The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-26 00:00:00

LORD GOUGH AND MAJOR ED-
WARDES AT SOUTHAMPTON.
Yesterday the Assembly-rooms pf the Victoria Hotel
were fitted up in gala style. At twelve o'clock the large
room was crammed with military and naval officers, no-
bility and gentry, and the iehabita: is of the town.
Lord Gough was decora'ed with the insignia of all his
military honours, and, with his f eerily, occupied the f ont
seata . of. an elevated dais, and was surrounded with the
most distinguished persons in the town. As soon as the
cheers with which Lerd Gough and Major Edwardes
were greeted on their entraece had subsided,
Sir GEORGE HEWETT, Bart., of Fremantle, who had
been an officer in Lord Gough's regiment, and had
served under his Lordship, addressed the-yeteran wea-
rier in a graceful speech, and then presented to him the
following address:—
" TO GENERA TUE RIGdIT HON. LORD VISCOUNT
GOUGH, G.C.B.
" We, the undersigned residents of Southampton and
its neighbourhood, beg leave respectfully to offer your
Lordship our sincere congratulat'o aen your r..tura to
your native country, and to express our unfeigned a-i-
-mitation of the twiny splendi I victories gainers by the
British arms ure'er your Lordship's comman4. We are
not unmindful that your Lordship has been engaged up-
wards Of fifty Jeers in the service of your country, lead-
ing our soldiers to victory, in the Peninsula, in China,
and Indic, more particularly in the Punjeuh, where the
splendid achievements of the army under 3 our Lnr.:-
ship's command have placed year name in the proud
position of onOef the most distinguished sokiers of this or any (Veer country. Knowing that your Lordship,
has receive 1 the highest marks t f our Most Gracious
Majesty's approbetiou, as well as on repeated oco &Mons
the unanimous thanks of both Houses of Parliament
for your Lordship's eminent and distinguished service,
we hail with the highest- possible gratification this ear-
'.iftetSppoTt eri;ty c f welcoming ynur -Lhrdship -On yoni
terries! at this port, and e f wishing your Lordship a
long centinuanco of health aad happiness, and that the
blessings of the Almighty IYsposer of human events may
rest upon the remainder ef your days. In this our wel-
come and the expression of our good wishes, we beg to
include Lady Gough and your family."
After a few momews Lord Gough rose and said—
" Sir George Hewett, laliee, a-id gentlemen,—l thai le
you I e:y sincerely fur this very flattering ma-k of a -
tention towards me, a perfect stranger to many of you,
without other pretensions than that to which so many
naval and military men may ju,tly lay c'a'm, an anxis us
wish to fulfil t, the utmost of their power and ability
their duty to our Queen and our country, and to uphold
that which has been so justly acquired by the Angle-
Indian army, the supremaey of the British power in
India, contributing as it does so largely to the proud p -
sition Englend now holds, proud from her military
achievements, but much more proud from the loyalty
of her sons. An absence of thirteen years has not
lessened my nationality. Whilst warmly engaged in
conducting war in distant lauds, I hare watched with
deep interest the course of eveets in Euro' e, and I land
.on this favoured spot and on your time-honoured
shores, with a deep Boling of gratitude to that All-
wise Disposer of events, who has gra( 03 1: y uchs. f d
his shield of protection through not a few fields of danger
but ever in fields of conquest, to the aged soldier who
now addresses you. It is that Almighty Being who
has safely cenducted me with my long tried friend and
partner, together with so many m smbera of my family,
to this land of loyalty and true freedom. Called by a
gracious Sovereign to the performance of other duties, I
shell pray for the power c f fulfilling them with the same
devote ]nets as that which I trust history will accord to
a career of military exertion extending over a period of
fifty-six years. That the great blessing of peace may be
the result of the recent military Of e:ations in India,
which have aided to our territories one of its richest
provinces, I have a confident hope—but should our anti-
cipations not be realised, my country may safely confide
in tho vi ell-tried gallantry, pAient endurance and devo-
tion of the gallant army I had the good fortune to com-
mand—nn army that never met a 103 but to subdue
them—that never commenced a campaign without crown-
ing its termination with complete success. Again, my
clear countrymen, allow me, on the part of La ly Gougn
and myself, to return you my best a„knowledgments,
my warmest thanks, fse this to mo most valuable tes-
timony of your approval. It affords me double gratifi-
cation to receive this address from the hands of one of
my oldest frieeds and esteemed comrades, Sir George
Hewett."
Cheers were then again given fir Lord and Lady
Gough, who bowed her aeknowledgments. His Lord-
ship then led off a round of cheering fir the Q ern, and
retired with a'l his family and a numerous retinue of
friends to his hotel. His Lordship It fi Southampton for
town at two o'clock.
The following resolution was moved and carried at the
town council of Southampton last week, in anticipation
of the arrival c f Lord Gough, and which prevented his
Lordship being w &corned by the civic authorities of
that town when ho landed on Sunday night:—
" That as war has ever bnen opposed to the boat inte-
rests of mankind in its Earful consequences against the
pe amisry, physical, and zn,ral well-being of the people:
that as it is diamit lenity opposed to the precept and
spirit of the Christian religion: and as this council is
composed of men professing Christianity, it would be
grossly incest sistent for them to manifest any demonstra-
tion of approbation on the landing at this port of any
general officer or other warrior: and more espedally cif
one who has been so recently engaged in a most destruc-
tive war in India, almost a war of extermination, where,
in many cases, no quarter was given, and the most bar-
barous excesses committed."
ARRIVAL IN LONDON.
The gallant hero of Chillianwallah arrive 1 at the
Waterloo terminus of the South-Western Railway at
five o'clock yesterday afternoon, having travelled from
Southampton by the two r.as. tip train. The directors
of the railway, anxious to show every respect to his
Lordship, placed a special train at his disposal, but the
Noble Lord preferred travelling by the ordinary train,
and hence his arrival as above statad. A considerable
number of persons had assembled at the station before
five o'clock, arid when the train drew up alongside the
platfarm, and his Lordship was discovered seated in one
of the carriages with Lady Gough and his son, Captain
the Hon. George Gough, they gave the Gallant General
a hearty cheer of welcome, which his Lordship very
courteously acknowledged.
The gallant Major Edwardes arrived in town by the
same train, accompanied by his wife and two children.
Lord Gough, before leaving the station, shook hands
very heartily with the Major and his wife, and then en-
tering a canine which was in attendance, drove off to
his son's residence, No. 24, Upper Brook-street, where
his Lordship will remain at present.
In the suite of Lord Gough were his nephew, Col.
John Gough of the 31 Dragoone, gnu termaster
General cf. the Q teen's forces in India, Capt, Fraser
Trier, of the Bengal Na ive Cavalry, Major Bates,
Capt. Wallace, and Capt. the Hon. George Gough, of
the Grenadier Guards, his Lordship's son, the latter
having gone dawn to Southampton on Saturday to meet
his noble parents.
Lord Gough is looking remarkably well, and with the
exception that his hair and a hiskers have become quite
white, he looks little the worse for the thirteen 3 ears'
hard service ho has undergone in the East. Lady Gough
is else looking very well.
Major Edwardes, by 'his own request, has acted as
principal aide-de-camp to Lord Gough throughout
the journey from the Punjaub. It is a mis-
take to suppose that the gallant major is the bearer
of the celebrated diamond won by his valour, and
presented by Lord Dalhousie to the Queen. This Jewel
is still in India.

A BOY ACCIDENTALLY lIUNG.-011 Saturday last
a very singular fatality ()calmed at Brcightmet, near
Bolton, to a lit!le boy, about fourteen years of age, named
David Greenhalgh, tLe son of a publican there, Rho by
some means contrived to hang himself in a meadow oc-
cupied by his father, whi'o trying to discrigage a role
from the bough rf a tree on which some children had
been swinging. At the inquest held on the body by Mr.
Ruttt?r, on Monday, the Ether of the boy said, as he was
passing through the nuadow on Saturday morning, he
saw a number of boys swinging on a rope, which had
beer. thrown across the bough of a large tree, and at one
end of which they had made a slip noose, through which
was stuck a piece of wood to sit upon. On seeing him
approach the children ran away, leaving the rope fast to
the tree, when ho took out and carried away the piece of
wood used as a seat, and desired his son (the deceased)
to take down the rope. In a few minutes af,er he re-
turned past the tre', and found his son hanging by the
neck, and quite dead, the poor lad having, as he sup-
pout], placed the slip now° round his neck and then
jumped up towards the bough to unloose the other end,
in doing which he must have fallen and dislocated his
neck. When found be was in a stooping position, with
his knees half bent, but when raj:el up the rope was
quite slack, so that he could not have hung himself. Vtr-
dict—`• Accidental dislocation of the neck."—Liverpool
Courier.

SELF-MADE MEN.—Columbus was a weaver;
Franklin a journeyman printer. Sixtus V. was em-
ployed in herding swine. Ferguson and Burns
were ploughmen. ./E'sop was a slave; Hogarth an
engraver on pewter pots; Ben Johnson was a
bricklayer. Person was tho son of a parish
clerk. Akenside was the son of a butcher—so was
wasWo thelsey. Cr
89Idaiesr.a Elaiarbil:rY.
son Cervantes nte
as
oas "a
p-b'ois a
ler. commonrk wright was
Belzoni was the son of a barber. Blackstone and
Southey were sons of linendrap..rs. Crabbe was a
fishermaa's son; Keats the son of a livery-stable-keeper.
Buchanan was a faresr. Dunavo the son of a mason.
Captain Cook began his career as cabin boy. Haydn
was the son of a poor wheelwright. Hogg was a shepherd.
TOR DEVON AND EXETER SAVINGS' BANE.—Our
readers wilt bo interested to learn that the committee of
stp-rinteneence, who are still employed in their work of
ex :mina:ion at this i istituCon, have, up to tl is period,
compared upwards of 20,300 depositors' ty.:oks with the
ledgers kept in the bank. The balances of the books
amount to upwards of 643,68 CL, and in no instance hi s
any defalcation been foam'.—Exeter Gazette.

.SHIPMENT OF SPIRITS FROM BELGIUM.—It
aneerstood that the Belgian Government have given no-
tice that the drawback allowd on spirits shipped at
the ports of re'gium will, en an early date, be die-
continuei.