The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

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, GOVERNOR OF 130211)1 YA: Y.
TO THAI EDITOR OF THE SUN:-
Snt,—l was Plea Sod to observe that your attention had
been drawn to the trimmer in which the chairman of the
Board of Directors' the East India Cempany has dis-
posed of his Oatronage.„Thme menilishaVe elapsed since
the vacancy in the litgrt.thent"orltombay occurred.
At length, after the town had been inundated for weeks
N,
•eith reports of various appointments, a gentleman, not
now-, in Europe and himself unconsulted, is fixed upon ;
ii-bein'e: coffidently believed at the same time by the best
he will not .(tecei"
informed nerOns, that from ill-health, or other causes,
this East Inditr catmage is disposed of. Should
the question be
explain to the public the mode in which
Sir, if you woOld
t the appointment. I would thank you,
sic fulls° of the chair,ordinary directors,
he forthwith informs y'ou, thatat he knows nothing of the
matter, but that it entireslY pends upon the sic vole
cut
.to one of the .
James Weir Hogg. Atte-the %-..91 toll you that the
whole affair-is concocted and arranget! between the two
as :he nhrase goes, viz., of Sir
Chairs, and the President of the Beare: of Control, Sir
J. Hobhouse ; whilst the journals state Alit the ap-
pointment has been the result of the unanimous'opinion
expressed by the Court of Directors. Passing by the
mischief that must arise to the State from tire uncer-
tainty in which the public is thus left as to who .
is re-
sponsible, the Government or the Company, foe" it
most important appointment, I must take the liberty of
informing you, that the President of the Bona:
of Control, having unfortunate no influencer
with the Directors, the whole e of India
becomes entirely at the mercy of the or aid Chair-
mati, Sir James Weir Hogg, to whom it Ts abandoned
by the other directors, as a species of compensation for
his aid and assistance to them when requisite, and the
pernicious consequence of this is, that at the present
moment, who shall govern the different Presidencies,
or rule one hundred and fifty millions of people, as
Governor of India, entirely depends upon the good
pleasure of Sir J. W.
,Hogg, who, from his naturally
political prejudices, naturally prefers a Ta'iy to a man
of liberal politics ; but if, from any untoward accident,
a Tory appointment for the moment should be found
premature, or inconvenient, he will so arTange it
that a temporary substitute, or warming pan, may
be introduced, till the more convenient opportunity
my arise. But, at all events, appoint whom he may,
such a man will declare war to the knife against any one
of any liberal tendencies or comprehensive views, be he
even so cautious, reflecting or wise. The people of Eng-
land have a great and national interest in the commer-
cial prosperity of our Eastern empire ; but they do not
deem this the only object worth striving after, nor will
they tolerate such a course. They know that men who
' have cautiously, but wisely, and firmly, and svccessfully,
lent their 'aid to work out benefits for the mother coun-
try, are not less likely to succeed in procuring great
advantages for our colonial dependencies. • They know
thatthe man who, with these views, would also seek to
improve the moral and political condition of our Indian
possessions, has a claim upon their support, which neither
partialities, nor prejudices, nor intrigues, shall, or can,
defer.

A PROPRIETOR OF, STOCK.

RELATING TO THE HEROINE AND THE FOR-
TITUDE OF LYNN.
Nov. 12.—Dispatches were received at Lloyd's from
the Admiralty and Foreign-office : the former announces
the Arrival at Victoria, North Australia, on the 11th of
May, of the Enchantress schooner, having on board the
master and remaining part of the crew and passengers
of the brigantine Heroine, wrecked in Torres Straits,
on the 24th of April last, with loss of eight lives ; the
latter advises that the master of the brig Gipsy, of
Greenock, had reported to her Majesty's Consul at
Oporto having fallen in with the wreck of the Fortitude,
of Lynn, on the 20th of October last in lat. 46 44 N.,
10ng.i26 W., with no one on board. •

PRESERVATION OF LIFE AT SEA.-CAPTAIN
COUCH'S SAFETY CHANNELS.

Captain Couch, of the Royal Navy, has submitted to
Government and public bodies interested in maritime
affairs a plan for the preservation of life and property at
sea. It consists in fitting vessels with solid safety chan-
nels, upon a patented principle, by. which, when a ship
is dismasted, the wreck can be quickly and safely de-
tached without injury to the vessel. By the old plan of
fitting channels, when a vessel is dismasted, she runs
great danger of being stove in by the masts thumping
under her bottom before the wreck can be cut away ;
this arises from tho chain plates to which the dead eyes
are attached falling below the surface of the water, when
much dangerous delay ensues before all can be cut clear.
By Captain Couch's plan the chain plates never alter
their position, so that the rigging can be cut aw:.y im-
mediately from on board. At a meeting of the Com-
mittee of the General Shipowners' Society, held on Tues-
day, Captain Couch having personally attended and sub-
mitted to the notice of the Committee models of his plan
of fitting " solid channels " to ships, together with seve-
ral documents and testimonials which he had received
from different persons on the subject, it was resolved,—
" That the Committee are precluded, by the constitution
of thti society, from expressing in their collective capa-
city ay opinion on the plan of Captain Couch, but
that he be info-rated that it is considered by several mem-
bers vho are practically acquainted with nautical sub-
jects as calculated to give additional security to the chan-
nels, and, in the events of the masts of a ship being car-
ried away, greatly to' facilitate clearing the wreck, and
consequently to preserve life and property in such cases.

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