The Bombay Government forward to London Lieutenant Robert Lowe's chart of Grane harbour and Lieutenant John Grubb's chart of the Kishm channel and Bassadore anchorage.
The sum of 3,000 rupees is granted to Captain Fairfax Moresby of H.M.S. Menai for compiling charts and a memoir of the Ethiopian Archipelago (Aldabra, Seychelles etc. etc.) - Captains of ships trading to and from Europe are permitted to take copies of the charts.
Suit brought by a Chinese merchant at Penang against the ex-Raja of Achin, Saiful Alam, on account of property allegedly confiscated by the latter at Telasamoy.
Proposed introduction of a tax at Penang for defraying the expenses of roads and bridges - erection of a large bridge at the main entrance to George Town etc.