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INDIA.

[From the Calcutta Gcncrumeut Gazette of Aug. 16.1
Yesterday accounts were received from Chittagong of the evacua-
tion of Rantoo by the Burmese. This information is founded on
the deposition and letter of two natives from that quarter.
One of them, with seventeen others in company, on reaching the
flukhalee river on the 27th of July, met with a mug woman, who,
on being asked why there were no Burmese about the place, re-
plied, that they had all fled from Ramoo. The party creased in a
hoar, and went into the fort, where they found the fires burning,
the food ready dressed, but not a single man. They entered several
houses, which were all deserted. Two of the party went to the
southward towards Rutna PuHung, to look after some of the
Mutsu!man Ryots, but they saw no one. They then went to the
eastward, and on returning, reported that the Burmese must have
retired by the road over the Sonacharry or 11lug1atung hill. There
were many broken dhows and digging tools scattered about the
forts, but no other weapons. These particulars are corroborated
by others who had also visited the stockade at Ramoo.
The most probable cause of the evacuation of Ramoo by the
Burmese, is the alarm excited at the court of Ara, by the failure
of the grand attempt to drive our army into the sea at Rangoon,
on the let of July, and the tremendous overthrow which the Bur-
mese troops received on the Oth. On the receipt of those accounts,
nothing is more likely than an immediate order for the recall of the
Burmese force from Ramoo anti Aracan would be issued, for the
purpose of their proceeding to the assistance of the armies opposed
to us at Rangoon. We know that the Burmese at Rangoon were
badly armed, and that the Ramoo force was must efficient in that
respect.
By our last letters from the Sylhot frontier, dated the 31st ult.
(July) we learn that, in consequence of the position which Col.
Innes had occupied at Juttrapore proving to be very unhealthy, the
force under his command had dropped down the river, and taken
up quarters for the remainder of the wet season in some elevated
and more healthy situations in the vicinity of Budderpottr. The
first division of gun-boats, under the command of 31r. Keymer,
had joined the Colonel's forcce. The enemy, it appears, had not
of late ventured to leave their hills and fastnesses, on marauding
excursions, as they had formerly been in the habit of doing. Our
troops are represented to be in the best possible spirits, and to com-
plain of no privation, except that of being kept front the
enemy by the constant heavy rains, and the inundated state of the
country.
Our accounts from Chittagong extend down to the 3d inst. (Au-
gust). Nothing particular had occurred in that quarter lately.

RAMOO.
The following particulars respecting the Stockades at Ramno,
have been received from a party from the V, .11 cruiser, who vi.
sited it on the 10th ittstant:—
....

The Stockades, three in number, are very strongly built and
about one mile square; In the centre Is a high mound, erected as a
place of 100k-out, and for the Burmese Officers to retire to, as they
had not spared any trouble to make themselves comfortable. There
are!utli:ient barracks within each Stockade for the accommodation

of 10,000 men, but from the horrid stench inside, it would be im.
possible for any of our troops to remain there during the rains.
The houses are perfectly dry and very well built. They could not
have had less than 20,000 men to have built the three Stockades
and houses in so short a time. They appear to have gone away in
great hurry, leaving their shoes behind them, and a great quantity
of rice and paddy. A golden chute also was found by one of the
party, and is now in his possession.
An account of the retreat of the Burmese has been obtained
fro.n a Mug, who was a prisoner in their camp, and contrived to
make his escape, in the neighbourhood of Tek Nasf. He states
that the Rajah of Acracan, and two Sirdars from Ava, evacuated
their respective Stockades, and proceeded, without halting, b
Rutna I'ullung, to the sea beach, as far as Burled, near Tek
Naaf. The Slug, although in fetters, with a collar of iron round
his neck, contrived to get away while the Burmese were asleep.
He beard them say that their retreat was in consequence of an
order from the King, the English having taken Rangoon, and at.
tacked other parts of the country.—Thc Government Gazette,
August 16.
'From the Bengal Ilurkaru, Aug. 10.1
Letters from Ilhopalpore, dated the 25th ult. (July), make men-
tion of a brilliant little affair, which took place on the prrceding
day, between a detachment under the command of Captain Gewaal.
of the 60th regiment of Native infantry, and the adherents of
Koonur Chyn Sing, the Ex-Chief of Nursinghur. The Ex-Chief
was killed, together with eighty of his follower': while, on our
side, a subodar, a havilder, and six sepoys, were wounded. Great
praise is given to Captain Deweal, for the skilful manner in which
he conducted this affair.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
BIRTHS. _ _

At Sylhet, Calcutta, on the morning of the 2d August, the lady
of W. J. Turquand, Esq. Civil Service. of a daughter.
At Arcot, Madras, on the 16th inst. the lady of Lieutenant Nay.
lor, 89th regiment, Aid-de-Camp to 111ajor.Genetal Sewell, of a
daughter.
At Ilethampore, Madras, on the 13th instant, the lady of J. T.
Anstly, Esq. Civil Service. of a son.