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66 in the summer at Simla. The Members of Council left in Calcutta were Mr. Ross, the Vice-President (who would also govern Bengal), Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Shakespear, Mr. Robertson and Col. Morison, the military member.

Mr. Macnaghten was the Secretary selected to accompany Lord Auckland. With the Governor-General there went to the North-West Provinces, besides his Private Secretary and Mr. Macnaghten, General Casement, Secretary to the Supreme Government in its Military Department, an experienced and sagacious man, who, in 1839, became Military Member of Council, and died, Sir William Casement, in Calcutta in 1844. The Commander-in-Chief it has been said was awaiting Lord Auckland in Upper India. He was, ex officio, a Member of the Supreme Council. Mr. Torrens — as Deputy Secretary in all Departments with the Governor-General — and the staff of military aides de camp made up the party.

From Tuesday, October 17 to Friday, October 20, the Private Secretary will be 'engaged chiefly in arrangements for departure'; on October 21 begins that journey from Calcutta to Simla of which the incidents have happily been preserved for us by Lord Auckland's sister. 'We got up at five this morning; the servants were all in a fuss; when we came down for some coffee the great hall was full of gentlemen who had come to accompany his lordship to the Ghát. Even Macaulay turned out