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place in the Commissioners Report. So much pains have'
been trim, to set aside the appointments of Messrs. Hatton
and Cameron' that I have gone more fully into detail on
the subject of them than I should otherwise have done.
having myself originally recotnmended them, from a con-
viction that I was essentially serving the pnblic by so doing,
the opposition raised to them math• it incumbent upon me,
in justice to myself, to show what were the motives of that
opposition, and how little weight it deserved in any serious
deliberation as to their permanent establishment.
When Messrs. Sykes and Forbes, in addition to other
instances in which they would reverse the judgment of
the Board," beg to submit two modes of examination,
" either of which, they think, will answer hitter than
the two experimental appointments," I shall only observe,
that they undervalue the endeavours of others towards the
public service rather more than is warranted by any evi-
dence which they have themselves given of their superior
fitness either to examine or decide.

I have the honour to subscribe myself, my Lords,
Your Lordships' most faithful and obedient servant,

JAMES SEDOIVICK, Chairman.
It must, by this time, have sufficiently appeared to the
public, that the aim of the Comtnisaion of Inquiry, as con-
ducted by Messrs. Sykes and Forbes, was to tweure impu-
nity to the agents in that nefarious system which the Stamp
Department in Scotland established—to destroy the credit
due to the representation which I had given of it to the
Treasury—and to east obloquy on the Commissioners of
Stamp, by indirectly ascribing to the remissi.eas of the
Hoard in London whatever it was found impossible to con-
ceal of to palliate in the conduct of their officers in Edin-
burgh.—The space I have already occupied will not permit
me to do more at pres,:nt than remark—and it is a remark
which I would fain keep uppermost in the mind of the reader
—that the iniquitous system of mismanagement here deve-
loped had been brought under your investigation, and-was
every particle of it within your knowledge, as were also
those Reports of Messrs. Sykes and Forbes, with my re-
marks upon them, which have occupied my three last let-
ters—when you deliberately drew up and delivered to the
House of Commons, as the truth, under the sanction of the
oath you had taken, and where you sent forth to the world
as widely as the public press could disperse it, the fol-
lowing statement, which I quoted in the outset, and which
I now again transcribe:—
" In the course of our detailed examination in Scotland, which,
as we have already stated, preceded that in England, it came in
evidence before us, that various representations mede by Officers
there, with a view as well to the security as to the better collection
of the public revenue, had rot received the attention from the chief
office to which they appeared entitled; and our general inquiries in
that part of the United Kingdom %misfit d us, that the superintend-
ence exercised by the Board in London over the collection of this
branch of the Stiunp Revenue was neither regular nor effectual.
Under these circumstances, on our return to London, we felt it our
duty to postpone other investigations for the purpose of directing
our attention to this department; and as the causes out of which a
situation of things apparently so defective and unsatisfactory had
arisen could scarcely fail to affect the commissioners, and as we had
reason to suppose that such rouses were in a great measure to he
traced to the state of the Board, it became necessary to give to our
examinations a character more personal, as well as to put to the
subordinate office's questions mere pointedly directed to the official
habits and conduct of their superiors, than, under other circum-
stances, we should have thought advisable."
That I may avoid interrupting the pain of reflection to
which this must give rise, I subscribe myself, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
Somerset-house, Oct. 10, WM JAS. SEDGWICIC.

[We have received the Chairman's Remarks on the concluding
Report of Mews. Sykes and Forbes, on the Di%tributore Depart-
ment, which shall appear on Friday.—EnlTon.l

ALEXANDRIA, Auo.lo.

[EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.]
I am happy to acquaint you that the French General Boyer has
quitted the service of the Pacha. There has been a constant con-
flict of authority between the General and Mohammed Las, 51i-
:lister at War, which his Highness the Pacha in vain endeavoured
to suppress. So far had the pique been carried by the panics, that
some officers having been dismissed by the Minister at War, were
re-engaged in France by order of the tlener.d, under contract, and
at double their former pay. It appears that the Pacha had made
all sons of concessions to please the General, but his demands in.
creased with his Highnes.'s compliance. At length the General
having asked an audience to make demands which the Paths knew
he could not grant, he declined the interview. Upon this, General
Boyer demanded his dismissal, which, probably unexpectedly to
himself, was immediately complied with. It is espousal that Go.
neral the Marquis de Livron, sine is as pt she Pashere lIA*6
talfgent in France, will be promoted to the vomit pest, and
Gal
led to this country. He is a man of a nrach more conciliating
temper.
The Paths has procured two cloadoperdit and the English
and French Consuls have been desired to cast lots for the choice,
they being designed as presents to their relived's Sovereigns.
The Nile is now rising. and appearances are considered to Jodi-
cate a favourable inundation ; but it is too early to speak of it with
any confidence. The crop of all snicks of export has been shipped
with the exception of a stock of beans, of which there may
I be a deposit at Cairo of about 3d0,000 ardeps, which are to be
brought down as soon as the navigation opens. This quantity is
the surplus of the last two years of scarcity. The Levantine', spe-
culating on the ravages that are likely to be made by the locusts
in Syria, have purchased 12,000 ardeps of beans, at whatever price
his Highness may hereafter fix. These people calculate, that, as
his Highness is partial to this mode of cone acting, he will not fix
a price exceeding the highest price of the highest market to which,
the article can be sent ; and, as they will pay fur the whole in the
Pacha'a own assignments,* which are at present at a discount of 25
per cent., they will still be gainers.
A great deal of intetest has been excited here by renal' from
England of the sailing of Lord Cochrane for the Levant. Some
persons are afraid of bad consequences to British residents frotn
his Lordship's interference : but the alarm is not general, for we
reflect that our interests can be very little affected by it, as, from the
nature of the Niche's commercial system, more than nine-tenths
of the property that leaves the country is either actually shipped for
the Pasha's account, or for the account of his officers or sub-
jects. With regard to the safety of our persons, there certainly
cannot be any well.grounded alarm. We are brit few individuals,
and it would be difficult to assign any reasonable motive or ob-
ject for the Puha to molest us. Add to this, his Highness is
tenacious of a character for generosity and maderation, even to.
wards his enemies; for, be it mentioned to his praise, that during
the whole of the contest in the Mores, the Greeks have been al-
lowed to come to this country and go from it when they pleased,
without molestation. The British Government certainly, towards
him, has behaved with the strictest impartiality. British vessels
assisted in transporting his troops and provisions to the Mores,
without impediment or reproach. English engineers are employed
in his service, and his steam-boat, the London Engineer, has been
actively employed against the Greeks, worked by British subjects,
and is actually, at this moment, with' the British arnis painted on
her aides.

We have not much to fear from any popular excitement, for the
Arabs take very little interest in the dispute' and they are governed
with a strong arm. To suppose that his Highness is capable of
stirring up any bad feeling towards us• is not doing justice to his
character; for, however we may complain that he has trampled
on every commercial privilege and treaty that has been made in
our favour with the Porte, it is but fair and proper to confess, that
Europeans have ever enjoyed, under his rule, the most perfect and
Impartial protection.
• The Pacha obliges the peasant to bring in the reduce of his
land, which is paid for at the price his Highness fixes, by assign.
ments on the,Treasury. The Pacha will only receive these assign-
ments, in payment for produce, under a special agreement ; so that
they. generally fall to a heavy discount, as the Treasury is open fo
receipts, but sot for issues.

INCORPORATED MEDICAL SOCIETIES.-•Mr. Lawrence,
in his first lecture at the New Medical School in Alden-
ple-street, save—" It may be doubted whether laws are
capable of aiding the progress of medical science. The
public bodies in this country have certainly done no good ;
while the artificial distinctions, the prohibitions, and re-
strictions, which they have so much delighted in, have been
palpably mischievous. The great progress which surgery
as made here in the last quarter of a century is clearly
due to individual exertion, and to the patronage which a
more enlightened public has bestowed on those who have
become distinguished by talent and knowledge. The pub-
lic bodies, instead of leading the march, have been always
found in the rear of advancing knowledge. They might
have attempted to lessen the evils of quackery, to protect
the public agtin.t the knavery and ignorance of unprinci-
pled men ; but they have only been struggling to maintain
their own privileges, to exclude and depress competitors,
to fortify their own monopoly, and thus secure their own
trading advantages. Can we wonder that such proceedings
are viewed by the public with contempt, and that they tend
to degrade an honourable profession ?"
Monday, a gardener, of Wished', for a wager, walked
ten miles, with a bushel of potatoes on his back, which he
undertook to carry the whole distance, without resting.—
He accomplished it in two hours and forty minutes. An
Irishman, who heard of the exploit, o,la a bet that be
would perform the same, with the addition of eating the
potatoes afterwards, in half the number of minutes, pra
tided they were boiled.—Eura Herald.