RODRIGUES, wife of Alex. d. at Madras, July 25. STEWART, wife of Asst. surg. L. W. s. at Russelkondah, July 12. Van DenvarT, wife of G. D. s. at Madras, July 6. MARRIAGES. DE NIESE, J. E. S. to Jesse Maria, d. of the late W. A. Lewin, at Madras, July 21. JAFFREY, T. to Harriet, d. of J. J. Fitzpatrick, at Madras, July 20 O'KEEFE, D. T. to Miss Jemima Edwards, at Madras, July 31. PALMER, C. to K. d. of the late E. Nice, at Secunderabad, Aug. 2. REGEL, T. J. to Esther Maria, d. of J. E. Kohlhoff, at Tanjore, July 18. REYNAUDET, A. A. to Matilda, d. of W. Goodman, at Madras, July 26. DEATHS. ARATHOON, Sophia S. widow of the late S. at Royapooram, aged 72, July 31. BEARE, C. Alfred, s. of T. at Royapettah, Aug. 7. BEAUMONT, Lieut. H. J. 7th N.I. at Calcutta, July 17. BOND, Walter G. inf. s. of J. at Black Town, aged 2, Aug. 3. CAMERON, T. M. at Arady, aged 7, July 24. CHAPMAN, Mary Ann, wife of S. H. at St. Thomas's Mount, aged 16. Aug. 4. FIRMINGER, Asst. surg. J. W. 19th N.I. at Rangoon, June 24. JENKINS, M. at Vepery, Aug. 6. RYLANDS, Mary, inf. d. of J. E. at Madras, July 29. SCRIVEN, Annie E. wife of T. E. at Vepery, July 23. SIMKINS, Julia S. d. of A. P. at Madras, Aug. 3. SIMKINS, Abel D. s. of A. P. at Madras, Aug. 3. WELLS, Alice G. d. of W. at Trevandrum, aged 3, Aug. 1. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS. JULY 21. William Goddard, M'Kay, Boston and Pondicherry.-22. Sew. str. Propontis, Maynard, Calcutta and Sand Heads.-25. Isabella Blyth, Hale, Mauritius; John Henry, Wilson, Mauritius; Royal Albert, Norris, London, Gravesend; Sir Eiward Paget, Chapman, Sydney.-26. Diana, Fletcher, Mauritius; Ann, Brown, London, Gravesend; Bengal Merchant, Cowen, Sydney.-27. Carnatic, Suart, Bimlipatam; Str. Oriental, Henry, Suez, Aden, and Galle.-30. Autumnus, Harrison, Liverpool. AUG. 1. Gratitude, Smith, Port Hunter; Malabar, Noakes, Bimlipatam and Coringa.-2. Coldstream, Adams, Mauritius; Zaphnath Phaaneah, Jarvis, Singapore, Malacca, and Penang.-7. British Tar, Machin, London.-8. Clairvoyant, Sargent, Mauritius.-9. Ayrshire, Macpherson, Mauritius.11. Steamer Precursor, Suez. PASSENGERS ARRIVED. Per Sew. str. Propontis (July 22), from CALCUTTA.-Mr. Pestonjee. Per Royal Albert (July 25), from LONDON, GRAVESEND.-110 recruits, Lieut. Holland, A.B.; Ens. Hawkes, M.N.I. in charge; S. T. Wyndowe, surgeon; Mr. O'Reilly, cadet; H. Hornsby, Esq. and Mrs. Hawkes. Per Sir Edward Paget (July 25), from SYDNEY.-Mr. and Mrs. Lackersteen, Mrs. Chapman, and Capt. Charlesworth. Per Diana (July 26), from MAURITIUS.-Mr. Frany, asst. apoth. Per Bengal Merchant (July 26), from SYDNEY. - Mr. Burt (supercargo). Per str. Oriental (July 26), from SUEZ, ADEN, and GALLE.-From SOUTHAMPTON to MADRAS.-Mr. Falconnet, Lieut. E. Kindersley, Mr. Cox, Mr. W. A. Beath, Lieut. Robertson, 16th M.N.I. 1 private, Madras sappers and miners. From SINGAPORE to MADRAS.-Lieut. Robertson. From SOUTHAMPTON to CALCUTTA.-Mr. Humphrey, Mr. Lang, Noor Mahomed, Mr. Barker, Mr. James Jenkins, J. Laverick, J. Holstead, A. Gill, A. Allen, J. Rare, J. Huntingdon, H. Bailey, W. Laverick, H. Fawcett, Mrs. Holstead, James Clarke, Thomas Savage, John Gray, J. Billing, J. Cooper, Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Gibbon. From MARSEILLES to CALCUTTA.-Miss Wilkins, Mr. Byles, Mr. Carpenter, and Mr. W. Franklyn, and European male servant. From SUEZ to CALCUTTA.-Lingi Bartoli, Lingi Xiclama, Epifanis Agrins, Carmelo Abela, Carmelo Zarmont and Vete Jammele. From BOMBAY to CALCUTTA.-Asst. surg. Gane, Lieut. Heathcote, I.N.; Lieut. Gardner, I.N.; Mr. Carew, IN.; Mr. Budd, I.N.; Mr. Chatterton, I.N.; Lieut. Heathcote's servant, Lieut. Gardner's servant, aud J. Rotcroft. From GALLE to CALCUTTA.-Mrs. Rotcroft. Per Autumnus (Aug. 1), from LIVERPOOL.-Mr. W. H. Phillips. Per Malabar (Aug. 1), from BIMLIPATAM and CORINGA.- Major Archer and Lady, Miss Archer, Miss Williams, Mr. Smith, Mr. Goldingham, and Mr. Bayley. Per Coldstream (Aug. 2), from MAURITIUS.-Mr. Nelthorpe. Per str. Precursor (Aug. 11), from CALCUTTA.-Lieut. Shortland, Lieut. Grant, Mr. Grant, Lieut. Frith. Per Clairvoyant (Aug. 8), from MAURITIUS.-Mrs. Serjent, Mr. T. Frank and 3 children. DEPARTURES. JULY 22. Screw-steamer Propoutis, Maynard, Galle. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and London.-25. Royal Thistle, Wright, London.-26. Diana, Grant, Northern Ports and Calcutta.-27. Isabella Blyth, Hale, Calcutta ; John Henry, Wilson, Calcutta.-28. Steamer Oriental, Henry, Calcutta ; Sir Edward Paget, Chapman, Calcutta.-29. Saxon, Taylor, London, via Tranquebar and Cuddalore; Bengal Merchant, Cowen, Calcutta.-AUG. 1. William Goddard, M'Kay, Calcutta.-2. Australia, Avery, Mauritius.-3. Marmion, Paige, London, vid Pondicherry; Superb, Morrison, London, vid Coringa; Carnatic, Suart, London; Gratitude, Smith, Calcutta.-6. Julindur, Bilton, Mauritius.-8. Idealet, Hansten, Batavia.-9. Sir George Seymour, Naylor, Mauritius; Coldstream, Adams, London.-11. Steamer Precursor, "" Suez, PASSENGERS DEPARTED. BOMBAY. Per Royal Thistle (July 25), to LONDON.-Mr. R. Ballantyne. Per William Goddard (Aug. 1), to CALCUTTA.-Dr. C. W. Lamborn Per Carnatic (Aug. 3), to LONDON.-Mrs. Geddes and 2 children, Mrs. Blenkinsop, J. I. Geddes, Esq.; Lieuts. Cotton, Barwise, and Puckle. Per steamer Precursor (Aug. 11), to SUEZ.-TO SOUTHAMPTON.-Mrs. Gen. Sewell and 2 children; H. G. Smith, Esq.; Mrs. Silver and child, Lieut. J. N. P. D. Mackellar, Capt. B. Walshe and Mrs. Walshe. To ALEXANDRIA.-Capt. W. Brumell and Lieut. E. B. Ramsay. To ВоMBAY. -Brig. A. Clarke, Mrs. Clarke, and Miss Clarke. To POINT DE GALLE.Mr. G. Garvin, F. M'Donald, Esq. and D. Steward, Esq. THE CONDUCT OF THE PARSEES. We know few occurrences more worthy of record than the conduct of the Parsees of Bombay on the day of humiliation. It is the first instance in which an Indian race, not stimulated by Europeans, or commanded by its own prince, has voluntarily stepped forward to express its sympathy with the fortunes of Great Britain. A similar occurrence in North America has just excited the applause of Europe. The Canadians have expressed their determination to bear their share in the European war. Canada, say they, is a constituent portion of the empire. It is excited by the same hopes, affected by the same dangers, and animated by the same indignation against the oppressor of mankind. As the readiest means of affording efficient aid to the mother-country, the Canadians have offered to defend themselves, and thus release the imperial troops for foreign service. The demonstration has been accepted as a proof that present justice has removed the ancient enmity, and as an indication of the growing unity of the Anglo-Saxon race. It is scarcely more important than that of the Parsees. They are not, like the Canadians, Englishmen by blood. They have not like them an instinctive pride in English victories, or an instinctive sorrow over British disasters. They have not like them a language, which makes every thought uttered in England patent to every brain in North America. They have not been educated in English sympathies, vested with English constitutional privileges, or habituated to the English system of collective action. Their sole tie with England is in the sense of benefits received for generations, and of the protection of a government which has raised a miserable clan of cultivators-for in Cutch they were little better-into a powerful and prosperous community of traders. The accident of conquest has made them British subjects. The unswerving protection and justice of the Government has raised them into sympathizers with Great Britain. Without the slightest incitement from the Europeans, they have voluntarily stepped forward to express their loyalty to the English sovereign. The punchayut, the representative of the nation, accepted the day fixed by the Governor-General, arranged a special worship in every temple, and formally requested the community to attend. The call was obeyed, the temples were crowded, and on the 16th July this was the prayer uttered in the ancient Zend, and in temples dedicated to Fire by a race of pagan traders : "I offer my prayer to Thee, O glorious and exalted God, that the Sovereign of this Realm may have the victory with honour and with triumph in the War. May the Sovereign of Sovereigns inspire with wisdom and endow with strength her Army and Navy. Long live the Sovereign, and may the Empire flourish. May God annihilate her enemies, and may His blessing rest upon her. May He watch over all these events, and destroy the enemy. I make my prayer and supplications unto Thee, Almighty God, that success may attend the cause of our Queen in the field of battle. May our Queen continue her rule in justice and mercy, and may her name and her power be handed down to many generations. May she ever maintain in all its integrity her exalted position, which is illumined with light and glory." In such a prayer, the most zealous Christian can find little to object, and the most devoted loyalist nothing to condemn. The invocation is to the one God, worshipped alike by Parsees and by Englishmen, and for the sovereign whom both nationalities agree to accept as their representative. We do not wish to exaggerate the importance of such an event. We are aware that the Parsees have always been loyal to any power which would protect them. We are aware that as traders they enjoy every advantage of English rule, and suffer nothing from its imperfections. We are aware that they are by nature the least Asiatic of the Indian races, that their intelligence far exceeds that of the men around them, and that their representatives in Bombay are the most intelligent of themselves. Nevertheless the fact remains. A race admitted to be the foremost in India, has of its own accord declared its loyalty to the Crown. It has overlooked all petty grievances; it has forgotten all differences of creed; it has remembered only the incalculable benefits it has received, and has openly and honourably acknowledged the obligation thereby incurred. If enlightened self-interest is the true bond of nationalities, the Parsees are one with the British. If loyalty is indeed "the cheap defence of nations," the Parsees, in their own temples, without compulsion, and without inducement, solemnly declare that they are loyal. The facts may read a lesson to Englishmen at home, and to natives in Calcutta, to the member for Manchester, and to Young Bengal. Mr. Bright may understand, that the Government which has produced such feeling, is not a Government either of fools or oppressors. The presidency of Bombay was for years the worst administered of the Indian provinces. Of its administrators the least efficient was probably Lord Falkland. Yet its best educated and wealthiest race profess a profound attachment to the authority, of which Lord Falkland was the representative. Young Bengal may see the path in which the best hope of progress really lies. Let him accept the fact of conquest, try to become English, take his stand, not on the right of man, but on the rights of British subjects, perform the duties attached to his new position, and sink at once the difference of race. He will gain more than by lisping baby treason against a government, with which the wiser Parsee seeks a perpetual alliance.-Friend of India. The LONDON MAIL of June 26th arrived at Bombay July 23rd (per Elphinstone). THE MERCANTILE BANK.-The Bombay Telegraph and Courier states, that the new Mercantile Bank is already prosperous. Its capital is only twelve lacs, and it has been only six months in existence, yet it has already a reserve fund of 40,000 rupees. SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE "WILLAM GIBSON."-We regret to say that there is a report current that the ship William Gibson, which left this port for London on the 17th inst., has been lost. We are at all times chary of placing confidence in idle rumour, but the sources from which we have heard of this mishap leave but little margin to doubt its exactitude; however no official notice has yet been published, and we suppose we must say that the report requires confirmation.—Bombay Times, July 31. AN ADDITIONAL BATTALION has been added to the Bombay engineers. THE LOSS OF THE SHIP JOHN COOPER, from Colombo to London, burnt at sea, is reported by the Bombay Gazette on the authority of a private letter. LIEUT.-COLONEL GIDLEY.-The Lahore Chronicle mentions a circumstance connected with the trial of Lieut.-Col. Gidley, which he justly characterises as unfair, un-English, and opposed to all ideas of impartiality in the administration of justice. It is that leading questions were allowed to be put to some of the witnesses by the judge advocate-general, on the ground that he apprehended their evidence would be favourable to the prisoner. Comment upon such a proceeding is almost superfluous; it will be condemned by every right-thinking man. Our contemporary says: "It is painful to think that in the nineteenth century, before a body of British officers, another British officer should have presumed to make such a proposition to them, that he should have been enabled to back his request by quoting from a book published 'by authority,' and that, moreover, the Court should have acquiesced in this request as a matter of course.' These observations appear to us just, and they throw a new light upon a trial which has caused much sensation throughout India. We have no intention of defending the conduct of Colonel Gidley and the officers of the 15th Bombay N.I., who have been punished for offences of a very serious description; still we cannot but regret that a conviction should have been obtained by such unconstitutional means; and it would, in our opinion, have been preferable to have allowed the guiity to escape, rather than to have resorted to them. If this be military law, truly that law requires an immediate thorough reform.-Hurkaru, August 1. THE TRIAL OF CAPT. HAINES, ex-political agent at Aden, for embezzlement, commenced on Tuesday, the 25th instant, before the Hon. Sir Charles Jackson. The jury were composed entirely of Europeans, the great majority of them being gentlemen employed in banks, mercantile offices, and as auctioneers, and consequently well accustomed to accounts. Capt. Haines came to the court with his solicitor, Mr. Jefferson, near whom he sat until his lordship took his seat on the bench, when he walked into the dock, and bowed respectfully to the judge. The jury having been duly sworn, the clerk of the crown read the first indictment, containing twenty-two different items, charging embezzlement and fraudulent misappropriation of public money, to which Capt. Haines pleaded not guilty. The Advocate-General, assisted by Messrs. Howard and Lowndes, conducted the case for the prosecution, and Messrs. Taylor and Standen defended the prisoner. Mr. Taylor applied for permission for Captain Haines to be allowed to sit near his counsel, but his lordship said, that it had been ruled that in all cases of felony the prisoner should be in the dock, and as Captain Haines had already been arraigned there, it was necessary he should remain in the dock; every opportunity would be afforded to him of communicating with his counsel, and his lordship directed that he should be accommodated with a seat. The trial occupied five days, and on Saturday evening last the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Captain Haines, however, is still in custody, as the judge advocate general intimated to Sir Charles Jackson that he was not decided as to whether he would prosecute Captain Haines on any of the other indictments or not. His lordship has appointed this day to hear the judge advocate general's determination.-Bombay Times, July 31. GOVERNMENT GENERAL ORDERS. Head-Quarters, Poona, July 17, 1854.-Under the authority of the Governor in Council, the following rules and orders are published by the Commander-in-Chief for the guidance of the officers' messes of this army. 1. The maintenance of a regimental mess, upon an economical and well-regulated system, is an object of great importance, requiring the unremitting attention of the commanding officer, who is responsible to the Government and Commander-in-Chief for its prosperity; the tone prevailing amongst the officers composing it; for the correctness of its accounts in general; and for the curbing of all unnecessary expense. 2. By the established rules and usages of the service, both as regards her Majesty's army and the army of this presidency, all officers serving with their regiments are required to join and attend the mess; and exemption and privileges allowed to married members, with respect both to the regular attendance and the payment of the monthly messing, are made contingent upon their families being in India. The private convenience of individual officers may rightly be made an object, but not the chief object, of consideration in connection with their regimental messes. Those institutions, established and liberally supported by Government, for the general comfort, credit, and respectability of all, demand the first consideration, and should insure from every officer his best and cordial support. 3. As a general rule, the pecuniary difficulties of an officer, whether married or single, can never be admitted as giving him a claim to special exemption from the payment of any mess charge sanctioned by established rules, much less as justifying his withdrawal from the mess of his regiment, since by the regulations of the service, Queen's and Company's, every mess is required to be conducted on such principles of economy as may place it within the means of all. The only exception which can be permitted of an unmarried officer having the privilege of an honorary member of the mess, is that of having a mother, or sister, or other female relative residing with him. 4. In the management of regimental messes, economy, consistent with respectability, should ever be kept steadily in view. It is a mistake to suppose that the latter is enhanced by a display of massive plate, or costly wines and viands. That commanding officer will best perform his duty, and advance the well-being and respectability of his corps, who assumes as his standard the neat. ness and comfort of a well-regulated private table, rather than the display and profusion of a public entertainment; and however unwilling the Commander-in-Chief may be to interfere in the interior arrangements of a regimental mess, yet he will notice with his severe displeasure any commanding officer for every instance that may be brought to his notice of extravagance in the management of such institutions. 5. On the moral as much as on the military training of the young officer, bis future usefulness mainly depends. Separated at an early age from his natural guardians, his character is in a great degree formed from the example of those around him; it is therefore doubly the duty of the commanding officer and of the senior officers of a regiment to see that the rules and decorum of society are at all times strictly maintained at the regimental mess ; and, whilst friendly intercourse and the comfort and happiness of all should be furthered and encouraged, everything approaching inde. corum and extravagance should be discountenanced to the utmost. From the tone and system of the regimental mess, a just estimate may be formed of the fitness of the commanding officer, and of the attention he bestows on this important part of his duty; and it is the duty of reviewing officers at all times, and the more particularly at their periodical inspections, to scrutinize narrowly everything connected with these institutions, particularly the books and accounts, and to report fully, not only as regards their financial condition, but as respects the system of economy and order that prevails in their management. 6. The donations and subscriptions authorized by the Government (as follows) are never to be exceeded. Lieut.-Col. Commandant £. 300 Lieut.-Colonel Major Captain and Surgeon Lieut. and Assistant Surgeon. Ensign 6 6 5 Monthly SubPromotion. scription. 6014 0 120 0 0 60 0 0 47 15 6 60 14 0 11 6 7 0 0 s. d. £. 8. d. £. 8. d. 0 60 14 0 20 0 0 240 O 0 60 14 0 16 00 180 0 0 12 0 0 8 0 4 0 0 3 3 2 NOTE.-The donations and subscriptions of the officers in the regiment of artillery, consequent on the numerous unavoidable transfers in that corps, must be regulated by regimental arrangements-with this proviso, that no officer shall ever be required to pay a second donation of his rank, nor shall the amount of donation or subscription ever exceed that laid down by the preceding tables for cavalry and infantry, as applicable to officers of horse and foot artillery respectively. 7. All officers receiving Indian pay and allowances are to pay the regulated mess subscription. 8. On occasions of augmentation, the donations of officers transferred to the newly-raised regiments will be paid by government on contingent bills, accompanied by certificates that a mess has been established in the newly-raised corps. Ensigns transferred, at their own request, from one regiment to another, under the provisions of Articles 32 and 33, Section VIII. Jameson's Code, are required to pay a full donation to the mess to their new corps, receiving a moiety of that paid to their former corps. Lieut.-colonels, medical officers, and veterinary surgeons transferred from one regiment to another, and officers permitted to exchange regiment, are not to pay a second mess donation. The monthly mess subscription of officers posted to regiments, or transferred from one regiment to another, is to commence from the first of the month following the posting or transfer. 9. Unposted cornets and ensigns are to pay the monthly subscriptions, but no donations to the messes of the regiments to which they are attached. 10. An officer appointed to do duty with another regiment, is to be an honorary member of its mess, and is to pay the monthly subscription of his rank to its support. 11. There are to be three funds in each regiment, designated as follows, and to be kept in three separate books, viz: 1st. "Mess fund," which includes subscriptions and donations, to be appropriated to the purchase of glass, crockery, plate, and table furniture, to be chosen by vote in general, a few newspapers, and such other outlay as the committee may deem necessary, and the fund is in a position to afford, but all with the sanction of the commanding officer. 2nd. "Mess Store Fund," exclusively for wines and consumable articles, and carriage of the same, with reasonable per-centage added as may suffice to cover losses and contingencies. 3rd. "Government Fund," (viz. monthly allowance granted to the mess), to be devoted solely for the purchase of mess-houses, tents, furniture, carriage, and the payments of servants for the same. 12. Any profit which may be realized by the sale of liquor and supplies is to be retained as a reserve fund, to meet losses by breakage and other contingencies. It is never to be applied to the purpose of building, purchase of furniture, or to the credit of any other than the "Mess Store Fund." When the Store Fund has attained a reasonably safe amount, the profit on liquor and supplies should cease, until circumstances render it expedient again to impose it. 13. The commanding officer is held responsible to the Government and the Commander-in-Chief for the general government of the mess. It is his duty especially to prevent any expenses being incurred which would involve the mess in debt; and he is required strictly to enforce the regular monthly settlement of all officers' accounts on each issue of pay; and with regard to an honorary member, not attached to the corps, the proposer and seconder of such honorary member must be held responsible that the monthly settlement is strictly observed. The president of the mess committee will, at the end of every month, previously to the issue of pay to the officers, send a statement of what is due from each officer, as well as from the honorary members, for messing, wines, &c. The amount must be stopped by the paymaster from officers' pay and credited to the mess funds. For all other arrears he will be held solely responsible, unless the same is at the time brought to the notice of the brigadier. 14. The management of the mess is to be conducted by a committec, to be composed of three members, one of whom shall be secretary, who will have charge of the mess-books, cash, letters, &c. The committee will be chosen at the end of every six months, at a quarterly mess meeting, by the majority of the officers present, the commanding officer having the power of putting his veto upon the choice; he being in every respect held responsible by the Government and Commander-in-Chief for the well being and management of the mess: whenever the commanding officer, however, considers it necessary to exercise his authority, against the opinion of the majority of the officers, he will forward the proceedings of the mess meeting, together with his reasons for having so interfered, immediately to the brigadier, with a view of their being laid before his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, should the former be unable to arrange the question referred to him. If deemed advisable by the commanding officer, one member will go out by rotation every three months; it being desirable that all officers in course of time should become acquainted with the managemnet of the mess affairs. 15. Mess meetings are to be held quarterly, and the day to be named in regimental orders. 16. These meetings are to be conducted with the same regularity and order as a } e. Officers will sit according to their rank, the second in command on the right of the commanding officer, the third on his left; votes to be taken singly, the second in command voting first, and the commanding officer last. 17. Every officer is at perfect liberty to make any proposal he may consider for the benefit and comfort of the mess. As a general rule, all matters connected with the management of a mess shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present with the regiment; but the commanding officer being held specially responsible for the good order and economy thereof, is required, if he considers any proposition which may have been voted for by such majority, to be objectionable in any respect, to prohibit its being carried into effect; in which case, however, the commanding officer will immediately forward the proceedings of the mess meeting, together with his reason for having withheld his sanction, to the brigadier. Should he not be able to decide the question, it will be forwarded for the decision of the Commanderin-Chief; thus the wishes of every member of the mess will be placed before the Commander-in-Chief (should the brigadier or divisional general be unable to settle the question) who will decide the case. 18. At the quarterly meetings, the committee will submit a statement of the debts and assets of the mess, distinguishing dead stock, such as plate, glass, &c., from convertible property, such as wine, beer, and other stores; so that the real condition of the mess fund may be clearly seen. A similar statement of the debts and assets of the mess as they stood on the 1st of the month on which the inspection of the regiment is made, is to be framed, signed by the mess committee and the commanding officer, and to be presented to the inspecting officer, to be transmitted to the head-quarters, with the inspection report of the regiment. A statement of the debts and assets of the mess as above mentioned is to be circulated to the officers of the regiment, who may be absent or detached on staff employ. Whenever the mess may from any cause be in debt, no expense for the purchase of furniture, plate, or any other purpose, is to be incurred without the sanction of the Commander-in-Chief having been first obtained. 19. Such other regulations as may appear necessary for the interior arrangement, comfort, and happiness of the mess are to be established regimentally by the officers of the corps, under the sanction of the officer commanding. 20. The divisional paymasters are to deduct and forward to regimental head-quarters monthly, the mess subscriptions and donations on promotion due by officers absent from their regiments, or otherwise within the presidency. 21. A book is to be kept, in which a record of all the mess proceedings is to be fully inserted, immediately after the mess meeting, and signed by the commanding officer and president. 22. No officer shall be liable to extra expense on account of guests invited by other officers to the mess, and no public dinner shall be given in the name of the regiment unless with the concurrence of the commanding officer; but when the commanding officer and majority of the officers present may think proper to give a public dinner on occasions such as her Majesty's birthday, the presentation of colours, &c., or in compliment to another regiment, or to an individual, every officer who may be in the receipt of Indian allowances, whether present or absent, shall pay one share of the cost. The number of public dinners to which it will be obligatory for officers, staff and regimental, to subscribe, shall not exceed four in one year, and the commanding officer will be held responsible on all such occasions for the prevention of any undue expense. 23. The expense of balls, picnics, and other entertainments given by the officers of regiments, with the concurrence of the commanding officer, in return for civilities they may have collectively or individually received from the society of the station, are to be borne solely by those officers who may choose to subscribe for them. The Commander-in-Chief, aware, however, of the heavy expense necessarily attending all regimental entertainments, in consequence of the small number of officers, and those being mostly of the junior grades usually present with the corps, most strongly advises that the officers of a force or garrison unite in giving dinners or other entertainments, whether in compliment to a regiment on first arrival at, or departure from, the station, or occasionally in return for courtesies received from the civil members of the community. 24. Sherry, madeira, and moderately-priced claret are to be considered the mess wines on public occasions; and it is recommended that those of a more costly description should be avoided, as entailing expense incompatible with the resources of the younger members; on occasions when such expensive wines are ordered on the mess tables, the charge for them must be confined to those who order and sanction their introduction, and who partake of them, and on no account are they to form part of the public charges of an entertainment: and the Commander-in-Chief cannot readily conceive any occasion at which their induction is required: but the officers will of course follow their own feelings on these occa. sions; he, however, expects the young officers not to incur uncalled for and unnecessary expense, and to remember the day of payment is always near at hand; and his Excellency prays the older officers to set a kind and considerate example of self-denial to their younger comrades. 25. Medical officers will take their tour as president and members of the mess committee, and president and vice-president of the week, in common with military officers, and the order in which they will take such tour, and vote with military officers at mess meetings, shall be that of their relative rank, and the priority of the dates of their commission, excepting only, that medical officers shall on no occasion take precedence of the officers commanding the regiment, whatever the rank of the latter may be. The same rule is to be observed in respect to precedence in taking seats at table. 26. The office of president and vice-president of the week is merely to regulate the general order and arrangements of the mess table. On all occasions that may call for official interference, pertains exclusively to the commanding officer, or in his absence to the senior military officer of the regiment, who may be present, and who alone will be held responsible for duly supporting the president and vice-president in the discharge of their proper duties, and for interposing his authority whenever circumstances may arise to call for his interference. 27. The senior officers who may be in the mess-room, or billiard-room of the mess-room, or within the compound or tent belonging to the mess, is responsible for the conduct of all his juniors, who must obey his orders as on parade, but no official interference is to be used without decided necessity. 28. The customary hour for the mess dinner being half an hour after sunset, this time will be adhered to, but the commanding officer has the power of changing it, should he conceive it necessary for the public service; but if he does so contrary to the votes of the officers, he will report the circumstance to the brigadier, with his reasons for such interference, which must be forwarded to the Commander-in-Chief. 29. Mess-plate, or other articles once purchased, become regimental property, which no individual claim will be allowed. 30. Officers proceeding temporarily on detached employ, and taking several months' supply with them, may be allowed to liquidate their bill by instalments, provided they give satisfactory security for the full amount, but not otherwise, for in the event of casualty arrears could not be recovered from the estate as a regimental debt. The fund and accounts of a bok society, or billiard table, are to be kept perfectly distinct from those of the mess, and the servants kept up for those objects are to be paid by those voluntarily subscribing to those sources of entertainment. The band fund accounts are also to be kept distinct from those of the mess. The practice of officers dealing with tradespeople for their own private purposes, through the medium of the mess, is prohibited, as in case of casualty the mess would not be freed from responsibility in the matter; all such transactions must be on the individual or collective responsibility of those concerned, and the accounts connected with them are in no case to be entered in the mess book, or to be in any way mixed up with its accounts. The commanding officer will report quarterly to the brigadier the amount paid monthly by the officers for messing, including breakfast, lunch, and dinner; also the other expenses, such as servant, lights, &c., not including viands. Inspecting generals are not expected to dine at the mess at the period they are reviewing the regiment. The Queen's birthday, it is wished, should be a public day for the officer's mess in this army, and the only one; but this entertainment depends, of course, entirely upon the wishes of the officers. It will be observed that every attention has been given, in drawing up these mess rules, to sustain the commanding officer in his official capacity, being, as he is, responsible to government and the Commander-in-Chief for the respectability, tone, and welfare of the mess of his regiment, while, at the same time, officers have the permission of appeal to the Commander-in-Chief, should their proper and just wishes and wants be denied them. The following certificates are to be furnished on the 15th of every month, or as soon after the issue of pay as practicable, by the mess committee to the commanding-officer, who will name the day in the orders. 1st. I certify that all sums due by the mess to the messman, or by the officers for mess stores, or on any other account whatever, have been duly paid up to the first of the current month. Month (date) (or as the case may be) (Signed) A. B., Captain, President Mess Committee. 2nd. Certified that we have inspected all the stores in the mess Godown, the plate, plated-ware, glass, linen, furniture, china, kitchen utensils, mess-room, outbuildings, &c., as per list, and have found all in good order, except (here state what may have been lost, broken, or damaged, and by whom) and that all such losses, or damage, have been made good by the parties who caused them, and the amount credited to the mess account. (Signed) A. B., President. C. D., Members. (Date) Certified that I have no claims whatever against any of the officers of the regiment, and that I have paid all demands against me in the bazaar, or elsewhere, as messman up to the first of the current month. CIVIL. APPOINTMENTS, &c. By monthly contractor. Rs. A. P. 0 0 0 000 0 0 0 ARBUTHNOT, F. F. to be 3rd asst. to coll. and mag. at Kaira. FRERE, H. B. E. resu. ch. as commiss. in Scinde, fr. A. F. Bellasis. HAVELOCK, W. H. to be act. coll. and mag. of Belgaum, fr. May 1. PINKEY, R. H. ass. ch. of du. of 2nd asst. coll. of Tanna, July 12. WARDEN, J. T. asst. coll. and mag. of Ahmednuggur, placed in ch. of districts of Ankola and Sungumnair, July 26. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. CUMMING, A. 1 mo. to the Deccan. MILITARY. ALEXANDER, Lieut. W. R. 22nd N.I. to act as adjt. dur. abs. of Shortt. BELL, Ens. G. S. 2nd N.I. passed colloq. exam. BRUCE, Ens. R. 1st N.I. to be lieut. fr. July 13, in succ. to Peacocke, dec. CLOSE, 1st Lieut. J. B. G. to be acting executive eng. Ahmednuggur div. DAY, Lieut. asst. superint. Poona and Tanna rev. surv. dept. to proc. to Scinde on spec. du. July 19. HATCH, 1st Lieut. W. T. to rec. vet. ch. of horses No. 3 lt. field battery, on dept. of Hardy. LECKIE, Capt. 13th N.I. to act as mil. paymr. at pres. dur. abs. of Barr, on leave. LUCAS, Lieut. G. D. A. art. to be 1st lieut. fr. June 25, v. Cameron, dec. SANDWITH, Lieut. J. P. 1st N.I. to be capt. fr. July 13, in suc. to Peacocke, dec. SOUTHEY, 2nd Lieut. E. executive eng. Ahmednuggur div. to be acting asst. to chief eng. dur. abs. of Bollard, on m.c. TURNER, 2nd Lieut. art. to rec. ch. of detach. of corps of sappers and miners at Kurrachee, dur. emp. of Sellon. Woodward, Ens. W. W. to rank as 2nd lieut. of art. fr. June 25, v. Lucas, prom. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. BARR, Capt. H. J. mil. paymr. at pres. 1 mo. HILL, Capt. J. engs. 18 mo. furl. to Europe, on m.c. PENNEY, Col. J. 1st L.C. leave cancelled. PIERCE, Lieut. T. W. W. 10th N.I. to Oct. 7. STUDDERT, Capt T. engs. furl. to Europe, new regs. TAPP, Brev. maj. T. 1st Europe, regt. to Eur. 18 mo. on m.c. MEDICAL. APPOINTMENTS, &c. PELLY, Asst. surg. to be marr. regr, of the Nassick sub. collectorate, v. Asst. surg. Knapp. STEDMAN, Asst. surg. 1st Eur. fus. to med. ch. of 3rd co. sappers and miners, fr. Asst. surg. Steinhaenser. WARD, Asst. surg. assu. ch. as supt. of vaccination, Concans, fr. Asst. surg. Pitman, July 3. WINCHESTER, Dr. J. W. rec. ch. of post off. at Mahableshwur, fr. Dr. Costelloe, June 15. MARINE DEPARTMENT. APPOINTMENTS, &c. BUDD, Volunt. J. D. arr. July 10. DELLPRAT, Lieut. of the Clive, perm. to reside on shore, July 22. FOULERTON, Lieut. fr. the Ajdaha, to com. the Tigris, and perf. du. of clerk in eh. July 22. FRASER, Lieut. H. A. com. Medusa, to perf. du. of clerk in charge, July 22. GAYFORD, Volunt. H. H. to join the Elphinstone, July 23. DOMESTIC. BIRTHS. ALBAN, wife of Lieut. T. C. s. at Kurrachee, July 14. WAINWRIGHT, wife of Lieut. M. F. 15th N.I. s. at Bhooj, July 17. MARRIAGE. RYAN, John, to Mrs. G. Louisa Harbridge, widow of the late T. at Byculla. DEATHS. BAKER, inf. d. of R. A. at Colaba, July 24. BROWN, Caroline E. wife of James, at Gergaum, aged 21, July 27. IRVINE, Harriet C. d. of J. at Bombay, aged 5, July 27. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS. JULY 18. Merchantman, Gray, Port Phillip.-22. Prompt, Rodd, Liverpool.-23. Elphinstone, Walker, Aden; Lancashire, Young, Liverpool.26. Caucasian, Davidson, London. PASSENGERS ARRIVED. Per Merchantman (July 18), from PORT PHILLIP.-Mrs. Gray and child. Per Caucasian (July 26), from LONDON.-Mrs. Davidson. Per sloop of war Elphinstone (July 23), from ADEN.-Mr. Gayford, Volunteer I.N. DEPARTURES. JULY 20. Steamer Singapore, Baker, Galle, Penang, Singapore, and Hong-Kong; steamer Semiramis, Frushard, Aden.-20. Sumroo, Henderson, Liverpool.-22. Margaret Mitchell, Jamieson, China; Marianne, Francis, China; Shelomith, Eaglesham, China; Juliana, Darley, Calcutta. -25. Boyne, Sabiston, Whampoa in China; Faize Allum, Hardy, Singapore.-26. Salem, Cunningham, Liverpool; Haumet, Fleury, Marseilles and Genoa; François Arago, Lavignac, Bordeaux; Mississipie, Varleit, Marseilles; Dudbrook, Mills, Canton; Java, Robertson, Canton.-31. Steamer Pekin, Grainger, Galle, Penang, Singapore, and Hong-Hong. PASSENGERS DEPARTED. Per Sumroo (July 20), to LIVERPOOL.-Mr. Davis. Per Juliana, to CALCUTTA.-Mr. D. G. McCulloch, Mr. James Ely. Per Salem (July 25), to LIVERPOOL.-Dr. Conolly, Capt. Hill, Lieut. and Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Griffin, Mrs. Palmer, Mr. Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. Walkinshaw and child. Per Java (July 26), to CANTON.-Mr. Wood and Miss Wood. Per steamer Pekin (July 31), Galle, Penang, SINGAPORE, and HONGKONG. For SUEZ.-J. A. Shortt, Esq. For POINT DE GALLE.-Col. and Mrs. Lester. For SOUTHAMPTON.-Capt. and Mrs. Hederstedt, Mr. D. McSmith, Mr. Thomas Jones, and Dr. James Watson. |