means of travelling through Europe. We may suggest the following as the most easy of adoption, and as embracing the greatest number of interesting places:

Routes to India, viâ the Continent of Europe and the Red Sea.

Or the traveller may go straight through France via the Seine and Rhone to Marseilles, thence to Genoa; but (after leaving Paris) until he reaches the coast of Italy, he will find little to interest him.

We have seen a great variety of extracts from the note-books, accountbooks, journals, and memoranda of persons who have proceeded by the above routes (varying them, perhaps, by going a few miles to the right or left to visit some particular town), and the conclusion we come to is, that the expense to India overland, any way and every way, averages 150l.

The traveller should take sovereigns all the way. The bulk of his luggage must, of course, be sent to India, via the Cape or the Red Sea, to await his arrival.

* Hence the route to Rome may be adopted.

Hence, if he has time, the traveller may pay a flying visit to Constantinople, returning to Syra.

PRECEDENCE IN THE EAST INDIES.

Under Warrant dated 28th June, 1841.

The Governor-General, or Governor-General for the time being.

The Deputy-Governor of Bengal.

The Governor of Madras.

The Governor of Bombay.

The Governor (or Lieutenant-Governor) of Agra.

The Chief-Justice of Bengal.

The Bishop of Calcutta.

The Chief-Justice, Madras.

The Bishop of Madras.

The Chief-Justice, Bombay.

The Bishop of Bombay.

The Commander-in-Chief in India, when also a Member of the Supreme Council.
Members of the Supreme Council, according to their situation therein.
Members of Council, Bengal, according to their situation therein.
The Commander-in-Chief at Madras, when also a Member of Council.
Members of Council at Madras, according to their situation therein.
The Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, when also a Member of Council.
Members of Council at Bombay, according to their situation therein.
The Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, according to date.
The Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court at Madras, according to date.
The Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court at Bombay, according to date.
The Recorder of Prince of Wales' Island.

The Commander-in-Chief in India.

The Commander-in Chief of Her Majesty's naval forces, and the Commander-
in-Chief of the army at the several Presidencies (not being Commanders-in-
Chief in India), according to relative rank in their respective services.
Naval and military officers above the rank of major-general.
Members of the Sudder Adawlut, according to their situation therein.
Members of the law commission, according to their situation therein.

Civilians, with Reference to their Rank and Precedence, to be divided into six Classes.

Civilians of thirty-five years' standing, from the date of rank assigned to them on their arrival, to form Class I., and from date of entering such class to rank with

Major-Generals, according to date of Commission.

Civilians of twenty years' standing, from date of rank assigned to them on their arrival, to form Class II., and from date of entering such class to rank with

Colonels, according to date of commission.

Archdeacons of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay.

Civilians of twelve years' standing, from date of rank assigned to them on their arrival, to form Class III., and from date of entering such class to rank with

Lieutenant-colonels, according to date of commission.

Civilians of eight years' standing, from date of rank assigned to them on

their arrival, to form Class IV., and from date of entering such class to rank with

Majors, according to date of commission.

Civilians of four years' standing, from date of rank assigned to them on their arrival, to form Class V., and from date of entering such class, to rank with

Captains, according to date of commission.

Civilians under four years' standing, from date of rank assigned to them on their arrival, to form Class VI., and to rank with— Subalterns, according to date of commission.

All officers not mentioned in the above table, whose rank is regulated by comparison with rank in the army, to have the same rank with reference to civil servants, as is enjoyed by military officers of equal grades.

All other persons who may not be mentioned in this table, to take rank according to general usage, which is to be explained and determined by the Governor-General in Council, in case any question shall arise.

Note.-The Governor-General's order of the 19th of January, 1842, assigns precedence to the advocates-general, who are to rank with the first class of civil servants; also to chaplains, who are to rank with civilians of the fourth class and majors; assistant-chaplains with civilians of the fifth class and captains.

All ladies to take place according to the rank assigned to their respective husbands, with the exception of ladies having precedence in England, who are to take place according to their several ranks, with reference to such precedence, after the wives of the members of Council at the Presidencies in India.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELATING TO INDIA.

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER.

ANNO TERTIO ET QUARTO GULIELMI IV. REGIS, CAP. LXXXV.

An Act for effecting an arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better Government of his Majesty's India Territories, till the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

[28th August, 1833.]

WHEREAS, by an act passed in the fifty-third year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An Act for continuing in the East India Company, for a further term, the possession of the British Territories in India, together with certain exclusive privileges, for establishing further regulations for the Government of the said Territories, and the better administration of justice within the same; and for regulating the trade to and from the places within the limits of the said Company's Charter, the possession and government of the British territories in India were continued in the united company of merchants of England trading to the East Indies, for a term therein mentioned; and whereas the said company are entitled to or claim the lordships and island of St. Helena and Bombay, under grants from the crown, and other property to a large amount in value, and also certain rights and privileges not affected by the determination of the terms granted by the said recited act; and whereas the said company have consented that all their rights and interest to or in the said territories, and all their territorial and commercial, real and personal assets and property whatsoever, shall, subject to the debts and liabilities now affecting the same, be placed at the disposal of parliament, in consideration of certain provisions hereinafter mentioned; and have also consented, that their right to trade for their own profit, in common with other his majesty's subjects, be suspended during such time as the government of the said territories shall be confided to them; and whereas it is expedient that the said territories now under the government of the said company, be continued under such government, but in trust for the crown of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and discharged of all claims of the said company to any profit therefrom to their own use, except the dividend hereinafter secured to them, and that the property of the said company be continued in their possession and at their disposal, in trust for the crown, for the service of the said government, and other purposes in this act mentioned; be it therefore enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same: That from and after the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, the territorial acquisitions and revenues mentioned and referred to in the said act of the fifty-fourth year of his late majesty king George the Third, together with the port and island of Bombay, and all other territories now in the possession and under the government of the said company, except the island of St. Helena, shall remain and continue under such government, until the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and

fifty-four; and that all the lands and hereditaments, revenues, rents, and profit of the said company, and all the stores, merchandise, chattels, moneys, debts, and real and personal estate whatsoever, except the said island of St. Helena, and the stores and property thereon hereinafter mentioned, subject to the debts and liabilities now affecting the same respectively, and the benefit of all contracts, covenants, and engagements, and all rights to fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and other emoluments whatsoever, which the said cnmpany shall be seized or possessed of, or entitled unto, on the said twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, shall remain and be vested in, and be held, received, and exercised respectively, according to the nature and quality, estate and interest of, and in the same respectively, by the said compamy, in trust for his majesty, his heirs and successors, for the service of the government of India, discharged of all claims of the said company to any profit or advantage therefrom to their own use, except the dividend on their capital stock, secured to them as hereinafter is mentioned, subject to such powers and authorities for the superintendence, direction, and control over the acts, operations, and concerns of the said company, as have been already made or proved by any act or acts of parliament in that behalf, or are made or proved by this act.

II. And be it enacted, that all and singular the privileges, franchises, abilities, capacities, powers, authorities, whether military or civil, rights, remedies, methods of suit, penalties, forfeitures, disabilities, provisions, matter, and things whatsoever, granted to or continued in the said united company, by the said act of the fifty-third year of king George the third, for and during the terms limited by the said act, and all other the enactments, provisions, matters, and things contained in the said act, or in any other act or acts whatsoever, which are limited or may be construed to be limited, to continue for and during the term granted to the said company by the said act of the fifty-third year of king George the third, so far as the same or any of them are in force, and not repealed by, or repugnant to, the enactments thereinafter contained, and all powers of alienation and disposition, rights, franchises, and immunities, which the said united company now have, shall continue and be in force, and may be exercised and enjoyed, as against all persons whomsoever, subject to the superintendence, direction, and control hereinbefore mentioned, until the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

III. Provided always and be it enacted, that from and after the said twentysecond day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, the exclusive right of trading with the dominions of the emperor of China, and of trading in tea, continued to the said company by the said act of the fifty-third year of king George the third shall cease.

IV. And be it enacted, that the said company shall, with all convenient speed, after the said twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, close their commercial business, and make sale of all their merchandise, stores, and effects, at home and abroad, distinguished in their account books as commercial assets, and all their warehouses, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and property whatsoever, which may not be retained for the purposes of the Government of the said territories, and get in all the debts due to them on account of the commercial branch of their affairs, and reduce their commercial establishments as the same shall become unnecessary, and discontinue and abstain from all commercial business which shall not be incident to the closing of their actual concerns, and to the conversion into money of the property hereinbefore directed to be sold, or which shall not be carried on for the purposes of the said Government.

V. Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing herein contained, shall prevent the said company from selling, at the sales of their own goods and mer