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LORD METCALFE AND THE CITY

OF CALCUTTA.

LETTER FROM THE EARL OF AUCKLAND TO LORD
METCALFE.

ADDRESS FROM THE INHABITANTS OF CALCUTTA TO
LORD METCALFE.

Their experiences of your talents for public adminis-
tration in an empire of-such diversified interests as the
British Empire of India—of your wisdom, and fortitude,
and liberality of mind—of the munificence and kindness
of your disposition—of the courteousness of your in-
tercourse with all ranks of society, prepared them tor
the signal successes which were achieved by you over
the social distractions which existed in Jamaica, and
the difficult contentions which had beset the Govern-
ment of British A merits, when you were successively
summoned from your projected retirement by the dis-
crimination of her Majesty's Government to new spheres
of most arduous as well as most honourable employ-
ment in those colonies.

We cordially congratulate your Lordship on the im-
provement in the happiness and prosperity of these
colonies which has attended your able and patriotic dis-
charge of the trust reposed in you, and on the dignity
which has been conferred on you by our gracious Sove-
reign, in approbation of your services to her Majesty's
Crown.

We have read with affectionate satisfaction and sym-
pathy the sentiments expressed towards you in London
on your return from Canada by the civil and military
servants of the East India Company and others, noble-
men and gentlemen personally connected with India,
and we echo from the city of Calcutta the just tribute
to your great virtues presented to you in their address.
We beg to assure you that we cherish towards you a
profound regard ; that you will ever dwell in our
grateful remembrances ; and that we join in sincere
prayers to Almighty God for the restoration of your
health, and that you may long live to enjoy the appro-
bation and gratitude of your country.
To the Right Hon. Lord Metcalfe, G.C.B.

LETTER FROM LORD METCALFE TO THE EARL OP
♦UCKLAND.

Malshanger, Basingstoke, July 10.
My Lord—ln my condition of infirmity amd depression
cannot do more than acknowledge your Lordship's let-
ter, and express my utter hopelessness of doing justice
to the goodness which on this, and every other occasion,
I have had the honour of receiving from you.
I beg you to convey to the gentlemen associated with
your Lordship my heartfelt thanks for their kindness,
and for the consideration which has induced the mode
adopted of transmitting the communication from Cal-
cutta.

I have the honour to be, with great respect, your
Lordship's most faithful servant,

M
To the Right Hon. the Earl of Auckland, G. E
G.C.B.
LORD METCALFE'S REPLY TO TUE ADDRESS.
Malshitnger, Basingstoke, July 10.
Sirs,—Scarcely possible as it would have been under
any circumstances to convey to you in adequate terms
my sense of the generosity of the communication which
I have received from you on the occasion of the opening
of the public building with which the inhabitants of
Calcutta have done me the honour to connect my
name, the difficulty is increased by the infirmities which
beset me, and the hopeless state of my health; I must,
therefore, confine myself to the expression of the fer-
vent thanks of a grateful heart, which is fully sensible
of your kindness, and of the honour conferred on me by
the association of my name with the edifice appropriated
to the several important public institutions and purposes
to which the use of the Metcalfe Hall is devoted. My
anxious hope that prosperity and every other blessing
may attend you will accompany me to the grave, which
is open at my feet. METCALFE.
To the inhabitants of Calcutta.

STATE OF TRADE.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, JULY 21.—The aspect of to-
, day's market has been exceedingly gloomy. In both
goods and yarn the business doing is exceedingly limited
' and prices are barely supported; in some descriptions,
where sale have been pressed, a reduction has been ne-
cessary. The dullness in the yarn market is partly ow-
ing to the non-arrival in due course of the Hamburgh
mail. Considerable uneasiness has been occasioned by
the news of a large failure in that city. Alarming re-
ports were in circulation as to the liabilities of the house
in this town; but we have reason to believe them grossly
exaggerated. If any serious mischief result here, it will
be from the effect of this failure on the other houses in
Germany. But in the absence of the usual letters nothing
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fIUDDERSFIELD, JULY 21.—There has been a good
attendance of both buyers and sellers in our market to-
day ; nevertheless there have not been many sales
effected, and there is not much improvement in prices.
Greater confidence, however, prevails, which must lead
to beneficial results.

LEEDS, JULY 21.—There is no alteration whatever in
,he t ,ne of our market to-day, and prices keep stationary.
—Manchester Guardian.

INSTINCT OF THE HORSE.—The Courrier du Gard
gives the following remarkable, if true, anecdote illustrative
of the natural instinct of the horse :—"A few days ago a
horse dashed with fearful rapidity through a narrow street
at Nimes, when on its arriving opposite the Chateau Fadaise
cries of alarm were heard, and the animal suddenly stopped,
shuddered, and neighed at the sight of three children ex-
tended on the pavement, and from whom the cries had pro-
ceeded. The horse, approaching the youngest of theft, smelt
at its head, and gently pawed it with his foot, and then re-
turned quietly by the road by which it had so rapidly ar-
rived. The animal had recognised the child as the son of
a friend of his master."

The Baroness de Eichthal left London, yesterday
morning, fur Rotterdam, by the General aviga tion
Company's mail steam-ship Columbia.

London, July 4, 1846.
My Lord,—The accompanying address was voted by
the inhabitants of Calcutta, and transmitted to me and
to the gentlemen whose names are appended to this note,
for the purpose of being laid before your Lordship.
We will not propose to intrude upon your Lordship,
now suffering unhappily from severe illness, but we
have a melancholy satisfaction in sending the address,
and in assuring your Lordship that, from our hearts, we
participate iu the feelings of sympathy and of affectionate
respect by which it has been dictated.
I am, with strong feelings of regard, your Lordship's
most faithful servant, AUCKLAND.
The Lord Metcalfe, G.C.8., &c.
Names of the Committee :—Earl of Auckland, the
Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan, the Right Hon. Holt
Mackenzie, the Hon. Mountstewart Elphinstone, Ma-
jor-General Galloway, C.B. ; Major-General Duncan
M'Leod, Mr. H. T. Prinsep, Mr. W. B. Bayley, Mr.
J. S. Brownrigg, M.P., and Dwarkanauth Tagore.

My Lord—The completion of an edifice in this city,
bearing your Lordship's name, and erected in honour
of your virtues, and of your public services in India, and
the placing therein of your Lordship's bust, are events
which we would fain celebrate, by renewing those ex-
pressions of attachment and respect which we addressed
to you when we joined in the design of a building, to
become a memorial of our high estimation of your cha
racter, to bear the name of " The Metcalfe Hall," and
to contain the chambers appropriated to the reception of
our public library, and to the sittings and proceedings
of the Agricultural Society of India.
You were eminently endeared to India by a career of
conspicuous virtues and public service, which pene-
trated all classes of the community with admiration and
esteem.