8 APRIL 1848, Page 2

The complimentary dinners to Lord Hardinge are not tributes of

an ordinary kind : the concurrence of statesmen from all sides, their earnest manner, the eloquence which they derived., one and all, from their subject, convert a form into a really national re- cognition and welcome of the Indian Governor. His adminis- tration was distinguished by the union of merit in both branches of his administration, civil and military : on the field he bore him- self with a chivalrous devotion, only paralleled in the romantic drama ; but even his victories are eclipsed by the fame which he leaves behind him as a civil administrator. There may be men of more shining parts than Lord Hardinge ; but Nature does not often so happily unite physical energy, understanding, and up- right honesty.