The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-10 00:00:00

ELIP;TI,iN OF GKNEHAL wILLIAUS A
AERMESE.NT.ATIVE OF CALNE,

CALNE, WEDNESDAY.
The election of a member to supply the vacancy -
caused in the representation of Caine, consequent upon
the elevation of the Earl of Shelburne to the House of
Peers, took place at noon to day, when " the Hero of
Kari" was,returned without opposition.
The gallant officer bad been staying at Bowood (the
seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne) for several days pre-
♦iously, and was escorted into the town this morning by
an immense concourse of horsemen and pedestrians,
amidA the flaunting of banners and the playing of music.
The nomination took place in the Town Hall, at 12 '
o'clock, when the gallant general was proposed by Wm.
Whyte, Esq., of the Highlands ; and seconded by Bing
Baily, E-q.
In acknowledging the honour which the burgesses of
Caine had conferred upon him,

General Williams said—l beg to return you my most
sincere and hearty thanks for the honour you have just
done me in electing-me to tepresent this borough in Par- '
liament. My thanks and gratitude are also due to you
for the kind and friendly reception you have given me,
and for the manner in which I have been treated since
the first moment I entered your town. I hope, by the _
future course which I shall pursue, to merit the high
distinction which you have given me ; and if I obtain
from you only a portion of that consideration in which I
know you held your former representative, there will be
no regret on the side of either of us at your havinesent
me to parliament. The object I have in presenting my-
self before you is untinged by anything like selfishOno-
tive or personal ambition. My real motive in cowing
forward is to endeavour to serve you and to serva.the
country in this her present state of transition from:war
to peace, by advocating the preservation of those Amili-
tary institutions which cost us so much blood arca so
much mortification to re-establish after the comml'ace- '
ment of the late war. I therefore hope you''',,,,lrill
consider that I do my duty if I pursue that couti','
if I try to protect those institutions which will ,pfd
test you from future invaders, and make the ri‘.93e
of England respected throughout the nations of "he
world. As it is with individuals so it is with na-
'ions ; no nation, however great in other resmeta,•
can with safety stand in close proximity with ctiller •
nations armed to the teeth, unless provided with
r\
similar means of defence, and I am the 'fore "
quite sure that what I say will hold good, iz.,
that we should watch zealously over our military insti la-
tons. No pers n would think of going, unarmed, with
his pockets fob of gold among men whom he keew to be. ~
jealous of his ' personal character, and covetous of his
wealth, and I am satisfied you will agree with vihat I said
when I landed at Dover, and what I have since repeated •
—that we should be careful, above all things, to keep •
out selves in a position to preserve that wealth which the
ii dus ry of ages h,is collected in this country. Since the
time of William the Conqueror—and he came to this . •
country having some pretensions to the throne—no con-
querer has ever set 11;s foot upon our soil, and if we would
c nitinue to be able to make this proud boast, we must
ii• t neglect our military resources. The gallant general
said, another object whic'i made him anxious to enter
Parliament was, that it might enable him to render some
service to a country fur which we had spent so much
treasure, and spilt so much blood—he meant Turkey, •
which he was convinced possessed great vitality ; and he •
was sure it was the i iteration of her Majesty's Ministers ,
to do everything they could for Turkey, in conjunction
with our gallant allies the French ; and if those whom
he then addres-td could only have seen the heroism dis- •
played by the Turks, who had stood by hEna in the hour •
of danger, they would agree that they were worthy of
all their esteem and sympathy. .
At the conclusion of his address the gallant general
was again warmly applauded.
He left Calne soon after his election to dine with the
Lord Mayor of London, by special invitation.

TRADE WITH CENTRAL ASIA.

The copy of a "Despatch from the Court of Directors of
the East India Company to the Governor in Council at
Bombay, dated the 4th of June, 1856," is worthy of atten-
tive perusal in Manchester and Liverpool. The export
trade of England with Central Asia and the provinces of
Northern India is yet in its infancy, and a perusal of this "
despatch shows us that to a new trade in this quarter of
the world, capable of indefinite extension, there are only the
obstacles of an improvement in the harbour of Kurrachee,
the completion of the railway from Kurrachee to Kotree,
past the delta of the Indus, and the gradual extension of ,
main roads to Khelat, Candahar, and all the Scinde
country. The fair at Kurrachee is rising in importance,
and presents a capital medium for bringing the British
merchants and the native Indian traders together, and the
importation of manufactured articles in exchange for wool,
cotton, indigo, saltpetre, &c., which are all staple com-
m of the Punjab. The trade of Affghanistan and
the Punjab has rapidly increased in recent years, and
its more rapid increase has only been retarded by the
want of steam-boat accommodation on the rivers ; the
number of boats is altogether inefficient, while the
heavy freights, the result of this state of things, act
as a great discouragement to the native traders. There
is every probability that the countries adjacent to the
Indus will draw more and more their supplies from Kur- j
raabee, :the neatest point. The Government has noel
adopted Kurrachee as the natural read by whichtroops are '
forwarded to Upper India, and the railway and the river
navigation will send commerce more and more in the same
direction. It is not merely as a valuable opening for a
general commerce with Central Asia that we may use the
mouth of the Indus river. It may also to Lancashire be-
come as important a cotton export depot as New Orleans.
Encouragement to native produce's and railway facilities
will do much towards increasing the growth of cotton.
The despatch gives a statement, by Mr. Edgeworth, the
commissioner, that a large quantity of cotton might be
sent eown the river from Moultan; but that its bulk is so
great from imperfect pressure that it cannot be stowed in
Nt,amers. He recommends the establishment of a screw
press in Moultan, and Mr. Frere' the commissioner at Ku-
rachee, makes the same suggestion for that place ; and
these presses, the despatch informs us, have been ordered
to be provided. We have still more substantial assurances -
of the growth of commerce in this quarter from private
enterprise. The Scinde Railway Company have just ob-
tained permission to survey the route from Moiltan to La-
hore and Thuritsir for a new railway, a distance of 230 ,
miles, which, with steamers of light draught on the Indus,
will connect with the Scinde line. By this means Central
Asia, the Punjab, and part of the North-West provinces, •
will obtain access to the Arabian Sea by the port of Kur-
rachee,
which is contemplated by Mr. Andrews, the chair•
man of the company, as the Indian port of the Euphrates
ti an sit.—Manchester Examiner.