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with that characteristic energy and absorbing constancy

of purpose, without which it never could have been car-
ried out into practical working, must be considered to
have sacrificed his prospects of professional advancement.
On the other band, in how vast a degree has t'le short-
ened route, in the opening of which he is truly described

as having been the " pioneer," advanced, multiplied, and
improved the resources.of those to whose Indian and Chi
nese connexions so vast and almost miraculous a deve-
lopment has thus been given ! The Committee remark,
with equal truth and impressiveness, that by some " it
may be assumed that a national reward is always be-
stowed, in one shape or other, upon those generous spirits
who devote successfully the energies of their lives to ob-
jects of great public utility ; but, unfortunately, it too
often happens that the public gratitude is not sufficiently
aroused till the grave has closed over the public benefactor."
It is delightful to thick that the case of Mr. WAortonN
will, now, not be added to that long list of great inven-
tors, great discoverers, and most meritorious public ser-
vants to whom contemporary gratitude has been so
shamefully wanting at different epochs of our history.
The pen of Robertson would have honoured, with a
noble record, the name of that Englishman, to whom the
glory was reserved of restoring the land journey and
maritime route of the old Venetian traders to the East,
in combkation with the most perfectly organized admi-
nistration of that new power in navigation, the applica-
tion of which is the most signal glory of the nineteenth
century. In the first rank of those who have brought
together the remotest parts of the two hemisphereP, for
all purposes of intercommunication, and by that means
of civilization, knowledge, refinement, morals, and hu-
manity, Lieut. WAGHORN will assuredly assume, with
posterity, a prominent position. In justice to the en-
lightened spirit of the present age, let his memory de-
scend to another, unconnected with any dishonouring
associations of national neglect and unrequited devotion.
We speak of this kind of approximation of two hernia
pheres advisedly : and we may here quote another pas-
sage from the address or memorandum of the Committee
to this very point.—" Not only England but even Ame-
rica participate in the advantages which Mr. WAGHORN't3
services have secured, and therefore owe an acknowledg-
ment to the individual who first stepped forth, in the
manner of a forlorn hope, to open a path which all men,
now, safely tread." This is strictly true. In a few
words, let us thus concentrate the grand results of his
spirited and unremitting labours in bringing the noblest
dependencies which ever owned the dominion of the
British sceptre within a distance now measured by the
lapse of a few days instead of many weeks. "Before
this zealous and enterprising individual stepped forth to
devote himself to a task of such magnitude, no part if
India could be reached in less than four months. The
mails from Bombay now reach England in thirty-four
days ; and the regularity with which the overland com-
munication is now conducted, is the practical demonstra-
tion of his original views on this subject."
Honour, then, to Mr. WAGHORN; and we respectfully
entreat at the hands of the enlightened British public a
prompt and liberal response to an appeal which has the
sanction and guarantee of individuals so distinguished
by the rank they occupy, the public stations they have
filled, or the princely mercantile establishments they re-
present, as those which grace the list of the Committee.
Six Earls and four other Peers unite with, we know not
how many, Members of Parliament, and of the first
among the merchants and bankers of Europe, to com-
mend this application in favour of Mr. WAGHORN to the
beneficial consideration of this country, and, we might
say, of the civilised world entertaining relations of
commerce with India. If Mr. WAGHORN needed one
additional claim on the gratitude of the great family of
commercial nations, he would have established it, in our
opinion, by his share in the memorable work of eliciting
rrom MEHEMET Am, the noble Pacha of Egypt, under
circumstances of peculiar political irritation and annoy-
ance, that sacred and unaltered respect for treaties
securing the facilities of postal and mercantile com-
munications between Asia and Europe, which the Go-
vernments of the oldest-established monarchies of
Christendom may contemplate with some feelings of
conscious shame, or more wisely determine Govern-
ments to emulate in future.

We understand that the following is a substantially
correct account of the report of the Select Committee of
the House of Commons on the London and York sub-
scription contract, which is not yet printed.
In the following 35 cases, in which Mr. HENRY BRUCE,
the petitioner, alleged that the names, descriptions, or
places of abode were fictitious and false, the Committee
have come to the resolutions appended to each name:—
Ince, W. H., gentleman, Crooms-hill, Greenwich—[Neither

fictitious nor false.]
Clarke, 11. M., gentleman, 84, Jermyn-street—[Neither fic