The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-18 00:00:00

Tli E SUPPRESSED LETTERS.

We were enabled to inform our readers yester-
day that more light would be thrown upon the
suppression of Lord Canning's letters by subse-
quent disclosures, which would certainly he elicited
in the course of the great debate. All those
who have studied our Parliamentary report
will see that we were not mistaken, and
that it was officially announced, last night, that
by the first mail, which left Calcutta, after the
news had arm ive l of Lord Ellenborough's appoint-
ment to the Board of Control, Lord Canning had
addressed three letters to the noble earl, in which
public questions, and :public:questions alone, were
very fully discussed.

Mr. Whiteside, in his eloquent speech, made
several pointed allusions to this matter, and asked,
amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the house, whether
he was to believe that Lord Canning, who had
written these lettess by a single mail, had been
altogether silent for more than two months ?
The more we hear of this extraordinary affair, the
more are we convinced that wo are not mistaken
in considering the suppression of Lord Canning's
letter to be a base trick, but a place-hunt-
ing cabal, for which it would be very
unjust to hold Mr. Smith solely responsible, as he
acted confessedly by the advice of his leader, who
seems to us, in this instance, to have forgotten the
interests of his country in his eagerness for place,
and to have been more anxious to injure an oppo-
nent than to consult the dictates of honour.

MENI. versus MUM

Who steals from Public Notes the pith ?

Mr. Smith !
Lies for his Party's kin and kith ?

Mr. Smith !
Bans all from Barwi3k to Penryth

Who go against, or don't go with

Mr. Smith !
Makes Truth and Honour each a Mytk
Mr. Smith !

The Marquis Camden has issued invitations for an as-
sembly on Friday, the 11th of June, and for a ball on
Tuesday, the 114th of June, at his residence on Carltoa
House terrace.
The names of Sir Edward Cust, Mr. James Dashwood,
and Professor Alexander, were inadvertently omitted ie
our list of company dining with the Earl of Malmesbury
on Saturday evening.
FOLLI AND INNOCENCE.—CharIes : I say, Clara, ain't
it jolly 1 I've made such a capital book on the Derby !
Clara : I am sure, Charles, lam delighted to hear it.
Any literary pursuit must be better than the horrid prac-
tice you were getting into of betting at races !—Pintek.
MR. ROBERT OwEN.—A public meeting was held in
St. Martin's Hall on Friday evening last, Mr. Robert
Owen in the chair Resolutions were unanimously
passed to petition both Houses of Parliament for an in-
quiry into the plans of social change which the venere
able chairman has so long promulgated.
It is very unfortunate that neither the Times nor tie
Morning Pool have received the letters of their Indian
correspondents by the last mail. It must be particularly
annoying to our contemporaries that they are unable to
announce to their readers what construction is put in
India upon the Confiscation Clause, and what effect has
been produced on the native mind by its promulgation.
It is also strange that so many copies of the Friend of
Indict should have miscarried on the present occasion.
—Daily New.
Lord Canning seems doomed to correspond with ex-
Presidents of the Beard of Control. For the three last
mails he has been addressing Mr. Vernon Smith as Pre-
sident, though they all reached this country after Lord
Ellenborough had assumed the office ; and the present
mail, which brings letters from him addressed to
Lord Ellenborough, arrives after the resignation of that
nobleman. By the bye, if one mail brings no less than
three letters to Lord Ellenborough from the Governor-
General, how comes it that three mails should only have
brought one letter to Mr. Vernon Smith 1 Or have
there been more intercepted letters than one I—Daily
News.
THE DIVISION IN THE LORDS.—Lor.I Clanricarde
voted with the minority in support of Lord Shaftee-
bury's resolution on Friday night. This is necessary to
be stated, as in the list his name appears under his
sitting title of Lord Somerhill.
The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, honoured the performance at the
Adelphi Theatre with their presence last evening.
Tne Royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desart,
the Hon. ;Caroline Cavendish, Lord Bateman, Major-
General the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Ponsonby.
THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Monday. The Orinoco,
Capt. Boynton, left this day, with the West India mails,
a full cargo, specie of the valeta of 14,3001., jewellery.
3 7001., and 85 passengers, among whom is Lieut.-Col.
Chamberlayne. The steam ship Tagus, Capt. Christian,
left this day, with the umal Peninsular mail, 5001. in
specie, a full general cargo, and 21 passengers.
ANOTHER NEW THEATRE.—We understand Messrs.
Johnson and Nelson Lee, the enterprisicg managers of
the City of London Theatre, have taken a spot of ground
near Linfehou e Church, fur a new theatre, which is to
be opened by October next. Mr. A. Jones, who built
the Surrey Music Hall, is the architect.
THE ACCIDENT ON THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—
The adjourned inquest upon the persons who were killed
by the recent accident on the Trent Valley R:silway was
resumed yesterday at the Bull Hotel, Nuneaton, before
Mr. W. H. Seymour, coroner. Several witnesses were
examined, but no material f ct respecting the accident
was elici'ed. A plan cf the portion of the railway where
tlie accident took place was exhibited, and some of the
evidencebbia,dj
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u the upon the question whether proper pre-
elutione had Lean taken recent animals from getting
how the field on to the railway. Ono witness exeressed
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inquest
was again adjourned, Mr. Ince (who is not yet out of
dauger) is stol slowly progressing towards recovery.
Miss Richmond and Mr. Dallas are also progressing fa-
:,ro.E:brlaaßbbTl.llY; be EXTRAORDINARY —Our zoological readers willinterestedt hear that a hippopota'
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top of
creature
,taiunkay occupied
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swimming
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pied by its mother &bunt
while the little thing attempted to get on dry ground,
but the descent from the sleeping apartment of the pa-
rent hippopotami into their bath not being eloped, it bad
some difficulty in raising its weight out of the water.
The mother then came to the rescue, but in her endea-
vours to assist her little one up the step managed so to
bruise and injure its tender body that it died the same
evening.