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Price 2s. 9,1., 4s. Gd ,an i its. per box. Sold 1, 3 7 Daniel Church, 75, Gracechnrch-street, City; Bartlett Roarer, 43, Ring William-street (four doors from London Bridge) ; G. F. Watts, 17, Strand ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow-churebyard; W. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford street ; Ilannay and Dietrichsen, :63, Oxford-street ; Butler an d Hording, 4, Cheapside ; Pr3ut and' Harsant. 229, Strand ; and all medicine vendors throughout tke Untied - 7 \ ' - , - ~ G K ' C - . _ • 43 , „seas . • 4,.. k cz", —) 4 77 3 : 1 1 .1111,‘ • c ‘ P tiktri, tr • ••• er , ee - qS' . Ch les • I , P 4,101 - 40. SrAMPED s' , .] conceive, entirely owing to the circumstance that the dis pensers of patronage have been persons unconnected with party, and under no necessity of conciliating parliamentary support; that consequently the appointments to offices in ju dgment of have been, as a rule, left to the unbiassed of the local authorities ; while the nominations to the civil and military services have been generally bestowed on the middle classes, irrespective of po:itic .1 considerations, and in a large proportion on the relatives of persons who had distingui s h e d th emse l ves by th e i r serv ices in India. " That your p e titi oners th ere f ore think it essentilthae at least a ma j or it y o f t h e counc il w hi c h' ass i s t s the Minister for India, with its advice, should hold their seats indepen dently of its apnointment. " That it is, in the opinion of your petitioners, no less necessary that the order of the transaction of business should be each as to make the partici: ation of the council subject, u n yrbe:b. j t i:t ahhac:rete:atmlidsi should deshitresnr and du o ce n onls arct o dii tlfaihlneabcnnmeed,fiioowadr submitted with substantial one. Thet to this end it is in the opinion of your petitioners, indispen by ld sable that the despatches to India should not be pr pared council, a o il u ,a n nt c gt principle, that persons, chosen for their knowledge of a t of merely giving their opinion on Bug eestions coming from ro i ly:, th u hae t ni dtsm,hooii Minister. I teoeau b rds e elsewhere. This is also the only mode in which the mem bers of the council can feel themselves sufficiently impor tant, or sufficiently responsible, to secure their applying their minds to the subjects before them. It is almost unnecessary for your petitioners to observe, that the mind is called into far more vigorous action by being requir3l to propose, than by merely being called on to assent. The Minister has necessarily the ultimate decision If be hss also the initiative, he has all the powers which are of any p rac ti ca l naereer,t. A body whose only recognised function was to find fault would speedily let that function fall into desuetude. They would fel that their co-operation ill conducting the Government of India was not really desired ; that they were only felt as a clog on the wheels business. Their criticism on what had been decided, without heir being collectively consulted, would be felt as import-4;PDA; as a mere delay and impediment ; and their office would probably be seldom song* but by those wko were willing to allow its most important duties to become nominal. "That, with the duty of pr e p ar i ng th e d espatc h es t o India, would naturally be combined the nomination and control of the home establishaients. This your petitioners consider absolutely essential to the utility of the council. If the officers through whom they work are in direct de pendence upon an authority higher than theirs, all matters of importance will in reality be settled between the Minister and the subordinates, passing over the council altogether. "That a third consideration to which your petitioners attach great importance is, that the number of the council should not be too restricted. India is so wide a field that a practical acquaintance with every part of its affairs can not be foun I combine 1 in any small number of individuals. The council ought to contain men of general experience end knowledge of the world, also men specially qualified by financial and revenueexperiene byjudicial experience, diplomatic experience, military experience ; it ought to contain persons conversant with the varied social relations and varied institutions of Bengal, Madras, Bombay, the North-Western Provinces, the Punjaub, and the Native States. Even the present C urt of Directors, reduced as it is in numbers by the Act of 1853, does not contain all the varieties of knowledge and experience desirable in such a body; neither, your petitioners submit, would it be safe to limit the number to that which would be strictly sufficient supposing all the appointments to be the best possible. A certain margin should be allowed for failures, which, even with the most conscientious selection, will sometimes occur. Your petitioners, moreover, cannot overlook tho possibility that, if the nomination takes place by Ministers at the head of a political party, it will not always be made with exclusive reference to personal qualifications ; and it is indispens sble to provide that such errors or faults in the nominating authority, so long as they are only occasional, shall not seriously impair the efficiency of the body. " That while these considerations plead strongly for a bo ly not less numerous than the present, even if only re garded as advisees of the Ministry ; that their office, as a check on the Minister, forms, your petitioners submit, a no less forcible objection to any considerable reduction of the present number. A body of 6or 8 will not bo equal to ono of 1-; in that feeling of independent self-reliance which is necessary to induce a public body to press its opinion on a Minister to whom that opinion is unaccept able. However unobjectioxably in other respects so small a body may be constituted, reluctance to give offence will be likely, unless in extreme cases, to be a stronger habitual inducement in their minds than he desire to stand up for their convictions. _ _ " That if, in the opinion of your honourable house, a body oan be constituted which unites the above outliner tted re quisites of good government, in a greater degree than the Court of Directors, your petitioners have only to exprees their humble hope that your endeavours for that purpose may be successful. But if, in enumerating the conditions of a good system of Home Government for India, your petitioners have, in fact, enumerated the qualities possessed by the pre4ent system, thou your petitioners pray that your honourable hours will continue the existing powers of the Court of Directors. " That your petitioners aro aware that the present Rome Government of India is reproached with being a double government, and that any arrangement by which an independent check is provided to the discretion of the Minister, will be liable to a similar reproach. But they conceive that this accusation originates in an entire ells enneentinn of t s he funainnsilevnlvincr on the 1-Tnme applicable to purely executivedepat talents. The Executive Government of India is, and must be, seated in India itself. Tho Court of Directors is not so much an executive as a deliberative body. Its principal function, and that of the Home Government generally, is not to direct the details of administration, but to scrutinise and revise the past acts of the ludian Government—to lay down principles and issue general instructions for their future guidance— and to give or refuse sanction to great political measures, which are referred home for approval. These duties are more analogue to thelfuactions of Parliament, than tothose of an executive board ; and it might almost as well be said that Parliament, as that the Government of India, should be constituted on the principles applicable to executive boards. It is considered an excellence, not a defect, in the constitution of Parliament, to be not merely a double but a triple Government. An executive authority, your petitioners submit, may often with advantage be single, because promptitude is its first requisite. But the film- . tion of passing a deliberate opinion on past measures, ant laying down principles of future policy, is a business which, in the estimation of your petitioners admits of and requires the concurrence of more judg ments than one. It is no defect in such a body to be double, and no excellence to be single, especially when it can only be made so by cutting off that branch of it which, by previous training, is always the best prepared—and often the only one which is prepared at all—for its peculiar deity, " That your petitioners have heard it asserted that, in consequence of what is called the double government, the Indian authorities are less responsible to Parliament and the nation than other departments of the Government of the empire, since it is impossible to know on which of the two branches of the Home Government the responsibility ought to rest. Your petitioners fearlessly affirm that this impression is not only groundless, but the very reverse of the truth. The Home Government of India is not less but more responsible than any other branch of the admi nistration of the State; inasmuch as the President of the Board of Commissioners, who is the Minister for India, is as completely responsible as any other of her Majesty's Ministers, and, iu addition, his advisers also are respon sible. It is always certain, in the case of India, that the President of the Board of Commissioners must have either commanded or sanctioned all that has been done. No more than this, your petitioners would submit, can be known in the case of the head of any department of her Majes y's Government. For it is not, nor can it rationally b 3 sup posed, that any Minister of the Crown is without trusted advisers ; and the Minister for India must, for ouvious reasons, be more dependent than any other of her Ma jesty's Ministers, upon the advice of pers ons whewe lives have been devoted to the subject on which their advice has been given. But in the case of India, such advice& are as signed to him by the constitution of the Government, and they are as much responsible for what they advise, as he for what he ordains; while, in other departments, the Minister's only official advisers are the subordinates in his office, men often of great skill and experience, but not in the public eye, often unknown to the public even by name ; official reserve precludes the possibility of ascertaining what advice they give, and they are responsible only to the Minister himself. By what application of terms this can be callea responsible Government, and the joint Govern ment of your petitioners and the India Board an irre sponsible Government, your petitioners think it unneces sary to ask. " That, without knowingthe plan on which her Majesty's Ministers contemplate the transfer to the Crown of the ser vants of the company, your petitioners find themselves un able to approach the delicate question of the Indian army, further than to point out that the high military qualities of the officers of that army have unquestionably sprung, in a great degree, from it being a principal and substantive army, holding her Majesty's commissions, and enjoying equal rank with her Majesty's officers, and your petitioners would earnestly deprecate any change in that , position. " That your petitioners, having regard to all these con siderations, humbly pray your honourable house that you will not give your sanction to any change in constitu tionthe of the Indian Government during the a continuance f the present unhappy disturbances, nor without full pre vious inquiry into the operation of the this inquiry se system. present And your petitioners further pray , that hi. extend to every department of Indian may administration. Such an inquiry your petitioners selve respectfullye claim, not only as a matter of justice to themselves, but because when, for the first time in th is century, the thoughts of every public man in the country are fixed on India, a n in quiry would be more thorough, and its results would carry much more instruction to the mind of Parliaments and of the country than at any preceding period." Mr. Jorrircs resumed the debate, observing that many of his arguments and opinions had been anticipated by the petition just read. (Ilear,haeilaerd.) th A at the mis apprehension very generally prev dividends of the East India proprietors were in creased by conqu e st s , but were they to doubl e the revenue of that country the proprietors would not get a farthing of increase of dividend, and East India proprietors had no interest in the aggrandisement of India. (Hear, hear.) R disciuraged Christianity in i den d i i ed that the company had disouraged Christianity in Isdia facts and circumstancesy i inn suappor, t a o n f d hi r s ef s e t r a r t e e d in t e o nt. m The obstruction to rel;gion had not sprung from the lathes of the East India Company, but from the bloody unwarrant able and wholesale murder of the people in the unjust aggression of territory made at the instance of the Board -I Control, (Hear.) It had been urged against the Company that the people of India were reduced to such a state of poverty, that it was a crime against humanity that the present system should continue ; and he denied the statement that had been put forth, that there were eighteen millions of people living in Madras at the rate of Id. per head per day. That India was in an advancing position was shown by the -_=, APER' 4 17, ( 4 7•Vc, . ' f 1 t fty, iifolikM,i t , o.o7;i4iiiti*v) (6 1 k-refer itd tb the i~ t~ ~~ progrei- 01 the, re:aLive hoitit4lM pativcs of the public d e bt. I !:7114P-. 20 ,439,870/., and natives 7,225,t941 1 , 1 % la.t returns, Europeans held 21,6'31/ 12,000,000/. (Hear, hear.) He the. public works that bad been carried out in India DIDOS the establishment of the East India Company, and urged that, if the Company was to be abolished to-morrow, the public would have no more power over the Government of India than they have now. (Hear, hear, bear.) Questions relative to India were freely and properly considered: in that Court, and be defied them to find a larger amount of Indian experience i n any part of the world, save in India, than was to be found at that board, and be bad beard that in the pro posed change those men were to be called upon to form the Indian Board. (Hear, hear.) He was of opinion 'bat they would discover the antagonism of Eng land if they gave to the holders of 100/. stock the privileges of voting that were possessed t.xe:ueivel; by the holders of 1,0001. stock. He extolled th e : , do]ini , tratiou of the Councils which hed produced mot h , ill3ant wa.rior4 and ad►n , irable sta-es►'ert, When they had revolt iu C -wade, the Cape, Ceylon, and ether places, the Government had selected the civil officers of the Company to restore order and get the Government out of their difficulties ; and in the late EaQtetn war it was the Company's officer, Lieutenant 801 l r, that turned back the Ruskians ; and, at Kars, there was C)lonel Lake and Captain Thompson, the Company's officers, who were the means of saving the g a rri , on when they were neglected by the home Government. (Elear, bear.) Lie contrasted such men with Colonel Anson, who was appointed to the canamand . f the Lilian ar 0), through the influence of Prince Albert, an appointment that was an insult to the people of this country. (Hear.) He bad no objection to Prince Albert generally. In his own department be did his duty well—(laughter)—but he objected to his using his power to influence the Government in appoint. ing incompetent Commanders-in-Chief. (Hear, hear.) He then criticised Lord Palmerstou's conduct with reference to India, during the time he - lia I been in powe-. Hi 3 appointment of Governors- General had been most unfortunate, ans his whole aim - „ad been annexation. He appeared to entertain with retard to India a similar notion to that Gf Napoleon I for bringing the whole of Europe under one rule. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, be reviewed the government of the East India C , rnpany, which, as a whole, had been a .varitageou-; to the people of India. (Hear, hear.) In affirming the resolution he thought all would go home with the conviction that each man had done hie duty. (Hear, hear.) Sir LAWRENCE PEEL (director) said that be had no hostility to the Government or any other leading party. The que - stion before the Court was one of great import ance. It affected the interest of 100,000,000 of the people of India, the whole people of England, and the Court of Proprietors. He denied that the East India Company were a selfish body; and those short-sighted men who made such charges spoke without reason, and in the language of folly. It was a rash and false opinion to say that the East India Government had discouraged the spread of religion in India. It would have been a wild scheme to have established a Church in India simi lar to that in England, where out of 160 millions there were not more than some 10,000 Christians. He had heard with pain—he might t-ay with disgust—the state ments that had been put forth that this revnit was a juiginent from Heaven for the wicked lives of our people in ludia—(hear)—and he rained his voice in vindication of their character. Referring to General Anson, he said that up to the time of his (Sir L. Peel's) leaving India, General Anson wa4 considered to have performed his duties well, and he a , ,ked the people of England not to afflict the family of a deceased soldier by making him the scapegoat for a calamity for which be was not liable. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the political bearing of the question, he said that be had not signed the petition that had been read. He had thought it prudent not to petition against a measure, the particulars of which he was ignorant. (Cries of oh I oh !) If the proposed change in any way contempl,,ted interfering with what he considered the ju-.t rights of the East India Company, he should say that he should object to any such change unless he had a reasonable assurance that tie thing to be substituted for that which existed would work better than that he was about to give up. (Hear, hear.) He haci not heard yet any scheme proposed that would give him the reasonable assurance that it would ao work. A well-considered scheme, that would cause the Board of C eitrol to work with the Company with more celerity and sin3erity, and give responsibility, would meet with his support. He thought the present responsibility was shared between the Company and the Board of Con trol, and when the time came for the consideration of reforms in this body he hopedthey would bring something like inure publicity to bear upon their proceedings— (hear, hear)—so that all might know how every proprie tor voted or acted on every question that came before him. Some such body as this was necessary, and h • hoped it would be retained in any change that might be Mr. LEWIN ram that ueiore - toetdwuri, uuusu ckmlis to a decision on the resolution, it was desirable it should know what course the Board of Directors meant to pursue The Cflaiumas'eald that it rested with the Court to iay wheWei they would proceed with the resolution, or adopt the petition of the directors. Mr. CEAWEJEIAT said he could not consent to withdraw his reiolutioa. He thought it would be better to ad journ, Red have the petition printed for the considera tion of the proprietors. . . The CHAIRMAN—I think it is too early to adjourn now. Several gentlemen rose to order and proposed an adjournment, in the midst of which Mr. Dickenson, who had been interrupted in addressing the meeting, said that if they would hear him he would tell them what the Government scheme was. Re stood on a form to address the proprietors, with his back to the chairman, for which he was called to order and informed it was not a meeting of railway shareholders. He proceeded to address the meeting, reading extracts from an article recently published in the Edinburgh Review on India, which he said might be taken as the view of the Govern. merit, as the work was edited by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Litwitr, by way of saving time, informed Mr. Dickenson that everybody read the Edinburgh .Revieui, but the hon. proprietor declined to take the hint. Mr. DICKENSON continued to read on, bat in such a heavy style, and so inaudible, that it was impossible to understand him, and a large number of proprietors left the Court and the hon. proprietor to the enjoyment of the Ediniurgh, Bevies.. He shortly after concluded, and announced to the Court that he should support the resolution. . Captain EASTWICK (a director)—The hon. director who bad left the court bad said that they ought to wait until they bad the details of the proposed measure before them before they proceeded to take any step against it. He thought they were already sufficiently acquainted *ith the basis of the measure, viz., the abolition of what was called the double government, which meant the abolition of all check on the absolute power of the minister in the Government of India. There was no necessity for wait ing for further information on that subject. Mr. LEWIN rose to order, and submitted that as they were in tact diicuzsing Mr. Orawshay's motion, it was out of order to deal with the subject of the petition. (" Ob," and cheers.) The CHAIRMAN having decided that the speaker Was in order, Captain EASTWICK resumed—l trust I may be per. mitted to offer a few observations on the important subject now under consideration. I am very glad that this opportunity has been afforded us of expressing our sentiments, anl I rejoice t.) think from the large attend. ance of the proprietors that the gravity and magnitude of the question are fully appreciated. There is no doubt in my mind that if the proprietors have anything to say, now is the time to make themselves heard throughout the country. I know it is the opinion of some that we ought to have waited until the details of the measure which the ministry intend to propose to Parliament are before us; but surely we know enough to justify us in taking our stand. We know t i h n at fa t c h t, the theb asis ei o t f in the i: o pr o• the . posed measure is the abolition of what is termed the mercantile and f organic factory change been 'every check up on the absolute will of an the insignificant m inisters, India which, d re u s b be l e e lanscesto g overnment, whs co th n e present nt system for power, governing of h ev is, con. v erted into a magnifice n t empire tha t ry has • as in ; system which has for a period of more than 70 years from time to time undergone the severest scrutiny and investigation, but still has been perpetuated by successive parliaments. No one can deny that it is anomalous—th at it h as disadvan tages which are lik ely to b e exaggerated by superficial observers ; but with all its anomalies with all its disad vantages, it ha s commended to the wisdom and ap proval s ome of our gr ea t es t s t atesmen, an d t h ere mus t be of counterbalancing advantages, or it never would have pa=sed untouched through so many searching ordeals. Four years have not elapsed since it was again renewed, and again ratified by parliament, after duo inquiry and investigation. It certainly, therefore, doesseem a strong measure to propose to abolish it without any inquiry, without any investigation. Let me not be misunder stood. Ido not for a moment assert that no improve ment can be made in the system. We live in an age of progress. We must advance, we cannot stand still. All our institutions must be adapted to an increasing intelli gence and enlarged experience. Many of those who have thought most deeply on the subject feel strongly that our government in India is still an experimental one. The late terrible events have demolished many theories and upset many preconceived ideas, and if tl.ey have taught any levon, it is more especially a lesson of caution and prudence in jumping hastily to con elusions about a cons ry and people concerning whose habits, customs, and feel ings we have clearly much to learn. There is no dcibt that great and radical changes must take place in our system of administration in India if we wish to preserve our empire. If it can be proved after proper investigation that the system of government at homehas,been the cants: of the defects that have been made paten t by the la troubles in India, or if it could be shown thate tbreereeeni: not sufficient vigour, sufficient vitality. in "' jib/ P o:a d, system to carry out the change:, on w to bi be no hesitation in required in India, then there oug P ersonal, PAM' emu rests pett.i; th eosoleum remodelling the system. . o comparison wi t h . ll fall into insignificance i ....a, I euppese few wi Ten. tone a question. .I 3 a nagement of affairs in so women if the in ture to assert that ev en LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY- EAST INDIA HOUSE, 20TH JAstuAirr, 1858. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDI3. COMPANY DO ITEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a Special General Court of the said Company will be held by ad journment, at their House, in Leadenhal -street, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th instant, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon for the purpose of continuing the consideration of the following roposed Resolution, which was moved at the .leneral Court, held on the 13th last, viz.:— " That the proposed tr +nsfer of the governing powers of the East India Company to the Crown is opposed to the rights and Privileges of the East India Company, is fraught with danger to the constitutional interests of England, is perilous to the safety of our Indian Empire, and cabs for the resist ance of the Corporation by all constitutional means." JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. f REAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- CHANNEL ISLANDS.—Tickets to Jersey and Guernsey, via Weymouth, are now issued at the Paddington Station, enabling passengers to break the journey at Chippenham, Dorchester, or Weymouth. Fares, Rail and Boat: 318. and 21s. 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For forms of proposal and prospectuses apply to ihe society's offices, 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars,E.C., and Surrey-street, Norwich. EAST INDIA COMPANY. [A portion of the following appeared in our late editibn of last evening :]— The adk)urned meeting of the proprietors for the con sideration of the resolution discussed last week, was held this morning. The meeting was also made special to consider the communication from Government and the Directors reply relating to the future government of India. Mr. Mangles, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, before proceeding with the debate, said the court had received an answer from her Majesty's Government to their communication, referred to at the last meeting, and with the permission of the court he directed the correspondence that had passed between her Majesty's Government and ►the Court of Directors, on the proposed change of Indian Government, to be read. (Hear, hear.) The fullowing lettere were then read by the Secre tary : " East India House, Dec. 31. "My Lord,—lt has been our duty to communicate to the Court of Directors and to the Court of Proprietors the intimation which your Lordship has made to us of the intention of her Majesty's Government to propose to Parliament a bill for the purpose of placing the govern ment of her Majesty's E et Indian dominions under the direct authority of the Crown. " The contemplated change involves of necessity the abolition, as an instrument of government, of the East India Company, the body by whom, and at whose sola expense, without any demand on the national exchequer, the British empire in India has been acquired and is maintained ; and, although the Court of Directors have not been furnished with information as to the grounds on which her Majesty's Ministers have arrived at their determination, or as to the details of the scheme by which it is proposed to supersede the existing Home Government of India, they nevertheles s f ee l it d ue t o themselves, and to the constituent body which they represent, to lose no time in offering a few observations which immediately suggest themselves ; and they are persuaded that a frank expression of their sentiments cannot be otherwise than acceptable to her Majesty's Ministers, in their further consideration of this impor tant t-ulject, " Ih;Court were prepared fo expect that a searching inquiry would be instituted into the causes—remote as well as immediate—of the mutiny in the Bengal native army. They have themselves issued instructions to the Government Of India ti appoint a commission, in view to finch an inquiry, and it would have been satisfactlry to them if it had been proposed to Parliament, not oily to do the samp ' but to extend the s co p e o f i nau j xy t o th r conduct of the R..— - fu MO pt pose of ascertaining whether the mutiny could, wholly or partially, be a , cribed to mismanagement on the part of the (3 urt acting under the carat.-1 of the Board of Commissioners. But it has surprised the Court to hear that her Majesty's Government, not imputing —so far as the Court are informed—any blame to the home authorities in connexion with the mutiny, and without intending any inquiry by Parliament, or awaiting be result of inquiry by the local government, should, even before the mutiny was quelled, and while consider able excitement prevailed throughout India, determine to propthe the immediate supercession of the authority of the East India Company, who are entitled at least to the cr.dit of having so administered the government of India that the heads of all the native States and the mass of the population, amid the excitement of a mutinous soldiery, inflamed by unfounded apprehensions of danger to their relicion, have remained true to the Company's rule. _ __ _ "The Court would fail in their duty to your Lordship and to the country if they did not txpress their serious apprehension that so important a change will be mis understood by the people t f India. The Court are by no means insensible to the value attached to the name of the Crown. But the company are already trustees for the Crown ; and the announcement of a great change in the ystem of government which has existed from the first moment of our possession of India is calculated to excite alarm, the more especially if inaugurated at a time when the Government on the spot finds it difficult to give free action to the retributive justice so emi ❑ently due to the guilty, without endangering the innocent, and also when public opinion in this country has been so excited as to press for the abandonment of the policy which the company have stric ly ob served of abstaining from a'l a►uthoritative interference with such of the religious customs and prejudices of the natives as are not abhorrent to humanity. " The Court submit that if any such change as that which your lordship has indicated be thought desirable it should bo introduced in a time of tranquillity, when the circumstancee of India and its population could be regarded without prejudice and with calm and deliberate consideration, and when It would not in the minds of the natives be directly connected with the recent calamitous events. " In approaching the question of the necessity of mak ing a change we are requested to state that the Court would most g l a dly co -operate with her Majesty's Go vernment in introducing any reforms into the existing system which might tend to greater simplification and promptitude with equal security. The Court have always sho ven themselves ready to acquiesce in any changes which were deemed likely to prove conducive to the general welfare, although such changes may have in volved impertant sacrifices to themselves. They need only refer to their partial relinquishment of trade is 1813; to its total abandonment, and the placing of tae Company's commercial charier in abeyance in 1833 ; to the ttan,ter then to India of a , l large commercial assets, and of their undoubted teiritorkl claims and rssessions; and more to the concurrence in the measure by which their body was nconstituted and reduced to its present number. Although four years have not yet elaped since the last change, yet the Court, animated by the same anxiety for ° the welfare of India, would be p-e. pared without a murmor to relinquish their trust alto .4ether, if satisfies; that a system could be 'devised better calculate than the present to advance the interests of the British empire there. They would, however, remark that in the inquiry width took place in 1852 and 1853, before tile iegisiatt,ll of the latter year, the question of the constitution and working of the Home Govern ment was thoroughly sifted and completely exhausted, and that ,therefore it was not unreasonable to expect that the arrangement of 1853 would have been subjected to the test of a more lengthened experience. "The details of the measure which her Majesty's Government have in contemplati on h ave not yet b een theT hgeoyvetrrnumstenthtabtyitmweialnlanoott b in e ac a l t e e k m o p o t a e , d n tt:o administer . a single functionary. Such a proposal would, in their judgment, involve a practical impossibility. Tne mars of business perpetually arising requires much knowledge, long experience, and a division of labour ; and so far as the Court can form an opinion the duties would not be safely discharged if subject only to the oheck of Parlia ment. " The Court are aware that the double government of the Company and the Board of Control is deemed to be objectionable ; but whatever may be its defeats, and although its working may be clogged by a control of all the details, so minute as hardly to have been contem plated I.y the Legislature, yet in its results they sincerely believe that the system, possessing, as it does, a moral check, works, on the whole, advantageously for India. The Court do not deny that the system is susceptible o f improvement, but they think it important to bear in mind that there can be no effective check without a second authority of some kind ; and further, that the objection which is tak en to the pri▪ nciple of double government is more nominal than real in the case of the Company, whose duties are rather those of a deliberative than of an executive body. " It is the opinion of the Court that an inter me di a t e , non-political, and perfectlyindependent body, in concur rence with her Majesty's Government, m• an indispensable necessity, without which there can be no adequate secu rity for good government ; and, as at present advised, the Court do not see that it wi ll be possible to form such a body if its members are to be wholly nominated by the Crown. They abstain, however, from offering any further observations to your Lordship, until they are placed i n possession of the details of the proposed measure, which they trust may be communicated to them at the earliest possible period.—We have, &c., " Ross D. 11 ANGLES, " F. CURRIE. "The Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, &c. " 94, Piccadilly , Jan. 18 . "Gentle men ,—I have had the honour of receiving your j , :int letter of the 31st December upon the subject of the measure which it is the intention of her Maje , ty's Government to propose with reference to the future system to be established fir the government of India ; and I beg to assure you. that the observations and opinions which you have therein expressed wilt be duly considered by her Majesty's Government. "I forb ear f ront entering at present i n t o an y exaini nation o f th ose ebservatious and opinions— fi rst, b ecause any correspondence with you on such matters would he most conveniently carried on through the usual official channel of the President of the India Bard; and, secondly, because the grounds on which the intentions of her M a j esty ' s Government have been formed, and the detailed arrangement s o f th e measure which they mean to propose, wilt best be explaihed when that measure shall be sub m it te d to the consideration of Patliamont. " I have the honour to be, gentlerne ,, , your obedient servant, "PALMBRSTON. "IL D. Mangles, Lei, • Sir Frederick Currie, &c." The reading o f th e letter wr i tten " on behal of the Company was f requently ieterrupted by app l ause. The CIIAIRDfAN th en sa i l that t h a t l e tt er did nu t represent all they had done. It was very clear that his lordship did not give them much infirmation in his reply. (A laugh,) The directors, however, had prepared a patio's to the Legislature against the measure; and if it were the wish of the Court to have it read, the directors were quite willing 4,0 indulge them in that respect. (Cries of " Read, read.") The SEORETART then read the .follow;ng petition : " To the eon. the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, "The bumble petition of the East India Company, " She s eth, —That your petitioners, at their own expense, and by the agency of their own civil and military servants, originally acquired for this country its magnificent eoipir e i n th e E ast. " That the foundati ons o f this empire were la id b y your petitioners, at that time neithtr aided nor controlled by Parliament, at the same period at which a succession of administrations under the c , Jztfrol of Parliament were losing to the Crown of Great Britain another great empire on the opposite side of the Atlsmtic. " That, during the period of about a century which has since elapsed, t he Indi an possessions t.f this country nave been governed and defended from the resources of those possessions, without the smallest cost ti the British exchequer, which, to the lest of your petitioners' knowledge and belief, cann ,, t be said of any other of the numerous foreign dependencies of the Crown. improper that the adminis oftra‘tiTonhatt being i aisyßri m tis a h nie p r o sy s t s l ession should be independent of the general government of the empire, Parliament provided in 1783 that a department of the Imperial Government should have full cogeizance of, and power of coatr 1 over, the acts of your petitioners in the administration of India ; since which time the home branch of the In , lian Government has been conducted by the joint counsels and on the joint respon-ibilitx of your petitioners and of a Minister of the Crown. " That this arrangement has at subsequent periods undergone reconsideration from the Legislature, and various comprehensive and careful Pat li amentary inquiries have been made into its practical operation ; the result of which has been, on each occasion, a renewed grant to your petitioners of the powers exercised by them in the administration of India. "That the last of these occasions was so recent as 1853, in which year the arrangements which had existed for nearly three-quarters of a century were, with certain modifications, re-enacted, and still subsist. "That, notwithstanding, your, petitioners have re ceived an intimation from her Majesty's Ministers of their intention to propose to Parliament a bill for the purpose of placing the government of her Majesty's East Indian dominions under the direct authority of the Crown, a change necessarily involving the abolition of the East India Company as an instrument of govern ment. " That your petitioners have not been informed of the reasons wnich have induced her Majesty's Ministers, without any preview; if.qW.ry, to come to the resolution of putting an end to a system of administration which Parliament, after inquiry, deliberately confirmed and sanctioned less than five years ago, aid which in its modified form has not been in operation quite four years, and cannot be considered to have undergone a sufficient trial during that snort period. "That your petitioners do not understand that her c — ia 'al rg ‘ e b , a , p ,s l . la , d o g itrr . a ng e nlYoeuui petitioners. But the time at which the proposal is made compels your petitioners to regard it as arising from the calamitous events which have recently occurred in India. "That your petitioners challenge the most searching investigation into the mutiny of the Bengel army, and the causes, whether re note or immediate, which pro duced that mutiny. They have instructed the Go vernment of India to appoint a commission for con ducting such au inquiry on the spot ; and it is their most anxious wish that a similar inquiry may be instituted in this country by your honourable house, in order that it may be ascertained whether any thing, either in the constitution of the Home Govern ment of India, or in the conduct of those by whom it has been administered, has had any 'Mare in producing the mutiny, or has in any way impeded the measures for its suppression ; and whether the mutiny itself, or any circumstance connected with it, affords any evidence of the failure of the arrangements under which India is at present administered. " That were it even true that these arrangements had failed, the failure could constitute no reason for divesting the East India Company of its functions, and transferring them to her Majesty's Government ; for under the existing system her Majesty's Government have the deciding voice. The duty imposed upon the Court of Directors is to origi nate measures and frame drafts of instructions. Even had they been remiss in this duty, this remissness, however discreditabl e t o themselves, coil ' ld in no way absolve the responsibility of her Majesty's Government , since the Mi nister fo r India poseesses, and has frequ en tly exercised, the power o f requiring that the Court of Directors should take any subject into consideration, and prepare a draft des patch for his approval. Her Majesty's Government are thus in the fullest sense accountable for all that has been done, and for all that has been forborne or omitted to be done. Your petitioners, on the other han d, ar e account able only i n so far as the act or omission has been pro moted by themselves, "That, u n d er these circumstances, i f t h e a d m i n i s t ra ti on of Indi a h a d b een a failure, it would, your petitioners submit, hav e b een somewhat unreaso nable to expect that a remedy wou l d be found in Annihilating t h e b ranc h o f th e ruling anthorit Which could not be the one pr i n ci p all y in fault, and m i g h t be altogether blameless, in order to con centrate all p owers in the branch which had nece s s ar ily the decisive s h are in every error real or supposed. To believe Y that the ad m inistration oflndia would have been more free from error if it, had been conducted by a Minister of the Crown, w ith out the aid of the Court o f Di rectors, would be t o b e li eve that the Minister, with f u ll power to govern Indi a as h e plcved , hasgoverned ill because he has g had the as s i s t ance of experienced and responsible ad visers. " That your petitioners however do not seek to vindicate themselves at the expense of any other authority ; they claim their full share of the responsibility of the manner in which India has been practically governed. That re sponsibility is to then not a subject of humiliation, but of pride. They are conscious that their advice and initiative have been, and have deserved to be, a great and potent element in the conduct of affairs in India. And they feel complete assurance that the more attention is bestowed, and the more light thrown upon India and its administra tion, the more evident it will become that the Government in which they have borne a part has been not only one of the purest in Intention, but one of the most beneficent in act, ever known among mankind ; that during the last, and present generation in particular, it has been in all dep trt ments one of the most rapidly improving Governments in the world ; and that at that !me when this change is pro posed a greater number a i mportant imprayements are in a s tate of more rapid progress than at aey former period ; and they are satisfied that whatever further improvements ma y be hereafter effected in ludia can only consist in the development of germs already planted, and in building on foundations already laid, und er their , authority, and in a great measure by their express instructions. " That such, however, is not the impression likely to be made on the public mind, eithe r in England or in India, by the ejection of your petitioners from the place they fill in the Indian Administration. It is not usual with states men to propose the complete a b o li tion of a system of go vernment of which the practical operation is not con demned, and it might be generally inferred from the pro posed measures, if carried into effect at the present time, that the East India Company havin g been entrusted with an important portion of the Administration of India, have so abused their tr ust a s to have prod uce d a sangu inary in surrection, and nearly lost India to the British empire ; and that, havi n g thus cro wned a lon g career o f misgovern ment, th e y have, in deference to pablio indignation, been deservedly cashiered for their misconduct. " That if the character of the East India Company were a l one c oncerned, your petitioners m i ght be willing to await the verdict of history. They are satisfied that posterity will do them justice. And the are confident tliat, even now, justice is done to them in the minds not onl of her Majesty's Ministers, but of all who have any claim to be compe t en t judges of the subject. B ut though your peti tioners could afford to wait for the reversal of the verdict of condemnation which will be believed throughout the world to have been passed on them and itheir government by the British na tion, y our petitioners cane it look without the deepest uneasiness at the effect likely to be produced on the minds of the people of India. To them—however in correctly the name may express the fact—the British G o vernment in India is the Government of the East India Company. To their minds the ab o liti on of t h e compan y, will for some time to come mean the abolition of the whole system of a dministration with whi c h the company i s iden tified. The measure introduced simultaneously with the in flux of an overwhelming British force, will be coincident with a general eatery, in itself most a l arm i ng t o th e i r f ea rs, from most of the organs of opinion in thi s coun t r y, a s well as of English opinion in India, denouncing the past policy ent on the express ground that it has of the government been too forbearing , and too consider a t e towards t h e na tives. The people of India will at first feel no certainty that the new Government, or the Government under a new name, which it is proposed to introduce, will bold itself bound 21, 1858. by the pledges of its predecessors. They will be slow to b Hey! that a Government has 'been destroyed, only to be followed by another which will act on the same principles, and adhere to the same measures. They cannot suppose that the existing organ of administration would be swept away without the intention of reversing any part of its policy. They will see the authorities both at home and in India, surrounded by persons vehemently urging radical changes in many parts of that policy; and interpreting, as they must do,the change in the instrument of government as a concession to these opinions and feelinc , s, they can hardly fail to believe that, whatever else may be intended, the Go vernment will no lunge, be permitted to observe that strict impartiality between those who profess its own creed end those who hold the creeds of its native subjects, which hitherto chacterised it ; that their strong es t an d mos t deeply root d feelings wil henceforth be treated with much less regard than heretofore ; and that a directly aggressive policy towards everything in their habits, or in their usages and customs, which Euglishmsn deem objection able, will no longer be confined to individuals and private associations, but will be backed by all the power of Government. " And here your petitioners think' it important to ob serve, that in - abstaining as they have lone from all inter ference with any of the religious practices of the people of India, except such aware abhorrent to humanity, they have acted not only from their own conviction of what is just and expedient, but in accordance with the avowed inten tions and express enactments of the Legislature, framed in order that regard should be bad to the civil and re ligious usages of the natives,' and also that suits, civil or criminal, against the natives' should be conducted accord ing to such rules as may accommodate the sumo to the religion and manners of the natives.' That their policy in this respect has been successful is evidenced by the fact that, during a military mutiny, said to have been caused by unfounded apprehensions of danger to religion, the heads of the native State and the masses of the population have remained faithful to the British Government. Your petitioners need hardly observe how very different would probably have been The issue of the late eventslf the native princes, instead of aiding in the repression of the rebellion, had put themselves at its head, or if the general popubtion had joined in the revolt; and how probable it is that both these contingencies would have occurred, if any real ground had been given for the persuasion that the British Govern ment iuteuded_tosidentify itself with proselytism ; and it is the honest conviction of your petitioners that any serious apprehension of a change of policy in this respect would he likely to be followed, at no distant period, by a general rising throughout India. " That your petitioners have seen with the greatest pain the demonstrations of in liscriminate animosity towards the natives of India on the part of our countrymen in India and at home, which have grown up since the late unhappy events. They believe these sentiments to be fundamen tally unjust; they know them to be fatal to the possibility of good government in India. They feel that if such de monstrations should continue, and especially if weight be added to them by legislating under their supposed influ ence, no amount of wisdom or forbearance on the part of the Government will avail to restore that confidence of the governed in the intentions of their rulers without which it is vain even to attempt the improvement of the people. " That your petitioners cannot contemplate without dis may, the doctrine now widely promulgated, that India should be administered with an especial view to the benefit of the English who reside there, or that in its administra tion any advantages should be sought for her Majesty's subjects of European birth, except that which they will necessarily derive from their superiority of intelligence, and from the increased prosperity of the people, the im provement of the productive resources of the country, and the extension of commercial intercourse. Your petitioners regard it as the most honourable characteristic of the go vernment of India by England, that it has acknowledged no such distinction as that of a dominant and a subject race, but has held that its first duty was to the people of India. Your petitioners feel that a great portion of the hostility with which they are assailed is caused by the be lief that they are peculiarly the guardians of this principle, Bed that, so long as they have any voice in the administra tion of India, it cannot easily be infringed ' • and your peti tioners will not conceal their belief that their exclusion from any part in the Government is likely, at the present time, to be regarded in India as a first successful attack on that principle. " That your petitioners, therefore, most earnestly repre sent to your honourable house that even if the contem plated change could be prove-i to be in itself advisable, the present is a most unsuitable time for entertaining it; and they most strongly and respectfully urge on your honour able house the expediency of at least deferring any such change until it can be effected at a period when it would not be, in the minds of the people of India, directly con nected with the recent calamitous events, and with the feel ings to which those events have either given rise or have afforded an opportunity of manifestation. Such postpone ment, your petitioners submit, would allow time for a more mature consideration than has yet been given, or can be given in the present excited state of the public mind, to the various questions connected with the organisation of a Government for India, and would enable the most comps. tent minds in the nation calmly to examine whether any now arrangement can be devised for the Home Govern ment of India uniting a greater number of the conditions of good administration than the present, and if so, which among the numerous schemes which have been or may be proposed possesses those requisites in the greatest degree. "That your petitioners have always willingly acquiesced in. WE chanereswhicheaftear eliscussien hr. P,arlie.rnegt. aurcal changes may have involved iniports.nt, sacrifices to them selves. They would refer to their partial relinquishment of trade in 1813; to its tosal abandonment, and the placing of their commercial charter in abeyance in 1833; to the trans fer to India of commercial assets, amounting to 15,858,0001., a sum greatly exceeding that ultimately repayable to them in respect of their capital, independent of territorial rights and claims; and to their concurrence, in 1851, in the aseasure by which the Court of Directors was reconstruct ed, sad reduced to its present number. In the same spirit, your petitioners would most gladly co-operate with her Majesty's Government in correcting any defects which may be considered to exist in the details of the present system ; and they would be prepared, without a murmur, to relin quish their trust altogether if a better system for the con trol of the Government of India can be devised. But as they believe that, in the construction of such a system, there are conditions which cannot, without the most dan gerous consequences, be departed from, your petitioners respectfully and deferentially submit to the judgment of your honourable house their view of those condi tions, in the hope that, if your honourable house should see reason to agree in that view, you will withhold your legislative sanction from any arrangement of the Govern ment of India which does not fulfil the conditions in ques tion in at least an equal degree with the present. "That your petitioners may venture to assume that it will not be proposed to vest the home portion of the admi nistration of India in a Minister of the Crown, without the adjunct of a Council composed of statesmen experienced in Indian affairs. Her Majesty's Ministers cannot but be aware that the knowledge necessary for governing a foreign country, and in particular a country like India, requires as much special study as any other profession, and cannot possibly be possessed by any one who has not devoted a considerable portion of his life to the acquisition of it. " That in constituting a body - of experienced advisers to be associated with the Indian Minister, your petitioners consider it indispensable to bear in mi n d that this body should not only be qualified to advise the Minister, but also, by its advice, to exercise, to a certain degree, a moral check. It cannot be expected that the Minister, as a gene ral rule, should himself know India ; while he will be ex posed to perpetual solicitations from individuals and bodies either entirely ignorant of that country, or knowing only enough of it to impose on those who know still less than themselves, and having very frequently objects in view other than the interests or good government of India. The influ ences likely to be brought to bearon him through the organs of popular opinion will, in the majority of cases, be equally misleading. The public opinion of England, itself neces sarily unacquainted with Indian affairs, can only follow the promptings of those who take most p sins to influence it ; and these will generally be such as have some private in terest to serve. It is, therefore, your petitioners submit, of the utmost importance that any council which may form a part of the Home Government of India should derive a suffi cient weight from its constitution, and from the relation it occupies to the Minister, to be a substantial barrier against those inroads of self-interest and ignorance in this country from which the Governmentof India has hitherto been com paratively free, but against which it would be too much to expect that Parliament should of itself afford a sufficient protection. " That your petitioners cannot well conceive a worse form of government for India than a Minister with a coun cil whom he should be at liberty to consult or not at his pleasure, or whose advice he should be able to disregard without giving his reasons in writing, and in a manner likely to carry conviction. Such an arrangement, your petitioners submit, would be really liable to the objections, in their opinion, erroneously urged against the present system. Your petitioners respectfully represent that any body of persons associated with the Minister, who is not check, will be a screen. Unless the council is so constituted as to be personally independent of the Minister; unless it feels itself responsible for recording an opinion on every Indian subject, and pressing that opinion on the Minister, whether it is agreeable to him or not; and unless the Minister, when he overrules their opinion, is bound to re cord his reasons, their existence will only serve to weaken his responsibility, and to give the colourable sanction of prudence and experience to measures in the framing of which those qualities have had no share. " That it would be vain to expect that a new council could have as much moral influence, and power of asserting its its opinion with effect, as the Court of Directors. body can no more succeed to the feelings and authority which their antiquity and their historical antecedents gv to the Esst India Company, than a Legislature,under a new name, sitting in Westminster , would have the moral One of ascendancy of the Houses of Lor ds and Commons. the most important elemen ts o f usefulness will thus be nec e ssarily wanting in any newly - constituted India' coun cil, as compared with the present. " That your petitioners find it difficulttocowncbeiievbe that the same independence, in judgment and act, cha racterises the Court of Directors, will be found in any cou ncil all of whose members are nomina ted by themCarnoywnnf. Owing their nomination to the same authority, them probably to the same individual MinistelOnrwehm are appointed to check, and looking to him e reappointment, their desire of reco m mending themselvestthheeithey to him, and their unwillingness to riskwihnisbdeispraleeatisvueree too any serious resistance to his wishes, strong not to be in danger of exercising powerful and in jurious influence over their conduct . Nor are your peti- tioners aware of any mode in which that conferring theninsinfluence could be guarded against, except by ap pointments, like those of the Judges, during good be haviour ; which, by rende rin g it impossible to correct an error once committed, would be seriously objectionable. " That your petitioners are equally unable to pe rce i ve how, if the controlli n g body is entirely nominated by the Minister, that happy independence of parliamentary and party influence which has hitherto distinguished the ad ministration of India, and the appointment to situations of trnst and importance in that country, can be expected to continue. Your petitioners believe that in no government known to history have appointments to offices, and especi ally to high offices , been so rarely bestow e d on any other considerations than those of personal fitness. This charac teristic, but for which in all probabilit y I nd i a would longsince have been boat to this country, is, your petitioners ~~~~ ~~ , 4~ r. 11 oi) it IC r