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

THE 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 be 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 arrived 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 letters 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 cenvinced that we 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.

IVLE NI . versus MUM !

Who stoals from Public Notes the pith ?
Mr. Smith !
Lies for his Party's kin and kith ?

Mr. Smith !

Bans all from Berwick to Penryth

Who go against, or don't go with :

Mr, Smith !
Makes Truth and Honour each a Myth ?
Mr. Smith !

The Marquis Camden has issued invitations for an as-
sembly on Friday, the 11th of June, and for a ban on
Tuesday, the 15th of June, at his residence on Carlton
House terrace.
The names of Sir Edward Cast, Mr. James Dashwood,
and Professor Alexander, were inadvertently omitted in
our list of company dining with the Earl of Malmesbury
on Saturday evening.
FOLLY AND INNOCENCE.—CharIes : I say, Clara, ain't
it jolly ? I've made such a capital book on the Derby !
Clara : I am sure, Charles, I am delighted to hear it,
Any literary pursuit must be better than the horrid prac-
tice you were getting into of betting at races I—Pune4.
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 vener-
able chairman has so long promulgated.
It is very unfortunate that neither the Times nor the
Morning Post 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
India should have miscarried on the present occasion.
—Daily News.
Lord Canning seams doomed to correspond with rx-
Presidents of the Board of Control. For the three lest
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 Or have
there been more intercepted letters than one ?-.Daily
News.
THE DIVISION IN THE LORDS.—Lord Clanricarde
voted with the minority in support of Lord Shaftes-
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.
The Royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desert,
the Hon. ;Caroline Cavendish, Lord Bateman, Major-
General the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Ponsonby.
THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Monday. The Orinoco,
Capt. Baynton, left this day, with the West India mails,
a full cargo, specie of the valve of 14,300/. jewellery
3 7001., and 85 passengers, among whom is 'Lieut.-Col.
Chainberlayne.. The steam ship Tagus, Capt. Christian,
left this day, with the usual Peninsular mail, 5001. in
specie, a full general cargo, and 21 passengers.
ANOTHER NEW THEATRE.—We understand Messrs.
Johnson and Nelson Lee, the enterprising managers of
the City of London Theatre, have taken a spot of ground
near Limehowe Churcb, for a new theatre, which is to
be opened by October next. Mr. A. Jones, who built
the Surrey Music Hall, is the architect.
THN ACCIDENT ON THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.—
The adjourned inquest upon the persons who were killed
by the recent accident on the Trent Valley Railway was
resumed yesterday at the Bull Hotel, Nuneaton, before
Mr. W. H. Seymour, coroner. Several witnesses were
examined, but no material f sct respecting the accident
was elicited. A plan of the portion of the railway where
the reccideat took place was exhibited, and some of the
his
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eVidenee turned upon the question whether proper pre-
cautions had been taken to prevent animals from getting
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Jumped over a stile three feet high. The inquest
was again adjourned.
r.oce (who not yet out
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danger) is still slowly
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progressing towards recovery.
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BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY
probably be interested to ilear `Our h zoological readers will
mug has been born in the Garden a young hippopota-
The little creature made its appearoaf Plants at Paris.
the water of the tank occupied by cite: at the top of
6 a.m. on Monday, May 10. After ewimramoitnher
babout
while the little thing attempted to get on drgy garoouuntda
but the descent from thu sleeping ap.rtment of the pa-
rent hippopotami into their bath not being eloped, it had
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 tame
evening,