and Mrs. Edwards, three children and servant; Mr. Palmer, Mr. H. von Ronn, Messrs. Sedgley, Taylor, Seldon, and Scott.

Per Duchess of Northumberland, to Bombay.-Lieut. Wallace, lady, and child; Lieut. and Mrs. Ducat, Lieut. and Mrs. Const, Miss Green, Dr. J. E. Stocks.

Per Sir Charles Napier, to Bombay.-Ens. G. P. Morrison, Stuart, and Barclay; H. M. Pengelley, W. R. Garnet, Mr. Parry, Mr. Jall.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

Sept. 22. At Lauriston, Kincardineshire, the lady of R. Lyall, Esq., daughter.

23. At Notting-hill, the lady of F. W. Medley, Esq., daughter.

At Greenwich, Mrs. G. Busk, daughter.

24. At Grosvenor-square, the Hon. Mrs. C. Stanley, daughter.

son.

At Leicester, the lady of Capt. J. D. Hallett, D.A. C. G., Bombay army,

26. At St. James's-place, the lady of W. Cripps, Esq., M. P., son.

27. At Maida Vale, the lady of J. Lamb, Esq., son.

Oct. 2. At Liverpool, the lady of H. C. Chapman, Esq., son.

3. At Hyde Park, the lady of Capt. W. S. Moorsom, daughter. At Louth Hall, Lady Louth, daughter.

At Montreal, Seven Oaks, Viscountess Holmesdale, son.

5. At East Brent, the Hon. Mrs. Wm. Towry Law, daughter.

7. At Glevering, the Lady Huntingfield, daughter.

8. At Clifton-place, the lady of Frederick Trower, Esq., daughter.

9. At Bowdell, Sussex, the lady of Capt. Chester, 90th light infantry, daughter.

12. At Portland-place, the Countess of March, daughter.

14. At Chatham, the lady of George Bridge, Esq., capt. 3rd buffs, son.

21. At Brighton, the lady of Allan Maclean Skinner, daughter.

22. At Feltham Hill, Middlesex, the lady of Wm. Sheffield, Esq., late

Madras civil service, son.

24 At Hatton, Lady Pollock, son.

Lately, at Glenburnie, Moville, the lady of G. Gough, Esq., Bengal civil service, daughter.

MARRIAGES.

Oct. 2. At Marylebone, W. Brodie, Esq., Bart., to Maria, daughter of Capt. the Hon. William Waldegrave, R. N.C. B.

At Broadwater, C. Lushington, Esq., to Julia, widow of late T. Teed, Esq., of the Hurst-house, Moulsey.

At Inverernan House, Aberdeenshire, Capt. G. F. Stevenson, Col. 18th Royal Irish, to Charles, daughter of late George Forbes, D.D., of Blelack. 3. At Pinner, the Rev. C. A. Fowler, M. A., to Emily Matilda, daughter of Sir W. Milman, Bart., of Pinner-grove.

8. At Edinburgh, W. E. Shearman, 91st Argyleshire Reg., to Agnes Crawford, daughter of the Hon. James Wilson, chief judge of the Mauritius.

10. At Wichnor-park, Hugh Montgomery Campbell, Esq., Royal Scots Greys, to Isabella Matilda, daughter of the Hon. Robert Kennedy, and niece of the Marquess of Ailsa.

At Taunton, Isaac Bicknell, Esq., of the Hon. East-India Veterinary Service, Bengal, to Helen, eldest daughter of Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton. 14. At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Hon. Frederick Paul Methuen, to Anna Horatio Caroline, daughter of the Rev. John Sandford.

Oct. 22. At Leominster, N. T. Coote, Esq., H. M.'s 22nd Reg., to Rhoda Carleton, daughter of William Holmes, Esq., of Brookfield.

23. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Capt. the Hon. Robert Edward Boyle, Coldstream Guards, son of the Earl of Cork and Orrery, to Georgina, daughter of A. W. Robarts, Esq., of Hill-street, Berkeley-square.

Lately, at Clifton, Capt. William Ashmead Tate, E.I.C.'s Bombay Engineers, to Miss Isabella Prideaux, of Clevedon.

At Carrickfergus, Capt. Warner, of E.I.C.'s service, to Margaret Urquhart, daughter of John Bowie, Esq.

G. Forbes, Esq., 5th Light Dragoons, son of Col. Forbes, to Eliza Joanna, daughter of R. Kelly, Esq., of Cleveland Row and of New Ross.

At St. James's Church West, T. G. Alder, Esq., Lieut.-col. Bengal army, to Mary Ann, relict of late James Watts, Esq., Aberdeen.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, William Jenkins, Esq., H.M.'s Dockyard, Woolwich, to Louisa Sophia, daughter of late Hon. Sir William Oldnall, Russell, Chief Justice of Bengal.

At Edinburgh, Francis Newcombe Maltby, Esq., Madras civil service, to Mary Howard, daughter of the late Lieut. Col. James Michael, II. E. I.C.'s service.

24. At Sutton Veney, Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Bengal artillery, to Fanny, daughter of Rev. William D. Thring, D. D., rector of Sutton Veney.

At Paddington, the Rev. Charles Edward Gray, M. A. Brasenose College, Oxford, to Adeline Geraldine, daughter of Sir Herbert Compton, of Hyde-park Gardens.

26. At St. Pancras Church, Septimus Vander Wyden Hart, captain 2nd grenadier regiment Bombay N.I., son of the late Charles Hart, Esq., of Kensington-gore, to Catherine, eldest daughter of Thomas Joshua Platt, Esq., one of her Majesty's counsel.

DEATHS.

July 2. At sea, near the Cape of Good Hope, Mrs. Louisa Mary Duce, widow of late Mr. John Duce, H. E. I. C.'s Bengal marine.

Sept. 19. At Goderich, Upper Canada, Henry Hyndman, Esq., Sheriff of the Huron District, son of late Col. H. Hyndman, H. E.I.C.'s service.

20. On board the Buteshire, near St. Helena, Lieut. Hastings D'Oyly Baillie, Bengal artillery, son of G. Baillie, Esq., late Bengal medical establishment. 21. At Madeira, Lieut. James Gordon Caulfield, son of Major-gen. Caulfield. 26. At Lambeth, Elizabeth, wife of J. Pittar, Esq.

Oct. 1. At Naples, Ellen, daughter of late Capt. A. N. M'Donald, Bengal army.

2. At Southborough, Eliza, widow of the late Major Gavin Young, judge advocate general of the Bengal army.

At Bedale Hall, Adm. Sir John Poo Beresford, Bart.

4. Lieut. John Lewis, 48th M.N.I., son of late Rear Adm. Lewis.

At Leamington, Capt. William Manning, H.C.'s service, of Euston

At Ormeau, the Marquess of Donegal.

At Tonbridge-street, New-road, Mr. William Huttmann, the Chinese and Oriental scholar.

6. At Dublin, Lady Heytesbury.

7. At Upminster Hall, Essex, C. E. Branfell, Esq., late capt. 3rd King's Own dragoons.

9. At the Isle of Man, Michael Spencer, Esq., formerly capt. H. M.'s 39th regiment.

Oct. 10. At his house in Finsbury-circus, in his 76th year, the Rev. Josiah Pratt, B.D., vicar of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street, and formerly for many years secretary to the Church Missionary Society.

12. At Blenheim, the Duchess of Marlborough.

13. At Pentonville, Mrs. Sarah Thornton, aged 85.

At Paris, Dr. Wyse, son of late James Wyse, Esq., surgeon Madras establishment.

14. At Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Col. Sir S. G. Higgins, K.C.H.
equerry to H. R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester.

16. At East Brent, Somersetshire, the Hon. Mrs. William Towry Law.
22. At Ashley House, near Tiverton, Elizabeth Susanna, widow of late
Joseph James, esq.,H.E.I.C.'s service.

A Mail will be made up in London, for India, vid Southampton, at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd, and viá Marseilles on the evening of the 7th November, if not postponed.

SHIPS DESTINED FOR INDIA, &c., AND THEIR PRO-
BABLE TIME OF SAILING.

FOR BENGAL.

HISTO

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL REVIEW.

NO. XIV.

EACH successive mail has now for some months brought the agreeable intelligence that the affairs of British India are quietly settling down into their former state of tranquillity. Domestic incidents, matters of purely home interest, are now inviting the attention which has been almost absorbed in the excitement of foreign politics, and wars present or prospective. The real or supposed enemies of the British Government in India are at present too much occupied with their own troubles to menace their powerful neighbour, whose most prudent policy it is, to be, as far as consistent with its own safety, a neutral spectator.

Every account leads us to believe that the Punjab is threatened with a civil war. Preparations have been made, and continue to be making, by Heera Sing at Lahore, and by Goolab Sing at Jumboo, for a conflict of some kind. The general opinion is, that they are competitors, not merely for the direction of affairs, but for the sovereignty of the Sikh state. It would, nevertheless, be consistent with probability, and with the former relations of the nephew and the uncle, to suppose that their preparations have a joint, not a separate, object in view. It is, therefore, highly expedient that a sufficient British force should be ready to meet any sudden demand in that quarter. The reported journey of the GovernorGeneral to the Sutlej, to confer with the Commander-in-Chief, may have a connection with this subject. If it be true, as rumoured, that Rajah Goolab Sing has collected a force of 80,000 men, with 100 guns, the risk of neglecting preparation is serious. On the other hand, the young Rajah Sahib is represented to be enlisting troops, casting cannon, storing ammunition, and strengthening fortresses. These precautions may be merely defensive, or have no other aim than to crush his competitor; but, after all, he may be acting his part in a deep-laid scheme for the overthrow of a power, during the existence of which his own authority must be somewhat precarious, if it should ever exceed the just limitations of his present office.

The Indian journals, however, suspect no insincerity in these two rivals, but regard their meditated conflict as the prelude to an intestine war, that will invite foreign interference. The October summary of the Bombay Times, upon this head, says :

:

Fresh disturbances have broken out in the Punjab-new tumults have arisen-the nephew seeks the destruction of his uncle--and the Asiat.Journ.N.S.VOL. IV.No.20.

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