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Christmas Holidays. One of the brilliant novelties is Child's
CHROMATROPE, to Which may be added, Subjects In Nature and
Art for the PROTEOSCOPE. The PHYSIOSCOPE. The first Ex-
hibition of a Serics of beautiftd DISSOLVING VIEWS. On the
Evenings of Tnesdays and Thursdays Mr. C. E. HORN lectures ou
the MUSIC of DIFFERENT NATIONS. Dr. RYAN'S and Pro-
fessor BACHHOFFNE,R'S varied LECTURES da ly. Dr. RYAN
also Lectures en the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
All these Lectures 10)ound in interesting Experiments. SUBMA-
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DIVER. The HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE.

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GENE RA L TOM THUMB.
The AMERICAN MAN in MINIATURE has returned
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Iffy, in Suffolk-street, Pall-mall. The General has been visiting tue
principal towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met
with unprecedented success. Whilst in Edinburgh the General
was presented with a beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal
Stuart Tartan, manufactured by Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in
which he will appear at each exhibition, in addition to his Citizen,
Napoleon, and Court dress. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to
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defray the rent of the room.

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I,ondon, and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,
,)r the sale of their celebrated teas.
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They are packed in showy leaden canisters, front one ounceo a
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annum, and many during the last nineteen years have realised con-
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Application to be made (if by letter post paid) as above.

this mighty centre of business. It supersedes all other guides and
Directories.

GLOBE, Nov. 16, 1844.

The claims to public patronage of this most elaborate and well-
arranged Directory have been so fully established, as to render any
notice of it almost an act of supererogation. In addition to the
extensive and varied information by which this work was already
distinguished, we find in the volume for 1845, a considerable quan-
tity of new and appropriate matter, arranged under various heads.
All this has been done—notwithstanding the greatly increased size
of the volume—without any additional charge. The yearly outlay
of capital required to produce the work must be immense ; the
reward of the enterprise and labour will, we trust, be in propor-
tion to it.

HEREPATM'S RAILWAY AND COMMERAIAL ADVERTISER,
Nov. 16, 1844.

How such a mass of information was ever brought together,
even in the 1,900 large pages of this volume, it is difficult to
imagine, even though we take into account that to effect it, has
tasked the ample resources of its owners for a series of years. The
result, however, is that a commercial book of reference has been
produced worthy of the commercial capital of the world. The
high character of the Post Office Directory has given it a place in
every house of real business ; indeed, not to possess it is to be
without information to which every man in the United Kingdom
commercially employed should have ready access.
In the " Conveyance Directory" the matter connected with
Railways is full and recent. Within our space enumeration of the
various subjects cannot be attempted, nor can such be requisite.
It can be only necessary of a work so universally known to say,
that the number of the Post Office London Directory for 1845 is
by far the best and meat complete edition of the work which has
ever been produced. Higher praise it would be difficult to bestow.
The Map with which the book is accompanied, entitled " Modern
London and its Environs," is an entirely new one, and one of the
best plans of the Metropolis we have yet seen.
RAILWAY REGISTER, Dec. 1, 1844.

There are few men of business who do not take in the " Post Office
Directory," and to such, an enumeration of its contents is almost
valueless; but -for thole Who do net, it may be as well '
to
make some further remarks,indlhidl/4rfare so,•as it only' needs an
acquaintance with that work to be convinced of its intrinsic value
and great utility. There are some offices where the expenditure
for a new Directory is grudged on. the ground that it is laying out
money for what they do not want, and they grub on without a
" Post Office Directory." or with only one of Pigot's or Robson's
superannuated Directories. A sharp, acute man of business would,
however, just as soon be persuaded to part with his inkstand as
with his " Post Office Directory," for it not merely saves more
than its cost in time, but it is a valuable instrument for carrying
on business. As a means of ready reference it is valuable, as a
man's name, residence, and occupation are soon found, and a re.
ference to an old Directory will show how long he has been en.
gaged in such pursuits, and furnish prima-facial evidence s,s to
respectability. This is so well understood in proper quarters, that
on such matters the " Post Office Directory" will be found quoted
in the leading articles of the Times, in Government and Perlis.
mentary reports, and before the police and criminal courts.
Does the Times, with ready sagacity, detect a swindling
firm trying to prey on the community—the " Post
Office Directory" is immediately appealed to, to show that
the pseudo firm is not to be found enrolled in its columns.
It would appear inexplicable that a day register of this
kind should be found playing such an important part in the com-
mercial community, if it were not well ascertained that its con-
ductors display the greatest energy and accuracy in car-
rying out their undertaking. The return of the circulation of
country banks prefixed to the "Banking Directory" is the beat
which has yet appoared, and the only digest of the Population
Returns, applying to the metropolis, is the one in the "City Di.
rectory," which gives the population and income-tax of each parish
in the metropolis, and a laborious analysis of the occupations of the
population, deduced from the Census of 1841.

Were this work more carefully looked to in country places, the
swindling bill and other firms would find a little more difficulty in
carrying out their nefarious pursuits.
In conclusion, we say, When you want anything, always look
in the Post Office Directory."
ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 23, 1844.

Twenty years have made a strange alteration in the bulk of this
almost indispensable Directory. Well do we remember the mean,
spare volume of other days, with its long lines of large type, and
its shabby sheepskin binding; in place of which we have here a
ponderous large octavo volume, of some 1,900 pages, of two and
three columns each, of, small type, comprising " inter alia," direc-
tories, " Official," " Street," " Commercial," " Law," " Court,"
" Parliamentary," "Postal," "City,' " Conveyance," " Bank-
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those of the " Court Guide"—the east with the west—and com-
prising all the information which the merchant or trader, or any
other London resident or visitor, can reasonably expect to find ;
and by excellent classification and arrangement, any portion of this
information may be found without .difficulty. Among other addi-
tions, we perceive some important and interesting statistics of Lon-
don—as the area in acres, population, and assessment, and a state-
ment from the Occupations' Abstract of the Census of 1841. The
" Directory" is, in fine, as complete as untiring industry and vi-
gilance can make it; for they have uniformly kept pace with the
increase of the number and extent of bufrnettOpoliten.add national
establishments and interests.
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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXIII.
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CONTENTS :
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IL TOOKE'S EDITION of CHURCMILL'S POETICAL
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" On one of the northernmost headlands of the Island
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`3.E. and S.W. red, and the roof black. It is 80 feet in
height from its base, and 88 feet from the level of the
water. It is placed in north latitude 60 deg. 2 min. 8
sec ; longtitude, east of Greenwich, 27 deg. 51 mine
sec.
"On the sthmus, joining the Island of Suisari to
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a shield, 25 feet long and eight feet broad. The side
facing the north is painted black, with a white spot in
the middle. It is placed 2} Italian miles from the
beacon on Lavenscaar, bearing by the compass S.E. It
is 28 feet in height from its base, and 35 feet from the
level of the water."

INDIAN NEWS.

SUMMARY OF INTELLIGENCE SINCE THE
DEPARTURE OF THE LAST MAIL.
(From the Bengal Hurkaru, Nov. 16.)

The past month has not been prolific in events of a
very stirring character. The insurrection in the Kola-
pore country, which proved to be of a more serious
character than we supposed when last we wrote, has
been put down, and the disturbed districts seem to be
tolonibly quiet ; but, on this subject our readers will
obtain Mier and more recent accounts from our Bombay
contemporaries, who are more nearly situated to the
field of action. In this Presidency nothing of a very
important character has occurred. The Governor-
General is still at the Presidency, and rumour is silent
on the subject of any intended move from the seat of
Government. He appears to be quietly perfecting him.
self in the business of his administration ; and such
indications as have yet been manifested seetn to point
to a tranquil and pacific government, pregnant with
good to the people of the soil. There is no talk
of a war in the Punjaub, or any other immediate em-
ployment of our troops. Even the civil war, which
many anticipated in that long-agitated country, seems
to be no longer imminent. There was a deal of va-
pouring between the two -chiefs, Heera and Golab Singh,
but, as we surmised, they were not in earnest, and
nothing came of all their menaces. They have now
come to a pacific understanding, and matters will speedily
be
_settleg3,tllctugh..Ful.tably.ortly to be disturbed again.
In the meiinAite, hawun !lull, the Governor of Mout-.
tan, one of the most able and energetic, and at the same
time the most moderate and respectable, of the Seikh
chiefs, has been gathered to his fathers. He was shot
by a malefactor, whilst sitting on the judgment-seat, and
after lingering for a few days, died of his wound. lie
has been succeeded by his son, Meol Raj. The intelli-
gence from Alfghanistan is, as usual, not very clear and
intelligible; but it would seem that the dangers which Dost
Ali.hommed apprehended from the designs of the Usbegs
and Tartars have blown over ; that his successes on the
Hindoo Koosh have rolled back the tide of invasion, and

that the intrigues of B ,khara have been defeated. From
the latter place Dr. Wolff has emerged in safety, but of
this, in all probability, intelligence will have been re-
ceived in England before the arrival of the present
dispatch.
Within the Presidency two domestic events have occa-
sioned some interest of a painful character. One of these
is the suicide of the Raja of Berhampore, who having
committed, through his instruments, some acts of cruelty
on the person of a dependent, which occasioned, in the
sequel, the poor man's death, came down to Calcutta,
where intelligence of the tragic issue reached him,
coupled with the information that a warrant was out for
his arrest. Dreading the indignity of falling into the
hands of the myrmidons of the police, the wretched man
blew out his brains. He had previously made a will,
leaving the bulk of his large property to be devoted to
the establishment and support of an university. The
coroner's jury brought in a verdict of feb de se. The
other event is the murder, by Dacoits, of Captain Alcock,
of the Quartermaster-General's department, who was
intercepted, when on a dawk journey, by a band of
notorious Dacoits, of whom the police were in pursuit,
and being taken for Mr. Unwin, the magistrate, was
dragged from his palanquin and cut to pieces. Several
of the wretches concerned in this murderous deed have
been apprehended.
(From the Englishman.)

The past month_ has abounded with native holidays, so
as very much to interfere with the ordinary course of
business, and as the last of these festivals will not take
place till next week, our commerce has not yet recovered
its usual activity. The arrival of the last mail brought
better accounts than were generally expected of the de.
mend for our staples, and the consequence has been that
the holders of the increasing indigo crop aro very firm,
expecting last year's prices or perhaps a shade higher.
This, it must be recollected, is with the full knowledge
thtit the crop will be little short of '150,000 maunds.
The turn taken by the exchanges, which are now lower
than they have been for the last seven years, greatly fa-
vours the maintenance of a full price. had two such
crops followed each other during the depression of the
past years, it is probable that this important article would
have been nearly unsaleable, and that a very great re-
striction of cultivation would have taken place. The im-
provement in every branch of manufacture, both in Eng-
land and upon the Continent, now gives confidence here
that the consumption will keep pace with our supply;
and though our planters may be deceived in this expec-
tation they will in general receive a remunerating sum
for their past year's work, so that we look for no very
considerable reduction of cultivation for the coming
year. In a national point of view, the comparatively
low prices which are likely to prevail for some time
are rather advantageous, as taking from our rivals any
great inducement to extend their cultivation, and at the
same time producing here a wholesome economy which
may yet prove that no other country can successfully
compete with Bengal in this important staple. We have
reason to believe that money is likely to continue
abundant in our market for some time, though the ship-
ment of the bulk of the indigo crop, and some thousand
chests of opium in the next three months, together with
other staples, will relieve the place of a sum not far
short of three millions sterling. The company's adver-
tisement declares for sale no less than 21,526 chests, of
which 5,800 will be sold on the 6th of January. The
last advices from China are far from favourable, and our
market will consequently open at lower rates than was
previously anticipated, but the fluctuations in this article
are so great, owing to the extensive time bargains ccn-
tinually made in it by native capitalists, that it would
not surprise us if last season's prices were to be very
nearly maintained.
The demand for British goods has latterly revived, and
some descriptions are now eagerly sought for, notwith-
standing the immense increase of supply during the past
year. There can be no doubt that a more general and ex-
tensive consumption is gradually taking place, and we ex-
pert very soon to find India. at the head of the list of British
exports. The Horne Government will then perhaps become
aware how much it is in their power to do for the pros-
perity of this country, and be furnished with a sufficient
motive for undertaking it. The improvement in our
overland communications, which we have reason to think
will be effected next year, will, we hope, be the first
great step to a course of measures on the part of Govern-
ment fir the improvement of the most important of the
British possessions. By it they will have brought us
near enough to be heard, and it will he our own faults if
we do not speak.
It is with extreme grief that we announce the death,
by murder, of Captain Alcock, of the Quartermaster-
General's department. It appears that he was pro
ceeding to Neemuch from Cawnpore, and that in passing
through the Mynpoore district he was barbarously mur-
dered by villains who were lying in wait to assassinate
the magistrate, for whom they mistook poor Alcock. It
would seem that the magistrate's activity in pursuing the
Dacoits, who had wounded a Mr. Tucker last year, had
rendered him the object of the vengeance which fell upon
Captain Alcock. The body was brought into Myn-
pooree, and there interred with military honours. Hard
to be reserved for a death of this kind after escaping a
more glorious one while displaying his gallantry in the
field:of Maharajpore, for which, by the way, he re-
ceived nothing, while some we could name, who were
not near the scene till all was over, received their brevet
promotion.

between Garra and Kurachee, had been caught. Some
curiosity has been manifested to know what Sir Charles
may have said on hearing of the escape. We hear an
other very " curious order," as our friend calls it (but
all Sir Charles Napier's orders are curious), has just
been issued regarding the facility with which medical
certificates had been granted to some folks in Sinde.
From Shikarpoor we learn that the men in Khangur,
who had been attacked by the local fever, were coming
round with great difficulty. The number of the rick was
reported at about 150. Captain ISl•Kenzie was absent,
sick at Kurachee. Captain Salter, of the 4th Bengal
Infantry, hid been appointed to command all the troops
on the frontier, an arrangement which is considered
judicious, and he was to assume immediate charge.
Captain L. Smith's battery was to return to Shikarpoor,
to be replaced at Khangur by two of the old mountain
train-guns,' drawn by mules, under the command of
Lieutenant Pulman. The report.of the expedition against
Pnoolajee is still abroad, but begins to be discredited in
well informed quarters ; especially as Baja Khan and
his plundering coadjutors now express themselves anxious
to surrender. They had been remarkably quiet of late.
The health of the troops at Shikarpoor itself was mend-
int, in a trifling degree the 69th and 7th Cavalry espe-
cially ; but the troop of horse Artillery is pronounced
hors de combat.

TIIE MURDER OF CAPTAIN ALCOCK.
(From the Delhi Gazette.)
The murder of Europeans by Dacoits is, as the Friend
of India observes, so unusual that it is calculated to
excite " a great sensation in society." It is, indeed, a
new and bold feature in their proceedings, the more
surprising when we recal the decision of the Tbugs
on this very point. ,Our readers will doubtlesti:ieeol-..
lect that, among that. class _of robbers and murderers,
the question; ,of ..the policy of attacking ,Nurppean trat_
yellers was regularly discussed and debated, and de-
cided in the negative, on the ground that the practice
would be too dangerous, on account of the great sen-
sation the murder of a yora would excite, while they
might quietly murder a good many natives without at-
tracting the notice of the authorities ; and this they no
doubt had gone on doing for many years without inter-
ruption, though their traffic in human blood and plunder
is now, thanks to the activity of the Thuggee depart-
ment, nearly terminated, or at least very much checked.
In the murder of Captain Alcock, however, inist,iken
for Mr. Unwin, it may be observed that the Dacoits
have been evidently influenced by revenge against an
active magistrate. They have let their vindictiveness
get the better of the usual prudence of their professional
practice. But the proceeding is not the less new and
daring, and if these scoundrels escape, and especially
the leader of the gang, Kansuhaee, the Dacoits may be
emboldened to make attacks on Europeans regularly
part of their system, the more so as it cannot be un-
known to them that our countrymen travel about the
country very commonly altogether unarmed. The un-
fortunate Captain Alcock, it appears. was so travelling,
except as to his sword, which an officer always carries
with him. He appears to have had no fire-arms, and
what could a sword do against a gang of resolute
Dacoits ? If he had had fire-arms, he might have had
a chance for his life, though but a slender one, and, at
least, with the courage he displayed, he would have put
some of the scoundrels hors de combat. We would ad-
vise all our countrymen not, in future, to trust to the
exception which Dacoity policy has hitherto made in
their favour, but to go well armed whenever they travel
by dark.
Last Wednesday, shortly after the publication of our
paper had closed, we received a private letter confirming
the murder, by the hands of a band of robbers, of Capt.
Alcock, of the 46th Bengal Infantry, on the high road
between Mynpooree and Agra. We have since received
several letters from that station, from its neighbour-
hood, and from the camp of the 11th Light Cavalry,
which was at no great distance from the scene of this
atrocious murder, in progress to Agra, all confirmator3
of the first intimation made to us, and have selected the
' one amongst our letters giving the clearest account idf
the crime ; this will be found under the head of " .N.E ii-
pooree." It will be seen that the ruffians, healed by the
desperate villain Ghunsiah, who has earned notoriety in
the district by the daring manner in which he escaped
1 from Mr. St. George Tucker, after wounding that gen-
tleman and murdering one of his attendants, were lying
wait for the magistrate, himself proceeding to assist his
police in apprehending the gang. Mr. Unwin escaped
at the expense of Captain Alcock's -life, and will, we
i hope, leave no stone untamed, no exertion untried, no
expense unincurred, to bring the perpetrators of the foul
deed to the condign punishment they have earned for
this and their previous numerous acts of violence,
sealed in this instance with the blood of an officer of

the state.
" MYNPOOREE, Ocr. 28.—This insignificant district
has been put into a state of feverish excitement by an
atrocious murder perpetrated on Saturday night last,
about 20 miles from the Suddar station. Captain
Alcock, of the 46th Regiment of Native Infantry (for-
merly of the Quartermaster-General's Department),
arrived here by dawk on the 26th inst., from Cawnpore,
en route to Agra, and put up with the Colonel of the
gallant 42d, with whom he remained till about four P.M.,
when he started in prosecution of his journey, with
eleven bearers to his train. On reaching Ghurour about
eight or nine P.m., they were relieved by a fresh set, who
had hardly proceeded on about half-a-mile, when within
300 yards of a police chowkee they were stopped by
twelve ruffians (four of them mounted), and ordered to
put down the palkee. The bearers (like natives in
general) took to their heels, and left the poor captain to
defend himself as best he could. He immediately
stepped out, sword in hand, and questioned the gang as
to who they were, and what they required ;
however, answering him, they commenced an attack
upon the poor defenceless man. Whilst defending
himself against such fearful odds, all armed to the
teeth, he received a wound on the wrist of the
sword hand, which totally disabled him, and forced
him to seek safety by retreat. He had hardly got
away three hundred yards from the scene of action,
when one of the ruffians fired at and brought him to
the ground, when they came up, and inflicted several
deep wounds (I believe eleven), from the effects of which,
two in particular on the forehead and the back of the
neck (nearly severing the windpipe), he must have in-
stantly expired. His remains were brought in on a
charpae yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, and in-
terred with military honours this morning. This mur-
der is supposed to have been committed by that notorious
prisoner (still at large) who broke gaol at Muttra, after
murdering the guard in charge, some time back (Ghun.
siah), for whose apprehension a reward has been pro-
claimed by Government, and who not many months
since murdered the Thanader of Kooraoolee, and wounded
the assistant magistrate, who had gone to apprehend
him upon information brought by an approver. You
may guess what a reckless and daring villain the fellow
must be when I tell you, that a night previous to the
murder of Captain Alcock he bad been attacked by
the Thanadar and a small portion of the police in the
Shekoabad Pergunnah, where, after having had two
of his followers killed, and several wounded with him-
self, he made off in the darkness of the evening
amongst steep and dense ravines, in which a part
of the Shekoabad Pergunnah abounds. The police
did their duty, though circumstances beyond their
control led to the Dacoits having eluded capture. The
case was immediately reported to the magistrate, and
(energetic as he has always shown himself) he forthwith
made the neccessary arrangements and left the station
to encourage pursuit by his own immediate presence.
It appears, that the ruffian and his gang got timely in-
timation of the magistrate's movements, and they awaited
his arrival at the very spot where poor Captain Alcock
encountered them, but mistaking their victim they mur-
dered him, as the magistrate, who providentially, by ar-
riving half an hour later than the captain, averted the
awful fate which awaited him. Does all this not show a
most dreadful and lamentable state of things? Unless,
indeed, a more liberal reward than has already been
offered by Government is held out, I fear some further
serious depredations and less of valuable lives will be the
consequence of injudicious parsimony. The magistrate
is still out in hot pursuit of the offender, and it is
earnestly hoped he may be successful in capturing the
villian. All at the station just now are on the qui vice,
and dawk travellers are already getting scared.

SUICIDE OF A NATIVE PRINCE.
(From the Bengal Hurkaru, Nov. 2.)
Raja Kishennath Roy, of Berhampore, shot himself
on last Thursday. The man whom he was accused of
having caused to be cruelly tortured has died from the
injury he had received, and the young Raja, under ap-
prehension of the consequences to himself, was driven
to the dreadful act of self-murder. Ho was living at
his mother's house in Chitpore•road, where, on the day
in question, he invited Mr. Strettell and Mr. llerklots,
and asked them to witness the execution of a folded
document, which he himself signed, and told them it was
his last will and testament. Very shortly after these gen- ,
tlemen had left him he locked himself within a room,
and, loading one barrel of a double-barrelled percussion
gun, bent his head over the muzzle and drew the lock
with his foot. Instantly ho fell dead to the ground.
The discovery of the fact was made by the report at-
tracting- some of the inmates of the house to the room.
Not long after the occurrence, the deputy superinten-
dent of police proceeded to the house, and found the
holy of the unfortunate young man on the floor in a
sitting posture, with the back leaning against the wall,
and the fatal gun resting over one shoulder. The
(afro/16s was completely blown away, and fragments of
the brain were observed on different parts of the wall
and ceiling, and a flattened ball lay near the foot of the
corpse. 'the features were not much distorted, beyond
the nose, which appeared much distended. The will
left behind is said to be a very lengthy one, but regularly
drawn up. In it several handsome legacies are men-
tioned, while a very munificent portion of the estate has
been willed away towards the beneficent object of found-
ing a college, or, as the will expresses it, a " university,"
at Berhampore, with an hospital attached. The young
Raja has, likewise, bequeathed a handsome legacy to
one of his favourite domestic servants ; and likewise
the interest of a sufficient sum to be given for the sub-