, 1866-07-03

officers are on board the Michigan, and
his men on board the transports.
The tug Harrison, after leaving the
Michigan moved along the river to pick
up ~stragglers. She captured two small
boats with arms and ammunition, the
men in charge of them having landed at
Squaw Island.
Numerous parties Of Fenians, who were
out on picket duty, have succeeded in
escaping in small boats to this side. 1t
is thought but few, if any, but wounded
men have fallen into the hands of the
British, who including troops who fought
near Ridgeway yesterday, arc now en-
camped at Fort Erie.
The Demerara papers are loud in the
praise of Mr.. Hincks, who after admins
tering the affairs of the Colony for four
years and a-half, has gone to England TO
recruit his health and spirits, severely
tried by domestic calamities, in addition
10 the troubles of a somewhat stormy
administration and the unAinching dis
charge of onerous duties. We would
not say of him he is in every respect q
model Governor but he has some excel
lent points which go far to make a good
governor. He is interchangeable in work
and honest in intention. lIo docs not
look to himself, his convenience or adj
vancement, but the welfare of the people
whose affairs he is sent 10 control.
Others make it their first duty to please
the Colonial Office, to carry out their
instructions, TO chime in with their views.
Mr.. Kinks looks first to the people, their
wants and their interests, in the convic-
ton that the best recommendation to the
favor of the Coloni | Office, consists in
the success Of his administration as test
ed by the improvement Of the Colony
under his charge, and the satisfaction OF
the colonists. Another quality that Mr..
Hincks possesses in a large measure,
necessary in a good administrator, is po-
litical sagacity, and experience of affairs.
Hence his success; and, the testimony
borne to the value of his services by all
the public bodies who waited upon him
with addresses on his departure. First
came the Mayor and Town Council to
express their obligations for the in
terest taken in the improvement Of
Georgetown, and the assistance rem
dered by him in the execution of various
public works, which promise when COM
pleted "to make Georgetown the finest
oily ~ tho Rritieh Wnst Indies" Nnvt
comes a Deputation of the Clergy with
the Bishop at their head, to express their
conviction Of the value Of the Ordinances,
relating to Education and the admins
tration of Villages, passed at his sugges-
ton, showing him to be ''the enlightened
and sympathising friend of the Creole
population . and then the Directors of
the Agricultural and Commercial Society
follow, to acknowledge his liberaIity in
the aid of their Society, drawn from his
private purse and the Civil List, and a
present of money, as we'll as a considera-
BILE number of books to their library.
His services to A riculture are said to
consist in his support of immigration,
his encouragement of the settling Of Viii
lagos, and the sys EN- of regulations
which he passed in regard to laying them
out and drainc e. These are the fruits
of Mr.. Hincks' 4 years in British Guiana,
which Justly entitle him TO the gratitude
of the Colony, and to rank at the Coloni-
al Office in the list of able Administra-
tors. There is another service he may
render, not to Demerara only, but to all