The Times' correspondent for the Mauritius gives a very remarkable,
though not a very clear account, in the letter which appeared on Wednesday, of the collision which has occurred between the Governor, Sir J. Pope Hennessy, and the Lieutenant- Governor, Mr. Clifford Lloyd. According to this account, the Governor transmitted home reports of speeches of Members of the Council which had not previously been submitted to them for their correction, and which in some cases exactly inverted the drift of what they really said. The Lieutenant-Governor protested against this course, and asked that all reports of the remarks of Members of Council should be corrected by them- selves before being accepted as official evidence of their views, —a very reasonable request. Nor can we well believe that it is one which so able a man as Sir John Pope Hennessy could either have refused or made the subject of a quarrel with his lieutenant.
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