19 OCTOBER 1861, Page 3

*kia.—The cholera is abating, and the deaths among the Euro-

pean soldiers are estimated at 500. As usual, the disease spared the women and children. A bill has been proposed for the registration of land in the interior, which is intended to protect the planters, but the provisions of which are not described. A native forger has been arrested in Midnapore, who had in his possession 53 forged seals, all made with the intention of forging titles older than the perpetual settlement. The object of these forgeries is to protect the rent-free land.

The Maharajah of Burdwan, the first native subject in Bengal, has headed an address approving cordially of Sir Mordaunt Wells.