Though building materials are abundant in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, house-rent is not mode rate. This is owing partly to the bigh interest of money, nod partly to the constant repairs which are required, from the casting of the wood in this hot climate, and frau the ravages of insects, particularly the white ergs. Though the wood-work of a house uppers externally quite sound, it often turns out upon examination to be. completely excavated or honey combed by these insects, which assemble in bacredi numbers, wherever they can find an entrance.
The homes. here, which are known under the some of taverns, are greatly inferior in respectabili ty to. Owe in Europe. They are, with the excep tion of two or three particular houses, resorted to ably by the lowest company, and strangers who are asticed, into them are exposed to every species of impoeitiens and frequent to total win. A Ea. rowan, on hie first lap g, is iusrrotmded by RUM. NOW dangers and inceraveuienciess, which he Gods is extsernoly diffieult to escape. These are Bo. Well desceib4 in the Bast Ved•lifacent• by Car taiu Thomas Williams*, that we shall extract the following passages, for: the instruction oCsesh of our propose to visit those distant regions. wider the plausible pretext of aiding towards the eompletion of the youth's wishes, nexer. fails to inquire whether the gentle man has any frientle in tows ? or eve' in the country nessnaSinelY answered. mine boat' feels himself tolerably were of his money: hut will probably ous twist, that,. the friend in. town out of the way, and will not.be beck for some days. Should, the gentle. men be totally destitute of friends, then counts rich harm*• Isoposition following imposition, swell the bill ; which, if appearances warrant forbearance, is kept back as long as possible, under .the pleasing assuraece of perfect confidence. : but in the end, a catalogue of items is produced,. which never fails to alenn,, if not to ruin, the unsuspecting- victim !" " If, unhappily, the guest should safer lower him self as to, aosociate with the ordinary company of the common drinkingrroom, he, is irretrievably gone, Quonsets, riots; and inebriety, must follow ; in all probability rendering him subject to the notice of the police. Should his, face ever be semi at that rice, it would be next. to, impossible that he should be ad-.
mined into any respectable circle. What with lodg ing, dinners, wines,stira. of the worst description, but all rated at the highest prices, he must be a fortu nate Wight who escapes under a gold mohur (i. s.. twe.guineae) per day in general, sum is charged; so that a person starts at the rate of Loom, per annum, at least ; while, in all probabi-. lily, no established, or even• apparent, provision, ex. ista, whereby he may be. maintained." To state the evil, without pointing out the. re medy, would be next to useless; but, when I. sug gest. the means of avoiding those difficulties, or any portion of them, attendant on arrival in a foreign:laud, it must be undengael, that I. consider the stranger to be poseessed of pecuniary metes : that is, that an pay his way.. Without this, he can do nothing; ask4 ;nu* undergo all the afflictions and *aerie attend; art upon despised poverty, in every part of the globs. It may be proper to point out in this place, that wing might here appear to be liberal calculations, would not suit the East; where every article of &wpm*a ineonfacorro bean 80 enormous a price, where house-rent is so expensive, and where it is iu. diepeasehly necessary to retain so many servants; The first thing to be done (setti a letter of ream meadation out of the question) thoeld be to report aerival at the Secretary's Office,. depositing the cer tificite of the Court of Directors' licence to proceed to ladle ;, without which,„the party is considered is an alien, and scarcely considered se *titled to Sritish protection. This does not arise from an the part of government, or of the inhabitenter but from that strict attention the politics of tin enmity imperiously demand to be paid to the se veral characters, med. descriptions, of pence' re aiding within our territory.
" The above relates equally to all persons is the clan- Or Military breaches ; the certificate greeted at the India House must be produced, as order to deer tidy the party ; hut if it should have been lost, lo hi self, together with the commander who rented the order for taking him on board, mu* *met to make affidavit to that effect, before the appointee* can be admitted upon. the registers in India.