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not be discharged by, any individual who had been obliged to resort hither by the failure of his own health. I do most heartily wish that I could look at it as coming within the limits of my authority, as diocesan, to direct Mr. Sawyer to remain on the hills for the purpose of taking the clerical charge provisionally ; this however is out of the AND NEILGHERRY HILLS. 23 question, and I must confine myself officially to a strong recommendation that a chaplain should forthwith be appointed. As a matter of private judgment, I will not decline to add that if the appointment were made in Mr. Sawyer's behalf, I have no doubt the duties would be performed most satisfactorily. He possesses all the requi- sites for an efficient discharge of them, novel and burthensome as they must be. I have written at so much length on matters of local interest, that I dare not extend my view to the alarming news which has just reached us. Is France again to be the crater of a volcano to desolate the civilized world ? It is a frightful possibility. Our's is Bombay news from Glasgow, of the 2nd of August. The next arrivals will pro- bably bring something more distinct and certain than these rumours.

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