appear upon paper to have reached a strength of thirty men above their prescribed establishment. MR. TURTON.-Mr. Turton, formerly one of the leading counsel at the Calcutta Bar, goes out to Canada as Lord Durham's legal adviser. With reference to this appointment, the Morning Post (April 18th) states that " Mr. Turton, late of the Calcutta Bar, goes with Lord Durham as his legal adviser to Canada. Mr. Turton was sent home by a considerable party in India, in order to get up and conduct in this country an opposition to Mr. Macaulay's Black Act, at a salary of £1000 per annum. Lord Durham, however, it is stated, gives Mr. T. £1500 a-year, and the promise of a Judgeship after his return to Calcutta, to throw his Calcutta clients overboard." LADY HESTER STANHOPE.-An extract of a letter from Beyrout, Feb. 12th, inserted in the Times of April the 3d states, that H. M.'s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs had sent peremptory instructions to the British Consul for Syria, to stop Lady Hester Stanhope's pension, in order to pay a mercenary usurer a debt contracted in the cause of humanity and science. The niece of Mr. Pitt and the granddaughter of the first Lord Chatham, who did some little service in keeping the House of Hanover on the Throne, surely deserves (says the above letter), "somewhat more delicate treatment from the Queen than this. Can it be wondered at, if, indignant at such proceedings, her ladyship should give up her pension, and with it the name of a British subject!" NEW GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.-On the recommendation of the Commissioners for the colonization of South Australia, Col. Gawler has received the appointment of Governor of the colony. This gallant officer commanded the storming party at Badajoz, when he was severely wounded. NEW GOVERNOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. It is stated that Sir James Stirling has resigned the Governorship of Western Australia, and that Mr. John Hutt, one of the founders of South Australia, has been appointed to succeed Sir J. Stirling. NEW MEMBER OF COUNCIL AT BOMBAY.-A Court of Directors was held on the 4th April, when Mr. Jchn A. Dunlop was appointed provisionally a member of Council at Bombay. TRADE DIRECT BETWEEN NEWCASTLE AND INDIA.-A vessel (named the Ida, Captain Currie), of between 300 and 400 tons, has been loading in the River Tyne, to take a cargo to Calcutta, and to bring direct to this place a cargo in return. She carries out the manufactures of Newcastle, and is to return with sugar, hides, linseed, saltpetre, &c. This will be the first cargo from India ever brought to this port.-Tyne Mercury. MR. WAGHORN.-Mr. Waghorn reached Malta on his way to Egypt, on the 27th March. TAYLOR, OTHERWISE JOSEPH, V. HOPACK (Appeal).-House of Lords (April 3d). The Lord Chancellor delivered judgment in this case. The Appellant was the widow of Lieut.-Col. Taylor, late of the E. I. C.'s service, who had subscribed to "The Bombay Military Fund," the object of which was to provide, under certain restrictions, pensions or annuities for the officers' widows. The question involved in the Appeal was, whether her late husband's estate was bound to make good to her certain deficiencies, however occasioned, in the payment of that annuity. On Lieut.-Col. Taylor's death, in 1828, his widow became entitled out of the Bombay Fund to a Pension of £365 per annum. From that pension, however, the Directors of the Fund made a deduction, according to certain regulations, of a yearly sum of £91, on account of a fund, called Lord Clive's Fund, also destined for the benefit of officers' widows, from which the widow of a Lieut.-Colonel under ordinary circumstances would be entitled to receive a payment equal to the amount thus claimed to be deducted. But, in fact, the appellant did not receive any benefit from the Clive Fund, as her husband left her in possession of a property above the value of £3000; so that by the regulations of that fund she was not entitled to receive anything from the fund. The deduction was, nevertheless, made by the Bombay Fund as if she had received the £91 a year. It was subsequently found that the payments to be made by the Bombay Fund had been calculated too high, that its income would not meet them; and, therefore, according to a regulation, the Directors reduced the payments to Mrs. Taylor, from the sum of £365 to £250, from which, deducting the £91, the result would leave Mrs. Taylor only entitled to a Sum of £159, per annum instead of the £365 she had expected. This deficiency she required to be made up from her husband's property. The Executors of the husband's will refused to so apply the property. Mrs. Taylor had since married a Mr. Joseph, Surgeon of Oriental Herald. Vol. I.—No. V. 3 Q the 4th Dragoon Guards, and had commenced a suit against the respondents (the Executors of her late husband's will,) to have the pension of £365 made up to her out of the estate, they defended themselves on the grounds that the husband had only bound himself to make good her right to an annuity out of the fund, and not to supply any deficiency that might arise in the payment of that annuity, and that the lady had, at all events by marrying again, deprived herself of every advantage of it, the regulations of the Bombay Fund expressly suspending, during a second marriage, the payment to the lady, who, as a widow of an officer, had been entitled to an annuity, but holding the fund liable to pay up the arrears should she survive her second husband. The Lord Ordinary had held these defences to be unavailing against the positive stipulations of the marriage-settlement. The Court of Sessions overruled his judgment, and pronounced a decree for the respondent. The matter was then brought by appeal to this House, and his Lordship now declared his decided opinion to be in favour of the view taken by the Lord Ordinary. The decree of the Court below was therefore varied, so as to give to Mrs. Joseph the full benefit of the annuity originally intended to be secured to her out of the Bombay Fund. The House did not give costs. MISS JULIA NEWMAN.-Miss Julia Newman (of larceny notoriety) is, it appears after all to be sent to New South Wales, in the John Renwick transport, with other female convicts. Globe, April 11.-This person's case is a most singular one; she was convicted of larceny by the strongest proofs; she was also proved to be possessed of a most malignant disposition, having, in particular, endeavoured, without cause, to blast the character of a party with whom she had been but a little time previously, on terms of intimacy. After her conviction, to the surprise of the public, interest was made for her in a high quarter, and her sentence of transportation was commuted to four years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. But Miss Newman's great friends did not stop here in their lamb-like clemency. Whether by advice or not, this accomplished lady feigned madness in the prison,-the ruse was soon discovered; but somehow, Miss Newman gained her object. She was removed to the more comfortable quarters of a lunatic asylum where she was treated kindly: at this juncture her case was brought before Parliament; the secret wires that worked the ministerial puppet-show, were then seen through, although not fully exposed, and there was no help for it, but that the lady's protector should, with all possible quietude, allow of her immediate emigration. ment. SWAN RIVER.-Mr. Hutt has been appointed Governor of this new settle HER MAJESTY'S FORCES IN THE EAST. 4th Light Dragoons (Bombay), G. Simonds, Gent., to be Cornet by purchase, v. Trench, retired. March 30. 26th Foot (Bengal), Major-Gen. Sir J. Colborne, G. C. B., from 94th Foot, to be Colonel, v. General the Earl of Dalhousie, G. C. B., dec. March 30. 31st Foot (Bengal), Lieut.-Gen. Sir C. Halkett, K. C. B., 71st Foot, to be Colonel, v. Lieut.-Gen. Sir E. Barnes, G. C. B., dec. March 30. 39th Foot (Madras), Lieut. G. M. C. Bowen, (half-pay) commission cancelled, he having accepted a commuted allowance for his half-pay. March 30. 3d Foot (Bengal), Capt. R. P. Eason (h. p. unatt.), to be Capt., v. R. M‘Nab, who exchanges, receiving the difference. Capt. S. F. Cox, h. p., 2d Ceylon reg., to be Capt., v. R. P. Eason, who exchanges. Lieut. J. C. Rouse, to be Capt. by purchase, v. Cox, retired. Ensign W. J. Dorchill, to be Lieut. by purchase, v. Rouse. C. W. Green, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, v. Dorchill. April 6. 12th Foot (Mauritius), Capt. F. Marsh, 11th Foot, to be Capt., v. Winnington, who exchanges for the 11th Foot. April 6. 75th Foot (Cape of Good Hope), Capt. J. Bolton (h. p. unatt.), to be Capt., v. W. Jesse, who exchanges. April 6. 39th Foot (Madras), Surg. Sievewright, M. D., 45th Foot, to be Surg., v. Hamilton, who exchanges. April 13. 55th Foot (Madras), Lieut. J. O. Cuffe, h. p., 45th, to be Lieut, v. Walker, appointed to 88th Foot. April 13. 62d Foot (Madras) Capt. O. W. Gray, (Major by Brevet) h. p., 9th, to be Capt, v. Campbell, appointed to 7th Foot. April 13. 11th Light Dragoons (late Bengal), Major H. Fane, 9th Foot, to be Lieut.Col. by purchase, v. Brutton, who retires. April 24. 9th Foot (Bengal), Capt. G. L. Davis, to be Major by purchase, v. Fane, prom. to 11th Light Dragoons. Lieut. A. Harper, to be Capt. by purchase, v. Davis, Ensign C. Elmhirst, to be Lieut. by purchase, v. Harper.` G. Pearson, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, v. Elmhirst. April 24. April 22. Lady Cornwall, Poe, Glasgow, Calcutta. 23. Stag, Burnham, Liverpool, Batavia. 24. Malabar, Southward, Liverpool, Bombay. 25. Ripley, Steward, Liverpool, Culcutta. Java, Jobling, Deal, Madras and Calcutta. Reliance, - Lady Kenna Indemnity, Cape to Calcutta, lat. 3 N. long. 83 E., December 25. Henry and William, from Batavia, lat. 24 S., long. 63 E., January 15. Brig London, of London, lat. 37 N., long. 38 W., March 21. Fortitude, Mauritius to Greenock, lat. 40 N., long. 32 W., March 24. Duke of Northumberland, London, to Madras and Calcutta, lat. 1 S., long. 20 W., February 22. Eliza, Mauritius to London, lat. 14 N., long. 35 W., March 8. Seymour, to Mauritius, lat. 17 S., long. 31 W. Mary Mallaby, London to Mauritius, lat. 5 N., long. 22 W., February 28. Helvellyn, Liverpool to New South Wales, lat. 48 N., long. 10 W., April 9. NAUTICAL INCIDENTS. Chipewa, Greenock to Batavia and Singapore, put into Lochswilly with loss of mizen-masts and boats, having been thrown on her beam ends during a severe gale, on the 20th March, off Inesterhull. Elizabeth, from Bristol to Madras and Calcutta, ran on shore on the evening of 9th January, near Linga Chetty's Choultry, (fifty-seven miles S. of Madras) and lost; crew and passengers saved: cargo expected to be landed with little damage; the water being very shallow, there was no chance of the vessel being got afloat. (See other Particulars, page 432.) Wreck of the Elizabeth-Sale.-The wreck was sold by public auction at Madras, on February 2d, for the ridiculously low price of four hundred and fifty Rupees. This was not from want of buyers, however, as there were many natives present, prepared for the purchase; but the wreck lies so far out, and is so completely broken in pieces that there is little prospect of any part of it being saved. The Wolf was lying off the wreck, making preparation to bring up the remainder of the spars, rigging, figure head, &c., &c., which have been saved by the indefatigable exertions of Captain Stanley and his crew. The Wolf was expected to sail for Madras either on the 3d or 4th February. Ariel, Calcutta clipper, regained Singapore, in a very crippled state, having been nearly lost in the China Sea. (Extract of a Bombay letter, dated 19th Jan.) Duke of Sussex, had suffered considerably, and compelled to bear up for Manila, to refit, about 9th December. (Extract of a Bombay letter, dated 19th Jan.) Sir C. Malcolm, arrived at Singapore (December) leaky; part of the cargo thrown overboard, and expected every minute to take fire, as the smoke and heat up her hatchway were very great. (Extract of a Bombay letter, dated 19th Jan.) Ternate, Bombay to China, bore up for Manila to refit, (December.) Columbian, Singapore to London, put in at Scilly, leaky, 28th January; has been repaired after discharging cargo, and sailed, 30th March, for London; put back 1st April, from contrary winds. Zeuw, Middleburg, from Batavia, struck on the sands named Banyaard, on attempting to enter the Scheldt, and is expected to become a total wreck; very little cargo saved. The Pilot, (an Englishman) missing, (April 11.). Glenisla, London to Cape, was on shore 17th of April at Torsal near Brest, and expected to go to pieces-crew saved. Gledstanes (Whaler), from London, totally lost. (By accounts per Sandwich Islands Gazette to 18th November.) Fire on board the James Colvin.-The Bombay papers of February contain an account from the Sandwich Islands Gazette, of the melancholy loss of the James Colvin, which took fire at sea through the negligence of the cook, who capsized his lamp among some shavings and fat, and neglected to give an alarm. The unfortunate man cut his throat on the discovery of the fire. Captain Maugham and the crew were saved in the Catawha, of Nantucket, Captain Coleman, which fortunately hove in sight at the time. He rendered all possible assistance, and safely landed them at the Sandwich Islands. British Sovereign, Browne, London to Sydney, spoken on 26th February, lat. 3.12 N., long. 18.45 W., had experienced a heavy gale on 23d Jan., had decks swept, lost sails, and nearly dismasted." Eliza, Clark, Mauritius to London, lost anchor and chain cables, and damaged palls of windlass. Margate, 16th April. Sandwich Islands, 18th November.-A sudden fall of the tide to the extent of eight feet had taken place in the Harbour of Hawai, leaving several vessels aground. Theodore, Farringdon, from Singapore, totally lost off the Coast of Luconia; crew saved. 25th November. Elvira, Liverpool to Calcutta, mentioned in our last, as sunk in the Rock channel, has been got up and brought iuto Dock. Emily, Calcutta to London, had put into the Cape for repairs, having sprung |