were not likewise present in Court to conduct their case | been robbed, but Kalloo and his gang behaved like robbers in his.

for them.

The chief Justice, after he had made the requisite inquiry from the clerk of the Crown, and ascertained that the attornies and counsels, both for the prosecution and the defence, were informed that this case would come on to-day, addressed the jury, and said, that it appeared strange to him, after intimation had been given to these attornies and counsels, that this case, would be tried to-day, that they were absent. A message was then des. patched to them to require their attendance, and the jury were desired to await a little.

After a delay of about half an hour the prosecutors' counsel and attorney appeared, and the case was heard. Mr. Pearson said, the prosecutors in this case were arrested on a false allegation of a theft from some accusers and assaulted very roughly. This class of crime is a very great offence to society, and this is very much aggravated by its having been perpetrated by the very persons whose duty it was to prevent the breaches of

the peace.

Re-examined. Prosecutor asked Kalloo and his gang when they entered his house, what they wanted. They made no reply, but seized him. They produced no

warrant on the occasion.

J. McCann deposed, tha the is the deputy superintendent of the police. Complaints of robberies are made either to the magistrates or the superintendent of the police, and the thanadar. Deponent heard no com plaint of a robbery committed in Kolloo Ghose's house on the day the prosecutor's house was searched, until shortly before the prosecutor and his brother were brought in custody to him, He desired the jemader to take them to their father, and take his security to bring them to the police office the next day, to answer to the charge. It is not usual to search a house without a warrant. Deponent would not do it at night, nor would he take a man into custody at that late hour without an oath of the robbery; and if he had taken up person in the condition in which these men were brought up to him, he would have sent them up to a magistrate for trial. He would not be punctilious regarding a search in the day time, if he was sure that stolen property was concealed in the suspected house.

but the counsel for the prosecution submitting that he was bound to answer the question, he said that he had given the jemader authority to search the prosecutor's house. It was a verbal order and not given on any affi davit. The search was to be made in the prosecutor's thakoorbarty, to see if any of the property alleged to have been stolen from Killoo Mulluck's house could be found there, and that if any were found to take the parties into custody. Kalloo Ghose was the complainant on that occasion, and said he suspected these two men as being the thieves. At night the thandar gave him intimation, that a globe lamp had been found under the prosecutor's platform in his house, and jemadars and peons without seeing the persons brought in custody, ordered them to be confined in the town guard. The next day the case was taken up by Mr. Robinson, who, without an investigation, dismissed the charge.

Gooroochand Doss deposed, that he is a bustom, and resided at Hauokhola. Deponent knows the defendant at the bar. The defendant, on the month of Maugh last, at about 8 o'clock P. M., accompanied many other perCaptain Birch deposed, that no person in this matter sons with lighted flambeaux to the prosecutor's house, applied to him for a warraut to either arrest or search and began to search the upper apartinents. Prosecutor their house. He declined at first to answer whether he remained below till the jemadar seut for him and desir-authorized the jemader to search the prosecutor's house; ed prosecutor to deliver up the keys of a chest, the property of this deponent, which they brought out of a room upstairs. The prosecutor replied, that the key was not by him, but at his house in Jorahbagan, and he would go and fetch it. The jemadar would not permit him to go there, but broke the chest open, but could not find any stolen property within it. The jemadar then, at the request of Kallon Ghose, who had brought these persons to his house, took the prosecutor and his brother into custody, and Shoobucamp Shaw having brought a globe which he said he had found under the prosecutor's platfirm, and that it was a portion of the property stolen from the house of his master Kalloo Ghose, prosecutor, was then taken into the street, and he and his brother bound hand in hand, and taken in custody before Mr. McCann, who ordered the jemadar to release them; but the jemadar, after he had consulted with Kalloo Mullack, again bound prosecutor and his brother, and took them to Captain Birch's office; they were then made to wait below, whilst the jemiadar went and spoke to Capt, Birch and then took and confined the prosecutor and his brother in town guard all that night. The next day the charge of theft preferred by Kalloo Mulluck and his servant Soobut, was heard by Mr. C. K. Robinson, the magistrate, and dismissed, and the prosecutor and his brother released by his order.

Cross-examined. Deponent was not then so good a lawyer as now. The deponents, are bound to obey his orders. Deponent did see the lamp. Mr. Robinson did make a preliminary investigation before he discharged the prisoners. They denied the charge against them.

acted illegally, it was Captain Birch, who had given the order for their search; they, therefore, are innocent.

Mr. Cochrane for the defence said, that the prosecutors had not shewn that they were acquitted clearly of the charge Kalloo Mullick had preferred against them. He Cross-examined by Mr. Cochrane. Prosecutor gave next condemned in a very strong terms the practice of similar evidence in this Court, when Kalloo Chand and putting the neighbours and all witnesses in the case into Soobut were tried on this charge and acquitted, and the indictment, and thus deprive the prisoners of all eviso did his brother who is very sick in his house. Kalloo dence; and even if the search was illegal, it was comwas his next door neighbour. He had never heard of mitted by ignorant natives who were bound to obey the Kalloo's house having being robbed. Prosecutor put orders of their superiors on that point, and that they had every person into the indictment who entered his premi-no malicious intention in so doing. If any person had ses. Kalloo was on bad terms which prosecutor. The case against Kalloo and Soobut was very prematurely brought on. Prosecutor had not time to subpoena his witnesses. The bill was found one day and the case called on the next. The prosecutor, his brother, Mr. MeCann and Mr. Robinson, were the only persons examined on that occasion, and none of his servants. Here the prosecutor named the persons who were present on the occasion. One of them has died subsequently; but prosecutor has subpoenaed the rest. Mr. McCann's order to the jemadar was to deliver prosecutor and his brother to the care of his father. Prosecutor's brother was in attendance in this Court till yesterday, when he

The judge then summed up the case, detailed the evidence, and commented on it, and said, that if the prosecutor's evidence is to be credited, the assault has been proved, and the prisoners have proved no justifi. cation. It is true that they searched he house by the or der of Captain Birch; but Captain Birch himself had no power to order a search unless it was deligated to him by the magistrate, and thus, if the prosecutor is to be believed, and his testimony is uncontradicted, the jury must find the prisoners guilty, and it is for the judge to decide the nature of the punishment on the merits of the

The jury found all the prisoners guilty; and the judge, judge, to be applied by him in relieving the distresses of as the prisoners had acted under the orders of Captain the sufferers by the late storm at Rungpore or ChinBirch, and could not discern that these order were ille-greehutta in the 24-Pergunnahs, and the amount was gal, but were bound to obey them, mitigated their immediately sent by the sheriff's office to Mr. Patton offece, he inflicted on them the slightest punishment pos- under the directions of Captain Vint, the Foreman. sible. They were fined 100 rupees each and ordered to be discharged.-Hurkaru, April 28.

TUESDAY, THE 3D OF MAY, 1838.

The Lunacy Case.

J. H. PATTON, Esq.

Magistrate, 24- Pergunnahs.

SIR, I have the pleasure to inclose the sum of 262 rupees, being the jury allowance in a case of lunacy of the 3d instant, which my brother jurymen requested me A commission of lunacy sat this-day at the Supreme to forward you as their foreman, to be distributed Court house to enquire into the lunacy of Baboo Sree-amongst the unfortunate suffers in Chingry Guttas nauth Sandail, a supposed lunatic. The commissiouers village, &c. were Richard Marnell, Esq. and W. P. Grant, Esq. counsel for the commission, C. R. Prinsep, Esq., Attorney Mr. P. Peard. The following jurors were chosen

and sworn:

George Vint, Esq. Foreman; D. M. Gordon; G. A. Prinsep.; W. F. Gibbon; J. Colquhoun; J. S. Kellsad; A. D'Souza; C. Fagan; W. Mackenzie; J. B. Scott, Esq.; Carrapit Jacob: Rajah Dabeekissen; Baboos Oboychurn Bonneerjee and Promothonauth Day.

The witnesses called and examined were Drs. H. S Mercer and Walter Raleigh, A bearer named Gocool and a kansamah called Proncase, were stopped by the jury, who unanimously gave the following verdict: That Sreenauth Sandial was of unsound mind, and had been so for about three years past, and did not enjoy lucid intervals, so that he was incapable of managing his own affairs; and with regard to the amount of his property no evidence was tendered to them. The jury then adjourned to Saturday, the 15th instant, to meet and sign the inquisition. The gentleman of the jury then directed that all fees coming to them and partly to the commissioners, amounting in all to company's ru pees 262; should be forthwith sent to Mr. Patton, the

May 5, 1838.

I remain, your most obediently,
(Signed)

(No. 183.)

GEORGE VINT.

Calcutta.

TO GEORGE VINT, ESQ. SIR, I have to thank you, and your brother-jurymen, for your donation of 262 rupees intended to be devoted to the relief of the sufferers from the late storm, and heg to inform you that your wishes shall be attended to the best of my ability; a receipt in duplicate for the amount is herewith annexed.

I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

J. H. PATTON, Magistrate. Zillah, 24-Pergunnahs, the 5th May, 1868. Received from G. Vint, Esq., a donation of 262 rupees intended to be devoted to the relief of the sufferers from the late storm. J. H. PATTON, Magistrate.

Hurk. May 7.]

ZILLAH 24-PERGUNNAHS FOUJDARRY.

BARRASET, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1838.

charged with the assault, were at the time it was alleged to have occurred in attendance at the judge's Court at Allipore, at the hearing of Mahommed Ameer versus McPherson, Both cases were appealed by the Moonshee's people and pending their issue, the offenders were

released on bail.

(Before E. Deedes, Esq., Joint-Magistrate.) Mr. McDougall, the grantee, appeared this-day, accompanied by Mr. Dias to inform the magistrate that he found it impossible to continue his residence at, or Mr. Dias informed the magistrate, that his client had cultivation of the lands granted to him by the state in come to lodge an information against Moonshee Mathe Soonderbuns for the constant annoyance and distur-hommed Ameer, the zemindar Bycanto Paul, the Gobances created by the people of the zemindar of Khas Ballundah. Mr. McDougall stated, that the zemindar's people had in a couple of hours destroyed a thatched house erected by him at considerable expense and trouble, and that the daring character of some of the attacks made him apprehensive of his life.

A similar representation was made by both Messrs. McPherson and McDougall to Mr. Commissioner Dampier a short time ago, and that gentleman immediately sent an official letter to the joint magistrate, requesting him, under the provisions of Regulation 111. of 1828, to protect the grantees from the attacks and practices of the zemindars. Two cases were pending at this time at the Foujdarry of Baraset, the one against the zamindar's people for stealing away and destroying several cocoanut plants, and the other against a sircar and other in the employ of Mr. McDougall for an alledged assault. In the former case the delinquents were sentenced, and the latter fell to the ground for the want of evidence. To our knowledge the latter case was a conspiracy sup

mashtah, Mudden Mozumdar, the Fehsuldar, and two Burkandazes. Mr. Dias said he would prepare Mr. Mc Dougall's affidavits and file it before Mr. Deedes as a justice of the peace and magistrate, and he believed that the court would have no alternative but to issue war. rants for the parties and oblige them to find bail for their future good conduct.

A native sircar-looking gentleman, here stepped forward and addressing the magistrate said, " is not that sort of man, that will be brought here on such my master an affidavit."

The following insolence was soon put a stop to by the magistrate telling him, that if he repeated his impertinence, he would let him feel the consequences of it, and that if he felt dissatisfied with any of the proceedings, he had his remedy by appeal to the superior Court. The magistrate then desired Mr. Dias to prepare the affidavit, on which being done, and on Mr. McDougall being sworn to it, writs were granted against the zemindar and

MOONGHYR.

Resumption of Toufeer and Waste Lands in Purgunnah tuppahs and mouzas included in the muhals, that these

Furkea.

papers exhibit the aggregate of the estimated profits of four years, whereby a scale of jumma was formed for the levying of an excess to the revenue of former settle ments,-that the sayer collections were taken away, and proportionate deductions were allowed them; that there is not a a single mouza included in the tuppahs, nor any description of land that has at any time been exempt from the assessment, and jumma fixed by the perpetual settlement, that they support their objections on the provisions of regulations 1. and VIII. of 1793, and the circular letter of the 22d May, 1818, in this particular; that all descriptions of land and mouzas whatsoever included within the boundaries of the tuppahs, as above settled in perpetuity, are unquestionably their rightful property, and can on no account be claimable by Go vernment, and that the present measures of Govern. ment can be regarded in no other point of view than as the exhibition of an unjustifiable design of infringing on, and rendering the permanent settlement at once nugatory. 24. Another argument used in support of the resumptions is the absence of any recorded jumma attached to the resumed mouzas and lands, in the column of jumma of the quinquennial register compiled in 1202 of the Fuslee year. This argument they rebut by observing, that the tuppuhs, and mouzas were perpetually settled in the Fuslee year 1179, at which period those

The resumption operations in this purgunnah have been nearly brought to a close, resulting, we are sure very much to the satisfaction of Government. The set tlements made with the zemindars and others for the land that has been resumed out of the old estates or muhals, show a considerable addition of revenue; and, which will progressively increase, till the close of the several terms for which the leases have been granted. The attempts of Government to procure an enhance ment of revenue from the old muhals necessarily created great dissatisfaction among the zemindars at whose cost the increase was to have been induced; and when we examine the nature of the objections advanced by some of them, we are uavoidably led to question the right of Government to encroach upon the possessions of land-holders on any consideration whatsoever, not supported by the argument of pressing exigencies either of unavoidable foreign war, or general urgent measures to be adopted for the improvement of the country, em. bracing the benefit collectively of both the zemindars themselves and the people at large. The latter, we readily allow, may be prosecuted in a thousand very interesting and extensive channels of desirable improvement; but the former cannot, in the present posture of political affairs, be justified in any point of view. The ex-registers were not in existence; that they were embocess in the former agrarain demands, however, has been died on data furnished by the kanoongoes, to which laid; the resumptions are progressing; the resources of preparation of them they, the zemindars, were not Government are being multiplied; the waste lands are parties, and therefore were not able to check the put in the way of improvement (a very desirable thing inaccuracies that abound in them; that as these reno doubt); and the zemindars have sighed, wept, gisters were not in being at the time of the settlement, bothered, and bestirred themselves to no purpose, their rights, supported by section VII. of regulation I. as it respects saving themselves from the aggressions of and several sections of regulation VIII. of 1793 canthe exchequer, into which, ere long, some forty or fifty not be justifiably impugned, with a view to the intruthousand rupees, will flow from purgunnah Furkeea sion of the claims of Government to lands lying within alone. We could here suggest, that if the advantage the land-marks of the tuppubs and mouzas settled in of the people has been made the basis of the fresh ex-perpetuity before the quinquennial register was formed, actions made from the Furkea zemindars, the additional profits thus secured should, at least, every third year, be appropriated exclusively to the local improvement of that pergunnah; some of which we here briefly point Bunds or embankments are very much required to prevent the inundations from the Gunduk, the waters of which, singularly enough, seldom make any productive deposits, while they interrupted the cultivations, and deprive the people of one of the best crops. Roads are very much wanted, sources of artificial irrigation are urgently and absolutely required, and, above all, a more respectable and efficient police is imperiously called for here, as well as in all the other parts of the country. If the people are made to add to the resources of the state, the latter should, in return, use its diligence to add to their comforts, safety, and prosperity. The arguments generally made use of by the zemindars in support of their objections to the resumption proceeding, have been from time to time put into our possession, and as they are usually of the same kind, we here furnish a brief exposé of them as lately submitted to Government by Raja Biddanund and his son Koomar Roodranund, zemindars of portions of this purgunnah.

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1st. That one of the arguments used to warrant the resumption is that the resumed mouzas were not included in the famous decennial or perpetual settlement on account of their having been mere waste lands at the time. Against which position they urge that, at that time the papers of settlement did not specify the quantity of land comprehended within the area of the several

that these registers comprise no part of the records of the perpetual settlement, a circumstance which in a peculiar manner renders them unauthentic, especially as they do not correspond with the substance and provisions of the puttahs and kubooleuts mutually interchanged on the occasion. In proof of this they cite the following instance: Tuppah Jumal poor, &c. is recorded in the said register, as assessed at Rs 1,055. 5as. and 10gs. whereas, the amount of assessment specified in the puttah and kaboleut is Rs 12,429 12as. Again: tuppahs Rehooa and Sehuzaree, &c in the register is stated to be assessed at Rs 6,949 3as. but the amount entered in the pottah and kaboleut is Rs 8,200 10as. 8gs. Hence the spurious nature of the source of the formation of these registers is undeniably evident, that in the settlement books of 1197 Fusley, jummas are attached to each mouza individually, consequently the argument herewith contested is not founded on act, that if any portion, or the whole of the lands comprising the estates of the zemindars had been discovered to be waste at the time of the compilation of the quinquennial register, that circumstance could only serve to prove that the zemiadars, and not the Government, must have been subject to losses, from their having been unproductive; that nevertheless they have always faithfully discharged the demands of Government exacted from those very lands, which were included in the perpetual settlement, and that they have proved by respectable corroborative evidence, that the resumed lands were in a state of cultivation, before, at the time, and after a perpetual settlement.

the commencement of the execution of the resumption proceedings, have upheld by their representives in the constituted courts of the country.

3d A further argument used is, that they support their objections by two things. 1st. Fysulas of the civil court, grounded on regulation XIV. of 1835; and 2dly. That the settlement made with them does not make any But particular justice from us is due to the public distinction between cultivated and waste lands. These objections are controverted by the assertion that the officer of Government under whom the resumptions have awards of the civil courts cannot abstract the investi. been carried on in purgunnah Furkeea. We allude to gation of the rights of Government. The petitioners the Hon'ble Mr. Drummond, with whom we have, in the way of our humble calling, seldom come in contest. contest that positively, citing various legal proceedings That this officer has acquitted himself, in the execution successively instituted in various courts, Mofussil, Appeal, and Sudder Dewanny, at the close of all of which of his peculiarly trying duties to the satisfaction of the claims of Government were explicitly declared to be Government, nobody will deny, after the result of the resumptions has exhibited a large amount of revenue illegal, with reference to laying fresh juinma on the ma-added to the coffers of the state. That he could, neverhals included in the perpetual settlement; that the par-theless, have given satisfaction to the zemindars, nobody ties were peaceably put in possession of the lands at-will be willing to credit, but we state it with pleasure tempted to be resumed, and that all these decisions were conformable to regulation 11. of 1819, XIV. of 1825, as a matter of fact. Such, generally speaking, really is and sections XXII. and xvI. of regulation III. 1793.

4th. Another argument started in support of the resumption is, that the regulations and the letters quoted by the zemindars, were only applicable to such mouzas as have been assessed by Government, and not to the waste lands. They contend that the settlements were made for pergunnahs without a specification of tuppahs, for tuppahs without a detail of mouzas; and mouzas without recorded rukba; consequently, all sorts of lands cultivated or waste, had been included in them, and therefore they indisputably belong to them.

reverse.

the case.

We have had opportunities of conversing with many of the landholders concerned (much against their will, no doubt, originally) in the resumptions, and have from them obtained the following facts: That Mr. Drummond had decided upwards of two hundred disputed cases, of which only nine had been appealed to the higher authorities; but of which seven had been confirmed, leaving just two, in which his decision had been overruled. We have met with only two or three of the zemindars who seemed to be much dissatisfied with the result of Mr. Drummond's proceedings; but even they have been constrained to admit that in the decision of the rest of the cases justice had been done, since he was acting accord5th. It is further urged in support of the Govermenting to the orders of his superiors, and guiding his resumptions, that the village amla of the zemindars measures by the regulations of Government. We are themselves had pointed out the lands resumed as lying no panegyrists, it will be allowed without controversy; beyond the limits of the mouzas assessed at the time of but here we cannot refuse to do justice. We have before the perpetual settlement. This argument, they say is, us the testimony of nearly a whole body of zemindars not founded in fact, for they flatly deny that their amla acknowledging that, whatever they might have to could possibly have done any such thing, since they urge against the aggressive and arbitrary measures of knew that the truth of the matter was directly the Government, as they denominate them, they, with the exception of one or two captious individuals, conspire to represent Mr. Drummond as conducting his proceedings in the most impartial, cool and deliberate manner; readily admitting of remissions; correctly estimating the capabilities of the lands to be assessed; and rather erring on the side of concession than aggression. We are unchangeable in our opinion that the execution of the important functions vested in the younger branch, 7th. For an argument, that the perpetual settlement especially, of the service, are improperly regulated; and did not comprehend all the mouzas individually, they that but a very small number of them are fit to be urge that their pattas, and the kaboleuts expressly entrusted with them. The exceptions are discovered The world but scantily knows mention mouzas numerically detailed (with the col-accidentally, as it were. lective jumma levied on them) comprehended in the what is transpiring on the Mofussil. It is our province several estates they refer to. They comprised in all to search-we have done so; we have, we trust, honestly 207 mouzas uslee and dakhilee; assessed at a total given them their dues. We could have lifted up a jumma of 22,262 rupees and 12 annas. And these were finger at Mr. Drummond, but we drop it when we are all perpetually settled. called upon by the concurring voices of the zemindars of Furkeea to say that they have been satisfied with in his public capacity. We hope that Government will, ere long, prove that it is not indifferent to the expression of the sentiments of the people over whom they have set generally very incompetent officers for the distribution of justice, when such instances as the one we now usher into the light, are by the people (though unknown to themselves) brought to their notice.-Hurkaru, April 14.

6th. Under this head they object to the argument that they cannot support their caveat by any trustworthy document, by insisting upon it that they have submitted many of a very respectable and authentic nature, on the strength of which they urge that the claims of Government should be set aside.

Thus far we have very briefly represented the arguments pro and con of the resumption operations, but cannot spare time to enter at any length into the respective merits of the question as mooted by the contending parties. Let it suffice to intreat Government to hold in one hand the sceptre of mercy, while with the broom in the other, they sweep away any of those rights which they have themselves created, and till the moment of

MISCELLANEOUS.

Towards Taultollah and Cullingah, where the cholera had about a fortnight or three weeks ago been most prevalent, it has become very mild; so that the medical students placed in those two thannas, have been withdrawn as having little or nothing to do. But it is now raging with virulence in the northern parts of the town, which are chiefly inhabited by Hindoos, as appears in the above memorandum.

DISCHARGE OF AN ENTIRE THANNA ESTABLISHMENT.

The whole establishment of the Baug Bazar thanna,
namely the thannadar, the naibs, and all the chokeedars
attached thereto, were, the other day, discharged for a
gross neglect of duty, of which, however, we have not
been able to learn the particulars. It is stated that a
robbery had lately taken place in their division, of pro-
which they
perty worthy about eleven hundred rupees,
had kept a secret from their superior.

JUDICIAL

APPOINTMENT.-William Patrick Grant, Esquire, the son of Sir J. P. Grant, has been, through his father's interest, appointed to the vacant office of Master in Equity.

MR. WILLIAM RUSHTON.-The following well merited tribute, has been paid by the editor of the Englishman to Mr. William Rushton :

"Our readers have doubtless noticed an advertisement

announcing that Mr. William Rushton, in conjunction with other parties, is about to commence business on his own account as a book-seller, stationer and printer.

As this measure necessarily involves the dissolution of the connexion hitherto subsisting between Mr. Rushton and the Englishman establishment, to the extent, as least, of his duties as printer and publisher, we think it incumbent on us to offer him a public farewell, and to express our hearty good wishes for the complete pros. perity of his new undertaking. For five years we have experienced from Mr. Rushton the most active and zealous co-operation in the performance of duties of which no one but ourselves can fully understand the difficulty-no one thoroughly appreciate the mental and bodily labor,-because no one was ever required to at tempt them in this place before. Our readers may remember when every week, nay almost, every day, brought its meeting of angry creditors of fallen houses.of steam projectors, ice projectors, library projectors, free press advocates, civil jury clamourers, bank act petitioners, &c. &c; when every Saturday produced its Insolvent Court rife with interesting and intricate proceedings-when every term yielded an infinity of cases springing from the commercial bouleversement of 1833, Many of our supporters will also recollect when an overland packet was a rarity, and never to the calculated upon, and when, in consequence, the arrival of a Liverpool or Bordeaux ship was an event anxiously watched for, as likely to put us in possesion of the latest news from home. It was during those periods of editorial difficulty that we felt the great value of Mr. Rushton's unwearied industry and friendly zeal. Day after day might be be seen at the court-house or the town-hall, diligently reporting the speeches, the judgments and the embarrassing' desultory conversations,' for which all kinds of meetings were then distinguished; and anon, as if gifted with the spririt of ubiquity, he was away down the river in the lighest of beauliahs to meet the latest arrival,' telegraphed but a few minutes previously, returning with her (to us) greatest treasure, the latest papers, and creating an extra' while our contemporaries asleep! These were services the value of which we have been reaping for the two past years; and though an alteration in the character of a journalist's labors enables us now to dispense in some measure with Mr. Rushton's further aid, we cannot forget what we owe to his great energy, activity, prudence and integrity, or deny ourselves the gratification of paying a public tribute to his worth.

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As the sole proprietor and editor of the Oriental Ob server Mr. Rushton continues the publication and ma nagement of that excellent periodical, but his general printing and stationary establishment is a new undertaking altogether, and, in our opinion, a very great desideratum in this town. We hope he will receive very extensive patronage, for if ever honest man deserved support, he certainly does.

HEALTH IN THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION.-It is considered very strange that the state of health in the House of Correction should be so different, from the remainder of the town and its suburbs. While cholera and small-pex are raging in a frightful manner beyond its walls, not a single case of any of these scourges has occurred within them. There are now about a hundred and fifty pri soners in it, and some fourteen or fifteen of them, only, are afflicted with a slight fever.

THE PRETENDED RAJA OF BURDWAN.-It is said, that the soi-disant Rajah of Burwan, has been rauging about