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London, England, 1844-10-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1844.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH on taking leave of the Indian
army, for his speech was addressed to the troops, has
put forth another song of triumph, but his Lordship
is more fortunate in this instance than in his previous
proclamations, those especially respecting the policy
of his predecessor and the celebrated gates of Som-
nauth. His speech is founded on matters of fact
which not even the bitterest enemy of the Noble
Lord can dispute. In adverting to the events
which had occurred during his short reign in
the East, he said, " Let it not be supposed
that the glories so obtained are barren glories, ob•
tamed only at a great public cost, and productive of
no benefit to the people. In India the continued re-
putation of our arms is an indispensable condition of
our existence ; and if at this moment the revenue,
and the commerce of this country, and the condition
of the people, be, as they are, changed indeed from
the state in which I found them, to a state of unex-
ampled prosperity, it is to the peace dictated by our
arms to China under the walls of Nankin ; it is to
the general sense that onr rule, which has been re-
established by two years of victories without a single
check, that this unexampled prosperity is to be
directly traced."
In the whole history of India, remarkable as it is, such
important results never wore obtained within the same
period. Peace has been established with all the en-
croaching and restless tribes in the west ; Sinde has
been occupied, and is now as peaceful as Bengal ;
fevers and agues have disappeared; the troops, even ac-
cording to the showing of the journals hostile to the
late GOVERNOR-GENERAL are healthy ; the people are
contented; and commerce and traffic are in full opera-
tion along the Indus, for a distance of at least fifteen
hundred miles. The disturbances in Gwalior, which
threatened serious consequences to our possessions in
Central India, have been put down with a trifling
loss of life, and without any expense to the India
Company. The whole of the vast possessions held
by the English enjoy the most profound peace; the
revenue is gradually on the increase ; the commerce
of the country, and consequently the condition of
the people have improved, and it may be said that
India at the present moment is in a more prosperous
and safe state than at any former period.
The Governors of the India House know
best why Lord ELLENBOROUGII is recalled.
To us now, as at the first announcement
of their resolution, his recal is an utter mystery;
but his Lordship has one consolation. Never did
any Pro-consul, to whom even a triumph was decreed,
return to ancient Rome with more honour than this de-
graded, yet victorious ruler of India returns to his na-
tive country. Time however, nay, Lord ELLENBOROUGIL
himself will clear up the mystery and in the mean
time the English people will suspend their judgment
on what appears to the uninitiated an ungrateful re-
turn for important services.
The intelligence from India, which we have pub-
lished at length, is not of a striking character; but
on that account it is only the more favourable. We
want no increase to our territory—no more victories.
The wish of the Government is to remain at peace
with the neighlsOuring States, and the latest com-
munications show that their wish is gratified. The
news from China, especially Canton, is not so
favourable. The Americans, we regret to learn, have
embroiled themselves with theinhabitants, and alarm-
ing disturbances had taken place. We sincerely
hope that the American authorities were not the
aggressor, and that they have not encouraged
this collision with a view to get better commercial
terms than those granted by the general treaty agreed
to by England and China.

Amidst the various announcements that have ap-
peared from time to time in the " Court Circular,"
and other authorities, touching the approaching ar-
rival and intended sojourn at Windsor of the King of
the FRENCH, we find nothing stated, positively, as to
the date assigned for his MAJESTY'S return. We
perceive, indeed, and with regret, that his visit will
be one of very limited duration ; but we earnestly
hope that this great Monarch may be induced to pro-
long the term to which—so far as we can collect
from all sources of information—it has been hitherto
proposed to limit his stay among us.

In a fortnight from this day, it is the clearly un-
derstood intention of our own Sovereign, Queen
VICTORIA, to " open" the New Royal Exchange,
which, Phcenix-like, has arisen out of the ashes of its
predecessor, in increased magnificence and renewed
youth. On that occasion, the QUEEN of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, accompanied by her MAJESTY'S
Royal Consort, will consecrate one of the most august
ceremonials that can interest and gratify the metro-
politan population of the greatest commercial empire
which has yet arisen in the world. The Majesty of
England will pay a fitting and a graceful homage to
the true genius of social civilisation and happiness, in
thus opening, as it were, the portals of its noblest
temple. No more legitimate or glorious occupation
can claim the attention of so young but so powerful
a Monarch, than thus to celebrate a pacific triumph
in honour of that commerce which has laid deep,
broad, and permanent, the solid foundations of her
ocean girt throne. Two hundred and seventy-three
years have elapsed since the most illustrious of her
MAJESTY'S predecessors-- Queen. Euzarrtim—ren-
dered similar honour, on the same site, to the goodly
fabric which had been devoted to the same useful and
peaceful purposes by the sumptuous generosity of one
of her most princely subjects—though a private mer-
chant—Sir Thomas GRESIIAM. The sound of trum-
pets and the proclamations of heralds on the 4th of
January, 1671, announced to the loyal citizens, of

London the opening of their first " Royal Exchange."
A similar festivity is about to associate, in auspicious
conjunction, the regal names of ELIZABETH and VIC*
TORIA ; and, enshrined as the great memory of the
TUDOR is, in the sacred recollections of an age of
heroes and statesmen—(the lamps of contemporary
history, and the guiding lights to all posterity)—the
proud name of the GUELPH will be illustrated to
future ages by trophies of equal splendour, and haply
of purer elements, earned by the matchless achieve-
ments of her subjects in all the nobler branches of
scientific discovery ; in the moral and physical ame-
lioration of our species; in the arts of peace; and in
the prowess of war. But, as now it is, so may it
ever continue to be, the true and lasting glory of
VICTORIA'S reign to cultivate and cherish, and extend
to those remotest limits of the habitable globe which
are reached by the power of her sceptre, or the enter-
prise of our commerce, the blessings tif peace, and
all the holy relations of amity and improvement
which they diffuse throughout the great family of
mankind!

In this feeling it is, that we could devoutly wish to be-
hold her MAJESTY in the act of inaugurating the newly-
erected fabric which is about to become the centre of
the trade of the world, accompanied by another Sove-
reign, with whose invaluable life are bound up the
highest destinies of his own country ; the peace of
Europe ; the best interests of the present generation ;
the moat important of all legacies to the next. If
King Louis PHILIPPE can be induced to dignify with
his presence so remarkable a proceeding, we are
quite satisfied that all the citizens of London would
vie, one with another, to pay all honour to the most
distinguished foreign guest who has yet arrived
within this realm to greet our QUISEN and partake of
her regal hospitality in the time-honoured halls of
her renowned ancestors. They will hail, with accla-
mations of the most cordial respect and the most
profound admiration, that gifted and sagacious King,
whose inflexible constancy of purpose has vindicated
his recorded pledges for the maintenance of peace,
against all the intrigues of incessant factions; all the
fury of popular clamour ; all the remonstrances of
ignorant but impetuous delusion. The Corporation
of this vast City—supreme among capitals in opu-
lence, population, trade, luxury, charity, perhaps in
its physical health, and, in short, in all the enjoy-
ments which follow in the train of honourable peace
—(marred by no unworthy concession, vitiated by no
sacrifices of self-respect, of national dignity and
strength, of public duty or honour)—that Corporation
would be eager to testify its regard and reverence for
Louis PHLLIPPB. The Livery, through all its various
guilds or companies, would thoroughly participate
in this alacrity to tender some expression of the high
sense they must entertain of the exertions this
Illustrious Prince has made in advancing the mari-
time trade of his dominions. They would see, in the
marvellous advances which the elegant capital of
France has made within the last fifteen years, irre-
fragable evidence of the beneficial genius of the King
of the Faiiiica—of his prodigious talents for govern-
ment—and of the wisdom and the capacity which
have enabled him to develop the resources of his
mighty kingdom, in channels the most conducive to
the internal repose and happiness, and the political
greatness of his people. They would, we are con-
fident, be greatly gratified with such an opportunity
of manifesting their conviction that the prosperity of
universal commerce reckons among its guarantees
few that are surer or more precious than the pro-
longed life and reign of the able and munificent
Monarch who, tested by adverse fortunes in earlier
years, and in the obscurity of a private station has
so thoroughly qualified himself to discharge, with be-
coming grandeur and consummate judgment, the
sovereign functions to which he has been so memor-
ably called by the voice of the French people. If
there be one accessory, in fine, that can enhance the
impression—and give additional effect to the cere-
mony—of inaugurating the New Royal Exchange,
it may be most gracefully and memorably supplied
by the propitious appearance of King Louis PHILIPPE
at the right hand of Queen VICTORIA.

The Madrid Gazette of the 24th ult. announces
the re-establishment of peace between Spain and Mo-
rocco, and the funds rose considerably in consequence.
We have already given the principal articles of the
treaty. These journals contain no news of public
interest. One of the robbers, who lately stopped and
robbed the mail near Valdepinas, has been arrested,
and a part of the stolen property recovered. The
Rue d'Alcaliwas last evening thrown into some alarm
by loud reports being heard. It was found to pro-
ceed from two petards having been wantonly fired off
by a young man, who was immediately arrested and
taken to prison.
The Three per Cents. closed at 281 cash, and 281
at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 21i cash., and
211 at 60 dap.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with a de-
scription of the grand review which took place in the
Carrousel, on Sunday; but we find few details of
the slightest !interest to add to those which we pub-
lished yesterday. Marshal Souvr presented the
colours taken at Isly to the Kum, and said—" Sire,
I present to your MAJESTY the colours taken at the
battle of Isly by the French army, and at Mogadore
by the Prince DE JoieviLLE. I entreat your MA-
JESTY to receive them, and to permit them to be
placed in the nave of the Chapel of the Invalidea!"
The KING replied, with deep emotion, " I accept these
colours, in the name of France." On the arrival of
the trophies at the Invalides, the Commandant and
the whole of his staff were in waiting at the gate on
the side of the esplanade. They headed the proces-
sion to the Cour d'Honneur, where all the Invalides
were drawn up. The companies of Rite were headed
by Lieutenant-General SEBASTIAN; and amongst the
officers were Colonel ETIIARD, the aide-de-camp of
General BUGEAUD, who brought the colours taken on
the 14th ult. at Isly, and Captain BOUET, who brought
those taken at Mogadore. General SEBASTIAN; in
accosting General BARON PETIT, the Commandant of
the Invalides, said :
" I come, in the name of the King, to deposit in your
hands the trophies conquered by our bravo soldiers of
the army of Africa, and by our intrepid seamen at Tan-
giers, Isly, and Mogadore.'
" General Petit replied:—
" It is with a noble pride that I receive these colours,
which recal; to my memory the most glorious remi-
niscences of our history, and I am delighted to find that
our young soldiers are worthy of their predecessors of
the Grand Army. Yes, France continues to be the
country of heroic legions—of great and sublime acts of
devotedness; it is by a glorious succession of victories
that she has achieved the first place in the history of
nations since Tolbiac and Rocrot, to Jemmappes, Wa-
gram, Constantine, Isly, and Mogadore, and that place
she will know how to preserve. Soldiers, these trophig
which you bring me shall be placed by the aide of ',nose
of Austerlitz, of Jena, and of Friedland; in °tier words,
by the side of the most glorious trophies of the empire.
Let the memory of these great even.+.,, be always present
to your minds, and let them reirlind you of what France
expects from your constancy
and valour. Vive le Roi
This cry was unan
'2;nously repeated several times.
"
Then thirty-two In:alides advanced towards the detach-
ment charged :rith the colours, and received them from
the hands rji the holders. During this part of the cere-
mony tte band of the 62d played military flourishes, and
the drums beat the salute. Generals Petit and Sebes-
tiani placed themselves at the head of the detachment of
Invalides, who were carrying the colours, and after hav-
ing passed in front of the lines of troops, assembled in
the court of the building, proceeded to the chapel, at the
entrance to which stood the cure and his clergy. The
religious ceremony of blessing 'the colours then took
place, and lasted half an hour. The general officers
and their staffs were present the whole time.
" As soon as the King had quitted the garden of the
Tuileries yesterday to pass the review of the troops, the
public wero admitted to see the tent of the Emperor of
Morocco. The municipal guard kept ;order, and esta-
blished a queue, which enabled the persons forming it to
pass through the tent in succession."

On this display the Journal des Debate makes the
following remarks :—" We have had brighter tri-
umphs, victories more sanguinary and more hotly
disputed, and Paris has beheld many other triumphal
files which this day has but feebly reminded ns of.
But what confers, independently of their eclat, an un-
deniable importance on the last victories of our land
and sea armies, is this—our arms have dealt two
grand blows at the very moment when the most irre-
concilable of the opponents of our Government vied
in defying it to adopt an energetic resolution, and
when the least malignant among them affected to be-
lieve in its impotence. The Government of France
has exhibited itself neither fanfaron, as some would
have wished, nor timid, as the others represented it
to be. The deeds of the Generals to whom it had
entrusted the task of defending the honour of France 1
—those deeds. preceded by such conciliatory prelimi-
naries and executed with so much energetic vigour,
were conformable to the instructions sant from
Parisi and they have not lees honoured the policy of