The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-25 00:00:00

THE MEETING AT CAMBRIDGE-HOUO

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—My attention has been called to a letter,,i° 0
the Times of Saturday last, in which, after a vie"
consideration, Lord Shaft esbury writes
" The Prime Minister, in the debate of the l'""
stated that I bad attended a public meeting on Sun"lli
at Cambridge-house. The motive was so manifest that
did not interrupt him and contradict his assertion." io
I made no such statement. What I did S3l, d
correctly given by your reporter -in the follovol3°
words :
" I do not know whether be attended it, but I P re.
h-it
sume he had communicated to him the result of t"-
Sunday meeting."
Had I made such a statement publicly and in 110
bearing, whatever " motive" Lord Shaftesbilra
may be charitable enough to impute to me, I sh.i_ou 4
have thought, judging by my own feelings, he
instead of leaving it unnoticed for a week, ,6
would have at once contradicted it in the presence
of the assembled peers, who must have heard t'
precise expressions used.
a
If he were ultimately led to notice the alleged
statement by the " anonymous writers" to vrl:.
he refers, he had at least one opportunity mile
quent to the date of his letter to you on which of
might have done so in my presence;in the Soused
Lurds. To most peers that would have aP134331.„1,
the more courteous mode of prOceeding.—l 11—
DERBY.
sir, your obedient serva,nt,
St. James's-square, May 24.

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The annual report of the Oriental Gas Company, r,be
paratory to their meeting en Wednesday, describes i•
lighting of Calcutta with gas, which was effected •
July last, after a series of extraordinary
slowly,raoordina
rdelaye f 1.13,03
variety of accidental circumstances. Since that pe'teil
although the use of gas has steadily, iecres-•$
at Calcutta, and the number of lights supplied, vrbiek'he
the commencement was only 333, is now 1,040.
total expenditure of the company has been 71,56007 tr
PENSIONING PRIVATEERS.—A bill has been l°rive•
duced in Congress to pension the descendants 0., Pbeer
teers during the last war. We shall probably elteer
of peoeions to the descendants of the sutlers en";eible
boys of the Revolution, and it is not at all iall:tsita
that the posterity of the pirates we have hung may -otor°
similar rewards, if it can be proved that their since/lose
ever plundered ships belonging to parties with :hob
nations we were ever at war. The ingenuity with able,
our public treasury is plundered is reall rover teetS
There seems to be no end to the devices and ?Leveler
employed for getting access to the money of the ill eg.
went. Our public lands have been pretty lee„„7l'rfebell
bausted already in these plundering crusades. cv'' their
be compelled by and by to increa3e the tariff for
protection. This is the only sort of American in yeal
which finds favour in the eyes of our Government•--
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ESCAPE F MuTINEEES —The constant esear. ofib sec'
persons we are chiefly anxious to secure, from etwot ea'
missive fortress which our troops capture, has bees
naturally excited a good deal of remark ; and wevatiee
hoard it rumoured in txplanation that while the °a
troops are quite willing to fi4lst. for us in the filieure thsf
will n-1 intercept fugLives in their flight. w, 0
chargo true, which we can hardly suppose, it school
course, account for those annoying accidents we seito
frequently had to mend. The charge carries aloe% We
it an imputation of a sort a chivalry to these troop ,sido
are not quite prepared to give them credit for em
yt
bearing in mind that we had few or none of °re the
Luckuow to connive at the escapes there, we ai•
the
thanetcidweieitdsiidnnatph
more disposed to look upon our run of ill fortune tee
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wmatterar.lats aiscfhoargpotetrteonf
Central India, the gentleman who was going to v_ hole
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officers of the Neernuch garrison in oil, and W 713001
f lb& A
little doubt that the Jez.kbel of Jhansi, Naps 0 bunte
and the miscreant of Arrah will before long to v'
down by the troops, or be betrayed, ioto,our biW
Bombay Time.