Baboos-Sutt Churn Ghoshall-Rada Madub Boner- could be obtained was necessary for those purposes. jea-Bhugo Batty Chunder Gungole-Luckhi Narain Nor is the Government yet in a condition to forego great Mookerjea-Callaw Chund Bose-Seeb Chunder Bose sources of revenue, the loss of which might endanger the -Junmanjoy Mitter-Gopee Mohun Mitter-Rama-safety of you all; but you will, I trust, perceive as the nund Mitter-Gungapersaud Ghose-Sadah Sook Pundit-Modoo Soodun Roy.-Oriental Observer.

[REPLY TO THE ABOVE.]

To Rajah Rajnarain Roy Bahadoor, and the other Native Gentlemen who signed the Address to Sir Charles Metcalfe, Baronet, &c. &c. &c.

GENTLEMEN, I am directed to transmit to you the enclosed reply to your address and I have the honor to be, your most obedient Servant,

J. M. HICGINSON.

On the River, Comercolly, April 7, 1836.

means or prospects of the State improve, that nothing oppressive or vexatious will be retained, and that the efforts of the Government will be unremitted to ameliorate the condition of the people, and to render India a prosperous, happy and enlightened country.

Possessing incalculable resources for extension of commerce and increase of riches: united, I will hope, by common interests and paternal government, with Great Britain and Ireland, in mutual sympathy and affection : giving and receiving wealth by that union: freed from all undue exaction: enjoying all the rights of person and property, with equal laws for all classes of subjects: all shackles being removed from the spread of knowledge by the Liberty of the Press, and all trammels from Commerce by the abolition of unfair duties: every restric tion and impediment demolished that can obstruct industry and enterprize : general education promoted:

Reply to the Address of Native Inhabitants of Calcutta intercourse, external and internal accelerated and multi

and the Neighbourhood.

DEAR FRIENDS, I am grateful for the kind feeling which has dictated your Address. I cannot pretend to merit the high praises which you bestow but nothing can deprive me of the heartfelt gratification, which I derive from this cordial manifestation of confidence and affection, at a time when a lasting separation was expected.

Without further reference to myself, I may venture to express my satisfaction at your appreciation of the value of those measures, which have been deemed worthy of your marked applause. You will see from them, and I trust from the whole course of Legislation now in progress, that the British Nation is anxious to govern India for the welfare and happiness of its inhabitants. There was a time when it could do little more than protect your lives and properties from foreign enemies threatening devastation and destruction, and try to introduce an improved system of internal administration in the most indispensable essentials; and when all the revenue that

plied by Steam Communication, and the other improvements of enlightened Nations: it is impossible to set any limit to the pitch of prosperity, which India may attain under British protection.

Accept my fervent prayers that this brilliant prospect may be realized.

Accept also my affectionate wishes for the welfare and happiness of each and all of you. My destiny still keeps me in India, and my further labours in the Government to which I am proceeding, will be cheered by the recollection of the kindness which has been evinced, under a expectation of my departure for Europe, by so numerous a body of Native Inhabitants of Calcutta and the Neighbourhood.

I have the honor to be, dear Friends, your faithful servant and sincere well-wsiher

C. T. METCALFE. Proceeding by Steam to the North Western provinces, 5th April, 1836.-Calcutta Courier.

KORAN-I-KAHV'E, OR THE KORAN OF COFFEE, BY IBN BEN SHUKUR.

To the learned and far-sighted Effendi the Editor of the
Bengal Herald Greeting.

Imaum of our mosque says that the faithful should teach nothing to infidels, which does not tend to convert or destroy them and I think he may be right.

:

Let us begin at the beginning. Your book is a learned one and your Professor Donovan is no doubt right enough in all he says. There are others of your books

I have received, O Effendi! the book you have sent and your note inquiring "how good coffee can be obtained in India," and I quite agree with you when you say that, in about ninety-nine houses out of a hundred, no coffee fit for a believer to drink is to be obtain-too-Gray's Operative Chemist amongst the rested; and, though I grieve to say it, it is certain that the Giaours of Englishmen do not know what good coffee is, and their Pezavenks of Kansamahs,-who all derive a profit from making their masters drink the water of charcoal and bitterness which they now serve up to them,―take care that they shall not do so. If the master did know, and if he knew moreover how little either in money or trouble good coffee costs, Kansamah-jee would lose one of his old established rents. If you will then listen to me, smoking the pipe of attention on the carpet of patience, Inshallah! you shall learn how good coffee can be obtained from the swine kansamahs. I mean good French coffee: either per se or as café au lait; for our Turkish coffee you know is a different beverage, and I am not certain SURA. I. You must buy your coffee, and what that it is allowable to inform you how it is made. The is more essential you must pick it. Almost all the

which contain very good directions for making coffee;
but they have all the small fault of being impracticable
for any purpose of comfort. The plague thereof, like
that of some of the precious contrivances called patent
ones, exceedeth infinitely the profit, and a testy old Eng
lishman used in former times to tell me, "never have
any thing to do with a patent contrivance unless you
can buy the patentee with it." Well, for all practical
purposes here, the book directions are
patent contri
vances," and unless you fancy you have the patience
to "sit in dherna" like a Mahratta Bramin, at the
door of your kitchen-in which case you are fit for Para-
dise at once-eschew all books and attend to the words
of instruction of Ibn ben Shukur.

cutta abomination in common practice, but an iron pan of the sort called koray, which is hemispherical with a handle on each side. It should be kept for the sole purpose of roasting coffee, but I know of no contriother uses. Gentlemen who are particular may however employ a chowkedar to watch it and a man to watch the chowkeydar-or lock it up in their writing desks with other valuable trinkets.

coffee sold for domestic use in Calcutta, contains from one to five, or even seven per cent of a small, round, black bean like seed. This is coffee, but not drinkable coffee. It is the seed of the wild Sylhet coffee which is collected and sold here for the purpose of adul-vance to insure that it be not defiled by being put to terating all the coffee sold in the bazars. If you pick these grains out, have them roasted, and coffee made from them you will have an exact idea of the coffee, which unbelievers are to be allowed with the red-hot pipes in which they are to smoke camels dung in JehanYour coffee then must be roasted; keeping it constantly La Illah, &c. &c. I always give this coffee to tiresome friends. You can't think how they like it! stirred and tossing it over from time to time. It must be They all say it is excellent. The French insist that it is roasted till it is of a mahogany colour-rather a dark mathe true café des visites. Observe then that it is all the hogany colour but not more. Nothing like a smell of burnblack, and dirty-brownish looking grains that are to being must be allowed with it. The coffee drank by the picked out. The broken ones, if of a good colour, are of it burned, and therefore half charcoal; some of their infidels in Calcutta is generally too much roasted; most of no consequence.

num.

learned doctors have I am told demonstrated that charcoal is not coffee, but I have not seen the perspicuous book in which this is written. Surely, if the prophet pleased, charcoal might be coffee?

SURA. II. You must roast-I mean your kansamah must roast-your coffee; and I beseech you as a friend not to confound the two cases. I know that your law -may their fathers be burnt! I say that "what a manne doethe by the ministrye of another that he doethe SURA. III. The coffee-pot. The Ingliz have a by hymselfe," but in roasting coffee and eggs, we use substance called tin, of which they make many reason and by careful experiment I doubt not you domestic utensils when they cannot afford copper or will find, as I have done, that ye twain-self and kan-silver; and it is certain that good coffee is best made samah-are not one flesh. Well, the kansamah is to in a vessel of this same tin. It may be put into a roast your coffee, and when you give it him tell him as he values his future perquisites not to put any butter or ghee to it when he roasts it. He will of course swear that he never does, to which answer mellifluously that you know he never does, but that there is a Company ka hookum against it for the future; so you mentioned the circumstance to put him on his guard; several worthy gentlemen having been lately obliged to neglect the Company's business and go to England in consequence of drinking coffee roasted with ghee.

By your beard, Effendi, I am not joking! about one half of the Calcutta kansamahs do put ghee or butter to coffee when they roast it! and moreover it is an English custom, for in England they sell roasted coffee and the roasting houses to please some freak or fancy of their own or their customers, absolutely defile the berry of delight with the fat of swine, and they have told me to my beard that they mixed hog's-lard while roasting to improve the flavour and appearance of the coffee! The English nation are such obstinate infidels that to this day many believe, and some have taught the kansamahs, that coffee should always be roasted with butter.

hot silver vessel afterwards if you like. There are many contrivances sold in your bazars, some of them I dare say patent ones, but as you were told in the beginning, unless you can buy the patent-man with it, &c. Well the best coffee pots are the commonest sort with a single little strainer at the top for the coffee. Do not let this strainer have too many small holes ; a few holes of the size of a large pin's head in three or four circles and at moderate distances are all that is required. The strainers which are pierced full of small pin-point holes are useless. Your coffee-pot must not be too large. Better to have two, a small and a large one, than one too large. I know that I shall be told by the scoffers that this is like the learned Ali-ulMikattam making a large hole for his large cat, &c. but that which is to come to pass will happen; and if your Giaours will make coffee in a large pot for a small number of visitors, upon their heads be it! If the prophet hath given you wealth enough to have a silver vase, make it hot with boiling water before you put your coffee into it. Every thing about coffee must be hot remember; but the best plan is to keep your silver coffee-pot for show like the droll cut dresses which you Franks call coats; using your tin coffeepot like your jackets for every-day work.

Your coffee is then to be roasted without butter, and it must be roasted in an open iron pan; not because SURA. IV. Grinding or pounding the coffee. All this is the best way but because it is done by a kansamah. true believers pound their coffee; but the infidels have I mean supposed to be done by a kansamah for kan-mills for every thing; moreover if the slaves of the besamah-jee smokes his hookah and makes the cook's lievers pound any thing else, such as pepper or mate's boy's younger brother-who is always in the chillies, in the same mortar as the coffee, the master babachee-kanah on coffee-roasting days--do it; your cuts off their ears-which the infidels think hasty. really respectable kansamah has the law-maxim quoted You may therefore use a mill, and a mortar when the above always present to his mind. It is his namas and mill is out of order. Do not grind your coffee too fine he cannot forget it. The French plan of roasting it for it will be turbid; nor too coarse, for it will waste in a close shut, iron cylinder through which is a long too much. Something about the size of fine musket handle to turn it, is the best, but after several trials I powder is what is required, but the proper size depends found that unless I myself got into the cylinder and on that of the holes. If you have a mill you must retook kansamah-jee with me-and I find this inconveni-gulate it yourself. The English are all born millent in the hot-weather-it was hopeless to get coffee roasted properly, because the cylinder must be turned constantly, and care must be taken to examine the coffee SURA. V. Making the coffee. Your coffee should from time to time that it may not be burnt. Now, the be fresh roasted and ground at least every two or three cook's mate's boy's younger brother may keep stirring days; and Allah having endowed you English with the coffee in an open pan, because he can listen to the faculty of making all things in glass, it should be the talk going on; and kansamah-jee himself can with- kept in one of your glass vases with a ground glass out quitting his hookab, smell if the coffee is burning, stopper. Have boiling-water ready, for no good coffee so you must eschew all contrivances and hold fast to an is to be made without boiling water, and having scaldopen iron pan, not a frying pan-which is another Cal-ed your coffee-pot put in a table spoonful of ground

Coffee Bengaliensis.

menders and the kansamahs mill-destroyers. Bismillah!

coffee for every cup of coffee you wish to have; press 'it down into the strainer moderately hard with the glass

stopper, and pour over it one cup of boiling water dirt under the name of coffee, they only add a little

CHOWRINGHEE THEATRE.

charger, her haughty lover walking in attendance, holding the rein.

Our

THE ROMP AND THE BLIND BOY.

To account for this surprise, it is necessary to remark The Theatre during the hot season is the cardle of drathat, in the person of the Georgian bride, Oglou beheld matic talent. Freed from the oppressive weight of mere Zorilda, the Princess of Mingrelia; and in the usurper's pretension, which, like a huge nightmare, sits upon gefather, the Princess recognised the grateful peasant to nuine ability and represses its ardent asperations, those whose cottage she had once brought health and succour amateurs who during the cold months, modestly and When Timour's ambassadors arrived at Teflis, the proud kindly consent to fill the humble, we will not say deand generous Almeyda would instantly have spurned grading offices of banner bearers, senators and ruffians, bis insolent addresses; but their acceptance opening to now assert the dignity of their nature and stretching their Zorilda the chance of saving her son and placing him on his father's throne, she resolved to assume the disguise; miring community the true extent of their histrionic pinions, soar to a towering height and exhibit to an adto recover him, or perish in the attempt. None of the capacity. Their last opportunity in this way was afforded ambassadors or Tartar guards, save Abdallac and Octar, them when the lively farce of THE ROMP, and the have ever seen Almeyda or herself-the first is in her in-pathetic melo drama of THE BLIND Box, brought out the terest, the latter is a prisoner in the dungeons of Teflis: whole of the auxiliaries in great strength. let Oglou but keep her secret, and success is certain. To give eclat to the approaching nuptials, Kerim and particulars as we could wish, considering the merits and space does not permit of our entering as fully into Sanballet, two desperate rivals for Selima, a beautiful peculiarity of the performance; but there were some Circassian captive, try a tilt together. The scene is sa-points which we can on no account omit to notice. Mr. vage and imposing; the combatants on horseback charge Hely-we speak of him by name, because he has not with lances-Kerim's horse becomes marvellously bel- the same singular scruples with other amateurs, and is ligerent; first seizing Sanballat and dragging him to the moreover desirous of being known as a professor,-Mr. ground; next interposing between his rider and his as- Hely, we say, in his representation of the gallant Capsailant, and lastly getting stabbed, and dying with as tain Sightly of his Britanic Majesty's service, in THE much discretion as the best Macbeth or Richard of our RoMP, and the dark, deep designing, detestable Prince time. In the end, Kerim is declared victor, sacrificing Rodolph in THE BLIND BOY, exhibited a degree of his rival to the manes of his murdered steed, and wingrace and dramatic power for which we were entirely ning the lady. unprepared to give him credit. His countenance is of figure though somewhat petite, is graceful and well prothe order saturnine, and capable of great flexibility; his portioned, and his action though rather pantomimic, may, on the whole, be denominated expressive. In the pourtrayal of the exultations of triumphant villainy, and in the delineation of the remorse consequent upon subsequent discovery and disgrace, Mr. Hely displayed so much skill that we must honestly pronounce him inferior the acknowledged "Kean". The managers will do well, to none on the Chowringhee Boards, expecting perhaps in future, to avail themselves of his services in such instead of suffering his sweetness to "waste" itself-but parts as Macduff, Falconbridge, Ferrardo, Gonzago, &c. we will not pursue a trite metaphor.

The plot now takes a strange turn. Oglou, in agitation and haste, reveals to his son the secret of Zorilda's disguise; Octar follows quickly after and confirms the story; while Timour, bewildered, confused-rage, love, disappointment, burning in his bosom, commands the beautiful impostor to be imprisoned in the fortress. Thither Oglou secretly repairs, and explains to the princess, who at first recoils from him with horror, the reason of his extraordinary disclosure. Octar had escaped, and was at hand-would he have kept her secret better By this stroke of art he has preserved his own neck, his son's confidence, and the keys of the fortress. He unlocks her prison doors, and lest the hours till midnight (the time appointed for escape) should prove tedious, behold, muffled in a cloak, her captive son!-The sudden approach of Timour, who comes to demand the instant In the part of Starow and Kalig, Mr. Hely received celebration of their nuptials, produce fresh terror and powerful support from two amateurs who appear to posperplexity. The altars blaze, the priest is waiting—sess many requisites for the heroes of melo drama. There this night must make her his bride. She implores a is a depth in the voice of the former, and an energy in short respite from the dreaded rites-a few hours'-tis the action of the latter, which would fit them for some of granted-hark! the fortress bell, the signal of Oglou's those theatres in our own noble metropolis where the approach to bring them liberty, Agib, unobserved, steals crimes and follies of mankind are nightly held up to exeaway from the couch (his place of concealment when cration and avoidance through the instructive medium of Timour entered) to the alcove-now, then, Princess, burletta and spectacle. Starow has often played on our cries the Tartar, I will leave you to your thoughts, and Chowringhee boards, in characters beneath his talent,* while they employ you, I will recline on your couch and Kalig was introduced to us as The Monster in Franand gaze on your charms. Hold ! exclaims the frantic kenstein. mother, not there! not there!-Ha! exclaimed the Tartar, some spy! some traitor lurks there! and plunges his dagger through the cloak, that but a moment before had concealed Agib from his sight. Zorilda utters a shriek of terror, but is relieved by a whisper from Selima that her son is safe in the alcove. A succession of incidents follow-the entry of Oglou, his affright and confusion, the story of the carrier dove and the letter, the perilous escape of Agib from the window, the rising of the Georgians, the storming of the fortress, the rage and desperation of Timour, his attempt to stab the Princess, her leap from the tower upon the terrace beneath, followed by the infuriated Tartar, her plunging into the sea to avoid his grasp, the grand equestrian exploit of the Standard Bearer who leaps his horse over the parapet, and rescues the Princess, the gallant steed rising out of the water bearing him and Zorilda, the fierce combat between the Tartars and Georgians, in which the former are defeated, the restoration of the young Prince to his throne, the joy of Oglou, and the despair of Timour.-Cal, Cour.

Of the rest of the characters we shall only say, that ment perceptible on each succeeding appearance of the we rejoice to bear testimony to the very great improveHe will in time prove a formidable rival to "our Bob." young gentleman who played Molin and Young Cockney. The veterans who represented Oberto and King Stanislaus of Sarmatin, played, as they always do, feelingly, earnestly and respectably ;-the latter, in order to impart the greatest vraisemblance to the character, painted his face and made up his head, so as to resemble, as closely as possible, the fac simile of the Sovereign to be found on the Sarmatian coins. He looked, in fact, like an animated florin. Mrs. Leach-in her excellent performance of Priscilla Tomboy-vindicated the reputation and upheld the character of the winter corps. Mr. Francis was quite at home, though the house was indifferntly attended.-Oriental Observer.

*One of best pieces of pantmoime we ever saw was this gen. tleman's dumb butcher in the Sleeping Draught,

SUPREME COURT.

TUESDAY, APRIL 5.

FLETCHER, ALEXANDER AND Co., v. AGA KURBOLI

MAHOMED.

In this case the plaintiffs are merchants in London and the defendant is a very respectable Mogul residing in this place. The action was brought on a bill of exchange for twelve hundred pounds sterling, at sixty days' sight, in favour of the defendant, drawn by Captain Peter Butler, upon the houses of Gledstanes and Co. The bill was endorsed over by the defendant to Rajkissen Nundy, from whom it was purchased by Alexander, and Co., and by them paid over to the plaintiffs.

Several witnesses were examined who proved the handwriting of the plaintiffs and of Alexander and Co., and the protest was put in evidence. It was also proved that a notice of the bill having been dishonored had been sent to defendant by plaintiffs' agent here and that the latter from a conversation had with the Aga ten days after he had sent the notice of dishonor, was impressed with the opinion that the Aga had received it. But the Court held this not to be sufficient, and that in the absence of an admission of the receipt of the notice, there ought to have been a notice to produce.-Nonsuit.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6.`

CHARLES POPE WILTSHIRE, AND OTHER INFANTS, v.
PETER FORSTER, SURVIVING EXECUTOR OF THE LAST
WILL AND TESTAMENT OF C. P. WILTSHIRE,

DECEASED.

interest as may appear to be due thereon, and that the shares of the infants may be secured and invested under the direction of the court.

To this bill defendant has filed a demurrer for want of parties. First, that the legal personal representative of the widow of the testator, who, as he is advised, is entitled and interested to contest the payment of the residue of the estate, ought to be made a party to the bill of complaint. Also that Lieutenant Palmer and his wife are necessary parties to the bill, in as much as the will directed that should any of the children die before they came of age, his share should be divided amongst the surviving children.

Mr. Turton and Mr. Leith were heard in support of the demurrer, Mr. Prinsep and Mr. Clarke were for the complainants. The court took time to consider.-Englishman.

THURSDAY APRIL 7.

THE KING V. JOYNAKEE DOSS.

The defendant in the year 1829 had been tried with others for a conspiracy, and convicted thereupon; but an appeal was allowed by the Court to the King in Council, on a point of law, involving the question of jurisdiction. It appears that the defendant resided at Benares, and had never been in any manner resident in Calcutta ; but that the conspiracy with which he was charged, although concerted and entered into at Benares, embarced objects, the perpetration of which fell within the limits of Calcutta. Whether or no this was sufficient to render Joynakee Doss liable to the cirmi

The Court however decided that as the petition had been duly forwarded, and entrusted to the management of Messrs. Tenant and Harrison solicitors of London, and as it did not appear that the defendant had done any thing to retard the progress of the appeal, the Court would give till the last day of the second term of 1837 and respite the recognisances accordingly; with this condition however, that the defendant should then come fully prepared to satisfy the Court that he had used his best endeavours to carry the petition to a final decision.-Hurkaru.

The bill is filed by Charles Pope Wiltshire of How-nal jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, was the subject rah, a British subject, and by Anne Martha Wiltshire, had been duly forwarded to England, but no informamatter of the ground of appeal. The petition of appeal of Seetapore Oude, and Flora Selina Adelaide Wiltshire tion having been obtained as to its result, application had of Howrah, infants, going by the first mentioned com- been made to the Court to respite the defendents recogplainant their guardian and next friend. The Bill states nisances, to a further period, in order to allow time to that Charles Wiltshire died in 1825, leaving him surviv-receive the decision of the Privy Council. The Advoing a widow, one son, and three daughters. The eldest cate-General opposed any allowance of further time in daughter, Susannah Elizabeth, was then thirteen years this case, alleging the great delay that had already or thereabouts, and has since married to Lieutenant H. taken place in the matter, and the absence of any thing Palmer, of the 48th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry. to prove that the defendant had used any endeavours to In 1822, Charles Wiltshire made a will, in which, after forward the decision upon the appeal. desiring that all just debts should be paid, he bequeath. ed to his wife all his household property, plate, &c. and all the cash that he might then or thereafter possess, to be appropriated for her maintenance, and for the maintenance of his children during her life time, unless she should marry again, in which case his children were to enjoy the interest until they were twenty-one years, when the whole of the principal was to be divided and shared amongst the surviving children. Of this will, the tes tator's cousin, Mr. Peter Forster, is the surviving executor. The residue of the estate amounted to Sa. Rs. 18,530 the interest of which was paid to the widow up to the time of her death in November 1825 and afterwards the interest of the residuary estate was applied by the executors towards the education and maintenance of the four children, and the estate has remained in the hands of the surviving executor with the exception of the share paid to the eldest daughter on her arriving at the age of twenty-one years. The remaining residuary estate, amounting to the sum of Sa. Rs. 13,897, was placed by the surviving executor in the hands of Cruttenden, Mackillop and Co. as a mere cash balance, running at interest, without any security whatever, and so it continued until the insolvency of that firm in 1834. The Bill prays that defendant may be decreed to pay and bring into court the sum of Sa. Rs. 13,637 and all such

Day.

MONDAY, APRIL 18.

PERJURY.

Rex, on the prosecution of Hurloll Tagore v. Ashootas
Before the Chief Justice, and the following special

Jury:

James Lamb, John Porteous, Christopher Fagan, Jonathan D. Dow, James Cullen, William Limond, Mathew Dove, H. J. Leighton, W. T. Fraser, R. C. Paton, William Maclean, and E. Mackintosh, Esquires.