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London, England, 1852-05-17 00:00:00

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N°.18,612.] LONDON MONDAY tit 3

BRITANNIA- MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
enchurch
rlece;
G iondseYnt •dg,teotnt,, 1 , 9c,
DIRDIRECTORS.CUAIRMAN— Colonel ROBERT
Ilar ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park.
\1 illiam
nger
eer,.
F. 1. Cockerill, Esq , Shade; ell, and Twickenham.
George Co6en Esq., SI tacklewell.
Miles Coventry, Esq White Hart-court, Lombard-street.
Jahn DreweA, Esq., 50, Corchill.
Erasimls Robert Foster, Esq., I, Princes-street, Bank.
T. S. Gintler, Req., 7, ' tokenhouse-yant •
11. L. Smale, Esq., Doctors'-commons.
STANDING COUNSEL.
Bellemie.n Kerr, Esq , 8, Old-square, Linncoln's Inn.
RS. SOLICITO
Messrs. Rl`Lcod and hurch-street.
Stem-ling, 13, Low_.on-street, one .
BANKERS.
Messrs. Dimsdale, Drev.Ttt, Fowlers, and Barnard, 50, Cornh'll.
Th's Institution was originally established under a different title
in the year 839, on the plan of admitting the a-sured to participate
in four-fifths only of the profits ; but the Society has since been re-
modeled so as to become a strictly " Mutual Association." •
The whole of the funds and property belong to, and are accumu.
lated for the exclusive benefit of the assure'].
T'ie profits are divided -annualiv 'among the policy-holders, and
applied in reduction of the current year's premium ; thus constant-
in effect, an immediate cash payment to the assured.
II tif-credit policies are granted on terms unusually favourable, to
the holders, the amount for which credit is given being gradually,li.
quidated out of the profits. •
Two Tables of Rates have been computed; one entitling, the ftE.
surcd to participate in the profits after pat ment of five annual -pre-
miums ; the other co6siderably lower, in which the period of parti-
cipation is deferred twdsyears longer : the premium ultimately pay-
ab'e by the assured is, however, precisely the same, whichever Table
of Rates may in the nest instance be selected..
General meetings of the members are held annually, to whom full
and complete statements orthe affairs and funds of the Society are
submitteid, and by whom the division of the profits are frond time to
time declared. .
At the Annual Geterai Meeting held on the 27th April last, a di-
vidend of 30 per cent. upon the currant year's premium was awarded
to all members who had made the requisite nunufer of payments on
their respective policies. ..
By order of the Board of Directors,
E. R. FOSTER,- Resident Director,
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary,

London, May 1, 1852. • •
Tim "Britannia Mutual Life Association" is altogether dis-
tinct from, and independent of, the Proprietary Office transacting
business under the name of the "Britannia Life Assurance Com-
pany." The only counexion between the two establishments is, that
their affairs ate conducted on thew Ime premises and by the same
officers, by which means the entire disbursements of the Mutual
Association are reduced to a small per tentage on the receiptS.

EQUITABLE FIRE and NATIONAL LOAN
FUND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
DIRECTORS. •
PET. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
*W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. • *John M.oss, Esq.
t*Hugh Croft, Esq. t*John Rawson, Esq.
fJ. Elllotson, M.D. F.R.S. - *John ShaW, Esq.
t*Beo. Fuller, Esq. %Edmond S. Symes, Esq.
*Ralph Gough, Esq. t*Clement Tabor, Esq.
t Kennaway, Esq. (Joseph Thompson, Esq.
(Sir Arnold J. Knight, M.D. t*Augustus Vigne, Esq.
*Sir A. W. Hillary, Bart. fSainuel Walker, Esq.
*M. C. Maher, Esq.

SECURITY TO, EMPLOYERS.
TO SECRETARIES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,
CLERKS, STATION-MASTERS, RAILWAY OFFICIALS,
BANKERS' CLERKS, TRAVELLERS, AND OTHERS:- •
TIMES LIFE ASSURANC.E,"and
GUARANTEE COMPANY. • !-;
32, Ludgate-hill, London. •
GUARANTEE FOR FIDELITY OF TRUST. ^
PROFITS DIVIDED. •
RATES—From 7s. 6d. per cent. upwards. No charge for Stamps
An allowance made in the Guarantee Premium where a Life As-
surance and Guarantee are combined.
LIFE ASSURANCE.
Policies Indisputable save in cases of Fraud.
Arrangements can be made with this Office to prevent the loss of a
Policy where the Assured is unable, from temporary embarrassment,
to keep up the payments:

H. B. SHERIDAN.
TIMES FIRE AND PROPERTY ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Every description of Fire Assurance. Profits Divided.
Agents Wanted.
H. B. SHERIDAN.

ACCIDENTS AT SEA.

THE MARITIME PASSENGERS' ASSU-
RANCE COMPANY grant Assurances against every kind of
Accidental Death at Sea.

Assurances granted for the voyage, by the year, or one payment
may be made to effect an assurance for the whole of life.
Compensation made in cases of personal injury.
PRE-AM:3IS. ,

For the Voyage to any port beyond the limits of the United King-
dom, and such foreign ports as are situate beyond liamburgh to
the north and Brest to the south, •
To assure 1001.... • • .... •- 2s. fyil.
For tho voyage to any port within such limits,
To assure 4d.
By Annual Payment,
To assure £lOO 3s, 6d,
By one Payment to effect an Assurance for whole of Life,
To assure £lOO ........ • 15s.
1,000 .......... .... ss.

Assurances are also granted at equally moderate rates to Seamen.
Boatmen, Fishermen, and others whose daily avocations render
them especially liab:e to Marine Casualty.
Applications for Pr6spectuses, Assuraneles, Agencies, to: be
addressed to 'the Officers of the Company, 4, Moorg,ate-strict,
London.

R. G. ERLAM, yanagor.
Officers in her Majesty's and East In a Company's Services,
also in the Mercatitile Marine, Pilots, an^thers, are invited to in-
spect the Rates of Premiums, especially prepared for them by this
Company.

THE SILENT FRIEND.
IN SIX LANGUAGES-FORTIETH EDITION.

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1111 E SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produeed by
excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abase of
mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, f °l-
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prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L.
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nixed at an early period Disorders of Youth and Maturity, usually ac.
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mental Dowers,with P aetical Observations on
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q diminish and einffeeeible the natural feelings, and OX-
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tlD7sco6asite:ainn.dr.dreevrangenatniedonmeanritsdostr.u.es ,
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who hatexclusively, and for ans, apt} or thetzleciililtthivee
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tage by all those whose constitutions may have become debilitated
through secret practices acquired In youth, or by the excesses of
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MISS PARDOE'S NEW WORK.
On the 21st instant, in 3 vols. Svo.; with Portraits, &c., 425. bound,
THE LIFE OF
•
MARIE .DE MEDIC'S,
QUEEN ( F FRANCE,
cons,rt of Henry IV., and Regent of the Kingdom under Loafs XIII.

By Mies PARDOE,
Antbsi'iot" Louis: XIV. and the Court of France," " The City of the

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both at flornil and Abro M... A-New Edition, partly re-written, and
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Submitted to the consideration of the Electors of the United
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By R. TORItEN'S, .F.R.S.
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Colonial Sugor, considered as an act ofjustice to the Planter:3 and as
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oy AL YOL TECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Bachhoffner and Deflies's new Patent Polytechnic Gas Fire
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day, at llalfioaSt Three, and on Tuesday and Thursday Evenings, at
'Nine.'---Lbettfre on Music, by George Buckland, Esq., the Past and
Present Eras contrasted by Vocal illustration, every evening, except
Satprday,' aCPAght o'clock.—A Lecture, by J. II: Pepper,-Esq., on
GlAen and Appel's Pa ent Paper for the Prevention of Piracy and
Forgery `by the.Anastatiq Process.--Lecture on the Britannia. Tubu-
lar Bridge, illustrated by Mr. E. Clarke's beautiful- Model,'—hoc-
tore on Voltaic Electricity, by Dr- Bachhoffner.—A splendid New
Series of DisiolVing Views..--Exhibition of the MicroScope.:—Diver
anl Diving Bell, &c., &c •
Attnisston, -1$:; Bchouls and Children under Ten years of age,
Elalf-price.

GENERAL SCREW STEAM COMPANY.
An experimental' trip took place down the river on
Saturday for the purpose of testing the newly-launched
vessel the Queen of the South, belonging to -this com-
pany. She is a noble ship, well built and well provided,
and dab gneits ,on the occasion occupied a considerable
portion of their time in examining her lines, in scruti-
nizing,her machinery, and in exploring her interior fit-
ting's for passengers. Soma of her visitors objected that
she wall-sided, ethers criticised her unusually lofty bul-
warks amidships, but all confessed that she was a noble
specimen of naval architecture; well calculated to excite
the utmost confidence, and in accomnodation for passen-
gers and in her engine arrangements especially worthy
of cornateedation. The provision for the comfort of
pesvngers is especially excellent, everything being per-
fectly plain but substantially good, and ventilation being
carried out with a degree of success almost unprece-
dented. As to the engines, it might be considered suffi-
cient tai Fay that they were manufactured by the Messrs.
Maudslay, sod that they combine in an unprecedented
developed
eleiygoeri
ticyclepmee
4coosbrit
yomt hy
e' o
nearlysfQ
approaches
screw
wpa
rc
propeller,
ra
ocwphieet
etreo,ffidaciniredeno ctthyaecoftfai
action,
sthi onanst ; the
most perfect form of marine action, that which in
oncesim-
been
-a valuable acquisition to mechanical science and a silent
testimony to the importance of that new field of enter-
prise upon which the General Screw Steam Company
have entered. Teio or -three points with reference to
the machinery of tho Queen of the South may be
worth mentioning. In the first place, it occupies only
one-third of the space of paddle engines. Again, a new
construction of airpump has been secured which pos-
sesses many advantages. Then the bilge pump has been
so arranged that an attack of pirates, for example, may
be repelled with scalding water from the boilers. Lastly,
with reference to the boilers themselves, every means
for economising theta • has been provided; and in the
close examination of them a safer and more legitimate
pride may be experienced than in the United States,
where, during the exciting moments of a race, the
captain often showS his sense of personal security by
sitting en the safety-valve. The Queen of the South is
built of iron, with watertight compartments,by the
eminent builders One- Messrs. Mare. he mea-
sures 210 feet from stern to stern, 39 feet beam,
25 feet in depth of hold. - She is of 1,850 tons burden,
and is furnished, with engines of 300-horse power.
The screwe works ..,sixty tevolations a minute, and the
blades of it are so arranged as to be thrown on a. line
with the keel, and not to impede the sailing of the ship.
There is accommodation for 130 passengers, to whose
comfort the company appear to have contributed most
liberally. Since 1846, when the General Screw Com-
pany was established, it has been gradually but surely
increasing in consequence and power. It now possesses
a splendid fleet of sixteen ships, comprising 18,000 tons;
it has a reserved fund of 12,0001., and pays annual divi-
dends of from sto 8 per cent. Among the company on
the trial trip of the Qacen of the South were Earl Grey,
the Earl of Verulam, Lord Dundonald, Lord do Res,
Lord Jocelyn, Baron Moncorvo, Prince Carini, the
Neapolitan Ambassador, I)elavi Effendi, M. Mussurus,
Lord Exmouth, The Hon. F. Egerton, M. Zohrab,
the Hen. and Reverend C. Grimstone, Admiral
Sir George Sartorius, the Right Hon. Sir C. Wood,
AMP., the Hon. H. H. Corrie, R.N., Mr. Mance., M.P.,
tpone,atheß.N
Aldrman Thompson, Sir James Duke, Lieutenant-
PIN Go-
vernorr
ea jliolsrrao°l 11
°:rrng: Bark
tlAhee s°::131. yutdorrlaationfdds'l:Cu,atphAltaaaini rnep, Lyall, Sa-
tnuda, and Wigram.- ThetQaeen steasteamedd
an honwurnv‘tiothtahne
Nore, achieving a speed of 10f knots
easewhich astonished everybody on board, and the
luncheon which was provided on the occasion having
been disposed of with a facility at once creditable to the
and the
good taste of the company in providing,
gifts
oflife,
n
appe-
tites of the guests in appreciating ther goodd earnest good
everybody took his' departure highly delighted with
very agreeable trip -down the iv
wishes for the Queen of the South.
ea

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a'-Privy Council at three o'clock on
Saturddy—ifternoon—ar Buckiugham Palace. It was
attended by his Royal HiglirteSs Prince Albert, the
Lord President, the Lord -Privy Seal, the Secretaries of
State for the Plame;iForeige, and Colonial Departments,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, the President of the Board of Control, the.
President of the Board of Trade;the Postmaster-General,
tho Chief Commissioner-of Public Works and Buildings;
the Lord Ste Ward, the :Lord Chamberlain, the Master of
the Horse, and the'Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert.
Her Majesty having-been pleased to appoint the Right.
Hon. John Earl of Caviler to be Lord. Lieutenant of the
county of Carmarthen his Lordship took' the customary
oaths. The Right lien. Lord Naas, Chief Secretary
for Ireland, was, by command of the Queen, sworn
of her Majesty's - Mott-Honourable Privy Council, and
took his place at the board. The Queen was pleased
to appoint Alban Lewis Gwynne, of Monachty,
Esq., to be Sheriff of the county of Cardigan, in the,
room of' John Inglis- JoneS, of Derry Ormond, Esq.
The HofeVilliam BaThurst was Clerk of the Privy
Council in Waiting:' -Her Majesty gave audiences to
Mr. Secretary Walpole,_ the Right Hon. J. C. !lorries,
the Lord President, Sir John Pakington, the Lord
Chamberlain,', and Lord John Manners. The Qaeen was
attended by Viscount. Combermoro, Gold Stick in Wait-
ing; the Treasurer,. of the. Household. the VicieCham-
berlain, Lord,Polwartb,-Lord in Waiting; and the Hon.
W. S. litax, Groorn in, Waiting.
The Duke and Duch-essede Nemours visited the Queen
on Saturday, at Backineham Palace. Their Royal High-
nesses also visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Keitt et her residence,. Clarence. House, St. James's.
Prince 'Albert rode out on horsebadk on Saturday, at-
tended by Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales and Prince Alfred, took a drive on. Saturday
afternoon in an open carriage and four. Lord Charles
Fitzroy and Lieutenant Colonel Hon. A. Gordon at-
tended on horseback.
Her Majesty and his-Royal Highness Prince Albert
attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, the }lona Matilda
Paget, Lord Polwarth, Lord Cheelea Fitzroy, and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel HOD., A. Gordon,'honoured the Princess's
Theatre witletheir presinee:on saturday evening. -
The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morn-
ing in the garden of Buckinghain Palace, and the Royal
Family took their usual exercise.'
Mejeisty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her
1037,14-Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal High:
:neeses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, at-
tenAed divine service in the private chapel of Bucking-
ham Palace yesterday. The Ladies and Gentlemen in
waiting, and thealornestichousehold,*ere also present.
aprtestehe
,;The aud_Rev,Geralcl Wellesley officiated.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent went to
Esher on Satueday 'and visited the Duchess d'Orleans.
th 1114' 7ere
Malinx,:isbiry, Sir john lor of ilhe,E
A Cabinet
Council was held on Saturday afternoon
Foreign-office; DOwning street. The Ministers
the Lord:Chancellor, the Earl of Lonsdale,
Etaieg Pf Salisbury, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the
Pakington, the Chancel-
Right on, j, heqeer,LtheDu,ke of Northumberland, the
Right non. JW_.cllenleyt the Earl of Hardwick°, the
The Cenneil-sat one
hour and
Lord John Manners.
Ater p out' and a half..
u-cl of Well'
y!9ucy in
the
.cha Luton attended the early service
vice was real by ow Royal, St. James's. The ser-
was preached by the r. Dr:-Wesley, and the sermon
Rev. E. Banks.

pLyatowwif
Ami
.DzvAirITII Tug UOVERNMENT
POSTAL CCFMlSLlngicAnori -----
,-,
PORTS OF
find that one of the first suggestions made are glad to
of the candidates forrthe representation
siomade by Mr. Mare, one
liament, as of gfearrimpertance to thenseoft Plymouth- in Par-
there \Vag some_ proof that the local towns, and in which
hitherto neglected,thava been taken up' byntieireests had b3en
t
and we hope soon_ to hear that'these imports places
council,
placed is the sane Position and as other large cities :eaa are
the kingdom with regard to postai communication. °wltnissin
the utmdst importance to, the interests •of the boroughs of
f
~Plyrittglt and Devenaldri, that these, like the Government
ports' f D ptiord --Wottiwicb.
o e , _ , Chatham, Sheerness, Ports-
mouth, Queepstowa, 'rembroke, -and the Packet stations
of Dover, Holyhead, Liverpool, and Southampton, should
have a aay mail, and we trust ere long to be able to an.
nounce that the' Post-offico authorities have done this act
of justice.

OVERLAND mAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.

We have received by our semi-monthly
dispatch
from Marseilles our letters in anticipation of the
overland mail which left Bombar,onthe 17th ult.
Our correspondent's letter of that date is:as follows:--
" The first shipload of the force destinedler the inva-
sion of Burmah arrived off the Rangoodiver on the
morning of the 31st of March, and the remaining
steamers and troops from Bengal *lO Madras were
hourly expected. The campaign was 'to
Open formally
en the sth of April, and it, was expected that Rangoon
would be attacked about the 10th.
" The Burmese preparations for war are described as
being on a much more extended scale thin in 1823;
_the
people pretend to be very anxious for a'trial of strength,
and evidently attribute Lord Dalhouile'S anxiety for
peace and our delay in commencing operations to
timidity. When Colonel Bogle, the Commissioner at
Moulmain, in delivering a copy of theGovernor-Gene-
ral's ultimatum to the Burmese Commissioners of Marta-
bm, assured them that though prepared: for war, Lord
Dalhousie was most anxious for peace, and expatiated on
the calamities which a war would bring on Burmah,
they replied, that if the English were
so were they; and as to what had been said regarding
consequences, it was notorious throughout all Asia that
the English were the greatest braggarts' in the world.
They have Since sent word to Colo, ~b 1 • if he
does not attack them on th prepared for war,

which the period for negotia,
cross the river and attack him,

goon also has sent a message
entreating that he will come
goon and fight it out withotit
qnite tirea of seeing his Ai
doing nothing.
" Admiral Austin, with thk
Majesty's steamer Rattler, w,
Rangoon by the 3d or 4th
India Company's steam-frigal
(from China) about the same

sand Maha,nady had been

and Akyab fur river service.
the naval force in the Rangoo

elusive of transports) of a-lin,
frigate, and brig of war, with _
of war also.
" Next mail will without doubt take home tidings of
the fall of Rangoon and Manahan, but there is much
difference of opinion as to what further progress can be
made before the setting-in of the monsoon at the begin-
ning of May. The campaign has commenced nearly a
month later than the Governor-General originally de-
signed, and it is now evidently too late ih the season, and
cur delays have given the Burmese tod much time for
organizing resistance, to allow of oper4tione sufficiently
extended and decisive to terminate the ever taking place
before the monsoon. The present force is, therefore,
only a pioneer ono, and all it can do is to push on as
fast as possible, and to establish its monsoon quarters as
far up the river as is compatible with the maintenance
of its communications, until the return of the campaign-
ing season and the arrival of reinforcements.
" The experience of the last war proved that the cli-
mate of Rangoon will not admit of troops being quar-
tered there with impunity during the rainy season, but
it was also found that as the river was ascended the ma-
laria of the lower country gradually ceased. It is,
therefore, thought probable that the monsoon quarters
of General Godwin's force will be fixed either at Done-
hew or at Promo ; the former, the site of Sir Wil-
loughby Cotton's repulse on the Bth
o thef March, 1824, is
about 100 miles above Rangoon ; an latter, Sir A.
Campbell's monsoon quarters in the second year of the
last Burmese war, and reckoned the key to Ava, is
about double that distance.
" The troops employed in the last Burmese war
amounted to about 12,000 men. Genral Godwin has
as yet only about half that number, and it is doubted
whether, after making provision for the safety of his
communications, his disposable force will be sufficent to
allow of his maintaing himself during the rains and until
the arrival of reinforcements in so advanced a position as
Promo, But it is remarked, on the other hand, that the
force with which Sir A. Campbell actually advanced at
Ave did not exceed that under General Godwin's orders;
the other troops engaged in the last war being employed
in maintaining Sir A. Campbell's communications, and
in other duties, which the naval force at present avail
able is of itself perfectly competent to perform. Our
steam force in the last Burmese war consisted only of
the little Diana; on the present occasion we shall have
17 steamers, and the depth of the Irrawady is such as to
admit of the largest steam. frigate ascending considerably
above Prome.

"It appears to be the general opinion in India that
the moral effect of the defeat of the Bu:t,meee in the last
f
war would have been infinitely greater nd more last-
ing had Sir A. Campbell occupied th capital before
making peace, instead of turning back % en within four
marches of it, and the Indian Government is strongly
urged not to commit a similar mistake on the present
occasion.

ee-
" The present war may be more or ss protracted,
but the result is certain; Ivo shall co el the Burmese
to sue for peace, and we shall
then dema d the expenses
of the war; they will be unable to pay
Ili in money, and
we shall pay ourselves by annexing the delta of the Ir-
rawady, with more or less of the back country, aceord-
ing to circumstances.
Government are evidently making preparations for
the probable contingency of a large force being required
Regi-
ment and 2d European Fusiliers, with the 25th and 68th
Bengal Native Infantry (both general service oorPOe are
in Burmah after the rains. Trer MejestY's 29th
on their way to Calcutta, to be in readiness if requiredfl
and 750 bullocks; have been purchased for the carriage
of ammunition, now in course of preparation. An ad-
ditional Madras regiment (the sth) is also under lime-
diate orders for Burmab, to take the place of the "mull
t" Bombay 13 the-only one of the three presidencies
-whose contribution to the Burmese expeditionary force
has not dissappointed the -'
Governor-Generars plans.
The Bombay steam squadron arrived at Madras on the
7th of March, but the Madras troops were not ready to
embark till the 30th and 31st. The Governor-General
is taudli blamed by the Indian press for not having
availed, himself, when the neeensity existed for striking
a sudden blow, of the Bombay army, the most readily
available for embarkation of any in India. Two brigades
of the Bombay army are within - five diys' march of the
point of embarkation, and
regiments, might have been em-
barked on board the squadron of war steamers, and in
eluding two European,
others available for the, purpose, so as to have been
landed at Rangoon by the 10th or 12th of March, and
that this is not a mere supposition is garanteed by the
6,000 Bombay troops, in-
fect of the incredibly short time in which 10,000 Bombay
troops were shipped off from Bombay to Sir C.l4Napier
in Sinde in 1846. A correspondent of the Calcutta
Englishman writes on the subject as follows:--
Had the Governor-General sent to Bombay for an
expeditionary force to proceed to Reegoen, I verily be-
'Hove that place would have been in our possession long
sp. With a, fine Let of steamers in harbour, and two
brigades, including two European regiments at Poonah
(only five days distant from the place of embarkation),
the Bombay Government could have had their . war-
frigates and 6,000 gallant and tried soldiers at Rangoon
or Martaban in a fortnight after the order had reached
eeen d . doubt could
one, no
have existed of a successful hie* t.,
Had this h
"log practicable before
htheyowthoeurisdfe:
tthheemd.rea.cle.d rains.' .. . Had the Bombay garrison
might have gone direct to Burmah in ten days, and
have struck such a blow as 6,000 troops and six war-
steamers thundered down the
Poonah, the steamers
walls of Rangoon whilst the Burmese were rubbine their
0
.
eyes.
"'I he defection of the Bengal 38th has been the
cause of a very gratifying demonstration of the loyalty
sbteeeanmer s embarkedean. with
and soldierlike feelings of ono of the irregular Seikh re-
giments. ` The native officers of the ad Seikh
the Infantry
went in a body yesterday evening to quarters of
their commanding-officer, Captain Repton, and said that
baying
hav heard that a regiment had refused to proceed by
sea to Burmab, and that Government were in want of
offer
troops, - they had come to their services to go there,
or anywhere else, and when Captain Repton afterwards
went into the lines; all the men turned‘ out and loudly
confirmed the assurances of their ` ancients;' The great
majority of the regiment are Sikhs, the relit Mussulmans
and Hindoos.'
"The news from the north-west frontier 13 not satis-
factory:—` Sir Colin Campbell 'ts force returned to re•
shawur, on the 27th ult., b_aving opparently reduced
the enemy to subjection, and cons_peelled him to promise
pa) meat of a fine and tribute. 7haccou.nt of an at-
tack mado on the force and the
_fighting, with severe loss
proved wholly unfounded• they
on both sides, has . , , gave
• good conduct in future, Newel yes-
hostages for their
I d to the
however, ea s apprehension that,
terday received, .
to go
,out into the
districts
to
the force will require again
gthe
. the marauders plundering
prevent villages under
their protection.' ..
" The Bombay Railway is =Ring rapid progress, and
the now been 1 nd
the locomotive, though it has wor ring two
Months, continues to attract as numerous crowds of
line of rails will natives as ever. One
h before the' monsoon;' probably.
be laid as far' as Tann
interim are making rapid
the surveys in the
Ghaut, or the" Great— rap
progress. The Thull
the 'Bhor© Ghaut,
North-
Eastern line of traffic, and
__ on the
both
been surveyed. There, is
South-Eastern, have
little doubt that the former route will be selected
h the most
being by ratio important as
for the railway; as bet
e generally in a commercial
regards existing traffic,
ThullenGbant• will admit of an ascent
point of view. 'rho
curies'or heavy works.
(This 1 in 38, without objectionable.
_.
the Birmingham•
incline on (ThiS is less than the LiekY 1.0 ee.,
3 ) Th© Bhore Gha
and Gloucester, which is:l i 6
but the Bhore Ghaut :d
ascent would be rather easier, ,
,iin Bombe a
Poonah route, though it would . , Y with the
1 residency, could never
principal military station of the ,
40 advocated on commercial grounds.
" The Bombay papers state that the rumour that Lord
Falklau'd had received a hint to resign the Bombay Go-
verement is confirmed by. private letters that arrived
by the last mail. Lord Falklaud is at_preeent et
Mahableshwur, and is understood to be suffering from
" lifiecti9lt QI the chest, which FaaY Mader 6 speedy re-

to Coloi;1 Bogle, that if he anUFWU
ie Ist of April (the day at
wetted
ation exp : ed), they would were al
m. The e iternor of Ran- delta fie
;e to Co.'s:, ,dore Lambert, April.
up withK, r= .
~ , Rim
•to . when a
ns6 any-
.11,1, ,--; . -- 4.ond ti
ups !Dog t anchor outside harm.
. Rano(
he Hasti s, 72, and her Comps
were to join the force off found e
iof April. The Hon. East for t
1
ate Semirathis was expected captun
,
) time, slid the Narbudda masted
ordered from tho Hooghly till th,
When all these have joined "mime
on waters tfill consist (cx. been u
ne-of-battlf:ship, a 42. gun matin?
L 17 steamers, mostly vessels way,