The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-26 00:00:00

TEETOTALISM IN INDIA.

The import of ale, beer, and porter, seems steadily
increasing. The quantity imported last year was
14,094 good, and 1,821 bad and empty hogsheads, be-
sides 2,400 dozens in bottle, the aggregate value of which
is set down at 6,17,155 rupees. Bass and Allsop continue
in high repute in Bengal, as they do in other parts of
India, two-thirds of last year's supply being of their
brands. The following are the quantities imported in
good order from the six principal brewers for the Indian
market during the last four years. We have added the
proportion of bad and empty hogsheads of each kind for
last year :

1837-38 1838-39 1838-39 1840-41 1840-41
Hhds. Hhds. Hhds. Hhds. Bad.
Bass 4,881...3,120 ...4,442 ...5,319 ... 186
Allsop
Hodgson
Tennant
Ind and Smith 981... 621 ... 371 ... 423 ... 21
Elliot

Besides the above there are thirty-two other brewers,
each struggling to acquire a name in the Indian market,
who sent out last year quantities varying from ten to
300 hogsheads each, and one (Saunders) to the extent of
800. An American brewer named Pepper sent out 130
hogsheads on trial the previous year, but, probably not
finding it answer, does not appear to have repeated the
experiment. Many others, we suspect, , will be con-
strained to follow their example, and abandon as hope-
less the prospect of competing with those already so
well established in public favour. A large proportion of
this beer is excellent ; but those accustomed to their fa-
vourite beverage of Bass or Allsop, and whose tastes are
in a manner confirmed, are averse to change, even
although the new beer can be had at about half the
price of the other ; meanwhile such wholesome compe-
tition is not without its advantages. With the example
of Hodgson before them, and surrounded by so many
competitors, Messrs. Bass, Allsop, Tennant, &c., have
the strongest inducement to maintain the superiority of
their respective brews.
It would have been interesting to have compared the
above with the kinds of beer held in most estimation on

this side of India ; but on this subject " The Reports of
th.e Commerce of Bombay, compiled under the joint di-
rection of the Reporter-General on External Commerce
(i. e. the Collector of Customs), and the Committee of
the Chamber of Commerce," afford us no information
whatever. We believe, however, that Bass and Allsop
distance the others by a long interval.—Bombay Times,
Oct. 1.

WARLIKE PREPARATIONS IN THE NAVY.—
In all departments of the naval service of the country a
degree of activity prevails unexampled at any period since
the battle of Waterloo re-established the peace of Europe.
We haire it from undoubted authority, that in one of
the many departments to which the manning and
fitting but of ships of war is entrusted, the weekly
bills sent in last week exceeded by 40,0001. any
accounts rendered for the same period for the last
five and twenty years. This increase of activity is not
confined to one branch of the service, and, taken alto
gether, we are told, in the past week, there was the im-
mense augmentation in the payments for strengthening
the navy alone of 400,0001. The naval estimates for
the next year will therefore startle those who look with
alarm at any further addition being made to the na-
tional debt. Tne Government seem resolved to place
Britain's bulwark in the most efficient position. This
week another contract for 100,000 gallons of rum for the
use of the navy has been taken. It is not more than two
months since a similar quantity of the same spirit was con-
tracted, to be sent to the dockyard stores. On the present,
as on the l ast few former occaions, the Lords Commissioners
for exercising the office of Lord High Admiral have
stipulated that one-half of the quantity shall be rum the
produce of the East Indies. The contract this week was
taken on rather lower terms than that which preceded
it.—Dublin Evening Post.
A lady in the Rue de Bussy received on Satur-
day last an invitation to a ball for Sunday evening.
Not being acquainted with the family she laid it
aside, and at liar usual hour on Sunday night re-
tired to bed. Hearing something stir in the adjoin-
ing room, and receiving no answer to her calls, she
got up, opened her door, and unintentionally admitted
two men, one of whom was armed with a knife, and
threatened to murder her if she cried out, while the other
was collecting all the valuables he could lay his hands
upon. While they were thus employed, a person of the
house, who Wad been dining out, returned home rather
gay, and ascended the staircase singing the Marseillaise
at the top of his voice. This scared the men in the lady's
chamber; who immediately abandoned all that they had
collected, Wand made a precipitate retreat.