The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

COLLIERY EXPLOSION NZ44lg

MORRIsTON.

(Abridged from the Cambrian) P Orel
Soon after the workmen entered Mel. cash
felin Colliery, the property of the Sboyonda.rt
Company, situated near Aforriston,
Hof foul nt!
they were alarmed by an explosion °' name one of the headings, ignited by a collier, - The
Thomas James, who was most severely burn' of the
workmen immediately proceeded from all parts..,bere
pit to the scene of the lamentable occurrence, ^
they found the three lifeless bodies of John /Who
nf
aged 20, Matthew Fisher, aged 20, both of W"to
were unmarried, and Thomas Morgan, a boys
Ail•
years of age, who had been most shoekinglf.
figured, his head having been detached from the DlTh'e
by the violent concussion of air consequent upon
explosion. explosion. th°
An inquest was held on Monday and from ..
left en
evidence it appeared that the pit had bee° that the
worked during Saturday and Sunday, 8:0100761 to
deceased boy Thomas Morgan, who was I air, 'ell
turn the fan which cleared the mine 01 Mffectualli,
too young and too weak to work the fan e owed
ol
and that the working the fan had only CO
few minutes before the men entered the pit• diet of
The jury, having deliberated, returned a verhad the
" Accidental Death," with an opinion, "that "1,„ an
fan been worked during Sunday night, or ef; oc-
Monday morning, the explosion would not hate
curred ; that there is blame attached to the oierred,
for not having seen that the pit was properly cl
oaf
and for not having employed a -person suffi°';
strang to work at the fan."

ANOTHER ATTEMPTED. ROBBERY AT OS
KATHERINE DOCKS.—We stated, in The Su!' ntioto
days ago, that robberies had been very freque_lll"6o
at the great dock establishments, and instanceu._
srott
than five cases a hich had occurred in the naiot
space of a fortnight. It appears, that notwitbAe
the amount of suspicion caused by the cases enurner,
and the great additional precautions which 113°,0 e
taken by the Dock Companies to prevent oectlrrel3oleet
a similar kind, another daring attempt has been %oe
the bt. Katherine Dock to steal a quantity of 'OO3
from a ship loading there at the present time' one'
happily has not been attended with any degree 0 'foe
cess, the same having been discovered in suffieleutoto
to prevent the thieves from carrying their telotneseye
tention into effect, in a rather singular manner.c.hptle°,
ral casks of brandy had been removed from the -I.7.eget"
Docks by craft, and shipped on board a vessel at PDX
loading in the St. Katherine Docks. On Sunday the
noon, the whole of the ship's crew beinc, absent eoilf
time, the Customs officer in charge, who wagtbe sole
person on board, heard the whine of a dog fie fore
place adjacent, and was in the act of walking jet„, m 001
s""
part of the vessel, for the purpose of giving 1"""oble,
bones, the remains of his dinner. when. he foe
over something which, on further examination, heap
to be several bladders containing brandy, that hetie
pillaged from one of the casks recently shipped., 0 $0
mediately called assistance, and caused infornas"°ettel4.,
given to the dock awhorities, and by this simPl? beet`
no doubt, another extensive robbery of spirits ne_at
prevented. No clue has been obtained with resl;ter
the parties concerned in the affair. It is a matlefi 601
tr, me surprise, considering the strict watch st e.„es 1""
supposed to be kept at the docks, how those thi,Rl7.
be accomplished, or even attempted. Vsi
# the
VICTORIA PARIC..—SALE OF BONNER'S a t---„
terday a sale by auction took place, by Oree'ojeiel'h
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, of the_iiwb of
residence of Bishop Bonner, called Bonner's II tVii e
is situated on a part of the site now is the be Po e
formation of Victoria Park, at the Eastlsid• •.".- of
tb
tion remaining, which is stated to have been Seed
wings of the original Palace, is about one hunb, tb
n,
twenty feet long, and about twenty feet in w-ereel:j
external walls being the same that were first ;ors',
The building has for several years past been trbollfe
into five houses, ore of which was a puh",„`tto
These have been internally constructed accordingto
modern style of architecture, and there is verY t oto
denote its former state, but it is expected thaill
course of the demolition of the premises, there Wb
the
found some memorials to connect the locality ft'
possession of it by its celebrated owner.
BIRTHS.
On the 13th inst., at Bryntirion, near IVresu•-
Wales, the lady of Captain E. Jones, of a son.
On the 19th inst., at Eaton-place, the wife of George
Etwes, Esq., of a son. uare'
On the 21st inst., at Orchard-street, Portman*-r-.
Nathaniel William Kindersley-, of a son. treet"
On the 21st inst., in Stratford-place, o%ferd-5 iff
wife of J. Radcliffe larrett, Esq., of a daughter. the 11
On the 21st inst., at Willow-walk, Kentish-town, 0
of Henry Wood, Esq., of a daughter. Jan's rfh°
On the 22d inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs.
of $‘
Hawes, of a son. Istdi
On the 22d inst., at Golder's-bill, Hendon, the ,‘•
Bradford, Esq , of a daughter. if J. 3157'
On the 22d inst., the lady of Commander -- „go
R.N., of her Majesty's ship Daring, of a daughter. ofir
On the 22d inst., the lady of Charles Ring, Egg"
tors'-commons, of a son

et
MARRIED. IN et
On the 19th inst., in the Cathedral, SalisburP,6ol36
Joseph Phillimore, Es q , D.C.L.,"
to Charlotte Anne,
sister of Evelyn Denison, Es 11.1. P ,of Ossingt°l4
county of Nottingham. q
- -

of
WEL. P
On the 21st inst., Williath Tyler, the second son e
~ i
• >0
Smith, Bolton-street, Piccadilly. of the i
On the 21st inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbard,
0.
North-road, Hoxton, aged 80. 944
On the 22d inst.., Charles Molyneux Keay Lock,
13/1'
,
OnUpper Cheyne- row, helsea.
On the 22d inst. iCn
Park-street, Grosvenor-fgeA
Sophia, eldest daughter of Sir Charles W. Blunt, P'^-

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GRAVESEND STAR PACKETS leave the
Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, at 11, 3, and 4 ; on Sundays at
RroO 11 and 3.
(=Act Fier, GraTeeend, at 9-,}, 1, and 5 ; an tkundays at

nf and 5.
Fares to or from toncloa.
rorocabia and Second Claes Carriage, Ninepenes.
Saloon and First Class Carriage, Ono Shilling.
Ti or from Blackmail.
Map r, Fora Cabin, Sixpence—Saloon, Ninepence.
- -Mee. Grave* d, Nor. 49 1444.

ROYAL POL YTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The arrangements for the Christmas Holidays commence
tint(,nsdaT, the 23d instant. One of the brilliant novelties is the
Art ,JaIATROPE, to whch may be added, Subjects in Nature asnd
•hthit'or the PROTEOSCOPE. The PHYSIOSCOPE. The first Ex-
t,,,„1,13n *t. a Series of beautiful DISSOLVING VIEWS. On the
th `utngs of Tuesdays and TiulrMlays Mr. C. E. HORN lectures on
.° MUSIC of DIFFERENT NATIONS. Dr. RYAN'S and Pre-
11ACLIIIOFFNEIVA varied LECTURES daly, Dr. RYAN
4,lftL'"llzres on the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
tnettires abound in interesting Experiments. SURMA•
Dirt, XPERIMENTS by means of the DIVING-BELL and
The HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE.
is.; Schools, Half-prloe.
Sew Rditiosi of the CATAT.OGUE, containing Three Hundred
"'clltiozie.l Works of Art, Lc., since the last revisal, is Just paiolished
Drive

No. 16,335.

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING ~,,,, ,x, to-
-,,,,- 0 y DECEMBER 24, 1844.

PUBLICATIONS.

tIIPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time
to spare are apprised that Agents continue to he appointed in
1,70, and oountry towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY,
ria sale of their celebrated teas.
I',ices, Ni. 9, Great St. llelon's-churchyard, tishopsgate-strct.l
lioulY are packed in showy leaden canisters, from one eunceN• a
with the price and weight marked n eack packet, and bat
trOuble is occasioned by the sale. Theo license is only l le. per
Ild„„"; and many during the last nineteen years have realised con-
"'able incomes by the agency without one shilling let or loss.
APPlication to be made (if by letter post-paid) as above.

BY ORDER OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE
ADMIRALTY.
This day is published, Bvo., 55.,

.
THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC for 1848; con-
taining, in addition to the usual matter, the True Geocentric
Coordenates of the Still for the Years 1845, 46, 47, and 48, for the
purpose of facilitating Cometary Calculations.
" The NlL:tic:al Almanac" for 1845, 46, and 47, may still be had.
John Murray, Alhemarle-street.

CONQUEST OF SINDE.
(From the Times.)
The questions arising out of the conquest and an-
nexation of Sinde, which so deeply concern the past
policy of the Government of India and the future in-
terests of the British empire, have recently been
most fully and forcibly discussed, from private as
well as public sources of information, by writers
eminently qualified to give the strongest touches of
light and shade to the matters they treat of, and to
the personal considerations which they suggest. The
remarkable pamphlet entitled " India and Lord El-
lenborough," to which we have called our readers'
attention, as the most authentic record of the prin-
cipal charges of the East India Company against
Lord Ellenborough, has been immediately followed
by a more finished production of General William
Napier, especially designed to clear the fame of his
gallant relative in the East, °and to rebut "the fac-
tious accusations made against a successful ge-
neral, in the hope of wounding through him the
nob!eman under whose auspices he conquered
a great and rich kingdom and relieved
a numerous people from a miserable state of
slavery." From the conflict of these two sble
and vigorous attacks on different parts of the
same policy, a great deal of instruction may at least
be derived. The pamphlet and the book are as
different as Leadenhall-street and the Horse Guards :
in the former the world may behold the modesty and up-
rightness of Lord Auckland contrasted with the incom-
petency and swaggering of Lord Ellenborough ; whilst
the truthfulness, bravery, arid vigour of Lord Ellen-
borough shine out in general Napier's pages as the only
remedy " for the confusion, the terror, and the danger,
necessarily flowing from the political immorality and
astounding incapacity which had marked Lord Auck-
land's mischievous career." In one point alone do
these sturdy disputants concur, and that unhappily is
the main point of interest to the British nation—
namely, that at one time or another, and by one
Governor-General of India or the other, the Ameers
of Sinde were basely treated, and that by robbing
them of their dominions we have taken up an onerous
burden and a perilous task. We must be pardoned
if, without any desire to disparage the exploits of the
Governor of Sinde, or the style of the Governor of
Guernsey, we have sometimes been unable to repress
a smile at this grandiloquent memorial of the prowess
of the Napier race. It is true we live in an incredu-
lous and prosaic age, which hardly does justice to
contemporary achievements; but there is a touch of
the burlesque in comparisons, however just in them-
selves, between the Roman General Paulus, or Han-
nibal, or Alexander, and Sir Charles Napier; and we
are not fully prepared to have the last overland mail
from India done into the style of Tacitus. General
tiapier's zeal in defending Lord Ellenborough ex-
tends almost to participation in that uncontrollable
passion for fine writing which proved (amongst other
things) fatal to the late Governor-General; and though
it is impossible not to feel the originality of his meta-
phors and the fire of his descriptions, which give to
this book a most exciting interest, we are made some-
what uneasy by eloquence soaring so near the regions
of bombast, and a purer taste would have expunged
many of the General's most daring beauties. It is
superfluous even for a military writer to assume in
his compositions the trappings and the paces of a war-
horse.

NEW WORK BY MR. SERGEANT TALFOURD.
Just published, in 2 vols. post Bvo., price 18s. cloth,
VACATION RAMBLES and THOUGHTS ;
comprising the Recollections of Three Continental Tours, in
the Vacations of 1541, 1842, and 1843.
By Ult. SERGEANT TAIFOL7III9.
Also, in 2 vols.,
Mrs. SHELLEY'S RAMBLES in GER3LANT and ITALY.
Edward Moxon, 44, Dover-streot. ,
TO ALL PERSONS IN SEARCH OF HEALTH.

THE FALLACY of the ORGANIC THEORY
of DOCTORS ILLUSTRATED in • LITHOGRAPHIC
PRINT, published at 368, Strand, five doors east of Exetar-ball,
price 6d., or Is. per post. May ha had of Mr. Field, Gi, Itegent'e-
quadrAnt ; Mr. Chappell, 84, Lombard-street ; aid of all Bookeellere
and Newsmen.

lIRIGHTON and CHICHESTER RAILWAY.
PORTSMOUTH EXTENSION.
°tic° le hereby given that the Directors of the Brighton and
koe:"ler Railway Compauy will ALLOT the SHARES in the
undertaking on FRIDAT, the 97th inst., and that no applica-
-6 kr Shares will be received a,ter Twelve o'clock on that day.
4, IN__can.st By order, FRED. OTLET, Secretary.
•,reet, Tooloy-street, Dec. 21. 1844.
TUE CIIF,APEST TALLOW CANDLES.
*het, 'note who burn these aro recommended to make one trial
e PRICE'S PATENT CANDLES do not give so muck
°,ey light as to be in reality cheaper.
may be had of respectable dealers throughout the kingdom,
I,a"t re be taken tfo prevent any imitations being pasted off as the
kiv7,t Candle.; and the Trade may obtain them wholesale from
kytt" P rice and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall, and Palmer and Co.,
Cleekenwoll.

THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' and GE-
NERAL FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Adelaide-place, London bridge; 444, West Strand.
23, Thistle street, Edinburgh.
Great Bridgewater-street, Manchester.
Wagon-buildings, and Mathew street, Liverpool.
(Empowered by Act of Parliament)
The Company transact business in every department of Lilt and
Fire Assurance, in Annuities, Reversions, and Loans.

GIFT FOR THE NEW YEAR.

SPLENDID PANORAMA of LONDON
from the THAMES, a most beautiful Engraving, 14 feet in
length, given to all purchasers of the PICTORIAL TIMES for
December 28, Janaary 4, 11, and 18. A remittance of 2s. 3d. in
Postage Stamps will ensure the delivery of the Engraving and the
four weeli:s papers through the Post,
Office, 135, Fleet-street.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
ACTUARY—J. I'. Clement, Esq.
At the last Quinquennial Meeting there .as added a bonus to the
Life Policies equal to 25 per ceFt. on the sums paid, and a bonus of
five per cent. to the Shares in addition to the payment of the annual
I. teros.t.

CORPORATION REFORM.

THE SUI33.I'ANCE of a SPEECH
By CHARLES PEARSON, Eng.

_ .
For the convenience of parties wishing to assure for a specific
sum, without a prospective bonus, a new table at lower rates has
been calculated, on which, as well as on the participating scale, one-
half the premium may remain on interest at 5 per cent. for five
years, thus enabling a pervn to assure his life for .£l,ooo on the im-
mediate payment of the premium for £5OO only.
The following arc the annual premiums for the assurance of
.£lOO for the whole life, one-halt r.f which may remain for five
years by merely paying the interest annually at 5 per cent.; and
should the policy become a claim in the interim, the amount due
will t hen be deducted.
Age 20 without profits LI 13 0 with profits...—..£l )8 0
30
48
4 3 4
Far short periods the premiums are considerably lower, and for
any ages •r contingencies net usually advertised, information may
be obtained on application to the Actuary or Secretary.

IAWINTER OVER-COATS, WRAPPERS, &e.
TESS RS CH nmi T,ITC•AS (late J.
Albert) respectfully Invite gentlemen to view their new
_!.
AV fashionable assortment of PATENT and BEAU FORT
4C
tb, ERS, FANCY YES PINGS, TROUSERINGS, &c., for
aPProaching season ; •he style and cut of every garment are
ot:rabteed equal I. any of the first houses at the West-end, at
444. enison with the economy of the times, feeling confident
gt,44` gentlemen who may do them the boneur will be perfectly matia-
sa,*ith any garment that leaves their establishment. A large as-
ent of Great Coats kept ready made in all the different and
aPliroved forms agreeable to the prevailing taste; being made
44, the superintendence of the proprietors, they are enabled to
4,4
rhick.mnfidently as to their superiority over all garments of a slop
s,;llXion, the Which are entirely excluded from this establishment.
RING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON-BRIDGE, op.
the Statue.

(Many years a member of the London Corporation.)
Comprising a Sketch of the Idistory of the Corporation, Ancient and
Modern—The Sources and Amount of its Revenue—The Objects
and amount of its Expenditure—The Cost and Efficiency of the
Magistracy—Police—Commissioners of Sewers—Lighting and Pave-
ments—The History of Freedoms, Ancient and Present—The Cott and
the Causes and Consequences of its Reduction—Sheriffs' Fines abo-
lished—Salaries reduced—Fees remitted—The Allowance of the Lord
Mayor and the Committees curtailed—The Statements of Lord
Brougham respecting the Corporations of London and Paris fairly
examined ; and the Observations of his Lordship's Shadow, Mr.
iliekson, dispelled, by the Light of Truth, showing the difference be-
tween Truth and Misrecresentation, and the superiority of Local Self-
government over the Centralising Institutions of Despotic States.
Price 3s. sewed ; 4s. b,ards.
Published by Pelham Richardson, Cornhill ; 011ivier, Pall-mall ;
and sold by all Booksellers.

FIRE DEPARTHLNF.
The Company insures houses, furniture, stock in trade, farming
stock, and every description of personal property against Iwo or
damage by fire.

THE PHY:;IOLOGY OF THE PASSTONB.
-• tVhat passions hurt the body, what improve;
Truths as cetined AS Athens even heard."

pegs to remind their friends, whose premiums
become slue at Christmas, that no extra charge is made at this office
for the transfer of policies, and that thoy will be rated en terms
peculiarly favourable to parties Insuring.
Insurances may be effected for any period of time ; If for seven
years, the premium and duty will only be chargod torsix.
December, 1E144 W. T. FA..,NcErr, see.

The Fiftieth Thousand. Forty Engravings, price Is., by post, Is. lid.
NCI STITY —its Abuses and Diseases--On
Matrimonial Eligibility and Unfitness—On Infelicitens and
Unproductive Unions—Curiosities of Medical Experience—Law o
Divorce, &c.

PrIlE CHRISTMAS CHIMES.
bp. Oh ! merry were the olden days when Christmas was at hand,
Oh, Price and plenty smil'd around, and bless'd our happy land
And glorious were indeed the scenes enacted at those times,
4blithely welcom'd every heart—the merry Christmas Chimes!
4h411Y and the ivy green around the halls were hung,
tbe songs of love and chivalry were oft by minstrels sung;
Ari,,titi'd great—the lowly poor—then festive met betimes,
th'' every bosom heard with Joy—the merry Christmas Chimes 1
th:4 love and laughter, joy and bliss, made up the festive scene,
h/46thful danc'd with lightsome hearts beneath the evergreen;
4116 i,
t troup'd around the aged sat, talk'd of the olden times,
`44oted too how oft they'd heard—the merry Christmas Chimes!
14', Poor were fed, the naked clotb'd—and though we must confess,
tut'' little then of style and taste were shown in homely dress ;
por starerent 'tis since "one" arose, the king of modern times,
iii Yarn's fame extends where ring—the merry Christmas Chimes
is lo
t.rof,"*.itung, matchless in extent, in beauty and in shade,
'l),,t4elY now for Christmas time are gorgeously display'd ;
tititnkir You would revive again the scenes of olden times,
ts, "Y • suit of Hyarn's Clothes—fre peal the Christmas Chimes !
44- favours shown throughout the year, L. Hyam would express
)10Patilude and heartfelt thanks for all his great success ;
ill "°4ld see commerce far extend, restore the good old times,
all
t should welcome once again—the merry Christmas Chimes
garments at this establishment are marked the
4t. 14 plain figures, from which no abatemen is made. Any
lelt exchanged, which is not approved of, or the money returned.
4oth HYAM, Tailoring and Outfitting Establishment, Pantech.
te4. 30, Graeechurch.street.
1411 I READY-MADE DEPARTMENT.
01,1°4- Sr Chesterfield coats, from ...............£0 9 a
T. /Int er Waterford Riding ditto, from ...... „ 0 12 0
•
Alter anslan Envelope, from
1t,14,t Walking Coat, from ...... 1 1 0
444, and Youths' Taglionis, or Chesterfields, fr0m...... 0 8 6
Dlt,' Oral, Coats, any colour, from ... 1 1 0
bit SUrtout ditto, ditto, from
bt° ?lack Trousers,
from
‘4, .ttti`t4 Vost, from
nta hWeed Trousers, from 0 (i
Zitu, —,,uckskin Trousers, from
'IN '4447 Vest, from
114 e suit, from
)4 4'0,44 froth
1/114t.'1401:0%
--.12 Trousers, from
'Lite "i
c t 'very best quality, rule pocket, from G 6
‘ltli from ..
4111 , BESPOKE DEPARTMENT.
enllo4
4estertield Coats, from 0 15 I
e Pori :r Waterford Riding ditto, from 1 0 0
t wen 44 Envelope, trent ... 1 5 0
°1104„ balking Coat, from .. 1 10 •
mew Youths' Taglionis and Chesterfields, from Ol2 0
' Dreso
ttoOats, any colour
bit, %Moue', from ... 1 10 •
‘0 Doeskin Trousers, any pattern, front ...
blitt4 Black dress Trousers, from .. 14
tto Fashionable Vests, in endless variety, from 0 7 0
11„, New Book. entitled " The Age of Wenders," centaining a
th tied List of Prices, Fashions, and Description of material for
1. Present season, can be had by applying to Mr. L. 1-IYAM,
.14teghtiethe,,, 38, Grececharch.street, London.

E4WE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY
SOCIETY.
AUSTRALASIAN, COLONIAL, AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE and ANNUITY SOCIETY.
Capital 200,0001., in 2,000 Shares.
DIRECTORS.
Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Gideon Colquhonn, Esq.
Robert Brooks, Esq. Charles E. Mangles, Esq.
henry Buckle, Esq. Richard Onslow, Esq.
John Henry Capper, Esq. William Walker, Esq.
SECRETARY—Edward Ryley, Esq.
The following are specimens •f the premiums charged by tkis Com-
pany for the assurance of !ON.
Age. I 20 I 30 I 4s I 50 I 60

An. Prem. I X 1 10 3 ! .£2 9 7 ! £2 15 3

44 1 8

Xi 3

This Company offers the advantages of the guarantee of an ample
subscribed capital—of permission to retain one-third of the premium
in their own hands (the portion se retained, with interest upon it,
being deducted Nom the policy when it become a claim),—of ascend-
ing, de.,cending, and other scales of prensiums,—and of participation
in the profits at the end of every five years.
TO EMIGRANTS, TO THE AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES,
assured for the whole of life, this Company offer the permission t•
proceed to, and reside in, any of those colonies without extra pre-
mium, and to pay their premiums there. For residence in New
Zealand, a moderate extra premium is charged.
In Sydney, a Board of Directors, and Agents in all the principal
settlements—Bankers in the colony. The Bank of Australasia (in •
corperated by Royal Charter, 1835), No, 2, Moorgate-street, London.

ANNUITIES.
Annuitants participate In the profits of the Company, and receive a
rate of annuity much more favourable than can be granted by any
Company making its investments wholly in England. The Company
is enabled securely to grant these favourable terns from the advan-
tage it possesses of investing a portion of its funds at a high rate
of interest.

INDIA.
Tables of Premiums for Assurances on the lives of officers engaged
in civil, or is naval or military service In the East Indies sad China,
racy be sees at the Offices •f the Company.

This, however, is not the place to discuss the lite-
rary merits of the work ; neither do we advert to it
for the purpose of adding fuel or intensity to the party
dispute between the respective colleagues or sup-
porters of Lord Auckland and Lord Ellenborough.
The main fact for the British public to know and re-
flect upon is not by whom these things were done,
but what things have been done ; for, rightly or
wrongfully, wisely or wickedly, the conquest and
annexation of Sinde are beyond all comparison
the most important occurrences which have occurred
in British Asia, even at a period when no mail has
arrived without some stirring intelligence. For the
other enterprises of the British or Indian Govern-
ments, however vast or remote, were directed to
temporary objects, which being attained, the stress of
effort and the hazards of war were terminated by
victory and peace. But in Sinde the task we have
undertaken is permanent—the frontier of the British
dominions has been advanced; we have as yet but
partially subdued the spirit, though we have once and
again broken the martial array of the native chiefs ;
we have assumed the rights of conquest and the duties
of Government; and it is only by conferring the prac-
tical benefits of a strong and just Administration on
the land, that we can palliate the equivocal and vio-
lent transactions by .which we have expelled the
Ameers from their territories. It is vain to attempt
to throw on any one man, or set of men, the burden
of disgrace which mars this triumph, and throws the
shadow of a just reproach over acts which, in them-
selves, may be described as brave and glorious.
The conquest of Sinde was no sudden achievement
of Sir C. Napier's, no bombastic edict of Lord
Ellenborough's ; it was the result of a series
of political events, over which neither their
original authors not the successors of those authors
had any firm control. Of these events the most im-
portant were the Affghan expedition, and the treaties
negotiated by Sir H. Pottinger under the instructions
o f L
moment o r d Aa
tu
whichc l an in 1836
d the
Govearhnmd
nBt3
118
d.
pTt
ehda t
thewa
' prin-
ciple r
nh
e
ciple of making good the defence of India, and pro-
tecting the British power by a system of foreign war;
from that time we were drawn into closer relations
or more immediate conflicts with the hardy and in-
dependent natives of the Caucasian mountains and of
Central Asia; we threw up the new outworks of the
Indian empire in a soil shaken by perpetual convul-
sions ; and we finally appended to that great empire,
which we professed to govern in justice and peace,
a province, or rather a state, only to be held in sub-
jection by the most vigorous military control. The
rest of India is governed by our authority, Sinde by
our army.
To these striking and permanent considerations of
policy many local and temporary difficulties have
been added, which are in themselves of sufficient
weight to excite a constant and serious anxiety. The
sickness of the army has been and continues to be
terrific; at certain seasons of the year all access to
the country is virtually cut off, and the shifting sands
at the mouth of the Indus render all navigation ex-
ceedingly hazardous and uncertain. Exposed to
these peculiar hardships, conscious of the difficulty of
reinforcement and the impossibility of retreat, and
surrounded by all the restraints and dangers of a fo-
reign and hostile country, the native troops of the
Indian presidencies, and especially those of Bengal
and Madras, have exhibited symptoms of extreme dis-
content ; and we are wholly at a loss to conceive
what apology can be made for the gross impolicy and
injustice of reducing these brave troops to their half-
batta, as allowed in garrison in Hindostan, when they
are in fact performing the severest duties that can be
required of an army, namely, the occupation of an
insalubrious and semi .independent country.
General Napier asserts, in his peculiar manner,
that "no Etruscan fecial ever cast his spear across
a boundary, invoking his gods to attest the justice
of a war, with a purer conscience than Charles Na-
pier marched (qu. with ?) to battle ;" and he assumes
the task of showing not only " how victoriously his
gallant relative bore the banner of England across
the bloody fields of Meeanee and Dubba; but how
widely he has since spread England's fame for justice
and gentleness by his administration ; the Beloochs
reverence, and the Sindians bless him, though the
Ameers mourn."

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from Cabul ; but he carried to its full extent the
policy of Lord Auckland against the Arneers : that
policy was, moreover, rendered more inevitable, when
once the Government of India was embarked in it,
by the conduct of the Sindian Princes themselves,
and by the importance of restoring the self-confidence
of the army. This kind of recrimination leads to no
conclusion, but the old apology of the lawyers " fieri
non debet, factum valet.' The actual result to the
ciuntry and to our public interests is of far more im-
portance than the contemporary fame of the men en-
gaged is these transactions; and posterity will not
judge of the merits of Lord Auckland and Lord
Ellenborough by their badges and earldoms; but
there is too much similarity in their errors, in spite of
the difference of their characters, for the one to be
safely defended at the expense of the other. Meanwhile
we remain comparative, and, we must add, in dan-
gerous ignorance, of the real condition of the con-
quered province : we only know that a large army is
needed there, and that this army requires perpetual
reinforcements. The same accounts which bring
these gloomy tidings of the health of the troops do,
indeed, add that the province will he eventually valu-
able, and that the revenue collected in the present year
has exceeded what was expected. Yet, in spite of
these more favourable additions to the picture,
heightened even by the fraternal enthusiasm of Gene-
ral William Napier, we can neither look back on our
progress along the Indus with satisfaction, nor for-
ward with entire confidence. The remaining parts of
the " Conquest of Sinde," which are promised to us,
will, however, put us more fully in possession of the
military and administrative operations of Sir Charles
Napier.

LORD ELLENBOROUGH.
(From the Herald.)

The motives which led to the removal of the Earl
of Ellenborough from the Government of India,
which he had so gloriously administered during his
short possession of office, are still a problem. All
that the public knows is, that Lerd_Ellenborough
assumed his Government when the progress of our
affairs in India was constantly and steadily disas-
trous, when men not usually desponding began
almost to despair of the possibility of preserving our
Indian empire ; that his arrival in India was almost
instantly followed by a sudden reflux of the fortunes
of Great Britain, until in a single campaign all our
disgraces were obliterated, and honours won, and
conquests achieved, not only in India but in China,
that admit no comparison in history, but with
the brilliant history of the British arms from
1812 to 1815 ; lastly, that at the close of this
career of triumph, and just when he had given
proof of his disposition to rival the military
success of his Government by a system of civil
reforms, the Governor-General was suddenly recalled
—recalled in opposition tathe strong remonstrance of
her, Majesty's Ministers, and more especially in dis-
regard of the judgment of one who as not merely the
most accomplished military commander who ever
lived—as a man who had a long civil and military
experience in Indian service, and as having shored the
confidence of the confessedly most able Governor who
ever ruled India (his brother, the late Marquis
Wellesley), must be considered a competent judge of
the merits of the civil and military policy which it
was Lord Ellenborough's lot to conduct. This is all
that is really known to the public of Lord Ellen-
borough's recal—the deplorable state in which his
Lordship found the Indian Government ; the crowd of
splendid triumphs by which he rescued the country
from apparently inevitable ruin—his commencement
of many important civil reforms—his sudden recal,
and the disapprobation of that recal by the Govern-
ment, especially by the Duke of Wellington—this
amount of knowledge is of course sufficient founda-
tion for conjecture, but it affords, perhaps, no suffi-
cient foundation for a final decision, and, therefore,
prudent and just men withhold their judgment for the
time that cannot be now distant, when the whole
question must be canvassed by the Legislature, with
the advantage of full information.

BAHIA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY.

Yesterday afternoon the Half-yearly General Meet-
ing of the Shareholders in this Company was held at
the George and "Vulture Tavern, Cornhill, Mr. San-
derson in the chair.

The SECItETARY read the report of the Directors,
detailing the proceedings since the last meeting in the
Chancery suit instituted against the Company by Mr.
Alderman Farncombe, Captain Farmer, and Mr.
Brown, all of whom were ex-Directors, and Mr.
Heppe!, the late Secretary to the Company. The re-
port stated that on the 3d inst. the appeal of the
plaintiffs, in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, was dis-
missed with costs, and concluded by stating that, not-
withstanding the vexatious law proceedings, and the
consequent heavy costs to which the Company had
been subjected, the profits of the Company had still
continued to improve steadily.
The CHAIRMAN, after a few brief remarks explana-
tory of the report, and in support of the assertion re-
specting the growing prosperity of the Company,
stated that they had now three boats upon the sta-
tion, and that the incidental expenses had decreased
by nearly one-half.
The rep art wai unanimously adopted ; and the
meeting separated, after passing a vote of thanks to
he Chairman.

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The accident which happened on the Versailles
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trial on 'Wednesday. The parties accused were M.
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pressure occasioned so much disturbance, that the
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to restore and keep order. All the persons injured by
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conducteur, Dry, who, on his name being called, was
announced to be dead, from the new accident which
occurred on the same railroad on Monday last.
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appeared with his face in bandages, and excited
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charged with not having given sufficient notice of
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night, it being the fke at Meudon, and from which
neglect the accident arose. Dufresne was accused of
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imposing upon the first a fine of 100 f. and 20 days'
imprisonment, and upon the second a fine of 16f. and
1.5 days' i mpri so nmen t.—Freach paper.

RUISJEET SINGI7I.—The publication of a new work,
the scenes and events of which are laid in the dominions
of the late " Lion of Lahore," and the characters of
which include himself and some of the most remarkable
and conspicuous functionaries of his Court and Camp,
cannot fail to excite unusual interest—especially when
the volumes bear the name and authority of a British
Officer, who has passed a large portion of his military
life in the midst of the scenes and personages with which
the work busies itself. The production to which we
allude bears the title of " ADVENTURES OF AN OFFICER
IN TIIE SERVICE OF RUN,TEET SINGH," and comprises
personal sketches of all the foreign officers--Avitabili,
A'Court, and the rest—who were so long distinguished
both in the Court and Camp of that extraordinary chief.
The position of the author, Major 11. M. L. Lawrence,
as the British Resident at the Court of Nepali!, and late
Assistant to the Political Agent in relation with Lahore,
gives to this singular book a character of authenticity,
and of consequent interest and value, that it could have
attained by no other means.
EXTESSIVE ROBBERY OF PLATH.—The following
plate, belonging to the Duchess of Palmella, left on the
6th inst. at the Southampton Docks, has been since
tea spoons, engraved with a P. and a crown;
72 table
24 table fo knives, a soup ladle, 32 Spans (soup spoons),
rks, 28 ditto, bearing the Palmella arms, 36
dessert spoons, and the same number of dessert forks,
2 large gravy spoons, 2 other gravy or sauce spoons, a
sugar spoon and a pair of sugar tongs, 3 salt spoons,
2 salvers, a sugar basin, a tea-pot, a coffee, pot, a milk
jug, 30 knives, 29 forks, and 30 spoons, silver gilt; and a
large silver vase and salver, engraved with the Almito
arms. All the other articles were engraved either with
the Palmella arms, or the P. and crown.
MUNIFICENT DONATIONS.—We understand that
Lord Ashley has remitted the sum of 32/. 103. to the
Rev. Mr. Balfour, Clackmannan, to be distributed by
him, in the exercise of his own discretion, " among
these labouring women, in the parish of Clackmannan,
and in the adjoining parishes, who have been thrown out
of employment by the operation of the Act to regulate
Mines and Collieries." Lord Ashley has likewise trans-
mitted the following sums to the undermentioned places-
-Polmont, 421. 10s. ; Tranent, 221. 10s. ; Newton, near
Dalkeith, 12/, IN.—Fifes/lire Journal.

Heaven grant that this be something more than
rhetoric, and that all this glory be of the true growth.
There can be no doubt that Sir Charles Napier is a
commander well fitted to inspire confidence to his
troops. In Cephalonia, at an earlier period of his
life, he is reported to have won the attachment of the
population at large. His military skill and intre-
pidity hare already been acknowledged by Parlia-
ment and the people of England as they deserved ;
but if he lives fully to bear out the panegyrics passed
upon his talents for civil government, and to make
Sinde a tenable possession of the British empire, he
will deserve to be remembered as one of the men
most resolute in the conquest of danger., if not in
the rank of those who hive conferred great positive
benefits on the State.
The main distinction between Lord Auckland's
adherents and the panegyrist of Lord Ellenborongh
and Sir Charles Napier amounts to this : the former
censure the conduct of the Executive Government of
India in 1843 to the Ameers of Sinde ; the latter
retorts, that " the treaty of 1838, by which Lord
Auckland placed a loaded shell in the palace of the
Ameers, to explode at his pleasure for their destruc-
tion, was, abstractedly, an unjust, oppressive action ;"
and that the evil and wrong of interference was
of a much earlier date. Lord Auckland would
defend his treaties with the Ameers as a neces-
sary part of his Affghan policy to secure a line
of operations for his army through Sinde, leaving,
we presume, his Affghan policy to defend itself,
.fkif ~-couldfripo—licyLord ,anl
If wit prem.' _tatA ,
" exertions to withdraw the army
lmt eandbeo r ot uh ge h
mroesptudsitarteenduotuhse,

MR. 't. THOMAS TROUT, 229, STRAND
LONDON.
Church Farrar, Barton Stacey, near Andover,
Oct. 2(1, 1844.

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The public generally has maintained the most pru-
dent and just reserve, and even the dismissed Gover-
nor-General, his Ministerial patrons and colleagues,
and his friends, in whom, if in any one, a premature
appeal to public opinion might be regarded as venial,
they have guarded a strict silence—proof, according
to experience, of confidence in the strength of their
case. In this silence we should be gratified to concur,
if it was permitted to us ; but, unfortunately, the
liberty is not allowed. An appeal—as we cheerfully
acknowledge ourselves to believe, an unauthorised
one, has been put forward—professedly on behalf of
the India Directors, though we repeat our conviction
that it is without their approbation—an appeal against
the probable defence of the only party under accusa-
tion. This disgusting inversion of the proper order
of justice is in the shape of a pamphlet, which has
been puffed and followed up by the Times newspaper. ,
The pamphleteer and the Times treat the question
as if the Directors, not the Earl of Ellenborough,
were the parties entitled to complain ; but surely the
Directors have snffered no injury, are subject to no
suspicions of a secret nature, and the obtrusion of
any one on their part to anticipate the vindication of
the party really stricken, if not injured--certainly the
only party accused—is a gross outrage upon justice
and decency, even were not the fair trial as near at
hand as it is. As to the pamphlet, it might, perhaps,
be safely left to fulfil the destiny of its class, which
we learn from the evidence of the principal book-
sellers of London, is to impose a fine of some few
pounds upon its author, for not one pamphlet of thirty,
it is said by the booksellers, pays its own expenses—
that is, sells 250 copies. The pamphlet, therefore,
might be with safety 1( ft to its fate, but when the
" Monster Mouther ' gives to the attack upon a
stricken and accused, and still silent man, the aid of
its considerable circulation, continued abstinence on
the part of those who are in some measure pledged to
bear testimony for the public, and for justice, would
be connivance at a wrong.
The Times of Saturday, counting, no doubt, upon
the indisposition of the public to undergo the labour
of reading " Papers relating to the Military Opera-
tions in Affghanistan, presented to the houses of
Parliament by command of her Majesty," and " The
Correspondence relating to Sinde, printed in confor-
mity with a resolution of the General Court of Pro-
prietors of East India Stock," comes at once to the
conclusion that the Earl of Ellenborough, though a
" clever man," was an incompetent Governor-Ge-
neral, ex gr.:—
" Some persons might feel astonishment at the al-
most unanimous elevation of Lord Ellenborough to
so high an office by the cautious Company which is
here described. If we ever felt such astonishment,
we cease to feel it altogether as we peruse the papers
now before us. It'would be impossible to read the
letters and documents there furnished without
acknowledging that his Lordship possesses in an
eminent degree those qualities which in an untried
man pass for talent and capacity. In the quality
which is well expressed by the word cleverness,' we
think his Lordship to be unrivalled ; in many of
those qualities which are valuable or dangerous ac-
cording as they are joined with honesty of purpose
and soundness of principle, or with a reckless disre-
gard of both, his Lordship is by no means deficient ;
ner do we underrate or think lightly of that tact and
readiness which enabled him to persuade others that
he was equal to the task of governing India, while in
fact he possessed scarcely one essential qualification.
Indeed, we are more than ever convinced that no one
could reasonably have predicted that Lord Ellenbo-
rough was so unfitted for a Governor until he had
been placed in such a station and tried. As ive have
said before, therefore, we cease to wonder at the al-
most unanimous choice of the Directors, or that it
was confirmed at that time by the general voice of
the nation. We only pity his Lordship, whose fame
was thus ruined irretrievably."
Now the conclusions of the Times from its recent
statements might weigh with those (if any such there
are) who place a reliance upon our Contemporary's
sense and honesty, but for one unlucky circumstance
—the circumstance, namely, that before the " Papers
relating to the Military Operations," &c., &c., were
accessible—before the documents upon which that
very honest journal now professes to ground its opi-
nion were printed, or even written—the Times had
pronounced its decision, condemning Lord Ellen-
borough ; yes, our Contemporary only repeats now,
upon the pretence of recently-acquired knowledge,
the same insulting condemnation of the late Governor-
General which it pronounced, without information,
seven or eight months ago.
It is idle, therefore, to pretend, as the Times pre-
tends, that either the pamphlet to which it refers, and
which it patronises, or the "Papers relating to the
Military Operations," &c., has had any influence in
determining an opinion so long since formed upon
party and personal grounds, as is plain from the fact
that there is no other grounds upon which it could be
formed. Let us, however, pass from general to more
particular allegations. The Times asserts that Lord
Ellenborough had no difficulties to encounter upon his
arrival in India ; that all before him was down-hill
work—nice galloping ground; and that his successes,

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which cannot well be disputed, were well prepared for
him by his predecessor, by the same Governor-General
who sent an army to Cabul commanded by Elphin-
stone and Shelton :

" It always appeared to us that Lord Ellenborough
was appointed at a time when a course of victory was
clear before him; that the light, not of safety only,
but of glory, was already visible through the gloom ;
that the day of signal retribution was then evi-
dently near at hand. To have supposed that the un-
disciplined hordes of Affghanistan could have with-
stood the combined attack of two of our Anglo-Indian
armies was a noti(m that could only have orignated in
undue alarm. The doom of Csbul and Istalif might
already have been clearly read, by those whose judg-
ment was unaffected by fear, ere Lord Ellenborough
had landed in India."

Would that we could, in justice to Lord Ellen-
borough, recal to memory the feeling of this country,
and of India too, in the month of January, 1842 ;
that we could remind men of the indignant
despair with which promises of " a course of vic-
tory," suggestions of the thing of tho " light, not of
safety only, but of glory," would have been then
received. What were the promises of the Times it-
self at that period we will not seek by examining
its file, for to prove the impudent inconsistency of
the Times were the rao.st superfluous of all superfluous
works. We have little doubt, however, that the
Times made, in 1842, no promises of " success,"
" safety," and " glory." We are tempted to step
aside to another extract illustrative of the distortion
of facts by which the Times tries to Justify its au-
dacious misrepresentation
" While in England we were trembling for the
safety of our troops at Kandahar, the Gallant General
who commanded there was only eager for an oppor-
tunity, and fully confident in the ability of his gallant
army to retrieve the honour of the British name. i
While we regarded the brave detachment of Sir R.
Sale as little better than lost men, they were daily
avenging on their enemy the slaughter of Cabul,
until the heaps of Affghan corpses around the im-
pregnable walls of Jellalabad began to vie with the
frozen masses of Tezeen andJugdulluelc."
The security of the army at Kandahar was, we
suppose, proved by General England's melancholy
repulse, and the " impregnable walls of Jellalabad"
were those of which an eye-witness speaks as fol-
lows :

"It will he remembered that Sir Robert Sale
reached Jellalabad with his brigade on the 12th of
November. Ile found the walls of the city in such
a state as might have justified a feeling of despair as
to the possibility of defending them. The extent was
so great, embracing a circumference of upwards of
2,3Q0 yards, that his force was insufficient to man
them effectively, and there was no parapet, excepting
for a few hundred yards, and even there only two
feet high. Earth and rubbish had accumulated to
such an extent about the ramparts, that there were
roads it various directions across and over them into

the country, affording the greatest faeilities to the
approach of the enemy. At one part of the works
there was a apace of 400 yards together, on which
none of the garrison could show themselves, excepting
at a particular spot; the population within was dis-
affected, and the town was surrounded on every side
by ruined forts, walls, mosques, tombs, and gardens,
from which a fire could be opened on the defenders,
at a distance of only 20 or 30 yards."—llistory of
the War in Affghanistan ; published by Brooks,
Baker-street, p. 340.

It is very true that Lord Ellenborough had, when
he landed in India, "a course of victory before him,"
but it was a course to be shaped by himself—and just
such a course of victory had Sir Arthur Wellesley
before him, when he landed at Mondego Bay thirty-
six years ago—just such a course of victory before
him had Nelson, when he embarked a midshipman on
board the Raisonnable—such a course before him has
every man who has achieved great things had at the
very moment of his birth; but to assume that be-
cause a man has been successful, his course of suc-
cess has been prepared, independently of any merits
of his own, is a profession of fatalisM that passes, we
believe, the folly of any other fatalism.
Let us, however, offer another testimony to the
actual condition of our Indian empire at the moment
of Lord Ellenborough's arrival, sketched by " a
soldier, and a ripe one," General _Napier, from whose
beautiful sketehes of the " Conquest of Sinde " we
make the following extracts; they are little more
than detached lines, and why we present them in
this mutilated form we will explain before we
have done:—

" 1842.—Sir Chas. Napier hiring reached Bombay,
was appointed to command at Poenah, and soon
attracted public notice by his professional activity,
and he quickly detected, and in his letters forcibly
depicted, the vices, civil and military, which had
gained such strength ander Lord Auckland's Govern-
ment, if they did not originate with it, that the total
destruction of the Indian army, and the ruin of the
Indian empire, seemed hastening on with giant
strides. give his views at length, and in his own
nervous language, would be of little public service
now, and might be injurious ; but those views were
at the same time shown to competent authority at
home, and returned to the author of this history with
this remark Too true a picture, drawn by a
master hand ;' but it was at this moment that, for the
salvation of India, Lord Ellenbomugh came.

" Deeply impressed with the danger menacing
India from within and without, Sir Charles Napier
hastened to offer Lord Ellenborough his opinions
upon the military operations, and gave him a general
plan of campaign for the second Affghan invasion;
the principal points of which were the relief of Sir
Robert Sale, the restoration of DcFst Mohamed, the
evacuation of Affghanistan, and the occupation of the
left bank of th• Indus

" What influence this memoir had on Lord Ellen-
berourgh's judgment, or whether it merely coincided
with his own ,preciously formed opinions and plans,
is known only to himself, but the leading points were
in unison with the after operations of Nott and Pol-
lock."

In another page, opened at random, we find the
following
" Lord Ellenborough amidst these difficulties
steeredthe course becoming a brave man conscious
of danger and of his own resources to meet it. Ilis
first effort was to stay the spreading mischief of fear
on one side, and rising hopes on the other, by a mani-
festo of his views, in which a vigorous determination
Wasq apparent. This proclamation of silence, as it
were, suppressed the general confusion, and gave time
to combine the military operations, to redeem the
character of the British arms, and to teach the exult-
ing natives on his frontier that England's strength
was not to be measured by recent misfortunes. * *
Lord Ellenborough saw clearly and struck boldly."

Such are the testimonies of a brave and expe-
rienced and able British soldier, and a political oppo-
nent. We suppose that they will preponderate against
the criticisms of that journal that charged the French
marine with cowardice.

We have promised an explanation of the abrupt-
ness with which we have introduced our extracts
from General Napier's work. Our explanation is,
that we are the advocates of justice to Lord Ellen-
borough, not either by duty or by inclination the
accusers of the Court of Directors ; and the passages
which we have omitted might be interpreted as
charges against that highly-respectable, but we must
think, mistaken body. These passages prove for
Lord Ellenborough the difficulties of an administra-
tive class with which, in the judreht of an eye-
witness, he had to contend; but his Lordship's case
is strong enough to dispense with such proofs. As
we have said, we are not by duty the accusers of
the Court of Directors, and still less could we be by
inclination the accusers of twenty-four as respectable
gentlemen as can be found in England. We think
that in their conduct towards Lord Ellenborough
they were guilty of a serious error, but of an error
that had nothing sordid or dishonourable in it, and
that may be easily accounted for. The expense of
the future Government we have no doubt alarmed
them, and there were circumstances that contributed
to exaggerate enormously that expense in their eyes.
It is very certain, as the Tinzes states, that the Direc-
tors have each and all a great peCuniary stake in the
prosperity of the Indian empire ; but it is a gross,
though a very common fallacy, to forget the distinc-
tion between a present slid a remote pecuniary inte-
rest. Pew men care for the fate of the grandchildren
whom they have not .een ; none care for the fate of
the great grandchildren whom they will never see.
Men may excise their next heirs (as in the Thellusson
will case) to aggrandise a remote descendant (though
even this is not common), but we never heard of any
one who would excise himself for such a purpose ;
who would forego twenty per cent. of his income in
order to secure the income in its integrity to a great-
grandchild, or even to a grandchild. The sacrifice of
the future to the present is the rule, not the exception,
or there would be no such word as impruden6e,a word
which, however, runs through all languages.

The India I)irecta, moreover; must think for
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~,,7:4a ively poor persons proprietors of I , stock, to,
whom a material reduction of their dividends would;
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be a heavy. burden. Economy—severe econormy-r,:
therefore, is, in some respects, the duty of the Indie---
Directors, and it is a duty to the faithful discharge at..;
which they will be strongly biassed by their present-
personal interests. If, therefore, they feared a great
increase of cost in the military and civil government;
of India, that fear alone would account for, and
almost justify, the violent step taken by them. The
existence of such a fear is, however, by no means
improbable. We may suppose that the Govern-
ment gave to Lord Ellenborough the same wide
latitude of discretion that they gave to Sir Henry
Pottinger, and which the latter so beneficially
exercised—that latitude of discretion in the agent
which, in great things as well as small, is indispen-
sable to success; but having given such freedom of
action to the Governor-General, the Cabinet would
be unable to satisfy the Directors upon the subject of
expense; and all know the power of uncertainty in
' exciting exaggerated apprehensions. Thus, we
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against him, and having done this there is no more
that we wish to do.

PRESENTATION TO THE CAN-
TERBURY PIIILOSOPICAL INSTITUTION
AND MUSEUM BY LORD STItANGFORD.
The Canterbury Museum has recently been ens,
riched by a valuable and most interesting collection
of Greek and Egyptian antiquities, which are now
arranged for inspection in that building. They bays
been most liberally presented by Lord Strangford.
The following description of them has been supplied
by the curator of the Museum :
" The presentation to the Canterbury Museum, re-
cently made by the Viscount Strangford, consists of
sculptured marbles, terracotta figures, lamps, vessels
used in the interment of the dead, as well as others
for every -day purposes, a metal mirror, parts of a
sandal, all of which are relics of Greek or Egyptian
art ; a Mexican figure used as a water-cooler, a rude
Swedish copper coin (a twe-crown piece), a mask of
Charles 13th of Sweden, taken after death, with at few
other miscellaneous articles ; the whole forming be
most valuable addition to the Museum that has been
i.icontributed for many years past. The antiquarian's
pleasure is often destroyed by a passing doubt, a dread
lest his treasures may be spurious, and he imposed upon ;
but in viewing these relics of classic taste, there is no
such drawback, ' they having been dug and delved
up in various parts of Greece and Egypt' by the
noble donor himself. Such a collection was much
wanting, to illustrate the customs and manners of
people, to whom the civilised of all succeeding ages
are so much indebted. Of this the Philosophical and
Literary Society was so well aware, that they haver
appropriated for them a new glass case, where they
will long remain a proof of Lord Strangford's gene-
rosity, and be of use to all students inquiring into the
state of the arts, religious ceremonies, or domestic
economy of ancient Egypt and classic Greece.
" The marbles consist of commemorative tablet
with various subjects sculptured upon them, illustra-
tive of their fabulous history or their modes of 'wor-
ship. On some of these are inscriptions in an early
Greek character. The figures are mostly carved ire
that primeval style of art in which a succession of
ridges and furrows in the garments, made up for those
bold and massive shadows which distinguish a later
and better period of the art. It was customary for the
convalescent to offer gifts, which remained in the
temple, for any disease from which they had been
ridded; thus, portions of the body, as hands and feet,
were often presented in marble or in metal ; four of
these, either broken from large subjects, or that had
been votive offerings, are amongst the collection.
" There are six small heads of various and inter-
esting character, and the lower parts of the figure of
a fawn of exquisite workmanship. One of the most
attractive of the marbles is a full length of a draped
figure, in a good style of art, and perfect in all save
the head and arms. In another, which appears to
have been part of the frieze of a building, the artist
has shown perfect skill in the manner of tooling, so as
to give the effeet of shadow from above to the specta-
tor below. • It is a figure floating through the air sun:
rounded by fillets and flowers, and reminds us of the
sculptures on the Temple of the Winds, so called, and
which are so admirably engraved in Stewart's and
Revett's Antiquities of Athens.'

" Pottery—bf these there are seventy specimens,
and some of great beauty. Few persons, without
reflection, would be disposed to admit the power of
baked clay to resist the ravages of time in a superior
degree to metal or marble ; yet that such is the case,
the vases and other objects in this collection, as well
as in others, sufficiently attest. We can hardly bring
our minds to believe that it is two thousand years ago
that similar pottery to this was collected at Rome,
and prized for its antiquity. It is not improbable
that some of those very vessels might have been made
and painted before the building of Rome itself was
commenced.

"It may be well here to notice the manner it
which the paintings on the vases must have been
effected. It will be seen that many of them are
really beautiful in design, and drawn with a mas-
terly hand. Now, to conceive that artists of such
merit could be employed in designing and painting
this common ware, would be equal to suppose that
painters were employed to design each of our corn.
mon cups and saucers. They must, therefore, have
had a mode of marking out by stencilling pat-
terns and forms that others had designed, and of
filling up the interior forms afterwards. The degign
on the vase No. 9 is precisely in this state, and
a most spirited outline and vigorous drawing it
presents—let only a person attempt to copy it, aad
he will then know how exquisite it is. Vases of this
shape are the most common in collections; nor cars
it be wondered at when it is known that not only a
flat or patera-shaped one is placed at the right side of
the corpse, but that two whole rows of the long vases
are placed down the length of the skeleton, as well
as several between the legs : from twenty to sixty
are generally taken from the same sepulchre, the
greater part of which are of the lengthened form. It
is difficult to guess at the object of burying so great
a number, but doubtless the wealth of the interred
often was known by such display.
" This is a large pitcher-formed vessel, on which are
represented two sphinxes with a bird flying between
them ; this is in beautiful harmony of colour, and
equally correct in drawing. A dark coloured vessel,
No. 43, has been figured as a vessel to contain scent.
The last office performed upon the dead appears to
have been to anoint it with sacred oil, which was
contained in lengthened vessels, some of which are of
clay, and some of alabaster—examples of each are in
the collection.

"Terra Cottas—Of these there are thirty speci-
mens, of various degrees of excellence; but one—
probably the head of a Greek poetess, it being
crowned with a garland of berried ivy—deserves
pre-eminence. The face is of exquisite beauty : the
lips--the nostril—the eye, beam with inspiration.
Two tiles also demand minute inspection—the one a
mask, found at Rhodes ; the other a spirited sketch of
chariot racing.

"There are several small heads—some with much
grace of expression, and one of considerable inte-
rest, it clearly being a representation of one of the
Hebrew nation. Another—a iemde figure with
Pan-pipes—is mirthful and peculiar in expression of
countenance, reminding us of the types frAn whence
the elder painters derived their forms. Amongst the
Terra Cottas are many of the Egyptian deities $411E8•
what rudely executed; but there are some of a lit.sc-
chanalian character of great merit. Among
a dog's head, with a wolfish expression, and a pig,
are the most remarkable.

"The cleft pomegranate, ohowiry, its grains, ib here,
and very similar to the same fruit introduced in
modern festoons of fruit and flosNers, both in wood
and stone.

"Lamps—The ancients evidently delighted to
multiply forms and elegant designs for their lamps,
We have here a collection of sixteen, and not two of
them are similar. On one is the representation of an
old man feeding the flame with oil; on another is
shown the manner in which burdens were carried.
But the most interesting of all is a square one,
on which, in low relief, is represented the
scene in the Odyssey,' where Ulysses, sailing off the
coast Ithaca, is delayed by the Syrens. One of these
seductive creatures is seen swimming close to the
prow of the vessel ; and the hero, having first com-
manded all possible expedition, both with oar and by
sail, appears turning a dead ear to the Syren, for
both his hands are applied to his head, to prevent the
entrance of sounds that by their sweetness might
tempt him to relinquish his search.
" There are several other things equally curious in
themselves, that cannot so readily be classed, such a
a metal mirror evidently of the same shape as that
depicted upon one of the vases (No. 7); it is now in
a very corroded state. A small scarabzeus, formed of
jade stone, and covered with hieroglyphics, reminds
us of the old Nile and its superstitions. At MUMS'
was dug up a crucible of the same form as that in
present use, and what is no less singular, of the
same material, namely, plumbago. Not the least in-
teresting of these miscellaneous articles are the casts
from a plate of copper engraved on both sides, found
in Sweden, covered with an inscription in what is
called in the north of Europe, the Negry character,
but which appears to be a mixture of Egyptian and
Runic. A copy of these has been sent to Mr. Forster,
the gentleman who has so successfully deciphered
the engraved rocks of Syria, which had hitherto
defied all previous translators, and the Society hope,
through that gentleman's kindness, to know what it
commemorates.

" An addition of so valuable a character will long
identify the Lord Strangford with the most ardent
well-wishers to the intellectual imprcr,vesnent of the
ritizens of Canterbury."..-Kext Ikrard.