The temple of Jaggennath itself is sufficiently strong to resist the unskilful assaults of a myriad of irregular horse, and the regular troops stationed there would, we trust, be quite sufficient for the protection of the town, large and straggling as it is. Previously to the approach of the enemy, only five companies of the 24 battalion 18th regt. native infantry, were posted there; but as soon as the news of their appearance reached Cuttak, the remainder of the battalion with a brigade of guns, marched to reinforce them. The nature of the mountainous and woody districts which divide Orissa from Berar, and the centrical provinces of the Dakhin, is too little known to admit of our hazarding a conjecture, respecting the probable outlet by which these villains will endeavour to make good their return to their own country. We nevertheless trust, that some of the detachments which would be immediately sent in search of them, will have been lucky enough to intercept their retreat, and that they will not by undue lenity lose the opportunity of striking terror into the minds of men utterly cruel and merciless. The exact route by which this body descended the ghauts is yet unknown; and their undertaking appears astonishing to all who are aware of the rugged and barren nature of the Circars.-(Calcutta Gaz.)

REVENUE APPOINTMENT.

Nov. 28.-Mr. E. Uhtoff, Second Assistant to the Collector and Magistrate of Trichinopoly.

JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS. Mr. E. H. Woodcock, Register of the Zilla of Salem.

Mr. I. Haig, Register of the Zilla Tinnevall.

BIRTHS.

Aug. 21. At Madras, the lady of G. 1. Hadow, Bsq. of a daughter.

Sept. 7. At Madras, the lady of C. Roberts, Esq. of a daughter.

8.

At Madras, the lady of Lieut. W. O'Reilly, of a daughter. 30, At Madras, the lady of Major Lindsay, of the 22d N. I, of a daughter.

Oct. 9. At Jaypoor Kouthy, the lady of Capt. W. P. Blacke, of H. H. the Nizam's N. I. in Berar of a son.

25. At the Residency Hyderabad, the lady of Lieut. Charles St. John Grant, of the Resident's Escort, of a son and heir.

28. At Madras, the lady of Capt. C. C. Johnston, 1 of a son.

15. At Trichinopoly, the lady of Charles May Lushington, Esq. Collector of Trichinopoly, of a daughter.

24. At St. Thomas's Mount, the lady of Lieut, Col. Freese, of a son.

Nov. 14. Lady of M. Jones, Esq. Paymaster

H. M. 30 regt. of a son,

3. Lady of Lieut. T. Malton, 22d regt. of a daughter.

20. Lady of S. Nicholls, Esq. of a daughter. 24. At the Presidency, the lady of J. H. D. Ogilvie, Esq. H. C.'s Civil Service, of a son.

5. At Verdhachillum, the lady of Brooke Cunliffe, Esq. of a daughter.

6.

At Kurnool, the lady of Lieut. G. Stott, 9th regt. N. I. of a son.

Asiatic Journ.-No. 18.

MARRIAGES.

Nov. 18. Rev. Ed, Vaughan, A. M. Senior Chaplain, to Mrs. Colebrooke, widow of the late Lieut -Col. Colebrooke, C, B.

13. At Hydrabad, H. Russell, Esq. to Miss M. C. Mottet...

2.

At Madras, Lieut. Geo. Milsom, 1st. batt. 19th N. 1. to Miss Mary Boswell Parkinson, dangli-' ter of the late Boswell Parkinson, Esq. and grand daughter to Col. J. G. Hill, late of that establishment.

Oct. 30. At the same place, J. Beaumont, Esq. to Genevieve, eldest daughter of W. Rutter, Esq.

Sept. 12. J. Stephenson, Esq. H. M. 22d Light
Dragoons, to Miss Jane Maggs.
DEATHS.

Nov. 6. At Waltair, at the house of his fatherin-law Sir J. Chalmers, K. C. B., P. De Gre nier, Esq. eldest son of the late Chevalier De Grenier De-Fouclare.

28. Mrs. S. Ross, wife of Mr. D. Ross. Oct. 18. At Madras, Mrs. Martha Stephenson, wife of Lieut. and Adj. Stephenson, 36th regt. 7. At Samulcottah, the lady of Ensign Francis Haleman, 1st batt. 4th regt. N. I.

Aug. 11. At Madras, Lieut. G. M, Ellis, H. M 34th foot.

BOMBAY.

We learn, by letters from Cutch, that the contagious disease, which has for some time prevailed in that part of the country has somewhat abated. At a village called Moorbee, the daily deaths are now reduced in number, from twenty-five and thirty to five and seven, and at Butchao a similar favourable turn has been experienced. We regret to learn, however, that the fever at the date of our correspondent's letter, was dreadfully de structive in the fort of Rhadunpoor and in some towns in Sind.

The disease is stated to have made its appearance first at Kundacote, in the month of May of last year, and to have traversed from one part of the country to the other, very distinctly, leaving sad marks of its ravages throughout the whole of its progress. At a village called Adowee, it carried off five hundred and eighty persons in the months of January, February, and March last. Two months. after its effects had ceased in Wagur, it suddenly appeared in Moorbee, where it has raged ever since, and, according to the best accounts has destroyed sixteen or seventeen hundred people. In August it shewed itself, and still continues to exist in Butchao and extended to the village of Cherce, on the borders of our newly acquired districts in Cutch, where it seems to have been checked in a manner equally unaccountable as it originated.

The disease is attended by slight fever,. with swellings in the glands of the, groin or armpits, which, in the event of nonsuppuration, produce death in general on the fourth day. One instance occurred at Moorbee, of a woman recovering after the swellings had been formed nineteen days, and was the only case of a recovery without suppuration, The disease appears to be confined to the limits of the towns, where it has broken out, without VOL. III. 4 M

extending to the suburbs, and has never yet made its appearance in the towns on the sea coast; its ravages being entirely confined to the interior.

The Bombay papers mention that the fever has spread with dreadful effect to the western side of the Peninsula: in one district of Guzarat the deaths are said to have exceeded twenty-five daily; it was deemed contagious, and its progress was so alarming, that the Bombay Government judged it necessary to take precautionary measures, to intercept its transmission along the coast. The cold season was expected to produce a mitigation of its rage.

The clergy on this establishment have presented terms for the adoption of the army, upon which they would wish to be admitted subscribers to the Bombay Military Fund.

"We have been informed by a correspondent in the Dakhan, that the Pindaris continued hovering about Col. Walker's camp on the Nerbudda, and succeeded in surprising two officers who were hunting within three miles of the force. We are sorry to learn that after stripping and plundering one of them, they deliberately put him to death. We refrain from mentioning the officer's name, in the anxious hope that the report may prove unfounded." We regret, however, to state that our inquiries induce us to fear that the above report is correct; we have seen a letter mentioning the circumstance, and we have also been informed that a party of four or five Sepoys had been cut off and murdered by these robbers. This is probably a varied account of the murder of Lieut. Bolton.

The Bombay Courier, of the 4th January, has been received, containing Major Lushington's account, to the Resident at Poonah, Mr. Elphinstone, of his successful and persevering pursuit of the Pindaris, on the 25th and 26th of December. The Major conducted the expedition with skill and address. Only one British officer was killed Captain Darke, of the 4th regiment of Light Cavalry: no officers were wounded.

The Bombay Courier says, that the communication between Seroor and Poonah, and the latter place and Panwell, had for a fortnight been unsafe without a guard. "Numerous Mahratta families have within these few days sought for refuge in the islands of Caranja and Salsette. The principal object of the Pindaris in entering the Concan, was to seize a large quantity of kincob (silks) which was exported from Bombay to Chowal for the interior. This they succeeded in. It is their intention to sweep the coast as far as Surat."-(Bombay Courier, January A.)

Sept. 7.-On Monday last the court of Oyer and Terminer for the town and island of Bombay, met pursuant to adjournment, when, after hearing the Advocate-General in answer to the motion for arrest of judgment, and the defendant's counsel, in reply the Hon. the Recorder decided against the law points, and passed sentence of a fine of 4000 rupees on the defendant Punyakhoty Moodeliar, in addition to the sentence passed on his former conviction.

The Bishop of Calcutta was expected to visit Cananore on his return to Calcutta.

The Bombay Courier, 13th. December, returns an answer to a correspondent on a subject of much interest, The Postage of India Letters.

The latest act, that the legislature has passed regulating the postage of letters between the United Kingdom and the East Indies is, we believe, the 55 Geo. 3. cap. 153.

This statute imposes a duty on all letters forwarded, by vessels employed as packets by the Post-master General, or sent in Mails by His Majesty's ships of war or store ships, or by the Hon'ble Company's Ships or private Traders, at the discretion of the Post-master General with the consent of the Lords of the Admiralty, to and from the United Kingdom and the East Indies of 3s. 6d. for a single letter; 7s. for a double letter; 10s. 6d. for a treble letter; 14s. for an ounce, and so on in proportion. -And on letters conveyed in like manner between the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius aud any part of the continenof Asia, and all intermediate places, of 1s. 9d. for a single letter, and so in proportion for a double, &c.

Packets of Newspapers, Price currents and all printed papers subject to stamp duty, and duly stamped, may be forwarded under a cover open at the ends at the rate of 3d. per ounce.

Seamen and soldiers employed in the service of His Majesty, or the Company in the East Indies, are allowed to send and receive letters at the rate of 1d, a letter.

On letters forwarded to India by vessels not employed as packets, is laid a sea postage of 1s. 2d. for each single letter, and on letters forwarded from India in like manner, a sea postage of 8d. for each single letter, and so in proportion for double, &c. Owners, charterers and consignees of vessels, are allowed to send and receive, by their own ships, letters free of postage as far as 20 ounces, and shippers and consignees of goods as far as 6 ounces.

The act directs that the postage imposed by it, on letters sent from any port in Great Britain to any port in India, shall

be received by the deputies of the Postmaster General on the delivery in India, but the postage on letters forwarded from India to Great Britain, may be received, on their delivery in the United Kingdom or in India on forwarding the same, at the option of the party sending them.

The foregoing statement is the best answer we are able to give to our correspondent's A. B's. first query; with respect to his second query, as the act alluded to expressly directs that the packet or sea postage of letters sent to India, be received on delivery in India by his Majesty's Deputy Post-masters General there, we conceive that they are fully warranted in levying the rate of postage even if the English post marks should indicate that the postage had been previously paid in England; the levying of the packet or sea postage rates in England, on letters forwarded to India is contrary to the provisions of the act and we believe the postmasters at home could not legally exact or receive them; but we cannot point out to our correspondent how he is to obtain redress, as the act in question imposes no penalties, except on persons who shall violate the statute, by sending or conveying letters, otherwise than through the medium of the post office or by the authority of his Majesty's Post-master General,

The duties or rates of postage to be levied by this act, are in addition to the inland postage in the United Kingdom. Letters destined for India and sent from the country, are subject to the old inland postage for conveying them from the place whence the letters are sent to London, or to the port in which the packet is made up; and this inland postage, we believe, must be paid in the United Kingdom at the time of giving in the letter at the post office in the country.

This article about postage is nearly right, but in the seventh paragraph what is said about the optional payment of postage in India on letters to England should be understood as applying only to the Packet not the Ship letters.

With respect to the eighth paragraph, nothing is chargeable in India for British postage, except what is marked here on the letters.

The last paragraph is wrong. The inland postage on letters from hence to India is not paid at putting in.

Dec. 5.-The Rajpore subsidiary force has drawn a little Pindari blood on the 4th ult. Intimation was given to Captain Walker of an immense body of the marauders having forded the river near Hindia, and proceeded southward in the direction of Boorhanpoor. He immediately marched after them, and before day-light on the morrow had gone thirty-five miles,

when he learned that the invaders had suddenly turned back; the British force was immediately countermarched, and on reaching Hinda found that the main body of the enemy had that morning recrossed to the north bank of the river. Continuing their march, they came upon a small Pindari detachment, encamped in a jungle. Unfortunately from the lateness and darkness of the evening, and from their being speedily recognised, no part of the force came into play, excepting a detachment of Madras cavalry, which dashed in, and killed fifteen men; the rest escaped. A body of 5,000, others say 10,000 of these marauders, are stated to be still prowling near the banks of the Nerbudda. Some anxiety was manifested for the arrival of the Bengal relieving division. Guzarat and Candeish are in great alarm.

The Bombay Courier of the 28th September, notices the discontinuation of the King's Naval establishment at that port, with the exception of the master shipwright, who is to remain to superintend the construction of the ships ordered to be built.

The Commissioner J. Johnstone, Esq. has been appointed by the Lords of the Admiralty Naval Commissioner at Trincomalee.

The erection of a monument is commenced at St.Thomas's Church, Bombay, raised by subscription from the British and naval inhabitants of that place, in commemoration of the late Captain Hardinge, who fell in action between H. M. ship St. Fiorenzo and the French national frigate La Piedmontaise.

General Orders. 22d. Nov. 1816.-The Governor in Council is pleased to appoint Lieut. M. Blackall' of 6th Regt. N. I. to be Mahratta linguist to the 2d batt. of that Regt.

Captain W. Sandwith, Europ. Regt. to succeed Maj. Hodgson as Assist.-Commis

at Surat.

27.Brevet Capt. D. H. Bellasis to be Deputy-Adj. Gen. with the official rank of Major.

Lieut. S. Halifax H. C. Europ. Regt. to be Maj. of Brig.

Capt. Anderson, 9th Regt. N. I. to be Paymaster in the South Division of Guzarat.

Lieut. Stevenson is to return to his former situation in Batt. Art. Maj. Hodgson, Commiss. of store having arrived at the Presidency.

SURGEONS.-Senior Assist. Surg. Marmaduke Hewitt, to be surgeon. Rank 7th Dec.

Assist.-Surg. Llewellyn is appointed to the Medical duties of H. C. cruizer Prince of Wales.

house were brilliantly illuminated; one side of it being decorated by the Dutch

arms.

The Java subscription for the Waterloo Fund, in behalf of the families of the brave men killed, and for the wounded sufferers in the army of the Netherlands, during that glorious and memorable campaign, amounted on the 27th of January 1816, to the sum of eighty-three thousand gilders, solely subscribed by the Dutch inhabitants of Java.

Thus far the congratulations of the Netherlanders. We have received later accounts from Java, which have also a stronger semblance of authenticity with regard to the cordiality of the native Javanese to the return of Dutch rule and authority. The most deplorable gloom is stated to pervade all ranks; the prince and the subject alike tremble at the idea of a relapse into the former state of servility, poverty and oppression. With regard to ourselves, the information produced by Mr. Raffles has so interested us in the fate of this fertile island, that we sympathise in the blighted hopes of the princes and natives of Java who expected with ourselves the most happy and lasting results, from the wisdom, justice, and energy of British governors.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. HOME LIST.

BIRTHS.

May 1. At Brighton, the lady of Gen. Sir David
Baird, Bart, G. C. B. of a still born child.
5. Lady of Capt. Grayham, of the H. C.'s ship
William Pitt, of a son.

On Sunday, May 18, in Surry Square, the lady of
H. Hutchinson, Esq. 2d officer of H. C. ship
General Kyd, of a son.

MARRIAGES.

May 6. At St. George's Hanover Square, the Rev. Spencer Rodney Drummond, Rector of Swarraton, Hants, to Caroline, only daughter of M. Montague, Esq. of Little Bookham in Surry, and niece to the late Earl of Euckinghamshire. 7. W. Blathwayt, Esq. of Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire, to F. Margaret, eldest daughter of J. Taylor, Esq, of Calcutta.

5. J. Thornhill, Esq. to Henrietta Phillipine, eldest daughter of Col. Beaufoy, of Bushey Heath.

DEATHS.

J. S. Burford, Esq. aged 67, formerly in the service of the H. E. I. C. for upwards of 30 years, leaving a widow and eight children,

At his house, York Place, Baker Street, aged 73, W. Lewis, Esq, formerly of the Civil Service, and Member of Council at Bombay.

At West Hall, Mortlake, Surry, in the 65th year of his age, Major Thomas Harriott, late of the Hon. East India Company's service, at Bengal.

May 25. Mr. J. Jones, aged 46, late of Calcutta. April 19. At Liff, shire of Angus, in Scotland, the Rev. Doctor Thomas Constable, brother of Lieut, Col. Constable, of the Bengal Artillery.

LONDON MARKETS.

Tuesday, May 27, 1817.

Cotton. The news from the Brazils, has occasioned several parcels of Cotton to be withdrawn from sale; holders ask an advance; but little or no business has been done at any improvement in price, yet there is no doubt that the intelligence will have a favourable effect on the market. The sales of last week were limited, and at various prices.

Sugar. Notice has been given in Parliament respecting an alteration in the bounties of Refined, on exportation. The particulars have not, yet transpired; the act itself is not brought into the House of Commons; but it is probable there will be some reduction. The import duty on Raw Sugar has declined from 30s. a 27s.; the export bounty on Refined, by the act dated 24th June, 1816, was not subject to any variation, according to the aggregate average prices of Muscovados, by which it had previously been governed.

In Foreign Sugars there were few transactions; 720 bags East-India, sold on Company's terms, went off much about the late prices-yellow 375. a 42s.; ordinary white 45s. a 45s. 6d.

Coffee. There continues to be great fluctuations in the prices of Coffee; last week every description brought to public sale, with the exception of some mixed Sumatra, seld at a decline of 2s. per cwt.; good and fine ordinary Jamaica sold uncommonly low, on account of the quantity of these descriptions brought forward.

East-India Sale. The following Notice was posted up on Friday at the East-India House :

"May 25, 1817.-It appearing that a Bill has passed the House of Commons, and been sent up to the Lords, for regulating the exportation of Sugar and Coffee; the buyers are informed that the sale of Sugar and Coffee which was advertized for this day, is necessarily postponed until a copy of the Bill can be obtained, of which due notice will be given without delay,"

East-India Trade extended to Malta and Gibraltar. -Particulars of a Bill, now in progress, regulating the Trade to and from the Places within the Limits of the Charter of the East-India Company and certain Possessions of His Majesty in the Mediterranean, are stated in page 610 of our present number.