which with a little management, might be rendered so gloriously taxable. I must not return your instructing financial paper, without thanking you for the paragraph respecting the ecclesiastical establishment of your presidency. It is a most valuable testimony, and I need not say how important it is at this moment. My own close observation enables me thus to ac- cept the commendation on behalf of the clergy as frankly as it is given. Scantily as our church establishment is provided, as a system, it is, as far as it goes, quite efficient, and I am persuaded that much of the improvement now so happily discernible in Indian society may be ascribed, either in its origin, or its support to the influence of the chaplains. There are excep- tions, but they apply to individuals only ; and if more care is taken by those who enjoy the patronage, such exceptions will soon become even less frequent. Tarn ashamed of the length of my letter, and will only add a request that when you hear with certainty who has moved the wires which have set that puppet show, France, 28 FALLS OF THE CAVERY in commotion, I shall be greatly obliged by any intelligence you may think proper to commu-