The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-22 00:00:00

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THE WELSH PRESS. - .• --
On Tuesday evening a dinner was given atr,potly'sf..46o-'2
house, Paternoster-row, by several gentlemen connected with
the principality of Wale.s, to Mr. James Rees, the proprietor
and publisher of the Carnarron and Denbigh Herald, to re-
cord their sense of the talented and judicious manner in'
which that journal has been conducted during the period of
his management.
The chair was taken by John William?, Esq., of Oxford-
street, supported in the vice-chair by William Jones, Bag.,
solicitor, of Greenwich.

The cloth having been removed, and due honour having
been done to the usual loyal toasts,
. The CHAIRMAN rose to propose the toast of the evening,
" Health to Mr. Rees, and success to the Carnarvon and
Denbigh Herald," and observed, that having narrowly
watched the principles on which that paper had been con-
ducted since its establishment, and always feeling a deep
interest in the welfare of North Wales, he had with no ordi-
nary pleasure sought the acquaintance and friendship of Mr.
Rees, as of a patriot and a benefactor of his country, Ile
considered that the successful establishment of a liberal
paper at Carnaryon was one of the greatest benefits
that one man could confer upon that district of
the principality tending to elevate society, and to
give the public mind an onward direction. Mr. Rees
had conducted his paper with great spirit and honesty, and. was a man determined to serve the cause of the people b-
advocating those measures which tend to emancipate then
from the influences of ignorance and oppression. When the
subject of the endowed schools of Wales was first tnoOted
the Herald rendered its assistance to expose many inslances
of the shameful abuse of their funds. Much more might be
done were the efforts of the Herald seconded ty the landed
proprietary of Wales ; but he regretted to saisi that the
Wash gentry, as a boy, were lamentably indifferent to the
improvement of the lower classes. Indeed if the Welsh
population were lower in the scale of civilisation than their
fellow-subjects in other parts of the empire, most of the fault
lay at the door of the Welsh gentry. Mr. Williams then
adverted at considerable length to the Herald's akk
advocacy of the Reform Bill in its original integritmr
the extension of the suffrage, the right of the industrious
poor to relief, its opposition to an irresponsible rural police
force, and the support of those great measures now under
discussion by tho Legislature, when free-trade principles
much less fashionable. He also adverted to the publica
by Mr. Rees of the Anuzethvdd, a monthly supplemen
ig.tin a
velul with the Herald, containing information in the Welsh
witghgitgion agricultural subjects. The toast was received
saspalidda,"lseh.aly. know how to express to you till*
pleAr.
arsnrable and grateful feelings which you have excited
am s'ncerely grateful for the kind way` in which you have
introduced introduced me to the friends around, andnuid
Ithe flattering
eL!iiceelence man-
ner in which I have been received ;
heart-
felt pleasure to learn that my humble but
to make the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald usefuleaenxdetteine"4
ficial to the principality are appreciated. It is true, that it
has ever been my pride and study to make the Herald inde-
pendent ; but I must not take the whole credit of its conduct
to myself ; I am associated with a gentleman to whom I
have entrusted the political and literary department of the
paper, and who has, I am bound to say, after some years' ex-
perience, discharged the trust reposed in him honestly and
honourably. When the Herald was first announced, in the
year 1830, the proprietors then promised that it should con-
tain early and full reports of all public meetings and occur-
rences which might happen in the district. Since I have be-.
come the proprietor I have spared neither trouble noir
expense to fulfil that promise. The paper Was
also promised to unmask every abuse; to the best
of my ability I have fearlessly performed the task, however
irksome at times the task might be. Indeed there is nothing
that my means will permit, and the support I receive will
we-rant, that I will not do, not only to maintain the proud.
position I occupy as a journalist in North Wales, but to make
the paper equal to any journal in the kingdom. It would
hardly :become me to enumerate the benefits which I may
conceive have accrued to the principality by the establish-
ment of the Herald; but there are, I flatter myself, some
amongst the company who may recal to mind manyinstanees
in which abuses have been exposed, and the rights of the
subject vindicated. I shall now merely say, that yourappro-
hation of the course I have hitherto 'pursued will be a sti-
mulus to me to continue in the straightforward path I have
marked out; and that at no very distant day the Herald
n ill be, in size as well as in talent and independence, equal
to any contemporary print. I again thank you most sin-
cerely for the kind and generous manner in which you have
testified your approval of my public con. uct.
On the health of those patriotic gentlemen, Dr. Lewis
and Mr. Hugh Owen, being proposed, they animadverted at
considerable length on the merits of the different systems of
education in Wales, but we regret that space will not permit
us to publish their interesting remarks.
Several other gentlemen, including Messrs. W. Tlyjmas,
0. W. Thomas, J. James, and 0. Rowland,- addressed the
company on subjects of interests, chiefly that of f.ke eduea-
lion of the lower classes of their countrymen.
We may remark, that it was unanimously resolved to
revive the Gwyneddigion Society.
After various toasts, including the hl.alth tif the Editor of
the Cal narvon Herald, the ChairmA sad Vice-Chairman,
Mr. Davis of Wigmore-street, &o &c the company
separated.

A Supplement to the London Gazette was published
last Evening, containing the following extract of a Dis-
patch received by the Secret Committee of the East In-
dia Company :

INDIA BOARD, APRIL 20, 1846.
The Secret Committee of the East India Company has this
day received, from the Governor-General of India, a dispatch,
of which the following is an extract :
" The Governor-General of India to the Secret Committee.

" Camp, Lahore, March 4, 1846.
" On the 20th, the whole army marched to Lahore, four-
teen miles, and encamped on the Parade-ground, about two
and a halt' miles from the city gates.
" In the afternoon of the 20th, the young Maharaja Da-
Jeep Sing was restored to the Palace of the Rulers of Lahore,
in charge of the Chief Secretary of the Government, F. Cur-
rie, Esq., escorted by British officers and troops, in the man-
lier described in the papers enclosed
I considered it right to mark, in this public manner, the
submission of the Lahore Governnient to the British Power;
and to show that the restoration of the young Maharaja to
his capital was the spontaneous act of the British Govern-
ment.

" On the 21st, the Chief Engineer and other officers in-
spected the citadel and gates of the town to select positions
for the British troops, by which I had determined that La-
hore should be occupied till further orders.
" Early on the morning of the 22d, a brigade of BritiPl
troops took formal possession of the citadel of Lahore, the
Badshashee Musjeed, and the Iluzzooree Ragh.
" On receiving the report of his Excellency the teinman
der-in-Chief, I issued the General Order, beming date the
221 ultimo. I considered the occapation of Lahore, and the
close of active operations in the field% a proper opportunity
for marking, by substantial reward, the gratitude of the
British Government to its faithful and brave Army, which
had fiught so gloriously and so successfully; and I was glad
at being able thus to bring into prominent contrast the just
reward of discipline and obedience with the certain penally
of insubordination and violence, as exemplified in the fate of
the two armies which bad been so long the objects of mutual
observation, the one victorious in the field, and honoured
and bounti?ully rewarded by its Government; the other, is
spite of its exceeding numbers and advantageous position?,
vanquished in every battle, abandoned by a Government it
had coerced, and, with its shattered remains, left, but fo:- the
intercession of its conquerors, to disperse with no provision
of any kind, and seek a precarious subsistence by rapine and
crime.
" On the 17th ultimo, the force under Brigadier Wb%eler
crossed the Suttlej, a few miles below Loodianah, occu-
pied the strong fort of Philor, which was abandelted on the
approach of the troops. Having left a garrison at Philor,
Brigadier Wheeler advanced to the bank% ,of the Beas ; and
the presence of his disciplined force Iles given confidence of
protection to the inhabitants of t;e Dooab, who are state',
to be well satisfied with their '.l:iunge of rulers.
The Supplement to tho Gazette, contains man 7, other
official documents relating to the recent eve-ate in the
Punjaub, the whole of Which have alrear).y appeared in
The Sun.

COURT CIRCULAR,
The Queen 5...t2'3. Prince Albert walked early yesterday, is
the royal gP.rdens of Buckingham Palace.
Hir Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on ho
yesterday, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour,
Ersequbearrcyk
in WP.lting
tlie Princess Royal, and the Princess
Their Roy. al Highnesses the Prince oAfilieVealteoso,kPrtihneceirAulii'suead,
exerciserier 3ai
iyeesstteyr yesterday, in gardenir,nritnhcee
Albert, f,ittht
attended
e d Palace.b;
Lady Pert-
man, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Napier, Lord Byron,
lion. Colonel Grey, and Lieutenant-Ccilonel Seymour,
honoured the Italian Opera with their presence yesterdaz
evening.
Lady Portman has succeeded the Marchioness of Douro, as
the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Lord PyrOn has suc-
ceeded Viscount Sydney, as the Lord in Waiting to her
Majesty ; and Admiral Sir Robert Otway has succeeded
Colonel Berkeley Drummnd, as the Groom in Waiting ttl
her Mijesty,
Her 4`ajesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yesterday
in carriage, attended by the Hon. Miss Hudson ar.i the
11011. Miss Mitchell. Her Majesty visited her Real High-
ness the Duchess of Rent, at Clarence House, St.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and the
Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager
yesterday at Marlborough-house.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent arrived at her
residence, Clarence-house, St. James's, at two o'clock yester-
day afternoon, from Frogmore-house, Windsor.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Glott.
tester-house.

His;Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Mp;min,
gen, attended by Sir Andrew Barnard, Captain Ta3:7tor, P.:hd
Mr. Fending, left Marlborough House yesterday rrjrutnre
a carriage and four for the Regent Dock-Yar'l, Woolwich.
His Serene Highness returned to town in the Aftornoon.
The Danish Minister transacted busines,4 )re'Aerday at the
Foreign-office.
The Commissioners of the Metro-Alit= Termini had
meeting on Monday. There were Pm-sent Viscount Can-
ning, the Right Hon. J. C. Herrin, Sir Frederick Smith, and
the Lord Mayor. The Comr.iissioners held another meeting
yesterday.
Mr. Mayers, agent. for Barbadoes, had an interview with
Mr. Secretary Gladstone yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Etbnund Nugent, agent for Antigua, had also an inter
view with the Right Hon. Gentleman.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had ay. Inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his
residence in Dowing-street.

queens. In our
11103 his noscoE, E5q...., This. is the aft volume of
undergone
since LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, VOL. I. By
of works which will prove sk great addition to English history.
indeed, the boldoutline condescend to
No better supplement t(1 our annals could be snatsetpi pitliemdentthlionn
stration. But
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the details of pti-
people or society is a thing of
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for
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couldlightbj ec t
far too much
the progress of the
moment to be
passed over in silence, and we think no better means of sup-
plying this historical deficiency could be devised than by
the lives of the monarchs
of Englan age, by this England. Each . tit means, might find its titling •
tog illustration in the person of its
svvereign. Miss Strickland, in her' Lives of the Queens of
England,' has I,
Shown how well this idea can be carried out.
Mr. Roscoe, in his' Lives of the Kings,' will doubtless throw
as much light upon the political character of our early
annals, 43 at a former period the personal character of the
sovereign had everything to do with the aspect of his times.
From various sources Mr. Roscoe has drawn facts which
have never yet appeared in relation to the life of William
the Conqueror. If the succeeding volumes should prove as
interesting, as this one of the great Norman, we can imagine.
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