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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

SELECTIONS.

SCENE IN THE THEATRE, HOBART TOWN.—Mrs.
Clarke has adopted an excellent method of preventing
blackguardism in the boxes of her theatre, and it says
much for the " lower order.i," that it is found in no other
part of the house. On Monday evening, four drunken
blackguards, who had assumed the character (masquerad-
ing is all the fashion) of gentlemen, not only annoyed the
audience and literally stopped the performance by their
continued interruption, but carried their blackguardisui
e can find no other appropriate word) to the highest
pitch, by throwing a potato at Mrs. Clarke, when in the
michi,e of one of her finest songs. The spirited lessee then
being it t7le "costume" of Macheath, with the whip in
her bine, without a moment's delay, went roand to the
box, and whipped the blackguards out ! It was well done.
Murray's Austral Asiatic Review.
CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE OF HINDOSTAN."—It is
a problem to this moment, whether the character of a peo-
ple is formed by the government or influenced by the cha-
racter of the people. If the former proposition were ad-
mitted, the English would have slight cause for selfgratu-
lotion ; for, considered in the gross, there is not a people
in the world who are so little distinguished by the virtues
which adorn the human race as the inhabitants of Hindos-
tsn. They are not insensible to the natural affections,
nor are the examples they present of patience and resigna_
lion under calamity, and charity in the bestowal of alms,
by a. y means rare : but the per contra exhibits a selfish.
ness, a sensuality, a cowardice, a degree of avarice,cunning,
falsehood, malevolence, prejudice, inertness, and a host of
minor vices, with which it is needless to swell our
catalogue; still there are brilliant instances of exceptions
to the,ordinary rule. The charge of supineness does not
lie at the door of the pharasee—he is industrious and
energetic, and generous in the use he makes of his accumu-
lated wealth. Cowardice is not the characteristic of the
Rajpoot, nor can the educated class be accused of the in-
difference to truth or the indulgence of strong prejudice.
--Stocqueller's Hasid-Book oflndia.
MR. MONTAGUE'S MURDER.—As the sunlight died
away, and evening fell upon the wood, he entered it.
-Moving here and there. a bramble or a drooping bough
which stretched across his path, he slowly disappeared.
At intervals a narrow opening showed him passing on, or
the s'aarp cracking of some tender branch denoted where
he west : then he was seen or heard no more. Never
more beheld by mortal eye, or heard by mortal eve : one
man excepted. That man, parting the leaves and branches
on the other side, near where the path emerged again,
came leaping out soon afterwards. What had he left
within the wood, that he sprang out of it, as if it were a
hell! The body of a murdered man. In one thick soli-
tary spot, it lay among the last year's leaves of oak and
beech, just as it had fallen headlong down. Sopping and
soaking in amongst the leaves that formed its pillow ;
oozing down into the boggy ground, as if to cover itself
from human sight; forcing its way between and through
the curling leaves. as if those senseless things rejected and
foreswore it, and were coiled up in abhorrence; went a
dark, dark stain that dyed and scented the whole summer
night from earth to heaven. The doer of this deed came
leaping from the wood so fiercely, that as he cast into the
air a shower of fragments of. young boughs, torn away in
his passage, and PT with violence upon the grass. But
he quickly gained his feet again, and keeping underneath
a hedge with his body bent, went running on towards the
road. The road once reached, he fell into a rapid walk,
and set on towards London.—Marlin Chuzzlewit.

WHAT IS THE BEST VIEW FOR A SICK ROUNIe
What a the best kom of for k
dows to command ? I have chn•en tre sea, and anm sati•-
fied with my choice. We sio have the widen' expanse
of land or water, for the sake of a sense of liberty. yet
more than for variety; and also b,cau-e then the in stt-
mable help of a telescope may be called in. Think of toe
difference to us between ,eeing from oit the
width of a street, even if it be Sac.viit—str..et, Dub •
lin, or Portland-place, in London, arid thirty milts of sea
view, with its long boundary of rocks. ant the cower of
sweeping our glance over half a cont-ty, , iiy means of a
telescope! But the chief ground efe ;nice of tie sea
is less its space than its rnotinn, and the per;..-trial shittmg
of objects caused by it. Torre cin he nothing in iiiiand
scenery which can give the sense of life and moot ni and
connexion with the world like sea cliaru4e=. motio
of a waterfall is too coot nuous—too lane varied, as the
breaking of the waves would b-, if that were alt the sea
could afford. Ttie fitful action of a windmill, the waving
of trees, the everchanging aspects of mountains are good
and beautiful; but there is something more life-like in the
going forth and return of ships, in the passage of fleets,
and in the never-ending variety of a fishery.—Ess y
an Invalid.

DISEASES IN INDIA.—The diseases most common to
India are fever, dysentery, liver complaints; and cholera
morbus. These annually sweep away their tens of thou-
sands, the latter disease baffling the skid of the most emi•
nent physicians, and leaving even the theory of its cause
enveloped in doubt and uncertainty. But there are a
multitude of other diseases peculiar to the country, though
less fatal in their general results. Elephantiasis, or the
swelling of the leg, is common to the natives in every pro-
vince. In the hilly districts, goitre is very prevalent, and
ophthalMia afflicts myriads in the upper provinces, where
the soil is sandy and the people care less of their persons.
Leprosy is often seen in its most hideoite fort, ; and rheu-
matism counts its victims amongst its thinly clad, and ex-
posed poor during the rainy season. Piles, ulcers, inflii-
mations, and a peculiar eruption, popularly called prickly
heat, are extremely prevalent, particularly amongst Euro-
:, ans, whose habits of Ii e are less regulated by climate
.11 an consists with a proper regard to health and longevity.
Influenza and disease of the lungs sometimes make de-
mands upon the leech's skill, but they do not present
themselves in the formidable guise which distinguishes
their appearance in more northerly reg crivs; neiteer do
hoopitig-cough, the measles or other complaiels, afflict in•
fonts so severely as the same maladies in England. Still,
the mortality amongst the newly.b,trir is considerable,
in some measure from c.involsions, teething, lever, &c ,
but more commonly from the ignorance of midwives, slid
the carelessness, if nothing worse of native nurses. Small-
pox was a terrible scourge to the population of flindos-
tan : but its ravages are now diminishing, thanks to the
philanthrephic exertions of the ined•cal officers in the
East-India Company's service, whit have zealously la linur-
ed to introduce vaccination.—Slocqueller': Hand-Book
of India.
FRUITS OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARY EXERTIONS
IN IRELAND.—Let any one who wishes to know what
may be done by judicious exertions to increase the num-
ber of our Pretestant population, inquire what has been
done in Mr. Preston's inter sting colony in the cow./ y of
Kildare. Of the heroic enterprise of Mr. Naugle at
Achill our readers are sufficiently aware, lied of the a,-
tonishing fact, that in that extreme part of pop'sh Ire-
land the labours of the missionary have been blessed to
so extraordinary a degree, that an ailnitinpal church has
been lately required for the aricommod +bon or the inerea-
sing converts. And there has ben just put into our
hands a report from tar D ogle Colony, in an extreme
part of the count. of Kerry, from which we make the
following extract :—" The ~umber of c inverts in Dingle,
in January 1843, was 310 indiviihrals. The nrindirr of
converts in Dingl-, in March, 1844, Wl4 330 individuals ;
73 families. Attendance at the scieeil i t Dingle
children 180; on Sunday, adults 130. At Keeln elcherlar
there are convert: 80. Children at Keelorelche.lar school
41. At Dunerlm, converts 50. Children of Dunerlin at
school 28." Such is the work which is now g big on in
every part of this country, end to whi tr " a !wavy plow
and gre-it discouraeetaent " has hien i. eii by a•y stem of
policy which strength, its the hears nt utiscriptured
priesthood by legislat erke,,nrageow, t and temporal aid,
exactly in proportiett as !lilt au boil- is fading before
the progress of truth and knowledge ! God says of
popery, "It shall decrease." "No " says the British
legislature, "it shall increase." Gad sass, " The circle
of light shall gain upon the eit ele of tlai.kness.'" " Ne,"
says the British parliament, "the circle of darkness shall
gain upon the circle of light." Is tb-re any other lan-
guage in which, with our convictions, we could convey an
adequate idea of the perverse policy by which the domina-
tion of a tattering superstition is maintained, and the
labours of evangelical men marred or counteracted in
Ireland ?—Dublin University .'Magazine.
KINDNESS IN CONVERSATION.—There is no WRY in
which men can dog aid tooth -rs, with so little expense and
trouble, as by kindness in conversati n. " Words" it is
sometimes said, "cost nothing." At aay ra.e, kind wi
cost no more than those which are harsh anti piercing. Hut
kind words are oftenmore valuedthan the rnosteostly gifts—
and they are always regarded among the best tokens ordesire
to make others happy. We should think that kit d words
would be very common, they are so cheap; but there are
many who have a large assortment of other language
except kindness. They have bitter words, and witty
words, and learned weris in abundance ; but their
stock of kind words is small. Toe churl himself,
one might suppose, would not grudge a little kindness
in his language, however closely he clings to his
money ; but there are per,ons who draw out their kind-
ness with more reluctance than they draw their purses.
Some use granting words because they are of morose
disposition. Their language, as well as their manners,
show an unfeeling heart.—Others use rough words out cf
an affection of frankness. They may be severe in their
remarks—but then they claim that they are open and in-
dependent, and will not be trammelled. They are no
flatterers, they say--and this they think excuse enough
for all the cutting sp -ech which they employ. Me; s
wish to be thought witty—and they will with equal indif-
ference wound the feelings of friend or to-, to show their
smartness. Some are envious, and cannot bear to speak
kindly of others, or to them, because they do not wish to
add to their happiness. Others are so ill-bred that they
take delight in using unki.id words, when their intentions
are good, and their feeling: Cr- warm. Their words are
rougher than their hearts—they will make sacrifices of
ease and property to promote comfrsrt, while they will nor
deign to employ the terms of courtesy and kindness. Of
those, the Scots have an expressive proverb, that " their
bark is worse than their bite." Many a man would be
loved for his liberal deeds, if his torigue, by his harshness,
did not repeal affection. And he riften wielders why his
friends care so little for him, when from -tilers tht-y receive
not halt' so many favours. Some at.. eau-tic and severe
in their language, fir the sake of showing their acute-
ness and discrimination. They would rend in pieces a
cloth of gold, detect a defective thread which had escaped
the less keen oeservations of a thers. Tney are always on
the watch to spy out some fault in character, or in disposi-
tion, which others overlook, that they may appe‘s to have
uncommon discrimination and rare skill in criticism. If
the happiness of others is not motive enough to their influ-
ence on ourselves, the habit of using them will at length
conform our feelings to our langu ,ge. We shall become
kind, not only in our speech, but in our manners, and in
our hearts. On the other hand, to make use of carping,
harsh, and bitter words, se!d am fails to sour the disposi-
tion and to injure the temper.

SERGEANT TALFotian.—Thomas Noon Talfourd is a
native of Reading. His mother vas the daughter of
Mr. Thomai Noon, who wa: for titiry years the minis-
ter of the Independent congregation there. Accordingly
he was instructed in their strict tenets, awl his early edu-
cation was obtained at their school at Mill Hill ; but
being removed to the public school under Dr. Valily, be
there acquired a love of Shakspeare and the drama—for-
bidden ground to his tiabve sect—and soon adopted the
less rigid doctrines of the Church of Rigland. At the
same time he accpiirezi those ardent" political feelings,
which, tempered by time, he has alway. since maintained.
His poetical talent was developed early. In the year
1811, while still at school,•he published a volume entitled
Poems on various subjects.' The suhjects are interest-
ing, as evi-leing the character of his th in2hts at this early
period. One of them, entitled On the Education of the
Poor,' and another, "fhe Union and Brotherhood of
Mankind,' obtained for him the acquaintance of Joseph
Fox, di,tinguished for his zeal in the cane of education,
and his new friend introduced him by letter to Lord (then
Mr. Henry) Brougham. He was received by that dis-
tinguished individual with the utmost kindness, and en-

coiliaged to work his way at the bar through literature.
Following this judicious advice, he engaged himself in
1813, to Mr. Chitty for a period of four years. The
literary career of the young lawyer began with an essay
published in the Pamphleteer,' early in 1812, entitled
' An appeal to the Prot-stant Dissenters of Great Britain
on behalf of the Ca,holics.' This essay was eloquently
written, and breathed a spirit of liberality, such as is
denominated, ' Christian. Talfourd was then under
eighteen. A Critical Examination of some objections
taken by Cobbett to the Unitarian Relief Bill, was a very
successful attempt to grapple with a writer of such sin-
gular power. ' Observations on the Punishment of the
Pillory, and An Appeal against the Act for regulating
Royal Marriages,' took the side of humanity against bar-
barous custom and mistaken notions of national policy.
An Attempt to Estimate the Poetical Talent of the
Present Age,' written in 1815, is chiefly remarkable as
testifying his high appreciation of the poetry of Words-
worth, (at a period when sitch testimony was sufficient to
ensure almost universal ridicule), arid scarcely less so for
the courage with which it denounced t gloomy exagge-
rations of Lord Byron. who a as then in the full blaze of
his popularity. ' Spirit of the Age' was not
published till ten years afterwards. Mr. Talfourd was
probably the very first who putilicly declared, on critical
grounds, that William Wordsworth was a true poet. * *
In 1817, Talfourd starred as a Spetral Pleader. During
his period of study he had assisted Mr. C itty in his vo-
luminous work on the Criminal Laws. Tile chief quar-
ters in ahich he carried on his literary labours, were now
in the " Retrospective Review,' and the EncyclocEedia
Metropolitan.' The articles ` Homer,' on the Greek
Tragedians,' and ' Greek Lyric Po-ts,' in the latter were
written by him. He began his c innection with the' New
Monthly' in 182!), and continued to furnish the dramatic
criticisms, besides other papers, in toat magazine for
twelve years. He subsequently wrote iu Vie Etlinburgh
Review' and London Mag and published in 1826
a Memoir of Mrs. Radcliffe, prefixed to tier posthumous
work of Gaston de Blondeville.' Mr. Talfnurrl was
called to the bar by the Society t.f the Middle Temple in
1821, and joined the Oxford Circuit and Berkshire Ses-
sions. In 1822 he married Rachel, tiaulhter of John
Powell Hutt. Esq., a name well known political re-
formers. The gradual exteo-ion of his professional
so s
to at h
t e. de
g ex.
ep e
of erg en-
gagements through the elrcult,i iii..ceil him to retire from
the ofaltit''—eithe- very same year
in which he wrote trahedy of lon.'—Hortte's " New
Spirit of the Age." years, when he
was s
callede

INDISCRIMINATING lIUMANITY OF Meolcel. :OEN.
—Dr. Anthouy renreached upon a eerie!. eeelei'm
by the Queen, Marie Antein-tte, for not eppearine of Vei -
sailles, 's had been expected, teplied. Mel .in. if / came
not to Ver-eilles veste,d,y, it was berm', I eas di t ~i red
with a neasent's wife in her confinement ants in ilit"""
danger of losine her lire. Your Majesty errs, moreo,er,
in supposing that I neglect toe Datiohin for 1115. poor;
have
oehnitthhne„rto t. eded the child with greater care arid at-
if he had heen the son of one of your Ma-
' jesty's gr mins " tt. At ayo, Eloge de Bailly.
THE AMERICAN CODE OF HONONR. —TIT American
system of duelling is quite different from r•urs, and far
more consistent a ed ra tonal : they never rhir-k of apolo.
gies on the ground, or firing ill the air, Of seperaring after
a harmless interchange. of shots. which, in England,
throw an air of absureity over most proceedings of the
k•nel. In America they " mean business," nor child's
pine, when they fight duels, and never senerate till one is
killed or wounded. The usual plan is to fire at ten pares.
and to advance one pare each soot till toe desired effect
is produced (the n-wspapers gave an ecoount of a duel
where the parties ffred six times each). The challenged
has the cheice of weapons; and pistols, muskets, er
rifles are usuaily -selected. Net long since a well-known
individual; who, I see, figured as second in an affair that
took place abou a month ago, challenged another man
who had objected to his vote at an election for
personation ( which, of course, involved a charge of
perjury,) to walk arm-in-arm from the top of the
Capitol with him. As this was declined, his next
proposal was to sit upon a keg of powder, and wryly n match.
However, in this country, these were considered rather
strong measuree; and through the media inn o' pacific
ftietels, it was at length amicably arranged that they
should fight with muekets at five paces. Each picee was
loaded with three balls, and of course both parties were
nearly blown to pieces; the challenger, however, unfortu-
nately recovered, and is now ready for flesh rereeitifee
Of course such a case a= this is rare; but I think I am
right in stating that a bloodless duel is almost unknown.
—Codley's Lepers.
PROPOSED ENCOURAGEMENT TO CULTIVATE WASTES
IN IRELAND.—Adjoining mountains and bogs, where the
poorest class of the population generally reside, arid where
there is abundance of ground attached rent free to each
farm, and capable of being rendered profital-le at a very
little expense—in fact, without any other orail,y than the
labour required to open drains, and level rt—we see
scarcely any efforts made at mnrovement. A Sc.tcliman,
or an Englishman, would consider the posse-siou of the
land rent-free for three or five years. wording to tire dif-
ficulty of the undertaking, as a sufficient recompense for
his trouble; although his time is much more valuable, on
account of the higher rate of wages pail him. But an
Irishman will consider a twerry-one years' 1 as too
short a tenure, to justify him in expending the time which
he wastee in gossiping with his neighbours, or sunning
himself at the hacks of the di.ches, in the re ofitable em-
ployment of adding to what ought to be, if he had in-
dustry, his alreedv too small hol 'bag. Here is a case in
which we conceive legislation might operate much good.
If every man who reclaimed ground which did not before
pay rent. was guara'.teed its possession by law for ten
ve ars after the first crop, at a nominal rent of one shilling
the acre, it might he an inducement to the tenant to la.
boar: it could beno loss to the landlord, as, it still left
in a state of nature it would be useless to him, and after
the expiration of the time gneranteed the tenan as remu-
treration for his trouble, the benefit w.: uld be his exclu-
sively. Io the case of a tenant-at an arrangement
mold easily he eff•-cted, by which the tenant, if renewed
from the farm befo-e the expiration of the stipulated
term, might receive a jest and reasonable compensation
for the improvemeets which he had effected, or an allow-
ance or the loss of the cr ips which, had he remained, he
would still have been entitled to: and thus, without any
government outlay, encouragement would be g. ven f ir the
reclamation of that part of the Irish waste lards which
would be worth the trouble or expense of cultivate re_.
Blackwood.
EFFECT OF SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION.—The following
most touching incident ee-s related by the Dean of Jerk,
with a view to the practical illustration of this part of the
eetMnal sy-t-'m :—" About four years ago an un odly
Pritestant, f. torn a neighbourinz parish, sent his child to
his (the Dean of Cork) scriptural school, about three
miles from Bandon, After some time the tattier told the
.master not to teach the child the Scriptures, as he wished
that be should devote his whole time to arithmetic. When
the parent found that his request would not be acceded
to, he sent his child to a hedge school. Finding that the
child did not improve in arithmetc, he sent him back;
and it pleased God that, besides alvencing in the other
branehes of education, be made such a happy progress in
the Scriptures, that they were spiritually bl,st to his soul.
It sn happened, after a short time, that the child, by a
fall from a cart, had a limb fractur d, which he survived
only thirty hours, having died at a lodging-house in Ban-
don. Believing death to he near, he sent for his father,
that father who had on :e directed that he should not read
the Scriptures, and said to him, 'Father, the Scriptures
I was taught at school were blest to my soul lam now
dying happy, for I know I am going to my Saviour; but,
father. I have a parting request, which is, that you wilt
dad.,; read the Scriptures, with prayer to God to blest::
them to your sal ation ; for remember, father, callme our-
selves Christians. and saying we believe in Christ, will not
save us. No. We mus have that faith in Christ, which
is wrought by the Hoiy spirit in our souls, and which
alone can convert us, acrd bring us to heaven.' The poer
father was so overp ray.red by the dyrne request of his
child, that his opposition to scriptural education gave
way ; and the evening of the funeral he seta one pound
to the sch,ol, a. a testimony of his gratitude that his
child had been taught the word of God there, and died in
such a happy state. Now. would any Christian person say
that the request the father of that child lied once made
should not have been acceded to ? Surely not."—Dublin
Universilp Magazine.

VALLEY OF MEXICO.—COTICeIite yourself pineei
on a mountain nearly two thousand feet above the valley,
and nine thousand above the level of the sea. A sky
above you of the most perfect azure, without a cloud, and
an atmosphere so transiHrently pore, that the r-motest
objects at the distance of many ,eagues are a- distinctly
visible Hs if at hand. The gigantic scale of every thong
first strikes you—you seem to be looking down upon a
world. No other mountain and va ley view has inch an
assembi-ge of features, because nowhere else are the
mountains at the same time so high, the va I -y .o wide, oe
filled with such variety of I tnd and water. The plaint be-
neath is exceedingly level, and for two hundred miles
around it extends a barrier of stupendous mountains, most
of which have been active volcanoes, and are now covered
some with snow, and some with forests. It is fared w4l,
large bodies of water looking mere like seas than lakes--it
is dotted with innumerable villages, and estat, s, and -.Attu-
tations ; eminences rise from it which, elsewhere, would
be called mountains, yet there, at your feet, they seem but
ant-hills or, the plain ; and now, letting your eye follow
the rise of the mountains to the west, (near fifty miles
distant,) you look over the immediate surnrcits that wall
the valley, to another and more distant range—and to
range beyond range, with valleys between each, until the
whole melts into a vapoury distance, blue as the cloudless
sky above you. I could have gazed fir hours at thi. little
world while the sun and passing vapour chequered the
fields, and sailing off again, left the whole one bright mass
of verdure and water—bringing out cleorlv the domes of
the village churches studding the plain or leaning against
the first slopes of the mountains, wth the huge lakes
leornieg larger* the rarefied atmosphere. Y, t nothing
was wanting. Over the immense expanse there seemed
scarce an evidence of life. There were no figures in the
picture. It lay torpid in the sunlight, like s one deserted
region where na'ure was main beginning to assert her
empire—vast, solitary, and melancholy. There wire no
sails—no steamers on the lakes, no smoke over the vil-
lages, no people at labour in the fields, no horsemen,
coaches, or travellers, but ours-Ives. The silence was al-
most supernatural; one expects to hear the echo of the
national strife that filled these plains with discord still
lingering among the hills. It was a picture of • still life,'
inanimate in every feature, save where, on the distant
mountain sides, the fire of some poor coal-burner mi•ieled
its blue wreath with the bluer sky, or the tinkle ,if the bell
of a solitary muleteer was heard from among the dark and
solemn pines.—Mexico as it was and as it is.

LORD ELLENBOROUGH.—No former Governor-Gene-
ral of India entered on his office—at all tires the most
arduous under the British cr.)wn—under such unfavour-
able auspices, and with such a complicated accumulation
of diffilulties to combat, as Lord Ellenborough ; few. if
any, of his predecessors have had their actions, their mo-
tives, and even their words, expos d to such an on.

sparing measure of malicious animad►ersion and wil'ul

misconstruction; yet none have passed so triumphantly
through the ordeal of exper'ence. Many of his measures
may now be judged of by their fruits; and those of ti e
Calcutta press who were loudest in their cavils, cotnpeded
to admit the success which has attended then', are ,e-
-duced to aim their censures at the alleged magnilocinetice
of the Governor-General's proclamations : wli!ch, it
should always be remembered in England, are addressed
to a population accustomed to consider the bombast of a
Persian secretary as the ne plus ultra of human compo-
sition, and which are not, the-efore, to be judg,d ny the
European standard of taste. Much of the hostility di-
rected against Lord Ellenborough, is, more.rver. owing tn
his resolute emancipation of himself from the hureau-
cracy of secretaries and members of council, who had
been accustomed to exercise controul as" viceroys uv r"
his predecessors, and who were dismayed at encount-ring
a man whose previously acquired knowledge of the coun-
try which be came to govern, enabled hitnio dispense with
the assistance and dictation of this red tape camarilla.
Loud were the complaints of these gentry at what they
called the despotism of the new Governor-General, on
finding themselves excluded from that participation in
state secrets in which they had long re% eil-d, in a country
where so much advantage may be derived from knowing
beforehand what is coming at headquarters. But much
of the success of Lord Ellenborough's government may he
attributed to the secrecy with which his measure's were
thus conceived, and the promptitude with %void; his per.
sonal activity and decision enab!ed him to carry them into
effect—success of which the merit is thus due to himself
alone, and to the liberty of action which tie obt tined by
shaking off at once the etiquettes which had
hitter o
trammeled the Indian government. In July 1842 we
ventured to pronounce, that "on the course of Lord El.
lenborough's government will mainly depend the qiiestiNn
of the future stability, or gradual decline, of our Anglo.
Indian empire; and if, at the conclusion of his vice-
royalty, he
has only so far succeeded as to restore our
foreign and domestic relations to the same state in which
they stood ten years since he will merit to be handed
down to posterity by the side of Clive and Ilaitingc."
Theta sk has been nobly undertaken and gallantly carried
through; and though time alone can show how far the
present improved aspect of Indian affairs may
be destined
to permanency. Lord Ellenboroughis
at tea=t justly en-
titled VI the merit of having wrought the change, as far
it resis With one man to do so, by the firm and f-atl-so
energy wilh which he addres.ed himself to the ebterurise.
—lndian Affairs in Blacktvood.