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

THE LATE LORD CANNING.

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daily or by commerce, as a settler, who dos
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gret Lord Canning's premature death as sincerely
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political friends in England. All classes now know
an honourable and fair Governor-General.
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But, to me as to others, this sad event was,4l?
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di in its
We, at least, know what is the elinrateafotht
01 Himalaya ;
more favoured stations along the bas
rth° -West who do not
in Calcutta.
and few are the official men
look with terror on a prolonged reths'e
chance of his living,
Many of us, when discussingcesayt for Lord Canning's con-
ital. The have said there was no
to
oersoiyt .inßthrtet
Calcutta merchants with pale
house, the body guard,
cd the Supreme Court, gave a certain
faces, and the Judges
it,
NorthW.wtheessttastume ofm otnheedV
Government-
tinual residence in that
tC:sideecucintaitactcaP
theand now that the
Council dislikedplace,
Council stands
turned to his dominions with no sincere wish again
hEen
cithallgohnt hpaerslB3etshtemsumen tomdeire iirtn.
.. proroguedooeufl dwil enngsa
lltau.hnneatyi l November,
one
harness at Calcutta
the Himalaya ? Railways will soon connect Calcutta and
Nurrachee on the Indus with Simlah and Mussoorie-i-the tele-
graph already is made. The Princes of the North-West are
tltoushas.whestrereFeerill:th,detcrecsisharpainithler
in the habit now of visiting the hills during the hot and un-
healthy season, and the ablest officials fly to them as often
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-'Vest
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 mege,.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 are
dead, Mr. Laing is ill, Mr. Beadon has been indisell,
Colonel Baird Smith is dead, Lady Canning is dead, Lord
Wells is dead, Lord and Lady Dalhousie areafter.;
Auckland and Sir Henry Hardinge lived at Si.'
coxes
, they
wards enjoying life, when, after a thonowtord Gough,
returned home. Sir George Clerk still live:ii have passed
Lord Clyde, and now Sir Hugh 11°10 and Sir Henry
summers in Simlah. Sir John Lingrw2„. Liud the writer of
now'
Lawrence habitually lived on
thewb. enever he might' he
these lines is alive only becanse.'oved mountains.
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SALMON FISIIING .r.,:g A
.n
that Prce fred
shire Journal, after raentioli
gki led seven salAlmon, onwhile the
on his late visit to the
north,remarkable story of Alexander
Dee, tells the followog
Invorcauld : —While trying his
Maclaren, head keepers rt a few days ago he hooked a seven
luck at the gen
tie °which, after some of the usual evolu-
tions, eight poun
Lodes:lash hither and thither in •
a very curious
Hone, began -- • -above
r—sornetirnea rising the IN ater, followed by an
raanne
indistinct black figure, altogether presenting such an un-
ususi
spectacle that Mr. Maelaren could not help making
many conjectures as to what species of the finny tribe he
had caught. Probably he thought he had hooked a mer-
maid. At any rate, his mind was soon set at rest by seeing
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 gun,
who discharged its contents at the daring poacher) unfortu-
natelybs not with deadly effect. Before a secondtctsarl
Le.
fired the otter made his escape by springing into
danced
Relieved from its opponent's cruel grasp, the fish
be forded,
with head and tail, and, before the vote:
the
couldworse of this
tumbled into the river, apparently non
singular adventure.