and sat down to breakfast, to the number of nearly 200, the garrison band playing at intervals. Nearly at the conclusion of the break fast, Mr. Newnham, who had been solicited to take the chair on this interesting occasion, rose, and with great feeling addressed the Archdeacon as follows: "Archdeacon Barnes. The address, Sir, which I have the honour to hold in my and, I have been requested to present to you in the name of the numerous persons whose signatures are affixed to it-in the name of this numerous and respectable meeting, rendered more interesting by the presence of so many of your female friends, and in the name, I may say, of every virtuous and good person, who, throughout your extensive ministration, has had the happiness to listen to the pure precepts which have fallen from your lips, and to admire the virtues of your private life, in which you have forcibly shewn us how easy and consistent is the practical observance of the moral duties you have taught us, with the occupations, the cares, the happiness, and the comforts of the world. "Warm indeed are the gratitude, the affection, and esteem which will accompany you on your departure, and great indeed is our regret at parting with you, but the pain of separation is alleviated by the recollection that you are returning in health and the prime of life to the bosom of your family and of your friends, and to that happy country to which we all wish to follow you. Whilst we remain, we shall remember with veneration and respect, the virtues of Archdeacon Barnes, and when we also shall have left this country, sufficient will remain to perpetuate the remembrance of your goodness with the same feelings in our successors. "I cannot, Sir, add any thing to the expressions contained in this address, without the fear of detracting from their force; but, under the feelings created by your last beautiful and impressive discourse, I trust it will be allowed me to express a hope that if it should please you to accede to one of the requests contained in the address, you will allow that discourse to be published also for our instruction, and that it may occasionally revive in us the recollection of your last affectionate admonitions. "Before I read the address, I trust I shall be pardoned in expressing the pride and satisfaction which I feel in being selected as the organ of conveying to you the farewell address of so respectable a community. With a slight intermission, I have been resident here with you from your first arrival in Bombay: I have lived with you on terms of friendship and intimacy, and shall ever be proud to be numbered among your warmest admirers. "With your permission, Sir, I will now read the address. To the Venerable George Barnes, D.D. Archdeacon of Bombay. Venerable and Dear Sir: We, the undersigned, cannot permit you to leave Bombay, without manifesting to you our respect and esteem. It is impossible to think of your departure without regret, but that regret is much softened by knowing that you are returning in health to your family and native country; and we hope it will be some source of delight to you, to be assured by this address of the affectionate regard for your character with which your amiable manners and cheerful piety have inspired us. We shall indeed feel your loss, and it will be our earnest endeavour, at our charitable, religious, and other Institutions, to follow the example which you have set us, in the foundation, the encouragement, and the management of those societies, the records of which will perpetuate your talents, your zeal, and your success. You have now lived among us for more than eleven years, and of the persons elected to compose the Hierarchy which was established at the time of your arrival by the wisdom of the legislature: you alone have survived to feel and to bear witness in England to its beneficial results. It will be no unworthy pride for you and your children to cherish the remembrance of the public admiration and private friendship which your conduct in your high office has produced. Its novelty in India, and the delicacy of its duties, were calculated to have appalled a man of more advanced age and greater experience; but your learning, your good sense, and the kindliness of your disposition, have to a wonderful degree reconciled all difficul ties. It will not we trust, he unwelcome to you, that we express our desire of possessing some memorial of the pure theology which we have so many times heard delivered by you from the pulpit and we warmly solicit, that you will select a number of your excellent discourses, in order that they may be printed for the benefit of ourselves and of our latest posterity, and prove permanent incentives to virtue, piety, and true religion. There is also one other request which we intreat you not to refuse. The Charity Schools, in a great measure instituted by your zeal, and fostered ever by your patronage and influence, are no longer matter of promise. They have realised the hopes of the most sanguine. We are anxious to place your portrait in your professional robes in one of those schools and we hope you will allow it to be painted and engraved by the best artists, so that an impression of it may form a frontispiece to the volume of your sermons. We shall ever pray continually for your happiness-and if it shall please Provi dence dence to enlarge in your native land, the sphere of your piety and usefulness in your holy ministration, we are persuaded, that you will not forget the smaller circle of the public which admired you in Bombay, and your private friends, who can cease only with life to revere and esteem your memory. We are your sincere and affectionate friends, (Signed) FRANCIS WARDEN, and a long list of signatures. The Archdeacon, who stood while Mr. Newnham read the address, though much affected, and occasionally interrupted by his feelings, spoke at some length, but circumstances do not enable us to record so full an account of the sentiments he expressed as we could wish. He felt, he said, that he had need of their indulgence, from his inability to reply adequately to such a kind and flattering address, oppressed as he was by the further consideration, that this was the day of his separation from their society-that no ordinary tone of acknowledgment was due for what was no ordinary testimony of affectionate regard; and though he could not suppose that the expressions were literally applicable to him, but heightened by the colouring of a flattering partiality, yet they were scarce the less acceptable to him, for next to our own conscience, the highest gratification is the testimony of those with whom we have been connected, and for whom we entertain sincere regard and esteem. He felt this, as a testimony not only of private regard, but as an acknowledgment from a considerate and religious people, of thankfulness for instruction in the most important concerns of life, however humble the individual by whom it was administered. "With regard to the Education Society, I have indeed felt a lively interest in its well-doing, but my merit has been only that of giving a direction to the feeling of the settlement. Great acknowledgment was here due to Mr. Elphinstone; for however happy this government had been under the Presidence of a man high in literary attainment, and with liberal and enlightened views of policy, yet he would ever be remembered as the protector of education, and the happiness arising from moral instruction and integrity of principle, which form the basis of political greatness. To Sir Charles Colville too, the steady friend of the institution, much is owing; for, recorded as he is in the brightest page of our history in fighting the battles of his country, he will carry home with him the consciousness that he has studied also, and effectually promoted, the comfort and the morals of the soldier, and lent his assistance. in improving the lower order of Europeans. But yet most is due to the Society for their munificent contributions, their attention to the charity, the impartiality and economy of their direction. I leave the institution in your hands, confident, as long as it shall be conducted with the same unanimity and judgment, the orphan will never want your support." The Archdeacon observed that he would readily comply with their kind request that he would sit for his picture—and if, he added, it shall remind you of him who now stands before you, let it remind you of one who has studied to promote your most important interests, and who will retain to bis latest hour an affectionate remembrance of you. "Your kind request respecting my sermons is indeed more embarrassing; for I know the responsibility attached to literary productions; and though criticism may be disarmed by the occasion, yet in the expositions which I may print, the most awful responsibility is involved, on points concerning which you and I may one day be called to give an account. Yet I will comply; and in the leisure of my voyage endeavour to make them more worthy of your perusal; and if they shall afford comfort to any individual, my end and your end will be answered. "You wish me happiness in the land of my birth, to which we all hope to return. Attachment to our native country involves attachment to all that is good and perfect, and is to be encouraged, not from a mere love of soil, not from romantic feelings towards the scenes of our earlier days—but as possessing all that is excellent in public, and all that is lovely in private life; and I am persuaded that there is no greater security for universal usefulness, than a jealousy for the honour of England, and a regard for British feelings and for British principles. But strong as is my attachment to my native land; dear as are the ties which bind me to it; I feel I have strong and dear ties here; and if I carry with me the good opinion and good wishes of the society of this place, I beseech you to believe I leave with you my sincerest wishes and prayers for your health and prosperity, and whatever a merciful Providence may think most expedient for you." The company shortly afterwards broke up, and in the course of the day the Arch. deacon proceeded on board the James Sibbald, which was soon under weigh for England. In addition to the above expression of the feelings of the society at large, we have much pleasure in communicating to the public, that the clergy of this Archdeaconry have resolved to present the venerable Archdeacon Barnes with a piece of plate, value 100 guineas, as a mark of their affectionate regard for him as their ecclesiastical superior, and that they have unanimously agreed upon the following inscription : Presented VICOMTE DE RICHEMONT. His Excellency the Viscount Richemont, ambassador from the Court of France, and nephew to his most Christian Majesty's prime minister, arrived at Damaun on the 12th November, being invested with various commissions regarding the colonial and mercantile interests of France. On his entering the fort, he was saluted by the infantry, and park of artillery, with a discharge of nineteen guns from the batteries; and was received in the principal hall by the governor, and all the heads of departments, civil and military. After dinner, the governor proposed the health of the King of France the Viscount that of the King of Portugal. The healths of the prime minister of France, the Viscount, the Governor of Bombay, and the Governor-general of India were then drank. At night a splen did ball was opened by his Excellency and Madame Nogar, after which the company partook of an elegant supper, and the party broke up at 3 o'clock. [Bomb. Cour. Nov. 30. BRIDGE AT BARODA. The beautiful bridge which Captain Waddington is building for his Highness the Guicowar is nearly finished, the centrings removed, and no sinking of the arch. Fourteen elephants, which came from the villages whither they had been sent to pasture, went over the bridge on their road to the city, when sent for to swell the pageantry of the Gunputty Festival. This occurrence was of course little regarded either by Capt. W. or his friends, but it had a marvellous effect in comforting the minds of the natives, who could not look without apprehension at the airy lightness of the classic arch, so widely differing from their ideas of the solid strength requisite for such constructions. It is a most elegant specimen of English taste and English science, and interesting as a mark of his Highness's consideration for the comfort of his subjects in general, the British cantonment in particular; since, without this bridge, the communication betwixt the camp and the city was difficult, and often dangerous, through the rainy months.-Bom. Cour. Asiatic Journ. Vol. XXI. No. 125. BIBLE SOCIETY. On the 24th ult. the annual meeting of the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society was held, when the seventh report was read. It appeared from the report, that during the last two years the society rendered assistance in printing translations of the scriptures in the Marhatta and Goojurattee languages. Many copies have been dispersed among the people who' speak the former language in Bombay and the neighbouring country. In the schools established by missionaries, the scriptures are read daily. An edition of some parts of the scriptures in Marhatta is now in the press. The first edition of the New Testament in Goojurattee has been nearly all dispersed, and a second edition will soon be undertaken. A great part of the Old Testament in Goojurattee has also been distributed, and some parts of it are read with considerable interest. Many copies have been distributed in Hindoo stanee, Portuguese, Armenian, and Ara bic. The total number of copies issued from the depository, during the last two years, is 5,812 of the whole or parts of the Old Testament, and 5,366 copies of the New, or of separate parts of it. From the formation of the society to the present time, 16,607 copies of the Old and New Testaments have been distributed.-Bom. Cour. Oct. 8. SCHOOL SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the Native School and School-Book Society was held on Wednesday last, at the new schoolroom, on the verge of the Esplanade, the hon. the Governor in the chair. The meeting was attended by the Judges of the assemblage of European gentlemen and Supreme Court, and by a considerable of the principal native inhabitants. After several resolutions connected with the prosperity and progress of the institution, an examination of the pupils in the English and Mahratta languages, and in arithmetic, took place, which spoke much of the zeal and assiduity with which it had in favour of the system of education, and been conducted. After the examination, prizes were distributed to those pupils who had made the most rapid progress, and presents were at the same time made to the different masters, all of whom appeared to have given satisfaction to the managers of the institution,-Bom. Cour. Oct. 1. SICKNESS. We are sorry to state that considerable sickness has prevailed in several districts of Guzerat. At Baroda and Kaira few of the officers have escaped attacks of remittent and intermittent fevers. At Mhow the European horse and foot artit4 O lery lery had suffered a good deal from similar attacks. The epidemic cholera has been prevalent in several parts of Kattywar and Cutch, and some fatal cases had occurred among the troops which left Bombay, both during the voyage, and after their landing at Mandavie.-Bom. Cour. Oct. 29. Among those who have fallen victims to fever, we are extremely sorry to mention the name of Capt. Remon, an officer distinguished on account of his ardent zeal and high professional acquirements, which he has, on many occasions, had opportunities of displaying in the field. His private worth had gained him a large circle of sincerely attached friends, who will long lament his loss. Bom. Gaz. Nov. 24. THE SINDIANS. The Sindian cavalry are mounted on various descriptions of horses. The tattoo, or pony, is, however, the most common: numbers are seen on mules; and from the Ameer to the beggar, a camel is in use. The horses are not adapted to form good cavalry, for they are generally heavy in the forehand, a fault which is increased to such a degree by the ambling pace to which they are universally trained, as to render it difficult to urge them to a gallop. Their matchlock men are excellent, and are trained to the use of this weapon from their infancy. The pay of a Sindee soldier, calculating at the rate at which he receives grain, may amount to 2 rupees per month, or perhaps a trifle more, with additional allowance when on actual service. Unlike other countries, Sind has few or no fortified places, the attack of which might retard the motions of an invading army. The few forts that are to be met with are extremely insignificant; and although there are some strong natural positions on the western bank of the Indus, it has never been the policy of the government, in similar cases, to defend them; for indeed to do so, the fertile country must become an easy prey to the enemy. The custom hitherto has been, for the people of Sind to fly with their property to the desert, where they remain in perfect safety under the protection of the desert tribes. Vakeels, we understand, have arrived in Bombay from Hyderabad, and we believe there is not the slightest chance of hostile measures being resorted to, though perhaps a larger force than formerly will be permanently stationed on the Sind frontier. The state of Sind is perfectly independent of us, nor do any treaties exist that we know of between the two governments. It formerly paid a certain tribute to the Cabul government, which is now exacted by Ranjeet Sing, and paid with much reluctance by the Ameers, but who feel that they want the power to assert their independence.-Bom. Cour. Dec. 17. NATIVE ADDRESS TO GOVERNOR ELPHINSTONE. A copy of the following address from the Native Community of Bombay to the Governor, expressive of their grateful sense of his liberality and exertions to relieve the inhabitants from distress during the last dry season, by digging wells and opening new banks, has been forwarded for insertion in the Asiatic Journal, at the request of the natives of Bombay-we insert it with pleasure. "To the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone, President in Council, Bombay." "Hon. Sir:-Deeply impressed at all times, with a sense of gratitude for the benefits which, during your administration and that of the present members of your honourable Board, have been conferred on all classes of the inhabitants of Bombay, so creditable to the name of the British government, we, the undersigned, beg more particularly on the present occasion (having been blessed by the high Providence with a favourable season of rain, and expecting a most abundant crop of all descriptions of grain) to offer you our sincere and grateful acknowledgments for your most munificent and charitable exertions in providing against the want of water during the last dry season. "The kindness of your disposition, which makes you beloved by all; the obliging condescension which leads you to attend, with the greatest readiness, to the wishes and applications of those under you; but above all, the noble liberality with which you patronize every public institution for the good of the country, need not now any mention from us; they are engraved on our breasts, and they will be associated in the minds of our children with those institutions, which must remain as a memorial of their founder. "But the more immediate benefits which we have just experienced, as well individually as collectively, who compose so great a proportion of the population of this island, call forth the most lively sentiments of gratitude; and we are therefore constrained by every good feeling, to offer you our humble tribute of thanks. Permit us to express our gratitude for the benefits we lately experienced by the opening of the sally port through the ramparts, which has been so useful to the inhabitants of the port, in getting water both by day and night; and, also, by the opening of the wells in every part of the island where it was probable they could be of service; and likewise in the construction of the new tanks, and in improving and repairing the old ones; which benevolent steps have saved the inhabitants from considerable distress. "Such acts as these, at all times considered as the most charitable in this part of the world, permit us to assure you, are particularly at this period appreciated as they ought to be by all classes of our fellow subjects; and with every sentiment of esteem for your justice and liberality, and with every good wish for your prosperity, and that you may continue long to administer the government of this island, we beg to subscribe ourselves, with the greatest respect, honourable sir, Your most grateful, Devoted and obedient servants, "Hormanjee Bomanjee "Rugganath Sunkersett Cursetjee Ardeseer Jahangeer Ardeser Madowdass Runchordass Davidass Herjeewandass Vethoba Kanorjee Nagurdass Herjee Moo- raz Latha Rhanjee Cajee Mahomedally Bombay, 31st Oct. 1825. SHIPPING. Arrivals. Oct. 10. Britannia, Bourchier, from London.12. Cambridge, Barber, from London.-Nov. 12. John Biggar, Blair, from Liverpool.-Ceres, Warren, and Hannah, Shepherd, both from London. -14. Maitland, Studd, from London.-27. Cambrian, Clarkson, from China.-30. Alfred, Lamb, from China.-Dec. 8. Sarah, Tucker, from London.-12. Upton Castle, Thacker, from London. Departures. Nov. 8. Dorothy, Garnock, for Liverpool.-15. James Sibbald, Forbes, for London.-20. Britannia, Bourchier, for London.-Dec. 4. Cambridge, Barber, for London.-7. John Biggar, Blair, for Liverpool.-19. Hannah, Shepherd, for London. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. Sept. 20. At Broach, the lady of W. Stubbs, Esq., acting judge, of a son and heir. Oct. 6. At Vaux's Tomb, near Surat, the lady of Maj. C. S. Whitehill, 10th N.I., of a son. 17. The lady of Lieut. R. H. H. Fawcett, 18th N.I., of a son.. 22. At Baroda, the lady of Capt. W. K. Lester, commissary of stores, B. S. F., of a son. 24. The lady of Lieut. G. W. Blachley, 14th N.I., of a son. Nov. 10. Mrs. Briggs, of a daughter. At Colabah, Mrs. W. J. Marshall, of a son. 19. The lady of Lieut. W. Macdonald, H.C.'s marine, of a son. 21. The lady of Lieut. D. W. Fraser, H. H. the Nagpore Rajah's service, of a daughter. 23. In the fort, Mrs. J. J. Fernandez, of a daugh ter. Dec. 11. At Colaba, the lady of Capt. Maclean, Queen's Royals, commanding King's troops dépôt, of a son. 12. Mrs. J. C. Da Gama, of a son. MARRIAGES. Oct. 20. At St. Thomas's Church, J. Williams, Esq., civil service, to Mary, daughter of G. Evans, Esq., of Barnfield, Essex. Nov. 2. At Kaira, A. Graham, Esq., assist.surg., to Laura, 4th daughter of J. Williams, Esq., Walthamstow, Essex. 7. At St. Thomas's Church, Capt. J. G. Richards, 11th N.I., to Catherine, 4th daughter of R. Foquett, Esq., of Clatterford, Isle of Wight. 8. Mr. John Caldecott to Silva, eldest daughter of J. S. Darby, Esq., paymaster, Queen's Royals. 14. Lieut. M. Law, 2d bat. artil., and act. assist. com. of stores at presidency, to Fanny Catherine, daughter of Maj. Gen. Wilson. 24. Mr. John J. Griffiths, H.M.'s 6th regt., eldest son of Lieut. Gen. Griffiths, to Emma, only daughter of Lieut. Col. Scott, H.M.'s 6th regt. At Coel, Lieut. and Adj. D. E. McKay, horse artil. brig., to Agnes Anne, fourth daughter of W. Spotteswoode, Esq., Perthshire. 29. At Ahmednuggur, Lieut. R. Bulkley, adj., left wing 20th N.I., to Sybella Jane, eldest daughter of Lieut. Gen. Bell, Madras estab. Dec. 15. At St. Thomas's Church, G. Forbes, Esq., to Matilda, second daughter of H. Willis, Esq., of Rumford, Essex. DEATHS. Oct. 2. At Chanda, near Nagpore, the infant daughter of Assist.surg. A. Montgomery. 7. At Bycullah, Jeresa, lady of Capt. P. Maughan, H.C.'s marine. 16. At Colaba, A. J. Ralph, assist.surg. Queen's Royals, aged 28. 22. Pestonjee Eduljee, chief interpreter of Maharatta and Guzerattee languages to Hon. late Recorder's Court at Bombay, aged 67. 24. At Poona, Lieut. Col. B. Bellassis, commandant of horse artillery at this presidency. Nov. 3. At the presidency, Capt. G. Melville, 1st L.C. 4. At Poona, Mr. troop quart. mast. T, Tiernan, 2d tr. horse artil., aged 31. 5. At Mandavie, Capt. T. Remon, of engineers. 6. At the Baroda residency, Mrs. John Lester, mother of Capt. Lester, commissary of stores at that station. 7. At Rampart Row, Anna Maria Louisa, infant daughter of R. Baxter, Esq. 9. At Joorabunder, on the route from Rajkote to Bhooj, Ens. J. G. Mudie, 2d Gr.N.I. 11. At Bhooj, R. Martin, Esq., assist.surg. Capt. J. G. Richards, 11th N.I., aged 32. 12. On his passage from Mandavie to the presidency, Lieut. J. Whitaker, 16th N.I., aged 22. 15. At Surat, Wm. Chalmers, son of the Rev. W. Fyvie, aged 2 years. 16. At Goa, His Exc. Don Manoel da Camara, viceroy and captain general of Portuguese India, aged 45. 19. In camp, at Jooreah, near Bhooj, Lieut. R. Carr, 21st regt. N.I. 20. Capt. G. Challon, 16th N.I., aged 43. 26. The Rev. Dom Mathias de Monte e Faria, vicar of the church of S. Miguel, at Mahim. 29. Ens. R. Phillipps, 7th N.I., eldest son of Surg. B. Phillipps, of this establishment. H. F. Dent, Esq., only son of W. Dent, Esq., of Brokendon-bury, Herts, aged 25. Lately. At Mandavie, in Cutch, P. Macdonell, Esq., assist.surg., attached to political agent in Kattywar. |
