The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-23 00:00:00

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thal. go out with the most sincere desire to exert my best
efforts to serve the public, and, if Providence bless my ef-
forts as long as those principles shall gffide theist, I may
hope in some respect to be able to contribute to -the ad-
vancement of the mighty and the mutual interests of Eng-
land and India. (The Right Hon. Baronet sat down amidst
loud cheering.)
The CitainmaN then proposed,. " The Earl of Haddington
and the Navy," passing a high eulogium on the services of
the navy in India and China.
The Earl of HADDINGTON, in acknowledging the toast,
said that during the earlier struggles of the Company in
India the British navy had been of essential service
strengthening.their power, and afterwards, when their power
became confirmed, in extending their influence in other
parts of Asia. In the China war, the most essential service
was afforded by the steamers of the East India Company.—
(Near, hear.) With respect to his Right Hon. and Gallant
Friend, he congratulated the Directors on their having
selected him for the important post of Governor-General.
Twice had he been officially connected with his Right Hon.
Friend, and he could say that his talents and general quali-
ties were such as fully to justify the expectations which had
been expressed that night.—(Hear, hear.)
The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the health of the
Duke of Wellington. The East India Company, he said,
looked back with pride to the time when that illustrious
hero led our Indian army. In India it was that the dawn
first appeared of that military genius which ultimately ob-
tained for their distinguished guest the highest reputation of
modern times.—(Cheers.) He proposed " Health and long
life to the Duke of Wellington and the British Army," and
called on them to drink the toast in a bumper, with three
times three.
As soon as the cheering with which the toast was roceived
had subsided,

The Duke of WELLINGTON rose to acknowledge the toast.
He was received with a fresh burst of cheering. He said—
: Mr. ( hairman, as you have done me the honour to drink my
health, and to join my name with that of the British army,
feel under the necessity of requesting your attention for a.fear
moments while I express my honest and sincere thanks for
the honour you have done me, and to this company for the
manner in which they have received the toast.—(Hear.)
Gentlemen, I entertain no doubt that the army will receive
with the utmost satisfaction and gratitude the information
that their services have been thus honoured by you.—(Hear.)
Gentlemen, the history of the transactions of the -British
nation in India affords many instances of the good conduct
and valour of the army, but I will venture to say that that
history records no instances of such conduct which surpasses
those which have been afforded within the last few years by
that same army.—(Hear.) I speak in the presence of some
who have been employed in that army, and who will in all
probability return to serve with it again. I beg then, when
they do so not to forget the expressions of the Chairman this
night as to the conduct of the army, and also to bear in mind,
If they will, my own declaration, that there is not in the his-
tory of our transactions in India any instance of conduct more
deserving of approbation than what has been afforded by our
army in India up to the moment of the very latest accounts
received from India.—(Hear, hear.) But we have not met
here to-day to talk of by-gone transactions, although I am
very grateful to you for the honour you have done me in
mentioning the service which I had the honour of render-
ing to the East India Company when I was in India in the
prime of my life.—(Hear.) We have met here to congratu-
late my Right Hon. and Gallant Friend en his appointment
to be Governor-General of India.—(Hear.) Sir, you have
briefly stated that my Right Hon. and Gallant Friend
has been notorious, not only for his military services--
for his gallantry, talents, experience, and conduct in the
field, in the exercise. of his profession, but also for his talents
and conduct in the administration of civil affairs—for his,.
conduct in several important appointments of the state, and
for his conduct in Parliament and in her Majesty's councils.
I cannot avoid congratulating the Directors on the selection
they have made of my Right Hon. and Gallant Friend as
Governor-General of India, and especially that her Majesty
has been pleased to confirm and approve the appointment,
and that my Right llon. Friend at the head of the Govern-
ment has considered himself at liberty to accept it. Sir, I
feel a confidence that my Right Hon. and Gallant Friend
will fulfil to the satisfaction of all parties, the great duties
which are imposed on him by that appointment—that he
will administer the government of the country which is placed
under his charge for the advantage, benefit, and happiness of
the people thereof, to the satisfaction of his employers, the
East India Company, of his Sovereign, and of her servants,
and of the whole British public.—(Hear.) Gentlemen, I
again congratulate you that the Court of Directors have made
such a selection as my Right Hon. Friend.—( Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the next toast. He
said, although the East India Company disclaimed all party
considerations, and entertained, as a body no political views
except with reference to the interests of the great Indian
empire, yet they felt deeply sensible of the advantage of
having in her Majesty's Ministers men pre-eminent for un-
doubted and unbounded patriotism, and who possessed the
confidence of the country.—(Hear, hear.) He would also
add, that the East India Company had great reason to be
grateful to the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Go-
vernment for the cordial co-operation he had afforded them
in the selection of Sir Henry Hardinge to be the Governor-
General of India. Her Majesty's Government could not
in a more efficient manner have exhibited the great
interest and anxiety they felt for ,the welfare of India.—
( Hear, hear.) Her Majesty's Ministers and the Directors had
but one great united object in view—the good government
of that vast empire on the principle of justice and modera-
tion, and of extending the influence of British feeling and
sympathies among the people of that country. To ameli-
orate the condition of those people was the great object of
both. They had, however, the honour of the presence among
them of Sir R. Peel, a gentleman-who, in his (the-Chairman's)
opinion had shown a noble example to his countrymen. In
early life distinguished by high attainments and elegant
scholarship, his manhood had been spent with advantage to
his country in her service, and now he was for the second
time at the head of her Majesty's councils.—(Cheers.) He
had great pleasure in drinking " The health of Sir R. Peel and
the rest of her Majesty's Ministers."—(Loud cheers.)
Sir R. PEEL (who was labouring under severe hoarseness)
said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, on my own behalf and
on that of my colleagues, I beg to return you our united
thanks for the honour you have conferred upon us. Gentle-
men, however great may be the pressure on our attention of
other interests nearer home, we are not the less deeply im-
pressed with the magnitude of those interests which are com-
prehended in our relations with our Indian empire. We feel
the extent and importance of those interests in a political, a
commercial, and a moral point of view. In a political point
of view, because this country could never tolerate the seve-
rence of an empire gained by such Military exertions as the
battles of Plassy and Assaye, and the recent triumphs of our
arms in the East. In a commercial point of view we feel the
importance of that empire, because, seeing the extent of the
competition to which our commerce Is exposed, and the jea-
lousy there is on the part of other nations of our commercial
and manufacturing pre-eminence, it is of the utmost im-
portance to cultivate commercial relations with India, which
can only succeed by means of a reciprocity of advantages
and the maintenance of the prosperity of India itself. In a
moral point of view the empire of India is of importancs,
because there aro moral influences independent of military
power and commercial prosperity, which enable a country
to hold high language among the nations of the world, and
nothing that we could say would conduce so much to that
moral influence as to be able to exhibit the example of a
beneficent rule over millions of our fellow-creatures in the
East enjoying the blessings of trade, of the emancipation
from a, state of slavery, and guaranteed the possession of life
and liberty, by establishing civil liberty on a sure founda-
tion, and receiving perhaps an ultimate extension of it, not
by vexatious interferences with the religion of the natives—

(dear)—but by exhibiting to them the advantages of a mild,
beneficent rule, founded on the great principles of the Chris-
tian religion.—(Hear.) Yet in the administration :of the
complicated affairs of a great empire, it cannot be expected
that there should not occasionally be an honest difference of
opinion among those intrusted with that administration ' • but
I trust that those differences, when they unfortunately, do
exist, will never make us forget the responsibility which de-
volves on all the authorities connected with the administra-
tion of India, and that they will never make us unmindful
of the important interests connected with the future for-
tunes of that country.—(Hear.) I consider that her Ma-
jesty's servants have recently given you the strongest proof
we can give of the deep interest we feel in the wel-
fare of India, and of our anxiety to promote it. For the
advancement of the interests of that country we have con-
sented to sever our connexion with a colleague who was
entitled to our entire confidence, Wand who possesses our
esteem and regard as a private friend. We have consented
to appoint to the government of that country a colleague,
who, as a soldier, has his name connected with Corunna,
Albuera, and with the whole Peninsular war, and closed his
military career on the plains of Waterloo. We have con-
sented to part with a colleague who, in the administration of
civil affairs, exhibited a rare combination of temper, firm-
ness, resolution, and moral courage.—(Hear, hear.) We
have made this sacrifice in the belief that no other man
would be better qualified for the great task he has under-
taken—(Hear, hear)—and, on the part of my colleagues and
myself, I join in that earnest and sincere prayer of the Chair-
man to-night, that, under the blessings of Divine Providence,
lie may, after having performed his fuel service in India,
return to his native land, having added to the fame he has
already acquired, and able to enjoy the retrospect of. having
maintained peace in India, consolidated its connexion :with
this country—of having promoted the interests
he and happiness
of the millions who live under our rule—that
servants l may roeftutitz
the to justify that confidence of the Crown,
Crown and the East India Company, and that many of us
may live to see the day when we shall hail with delight and
satisfaction his return to this country, after a prosperous
and successful tenure of office.—(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave "The Earl of Ripon" (who was
absent from ill-health).
The Duke of Buccusucn acknowledged the toast in the
absence of the Noble Earl, and proposed the health of the
"Chairman and Deputy-Chairman."
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks in a brief but appropriate
speech, and gave the " Legal Institutions of the Country and
the Vice-Chancellor."

The VICE-CIIANCELLOR acknowledged the toast.
The Civil Service in India" was then given by the
CHAIRMAN, and acknowledged by Mr. 11. MACKENZIE.
" The Indian Army" was the next toast, and was responded
to by Sir R. Hougrox, and after the health of the Lord Mayor
had been drunk and acknowledged by his Lordship, the com-
pany separated.
The musical arrangement was under the direction of Mr.
Ilarpur, Mr. liarpur, jun., performing some solos on the
cornet-a-piston. Mr. Toole was the toast-master. The number
of guests was_ bout 150.

DEAFNESS.—From John Sawyer, Esq., of Hay-
woodo , 3 Lodge,
dg is, Maidenhead, Berks, to Messrs. S. and B. Solo-
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Gentlemen, having
been deaf for some time, I was induced, in the month of No-
vember, 1839, to make trial of your Invisible Voice Conductors,
and, although at my advanced age, at that time past my 77th
year, I had no hope of obtaining any relief, yet immediately I
applied them I could hear the general conversation, and my
hearing has become so much improved by their use, that I can
now hear acutely without their aid. I am, Gentlemen, your
most obedient servant, J. Sawyer. 211 June, 1842.—From
the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen Waters, Herts, to
Messrs, S. and B. Solomons :—Gentlemen, haviryg been deaf
for many years, I was induced to try your Invisible Voice
Conductors. They enable me to hear persons in company,
and at a place of worship most distinctly. The Spectacles and
Handglass which you hare sent me are very
.excellent, and
suit my sight perfectly. the transparency of which is so bril-
liant, that although I have passed my 86th year the 22d of
May last, yet they enable me to read, and by candle-light, with
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thanks, and remain your obedient servant, Henry Cowper.-
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Piicadilly, opposite the York Hotel.

The munifiiient donation of 501. has been presented
by her Majesty the Queen Dowager towards the erection of
the new parish church of South Hackney. The amount was
transmitt€d to the Building Committee through the medium
of the Rev. H. H. Norris, Rector.

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- I reop eof ndia.—(Cheers.) In conclu
that I go out with the most sincere de