"cashiered" and not revived. The meeting then dispersed in considerable merriment at the expense of those who had suggested the calling of it.

there is a surplus guarantee fund amounting to a lakh and a half, and the position of the Society is consequently most satisfactory.

MUNIFICENT DONATIONS. The statement that Rajah EARTHQUAKE.-An earthquake was felt at ChanderBenwari Lal had recently presented the Committee of nagore on the 24th January. The shock lasted about a Public Instruction with ten thousand rupees, is incorrect; minute and a half. The movement was from north-east Rajah Bijoy Govind Singh, of Purnea, is the individual to south-west.

who contributed that sum. The following donations SUICIDE. A native woman of loose character, comhave been made to the Committee by natives:-Rajah mitted suicide on the 24th January, by hanging herself by Buddynaught Roy, fifty thousand; Rajah Nursingh the neck. The cause which instigated her to commit Chunder Roy, twenty thousand; Rajah Cally Sunker the melancholy deed is unknown. Roy, twenty thousand; Rajah Benwari Lal Roy, thirty thousand; Rajah Gooroo Prosaud Roy, ten thousand; Rajah Hurry Nath Roy, twenty thousand; and Rajah Shib Chunder Roy, twenty thousand.

RAPE. Another rape case, in which the parties concerned are a Mahomedan named Shaikh Bannoo and a native Christian girl named Martha, has been under the investigation of the Police, previous to being transferred to the Supreme Court.

ABOLITION OF THE MARINE BOARD, &c.-It is stated that orders will shortly be received from England to abolish the Marine Board and the Marine Pay Office, as well as the STEAM MEETING.-The requisition to the Sheriff for Semaphore Establishment, unless the Mercantile Com- another Steam Meeting has upwards of two hundred munity, decide on continuing the latter at their own ex-signatures, obtained in Calcutta alone. The station of pense; and that the notification will come out with Lord Dum-Dum has added a great many signatures, and the Auckland. gentlemen of the other presidencies have generally united in the requisition.

THE RANEE-GUNGE COLLIERY.-The Ranee-Gunge Colliery was sold by public auction by Moore, Hickey and Co. on the 2nd January, to Baboo Dwarkenauth Tagore, for 70,000 sicca rupees.

UPPER ORPHAN SCHOOL.-In consequence of the recent attacks on Mrs. Wyatt, a letter has been addresseed to the Management, signed by forty-two out of forty-four of the senior wards of the school, who are capable of fully THE HARVEST.-The rice harvest in Bengal is nearly all comprehending the nature of the document, expressing brought in, and a more plentiful one has not been reaped their entire satisfaction with the treatment they experifor many years. In the countries immediately surround-ence from that lady. Dr. Duncan Stewart has been ing Calcutta, paddy is selling at four maunds, and clean-appointed medical attendant to the institution. ed rice at two maunds per rupee. Grain has not been so cheap for the last forty or fifty years.

SIR CHARLES METCALFE'S PORTRAIT.-The portrait of Sir Charles Metcalfe, painted by the East Indian limner Mr. Swaine, is now placed in the Town Hall, suspended over the first landing place of the staircase on the left on entering the building on the north side.

THE COPPER COIN.-Considerable inconvenience and loss are experienced by the poorer classes in consequence of the want of an abundant supply of the new copper coin. The shroffs have got possession of nearly all what is extant and are retailing it at fourteen annas and three pice for a Company's rupee, thus extorting one anna and three pice from the lieges, who are obliged to submit to this imposition, as they are unable to obtain the coin elsewhere, none being procurable at the Mint.

MILL
NEW FLOUR

AND COTTON

SCREWS.-Another flour mill has been opened at Cossipore, on the same principle as the mills of Messrs. Smithson and Co. on the Strand. There is also a large building now being erected near Messrs. Jessop and Co.'s establishment in Clive Street, intended for cotton screws.

MR. ROBERTSON THE AERONAUT.-This gentleman recently arrived from France with a balloon, and intends shortly to ascend in it for the gratification of the denizens of the City of Palaces. Subscription books are now in circulation, inviting the public to support an undertaking which involves such serious expense and risk as that contemplated. The Governor-General, it is said, has already set an example by subscribing largely.

GRAND CRICKET MATCH.-A very spirited and interestMr. Gomes, a public spirted individual, has how-ing cricket match was played on the 1st and 2nd ever entered into an arrangement with Government January, on the Esplanade. Eleven Etonians against for supplying pice to the lieges with a view to defeat all Calcutta. The Eton men won the throw for innings this conspiracy of the shroffs against the poor. He and the Calcutta men went in, and scored 133 runs, 19 has obtained the sanction of Government to be sup-byes, and 2 wide balls, total, 154. The Eton men then plied with five hundred rupees' worth of pice at a time went in, and two of their crack wickets went down immefrom the Mint, which he proposes supplying to the pub-diately without a run. Them Eton men seems bothered lic at the rate of fifteen aunas and three and a half pice exclaimed a voice on the ground. The odds seemed for the Company's rupee, deducting half a pice to defray the expense of opening shops in various places and to remunerate himself.

LIEUT.-COL. KENNEDY.-Lieut.-Col. William Kennedy, Military-Auditor-General, died on board of the Cornwall, off the Botanical Garden, on the 7th January.

NEW CALCUTTA LAUDABLE SOCIETY.-The annual general meeting of the New Calcutta Laudable Society took place on the 26th January, but was scarcely attended by half a dozen persons. The accounts produced made a very satisfactory show. The funds in hand on the 31st December, amounted to Sa. Rs 2,74,798, which divided by 62 lapsed shares would yield Sa, Rs 4,434 per share in excess, of 4,000 Rs per share already paid, or a nett excess of about 3,700 Rs per share after striking off the percentage balance taken over as usual from the old Societies. The sum mutually guaranteed to the holders of lapsed policies under the arrangements of last year was only Sa. Re 6,000; so that at present

heavily against tham; but they were now on their mettle, and to it they went in right earnest, and at half past two, had scored 147 runs, 7 byes, and 3 wide balls, total 157. The Calcutta men now indulged themselves in a little refreshment, and went in for a second innings, which ended a little before sunset, they having marked 110, thus leaving the Eton men 107 to make up in their second innings. The Eton men went in again yester-afternoon, and won the match, having 4 wickets to go down.

It was an exceedingly good match. The Calcutta men are the best fielders and their two bowlers are superior; but the Eton men have here an advantage over their opponents as they have four bowlers and all excellent. The Calcutta men, moreover, possess a most admirable second stop. It must be observed that the Eton men had never played together before the match, and some had never handled a bat or thrown at cricketball for years. As matches with Etonians possess some

interest beyound Calcutta, we subjoin the names of the a token of his admiration of her skill and she was to go players on each side.

Mr. H. Alexander,

Mr. W. Frith,
Mr. Oakes, junior,
Mr. H. Atkinson.

Club.

A. D. C.

Civil
Service.

to sing to his children.

FREE SCHOOL MEETING.-At a meeting of the subscriLaw Combers to the Free School on the 30th January, the missioner. Reverend Mr. Wimberley, Charles Mackenzie, Esq., of the Civil Service, and James Kyd, Esq., were elected Governors of the School. Mr. Wale Byrne was also re-elected. There was a discussion on a proposition that the Bishop and the Archdeacon should be ex-officio Governors, giving them the same power of voting as the other Governors. The proposition was opposed and on a division the numbers were equal. The Archdeacon maintained that these functionaries were ex-officio Governors and that he claimed a right of voting. As the numbers were equal, however, there is to be a special meeting to decide the point in dispute.

Mr. H. Holroyd, Barrister, Capt. Borthwith, H. M. 9th Madras Capt. T. J. Taylor, Madras Cav. CHEMICAL LECTURES. Dr. O'Shaughnessy gave his first lecture on chemistry at the new Medical Institution on the 2nd January; much is expected from this gentleman's ability and science.

NEW HINDU SECT.- -Allusion is made by one of the correspondents of the Christian Intelligencer for December, to a new sect founded by the late Baboo Joynarayun Ghosaul, formerly of Kidderpore, latterly of Benares, where he endowed a college. Their numbers are said to amount to about a hundred thousand. They are called Kurta Bohja, or worshippers of the Creator, and deny that Brahmins are gods, reject all idols, perform no shraddha or any ceremony connected with idol worship. Their creed is, that there is but one God, and that to think of him constitutes worship; that this was the way the Vendants had pointed out. They are blamed by their neighbours for being slothful and neglecting their families; they never cut their hair, shave their beards nor pare their nails; and they are abhorred and persecuted by the

orthodox Hindus.

THE LATE MR. JOHN PALMER.-A caste of the late Mr. John Palmer's features has been taken by Mr. R. S. Thomson, so skilfully as to preserve with the most perfect accuracy the expression of the features-the expression is indeed mournful in one respect, as that of one calmly reclining in death, but still, even in death, retaining that placid serenity of countenance which deserted not the living in the period of his misfortunes and the evening of his days.

BENGAL, &c.

DELHI. The late Shumshoodeen's estates and other

property, are to be sold by public auction. The Putteahlah and Khitul Rajahs, are expected to be the principal purchasers. The Rajah of Ulwar offered six lakhs for the sporting establishment, but Government refused the sum tendered.

The Kurta Bhoja Sect, however, was not instituted by Joynaraun Ghosal; the real founder of the Sect Mr. Goulding, of the Customs' department, received appears to be Ramchurn Ghose, a Sudgopa of Ghos- a severe wound in the head in his attempt to secure smugpara, on the opposite side of the river near Hooghly. gled property. Two of the offenders were captured. He instituted the Sect about forty or fifty years ago, and his son still enjoys the distinction which at first The King of Delhi's Darrogah has been killed by a belonged to his father as head of the Kurta Bhojas. fall from his horse.

MILITARY ITEMS.-Captain F. W. Birch, of the 41st N. I., has been appointed Superintendent of Police, in succession to Capt. Steel, who is about to proceed to England on account of his health.

A severe shock of earthquake was felt at Delhi on the 20th December, between the hours of ten and eleven. The effects were clearly perceptible and felt to an alarming degree by the inhabitants in the western precincts

of the town.

Captain Higginson has been appointed to the charge of the Mysore Princes in succession to Major Honey-The eldest son of the King having been nominated heir Much disorder has prevailed in the King's Palace. wood, who is about to proceed to England.

H. M.'s 38th embarked on the 3d Jan., from Chinsurah on steamers. It was transhipped at Calcutta into other boats and proceed to Saugor. Private Halloway, about whom there is a question pending in the Supreme Court, was made over to the charge of the Brigade Major, King's troops, Fort William.

sequence, created the dissensions supported by the Court apparent, Mirza Saleem, the younger son, in conadherents. Sooja-ool Mulk, who arrived from Mecca on the 17th November last, has been married to the daughter of Walleeauhud. The King presented him with many valuable presents on the consummation of the nuptials, which so enraged Mirza Saleem, that he absented himself from Court for three days, at the expiration of which time His Majesty sent for him and ordered him to offer the customary presents to his nephew, which command he reluctantly complied with. His Majesty is completely ruled by Mirza Saleem's party, who recently made him insult Walleeauhud, by refusing a title, which he had promised to grant to his son-in-law Sujao-ool-Mulk.

Ensign M. V. Abbot, of H. M.'s 13th, was tried at Cawnpore on the 4th December last, for associating and drinking with Sergeant W. Perrin, Private B. Levy and one James Hack, and has been dismissed the service. CALCUTTA TRADE ASSOCIATION.- --The Calcutta Trade Association have sent out a circular, recommending the members of that body to agree to a general arrangement by which all debts due or contracted before 1st May next, when the commercial new year commences, shall Numerous robberies have recently taken place be claimed in sicca rupees or an equivalent in Com-in Bindrabund, accompanied in four or five instances pany's rupees, and from and after that date all transac- with murder. Several of the offenders have been tions shall be done and payments received in Company's rupees. This recommendation has been adopted.

captured.

Mr. Ravenshaw, Assistant Collector of Customs, has made a considerable seizure in salt, which was concealed in wells near Bullunghur.

MRS. ATKINSON'S CONCERTS.-Mrs. Atkinson's first concert of sacred music on the 22nd January, was very numerously attended and the performance gave Rookin Oodowah, a Doctor in the service of the great satisfaction. Mrs. Atkinson was in very fine Queen of Delhi, has been requested by his royal mistress voice and her brilliant execution greatly surprized to proceed to Allahabad to arrange matters in her and delighted the Nepalese Envoy, who with his behalf in case of the King's demise; for which service, suite attended the Concert. The General has since sent if performed satisfactorily, he is to receive twenty-five Mrs. Atkinson by one of his sons forty gold-mohurs as thousand rupees.

The smuggling across the Jumna is said to be carried on to a very great extent in spite of the pre- The quantity of ice made during the past season alventive establishment, which is in a great measure ac-ready exceeds the amount made last year, being about counted for by the river, about twenty miles north of 6,000 maunds. Delhi, being in many places not more than knee deep. The sugar crop which nearly failed last year, is very scanty this season owing to being produced from bad seed. The grand trigonometrical establishment has commenced operations.

The Baza Baie, with a large retinue, reached this station on the morning of the 11th January. She had encamped in the Lopee Baug, and was to proceed in a few days to Benares.

A great number of huts were burnt down on the 13th January, and property to a considerable amount des

AGRA.-The Custom Houses of Barielly, Furruckabad, Cawnpore, Allahabad, Mirzapore, Benares and troyed." Delhi, are to be forthwith abolished. This measure is stated to arise out of an excess of treasure over expen-killed four natives at this station. diture to the amount of sixty lakhs which is now in the Government coffers.

CHUNAR. A tiger recently strayed from the hills and

FURRUCKABAD.-Orders have been received for the Orders have been received from the Political Secre-abolition of the Custom House in this place. The town duties only remain. tary of the Agra Government by the Magistrate of Agra, to make over Hookum Chund and Fyttey Lall to Major Alves, whenever he may demand the delivery of them to the Jeypore Durbar. On the 8th January, accordingly, Sunghee Hookum Chund and Futtey Lall, left Agra under the escort of twenty troops of sepoys, commanded by Capt. Lloyd, 36th N. I. on their way to Rajgurh in Alwar, in order to their being tried by the Jeypore State, as accomplices in the murder of Mr. Blake, &c. on the 4th June last at Jeypore.

JYUD KERAMUT ALLY.-Syud Keramut Ally, the lively expressed himself much pleased. The Maharaja has and intelligent companion of Conolly's journey overland forwarded a communication to Maun Singh of Cashfrom Tehran to India, has been appointed to a Judicial mere, requesting him either to resign the Agency of office, under the Superintendent of Ajmere, correspond- that country or pay an annual sum of twenty-seven ing to the Sudder Ameenship of the Provinces.

CUSTOM CHOWKEES.--Mr. S. Bowring, the Deputy Governor at Humeerpore, who has been appointed to arrange the new line of Customs Chowkees from Etawah to Allahabad, has taken advantage of the patronage which this affords to give service to some of the students of the Agra College.

HINDU RAO.—It is stated that Hindu Rao has recently received from the Gwalior Government one lakh and twenty thousand rupees-his pension for one year.

FUTTEHPOOR SEKUREE.-Intermittent fever is raging to an awful degree among the inhabitants of this place: within the last three months one thousand one hundred individuals are said to have fallen victims to the distemper, out of a population of about fifteen thousand.

CHANDERNAGORE.-It is stated that the venerable Governor of Chandernagore, Monsieur Cordier, is about to retire from the Government of that settlement.

lakhs.

GOOMSUR.-Intelligence has been received from Goomsur up to the 6th December. General Taylor had arrived in Camp on the 28th November. The Goomsur Rajah had given orders to all the villagers to abandon their houses and take to the jungle on pain of his displeasure. The greater part of them had obeygrain will be carried into the jungle also until some ed, but some remained to collect the harvest, though the settlement of the country is made. Several prisoners have been captured, and a great many of the enemy have been put hors de combat and are so scarred that they are seldom to be fallen in with. The total loss on our part is twenty men killed and wounded; but the fever has made fearful havoc among the men, and some of the officers have been obliged to quit effects.

camp from its

Mr. Russel arrived at Goomsur on the 11th January, and has been diligently employed ever since; but matters were somewhat suspended as it was reported An attempt was recently made to smuggle salt from the Rajah was dead. The Louisa arrived at Goomsur Chandernagore. The farmer, or some purchaser from with reinforcements on the 4th January, and two six him, prepared a despatch of 4,000 maunds to be convey-pounders from Vizagapatam had arrived in camp. ed in the night by water to Hooghly. This was intimated to the Magistrate, and that functionary prepared a body of burkendauzes to pounce upon the party. The smugglers were apprized of this in time, and reconveyed the salt to their depôt. The salt has been put under arrest and a question, on which there are very opposite opinions, has arisen-whether salt once exported ought not to be considered as an interloper on its return, and excluded from the privilege of the farm.

The salt farmer is said to have still on hand eleven thousand maunds of last season's salt, which will be enough to supply the denizens of Chandernagore for the next four years at least.

NATIVE STATES.

BHURTPORE.—The Rajah has returned from Deig whither he had gone to espouse another wife, the first proving unfruitful.

A Christian merchant of Cawnpore recently imported into this state a small investment consisting chiefly of shades, looking-glasses, &c. &c. of which the Rajah alone purchased ten thousand rupees' worth.

UMRITSUR.-The Sheik Rajah, in the hope of encouraging the Shawl manufactory of this town, has quadrupled the import duties on Cashmere and Ludak wools by foreigners.

JULLALABAD.-Dost Mahomed has moved a consi

derable force, commanded by his second son, on this town with a view to invade the Sheik territories on the expected demise of Runjeet Singh. He has also directed his eldest son to collect and organize new troops with all possible speed and to join his brother.

LAHORE.-Cholera is making fearful havoc among the people in Lahore, about a hundred individuals daily falling victims to this baneful pestilence. The richer class of inhabitants have fled across the Hydraotes to escape the plague.

ELEECHPOOR.-Among the sepoys employed to coerce the people of the state, some professors of thuggee have been detected practising their atrocious trade. They have been made over to Captain Sleeman to be dealt with according to law.

CABUL. By the last accounts received from Cabul it appears that Dost Mahomed's sons were both encamped near Jullalabad, within a march of each other, awaiting instructions to attack Peshawur, and that they had been joined by numbers of the Mulkeeah Putans,

and several other Mahomedan Chiefs. Dost Mahomed Khan had left Cabul to join his sons. He has been fotunate enough to recover jewels to the amount of several lakhs of rupees from banditti, who were afraid to dsipose of them in the market, and has appropriated the money accruing from the sale of them to the expenses of the expedition against Peshawur. The Khan has dismissed the greatest part of the Affghan soldiery in his employ and has substituted the Kuzzal Bash for them, who now constitute the main force of his army. Twenty thousand of these soldiers had been sent to Jullalabad, ten thousand of whom had succeeded in surprising the Nazim of Peshawur (who was on his way to invest Bysool, which place had been taken by the Khan's troops) at the gates of Peshawur and forced him to retire into it with the loss of many of his followers.

Nawab Abdoolah Khan has been released from his

prison in Cabul by Dost Mahomed, on paying the sum of two lakhs of rupees.

GWALIOR. It is stated that Hurree Holkur has deputed his vakeel, Gunput Rao, to Calcutta, with a thousand followers, for the purpose of petitioning the Supreme Government.

PESHAWUR.-Upwards of one hundred desperate characters have been apprehended at Peshawur and hanged immediately on the adjacent trees, by order of the Hakeem, as a warning to the others engaged in nefarious practices.

The latest accounts from Lahore state that Runjeet Singh was again very ill, and that Kunwar Shere Singh had arrived from Cashmere in expectation of his father's The Burruckzuee zemindars of Mozufferbad, revolted death, when, it is generally believed, he will contest his from the authority of the Nizam of the province, and brothers' title to the throne. refused to pay the stipulated revenue, vowing vengeance Maharaja Runjeet Singh has so for recovered, as to be on the Sheiks, whom they murdered whenever opporenabled to inspect his Cavalry with whose efficiency he tunity oceurred. The Nizam being greatly troubled

THE MUNRO STATUE.---The Committee of Management of the Munro Statue at Mradras, have written to the Home Committee expressive of their surprise at Mr. Chantry's delay in executing the statue.

THE ARCHDEACONRY.-The Bishop has appointed the Rev. Henry Harper to the Archdeaconry of Madras, vacated by the resignation of Archdeacon Robinson, who has embarked for England.

by the proceedings of the Burruckzuees, issued orders to Sirdar Ittur Sing to coerce them. The Sirdar accordingly proceeded against the hordes of the Puttans with ten thousand troops and a few guns, and invested the village of Tippera, where these marauders had taken up their station. An engagement commenced between the Sirdars's troops and the Putans, by the former opening a fire from their cannons on the latter; but the contest soon became a hand-to-hand combat with swords, in which the Sheiks ultimately triumphed, leaving upwards of two hundred of their adversaries defunct on the field-nuary, intimates that sealing-wax, as good as the best the remainder having fled to the mountains for refuge. About eighty Puttan robbers were also subsequently captured, out of a gang which attempted to rob the Sheik's cantonments, and shot to death.

CASHMERE.-Mr. Vigne, by the last accounts, had

re-entered the valley of Cashmere where he intends to

remain some time, adding to the treasures of his valuable portfolio.

JEYPORE.-The Jeypore Ranee has expressed her distrust to the Rawul at the recent proceedings at Joudpore, and advised that a messenger should be dispatched there, in order to obtain an authenticated account of them.

SHEKAWATTEE.

GUNTOOR SEALING-WAX.-The Madres Times of 9th Ja

Dutch or English kinds, is manufactured in Guntoor, and sold at from eight annas to one rupee per pound.

SIR JOHN GORE.-His Majesty the King has sent to Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore, the insignia of military order of the Guelph, as a proof of the regard His Majestv entertains for him, accompanied by an autograph note of condolence on the loss of his son. The Lords of the Admiralty, also, have been pleased to signify their approval of Sir John's proceedings in the duties of his late command in the East Indies.

PORTO NOVO IRON WORKS.-The Porto Novo Iron Works are proceeding with much activity. Some of the articles manufactured at the Works are said to be equal to any produced in England.

Lieutenant-Colonel Alves, it is said, is now perfectly BANGALORE COURT-MARTIAL.The court martial which satisfied that Jotaram was the instigator of the recent tragical events in Jeypore; but the natives generally has been sitting at Bangalore on Soobroyah, late a wribelieve that Luchmun Sing, the Rawul's son, is theter in the Commissariat Department, has been dissolved, the number of members sick having reduced the court guilty party. below the legal number; and another court-martial has -It is stated that the troops are to be been ordered, of which Col. L. Wahab of the 52d Reremoved from Shekawattee immediately, and that thegiment, is to be President, and Lieutenant-Colonel two forts will be restored to the Ranee of Seekur. It is Alves one of the members. also reported that Captain Forbes, of Shekawattee Kuzzaks, now at Jhoonjnoo, will be retained on the present footing, to insure the peace of the country after the Company's troops have quitted it.

MADRAS.

BOMBAY.

SLAVE DEALING.-His M.'s brig Thetis, has brought sixty-five slaves from Porebunder, to which port the unfortunate people were conveyed in an Arab vessel SUPERSTITION.-Some of the Thodurs of the Blue from Maculla, from which place they were exported in consequence of a famine. The speculation, however, Mountains have been recently tried at Coimbatore, for failed; for the Rana of Porebunder being under stipulahaving massacred fifty or sixty of the Koormar caste,tions, similar to those entered into with the Imaum of about a year ago, on a pretence of their having caused Muscat, to put a stop to slave dealing, gave up the mortality among the buffaloes.

ANOTHER CONSCIENTIOUS RESTITUTION.-Another con

a

above mentioned individuals to the British authorities. THE HUGH LINDSAY.-The following intelligence resscientious restitution of ten thousand rupees, has been pecting of Hugh Lindsay appears in the Bombay Gaanonymously made to Government. zette of the 6th January.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--The John William Dare, which had for a long time been conceived a missing ship, returned to Madras from Moulmein on the 2nd

January.

By the brig Two Brothers from Maculla the 1st December, which arrived here on the 3rd Jan. we learn that the Hugh Lindsay, had reached the parellel of that port in nine days and two hours from the time of ARCHDEACON ROBISON.-There was a meeting of sub- leaving Bombay, thus performing, it is said, the best scribers for the tribute to the venarable Archdeacon voyage she had ever made. As it was late when they Robinson on the 30th December. The Provisional Com-neared the land, they did not anchor until the following mittee reported that the subscriptions amounted to 3,300 morning. All the fuel was expected to be on board rupees, one-fourth of which was contributed by the Cler-by the evening of the 22d November, when they were to start for Judda, touching at Mocha. All the passengymen of the Archdeaconry. gers were well."

SIR ROBERT COмYN, Kт.-On the 31st December, before a special court convened for the purpose, the Hon'ble PIRACY.-A buttella, commanded by a native, which Sir Robert Comyn, Kt., was sworn into office as Chief left Bombay for Jumboosur on the 10th January, was atJudge of the Supreme Court at Madras, in succession tacked the same night at no great distance from the Light to the Hon'ble Sir Ralph Palmer, Kt., resigned. House by armed pirates, about ten in number. Some COLONEL HANSON, has returned to Madras from Aus- of the crew of the buttella threw themselves overboard, tralia, and resumed the office of Quarter-Master-General. but a few of them, including the merchant to whom the RESIDENT OF TRAVANCORE.-The supersession of Mr. greater part of the boat's cargo belonged, were wounded Casamaijor has been finally determined in favor of Col. by the pirates, who carried away the whole of the proJ. S. Fraser, who has been appointed Resident of Travan-perty on board, amounting in value to upwards of 1,000 rupees. The corsairs escaped with impunity and recore on the retirement of that gentleman. main undiscovered.

CHANGE OF EDITOR.-It is stated that the gentleman who sometime since edited the Madras Times, and recently ushered in the Standard of which paper he is still the editor, has assumed the editorial management of

the Conservative also!!

MALACCA.

MR. DE WIND'S ASSAILANTS.-Count Von Ranzow, his son and syce, were found guilty at the recent crimenal sessions, the first as principal and the two latter