The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-28 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF INDIA.

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The following is a copy of the address of the Chair-
man of the Court of Directors to Sir Henry Hardinge
upon his appointment. Its publication at this moment
is of interest:—

I have the pleasure of congratulating you on your ap-
pointment to the high and important office of Governor-
General of India.

You have already been informed that you have been
elected by the unanimous voice of a full Court of
Directors.

It is unnecessary, therefore, t.) assure you that you
are in possession of their entire confidence—a confidence
founded on the reputation you have established fur your-
self, not only as a soldier, but as a statesman.
You are fully acquainted with the system which the
wisdom of Parliament has devised and established for
the administration of the vast territories which the East
India Company has acquired for the British Crown in
India. To the Court of Directors, subject to the control
of the Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India,
is entrusted, as you are aware, the general administration
of those territories. The orders which, from time to
time, are transmitted to India, emanate from the Court,
and, being confirmed by the Court, are then issued, in
the name of the Court, for the direction and guidance of
the local authorities.

You will perceive, therefore, that the maintenance of
respect for the authority of the Court is demanded by
the existing system of the Indian Government ; and we
are persuaded that you will impress this feeling upon
our servants abroad, not merely by precept, but by your
example. On the part of the Court I have at the
same time, the happiness of assuring you that, reposing
the utmost confidence in your judgment, and bearing in
mind the heavy responsibility under which you will be
called upon to act, at so great a distance from the con-
trolling authorities, they will ever be disposed to regard
your measures in the most favourable view, and to afford
to you, in the exercise of your high office, their steady
and cordial support.
In the discharge of the onerous duties of government
you will be aided by your constitutional advisers, the
members of the Council of India—men selected for the
high and responsible station which they occupy with
reference to their knowledge, experience, and honourable
character.

In the servants of the Company, both civil and mili-
tary, you will find talent, and every necessary qualifica-
tion for the various duties to be discharged, and an ardent
zeal for the advancement of the great interests com-
mitted to their care. Much has been done to secure, for
both services, the advantages of duo preparation, and
you will not fail to recollect that the members of the
civil service are educated, not only with particular care,
but with a special view to the important duties of civil
administration, upon the upright and intelligent per-
formance of which so much of the happiness of the
people depends. I doubt not that your experience will
coincide with that of the great men who in former times
have filled the office of Governor-General, in enabling
you justly to appreciate the eminent qualities of the civil
servants of India; and I feel persuaded that your confi-
dence in them will be returned by the most zealous exer-
tion on their part to promote the success of your admi•
nistration.

Upon the merits of our army it would be presumptuous
in me to enlarge to one so much better qualified to judge
of its character and to estimate its services ; but I
cannot refrain from earnestly recommending the native
soldier to your protection and encouragement : you will
find that he possesses most valuable qualities, that he is
eminently susceptible of kindness, and most grateful to
his benefactors. Your kindly offices will be rewarded in
the manner which you will most highly value : they
will conciliate the affections of the soldiery to the service,
strengthen the bonds by which their interests are united
with those of the Government, and render them more
efficient, by enlisting their feelings in support of their
duty.
At the present moment difficulties have arisen in our
native army requiring to be met by prompt and decisive
measures. We trust that ere you arrive in India these
difficulties may have passed away ; but should you find
them still existing, we are confident that you will act
towards the sepoy with every degree of consideration
and indulgence compatible with the maintenance of
order and obedience, the first and paramount duty of the
soldier.

By our latest intelligence we are induced to hope that
peace prevails throughout India. I need not say it is
our anxious desire that it should be preserved. You,
Sir, well know how great are the evils of war, and we
feel confident that, whilst ever ready to maintain unim-
paired the honour of our country and the supremacy of
our arms, your policy will bo essentially pacific.
To the native states which still retain independence,
you will extend the shield of British protection. It has
hitherto been considered a wise and just policy to uphold
and support those which are in alliance with us; and in
dealing with those which are more immediately
dependentsoothe
upon cur Government, we have, with a view
both
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the feelings, and conciliate the attachment, ofe
recognised
and people, permitted the former to retainth gnia ofised
emblems of authority, their titles and other insignia
rank and station.
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ciency of the service.
but it is at all times necessary, from the difficulty expe-
rienced in that country in devising new sources of
revenue, or rendering those already existing more pro-
ductive, and more commensurate with the exigencies of
the State. I feel assured, therefore, that your early and
anxi,us attention will be directed to the best means for
averting financial embarrassment, and for placing the
public finances on a sound and satisfactory footing.
It has long been the desire of the Court to encourage
education among the people of India, with a view of "cul-
tivating and enlarging their minds, of raising them in
their own and our estimation, and of qualifying them for
the more responsible offices under our Government. It
is, however, necessary, with reference to the subject of
education, to exercise great prudence and caution, in
order to avoid even the appearance of any interference
with their religious feelings and prejudices, and to main-
tain on such points the strictest neutrality.

Finally, Sir Henry, I would earnestly recommend the
whole body of the people of British India and its depen-
dencies to your paternal care and protection. It has
always been the earnest desire of the Court of Directors
that the government of the East India Company should
be eminently just, modenite, and conciliatory. The su-
premacy of our power must be maintained, when acces-
sary, by the irresistible force of our arms • but the em-
pire of India cannot be upheld by the sword alone. The
attachment of the people, their confidence in our sense of
justice and in our desire to maintain the obligations of
good faith, must ever be essential elements of our
strength. I beseech you, therefore, to keep these sacred
principles habitually and permanently in view. Tho
Court has selected you for the high office of Governor-
General with reference, not less to the confidence they
entertain in your character for justice, moderation, and
benevolence, than to your firm and undoubted posses-
sion of a sound practical judgment and indomitable
' spirit. You are already in possession of the highest re-
nown as a soldier, and we feel assured that you will now
rest your happiness and your fame on the furtherance of
measures tending to promote the welfare and best inte-
rests of the Government and of the people committed to
your care ; and it is our earnest prayer that, alter an
extended career of useful and valuable service, you nay
return to your native country, bearing with you, as the
best and most gratifying reward of your labours, the
thanks and blessings of the people of India.

THE GALE.
LOSS OF THE MANCHESTER.—We were visited, On
Saturday night, and almost without intermission until an
advanced hour yesterday morning, with a dreadful gale
from the north-west, the violence of which, as it howled
along the streets, strongly reminded us of the memorable
storm in January, 1839. The damage in Liverpool has
been, comparatively speaking, of trifling extent, the
vessels in port having ridden out the gale gallantly.
Several of those in the Prince's and George's docks have
been chafed aad otherwise slightly injured, but with this
exception, they have escaped without damage. In the
town a small building used as a blacksmith's shop, in
Parliament-street, opposite St. Barnabas' church, was
blown down, a large wooden paling, erected in the yard
of the Fever Hospital, Mount Pleasant, was carried
away, and sundry slates and chimney tops were con-
veyed to considerable distances by the impetuosity of
the gale.
But, if we have escaped so fortunately here, we fear
that the accounts this week will convey melancholy in-
telligence of the loss of lifc and property in the channel
and along the coast. As yet we have only heard of the
loss of one vessel, the Manchester, of London, Ball,
master, which sailed from Liverpool fur Calcutta, on
Saturday last, with a general cargo, and went down on
Hoyle Bank. The following letter on the subject was
posted in the Underwriters'-rooms yesterday:—
" Sunday morning, half-past ten.
" Sir,—About half-past eight, A.M., I observed a vessel
coming on shore on West Hoyle. I immediately or-
dered the lifeboat out and to proceed to Old Hoyle.
At this time a boat left the vessel and reached the Old
Hoyle with all her crew, thirteen in number; and, with
the exception of the lad and two others are all eeming
round; and every attention is paid to the other three,
who, I have no donbt, in a few hours will be better. The
vessel is the Manchester, of London, Captain Hall,
bound to Calcutta, general cargo. She is on the N.N.W.
point of the bank, and is going fast on her beam ends.
In haste, I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
" B. SHERWOI )D.
" Court, Esq., Underwriters'-rooms."
From subsequent telegraphic communications it ap-
peared that the barque capsized and disappeared at nine,
a.m., and that the whole of the crew were landed safely
on East Hoyle by the Hoylake lifeboat. The Liverpool
lifeboat went out to render assistance, but by the time
she had arrived the vessel had sunk, and the crew were
saved. The Manchester was a fine new barque.
Yesterday morning, some time after she was due, the
Iron Duke steamer arrived from Dublin. She expe-
rienced a dreadful night, and during the height of the
gale one of her paddles sustained some injury, and one
of the sailors on board had his leg broken. The Maggie,
of London, came up the Mersey, last evening, with loss
of her maintopmast and both her anchors and cables,
and with some injury to her stern.
IMMINENT DANGER OF M. TIIALBERG AND PARTY.—On
Saturday evening the Athlone steamer sailed for Belfast,
and had among her passengers the celebrated pianist,
M. Thalberg, and the equally celebrated vocalists, Miss
Birch, Miss Dolby, Mr. John Parry, and Mr. Calkin.
Miss Birch's mother, and Mr. Calcott, the manager of
this musical company, were also on board. The party
had performed at two grand concerts in Liverpool, the
second of which came off on Saturday morning, and
were proceeding to Belfast for the purpose of performing
at a concert of the Philharmonic Society of that
town. About five o'clock last evening, the Athlone
returned to Liverpool, and immediately after M. Thal-
berg and his friends drove to the Adelphi Hotel, where
they described the sufferings they had undergone during
the night as being of the most painful nature. It appears
that they had succeeded in steaming in the face of the
gale as far as the Isle of Man, but that they found it im-
possible to proceed further, and for hours the captain
considered the vessel in imminent peril. Tho party
seemed to have given up all hopes of ever seeing land
again, and expected every moment to go to the bottom.
Their joy at reaching their comfortable quarters in the
Adelphi Hotel last night was unbounded. They con-
gratulated each other on their truly providential escape,
and immediately dispatched letters to their friends in
London and on the continent, to acquaint them of their
safety. They have, for the present, we understand,
given up their intention of visiting Ireland.—.Liverpooi

DISPUTES IN THE CHURCH.
DOINGS AT EXETER.
MONDAY EVENlNG.—Everything passed off quietly
yesterday. St. Sidwell's Church was the great scene of
attraction. In the morning, the Rev. Arthur Atherley
preached in the gown, the Rev. Mr. Courtenay reading
prayers. Although nothing passed to increase the
popular excitement, the police find it necessary to see the
11ev. Gentleman home, as a crowd of many hundred
persons afforded him a silent but not a safe escort. In
the afternoon Mr. Courtenay preached in the gown ;
but still there was great uneasiness of feeling in the
crowd, which had increased to double the number it was
in the morning. St. Silwell's is a wide street, and it
was densely thronged for a long way above and below
the church. Two or three incidents which arose showed
that a very slight aggravation would have set the people
in motion—they felt " they had not had it out.' The
police were in full force, and really looked a formidable
body, every day and night policemen being mustered
for the occasion. Last night Mr. Harrington preached
in the gown. There Ives great crowding, but everything
passed off quietly.
ST. Paties.—Mr. Armstrong preached in the gown.
He denied that he had ever said:that a child would be
" damned " if it died unbaptised, because he did not be-
lieve that such would be the case. He believed that the
mother of the child already referred to bad misunder-
stood him. This will place him at issue with Bishop
Phillpotts. Notwithstanding this, his oldest parishioner,
Mr. Williams, walked out at the reading of the church-
militant prayer.
ST. STEPHEN'S.—The Rev. Mr. Troye returned to the
gown, but not the good graces of his flock, only two
heads of families were present, and one of these two
had signed a notice for a parish meeting, to accept his
threatened resignation. This determined Tractarian ex-
presses a disposition to die under the experiments he is
making on the Protestant faith of his parish ; but he
must alter, both in mode and manner, before he will re-
cover the ground he has lost.
ST. MARTIN'S.—The Rev. Marwood Tucker returned
to the gown yesterday. lie thinks the people mad; the
people think him, and those who act with him, still more
mad, to risk the peace of the Church for crotchets: The
people are certainly right, for either these innovations
are against Protestantism, and mean something, and
should therefore be opposed, or they are mere forms,
and, being of no use, should not be introduced.
ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE.—The Rev. John Medley,
vicar of this parish and prebendary of Exeter Cathedral,
has been appointed Bishop of New Brunswick. The Rev.
Gentleman came here from. Truro ; at Truro ho was a
" low churchman" of a decided cast. Under the foster-
ing care of our bishop he soon had his eyes open to the
errors of his ways, and forthwith became a ruseyite of
the most determined character. Having introduced all
the innovations of that sect, and built a Tractarian
model chapel for the district, and driven away a con-
siderable portion of his congregation, the bishop deemed
him ripe for promotion, and made a prebendary of him.
He preached yesterday in his gown "all about the
offertory," and showed that though ho bad abandoned
the outer garment, he is all right beneath the skin—the
error is still fast within him. The Reverend Gentleman
an
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just' been issued from the Poor-law Commission-office,
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Sotnerset House. It is dated Jan. 24, 1845 :—" Gentle-
men,-1 am directed by the Poor-law Commissioners to
state, that having ascertained that in your parish the
amount of the population, according to the last census,
exceeds 2,000 persons, they deem it right to refer you
to the provisions contained in the 15th section of the
Act of the last session of Parliament for the amend-
ment of the poor-laws (7th and Bth Victoria, c, 101).
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and that you shall allow any person to peruse such book,
without payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours, be-
tween the said sth and the 10th day of February next.
The Commissioners trust that you will not neglect these
provisions, as the consequence of any neglect may be
serious to the persons entitled to vote in the election of
guardians. The Commissioners, moreover, think it right
to inform you, that the wilful omission of this duty by
the overseers would render them liable to an indictment.
I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, W. G.
LUMLEY, Assistant-Secretary."
PUBLIC PARKS, &c.—The subscriptions of the
past week are 221/. 17e Gd., including-A subscription
from the workmen of Messrs. Sharp, Brothers, and Co
(in addition to their former one of 501. 18s. 6d.) of 121.
2s. 6d. The total amount up to last evening, is 29,3891.
6s. Id.--Illanchester Guardian. •

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LOSS OF THE SCHOONER DIAMOND, CADIZ AND
GLASGOW TRADER.—Notice was received in Glasgow
on Monday morning of the loss of the schooner Diamond,
belonging to Glasgow. She went ashore on-the south
end of the Island of Arran on Saturday morning last,
and is a total wreck; but we are glad Co learn that nearly
the whole of the cargo (wines) has bese,sizved;-;—Glasyoto
National.