saw on our left hand a magnificent mosque, entirely constructed of a beautiful marble. The breadth of the room (my companion measured) was eight paces, and the length twenty. There were four open arches in the building. It possesses a very fine white and clear marble, in which were reflected our faces. The expense of the mosque was 40,000 rupees, and was erected in the space of two years (A. H. 1056), by Shah Jehan, after the conquest of Balkh and Baduk

shan.

Having climbed a few spaces more, we came to a rising ground, which abounds with numerous graves of marble, equal in "size and similar in shape with two others. There was no difference between the tomb of the emperor and this royal family, except the inscription which inIcluded the name of the buried. The mausoleum of the emperor is not much raised above the surface of the earth. A few pieces of broken but fine marble cover the tomb, and at the head stands a small minar called Lowh.-Delhi Gaz.

TRADE ASSOCIATION.

The trade association gave their anniversary dinner on January 31st, to which a numerous body of members, as well as a number of visitors, sat down. Mr. Rogers, of the firm of Hamilton and Co., the present master of the association, presided, supported on the right by the chief magistrate of Calcutta, and on the left by Mr. Longueville Clarke, the counsel to the association. Mr. Burkinyoung, the past master, officiated as croupier,

Amongst the toasts, the health of Mr. Clarke was given by the chairman. In his acknowledgment of this compliment, the learned gentleman expatiated upon the benefits that had resulted from this institution, and said he trusted the time was not far distant when this association, now in its infancy, would become a corporation, to the attainment of which he earnestly entreated the members to turn their minds.

LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK'S GOVERNMENT.

The Mofussil Ukhbar of February 1st, in concluding a review of Lord William Bentinck's administration during 1833, adds the following register of negatives. "The post-office is not improved. In a fine level country, on the main-road from the presidency, the average rate of conveyance is four miles per hour, while in England it is nine; the rate of four miles an hour, too, is obtained at an enormous and disproportionate expense, whereas, in consequence of the different delays at the postoffice, letters between station and station travel at a rate of from one and threefourths to two miles per hour. The de

partment for the transit of packages is not improved, and we conceive we possess ample grounds for the conclusion that, until Government diminish its own expenses, along with the charge of postage, and increase, at the same time, the efficiency of the department, this will neither prove an important source of revenue, nor assist materially the commercial interest of the country. The army is not improved, either in its matériel, soldiers, officers, or discipline. The artillery, engineers, cavalry and infantry, remain in statu quo, nor has any attempt been made to improve their efficiency, or to render these powerful arms of the state, engines for the general improvement of the country. The medical service is not improved; it languishes as it did at the period when his lordship commenced his administration, and no measure has emanated from the Government, showing even a desire to call forth its latent energies."

ICE-SPECULATORS.

From the following paragraph in the Sumachar Durpun, it would appear that the project started at Calcutta, to procure supply of ice from the Himalaya mountains, had been put into execution:

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As some ice-speculators were searching for ice in the Hymallah mountains, they perceived a petrified tree, and, mistaking it for a large block of ice, these simpletons began with great avidity to hew it to pieces and stock it; as the petrified substance was much harder than

the ice, it occupied them so long at their labours, that in the interim the sun rose to its meridian, when the melting of the snow caused a large avalanche of ice to fall on these ill-fated traffickers, who, with the exception of a few, that were at distance, all perished."

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THE BAR OF MADRAS.

It does unfortunately happen for the press and the public at large, that, with one solitary exception, the barristers of Madras are all enjoying the gifts of Government; they have, as it were, a general retainer, which, however they may feel disposed, it would be going too far to ask or expect them to give up for an occasional brief; and at a time when business is dull and money scarce, it is not to be wondered that they are less forward than their predecessors in the cause of freedom and the liberty of the subject, or that they should avoid rendering themselves obnoxious to the powers that be, by standing forward the uncompromising

advocates and defenders of the rights of the people by whomsoever opposed or placed in jeopardy. The time may come when the situation of things may be dif ferent to what it is at present; and when that day may come, be it soon or late, the Madras bar will, we doubt not, be all a liberal public could wish or desire.Mad. Cour. Feb. 14.

THE COORG RAJAH.

The Coorg Rajah having seized an emissary of Mr. Græme, the resident, and detained him beyond the time allowed for his being restored, 6,000 men are prepared to take the field, to subdue the refractory spirit of the rajah, and recover the detained emissary. The rajah, aware of the gathering storm, is preparing to resist every attempt to force compliance, and busily engaged throwing up stockades in every direction. The situation of the country offers a powerful resistance to every approach, and if assisted by any thing like determination on the part of the rajah, will afford pretty amusement to those who delight in warfare, and may be employed.-Mad. Cour., Feb. 21.

MISSION TO THE JEWS OF COCHIN.

At a meeting on the 1st February, at the Vepery Mission Seminary, pursuant to notice, the object of which was to consider the feasibility of a "Mission to the Jews," the Archdeacon in the chair, the following resolutions were carried, after full discussion: "That this meeting approves of the proposals made by Mr. Samuel (a converted Jew), to establish a Christian mission to the Jews on the Western coast; that a provisional committee be formed, to ascertain whether means can be found to carry Mr. Samuel's purposes into effect; and that, to enable Mr. Samuel to proceed without delay tothe Jews at Cochin, donations be solicited from persons friendly to the conversion of the Jews."

The Madras Gazette expresses its ignorance as to who Mr. Samuel is, and adds: "If reports be true, the Jews at Cochin require the services of officers of justice, no less than the labours of would-be missionaries. They are said to lead the most abandoned and profligate lives. The immorality and guilt attributed to them is hardly credible; and, accused as they are of conduct alike scandalous and disgraceful, it cannot be questioned, that every exertion to reclaim them from their iniquitous courses, is equally praiseworthy and deserving of general counte

nance.'

*Mr. Samuel was, we understand, converted at Glasgow; he is a member of the Church of Scotland, and came out to India, like Mr. Wolff, to discover the lost tribes.

Bombay. MISCELLANEOUS.

DISTRESS IN CUTCH.

"A famine prevails throughout this illfated territory, and, to add to this misery, the prime minister, who is in reality the only man of power and influence in the whole state (the actual sovereign, yet a puppet in the hands of the British resident), has monopolized_all the forage and grain in the country. It is a fact, that nearly the whole of the grain and forage are his private property, and what he does not possess in this manner, his influence gives him as full a command over. Pray tell the British Government of this; tell them that Luckmidat requires to be strictly looked after, as all that he does is done through the influence of their power. Were the force withdrawn tomorrow, Luckmidat would be a lifeless corpse before midnight, so thoroughly is he hated, yet dreaded by all. What is worse than all the rest is, that this fly has nearly sucked his full of blood from the poor fox's body, and a hungry one, more rapacious than even this scourge, has been nominated as his successor next year. All pity is due to the resident, as he cannot act otherwise, than he does, and is sensitively alive, without the means of correcting the evil, to the injustice and oppression that is upheld by the British name and influence."-Corresp. Bomb. Gaz., Feb. 8.

FIRST IRISH-TRADER.

The arrival of the Duncan Gibb, Capt. Donal, from Dublin, the 28th September, deserves to be particularly noticed, being the only vessel in our remembrance that has ever come direct to this port from the capital of Ireland. Our readers may naturally feel some curiosity to know the cargo brought by this interesting stranger, and conjecture will naturally fix either upon Irish linen, Irish potatoes, or Irish whiskey; but, alas! neither one nor the other has come to our market. The Duncan Gibb, having come out in ballast, offers nothing more tempting to our choice than a cargo of fine Irish limestone or Wicklow pebbles. To those, however, in whom the love of the natale solum prevails over the care of the proper man and the love of fine linen, this will be no matter of regret, since they have now an admirable opportunity of paving their houses with Irish marble, or carrying a piece of their country at their watch ribbon, in the shape of a seal made of Irish pebble.-Bomb. Gaz., Feb. 15.

EFFECTS OF THE MOFUSSIL PRESS.

The light which has been thrown from time to time, by the Meerut Observer,

the Agra Achbar and the Delhi Gazette, on transactions in the upper provinces the movements and characters of native princes-the proceedings of residents and other high British functionaries - has not merely served the cause of good government, by adding one more to the pre-existing checks against abuse; but it has served to effect imperceptibly a great revolution in our social condition, and one which has, in some measure, prepared the way for the political revolution, which the new Charter is to consummate. We allude to the greater community of feeling and of interests, which has been gradually created, and is still in progress, between the wings and the centre of British India, soon destined to be united under one consolidated Government in chief. Before the establishment of these jour nals, those who were located at the remotest extremes of the peninsula, knew far more of each other than of the central ground which lay between them.

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bay, Madras, and Calcutta, were on terms of tolerable intimacy, while Delhi, La hore, and most other northern states, were comparatively foreign and unknown, except to the travelied few. So great, in deed, was this unnatural estrangement, that nine-tenths of the inhabitants of the presidencies could count the names of western potentates, and knew the wars and intrigues of every European and American state, far more accurately than those of the Indian provinces, lying but a few hundred miles in the interior. Thanks to the cause we have named, this is no longer the case. The cities of Delhi and Agra have been bodily represented to us, and no longer present indistinct ideas to our mind, mixed up with romantic descriptions of Moorish magnificence and poetic reminiscences of Shah Jehan, drawn from the Alhambra or Lalla Rookh. In like manner, the Begum Sumro and Baiza Baie, instead of putting us in mind of Warren Hastings and the "

Begum Charge," heightened by all the glowing colours of Burke, turn on a nearer acquaintance into two goodly dowagers having suits in Chancery. Messrs. Allard and Ventura lose all their terrors, and sink into the condition of our own subs, sueing for clipt allowances and arrears of half-batta withheld; while even Runjeet Sing himself, the Lion of the North, shrinks into the very commonplace character of a rapacious old freebooter and worn out debauchee. While sensible of the great increase of Mofussil information and other good effects, which have resulted from the establishment of these journals, we are by no means blind to their chief defect-a more than ordinary acerbity in their editorial bickerings with each other, and with their Calcutta cotemporaries. This, however, is a failing

almost incident to the profession when first taken up, and, like the florid redundance and vehemence of young orators, soon wears off or chastens down to a better standard.-Bomb. Gaz. Jan. 18.

Singapore.

Late accounts from Rhio state that Rajah Bourgoon and three of the Panglimas, whom we noticed lately as having been captured by the expedition sent against pirates from Rhio and Linga, have been beheaded by order of the sultan at Linga. The two brothers of the former, Marassan and Rajah Saban, with three other Panglimas, are condemned to labour in irons during their life-time, and have been sent to Batavia as convicts.

We are happy to notice the arrival by native vessels, during the week, of a large quantity of rice (3,500 peculs) from Anam, Bankok, Rhio, and Campar. The boats from the latter place have also brought some coffee, and it is confidently expected that, if the Dutch persist in enforcing a duty of one-fifth of the produce of Sumatra as a land-tax, we may look for large importations from that country.-Sing. Chron. Mar. 6.

Malacca.

A letter from Malacca informs us of the arrival of the ex-panghulu of Nanning in town, he having voluntarily surrendered himself to the government. All his offences, it is said, are forgiven, and he is residing at Mr. Westerhout's, where he practices as a physician! So much is his character for sanctity still venerated by natives, that numbers daily flock to him for the sanctified water, tawarree!

It is to be hoped the Government will allow this unfortunate man a pension, at least, for having unjustly deprived him of his possessions, and involved him in misfortunes not of his own seeking. This measure may likewise help to extinguish any sparks of disaffection which may lurk within his bosom, and which might cause him to become again a troublesome and expensive opponent.-Sing. Chron. Feb.27.

tra, is ascribed, in a report from Palembang, to an eruption of the volcano Bocket Kaba, in Palembang. Besides the damage done by the repeated shocks, the effects of an inundation coming from that mountain were most distressing. Between the two principal peaks of the mountain there was a lake called Telaga Ketjiel, which, in consequence of the earthquake, inundated the neighbouring districts. The inundation was increased by the overflowing of the river Ager Dingiem, the channel of which was choked up by masses of earth and trunks of trees. The hamlet of Talbang Ager Lang was covered with water to the depth of twenty one feet, and after the inundation there remained a bed of mud of seven feet. Thirty-six inhabitants of the hamlet perished. The total number of victims in the district was ninety. Mount Kaba is fifty leagues from Palembang, and yet the water of the great river Moessie was not fit to drink for several weeks. An account from Kodal states that, on the 2d of February, during a torrent of rain, part of the mountain of Telo Moja, in the district of Ngassinan, on the frontiers of Ansbarawa, had sunk down, by which twelve habitations were buried, and thirty-seven persons lost their lives." —Hague paper.

The intelligence received in Java to the middle of November last, from the Rauw and Boonjal country, in the interior of Sumatra, represent it still in a state of war. The districts more to the southward, inland from Padang, Agham, Tana Data, Lima Poolus, Lintoo, &c. were tranquil, but vigilance and kind attention would be required to keep it so. The continuance of a peaceful state of things may also depend on Java being in a condition readily to afford assistance, for it cannot be, nor is it considered, perfectly secure on Sumatra, until the arrival of troops from Europe. The Boonjal expedition failed entirely. Colonel Eilers had retreated to Fort Aimeron, in the Rauw district, where he and Capt. Bland were with 300 troops, very short of provisions, and surrounded by the Padries. A party of 150 Europeans had been sent, about the beginning of November, to Ayer Boongy, to endeavour to get to their relief; but the troops found that route strongly blocked up by the Boonjals, and, in consequence, had gone to Nattal with the intention to pass along the Mengdelling (Batta) country. Still it was feared they would not succeed, as likely to be closely watched by the Padries. Great apprehensions were entertained that the whole garrison would be cut off. The Rajah of Mengdelling had afforded some relief by a supply of rice, and it is believed a number of troops; still the place was in a critical situation.

Since then, intelligence to the begiuning of January announces that, some misunderstanding having arisen between the Tuanco Imam of Rauw and that of Tamboosi, the garrison of fort Aimeron had been enabled to escape, evacuating the Rauw country altogether, and took up a position at Mengdelling (Batta), where Col. Eilers is with about 280 troops, probably at the request of the Batta people, and on condition of assisting them. At the date of the last advices, the natives seemed to be quiet in the interior.

Mr. Vanden Berg, towards the end of October, had proceeded on a mission from Padang, with a view to effect a treaty with the Boonjals. The hostile appearance of affairs in that quarter afforded no expectations of his succeeding; and he had returned without being able to accomplish any thing.

We had learned from Sumatra, that, by a government notification, the coffee at Padang would, after 1st January last, be subject to a tax of one-fifth of the quantity produced, or, in other words, an impost of twenty per cent. would be levied. The government intends to have godowns in, the interior, at Priaman and Padang, for, receiving coffee; and from what can be learnt of the plan, it will be such as to throw, if possible, the whole into the hands of government or the Dutch tradingcompany, which will have charge of these as well as of the salt stores. It was proposed also to retain the opium farm, so as to derive the entire profit. The govern、 ment will enter into the cloth or piecegoods trade; that is, supplying the natives with the punjams, salampores, &c. from the Coromandel coast, to be provided by the Company, and to be exchanged or sold so as to secure the coffee; thus commencing the monopoly of the whole trade. It is since understood that the opium farm, will be sold this year as formerly. All or most payments in future will be made in copper money, forced on the community by the new monopoly-system. The Company had begun to sell its Coringa cloths to the Chinese for payment to be made in copper, as there are no more coffee contracts; and the copper money will be repaid by the Company to Government for the coffee to be received by it. This new regulation took place on the 1st January.

It may be understood from the order issued at Padang by the commissioner. general, that the protecting rate, or the price at which the Government agrees to pay at that place to the natives for coffee, is fifteen guilders copper, which would make the tax of one-fifth equal to three guilders per picul. But there is an ambiguity about the regulation, and the order is so obscurely worded, that people are at a loss to discover whether it means one

fifth of the protecting price or of the market price.-Sing. Chron. Mar. 6.

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MESSRS. DANIELL AND INNES.

"In the Canton Register, of February 25th, is advertised a correspondence respecting a difference between Mr. Jas. Nugent Daniell, a member of the Select Committee, and Mr. Jas. Innes, inserted by desire of the latter gentleman. We have received a pamphlet printed at Canton, for circulation, by Mr. Daniell's friends, whence it appears that the advertisement does not contain all the documents necessary to a full understanding of the affair.

It appears that a paragraph,* inserted in the Calcutta Courier of July 19th, relating to a transaction recorded in our last Vol. p. 30, was traced to Mr. Daniell; whereupon, Mr. Innes deputed a friend (Mr. Jardine) to wait upon Mr. Daniell, requiring the customary satisfaction for aspersing his character. Mr. Daniell consulted a friend, Mr. Jno. C. Whiteman, and, under his advice, wrote to Mr. Jardine, denying that he ever did or wished to asperse Mr. Innes' character, adding that the circumstances mentioned in the communication to the Calcutta Courier were precisely those stated in a printed paper circulated by Mr. Innes. Mr. Daniell refers Mr. Jardine to Mr. White

man.

A personal communication took place between Messrs. Jardine and Whiteman. What passed at their interview is not inserted in the Canton Register; but it appears, from "minutes" certified by Messrs. Whiteman and Jardine, that both gentlemen declared a readiness to adjust the affair peaceably; that Mr. Whiteman freely admitted, that Mr. Daniell was wrong as far as the phrase "Scotch agent, quasi a non agendo," and said that a proper amende would be given; and he stated that there was no intention on the part

"From a Correspondent in China.-The evident claims for justice and protection against the Chinese, on the part of British subjects resident in China, have been strongly exemplified lathe

by the sense, judgment, and discretion which sáid foreigners exercise towards the Chinese. A Mr. Innes, a Scotch agent,quasi a non agendo,— has thought fit to set fire to the Canton customhouse, situated in the very midst of the most. valuable property in that city, as well foreign as Chinese, which was for a short time in imminent danger; and the excuse for this act of arson is, that upon a very absurd quarrel between him and a Custom-house officer, about the right of the said officer to chop wood in the front of the said Custom-house, some blows were struck at him, for which the party accused was not in chains in four hours. The case has been represented by the Chinese to the Select Committee, in whose hands it is now placed. You will hear nothing of this from the Canton press the editors have not yet attained the use of the maxim audi alteram partem. This occurred on the 21st April, at seven o'clock in the evening."

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of Mr. Daniell to asperse or injure Mr. Innes, the paper having been written and sent in consequence of the publication of that by Mr. Innes. Mr. Jardine stated, he could only view Mr. Daniell's paper as a malicious attack against the character and fortune of Mr. Innes, and that the whole description was exaggerated, and partly untrue: and he produced an extract from a letter of the editor of the Calcutta Courier, as proof that it was considered malicious by others. Mr. Whiteman argued that the context of the several parts of Mr. Daniell's paper disproved the asserted exaggeration, as compared with Mr. Innes' own account; he could not see where Mr. Innes' character was aspersed more than in his own account, nor the injury done him in his fortune by the phrase "agent," &c., which could only bear upon the degree in which he was an agent. Mr. Jardine observed, that no rhetoric could remove from his mind the idea, that Mr. Daniell was actuated by malicious intentions, and on Mr. Whiteman's repeating his readiness to give due apology for the indiscreet phrase, added, he did not think any cutting or separating would do, or indeed, under Mr. Innes' state of feelings, that any apology would be taken. Mr. Whiteman expressed a hope that Mr. Jardine would be able to induce Mr. Innes to take a milder view of the affair, and again stated, that he thought it his duty to produce reconciliation, if practicable; to which Mr. Jardine assented.

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A letter from Mr. Jardine to Mr... Whiteman states, that he had laid before Mr. Innes Mr. W.'s view of the case. He observes that Mr. Innes' printed paper bore his signature; whereas Mr. Daniell's communication was anonymous. He adds that Mr. Innes had determined to give a statement (accompanying the letter) to the world under his signature; and he leaves it to Mr. Daniell to determine what course he intended to pursue, with reference to the demand made upon him.

This statement is dated Feb. 14th, six days before the call made upon Mr. (but does not contain) the paragraph in Daniell by Mr. Jardine. It refers to the Calcutta Courier, which is denominated a low, malicious, anonymous attack," striking at Mr. Innes' pecuniary prosperity and injuring his feelings; intimates that there were grounds for believing that Mr. Daniell had furnished anonymous communications to the Singapore paper, and it concludes: "Now had this slanderer been alone in the world, without a wife and family, the chastisement of his person, till it was degraded to the level of his mental depravity, would have been only an act of justice as others, however, suffer from his shame, Mr. Innes (2 L)