Our Hydrabad correspondent writes as follows, the 15th March:

"The resident saw the Nizam the other day. Authentic reports of the conference are not yet abroad. The best information, that which I select from many rumours, is that he presented his highness with an epitome of the proceedings taken in the conduct of the Arab Chaous (sous-lieutenant) Tabith or Sabith, who fired from the walls of the suburbs of Aurungabad on Major Mayne's force, when assaulting Eswantpoora; and he took the occasion to convey advice that must be considered both friendly and salutary, inasmuch as he endeavoured to impress him with a wholesome dread of the consequences to his sovereignty, that must result from licentious foreign troops being allowed to control his government, and prevail against his authority. What I do hear, however, authentically, is that the minister has expressed his satisfaction at the tone, the manner, and the good sense of Mr. Bushby's expostulations.

To preclude mistakes, and to obviate misapprehensions in regard to what I state, it is necessary to observe that I know as well as others do, that the minister was not present at the first part of the conference between his highness and the resident. If it be said, in disqualification of my information-How then came the minister to form an opinion upon the subject of the conference?— my only answer is, that I have stated a fact.

"The Nizam is at length relieved from Sultan Galib, after a resistance of about fifteen days to the repeated mandates of his highness that he should withdraw his Arab guards from the guard-room of the palace; he has at length retired, is considered finally dismissed, and has received the greater part of his demand, though the muster of his troops, which indeed is a mere farce, has ng you been completed. He is not, that I understand, expelled the country; and a report is abroad, not to be discredited merely on the ground of its extravagance, that the opulent Buddun Khan has offered to take him, for two years certain, into his service, at the head of 600, of his discharged Arabs.Buddun Khan can have but one object in this levying of troops; and I scarcely know whether there would be more policy in arresting his movement, or in letting him, by his overt acts, reap the full measure of his deserts.

"There is some pressure upon the Nizam's government to carry out the punishment of the Uzrabee. This I conclude from the circumstance, that there is some negotiation with him on the part of the Nizam's government to get him to submit to his exile." -Englishman.

MALACCA.

Advices received from Malacca mention that the Governor of the Straits Settlement has received order from the Government of India to postpone the construction of the Screw Pile Lighthouse on the Two-and-half Fathoms Bank, in the Straits of Malacca, until the return of the Government surveyor, Mr. Thomson, from England.-Englishman.

WILD SPORTS OF THE EAST.-We have lately seen one of a party of three military gentlemen who have just returned from a trip of some six weeks to the east of the island. Their bag was filled with ninety-one elephants (three of them tuskers), a young ephant (taken alive), forty wild buffaloes, four bears, twentyseven deers of various kinds, and other animals, making a total of 180 heads. This feat is, we believe, unparalleled in the history of Ceylon sport.-Ceylon Times. [What sort of bag must it have been to contain all the above?]

NEWS IN LESS THAN NO TIME.-A telegraphic message despatched from Benares at twenty minutes past eight last evening was received at the office in Agra at eight o'clock-Agra Messenger. [This feat, we suppose, has never been approached except by the famed Irishman, who left St. Paul's at eight o'clock precisely, and arrived at the Horse-guards at five minutes before eight. Eight seems the fated hour.]

**Should any delay or irregularity occur in supplying this paper, a communication of the fact to the Publishers will insure a remedy.

ALLEN'S INDIAN MAIL,

LONDON,

FRIDAY, May 19, 1854.

WHAT OF THE CHINESE SYSTEM?

PERHAPS some of our readers occasionally feel inclined to ask this question. If they study the Commons' debates, they may within the last few days have found a little satisfaction—information we mean-on the subject. The Chinese system of forcing plants for Hailebury is under the consideration of the committee whose names were given some time since, who, it should seem, find some difficulty in coming to a decision, as well they may. But a decision we are to have some time or other, and during the year 1855 we are to know something practically of the fruits of this wonderful system. Crude and sour enough they will no doubt be; but competition is the fashion, and we must submit to a temporary employinent of it, though possibly temporary only. What father one degree in mental capacity above the animal that chews the thistle, will spend a small fortune in educating his son, not to bring him up to a certain test, which, if he pass, he will obtain an appointment, but to prepare him for a contest where the chances against him cannot even be calculated, where no measure of acquirement can insure success, because, however great it may be, another candidate, more showy or more impudent, may carry off the prize; where, even if merit invariably succeeded, which it will not, the probability being rather the other way, no one in any given year could have any just or reasonable ground for hope, because from year to year those who come up in competition will necessarily vary in qualification, and especially in confidence, and he who would have been the best man in one year will be passed by altogether in another, through the apparently higher claims of his rivals. Then what is to become of the rejected candidates! Their situation will be worse than that of the aspirants to any other profession. No man who reads fairly for the Church will fail of obtaining an entrance to it. No man who works hard at the preliminary studies, need be disappointed of the degree of M.D., the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons, or that of the worshipful Company of Apothecaries. No man, whatever the depth of his ignorance, if he possess a tolerable character and a good appetite, is ever excluded from the bar. If a man be refused orders, it is always for some sufficient reason. If no respectable university or college

will grant him a title to kill the Queen's subjects secundum artem, it is because he is an idler or a dunce; and even at the worst, there are universities which, without inquiry, sell diplomas at so cheap a rate, that such distinctions are not only attainable by "the meanest capacities,” but can almost be commanded by the lowest purses,-ride Times, Chronicle, &c. A candidate for an Indian appointment will therefore be in a worse position than he who seeks access to any other liberal profession. Desirable as is such appointment, a youth who shall voluntarily come forward to contend for it will show that he is a youth indeed, while

the seniors who shall encourage him will but furnish fresh illustrations of a truth pretty well known, that white hairs do not always bring to the head which they cover the gifts of prudence and common sense. The wildest railway speculation that ever tempted men to disappointment and ruin, is nothing to the scheme of competition for Indian appointments. To say nothing of the wearying anxiety, the crushed hopes, and the bitter regrets involved, there is a consideration which has scarcely received the attention which it deserves. Will the plan work? We do not inquire whether it will work well or ill, but will it work at all? The fourfold nomination was obliged to be abandoned;—what if the present plan should follow it to the tomb of the Capulets, or of the crotchets? Where are the candidates to come from? Not from the middle classes, for men with moderate means will, for the most part, naturally be cautious as to throwing any part of them away: not from the upper classes,-and it is not desirable that exclusively they should,-for men of rank are not always men of money, and when they are, it may be presumed they will not be disposed to throw it away: then for the humbler classes, among whom it might occasionally be thought that some precocious Jack or Bob was a marvellously clever fellow, who would carry all before him if he had but the opportunity, how is the opportunity to be attained, where money is one of the chief sinews of the educational campaign, no less than of that warfare in which part of Europe is now engaged? One thing, indeed, may pretty safely be predicted. Those who plunge their sons into this vortex of competition, will in general be unprincipled and reckless men. A broken-down gambler makes a dashing speculator, if he can raise the money to pay the deposit required; he knows that, come what may, he cannot be much worse, and so he boldly throws, although the odds against his success be "Lombard Street to a China orange." So thoughtless men, who can by hook or by crook raise the money to pay the cost of a cram, will make an experiment upon which few beside will venture. It may therefore be fairly concluded that the future administrators of India will be inferior men to those who have hitherto carried on the machinery of government there-inferior, we mean, in respectability; and by respectability we do not mean rank or wealth, but something beyond, and far more valuable. But the year 1855 is approaching, and then we are promised such a sight as was never seen before. We are to have our pick from all the talent in the country, if it will but come to market. But what temptation is there to bring sound goods, when it is certain that a large portion will be returned on the vender's hands as unsaleable? The few candidates who, for some reason or for none, have the good fortune to be enlisted to do "the state some service," will have reason to exclaim, "There is nothing like luck;" while the East-India Company, which will have to bear the burden of the "hard bargains," will find it difficult to appropriate to their melancholy case any apothegm, or to derive comfort from any "wise saws. "The law allows it," and therefore the remainder of Shylock's declaration, "the Court awards it," must follow.

The march of competition in the present day is over not only all that is reasonable, but over all that is venerable. "Dead men tell no tales," and they feel no wrongs; nor, if they felt any, could they complain. It is well that consciousness of what is passing on this earth is denied to them. The hand of spoliation is in this day raised against

endowments munificently given by men long asleep in their tombs, to the cause of sound and liberal learning. A part of these benefactors of their species directed that, in the distribution of their noble gifts, certain preferences should be given, sometimes to the "founder's kin,"-and who can have a better claim?-sometimes to particular localities, as towns, parishes, counties, or dioceses. If these preferences were merely capricious, what then? A man is not obliged to bequeath money to public purposes, and if his generous spirit urge him to do so, he has an undoubted right to attach to his bequest any condition that may please him; and whatever the conditions may be, unless they are either contrary to God's law or utterly impracticable, they ought to be held sacred. All but the most brutal nations, or the most brutal spirits in nations called civilized, have respected the dead. Now here in England their lawful injunctions are apparently about to be dealt with as an old, used up, dirty, dog'seared copy-book, and this by what Lord Brougham once termed "the noblest assembly of freemen in the world." Oxford is to be purified by the sacrifice of the deliberately expressed intentions of the men who made it what it is. There is only one way in which deeds like these can be justly characterized, and as the measure in which it is proposed to give them effect has not yet become law, we may resort to it. They are neither more nor less than acts of violence, plunder, rapine. If such may be perpetrated, what security does any man in the kingdom possess for the property which he has inherited from his ancestors? Why may not a slice of the Duke of Sutherland's estates be taken for some supposed public good, or partners be admitted into the Duke of Devonshire's domains? Why may not a successor not in the line of inheritance be named for the broad acres of the Earl of Leicester? If confiscation is to begin, who shall prescribe its limits? Such proceedings tend to shake the security of all the property in the kingdom. It is upon the respect paid to the rights of property that a large part of our national greatness is based. But if we may transfer property solemnly settled ages ago, to some unknown John Noakes or Thomas Stiles thus lightly, why may we not go one step further, and regulate the property of private families? If among them there be any sharp ones, give them "the lion's share ;" as for the rest, though they may claim under wills or settlements, wills and settlements are obsolete things, or at least it is obsolete to regard their provisions in even the slightest degree. Once, indeed, they were held as something, but the "new generation" has changed all that; the documents on which you rely are but old parchment and waste paper; take them to the dealers in those articles and get what you can for them,the property is gone, and the muniments might as well follow it. There is not much cause to apprehend that the good deeds of our ancestors should ever be repeated under any circumstances; but if imitation were probable, such a measure as the confiscation of existing endowments would be a death-blow to the hope of it. Looking at the matter in a utilitarian point of view (the lowest in which it can be looked at), we may ask who hereafter would give of his store to the encouragement of learning, with the prospect of some future Legislature seizing the property which he might have bequeathed to whomsoever he pleased, and diverting it to other objects than those which he desired to effect?

Words govern mankind for a while; but the influence of the same words never lasts long. "Liberty, equality, and fraternity," have had their day. Competition is now the favourite, and it is doing its work pretty briskly. No wonder, seeing that it flies at high game, it should not pass over the East-India Company, an object for attack to every peddling politician, to every noble dullard, to every overgrown schoolboy who has got words and only wants a theme on which to string them as best he may, and who thinks himself a Burke while his hearers vote him a blockhead. No wonder that the competition system, which is to uproot the growth of ages, should be first tried upon a service which cannot boast such venerable antiquity, but which has produced more able men than ever were produced in the same period of years by any other that the world ever saw. The year 1855 is to be a new era, and thenceforward every India servant is to be possibly a Bacon, but at the very least a Fox, a Pitt, or a Canning. If any man's expectation falls short of this, we say that he has no faith in human perfectibility, which, seeing that it is the fashionable creed of the age, is equivalent to excommunicating him by bell, book, and candle. Dr. Slop could not have been more severe, and we cannot pretend to surpass Dr. Slop.

THE LORDS INVITED TO BECOME INDIAN
SCAVENGERS.

Or all the freaks in which India Reformers ever in

dulged, and they are sufficiently notorious for whimsicality, one of the most amusing was brought to a culminating point in the House of Lords on Monday, May the 1st. The Earl of Albemarle rose, and-we understand with a perfectly grave face-presented a petition, alleged to come from certain inhabitants of Calcutta, complaining of the insufficiency of the arrangements made for lighting, draining, and cleaning that city, and praying a remedy at their lordships' hands. We are really serious. A brief report of this strange affair appears in its proper place in our journal; and if it be deemed incredible that such an incident could be permitted to diversify the usually solemn character of the Lords' proceedings, let the doubters consult the files of the Times, Chronicle, Herald, Post, News, and Advertiser, and if unanimity of report can insure belief, belief will follow. True it is, that business in the House of Lords during the former half of every session is usually but slack; but that this venerable branch of the Legislature should be called upon to fill up its leisure time by disposing of the filth of an Indian city, was something more startling than any former outbreak of folly from the same quarter. Perhaps an interchange of duties will next be proposed, the British Parliament undertaking to cleanse Calcutta, while the Governor-General in Council shall take in charge the sewage of London, Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. Earl Granville had "too much confidence in the sound judgment of his noble friend to believe that he seriously meant to press the prayer of the petitioners." The noble earl's good nature must have been tremendously drawn upon when he could yield such confidence. The House was equally good-natured, for the petition was not contumaciously kicked out, but was suffered quietly to descend into that limbo whence petitions, after due time for repose, emerge to fulfil the useful purposes to which old parchment may be applied. We do not know who is

Lord Albemarle's tailor; but it is not unlikely that his lordship, if he live long enough, may be measured with a strip of that identical petition, by the production of which he astonished the noble individuals assembled within Sir Charles Barry's palace at Westminster on the first day of May, 1854. Perhaps the fact of May-day being the chimney-sweeper's holiday, led to its being selected for the presentation of a petition bearing on the occupation of their brother artists the scavengers and mud-larks.

CHINA UPON MANCHESTER.

THE China Mail of 16th March tells us, that "Dr. Bowring's appointment has been received with satisfaction by the Manchester people, and by two, at least, of the leading English journals, metropolitan and provincial,— the Times and the Manchester Guardian." Manchester, indeed, claims to be the metropolis of England, the centre of its intelligence, and the dominant power in the administration of its affairs; but unlike Goldsmith's mendicant, it does not have its "claim allowed." Its title is questioned by persons who think with Mr. Albert Smith, that the final cause for the existence of man upon this earth is not that he may spin cotton; but that the woods, the fields, and the waters may give occasional delight to those whose minds are so badly attuned to the harmony of manufacturing life, that they tire of the contemplation of tall smoky chimneys, diseased profligate men, women whom it is impossible for such persons to view without a shudder, and children distorted in body, still more distorted in mind, living in an atmosphere of ribaldry and blasphemy, and becoming adepts therein before they are acquainted with aught beside; trained up "in the way in which they should not go," and prepared long before the natural development of the passions, to run a career of vice and crime, ending only with the termination of their miserable lives. Such is Manchester in its lower grades. As to the magnates who convert the bodies and souls of their wretched slaves into bags of gold and piles of bank notes, we shall leave the China Mail to deal with them, and we will show how it does deal with them. The learned Knight, Doctor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice-Admiral made a speech in Manchester, wherein he discoursed de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis, and among his multifarious topics, upon the proposed decimal currency, on which, by the way, he states that his views "received a fresh impulse from his experience in China." China is clearly the country which is eventually to subdue the world; not by its army, but by its proficiencies in the arts and sciences. Greece and Rome will be remembered no more; China alone will be looked to as the great civilizer, and Sir John Bowring as the prime agent in carrying on its work. First comes competition for employment, sacrificing thousands in true royal style to its progress; next the decimal currency, which is to set the world to rights by imitating the example of the village functionary who, as related by Sir Walter Scott, gave an unhappy culprit a companion in the stocks, "for the sak of uniformity." But the merits of the polyglot knight have almost caused us to forget Manchester, as well they may. To assist us in returning thereto, we must mention that the China Mail is of opinion that his (the knight's) remarks would not be thrown away upon his audience; "for," continues our Oriental brother the Guardian, "while it deplores the ignorance about China that

generally prevails, excepts Manchester, where, it tells us, the most accurate intelligence obtains." Ahem! we believe that the testimony of a man to his own merits is usually received cum grano; and the organ of Manchester, vaunting the glory of Manchester, must be subjected to the like measure of allowance. But we promised to let the editor of the China Mail deal with these people single-handed, and we will keep our word. What says he, then? Reader, open your eyes, put on your best spectacles, if you decorate your face with such appendages, keep your nerves in check, and behold!-"But for such positive assurance from a good authority, we might have been disposed to doubt the assertion, for there are instances not a few, both commercial and political, that would seem to prove Manchester to be as gullible as the rest of the country, and not always to have profited by expensive lessons." Need we add anything to the judgment of the China Mail? but can we abstain from exclaiming," Call you this backing of your friends?" Manchester, that claims supremacy in everything, even in the misery and degraded character of its population-this great city, which puts to shame all other cities, ancient or modern, and, like the great Katterfelto, is lost in amazement, "at its own wonders wondering". Manchester" gullible,”- -so says one who does not hold a brief either for or against that den of smoke, which all the rain with which it is deluged cannot wash clean, any more than the "leaven of hypocrisy" with which its great men are impregnated, can make them good ones-Manchester is "gullible."

To the gentleman who thought it worth his while to lecture these" gullibles," we have little at present to say. Thirty or forty years ago he sought distinction by professing an acquaintance with languages of which no one ever heard, and with literature which no one dreamed to exist. After this, if we mistake not, he obtained, though we are not aware that he sought, some notoriety from the memorable "Greek cause." Now he is pursuing the same object by other means. The Chinese have enlightened him on various matters, and he kindly seeks to make his countrymen as Chinese as he can, in order that they may become as well informed as honest, and as just and as gentle as that "singular people," as they are sometimes called; that admirable people, as we suppose Sir John Bowring would call them. We cannot say that we wish him success, for we have an antipathy to all quackery, and more especially to state quackery. We admire the craft of Chinese men no more than the cramped feet of Chinese women. Sir John had better return to his "first love," and amuse himself for the future in making Hungarian ballads.

MILITARY FURLOUGH REGULATIONS. THERE are persons who know everything by intuition; and we presume it is by some of these that a report has been spread that the orders respecting military furlough, recently passed, were about to be rescinded, at the express desire (to speak in language histrionic) of the Government of India. These enlightened ones, moreover, knew exactly who had a share in the preparation of the said orders, and exactly what that share was. cannot presume to compete with these omniscient individuals, but we keep our eye upon whatever may be going on in the world which is likely to interest the Indian public. That public is now very large. Few are the

We

families in the upper and middle classes who have not relatives or friends in India; and we hold it to be somewhat worse than folly to set this wide circle on the qui vive for nothing at all. There is no prospect of the new regulations being cast aside, or even subjected to substantial modifications. We do not undertake to assert that no communications on the subject have been made from the Indian to the Home Government; but, if there have been any, we feel certain that they are not of the character represented. As the one Government has never pressed for change, it would be almost idle to say that the other has not yielded to the imaginary pressure, the ghost of a shadow which never had aught but visionary being, the nature of which, perhaps, the spirit-rappers will investigate. Communications may have taken place, but as the reporters to whom we have alluded are not hidden under the table, like the short-hand writer in the Noctes Ambrosianæ, we take the liberty of denying their pretensions to information. Whatever the real or supposed communications may have been, we feel confident that they involved no matter of principle, but related entirely to points of construction and detail, which, whatever may be the explanation, will not affect the integrity of the rules laid down. We enter into no inquiry whether those rules be good or bad that is an open question, upon which we offer no opinion. All that we affirm is, that, whether good or bad, they are not at present about to be altered.

PENSIONARY PROVISION FOR THE
UNCOVENANTED SERVICE.

ALMOST everybody in India, and many persons in this country, are aware of the conflicting views taken by two sections of the uncovenanted service of Bengal, of a proposed change in regard to pensionary provision. It will be unnecessary to advert to any of the arguments on either side. None who take an interest in the matter will need an exposition of the opinions, either of the memorialists for the proposed change, or of the counter-memorialists who deprecate it. As the pros and cons were nearly balanced, it must have been evident that there was small probability of the Court yielding its assent to the meditated alteration. The number of servants seeking it is indeed very large, but the number opposing it is little inferior. If, therefore, the Court had complied with the wishes of the memorialists in favour of the arrangement sought by them, many would have been gratified, but nearly as many would have been disappointed. It is not surprising, therefore, that the new plan should have been rejected. Whether or not it will be produced again, with such modifications as may remove the objections made to it by a large portion of the service, we of course are unable to say; but if the plan be really valuable, and capable of being relieved of its less popular characteristics, some attempt to improve it will most likely be made; and if such should be the case, it is unnecessary to point out the desirableness of adopting principles that shall give the fund that stability which should be one of the first objects sought for, and without which its existence would be a mockery. The movement, however, will not have been made in vain, whatever may be the ultimate results as to its main purpose. It has led to the concession of a boon to faithful service when extended to extraordinary length. We understand that authority has been given to the Government of India to permit retirement,

after thirty-five years' service, on half the average salary of the last five years of the period, and without medical certificate. This at once affords a hope to cheer the labourer on his journey of life, a stimulus to perseverance, a consolation for the period when labour becomes sorrow; and, as the privilege is to be the reward of good service only, a distinction for him who faithfully earns it.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 1.

DRAINAGE OF CALCUTTA.

The Earl of Albemarle rose to present a petition from the Trade Association, and other inhabitants of Calcutta, complaining that that city was inefficiently lighted, drained, and cleansed under the Local Municipal Act of 1852; and praying the House to extend to the said city the benefit of municipal institutions similar, as far as practicable, to those enjoyed by towns in the United Kingdom; and to ask the Government what steps they would take to remedy the evils complained of. The noble earl also mentioned the want of provision for the loading and unloading of the 426,000 tons of merchandize which represented the annual trade of Calcutta. There was no excuse for this maladministration, for taxes to the amount of 35,000l. were annually levied for municipal purposes, and the position of the town was eminently adapted for cheap and efficient drainage, while coals for a supply of gas might easily be obtained from a distance of not more than 160 miles. The noble earl said that all the remedies which had from time to time been attempted for the evils which he complained of had failed.

Earl Granville had too much confidence in the sound judgment of his noble friend to believe that he seriously meant to press the prayer of the petitioners. He thought a strong feeling was evinced during the debates upon Indian affairs last year, and the government of India must be practically carried on in India itself. It was evident the Governor-General in Council was fully competent to deal with the matter to which the petition referred. With respect to the objection that two of the places at the board appointed under the Act of 1852 were not filled by respectable Europeans, but by natives, that was the very last objection he should have expected to hear from his noble friend. He considered it most advisable that the House should not encroach upon the direct functions of the Governor-General and the Legislative Council of India.

The petition was ordered to lie on the table.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 8.

CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

Mr. D. Seymour asked the President of the Indian Board when the first examination for admission into the civil service of India would take place, and when Government would be able to state what would be the nature of the examinations.

Sir C. Wood said that the first admission practically under the system of open competition would take place in the summer of 1855. A committee was assisting him in preparing regulations as to the nature of the examinations; but they were not yet quite decided upon. Ample notice would be given of the nature of the examination to be undergone.

SHIPPING. ARRIVALS.

APRIL 27.-Vimeira, Neatby, Sydney.-28. Joshua Fowler, Melbourne; Marathon, Wilson, Bombay; Queen, Payne, Mauritius; Pudsey Dawson, Davis, Shanghai; Camperdown, Denny, and Southampton, Roe, Bengal; William, Milton, China; Bombay, Fletcher, Cochin; Voyageur, Pirouet, Mauritius; Albemarle, Trivett, Ceylon; Bengal, Brass, Bengal.-29. Enterprise, Forbes, Mauritius; Calabar, Moodie, Bengal; Philo, Golightly, Mauritius; Alfred the Great, Goroing, Ceylon; Land o' Cakes, Watson, Bengal; Nene Valley, Baldwin, Madras; Belle Vue, Nicol, Ceylon; Rother, Newholm, Algoa Bay; Countess of Seafield, Innes, Whampoa; Competitor, Sargeant, Mauritius; Abeons, Richardson, Hong-Kong; Helen, late Heaviside, Maulmain; Rambler, Heard, Mauritius. MAY 1. Cupid, Hellyer, Narayana, Weatherburn, and John Bright, Mill, Mauritius; Walter, Norelius, China; K. S. Forbes, Wright, Singapore; Berenice, Wilson, Bengal; Fido, Stebe, Cape; Affiance, Barrick, Ceylon; Canada, Robinson, Bengal; Indian Ocean, Pollock, Bombay; Prince George, Whelan, Maulmein; Marian, Rotby, Tranquebar; Menam, Andrews, Shanghai; Windsor, Tickell, Sydney; Lord Auckland, Thomp son, Bombay; Pasha, Kay, Ceylon; Caractacus, Barber, Penang; Christina, Reid, Singapore; Jane Greene, Spence, Ceylon.-2. John Romilly, Kendall, Mauritius; Antilla, Carr, Singapore; British Queen, Plain, Bombay; Mirzapore, Garnock, Bengal; William Fisher, Craig, Singapore; Seringapatam, Gimblett, Bombay; Snow Squall, Bursley, Shaughai; Collingwood, Boyd, Mauritius.-3. Balkan, Wainwright, and Akbar, Joy, Mauritius. -4. H. M. S. Fox, Tarleton; India Garland, Shalcrow, Bombay,- 5. Despatch, Gales, Algoa Bay; Agincourt, Hyne, Bengal; Polar Star, Walker, Port Phillip.-6. Star of the East, Robertson, Shanghai; Devonshire, Pixley, Mauritius; Marchioness of Londonderry, Williams, Shanghai; London, Marshall, Akyab.-8. Thomas Campbell, Clarke, Bombay; Rookery, Tur ner, Ceylon; City of Peterborough, Penn, Mauritius; Tadmor, Bowie, Maulmain; North Star, Smith, Whampoa; Lady Jocelyn (steamer), Bird, Bengal and Cape; Jane, Henderson, Batavia; Monarch, Wiltshire, Bengal; Princess Royal, Mawson, Bengal.-9. Cannata, Tillson, Bengal; Arabian, Serrill, Bombay; Androklos, Brulin, Whampoa; Emma, Freeman, Mauritius.-10. Owen Glendower, Pare, Bombay; Wodan, Mathieson, Batavia; Joseph Fletcher, Foster, Shanghai; Ann Mitchell, Darroch, Bombay; Oriental, Stobo, Bengal, Edwin Fox, Salmon, Bengal; Punjanb, Palmer, Bengal; Franklyn, Abbot, Mauritius; Clyde, Merdock, Shanghai; Ann Porter, Porten, Mauritius; Rival, Tomlin, Mauritius; Harlequin, Brown, Ceylon.-11. Columbus, Smith, and Rialto, Main, Mauritius; Hot. spur, Toynbee, Bengal; Lord Ashley, Abbott, Java; Argaum, Fitzmorris, Bombay; Armais, Locke, Whampoa.-12. Ambassador, Moore, Eliza Charles, Lewis, and Nautilus, Laws, Mauritius; Thor, Chydenius, Maulmein; Kate Kearney, Rowland, Hong-Kong; Amathea, Robinson, Bengal.-13. Minerva, Lonie, Adelaide, Tremearne, and Chieftain, Bell, Mauritius; Marco Polo, M'Donald, Melbourne; Sir Bevois, Appleton, Singapore; Cossipore, Dundas, Bengal.-15. Canute, Barber, Whampoa; Borneo, Sutherland, and William M'Gowan, Emment, Mauritius; Harriet, M'Lean, Singapore. -16. Wilberforce, Todd, Mauritius.

PASSENGERS ARRIVED AT SOUTHAMPTON,

Per Lady Jocelyn (May 9).-Maj. and Mrs. Fergusson, Mr. and Mrs. Even and 3 children, Mr. and Mrs. Abadie and 3 children, Mr. G. M. Pirtens, Mrs. Pirtens and child, Mrs. C. B. Wallis and 4 children, Mrs. Christian, Mr. H. Richards, Mr. and Mrs. Babbington, Mr. G. Moncrieff, Miss Macrae, Mr. Barlow, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs, Beauland, Mr. Chase, Mr. Black, Capt. J. M. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford and 2 children, Mr. Benson, Mr. J. S. Rutter, Capt. S. S. Kearney, 15th hussars; Capt. H. E. Walpole, Lieut. E. Norton, Mrs. McDonell and 3 children, Mrs. Clarke and 7 children, Mr. Bancroft's 3 children, Col. Der. ville, Rev. E. Sarjeant and child, Lieut. Malden, Mr. Walls, Lieut. Wilde, Madame Delme, Mr. G. Robinson, Mr. J. Robinson, Mr. J. May, Maj. Tylden, R. E.; Lieut. Cockburn, 10th rifles; Mr. Wray and child, Maj. Miles, Mr. C. M. Owen, Mr. Newbury, Mr. Buda, Capt. Welsh, 80th regt. Lieut. Amiel, 80th regt.; Lieut. Christian, Mrs. Tiel and child, Maj. and Mrs. Thomas and child, Mrs. Whittall and 4 children, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Whiting and child, Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson and 4 children, Mr. and Mrs. Wingrove, Lieut. Warden, Mrs. Allen, Lieut. and Mrs. Lambert, Mrs. Thircore, Mrs. Jellicoe and infant, Mrs. Harvey, Capt. J. Hickley, Lieut. Woods, Mr. Bowers, Mrs. Barker and 2 children.

PASSENGERS EXPECTED AT SOUTHAMPTON.

Per steamer Ripon, May 23.-Mr. Peld, Mr. Hulme, Mr. Findley, Hon. Mrs. Drummond and 2 children, Mrs. Mottey and 3 children, Dr. and Mrs. Chapman, Lord S. Kerr, Col. Stuart, Mr. Spence, Mr. Nasmyth, Mr. Davidson, Hon. Capt. Powys, Capt. Durham, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Brodie, Capt. and Mrs. Manners and child, Lieut. Madden, Capt. West, Lieut. Beddick, Eus. Kerr, Mr. Webb, Mr. Caisou, Mr. Randall, Vice admiral Sir F. Pellew, Mr. Mugford, Lieut. Martin, Lieut. col. St. George, Lieut. Braybrooke, Lieut. Roach, Asst. surg. Pulchor, Mr. Coghill, Mr. Worms, Col. Shelley, Mr. Sims, Mr. Scott, Mr. Fulland, Mrs. Quartley, Capt. Jenkins, Mr. Cassirs, Mr. Tupper, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Lady Pirie, Mrs. West, Dr. Moore.

DEPARTURES.

From the DowNS, APRIL 26.-Ballarat, Thirkell, Calcutta; Maria, Day, Cape.-29. Thetis, Gregory, Calcutta.-MAY 6. Ocean Queen, Rees, Bombay.-10. Eclipse, Hughes, Mauritius; Oribe, Fowler, Cape.

From LIVERPOOL, MAY 2.-Owen Potter, Banks, Calcutta.-3. Courier, Davison, Galle; Thomas Sparks, Kelly, Bombay; Priscilla, Lindsay, Algoa Bay.-4. Red Jacket, Reed, and Miles Barton, Kelly, Melbourne.-3. San Andres, Julian, Manila.-5. Henry Ware, Dudley, Calcutta.-6. Flag of Truce, Day, Bombay.-9. George Arkle, Hooper, Bombay; Palatine, Parfitt, Bombay.-10. David Harrison, Starling, Hong-Kong.

PASSENGERS DEPARTED.

Per steamer Simla, from SoUTHAMPTON (May 6), to proceed per steamer HINDOOSTAN, from SUEZ.-For MALTA.-Asst. com. gen. Malassey, Mr. Telper, Mr. J. Layland, Mr. W. M'Dowell, Mr. D. Wheeler, Mr. G. Bell, Mr. R. B. Garwood, Mr. H. Cook, Mr. P. Williams, Mr. A. Ford, Capt. and Mrs Kilvington and child, Mr. Wilberforce, Lieut..col. Cobb, Lieut. Elliott, Surg. Stockley, Surg. Hunter, Mr. Davis, Col. Beatson, Maj. Northey, Maj. Creagh. For ALEXANDRIA.-Mr. Northey. For SUBZ.Mr. and Mrs. Whyte and three daughters, Mr. Whyte, jun. Mr. Utterson, Miss Godwin, Mrs. Clarkson, Mr. L. S. Bruce. For ADEN.-Mrs. Clark, Miss Clark, Mr. L. G. Brown. For CEYLON.-Mr. Fulton, Mr. J. Shaw. For MADRAS.-Maj. Rowlandson, Miss Rowlandson, Mr. Rowlandson, Mr.