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.
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.
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.