The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-22 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

REAL LIFE IN INDIA ; embracing a View of the
Requirements of Individuals appointed to any Branch of
the. Indian Public Service; the Methods of proceeding
to India, and the Course of Life in different parts of
the Country. By an Old Resident.

It is seldom that the contents of a book answer so
accurately to the title-page as do the contents cf the
valu ale little hand-book under review. It comprises,
in the compass of 168 pages, everything that is ne-
cessary to be known by persons desirous of procuring
appointments in India. The chapter on what appoint-
ments to get, and how to get them, gives all the infor-
mation necessary as to the interest required to procure,
and the qualifications necessary to receive, Indian
appointments in every branch of the Company's
service, civil, military, or naval, together with regu-
lations, &c., of llaileybury and Addiscombe. The
rates of retiring allowances, pensions, and furlough
regulations, of the East India Company's service, are
likewise given. Every information regarding the dif-
ferent routes to India, and their comparative advan-
tages and disadvantages, will be found in this volume,
as also a list of the outfits necessary for a lady or a
gentleman proceeding to India, and much useful advice
as to the preservation of health in that country. One
admirable feature of this valuable little work is the
minuteness with which the writer goes into the de
tails of the necessary expenses of outfit, voyage to,
and living in India. By the help of this manual, the
money required for a voyage to and residence in India
can be calculated to a nicety.

THE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTOR)
FOR 1848. Forty-ninth Annual Publication.
Increased in size, in propo-rtion as the metropolis of
which it is the mirror has increased in bulk, The
Post-office London Directory for 1848, makes its ap-
pearance. As a specimen of the great increase in
size, and variety of information by which The Post-
office London Directory for 1848 is advantageously
distinguished from its predecessors, we may state that
the Street Directory contains forty-seven imperial
octavo pages (each page consisting of three closely-
printed columns of names) more than any former edi
tion of the Directory, this large amount of additional
matter being introduced into all the other arrange-
ments and classifications. Mr. Kelly, in his Preface,
informs us, that "a change was, in the year 1844,
introduced into the system under which the informa-
tion had before been collected, which has been since
continued. This was in the employment of selected
agents, having their entire time at their own disposal,
and, as stated in the preface to the last edition, the
change worked excellently. The present volume has,
therefore, been produced entirely under the improved
system, and will consequently be found far more
comprehensive than hereto fore." This . affords
a complete refutation of the accusations so
industriously dinned into the ears of the
House of Commons concerning the employ-
ment of letter-carriers in obtaining informa-
tion. Letter-carriers have not been employed in
obtaining information for the Post office London
Directory of 1848, but selected agents, having their
entire time at their own disposal, have been employed
to collect the immense mass of information, which has
afterwards been arranged and classified, in a
manner so beautifully simple, that any portion
of it can be reterred to at once and
without difficulty; and when we remember that this
work consists of 2,091 closely printed imperial octavo
pages of names, we must admit that great credit is
due to the compiler, who, by his admirable plan of
arrangement and his copious indexes, has enabled us
to pick out any one name and address from the vast
mass in a space of time certainly not exceeding one
minute. The aggregate of local and specific informa-
tion contained in this volume of the Post-office
London Directory is quite unequalled. It is indeed
the hand-book to the commerce of the first commer-
cial city of the world. •

MAJOR-GENERAL NAPIER,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Athenaeum, Nov. 19, 1847.
Sni' --I request of you to contradict the assertion,
which first appeared in the Globe, to the effect that,
I have resigned my governorship of Guernsey. 1
have not done so. W. NAPIER,
Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received 51.
'or legacy duty and interest from " W. A." The amount
will b paid into the receipt of the Exchequer.
TILE COURT.—Her Majesty will, according to
present arrangements, leave London by the South-
Western Railway on Tuesday (to-morrow) morning for
Gosport, en route :o Osborne, Isle of Wight, where the
Court will sojourn about ten days.
LINCOLN'S INN, Nov. 19.—The following gentle-
men were this day called to the degree of barrister-at-
law by the Homourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, viz.:—
Henry Hill Strettell, Esq., John Stuart, jun., Esq.,
Richard Garth, jun., Esq., Horace Mann, Esq., James
Bowyer, Esq., John Fearenside, jun., Esq., and Charles
Frederick Walker, Esq.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has
conferred the faculty of a notary public upon Alexander
Ridgway, Esq., of Leicester-square.
PASSENGERS FROM INDIA.—ALEXANDRIA, NOV. 9.
—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Haddington arrived at Suez on the morning of the 6th
inst., with 53 first-class passengers, four children, and
18 servants. The Haddington left Calcutta on the Bth of
October, and has brought intelligence from China up to
the 28th of September, and from Bombay up to the 15th 01
October. The following is a list of the passengers, ti,.
greater part of whom proceed this day to England by
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus:
—Mrs. Pereira, Captain Woolley, R. Pope, W. Osnard,
Rev. W. Allnutt, W. Strong, Dr. Campbell, Hen. Mr.
Fortescue, G. Elliott, Lieutenant Wood, W. Ryder, J.
Kelly, Captain Mayhen, IV. Bullass, H. Rawls, M.
Sanctuary, P. Dating, Mr. Mqienzie, J. Cooke, Captain
Armstrong, Master Gibson, Mr. Donally, Captain and
Mrs. Warren, Lieutenant Pelly, D. Bowie, G. Stones,
Lantorn, Fornasby, W. Jenkins, Mr. Somerville, Lieute-
nant Davis, W. Killy, Captain Ashton, Lieutenant
Adam, Mr. Weaver, Mrs. Ashton and child, Lieutenant
Coventry, Captain NEB, Dr. Cameron, Rev. Mr. Witford,
M. Chartram, Captain Moody, Captain Duman, Captain
Budd, Mr. Lane, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gibbs, Lieutenant
Cooke, W. Dawn, Mr. Wilson, Major Wright, Signor
Nuney, Captain R. H. Barry, Dr. Young, Signor Costel
Dr. Crawford, Mr. Porter.
MR. COBDEN AND THE CURRENCY.—The Nora
of Scotland U::zet:e contains a letter from Mr. Davidson,
of Aberdeen, to Mr. Cobden, on the question of cur-
rency, with Mr. Cobden's reply. Mr. Davidson says:
" Sir Robert is still swayed by his false financial theory.
It is high time that the currency question should now
be taken up in the same resolute spirit as that of the
corn-laws, and that it should be urged on Parliament in
the same powerfel and persevering way. Now that re-
strictions on corn have been removed, why should they
remain on currency? Free-trade surely means trade
free, not in one branch only, but in every branch." The
following is Mr. Cobden's reply Manchester, Octo-
ber 26, 1847.—Dear Sir.—l feel much obliged by your
very friendly letter. So many persons who take an in-
terest in the currency question are calling my attention
to it, that I feel it quite impossible to enter upon the
discussion of the subject in a private correspondence. It
will give me pleasure to find, when I have occasion to
state my views publicly, that they are in accordance
with those which you entertain. I remain, dear sir,
faithfully yours—Richard Cobden.—Mr. Davidson."
It is confidently stated that Lord George Bentinck
and Mr. Disraeli, with the immediate friends of both
the Hon. Members are resolved to vote for the abolition
of the remaining disabilities of the Jews.—Observer.
The electors of Edinburgh have an opportunity of
cannot retrieving
take thheisersreoart.
We oftleieshluosutidelehcotion.thaMt Mr. Cowan
Cowancaulay's election will be unopposed.—gronicle.
EVIDENCE OF NATIONAL POVERTY. The
amounted to Ild.
pro-
coeds of four robberies, perpetrated near the city of
Cork,