a town of Hindustan, in the province of Scinde, consisting of a collection of mud hovels, with a few houses of better description scattered about. The population is estimated at 15,000 souls. Khyrpoor is the principal place of the district of the same name. When Scinde was subjugated by the British, a large measure of favour was extended to one of the Khyrpoor Amcers, Ali Murad, on the ground of his early and consistent adherence to the cause of the conquerors, and it was proposed to confirm him, not only in his patrimonial lands, but also in others which had passed into his possession by virtue of a treaty executed in 1842, when he vanquished his brother and nephew, and obtained certain cessions as the price of farther forbearance. The extent of these cessions was open to question, but Ali Murad having persuaded Sir Charles Napier to adopt that view which best promoted his interest, was admitted to all he claimed. Suspicion, however, was never altogether lulled; and subsequent inquiry proved the Ameer's claim to rest on fraud and forgery. The treaty had been written, according to Mohammedan custom, upon a leaf of the Koran, and the extent of territory transferred being very small, Ali Murad, by interpolating some words, contrived to convey to himself considerable districts, in place of small villages. Fearing, however, that some curious eye might detect the interpolation, he subsequently removed the leaf, and caused its place to be occupied by another, bearing record to the like effect. This was established before a British commission on the 5th January 1853, and on evidence which could not be doubted. Only one result could reasonably follow, and Ali Murad was of necessity deprived of his ill-gotten acquisitions, which were incorporated with the rest of Scinde, as part of the British empire in India. He was, however, permitted to retain the lands allotted to him by his father, an act, not of justice, but of liberality. Since his connection with the British government, Ali Murad has abolished slavery within his territory. Khyrpoor is about 13 miles S.W. of Roree, the road from which place is good. Lat. 27. 3, Long. 68. 48.