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OCTOBER

would be dashed to pieces against its pier, which abutted
on the line, he imprudently jumped from the van, tailing
upon his arms, which were frightfully fractured. The
poor fellow wasimmediatc.,ly removed to the house the
head porter, where he received every kindness. and was
attended by a surgeon, who set his fractured limbs. The
wheels of the truck were much worn, which irlvol-ves a
charge of blame somewhere. It should be mentioned
that soon after the guard leaped off the train was brought
to a standstill, which could have been done in the first
instance by the driver shutting off the steam, had the
guard had the means of conveying to him the necessity
for the act.

IRELAND.
TIIE VACANT BISHOPRIC.
DUBLIN, FRIDAY.—The Evening Herald states
that the names of the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan,
D.D., is "mentioned with confidence in connexion
with the appointment to the vacant see." The same
authority also names either the Rev. Dr. Singer, or
the Very Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick's, as the proba-
ble successor of the late bishop. Dean Pakenham is
brother-in-law of the late Duke of Wellington. No-
thing definitive can be known for some days.

THE INDUSTRIAL IXHIDITION OF 1853.
In addition to the munificent offering of 20,000/.
towards forwarding. the objc,cts of the Irish Industrial
Exposition, Mr. William Dugan, the eminent rail-
way contractor, has agreed to enlarge the amount by
a further sum of 6,000/. to complete the work of
wLicla he was the author.

THE LATE DUKE OP WELLINGTON.
The Limerick Chronicle republishes, after a /apse
of eventful years, the following letter of the illus-
trious deceased, respecting the state of the Limerick
district in the year 1808 ; a letter written on the eve
of his sailing from Cork to command the army in the
Peninsula, and wherein the Duke exhibited a pro-
found knowledge of the condition of Ireland and the
character of its people : _ _

" Cork, July 7, 1808.
" My dear Sir,—According to the desire which you
expressed in the conversation which I had with you at
Lord Harrington's on Wednesday, I proceed to give you
my opinion on the nature and circumstances of the com-
mand which you are about to exercise in the county of
Limerick. In the first place, I must point out to you
that the situation of a general officer commanding in a
district in Ireland is very much of the nature of a de-
puty-governor of a county or a province; he becomes
necessarily charged with the reservation of the peace
of the district placed under his command; and the Go-
vernment must confide in his reports and opinions for
the adoption of many measures relating solely to the
civil administration of the country. From these cir-
cumstances it is obvious that it is the duty of every
general officer to make himself acquainted with the local
circumstances of his district, and with the characters of
the different individuals residing within it, in order that
he may decide for himself according to the best of his
judgment and information, and that he may not bo mis-
led by others.

' This duty will be still more obvious by a conside-
ration of certain circumstances which exist in nearly all
parts of Ireland. It frequently happens that disturb-
ances exist only in a very small degree, and probably
only partially, and that the civil power is fully adequate
to get the better of them; at the same time, the desire to
let a building to Government for a barrack—the desire
to have troops in the county, either on account of the
increased consumption which they occasion of the ne-
cessaries of life, or because the increased security which
they would give to that particular part of the country
would occasion a general rise in the value and the rent
of land, which probably at that moment might be out of
lease--or, in some instances, the desire to have the
yeomanry called out on permanent duty—occasions a
representation that the disturbances are much more
serious than the facts would warrant. Upon these
cccasions, letter after letter is written to the corn-
mending officer and to Government ; the same '
fact is repeated through many different chan-
nels; and the result of an inquiry generally is,
that the outrage complained of is by no means of
the serious nature or of the extent which has been stated.
The obvious remedy for this evil, and that which is
generally resorted to, is to call for informations on oath
of the transactions which are complained of; but this
remedy is not certain, for it frequently happens that the
informations on oath are equally false With tho original
representations. The general officer, then, has no re-
medy, except, by his acquaintance and communication
with the magistrates and gentlemen of the county, to
acquire a knowledge of characters, and to become ac-
quainted with all the circumstances which occur.

" It frequently happens that the people who do com-
mit outrages and disturbances have some reason to com-
plain; but, in my opinion, that is not a suoject for the
consideration of the general officer. lie must aid in the
preservation of the peace of the county, in the suppor
of the law; and he who breaks the law must be con

idered in the wrong, whatever may have been the
nature of the provocation which he has received.
It is possible that grievances may exist in the county
of Limerick; provisions may bo too dear or two high a
rent may be demanded for land; and there may be no
poor-laws; and the magistrates may not do their duty as
they ought by the poor; but these circumstances aff)rd
no reason why the general officer should not give the
military aid which he rosy have at his command to pre-
serve the peace, to repress disturbance, and to bring those
to justice who may have been guilty of a violation of
the law.

"In respect to the gentlemen of the county in which
you are posted, I recommend to you to attend particu-
larly to the Lord Chid Baron O'Grady. You will find
him well informed of the transactions in the county of
Limerick, and well acquainted with characters, and dis-
posed to assist your judgment. I also recommend to your
attention Mr. Dicksou, the late High Sheriff for the
county; and Colonel Vereker, the Member for the city
of Limerick. There may be, and certainly are, other
gentlemen in the county of Limerick on whose informa-
tion you can depend; but I have requested Mr. Trail,
to wnom I send this letter, to apprise you confidentially
of the names of those whom you ought to consult.

" Believe me, Fie.,
"ARTHUR WELLESLEY.

" Brigadier-General Lee."

FIRE and LOSS of LIFE at SHEERNESS.
SHEERNESS, THIIRSDAY.—Soon after eleven o'clock
last night, this town was thrown into the greatest alarm
by the outbreak of a most fearful fire, involving a melan-
choly loss of life. At present the number who perished
has not been correctly ascertained. One of the Royal
Marines is known to have been burnt in his bed, and a
Royal Artilleryman was killed by the falling of a stack
of chimneys; there are others missing, and it is fearei
that they have suffered. The premises in which the
fire originated were those of the Duke of Clarence Inn,
situated immediately opposite the Royal Dockyard and
the Naval-terrace, at the extreme east end of the Blue
Town. The alarm instantly aroused the authorities at-
tached to the garrison and dockyard, and speedily a
strong force from the Waterloo flag-ship, Captain the
Hon. M. Stopford, the London, Monarch, and Horatio,
with the Royal Artillery from the barracks, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel England, arrived at the
scene of destruction. The yard engines were promptly
got into operation, but by that time the flames had ex-
tended to the adjoining buildings of Mr. Fife, chemist,
Mr. Tyler, bootmaker, and some wooden tenements near.
and it was anticipated that the conflagration would prove
one of considerable magnitude. In order most effectu-
ally to arrest the progress of the fire, the Artillery pro-
ceeded to make a breach by pulling down four brick
houses. The Marines and seamen from the different
ships, under the joint direction of the Captain-Superin-
tendent Charles Hope, Captain the Hon. M. Stopford,
Commander Marsh, and Lieutenant Christopher, re-
doubled, if possible, their efforts, and, notwithstanding
the serious aspect of the fire, they succeeded iu prevent-
ing its destroying ot!,er buildings than before stated.
Several adjacent premises, however, have suffered. The
post-office was once or twice fired, and but for the
spirited exertions of the soldiers and sailors would have
been consumed. 'The Marine who perished had taken
a bed at the Duke of Clarence. During the raging of
the fire a stack of chimneys gave way, and falling upon
one of the Artillerymen killed him. On the muster-roll
of the Marines being called four or five were missing,
and fears aro entertained that the bodies of some of
them will be found under the ruins. The origin of the
fire is thought to have originated from some careless-
ness in turning off the gas, but this is not known for
certain. A large portion of the property destroyed is
reported to be insured. We regret to add that Captain
the Hon. M. Stopford sustained an injury to one of his
eyes while engaged in directing his men, but it is hoped
that it is not of any serious character.

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THE PRoJECTED ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO
AsterucA.—Some further consideration appears to have been
given to a project, which we some time ago noted, for a line
of telegraph, partly submarine and partly overland, between
Europe and America, vid Iceland and Greenland. The route,
it is said, has been partially surveyed by two young engineers,
Messrs. Harrison brothers, who appear to consider the pro-
ject as practicable. How they propose to overcome or
obviate the tremendous submarine influence of icebergs in
Greenland or elsewhere, we do not know. The mere length
of line, we think, might be no great obstacle. The Danish
Government are said to be favourable to the scheme, and are
willing to render every assistance as far as the route crosses
their territories. —B udder. i

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The
preliminaries of a marriage are on the topic, to take place
about Christmas, between the lion. Edward Bellew, son and
heir of Lord and Lady Bellew, and Miss Bryan, only daughter
of the late Lieut.-Colonel George Bryan, of Jenkinstoyvn, in
i
the county of Kilkenny. The bride elect will, t a said,
bring a large dowry to the house of Barweath.

1852

A MINISTER IN OXFORDSHIRE.
dressing
Tho President of the Beard of Trade has been ad-
some agricultural friends in the county which
sends him to Perliument. The following is the speech
of this gentleman at Banbury:—
The Right Hon. J. W HENLEY, MP , said —To
free-born Englishman to meet a large independentsiloa
and influential body of his countrymen upon any great
public occasion must be at all times a matter
of highr
gratificationand pleasure; but when, in addition to that
a meeting is called to do especial honour to humble in-'
dividuals like myself and my colleagues, then it becomes
doubly a matter of gratification, pride, and pleasure.
giving to us, any such
—(Cheers.) lum not so we.ak as to imagine that an
individual qualities in myselt or my colleagues
can give)
to us, or can have a chance of
'
an honour; but I know that we are indebted for it
to the cause with which we have been long asst.
ciated—a cause for the sake of which many of
us have
made considerable sacrifices of time, of ease, of comfort,
and of everything that a man vanes most—a cause, Co,
uphold which Ido not now appear for the first time be_
fore hundreds of my fellow-countrymen in this town—
and a cause which yet, by the blessing of God, as long
as I live I shall hope to see flourish and be maintained.
—(Cheers.) My Honourable Friend who proposed
this toast to your notice has called your attention
to many subjects, and, among others, to the opposi-
tion whish we encountered at the last election.
Vexatious as that opposition was, I am sure it was
mainly so both to myself and my colleagues, because
we felt that for no earthly purpose, and fur no
fair, honourable, legitimate cause, were you called from
your business and occupations at a time when it was
especially inconvenient so you, to enable you to show,
as you did, with an unanimity which—l will not say was
not to be expected, because I knew how an appeal would
be responded to, but with an unanimity which I be-
lieve will do much to teach the people of this county
what the true feeling of this county is and has been;
and I hope it may have the effect of preventing such
vexatious proceedings in future.—(Applause.) As I
before observed, upon any occasion a person who has
the honour to represent a large and independent
county like this, must feel the highest pride and gra-
titude in meeting such an assembly; but for myself,
personally, I cannot but feel that I have other
causes of thankfulness. I have heard the man-
ner in which the health of Lord Derby, the leader of
the Conservative party in the House of Lords and Prime
Minister of England, has been received; I have heard
the manner in white the health of Mr. Disraeli, the
leader of the Conservative party in the House of Com-
mons—both of them members of a Government of which
I have the honour to bo one—has been drunk by you;
and I cannot but feel that I have especial occasion, there-
fore, to express to you the deep sense of gratitude nod
high exultation I entertain at seeing so large and so in-
dependent a portion of my countrymen assembled to-
gether to support and do justice to the principles of that
Government.—(Loud cheers.) There are special reasons
why, at this time, I should feel that pride, and I shell
not hesitate to advert to them, because if ever there
was a period when the press of this country, almost
from ono end of it to the other—some of it actually
in the hands of the parties who were not themselves able
to conduct the Government of the country, and another,
not uninfluential part of it which generally delight to
abuse everything, even the proceedings at public dinners
and public meetings—has united to oppose the Govern-
ment of the day, it is the present.—(Hear, hear.) To
oppose it, and for what? Not for any act it has done,
but because it has what they call " no principles." Now.
if I understand anything of the feelings of the gentlemen
assembled, that Government has received, and will re-
ceive your support because you believe it has principles.
—(Loud cheers.) As this has been so much and so
loudly insisted on—echoed, I may say, from one end
of the country to the other—l shall, with your per-
mission, if I do not trespass too long on your time,
endeavour to trace out a little what have been
the principles of that great party with which I have the
honour to be associated, and what are, and will con-
tinue to be, their principles to the end.—(Applause.)
It is not so many years since but we remember the for-
mation of that great party. We have been told, in-
deed, at public meetings, that the whole nation is for
the Queen and the House of Lords; but it is not so
long ago that the House of Lords was threatened with
an inundation, and some forty or fifty new Peers were
introduced to control them. Public notice, also, was
given to the Bishops to set their house in order. Then
at our meetings we did not hear so much of all par-
ties being of one mind about the House of Lords.—
(Cheers.) I rejoice to say that, for her Majesty and the
monarchy of this country there has always been but one
feeling, any party holding a different opinion on that
subject being so contemptible as to be absolutely be-
neath notice. The exalted virtues of the lady who is
now Queen place her in a position that no person would
for a moment question. The institution of royalty itself
receives additional strength in this country, where for
so many centuries it has flourished, from the lustre
which she reflects upon it.—(Loud cheers.) The next
subject in order, which did not follow with any halting
steps, was the confiscation of the ecclesiastical property
of the country to secular purposes. That was the next
measure in order which the Conservative party refused
to have anything to do with. They set their faces
against it, and Lord Derby left the Government
with which he was connected because ho would not
sanction that transaction. and would not purchase the
support of the Irish priests and their nominees by being
party to such a bargain.—(Cheers.) I ask you, gentle-
men, is there no principle in that; and I ask you whe-
ther those men who have so assailed us as having no
principle have lately conducted themselves in such a
manner as to give you any warrant for doubting that
should another Lichfield-house compact be entered into,
they would be ready to join it for the purpose of re-
gaining power?—(Cheers.) The next question which
followed, and which shook the then Whig Reform Go-
vernment to its centre—the question which first gave the
Conservative party a tie, or a majority of one (I forget
which), in the House of Commons—was whether the
people of this country, by the aid of the State, should re
calve a religious or secular education. Now, I ask you is
that a question of principle, or is it not?—(Cheers.)
Are children to be taught that " the fear of God is the
beginning of wisdom," or are they to receive a merely
secular education, and be let loose to pick up their reli-
gious principles where they can? That was the first
question which shook the Whig Government and laid
the foundation for the accession of Sir Robert Peel to
power. I ask if that principle does not still remain in
all its force, and whether the same party who wanted to
introduce it twelve or fourteen years ago, are not now
again ready to proceed with the same measure? There
is another question which it is very convenient for those
parties to pass over in silence. What, I wish to know,
were their opinions with regard to the maintenance
of the Reformed Protestant Church in Ireland?
Read the speeches of the late Prime Minister, Lord
John Russell, in the House of Commons, in 1844 and
1845, ulna Mr. Ward's motions for doing away, or, as it
was termed, " dealing with" the Irish Church, and tell
me whether the persons who opposed those motions by
their votes and speeches, Were actuated by principle or
not?—(Cheers.) Now, I am not going to shrink from
any of the great public questions which are before the
country.—(Cheers.) I have gone through these which
are of all time, and which are not to be altered by thi;
or that change of Government. They are of all time,
and the men who have them will hold them to the end,
while those who have them not will be constantly nib-
bling and bringing them forward bit by bit, as they
did the appropriation clause when out of office; though,
when they find they can hold power without it, we
hear no more of it.—(Loud cheers.) What happened
in 1840? The Whigs then proposed certain great
commercial changes, and their proposals did, no doubt,
lay the foundation of all the changes which took place
during the next seven years. Those commercial ques-
tions had never in this country before been made party
questions. No party had ever before been formed on
those questions, but men of both sides voted indifferently,
according as their feelings and judgment led them.
The late Sir R. Peel's Government was the first that
hounded on the country upon those questions. They
were the first, in 1841, to make them an electioneering
cry. In 1840, when those gentlemen were in Oppo-
sition, we heard a great deal, and they taught all who
trusted in them to believe that there was 50.%-,
thing unholy in buying sugar which the s
produced—that it was irreligious and
immoral.
Well, was that changed in 1846, when they °raai.
sup-
ported the Whigs in carrying the very. measure which
they themselves denounced ? Surely, if it were wrong
in 1845, it could not be right in 1846, and men will be
disposed to ask themselves whether these gentlemen
were sincere in the opinions which they entertained.
Five or six years passed on, and great changes were
effected in 1846, and because the 250, gentlemen, form-
ing, perhaps four-fifths of the great Conservative party,
who had held those principles uninterruptedly and un-
broken from 1832 and 1833, when they first formed a
party, did not suddenly, and without reason assigned,
turn round on all they had previously believed, and say
that it was wrong to do that which in 1840 they had de-
clared to be right, but chose to say, " We see no ar-
guments or reasons to make us change our opinions,
and
wish to see the operation of those great mea-
sures upon the community at large before we give our
assent to them;"—because they take that course, people
tern round upon them and say, " They have no prin-
ciples." If that bo the case I do not know what a prin-
ciple is.— (Cheers.) We have been accused before and
since of this, and have been asked what right had we to
any share in the government. That is a question which,
I may almost say has been yelled out from ono end of
the country to the other. The government did not fan
into our hands from any motion of our own. It was 10
the hands of whet is called " the Liberal party," "
having a large majority in the House of Conint?nsgt
cer-
tainly, so strangely managed their affairsand
o
dis-
Usis Us,
gusted the nation—the same press which noWit
does us_
ah
mind you, abusing them quite as much as
that on a motion which they themselves, at the i
com-
mencement of the session, declared, n the Queen's
Speech to be of the greatest consequence to the tato.),
of the nation, they were defeated. Having not beeu
backward in blowing up the panic which. then prevailed
about a foreign invasion, at all events, it not blowing it
up, taking no means to lessen the alarm which Was telt,
and I believe justly felt, throughout the country, those
to bring let_
Liberal gentlemen coulddia nnoottmevuesn.erehl(smOsemet
(Cheers.) But
no
ttroy s with pi
ipho
the Billt
h a
twahlrt
t Thy ?aye wanted
y
second measure, but actually hit up the Queen's busi-
ness, and left the country to take care of itself. Accor-
ding to their doctrine nobody was fit to take the govern-
ment unless he had been in office before; but it so hap-
pened that no other men were in that position except
themselves—(Hear, hear, and laughter)—therefore
they left the country in this dilemma—either they
were to continue. 01 everlasting possession of the re ins
of power, or hit up the Government when they took a
pet, or whenever they pleased, and then say, " There is
nobody fit to take the Government because he bas not
been in the Government before." Well, but that is
not it very convenient position for the country to

be placed in--(Elear, hear)—therefore we, who were cone
Dented with the largest body of Members in the House
of Commons (some 250 strong), thought it to be oar
duty to do what cur Sovereign called on us to do, and
endeavour to govern the country.—(Cheers.) I have said
there were no other men who had been in office. I may
be told that that is not strictly true; nor is it, in one
respect. There was certainly in the House of Com.
mons a small number of gentlemen highly distin-
guished by their talents, abilities, and character,
who no doubt would have been competent to take
any of the offices in her Majesty's Government. Bat,
unfortunately for them, there was no party in the House
of Comm no that had any confidence in them at
all—(A laugh)—and the result of the last election has
been to show that the constituencies and the country at
large had no confidence in them, many of the most in.
fluential having lost their seats, while their immediate
followers have certainly not increased in number.—
(Cheers.) I think, therefore, I was warranted in saying
that there was no party who, as the Whigs contend,
were competent to take the Government. There is a
qu `scion us to a family feeling among the Whigs, and
ltenaedrsaerdesire to share office among their own clique.
Into that I will not enter, because it is foreign to the
present occasion, but there is a question which I
Ought not to pass by. We have differed from the
of what was called " the groat Conservative
party' on commercial police. Scarcely seven years
have Passed over our s
. since that policy be-
came the law of the land. I am speaking in the pre-
sence of men who have not uofrequently heard me ex-
parhees ns m
youry o opinion
feelings nt shi so
ms uebwj chcatt, ac
el) udn teevretno atm ya otime
when your feelings rao somewhat counter to my own.
sans eau hr bkeeisltpul rowonv)elh coilwill affectmduos must
thembee
dAclye,idoendinaionnd wseatstltehda tasi
it
twhheujluestcicoemtmouandimtyit—th(HatTtri.s)
toe
language I
have
always
held in this town. I told you to withheld your judg-
ment, and that, deep as the pressure and difficulty you
were labouring under might be, not to deceive yourselves
into the belief that these questions would ever be settled
as they merely affected yourselves, but with reference to
their bearing on the whole community. I know it is
an unfortunate thing. I knew it then. I know is
now. It is an unfortunate thing for those who
happen to be the sufferers. Still, I should only have
been deceiving you then, and I should be only de.
ceiving you now, if I led you to believe that these
questions would ;be settled in this country in any
other way than as they affect the great mass and majo-
rity of the people. Many unfortunate things have
happened tending to keep the great Conservative party
asunder, and nothing more so than what took place
in the course of last year. We were taunted that
we must not take office. We were unquestionably
connected with the largest body in the House of
Commons. Nothing but a majority in the House of
Commons can carry on any Government; and because
that party, which, as I think, had strangely thrown
us over in regard to commercial matters in 1846,
happened to differ with reference to the question
of the Papal aggression from almost the whole
Conservative body, the leaders of that party were pre-
vented from joining us, as they were also prevented from
joining Lord John Russell last February twelvemonths.
That question has no doubt tended to isolate that por-
tion of the House of Commons from either what is
called the Liberal party on the one hand, 'or the Con-
servative party on the other. They stand very much
alone, and that, no doubt, very much strengthens the
position which I started with, that they had no chance
of forming a Government.—(Hear, hear.) The only
other question which remains is the course that is pro-
posed to be taken with reference to those suffering in-
terests of the country. The agricultural interest
has no doubt suffered, and the shipping interest has
no doubt suffered; and if it had not been for matters to
which I shall shortly advert, they would have suffered
still more severely. We agriculturists, in the south of
England particularly, have always had two great difficul-
ties to contend with. At times we have had fluctuating
prices, and that I am afraid nothing will remove from
us. We shall have them, I fear, fluctuating still, only on
a lower scale. Fluctuate they will at seasons, and
neither free trade nor anything else will prevent higher
or lower prices; but no doubt we shall have them on a
lower scale, except under special circumstances. The
other matter we suffered from in the south of England
was our labour market. Every one who is acquainted
with the management of land is aware that the occupiers
in the south do and did cultivate their farms at a greater
expense for labour than our brethren north of the
Tweed. The actual cost for labour on a farm north cf

the Tweed, cultivating the same quality of land in the
same m3nncr has been satisfactorily proved to be
much less per acre than in the south of England.
That, no doubt, is very much owing to the state
of our labour market. Our parishes, many of
them, were overdone with labour, and we were
obliged, therefore, to employ a greater amount of labour
at a low rate of wages, and that is the most expensive
labour we can employ.—(Cheers.) Well, circumstances
which had nothing on earth to do with free trade—the
famine and the destruction of human life in Ireland—the
vast exodus of onr people which has taken place in conse-
quence of that and of the discovery of the precious metals in
other parts of the world, have occasioned such adiminution
in the labour market thet no difficulty is likely to be felt
on that head for some time to come. That has also very
much relieved the shipping interest, the demand for
shipping for the purposes of emigration being so great
that no British ship is unemployed, but that we have
been obliged to have recourse to Dutch, Hamberg'n, and
other foreign ships, to carry the people away. What
the ultimate eff3ct will bo of thus strippieg the land of
its sinews and strength God only knows; but the real fact
is that in Ireland, from the misery of the people, and in
England from the hope of gain, the people are rush-
ing from our shores in every way and in every di-
rection, as soon as they can newer the• passage-
money. The colonists themselves are sending home
large sums of money, which are distributed by a Go-
vernment office as trustees for the colonists, and in the
manner they direct for the purpose of hiring and
sending out labour. The uffec-, no doubt, has been
very much to empty our workhouses. So far it has
benefited the land, and has also advantaged the shipping
interest, by giving them a great amount of employment,
so that the evil is somewhat palliated.—(Bear, hear.)
It would be presumptuous in me to pretend to point
out how much this or that cause may have tended
to produce this or that amount of prosperity in
various parts of the country; nor shall I attempt to say
what that prosperity is. I have lived too long in this
county to suppose that you feel ahything but the greatest
pleasure at the prosperity of any portion of her Ma-
jesty's subjects. We feel it not only as a gratification
to ourselves, but, further from this interested motive,
that if a large portion of the country is doing well it
must reflect some benefit upon us; and, above all, that
they are our fellow-countrymen, and that their being the
better off does not make us one jot the worse.—(Loud
cheers.) I have now gone through the topics to
which I wished to draw your attention. I fear I have
wearied you ; but in the doubje,position in which I
stand, I could not avoid it, for :,Ilievre to thank you, not
only on account of the great kindness you have shown to
me on every occasion, in this part of the country par-
ticularly, but also because I appear before you as o^ewho has had the honour of being called to therunchs
of his Sovereign, and who, I hope, in that position,
will
be able to be at least as useful as he was Wore in main-
taining those principles ,:bich, I believe, we have all so
earnestly at heart.

THE ARM Y.
GENERAL ORDER.

Deputy-Adjutant-General's-efts, Woolwich, Sept. 25.
Lieutenant-General Viscount Hardinge cannot sepa-
rate himself from the office of Master-General of the
Ordance Department without expressing his best thanks
the Generalgen t end
m othercn
oof The: rs
civilo f
department,ohe for the zealous support and
atbolrlatnhceh
ranks,es o f Board:
as
shewieeel rl s,
atsott
able assistance he has at all times received from them
during the period ho has presided over this important
department of the State.
Lord HaFdinge is confident that this department will
always maintain the high character it has achieved by
its conduct in the field, and for its scientific and skil-
ful arrangements in providing the various equipments
on which the efficiency of the navy and army so essen-
tially depends.
ae
5n
-er..
In taking leave of the officers, civil as we:
mili-
tary, he begs to assure them of the deep interest he will
always feel in their welfare and honour..
Sept. 29.
Il . D.
GENERALRoss, D e pout
tt
Dyi
vE- AR°
.04::
it.
ea
hn t:
The following General Order from he
Horse Guards,
dated the 27th instant, is promulgated for the informa-
tion of the Royal Artillery:— ,
„ General Oraer.
appoint Colonel Richard Airey
Horse Guards, Sept. 27.
era' Commanding in Chief,
ha‘v‘inTg"beeLn
to be his Military becre ary, his Lordship desires that
the correspondence of the army may be addressed
through that officer, conformably to her Majesty's regu-
lations.Commandincordvand of the. Right Hon. General Viscount
iepuleteansealnVten
g-in-Chief.
Ha,,rdpiynge,
" G. BROWN, Adjutant-General."
GENERAL ORDER.

The followin " Woolwich, Sept. 29.
g General Order, issued from the Horse
Guards on the 28th inst., is promulgated for the infor-
mation of the Royal Artillery:—

" General Order.

" " Horse Guards, Sept. 28.
The General Commanding-in-Chief has been pleased
to appoint the following officers to be his Lordship's
Aides-de-Camp, viz.:—
" Colonel L-,rd Charles Wellesley, unattached.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Blucher Wood, C. 8.,
half-pay.
" Captain Charles Earl of March, unattached.
C,,ptain Hcnry Marquis of Worcester, 7lh Hussars.
" Py command of the Right Hon. General Viscount
Hardiuge, Commanding-in. Chiof.
" G. BROWN, Adjutant-General;'

CURRENTS OF THE OCEAN.—A bottle containing
the following letter, imparting information relative to the
currents of the ocean, was picked up by Captain Edward
Smith, of the brig Samuel and Edward, of Bangor (United
State):
n l )I:-ma7. 0 deg. 30 m
'Tier
Majesty's ship
00
i 11apsicdc, Tuesday, Feb. 24,
18. S., long. 22 deg.
34 min. 30 sec. W., experienced a strong current, run-
ning N.W., at the rate of 30 miles per day ; two days previ-
ous, but in the above latitude and longitude, we had no cur-
rents, which induces me to send this bottle. Should it be
picked up, note the day of the month and date, together with
your latitude and longitude, and furward it to me.—Alfred
Messum, Master of her Majesty's ship Rapid. We are bound
Note.—The bottle mentioned as con-
to Rio de Janeiro, and have had a fine passage from Dia-
deira ; 14 days.'
29, on the north-eastern part of the island of
taining this note was picked up on the beach in Galeon
Bay, July
long. 60 56 FILOST:
atirces,„ Ist. 14 ~N