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NUMBER 13,035.] NAVY OFFICE, Asesitthsr Is2B. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COMMIS. 110YERS V Air matißsr. Ts NAVY do hereby gists Attlee, - - That on Widwavowv, the 7th of January, ISt,. at Teo o'clock , in the Forenoon, the Officers of his Majesty's Dock Yard, at m at r on !, will put up to Sale, in that Yard, several Lots of OLD STORRS, Consisting of Old Buntin, Steam Boilers, Rope in Papentuff. Shaking., Compasses, Slop Clothing, &c. Scc. &c. all lying in the add Yard. Persons wishing to view the Lots, must apply to dm Officers o r a N o te of Admission for that purpose. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be bad here, and at the Yard. ADMIRALTY OFFlCB. , December 4, lin& NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Session of 1.1 Oy e r and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for the Trial of Offences committed on the High Seas, within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of Angland, will be held at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, London, on MONDAY, the 12th of January next, at Eight o'Cleck in the morning : And all Sheriffs, Gaolers. and Keepers of Prisms, in whose custody any Prisoners, charged with Weems committed on the High Bees, or within the said Juris. diction may be, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the Cans. whom of every such Prisoner to Mr. Cuestas Jon, the So Schur of the Admiralty; at his Office, No.lo, Laneaster.place, Strand, Loudon, in order that the necessary measures may be am, for removing all Such Prisoners to kis Maiestes Gaul of Nrogate, for Trial at the said intended &Won : and all Mayers, Justices, Coroners, and other effacers, before whom any'lnlni• aeons. Informations. Examinations, or Recognisance. stay have been taken touching any such Offences, are required to transmit ' 41e same forthwith to Mr. Thomas Susumu. the Clerk of Arraigns of the High Conn of Admiralty of England, at his Office, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey. "London..—J. W. CHOKER. CHILBLAINS, RIIEUNIATISM, SPRAINS, Ste, I.) "VILER'S CAJEI'UT OPODELDOC.—Caj e p ot Oil, which is the basis et this Opodeldoc, has been long , e.teemed on the Continent, as a remedy for Chilblains. Chronic Rheumatism, Spasitiostic Affections, Palsy, &iffness, sod Enlarge.' went of the Joints, Sprains Bruises, and Etceteras ; and the es..l ?Munn of late years. in England, proves that it merits the high character given of it by the stoat eminent in the Profession, is those obstinate complaints. Being combined In the turns of Opo. drldoc, it is readeed more psnetrating, and consequently much more efficacious as an external application. lisbired upon the Skin, 4 means of flannel, or the wares hand,, it allays morbid With rof nerves, invigorates the absorbents., and accelerates the elation. llislil in bottles at Is. led.. and gs. Id. by Messrs. Butler, Choi wits, theapside. corner of St. Paul's; Beatific Street, De= Prier* Street,' Edinburgh ; Savory and Co. lag. Beer hew ; and the principal Mirilheine Venders in thi Kingdom. Of whim may he had MARSHA LL% UNIVERSAL CR. BATE, an excellent Itivaidy tot Chilblains, when broken; used she in Scalds, Bums. etc. N.B. Ai& tor Botier . 's Cajeput Qpodelsioc.- • CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. • • lISTItaCT OF a Lama" DAVID BAraa's ewes, • aitrissittea 18.1828. . . Having just A.M.:tied from a military .espedirion against thcoatiye hordes that have recently attacked the'Caffer Ulises adjoining to our frontier. I than at tempt to give you a Wet bolter operations: Abeat the latter end if - Arne... the Missionaries re siding la the territory of *Cager.Chief Biota, sent isfotaritioct to Malin Dais(tas. dat Cbaka. rabief of a warlike nation. tesiding near Port Hotel, was se the eve'ef attacking the colony with an overwhelming force of 40,000 warriors, and that be was rapidly approach ing.. This intelligence was immediately communicawd to the Lieutenarst Governor of Cape Town, who forth with directed Major.Dundas to proceed with a small body of mounted troops.to reconnoitre. and, if possible, to come to a conference with the enemy. At the same time the small military force on the frontier was called out from* different posts. and marched first to Fort lkiutort, on the Kat River, and subsequently to the White Rei, a river about 120 miles to the eastward of that post. To supper( the regular troops,4Bo Mounted burghers Or colonial militia) were called out from the districts of Ge4aff-Iteinot and Somerset henci.o one pi Male militia , I had the honour , to striven ibi s' expedi tion, or euennasede. • " Major Dunda , with his teconhoiteging band of forty wens proceeded al.iag the coas,t.abd crewed the Bashi audA/titala Jivers, hear -to where they empty them selves 'fluidic sea. He passed also the A.mapondas, a gibe of Mixed race; supposed to be the descendants of., Europe ans w h o ekapei from the wreck of the Grime— nor, or rather weasels wrecked many leers ago upon that barbarous coast. Among these people they saw one woman, apparently of pure Epropean complegion. but unaCqoainted with any other than the Caffer lan guage. The party proceeded eastward, .as far as the residence of a Chief named Faco, who behaved in an esibiendly and equivocal manner to them, saying, that it they came to assist him (as they professed to do), they ought to have come sooner, for Chaka had already car ted off a great part of his cattle. Hae they discovered that they bad passed the supposed Chaka; upon-which therturned back. taking a route, howesier,. somewhat cote inland, until they tell is with a party of the ma ;audios horde, near the sources of the Douala river.— Major Dandas attacked •them with git muskets, as sisted by Hinsis and Vosani's Cafferi, and rooted them v,th the loss of seventy men—their cattle, to the nom t!er of twenty-five thousand head, falling ipto the bands of the Caffcrr, from whops they,hmi Amu rpc,,gult carried off. • • . Oil Major Dundas's report of this transaction reach. ing the colony, our 'cowiesando (or military armament) vas re-called, and the Burgher troops were dismissed (somewhat prematurely, as it proved) to their respective tomes. We (tad scarcely keen two days at borne when we were again summoned out in haste, in consequence of intel%ncie being received Item the Missionaries that the marauding hands had toncentrmed themselves ints.t Oledixtely alter Major Dundas had trtitql, and had jleri suddenly upon the Tarnhooki or Arnaty mho c•afers, and•ifter slaughtering great numbers of them. bad again carried off the cattle which Major ,Dundaso had re-taken. Accr.iclin;ly we once more :crossed the thutlap. the K4l, the Chinni, the Buffalo. the Kei, and tie Bashi; and after marching the whole of the pie- 1 ti ding night we Caine in view of their encampment on the morning of August 28th, at sun-ri4e. thiated on an open plain, near the base of a steep end wooded . Indian tain. An order was given for the ,Boors and the Cape, mounted liftm en (1-I.,tteutet troopi) to c4Are. This was promptly executed, and the iiiianY .retied with P e 'cli ha' ion, -until they reached the skirts of the witoe' 'hem they toned and chivied us very daringly 7 - 1' --~~- "rw - r I~ ~ ~~i 14. ' 446 . ' . :.!..'t . . .: • . , . r , • . . ~ _ ....' . .6. t: . , ...,...... , • . . , ~. ~ . -'A- •• - qr• v. -.). . v ,••,,,,,- ,-; . . . , . • !. t x. .t.s. !. ..... " v . ... ... . kit` - - • • . P0,.A1 dor Nii... % • • „ o r 1 .. • . ' M O B ;4 .. - .., . . • • Ofrocitilk Ace- Paws SEitripmpict . , RELIGION lit ROLLAND. The following representati on o f t h e state of religion in in Holland is taken from I Leyden Paper 6, In Hollkod the equality . and gOod fellowship exist• ing between the different religious seas are mu.* lighiful and instinctive. No religious test is there applied to the candidate for office, and no inqofry made farther than as to his aptitude for the post which be. seeks to fill. So hi doe this harinonrextend, that it is no uncommon thing for one lento borrow the place ..f religious worship of another; and ministers f different persuasions have the honour, in turn, of preaching be. fore the Royal Family and Court. 'As no one *l4osiut body is particularly elevated, so no one: is p.Mrticts lady degraded, and there is ran universal •intetchauffe of mutual respect.' The pay of all • the sisinistea.ol the different persuasion s i s e qua lly provided fotbylhe Government, which mak es Oh di,t Atiiion beeireep almost 41 uakerlike Memnonite and the gaudy:keine* Catholic—between the Calvinists, wbn Mint, and the Remonstrant.. who are few. I%e latter la by, fir the smallest i f the Dutch sects, ant) ptobubly stries suit consist of mot e• than, 8,000 per Weis though the P°Pt4ee eloquence of some of their preachers closet their thraldom to be.ftecuently tiosvdlll. The *weber 44 Lmtheran* 'is about 900.(x00 ; . a the &foe used Church, I 4001106 ; • and the remainder of the.popolition are C 4tholics, with the emteption of sr not very tonsiderable number of Jews. It is no uncommon thing for Jews to sit as Representa 7 lives in the Chambers; find at Amsterdam there have been for a long time Jews among the local Senn• - tors. In Flanders all the Protestant sects are blended in one, which is called the Protestant‘Chtuch; but the number of Protestants, as competed with the Catholics, are very inconsiderable." • • MALTA, Norawsita It • • The Malta Gazelle of the 29th of October eastsins a.Oovernment notice, by which it is made knoWeillitit upon a report made by the competent Cslostnittee,ihe average mice sit Egyptian wheat is declastd• to lls. 10d. :telling pet salm. .By another etrierien. titled " a lase:." it is proclaimed th,t the expo( tanossof lore cattle from the island is prohibitede ; - 'According. to the last accounts -received at MIAs om Alexandria, thetroops which had sus lived. Wraith* MOrea appeared in a most deplorable 'state -of unis. A seventy-four gun ship, eitrichbaJ. been got a hastily patched up after th7bthre Nava in, foundered J sit sea, a‘out 160 lkiki i 1,01.11 the .Egyptian, cosst,i•earie • . . were . many.sick win on board, who, a ith the cteury.wrie s.eed‘jout 1,000 pieces of artillery,' -some herrdittl Iskse# and mules, and a quantity of, anchors.. cablekt ships' stores, all went to the bottom.'.: The Esk'• meeting between Ibrahim Pacha and biz father -ii . 4l•lu . wstbed in the Malta papers ,as haviogtaken : Alexandria, 'According tUtlie . strict ceremonial - hometan etiquette. The pi ice ofgraii, beans; 'cc: was very high in Egypt, uotwith.tanding that the-Nile tad 'isen so Gras to insoiea plentiful crop the ensuing sea son, leaving disposable the quantity then deposited (which was considerable) in the public grapakich • . RUSSIA. • ODESSA, Oeswaea 2. There is now at Odessa a man whose very appearances •• lee. °ugh to damp the ardour of the recruits thit are ' continually pouring into the town ; thi. magi's history is worth relating, as one of the most extraorditiary stances of presence of mind on record. This man fell senseless from a severe wound he received in a skirmish; in which the Turks remained masters of the field. At night a Turk came to cot off the ears of the slain. rolled over the body of our hero, and, conceiving that life was extinct, commenced his operation% The pain • and loss of' blood brought the poor teals , " to his - senses, who well knew his.fate had he shown the least signs of life; he, therefore,' remained motionless; the Turk cut off the other ear, put both into his pocke', and walked off! The mutilated is.oew recoveiing, and continues to he an 'object of great corio.ity to the whole neighbourhood. Varna.-was, o comOrtely battered that it can sea-rely be considered • as ; the Russians are, therefore, occupied. in re . building the fortifications; but, if a severe winter should sois.rite them before their operations are completed, I tremble for the to e of the garii:on. The ports of 'Southern Russia are frequently frozen ; neither .iipplies not reiniotcements can in this case be sent from ()Jesse; 'assistance from Wittgensteiurs army would. be equally hopeless, and the Tut ks•may yet regain possession ot . thir • •important fortress. The mushier° .does. not consist of more than 30,000 men—a force by tar too' incon.i. siderable for the ensuing campaign; and if, the Rus t sian army has suffered. such privations in the fertile and well peopled : provinces of Bulgaria, what can' be done in the woods and deserts of Southern Thrace?' I.write from considerable experience; it the invading army is small It muir be beaten ;if large, it must be . starved; there is noel eviative. These may be An in. fant Constantine at.St Petersborgh, as well as ' grown Constantine at Wat sew, but neither in my . nion is destined to, restore the long-lost empi re of the •.. 'Greek.. I asttritu te more importance to the progress.. of Paskewitsch in the East ; he has already made spelt progie.s ; but difficulties as great es. those his contede.l - in the West .have to contend with must be over... • come, bet'ose the 44 Pross" can s'applant the Crescent'. on the minarets of Scutari. Ti.e Rdssiaiis have niiscal- • culated the business throughout; they now see the diffi culties they have to-contend with, and say, with affected humility, that their p wipe haw sowte d for' ifs Allies, and does : not with to (.. se Otokider'').: with the whole of Europe ; it 2:titee words, that they• are desirous of peace, provided tteie.ilt,ll!es will ands" ; take to negotiate. An infinite waste ot aid' sore has taught. them the folly 'of;is war, as Lai is remait i s in peace; and whilA i so eistgkile • +Obis; as Malimoud sways the deatinieeiot ake.OttorWatlEmlew..'' • 1 am altogether much pl ease d with Odesse,;.,it was but a village a' short time since now a Jos, of considerable importance. 'Jr itniindl me of solve Cities in the United Stater—Washington in pareiculai,'`'.'" -it muck resembles in the breadth and tegulatity . 'ol She s'reets, the plantations of acacias, and the 'plena dour cf sonic ; houses contrasted with the utter envy nifteance of others, intended, no doubt, to 'be removed -I 'at the wealth of the town 66 progresses." The Ilan •• Odessa svas• evidendy laid with a . view .to.-iu..4u. tom graudeirr, for ski boundaries enclose an immense • 31! town must continue to bsot•re - 'greateserntrepot for corn in Europe; to a certain TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 11425. their auagais and other missiles. The result was, the total defeat of the enemy, and the capture of 12,000 cattle. The number of their killed has been variously computed, but i conceive 500 to be a fair estimate. Their whole force on this occasion probably amounted to about 10,000 men. The Colonial force engaged were 11)0 boors, three companies of mounted riflemen, and one company of the 55th Regiment. We had a huge force of Caffers (of Hinsa's and Vosani't clans) on our side; but these thievish banditti left all the fighting to us, and were employed, while we were putsiting the ei.emy, in te. curing the cattle and massacring the helpless women and children, which we were Out aware of until the skirmish was over. We have now discovered that the report of these marauders being ChakA's people is quite erroneous— that they are a tribe called Marinade, and that the name of their Chief is Matnan. 1 have no doubt that they are the same horde as that named Ficatii, who at. ticked the Tambooki Chief *Pewana in 182.5, • as de scribed in Mr. Thompson's work, in a letter from Mr. T. Pringle. On this expedition we suffered severe privations for want of provisions. although there were three officers. of the ComMissarist along wish oe. • OS out tants, all my horses weirs knocktd up it the Bashi River, and I was under the necessity of marching 'home from that place, a distance of 3)0 miles, on foot, with only one shoe. - . EAST 'INDIR& By the arrival of the S ►vereign, from Bengal, we have received Calcutta Papers to the 2&th of July. The following are eatracts: CALCUTTA, Jots S. Yesterday evening, a little after six o'clock, the Right Hon. Lord Wm. Bentiack: landed from the - Enterprise steam boat, at Chandpaol Ghost, °slder t the fort due to his rook. The vessels in the tiger were adorned with flags in honour of * the occasion, red sue ral fined salutes. The evening was upfavourable, but the firing of the fort, on the Enterprise passing it, soon drew foals a natation: crowd to Witness the lending. His Lordship was welcomed to.the shore by a depute ti•in of the Government, and proceeded lo one of the state palanquins to Government House, and shortly ,after took his scat at the Coaacd table with the usual honours. - • • Tlip.l 'Rowing Proclamation was Issued last evening: , oovensurat GAUT?! SITIAOIRDINAST. « Fort' William, July 4. " The Right Hon. Lord:Williem Cavendish Ben- ' 'tinter, appointed by the Honourable the Court of Di rectors to the once of Goveruor General'of Fort WU io:Lieogal, his Lordship landed at six o'clock this' evening, and was received with the usual honours. " Lord William Cavendish Bentinck proceeded to the Government House, and took be prescribed oaths and his Seat is . Goiernor General. The following Proclamation is published by order, ,of the Right non. the Governor General is Caustiti— PROCLA IIATION. • sa Whereas the Right Honourable Nilliam Cavendish Bentiack, Knight Grand Cross of the Mou'Hanoue.abie Military Order of the Bath, commonly Gated Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, Member of his M ijesty's Most Honourable Privy. Commit, hath been appointed by the Honourable. the Court of Directors, to be Go- vernor General of Fort William, in Bengal.; and Whereas his Excellency the Right Honour able LerdNiscount Combermere Knight Grand Cross of th e M ost H on . Military Order of the Bath, bath been coointed Com mander in Chef of all the Forces of the Honourable East India dimpany in the East Indies, and one of the Councillors of Fort William aforesaid, and William Butterworth Bayley, El. to be also a Councillor of the said Presidency : and whereas Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Baronet, has, under the orders of the Hon. die Court et Directors, dated the 12th of April, 1826, sacs-Fisted as a provisional member of the said Cruncil, l the said appoi meats are hereby notified :• and it is faiths/ proclai:ned that the Right Honourable Lord William Cavendish Bentitick has, on :the day of the date hereof, received charge of the said office of Go vernor General, and taken the usual oaths and tis seat accordingly, and that WilliaM Butterworth B.yley, Esq. and Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, B 'rt. this Excellency the Commander in Chief being absent on a visit to the upper stations of the army) have respectively taken their seats at the board ai Councillors f the said Presidency. " By order of the Right Hnnovrobk the Governor General in Council. " H. SHAKESPRAII t • " Oicisting Chief Secretary to the Government. • " Fort William', 4th July. Inn." Fort William, July 4. The Governer General has been pleased to make the ' • following appointments, Mr. Archibald Dobbs to be Private Secretary to the Governor General. Captain Anthony Troyer to be Military Secretitry to the Governor General. GENERAL ORDERS BY THE RIGHT HON. TIM GOVERNOR-GENgRAL IN COUNCIL Fort William, July 4. No. 151 of 1828.... The Right Hon. Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, &c. being arrived, the Cornm;ision of Government from the Honourable the Court c.f-Di rectors, bearing date the 17th of October, 1827. ap pointing his LT,rdship to be Governor General of the, Presidency of Fort William, in Bengal, is read. • - • The. usual oaths having been administered to tbl Right Hon. Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, he takii his seat as Governor General under the customary.* lute from the ramparts of Fort William. .I. ' •. The separate commission, appointing Lord William Cavendish Bentinck to be Governor and Commander.' in-Chief of the Fort and Garrison of Fort William and 9f the Town of Calcwta, is also read. ''- o,de:ed. that the following Proclamation iii issued. ; and that the usual guard be ordered to attend the.Blie. riff op the occasion of proclaiming the new tiover . nor : GENERAL ORDERS BY THE HONOURABLE THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL 1- • " Fort William, July & ." No. 150 of 1828.—The Houoarable the Governor in Council bas bera pleased to lay down thefolloaing rides, for the guidance of all Government 01ficeri, l irr A m money may be advan ce d on accoun t of Gosh.t works; andior the purpose of beingsbbstiriebil? • p!eded by pertiet disbarielbents, . • • " 1 . *44takitalt Onliff tip tbreatet, at libert, to withdraw from a Government Treasury a larger sues than required by him for immediate disbursement. " I. Officers in charge of Government Treasuries are directed to make advances on account of assignments, on their treasuries, in such sums as the Officers holding the same mar from time to time apply for, taking their receipt in duplicate, one on.the back of the assignment. which will remain with the Officer in charge of the trea sury making the payment, and the other to accompany the account as a voucher for the advance. • Iffrom unavoidable cause, and in any special Instance, it shall be necessary to draw at once the . anif,ent of an assignm en t, th e necess i ty f or d o i ng so i t to be clearly stated in writing to the Officer in charge of the Government Treasury, who is to forward the document tacked' to the assignment, or draught, on his treasury. 4. Government Officers h lying occasion to draw - the whcflitif their demands at one time are not to place the money so drawn in the hands of any banker, or to 'remit it (as hiss snmatimes been dorie) to their agents, for secure Custody. Sik At the-Presidency, !he B Ink of. Bengal affords to all *Fue l s' the•Converri• nee of a safe custody fat Ge treitfipent money. when it may be necessary to with. ,tral money from a Gove r nm en t T reasur y, to ditb urs e in sinall . surns.. It i. seldom that a necessity can arise for withdrawing a sum from a Government Tresiary, at a distance hum the Presidency. before it is required to be disbursed, but when such unforesren circumstance arise to render it expedient that the Government money should temporarily be placied in a banking house, the deposit shall then be made in the name of the depost ing officer, on account *tit t%e Government, to distin• guish the.depoiit from priv a t e Money belonging . to th e . depositor, and the o ffi cer making such deposit will im mediately notify the same to 'the' Aciountant of Di partnient. "6. Any Governmentofficer . erho, receiving mosey from a Governmert Trtasoryfor Government purports, shall pass the amount of his agents, or blend it, with his 'Own private cash, withourdesignaiing such too . ney to be Government property, and - without notifying, the same to the Accountant of his Department, will be, Considered as having made 'an unlawful appropriatiotil of the same, and will subjecthimself to be proceeded against accordingly: ..."*WIiIL . CASIMENT, Lieutenant Colonel. %mike. to-Government Military Dept." * MlM,llians (Territorial Depatlment h Jury a. " The plibti*ltie hereby infer med. that no further subscriptions win' be receised to t' e 5 per cent lo a n,. which was openetionthe 18ttilif August, 1825: and the several officers whti, by the • adireithensent published in the Goveiwmene Gazette* Ilia 'Mime date, were autbo-, rised to receive subscriptions to the loan in question, are heieby prohibited from granting any turther aehnow , ledg . Ments.l or subser iptions tendered under the said ad- I 'vestnettiene, *after the receipt by them respectively of tile present-notification. • • yr 11 is hereby also notified and ordered, that piemis luny notes of die four per cei.t.luan, which was open e d 'on the ISat..ol September, 1824, are no longer to be recieved itrifiemferio a five per cent, loan, as. autho• raid by the'notifications published on the 19t4 of May, 1825; •' Notice -islotthei hereby given, th st the, Sob Tyra surers'of•Fort William, F ~t St: G orge, arid. Bombay, the several Residents et foreign Cowls, and the several collectors &land revtnue vita receive, until further orders, any .sutis 11 mon• y, in even htin.liejs et Cal .cutta.iicce rUpeei , which - may ten4red rn.loan to theliOneerableCompairy, at an interest of four per cent. per 'artnonr.r,the conditions of the said loan to be the same as ibose of the fi ve p er cent ., loan or the 18th of August, 1826, saving in reipect so the rate of iiite test. Piovided alsoitbst the interest shall be 'paid in cash only, and net in ;bills , on the Hon. the Court of Din ectors. " Published by : order of ..thellion. the Governor General In Council, la HOLT MACKENVE, r• Btu to the Government." ...:.. • MONDAY, Jut , " 14. On Saturday morning, the •Rtgqi 113 n. the•govetnor General held a levee at the Goveinrfierit Hoisse, which was numerously attended. After the . pielentations were over, hi. Lortlifitp tet;rea to the Council C;fianaber,where he gave private audiencr to such &Istlemen ,as had previously requesteJ that honour. In. the evening Lady Beruinck had, her first.drawing room. The Ladi.s generally wore large plumes of f:a thers, and the state apartments exhibited a scene of great gaiety and rpieklour: The bbip Mai y, bound to England, has, we find, re• turned to Calcutta to be docked.. The. mails made up for that swivel have; beeti.tranifeaved to the Sovereign, tivhiCh is to sail for in five or six days. • At two AM. on the morning of the Bth. 1 sere ,shuck :of an earthquake was felt in Calcutta. The mo. don was considerable, and many persons were awa k ene d out of their sleep. It is. thought .to have lasted about a minute. 00 this subject, a correspondent writes us as follows: H A shock of an earthquake was very sensiblY felt in Chow ringhee,. at about two minutes slier two o'clock in the morning of yesterday, the Bth instant. Thi mo tion appeared to be from es“ to west, and the duration.' of the earthquake was, not less than two minutes. Mail persons wire awakened by it, and the noise made by the crows it main the trees, proved flow much they were mooted by theism's's:sr disturbance.° • SUTTEES. • PROM TIM INDIA GAZETTE. En' our correspondence department will be found an ueidunt of a woman !Awned hosts a Suttee, principally thrOugh 'tiropeakinstrumentality s • Fire bad abso lutely been aet;to tbe pile and the poor woman had suitaioed cousideribte' injurfi before'she could make 'her eseipirgood;.l lit thietnitatace the woman does not Appear . tobaeeliecp .I:S*ll4d:down; the consequence -eat, dint When the•agorry of her situation becmue too reat, the impulse of qaturebecerne more powerful than , iti4logulaiwf sUperstitidn...ind she obeyed it. • . vire Ulsirtave much pleasure in referring ourfeaders to an. ipgenioiss proposal respecting Settees, 'which, if' 'adopted, We doubt nut would lte -lon put as entire stop tat that horrible tilltOnl6' • , -• • • * Ws noderstand'Ahat the' 'College of FortWtlliam will .1400 mt. abPitshadispi niraserwed-some time ago. It is eaidi housweeri-shaa , soisfe altmation.will be made toastitutions•va 016Kiittatit,•*frailia of dx..goilitary as 'ell al alibi ilifirstrifice. •?' • , ' .~ ro• - ••••/ ~~: :~