19. At Buxar, Mrs. J. W. David, of a son. 20. At Dacca, the lady of Lieut. G. Burford, acting adj. 27th N.I., of a daughter.

21. At Ghazeepore, the lady of John Hunter, Esq., civil service, of a son.

At Doodpatlee, in Cachar, the lady of J. S. Sullivan, assist. surg. 16th Local Bat., of a son. 28. The lady of J. D. D. Dombal, Esq., of a daughter.

29. At the Calcutta academy, Mrs. F. Linstedt, of a son.

Oct. 2. At Chowringhee, the lady of C. Mowerson, Esq., of a son.

4. The wife of Mr. J. P. Parker, of the firm of Andrew and Co., of a son.

6. At Cosipore, the lady of Capt. C. H. Campbell, agent for gun carriages, of a son.

7. At Ballygunge, the lady of Capt. C. Cowles, of a daughter.

- At Dum-Dum, Mrs. H. W. Beddy, of a son. 14. At Allahabad, the lady of Lieut.Col. Bowen, commanding 14th N.I., of a daughter.

- At Cooley Bazaar, Mrs. Dutton, of a daughter." 16. The lady of Capt. P. D. Frezivant, country service, of a son.

18. The lady of Assist. Surg. J. P. Reynald, civil station of Dinapore, of a daughter.

24. At Kishnagur, the lady of E. T. Harpur, Esq., of a son.

27. At Chowringhee, the lady of J. W. Templar, Esq., of a daughter.

Shah-ool-Ahmed.

16. Mr. J. Joyce, assist. com. of ordnance.

18. On board the H.C.'s ship Royal George, in Penang Roads, John Trotter, Esq., jun., of the Bengal civil service, aged 25.

20. At Intally, T. Brae, sen., Esq., aged 69, late indigo planter of Kisenaghur.

21. At Dinapore, Mr. Walsingham, riding master of the 6th L.C.

23. At Koomarparah, Assam, Lieut. R. E. I. Kerr, 57th N.I., youngest son of the the late Lieut. Gen. James Kerr, of the Bombay estab., aged 21. 25. On board the Lady Campbell, off Calcutta, Mr. E. Slatterthwaite, midshipman, aged 17. 26. Joseph, son of Mr. A. G. Paterson, aged 6. Mr. P. Breton, of cholera.

27. At Bhaugulpore, Lieut.Col. John Swinton. 28. At Midnapore, Capt. H. Whinfield, 39th N.I. 29. At Moorshedabad, S. Marshall, Esq., son of the late Lieut. Gen. Sir D. Marshall.

30. At Kidderdore, Mrs. W. H. L. Hind, aged 17. -At Chittagong, the Rev. Dr. Joseph Vincent, aged 56.

Oct. 1, Off the Sand Heads, on board the Woodford, Eliza, the lady of the Rev. E. Ray, returning to India, aged 25.

5. Capt. P. Dudgeon, 14th N.I., commanding Sylhet Local Bát,, aged 36.

-At Diamond Harbour, E. N. Briggs, Esq., 3d officer of the H.C.'s ship Minerva, aged 24. -At Cawnpore, Miss L. D. Norris, eldest daughter of the late Lieut, Col, John Norris, Madras engineers.

6. At Garden Reach, Lieut. J. R. Greene, of

artillery.

9. At Agra, Assist.surg. Burnett.

J. Gottlieb Albrecht, Esq., aged 27. 10. At Meerut, Capt. J. J. Gordon, 35th N.I.

Mr. P. Drayner, midshipman of the H.C.'s

.ship Minerva, aged 19.

11. Mrs. L. Bagshaw, the lady of John Bagshaw, Esq., aged 26.

Fort St. George, Aug. 5, 1825.-The Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to direct, that the revised rules and regulations for the field exercise and evolutions of his Majesty's forces, published by his Majesty's command, and directed to be established in General Orders by his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, dated Horse Guards, 10th March 1824, bè adopted without any deviation in the army of this establishment, and that all such orders, hitherto issued, as are found to interfere with or to counteract their effect and operation be hereby annulled,

MEDICAL AID TO SURVEYS.

Fort St. George, Sept. 9, 1825.-The Hon. the Governor in Council deems it expedient to authorize medical aid to be afforded to surveyors, assistant-surveyors, and the establishments attached to surveys under this presidency in the department of the deputy surveyor general; the surveyors and assistant surveyors to be drawn for as Europeans; the establishments as natives -the bills of the medical officers to be authenticated by the commanding or staff officers of the stations where the individuals may receive medical aid, agreeable to the general regulations of the service.

land and G. A. Harrison with 32d N.I. Ens. R. Bullock and L. O'Brien with 1st N.I.

Capt. J. C. Stedman, 34th N.I., to do duty with inf. recruiting depôt at Wallajabad.

Lieut. Col. H. Raynsford, removed from 3d to 6th, and Lieut. Col. J. Collette, from 6th to 3d L.C.

Sept. 18.-Assist.surgs. J. Richmond and G. W. Scheniman ordered to place themselves under orders of garrison surg. of Fort St. George.

Sept. 20.-Lieut. C. H. Græme, 5th L.C., to join and do duty with 2d L.C. at Bangalore.

Sept. 22.-Lieut. Col. Com. J. Vicq (late prom.) posted to 7th N.I. Lieut. Col. J. M. Coombs removed from 38th to 21st N.I. Lieut. Col. D. C. South (late prom.) posted to 38th N.I.

Sept. 23.-Capt. T. C. S. Hyde, 43d, and Lieut. J. H. M'Braire, 9th N.I., directed to join Major Kelso's detachment about to embark for Rangoon. Sept. 24.-Ens. W. C. M'Leod, 30th N.I., appointed to 1st bat. pioneers, v. Geoghegan resigned.

Removals. Lieut. Col. F. P. Stewart from 13th to 46th N.I., and Lieut. Col. F. Bowes from 46th to 13th N.I.

Sept. 27.-2d-Lieuts. of artillery J. Maitland, A. E. Baillie, and F. J. Brown, posted to 2d bat.

Sept. 28.-Capt. T. Y. B. Kennan, 2d or nat. brig. of horse artil., recently returned sick from Rangoon, directed to join his troop at Bangalore.

Sept. 20.-Lieut. J. Aldritt, adj. of 2d bat. artil., recently returned sick from Rangoon, directed to join his corps at St. Thomas's Mount.

MISCELLANEOUS.

MADRAS TOWN HALL.

Our readers at the presidency will be much gratified in learning, that the memorial regarding the Town Hall, which was so generally patronized, has been graciously received by the Honourable the Governor in Council. A most satisfactory answer has been returned for the information of those who supported it with their signatures. It will be remembered, that one of the objects of the memorial was to draw the attention of the Government to the difficulties and impediments which have long retarded the establishment and operations of useful institutions at Madras, in consequence of the absence of proper accommodation. Another object was to solicit the aid of providing an edifice containing apartments suitable to the want of all useful associations instituted at the presidency. These wants were detailed in the memorial, and they have been specifically recognized by the Government.

The Hon. the Governor in Council observes, that the subject of the memorial bearing the names of above a hundred persons, among whom are nearly all of the first rank and respectability at Madras, can scarcely fail to be deserving of the highest consideration and regard from Government; that whatever is an object of desire to such and so large a portion of the European community at this presidency, must be presumed to be in itself important and worthy of the advocacy which it has received; and that in the object of the memorial these qualities are at once recognized.

The Governor in Council is pleased to observe, that many considerations for

bid the idea of any aid from private subscriptions; and suggests that the work should be wholly undertaken by Government, and, when finished, remain the property of the Hon. Company, though the management of it would be committed to trustees for the time being."

Heartily approving of its object, the Hon, the Governor in Council has been graciously pleased to order, that a copy of the memorial, together with a communication of the sentiments of the Government respecting it, shall be speedily transmitted to the Hon, the Court of Directors, whose sanction is indispensable.-[Bom. Cour., Sept. 13.

ghur having been vested by the Supreme Government in the Resident at Indore, the Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to direct, that in its military character it be separated from the Poona division of the army from the first of next month, and placed under the command of the officer commanding the Malwa field force.

No change is to be made in the mode of paying the troops at Asseerghur until further orders.

OFF-RECKONING FUND.-UNIFORM OF

OFFICERS.

Bombay Castle, Aug. 20, 1825.-The Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to publish, for general information, the following extracts of despatches from the Hon. the Court of Directors.

Extracts of a Letter from their Despatch

of the 25th Feb. 1825.

Para. 2d. Referring to the orders conveyed in our letter of the 2d Feb. 1825, we have now to apprize you, that the share of off-reckoning of any officer transferred to the senior list between the 1st of May 1824 and the 1st May 1826, will be divided from the date of the transfer between the two senior lieut. colonels in that branch of the service to which he belongs, in the same way as is directed in our letter of the 25th Nov. 1823 (Para. 86) with respect to the division of shares on the occurrence of each vacancy amongst the present colonels of the regiment.

3d. The lieut. colonels so succeeding will be entitled to compensation for the difference between a half and a full share under the instructions of 25th November 1823 (Para. 103d) from the dates at which they would, under the former system, have respectively ceased to draw the fixed share of £540 per annum, and been admitted to a full share of off-reckonings.

Extract of a Letter from the Hon. the Court of Directors, dated 23d March 1825. Para. 5th. Having had under our consideration the great and needless expense to which the officers of the Madras establishment are said to have been exposed in providing their uniforms and military equipments, we transmitted the orders, of which the following is a copy, to that Presidency, and we desire that you will consider the directions therein contained to be equally applicable to yours.

"We have reason to believe that the clothing of the European commissioned officers upon your establishment is not only unnecessarily expensive, but frequently altered, by which means the officers, and particularly the junior officers, are liable to heavy and improper expense.

"We desire that this subject may attract your immediate attention, and that you will direct suitable pattern uniforms and accoutrements to be prepared for each

class of officers, one pattern to be kept at the office of the Clothing Board, and another to be sent home for our inspection and approval, and that no alteration be subsequently made in any part of the dress or equipment of European commissioned officers without our previous sanction; we further direct that no deviation from the regulation pattern be permitted in the uniform of our officers without reference to the Government."

7th. With reference to our orders on the future succession of officers to the benefits of the off-reckoning fund, we find it necessary to direct that the amount of the annual advance to be made to officers who may succeed to half-shares the 1st May 1824 and the 1st May 1826, shall be the same as they would have received on the old system, viz. £543 from the fund so long as they would have continued on the junior list, and that £750 shall be the amount of the advance from the date when they would have passed through this list. Of this last advance £400 is to bę made by the fund, and £350 from our treasury.

8th. Those who succeed to half shares after the 1st May 1826, and who will not be entitled to the benefits of compensation for the difference between a half and a full

share, are to receive an advance from the fund at the rate of £400 per annum.

The Rev. G. C. Jackson, chaplain of Kaira, to visit Baroda occasionally for performance of divine service at that station.

MILITARY APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c.

Bombay Castle, Oct. 17.-Mr. D. Craw to be staff surgeon to field force assembled in Cutch, and Mr. Assist. Surg. C. Scott to be deputy medical storekeeper to dittto; dated 1st Oct.

Oct. 18.-Capt. P. D. Ottey, 11th N.I., to act as an assist. in department of quart. mast. gen. at presidency.

Cadets admitted. Messrs. H. L. Salmon and G. K. Erskine, for cav., and prom. to cornet.-Messrs. A. A. Drummond, T. M. Dickinson, C. Birdwood, H. C. Morse, C. Rooke, E. W. C. Parry, J. Broadhurst, J. C. Heath, and C. Gilberne, for inf., and prom. to Ensign respectively.

Messrs. J. Goss and J. Crawford admitted as assist. surgeons.

Oct. 22.-Lieut. S. Slight, of engineers, to be executive engineer of Surat div. of army.-Capt. Waddington, acting executive engineer to Baroda subsidiary force is confirmed in that situation, v. Slight.

Oct. 27-Assist.surg. G. Davis to act as deputy medical storekeeper at presidency.

Lieut. W. F. Allen, 24th N.I., appointed temporarily an extra subaltern to bat. of pioneers, and will place himself under orders of Capt. Hart, dep. assist. quart. mast. gen., on Khoomarlie Ghaut.

MISCELLANEOUS.

PREDATORY BANDS IN CUTCH.

In a former number we mentioned that the banditti who have lately infested Cutch had succeeded in plundering the village of Bheemasseer. On this intelligence being received, Capt. Sandwith, with a troop of the 1st cavalry, and about forty sepoys of the 21st regt., marched in pursuit, and came up with the plunderers near Paddanan, but found them posted among some bushes in the Runn, while the intervening space was a muddy plain, in which the horses sunk up to their knees, and which was, in fact, almost impracticable for cavalry. An advance was, however, made with the sepoys, and forty dismounted troopers under Lieut Fawcett. ênemy (about 300 in number) shewed a disposition to become the assailants, but when they had advanced within about a hundred yards of our troop, who steadily waited without firing a shot, they began to waver; they received a well-directed volley, which did them some injury, and immediately dispelled their doubts as to how it was best to act. They took to flight, pursued by the troopers and sepoys, but from the very difficult nature of the ground, and it being nearly dark, they suffered comparatively little injury.

The

We have also seen a letter which mentions that Lieut. Kennett, with a party of the 21st regt., had fallen in with a party of these marauders, and had killed and wounded about thirty of them, taking ten prisoners. Four of the prisoners were tried, found guilty of rebellion by the Rao's government, and executed.

Another party of these marauders, which

had crossed the Runn into Jhalawar, was pursued by Lieut. Graham with fifty sepoys of the 2d grenadiers, for fifty-four miles without a halt, and though the plunderers had only one man killed and one wounded, and lost a few horses, they were still prevented from doing the mischief they intended.-[Bom. Cour. Sept. 24.

The latest advices from Cutch were brought by the vessels lately detached with troops in that direction. The predatory

bands from Scind had not molested the British territory, but continued their attacks against Cutch. A report was in circulation that the Scindians had at tacked Nugher Parkur, but had been repulsed. As this is the principal haunt of the plundering hordes, if the above report is true, it shows a disposition on the part of the Ameers to pre.. vent them finding, for the future, an asylum in any part of their territories, or those of their tributary chiefs. His Majesty's 4th dragoons, a troop of horse artil lery, and the 8th regiment native infantry, marched from Kaira for Cutch on the 3d October.-Bom. Paper, Oct. 15.

AJMERE.

Accounts from the Upper Provinces mention that the political agent had been obliged to leave Ajmere, and that the Nuserabad field-force would probably have to move in that direction. The Bhurtpore people continued restless, and kept our troops on the alert.-[Bom. Cour. Oct. 8.

SCOTCH CHURCH AT BOMBAY.

We understand, that at their last meeting, the Session of the Scotch church at this presidency, in concurrence with the church sessions of Calcutta and Madras, appointed the Rev. James Clow, senior minister of the Scotch church of Bombay, and John Stewart, Esq., an elder of the said church, to be their commissioners to the General Assembly of their national church, which is to be held at Edinburgh, in May 1826-[Bom. Cour. Aug. 27.

MISREPRESENTATION.

We have perused the number of the Oriental Herald for April, but really a voyage to England appears to torture every piece of intelligence so terribly from the truth, and every page relating to India is so tainted with the spirit of party and partizanship, that no interest is excited, and all confidence destroyed. There is a long article from India, entitled " Barrackpore Massacre, Burmese War, and Pre sent State of the Native Army in Bengal," the merits of which will be better understood and more correctly commented upon in that part of India to which it more particularly relates, than where we are no writing. The following piece of infe

ghur having been vested by the Supreme Government in the Resident at Indore, the Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to direct, that in its military character it be separated from the Poona division of the army from the first of next month, and placed under the command of the officer commanding the Malwa field force.

No change is to be made in the mode of paying the troops at Asseerghur until further orders.

OFF-RECKONING FUND.-UNIFORM OF

OFFICERS.

Bombay Castle, Aug. 20, 1825.-The Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to publish, for general information, the following extracts of despatches from the Hon. the Court of Directors.

Extracts of a Letter from their Despatch

of the 25th Feb. 1825.

Para. 2d. Referring to the orders conveyed in our letter of the 2d Feb. 1825, we have now to apprize you, that the share of off-reckoning of any officer transferred to the senior list between the 1st of May 1824 and the 1st May 1826, will be divided from the date of the transfer between the two senior lieut. colonels in that branch of the service to which he belongs, in the same way as is directed in our letter of the 25th Nov. 1823 (Para. 86) with respect to the division of shares on the occurrence of each vacancy amongst the present colonels of the regiment.

3d. The lieut. colonels so succeeding will be entitled to compensation for the difference between a half and a full share under the instructions of 25th November 1823 (Para. 103d) from the dates at which they would, under the former system, have respectively ceased to draw the fixed share of £540 per annum, and been admitted to a full share of off-reckonings.

Extract of a Letter from the Hon. the Court of Directors, dated 23d March 1825. Para. 5th. Having had under our consideration the great and needless expense to which the officers of the Madras establishment are said to have been exposed in providing their uniforms and military equipments, we transmitted the orders, of which the following is a copy, to that Presidency, and we desire that you will consider the directions therein contained to be equally applicable to yours.

"We have reason to believe that the clothing of the European commissioned officers upon your establishment is not only unnecessarily expensive, but frequently altered, by which means the officers, and particularly the junior officers, are liable to heavy and improper expense.

"We desire that this subject may attract your immediate attention, and that you will direct suitable pattern uniforms and accoutrements to be prepared for each

class of officers, one pattern to be kept at the office of the Clothing Board, and another to be sent home for our inspection and approval, and that no alteration be subsequently made in any part of the dress or equipment of European commissioned officers without our previous sanction; we further direct that no deviation from the regulation pattern be permitted in the uniform of our officers without reference to the Government."

7th. With reference to our orders on the future succession of officers to the benefits of the off-reckoning fund, we find it necessary to direct that the amount of the annual advance to be made to officers who may succeed to half-shares the 1st May 1824 and the 1st May 1826, shall be the same as they would have received on the old system, viz. £543 from the fund so long as they would have continued on the junior list, and that £750 shall be the amount of the advance from the date when they would have passed through this list. Of this last advance £400 is to be made by the fund, and £350 from our treasury.