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      and visitors from Calcutta . It is hoped no more irreeularities will occur . . Captain G . A , Ferris , of II . M . 29 th , having recovered his health at Darjeeling , had been ^ sent to reioin his regiment , in command of a detachment . Mr . H . A . Cockerel ! has been appointed register of deeds ami marriages in Sylhet . The Muneepore Regiment is restored to local service having , when detached , been of great use during the revolt : It is hoped that these local regimentsTwill be recruited strictly from the hill tribes , and no Poorbeahs allowed admission to the ranks . Brevet-Major W . G . A . Middleton ,- of the 93 rd Highlanders , is definitively appointed commandant of the Nynee Tal Convalescent Depot . . ¦ Leave has been given for the hills north of Deyrah to Lieutenant IV L . S . Dyce , 71 st B j N . I . ; for Simla and the hills to Lieutenant J , II . Miller , 90 th Foot , and Vet . Surgeon J . B . Hall , R . A ., and for Almdrah to Ensign J . E . D . Campbell . '

      _ ' At Dugshaie Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel J . AV . Cox H . M . 13 th Light Infantry , has been appointed Commandant of the Convalescent Depot . Lieutenant E . S . Wood , H . M . 93 rd Foot , has been allowed leave for the purpose of resuming his studies in the Thomason Civil Engineering College at Roorkee . . The news from Kashmeer is that Maharajah Kunbeer Sing has revised the tariff , abolished the akbaree , or excise , and the julkhar , or tax on fishing . The former yielded 5 , 000 / . a year , and the latter 4 , OO 0 Z . The distillation of wine and spirits has been forbidden , and drunkenness is to be severely punished . '¦ ' ¦ ... ..... „ ,.,. _ . ^ hemes is that Major E

      The news from the Neilg . B . Cureton , II . M . 12 th Lancers , is appointed Commandant of the Convalescent Depot at Jackatalla . Leave has been given for theNeilgherriesto Captain C . J . A . Deane , 42 nd M . N . I ., Captain C . W . I . Whish , M . N . I ., Captain R . Hodgson , H . M . 8 th Hussars , Brevet Captain T . M . McHutchin , 19 th M . N . I ., Lieut . W . H . L . Fuller , 4 th M . N , I ., and 2 nd-Lieut ., H . S . Woods , 1 st Madras Fusiliers . It is a great benefit to these gentlemen , who are suffering from ill health , that the climate of the Neilgherries is available to them , while these permissions of many months' or a year ' s leave give several residents to Ootakamimd , and other towns in the hills . Lieut . J . D . Brockiruvn , H . M . 86 th Foot , had had a short leave for Poona .

      The superintendentship of the Sulkcah Salt Golahs near Calcutta , has become Vacant by the retirement of Mr . Alexander . This post used to be a sinecure for a member of the civil service , being provided with a salary of 2 , 400 / . and a convenient residence rent-free . The Government , with commendable economy , lias reduced the salary to 840 Z . without a residence , and made it available as an uncovenarited appointment . It is urged by the Englishmen , that tho like measure of reduction can be applied in a reduction by one-half of the salaries of all salt and opium agencies , and their immediate

      transfer to the uncovenanted service . The public at home are not aware that among the duties imposed upon a highly educated civil service arc these salt and opium agencies , which are properly mercantile appointments , and should be hold by mon of business , while officers , having a political education , should be made available for the general government of the country , for which aid is much wanted . It is needless to say that these posts have boon , in realit y , sinecure prizes of tho civil service . The Friend of India , as a document on the present state of finance in India , gives the following list of financial-salaries : ¦—

      Financial Soerotury ,. .. .. £ 5 , 000 t iub-Truiisiirvr , Calcutta .. .. : i , ( K » 0 Do . Bombay .. .. .. !» , <> 00 Do . Madras .. .. a , 40 U AflHintiuit SJiib-Troamiror , JJouffnl .. 8 * 0 Aecounumt-Goiioral , ( jovormn ' ontof j , n < Uu 4 , 'iOU D >> . Hontbay .. 1 , 000 Do . Mmlrau .. ., i ) , 0 » W Aecountaut , Honffiil JJ . 000 Do . XoWli-WoHt Provinces .. il , « KM Do . 'Punjab .. .. .. 1 , 800 FlrHt AwsIstmU , Aeoountant-Uonorarof

      rmlia .. 1 . 800 Do . Do . Minims .. 1 , ft 00 Do ,. Do . Uombay .. 1 , 500 Second Asalntunt Do . Government of India .. l , «<> 0 Do . Do . Marlrnu .. WM Do . l > o . JJoiubay .. 030 Thlnl AsHirttant , Do , Government of India .. 000 Civil Auditor , India and Kcng-al .. : » , 000 Do . Hoinlmy .. .. HAW Do . Mmlrn » 'i , KW Do . North-Wont ProvlnooH I . M Ol ) Do . Punjab l , i » 0 AwrtlHtaut Civil Auditor , Honeiil .. «•»<>

      The observation is that this department is hotter paid than tho English Cabinet , and that sumo of those salaries must bo appropriated to Ministers of Finance ) , and others bo considerably reduced . Korlniporo Is a new station 44 miles from Kislina-Sur , on tho banks of tho river Jollingheo . It luis oon formed into a subdivision , and has an

      Anglo-Vernacular School , with about sixty pupils ; and there are several indigo factories in the neighbourhood , belonging to Messrs . J . and R . Watson and Co ., which , being under able management , are producing good effects . It is worth observing that , though this town is near enough to Calcutta to be known to the Government , it is only lately that it has an English school , which , it will be observed , has even now very few pupils , and that it used to be a great scene of dacoity . Ilundrels of ponseys , bhurs , babars , palwars , &c , plying between Calcutta and the eastern districts , were plundered in this

      neighbourhood , and there being no ¦ Jbnglish justice the peace there in those days , the nefarious business was carried on with impunity , as the parties robbed mostly preferred putting up with their loss to givinginformation of it to the police , inasmuch as it would have ended in their being dragged to Kishnagur , or Berhampore , and there detained , harassed , and , perhaps , fleeced by the amlah . Since a resident magistrate has been stationed there crime has much diminished . The trade of Aden is largely growing since it has been constituted a free port . The yearly imports and exports in 1844-5 , before the opening , were 149 , 097 / ., and for the year ending 31 st May , 1 S 58 ,

      1 , 145 , 552 * : This sum was thus made up : — Imports—Goods £ . 4 : 7 , 867 „ Tres ^ ure ; J . ! 4 , 179 Total Imports £ ? 02 , O ± 7 ¦ Exports—fioods . > .. £ 2 S : i , f > : ; 7 „ Treasure 1 . j 9 > 07 Tot al Exports £ 443 , oOi This is exclusive of the inland . ' trade with the Arab town in Yemen for provisions consumed in the town , and by the shipping ,-ami for articles manufactured there , and exclusive of various exports by land and the profit made on them , as likewise of various articles sold in the town to passengers by steamers . A steamer comes iii about every second

      day . Of course the chief article of import is coals for the steamers , being about 150 , 000 / . The treasure In is for the supply of the troops , and that out is supplied by passengers , and exported to pay Yor goods . There is a considerable trade in Mocha coffee , being to the extent of about 3 , 000 tons to England , the United States , France , and Bombay , the trade of Mocha itself having dwindled , the town being : in ruins , and the population having- removed to Aden . The African trade with Berbera and the opposite ports is becoming considerable . The imports are ivory , gums , ostrich feathers , and cattle . The Arabian exports , besides coffee , ineliKlc madder and glue . A valuable report on the trade of Aden has been compiled by Captain -It . L- Playfair , first , assistant political resident of that settlement .

      The Madras Government has acceded to the request of Mr . Montclar , and nppointe ;! a scientific , commission to examine the facts and theory he has to submit , relative to the acclimatising of exotic cotton seed . The members are Mr . E . Maltby , Member of the Board of Revenue , Major Worster , Acting Government Astronomer , Dr . Mayer , Professor of Chemistry , and Dr .. Montgomery , Professor ot'Botany . Dr . Forbes Watson , the Reporter on Indian Products at the India House , with that zeal which distinguishes him , has called the attention of the press and the public hero to the desirability of growing gram in this country as an experiment , and offers to supply seed .

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      LATEST INDIAN INTELLIGENCE . Tins overland mail has brought correspondence and journals from Bombay to the 26 th March . The customs duties on imports have been suddenly and very largely increased by an Act of the Legislative Council , The measure created much excitement among tho mercantile community . It took the publio completely by surprise , and the rapidity with which it was passed by tho Legisla * - lativo Council is one of its most disagreeable features . In tho exports it was discovered that the

      duty on grain , pulse , and indigo hud been doubled . It further appeared that , not content with this sudden imposition of charges upon goods dispatched to Bombay on the faith of tho tariff to which tho Government was , as it were , pledged , the Commissioner of Customs had orders to levy the duty not only on all gooda lying on shipboard in the harbour , but in the wharves of tho Custom-house . A mooting was convened , and protests against tho enacttnunt sent in to Government . Lord Cunning , in his reply , intimated his intention of maintaining the net in iu integrity . A memorial , therefore , lias been sent home to Lord Stanley . Calcutta and Madras liayo adopted measures similar to those resorted to in Bombay , and the question Is ono which concerns homo munumcturcrs us well .

      The Wawub of Furruckabud has been soutoncod to death , ami another great criminal , Loneo Sing , of Metowlle , in Oudo , oonvlctod of having

      surrendered the Orrs to the Lucknow rebels , has been sentenced to transportation for life . Colonel Davidson narrowly escaped being killed in the Durbar at Hyderabad a few days ago , a frantic Arab having fired at him . The miscreant was caught and instantly killed . Tantia Topee has not succeeded in escaping from Central India . lie is at Perone with the Gwalior rebel Maun Sing . The cause of his separation froni the Rao and Feroze Shah was a serious misunderstanding as to monev matters .

      The Oude rebels arc still in the Nepaul jungles , and Jung Bahadoor is said to be negotiating with them . Should they attempt to re-enter India , Brigadier Kelly is ready to oppose them . The Begum is stated to be in the Nepaulese capital . Jung Bahadoor , it appears , has never moved his army from Katmandoo , and the rebels have never been molested by him . General Napier has arrived at Seronj , and received vakeels or messengers from the liao and Feroze Shah , asking on what terms they will be allowed to surrender . Adil Mahomed has given in , and is now a prisoner . He is a Bhopal sirdar ; he was Khan of Amba Panee , and brother of the man whom Sir Hugh Rose caused to be hanged last year at llathghui * .

      A plot was recently discovered in Lahore ; the movers were C hey Sing , colonel of an old Sikh regiment , and Boodh-Sing , a religious devotee . Seditious papers were found in their houses , and a sort of mystical prophecy , believed to have been ver } --widely circulated ^ It is written , or pretends to be written , by a Sikh of Jubbulpoor , and predicts that in 1863 the followers of Christ will be destroyed , the Sikhs will keep English women in their housesi and the Khalsa will gain supreme power . It is well to know that a prophecy of that kind is in circulation . Cheyt-Sing and Bood-Sing have been sentenced to five years in the Audanuins , and the plot , such as it -was ,: seems to have been amongst the people rather than the soldiery . fdr his anl

      Lord Harris is preparing departure , . ' arrangements are being mtulc to welcome his successor . The Madras papers contain accounts of a most daring robbery , on the night of the 13 th inst ., at Caatpadj ' , . the Vellore station , distant about four miles from the canton ment , by a gang of about 150 persons . They attacked the house of Mr . I ' atosi , and carried off" , it is said , about 50 , 000 rupees . The treasure lost only arrived on the night of the llth or morning of the 12 th instant ; and this leads to the suspicion th at some persons at Madras must have given notice of its intended despatch . Mr . Peacock has been appointed Chief Justice at Calcutta , and Sir Robert Hamilton goes into the Council in the place of Mr . Montgomery , who is now Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab .

      A telegraphic message from Calcutta , dated Thursday , March 24 , announces that the Rangoon mail steamer Cape of Good Hope , has been totally wrecked in the Ilooghly , by collision with the Neniedis . The mail was saved , but no further particulars were . received . isn . iT . isu EXTEnriusE in ixdia . Tho Indian correspondent of the JJuily Ncivx writes : — " It has been acknowledged that one of tho Crown ' s first duties to India is toToster and encourage European enterprise , to hold out inducements to capitalists , and promote by every available means a spirit of emulation and energy amongst the

      inhabitants of the country . Instead , however , of . endeavouring to carry out the intentions of the home government , the executive here are doing their best to x'eniler them nugatory , Rich- and experienced , contractors are throwing up their engagements at immense sacrifices rather than submit to shameless imposition . All over the country Anglo-Saxon enterprise , is being snubbed nnd discouraged , and I have consequently no hesitation in saying that , if the present policy bo maintained , tho ompiro will retrograde as rapidly as it has advanoeil . Without an English civil element India will ever bo usoloss to England , except as a drill grouiul nnd military nursery . " '

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      TSTo . 474 , April 23 , 18590 THE LEADER . 537

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      Tun Faid Gauooj .. —This yacht , flttod out In England for tho Pacha of Egypt , has a very Inrgu cabin , taking , in the wholu brouiltli of tho ship . Groat oxpenso has boon incurred in fitting and furnishing tliis cabin . Shortly nftor tho arrival ot tfio yacht at Alexandria , tho Pacha wont cm board ,, waddled ( it is said li ( . « weighs twenty-six stone ) iulo tho cabin , and iniiiKulialcly ordorod nil tho furniture to bo sent away , so that ho inhjlit lmvu room to broatlw . Howuver , he oxprossod himself greatly plonsed with the state of the vessel , nnd presented Captain Kollock with a valuable suuH-box , riuhly bot in diamonds mid oriental pearls , lib alao presented the chief oftloor with a gold snuff-box , with the Meiljidlc on tho top set with diamonds , and gave / 500 sovereigns as u present to tho crew .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 23, 1859, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2291/page/25/