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A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries. DUBLIN. THE IRISH VICEROYALTY.—Lord Carlisle was pre sent on Thursday evening at the Lord Mayor's banquet, and in the course of his Excellency's speech he referred to the question of the abolition of the viceroyalty in these terms : It may be allowed to me to observe, especially after you have drunk my health in so friendly and encouraging a manner, that a certain degree of interest, to which the Lorl Mayor has referred, may at this period attach itself to the office I have the honour to fill, which I certainly could not claim per sonally to myself; bet, as we have seen it announced of late in several quarters, and with a certain appearance of gravity, that it has been in the contemplation of the Government to put an extinguisher at once upon an office so elevated and upon a person so humble, T can only say that suoh a project is without my privity, as ou my part it clearly would be without my sympathy. The robbery of pictures committed last year at Lady Sul)lk's will be fresh in the memory of our readers. In the most mysterious manner the picture gallery at Charlton was entered one night, and several rare pictures, valued at many thousands of pounds sterling, were cut out from their frames and removed from the gallery. From that day until last Thursday but one clue was discovered. The thief, some months after effecting the robbery, pawned one picture, valued at 4,0001., for a 10/. note. The picture was soon discovered in the market, but the thief was not then traced. Last Thursday, in conse quence of certain information, two of the detective force entered the War•office in Pall-mall and pro ceeded to examine a room in that department. Behind an old press they discovered the whole of the missing pictures. A messenger employed at the War office, and formerly valet to Lord Andover, was arrested at the same time. LORD SHAFTESBURY AND THE SEPOYS. Ix will be in the recollection of our readers that, at a public meeting at Wimborne in October last, Lord Shaftesbury made the following statement I myself saw the other day a letter, from the highest lady now in India, describing that, day by day, ladies were coming into Calcutta, their ears and their noses out off and their eyes put out ; that children of the tenderest years have been reserved to be put to death tinier circum• 'Moss of the most exquisite torture, kto. THE PRESS, FEBRUARY 6, 1858. The Calcutta Relief Committee have solemnly stated that, after the most searching and careful inquiry, they can find no oases which in any way corroborate the above statement. Lord Shaftesbury has since offered the following explanation in a letter to the Times : Some time before I made the speech I had heard, from a person in whom I had entire confidence, that there was a letter, "from the highest lady now in India, describing that, day by day, ladies were coming into Calcutta, their ears and their noses cut off and their eyes put out." In the heat of speaking 1 made reference to that statement; and the report from which your first correspondent, " A Lover of Truth," has quoted was, no doubt, that which appeared in most papers. But, in the report printed in a separate form, the words are not " I saw ' but " I heard a letter;" and the history of the change is this :—The editor of a county paper, being desirous to circulate the speech. sent me the slips immediately, with a request that I would make such alterations as were recessary. The words " I saw " I instantly struck out, and substituted " heard " (it ought to have been " heard of "), making the passage run thus, `• 1 heard of a letter from," &c. 'l'bis was done, and the copy so corrected in circulation within a few days of tha delivery of the speech. The disclaimer published by your correspondent, " A Lover of Accuracy " (which I now hear for the first time), is sufficient to prove that my informant was in error, and, considering the delicacy of the evidence, I should, I confess, have acted more wisely had I not used it. The remainder of the corrected pas• sage runs —" When I tell you that children of tender years were put to death in cold blood." This statement is distinct from the other, and was founded on evidence open to every one, and, so far as I know, never contradicted. I have by me many letters revealing cases of still greater atrocity; but the sufferers or their relatives shrink from any disclosure of their names and circumstances.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, SHAFTESBURY. LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE. HOUSE OF LORDS. ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY. Eatl GRANVILLE moved a congratulatory address to her Majesty upon the marriage of the Princess Royal. The motion was seconded by the Earl of DERBY, and agreed to unanimously. BA:CKRTIPTCY LLW. Lord Bnotrorissi brought in a bill for the reform of the Law of Bankruptcy. The bill was read a first time. CHURCH SERVICES. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY introduced a bill intended to enlarge the powers now possessed by the authorities of the Church of England, with respect to the performance of religious worship in other than consecrated edifices. _ After a few words from Lord Campbell, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Dungannon, the bill was read a first time, and ordered for second reading on Monday, together with the Church Discipline Bill. Thcir lordships adjourned at six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. ADMISSION OF JEWS TO PARLIAMENT. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, adverting to the notice given by Mr. T. Buncombe of a resolution allowing Baron Rothschild to assume his seat, upon taking the par liamentary oaths in the manner most binding to his conscience, intimated his intention of moving, as an amendment, the previous question. correspondence had passed between the English and French Governments having such an object in view. Lord PALMERSTON stated that a despatch bad been received on the subject, which there was no objec. Lion to lay immediately before Parliament. The noble lord proceeded to explain and excuse certain expressions that had been used by Count Persigny, the French Ambassador in London, as well as in some addresses to the Emperor Napoleon, which had appeared in the Monitenr. Some of these dicta had, he believed, been misunderstood, and others were attributable to the misconceptions so prevalent abroad respecting the laws and customs of England. It would, he contended, be most undignified to modify a solemn act of legislation in this country on account of some intemperate language employed by few private individuals in France. Mr. HORSMAN observed that the charge advanced by Mr. Roebuck did not relate to expressions dropped by private persons, but to the language used by official personages, and promulgated iu the official organ of the French Emperor. After a few words of explanation from Mr. ROE. BUCK, the motion was withdrawn. THE HAVELOCK ANNUITY. The house having gone into Committee of Supply, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the preliminary resolution, whereon to found a bill granting an annuity of 1,0001. per annum to the Dowager Lady Havelock and to the present Sir Henry Havelock. In bringing forward this motion, he briefly alluded to the lamented death of General Havelock, and recapitulated the services performed by his son, the present baronet, who had already dis tinguished himself by his gallantry in various engage. ments during the recent military operations in India. The motion was seconded by Sir J. PAKINOTON, and after some conversation agreed to unanimously. MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. Lord PALItIERSTON moved an address congratu lating her Majesty on the auspicious marriage of the Princess Royal with Prince Frederick William of Prussia. Mr. DISRAELI, in seconding the motion, said that he was sure the house had never agreed to any address with more complete cordiality than on the present occasion. The marriage of the Princess Royal was a proof of the domestic principle which pervades the whole of this nation. The Princess might expect not only the splendour of a throne, but the happiness of a hearth. The time would come when the people would be not less proud of the Queen of Prussia than they now were of the Queen of England. The motion was then agreed to unanimously, and on the further motion of Lord PALMERSTON, it was resolved that the house should assemble at two o'clock this day (Saturday), afternoon, for the pur pose of proceeding to the Queen with the address. THE ORSINI PLOT. Mr. ROEBUCK, having moved the adjournment of the house, referred to the events and proceedings that bad resulted from the late attempt at assassina tion in Paris. Emphatically declaring that the Eng lish people detested all such criminal enterprises, he remarked that the present ruler of France was, least of all men, entitled to complain of the right of asylum afforded in England to refugees of every class and from every country. He deprecated any alteration, such as had been so diligently Teem mended, in the Alien Law, and inquired whether any NEW LOAN FOR INDIA. Mr. VERNON Swan moved a resolution with the view of bringing in a bill permitting the East India Company to raise a loan in the Unitei Kingdom. The sum that would probably he required was, he said, computed at eight millions, but to leave a margin for contingencies he proposed to ask power to borrow ton millions. Mr. T. BARING remarked that, according to general belief, the East India Company, as a political body, was doomed to early extinction. Before granting the required power to borrow money, be wished to learn under what system of executive government it was to be really raised and expended. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained the position of the Company with respect to the privi lege of raising loans in England. The bill was re quired to relieve the directors from disabilities which the Government of no other colonial dependency of the country were subje3t to. He saw no objection tp the bill, either in practice or in principle. Mr. DISRAELI hoped that the Government, on better advice, would withdraw for the present the measure which they were said t be contemplating for the abolition of the existing system of adminis tration in India. At a period of great emergency, so evident and important a change was, he believed, extremely inopportune. He complained of the reti cence practised by her Majesty's Ministers, who seemed to consider the House of Commons as the last to be told of their intentions. It was, be con tended, most inconsistent and dangerous to raise money on the credit of the India Government at a time when it was altogether uncertain what that Go vernment was to be in a few months hence. Mr. CARDWELL, postponing a fuller discussion of the question, insisted that no sanction should be given to any step which might by any possibilityin volve the revenue of England in liability for Indian debts. After a few remarks from ➢ir. HENLEY, Mr. B. MANGLES stated that the Company had already expended three millions in extra military services in India, in consequence of the Bengal revolt. The money they were to be authorised to borrow by the bill was absolutely essential for the completion of operations now undertaken for the pacification of the country. Sir F. BARING was willing to grant all the funds necessary to provide for existing emergencies in Hindostan. He objected, however, to give authority for raising a larger loan than was actually requisite for the services of the current year. Colonel SIKES and Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY having spoken, Mr. D. SEYMOUR remarked that the deficiency in the Indian revenue caused by the late occurrences would approach eight millions sterling. It was, he maintained, not an extravagant proposition, under such circumstances, to ask leave to raise ten millions. The motion was agreed to, and leave given tO bring in the bill. The house adjourned at eight o'clock. ■