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 lost his arm; so I brought him down and boarded him out for the chance of this election. His father came down from Agra to see him, and died of cholera the night he arrived; he has no mother, so there could not be a greater object.

Yours most affectionately, 1em

Calcutta, May 5, 1840. ,— and Lord Jocelyn, after sundry delays from gales and want of steamers, sailed in the ‘Conway’ this morning. There is still such a high south wind that I have no idea they will get beyond Kedgeree for two or three days.

You cannot think how well we are getting through the hot season; it is quite different. from any we have seen before, though they say it was the same last year; but there is a storm every other day, and about four o’clock it is quite cool, and the evening drive, instead of a trouble, is an absolute pleasure. I suppose this cannot last, but we have arrived at the 5th of May without any suffering to speak of since the