tisfaction with what he had just witnessed, and his gratification at finding himself in company with so many intelligent and respectable native gentlemen, who were so actively and usefully employed in advancing the great cause of education among their countrymen.-He begged, with reference to the bill which had been alluded to by the chief justice, in his address to the grand jury a few days previous, to congratulate them on their being made eligible to the offices of grand juror and justice of the peace, which he felt confident, when appointed to, they would fill with integrity and ability. He knew that the greatest interest was taken in England regarding the education of the natives, and their advancement, when qualified to fill situations of trust and importance. With reference to the Elphinstone professorship, he begged to assure them of his anxious wish for the early establishment of an institution, which would so greatly enlarge the sphere of the society's usefulness, and which would perpetuate the name of one of his illustrious predecessors, which was so much and so justly venerated by the natives. Government only waited the reply to a reference which had been made to Calcutta, regarding the rules of the Hindoo College there, to come to a decision on the subject; and he confidently trusted, that on the next anniversary meeting he should have the pleasure of congratulating them on the fulfilment of their wishes, by the establishment of the Elphinstone college. His lordship concluded by assuring the society of his continued countenance and support in furtherance of its important and laudable objects.

CULTIVATION OF THE MAURITIUS
SUGAR CANE.

The Mauritius sugar cane is successfully cultivated in Salsette and at Bassein; the plants are more than double the size of the common Indian cane, and their culture requires little more expense, skill, or trouble, than is bestowed by the natives on the cane of the country.

PRACTICABILITY OF AN INVASION FROM THE NORTH.

The Bombay Courier, in adverting to the recent travels of Dr. Gerard and Lieut. Burnes, with reference to the feasibility of an invasion from the north by an army conducted upon the modern principles of warfare, observes: "To report upon this interesting question, it is well known, belonged entirely to Lieut. Burnes; but as there is no prospect of his account of the journey being published for some time, we shall take the present opportunity of stating that his opinion regarding it is generally under

stood to be, that no obstacles whatever exist to the march of a large army from the north upon India, further than those which may be occasioned by the necessity of keeping open a lengthened chain of communication. This coincides exactly with the opinion of Colonel Mouraviev and the Russian officers sent for the same object in 1819, the result of whose mission, it has been ascertained, was the formation of a plan of campaign for the conquest of India, which, regarding the laws of tactics and strategy alone, they reported to be perfectly feasible."

THE GUICOWAR STATE.

A correspondent at Baroda, whose communication we are unable to insert at length, informs us, that since the murder of the sergeant which we lately published, a woman and child have been murdered, and that a gentleman of the civil service, while in search of a murderer, has been pierced with five arrows, whether fatally or not the writer does not mention.' Our correspondent further states, that a suttee has recently taken place at Baroda, and alludes to the frequent occurrence of similar tragedies within the Guicowar's territories. He asserts that the mere indication of displeasure by Lord William Bentinck has had the effect of preventing suttees in the northern and eastern independent (?) states, and argues that a similar indication might and ought to be used for the same purpose by the Government here. What will our Baroda correspondent say when we inform him that suttees are frequently performed by female inhabitants of Bombay, at Angria's Colaba, under the very eyes of Government? A nod from the lord paramount would unquestionably prevent these sacrifices of life, either in the little isle of the Angrias, or in the larger fief of the Guicowar; but that nod is not given; hence, as our correspondent justly observes, the Governor in Council may be considered as the audience in a Roman amphitheatre, the turn of whose thumb decided life and death; at present the thumb is turned down.-Bomb. Gaz. May 11.

REPORTED MURDER OF MR. GORDON.

Extract of a letter dated Chiklee, 2d of May 1833:-"A most melancholy event has lately occurred at Okleseer, near Broach. Mr. Gordon, of the civil service, who was stationed there, went out with several suwars and sepoys to meet a party of Bheels in the neighbourhood. On coming up to them, he advanced towards them with a single suwar, desiring his own people not to fire, and telling the Bheels to lay down their bows, as he wished to parley with them. The Bheels however, as it appears, paid no attention

shipped British goods in London, for a British port, contrary to the 6 Geo. IV. c. 109, § 11, that "no goods shall be imported into any British possession in Asia, Africa, or America, in any foreign ships, unless they be ships of the country of which the goods are the produce, and from which the goods are imported.'

The Singapore Chronicle observes that this seizure has excited considerable interest in that settlement, as not a few individuals there have goods on board, for the recovery of which much anxiety is felt. The prevailing opinion appears to be, that the seizure is lawful and just, as the vessel committed an evident breach of the Navigation Law in carrying goods from one British port to another.

It adds: "We have been given to understand that, in consequence of a recent petition to the naval commander-in-chief, from the merchants of one of the Indian presidencies (most probably Bombay), complaining of the many foreign vessels which are permitted with impunity to usurp the privileges of British shipping, orders have been issued lately to the several commanders of men-of-war in the East-Indies to keep a strict watch, and to seize all vessels infringing the laws relative to navigation."

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The Madras Gazette of April 3, says: "We understand that the commander of the Harrier will have to contend against many difficulties before he derives any benefit from his capture of the Batavia. It is rumoured, and we believe not without foundation, that the legality of the seizure will form the subject of litigation. The only reason now assigned for the interference of the Harrier is, that the Batavia, having been cleared out for the West-Indies, had no pretence for being where she was subsequently discovered. This, however, we hear is disputed by the captain, who, we believe, insists that the capture is illegal, inasmuch as it was made during a time of peace, the embargo not extending to the East-Indies. A protest has been entered against the capture, and the captain of the Batavia abandons the vessel altogether. Rumour does insinuate, that the voyage of the Batavia was one of speculation to an individual in some measure connected with India."

Singapore.

The United States, at the recommendation of their consul at Batavia, have sent a mission to Cochin China and Siam, with a view of effecting some improvement in foreign commerce.

Accounts from the east coast of the

By Lloyds' List, it appears she cleared out, on the 8th September 1832, for Teneriffe and Havannah.

Peninsula mention that a scarcity of rice prevails at the different states situated on it, the consequence, probably, of the late Siamese invasion, or of the late failure of the grain crop in Siam. We observe that three vessels have lately proceeded up that coast with large quantities of rice, and other merchantable commodities, for which profitable returns in produce are expected. We are glad to see that such adventures are made, inasmuch as they tend to open a beneficial direct intercourse with the Malayan States on the coast, and to afford their inhabitants some confidence and encouragement in their commercial pursuits. It is well known that these states might soon be made to abound with the most valuable productions, such as gold dust, tin, pepper, coffee, ivory, &c., if only proper protection were given them against the rapacity of their Siamese oppressors, and if also the occasional avarice and extortion of their own despotic rulers could be guarded against. The above articles are brought here, even now, in considerable quantities, by native craft, and we are told several new pepper and coffee plantations have lately been opened, principally at Tringanu, the present ruler of which place is said to be an intelligent and enterprising man.-Singapore Chron. March 7.

Mauritius.

Upon the arrival of Governor Nicolay, MM. A. D'Epinay, Virieux, and A. Draper, were dismissed from the legishome; upon which MM. P. D'Epinay, lative council, agreeably to orders from Lucas, E. Pilot, and Gaillardon, resigned ing correspondence took place between their places in the council. The followthe governor and M. A. D'Epinay :

"Government-house, Port Louis,

1st Feb. 1833.

"Sir, I have been directed by his Majesty's secretary of state for the colonies to erase your name from the list of legislative councillors of this island; and which has accordingly been done.

"Enclosed is an extract of the despatch from Viscount Goderich, conveying those directions.

"I have the honour to be, Sir, "Your most obedient servant, "WILLIAM NICOLAY." "Adrien D'Epinay, Esq., &c. &c." "Extract from a despatch from his Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies to Sir William Nicolay, relative to the proceedings at a meeting held at Mauritius, on the 7th July 1832.

"The share which Mr. Adrien D'Epinay has taken in the recent proceedings in Mauritius has forcibly arrested my at

tention. He is, I understand, not only a member of the legislative council and an advocate, but also the avowed editor of one of the public journals of the colony. In each of those capacities he appears to have used all his influence, with unwearied activity, to accomplish Mr. Jeremie's removal from the island. As a member of the council, and in that character, associated with the other persons whom the governor convened at the public meeting already mentioned, Mr. Adrien D'Epinay proposed the resolution for Mr. Jeremie's removal. As an advocate, he signed a written protest against the lawfulness of the very institution of any legislative council by his Majesty's authority, although he had solemnly sworn faithfully to discharge his duty as a mem. ber of that body. As a journalist, he published a series of the most acrimonious and unjust invectives against Mr. Jeremie; and even as early as the month of April last, suggested the forcible removal of that gentleman from the colony as soon as he should have landed there.

"Mr. Adrien D'Epinay is obviously, therefore, an improper person to serve his Majesty in any public capacity whatever, and you will immediately erase his name from the list of legislative councillors.

(Signed) "GODERICH."

"General,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which you have done me the honour to address me to-day, and of the extract concerning me from a despatch of the secretary of

state for the colonies.

"Upon any other occasion, I should simply have confined myself to acknowledge its receipt, and would have almost considered it a favour to be relieved from functions which I could not have accepted if I had known that to exercise them it was necessary to follow blindly the will of the ministers. I observe, in the extract which you have forwarded to me, two things which I cannot pass by in silence, the one that I am the avowed editor of a journal; the other that I protested against the institution of a council. Mr. Jeremie might have told him so; but the secretary of state ought not to have admitted it without proof; above all, he ought not to have concerned himself with the acts of my private life. I am no more an editor of a journal than the ministers are of ministerial journals; and than the eminent men who direct the opposition in England are of the papers of their party. I have often published my opinions, and if I had been aware it was known who was their author, I would have signed them. Since I have not done so, no one can, with any regard to plausibility, attribute them to

me.

Asiat. Jour. N. S. VOL. 12. No. 46.

"As to the protest of which his lordship speaks, it has no existence; unless he alludes to a meeting which I convened, in concert with my fellow-barristers, for the maintenance of our constitutional rights. In this I have not been more culpable than the Lords and members of the House of Commous, who sought reform and obtained it. They respected an order of things till it was constitutionally changed this is nothing more than what I have done, on a small scale, in our settlement.

"For the rest, General, whatever may be the impression of my conduct upon his lordship, I do not see any cause to be sorry for my conduct. Far from it; I am convinced, and I shall remain so during the whole course of my life, that under the circumstances alluded to by his lordship I have but done my duty. If it were necessary to begin again, I would not hesitate to conduct myself as I have already done.

"I have the honour to be, &c.

(Signed) "A. D'EPINAY."

The Cernéen having published an article furnished by an Irish soldier of H. M. 87th regt., named John Allez, describing the circumstances in which he had been degraded from the rank of serjeant, and alleging harsh treatment by Col. Goldie, who commands the regiment; the insertion of the article was considered a military offence, and a court martial has been ordered upon the man, on the following charges:

"Ist. For having inserted in the Cernéen of the 30th of November last, a scandalous and defamatory article, said to be a true statement of the treatment experienced by the said John Allez at the hands of Col. Goldie of the 87th regt., his commandant, and tending to bring that officer into contempt.

"2d. For having translated and explained the said article to the soldiers who were on guard with him on that day, and also to other comrades, and for having thus endeavoured to draw hatred and contempt on their superior officer, and to create a spirit of discontent, to the great prejudice of the interests of the regiment and of the service in general.

"3d. For having presented to His Exc. the Commander-in-chief a petition containing accusations of oppression and injustice against Col. Goldie.

4th. For having, at the same time, under divers false pretences, obtained the signatures of about 100 men of his regiment, with the view of making out a certificate of good conduct, in order to prove and demonstrate that he had experienced palpable injustice at the hands of Col. Goldie; the said certificate being not only prejudicial to that officer, but evi(0)

Mauritius papers to the 6th June convey intelligence of a rather serious naThe following proclamation has been issued by the governor :-

ture.

"The governor being positively informed that magazines or depòts of arms and munitions of war have been formed, and still exist, in several parts of the island, without his sanction or authority, and that a great quantity of arms and warlike stores, such as soldiers' muskets, bayonets, pikes, and cannon, are distributed in several parts of the colony:

"His Excellency Major-general Sir Wm. Nicolay, governor of the said island, in the name of his Majesty, and by virtue of the powers and authority with which he is invested, requires and commands, in consequence, by the present proclamation, and in conformity with the tenor of his Majesty's order in council, dated at the Court of St. James's the 6th of November last, that all the said arms and munitions, and all other warlike stores, be deposited in the magazines of the King. "And his Excellency the Governor commands all persons whatever, having such magazines or depôts, or such warlike stores, guns, bayonets, pikes, or cannons in their keeping or possession, or in their hands, or deposited in the houses or magazines belonging to or occupied by them, to deliver the said arms, warlike stores, and munitions to the storekeeper of his Majesty's ordnance at Port Louis, or to any of his Majesty's officers commanding a military post; and this within ten days from the date of the present proclamation. Whereof they are not to fail at their peril.

"It is understood that the provisions of the present proclamation do not apply to fowling-pieces, sabres, or other arms, which every one is free to have ordinarily in his possession, either for amusement or self-defence.

"The people of this colony, by submitting willingly to this necessary measure, a measure which is likely to contribute so greatly to the internal tranquillity of this colony, will furnish the best pledge of their confidence in the intentions of the government, as well as of their loyalty and submission to the laws.

"God save the King.

"Given at the Government-house, "Port Louis, Island of Mauritius, May 24, 1833.

By order of his Excellency,

"GEO. F. DICK, Colonial Sec." Private letters afford some ground for thinking that Mr. Jeremie (contrary to the statements received last month) has

entered upon his office of procureur-general with an unnecessary degree of parade, and has exercised it with some want of discretion.

A man named Pieretti had been denounced by the commissary to the chief of the police (a captain in the English army), as dangerous to the public tranquillity. Upon this report, Pieretti was arrested and lodged in gaol, on the ground that he was an alien. Upon this he applied to the supreme court of the island for his release, when the court took cognizance of the case, and M. D'Epinay, ci-devant procureur-general, appeared for Pieretti, and Mr. Jeremie, the present procureur-general, for the crown.

The former commenced by observing that there were two questions in this case: one whether Pieretti was in fact an alien; the other, whether, being an alien, the proceedings against him were legal? On the first point he maintained that Pieretti, though born in Corsica, was not an alien at Mauritius; that he had come there when very young, at fourteen years since, invited by his elder brother, a British subject, and of whom he is only heir. However, this question was not to be examined by the supreme court, but must previously be submitted to the tribunal of first instance. With respect to the second point, admitting by hypothesis that Pieretti was an alien, it would yet seem that in this case the commissary of police and the judge of first instance bad acted illegally.

Mr. Jeremie argued against the application, and maintained that the court could not take cognizance of this case, inasmuch as the chief of the police had acted under a superior order (ordre supérieur-order of the governor). At these words, the president of the court (Blackburn) observed to Mr. Jeremie, that this was the first time the supreme court had heard of an 'ordre supérieur." Mr. Jeremie seemed to feel the awkwardness of this expression on his part, and proceeded to combat the arguments of his adversary; but soon after, in the course of his speech, becoming more animated, he went so far as to say, that if the court should order the release of Pieretti, he (Mr. Jeremie) would arrest him again. This menace on the part of the procureur-general produced from the counsel of the prisoner a most eloquent appeal to the court, which is said to have caused a very great impression.

The Court ordered the release of the prisoner; but at the same moment, Mr. Jeremie and the Judge of the Court of First Instance, who had signed the order of arrest, were observed exchanging notes with each other in court, which gave reason to think they were arranging a new order of arrest, and created no very plea