The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

COURT OF SEWERS.

A special meeting of the Court of Sewers for the
City and Liberty of Westminster, and part of the
County of Middlesex, was held yesterday, at the
Court-house, Soho-square, to receive tenders for
general contracts for works on the sewers, and to take
such steps thereon as might be deemed expedient.
John Leslie, Esq., was called to the chair.
The Court proceeded to open the tenders for the
eastern division, and it was discovered that, among
the candidates (five in all), the former contractors'
(Messrs. J. and W. Bennett) tender was the lowest.
The same result followed upon the western division,
and the Counter's-creek and Ranelagh districts.
The tenders having all been received,
The CHAIRMAN wished to know if any Hon. Com-
missioner had any observations to make upon the
offers they had just examined ?
Mr. WILLOUGHBY saw no reason to depart from
the practice formerly observed by the Court, namely,
to accept the lowest tender. The Messrs. Bennett
were, in this case, the lowest, and the Court knew
them to be responsible men, and as far as he (Mr.
Willoughby) had observed, their works were admi-
rable. He was aware of no objection to lead them to
overlook them on that occasion, and he should, there-
fore, move that their tender for the eastern division
be accepted.
Mr. BAYLIS would, before the motion was put, ask
a 'question of their Chairman. He wished to know
whether the numbers on the paper would be those
really required in the operations of the Court for the
succeedini year ? He should like to have the Chair-
man's opinion upon this subject, as he had, upon
several previous occasions, brought before the observa-
tion of the Court certain matters connected with the
Messrs. Bennett's previous contract.
The CHAIRMAN said that he considered the numbers
as nearly correct as possible. He should feel it his
duty to call the attention of the Court to Rul• 30 of
their bye-laws,
.where it: was ordered that all con-
tractors should be disqualified from tendering for
works ordered by the Court of Sewers, provided such
contractors had any relative in the first or second
degree a Commissioner in that Court. Now he had
mentioned to Mr. Bennett in that room, and he would
again state, that Mr. Hunt, the brother-in-law of the
Messrs. Bennett's, was actually named in their Com-
mission, and was regularly summoned to that Court
as a Commissioner. He felt bound, as their Chair-
man, to lay this fact before them, and he would now
call upon Mr. Hertzlett, their clerk, to read the rule
he had referred to.

The rule was read by the clerk.
Mr. WILLOUGHBY thought that the rule did not at
all apply in that case. The mischief it was intended
to provide against was this, that no gentleman should
sit there who would be likely to sacrifice his public
duty to his private interests. But how stood this case
before them ? A man was not a Commissioner because
his name was included in that Commission. He must
have a freehold of a certain value, and he must qua-
lify himself by taking the oaths in that Court. These
things, together, qualified for the duties of a Commis-
sioner ; and when all these were observed, then he
eame within the meaning of the Act. He (Mr. Wil-
loughby) therefore respectfully submitted that this
gentleman, who had no freehold to qualify him for a
seat there, was really no Commissioner. It would
indeed be a very hard case for those gentlemen that
they should be excluded from this contract because
they happened to have a relation whose name had at
some period been placed upon the Commission, that
relation not being qualified for the office.
Mr. liswiLEs followed on the same side.
The CHAIRMAN said that there could be no question
of Mr. Hunt's being a Commissioner to every intent
and purpose. His name was inserted by the Lord
Chancellor, and he could at any time take the oaths
in that Court, and his place at the table.
After some further discussion, in which several
motions and amendments were presented, but after-
wards, by consent of the Court, withdrawn,
Mr. Wir-Lothariar moved, Mr. HAWSES seconded,
and it was ultimately carried unanimously, " That
the Court adjourn the choice of contractor until it
has decided on the objection to Messrs. J. and W.
Bennett in the 30th bye-law, and that the considera-
tion
of such objection be entered on upon Friday next
at two o'clock, and that notice be given to the Com-
missioners accordingly. 1
The Court was then declared adjourned.

THE ANTI-TAKING-BABIES-INTO
PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES-SOCIETY.

A meeting of this highly respectable association
was held at their rooms. Mr. Job Smith, a worthy
and athletic bachelor, was called to the chair, and the
usual quantity of vices and secretaries appointed.
The committee, appointed at a previous meeting, re-
ported the following, as the principles of the society :-
1. We consider the practice of taking infants into
public assemblies, concerts, kc., as an evil that cries
aloud for remedy.
2. While we would not breathe the faintest re-
proach towards the highly respectable class of the
community, who officiate as nurses, we strongly pro-
test against their taking their babies into public meet-
ings, &c., knowing, as we do, that it can only be done
by a resort to arms.
3. While we acknowledge that a large majority of
our fellow-creatures are, or have once been, babies, we
consider it to be a fact, that it is a very small mi-
nority who support these crying evils.
4. We cannot shut our ears to the numerous
evidences of this evil ; indeed, we have known'
instances of late, where it was found impossible, with
the largest church organ, to drown (not the child
itself) but the shrill, organic notes of the child. We
protest against those notes.
5. We pledge ourselves to use our utmost exertions
to carry out the above principles.
After the reading of the principles of the society,
Mr. Dunn Brown rose from an inverted cradle, on
which he was sitting, and moved their adoption, which
motion was unanimously carried, amid the shouts of
the assembled bachelors.
A committee of fourteen was then appointed, whose
duty is to carry out the objects of the society. It is to
be hoped, that not a single man will be found in the
city, who will not join this interesting association.—
Philadelphia Paper.

HINTS TO WIFE HUNTERS.
Under this head the Dublin Freeman's Journal
gives an account of an unfortunate denouentent which
attended an advertisement inserted in a Dublin paper
some time since. The advertisement was from a
gentleman in search of a wife, and dressed up in the
usual style of such productions. " Fortune,' said the
advertiser, "is not absolutely requisite," but he had
no objection to from 5001. to 1,5001. if thrown in by
way of" tilly" with the sought-for bride. That sum
could be settled on the lady for " pin-money." The
whole statement concluded thus :—" The utmost
honour and secrecy may be relied on—none but prin-
cipals will be treated with, and the applicant must send
her credentials in her own handwriting." It so hap-
pened that the document met the eyes of a gentleman
who resides at S— M—, who was able, by the help
of a " crow quill," to imitate the lady's " choice
Italian" hand ; he thought it would be a capital joke
to answer the advertisement. He accordingly did so,
stating that he was a lady, and possessing all the re-
quisites to make the wooer happy. The fair one
announced that she would walk on the Strand at
Sandymount on a certain day (weather permitting),
and would be dressed after a certain fashion, at the
same time requesting the gentleman to carry a bouquet
of flowers in his hand, in order that she might more
easily recognise her expectant inamorato. In the
meantime the writer had apprised his " five hundred
friends, who were on the ground," to see the fun.
The appointed evening came, and as the time of the
assignation drew nigh the utmost anxiety prevailed,
but at last suspense was relieved by seeing a gentle.
man emerging from a covered car, who was dressed
in the pink of fashion, and sure enough he had a bou-
fuel, and such a bouquet ! Poor Reeves never ex-
hibited a greater when enlivening us with his comical
" Agricultural Wife." On he marched amid the sup-
hressed laughter of the inhabitants of the neighbour-
ood, for by that time the dogs of the town were
aware of it. He poked his head and his daisies under
the bonnet of every lady he met, and ran reveral risks
of being slapped in the face for his intrusive curiosity.
At last a lady did come; sure it must be her. " The
dress is like," muttered he, "it must be her." The
lady in question, who was a stranger, and ignorant of the
affair, had been walking with her brother, who, stopping
to speak with some friends, had permitted his sister
to proceed on her walk. The " Ccelebs in search
of a wife" walked directly up to the lady, presented
his miniature flower-plot, and with a low bow said,
"My dear, is it you ?" The lady passed on, fol-
lowed by her new admirer, who became very impor-
tunate, and, although warned several times to " be off,"
he persisted, until in the act of saluting her fair hand,
he vhs saluted himself a tergo, and this was followed
up by several smart applications of the brother's
stick over his shoulders. This brought him to his
senses—a rencontre succeeded, and the stick was laid
on with greater violence amid a scene of the most
boisterous mirth from the hundreds who were in the
secret, and who had now collected about the parties.
A couple of police-officers coming up charges and cross
charges were preferred, but after some time an ex-
planation took place, and so the matter ended. The
gentleman proved to be a Mr. residing in
street, near one of the squares. Ile Fof into
his covered cart, and drove away amid a hurricane of
laughter. We are led to believe he has not heeded a
hundred other answers to his advertisement.

The Rev. B. C. Kennicott, 8.A., of Oriel College,
Oxford, and Curate of Woodhorn, has been appointed
by Sir Robert Peel, upon the recommendation of the
Bishop of Durham, to the district of All-Saints, Monk-
wearmouth, recently created under the Church Endow-
ment Act. The Episcopal Chapel, in Broad-street,
Monkwearmouth, will be the chapel for this new district,
which comprises the townships of Monkwearmouth and
/Viral

AN EXPERIMENTAL TRIP IN A
STEAMER PROPELLED BY A "FAN."
Since the great and splendid invention of tie steam-
engine as applicable to navigation, the lightness of its
machinery, the concentration of its propelling
power, and the economy in the use of fuel, have
ever been considered objects of the very highest
importance ; and from the first introduction of
steamers, their side-paddles and boxes have been thought
cumbersome, and particularly unsightly to the nautical
eye, accustomed to the beautiful and graceful propor-
tions of a sailing vessel. From the various
applica-
tions to which steam-power is susceptible it is still in
its infancy, though already the development of its
capabilities has very far surpassed what was even
contemplated by the immortal inventor himself. The
immense power of steam is unquestionably esta-
blished; but its appliances to different kinds of
machinery are still very limited. In regard
to side-paddles, many attempts have been made
to do away with them, as they are found to
be much in the way, to hold a great deal of wind,
and to impede the steamer's speed, especially
in crowded rivers and narrow streams. In-
deed, steam-navigation in narrow waters and
canals is almost impossible, in consequence of the
space the paddles and boxes take up, which cover a
width equal to that of the vessel herself. Besides,
the steamer's paddles and boxes abutting out on
either side are ever liable to injury. The repairs
which they incessantly require, form a very expensive
item in the annual accounts of the wear and tear of
steamers, and show that they are constantly liable to
injury. War-steamers in action would ever be in
danger of bell)? " winged," and rendered powerless.
The paddles of steamers must also be seriously in-
' jured, and frequently become useless when navigating
seas, lakes, rivers, and streams occasionally covered
with floatingice. It has been considered that the ill-
starred President, steamer, sooner after leaving port,
encountered large masses of floating ice, which
jammed her in and crushed her paddles, when, alas !
down she went. It is on record, that at the time she
was lost other steamers and sailing-vessels on their
passage across the Atlantic fell in with immensely
largo and mountainous icebergs. The real truth,
however, may never be known.
The Archimedean screw (no new invention, for it
was in use by the ancients), which is fixed to the
stern of a steamer, was the first attempt to supersede
the use of side-paddles; but its propelling power is
weak compared to that possessed by common steamers,
and it is, therefore, considered, in that degree, nearly
a total failure. But still the immense importance of
a concentrated propelling power acting under water,
beyond the reach of shot, and all liability to accident,
has become at once apparent.
For these various reasons, engineers and other
scientific men have been studying how to effect an
object so grand and invaluable in every point of view,
by endeavouring to invent a propeller so concentrated
in one focus, which would efficiently act under water
out of all danger from accidents, and still equal or
exceed the speed at present attained by side-paddles.
This great desideratum, it would appear, is on the
point of being accomplished. A beautifully-con-
structed boat, about 50 tons burden, has recently
been launched at Greenwich. Her engines—a pair
of tens—were made by Messrs. Penn aad Son, of
Greenwich. They are fixed lengthways in the
vessel, and are remarkably light and handsome. The
propeller is on the " fan " principle, similarly con-
structed to the fan of a windmill, and, like the screw,
is fixed to the stern. It possesses a twofold action—
the one perpendicular, which regulates her speed,
and the other horizontal, which describes half a
circle, and regulates her steerage. This latter action
of the " fan" is of such admirable power, that while
it supersedes the use of a rudder, it can wheel the
boat round as if she moved on a pivot, and continue
to spin her round and round like a top, without
making head or stern way, except what little the tide
or wind may effect. This peculiar, clever, and in-
valuable action of the " fan" is most ingeniously
contrived, and is the sole invention of Mr. Hunt, the
engineer, of Greenwich. The " fan," combined with
this fine principle of action, can be attached to any
sailing-vessel, from a line-of-battle ship down to a
collier, and can be worked by hands totally uncon-
nected with steam. Its power, though it could not
be so great as when worked by steam, is such that
it would enable a ship of the line to bring both her
broadsides to bear against an enemy in about two
minutes.
The vessel is named the Mystery, and although she
was not quite finished, it was determined to give her
an experimental trial down the river on Thursday,
the 3d of October, to meet and greet the Queen
and Prince Albert on their return from Scot-
land. Messrs. Hunt and Holl, the owners, invited
several friends to accompany and enjoy the excursion
with them. The day opened gloomily, rough, and
stormy. The tight little steamer, however, daunt-
lessly started from Greenwich-pier at a quarter-past
eleven o'clock, a.m. Her engines worked admirably,
and she made her way over the waves, impelled
by an invisible power, as buoyant as a cork,
scarcely disturbing the water. Just as she reached
abreast of Grays, near Gravesend, the Blaek
Eagle, closely followed by the Royal Victoria and
Albert yacht, hove in sight. The weather at this
time was cloudy and tempestuous, but as the royal
yacht rounded the point from Northfleet, the sun shot
out from an opening in the clouds upon her full
broadside with magnificent splendour, and his rays
were concentrated in a halo of light around her. At
that moment she was a most beautiful and splendid
object.
The Mystery now veered round, and slackened speed
in order to await the approach of the royal
squadron, to whose officers and crew she became
an object of much curiosity. She then continued
leading the way, somewhat after the fashion of
a pilot fish, till Woolwich was reached, at about
two o'clock, PAL, when she brought•to to witness the
landing of her Most Gracious Majesty and her Illus-
trious Consort, when all on board joined in the hearty
shouts of " Welcome home." The distance from
Greenwich-pier to Grays and back to Woolwich was
performed in exactly two hours and three quarters.
After the landing of the Royal pair, the Mystery
proceeded up the river as far as Chelsea. This part
of the voyage afforded a fine opportunity for
testing the advantages springing, not only from
the non-use of side-paddles, but from the fecilitous
and admirable way she answered to the helm, in
which point she has no equal. She wound in and
out barges, rafts of wood, colliers, and ships, with such
ease, precision, and certainty, that she astonished
every beholder. She gave the go-by to several
Woolwich and other steamers which were compelled
to slacken speed, ease, stop, and hack, in consequence
of the crowded state of the pool, and the fear of inju-
ring or smashing their paddle-boxes and paddles by
collision.

There could not have been a finer day for the expe-
rimental trial. The wind blew strongly from the
westward, and with or against it she proved herself to
be a capital sea-boat. The trial proved most satis-
factory and successful throughout ; she bounded over
the water like magic, without a sail or any percep-
tible propelling power, and almost without her-
Felf creating a ripple—she, however, possesses a
propelling power, equal in the ratio, to any
other steamer on the river. Her propeller, certainly,
reaches perfection nearer than any other now in use ;
it is impossible to injure it by shot, collisions, ground-
ing, or any other casualty whatever. One or the
other paddle of steamers navigating the wide ocean is
frequently out of the water, but the fan propeller can
never cease performing its functions but through
some casual derangement in its own machinery.
The Mystery is now fast approaching completion
in all its various appointments, when a more efficient
trial will be given.

OPENING OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.-officia
notice has been issued to the corps of the Honourable
Artillery Company, of which his Royal Highness
Prince Albert is Captain-General and Colonel, that her
Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct that they
shall attend as a Guard of Honour, upon her Majesty's
visit to the City, upon the occasion of opening the new
Royal Exchange.
INFLUENCE OF THE PEWS OF FOOD ON WAGES.—
" Cheap food," says the monopolists, " means low
wages.' Such is the assertion ; but what are the facts
bearing upon it ? Why, just these—that, as food has
risen in price, wages in the manufacturing districts have
fallen ; as the price of food has become moderate, wages
have risen. This has been shown on many recent oeca-
sions, and we now supply another instance, in advance
of wages at Ashtonrunder-Lyue. If there is any connec-
tion between prices of food and wages, if they stand at
all in the relation to each other of cause and effect, their
operation must be exactly the reverse of that described
in the allegation, of which so much use has been made
by the supporters of the corn-law ; and it would be quite
correct to say, that " cheap food means good wages."
This is an important truth ; and the working classes,
notwithstanding the sophistry to which they have been
exposed, will ere long thoroughly understand it.—Livel”-
pool Paper.
Communication between Harwich and Gluckstadt
by means of steam navigation, has been taken up as a sub-
ject for public consideration, and the result is that mea-
sures are now in progress for the formation of a company
to carry it out. On either side of the German Ocean it
will afford facilities for trade, since the introduction of
the railway system will give such ready access to both
ports ; and, among the advantages which it is said the
mercantile world must receive, are those of economy of
time and money, while the state duties, not even now
popular among persons exporting merchandise from
England to the continent, will also be avoided. The
gentlemen who have taken up the matter appear to be
very sanguine of success.—Cambridge Advertiser.
ST. IVES' FAIR.—The character of this fair thi
business doing
s t othree
raaset beasts was year has been, in regard to general business, bad—very
verbba d.
liAttlelabruge
re gbarrodusg
sheepht, bu
the
the s reason alleged being a deficiency of keep, through
spring drought. A good show of horses, but no
buyers. Cheese and onici.s very fiat, the former rangin
from ss. to 7s. a stone, tne latter from 2s. to 2s. 6d. ga
bushel. The grocers, drapers, and general traders com-
plain greatly.—Cambridge 41civertifer.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Lord Stanley's elevation to the Peerage,
and Lord Ellenborough's advancement to an Earldom
(the latter announced in last night's Gazette), are acts
incapable of any construction that can avert reproach
from the Government. They partake more of
the bravado of a bully, than of the deliberation
which should precede, and the dignity which
should accompany, the decisions of a Cabinet.
Lord Stanley s administration of the Colonial-
office had been censured in the report of a
Parliamentary Committee nominated by the Govern-
ment, and the majority of which was selected from
the Ministerial side of the House. To indicate the
contempt of independent judgment which the Minis-
try entertains, the member of the Government whose
conduct in his official post had been emphatically re-
buked, was pitchforked into the House of Lords.
In Lord Stanley's case, the adverse report of a
Parliamentary Committee on the course adopted by
his Lordship as Colonial Secretary, and which
ought to have caused his removal from the office he
had shown himself iecompetent to hold, was
the precursor of advancement to the Peerage. The
Colonies may complain of neglect. The West Indies
and Australia may remonstrate. New Zealand may
deplore the neglect of its rising interests, by which its
hopes of security and advancement are frustrated ; these
results may be declared by a Parliamentery Committee
to proceed from mismanagement on the part of the
" Executive Government at home :" What then? The
Cabinet upholds its Colonial Secretary at the expense of
the interests, if not of the existence, of the Colonies ;
and the complaints of, and censures passed upon, his
administration, are the signals for conferring upon
him honours and rewards ! Immediately on Lord
Ellenborough's return from the mal-administration of
the Indian Government, from which he was recalled
by the body best qualified to form a judgment of his
administration, and its tendency to promote or
injure the interests of British India, the Sovereign
is advised to confer the rewards of distin-
guished merit upon the man who had perilled the
safety of the Indian Empire intrusted to his care.
So fondly anxious were Ministers to solace the wounded
vanity of their protege, that a new patent of nobility,
" granting to him the dignities of a Viscount and an
Earl," awaited his arrival. Scarcely had the recalled
Baron Ellenborough reached the shores of England,
from the country where his vanity and love of military
display had lavished treasure to an incalculable amount,
and created perils it was fearful to contemplate, than
he was saluted Viscount Southern and Earl of Ellen-
borough 1 Such open contempt of all the acknow-
ledged rules of propriety—a respect for which will
sometimes atone for want of honesty—will recoil
upon the Government. All respect for the acts,
all confidence in the virtue, of a Cabinet which thus
braves public opinion, and converts merited dis-
grace into occasions for conferring honours and re-
wards, must cease. Lord Ellenborough's acts are
no longer imputable to his own follies or faults. They
cease to he his. Her Majesty's Ministers have boldly
assumed the responsibility. They have taken the dere.
lict Governor-General under their special care. They
have delighted to honour him whom all men else have
agreed to censure. An Earl's coronet encircles the
brow which might otherwise have been suffused with
the consciousness of shame. Lord Ellenborough's
Earldom supplies an instance of the kind of services
which the Government of Sir R. Peel makes haste to
honour. It holds out to others—who, like him, may
be entrusted with the discharge of duties in respon-
sible and highly elevated posts—that stimulus to a
prudent and zealous regard to the honour of their
Sovereign and the interests of the empire, of which
Lord Ellenborough is so bright an example ; and for
which he has been selected as the object of his Sove-
reign's gracious approbation.
STANDARD.—The elevation of Lord Ellen-
borough to an Earldom, recorded in the Gazette of
last evening, is a sufficient answer to the insinuations
which have been so unsparingly indulged in to his
prejudice by his Whig Radical detractors. It may
be regarded, in fact, as an intimation of the determi-
nation of the Government not to be influenced by
other opinions than their own in their appreciation of
distinguished public services, how loud soever the
clamour that may be raised against the individual.
Of whatever errors of judgment his Lord-
ship has been accused, the merits of his short
but brilliant administration of the affairs of India
have been placed beyond a question, by the irresis-
tible evidence of facts, too stubborn to be disputed.
The condition in which he has handed over his Go-
vernment to his successor is one which will bear
an advantageous comparison with that in which that
country has been left by the most distinguished of
his predecessors. The legacy of disaster and disgrace
bequeathed to him by Lord Auckland was of a na-
ture with which no Governor- General of India
has hitherto been called upon to contend ; and
could only have been equalled by the difficulties in-
herited from the Government of Lord Melbourne, by
Sir Robert Peel. He found an enormously failing re-
venue, and a decreasing commerce. He has restored
the one, and invigorated the other. The pres-
tige which had attached to the British arms
in India, had been impaired by a defeat of
the most calamitous description ; a disaster which
the most ordinary foresight might have prevented,
and which was incurred in insolent defiance of the
most consummate experience and the soundest judg-
ment. The Duke of Wellington predicted the con-
'equences of our occupation of Affghanistan, in lan-
guage the most earnest and impressive ; but his expe-
rience was disregarded, and his admonitions defied.
Not only did Lord Melbourne's Government persist
in its insane scheme, but they employed the most
inadequate means to carr it out, and their attempt
to make a " little war" terminated accordingly
in a catastrophe which shook our Indian empire
to its foundations. This disgrace has been oblite-
rated and the influence thus wantonly sacrificed re-
stored. Ten successive victories, rivalling in bril-
liancy the most splendid successes recorded in the
annals of Anglo-Indian warfare, have not only re-
deemed the credit of British arms, but have placed
British dominion in the East on a more secure
basis than it has ever before attained. Lord Ellen-
borough had to encounter either open hostility
'or concealed perfidy, the natural results of the
apathetic and culpable indolence of his predecessor, in
several of the most important divisions of India; he
has left them in a state of tranquillity, which de-
mands nothing beyond the most ordinary vigilance to
perpetuate ; and the highest compliment that could
be paid to his policy is to be found in its adop-
tion in all substantial points by his suc-
cessor. Among the more useful but not very
popular measures of his Government were the cor-
rection of several of the abuses which had crept
into the civil departments of the service, and the sup-
pression of much of the corruption which had hitherto
disgraced them. His Lordship's zealous and unflinch-
ing performance of this most difficult of his duties
could not fail of creating for hini many enemies ; and
to the intrigues of those whose peculations he had ar-
rested, and whose corruption he had resisted, is mainly
attributed his recal ; whilst his popularity with the
army has tended to increase tha jealousy and ill-will
to which he has been sacrificed. Whilst they have
recognised a power which had long lain in abey-
ance, and which it was hardly expected would have
been exercised, however, her Majesty's Ministers
have not scrupled to proclaim their opinion
of the treatment which Lord Ellenborough
has experienced at the hands of the East
India Company. On the first intimation
of the intentions of the Directors, the Duke
of Wellington expressed himself in terms
of the most unequivocal surprise and disapprobation ;
and the distinguished mark of her Majesty's favour
which, by the advice of her Ministers, she has just
conferred upon his Lordship, affords irresistible
proof that the opinions of the Government on the
subject have rather been confirmed than disturbed.
Of the circumstances which led to Lord Ellenbo-
rough's recal we have, as yet, no official informa-
tion. By some, it has been ascribed to non-ob-
servance of that deference, amounting to something
not far removed from servility, in his correspon-
dence with the Directors, which they appear to
have expected; whilst by others it has been attri-
buted to his too stringent attempts to reform the
jobbing of their civil servants in India. Be the
origin of his recall what it may, he has some con-
solation under the heavy weight of their dis-
pleasure. His conduct has received the warmest testi-
monials of approval from his Sovereign and her ad-.
visers ; whilst for the vigour and promptitude with
which he on several occasions redeemed the burning
disgrace heaped upon our arms in Affghanistan, he has
twice received the thanks of both Houses of Parlia-
ment. The mystery will, no doubt, be cleared up
when Parliament next assembles. Meanwhile, candour
demands an abstinence from the sort of abuse so
lavishly poured upon him by the organs of the Whig
Government; seeing that even a recalled Governor-
General cannot condescend to reclamations in any
other place than that in which he can meet his
accusers face to face, and test the validity of the
charges they may have to bring against him by an
an appeal to the only tribunal to which he ie legi-
timately responsible for his conduct.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 11 per mile,
which, mt the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10iu. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25
424 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at shor
being 2.5 52k, it follows that gold is 0.39 per cent..
dearer in. London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 435
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10 ;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 94, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer
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