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By the arrival of the Calcutta mail we have re-
ceived our private correspondence and files of papers
from Calcutta to the 23d December, and from
Hongkong to the 15th of December.
There is not much of importance in the news
from Calcutta. We take the following from the
Bengal Hurkuru of Dec. 24 :
"The Bengal Chamber of Commerce bas recorded
a minute on the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Baird
Smith, in which they express their sincere regret
for his loss, as well as admiration for the eminent
talents with which the deceased officer was endowed-
Mr. Laing, our financial minister, is now busily
engaged in carrying out the organisation of the cur-
rency scheme, which comes into operation in Feb-
ruary or March next. Although slightly indisposed
on bis return to Calcutta he is now, we are glad to
say, perfectly restored to health. All look upon him
as the only man able to complete these great finan-
cial reforms which were inaugurated ender the aus-
pices of the much lamented Mr. Wilson, and which
he has so successfully done up to the present moment.
Mr. Laing, however, quits India for ever in May
next, and some anxiety is felt by the public at the
long interval likely to occur before a competent
person will be appointed from home to succeed him,
and the irretrievable confusion in which
.our finan-
cial affairs may in the meantime be reduced_onee
rinore—liy4fie temporary a—ppeointmest7 of a- civi-
lian financier. The chief commissionership of the
amalgamated Central Provinces has been conferred
upon Colonel Elliott, instead of Mr. R, Temple,
as was at one time expected. Major
Spence is to be Commissioner of Nagpore, and
Major Snow has a chance of obtaining another pro-
vincial commissionership. Mr. Perkins is likely
to be secretary to the Chief Commissioner, and
Major Shakespear, it is reported, will be appointed
Deputy-Commissioner of Chiridwarra. The British
Indian Association have addressed a letter to the
Bengal Government with regard to the prevalence
of a dangerous epidemic in some of the populous
villages in the districts of Hooghly and in Baraset,
praying the Lieut.-Governor to adopt speedier
measures of relief for the mitigation of the disease.
The villages most affected by it are Tribany, Halis-
howar,Kutchraparah, and Godulparra, in Hooghly,
on the one side, and the villages in and about Ba-
reset on the other. The mortality is described as
fearful. Whole families have been swept away by
the disease. In one village alone 400 individuals
have died in the course of two months. The epi-
demic is of a typhoid kind, and as the poor inhabi-
tants aro without any medicine or proper medical
aid, they easily fall victims to the same. The death
of Lieutenant Singer, who was murdered at Now-
gong not long ago, has been avenged. Twenty of
the rioters have been shot, and 200 have been made
prisoners."