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in addition thereto, although they may come under the description of officers entitled to that allowance when proceeding to join,

4th. Adverting to the General Order of 5th ultimo, by which certain Regimental Staff Officers are permitted to draw officetentage when proceeding from one garrison station to another, the Hon. the Governorin-Council is pleased to intimate that this allowance can only be admitted to the date of arrival inclusive, and not for any period subsequent thereto, and that the foregoing rule is considered as equally applicable to every description of office-tentage, even on the return of troops or departments from actual field service.

5th. The existing rules regarding the discharge of extra followers attached to corps on their march from station to to station, as well as on their return from field service, not appearing to be in all instances sufficiently understood, the Hon. the Governor-in-Council is pleased to intimate that no charge on these accounts can be admitted beyond the actual date of arrival at garrison stations, when the followers in question shall be regularly mustered and discharged.

The Hon. the Governor-in-Council is also pleased to direct that batta, and all other extra charges incurred on account of troops employed on political, revenue, commercial, or judicial duties, be hereafter defrayed by the respective departments, and to publish the following regu lations for general information and guidance, viz.

No charges for batta, or other extra expenses which may be incurred on account of escorts attending political residents or agents beyond the fixed regimental pay and garrison allowances of the troops employed on such duties, shall be hereafter paid by or entered in the disbursements of Paymasters; expenses of this kind not being considered as military charges.

Abstracts for expenses incurred on account of collection of the revenue (batta, and other extra charges) are in future to be discharged by, and appear in the accounts of Collectors.

Military officers are, therefore, to present separate abstracts for such payments to collectors, respectively, on whose requisition troops have been furnished, instead of, as heretofore, drawing the amount from Military Paymasters.

Expenses incurred in consequence of requisitions from commercial residents, are to be discharged by, and appear in the accounts of Commercial Residents on the same principle as those incurred on account of collection of the revenue.

Batta, and other extra charges incurred by the employment of troops upon the requisition of a public magistrate, shall be

defrayed in the Judicial Department, and their amount shall be included in the monthly indents of the magistrate at whose requisition the troops are employed.

Such extra charges shall be drawn in separate abstracts, under the signature of military officers.

Military Paymasters shall furnish Residents and Political Agents, Collectors of the Revenue, Commercial Agents or Residents, and Magistrates, with tables of the established rates of batta, or other allowances issuable on account of the several ranks of the army.

Batta for troops employed in escorting treasure to be issued by Paymasters as heretofore, and to be charged to the Military Department, unless the requisition for the troops shall specify that the escort is required for money intended for the use of the Judicial, Revenue, Political, or Commercial Department.

All requisitions for troops from Political or Commercial Residents or Agents, Collectors, and Magistrates, are to specify the particular service for which they are required, and authenticated copies of them are to accompany the abstract for batta, or other extra charges.

COMPANY'S CRUIZERS.

Bombay Castle, Oct. 9, 1823.-A havildar's party of Native Infantry, serving on board one of the Hon. Company's cruizers, having been placed under stoppages to answer for a portion of the law, or other expenses attendant on the detention of certain vessels having slaves on board, the Hon. the Governor-in-Council is pleased to declare, that no officer of any description shall ever cause a sepoy to agree to assign or appropriate his pay to any particular design or purpose whatever.

SALARIES OF STAFF OFFICERS.

Bombay Castle, Nov. 21, 1823. - The Hon. the Governor has much pleasure in notifying that the Hon. Court of Directors have been pleased to annex to the following officers on the staff the salaries hereafter specified, with retrospect from the 1st June 1821, and all Paymasters within whose range of payments the several officers may fall, are hereby authorized to discharge the abstracts accordingly.

In cases where the salaries fixed are below the scale temporarily sanctioned by Government, under date the 18th November 1820, or at any other period, the reduced scale is to have effect from the 1st of the present month.

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The Hon. Court having directed the Members of the Medical Board to be delivered, at the expiration of every four years, from the date of their respective appointments to the Board, as notified in the General Order dated the 11th of July last, have now resolved to equalize the salaries of the different members, and have fixed the salary of each at rupees 22,000 per annum, with retrospect from the 1st June 1821, which salary is to be considered as exclusive of the nett pay, batta, and garrison tent allowance of a Lieutenant Colonel, subject to the Honourable Court's further orders.

The salaries of the Superintending Surgeons have been fixed by the Hon. Court with the same retrospective effect, at rupees 15,000 per annum, which is to be considered exclusive of the pay and field allowances of a Captain granted by the General Orders by Government dated 3d December 1821.

The present number of Superintending Surgeons is to be reduced from four to three whenever a vacancy may occur.

The duties of Superintending Surgeon in the North and Southern Concan are then to be executed by the Junior or Third Member of the Medical Board, who, during his circuit on duty, is to draw the field allowances of his military rank.

The duties of Superintending Surgeon within the garrison and island of Bombay, &c. devolve on the Second Member, without any augmentation to his allowance.

Abolished by Government Order dated 7th Nov. 1823.

The salary and allowances of the Medical Storekeeper at Bombay are fixed as follows, from the 1st of the present month. Salary Rs. 1,000 Pay

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It being intended that the office of Paymaster in the northern districts of Guzerat shall be abolished on the present Paymaster's vacating the appointment, and one Paymaster only allowed to the Surat division of the army, under the increased salary now sanctioned, the Governor-inCouncil is pleased to allow the former officers to draw the increased allowance of rupees 6,000 from the 1st June 1821, so long as the office may be continued.

The following officers are allowed to draw full batta from the 1st of the present month:

Aides-de-Camp; Extra Aides-de-Camp; Brigade - Majors of Forces ;* BrigadeQuarter-Masters.

TENT ALLOWANCE TO OFFICERS.

Bombay Castle, Nov. 21, 1823.-The Honourable the Governor-in-Council is pleased to extend from the 1st instant, the provisions of the general order of 31st July last, to all Staff Officers who are at present in the receipt of regimental allowances, and on the house rent and tent-purchase system, which latter allowance is now entirely abolished, and to declare, that the existing rates of tent allowance, agreeably to the principle on which they were originally established, are to be considered in full of all charges for the personal accommodation of officers with camp equipage in the field, and quarters in garrison or cantonments in peace or war.

Referring to the IXth Article of the above order, the Governor-in-Council confiding in the sense of duty which will actuate every officer to be ready whenever called upon for actual service, is pleased, in the case of Staff and other officers, who are permitted by the regulations to draw their regimental pay and allowances on their own separate abstracts, not to require the monthly certificates directed to be furnished by Commanding Officers of Corps, &c.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

ARRIVAL OF AN ARABIAN REFORMER.

The late prodigies we have read and heard of, are all thrown into the shade by an illustrious personage, who has lately made his appearance at Bombay from Mocha. He is yclept Haji Syud Ahmed Peer Zada. It is said that we, of this city, are not unacquainted with his holiness, for he was here about a year ago. The zeal for Islamism burns so furiously in his bosom, that his views, it is said, extend to nothing less than driving the whole of the Christian unbelievers from this land of the sun. We happen to know something about the Peer Zada; for we had heard of him when he was levying contributions on the followers of the prophet in the environs of Calcutta, to enable him to prosecute his pilgrimage to Mecca. We were told, at the time, by several respectable Mahomedan gentlemen, that his holiness was an ignorant, illiterate, and presumptuous impostor; that the Marquess of Hastings having destroyed the Pindaree hordes, and Ameer Khaun being deprived of his power, he was compelled to disband his troop of freebooters, and that the Peer Zada was one of the suwars of this chief; and that since the sword and spear.c r.could not now yield him his curry and rice, he had betaken himself to the profession of a faqueer of the superior order.--[Cal. Jour. Sept. 29.

WEATHER.

We fear we shall have much reason to lament this year, the absence of the latter rains, called here the Elephanter. It is calculated that there is a deficiency in the usual supply of water in the island, at this period of the year of almost fifteen inches, and it behoves us all to be very provident in this necessary article of life. Our letters from various parts of the country state the deficiency to be much greater, and that a season of drought is so much to be apprehended that the inhabitants are

already removing to parts more favoured. Seasons of drought and sickness generally go together. Whether it is from the absence of the Elephanter or not, it is too certain that fevers are usually prevalent on the island at the present moment, though they are not at all considered of a serious nature. They are usually accompanied with general pains in the limbs, sickness of the stomach, and an eruption very like that known as the scarlet fever. We hear that this fever has passed through the female charity school, with the only instance of one child escaping. The great ventilation of the

SHIP HASTINGS.

Government has sanctioned the temporary appropriation of the Honourable Company's ship Hastings to the purpose of performing Divine Service, every Sunday, harbour as may find it convenient to atto such of the European sailors in the tend, and the Senior and Garrison Chaplains have kindly undertaken to per form this duty alternately.-[Bom. Cour, Nov. 29.

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SHIPPING. Arrival.

Cambrian, Clarkson, from London. MARRIAGES AND DEATH.

MARRIAGES.

ander, Esq., Assist. Surg. Horse Brigade Dec. 4. At Aurungabad, J. B. Alexof Artillery, to Miss Hornby.

11. At St. Thomas's Church, Mr. R. Elliot, Ordnance Department, to Mrs. Eliza Metcalf.

DEATH.

Dec. 6. At Belvidere, Lieut John D. Saltwell, 2d bat. Grenadiers, aged 22 years.

CEYLON.

BIRTHS.

Nov. 5. At Colombo, the lady of Lieut. Deacon, Staff Officer, of a son.

8. At Colombo, the lady of William Granville, Esq., Paymaster General, of a daughter.

PENANG.

An application was made by the merpraying Government to establish Penang chants (European and native) of Penang, has been deemed inadmissible by the auas a free port, like Singapore. This request thorities of Penang; but some modifica tions have been adopted in the mode of collecting the duties, according to the document that follows:-[Penang Gaz.

Notification.

Notice is hereby given, that the Honourable the Governor in Council has been pleased to direct, that all duties now levied on the exportation of goods, the produce or manufacture of Great Britain and Ireland, Foreign Europe, America, China, and British India, and on the exportation of oil, ghee, or hogs'--lard, salt and tobacco, pursuant to the first and second clauses of the export regulations of Government, as well as the duty to which

timber and planks imported from the dominions of the King of Ava, are now liable, according to the thirteenth clause of the import regulations, shall be suspended until further orders, from the first proximo. A. D. MAINGY, Acting Collector. Custom House, Prince of Wales Island, July 22, 1823.

Government Advertisement.

Public notice is hereby given, that the Honourable the Governor-in-Council has been pleased to direct the following modifications of the port charges, to have effect from and after the first proximo.

1st. that the period for which ships and vessels are allowed to remain in the port without incurring port charges be extended from twenty-four hours to three days, pro. vided they do not break bulk or receive freight within that time.

2d. That port charges will only be levied once in six months on the same ship or vessel.

3d. That vessels under foreign colours be subject to the same rates of pilotage and anchorage duties as those under British colours.

4th. That the pilotage charged on all vessels proceeding through the southern channel, be reduced from one dollar to half a dollar per foot.

Naik halted the relief and applied to the Havildar of the guard, on whose appearance he repeated the same words, and proceeded deliberately to load his musket. The Havildar finding the man was determined, returned and reported the circumstance to the European Serjeant of the Main Guard, who proceeded to the spot with two or three privates, and on their approaching were also warned not to come near him, repeating the former threat, and declaring that he was determined to keep that spot of ground to himself. One of the privates who accompanied the Serjeant offer. ed to seize him, and accordingly ventured up a rugged part in his rear; but being soon observed by the sentry, he brought his piece immediately to the charge, and in that position fired; he was, however, just in time to push the muzzle of the musket aside, and fortunately escaped, the ball passing very near his head, upon which he closed with him, when a violent scuffle ensued, and both fell; the Golundauze was then immediately seized and put in confinement. He was examined the following day, and we understand appeared to be deranged.—[ Penang Gaz., Νου. 12.

Trial of Mr. Anderson.-(Extract from letter dated 2d Oct. 1823.)—" Mr. J.

C.W. H.WRIGHT, Mast. Attend, Anderson, of the Civil Service, was yesMaster Attendant's Office, P.W. Island, July 29, 1823.

Suicide.-The Chinaman, Gay, on whom sentence of death was passed at the last session for the murder of Puenseng, hung himself in his cell on the night of the 9th inst., and was found at half-past six o'clock the following morning suspended to the iron cross-bar of the window.

The height of the bar from the floor is about eight feet and a half, and it appears, that having released his hands from the irons put on them, he rolled several straw mats on which he slept, round his pillow, which being thus strengthened to support his weight, he raised himself up and fixed a rope, made out of his palampore, to the bar, by which he suspended himself and effected his purpose.-[Penang Gazette, Oct. 15.

Case of Insanity.-On the night of Friday last, at nine o'clock, as a Golundauze, placed sentry by the telegraph on the outer works of the fort, was about to be relieved, the party was challenged by him and warned not to approach at their peril, stating that the spot of ground he stood upon belonged to him, and which he was determined to protect, threatening at the same time to shoot the first person that dared to trespass on it. The astonished

terday put to trial on a criminal information, on the part of Capt. Luke, of the Britannia, for defamation of character in a correspondence he printed and sent to Madras, In one of these letters he called Captain Luke a blackguard; this occurred when Captain Luke was here on his last voyage; and the letter in question was given when sailing out of the harbour. The Britannia returned here about fifteen days ago, and Captain Luke wrote to Mr. Anderson for an explanation; but his letter was returned unopened. Captain Luke called at his office, but could get no satisfaction. Mr. Anderson posted a placard at the jetty where the Government proclamations are affixed, avowing himself the author of the letter, and making use of harsh language: for this act of disrespect he was suspended the service; but restored on making an apology. About seven in the evening the Jury retired; they were locked up all night, and this morning delivered their verdict guilty: but strongly recommended him to mercy. The Court will pronounce judgment on Monday next."

We learn by a subsequent letter, that the judgment of the Court was, that Mr. Anderson should be imprisoned for two. months; and give security for his peaceable conduct for two years: himself in 5,000 dollars, and two securities in 500 dollars each.

Commercial Arrangements.-The same regulations it appears, are now in force at Malacca as at Java, since 1st August; namely, all goods imported into Malacca from all parts and places east of the Cape, are liable to an import duty of 24 per cent. The same duty, we presume, is levied at Padang. This notice, we trust, will prove useful to some of our trading readers. Dutch gratitude is a scarce article we suspect, at least, in a national sense. The benefits conferred on the Hollanders by Great Britain, have been of the most substantial kind; and what is the return of the cold, plodding, unfeeling government of that people? The most mortifying one,--a contemptuous opposition to all the generous plans of policy laid down by the British, persecution of their ancient allies and friends, and ungrateful fetters upon their commerce wherever the Dutch have influence in the Eastern Seas.-[ Ind. Gaz.

Ferocity of a Tiger.-The following fact serves further to illustrate the ferocious boldness of a tiger under certain circum

stances.

"Lately an Arab ship sent over her boat for Penang to the Kidda shore for sand ballast; after taking some sand into the long boat, one of the Kiddies, a Caffree, landed, and went up into the jungle a little way, where he was attacked by a tiger. The boat's crew saw him, and gave such a yell, and made such a noise,

that the tiger let him go and ran off; the crew of the boat landed and helped their comrade into the boat, where he was hardly seated, when the tiger followed them, having recovered from his fright; the brute tried to get into the boat, but the Arabs filled their baskets with sand and threw it into his face, and thus blinded him, and kept shoving off the boat at the same time. At length they got off, though the tiger would not desist till the water became too deep for him. The poor man recovered at the hospital."—[ Ibid.

Markets. (Extract of a letter dated 26th Oct.) "We shall not want any rice from you next year, as we have a population of about fifteen thousand souls settled in Province Wellesley, opposite the island, in length eighteen miles, and in shore, in breadth three to four miles. All the poor Keddah population has come there to settle under our able Lieutenant Gover

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Rice is at two and a quarter dollars per bag; Capt. Earl got that for his, and little demand. Europe goods are some at 50 per cent. discount, and the best sorts of chintz, madapollams, and handkerchiefs, &c., are at a discount of 25 to 30 per cent. and take payment in barter of rattans at 2 dollars per pecul, or pepper at 12 dollars per pecul. There are now Europe goods here, I hear from the merchants, than will be sold in three years."

Home Intelligence.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Account of the aggregate amount in official value of Trade carried on between Great Britain and the Coast of Africa, from 5th January 1815, to 5th January 1824.

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