Tour undertaken by Major Walter Raleigh Gilbert though the hill country of Singhbum, Cuttack and Sambalpur - he secures the return of an idol called the 'Puri Debi' for the Raja of Singhbum.
The Criminal Judge at Surat, George William Anderson, orders the release of 12 slaves imported from Zanzibar - reissue of the proclamation against the slave trade.
The Bombay Government decline to accept the suggestion of the Court of Directors that Naoshi bin Kuji Patel who had murdered persons suspected of sorcery in the Northern Konkan should have his sentence of transportation for life remitted.
Proposed introduction of the tread wheel as a punishment in the prisons of the Bombay Presidency - request that the materials for constructing one should be sent out from England with an oil mill attached.