Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-06


course Of an intereStis isg3 article On, 1.-THE
Riss. and FAll of the Indian ssrvice,n
traces in the history Foffsthe East India,
Company a curious c6hnection between
bad manuscript and bad morals. Those.
who write villainohs hand. will take
warning accordingly iWei quote:
"The eqnanirnity ot the company was
AT one time much disturbed by the bad
writinguudthe bad morals of oftheirservatits
WhetheE there was any competition dtscov
cred between the two is not very apparent,
though more unlikely relationships have
ere now been discoYered. Il would be
hard 70 Judge some public men whom we
could maine by their pspmqnshtp., II is
not every. cabinet minister, indeed who
IAN write legiSly, Blu, in, the early, days
IF the East India Cbmpapy's 8 establisi-,.
medts, bad writing may have been tho di-
rect result of bad nFaIs-the feeble,
shall iRdistinSt lettefS of the morning
clearly rejecting the fenapch over night.
Be, this ,TSs It may Gle managers at home
Wrotesont in their genetnI letter of the 9th
.JApnary, l7l6-l1 !; ave 6nd the papers in Z
1he pockets and btheE writings are very
badly performed. We expect this 10 be
remedieGl; and if any pf the writers don't
writsso good haRls IS might be expected,
we hope theylwill improve aud do better
II, through pride Or rsfdIeness, they, or any
Botheg, with youi viii mot, give them fair
warning, and if theyfdOn't mend' dismiss
them our service, The same we say of all
that arsiimuoral aud Won't be reciaimed.
.And let this Be a gdisi4E fuls for all time to
come This, at all efents, is short, sharp
and decisive. I"
The writer, hoysyst, makes honorable
exceptions-t to the rplts 30 strtngeptly laid
down. A fOot-nDte stO the same article
has the following reference to certain dis.
tingpished English statesmen of the pre-
sent day The chiFSgRphic description is
a pleasant bit of gosstI: aas
I'VE are bound, ,hovever, to add, that
the present race of shtesmen are, on the
whole, distinguished " excellent penman-
ship. Lord Derby's handwriting is beAuti-
fuI-equally elegant and legible. Lord
Stanley's is as leGibli as large plea, but
certainly not elegant Lord Palmerstons
is free, pleasant, andy uomeans obscure,
Tho Duke OF Eewcasle writes an excel-
lent hand-long, vel formed letters, and
very distinct. Lordgo Ohm Russell's pen
manshipJ is > note uIlikeJ lthe Colonial
Minister'S but on tD9ller scale. Other
instances might be cled, but it is more TO
the purPOrt- Of the fTesent paper to say
that the East, India POmpany,en nearly all
| through the present eaituEy, have lbeen. re-
uarkahly fortunate IN the cNligraplIy of
their chief servant, tie Governor G Gencral,
who has set an exadtle Of penmanship to
the whole class of fritsrs which ought
not to have been rown away. Lord
EsWellesIey.s handwrilng Isl perhaps, the
best that we have eer seen. Sir George
iBaFlows was lite hfsrior. Lord Min
to wrote a remarkably firm, solid, Iegi-
HE hand 7SS0Fd IA tl5sS and I56FJiH1EnT-
burst were s6meW tNt stately in Their pen-
mapship, but cvcBiletter was as clear as
type LOrGlaWilIiap Beptinck, ran his let.
ters, and somelimeAliis words. little too
much into each otht, but he wrote q good
flowing hand that Kas rarely otherwise
than legible. Lord luCkland,s writing was
peculiarly round an distinct, and the very
reverse of his successor, lord iElIenbor.
Eopgh's which was pettyand lady-like, and
not distinct; but Ne tAs always one of the
Honorable CompF's naughty boys
Lord Dalhousie wtoe beautiful hand
flowing aud eleginb but very distinct;
and the present Gsytrnment- General, Lord
Canning, need notblush to see his lIani-s
writing placed beside that of any of his
contemporaries"
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