The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-20 00:00:00

TILE LATE LORD CANNING.

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A correspondent, in a morning contemporary, signing
himself "Mountaineer," says :
There is not an Englishman connected with India, offi-
cially or by commerce, as a settler, who does not
hs
re-
greti Lord Canning's premature death as sincerely as
1 political friends in England. A'l classes now know he was'
an honourable and fair Governor-General.
in its
of India,
We, at least, know what is the climate
nosurPris°'
But, to me as to others, this sad event was
North-lirest m o h do nof
and few are the official men in the Neree
in Calcutta.
look with terror on a prolonged residence in
of his living,
more favoured stations along the base of the Himalaya ;
Many of us, when discussing
capital. The Government-
tinual residence in that Calcutta
Calcutta merchants with pale
the have said there was no necessity
house, the body guard,fthe supreme Court, gave a certain
itycatfor Lord Canning's con.
1 faces, and the judges
aos,
to the state of the Viceroy. But
I lustre, dreary as
it
"North-West summoned to sit in the
the place, and
disliked
Council Chamber
until ,
1 stands prorogued. . one at least,
Council
to his dominions with no sincere wish again
has returned .
of Bengal.
Why, capital
the Princes of the
to see
why, then, should England call on her best men to die in
ght pass the summer in
harnesstheH imaati
aCyaal cFu t titt whenlly tahweyminsoi
on connect Calcutta and
Kutracheeonthe Indus with Simlah and Mussoorie—the tele-
graph already is made. The Princes of the North-West are
iu the habit now of visiting the hills during the
them as often the hot and un-
heahhy season, and the ablest officials fly
as the very stringent rules of the service will 'permit them
to do so. Many of the merchants already visit these sana-
toria. There are as experienced native bankers in the North-
West as in Calcutta, and, last of all, our political anxieties
are often connected with the Punjab or the North-West
frontier, where only do men show courage equal to our own.
A thatched cottage in these mountains, with its hedges of
the wild white rose and scarlet geranium,
its magnificent
pines, its morning view of the snowy range, with its pretty
English women and rosy children, with English birds
singing in the woods—is it not a happier summer home
than the steam bath of Calcutta, where all Europeans
look pale and ghastly, talk of cholera, smallpox, and
dysentery as habitually as in England we look to the
glass for wet weather, and where our ablest statesmen die
an early death ? Wilson, Ritchie, and Lord Canning ared
Mr. Beadon has been indisposed,
dead,Colonel l r .
BairdL ai nsgmii
sthilil; dead, Lady Canning is dead, L_aodr,
Wells is dead, Lord and Lady Dalhousie are dead.
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..."
Auckland and Sir Henry Hardinge lived at Simlah,, after-
Auckland
wards enjoying life, when, after a thousand car fSough,
returned home. Sir George Clerk still lives. a
lifave passed
Lord Clyde, and now Sir Hugh Rose,
writer of
Lawrence habitually lived on the hills, and
he might, he
summers in Simlah. Sir John Lawrencenadailldi
these lines is alive only because,
vv'edhnie
mountains.
took a holyday on those much,..__,.,
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SALMON FISHING EXTRAOttchat
Prince Alfred, while
the writer
Henry
shire Journal, after mentioning
north,
: —While trying .his
Dec, tells the following ,a killedrk ab is
storyseven salmon
oi
Alexandero
kee-:,few days ago he hooked a seven
Aoinachiaisrel:teh,,(7adit to the n
luck at the gentle art
which,
after some of the usual evolu-
tions,hit,her and thither in a very curious
or eight pounder,
above the w ater, followed by an
manner—so
k figure, altogether presenting such an un-
usual blac,
be
Mi.
that Maclaren could not help making
usual spectacle
conjectures as to what species of the finny tribe he
many
ht. Probably he thought he had hooked a mer-
had caug
mer-
maid. At any rate, his mind was soon set at rest by seeing
gannite°t•ismidesssrhisin,
an otter spring out on the opposite bank with the fish in its
mouth, so intent in the destruction of its prey that the
keeper and his operations were wholly unobserved. Mr.
Maclaren immediately despatched his assistant for a glint
who discharged its contents at the daring poacher, unfortu-
nately not with deadly effect. Before a second could be
fired the otter made his escape by springing into the water._
Relieved from its opponent's cruel grasp/
btl fish danced
of this
tumbled into the river, apparently none l
with head and tail, and, before the water cie
oouwldor'losee for ded,
singular adventure, -