The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-16 00:00:00

TBE LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA

PORTSUOUTH, May 14.—The bells of the parish church
of Portsmouth rang a merry peal last night in honour of
the arrival of Lord Dalhousie. His lordship, as stated
last night, proceeded in the carriage of the Commander-
in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour' to the
George Hotel, in this town. His lordship's baggage,
&0., has been unshipped from the Tribune to-day, and
is to be conveyed to London to-night. We have plea-
sure in stating that his lordship's health seems improv-
ing, but, from the obstinacy of the wound in his leg,
received in accidentally striking it some tine since
against a piece of timber on one of his Indian journeys,
the general weakness of the bodily system will take some
time to be removed. It appears that swellings arise
around and upon the wound two or three times a month,
a-srl bleediag has to be resorted to on each occasion.
This necessarily causes a great drain upon the system.
Weak, however, as is his lordship's bodily strength, and
great as must be the pain be continually suffers, it is
impossible to describe too warmly the urbanity and
kindness of heart and manner he is described to us as
displaying towards all who may have to come into com-
munication with them. The officers and seamen of the
Tribune steam-frigate, in which his lordship was brought
to this port, emphatically join in this general encomium.

The :Marquis of Dalhousie arrived at Claridge's Hotel,
on Wednesday afternoon, front Portsmouth. The noble
marq.nis was accompanied by his daughter, the Lady
Susa a Ramsay.

Pt ivats accounts from Rely state that much excite- 4
went prevails throughout the entire population, in con-
, lequeow of the discussions in the English and Piedmon-
t ese Parlign”nts. The success 'of Cuunt Cavour has
b ien a real triornph, and the order of the day which ap-
pr 'Dyed his condtZet at the conferences was all but unani-
n.), )us, there being D:ily six or seven discontents—a thing
no t known for a long time past.
FLOGGING AT GRA'AntOt SCElOGLEl.—Considerable dis-
cu scion and feeling have bee.l excited at Bath on the sub-
jec 1 of birching, arising out (1. a recent case in which one
of ~ he foundation boys was flogged with a birch by the
Res .. A. Maclean, the heart master, before the whole
sc b 001, for opening and Ipreaking up the quarterly report
of ..nis conduct given him to take home to his parents.'
A. meeting of parents opposed to the system of birching
es tine to resolutions condemnatory of the practice, and
a) ipealing to the truslneg to interfere ; while another
P. ntion of the parents neemorial!sed the trustees to leave
t! le internal managein.snt of the school entirely to the
LI, ?.ad-master. The trustees have accordLigly met, and,
at !ter discussing the matter fully, they came, by a small
I lajority, to the follocring resolution :—" That in the
sinion of the trustees the mode of punishment fy.birch
, r
A) V, or flogging on the skin, is not necessary to tie dis-
,,i One of the scivol, is very degrading to the individua.
pt tnished, and injurious in its influence upon the school
at large; and that the headmaster be requested in future
to substitute some other method of enforcing discipline."