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Unfair to Colombo— is the following 
"answer to correspondents" in Travel received 
by this mail : — 
"Kangoon and Calcutta for Residence.— 
• H.R.H.'— In reply to yoar query, the climate of 
Rangoon makes it infeiior as a place of residence 
to Calcutta. I should put Rangoon and Colombo 
at the bottom of the list of places you sent as 
regards climate ; then Bombay, then Calcutta, 
which is the healthiest for Europeans. There 
are some good clubs at Rangoon, fair hotels 
equal to those of Calcutta, if not better, and a 
residential European quarter. Rents are lower 
than in Calcutta, but on the other hand the ex- 
pense of servants is higher, as the Burmese do 
not make good servants, and most of the ser- 
vants are Madrassees." 
Now, the Editor of Travel should know 
(and our paper will be sent to him) that (1) 
Colombo has by far the finest and most 
comfortable hotels in the East ; (2) a hot, 
but most equable climate, average tempera- 
ture 80'7 degrees, tempered by sea-breeze, 
with the great advantage that if a change is 
wanted from the lowcountry and sea air, it 
can be taken by first-class railway with the 
utmost facility and economy to (1) Kaudy, 
1,6 JO feet above sea, 74 miles from Colombo, 
— a uniquely beautiful little town, average 
temperature 75'40; (2) or to Hatton, 4,140 
feet, 108 miles from Colombo, average 
temperature 68 ; (3) to Nuwara Eliya 134 miles 
from Colombo, 6,200 feet, average tempera- 
ture 58-1°; or (4) on to Bandarawelld, 161 
miles from Colombo, terminus of Railway, 
4,000 feet, delightfully dry bracing climate for 
most of the year, average temperature about 
66 degrees. And first-class hotels exist at, 
1, 2 and 3 ; with fair accommodation at No. 4. 
Sir Hudson Lowe Cleared. —Here is a pass- 
age from a review in the London rimes of "Notes and 
Reminiscences of a Staff Officer; Chiefly relating to 
the Waterloo Camoaign and to St. Helena Matters 
durin:^ the Captivity of Napoleon, B7 Lieut.- 
Oolonel Basil Jackson ": — "The information here 
given about Sir Hudson Lowe will surprise those 
who have pictured him as a hard, remorseless man, 
intent on multiplying pin pricks for his captive. 
Basil Jackson had learnt to appreciate Lowe's 
good qualities in the spring of 1815 ; and hia 
favourable impressions were deepened during his 
stay at St. Helena. Quiet and reserved he was ; but 
under that reserve lay a fund of genuine kindness 
and gentlemanly consideration for his gre it captive. 
So Gourgaud found out when, before leaving 
the island, he experienced the Groveruor's genero- 
sity and his forbearance from putting any private 
questions about Napoleon's affairs at Longwood. 
This delicate reserve caused Gourgaud great sur- 
prise — "Je ne reviens pas de mon 6tonnemenc, 
non, je n'en reviens pas." he said to Basil Jack- 
son. The evidence later on given by Montholon 
to Jackson as to the " politique de Longwood," 
and its aim of blackening Lowe's character by 
every possible means, throws the searchlight of 
truth on a subject that has too long been confused 
by partisan malice and occasional inroads of senti- 
mentalisra.The malice stands exposed in this inter- 
esting little work ; and in coarse of time, perhaps, 
even Bonapartist seutimentalism will rock itself 
to rest." 
