The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-03 00:00:00

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2' cst're7 ur present felti: lonit.-TTheatai.
But I hook exclusively to acts and omissions without
any reference to their mental caunterprarts. Thus
a - contemplating the case, I conceive it to be beyond nouot
that you have around you a state of things Very critics:;
and serious, and very urgently calling for ecitieideration in its moral aspect ; and yet that aspect rematpeeyneime_--- ,'
proved by your efforts, wholly unexplained fasei
communications, nay, even denied and ignored b iey'ilaossseree- smam
rare sentences, in which, using the most general terms,
and attracting suspicion by their very lareentes and
I vagueness and total want ef li char ac its: ciiip-
tion, you refer from time to time to the mental and
religious improvement of the convicts. 1 wish were
allowed me to give to your silence in respect to details,
and to your broad, slight, and undistinguishing allege,-
tions, such weight and force as would enable them to
overbear all the evidence which reaches me incomplete,
but yet full of meaning as it is from ether quarters.
That I should have been in possession of ek tailed state-
ments and de liberate cone/usi ins from you, centradictory
to the public impressions, would have been tene ter missing;
but that, while such impressions subsist hi such a manner
that they cannot be wholly false, alai in a subject
matter of such deep and ass ful interest, they should
emain unnoticed, and that for a length of time, is a
circumstance which, established r it is by the whole
r. nor of your officiel corre -poi:deuce, has convinced her,
Majesty's Government that you cannot long, r exercise,
e our present functions with advantage or with justice to
the public.
From the negative character of that correspondence it
is difficult for me to afford praefieal and lively illustra-
lone of my meaning. But I carrot avoid expressiug
the surprise with which I observe that you have trans.,
witted to my predecessor, at a date now somewhat eve
'note. the most horrible and revolting accounts O the
state of morale amorig a portion of the f, male eonvicts,
and yet have never followed up that statement, either by
e detail of remedial measures which you had put into
operation, or by tendering suggestions of that character
•
for the consideration of her Majesty's Government.
And again, upon a very recent occasion, when you,
sent home the very interesting report of Dr. and
Mrs. Bowden, on the subject of the female peni-
tentiary on board the Anson, although you must
have been aware that that establishment had been
founded at great expense, that it was regarded with
peculiar interest by her Majesty's Government, and that
the experiment involved results of vital moment to the
interests of that portion of the convict population; and
further, although those results as actually detailed in
the report were of a character the most important and
cheering, yet you neither affirm, contradict, nor qualify
the statements, but pass them by as if' they were matter
of trivial account ; you do not show that you have
given any attention or care to the establishment, nor
am I possessed of any positive evidence of your having
pare, lead that it had any cl aim upon your time or your
'noughts, although you haie entered upon the discus-
slot' of a pecuniary question connected with it.
But before I conclude, I must advert briefly to the •
-subject of the -late :lioanciarwl444:4l Ars7l}4; in: epee
'Colony. Her Majesty's Government are not able` to
concur with you in the full censure which you have
pronounced upon the conduct of the seceding Members
of the Legislative Council ; because, though her 318.-•
jesty's Government may deem such language as that
which you report to have been employed by Mr.
Gregson, at an early stage in the proceedings, to
be worthy of blame, yet they are compelled to admit
that much is to be alleged, if not in justification,
yet in excuse, of the conduct of these gentlemen, as
to its substance, from the extreme circumstances in
which they were placed ; and they ere also compelled to
dissent from your doctrine, that a broad distinction ig to
be drawn between their duties and thus, of elected re-
presentatives of the people. All int-tubers of a Legisla-
ture, including those who are chosen by constituencies,
must be regarded as belonging to that great council of
the Crown, arid as therefore bolted to advise and assist
it. But I cannot Reny that eta h advice and assistance
:nay be sometimes conscientiously, and ,onneitnes also
wisely rendered, whether in the ease of elected or of
nominated persons, by a strenuous opposition to the
measures of the Queen's executive government, either
here or in the colonies. I find it difficult to define, in
eeneral words, the limits of such opposition, in cases
where the two conditions are combined ; first, of a
purely official preponileeance, and, secondly, of a
laim of which the substantial justice is in
'rent part acknowledged; and though 1 might concur
with you in taking exception to the course which was
actually pursued, I could not, on the part of the Govarn-
merit, support you in your formal eat the
.arm " disloyalty" to the conduct of these gentlemen,
even •within the restricted limits whoili you have, and I
have no doubt justly, assigned to its sigui4ication.
But, on the other hand, in justice to yourself, I must
admit the embarrassment in which you were placed:
end I am not prepared to pronounce blame upon the
-ebstance of your proceeding, under the very peculiar
circumstances of your position, to press forward, by the
exercise of the entire privilege which the constitu-
tion conferred upon you, the Bill by which alone
regular provision could be made for the primary
exigencies of the colony during the year. Your
collision, therefore, with these gentlemen, has no part
in the motives which have led her Majesty's Government
to advise that your administration of affairs should be
brought to a close. At the Caine time, lam disposed to
irmht whether you had adequately estimated the amount
if your difficulties in connexion with that crisis, or the
mount of public sentiment, which if not approving the
nenner of their proceedings, would nevertheless excuse
Its form from sympathy with its meaning and purpose.
is, however, my intention shortly to enter, n s
separate dispatch upon a stateeneet of the measures which
I. propose to adopt respecting the resignations, and the
new appointments to the Council which you have made
and referred for approval —I am, &c.
(Signed) W. E. GLADSTONE.
(Secret).
COPY OF A LETTER FROM MR. SECRETARY GLADSTONE,
TO LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR SIR E. EARDLEY WIL3IOT,
BART.

Downing-street, April 30, 1846.
Sir—l have now to discharge a duty still more painful
and delicate than that of addressing you in a public dis-
patch to communicate to you your recal from the ad-
ministration of affairs in Van Diemen's Land.
Adverting to the fact that this recal rests upon the
allegation of a failure on your part with respect to
apecial and peculiar duties only, which attach to the care
of a penal colony, but not to that of colonies in general,
you may feel some surprise at the circumstance that I
have made no allusion to the possibility of your employ-
ment during the ordinary term of six years.
I should have felt authorised to express a willingness
t') consider of any favourable opportunity which might
offer itself for such employment, had it not been for the
circumstance that certain rumours have reached me from
a variety of quarters relating to your private life, to the
nature of which it is perhaps unnecessary that I should
at present particularly allude.
had these rumours been slight, and without presump-
tions of credibility, I might warrantably and gladly have
passed them by. Had they, on the other hand, taken
he fnun of charges or of information supported by the
'lames of the parties tendering it, it would have been my
tbsolute duty, independently of any other reason for
interference with your tenure of office, to refer the mat-
ter to you, and at once call upon you tor your exculpa-
tion. But they occupy an intermediate position. Pre-
suming that I have been justified in retraining from
bringing them under your notice up to the present
time, I feel that it would be impossible to recommend
your resumption of active duties under the Crown
in any other colony until they are satisfactorily
disposed of. To found proceedings upon them
against a person holding office appeared to me a very
questionable matter, but I think it quite unquestionable
that they must be taken into view when re-appointment
is the matter at issue.

I know not what your views and wishes on that subjec
may be. I should not have entered wantonly and need-
lessly on such a topic as that to which I now refer. My
reason for doing so, without waiting for any request from
you for re-employment is, that I think that some favour-
able intimation on that head would have been your due
had no obstacle intervened, and I have, therefore, found
myself bound to account for the omission from my
despatch of this day of any such intimation.
I have,
W. E. GLADSTONE.

(Signed)

GERMAN ADVERTISEMENTS.
Something of the character of a people may be guessed
from the advertisements in their papers. The Germans
appear to have leisure to be sentimental or complimen-
tary in their newspaper advertisements, which contain
elegies for the departed, congratulations for birthdays,
and various other private matters, with which one would
think the public have no concern whatever. The Cologne
Gazette contained some curious advertisements lately,
from which we cull a few specimens :—" We beg Herr
Berner for a repetition of Linda,' or, To Herr Gerstel
—We should like to see you again- in the character of
lielchoi." Signed, " Two Gentlemen from Wiesbaden."
actressesi e s balirn
similar style. Congratulationsn
Compliments end criticisms are offered to
com-
mon ; the following are two samples
on
._,,Tom yardeearfa birthdayst
tfhrieenbdirathndot theirhisgo°dfir
Many good wishes
to Mdlle.Francisca, on this her birthday, from her good
friends
in Cologne." Inuendos, apparently directed
:tifed in
u gMh teeur7l wish much joy on
against personal enemies, frequently appear. Of such
advertisements the following are mild specimens
Maria ! Why so pale ? Do you tremble
at the word?"
Another is in rhyme :
" The owl avoids the light of day,
And hides herself in night;
Like -----, who never dare display
His actions in the light."
The following is aimed at some parsimonious gentle-
men :—" Is it not the duty of gentlemen, when they re-
ceive a barrel of ale from the brewer, to treat the porters
to a quart ? Signed by several brewers' porters." The
advertisements for maid-servants are generally brief,
only laying stress on " good sewing and ironing;" but
sometimes religion is included, as in the following :
" Wanted, a solid, young, evangelical maiden of all work."
The next two refer to some delicate affairs :—" Sir
Rubert,—l beg you will let me know the contents of the
billet you have received by the postillion d'amour." "To
T. N. Must I 'not see you until Sunday ? Ah, that
you could know. how tediously the hours will pass till
the time arrives which will be the most important (may
I hope the most happiest also?) in my whole life." (No.
49)).—For the following we can find no description :
" Wanted, a young, educated, and handsome maiden, as
housekeeper to a single gentleman. All applications
must be sent (sealed) to 0. D. D."—Cologne Gazette,
Feb. 22d, 1847.

UNNEL UNDER LEWES.—The railway tunnel under
the town was finished on Wednesday last. Mr. W. Ver-
rall was to have inserted the last brick; but in his ab-
sence Mr. G. Norman officiated, and the men were after-
wards regaled with strong ale. Mr. Wythes, the con-
tractor, gave a dinner in honour of the occasion at the
Lamb Inn, to the whole of the men employed is the
tunnel.--Brighton Guardian.