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TICE &ITN, LONDON, rUESDAY EVEINING SIEP'rEMI3ER 22, 1857

lantern and top of the old lighthouse tower will ba re-
moved.

[Bearings are Magnetic), Var. (at the Arran Islands in
1857) 271 deg. W.] By order,
W. LEES, Secretary.
Ballast-office, Dublin, Ang. 27, 1857.

BANKRUPTS.
James Saunders, miller, Thurlton, to surrender, Oct. 2,
at eleven, and Nov. 4, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Stansfeld, official assignee ; Aldridge and Bromley, Gray's.
inn ; Copeman and Sons, Norfolk.
Henry Whitten, boot and shoemaker, Leamington
Priors, Warwickshire, Oct. 9, at ten, and Oct. 22, at half-
past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court, Christie,
official assignee, Birmingham ; Poole, Kenilworth ; Hodg-
son and Allen, Birmingham.
William Conyer and Joseph Conyer, shoddy dealers,
Dewsbury, Oct. 9 and 30, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Scholes and
Son, Dewsbury ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
David John Allen, draper, Carmarthen, Oct. 5, and
Nov. 3, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman,
official assignee, Bristol ; Sale, Worthington, and Ship.
man, Manchester ; Leman and Humphreys, Bristol.
Thomas Blaber Daniell, ironmonger, High-street, Pop-
lar, Oct. 2 at half-past twelve, and Oct. 27 at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alderman.
bury ; Moss, Moorgate-street.
Henry Arnold and Henry John Arnold, merchant,
Uttozeter, Staffordshire, Oct. 5 and 26, at half-past
twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore,
official assignee, Birmingham ; Welby and Flint, Ut-
tozeter ; James, Birmingham.

A WEST-END MILLINER'S BILL.

In the course of the proceedings in the bankruptcy of
Col. Waugh, a proof was tendered by Mr. Linkiater on
behalf of Miss Jane Clarke, of 170, Regent-street, for
1,8541., the balance of a millinery account. To render
this claim fully intelligible to the general reader, it must
be stated that in July, 1850, the bankrupt married Mrs.
Carew. That lady had a settlement of 6001 a year out
of the Beddington estate, and she has a daughter by her
first husband, who in the year 1855 married Sir C. R.
Pigot. The millinery bill of Miss Clarke arises thus :
The account commences Feb., 1850, a few months only
before Mrs. Carew became Mrs. Waugh. From that
period to Dec., 1855, the amount of millinery furnished
to Mrs. Waugh was 1,2601 12s 541, and the payments
on account were 1001 in Nov., 1851 ; 150/ in April,
1852 ; 1001 in April, 1853 ; 2501 in Aug., 1855 ; and
3001 in July, 1856 ; total, 9001, leaving a balance of
3601 124 Sid as carried to the account of Mrs. Waugh.
From Dec., 1855, to Feb., 1856, the amount supplied
to Mrs. Waugh was 1,4931 8s Od, which, with 3601
12s 51d, the balance of account, makes 1,8541 Os 61d,
the amount of the proof now tendered. The first
account includes the following items : Spanish
cap cleaned, made, and trimmed with additional lace,
1/ 18s ; black silk cassawick, 7173 ; one pocket-hand-
kerchief, 4l 4s; one ditto, 11 5s ; a pair of hair-bands,
it 5s ; deep black lace added to mantle, 51; enamelled
bracelet, 41 4s ; another ditto, Si 33; black glace mantle
71 17s 6d ; head-dress with pearls, 3133; point-lace bon-
net, with emerald flowers, 12112 s; white moire antique
dress, 121 12s ; Brussels lace veil, 151 15s ; ditto head-
dress, 71 17c 6:1 ; gros de Naples dress, 9/193 6,1 ; sprig-
ged muslin slip, 11/ lls ; jaconet embroidered dress, 8/
183 6d ; marsrlla waistcoat, 184 ; six real turquoise but-
tons, 3/ ; drab 'and blue chied dress, 81 184 61 ; dress
and waistcoat, 717 s ; coloured muslin dress, 414;; white
ditto, 31 31 ; moire antique dress, 11/ 6d ; French lace
mantilla, 71 7e ; three lace chewisettes, 5l 3a ; black
and white chind bilk dress, 81 83 ; Chantilly veil, 41 14;
61 ; six richly embroidered lace collars, 151 ; pink cap,
3/ 3s ; ditto, 21 123 6d ; pair of turquoise pins, 616 s ;
plaited lace chemisette, 1l lls 6d; lace flounces, 6l 63 ;
peach moire dress, 101 10s ; ten buttons, 51 ; lice cap
with pink riband, 11 154 ; pair of lace sleeves, Si 3s ;
pair Lisle ditto, 21 124 ad ; white lace mantilla, 61 16s
6d ; poplin dress, 61 163 61; three bouquets of white
poppet and velvet, 21 24; three lilac ditto, 2/ 2s ;
two pair of corsets and laces, 4/ lOs 61 ; drab bonnet
with green velvet, 3/ 33 ; jacket trimmed with
lace, 4/ 143 61 ; Brussels lace headdress, with flowers,
51 5 ' • a green and white court dress, with blonde, pearls,
ribands, &c , 511 5s ; feathers, 3/ 133 61 ; barege dress,
si‘h silk fringe, &c., 9/ 193 61 ; pearl buttons, 243;
striped silk dress, with fringe, &c., 9/ 193 51; blaca glace
jacket, with ribands, Si 15a •6d ; a collar, 3/ 13s sd ;
barege dress, 8/ 183 61 ; silk dress, 121 12s ; lace head.
drew', with roses and sweet peas, 1/ 9s 6,1 ; vandyke
1/ 5s ; French canabriek dress, 81 18s 6d ; embroi-
(l,,red handerchief, 5158 ; embroidered India dress, 81.
183 6d ; drab cambric do., 71 73 ; lace chemisette, 31. ;
another white dress, 81 8s ; another moire antique do.,
121 123; black lane something, with mosaic fastenings,
51 8s ; mantle to suit do., 111 lie ; embroidered sleeves,
21 12e 6d ; embroidered c liar, 31 3s ; another poplin
dress, 101 10.3; Maltese lace, 3/ 193 ; another poplin
dress, 101 10a ; a rich black velvet dress, with Maltese
lace and fringe, 2814 e; brown muslin dress, sv,th flounces
and fringe, 171 17s ; velvet dress, trimmed with real
black lace and ribands, 9/ 83 6]. ; pair of Mechlin lace
sleeves, 81 33 ; lappet, with roses and pendants, 31 33;
Cechmere cloak, with velvet, 71 7s;lace, roses, and velvet
4/ 183; lace lappet, with pomegranates and bouquets, 41
4s; point lace parasol, 101 104; point lace cap, with eer
and peach. 51 15a 6d; a hoop, 1/; another moire antique
drew, 13/133; blue do., 11/ lls ; 24 shell buttons, 3/ ;
making brown barege dress with flounces, glace slip.
riband, tulle, and fringe, 61 ; lace Spanish mantilla, 121
12s ; pink and violet wreath, 11 83 ; black lace bonne*,
with poppies, 3/ 33 ; blue lace ditt ', with violets, 31 104;
another dress, 13/ 15s ; another ditto, with pearls,
bugles and tulle, 161 164; blonde head-dress, with roses,
21 13v; lace lappet, with ribands and pearl:, 2l 124 ;
blonde head-dress, with gold. and white roses, 4/ ;
another, -eith eth•-r roses, 2/ 183; drab and peach muslin
lappet, slip, riband, and petticoat, 121 19s 9d ; muslin
dress, with lace, &c , 141 Oa 9d; another dress, 161 1.6 e ;
point lace cap, 3l 133 61 ; black glace jacket, jet but-
tons, and lace, 51 15; 61 ; black velvet ditto, 101 103 ;
a bearskin cloth, 71 7a bonnet, with blue violets, 3/
another velvet jacket, 6l 63 ; another violet bonnet, 41
51 4; ; another moire antique dress, with extra moire
velvet and ribbon trimmings, 11/ 183. The ace -mint
from Jan. 1856, to Feb. 1357, consists principally of a
trousseau for Miss Carew on the occasion of her mar-
; iege with Sir Charles Pigot. It includes a white glace
ball dreen, with blonde, silver, and blue, 181; wreath ; f
!slue azalea and silver, 2/ 2s ; flowers and strings to hoe-
net, 1/ is ; bonnet, with white and pansies, 8/ 163
; wreath, trimmings, and rose, 6/ 63 ; white glace
court dress, pearls, blonde, and green glace train,
25/ 18s 3d ; court head-dress, with geld wreath
and feathers, 51 15s &I ; dressing four done
121 121 ; another court dress, with gold and white
lace train, and brocaded gold, 551103 ; additional flounces,
gold, and roses, 21 33; point lace cap, lilac and pearls,
11/ lie ; making train into a dress, with pearls, &c.,
11/ lls ; making second. train into ditto, 11/ 9.3; pair
of lappets, 81 8s ; point lice, 101 10s ; green brocaded
moire antique dress, with pick ribands and tassels, 191
193 ; glace mantle, with real lace, 121 12s ; a point lace
parasol, 131 18s ; a Venice point flounce, 841; a rose
point bonnet, 141 143 ; point lace trimmings for velvet
dress. 361 15s ; nine yards Brussels lace and flonncings,
.281 143; ditto, 31/ 103 ; black lace ditto, 311. 103 ; do.,
311 lOs ; Brussels lace bonnet, 6l 16s 61 ; another moire
antique dress, 121 123 ; another ditto, 161 16s; another
ditto, 151 153 ; pink glace dress, tulle with pearl fringe,
&c. 171 17s ; another moire antique dress, 141 14; ;
another ditto, with pearl drops, 201 ; wreath of lilies,
21 2s ; ditto of pink flowers, 1/ lOs ; morning dress,
flounces, &c., 141 14s ; green glace dress, with velvet
fringe, 191 ; another dress, with pearls, &e., 121 12s ;
another with beads, &c., 161 ; another with green velvet
and pearl buttons, 271 ; white embroidered dress, 141
14s ; crystallised glace dress with orange blossoms and
pearl, 211 ; violet glace dress with tasse's, 161 163 ;
white muslin dress with lace, &c , 22/ ; silver
dt%ss with Maltese lace, 131 13s ; head-dress—
scarlet, velvei, and ivy, 2/ 184 ; ditto, with
vine leaves, &c., 21 12s; black velvet cloak, 11/ ; blue
velvet jacket with lace, 12f 123 ; pink jacket with gold
embroidery, 111; chemisette and sleeves of Indian mus-
lin, 41 12s 6d ; another morning dress, 91 19s 6d ; braid
and Flash, 61 10s ; evening dress, 20/ ; under the head of
" bridesmaid " are the following entries :—Black velvet,
sable trimmings, 731 10s ; mantle, 161 16s ; white glace
evening dress, tulle, stiff net embroidered blonde au3
swansdown, 11/ lie ; Brussels lace sleeves, 4/ 4e ; ditto
with white satin, 41 4s ; 3i Venice point trimmings,
lace, &c., 13112 a 6d ; covering parasol handle with lace
and silk, 121 123 ; white glace ditto, with French lace,
10/ 103—total, 2031 for bridesmaid. There are further
items:—White blonde mantilla, 15/ 153 ; white tiny
bonnet with sapphire and lace veil, 51 15s 6d; wreath of
orange flowers, 3/ 33 ; wreath of roses, 2/ 23 ; linsey
wolsey cloak, Si; black hat, 3/ ; another tiny bonnet,
with gold and flowers, 0/ 12s 61 ; 35 ladies' favours,
71 lle 6d ; 35 gentlemen's ditto, 71 17s 6d ; three chit-
dren's favours, 12s ; bridesmaids' ditto, 2/ lOs ; 20 white
ribbons and flowers, 2/ ; two pairs of widen k:d gloves
with orange
ei; blossom,ttariningenigcap l3s ; blue bonnet with Maltese
lace, flowers and pearls, 3/ 33 ; point lace crown, mar
(mike stars, and green rosettes, 51 51 ; spring hoop,
dresoeswith;
velvet dress, silk lininwgsit,htaEseueglsenanedi'llaucee', 1110/5115;n3;abklainct
:draw, 23/ 13 6d.
Among the
14/ 61 crape, &c., 171 is ; ditto, 11/ 15e 61 ; ditto,
parioaoofaz,allowed is one cf 1 5071 for jewel
oclai claim levy. There is
guineas for oily one against the estate of 45
krb:txheesl (July,
b1i3115f6) at her
et, Adelphi, and Olympic
Majesty's, and the Elayneatilas
Theatres. Some of the itemsri
levy are as remarkable as those co • n. contained • amed in the bill for
millinery.

No less than 14 merchartl have been declared in,ol-
- at the Exchange at Constantinople, Nearly of
them are Greeks, who have been speculating excenivei
in corn, and been unable through the monetary elide to
fulfil their engagements.

Naval and Military intelligence:

The head-quarters of the Bth Royal Irish Hussars,
under the command of Lieut. -Cul. R. de Salis, ar-
rived at Newbridge barracks on Saturday from
Dundalk, and will shortly move to Cork to embark
for Bombay.
The head-quarters and six troops of the 17th
Lancers, under Lieut.-Col. Benson, will very shortly
move to Cork to embark for Bombay.
The 94th Regiment, under the command of Major
Buller, in the absence of Lieut.-Col. Mills, on leave,
will shortly proceed from Dublin to Cork to pre-
pare to embark at Queenstown harbour for convey-
ance to Kurrachee, India.
The 51st (the King's) Light Infantry, now in
Dublin, will shortly embark at Queenstown for
Bombay.
The service companies of the 76th Regiment, un-
der the command of Lieut.-Col. R. C. Lloyd, are
shortly expected to arrive at Queenstown from
Nova Scotia, and on arrival at Cork will proceed to
the Curragh camp to join the Infantry Brigade.
The whole of the officers and meu of the 4th,
10th, 11th, and 21st companies of Royal Engineers,
uuder orders to embark for India, were yesterday
inspected on the parade-ground at Brompton bar-
racks, Chatham. The companies were drawn up in
the Barrack-square under the command of their
respective officers, the strength of the whole force
500 men of all ranks. Nearly the whole of the men
ordered to India have seen a great deal of service in
all quarters of the globe, and a large number are
decorated with the Crimean medal. The order for
the 11th (Capt. C. E. Cumberland's) company to
embark at Southampton and proceed overland to
India has been cancelled, and it is understood that
a portion of the Royal Engineers will be conveyed
to India in the Chesapeake, 51, steam-frigate, Com-
modore Watson, now ready for sea at Portsmouth.
The officer selected to command the Royal Engi-
neers in India is Lieut.-Col. H. D. Harness, com-
manding Royal Engineer at Malta ; Capt. F. E.
Cox, attached to the Staff at Chatham, being ap-
pointed Adjutant. -
The Indian depots at the Provisional Battalion,
Chatham, will be greatly strengthened on the Ist
October by the arrival of five additional depots at
that garrison—viz., the sth Fusileers, 18th Royal
Irish, 33d (Duke of Wellington's), 51st Light In-
fantry, and the 94th Regiment, for the purpose of
being attached to the 3d battalion, which is to be
formed under the command of Lieut.-Colonel C.
Elmhirst. Each of the three battalions at Chatham
will consist of 10 depots, numbering 2,000 ova of
all ranks, with a separate staff, but the selection of
depots for each battalion has not yet been made.
The 3d battalion will occupy the huts at Prince
Henry's bastion.
The steam ship Great Britain, which has been
fitted at Liverpool under the immediate superin-
tendence of her owners, will leave that port to-
morrow or Thursday for Cork, whence she will em-
bark about 1,100 of the Bth and 17th Cavalry for
Bombay on or about the 28th of this mouth.
Extensive preparations have been in progress for
some weeks pat by the troops belonging to the
Sappers and Miners at Chatham for blowing up the
remaining portions of old Rochester-bridge, and,
the whole of the arrangements having been com-
pleted the explosions will take place this day, on
which occasion upwards of I,ooolb. weight of gun-
power will be used in destroying the arches of the
bridge, which are to be blown to pieces. In order
to facilitate the operations several shafts have been
sunk to a great depth in the piers, communicating
with which are galleries, in which the gunpowder
was yesterday deposited. There are four charges
of 2001 b. each and two of 1331 b. each, the whole of
which will be fired simultaneously by means of the
voltaic battery worked by Capt. Scott, Royal En-
gineers. General Sir John F. Burgoyne, G. C.B ,
Inspector-General of Fortifications, with several
other distinguished officers of the Royal Engineers,
will be present to witness the operations, which will
i)e carried out under the direction of Col. H. Saud-
ham, Director of the Royal Engineers at Chatham,
The working party of Sappers and Minors is under
the direction of Captain W. H. Noble, Royal En-
gineers, to whom the superintendence of the under-
taking has been confided.

only very lately since its new formation has added
to his former glories After a forced march the
French forces arrived at the place they were to at-
tack in such an exhausted state that the Zouaves
refused to attack, on which the flank companies of
the Foreign Legion at once volunteered to carry
the works under a very sharp fire, which they did.
" Subjoined are the names of a few general
officers who have risen to eminence of late, and
who served in the French Foreign Legion :
" Marshal St. Arnaud.—Entered the service in
the Foreign Legion as lieutenant from half-pay,
and did not leave it until he attained the rank of
major.
" General M‘Mahon.—Commanded the 2nd
Regiment of the Foreign Legion.
" General Bedeau.—Commanded the lst Regi-
ment of the Foreign Legion.
" General Neumayer. —Di tto.
" General Carbuccia, who died in the Crimea,
served many years in the Foreign Legion.
"General Bazaine, who commanded the French
and English troops at the expedition to Kinburn,
1855, and was afterwards Governor of Sebastopol,
enlisted as a private in the Foreign Legion in 1831,
and rose regularly in that corps until he arrived in
the Crimea in command of its Ist Regiment, when
he was given the command of the entire Foreign
Brigade.
"General Mellinet.—Now commanding the
French Imperial Guards ; served for seven years in
the Foreign Legion.
" General Vinoy.—Commands one of the Brigade
of the Guarde Imperiale, and served many years
in the Foreign Legion.
General Cbangarnier.—Served as captain and
major in the Foreign Legion.
General Charras.—Served as major and lieu-
tenant•colonel in the Foreign Legion."

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.

(From the Laity News.)

It is only too apparent that Lord Canning
neither inspires nor possesses the confidence of the
independent British community at Calcutta ; and it
is quite certain that at home all the public knows
abuut Lord Canning is, that he is the son of Mr.
Canning. Of course no rational being will ever
think of holding Lord Canning responsible for the
mutiny of the Bengal Army, or for the events which
have led to its revolt ; and official people at home
will, in due season—that is, when the time for in-
quiry comes—preach the comfortable doctrine that
nobody is to blame either for the occurrence itself
or for the total absence of all prescience as to the
real state of the Native Troops.
But with this entire want of confidence in Lord
Canning at Calcutta, where something is known of
him, and with this ignorance of Lord Canning at
home, where something at least ought to be known
of a Governor-General of India—with the facts
st firing us in the face that on the first appearance
of insubordination in the Bengal army, Lord Can-
ning did not view the symptoms of disaffection as
very serious ; that after the first symptoms of dis-
order were over, he wrote home that all cause for
alarm had paused away ; that he refused Jung
Bahadoor's offer of considerable reinforcements, by
the acceptance of which danger might at once have
been removed from Lucknow ; that the mutiny and
destruction of property at Dinapore are attributed,
by a press he has the power to suspend, to his not
having complied with the requisition sent him for
additional troops from that station ; that the
merchants and traders of Calcutta, though in num-
bets a mere handful, are providing for their own
safety, and have, for making this provision to assist
themselves, been rebuked and snubbed by Lord
Canning ; considering all these things, the question
will force itself into men's mouths—:ls Lord Can-
ning the man for this emergency ?

When the, tenure of Lord lialhousie's Govern-
ment drew to a close, and a successor was to be
appointed, the public did not turn to Lord Canning
and express any spontaneous opinion of his fitness
for the appointment. On the contrary, so far as
public opinion was concerned, it would have pre
ferred Lord Elgin as Governor-General of India ;
and there is, we believe, no doubt that the Court of
Directors of the East India Company would have
gladly concurred in this preference. Now we do not
begin, by saying that the public feeling in this case
was right, but at all events it was reasonable, for
Lord Elgin was known to have been successful iii
two very difficult governments. He bad had large
success in dealing with the embarrassed, cross-
grained, and dissatisfied planters of Jamaica, and
the prosperous and fickle black population of that
island. In Canada and British North America he
had exhibited even superior qualities. He there
skilfully steered a great province of freemen
through the rocks and shoals of their own political
passions ; rooted out in a great measure the last
troubles of a rebellion which nearly lost us that
colony ; assisted in restoring it to a state of un-
paralleled loyalty ; enabled the Home Government
greatly to reduce its military expenditure, by the
introduction -of a scheme of local self-defence ; and,
by the Treaty of Washington, laid the basis of au
enormous commerce with the United Stater,
which gives British North America all the
advantages of its territorial connexion with that
republic, and removes all stimulus or motive to
political annexation.
These services—and they were great services—
did not prove that Lord Elgin was in all respects
the fittest man in the Empire fur the Governor-
General of India—that we quite admit. Nor do
we assert that he was, or is, the fittest man. For
the duties of a Governor-General of a dependent
Empire are very different, it is obvious, from those
of either a great productive and tropical Island,
where the bulk of the population consists of eman-
cipated negroes, oe a large territorial colony grow-
ing into an independent State. But in these two
responsible employments Lord Elgin did exhibit
the rare faculty • of successfully dealing with men
of various and even opposite tendencies, characters,
and capacities, and did show a coolness, a sagacity,
and a self-reliance invaluable in the rulers of trans-
marine possessions of the British Crown. His
were services which could not be passed- over by
the Queen's Government ; and they were not passed
over. Two distant governments were at their dis-
posal about the same time. Both in pecuniary
value were great, and both were of large though of
very different political mportance. They were the
government of the Australian Colony of Victoria,
worth 15,0001. a-year, and the Supreme Governor-
ship of India, worth 25,000/.. a-year. The former
government was offered to Lord Elgin, and as v e
think .was very naturally declined by him ; for
though the salary was much larger than he had en-
joyed in Canada, the position was in rank an in-
ferior one, the colony, though it had its political
importance and its 'difficulties, containing only
about one-tenth of the population confided to Lord
Elgin's charge in Canada—in short, such a govern-
ment was a step backward, not forward ; and able
and ambitious men do not like, except under
circumstances of necessity and where renown is to
be acquired, to retrograde in official rank. Lord
' Elgin refused Victoria, which could hardly have
been proposed in serious expectation of his accept-
ing it ; and, the offer over, Lord Canning was
appointed Governor-General of India, a position
which it is notorious Lord Elgin would only have
been too happy to have accepted, and which the
public would have applauded his appointment to as
a substantial reward for proved merit.
Now who was Lord Canning, that he should thus
have successfully competed with Lerd Elgin for the
highest prize and the most responsible situation
under the British Crown 7 Lord Aberdeen will
tell us, as he used to tell the foreign ministers, that
as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lord
Canning was a most useful assistant, and a very
likely man to rise in, the world. Mr. Rowland
Hill will tell us, .aud we believe with very great
truth—for we are not depreciating Lord Canning—
that he was by far the best Postmaster-General
he has ever known. During the debates on the
last Charter Acle Lord Canning got up the
case of India for the Government of that'
day in the Lords, and exhibited about the
same amount of cram knowledge of the
subject, with much less tediousness, in that
assembly as the equallylalecrious Sir Charles Wood
did in the House of Commons. And in the discus-
sion of the Oxford University Reform Bill Lord
Canning played the part—longo inte7vallo—which
was Mr. Gladstone 's original character in the
Lower House of Parliament. All this is very true,
but not very important or encouraging. Moreover,
Lord Canning, by Lord Aberdeen's desire, refused
the offer which Lord Derby made him to enter the
cabinet which Lord Derby never formed, and ac-
cepted the offer Lord Palmerston made him to con-
tinue in his cabinet. When we have added that
Lord Palmerston was his father's follower and
friend, that Mr. Canning saw Lord Palmerston's
merits much better than either Lord Liverpool or
the Duke of Wellington, that Lord Palmerston is
supposed to be grateful for this prescience, and
that this gratitude is believed to be very much at
the bottom of ,his appointment, we have, we
think, told prettyfairly the story of Lord Canning's
political life before he went to India.
Now what did it amount to ? To the creditable
fulfilment of the minor opportanites it was Lord
Canning's gce d fortune to enjoy, but to nothing
more. Lord Canning had never shown publicly any
high qualities. He had not his father's eloquence—
On the contrary, he had an impediment in his speech.
He had not his father's courage, mettle, or vigour—
on the contrary, he was passive, submissive, re-
served, and timid. He had not his father's noble
ambition—on the contrary, he was content to ad-
vatibie his fortunes by following great men irrespec-
tive of their political views. He had not his father's
experience of the world, or his habits of self-reli-
ance, or his knOwledge of human nature, still less
power of seeing coming events from a distance, or
realising the final results of a great policy • on the
contrary, Lord Canning was simply a well-educated
wet-behaved, -and useful subordinate ; such as his
fatherand most other great men never were.
And be was chosen as Governor-General of India,
not because he had either special knowledge or spe-
cial fitness, but because he was the fortunate young
man of the Palmer-ton Cabinet, because India
was deemed to be in au exceedingly tranquil con-
dition, because the Government at home wanted a
man in India imbued with their own notions—
though what they are Heavers only knows I—be-
cause Lord Canning was not rich, and because
Governors-General usually bring fortunes home,
and some obtain pensions of 5,000/. a year for deeds
which, ere they are settled down at home, have as-
sisted to shake the empire to its fouud scions.
We are not adopting or unduly exalting Lord
Elgin, in saying that a comparison of his qualifica-
tions with tleye of Lord Canning were all in Lord
Elgin's favour. What we desire to point out is
that in this modern system, which requires either a
Governor-General to be taken, as Lord Auckland,
Lord Ellenhorough, Lord Hardinge, Lord Dal
housie, and Lord Canning were, from the Cabinet
of the day, or, as others have been, from the friends
of the M.nister, the country has DO security what-
ever for getting the best and fittest man, and that
the chances are that friendship and intimacy, whe-
ther political or private, will prevail against com-
petency and experience.
Had the Government at all anticipated such a re-
volt, Lord Canning would never have been sent to
India. There was apparently serious work to be
done in China, and then Lord Elgin was called in.
But in India the rule ought to have been, not con-
fidence in our position, not a belief that it was safe
to send a mediocre person ; but mistrust and a dis-

credit that any man, however wise, able, or expe-
rienced, could really fathom our situation there. As
it is, Lord Canning-is placed in a position for which
those nearest to him hold him to be unequal, and
for which there is nothing, either in his antecedents
or his acts, that can inspire confidence in those at a
distance.