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AND

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AT OXFORD

MR. ARTIS,
TEACHER OF STENOGRAPHY
AND CAMBRIDGE,
And who for several Sessions Reported the Proceedings of
the House of Lords for that authenticrecord," The

Mirror of Parliament,"
R ESPECTFULLY announces, that the CLASS to which
he adverted at the conclusion of his Lecture on Short
Hand, delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, on Wednes-
day, 26th April, will assemble at 25, MOUNT-STREET, on
THURSDAY next.
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requested to apply, as early as possible, to Mr. ARTIS, 25,
Mount•street, opposite the Mechanics' Institution.
Private Tuition on moderate terms.
Families attended at their own Residences, if desired.
A List of References, containing the Names of the most
distinguished Members of both Universities, may be had on
application.

FOREIGN er COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CHINA AND INDIA

EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS

The Indian mail of the Ist of April has arrived. It brings
a confirmation of the brilliant successes of Sir Chas. Napier
in Scinde, in the capital of which treasure and jewels to an
amount considerably exceeding one million have been dis-
covered. Doubts have been entertained if this treasure trove
is to be considered prize money. Lord Ellenborough has
declared, according to rumour, in favour of the gallant army
that won the city of Hyderabad. The matter has been re-
ferred to the Queen in council. In the meantime the gover-
nor-general has declared Scinde to be a British province,
abolished slavery therein, and appointed Sir C. Napier to be
the governor; and also declared all transit duties abolished,
and the Indus opened to the ships of all nations.
Lord Ellenborough has also ordered that the useless cannon
taken at Hyderabad shall be cast into a column to com-
memorate the memory of all the soldiers who distinguished
themselves in the battle of Meeanee. Scinde is said to be a
most fertile district, which, when cultivated, will repay every
cost tenfold, and render the territories of the Indus some-
thing like the banks of the Ganges.

The position of Sir Charles israpier in Hyderabad required
to be attended to, for the population of some districts, led on
by some of the disaffected Ameers, were preparing to renew
the conflict. The Bombay government was most active in
its efforts to send every succour to the gallant general, and
troops had been sent from Ferozepore to Sukkur, in order to
co-operate with those lower down the river.

The governor-General was at Agra, where he has taken
up hisibidence in one of the palaces, and in which he held
an investiture of the Order of the Bath. He has ordered the
celebrated Somnauth gates to be locked up there, and the
officers employed in escorting them have been sent back to
regimental duty.
The declaration of Sir Charles Napier, that the Indian
army is too scantily officered, has attracted attention, and
has become the subject of general comment.
The Ameers of Scinde, who are prisoners, will, it is said,
be placed for safety in the fortress of Ahmednugger or
Asseerghur.
Some disturbances still exist in the mountainous districts
of Ilundelkund, but they are not of any great importance.
India is otherwise tranquil.
The most conflicting accounts were circulated respecting

the state of Cabul. Ukhbar Khan is no longer popular there,
and another was said to have seized the government. Dost
Mohommed was going back from Lahore to Cabul, but it was
not known how he would be received there. He wished to
be aided by the Sikhs, but they did not seem inclined to give

him any assistance.
The news from China extends to the 21st of February
The latest was brought to Bombay by an American schooner
—the Zephyr, which is now plying as an opium trader from
Bombay to China, and is remarkable for her swift sailing.
The Emperor has ordered an investigation into the murders
of the crews of the Ann and Nerbudda at Formosa. Nothing
has been done in the arrangements of the commercial treaty,
for the British Plenipotentiary appeared to be waiting for the
treaty as ratified by her Majesty. The Chinese Commis-
sioner and he were on good terms. Doubts are said to exist
of the durability of any arrangement now entered into. The
Chinese were busy in repairing all their forts and in strength-
ening their positions in the different places attacked last
year. Trade was dull, but expected to revive speedily. At
Canton some dissatisfaction still prevailed. The immature
revolt at Manilla had been put down, and the rebels ex-
ecuted. It had for its object to declare the independence of
the islands of the Spanish yoke.
The Hindostan arrived at Madras, on the 15th of March,
60 hours after the mail had arrived at Bombay. This rapi-
dity promises well for the Steamers from Calcutta to Suez :
her arrival at Calcutta took place on the 23rd, before the
express from Bombay with the mail had reached that city.
The Hindostan was obliged, on going up the Hoogly, to
anchor at Mud-point from want of water.
The Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India arrived
in Bombay on the llth of March, where he held his primary
visitation, and presided at the founding of the Great Medical
College.

THE CONQUEST OF SCINDE
Rid NOTIFICATION:-

Palace of Agra, March 5, 1843

THE VICTORY OF MEEANEE

GENERAL OF INDIA, &C

Meeanee, 6 miles from Hyderabad, Feb. 18, 1843

A magnificent comet was seen throughout India from th
beginning of March, and engaged the attention of all the
astronomers, one of whom actually declared it had become a
satellite of the earth—a proposition which set thousands
laughing.
Dwarkanauth Tajore has been excluded from his family
caste, in consequence of his repeatedly eating with " the
unclean Europeans."
The captain of the Belvedere, which ship was burned some
months ago at Singapore, was tried at Bombay for taking
goods out of the ship while in-harbour. He was honourably
acquitted.
A steamer had arrived at Bombay from Kurrachee, which
brought intelligence to the 28th of March, and mentioned
that a fight of three days had taken place between Sir Chas.
Napier and the Ameers, in which the British were success-
ful. There was great loss on both sides. Report said that
the British" General was slain, but this part of the report
was not credited.
The Beloochees had thrown a chain across the Indus,
which they intended to defend by fortifications on both sides.
Her Majesty's ship Nimrod and two small steamers were
about to fqrce the Beloochees to retire and leave the river
open.

The Ameers having signed the new treaty proposed to them
on the 14th of February, attacked on the following day with
a large force the tesidence of the British Commissioner. In
this treacherets attack they • were repulsed. On the 17th
Major-General Sir Charles Napier gained a decisive victory'
over their whole army, and on the 20th the British troops
occupied the city of Hyderabad.
Six of the Ameers delivered their swords to the British
General upon the field of battle. All their guns, ammuni-
tion, and.treasure were taken, together with their camp.
The Beloochees lost 5,000 men.
Thus has victory placed at the disposal of the British Go-
vernment the country on both banks of the Indus from Suk.
kur to the Sea, with the exception of such portions thereof as
may belong to Meer Ali, Morad of Kbyrpore, and to any
other of the Ameers who may have remained faithful to his
engagements.
The Governor-General cannot forgive a treacherous attack

upon a representative of the British Government, nor can he
forgive hostile aggression prepared by those who were in the
act of signing a treaty.
It will be the first object of the Governor-General to use
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the power victory has placed in his hands in the manner most
conducive to the freedom of trade, and to the prosperity of
the people of Scinde, so long misgoverned.
In perpetual commemoration of this brilliant achievement
the 2d company 2d battalion, and the 3d company 3d battalion,
of Bombay Artillery, and the company of the ',Madras Sap-
pers and Miners, will bear upon their appointments, and the

;il regiment of Bengal Light Cavalry, the Poonah Horse
and the Scinde Horse, upon their standards and appoint-
ments, and the 12th and 25th regiments of Bombay Native
Infantry, upon their colours and appoinments, the word
"Hyderabad, 1843." _

J • -
The regiment of Scinde Horse is on its present establish-
ment permanently attached to the army of Bombay.
The Governor-General directs that a salute of twenty-one
guns be fired at all the stations of the army.
By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India,
J. THOMASON,
Officiating Secretary to the Government of India with
the Governor-General.

To THE RIGHT HON. LORD ELI.RNBOROUGH, GOVERNOR-

My Lord,—The forces under my command have gained a
decisive victory over the army of the Ameers of Upper and
Lower Scinde. On the 14th inst. the whole body of the
Ameers assembled, in full durbar, formally affixed their seals
to the draught treaty. On leaving the durbar, Major Outram
and his companions were in great peril, a plot had been laid
to murder them all. They were saved by the guards of the
Ameers ; but the next day (the 15th) the residence of Major
Outram was attacked by 8,000 of the Ameers' troops, headed
by one or more of the Ameers. On the 16th I marched to
Muttaree : having there ascertained that the Ameers were in
position at Meeanee (10 miles distance) to the number of
22,000 men, and well knowing that a delay for reinforcements
would both strengthen their confidence and add to their
numbers, already seven times that which I commanded, I
resolved to attack them, and we marched at 4 a.m. On the
morning of the 17th at 8 o'clock the advanced guard dis-
covered their camp; at 9 o'clock we formed in order of bat-
tle, about 2,800 men of all arms and 12 pieces of artillery.
We were now within range of the enemy's guns and 15 pieces
of artillery opened upon us and were answered by our cannon.
The enemy were very strongly posted, woods were on their
flanks, which I did not think could be turned.
The enemy was 1,000 yards from our line, which soon
traversed the intervening space. Our fire of musketry opened
at about 100 yards from the bank in reply to that of the
enemy, and in a few minutes the engagement became general
along the bank of the river, on which the combatants fought
for about three hours or more with great fury, man to man.
I Then, my Lord, was seen the superiority of the musket and
bayonet over the sword and shield, and matchlock. The,
brave Belochees, first discharging their matchlock and pis-
tols, dashed over the bank with desperate resolution; but
down went these bold and skilful swordsmen under the su-
perior power of the musket and bayonet. At one time, my
Lord, the courage and the numbers of the enemy ,against the
22d, the 25th, and the 12th Regiments, bore heavily in that
part of the battle. There was no time to be lost, and I sent
orders to the cavalry to force the right of the enemy's line.
This order was very gallantly executed by the 9th Bengal
Cavalry and the Scinde Horse, the details of which shall be
afterwards stated to your Lordship, for the struggle on our
right and centre was at that moment so fierce, that I could
not go to the left. In this charge the 9th Light Cavalry
took a standard and several pieces of artillery, and the Scinds
HOrse took the enemy's camp, from which a vast body of
their cavalry slowly retired fighting. Lieutenant Fitzgerald
gallantly pursued them for two miles, and, I understand,
slew three of the enemy in single combat. The brilliant
conduct of these two cavalry regiments decided, in toy opi-
nion, the crisis of the action ; for, from the moment the
cavalry were seen in rear of their right flank, the resistance
of our opponents slackened, the 22d Regiment forced the
bank, the 25th and 12th did the same, the latter regiment
capturing several guns, and the victory was decided. The
artillery made great havoc among the dense masses of the
enemy, and dismounted several of their guns. The whole
of the enemy's artillery, ammunition, standards, and camp,
with considerable stores and some treasure, were taken.
Meer Roostum Khan, and Meer Nusseer Khan; Meer
Wullee IVlahomed, of Khyrpore; Meer Nusseer Khan, Meer
Shadad Khan, and Mee surrendered, all of Hyderabad,
came into my camp and their swords as prisouers
of war. Their misfortunes are of their own creation, but as