Star.
London, England, 1829-10-13 00:00:00

Lkoe.-General Meade is nendested Grand Cross of the Order
of Elizabeth the Cubic

The Dukes of Medina Cwii, Son Fernando, and d'Osnia, the
Marquesses of Santa Criss, d'Alcanises, and Villafranta, with the
Count de Panon.rostro, we nonsioated Gentlemen of the Bed.
chamber to the King.
The Chevalier Gooses Labrador, now Ambassador at Rome,
will proceed In the same quality to Naples. a post which he had
formerly filled before the government of the Cartes.
In Sae, every body is in fun mpectation that tbb country, so
fruitful in miefortmes during so many years, is about to commence
an era et glory and prosperity, of which this monarchy has so
much need.

Fames Fume. Orr. 10.—Five per Cents. 107 f. 50e. Three
per Cents. OIL 7k.

EAST INDIES.

CALCUTTA. Aram 6.

We regret to learn that the ship Hope, Captain G. Moree, was
totally lost on Fisherman's Flat, at 3, a. nt. yesterday. No lives
were lost.

We heard the particulars of the murder of a Kumar At lih sea-
Winer. Lakshmikanta, Kirmakar, sad Pitambar Roy, a liajpet,
were on intimate terms with the wife of one Haladhar Kirmakar,
of Bhavanipur. in the vicinity of Calcutta. In the month of
Magha last, they, with her advice, invited her husband to partake
of a repast with them in the dwelling of Kasinath Roy. of the
same place, where they entertained him with meat and wine in the
night. and having thus intoxicated him, strangled him with a rope.
They then threw his corpse into a well there, and covering it with
filth. retired to their respective lodgings.
Four or five days after this, those murderers, discontinuing their
visits to their mistress, she called upon them, and using various
arguments to encourage them, made them consent to an interview
with her in the evening, but they absconded the same day. She
afterwards diligently sought after them, but in vain; when she,
finding they forsook her, to whose friendship she sacrificed her
husband, reported to the Daroga of the place, that her husband
was murdered by Lakshmikanta, Kirmakar, and Pitambar Roy,
and showed him his corpse in the well. The Daroga then insti-
tuted a particular inquiry after the murderers whom he appre-
hended with great difficulty, and. with the woman, sent them
to the Magistrate.
We understand that they are well secured in prison, but their
trial has not come on.

Arau. 22.—A letter from the Mymensing District, of a late
date, mentions a providential escape which a gentleman had while
out hunting. The first day he killed two tigers, one of which bad
previously destroyed a native. Neit day, while going up the bank
of an old tank, a tiger sprang out from among the rubbish and ve-
getation. and fastened on his elephant, dragging the animal so much
down to one side, that the gentleman fell out of the howdah upon
his back, when the tiger and himself rolled down the bank toge-
ther! The rest of the party thought, of course, that their compa-
nion's doom was sealed, but, to their great satisfecdon, they saw
the tiger making off as fast as be could, while the gentleman got
up, having providentially escaped with a few scratches only.
Accounts from Benares of the 11th instant state that the Hon.
Company's steamer Haighly could not be gat higher up the
Ganges than a plan called Kutchwa. about 15 miles below Mina-
pore and about 10 front Allababad. Her further progress was
stopped by a shoal, or sand reef, extending completely 'ens' the
channel between the Ketchwa and Badollee banks—the greatest
depth of water across which was 2 feet 6 inehes—the vessel at the
time drawing 4 feet 1 inch forward. and 3.5 aft, having only 100
maunds of coal on board, and all the passengers and baggage, and
freight, having been landed. Even had the steamer been able to
overcome this difficulty, greater 'still, it was believed, were to be
got over before she could reach Allahabad. and, bad she ever suc-
ceeded in getting there, it was supposed the could not be got back
before the setting in of the nins. Under these circumstances it
was deemed the most advisable plan to return to &flares, and there
wait further instructions.

MURDER of Lieutenants BEDINGFIELD and BURLTON.

( Front the Goeereeteet Gazette of April U.)

We are concerned to state that account. have been received
from Mr. Scott, the agent to the Governor-General in Assam
communicating the melancholy intelligence that two &kid:
Officers, who were residing there for the benefit of their health at
Nunelow, in the Cossya hills, have been cut eff by the bill people
at that place. The particulars are not yet fully known, but it is
understood that Lkut. Bedingfield, ene of the sufferers, was mur-
dered on the spot, and his head severed from his body.
With respect to the other officer, Lkut. Burka', be is said to
have taken refuge in the bungalow with four Sepoys, and to have
defended himself until neat morning, when he effected his escape,
and retreated fur 18 or 20 miles towards Gowshatty. A shower
of rain coming on, the fire-arms of the small party were rendered
useless, the men with Lieut. Beaton then dispersed themselves in
the jungle ; but tine of the Sepoys made good his way to Assam,
where he tell in with a detachment proceeding to Nunelow. This
man reports that be saw Lieut. Button fall down, exhausted with
fatigue, when he was surrounded and carded of by the Cossyahs.
We fear, therefore, that but slender hopes can be entertained of
his ultimate fate.

Mr. Scott was at the time at Cburra Poongee, considerably to
the southward of Nunelow, in the Fondue range of bills towards
Sylhet, and had called for a party of the Sylhet Local Corps, with
which be was to return to Nunelow. The principal members of
the Nunelow Itajah's family had come in to Mr. Scott, and ex-
pressed their abo, rence of the treacherous set alluded to, which,
however, was perpetrated, it is said, in his own presence.
It is but a short time ago that we published extracts from the
journal of Mr. Walters amongst the hill tribes, or Couyahs, de-
scriptive of the a carry of the Punduah mountains, and making
such gratifying mention of the manners and disposition of the peo-
ple, as could scarcely have prepared us for accounts of such a vio-
lent and atrocious nature as it has been our sad task to refer to.—
They ire, it would appear, a wild uncivilised race, inhabiting that
'mountainous belt of country, extending about fifty miles in breadth
betweem Assam and Sylbet. From all accounts they are not des-
titute of those rude virtues peculiar to bill tribes, and in the ab-
sence of more reasonable motives, for the atrocious outrage just
committed is their territories, it may, perhaps, be attributed to
one of those blindly vindictive paroxysms founded on some mis-
taken principles to which wild and savage people occasionally yield.
In language and appearance, no less than in customs, they are said
to differ materially from the surrounding tribes. They are unac-
quainted with the use of fire arms, and employ bows and arrows
in their warfare.

It will be recollected that by a treaty ececuted about three years
ago, the Rajab of Nunelow made himself sublvet to the Honour-
able Company, and placed his country ender the protection of our
Government ; and the political agent had, with his permis►ion,
erected a bungalow for invalids at Nunelow, the capital of bis
country.
A full account of the she chosen for the Santarium, appeared in
the number of this journal for the 27th May 11127. It was stated
to be on table-land, elevated between five and six thousand feet
above the plains, with climate so cold, that for three mouths in the
year the rivulets are, in the mornings, fringed with ice, and the
ground frequently covered with snow, and this, ton, within three
weeks voyage of Calcutta. The place was generally approved of,
oat only as respected its own merits as a sanatory station, but as
likely to facilitate a friendly intercourse with our new neighbours,
and the improvement of the roads and tracts of a rugged country
but hitherto little known to Europeans.
Head-quarters, un the River off Deets, March 13,1224.