A. return has been printed by order of the House
of Commons of the territorial revenues and disbursements of the East India Company for the years 1835, 1836, and 1837 with an estimate of both for 1839. The results are of a very favourable kind. In the year 1833, width was that succeeding the abrogation of their charter as a trading com- pany, and in which the greater part of their commercial assets were rea- lized, there existed a surplus of income over expenditure of 8,000,0001,, after deducting a suns of 2,000,000/. set apart for the formation of a guarantee fund for the proprietors of East India Stock, In 1836, the surplus was 2,000,000/. • in 1837, 2,470,000/ ; and for 1838 the estimate of surplus is 1,300,000/ The public debt of the East India Company at the several Presidencies, on the 1st of April 1837, is steted :at 30,400,000/. ; and the interest on it at 1,440,000/. The rate of Interest paid for the various loans varies from 4 to 10 per cent., but the aver- age is about 41- per cent.
The Bengal Barham of July lath states that " RUR1Cet Singh has be- queathed the celebrated diamond, the dek-i-noor, to the temple of Jug- gernaut, to adorn the image of the Illative deity ; " and suggests as it was originally taken front Shah Soojah, the exiled king of Cabui, that a case might be made out for claiming it "on behalf of the origiaal proprietor, for the purpose of being sold to defray a portion of our ex-
penses in replacing him on the throne of Cabal.'
"Among the remarkable incidents connected with the death of Ran- jeet Singh, none is more worthy of being recorded and noted, than the fact of four princesses, his wives, and seven slave girls, having been permitted to burn themselves on his funeral pyre. The sacrifice of the slaves is indeed an atrocious cruelty, enacted apparently for no other purpose than that of adding dignity to the funeral pageant ; and we hope that the British i
Government, n its communications with Karel; Singh, or Dhian Singh, who seems to have been the real director of the obsequies, will not fail to convey a strong intimation of its sense alien this most barbarous proeeeding.4—Bombay The capture of Aden by the British troops is likely to be purchased at a dear price. It is tolerably clear from the lust accounts, that the possession of that fortress will be all they can expect to accomplish, and that they are pent up, until sonic further move is made, in the most miserable situation that can possibly be imagined. Some notion of-it may be given by a letter from one of the officers stationed there, which says,—" You have yet to hear, but I trust never to learn by experiente, what it is to be fixtures at a place of abode no description can give an idea of. Can you fancy the • crater' of Etna enlarged, and the centre covered with gravestones and remains of stone huts ; not a tree or shrub to be seen; volcanic rocks and hills encompass you on three sides, the sea on the fourth presenting the only outlet from this Gol- gotha ; and to this abyss we are confined by the savage tribes around us, who, having possession of the coast adjacent, by the peninsulauf Aden, cut off all communication ; and since the murder of one of our men whom they scalped, we have been ordered to confine ourselves to the fine of ruined wall which forms the barrier between us and our friendly neighbours."— Times.
The British Commissioners and Surveyors are by this time on the Aroostook. A very polite and amicable correspondence on the subject of their expedition has taken place between Sir John Harvey and Governor Fairfield, of Maine ; in which the latter states that he will afford the Commissioners all reasonable facilities in his power for the prosecution of their design. It is sincerely hoped on all sides that this vexatious question will soon be set at rest for ever. Another steal- boat collision has taken place in Upper Canada, between the Comoto- dore Barrie and William the Fourth. Both boats much injured, but,no lives lost,—Philadelphia Correspondent of the Morning Chroniclo..
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