MARINE DEPARTMENT. APPOINTMENTS, &c. BETHAM, Mr. R. G. Capts. clerk, to be purser, Dec. 26. CHILD, Mr. Midsh. S. leave of abs. in ext. to Dec. 31, to Maha. bleshwur Hills on m. c. CONSTABLE, Lieut. C. G. leave of abs. in ext. to Dec. 31, to Mahableshwur Hills on m. c. COOKE, Mr. Midsh. H. C. ret. to duty, Dec. 22. GARRETT, Mr. Midsb. H. H. leave of abs. to proc. to Eng. for one year, fr. Suez, Nov. 18, on m. c. GRAHAM, Mr. Purser W. S. W. furl. to Eur. for three years on m. c. Dec. 24. JOLLIFFE, Mr. Mids. Q. leave of abs. in ext. to Dec. 31, to Maha. bleshwur Hills on m. c. Lowe, Capt. W. ret. to duty Dec. 15. TANNER, Mr. Purser T. J. ret. to duty Dec. 22. WARD, Mr. Purser J. leave of abs. for two years to Malabar Coast and the Neilgherries on m. c. Dec. 24. WILLIAMS, Mr. to be capts. clerk, Dec. 26. WOLLASTON, Lieut. perm. to retire fr. the serv. Dec. 28. DOMESTIC. BIRTHS. CRAWFORD, the lady of Rob. W. s. at Bombay, Dec. 22. FAWCETT, the lady of Edward G. c.s. s. at Ahmedabad, Dec. 26. HOLLAND, the lady of Major Jas. dep. qr. mr. gen. d. at Bombay, M'AULEY, Mrs. d. at Byculla, Dec. 30. MONTGOMERY, the lady of Rev. R. d. at Rajcote, Dec. 8. YOUNG, the lady of H. c.s. s. at Malligaum, Dec. 16. MARRIAGES. M'LAUGHLIN, Thos. 1.N. to Sarah, widow of the late Chas. Hall, 1. N. at Kurrachee, Dec. 26. WEBB, H. to Elizabeth, d. of Condr. Rob. Hoy, ordnance depart. at Bombay, Dec. 17. DEATHS. COOKE, Wm. T. V. at Bombay, aged 1, Dec. 6. MCKIE, John, s. of the Rev. James, at Bombay, aged 3, Dec. 30. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS. DEC. 16. Owen Glendower, Robertson, London; Grecian, Langford, London.-17. Mary Hartley, Bartlett, Liverpool; Mary, Grant, Colombo; Eden, Duncan, Cape of Good Hope.-20. John Adam, Gardner, Hong Kong; Lianry, Scholefield, Hong Kong; Bona Accord, Birch, Canton; Antelope, Harding, China; Frolic, Facon, Canton; Rob Roy, Frances, China.-21. Gem, Watson, Hong Kong.-24. Hyderee, Powell, China.-25. Lord Western, Rice, China; Nimrod, Atkins, London.-27. Sir H. Compton, Browne, China.-28. Euphrates, Wilson, China.-30. Steamer Seaforth, Higgs, Columba; steamer Cleopatra, Young, Aden; Earl of Balcarras, Baker, China; steamer Victoria, Banks, Colombo; steamer Indus, Kingcombe, Kurrachee ; steamer Berenice, Barron, Kurrachee.-JAN. 1. Futtay Mombarruck, Morrison, China. PASSENGERS ARRIVED. Per Owen Glendower-Mrs. Gill, Mrs. Maitland, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Abbott, Miss Spring, Lieut. Campbell, N.I.; Dr. Maitland, B.M.I.; Ens. Walker, H.M.'s 8th; Lieut. Clarke, art.; Cadets Messrs. Riddle and Drysdale; Mrs. Barnes and child, Mrs. Canoll, 2 ayahs, Mr. Philip and servant, Mrs. Robson, Mrs. Orr, Mrs. Milne, Mrs. Field, Miss Leishng, Dr. Robson, Capt.. Orr, Mr. Field, 6th B.N.I.; Mr. Wellis, cadet, Mrs. Murphy. Per Mary-Mrs. Grant. Per Bona Accord-Capt Hill. Per Nimrod-Dr. Wm. Perrie, and Mr. McDougal. Per steamer Seaforth-W. E. Frere, Esq. B. C. S.; G. W. McKenzie, Esq., Ceylon C. S.; Dr. Arbucke; Lieut. J. Fulk, Ceylon Rifles; and 13 servants. Per Earl of Balcarras-R. Methven, Esq.; J. Crocketh, Esq.; J. Allcock; R. Heerjeebhoy, Esq.; W. Allcock, Esq.; D. Dadab.. hoy, Esq. with 9 servants, and R. Miller, Esq. Per steamer Victoria.-DEC. 29. Capt. and Mrs. Harris; Mrs. Maj. Troward; J. A. Russell, Esq.; A. S. Ayrton, Esq.; J. C. Grant, Esq.; Capt. W. Fraser; C. F. Brown, Esq.; Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan; three Misses ditto; Mr. Anderson; Mrs. Leonard; Mr. McKie. Per steamer Indus.-Mrs. Scott and child; Mrs. Thorn; Mrs. Gray and two children; Capt. Weston, H.M.'s 14th L.D.; Capt. T. Dawson ditto; Capt. C. Dawson; Lieut. Scott, 13th N.I.; Lieut. Weston, 14th ditto; Lieut. Hough, 2nd B. batt.; Asst. surg. Russell; 2nd troop H. A.; Asst. surg. Bloxam, 10th N.I. Per Futtay Mombarruck.-Mrs. Aikin and child. Per steamer Berenice.-Capts. Bourchier and Prendergast, H.M.'s 17th; Lieuts. Cormick, Messiter, McKinstry, Wedderburne, Codde, Dudgeon, Baxter, Wemyss, and McCrae; Surg. Archer, ditto; Lieut. Morse, Bom. art.; Non. comd. rank and file, H.M.'s 17th, 299; women and children, 9; public followers, 25; private followers, 56. DEPARTURES. DEC. 17. Steamer Indus, Kingcomb, Kurrachee; Syria, Simonds, Liverpool.-19. Actress, Conry, Mauritius.-20. Ganges, Walker, London.-22. Agnes, Scowcroft, Malabar.-27. Blair, Mordy, China; Wild Irish Girl, Graham, Liverpool.-28. Stalkart, Howard, Calcutta.-29. Currency, Wainwright, Calcutta.-JAN. 2, 1847. Atalanta, Gordon, Suez. PASSENGERS DEPARTED. Per Actress.-Mrs. Mylins, Miss Mylins, and Mr. D. Lile. Per Ganges.-Col. Cathcart, Mrs. Cathcart and 2 children, Mr. Bird, and servant. Per Agnes.-Mrs. Jones, Per Wild Irish Girl.-D. McCallam, G. Heffernan, and 2 children. Per Stalkart.-Mr. Framjee Cowasjee, E. Pedder, corp., James Middleton, J. Chamberland, Capt. Hutchison, and servant. Per Currency.-Capt. Bouchier, H.M.'s 17th regt. ; Capt. Prendergast, do.; Lieut. Carmicael, do.; Lieut. Messiter, do.; Lieut. Kinstry, do.; Lieut. Wedderburne, do.; Lieut. Codde, do.; Lieut. Wemyss, do.; Lieut. M'Crae, do.; Surg. Archer, do. ; Lieut. Morse, Bom. Art.; 299 non-commissioned officers, rank and file, of H.M.'s 17th regt. ; 9 women and children, 25 public followers, 56 private followers. Per Malabar.-Mr. and Mrs. Reeves and a servant, Miss Morley and Mrs. Benson, Mrs. Col. Wilson and daughter, Mrs. Pare, R. X. Murphy, Esq. lady and child, Mrs. Leacock and three children, with servant, Mrs. Outhwaite and child, with servant, Mrs. Capt. Fraser and 3 children, with servant, a child of Mr. Holland, with servant, Mrs. Ryan and child, two children of Capt. Lysaght, with servant, two children of Capt. Wilson, with servant, two children of Doctor Burnes, Lieut. Belfield, H.M.'s 17th regt, with troops. Doctor Lang, H.M.'s 86th regt. Per steamer Atalanta.-Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Miller and servant, John Bowman, Esq., Mrs. Delaval Grey and 2 children, and servant, two children of Capt. G. K. Erskine, and servant, Mrs. Frith and two children, and servant, Mrs. Sheppard, Doctor Faithful, Surg. R. Kirk, Mrs. Mary Wright, Lieut. Stone and Ens. Howell; Capt. Dawson, H. M.'s 4th Lt. Drags., Major Fyler and Lieut. Orme, H.M.'s 16th Lancers, Mrs. Rennie, Capt. C. Dawson, George Pollexfen, Esq., Lieut. Balcaras, W. Ramsay, 14th Lt. Drags. Capt. H. E. D. Jones, 12th regt. N.I. John Hende Pelle, Esq. c.s., Lieut. James S. Fulk, Ceylon rifle regt. Lieut. Rich, 33rd Madras N.I. CEYLON. CEYLON. COURT-MARTIAL CAPTAIN NICHOLAS FENWICK. At a general Court-Martial held at Colombo on the 3rd November, 1846, of which Col. J. Fraser, deputy quarter-master general, is president, and Capt. W. T. Layard, Ceylon rifle regt., officiating judge advocate, Capt. Nicholas Fenwick, of the Cey. lon Rifle Regiment, was arraigned on the undermentioned charges: First Charge. For conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, in the following instances": First Instance.-In having at Colombo, on the morning of Saturday, the 17th October, 1846, between the hours of half-past 10 and 12 o'clock, falsely asserted to me, in the presence of Maj. Reyne, 2nd-Lieut. Adams, and 2nd-Lieut. Kingsmill, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, that a bet between Lieut. Keane, of the same regiment, and Mr. Francis Warden Dick, relative to Mr. Dick and Lieut. Kingsmill, was made after dinner, down stairs, in the billiard-room of the mess of the Ceylon Rifles, on Monday, the 12th October, 1846, whereas he, Capt Fenwick, was well aware that the said bet had been made at the dinner-table up stairs, before the cloth was removed, on the evening of the 10th October last, thereby endeavouring to conceal from and to deceive me as to the transactions which had taken place at the Ceylon rifle mess-room on the evening of the 10th October, 1846. Second Instance.-In having, in direct disobedience of my repeated orders, given to him at the time and place, and in the presence of the officers mentioned in the First Instance of this charge, to abstain from using irritating or offensive language to Lieut. Layard; immediately after he left my premises, he addressed himself to Lieut. Layard, and said, "You may inform the person who told you I could be brought to court-martial for that letter, that he -;" or words to that effect. Second Charge-For unofficerlike conduct, in the following instances: First Instance. In having at Colombo, on Saturday evening, the 10th October, 1846, when senior officer at the mess-table of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, before the cloth was removed, made a bet of £50 to £5 with Mr. Francis Warden Dick, and for permitting at the same time and place another bet to be made between Lieut. Keane, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, and Mr. Francis Warden Dick, being in violation of the regulations of the service and of the mess, thereby shewing a bad example to a large body of young and inexperienced officers, and encouraging gaming. Second Instance. In not having reported to me, his commanding officer, that a charge made by Mr. Francis Warden Dick, deeply affecting the honour of Lieut. Layard, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, had been communicated to him on Monday, the 12th October, and again repeated on Tuesday, the 13th, and on Wednesday, the 14th October, 1846, as well as to several other officers and gentlemen in private life, which charge was only brought to my notice on Saturday, the 17th October, 1846, by Major Reyne, when he had every reason to believe the parties were on the eve of fighting a duel. Third Instance.-In having, when senior officer dining at the mess of the regiment, on Friday evening, the 16th October, 1846, permitted Mr. Frederick Templer, as the friend and adviser of Mr. Francis Warden Dick, to enter the mess-room of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment whilst the officers were at table, and then and there to produce, to read, and to comment on, part of a highly improper correspondence between Mr. Francis Warden Dick and Lieut. Layard. Fourth Instance.-In having, at the time and place mentioned in the foregoing instances, as senior officer of the mess, ordered 2nd-Lieut. Drake, the president for the week, to write the following letter to Lieut. Layard, viz.: : Colombo, 16th Oct. 1846. "Sir, I am directed by the senior officer to inform you that Mr. F. Templer formally called upon me, as president of the mess, this evening, to know where you were to be found, and as I could not inform him, may I request you will either see or communicate with that gentleman as soon as possible? "I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) "W. T. DRAKE, 2nd-Lieut., Ceylon Rifle Regt. "President for the week." He "J. A. Layard, Lieut., Ceylon Rifle Regt., Colombo." The above letter being calculated to lead to a hostile meeting between Lieut. Layard and Mr. Francis Warden Dick. (Capt. Fenwick) being, at the time he ordered 2nd-Lieut. Drake to write the letter, fully acquainted with all the circumstances of the quarrel between those gentlemen, and, by so ordering 2ndLieut. Drake to write to Lieut. Layard, taking upon himself an undue authority, and thereby greatly misleading the young and inexperienced officers composing the majority of the mess of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment as to the course proper to have been taken under such circumstances. All such acts as set forth in the above charges being to the prejudice of good order and military discipline. (Signed) SAM. BRAYBROOKE, Lieut.-Col., Commanding Ceylon Rifle Regt. Colombo, 30th Oct. 1846. By order. (Signed) R. CHARLTON, Lieut.-Col. Dep. Adj. Gen. Deputy Adjutant General's Office, Colombo, 2nd Nov, 1846. Finding and Sentence.-The Court, having deliberately and maturely weighed and considered the evidence in support of the charges preferred against the prisoner in defence, and the evidence adduced in support of it, is of opinion as follows: With respect to the First Instance of the First Charge.-That he, the prisoner, Capt. Nicholas Fenwick, Ceylon Rifle Regi ment, is not guilty. With respect to the Second Instance of the First Charge That he, the prisoner, Capt. Nicholas Fenwick, Ceylon Rife Regiment, is guilty. With respect to the First Instance of the Second Charge. That he, the prisoner, Capt. Nicholas Fenwick, Ceylon Riffe Regiment, is guilty to the extent of having made a bet of £50 to £5 with Mr. Francis Warden Dick. With respect to the Second Instance of the Second Charge.That he, the prisoner, Capt. Nicholas Fenwick, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, is not guilty. With respect to the Third Instance of the Second Charge,That he, the prisoner, Capt. Nicholas Fenwick, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, is not guilty. With respect to the Fourth Instance of the Second Charge.That he, the prisoner, Capt. Nicholas Fenwick, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, is guilty, with the exception of the above letter being calculated to lead to a hostile meeting between Lieut. Layard and Mr. Francis Warden Dick, and therefore acquits him of this part of the Fourth Instance, as it appears by the evidence that no hostile meeting was then contemplated by either party, and that the prisoner's intention was to effect a reconciliation, and thereby avoid the necessity of reporting the circumstance to the commanding officer. The Court having thus found the prisoner guilty of the Second Instance of the First Charge, guilty of part of the First Instance of the Second Charge, and guilty of part of the Fourth Instance of the Second Charge exhibited against him, the same being in breach of the Articles of War, does by virtue thereof, sentence him, the prisoner Capt. Nicholas Fenwick, Ceylon Rifle Regi ment to be severely reprimanded. (Signed) J. FRASER, Colonel and President. Colombo, Nov. 21, 1846. (Signed) W. T. LAYARD, Capt., Ceylon Rifle Regt. Officiating Judge Advocate. Colombo, Nov. 25, 1846. Confirmed. (Signed) C. CAMPBELL, Lieut. General Commanding. In giving effect to the foregoing sentence of the General CourtMartial upon Capt. Nicholas Fenwick, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, the proceedings of which have occupied a period of eighteen days, and extended to 354 pages, the Lieut.-General is not disposed to add to their bulk by any lengthened comments of his own, on Capt. Nicholas Fenwick's very reprehensible conduct, in having encouraged betting by his example, when he was senior officer, at the mess-table of his regiment, and also using gross and irritating language to a brother officer, he will therefore confine himself to an expression of his entire concurrence in the opinion and sentence of the Court, and to a sincere hope that the ordeal, with its consequences, which this officer has undergone, will operate as an impressive warning to be more guarded and circumspect in his language and demeanour in future. Capt. Nicholas Fenwick, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, is hereby severely reprimanded. He will be released from arrest, and will return to his duty. (Signed) C. CAMPBELL, Lieut. - General, Commanding the Forces. NOTICES TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. The Title-page and Contents of the Volume for 1846 is now ready for delivery to Subscribers at 7, Leadenhall-street. J. A. G. we presume, is joking. We suspect that the first letter of the signature should be "G." instead of "J.” We are obliged to CLERICUS for the information afforded by him. A PENCILLER BY THE WAY, we hope, has amused himself. We doubt if his notes would amuse our readers. CHOP should go to China. We cannot understand him. "Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath may make them, as a breath has made." AND a breath, too, may unmake them, as has recently been shewn in the fall of LALL SINGH, the deposed Wuzeer of the Sikh state. The rise and fall of this man form but an ordinary chapter in the book of Oriental politics. It is common, in Eastern courts, to find a mere adventurer obtaining the place next to the sovereign, whom he generally manages to mould to his own purposes; and, for the most part, there is nothing in the character of the favoured child of fortune to justify the anomaly of a "beggar ruling over princes." One very common road to advancement is by ministering to the delights of the reigning prince-or princess, where a female happens to be in the ascendant. Thus, the wellknown TRIMBUCKJEE DAINGLIA recommended himself to his unhappy master, and thus did he maintain himself against advice, remonstrance, and even arms, till he dragged that master with him to ruin. LALL SINGH was an adventurer of like character. A native of the Punjab, but a stranger in its capital, he found his way thither, in common with many others, to try if the means of bettering his fortune (it could scarcely be made worse) were obtainable. He was not unsuccessful. A trifling employment saved him from despair, and this first step in the way of fortune was followed by several advances, till at length he became a personage of some importance. The crowning move of his greatness he owed to himself; not to his talents, for these were by no means of high order; but to qualifications of a very different character. He had the recommendation of a handsome person, and this proved a passport to the heart (if she have one) of the RANEE, who happened to be in want of a new lover. LALL SINGH was framed to win her affections, and thenceforward his place in the state was fixed. It is true that such an elevation so obtained was not likely to be free from annoyances, and the loves of the RANEE and the WUZEER were the subject of jest for the very mob. But neither party, perhaps, much regarded this. Power and wealth, drunkenness and revelry were theirs, and in the delirium which these produced, they stifled all serious thoughts, if any ever presented themselves. The crimes and the frantic vices of the RANEE and her paramour have been too often recited to require repetition here. They are now at an end—at least as to their joint participation in them. The RANEE remains in loneliness, though perhaps it may be only temporary. LALL SINGH passes into the British dominions to seek a woman as worthy of his love as her whom he has left behind. Whether either of the separated pair will derive much gratification from the recollection of the past cannot be determined without the assistance of Corporal Trim to assist our conjectures as to whether or not they are blessed or tormented with the article called conscience. The future will scarcely be as brilliant-may it be more innocent! The Punjab is before the RANEE and the world before LALL SINGH, but hope of much amendment in the one or the other is, we fear, vain. At least their power of perpetrating great public mischief is destroyed, and in this, if they do not rejoice, the world may. AT last the Peace Society, as it calls itself, has found an appropriate mouthpiece in the Polyglot Doctor, delegated to the House of Commons, to watch over the interests, rights, and privileges of the Bolton Trotters. Dr. BOWRING has been instructed, as the lawyers have it, to state that the letter, published by the Society, as coming from Private LINN had the marks of a genuine one; and to prove the good faith of the peace libellers, a certificate from the Lord Mayor has been obtained, vouching for the accuracy of a certain transcript of the letter, much in the way in which the miraculous cures effected by quack medicines are attested. Dr. BOWRING, being a good-natured person, did not, we suppose, like to refuse the commission of his peace-loving friends, with whom he is in the habit of associating, for the general purpose of obtaining the abolition of all removable and irremovable evils. But he seemed somewhat ashamed of the cause, and, as an honest man, avowed his belief that "any thing so horrible as that letter (of Private LINN) represented, could not have taken place in modern times, or in the English army." We fear that we do not often agree with Dr. Bowring, but we confess that, on this occasion, we are much better satisfied with him than with Mr. Fox MAULE, who said that he "entirely exonerated the members of the Peace Society from being wilful circulators of the report in question, with a knowledge of its falsehood. The letter purported to be written by a soldier of the 80th regiment, and he (Mr. F. MAULE) had seen the transcript of the letter before adverted to. And can Mr. MAULE really believe that the Peace men are exonerated from the charge of giving wilful circulation to falsehood? Dr. BOWRING shall answer:-"Nothing so horrible as that letter represented could take place in modern times, or in any English army." It is not enough that a letter should exist making certain statements-it is not enough that such a letter should bear outward marks of being a genuine one. It is not enough that it should even be proved to be genuine. Something more is required before any man, who has the slightest pretensions to common honesty, will feel justified in giving circulation upon the faith of such statements to charges HOME. of damning crime against men of previously unimpeached honour, or indeed against any one. The alleged facts must bear a reasonable share of probability. Statements apparently probable may turn out to be false, but when they want even this prima facie claim to credit-when they are not only improbable, but when their truth is utterly impossible, what shall we say of the base and cowardly crew who gloat over that which they know to be falsehood, and minister to their love of slander by sending it through the world to do the assassin work for which it was invented? Private LINN, it seems, denies that he made any such statements as those which have procured for him such discreditable notoriety. Further investigation is to take place, and we can only hope that the charge will ultimately be fixed in the proper quarter. We are no advocates for the discipline of the lash. On the contrary, we have a strong repugnance to that mode of punishment, and would restrict its use to a very few offences, and those of very deep dye. But if Private LINN be really the author of the statements imputed to him, a fitter subject for the cat never existed. We would go a little further. If the Private be punished, it would be very unfair that his respectable, sleek, and silky allies at home should go unscathed. We cannot but wish that some means existed for subjecting their plump, tender, and well-cherished backs to a little of the discipline of the cat. Lieutenant Bowling made Roderick Random's schoolmaster amenable to naval discipline, and vindicated his nephew's wrongs with a rope's end. We would that military discipline could, in this instance, be brought to bear on the canting, pharisaical, supercilious, mendacious supporters of the Peace Society. This might put the nuisance down, and we apprehend that nothing else will. Those people are too deeply intrenched in self-conceit, spiritual pride, and stolid indifference to truth and falsehood, to be reached by any moral means. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. JAN. 25.-Mr. WATSON presented a petition from an officer in the Bombay artillery, stating that a sum of money advanced by his father in 1784 to the East-India Company had not been refunded. Dr. BOWRING asked several questions with respect to the practice of flogging at Hong-Kong. Mr. HAWES said, the subject of the criminal law at HongKong should receive immediate attention. ALLEGED CRUELTIES TO SIKH PRISONERS.-Dr. BowRING, referring to this subject, stated that the allegation originated in the Stamford Mercury, and was circulated by the Peace Society from that source. He had been applied to by that body to explain the circumstances under which they had given circulation to the report. The fact was, such a letter had been written in India, and despatched to England, as could be proved by the postmarks, though he believed that any thing so horrible as that letter represented could not take place in modern times, or in the English army. Mr. Fox MAULE entirely exonerated the Peace Society from being wilful circulators of the report in question, knowing it to be false. He had seen a copy of the letter certified before the Lord Mayor. The man at the court of inquiry said he did not write such a statement to his father. It appeared that to the court he said one thing, and to his father another. A fac simile of the letter had been forwarded to Lord Gough, with a request that he would cause further inquiry to be made. (Hear, hear.) Fund. The case of this officer is one of such peculiar hardship, that we shall consider it our duty to the Indian army to make it the subject of an early article. There is still hope that the Board of Control will render justice to his high claims."— United Service Gaz., Jan. 30. SIR WILLOUGHBY COTTON has been appointed second member of Council at Bombay. THE WIDOW Of Col. Fawcett, who was lately killed in a duel, has recently married Mr. Shaw, an officer in the Madras army. STATUE OF LORD AUCKLAND.-A bronze statute of Lord Auckland, to be erected at Calcutta, has lately been cast by Mr. Weekes. The expense is defrayed by subscription. AN ANNUITY of £20 has been granted to Sergeant-major J. Wing, late of the 17th foot, and who was present in the Afghan war. STATISTICS OF TEA.-In the year 1669, the quantity of tea imported into this country was 143 lbs., the average price being 60s. per pound; in 1678, the quantity imported was 4,713 lbs., at about the same price; in 1721, 1,100,000 lbs., at about 16s. per pound; in 1754, 4,500,000lbs.; in 1767, 7,260,000 lbs.; 1779, 9,916,760 lbs.; 1780, 17,496,884 lbs.; 1781, 23,841,683 lbs.; from 1781 to 1810, the quantity fluctuated between 13,000,000 lbs. and 31,000,000 lbs.; from 1810 to 1820, between 21,000,000 lbs. and 30,000,000 lbs.; from 1820 to 1830, between 27,000,000 lbs. to 39,000,000 lbs.; from 1830 to 1840. from 31,000,000lbs. to 40,000,000 lbs.; in 1846, the quantity imported was 56,503,000lbs., the average prices for that year varying from 8 d. to 2s. ld. In 1740, the amount derived from this source of revenue was 150,000%; in 1840, 3,472,864.; and in 1846 it was 5,199,000. In 1669, the duty was 8d. per gallon on all teas made and sold in coffee-houses; in 1689, it was 5s. per pound and five per cent. on the value; since 1840 it has been 2s. 24d. per pound.-From MARTIN'S China. MR. DANIEL ELLIOTT has been appointed a provisional member of council at Madras. RUMOURED NEW CLUB.- A report is current that a new club is about to be established to be called the United EastIndia Service Club. ENGAGEMENT OF SHIP.-The ship Essex has been engaged for the conveyance of stores to Calcutta. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS. JAN. 25. Montefiores, Brewis, Mauritius; Bowling, Guette, Singapore; Thomas Fielden, Blackstone, Bengal.-26. Varuna, Mould, Bengal.-27. Queen Mab, Rowe, China; Nelson, Lamont, Bengal; China, Furguson, Hong-Kong; Favourite, Rezey, Mauritius.-28. Mayflower, Headley, Van Dieman's Land; Tulloch Castle, Stamp, Bengal; Bidston, Metcalfe, Bengal.-30. Emily, Anderson, Ceylon; Henry Winch, Cole, Bengal; Litherland, Howard, Stranghae.FEB. 1. Chieftain, Scott, Mauritius; Thomas Lee, James, Mauritius.-2. Essex, Howard, Bengal.-3. Enmore, Anderson, Batavia; Joshua Waddington, Wakem, Bengal.-4. Nemesis, Deas, Hong. Kong.-6. Devonshire, Browse, Mauritius; Isabella Harnett, Newby, Bengal. DEPARTURES. From the DOWNS.-JAN. 30. Greyhound, Hutchinson, Cape and Madras; Bright Planet, Cousens, Bordeaux and Mauritius; Hindoo (from Sunderland), Cape; James Dean, Blackie, Port Phillip; Lady Howden, Stone, Hobart Town; Persian, Edington, Calcutta ; William, Gibson, Alexander, Madras, and Calcutta ; Hebrides, Melville, Bombay.-Feb. 1. Emu, Smith, Bombay.-2. Sharp, Mallett, Cape.-4. Faithful, Morrison, Bombay; Caroline, Hughes, Aden; Glentanner, Brock, Sydney; Tigris, Linton, Ceylon. From LIVERPOOL.-JAN. 31. Panthea, Glen, and Talisman, Somes, Calcutta. -FEB. 4. Ann and Jane, Smith, Batavia. From the CLYDE.-JAN. 19. Lima, Yuille, Port-Phillip and New South Wales.-28. Orpheus, Neil, Batavia. FEB. 1. Eucles, Chivas, Bombay. From PORTSMOUTH.-FEB. 1. Tartar, Harvey, Madras and Bengal. JAN. 31. Ann, Stevenson, Madras, Penang, and China. -31. Wanderer, Priest, Hong-Kong. From SHIELDS.-JAN. 27. Cumberland, Appleton, Suez and Bombay. From PLYMOUTH.-JAN. 30. Prince of Wales, Middeton, New South Wales. From MARSEILLES.-JAN. 18. Rowalland, Boston, Mauritius. From SOUTHAMPTON.-JAN. 30. Pekin (steamer), Smith, Cape, Mauritius, and Ceylon, and put back. 'Mr. F. Rolton; Mr. D. Stuart; Mr. H. Lockett; Mr. Anderson, and European servant; Mr. Rohrs; Mr. Lowry: Capt. Edwards; Mrs. Col. Roberts, and European servant; Mr. W. C. Robinson: Lieut. and Mrs. Wood, and European servant. For CONSTANTINOPLE.-Dr. Glen; Mr. Glen; Mr. T. Edmonds; Mrs. and Miss Cuthbert. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Soubahdar, Umfreville, London to Sydney, Nov. 29; lat. 6 deg. N.; long. 24 deg. W. Elora, Turnbull, London to New Zealand, Nov. 6, off St. Jago. Jane Prowse, Nicholls, Liverpool to Shanghae, Aug. 28; lat. 28 deg. S.; long. 25 deg. W. Stag, Parish, London to China, Dec. 1, near Singapore. Stratford, Turner, London to Mauritius, Nov. 28; lat. 5 deg..N. Queen, McLeod, London to Calcutta, Oct.3. Neptune, Stuart, London to Sydney, Oct. 10; lat. 41 deg. S.; long. 23 deg. E. Thetis, Cass, London to Calcutta, Dec. 11; lat. 8 deg. S.; long. 32 deg. W. Persia, Stevens, London to Ceylon, Dec. 26; lat. 17 deg. S.; long. 32 deg. W. Annie, Potter, Liverpool to Shanghae, Nov. 23, off the Cape of Good Hope. Linlin, Forbes, Liverpool to Calcutta, Dec. 23; lat. 3 deg. N.; long. 28 deg. W. Elphinstone, Young, London to Hobart Towa, Dec. 28; lat. 5 deg. N.; long. 22 deg. W. Devonshire, Godfrey, London to Batavia; lat. 6 deg. N.; long. 23 deg. W. New Express, Hewitt, London to Mauritius, Dec. 24; lat. 2 deg. N.; long, 20 deg.-W. DOMESTIC. MARRIAGES. William Rawson Hart, surgeon, in the 'Hon. East-India Com. pany's Service, to Isabella, daughter of R. Carter, Esq. at St. Thomas's, Stepney. Jan. 30. Edward Connor, Esq. to Adelaide Eliza, daughter of the late Thomas Cleeve, Esq. of the Hon. East-India Company's service; at Christ Church, Surrey. Feb. 2. John Bird, Esq. jun. of the Madras civil service, to Julia Charlotte, daughter of Æneas Ranold M'Donald, Esq. at St. Mary's Church, Cheltenham. Frederick John Beck, Esq. of Adelaide, South Australia, to Jane, daughter of Henry Edwards, Esq. at Pattingham, South Staffordshire. ·Bengal Estab.-Lieut. Walter K. Haslewood, 1st Europ. reg. Ens. John Govan, 14th N.I., in April. Madras Estab.-Capt. Charles A. Moore, invalids, in March. Assist. surg. Robert P. Linton. Bombay Estab.-Lieut. Henry E. G. Close, 2nd Europ. reg. Lieut. Henry H. A. Wood, 4th N.I. The permission to return, granted to Maj. gen. J. Woulfe, GRANTED AN EXTENSION OF LEAVE. CIVIL. Bengal Estab.-Mr. Henry J. Bushby, 6 months. MILITARY. Madras Estab.-Lieut. col. John D. Stokes, 7th N.L., 6 months. Lieut. Henry Le Fleming Hughes, 31st N.I. 6 months. Bombay Estab-Assist. surg. Richard De C. Peele, 2 months. PERMITTED TO REMAIN. Madras Estab.-Maj. Archibald G. Hyslop, artillery, till the middle of August next. Lieut. William Younger, 14th N.I., till June next. RESIGNATION OF THE SERVICE ACCEPTED. CIVIL. Bengal Estab.-Mr. Thomas Elliot Ogilvie. APPOINTMENTS. ECCLESIASTICAL. The Rev. Percival John Brine, B. A., appointed assistant chaplain on the Bengal establishment. The Rev. Arthur Wellington Wallis, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, ditto, ditto. MARINE. Bengal Estab.-Mr. James King O'Connor, appointed a volunteer for the pilot service. Mr. Octavius Brydges, ditto, ditto. Bombay Estab.-Mr. Richard Carey, appointed a volunteer for the Indian navy, HAILEYBURY. The destination of Mr. Thomas Edward Ravenshaw, a student at the East-India College, has been changed from the presidency of Madras to that of Bengal. CHANGES AND PROMOTIONS IN H.M.'S REGIMENTS SERVING IN INDIA. Bengal, 24th Foot.-Lieut. Bryan Thornhill, from the 39th foot, to be lieut., v. Payne, who exchanges. Dated 10th Nov. 1846. Lieut. Francis Clark, from the 41st foot, to be lieut., v. Handcock, who exchanges. Dated 22nd Jan. 1847. 29th Foot.-Lieut. James Henry Archer, from the 39th foot, to be lieut., v. White, who exchanges. Dated 10th Nov. 1846. 39th Foot.-Lieut. Hans Robert White, from the 29th foot, to be lieut., v. Archer, who exchanges. Dated 10th Nov. 1846. WAR OFFICE, 29TH JAN. 1847. Bengal, 9th Foot.-Edward Ringe Berry, gent., to be ens. without purch., v. Turner, whose appointment has been cancelled. Dated 29th Jan. 1847. 32nd Foot.-Capt. Arthur Charles Williams, from halfpay Royal Staff Corps, to be capt., v. John Erale Money Kyrle, who exchanges. Dated 29th Jan. 1847. Lieut. William Bellingham to be capt. by purch., v. Williams, who retires. Dated 29th Jan. 1847. Ens. Mansfield Turner to be lieut. by purch., v. Belling- Henry Sullivan, gent., to be cens. by purch., v. Turner. Madras, 94th Foot.-Assist. surg, William Westall, M.D., from the staff, to be assist, surg., v. Turnbull, dec. Dated 29th Jan. 1847. Bombay, 22nd Foot.-Lieut. Francis Pym Harding to be capt. without purch., v. George Mainwaring, who retires upon full pay. Dated 29th Jan. 1847. Ens. Arthur Grueber Walch to be lieut., v. Harding. Ens. John Alexander Fead, from the 70th foot, to be |