The Press. — London, England, 1858-06-26 00:00:00

620 Clauses 57, 58, 50, 60, 61, 62, 63, and 64 refer to existing contracts and pending suits, and continue certain rights or the Company. LXV. Save as herein otherwise provided, this act shall commence and take effect on the expiration of thirty days after the day of the passing thereof. LXVI. This act shall be prochimed in the several Pre sidenc:es and Governments of India as soon as conve niently may be after such act has been received by the Governor General of India; and until such proclamation be made, all acts, matters, sod things done, ordered, di rected, or authorized in India in the name of the East India Company, or otherwise in relation to the Govern ment of India, shall be as valid and effectual as if this act had not been passed. EAST INDIA HOUSE. A QU►It7ERLY General Court of this Company was held yesterday at their house in Leadenhall•street. Sir F. Currie, chairman of the Court of Directors, in the chair. THE BYLAW COMMITTEE. Mr. M. CLAux, on presenting the annual report of the Bylaw Committee, expressed, on behalf of the committee, their deep regret at the death of the late chairman, Mr. Twining, who fot twenty eight years had presided over them with honour to himself and with advantage to the Company. His conduct had been uniformly marked with amenity of manner, in. tegrity of purpose, and soundness of judgment. The Committee of Bylaws was then reappointed. The CHAIRMAN informed the Court that the war rants for the half-yearly dividends would be ready for delivery and payable on the oth of July. GRANT OF ANNUITY TO GENERAL SIR COLIN CAMP- BELL, 0.C.8. The CHAIRMAN said the Court had been made special for the purpose of laying before the roprie tors a resolution unanimously passed by the Court of Directors on the 9th inst., granting to Sir Cohn Campbell an annuity of 2,000/. The grounds on which this proposal was made were expressed in the resolution, which the secretary would read. The SECRETARY then read the following reso lution : Resolved nnanimoualy,—With reference to the gracious intention of her Majesty to confer upon General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.13., Corumander•in•Chief in India, the dignity of the peerage, that as a special mark of the high sense entertained by the East India Company of the eminent services of Sir Colin Campbell, in planning and conducting the several brilliant military openitipris, which, under the blessing of Divine Proridence, resulted in the rescue of the garrison of the Residency at Lucknow, and in the restoration of British supremacy in that capital and in Conde, an annuity of t.t,0001., commencing Irom the date of the final occupation of Lucknow, be granted to Sir Cohn Campbell for the term of his natural life, subject to the approval of the General Court of Proprietors, and to the approval and confirmation of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India. Captain Easrwicx (deputy chairman) seconded the motion, and said that no man had maintained more nobly the glory of the British name and nation. Long might he live to enjoy the honour and rewards b2stowed upon him by his sovereign and his grateful country. Mr. CRAWSHAY said it was a most painful task he felt to be imposed upon him to move an amendment to the resolution before the Court. All that had taken place in Oude since the relief of Lucknow was unnecessary and unjust, and had excited greater animosity than had ever previously existed against British authority in India. He moved, therefore, as an amendment : That the military operations in Oude, subsequent to the relief of the garrison of Lucknow, have been unjust, unnecessary, calculated to increase the animosity which, by previous injustice, had been excited against British supremacy, and seriously to ag4ravate the difficulties of sustaining it. That this Court, therefore, acting as trustees for the people of India, declines to sanction these operations by assenting to the resolutions of the Court of Directors fin rewarding the officers by whom they hue been conducted. Mr. JoNes seconded the amendment. The CHURNAN explained that the Court of Directors, having been informed that her Majesty intended to confer a peerage on Sir Colin Campbell for his services in the relief and capture of Lucknow, and in the restoration of British supremacy in that city and in Oude, felt it their duty to propot,e a grant to him by which he might be enabled to support that dignity. Mr. PRISSIER observed that the operations in which Sir Cohn Campbell had been engaged had no re ference to the annexation of Oude. What was to be done with Onde was a question hereafter to be con sidered. The present war was nit with Oude, it was with a body of insurgents. Mr. JONES said, after the explanation of Mr. Prinsep, be should withdraw from seconding the amendment. The amendment then fell to the ground, and the resolution was agreed to. L t.. ........ ...... ~... ~. .t_,,,,.,, THE PRESS, JUNE 26, 1858. SIR HENRY LAWRENCE. Mr. Jomi asked whether it was a fact that the baronetcy to the son of Sir Henry Lawrence bad not yet been granted. The CHAIRMAN said, that by some oversight the granting of the baronetcy to the second son of Sir Henry Lawrence, in the event of his first son dying without issue, had not been gazetted, but be had no doubt the omission would in a short time be rectified. GRANT OF ANNUITY TO MAJOIVOENEEAL SIR JAMES OUTROS, O.C.S. The CIIAIRUIN said the Court, of Directors had received a letter from the President of the Board of Control stating that her Majesty had been pleased to confer the dignity of a baronetcy on Sir James Outran. This was the very last act of Lord Ellen borough before he left the Board ; and as it was well known that that noble lord and Sir James Outran] were not on the most intimate terms, it certainly reflected much credit on Lord Ellenborough. He now begged to propose:— That, as a special mark of the high sense entertained by the East India Company of the services of Major. General Sir James Outram, G.C.R., in the course ot his long and brilliant career, and more particularly those con nected with the memorable defence ot the Residency at Lucknow, the occupation and defence of the important post of Alumbagh, and the final contine:t of Lucknow, under the command of General Sir Cohn Campbell, G.C.8., and with the view of enabling him to maintain the dignity of a baronet, which her Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer upon him, Sir J. Outram be granted an annuity of 1,0001. tor the term of his natural life, commencing from the date of the final occupation of Lucknow. Captain EASTWICK (deputy chairman), after a highly laudatory sketch of Sir J. Outram's career, cnncluded in the following words : In the enumeration of his claims on the gratitude of his country I cannot omit his wise and strenuous advocacy of a generous policy towards the great landholders of Oude, on which alone could hopes of tranquillity be based. On these grounds I cordially second this motion. it will be valued by Sir James Outram, not for its pecuniary advan tage—for ire own sake and for his family's sake be has, perhaps, cored too little for such considerations; as an instance I may mention that upon scruples of conscience he declined to appropriate to his own use his share of the Scinde prize money, but made over the whale amount (considerably more than 3,0001.) to charitable institutions. Colonel French, of the Bembsy army, was his almoner on this occasion, and told me the circumstances; Outram would never have alluded to it. It may, indeed, be said of Outram, in the glowing words of Macaulay, that, proud of his honourable position, alter leading victorious armies, and after making and deposing kings, t was sufficient reward fur him to feel that his name not only stmt.' high on the roll of warriors, but would he found in a better list—in the list of those who have done and suffered much for the happiness of mankind. It is right and fitting that their country should reward such men ; no institutions, no political contrivances, can supply their place in the ad ministration of its affairs. Mr. CRAWFORD said he had had the happiness of knowing Sir James Outram during the last forty years, and could therefore fully enter into the feel ings which had been so eloquently expressed by the deputy chairman. The bon. proprietor then traced the services of Sir James Outram from his arrival in India in 1819, and particularly dwelt upon his exer tions in Candeish, Mukee Khautee, and in Sciude. He quoted from a speech delivered b) Sir Charles Napier at a public dinner at Bombay in November, 1812, the following passage :—" Gentlemen, I have told you that there are only two toasts drunk this evening. One, that of a lady (the Queen), von have already responded to; the other shall be for a gentleman; but before I proceed any further I must tell you a story. In the fourteenth century there was a knight renowned for deeds of gallantry in war and wisdom in council. Indeed, so deservedly famous was be that by general acclamation he was called the knight sans pour et sans reproche. The name of this knight you may all know was the Chevalier Bayard. Gentlemen, I give you the Bayard of India, sans peer et sans ?Troche—Major James Outran, of the Bombay filmy." Sir James Outram would value this testimonial of their appro bation infinitely beyond any pecuniary worth that was attached to it. During a period of forty years he had risen day by day in public estimation, and it was with the greatest pleasure therefore that he gave his approval to the resolution proposed. After a few remarks from Mr. HELPS in support of the motion, Colonel SYKES said he entirely concurred in the eloquent eulogy that had been passed on Sir James Outram by the deputy chairman. The wbol.: of the life of Sir James Outram had always been combined with the tenderness of a woman, and the highest pos sible sense of justice. Mr. I.l.vrlN begged to mote that the following words be added to the resolution, viz.:— That the services of Sir James Outran) in regard to the annexation of Oude diaentities him to the anquiswied appro bation of this Court. Mr. JoNes seconded the amendment. 7 ft After some discussion the amendment was nega. tived, and the original resolution was all but unani mously agreed to. Dr. BEATTIE. gave notice that he should, at the next court-day, move that the annuity be extended to the eldest surviving son of Sir James Outri.m. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. The CHAIRMAN said the Court had been made further special for the purpose of laying before the proprietors a bill (No.:1) for the better government of India.. • Mr. JONES asked whether it was competent to enter into any discussion on the merits of the bill on the present occasion. The CHAIRMAN : Certainly. Mr. Msexesziz then entered on a long and ram bling attack upon the bill, which he characterized as a sham. After some further conversation, in which Colonel Sykes, General Briggs, and Mr. Helps took part, the Court adjourned. jortign dorrtsponbtatt. PARIS, Thursday. DOUBTS are expressed that the Conference will be able to terminate its labours much, if at all, within a month from this time. Delay lias arisen not only from the differecce of view between the plenipotentiaries, and the consequent necessity of their zonsulting their respective Governments, but from Fuad Pacha, the Turkish Minister, having been seriously ill. By the way, it is said in diplomatic circles that Count Walewki, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, strongly suspected Fuad's illness to be a mere diplo matic one ; and that to ascertain the truth be sent a high dignitary to visit him. The dignitary reported that he found the poor Turk with leeches on his throat, and the Minister was satisfied. It is whispered that important changes in the Ministry are not unlikely. The retirement of Count NValewski is specially spoken of, for private as well as for political reasons. Yet the Count was never, apparently, in greater favour than now ; the Emperor having visited him at his country seat not long since, and having even, it is said (somewhat, it must be confessed, to the scandal of society), conferred a title of nobility on an illegitimate child of his, by the late Mlle. Rachel, the tragic actress! Another im• portant governmental change talked of is the retire. ment from the London Embassy of Marshal Pelisser, and the appointment to it of a civilian, probably M. Druuyn de Lhuys, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, if lie can be persuaded to overcome his repugnance to serving the Imperial regime. The elevation of Prince Napoleon to the Viceroyalty of Aigerie, or, to speak more correctly, his acceptance of it, is more than ever doubtful. the important place of First President of the Imperial Court of Paris, vacant by the nomination of M. Dela Igle to the Ministry of the Interior, has this day been filled up by a gentle. men of the name of Devienne, Procureur General at Lyons, of whom nobody thought for snch a post, and of whom nobody out of the profession at Lyons ever heard. It is, you are aware, a favourite trick of the Emperor to astonish the public by nominations of unknown people to high places, or of known people to places for which their previous training but little fitted them. Contrary to what might have been expected, his Majesty, with the exception of the deplorable appointment of General Espinasse to the Ministry of the Interior, has hitherto been lucky in his singular selections. I am informed that the French Cabinet is strongly pressing on Sardinia not to insist on having a pecu niary indemnity from Naples for the seizure of the Cagliari, and that the Continental Cabinets generally are giving the same advice. The view the English Government takes of the matter is not stated. Paris has, since the heat set in, been very un comfortable, and is now getting extremely dull. The Emperor having left Fontainebleau, is at St. Cloud, en attendant his departure for Plombii•res. His Majesty's Ministers have begun taking their annual congli. Most of the aristocrat", both of birth and money, have g3ne away. Hardly a diplomatist would be found here were it not that the Conference is sitting; and every unfortunate tied to the place by duty is " babbling of green fields" or sighing for ses-breezes. En revanche, whole batches of Bulls, male and female, gentle and snobbish, are arriving amongst us daily—the men, as usual, in grotesque garments and abominable caps; the women, as usual, fair exceedingly, but alas! for the most part, won drously ill-dressed. I understand that at the fetes at Cherbourg in pre sence of the Emperor, which are to take place in August, there *ill be a grand sham fight by the fleet. The interdiction on the Indipeadance of Brussels to enter France is, I am told, about to be removed ;