The Committee on General Darling's conduct met on Thursday morning
at twelve o'clock, and were 0:copied more than an hour and a half in discussing whether the public should be admitted to hear the examination of witnesses. The Committee had come to a decision on the second day of their meeting, that it should be an open inquiry; and they have divided this morning three or four times, carrying it by large majorities that the public should be admitted ; but Sir Henry Hardinge, for reasons best known to himself, declared his determination, as often as the public were admitted, of moving that they be excluded. This, according to Parliamentary tactics, be is competent to do ; and the effect of it is, first of all, to defeat the intention of the majority of the Committee, and, secondly, either to make the tribunal a secret one, or to put off the investigation altogether. The examination, therefore, went on in private. This seems to be rather a strange course for the friends of an innocent man to pursue—of one so ex- tremely anxious to clear his character before the world.—Courier. This is of a piece with the whole of General Darling's conduct, and with that of his friends at the Horse Guards : the public will know what to think of it. A trial in open court before all the world is what most falsely-accused persons desire.] Lord Wynford has been so enfeebled by repeated attacks of gout as to prevent his attending in the House of Lords. His health in other respects is good enough ; and the country's loss from his absence, is in some measure made up by the extra exertions of Lord Lyndhurst.
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