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out of natural feeling, preserved a girl, he was excommunicated by the rest and treated as a common sweeper."

Such is the origin to which tradition traces the practice among the Bedees. Even among that tribe, however, it has been strengthened and confirmed, if not actually originated, by the unwillingness of the people generally to marry the female descendant of a great saint, whom they cannot employ in the humble drudgery of housekeeping.

With other classes the ungenial union of high birth and narrow means produces this monstrous form of crime. The gentility of the family is estimated by the dowry of its daughters and the bill for marriage expenses. Competition in this test has run up the total to so ruinous a figure," that either the father's fortunes or daughter's life must too often be sacrificed," and, as Major Edwardes remarks, “the choice lying with the fathers, they choose infanticide in preference to beggary or wounded vanity." The destruction of daughters would have been more complete than it was, had not a religious superstition dictated a preservation of one or two in each family. We again quote from the report of Major Edwardes :

"It was happily necessary to preserve one or two for this reason; that to receive the Kuneeadan' is by the inconsistent law of the Shastras a great sin; but to give it, is one of the most meritorious of acts; consequently to rear a daughter and give her in marriage was necessary to every Hindoo who had ever been married himself. "Kuneeadan, or the Virgin's gift, is the water which the bride's father takes in the palm of his hand, and after the Bramins have read prayers over it, pours into the hand of the bridegroom. The sin of receiving it is thenceforth on the head of the bridegroom, until he has himself reared a daughter and given the same gift to others at her bridal. A Bramin tried to explain the sin to me as consisting in this, that Kuneeadan' is a form of Poon' or religious gift, which none but a Bramin should dare to receive."

For the eradication of this horrid practice of child murder, it is necessary at once to introduce a deterring influence, and to remove as far as possible the various inducements and temptations. The needful influence is to be found in a declaration of the displeasure of Government, in the vigilance of its officers, and in the strict enforcement of the laws. The neutralization of causes is to be effected by such means as the general reduction of caste and custom, which restrict marriages to certain families and tribes. These means have been set vigorously to work, and with the happiest effects thus far. The central and district authorities of the Punjaub have entered on the humane duty of suppression with energy and hearty good-will. Already the dread of punishment and the hope of support and rewarding approval have been brought into play with the most beneficial -re sults. The crime which was once boasted of as a mark of birth, is now committed, when at all, in fear and trembling; and men can preserve their daughters and proudly show them, without fear of being treated as mehters, as one heroic Bedee father was in the days of Sikh rule.

Towards the removal of causes also, much has been done and is doing. The people have been encouraged to revise their rates of marriage expenditure, to enter into alliances for marrying and giving in marriage betwixt tribe and tribe. Chiefs and people have been assembled, in "monster meetings," presided over by the British officers of the administration, to form or ratify such rates and agreements. The recent assemblages at Umritsur and Mooltan will be in the memory of our readers. The publication now before us is largely occupied with copies of these various documents, suited to the circumstances of various classes of the people. The idea, and in part the details of this mode of eradication, are taken from the plan adopted with such success among the Chouhans of Mynpoorie, by Mr. C. Raikes, when magistrate and collector of that district.

Even before these formal and regular efforts for the suppression of infanticide in the Punjaub had been commenced, however, much had been done, almost spontaneously, and by the people themselves, for the eradication of the crime. The introduction of British rule seems to have been the signal for a general though unconcerted and scarcely recognised attack on the horrible system. Nature then first ventured to protest loudly and openly against the suicidal cruelty, and her cry found an echo and an interpretation in many a heart which custom and pride had before rendered deaf to her touching appeal. Hence, even when it was discovered that the crime existed as a common practice, it was also found that it was ceasing so to exist. The Bedees, whose religion is going out of fashion, who can therefore no longer lord it over the multitude, and who regard their humiliation as a judgment for their cruel murder of their children, have been the first to break the bonds of the inhuman custom. In one district of the Jullunder alone, fifty | Bedee girls had been preserved by less than three hundred families in the four years of our administration. At the same time the long-suppressed feeling broke out in the nation at large, and made such murders infamous, and to be done in secret when done at all.

The people were ready to meet, to consult, to form and execute plans and agreements for suppressing the crime, and removing the temptation to it; and Government has thus had little more to do than to direct and sustain the popular feeling on the subject.

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Infanticide will soon be in the Punjaub what suttee is to India at large, and what thuggee is rapidly becoming,a thing to be wondered at in recollection. It will not entirely disappear at once, probably here and there, men from greed, vanity, or addiction to custom, will still sacrifice their daughters; but it will be just as, for other reasons, other crimes are committed by isolated criminals. It may be necessary to hang a few such unnatural fathers, and if a few offenders in the higher classes, on the crime being fully brought home to them, were tucked up by way of warning, this proof of earnestness in the Government would expedite the complete eradication of the system. At any rate, with the feeling of the people strongly against it, as it must be when he dares to speak out, with a little extra vigilance on the part of those intrusted with the administration, and a steady, rigorons enforcement of the ordinary laws against murder, female infanticide will cease to be a system and be degraded into a mere vulgar, infamous crime.-Agra Messenger, March 18.

THE IRON DISTRICTS OF INDIA.-NIMAR. In the district of Mundlaisir, a portion of the territory ceded by Scindiah for the pay of the contingent, exists a bed of iron ore, said to be of almost unequalled richness. We are not in possession of the minute information we have received from some other

districts; but the country along the banks of the Nerbudda, from Hosungabad to Mundlaisir, is covered with the mineral. Specimens have been examined by professional mineralogists, who have declared them to be of a richness almost unknown in the most favoured iron districts of Europe. From Burwai, a place some twenty-five miles east of Mundlaisir, to Hosungabad, the iron is raised in considerable quantities, but in the wretched fashion we have so frequently described. In Nimar, as everywhere else, the native system involves the maximum of expenditure and the minimum of result. Every circumstance, however, is favourable to the introduction of European methods of manufacture. The richest of the mines are in the neighbourhood of Poonassa, and at Poonassa there is a great bed of limestone, which as a flux would be invaluable. Fuel is plentiful and cheap. The south bank of the Nerbudda is, as it was in the days when it was ruled by Hunuman, an almost impervious forest, and along the north bank from Burwai to Nimawer, wood for charcoal is abundant. The place appears already to have attracted the attention of Europeans, and a geologist employed from a private company, has recently examined the country around Poonassa.-Friend of India.

THE NEW FURLOUGH RULES.

We continue receiving letters from all parts complaining about the mysteries of the new furlough regulations. We have published one, and here is another, also from an officer holding a very high position in the army, which we recommend to the attentive perusal of our military friends. It is one of the clearest elucidations of the new rules which we have yet seen.

"After an attentive perusal of the new furlough regulations, it appears to me, that all the papers both in India and in England, in which I have seen the subject discussed, give a more favourable interpretation to them, than, I am afraid, they will be found to warrant. So far from officers proceeding on private furlough, being allowed to draw six months' allowances, para. 4. only gives that indulgence to those proceeding on furlough or on leave of absence on sick certificate;' while para. 7 grants only pay of regimental rank to officers on furlough on private affairs.

"The wording of para. 4 appears to me to have reference to para. 10, and that, if I am correct, is intended to include all sick leave 'in India, at the Cape of Good Hope, and elsewhere within Indian limits,' so that an individual going on sick leave to the hills in future, as to England or any other part of the world, would draw his pay and allowances for six months only, and merely pay for the remaining period of his absence. Rather a sell for Simla and Mussoorie householders.

"Para. 6 grants a furlough of two years after ten years' service; a second furlough of two years after twenty, but none apparently after thirty years' service. This rule, I imagine, may be interpreted in many ways, and give rise to various surmises. If a man takes advantage of his first and second furloughs, is he then bound to India for life; for two periods are only allowed?

"If another officer serves uninterruptedly for twenty years in India, can he then take only two years' furlough, or may he take the whole four, or even only three? And suppose he has served thirty years without having taken any furlough at all, can he then go only for two years? Before any officer is safe in determining whether to accept the old or the new rules, it is very necessary

that one point should be settled, namely, whether leave in India or within Indian limits, obtained previous to the promulgation of the new rules, is to count as service in India or not; because this will make a very material difference to officers now wishing to go home.

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"Para. 11 allows an officer to count as service in India three years' leave of absence of any kind and to any part of the world, out of twenty-five years' aggregate service. If he has been more than three years absent on leave, on whatever account, within Indian limits or out of them, he cannot count more than three years. He must do twenty-two years' duty out of twenty-five years'aggregate service. But how will this affect officers now wishing to home under the new rules? By the rules which obtained up to the publication of the new furlough regulations, an officer might have been able to produce a certificate signed by the military secretary to Government, stating that such officer had served twenty-five years in India, exclusive of three years' furlough. Supposing that officer has not been home for ten years, and then on sick certificate, but now wishes to take his furlough, under the impression that, having served twenty-five years in India, he is entitled by para. 11 to add his first three years' furlough to his time of ser. vice, or count the time of his second furlough. But what it is very necessary to know is, whether it is intended that leave obtained in India previous to the promulgation of the new rules is now to be brought against an officer applying for furlough on sick certificate or private affairs?

"If so, many who are now entitled to count twenty-five years' service in India, exclusive of furlough, would not then count twenty, as, besides their previous furlough, already deducted from their time of service, all leave within Indian limits would be added to the deduction. Thus, if an officer had attained an aggregate of three years' leave in India during an aggregate service of twentyfive years in the country, he could not now go home and count his time in England as service. It might be said to him 'You have had your three years, which you have counted, and may continue to count as service, but no advantage by the new rules at all will you get.' Why, an officer very lately appointed to staff employ has been one half his period of service on leave.

The following table, which I have compiled, will show how lieut..colonels and majors would stand in point of income under the old and new rules.

"Under the new rules, a lieut.-colonel on eighteen months' sick leave to England would draw as follows:

Pay for the first 6 months

Remaining 12 months

Pay of a major on 18 months' sick leave

as above, first 6 months

Remaining 12 months

Rs. 6,013 8 2,934 0

Rs. 8,947

Rs. 4,555 2 2,191 8

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lieutenant-colonel, or any other officer, may go to the Cape for two years, come to Calcutta for a day, and return to the Cape for two years more, on the same pay.-Vide Pattle, Angelo, &c. So you see, that before an officer is safe in deciding whether to go to England on the old or new rules, the late promulgation of the new furlough regulations requires considerable elucidation."Hurkaru.

THE LONDON MAIL of February 8th arrived at Calcutta March 16th (per Bombay). EXAMINATION IN NATIVE LANGUAGES.-The Calcutta Gazette of Wednesday, March 1st, announces that military officers who desire to pass in the languages, will in future be examined by a sub-committee of the presidency committee of examiners. The duty was formerly intrusted to the examiners of of the College of Fort William, which has been abolished.

Mr. R. MANDERSON, of the Bengal civil service, and Mr. P. Carnegy, deputy-collector, Allahabad, have published an "Elementary Treatise on Summary Suits."

JOTEEPERSAUD.-Another portion of Lalla Joteepersaud's accounts with Government, amounting to one lakh and seventy-five thousand rupees, have been passed and paid.

CIVIL CODE OF PROCEDURE.-It is said that Mr. Harrington, a judge of the Sudder Court of Agra, while employed at the presidency conjointly with Mr. Mills in framing the code of civil procedure, is to receive a monthly salary of Rs. 4,350.

BELLEW v. EDEN.-The crim. con. case of the Rev. J. C. M. Bellew v. the Hon. Ashley Eden, came on in the Supreme Court of Calcutta, on Friday, the 3rd March. The suit was undefended, but mitigation of damages was sought on the ground of the youth of the defendant. Damages were finally given for 5002,

THE LUCKNOW correspondent of the Englishman states, that Captain Need, agent for a company in England, enjoys almost a monopoly of the smaller commerce of Oude. His former relations with the country give him influence, his goods are not taxed, and his boats pass down the rivers without obstruction from the landholders. The writer declares that the Gogra has always four and a half feet water, and that steamers might ascend in the very hottest season of the year. He contends that if a good road were constructed, connecting the river and Lucknow, the city would become a place of first-rate commercial importance.

MAHARAJAH DHULEEP SINGH, in charge of Dr. Login, leaves Futtehgurh for Calcutta, on the 5th March. He will reside at Government House, Barrackpore.

ASSAM TEA COMPANY.-The annual meeting of the Assam Tea Company was held in Calcutta on the 1st March. The report submitted by the directors was satisfactory. The crop of the season amounted to 3,66,687 lbs. of tea, being an increase of 96,647 lbs. over that of the previous year. The plantations are flourishing, and the breadth of land under cultivation is still in creasing. The company, however, complain of the defects in the present system of communication with Assam, and of the deficient supply of labour. Why do they not imitate the planters of Guiana,. and import Chinese?

THE GREAT TIBETAN ROAD.-A correspondent says that the great Tibetan road from Simla is not yet finished. From Simla to Cheenee, a distance of 185 miles, but little has been done, and from thence to the Chinese frontier, not even the outline has been commenced. There are great engineering difficulties. In some places, hundreds of feet of rock must be blown away, and in others, walis 30 feet high must be erected "to get a ** foundation for the road." The writer, however, speaks in high terms of the com-mercial advantages of the route, and mentions that he has met Russian traders in Ladakh.

ALLAHABAD.-A letter from Allahabad says:-"The 25th N.I., commanded by Lieut. Col. Sewell, was reviewed a few days ago by the commandant of the station, Col. Moule, and it was one of the best sights we have had here for a long time. Nothing could have been better than the marching and manoeuvring of this regiment, the whole body marching as one man, one heavy distinct tread, and the firing was most perfect and regular. The Lieut.-Colonel's voice was heard sharp and clear throughout the field, as it used to be on the boards of your old Drury, and must of itself have inspired the men to execute the manoeuvres well. There was not a mistake, in fact, throughout the day, and I heard that Col. Moule is going to make a special report of his satisfaction to the Major-General at Cawnpore. Bengal Hurkaru, March 7.

COLONEL LISTER.-From letters from the Cossyah Hills, we are sorry to learn that the health of Lieut.-Col. F. G. Lister, the political agent, is so impaired, that he contemplates coming down to the Presidency on sick certificate, and thence proceeding to the Cape, as recommended by his medical adviser. Hurkaru, March 10.

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ARCHDEACON PRATT.-We are sorry to hear that the venerable Archdeacon Pratt has not received any material benefit from his trip to Tumlook, and that a voyage to Europe has been recommended as affording his only chance of a restoration to health.Hurkaru, March 14.

THE I. G. S. N. COMPANY.-At the half-yearly general meeting of shareholders of the I. G. S. N. Company, held at the company's offices yesterday evening, only ten shareholders attended, and the meeting was consequently ineffective for the transaction of business. This was not what had been anticipated, as the chairman and one of the directors had entered a protest against the 7th clause of the report, in which a statement made by the chairman at the last meeting was alleged to have been reviewed and found to be incorrect. It was expected that the three directors, whose voice had been potential to introduce this clause, would have attended to support their conduct in so doing against their two protesting colleagues; but the majority did not show. This seems to us hardly fair. Some degree of censure is implied in the report by the marked contradiction of a statement made by the chairman; an opportunity should therefore have been given to the latter of maintaining his assertion, or of explaining how he was led to make it.-Hurkaru, March 14.

KISHNAGHUR.-The following is from our Kishnaghur correspondent:-" We had a dreadful fire at Gouary a few days ago, which consumed an innumerable number of huts, and even de. stroyed or otherwise injured pucha buildings. The fire originated in an accident. A man, who was cooking his food, happened to go out of the kitchen after putting some oil in a frying-pan which was on the fire. The oil ignited, the flame caught the jaffreywork, and soon set the house on fire. The darogah is engaged in taking a list of the huts burnt, for the information of his superior the magistrate. There is a case pending before the sessions judge, committed by the magistrate, in which a fisherman lost his life from a most trivial cause. Three fishermen were washing their nets in a stream, when they commenced discussing some question connected with their trade. One of their number, an old man, happening to say something in the warmth of debate, one of his young companions took offence, and taking a stick which was lying close by, gave the old man a blow on the head, which instantly killed him."-Hurkaru, March 16.

SECRETARY TO THE COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.-The appointment is to be made over to the Uncovenanted Educational Service, and given to the most efficient and deserving man in that branch, with a salary of Company's Rupees 1,000 a month. This is the proper way to arrange, so as to get a thoroughly efficient and active secretary; and we have to congratulate that very deserving and highly useful branch of the public service, the uncovenanted educationals, on having at last handed over to them-for a perpetuity, we hope-an appointment which was always of right theirs. There are three favourites in the field for the vacant appointment; but if we may be permitted to make a guess, we should say that Mr. Woodrow will be the new secretary of the Council of Education, and a fitter it would not be easy to find.Calcutta Morning Chronicle.

THE BETHUNE TESTIMONIAL.-We understand that the committee of the Bethune Testimonial met yesterday morning at the chambers of the Chief Justice, to take into considerstion the best mode of expending the fund collected, so as to do honour to the memory of the deceased, and at the same time benefit those whose welfare he had so much at heart.-We believe that a position for founding scholarships in connection with the Bethune Female School met with the most general approval on the part of the committee, but as it appears upon reference to the prospectus by which the subscriptions to the fund were originally set on foot that the committee was under a promise to take the opinion of the subscribers generally, as to the disposal of the fund, the meeting was postponed, for the purpose of calling one of a more general character, at which all subscribers might be present.-Hurkaru, March 8. COAL.-The Calcutta journals republish a report by Captain James upon several descriptions of Indian coal. The most interesting facts relate to the comparative usefulness of the coals for the production of gas, which may be estimated from the following table:

Names of the Places from whence the

Coal comes.

Neighbourhood of Sylhet

Cubic feet of

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THE SHIP ALFRED.--Those who complain of the frauds in trade committed by the natives of India, would do well to look at two bolts taken out of the Alfred when in dock. One of them is It consists of

a keel bolt about an inch and a half in diameter.
some base metal, apparently an alloy of lead and copper, coated
over with a thin surface of good copper, about an eighth of an
inch thick. Thus the owner of the ship has been defrauded by
being charged the price of copper for this worthless composition,
but this is the least part of the crime, for the ship being fastened
with bolts, certainly not of half the intended strength, might have
been destroyed by an accident which would otherwise have done
her only a slight injury. It is rather fortunate that she has been
examined here, and these worthless materials replaced by good
solid metal. The owner of the Alfred will, no doubt, take pains
to sift this fraud to the bottom, for this may not be the only ship
which has been so sent to sea, and if he has been in the habit of
contracting for the fastenings, he may have been equally cheated
in many other instances. On looking at one of the bolts, we
observe that the base metal is quite visible where the bolt was
clenched; so that it can hardly have escaped the notice of the
workmen employed in fastening the ship. We suppose the facts
of this case will not fail to be reported to Lloyds, and it is to be
hoped the fraud will be traced to its origin.-Englishman,
March 7.

DEATH OF COLONEL SIR JAMES TENNANT.-We have to record, with much regret, the decease, at Meean Meer, on Monday evening, the 6th of March, of Colonel Sir James Tennant, K.C.B., of the Bengal Artillery, Brigadier of the 1st Class, Commanding the Station of Lahore. His remains were interred yesterday evening, with the customary miiitary honours, in the Artillery burying ground, followed by nearly the whole of the officers at Meean Meer, and many civil and military officers trom Anarkulee and Lahore. The funeral cortége was formed by the men of the Artillery Division, the flank companies of H.M.'s 10th Foot, and the 39th Native Infantry, the whole commanded by Lieut.Colonel Mowatt, minute guns, corresponding with the age of the gallant old veteran, being fired by Horse Artillery guns, during the time the procession was in motion. After the coffin had been committed to the grave, the Artillery fired three salvos, the Infantry three volleys, and the ceremonies for the departed were concluded. Few officers in the Bengal army have been more actively engaged than Sir James Tennant. During forty-eight years' service, he has always been to the front " ubique," according to the expressive motto of his regiment. In Boondelkund, in Oudh, at Kalinger, at Bhurtpoor, under Sir David Ochterlony, and under Lord Hastings, at Maharajpoor, and at Chillianwala, as a subaltern, as a captain, as a field officer; and, finally, at Goojrat, as brigadier-general of artillery, and virtual conqueror of the Sikhs, the gallant veteran earned distinctions for himself, and for his corps, which it has been the lot of very few of his cotemporaries, or even of his predecessors, to achieve. Sir James Tennant was also a distinguished mathematician. We sincerely condole with his family on the great loss they have sustained; for we have reason to believe that, in private life, he was as amiable a man as he was a distinguished soldier. By the death of Brigadier Sir James Tennant, the command of the station devolves on Colonel Caley, of the 64th native infantry, the senior officer present. Captain Young succeeds to the temporary command of the 64th native infantry.-Lahore Chronicle, March 8.

MILITARY ON-DITS.-The left wing of H. M.'s 81st foot reached Meerut on the 28th February.--The Gazette announces the transfer of H. M.'s 8th regiment of foot from the Bombay to the Bengal presidency.-The head quarters of the artillery have arrived at Meerut.-The 35th L. I. are expected at Delhi on the 22nd and 23rd of March.-The 41st N.I. may be expected at Delhi on the 15th or 16th of March.-We are sorry to hear that Major Burt, pension paymaster, Sirhind division, has been suffering from paralysis; he is now on his way to Calcutta, having been ordered to Australia.-The report of abolishing the station of Umballa gains ground, the troops now stationed there to be

removed to Loodhiana. It is also said that there is to be a great addition made to the number of troops, both native and European, throughout the Punjab.-Letters from Dinapore mention that the 38th regt. N. I. arrived there on the 2nd of March, halted four days to change some of the boats, and receive pay, and started again in the morning of the 7th, a gale blowing. They expect to arrive at Cawnpoor on the 12th of April, as they disembark at Benares, and march from that station. Weather delightfully cool. -We believe there is some probability of a wing of the 46th N.I. being orddred to Roorkee, in order to assist at the ceremony attendant on the opening of the Solani aqueduct on the 8th proximo.

GOVERNMENT GENERAL ORDERS.

THE FURLOUGH REGULATIONS.

Head Quarters, Camp, Kumora Damora, Feb. 23, 1854.With reference to the 12th para. of the Honourable the Court of Directors' despatch published in Government General Order No. 110, of the 1st instant, his excellency the Commander-in-Chief desires to call the attention of all officers concerned to the necessity for their intimating, when applying for furlough or leave of absence, whether or not they desire to retain what may be considered the advantages of the old regulations; as, in the absence of any such intimation, it will be presumed that they prefer to adopt the new rules; and transmitting officers will be careful not to forward to head-quarters applications deficient in this respect.

MOOLTAN PRIZE MONEY.

Fort William, Feb. 17, 1854.-No, 158 of 1854.-The Most Noble the Governor-General of India in Council is pleased, in pursuance of H. M.'s warrant and the orders of the Hon. the Court of Directors, as published in G.O.P.C., No. 674, dated Dec. 19, 1851, and G.G.O. No. 496, dated Aug. 13, 1852, to direct the publication of the following statements, Nos. I. and II., relative to the distribution of the booty taken in the city of Mooltan and at the forts of Mooltan and Chineoute.

2. Prize money to the captors being payable less the amount received by them as donation batta; the statement No. II. shows the sum now receivable by certain ranks.

3. Such of the European commissioned officers on the Bengal establishment as are entitled to the difference between prize money and donation batta, will submit bills through the presidency paymaster to the military auditor-general, who, as a member of the general prize committee, will pass them for payment if unobjectionable.

4. The claims of the bhisthies and bullock drivers entitled to prize money, but who have not received donation batta, will be submitted in the usual manner through regimental and station prize committees, in the forms and manner at present in use.

5. After the lapse of twelve months from the commencement of the distribution, the general prize committee will forward to the secretary to Government in the military department a return of the European officers who are entitled to difference between prize money and donation batta, but who, from having died or left India before the distribution commenced, may not have received their shares: when the return shall have been prepared and transmitted, no payments must be made in India on account of the shares therein specified.

The claims of the officers and men belonging to the Bombay establishment will be adjusted at that presidency as heretofore.

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Judge Advocate Generals, Commissary Generals, and Captains of the Indian Navy
Majors, Commanders of the Indian Navy, Deputy Adjutant General, Deputy Quarter-
General, and Deputy Commissary General
Captains, Surgeons, Brigade Majors, Regimental Paymasters, Assistants and Deputy
Assistants, Adjutant General, Assistants and Deputy Assistants Quarter-Master
General, Assistants and Deputy Assistants Commissary General, Surgeon to the
Commander-in-Chief, Chaplains and Aides-de-Camp, Lieutenants and Masters of
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Uncovenanted Physician, 2nd-Master, Ship's Clerk, Ship's Gunner, Boatswain,
Engineers, and Assistant Surgeon of the Navy
Conductors, Riding Masters, Apothecaries, Stewards, and Deputy Provost Marshals..
Sub-Conductors, Assistant Apothecaries, Assistant Stewards, Regimental Sergeant-
Majors, Quarter-Master Sergeants, Staff Sergeants, and Orderly Room Clerks
Brigade and Colour Sergeants, Sergeants, European Drum, Trumpet, and Fife Majors
Corporals, Bombardiers, European Drummers, Trumpeters, Rough Riders, Gunners,
Privates, Farrier Majors and Farriers, Boatswain's Mates, Armourers, Blacksmiths,
Quarter-Master, Captain Forecastle, Ship's Cook, Engineer Apprentices, Hospital
Apprentices, Seamen and other Europeans of the Indian Navy
Subadar Majors

Subadars, Ressaldars, Ressaidars, and Woordee Majors
Jemadars and Naib Ressaldars..

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Ordnance Drivers, and Hospital Assistants

Naicks, Tindals, Tent Lascars, Nishanburdars, Naggarchees, Kote Duffadars, Duffa-
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riers, Bhisthies, Bullock and Ordnance Drivers, Syces, Grasscutters, Nokeebs,
native Rough Riders, Laboratory Men, Sirdars, Workmen, Chowdry, Guides and
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Comparative Statement showing the Amount of Prize-Money divisible to the Army of the Punjaub, and the Amount already admitted as Donation Batta to the Officers and Men, as also the Sum now payable.

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LIEUTENANT E. PLowden.

Fort William, March 7, 1854.—The following paragraphs of a military letter, No. 5, from the Honourable the Court of Directors to the Governor of the presidency of Fort William in Bengal, dated 8th January, 1854, are published for general information:

1. In consideration of the earnest recommendation of the courtmartial in favour of Lieutenant Edmund Plowden, and of the numerous testimonials in his behalf from officers in the army, in

cluding Lieutenant-General Sir George Pollock, G.C.B., and Lieutenant-General Sir John Littler, G.c.B., we are disposed to consider that he may be granted prospectively the advantage of the vacancy which occurred in the 5th light cavalry, whilst his case was under reference to us by your Government.

2. Upon these grounds, and in consideration of all the circumstances of the case, we have resolved that Mr. Plowden shall, from the 16th November, 1853, be restored to the service with the rank of captain, and that on and from the same date he shall be placed on the retired list on a pension equivalent to the half

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