them to carry their grain to the public markets. He also strictly prohibited the exportation of grain, and the Fouzdar of Hooghly had express orders to see that no ship, belonging to Europeans or others, was suffered to carry away more than was sufficient for the victualling of the crew, during their intended voyage; neither were any merchants suffered to have any stores of grain." These measures were likely rather to enhance than to reduce the cost of provisions, and we are, therefore, disposed to attribute the extraordinary low price which they maintained to the efforts which he made for the encouragement of agriculture, by depriving the zemindars of all interference in the collection of the revenue, and assigning them a fixed allowance, by re-measuring the lands of every village, and fixing a moderate assessment, which was collected direct from the people, and by the sums he advanced them from the treasury to enable them to bring fallow and waste land into cultivation.

The next viceroy of note, indeed the last viceroy but one, was Nabob Ali Verdy Khan, who ruled the destinies of Bengal during the fifteen years extending from 1740 to 1755. His reign was disturbed by the inroads of the Mahrattas, who, under the name of Burgees, laid waste the districts of Midnapore, Hooghly, Burdwan, and Beerbhoom, for several consecutive years, and necessarily occasioned a rise in the price of provisions. During the fifteen years of his administration, we, therefore, find the average price of rice of the first sort, two rupees the maund, and that of the coarser sort one rupee eleven annas.

On comparing the price which ruled during his viceroyalty with that which has prevailed during the last fifteen years embraced in the Return, we find the balance in favour of the latter period. The rice which sold in the days of Ali Verdy at Rs. 2 the maund has latterly been sold at 1 rupee 11 a.; that which cost the people 1 rupee 9 a. has been reduced to 1 rupee 5 a. The general average of provisions during the last thirty years of the Mahomedan rule is much the same as it has been under our administration; and, generally speaking, there has been no augmentation in the cost of living to the poor (except in the article of salt) for the last hundred and twenty years. But it must not be forgotten that owing to the extension of manufactures and trade, and the great increase of exports to foreign countries, and the freer circulation of money, the means of living among the population has been in no small degree improved during this period.

One item in this return is deserving of particular notice; we allude to the great depreciation of the value of couries, the small coin which the poorer classes give in exchange for the articles they purchase in the market. It appears that from the beginning of the last century to the year 1786, the price of these shells was at the rate of 32 puns for the rupee. In that year it fell to 67 puns, and during the last nine years has been at the average of 100 puns.