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AN ACT OF GRATITUDE.-5,000 C op i es o f a Medical Book for Gratuito ns Ci rcu l at i on.—GEOßGE THOMAS , Esq., having been effectually cured of nervous debility, loss of memory, and dimness of sight, *c.r. - illing from the early errors of youth, by following the instructions given in a Medical Work by a Physician, he considers it his duty, in gratitude to the author, and for the benefit of nervous sufferers; to publish the means used. He will therefore send tree, to any allress, in a sealed envelope, on receipt of a direct ed envelope enclosing two stamps, to pre-pay postage, a copy of the medical avoik containtng every information required. Address, G. I___ Thoenas, Esq. Craven House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. TH SECKKT INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY Just published, prise 14 post tree, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION. —A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System. and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, restdtine from vicious 'habits acquired during the critical passage from youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Physiology o , Mar t riage In its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life,' and its advantages in detecting, by nrinaryexamination. the cause and effect of every variety of these nmplaints, with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary r Member of thg London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. 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COMPANY DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, .That a hpecial General Court of the said Company will be held t 7 ad journment, at their House, in Leadenhali-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th instant, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon for the purpose of continuing the consideration of the following roposed Resolutioß, which was moved at the i/eneral Court, held on the 13th hist, viz.:— " That the proposed tr , nsfer of the goventing'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. GREAT 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. 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Annuities and special risks undertaken on favourable terms. For forms ofproposal and prospectuses apply to the society's offices, G, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, E.C., and Surrey-street, Norwich. EAST INDIA COMPANY. [A portion of the following appeared in our late edititou of last evening :]— The adjourned meeting of the proprietors for the con .,idera,tion of the resolution discussed last week, was held this morning. The meeting was also made special to conLider 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 CIIAIRMAN, 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 following lettere were then read by the Seere- I ary : " East India House, Dec. 31. "My Lord,—lt has been our duty to communicate to the Court pf 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 at 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 sole 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 nevertheless feel it dui to 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 iu3por taut subject. " lheCourt were prepared to 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 instruction-4 to the Government of India to appoint a co.nmission, in view to such an inquiry, and it would have been satisfactory to them if it had been proposed to Parliament, nut only to do the same, but to extend the scope of inquiry to the conduct of the Home Government, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the mutiny could, wholly or partially, be ascribed to mismanagement on the part of the C turt acting under the control 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 he result of inquiry by the local government, should, even before the mutiny was quelled, and while consider able excitement prevailed throughout India, determine to propo>e the immediate supercession of the authority of the Cast India Company, who are entitled at Last to the en- 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 reli ion, 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 mie under-tood by the people c,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 e,t.pecially if inaugurated at a time when the Government on the spot finds it difficult to give free action to the retributive justice so emi nently due to the guilty, without endangering the innocent, and also when public opinion in this country has been so exciter as to press for the abandonment of the policy which the company have stric ly ob served of abstaining from all authoritative 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 be introduced in a time of tranquillity, when the crcurostances of India and its population could be regarded without prejudice and with calm and deliberate consideratiou, 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 gladly co-operate with her Majesty's Go verianeht in introducing any reforms into the existing system which might tend to greater simplification and promptitude with equal security. The Court have always shown 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 venial relinquishment of trade in 1813; to its total abandonment, and the placing of the Company's commercial charter in abeyance in 1833 ; to the transfer then to India of all large commercial assets, and of their undoubted ttoritorN claims and possessions; and more lvely to the concurrence in the measure by which their body was reconstituted and reduced to its present number. Although four years have not yet elapsed since the last change, yet the Court, animated by the same anxiety for the welfare of Lidia, would be re pared wit,h , mt a murmur to relinquish *heir trust alto gether, if satisfied 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 which took place in 1852 and 1853, before the legislation 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 wse not unreasonable to expect that the arrangement of 1853 would have been subjeutd to Vie test of a more lengthened experience. " The details of the measure which her Majesty's Government have in contemplation have not yet been made known to . the Curt. Tney trust that it will not be at'.erupted to administer the goverum.nt by means of a single functionary. Such a proposal would, in their judgment, involve a practical impossibility. Th e mass of business perpetually arising requires much knowledge, long experience, and a division of labour ; and so far al the Court can form an opinion the duties would not be safely discharged if subject only to the check of Parlia ment. " The Court are aware that the double government of the Company and the Boar i of Control is deemed to be objectionable ; but whatever may be its defects, and although its working may clogged by a control of all the detail, so minute as hardly to have been contem plated hy 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 of 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 taken to the principle 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 intermediate, non-political, and perfectly independent body, in concur rence with her Majesty's Government, man indispensable necessity, without which there can be no adequate secu try for good government ; and, as at present advised, the Court do not see that it will 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 in ' possession of the det§ils of the proposed measure, which JANUARY 21, 1858. they trust may be communicated to them at the earliest possible period.—W e have, &c., " Rolp D. MVTGLICII, " F Omuta. " The Right Eton. Viscount Palmerston, KG., &c, • " Gentlemen,— "`d 4 , Piccadilly, Jan. 18 . your jeint letter o f th e -31 st Decem ber upon I have hrd the honour 'of receiving the subject of the m easure w hi ch it is the intention of her Majesty's Government t o propose with reference t o th e f u t ure system t o b e established for:the government o f I nd i a ; and b eg to assure y ou , th a t the observations and opinion s w hi c h you have therein expressed wi l l b e d u l y onions 7 —first, because considered b y h er M ajesty ' s Government. " Eforb ear f rom entering at. present into any exarn i • nation of th ose o b eervatioes arid pi any correspo n d en C e w ith you on su ch matters would be most conv en i ent l y carried on through the usua l o ffi c i a l channel of th e P iee id ent of the I n di a B otr d ; an d, eecondle, brea the th e groundS on w hi c h th e int e ntions of her Majesty's Governmeue,have been formed, awl the detailed arrangements of the inevure whieji they mean to proposes, will best be explained when that measure "I have th e h onour to beentlene: shall be su b m i t , e d to the eoneoleration of Pailiament. servail, , g ''PALMERSTON. , your obedient "R. D. Mangles, Eeq. "Sir Frederick Currie, kc." The reading of the letter written on belial of the CoMpany was frequently interrupted by app lause ' Tne CIIAIRUAN then sail that that letter did not represent all they bad &bile. It was very clear that his lordship d i d not give them e milli inf"rnOtion in his reply, (A. laugh.) The director..,however, had prepared a petition to th e L eg i s l a t ure against the measure; an d if it were ;The wish of the Court to have it read, the directors were quite willing to indulge them in that respect. (Cries of " Read, read.") The SECRETARY then read the following petition : " To the Hon. the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, " The humble petition of the East India Company, " She eetb, —That your petitioners, at their own expense, and by the agency of their own civil and military servants, originally acquired f or this country its magnificent eoipire in the B est. " Tuat the foundati ons o f t h is empire were laid b y your petitioners, at that time neither aided nor controlled by Parliament, at the same period at which a successi.,n of administrations under the c mere]: of Parliament were losing to the Crown of Great Britain another great empire on the opposite side of the Atlantic. " That, during the period of about a century which has since elapsed, the Indian posseesione of this country nave been governed and defended from the resources of those possessions, without the smallest cost t the British exchequer, which, to the Lest of your petitioners' knowledge and belief, cannot be said of any other of the numerous foreign dependen c i es o f the Crown. "That it being manifestly imp roper that the adininis tratiun of any British possessio n s h ould be independent of the ge ne r a l g overnment of th e empire, Parliament provided in 1783 that a department of the Imperial Government should hate full cegeizence 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 Indian Government has been conducted by the joint counsels and on the joint reoponeibility of your petitioners and of a Minister of the Crown. " That this arrangement bas at subsequent periods undergone reconsiderkvion liorn the Legislature, and various comprehensive and careful Pat li ementary 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 thee occasiono was so recent as 1853, in which year the arramg,ernents which bad t-xisted for neatly three-quarttra of a century were, with certain till subsist. petitioners ha v e re eme eT i d fi h c aa a nf t t i o i n n n s ot , itmw r n L a t t e t nt frothed , ning a ,nhdye hander Majesty's Ministers of their itrenion to propose to Parliament a bill for the purpose of placing the government of her Majesty's East lodian 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 reteons which have induced her Majesty's Ministers, without any previous inquiry, to come to the resolution of putting an end to a system of administration which Parliament, after inquiry, ddiherately confirtufd and sanctioned less than five years ago, and which in its modified fora► has not been in op ration 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 Majesty's Ministers impute any failure to thosearrange mon+ s, or bring any charge, either great or small,against your petitioners. But the time at which the proposal is made compels your petitioner! to regard. it as arising from the calamitous events which have recently occurred in India. e tb ß e e umgnisit army, searchingry, and investigation your into oet t i h t i i e on n 7 n rs ti nytit ‘‘challengeth the causes, whether reeiote or immediate, duced that mutiny, They have instructed the Ge• swimsuit of India to appoint a commission for con ducing such an inquiry . on the sleet ; and it is their most anxious wish that instituted in this hat a similar inquiry may toe country by your honourable house, in order that it may . be ascertained - hether any thing, eith e r ;n the meat of India, or in en. constitution of the Home Govern the conduct of these by whoa it has been administered, mutiny, or h as in had any share in producing the suppression ; and an y way impeded the measures for its whether the mutiny itself, or any circumstance connected with it, affords any evidence of the failure of the arrangementsunder which India is at presen ' administered "That were it failed, th e failure even true th a t th e se arrangements had the East India could constitute no reason for divesting Company of it s f unc ti on s an d transferring them to her Majesty's system her Majesty' s The duty Govern men t h a ve the deciding voice. nate measures imposedand upon the Court of Directors is to origi nate been remiss • frame drafts of instructions. Even had discreditabl e to then this duty, this remissness, however responsibility of inselves, could in no way absolve the nister for India pos sesses , her Maje s ty' s G overnme nt, since the Mi power of req u i r i n and has frequently exer cised, the any subject into g that the C our t o f Directors should take conside ra ti on, an d p re p a re a draft des patch for his approval. Her Majesty's Government are sense accountable for all that has been done, and f or all that h done. Your as been forborne or omitted to be only in so far petitioners, on the other hand, are account ablemoted by themselvaess the act or omission has been pro " That' , under these • of India had been circumstances, if the a dministration submit, have been a failure, it would, your petitioners a remedy would erewhat unreasonable to expect that ruling authority whi c h i rd in annihilating the branch of the could not be the one principally in fault, and mi g ht b e al together blameless, in order to con centrate all p owers in decisive share i n eve the b ranc h w hi c h had necessarily the that the ry error, real or supposed. To believe administration of I n di a wou ld have been more free from error if it had b een con d ucte d b y a Minister of the Crown, without the aid o f th e C our t of Directors, would be to believe that the Mi n i s t er , w ith full power to govern India as h e pl ( is ead, h as governe d ill b e cause he has had the assistance of visors. exp er i ence d an d res ponsible ad " That your petitioners themselves at the x however do not seek to vindicate claim their full share expense of a n y o th er a uthority ; they in which India has f the responsibility of the manner sponsibility is to there been practi ca lly gover ned. That re pride. They are not a subj ec t o f h um iliation, but of have been, and haveconsciousdeserved that th e i r a d v i ce and initiative eg o e f rved to be, a great and potent element in the c on d uct complete assuran ce th at th'ffairs i n India. And they feel and the more light thrown 0 more a tt en ti on is bestowed, 7 Pen India and its administra tion, the more evident it wil be in which they have borne a pa that the Government the purest in Intention, but one act, ever known among mankind ef the mos t b e neficent in present generation in particular,..that during the last, and ments one of the most rapidly kelt! has . been in all depart the world ; and that at that line ' rovi ng Governments in Wh en • I posed a greater number of important this change is pro -1 a state of more rapid progress tha imprqeements are in and they are satisfied that what ee n er at any former period ; may be hereafter effected in 'edits- further improvements development of germs already , l can only consist in the o foundations already laid, mid' anted, and in building er their a • a ll great measure by their exp re „i n , t . authority, and in " That such, however, is not th e • ructions. made on the public mind, either ihineression likely to be by the ejection of your petitioners ngland or in India, in the Indian Administration. It fromin the place they fill men to propose the complete abolitionot usual with states vernment of which the practioal o n o f a system of go damned, and it might be generally i peration is not con posed. measures, if carri,-d into effect at from the pro that the East India Company having , the present time, an important portion of the A e h n i nt 7sen entrusted with so abused their trust as to have prod ration of India, have surrection, and nearly lost India toeeed a sanguinary bl and that, having thus crowned a lon the British empire; meat, they have, in deference to pudicoareer of misgovern deservedly cashiered for their misconduct,indignation, been "That if the character of the East alone concerned, your petitioners might India Company were the verdict of history. They are satie l'e willing to await will do them justice. And they are confident ed that posterity now, justice is done to them in the minds that, even Majesty's Ministers, but of all who have not onl \ of her competent judges of the subject. But though any claim to be peti tioners could afford to wait for the reversalough your of condemnation which will be believed of the verdict world tohave been passed on them end throughout the . . ,their government by the British nation, your petitioners cannot look without the deepest uneasiness at the effect likely the minds of the people of India. To ~ b, to be produced on correctly the name may express the fact lc however in correctly British G 0- vernment in India is the Government of the East India Comp a ny. To their mind s the abolition of the company, will for some time to come mean the abolition of the whole system of administration with which the company is iden tified. The measure introduced simultaneously with the in flux of an overwhelming British fo rce, will be coincident with a general eatery, in itself most alarmin g to from most of the organs of o p inion in this country,their fears, as well as of English opinion in India 1, ' eneeeeing the past policy of the Government on the express ground that it has been too forbearing, and too considerate towards the nati • ves. 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, wiu h ol d awl boned J, bar. by the pledges of its predecessors. They will be slow to lie have that a Government has been deetroyed, 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 et 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 instrumen t ofgovernment al a concession to these opinions and feelinee, they can hardly fail to believe that, whatever else may be inericle•l, the Go vernment will no lone• b e, be permitted t o o b serve that s t r i ct impartiality between those who profess its own creed and those who hold the creeds of its native subjects, which hitherto chacterisid if - that their strongest and most deeply rooted feelings will, henceforth be treated with much less regard thin heretofore ; and that a 'directly aggressive policy towards everything in their habits, or in their usgges and customs, which Euglisbus , n deem objection able, will no longer be confined to individuals and private ass , ciations, but will be banked by all the power of Government. '`And h re your petitioners'think it ielP , rtant to oh: serve, that in abstaining as they have done from all ingsr ference with any of the religious practice's - of the people of India, except such' as are abhorrent to humanity, they have acted not only from their , ewn conviction of what is just and expedient, but iu accordance with-the avowed inten tions and express enactments of the" Legislature, framed, 'in order that regard should be had to the civil and 're= ligious usages of the natives,' and also that suits, civil-or, criminal, against the natives' should be cdeducted adeord-' ing to such rules 'as may accommodate the same to .the religion and manners of the natives.' That their policy'in this respect has been successful by the fact that, during a military inutiny,,said to have been caused by unfounded apprehensinOalf 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 events if the native princes, instead pf aiding in the repression of the rebellion, had put themselves at its head, or if the general population had joined in the revolt; aud - how probable it is that both these contingencies would have occurred - if any real ground had been given for the persuasioit that tho'British Govern ment intended to identify itself - with proselytism ; and it is the honest conviction of your petitioners tint any serious apprehension of a change of policy in this respect would be likely to ba followed, at no distant period, by a general rising throughout India. " That your petitioners have seen with the greatest pain the demonstrations of indiscriminate 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 char tcteristic of the go vernment of India by England, that it has acknowledged no such distinction as that of a dotninent and a subject race, but has held that its first duty was to the people of India. Your petitioners feel that a groat portion of the hostility with which they are assailed is caused by the be lief that they are peculiarly the guardians of this principle, d 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 he India as a first successful attack ou that principle. . . " That your petitioners, therefore, most earnestly repre sent to your honourable house that even if the contem plated change could be prove f to be in itself ad visable, 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 :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 comp& tent minas in the nation calmly to examine whether any new 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 any change which, after discussion by Parliament, were deemed conducive to the general welfare, although such changes may have involved important 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 15,8.58,000/., 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 1351, in the measure by which the Court of Direstors was reconstruct ed, and 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. Bat 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 foreig n country, and in particular a country like India, requires as much special study as any other profession, and cannot poslibly 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 mind 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 lie 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 bear on hi m 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 tins 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 theGovernmentof 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 coup- cif 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 persona associated with the Minister, who is not a 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 opinion with effect, as the Court of Directors. A new body can no more succeed to the feelings and authority which their antiquity and their historical antecedents give to the East India Company, than a Legislature, under a new name, sitting in Westminster, would have the moral ascendancy of the Houses of Lords an d Commo n s. One of the most important elements of usefulness 11 . thus be necessarily wanting in any newly-constituted n coun cil, as compared with the present. " That your petitioners find it difficult to conceive that the same independence, in judgment and act, which cha racterises the Court of Directors , wi ll be found in any council all of whose members are nomina ted by the Crown. Owing their nomination to the same authority, many of them probably to the same individual Mi nister whom they are appointed to cheek, and looking to him alone for their reappointment, their desire of recommending themselves to him, and their unwillingness to risk his displeasure by any his serious resistance to wishes, will be motives too strong not to be in danger of exercising a powerful and in jurious - influence over their conduct. tioners aware of any mode in whichth Nor are your yeti at injurious influence could be guarded against, like those of the judges, by teenferring the ap pointments,haviour; which, by rendering it im possible during good be haviour; to correct an error once committed, would be seriously l objectionable. " That your petitioners are i perceiveequtailreylyuannamblientaotecibythe how, if the controlling body ! en Minister, that happy independence of parliamentary and party influence which has hitherto thhiethaeprtpooidniteratienngtubietsoheexicilpiteutchat te e i d oa ministration of India, a of trust and importance in that Country, c an to continue. Your petitioners believe that in no government known to history have appointments to offices, and especi ally to high offices, been ao rarely bestowed on any other considerations than those of personal fitness. This charac teristic, but for which in all probability India would long since have been lost to this country, is, your petitioners, P RIOR 4U, STAMPED s'l 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 consequenty the appointments to offices in ju dgment of have been, as a rule, loft 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 politic:l considerations, and in a large proportion on the relatives of persons who had distinguished themselves by their services in India. " That your p e titi oners th ere f ore think it essential that at least a majority o f t h e counc il w hi c h ass ists the Minister for India with its advice, should hold their seats indepen dently of its appointment. " That it is, in the opinion of your petitioners, no less necessary that the order of the transaction of busiuese should be su c h as t o ma k e the part i c i ea.t i on o f t h e counci l in the administr a ti on o f I n di a a su b s t an ti a l one . Th a t to this end it is in the opinion of your petitioners, indispen sable that the despatches to India should not be prepared by the Minister and laid before the council, but should be prepared by the council and submitted to the Minister. This would be in accordance with the natural and °twines pr:umple, that persons, chosen for their knowledge of a e e loeet, should suggest the mode of dealing with it, instead of merely giving their opinion on sugeestions coming from elsee here. This is also the only mode in which the mem here of the council can feel themselves sufficiently impel-- tent, 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 required to propose, than by merely being called on to assent. The Minister has necessarily the ultimate decision. If be his also the initiative, he has all the powers which are of any practical moment. 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 in conducting the Government of India was not really desired ; that they were only felt as a clog on the wheels of business. Their criticism on what had been decided, without tEeir being collectively consulted, would be felt as importunate, as a mere delay and impediment ; and their office would probably be seldom sought, but by those who were willing to allow its most important duties to become nominal. "That, with the duty of preparing the despatches to India, would naturally be combined the nomination and control of the home establishments. 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 turd 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 a 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 revenueexperieno u, 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 Punj aub, 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 the possibility that, if the nomination takes place by Ministers at the head of a political party, it will not always be =do with exclusive reference to personal qualifications ; and it is indispena able to provide that such errors or faults in the nomirwing authority, so long as they are only occasional, shall not seriously impair the efficiency of the body. " That while these consideration:: plead strongly for a bo ly not less numerous than the present, even if only re garded as advisers of the Ministry ; that their office, as a check on the Minister, forms, your petitioners submit, a ❑o less forcible objection to any sousiderable reduction of the present number. A body of 6or 8 will not be equal to one 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 the desire to stand up for their convictions. " That if, in tbeopinion of your honourable house, a body can be constituted which unites the above enumerated re quisites of good government, in a greater degree than the Court of Dii actors, your petitioner, have only to express their humble hope that your endeavours for that purpose may be succesaful. 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 present system, tkeu your petitioners pray that your honourable house will continue the existing powers of the Court of Directors. " That your petitioners are aware that the present Home Government of India is reproached with being a double goveroment, 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 mis conception of the functions devolving on the Home Govern inent of India, and in the application to it of the principles applicable to purely executive departments. The Executive Government of India is, and must be, seated in India itself. The 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 Indian 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. Those duties are more analogue to tholfunctions of Parliament, than to those 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 func tion of passing a deliberate opinion on past measures, mil 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 ditty. " 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 Pre:4 lent of the Board of Commissioners, who is the Minister for India, is as completely responsible as any other of her Majesty's Ministers, and, in 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 lone. No more than this, your petitioners would submit, can be known in the case of th e h ea d o f an y d e p ar t m eLt of her Majesty's Government. For it is not, nor can it rationally be sup posed, that any Minister of the Crown is without trusted advisers ; and the Minister for India must, for obvious reasons, be more dependent than any other of her Ma -1 jesty's Ministers, upon the advice of persons whose lives have been devoted to the subject on which their a dvice has been given. But in the case of Julia, such advises are as gigged to him by the constitution of the Government, and they are as much responsible for what they advise, as he for what ho ordains; while, in other departments, the Minister's only official advisers are the subordinates iu 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 cane,: 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 knowing the 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 its 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 the constitu tion of the Indian Government during the c ontinuance of the present unhappy disturbances, nor without a claim, o not n full pre vious inquiry into the operation of the present inquiry may m. ra i And your petitioners further pray, that t his extend to every department of Indian administration. Such an inquiry your petitioners respectfully only as a matter of justice to them selves, but becaus e when, for the first time in this century, the thoughts o f every public man in the country are fixed on India, an i n . 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. JONRE3 resumed the debate, observing that many of his arguments and opinions had been anticipated by the petition just read. (Rear,hear.) thlat mis apprehensionthe very generally p revailed dividends of the East India proprietors were in creased by conquests, but were they to double the revenue of that country the proprietors would not get a farthing of increase of dividen l and East India proprietor s h a d no interest in the aggrandisement of India. (R ear, bear.) He denied th a t th e eompan y h a d disopur age d Christianity in India, and referred to many facts and circumstances in support of his statement. The obstruction to religion 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 of 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 ld. per head per day. That India was in an Advancing position was shown by the 'Tr f r if -rif Tr I IT, Io r s ii V IC ;Pr TlT'm r/i o r, le .o_ of T~! Y fir- - '" ~ ~3 _ • 7:<;=, _ Vf- i;;tom progress of the re l a ti ve holdings V" natives of the public debt. In 1834'1je) e 2 0,439,8701., and Latises 7,225,3651. ; last returns, Europeans held 21,931,0001., lid natives ;') 12 ,000,000/. (Hear, bear.) He then referred to the public works that had been carried out in India since the establAment of the Eeet 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, bear, hear.) Questions relative to India were freely and properly considered in that Court, and he defied them to find a larger amount of Indian experience in any past of the world, save in India, than was to be found at that board, and he bad heard that in the pro posed change those men were to be called upon to form the Indian Beard. (Hear, hear.) He was of opinion that they would discover the antagonism of E ng . 'and if they gave to the holders of 1001. stock the privileges of voting that were possessed exclusively by the holders of 1,000/. stock. He extolled the administration of the Councils which lied produced the most brilliant warriors and admirable sta!esmen e When they had revolt in Canada, the Cape, Ceylon, and other 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 Eastern war it was the Company's officer, Lieutenant Bad , r. that turned hack the Ru miens ; and, at Kars, there was C-dots 1 Lek teed Captain Thompson, the Company's officers, who were the Imams of saving the earri,on when they were neglected by the home Government. (Hear, hear.) He contrasted such men wi h Colonel Anson, who was appointed to the command of the ledian army, 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 he 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 Pa.lmereton's conduct with reference to India, during the time he hal been in powe-. His appointment of Governors- General bad been most unfortunate, and his whole aim had been annexation. He appeared to entertain with re ;art] Lo India a similar notion to that of Napoleon r. for bringing the whole of Europe under one rule. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, be reviewed the government of the East India C .mpany, which, as a whole, had been a 'vantageous 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 his duty. (Hear, hear.) --Sir LAWRENCE PEEL (director) said that he bad no t.oitility to the Government or any other leading party. The question 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 Lelia 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 s nue 10,000 Christians. He had heard with paler—be might .ay with disgust—the state ments that ha c i been put forth that this revolt was a ju Iginent frord 'Heaven for the wicked lives of our people i,l India—(h4r)--iTod he raised his voice in vindication of their character. - Itkferring to General Anson, he said that up to thii time of his (Sir L Peel's) leaving India, General Anson well, cettsidered to have performed his duties well, and tie a-ice'd the people of England not to afflict the family of a deceased soldier by making him the scapegoat for a calamity for which he was not liable. (fl,ar, hear.) With regard to the political bearing of the question, he said that he 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 ! oh !) If the proposed change in are. way contemplated interfering with what be considered the just rights of the East India Company, be should say that he should object 'o any such change unless he had a reasonahle assurance that the thing to be substituted for that which existed would work better than that he was about to give up. (Hear, hear.) Re had hot heard yet any scheme proposed that would give him the reasonable assurance that it would so work. A. well-considered scheme, that would cause the Board of Control to work with the Company with more celerity and sincerity, 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 thin body he hoped they would bring something like more 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 he hoped it would be retained in any change that might be made by the Government. (Hear, hear.) Mr. 'Amer said that before the Court could come to a decision on the resolution, it was desirable it should know what course the Board of Directors meant topuritue The CUAIRMAN said that it rested with the Court to eay whether they would proceed with the resolution, or adopt the petition of the directors. Mr. CHAMBRAY said he could not consent to withdraw his resolution. lie thought it would be better to ad journ, and have the petition printed for the oonsidera tion of the proprietors. The CHAIRMiN-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. He 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. ment, as the work was edited by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. LEWIN, by way of saving time, informed Mr. Dickenson that everybody read the Edinburgh Review, but the hon. proprietor declined to take the hint. Mr. DICKENSON continued to read on, but in such a heavy style, and so inaudible, that it was impossible to und,-rstand him, and a large number of proprietors left the Court and the hon. proprietor to the enjoyment of the Edinburgh, Review. He shortly after concluded, and announced to the Court that he should support the resolution. Captain EASTWICIC (a director)—The hon. director a ho had left the court bad said that they ought to wait until they had the details of the proposed measure before them stepy tyaacgqauianiantteitd. He thought t h t e h y ey pr w oc e e re ed a e l d re t a o dy ta s k u e fa a c n ieyn with 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 in.,' for further information on th a t su bj ect. Mr. LEWrN rose to order, and submitted that as they were in fact diicuising Mr. Crawshay'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 crder, 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 oar sentiments, and I rejoice t i 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 tbern.elves 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 that the e l: a o s n i s t t changeo: the abiseol tuhtee pro posed measure is the abolition of what is termed the double government, which is, in fact, the extinction of the balance of power, of eneralearanynticlhoereck that system under empiren d factory a ft e n t ui o ry has been con vpwweriirlel of it l sceehdn, t jansa t ty l is e ntase ministers, imgmnifaftoacr naginaot: mercantile governing ng that system which has for a period of more than 70 years from time to time undergone the severest scrutiny and investigation, but still ban been perpetuated by successive parliament s . No one ob s observers r d s e ; bu t n y t h a w t i i t t h i s all a n tages which a re lik e l y to b e ai"B—that it ha s disadvan vantages, it has commend ed ietxsealgfgteortahteedwibsdyo superficial it eul s anymaties, with a ll it s disad proval of some of our greatest statesmen, and there must be counterbalancing advantages, or it never would have passed unto uc h e d t h rough so many searching ordeals. Four years have not elapsed since it was again renewed, and again ratified by parliament, after due 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 teirible events have demolished many theories and upset many preconceived ideas, and if they have taught any lesson, it is more especially a lesson of caution and prudence in jumping hastily to oonclueione about &noun' ry and people concerning whose habits, customs, and feel ings we have clearly much to learn. There is no dcnbt 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 home haebeen the cause of the defects that have been made patent by the la: troubles in India, or if it could be show n that there:e 4 not sufficient vigour, suffi c i en t vitality in re tt i F o l lu a y system to carry out the changes o hi:_ hs no b ee it a tion in required iu Innis, then the re ought t w , ersona,, party Late rison e e in oonapa rests fail into inaig i nfioan I supposefew will vin. sosolemn so mo mentous a qu estion. Bu t if t h e ma nagement of affaire fa tore to assert tha t Wren T 7 remodelling the syste m . All petty, p with - t .414 r-$ -W4 4 % 4:7; t .4 ,~ r