others his making his crew dive for pearls in 13 fathoms voured to avert its effects; but, Gentlemen, when he went Water where no oyster was ever heard of) the arbitrary far beyond this-when he attempted to make his own and violent conduct of Captain Gillon, we shall now quarter deck a scene of bloodshed, if not of murder, we proceed to the circumstances which were the proximate considered that he had forfeited all claim to further forcause of his confinement. bearance, and that to put him in confinement till we could hand him over to a competent tribunal, was the only alternative left for the preservation of our lives and the safety of the vessel.

On the night of the 2d of December, at about half past 10, Captain Gillon went up to Mr. Daviot and commenced abusing him about the rigging of the ship, and upon his remonstrating, Captain Gillon called Mr. Captain Snowball sworn, examined by Mr. Minchin. Daviot a coward and made use of other abusive lan-I am Captain of the Bascien Merchant; I went to the guage Mr. Daviot replied I am not a coward, but I Nicobars; there was there the bark Skimmer, Captain do not wish to make any disturbance on board the ship. Gillon. I remained at the island 8 or 10 days; Captain Captain Gillon then ran into the cuddy and brought Gillon said he had come there as Governor. The naout two swords, one of which he threw down on the tives came on board my ship and told me (here witness deck, calling upon Mr. Daviot to take up and defend was interrupted and informed, what the natives told him himself, and upon Mr. Daviot retreating, he rushed at was no evidence)-I did not communicate to Captain him and struck at him with the sword, which Mr. Daviot Gillon what the natives had told me. I did not give avoided by running forward among the crew; after some Captain Gillon any advice. The natives came off and time Captain Gillon returned into the cuddy, but shortly told me-(here witness was again reminded that that afterwards again came out with one of the swords in his was not evidence) I did not tell Captain Gillon what I hand, looking for the scabbard which he had thrown had heard.

away; Mr. Daviot was at the time standing near the D'Acunyah sworn, examined by Mr. Minchia. I am gangway; upon Captain Gillon seeing him he again the second Governor, watching nutmeg trees. The flew at him, and would have cut him down but Mr. Governor was dead; witness went into a long statement Allen drew him out of the way. of Captain Gillon's doings at the Nicobars; witness was Mr. Daviot in his own defence then, with the assis- in irons, and in a dreadful state of suffering; saw the tance of the crew, disarmed Captain Gillon, who was acts which led to Captain Gillon's confinement, and exceedingly violent, so much so, that it was necessary spoke of his violent conduct. The natives would not to confine him in irons to prevent his having again give him assistance, but when he was put in irons they recourse to similar conduct. supplied the ship with every thing.

On the following morning one or two of the people of the Island came on board and upon ascertaining that Captain Gillon was confined, stated that it was very fortunate as the natives had determined, if he pursued the same conduct towards them, that they would cut off the ship and murder every person on board.

Jacobus Hughes, sworn, stated the whole of the facts, that Captain Gillon once went ashore accompanied by witness; that he was in a state of intoxication; that he attempted to take indecent familiarities with the wife of a native, who took down a spear and was on the point of having it through Captain Gillon's body, when he, CapIn the course of the morning we held a consultation tain Gillon, was saved by the interference of Mr. Allen; as to what was to be done, at which the whole crew that he was taken on board in a state of utter inebriety; declared that if Captain Gillon was set at liberty their that he flourished his sword at Mr. Daviot and returned lives would be in danger, and that they would desert with a sword in one hand and a cegar in his mouth; the ship; upon which we determined, under all the cir- that the crew had wretched treatment and food during cumstances of the case, that we would continue Captain the time he was at large, and the natives refused to Gillon in confinement and sail to Trincomalee and de-assist the ship; and that when the Captain was in irons, liver him up to the Admiral, to be dealt with according the natives came and brought with them abundance of to law, which we considered the only course we should be justified in adopting.

every thing the crew could want; and they had abun dance of good and fresh provisions; that if any com plaint was made to Captain Gillon about their fare, his reply was- What do you come on board my ship to eat kubbaub”—that his conduct towards his crew was violent and utterly unbecoming.

In order, however, to show that we were not actuated by any spirit of hostility towards Captain Gillon, we determined before leaving the Nicobars to collect the cargo which he had purchased there, which we accordingly did, and during all the time he was in confinement John A. Arbuthnot, Esq., sworn, stated that he had we supplied him with the best food that could be obtain- some knowledge of Mr. Daviot, and know him to have ed; taking care that he should be served before our- been in command of ships himself-ships that have been selves, and making his confinement as easy to him as pos- consigned to the firm of Messrs. Arbuthnot and Co., sible; and to shew that we had no idea of concealing witness never heard any thing against Mr. Daviot; witwhat we had done, we caused the circumstances atten-ness had not any knowledge of Mr. Daviot other than dant on Captain Gillon's confinement to be entered on such as he derived from the circumstance of Mr. Davoit the log of the ship. being in command.

Upon Captain Gillon understanding that we were about to sail to Trincomalee, he declared that it would be an act of barratry, as he had cargo on board for Pondicherry; we therefore, on the 1st of January, 1836, sailed for that port, intending to land the cargo there and afterwards proceed to Trincomalee; but on our arrival at Pondicherry, and on reporting the circumstances to the French Government, Captain Gillon was taken on

shore.

J. Rodgers, Esq. sworn. Witness stated he knew Mr. Daviot from the year 1819-always knew him as Commander of vessels-never as mate; Mr. Daviot is a humane and altogether well meaning man.

Mr. Allen here addressed himself to the Jury and said he was a perfect stranger at Madras, and it was therefore not in his power to offer evidence of character.

This was the case for the defence. These, Gentlemen, are the simple facts of the case as His Lordship the Chief Justice commenced summing they actually occurred, and it will be for you to say whe-up about 20 minutes to 10 o'clock. ther under all the circumstances we were not fully justi-through the whole of the evidence, and concluded a His Lordship went fied in our conduct. brilliant charge at about quarter past eleven.

The Jury retired for 3 or 4 minutes and returned with verdict of Nor GUILTY-the prisoners were thereupon immediately discharged.

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You will perceive that so long as Captain Gillon confined himself to mere threats against the crew, we did not interpose; that when he assumed a power to which he had no right, we did not interfere; and that notwithstanding his tyrannical and arbitrary conduct towards the natives, by which he put our very lives in danger, we only endea- could hold.-Madras Herald.

The Court House was literally crammed as full as it

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

were a great many respectable ladies and gentlemen The fireworks were very present on the occasion. beautiful and admirably managed, and reflect great credit on the native artiste who prepared them. There was a native fort, which was stormed in a gallant style by a body of British soldiers, and ultimately blown up, victors and vanquished being sent whirling into the air in a blaze; and the flights of rockets and thousands of stars shot up were really splendid. The nautches were stupid enough, and no sooner did the first rocket an Hh

nounce that the fire-works had commenced, than Bebee Bunnoo and her daughters were almost entirely deserted, and left to waste their graceful exhibitions for the entertainment of a few greasy Baboos and Portuguese ayahs. The crowd of natives was so great, that it was with difficulty we could thread our way through them; but we believe, nevertheless, that with the exception of a few huts being set on fire by a rocket, the flames of which were quickly extinguished, and a gentleman receiving a slight burn, no accident of any kind took place. About half past eleven, some of the ladies were conducted by the Baboo to a house at a little distance from the bungalow in which the nautch girls were exhibiting, where refreshments were laid out for them; but they were not long allowed to remain there uninterrupted, for some hungry gentlemen, who had collected in a crowd at

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.-The Library subscription list is now on the encrease. There are fourteen first class subscribers, five subscribers of the second class, and two of the third class. The Library is to be open from sunrise to sunset every day for the future, Sundays excepted.

OBLITERATION OF SIGNATURES FROM BANK NOTES BY

COPPER.-A number of bank-notes without signatures, were presented bona fide by a native, who stated them to have been kept for sometime in a copper box, but was unable to explain how they came without signatures; but he declared his belief that they bore the usual signatures when put into the box. None of the printing appeared defective, and there were several native endorsements upon the notes in Bengalee ink, but no English writing whatever. The Bank registers showed that notes of corresponding numbers and amounts had been regularly issued and were still in circulation; but the Secretary refused to pay them without the special authority of the directors. The Assay Master has been requested to enquire and report upon the probability of the signatures being erased by damp or other means. In an experiment tried by Mr. Prinsep, writing traced on a piece of paper with common ink, being placed between THE LADY GRANT.-The Lady Grant has been ex-two plates of copper, was soon entirely obliterated. amined in Messrs. W. S. Jop and Co.'s dock, and found to be uninjured by grounding on the Sumatra debts of the estate of Barretto and Sons, is going on satisfacAFFAIRS OF BARRETTO AND SONS.-The liquidation of the

the door of the house, forced themselves in-despite the resistance of the sepoy placed at the entrance, and the remonstrances of the Baboo-and sans ceremonie seized upon the wines and viands, which speedily disappeared under their vigorous attacks.

COLONEL DUNDAS.-The general court-martial held on Col. Dundas at Nusseerabad, has fully and honorably acquitted him.

sand.

THE SYLPH.-OURANG-OUTANGS.-The Sulph has been minutely examined by an eminently qualified surveyor, who has pronounced her repairs to have been completed in the most perfect manner, and that the vessel has not been in the least strained, or is in any way less valuable than before the accident which befell her. She is now thoroughly repaired, new coppered, and ready to depart for the Straits again. Two ourang-outangs have been brought round in the Sylph, a full grown female and a young male.

NEW STEAMERS.-Official intelligence has been received relative to the two steamers building for the Company in England. Their engine power is to be that of 200 horses for each vessel. They are both des tined for Bombay, under restrictions not to be employed as packets.

torily. The sale of the docks for 204,000 rupees, which
there was at one time an idea of cancelling for want of the
required security, has been rendered effective, and the
instalments are in progress of realization during the
ensuing twelve months. From Fergusson and Co.'s As-
signees dividends have been received to the amount of
about 48,000 rupees, and as it is expected that estate
will make another dividend of ten per cent. next year,
there may with interest and dock-rent arrears be about
three lakhs in hand twelve months hence.
At present
all the receipts are paid into Court to wait the issue of
two equity suits, which, however, will probably be de-
termined by that time.

is a candidate for the situation of Agent to the upper
MR. JOHN TYTLER.-It is said that Mr. John Tytler
Orphan School; and that if he succeeds to the appoint-
ment, he will resign the medical service in England.

WET DOCK IN CALCUTTA.It is said, that a plan for a wet dock in the heart of Calcutta, has been submitted estimated to cost forty lakhs of rupees. to the Governor-General by Capt. Johnston, which is

INDIGO PROSPECTS.-Letters received from factories to the eastward report a fine shower on the 28th April, in Mymunsing, Dacca, and as far as Rajeshye; so that for the present the indigo planters are in no distress for want of rain. At Moorshedabad, however, the Junghipore concern is suffering severely and complaints pour in THE APPEAL-RESCINDING ACT.-The reply of the local from almost every other part of the country, of the Government to the petition recently sent in, requesting want of rain. The plant is generally reported to be very to be informed as to the law under which British-born stinted in growth and actually dying in some places. subjects, residing in the Mofussil, shall live, after the It is expected that the crop this year will be considerably contemplated Appeal-Rescinding Act shall be passed less than that of the last season. into law, was published on the 7th May. The GovernFavorable accounts have been received from Tirhoot.ment state, that the proposed act will make no alteration MR. JOHN BELL.-Mr. John Bell has been appointed Company's Courts will decide according to equity and whatever in any part of the substantive law; that the Inspector of Customs, on a salary of 800 rupees per good conscience, only in cases in which no other rule

month.

exists; and that the English law of inheritance, marriage, and succession, as now in force with respect to British subjects residing in the Mofussil, will still continue in force after the passing of the proposed act.

THE NEW MAUND.-The merchants and traders of Calcutta, it is said, intend to adopt the new maund, consisting of forty seers of eighty tolas each, as the measure of weight, as well as the Company's rupee as The Black Act, despite all remonstrance, has been the measure of value and account, in all their dealings. SUPPRESSION OF PIRACY.-His Majesty's Ship An- perpetrated-the proposed Act, No. XI of 1836, dromache proceeds immediately to the Straits, and such rescinding the 107th section of the 53rd Geo. 3rd admitting of appeal from the decisions of the Mofussil Courts ample powers are entrusted to Capt. Chads, that it is to the Supreme Court, was passed into a law by the Gohoped something effectual will be done for the suppres- vernor-General in Council on the 9th May, and pub sion of piracy. lished in the Official Gazette on the 11th. British-born

HOMICIDE. At Comartolee, in Calcutta, a native of subjects are now made over to the tender mercies of the respectable family, who had been deranged for many magnates of the Mofussil, to be judged by their couyears, wounded his own mother, sister and brother sciences and sense of equity. A meeting has been sum (with whom he was living) with a tulwar, so severely moned by the Sheriff to the Town Hall on the 18th that the brother died from the wounds he had received. June, to petition Parliament against the Act.

HURRY RAO'S VAKEEL.-The Vakeel deputed by Hurry Rao to Government, has arrived in Calcutta with a large retinue, and is located at Baligunge.

ATROCITIES AT KALEE GHAT.-A priest of the temple of the goddess Kalee, it is said, waited on the Editor of the Du pun, and stated that he was shocked by the atrocities he had seen perpetrated there and was resolved FORGERY.-A native of respectable connexions, who to bring them to light. He put down upon paper, that by his own dissipated extravagance has reduced himself on several occasions individuals, dwelling in the imme- from affluence to penury, was detected endeavouring to diate vicinity of the temple in unsuspecting confidence, pass a forged promissory note, purporting to be drawn have been seized in the dead of night and put to death, by Baboo Shamlaul Tagore and accepted by Messrs. as an offering to the goddess; that some of these cases Carr, Tagore and Co. He has been confined in the have been brought to the notice of the magistrate, but Town Guard, and the police are investigating the case. that through the great wealth and influence of the priests, and the Hindu partialities of the native officers deputed to investigate the matter, the enquiry has been stilled, and such report made as was calculated to lull suspicion asleep. A Serjeant and his party have since been posted at Kali Ghaut in order to put a stop to the revolting acts which of late have been perpetrated at that shrine of villainous notoriety.

GOOMSUR.-Eight Staff Officers of the Madras army, under orders of the Supreme Government, have been temporarily placed at the disposal of the Madras Commander-in-Chief for employment with their regiments on field service at Goomsur. This looks as if a protracted contest was anticipated in that quarter.

THE COINAGE.--Complaints still continue to pour in from the Mofussil about the inconvenience and annoyance concomitant on the introduction of the new currency,

ROBBERIES, &C.-Another very impudent robbery was committed in the office of Messrs. Carr, Tagore and Co. A sum of rupees 6,250, brought from the Bank of Bengal in notes, by one of the sircars, was left upon. his desk for a moment while he went to speak to the Baboo who called him. On the sircar's return, the notes were missing; he in consequence immediately went to the Bank, where he found they had already been presented and changed for small notes and cash, by one Cossinauth Chatterjee, a writer in the office. As the man was known to live on the other side of the river, he was immediately followed by the sircar, who had the good luck to catch him just going off in a boat, and thereby recovered the whole amount. The thief has been sent to the police.

place in the environs of Calcutta. Several robberies, it is said, have also recently taken About half a dozen have been perpetrated on the Chumpatollah road, eight from which we derive that the nuisance is unabated. miles from Calcutta, and in one instance two men were Government issued an act on the 25th May, intimating killed. People have now become so much afraid to pass that from the 1st January, 1838, the sicca rupee shall in that direction, that they prefer making a circuit of cease to be a legal tender, and that from the 1st of June, three or four miles. 1836, the trisoolee pice shall cease to circulate in any place, except Benares and Furruckabad, at par with the Calcutta sicca pice.

CHANGE OF EDITOR.-Another, and another, still ever changing! Once more the management of the Oriental Observer is said to have passed from the hands of the sapient Editor of the Englishman.

FEVER HOSPITAL.-The Committee formed to take measures to establish a Fever Hospital, met on the 6th May, for the purpose of ascertaining what progress had been made during the past year in carrying into effect the object in view, and to determine upon the course of proceeding for the future. The Committee have been most active and judicious in all their measures, but all their efforts to move the native community to exert themselves in the cause, have proved almost fruitless. The whole sum that has been raised is rupees 24,050, of which sum 19,000 rupees have been subscrib

ed by the Rajah of Burdwan, Dwarkanauth Tagore, Rustomjee Cowasjee, Rajchunder Doss, Prosonocoomar Tagore, and Madab Dutt, under these circumstances, the Committee have been induced to depart from their original resolution of not soliciting subscriptions from Christians, and have determined to ask the aid of the European community. Sirs E. Ryan and J. P. Grant have already subscribed, the former five hundred and the latter three hundred rupees, as donation, in addition to annual subscriptions of fifty and one hundred

rupees.

ACCIDENTS. -Thirteen men were recently picked up from a drift-log in the river, by the Forbes. They were the crews of two boats that had left Saugor with fifteen men on the commencement of the flood and had been capsized on the Spit sand off Mud-point. They had been in the water seven hours, and the two of their number that were missing, had lost their hold from exhaustion and been drowned.

Mr. Commissioner Pigou's house in Allipore, was also entered by a gang of thieves on the morning of the 16th May, who carried away a large side board from the house to the back of Mr. Justice O'Hanlon's premises, where they broke it open and escaped with plate and other articles of considerable value.

Some of the thieves have since been detected aud been committed by the magistrate of the 24-Pergunnahs; and twelve cart-loads of iron, which had been regularly cleared out of the Custom House, but never heard of afterwards, have been found buried in the yard of a house in Allipore.

Mr. Dyson, Serjeant of Entally, was robbed on the 15th May, of jewels to the value of 1,400 rupees and 122 rupees in cash. The robbery was perpetrated early in the evening while Mr. Dyson's family were at Divine Service.

May, at Bourea, in the jurisdiction of the Twentyfour Purgunnahs, to investigate the circumstances connected with which, an European officer, assisted by a body of native police, has been deputed, with directions to arrest the perpetrators, if possible. The robbery was attended by torture, but no lives were sacrificed on the occasion. The dacoits are supposed to be from the Hooghly zillah, and are suspected of having been concerned in former outrages of a like nature.

A dacoity is stated to have occurred on the 12th

About five o'clock on the morning of the 26th opulent native female residing in Harcatta Gully near May, a robbery took place in the house of an Potuldanga Thannah. Three or four men went to the door of the house, and having knocked at it, enquired for the owner, and were answered from within by a female servant, that it being the Doshorah her inistress had gone to the river side in order to bathe, and that she could not open the door until she returned. The party outside on this replied that t ey had brought a present of mangoes from a Baboo to whom she was well known, and on this representation the fastenings were unloosed. This had no sooner been done, than the thieves laid hold of the servant, and after binding her

Mr. C. N. Phillips, Surgeon of the Victory, suddenly disappeared on the morning of the 12th May, while bathing alongside of that vessel. It is supposed that he was seized by a shark.

RESTORATION OF A FINE-GOVERNMENT CIRCULAR OR

DER.-The case of a fine recently levied upon an Englishman by a Magistrate of Monghyr, for refusing to an

hands and feet, stuffed a cloth into her mouth, in order that she might not be able to cry out for assistance. They then proceeded into the rooms of the house, and took away property in silver and other articles to a con-swer the official enquiries relative to his authority for siderable amount.

residing in the district, has occasioned the circular order of Government to be revoked which required acATTEMPTED ROBBERY.-An attempt to rob the house nual lists to be furnished containing particulars of of a gentleman residing in the suburbs of Calcutta, Europeans residing in the Mofussil--this revocation bewas made by a gang of thieves on the night of the 22ding limited to those districts in which Englishmen are May. The gentleman, however, was fortunately awakened by the barking of his dogs, when the thieves ran away, but not before one of them was wounded with a dirk with which the gentleman had armed himself. From the quantity of blood left on the spot, it is conjectured that the thief has been severely hurt, and it is expected that his wound will lead to his apprehension.

now permitted by the Charter to reside without license. The fine of twenty-five rupees levied by the Magistrate on a gentleman at Monghyr, has been ordered

to be returned.

RAJA PRATAP CHUND, BAHADUR, OF BURDWAN.-It now appears that there is some truth in the reports of the re-appearance of Rajah Pratap Chund, Bahadur, of MURDER.-An old woman, who led a secluded life in Burdwan. Enquiries have been made by various native the Burra Bazaar, was found dead on the morning of as well as European gentlemen as to their truth, by per the 12th May. A piece of cloth was fastened round her sonal conferences with the individual representing himneck, which had obviously been used to strangle her. self to be the Rajah,-who has been imprisoned with Jewellery and other articles to the amount of two or about one hundred and fifty of his followers, on an three hundred rupees were taken away by the mur-allowance of two pice a day,-and the result has been derers from the dwelling of the unfortunate woman. such as to leave little doubt of the individual identity. Five of the villains who murdered the old woman Mr. Shaw has had a conference of three hours' duration have since been detected through the praiseworthy with the putative Rajah, and is persuaded that he is exertions of the police, and are in confinement. It not an impostor. Government have sent peremptory is expected that some others who participated in the orders to the Commissioner of Burdwan, to investi perpetration of the horrid deed, and have hitherto gate promptly into the case and have also written baffled the exertions of police to detect them, will soon be apprehended.

THE STOLEN BUGGIES.-The Chief Magistrate has been engaged investigating a charge brought against two of the Mysore Princes, in which it was alleged that they had received two buggies, recently stolen in Calcutta, under circumstances of a not very creditable description. The buggies were found in the possession of the Princes who had purchased them at a low price, and shortly afterwards made some very material alterations in their build; but as there was nothing in the case, that connected them with the offence of stealing in Calcutta, and the receiving the stolen property not having taken place within the jurisdiction of the Chief Magistrate, the case has been handed over to the Court in the 24-Purgunnahs.

BRIBERY.-One of the native Amlah, a Moonshee of the Ambalah Circle, was charged with several cases of bribery, but the proof not being sufficiently strong to admit of severer punishment, he has been dismissed.

a letter to Prannauth Baboo, calling upon him to report ininutely and without delay, as to when and at what age Pratap Chand died, where his body was burned, whether there has not been a report since the time that the Rajah's demise was announced, that be did not actually die, and how that report originated, and whether the person now claiming the title is or is not the real Pratap Chand. The investigation by the Commissioner is now going on.

ICE AND NOTIONS.-The Warsaw, with 250 tons of ice and other articles, left Boston on the 26th of December last, and another ship was to be dispatched in all February. The Warsaw arrived on the 17th May. The ice received per Warsaw, is advertised for sale at the reduced rate of three annas per seer. The apples and other notions have all turned out bad.

REPORTS ON QUALIFICATION OF SUBORDINATES.-The Court of Directors have ordered the discontinuance of the reports required from Boards and other superior local authorities on the character and qualifications of subordinates.

The investigations of Mr. Officiating Commissioner Gordon into the charges preferred against the record- DEPUTY MASTER ATTENDANT.-In consequence of the keeper of the Hooghly Collectorate, have also terminated decease of Captain Collie, the late Deputy Master Atin a similar result-that officer having only been dis-tendant of Calcutta, Captain Clapperton has been ap placed from his situation for want of direct legal evidence to substantiate the charges. He has either appealed or is about to appeal to the Supreme Government against the decision of the Sudder Board.

pointed to officiate in that grade during the absence of Captain Harrington, on leave-Captain Robinson to officiate as second assistant as before. It is understood that the Deputy Master Attendantship will not be filled up, but referred for the Court's orders.

LAND RESUMPTION.-It is stated that a gentleman of the Civil Service is about to visit Singapore on a land NATIVE EDUCATION." The native gentlemen resident resumption expedition, that is, he is to enquire into the nature of all the grants that have been made in that set-Raja Kalee Shunker Ghosaul, and Baboo Rajindro at Benares, His Highness the Nuwab Ekbul-ud-Dowlah, tlement, and to see whether the revenue cannot be encreased on behalf of the Company.

DR. Vos.-This meritorious public officer, who was for many years Police Surgeon of Calcutta, died on the 16th May.

Mitter, have been appointed by Government, Members of the Local Committee of Public Instruction at that station."

FREE SCHOOL. Capt. R. J. H. Birch has been ap CIVIL SERVICE. The adopted son of Rajah Rammo-pointed to a Governorship of the Free School vice Major Taylor resigned. hun Roy has been appointed to the Civil Service by Sir J. C. Hobhouse.

MENAGERIE AT BARRACKPORE.—It is said that the MeMILITARY PENSIONS. The new regulation for the nagerie at Barrackpore is being revived. Rajah Rearmy pension is arrived. It gives to officers of twenty-uarain last week made an addition to it, by presenting five years' service the pension of a Major, &c., yet does the Misses Eden with a porcupine, a couple of sloths. not prejudice those officers who by good fortune may four peacocks, a couple of monkies, a paraquet, a parot have attained a higher grade in the same period. and a loorie.