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The Directors of the East India Company gave Lord Auckland, the new Governor-General, a splendid dinner, at the Albion in Alders.. gate Street, on Saturday last. Among the company, were Lord Mel- bourne, Sir John Hobbouse, and several other Cabinet Ministers, Lords Abinger and Denman, and many gentlemen connected with India. In the course of the evening, Lord Melbourne said that there was a good understanding between Ministers and the East India Com- pany on the subject of Indian affairs.
On Thursday, a dinner was given at the Albion in Aldersgate Street, to Captain Hindmarsh, the Governor of the new colony of South Australia, by a party of gentlemen interested in the success of the colony. Colonel Torrens, the Chief Commissioner, was in the chair ; and among the company, were Mr. Hutt, Mr.' Charles Buller, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. E. Mangles, Mr. Gouger, and Captain New- combe. Letters were read from Mr. Grote and the Duke of Welling- ton, apologizing for their absence. The Duke said in his letter, "that he felt a great anxiety that the plan which had been adopted for the establishment of the new colony in South Australia might succeed, and might contribute to the happiness and prosperity of the colony, and to the advantage of all concerned." Mr. Buller, Colonel Torrens, and others, made able speeches. The most interesting fact was the fol. lowing, stated by Colonel Torrens- " The new colony was, in fact, already established; all the land, and even more than all the land which it was stipulated by the act should be disposed of before the colony could be established, had already been bidden for. The men who had performed this great work would in a few weeks be departing from these shores. They would go to gather blessed bread in a blessed land. At all events, the prayers of the present company would go with them ; and he would say, may " their ways be ways of pleasantness, and all their paths be peace."
In proposing the health of Captain Hindniarsh, the Chairman said that the Captain
......" had been with Lord Howe in his glorious victory of June the first ; that lie had been with Nelson at the Nile, and with the same immortal hero at Tra- falgar; that he had shared in the most brilliant achievements of Sir James, now Lord Saurnarez ; and that he had partaken of the glory gathered by many other brave and meritorious men in the arduous conflicts which had established the naval supremacy of his country."
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