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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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must drop the pen for a moment and weep ! My heart
is sad, and I must mix a tumbler of brandy and water,
caliduni cum. lam like Ossian, the son of Fingal, begotten
by Jemmy Macpherson, dominie of Ruthven, and member
of parliament for the Nabob of Arcot. " The murmur of
thy streams, 0 Lora, brings back the memory of the past.
The sound of thy words, Garmaller, is lovely in ear." Like
him, " T stretch my hand to the spear as in the days of other
years. I stretch my hand, but it is feeble; and the sigh of
my bosom grows ;" and like him, too, I remember with
sorrow never ending, " A tale of the times of old ! The
deeds of the days of other years." * * * *

But the stern work of the world must be done in spite of
our griefs. I empty, therefore, my tumbler to go forward
with a sigh.

Methinks I hear you, Tobias, asking what affects me in
this unusual manner. Perhaps you may, in the simplicity of
your soul, imagine that, like Lord Byron's lady of a noble
line, I weep over the realms of decay, and have some notion
of slating—excuse me from borrowing a word from the vo-
cabulary of the now ministerial and courtly party of Ribbon-
ism—Lord Palmerston, and contrasting his government with
The glories of England of old,
•Ere the faithless whigs betrayed her,
When Wellington's men won lashings of gold,
Ere Evans to lickings was leader."
(The last rhyme, be it observed, being Hibernian, in honour
of that distinguished ct.rninander, and knight of the blushing
riband and unblushing countenance.) Not I. I have a great
esteem for Lord Palmerston. He writesa very good leading
article himself, which, if he could put a little sense or truth
into the matter, and some slight dash of grammar into the
language, would be admirable specimens of the art upon
which lam lecturing you. And then every party man, no
matter to what side he is attached, must regard consistency ;
and of statesmen Lord Palmerston is, among living men, the
most consistent.

" True as the dial to the sun,
Whenever it is shined upon."

He has consistently, through good report and evil report,
stuck to place.
1. Mr. Pitt was prime minister, and Lord Palmerston had
a place.

2. Mr. Fox was prime minister, and Lord Palmerston had
a place.
3. Lord Grenville was prime minister, and Lord Palmers-
ton had a place.
4. Mr. Perceval was prime minister, and Lord Palmerston
had' a place.
5. Lord Liverpool was prime minister, and Lord Palmers-
ton had a place.

G. Mr. Canning was, prime minister, and Lord Palmerston
had a place. _ _ . ... .

7. Lord Goderich was prime minister, and Lord Palmers-
ton had a place.
8. Lord Lansdowne was prime minister, and Lord. Pal-
merston had a place.

9. The Duke of Wellington was prime minister, and Lord
Palmerston had a place.
Here breaks the series—but not for long. The Duke, hav-
ing resolved that there should be no mistake, fluHg Palmers-
ton out of office ss unceremoniously as angry Jove, in Para-
dise Lost, flings Mulciber sheer o'er the crystal battlements.
The fall of poor Vulcan lasted
`` From mora to noon, from noon to dewy eve—

A summer's day."
His lordship's tumble was not of much longer duration ; he
was out about six months, during which time he played the
part of a flaming patriot, and then-
-10. Earl Grey was prime minister, and Lord Palmerston
had a place.
11. Lord Melbourne was prime minister, and Lord Pal-
merston had a place.
Peel came in for three or four months, and then Palmers-
ton had no place ; but, soon returned—

12. Lord. Melbourne, purged of Brougham, as prime mi-
nister, and Lord_ Palmerston had a place:__. . .

Had a place, do I say ? has a plaC:e. What's that Terence
says, Filium habeo, Menedeme ; ah quid diai habeo ? I
am not at all sure that the quotation is correct, Tobias, be-
cause the last copy of Terence 1 had is gone the. way of all
Terence's ad avuncolos. You understand Latin ; namely,
that of principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Depart-
ment.

Albany Fonblanque has published a book called " England
under Seven Administrations." What is that to the work
which the noble viscount might publish—" Palmerston under
Twelve Administrations? Such an example of consistency,
I maintain, is scarcely to be matched in history.
Therefore, shall Lord Palmerston receive no marks of con-
tumely from me; and as for the ruin of England, I am aware
that, like a female friend of the late Duke of Queensberry,
Britannia takes a good deal of ruining. No, Tobias, my sor-
rows are much more practical. For the peace of the general
world, perhaps, but for the plague and annoyance of the
newspaper world beyond question, it pleased the Fates to
bring the war to an end in 1815. And what are newspapers
now, to what they were then? Treadmills, sir, compared
with the former pleasure gardens. Why, when the war
raged—raged, do I say ?—when the war sported, newspapers
wrote themselves. What had an editor to do but to slip his
scissors into the Gazette—and Extraordinary Gazettes were
in those days as plenty as blackberries—and whip out of it
whole pages of matter at a time. And what matter, Tobias !
God help your head ! do not think that what you now read
in gazettes is to be compared with what was the reading in
similar works when 1 was

" Calidus juventa,
Consule Planco,"
Or, as Lord Byron chooses to translate it—

In my hot- youth, when George the Third was king.
Or, better still, in MS. penes me—
" In my hot youth, when on the ocean drench
Lord Nelson thunder'd—and in the field or trench
The Duke of Wellington squabash'd the French."

INDIAN EXTRACTS

ASSAM TEA.—The number of chests of Assam tea, about
to be shipped for England this season, is one hundred and
twepty.—Calcutta Courier, June 1.

- - -
EAST INDIA COTTON.—We have been gratified by finding
from a file of the Bombay Times, received by the last overland
mail, that public attention is still strongly directed to the im-
provement of the cotton of India. We find the following
passage in a report of the proceedings of the third quarterly
meeting of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, for 1830-40,
held on the 16th of ?day last :

" Read a letter from G. Giberne, Esq. transmitting a bale
of Toonieil cotton, grown by Ardaseer Donjeesbaw Bahadoor,
in a village near Surat ; reqnesting that the same should be
reported on, as compared with other cottons received by the
chamber, and put to the test of a public sale ; and stating
that a considerable quantity of cotton of equal quality could
be produced, if likeld to be sold at a remunerative price.
Read and approved, after examination of the bale, the fol-
lowing report to be communicated to Mr. Giberne :--` This
cotton is, in the opinion of the members, superior to that re-
ceived from Dr. Burnes from Kaira, to the samples of Dec-
cannee and Egyptian cotton sent from Rutnagherie, and to
the fine Broach cotton, formerly shipped to England by Mer-
wanjee Hormusjee : it is, however, inferior to the beautiful
specimens of Conlianee and Sea Island cotton produced at
Rutnagherie, and noticed in page 34 of the printed report of
the chamber for the second quarter of 1839-40. The mem-
bers consider it, on the whole, as about equal to the beautiful
but short stapled New Orleans cotton, grown at Rutuagherie,
referred to in the same page of the report. It would be still
more valuable, were not the staple in some degree artificially
injured, apparently by having been cleaned with the bow."

The bale, having been put up to sale, was, after a brisk
competition, knocked down to Messrs. Gibb, Miller, £ Co.,
at rupees 160 per candy.
It is necessary to observe, that " Toomeil cotton" only
means cotton of the first picking, and we presume that the
bale in question was merely the indigenous cotton of India,
cultivated and gathered with more than usual care. If the
price paid for it was, as we presume, only what it was fairly
worth in the market, it must be valuable cotton ; for the price
of the best Broach cotton was only about 115 rupees per
candy. If any considerable quantity of such cotton could be
produced at a moderate price, it would soon diminish our
dependence upon the produce of the United States.
PLEASANT WEATHER AT BOMBAY.—We sometimes think
that Manchester is pretty abundantly sprinkled with rain ;
but what will our readers say to the following account, ex-
tracted from the Bombay Times of June 17 ?—" The weather,
on which for months every year so, little requires to be said
in general on this side of India, becomes, at the setting-in of
the monsoon, a subject of the greatest importance. We give
therefore to-day a table since the first fall of fain on the 4th
down to yesterday the 16th, at which date we were in the
midst of very severe rains. From this it appears that within
the last twelve days 18 29 inches of rain have fallen, of which
we have had considerably morethan one half within the last
two days." The quantity of rain which is here said to have
fallen in two days, would be a very large allowance for two
months at Manchester.
CHOLERA IN WESTERN INDIA.—We have from time to
time been enabled to lay before our readers the melancholy
list of the sufferers from cholera at Penwell ; at which, it is
understood, the deaths have within these few weeks amounted
to no fewer than 600. The pestilence seems at length to have
abated at Panwell, where health is reported to be in some
measure restored ; but it has transferred its ravages in fearful
strength to Mahar, on the direct route to the Marbleshuwr
Hills, whence it has, within three weeks past, been sweeping
the population before it. Here 300 persons are said already
to have suffered. Parties returning from the hills, in antici-
pation of the immediate setting-in of the monsoon, have, in
traversing this district, not only experienced inconveniency,
but incurred the extremest danger. On Saturday last, two
gentlemen, belonging to a large party, were seized with cho-
lera, with all the customary symptoms of severest malignancy.
Nothing would induce the bearers to remain within the reach
of infection. They fled, leaving the palanquins and their
passengers behind them. Most providentially, one of the
patients was still able to be removed in a buggy which hap-
pened to be at hand ; and his life, in all probability, was saved
by the conduct and kindness of its owner. Of the fate of the
other patient, no intelligence has reached us. The ladies of
the party were for a time carried forward on bullock Varies,
until the bearers were induced to return after the infected
region was believed to be past, and the passengers were car-
ried forward on such temporary structures as the materials
and workmanship of the time permitted. At Mahar, the
dead were said to he strewed around the precincts of the
habitations of the living, who feared nothing so much as to
approach the men for interment.—Bombay Times, June 3.

It is not generally known that the Grand Cross of the Bath
conferred upon the Duke of Wellington was vacated by the
death of Lord Nelson. Major-General the Hon. Arthur
Wellesley (afterwards created Viscount, Earl, Marquis and
Duke of Wellington) was nominated a supernumerary Com-
panion for his services at the battle of Assaye, and in a letter
from Earl Camden, the Secretary at War, to the Marquis
Wellesley, after stating that his Majesty had been pleased to
raise General Lake to the dignity of the peerage, his lordship
went on to say, that in consideration of the eminent and bril-
liant services of Major-General Wellesley, his Majesty had
not only directed that the insignia of the Order should be
forwarded to him ; but that he should be created an extra
Knight Companion of the Order; and that his creation and
investiture should not wait for a succession to a regular va-
cancy therein. The Marquis of Wellington was accordingly
authorised to invest him, or to appoint any other person so
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ARCHIMEDES SCREW ON THE GLASGOW AND PAISLEY
engineer, Johnstone, who is about
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back as
canal navigation, bad
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excited by railway
.operations, has caused ti
be taken up, and it is just the same plan which A r. IVI'Do c'- 11
brought into operation in 1834, that he now proposes to carrya
more fully out. The engine to be applied on this occasion
r is
one of ten horse power ; but neither it nor the boat are
well adapted to the experiment; nor are they suited to each
very
other ; but they will serve to give a fair trial on a full work-
ing scale, and, if found to answer, boats and engines will be
made suited to each other. The space of the boat occupied
by this trial will be somewhere about twenty feet, but with
engines properly suited for the purpose not more than fifteen
will be required. With respect to speed, we may state that
a rate of from thirteen to fourteen miles an hour is confi-
dently calculated on, which will enable the passage between
Johnstone and Glasgow to be made within the hour, in.
eliding all stoppages."