THE CA }T4J.4Xc CALAMITY.
ItSTICE is denied to the sufferers by, the Carshalton expulsion, withtbe cruelest obduracy of.officialiam.,11The final replies of the Premier and Secretary of State, have noW:been published, and the public learn that it is an official principle toiliold an officer high in his department as infallible, or at least .aseinnecessible to -lay charges ; and that the dictum of such an officer flia.:-fazal. without appeal.
Mr. Leveson Gower transmits to Lord John Itusselbgt Petition from, the parents and guardians for presentation te Lord John acknowledges a deep concern, and kindly role** himite the Secretary of State. The petition is sent to Sir go:urge Grey i ii Sir George, n very considerate language, sends back-the petition, and declines to interfere with the ofdeer of another department. -. There is then no redress. The MastmeGenertil of tbe:Ordnanoe is not without a superior, and of conrse, if.his.conduit s.called question, there ought to be ate-appeal to_ thatkigherrasitlierity :. but his colleagues bar the way to the appellants: r.-Theyebiee,deWn, the rule—most astonishing in these days of agitation'against the alien am! "un-English " claim to infallibility—that-theater-General is a gentleman of such absolute wisdom and earrectunsted feeling
that he cannot do wrongin the ease.; ad e- thin-, to these
who are smarting-and pining under the sense Thevw that those.whiehalSe:been aggrieved more sorely than in body or estate must rest content with the dictum of a departmental aim' fo IRAld
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