The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-18

England Inc Gays OF the Britsh navigation laws are
no doubt numbered and it Is somewhat curious that
the first blow - their vitality should come from India.
am inclined to think then that Lord Dalhousies act
inten to pave the way for more comprehe nsve
one at home American ships can now take bread
sus to Liverpool and there ship cargoes for Calcut
ta, Madras. or Bombay purchasing here the return
for your ships much cheaper than that you
can afford to take freight at abatement of so per
cent on the English rates enclose copy of the new
act for the guidance of your merchants
FoRr WILLIAM, IIoME DrpAnrMgyr}
legislative March 4th 1873.
this day. governor general council being desrous
Resolved the rules les requiring that ali Acts of the
general Of INDIAN council shall be brought for second reading
be respect to the following proposed Act and that
it be at once passed into law - =, .,o,s
An Act for eguasng he Duties o. Goods imported qnd er
:aSsr &c ss s EH ass ' e no .a''
March, is all goods imported foreign bottoms
a @ he Of rr w omS II @ rss 81
duty suo goods would now By law be CHARGED with i such
thing any of the council Of India contained to the
H. And Is hereby that from and after the said day
all goods exported foreign bottoms BY from Of the said
ws% % , % nS s'
exported from any Of the said ports on British bottoms any thing
Ill And hereby enacted thatrom and after the said day.
duty shall DO charged goods lawfully carried from
the territories subject to the government Of the East India
act Of the Council India contained to the contrary
apply to the articles q salt or opum
Since my last we have had another failure for ESQ.,
600; all these liabilities arising from returned bills.
This will probably bring down more houses, and 1t is
generally feared that the large firm of Bagshaw Co
will be compelled to stop after the arrival Of the mail
of the It'll of February bankruptcy in India is gene
rally splendid affair. 1t is highly disrcputabe to fail
for anything less than f5000 and most of the houses
shoot far ahead of that sum You will understand
hotter VIII that the liabilities M hon
which failed in the year "a amounted to fourteen
fortyeght lakhs Of rupees fourteen millions
and half sterling, The names Ofthese houses Pal
mer s. Co., Alexander & Co. Macintosh Co.. Calvin
& Co., Ferguson Co, Cruttenden. Mackillop & Co
The amount Of dividends paid by all six is equal to "a
per cent on the above sum. One firm that of Alex
ander Co.. paid per cent on more than four mil
Hons sterling. These statements, incredible you
may think them. may be relied on they are derived
from the very best official authority. But what is
more find have spoken Of these dividends as
paid, whereas many. though declared, have
the deacatpn of opowda the Official assignee to
the insolvent court who received all the assets of in
solvent firms, and whose business 1t was to pay them
out at once O'Dowdas account recently exhibited a
deficiency Of many takhs of rupees, that the cred
tors of the above mentioned and other firms lose great
part of th:r dividends, ptifu those dividends
What do you think Of Calcutta now!
In my last, had few words to say about mesmer-
ism in India. and had been intending in my present
letter to enter at length into the history of the
science of passes cultivated among This shall
defer however till another opportunity also what
have to say about banking affairs. may well
tell you however, that the Governor Ge neral has
already become convert to mesmerism-if one Is to
Judge him by his actions. 1t Is understood that when
no first out, be secuted the idea of giving the
least countenance to what he called humbug that
We exploded in Europe long ago. but day or two
since it announced that his lordship had appointed
Dr. Esdae. the apostle Of mesmerism in the east as
Presidency surgeon. This Is an appointment only be-
slowed very old or very distinguished public SER
wants. Now Dr.. Esdaileis young man, and his name
stands Mt the bottom of the list Of surgeons In the
panys army and he distinguished only by his adv
cacy Of mesmcrism, that there is installing the
import of his promotion. The following note from the
doctor himself will show you how the act is inter-
preted:-
Ny DEAR SRI disposed to think Lord Dahousie sen
his lorshp night he took the occasion congratulate
being Sa and was SAY Say in on Tsp
May he m live tod do s. Sns LIKE it to the
ed both myself aud Others This ineecta!
sOod sect sA0 Yours very ty WI" Jas Espx
Dr. Esdaile, though mesmerist, is not mesmsrist
only He was the first to use ether in his practice.
when the discovery made known here and had
the honor of being the first person in India who took
chloroform and it by him that the chloroform
administered By the way, 1t seems highly probable
that both ether Ind chloroform will prove most valua
BILE remedies for cholera The disease has already made
its appearance in Calcutta and the season has been
very unfavorablc, there is prospect of its assuming
virulent type.
The researches Of DR.. Pritchard have invested the
study Of ethnoogy with so much interest that have
doubt q few words on the present condition and
prospects of the science prosecuted in India will be
acceptable to good many of your readers The study
Of races has always melted no little attention among
observing men among us 1t has gone hand-in-hand
with Indian phiology, and the transactions Of the
Asatc Society together with the published records of
the various missions. afford amount of information
which does credit to the industry and sagacy soour
the East But hitherto enquiries of this sort have
conducted without the slightest regard to system
and the available result of all that has been done is lam
entably Insignificant With the history Of the Arah
immigrant family which comprises both the Hindu and
Nussulman occupants of the SOIL we are toleraby IA
mar but it is those classes whose history Is of the
least value in chronological point Of view since they
plainly exotic, and 1t IL comparatively oasy to say
where they came from. But with the Tamuans or
borivines the case is different We find them scatter
ed all the country-that is-in every jungle or
billy tract throughout the vast continent-f may So
call itof India There exist hundreds of thousands of
human beings wrose state has been not inaptly com
pared to that Of the Germans described by Tactus
they cover the subordinate range OF hills that skirt the
base of the Hmalayas they make their dwelling in
the South where cape Comorin sinks into the As
sam in the far East Ia their home so is Gugerat, in
the extreme West. while central India swarms with my
RAIDS of these children of nature who have bow
ed the knee to Vishnu nor yet been taught to pray
with face toward the setting whose creed is as SIM
pie and little repulsivc that Of the old Mohawk,
and who for centuries have lived isolated from his
Hindu and Moslem invaders of the country as though
they had dwelt the plains Of Tibet 1t plain that
they the people to be studied II would solve the
problem of the diffusion of the human race from its
parent stock, far as India Is concerned and am
glad to find that there is prospect OF the investigation
portance in systematic manner. Mr.. b. II. Hodgson,
who formerly resident at Khatmandoo. on the CON-
Portable salary Of six thousand rupees per
meusem, but who sometime since resigned the Compa-
nys civil service that he might devote his whole time
to scientific researches has just appeared under the
auspices of tho Asatic Society of Bengal the pro-
FOUNDER of system of chronological enquiry especially
applicable to India. and to which 1t Is intended that
Al, future Investigations in this field, by whomsoever
undertaken, shall conform far as possible. Thirty
years more Of unremitng labor in the fields Of orr
entail phology, archaeology. ethnoogy. not to speak
IT zoology and other natural sciences have well qua
lifted this gentleman to become the Magnus Apol-
10 Of our Indian sarans and not student Is
here of whatever calibrc who will not gladly look
up to him. so much for his anteccdents. He enters
the field with normal essay single group Of tribes,
his first Of series Of essays part of which he proposes
to fill out himself leaving the rest to those who are will
ling to follow in his footsteps rapid sketch Of this
essay may not be unacceptable First. then. the
thor in his preface introduces the subject Of Indian
ethnology. He starts with theory-that Is, he as
the original unity Of the scattered tribes, Of
which have spoken This assumption is made purely
for what may call empirical purposes that Is, sti