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paid, particularly in the country, in gold dust, which
bed out in small ivory steelyards kept for the pur-

is weig

pose The Dutch, with their usual policy, derive a reve-
nue from every cock-pit within their boundary here. For
my own part, I am-not Inclined to blame them, and think

our revenue at

all the three St

nwerially increased, and the scamps of those places kept
ling house in them

in better order, by having every gamb

registered and subjected to a tax. To put a stop to gamb-
ling, in any Asiatic town, is beyond the power of man ;
and the attempt to do so only drives the gamester to the
secret haunts where he may indulge his propensity, and
where, I fear, too often he becomes a witness of, if not a
participator in, deeds of blood. A

grand juror in Sin-
t this —Davidson's

.T;ade'and Trcvel in the Far East

THE POLICY TO BE PURSUED IN INDIA.—The most
eminent statesmen who have learnt tht it lessons in Eng-
land, and those who have gained their experience in India,
have uniformly concurred in the opinion that extension of
territory was not only undesirable, but hurtful. Those to

whom the local government of our Eastern empire was
intrusted have had every motive to preserve peace and to
avoid war. Nevertheless, they have almost all engaged
in war, and those who have avoided doing so have con-
fessedly left it as an inheritance to their successnrs: and

of the Board of Control, the very institution of which was
associated with the object of preventing the pursuit of
schemes of aggrandizement end the extension of domi-

men which this observation includes have either been in
their turns tainted with the culpable ambition of which
the Indian Governors are accused, or that. their fuller in-
formation obliged them to give the sanction of their ap-
probation to such wars, from being. satisfied that they

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453, were just and expedient.
5974 it is possible to prove that the temperament or the judge-
ment of individuals has precipitwed a contest ; but, on the
1391 other hand, it is clear that the most moderate have been
compelled to the same course, and that the orders of
4146 superiors and the enactments of law have not only failed
in t, avertinz the growth of our

_ end proposed, that of _
power, but have actually caused it to be more rapid than
it otherwise wou!d have been. These are the deductions
rawn from the events that have occurred;

which must be
but t

elaw which forbade conquest

India, and there exists not a sovereign prince or a chief in
that east country, with whom we have no ties that imply

ship and protection on our part, and dependance or
allegiance on the o'her.—Memoirs of Marquis Trellesley.
AN ITALIAN ScCNE.—There lies Genoa, in beautiful
confusion, with its many churches pointing up into th
P •
laminv

_ _ y ; and down below me, just where the roots be-
n a solitary convent parapet, fashioned like a gallery,

with an iron acr

,ss the end

I have seen a little

where sometimes, early in the

group of dar

,siding sorrowfully to and fro, and stopping now and then
to peep down upon the waking world in which they have
no part. Old Monte Faccio, brightest of hills in good
weather, but sulkiest when storms are coming on, is here,
upon the left. The fort, within the walls (the good king
built it to command the town, and beat the houses of the
Genoese about their ears, in case they should be discon-
r—Lt upon the right. The broad

tented), commands that he:grit
sea lies beyond ;—in front there ; and that line of coast,
begin Bing by the light-house, and tapering away, a mere
speck in the rosy distance, is that beautiful coast that
leads to Nice. The garden neor at hand, among the

fountains. is the Acqua Sola—a public promenade, where
the military batid plays gaily, and the white veils cluster
thick, and the Genoese nobility ride round, and round.
and round, in state-clothes and caches at least, if not in
absolute wisdom. Within a stone's throw, as it seems,
the audience of the day-theatre sit, their fan

turned this

way. But as the stage is hidden, it is very odd, without
a knowledge of the cause, to see their faces i:hange so sud-
denly from earnestness to laughter ; and odder still to
hear the rounds upon rounds of appause, rattling in the
evening air, to which the curtain falls. But, being San-

day night, they act their best and most attractive play.
And now the sun is going down in such magnificent array
of red, and green, and golden light, as neither pen nor
and to the ringing of the vesper bells,
nce, without a twilight. Then ',Oita
in to shine in Genoa, and on the country road.; and
lying lantern out at sea there, flashing for an in-

arkness sets in at

stant on this palace front and portico, illuminatesit as if

1e n merges it in

o deep o

bscurity

know, is the only reason why the Genoese avoid it after
dark, and think it haunted. My memory will haunt it
many nights in time to come, but nothing worse, I will
engage.—Dickens's Travelling 'Allem

THE INFLUENCES OF THE ENGLISH FLAG.—Previous
to the occupation of Port Essington, every English vessel
that had resorted to the islands lying between Timor and
New Guinea had been a..tacked, and, when successfully,

the crew massacred ; so that t►.e names of many of the
larger islands were associated with outrages committed on
our countrymen. The Essington, the first vessel sent

out to the islands, was only saved by an accidental occur.:
rence ; but no sooner had it become known that the Bri-
tish possessed a settlement in the neighbourhood (and this
occurred within an exceedingly short spare of time), than
these

ggressions suds