from the date of the sailing of the ship Victory, and to appoint Maj Gen. Sir James S. Barns, K.C.B., to be commander of the forces from the same date..

CIVIL APPOINTMENTS, &c.
Territorial Department.

Jan. 2. Mr. J. H. Pelly, jun., to be assistant to collector of customs in Guzerat.

24. Mr. A. Corfield to be assistant to collector of Ahmedabad.

Leave of Absence.-Jan. 9. Mr. T. H. Baber, to Madras, on private affairs.

ECCLESIASTICAL. Furlough.-Jan. 3. The Rev. H. Davies, senior chaplain, to Europe, for health.

MILITARY APPOINTMENTS,

PROMOTIONS, &c.

Bombay Castle, Jan. 25, 1834.-Mr. M. A. Ranclaud admitted on estab. as an assist. surgeon.

Jan. 27.-Supernum. Lieut. R. W. Chichester admitted on effective strength of artillery, from 26th Dec. 1833, v. Wormald prom.

Jan. 23.-Capt. W. Jacob, ordnance assistant to commandant of artillery, to be agent for manufacture of gunpowder, in suc. to Lieut. Col. Ste

venson.

Capt. J. Sinclair, of artillery, to be ordnance assistant to commandant of artillery, in suc. to Capt. Jacob.

Artillery. 2d-Lieut. E. Pottinger to be qu. mast. and interp. to 2d bat., v. Fraser prom.; date 24th

Dec.

5th N.I. Lieut. L. Brown to be qu. mast. and interp., v. Robertson transf. to 25th N.I.; date 16th Jan. 1834.

Jan. 29.-Lieut. J. S. Ramsay to act as adj. to left wing 4th N.I., so long as it shall be separated from head-quarters of regt.

Lieut. J. P. Major, 11th, to act as interp. to 4th N.I., during absence of Lieut. Lucas, on sick cert. at Poonah.

Feb. 3.-Maj. Gen. Sir James S. Barns, K.C.B., to command forces, on resignation of his Exc. Sir C. Halkett, K.C.B., &c.

Lieut. C. Hunter, adj. of Nat. Vet. Bat., to be commissariat agent at Dapoolie, in suc. to Capt. Shortt.

FURLOUGHS,

To Europe.-Dec. 30. Maj. J. Barclay, 24th N.I., for health.-Jan. 4. Lieut. Col. G. T. Gordon, 1st L.C., for health.-8. Lieut. John Brodhurst, EuTop. regt., for health.-Ens. J. G. Johnston, 10th N.I., for health.-13. Maj. T. L. Groundwater, horse brigade.-Lieut. J. Hobson, Europ. regt.

To Cape of Good Hope.-Jan. 29. Lieut. Col. Bellasis, engineers, for twelve months, on private affairs (eventually to Europe).

To Malabar Coast.-Jan. 13. Lieut. W. Baker, 1st Gr. N.I., for twelve months, for health.

MARINE DEPARTMENT. Furlough.-Jan. 24. Lieut. W. Igglesden, Indian Navy, to Europe, on private affairs.

SHIPPING.

Arrivals.

JAN. 26. Mary Catherine, Jones, from New South Wales. 27. Fort William, Neish, from China.-30. Isabella, Maugham, from Bourbon.FEB. 6. Ann, Budwell, from Madras and Colombo. -Columbia, Patterson, from Liverpool.

Departures.

FEB. 1. Fergus, Mason, for the Clyde.-2. Victory, Biden, for London.-3. Robert Quayle, Bleasdale, for Malabar coast.-9. Annandale, Hill, for Liverpool.-16. Mary Catherine, Jones, for Liver

pool.

BIRTHS AND DEATH.

BIRTHS.

Dec. 29. At Surat, the lady of D. C. Bell, Esq., garrison surgeon, of a daughter.

30. At Poona, the lady of Capt. J. Jopp, engineers, of a son.

Jan. 12. At Bombay, the lady of R. C. Money, Esq., civil service, of a daughter.

DEATH.

Oct. 3. Of cholera, on her way from Sholapore to Bombay, Mrs. W. K. Fletcher, daughter of Mr. T. Jewsbury, of Manchester. This lady published several pieces of prose and poetry when Miss Jewsbury.

Ceylon.

COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS.

Oct. 15, 1833. In pursuance of his Majesty's commands, W. O. Carr, Esq., to be king's advo cate, and J. Perring, Esq., to be deputy king's advocate in this colony.

Dec. 6. W. H. Whiting, Esq., to be assistant to government agent for western province and district judge of Four Korles, v. Capt. C. Pearson.

James Cauldfield, Esq., to be assistant to government agent for southern province and inspector of cinnamon at Galle, v. Waring.

E. S. Waring, Esq., to be fiscal of western province, v. Caulfield.

26. E. R. Power, Esq., to be private secretary to Right Hon. the Governor.

Capt. Joseph Wynn, 58th regt., to be staff officer at Trincomallee, v. Capt. Fisher; date 28th Nov. 1833.

Capt. Charles Wallett, 61st regt., to be commandant of Jaffna, v. Major Bircham dec.; date 16th Dec.

Capt. J. D. Bagenall, Ceylon rifle regt., to be commandant of Fort Macdonald, v. Lieut. Jefferson; date 6th Jan. 1834.

Major T. Hall, 97th regt., to be commandant of Kotmale, v. Capt. Bagenall; date 15th Jan.

SHIPPING.

Arrivals at Colombo.-Jan. 25. Symmetry, Stevens, from London.-Peru, Graham, from London.

MARRIAGES.

Oct. 5. At Colombo, Edmund James Wood, Esq., to Elizabeth, second daughter of J. C. Fretz, Esq.

Dec. 17. At Trincomallee, Capt. N. J. Lyons, of the brig Eleanor, to Mary Catherine, eldest daughter of Thomas Dawson, Esq., ordnance storekeeper at that station.

Jan. 16, 1834. At Galle, Maj. N. L. Darrah, 97th regt., commandant of Galle, to Jane Luck, second daughter of the Rev. J. Wenham, second colonial chaplain.

DEATHS.

Nov. 5. At Kandy, Jane, wife of Lieut. John Braybrooke, and daughter of Major Ingham, Ceylon rifle regt., aged 22.

17. At Jaffna, Brev. Lieut. Col. Samuel Bircham, Ceylon rifle regt., in the 63d year of his age.

Penang, &c.

BIRTHS.

Nov. 16. At Penang, the lady of the Hon. Sir B. H. Malkin, Knt., of a daughter.

Jan. 14. At Singapore, the lady of Lieut. Alex. J. Begbie, Madras artillery, of a son.

24. At Campong Glam, the lady of Capt. H. Prior, 23d L. Inf., commanding troops at Singa. pore, of a daughter.

NEW SOUTH WALES SHIPPING. Arrivals at Sydney.-Jan. 24. Florentia, from London and Cape.-Feb. 1. Martha, from London; Eleanor, from London; and Fame, from Cape and Hobart Town.-3. Daphne, from Mauritius and Hobart Town; and Princess Victoria, from Hobart Town.-6. Leda, from Cape.-8. Bolina, from London.-10. Atwick, from London and Hobart Town.-15. Fairlie, from London.

Departures.-Jan. 30. Layton, for China.-31. Neptune, for Singapore.

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND SHIPPING. Arrivals at Hobart Town.-Nov. 4. Eliza, from Dublin.-Dec. 11. Neptune, from London.-12. John Dunscombe, from Mauritius; and Gem, from London.-14. Aurora, from Sydney; and Tamar, from Port Arthur.-25. Brazil Packet, from New Zealand.-Jan. 2. Merope and Enchantress, both from Maritius.-8. Eagle and Prince Regent, both from N.S. Wales.-9. Jolly Rambler, from ditto; and Emma Kemp, from Rio.-14. Southworth, from London.-15. Atwick, from London. - 16. Daphne, from Mauritius.-21. H.M.S. Alligator, from Swan River.-26. Brilliant, from London and Swan River.-Feb. 6. Argo, from Sydney.

Departures from ditto.-Dec. 28. Lord Lynedoch and Isabella, both for Madras (with H.M. 63d regt.)-Jan. 5. Aurora, for Madras.

Arrival at Launceston.-Oct. 26. Countess Dunmore, from London.

St. Helena.

GENERAL ORDERS.

April 17, 1834.-The Governor and Council think proper to publish in General Orders the following Extracts from the Hon. Court of Directors' despatches to this Government, dated 22d January 1834.

"We have to acquaint you that, at the request of his Majesty's Government, we have undertaken to administer the government of your island, in the name of the crown, for one year from the 22d April next (unless a final arrangement should be previously made by the King's Government).

"We have resolved, in accordance with the wish which his Majesty's Government have expressed, that no vacancies, either in the civil or military establishments, shall be filled up, nor any new appointments made, nor any re-enlisting take place, without previous communication with the Lords of his Majesty's treasury.

"The clothing indented for by you, on the 4th April 1833, will be forwarded by an early opportunity.

"We are under the necessity of declining to comply with Lieut. Knipe's petition (for twelve months' back rank).

"We authorize the grant of horse-allowance to Lieut. Col Hodson, from the period at which he ceased to draw it.

"We do not object to your having granted a ration to Lieut. O'Connor.

"We will not object to Mr. Reed having the rank of captain, with the distinct understanding that the Company is to incur no expense thereby, beyond the ration of a captain, to commence from the date of his memorial, viz. 1st April 1833.

"The reasons that made it necessary for us to decline to sanction the invaliding of Col. Wright, as explained in our despatch dated 31st July 1833, paras. 3 and 4, apply with equal force to the case of Major Sampson. We must, therefore, withhold our sanction from the grant to that officer of full pay and allowances as an invalid, and we desire that, in the event of Major Sampson's final retirement, his retiring pay be limited to the amount fixed by the Regulations, viz. 16s. per day, in this case as in that of Colonel Wright.

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Major Sampson will have the option of returning to the effective establishment. If he do so, you will cancel all promotions made in consequence of your resolution to invalid him.

"The orders issued to heads of departments, on the 9th January 1834, are still to continue in effect."

cap. 1. sec. 4.

HALF-YEAR'S Dividend.

The Chairman next acquainted the court that the warrants for payment of the halfyear's dividend would be ready for delivery on Monday, the 7th July next.

BY-LAWS.

Mr. Twining said, it became his duty to present to the court the report of the committee of by-laws. It was not necessary for him to accompany it with any observations, as the statement which it contained, and which was fully borne out by facts, spoke for itself.

The report was then read by the clerk, as follows:

"Your Committee having called before them the several officers of the home establishment, whose situations enable them to give evidence with respect to the observance and execution of the bylaws, have been assured by those officers, that with one exception the by-laws have been duly observed and executed during the past year. The exception alluded to relates to the by-law, cap. 1, sect. 5, which requires a general statement of the Company's affairs (usually termed the account of stock per computation) to be laid before the Court of Proprietors annually, in the month of December at the latest. It appears that the Indian books of account did not arrive in this country in sufficient time to admit of the preparation of the said statement, but as the accounts appear to have been ready for dispatch on the 23d May, and were actually dispatched early in June, and the ship by which they were forwarded had an unusually long passage, your Committee deem it unnecessary to do more than report these circumstances for the information of the General Court.

"In the discharge of the remaining duty imposed upon them, of considering what alterations or additions may be proper to be made in the code of by-laws, your Committee's attention has been particularly directed to those by-laws which had more especial reference to the affairs of the Company as a commercial corporation. The altered position of the Company by the passing of the Act 3d and 4th William IV. cap. 85, will render necessary the repeal or alteration of seve

ral of the existing by-laws; but as the arrange. ments consequent upon that Act are not yet come fully into operation, your Committee consider that it would be premature to enter at the present time upon a general revision of the code. They desire however to assure the General Court, that they shall be prepared to enter upon such a revision as soon as may be practicable, consistently with a due regard to the important interests for the protection of which those wholesome Regulations were established.

(Signed) "Richard Twining, Jas. Shaw,
A. W. Robarts, Wm. Burnie,
Benj. Barnard, John Hodgson,
P. Heatly, W. G. Paxton."

"East-India House,

29th May 1834."

The Chairman stated, that it was ordained by the by-law, cap. 3. sec. 1, that at the General Court to be held in the month of June, a committee of fifteen should be elected for the inspection of the by-laws. He then proposed the following gentlemen, who had been members of the committee of bye-laws during the past Esq., R. Williams, Esq., B. Barnard, - R. Twining, Esq., P. Heatly, Esq, Sir H. Strachey, Bart, John Darby, Esq., J. Carstairs, Esq., Sir J. Shaw, Bart, W. Burnie, Esq., J. Tritton, Esq., Sir J. R. Reid, Bart., D. W. Robarts, Esq., Sir J. Woolmore, Bart., and W. Paxton, Esq., who were unanimously re-elected.

year:

The Chairman.-William Ward, Esq. having disqualified, it is necessary to elect another member in his place, I shall therefore propose Lewis Loyd, Esq.

Capt. Gowan observed, that it was very important, under the change of character which the Company had undergone, ledge of the affairs of India should be that gentlemen who had a local know. jority of those who had just been menplaced on this committee. The great mationed were merely mercantile men, or individuals connected with the shipping interest of the Company. But now, and henceforward, men ought to be elected on the committee, who possessed local knowledge, who had acted in a diplomatic capacity, or who were acquainted with the details of the revenue or judicial department. He did not see on the cominittee one individual of that description, nor one military man; and therefore it was his intention to propose, in substitution of the gentleman who had been named, and who, dividual, "that Col. William Blackburne he doubted not, was a very respectable inshould be appointed.' Col. Blackburne had filled, with the highest credit to himself, and most satisfactorily in the eyes of the government, a very high situation at the court of Tanjore. He thought that there should be a fair proportion of all their servants on the by-laws committee, and that it should not be confined to proprietors who had no local knowledge of

India.

The election ought not to be, as it had heretofore been, a mere matter of form: the committee was intended as a check upon the Court of Directors, and it was a mere farce that the appointment of members should depend upon that body, upon whom it was the duty of the committee to act as a check. The nomination of the body, which was meant to operate as a check on the directors, should rather proceed from that (the proprietors') side of the bar, and therefore he should propose that Col. Blackburne be elected to the vacant situation.

The Chairman denied that the appointment of the committee was under the influence of the directors. The election was made by the court at large, any member of which was at liberty to take exception to any name proposed. As was usual, the names of those who served on the committee last year were put in succession, and those individuals were re-elected without a dissentient voice, He had deemed it proper to name Mr. Lewis Loyd in the place of a gentleman who had disqualified, but it was for the court to decide on that proposition. He must be allowed to say, with respect to Mr. Loyd, that there was not in that court a more respectable individual. He was a man of talent, possessing great commercial knowledge, and was, in all respects, a character that would do bonour to the committee of by-laws, or to any other body. As to Col. Blackburne, neither the hon. proprietor, nor any other member of that court, had a higher respect for him than he (the Chairman) had. He had, however, proposed Mr. Lewis Loyd; and, if any gentleman seconded the amendment of the hon. proprietor, it must be put. If not, he would put the main question for the appointment of Mr. Lewis Loyd.

The proposition of Capt. Gowan was not seconded, and Mr. Lewis Loyd was elected on the committee, Capt. Gowan being the only dissentient.

Mr. Twining hoped that he would not be considered as intruding on the court, if he briefly noticed an expression which had fallen from the gallant officer. The gal lant officer had said, that he considered the appointment of the committee of by laws as a mere farce. He, of course, spoke with great diffidence of the proceedings of any committee or body of which he was himself a member; but he felt that he should be scarcely discharging his duty, standing in that court as he did, if he did not come forward and suggest to the court the impropriety of such language. He did this, on the present occasion, the more readily, because he was quite willing to confess, that the labour of the committee had, of late, been extremely light. That circumstance, however, did not arise from want of attention on their

part; it did not arise from a want of anxiety to examine any matters that might be brought before them. No; the lightness of the duty was occasioned by the very able, persevering, and laborious attention of former committees of by-laws, who had exerted themselves most beneficially, before he had the honour of belonging to that useful body. He stated this fairly, observing, at the time, that he had, on his own part, no merit to lay claim to, with respect to what had been done by the committee. Of this he was perfectly confident, that if reference were made to their records, and they could easily be referred to, as to what had been done by former committees of by-laws, they would be found to bear ample testimony to the fact, that the appointment of the by-laws committee had not been a farce. It was only owing to their attention formerly, and to the regularity which prevailed in every department, from the highest to the lowest, that less had been done in the com, mittee, of late, than had been heretofore required. He could assure the court, and the gallant captain himself, that when he spoke of the appointment of the commit, tee as a farce, he was in error.

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Capt. Gowan said, the hon. proprietor had misunderstood and quite misrepre sented him. He never meant to say that the labours of the committee of by-laws was a farce. What he said was, that the proposition coming from the directors to that (the proprietor's) side of the bar, was a farce. It was a mere nomination without inquiry. The names were mumbled over, and agreed to, as a matter of course, without observation. Now he thought that, if he went into an examination of the present committee, he could point out some members who had been inefficient for several years. Surely the hon. proprietor would not say, that the whole of the members of that committee always appeared, or took part constantly and regularly in its proceedings. He wished that they on that side of the bar, as East-India proprietors, should look, with a more discrimi nating eye, to the individuals who were appointed on this committee. The appointment should not be left with the gen tlemen at the other side of the bar, whe selected their private friends or connec tions, however unfit they might be for the situation. He was anxious that those who were appointed should have knowledge, judicial or political, of India. In conclusion, he repeated, that he had merely described the mode of election to be a farce; and he was of the same opinion still.

RETIRING ALLOWANCES.

Mr. Weeding was not quite sure whether the subject he was about to notice would apply to the committee of by-laws on the ground of omission or neglect on

their part. It was not his intention to make any such charge. He had, indeed, no desire to accuse or complain of any one. All that he intended was to point out an error, to amend it if possible, and to prevent its recurrence in future. In passing, he would just glance at the conversation then before them, by stating, that he thought it a judicious practice in the recommendation of gentlemen to be appointed on the committee of by-laws coming from the other side of the bar. No men could so well understand as the Court of Directors what individuals were best fitted to perform the duties which devolved on the committee. The office being gratuitous, it would be difficult to find able and honourable men to undertake it, if it were to be made matter of canvass. Few men would like for such an object to be brought into invidious collision or comparison with others equally respectable. The subject which he was now about to mention was one of very great importance. They had all heard that, in consequence of the situation in which they were placed, under the new charter, they were about to discharge a number of their commercial servants, who would no longer have any duties to perform; and a scale of remuneration to be granted to the officers thus retiring had been drawn up. Amongst those remunerations, there was a great variety of sums, many of them amounting to Hore than £600.

The Chairman.-Does the hon. proprietor mean to end with any motion?

Mr. Weeding answered, that he did. He believed that he was privileged to do so, as that was a Quarterly General Court. What he wished to point out was of great importance, as it affected the rights of the Company; and he hoped it was not too late for their interference in support of those rights. He had already observed, that it was proposed to grant, in the way of remuneration, many sums exceeding £600 in amount, and he contended that, in the first intance, those grants, so exceeding £600, ought to be laid before the proprietors for their sanction. The second section of the act under which the Company was now constituted, provided --

"That all and singular the privileges, franchises, abilities, capacities, powers, authorities, whether military or civil, rights, remedies, methods of suit, penalties, forfeitures, disabilities, provisions, matters and things whatsoever, granted to or continued in the said United Company by the said Act of the fifty-third year of King George the Third, for and during the term limited by the said Act. and all other the enactments, provisions, matters, and things contained in the said Act, or in any other Act or Acts whatsoever, which are limited, or may be construed to be limited to continue for and during the tem granted to the said Company by the said Act of the fifty-third year of King George the Third, 80 far as the same, or any of them, are in force, and not repealed by or repugnant to the enactments hereinafter contained, and all powers of alienation and disposition, rights, franchises, and imminunities, which the said United Company now have, Asiat. Jour.N.S. VOL.14, No.55.

shall continue and be in force, and may be exercised and enjoyed as against all persons whomsoever, subject to the superintendence, direction, and control hereinbefore mentioned, until the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfour."

Now it was provided by the 53d of George III. cap. 155, sec. 88, "That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall not be lawful for the said Court of Directors to charge the funds of the said Company with the payment of any gra tuity, to any officer, civil or military, or other person, exceeding the sum of £600, unless the grant, or resolution for that purpose, shall have been sanctioned by the Court of Proprietors, and approved and confirmed by the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India." Now, considering this enactment, and looking at the proposed appropriation of sums exceeding £600, he thought that those grants ought to be laid before the Court of Proprietors in the first instance. He confessed that he had not a knowledge of the law, so as to practise it. But laws were, or ought to be made for the understanding of those to whom they applied; and having, as far as he could, studied the provision which he had quoted, his interpretation of it was that which he had stated. He would go as far as any man in granting a liberal remuneration to their servants; but he felt that one part of their service had not been sufficiently compensated, and that, under the circumstances which he had stated, the Court of Directors and the Board of Commissioners could not give rewards to the Company's servants exceeding £600, unless the same were sanctioned by the Court of Proprietors. He did not object to the amount being liberal, because he was sure that the Company had property enough to meet every demand that could be made on them, and such had always been his argument. What he now con tended for was a point of principle. His proposition simply was, that their commercial servants on the home establishment could not legally receive remuneration to an amount exceeding £600, unless the grant was first brought before the proprietors. He hoped that some hon. pro prietor would second the motion, in order that the subject might be at once brought before court. The hon. proprietor then moved, "That the Court of Directors do not proceed in the remuneration to any party connected with the home establish ment, or any other, where the sum pro posed to be granted to the discharged servant shall exceed £600, until the same be submitted to the consideration of the General Court."

Sir C. Forbes said, that he felt it to be his duty to second the motion. The proprietors unquestionably owed it to themselves to assert such rights as were left to them by law under the late act; and he (2 D)