The Sun. — London, England, 1852-04-20 00:00:00

THE SUN > fi()N (-)(1-N dde (si r 4. sshat ett.... . . , . . . themsel ves s t a t e d, f o r the exit!' ess nurpoee _of laying i agricultural improvement. Ia the north-west of India, , tion zu the princiPle, anti that teeintser WaS hound e te tehttt which I trust ar e , as thp, ton do est sum comp e ted - to their grievenees before Parham la• But oheerve, these where M r . Bi r d' s settlement was established in 1842, ; _nssi,go his reatione- for. reeking such alteration. m att Ynt derive.—(Elear.) Well, we have de ne gentle neee did not as k ! h a t aRe yel Ceministien ehould the syst em b at e wor ktd so well and hal proved so hene- J. ilogg)need nee poiet out hew cennp'e to a. protdctiou 'this tvittiout i - whhfeidnet With this religietie fi , elings of the bit sent out—so far from that, t !tee said they were per- ' I'lo4l to the country, than the B .oabey Goreriouent, mete things were aettintt any improvidence, any hade, I : op!". i A 'ere have taken care that those who belong to fetttly w ini ng an d a en, 7 0 lay mein . grievaticee before thir,.! wete now introducing it into their men pietidency.-- • or any impropriety . ote the part ef • th. Bgerd.cf-Direcej tiltwEiertopnnti reed tlittiil.l lilidwite hdee 4iii , uql in - struc- Heins°, awl in order that the Hens 9 might see the rondo i (Hear, hear.) The .1 - fon- Mtdutier fer YougOal h a d ,i so ' dar n of which Mill wits the Practiee, aexe - t from the pros 'ztionitiodi enlighteettienttn--( de da heart) We have done - . t c ,in qi - - ....'• in which they proposed to do so, I e vvould read a sliert ' laid great stres3 upon the o l den!: peverty and di s t ress ' cosdings of- the secret • la ~ee it v`4..,se nets be .teucla, eu hittevergn.iy be the origin of our powes, -to jos.- extract from the pro g ra mme t h e y h ad ittue n , setting of the natives o f India under Btitish ruled but he j ehoold aid the•gieat body of th e di r „ tert 4new nothing. ail: ) . -chid tlves in in eintaining our rule over India. It I forth the grounds upon which the y intended going to (Mr. Hardinge) must say, from what he h a d ob serve d Th e s ubject of patronage had been %decreed to ; and it were to homeare that rule with thee Which exists in other Parliam e nt. They styled themseles a the British Indian in that country, that he thought the Hon. ndemb e r' s was, perhaps, a delicate tubject for him to tench on; but Edstern diatietis, if I were - to eempero t h at ri d e wi t h th a t Association ; and they s t a t e d t h ee the society should statemen t s somewhat exaggerated. Ho had been he had heard • what had been stat e e on th n subject, and w hi c h eniets tn Tarkey, :with that which is adthinistered• be formed for a period of no t l ess than three ' years i i n severa l parts of India, and had travelled in Cashmere ccrtain returns had been made, of which - 'he should re. in Persia, it is impossible not to see baseness in the ad-- that it s great aim and obj ec t eh at ild b e to promote and other countries, tieder native rul e , a nd, i n Id s () pi- capitulate one or two items to the House. • There were minittralion,tcoirtipti o n i n - t h e o ffi ces o f . Government, . elm - improvement and effi c ie nc y re d th e Briti,,h Indian nion the native! of titioso countries exhibi te d a , s tr ong 2,900 appointments, for instanoe. in - the gift of the di- civil watt and rebellio n; f rot a w hi c h. t h e p eo pl e - of Indi a Government by e ver y i„i t e rate means i n i ts contrast esnompared with the natives of those trho en- rectors. Out of -this number 1.100 wPre given among . have , in la grent, degnee - bean saved by the rule which we power, and ther e by to a n vin d ee „ me common interest , j o y e d British rule. Much misconception had arisen, theueevents of - thecompany; I,7oo . were given to tette.. litave eat:it:dished: - And as ragarde the Act.of 1833, al of Great Britain and India, and air heliorate the condition and many statements had been made, as regarded ou r sons of the nobility, the gentry, end professional men; thosigh-suggestione- mq be made fon improvement in of the nativ e i n h a bi tants of the had ier countr , t „d t h a t system of taxation in India, particularly with reference and of the rest a large number were co n ferred on the particular provisisns, I will not say that. no advantages as an object o e pr i mary i mport thee the d as „ c i at i on to il the salt tax—or, as the Hon. Member had terrned it ; , sons of naval and military officers i n t he serv i ce o f the are to be, derived' from Certain changes, yet I believe, in should make such urgent represent ations to the Imperial t e salt monopoly. But the salt tax was not a monopoly Qneeni but the largest of all, he was happy to say, its great: outlines.-thet Act will ..ba preserved in the Parliameet o f G reat B r i ta i o in the ensu i ng di scuss ions of in the sense in which the Hon. Member had preseuted it were given among. the sons of the clergy. . These Bill whitth her. Mei wdoestyts Ministers will submit to thie 'the East Indi a Ch arter as m i n h t b e ,,, a l cu l a t e d to remove to tha House, for within a period of five years the Go- returns he . should lay before the Committee, House. There is another remark, closely connected defecta in th e l aws an d e i v ilZ m i n e s er a tion, and promote vernment had reduced the tax 15 per eel:le e -and this mea- and . it would -be for them .to say whether with the other A t s s an. that is upon the construction of the gensret we iss tre o f B r i t i s h I n dia. That . showetd, sure had led to an annual increase in the consumption tp Or not the patronage of the E as t I n di a the government; of Leila. Upon this subjeco like then, that th ese gent l emen b a d assne iated to bring their the extent of 18,000 tons; whilst the price of walt bad Company was,- p roper l y distributed. Tee Hon. wden„L contend, that - although such a ferra of govern grievauces before Parliament, and 'that they would avail been 80 much reduced to the consumer by the land° inat Member for Taunton had alluded to certain abuses merit—the converting a tradin conapany ince the themselves oe the op p or t u nity w hic tit. would be presented portations, not only from Cheshire, but from B•embay, which existed in respect of promising• paaron a ge when administrutiond of -- an : em e iro p g ot fifteen millions, to them f or d o i ng so by these discuss ions on the Eeetludia Madras, and the Ceylon coast, as fully to answer the exe Directors can vasse d for votes. Abuses would, no att n having that clentrol "by a Minister of the Sovereign Charter. There was, h ow ever, aso !o t n c ger ptoof still that pectations of the pramoters of the reduction of t h e d u ty. doubt, • exist, and such, if they exieted, were a dis - at heme — is a form one:m erit/ p ent w hieh theoretically is these gentlemen did not wish a Roy. a nmanssion should —(Hear.) It had been suggested elsewhere that .an ad- grace to • him 'who asked the vot e , as _ well as him lieble tit muchtcriticistid Under adverse - circumstances; he tent to India; for it so happenedth at they had addressed dition on royal troops should be made to the present who gave it. But he (Sir J. Hogg) could most se- yet I must say,' itt spife . of that, the benefit of . expe a petition to the Executive Gerer 'intent of India, and forces in India. That was a subject which worild re- lemnly declare thaein the course .of his own canvass Hence shows us that- it ,is a overnment useful to the_ . in the petition they actually sten td that they did not quire the most grave and mature consideration ; 'out of eyen t a _hope, of . the kind h a d never b een sugges ted t o people of India.-w(Hear, .hear g ) Mv Hon. Friend the w ant eac h a Commission 10 be Ben out. That petition on e thi ng h e w „ „ rta i n , t h at as l o ng as they prtid re- hien except in the case of. one individual, and that w i ng . " D .:ATI - for mot:arose, spe a ki n , w i th - t h e ex perience and was addressed to the Deputy- Gove emir of Bengal; and peat to th e re li g i ous f ee li ngs and prejudices of the nepoy, only dietantly done, whose support' he consequently ae" v qta Pie weighe , which'p rop „ .i ; belongs to hi m , entir e ly •it stated distinctly that "it was nemeseary to call su c h a an d to his ideas of caste, they may mly upon hi s fidelity, ( dined. The Hon. Member for Meetrose hed said th a t approves of the mode of • oveimment - established in this machinery into existence." It was clear, therefore, they and upon the zeal and services. of the native army% He the Court of DireeCers was not attended regularly. By Conntry for the aff a i rs of India •th eh he says he is did not aeem to think that their grievances required any hoped the House w ould not sanction any radical changes law there Was an attendance requihed once a week. dispoeed to wish fore-sonfe , d ou e ith . respect to amen . meet w . . _ such Commission as this to be sent out. As ha (Mr. 'in the fld• ft irs unless such eft Many of the direntors *ere not young men—some of the power of declat' n ' management o n lan a es, , anges . „ o e , - I r,ig - peac e or' war. New,. with re- Baillie) bad before observed, he hi id no doubt that the were imperatively called for. them had other most, important avocations—au or them , specdue that subject, 1 . *tliont reverting to must say, wt . . t land-tax would be one of the great,. grievancea, and the Mr. RUME was glad that he had given way to th e were g l a d t o ge t . a littl e re laxation. But what was the any -petticulat just ' a 'ince, whether that ditcretion hes. Hon. Gentleman also talked of the salt d u ti es an d t h e H on . G en tl eman who had just sat down, on account of fact as regardedetheir attendance? The average ate. been wieelY Uses. in th at. . • • - [thi n k a particular instan d ce, opium mcnoPolY—in short, of all Vie standing grievances the Practical knowledge he had shown on the w tbject. tendauce of the 24 exceeded 20, and there was no day in` great suojeet of that kind • d entirel ts 'not to be coast ere . . 3' of India; but however much those taxes nai h W • h tt h sed • • h•h d t Id ht' w ot from four to ten directors in th an Indian num' gt be coin- it respec 0t e propo inquiry, e wis e o ex- wlc nere ere n ... e as ion, bat Must be viewed with regard plained of, he very much doubted if the Hon. Gentleman, Press his satisfaction at it. At the same time hie must India House.—(Hear n _hear.) The' Hon. 'Member for to our interests in Europ e; • and i better when a •or any of the learned natives who were included in the urge on the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who had p ro - T e unton had told the'uouse that theltidiCialbusieess of queaiien of Abet kind i s to be s i t s' s d far hat it ehould be. new association, would be able to. devise a scheme of posed the amendment to withdraw it, as it was utterly Indie was principally disposed of by native agents. bolted hd the adview of_ the Mini ° t ' Of f the Crown, then s ers taxation in India bY which n ear l y 5,00 0 ,000 o f revenue impracticable. The 100 millions of which the petpula. From returns of the Whole of India, tektite the oases of that the ultimetodiscteti on h _ I f 'de the Eerie b ontd he .0 twi . ahould be raised there annual] i n t a . manner l ess obnoxi- tion of India was composed consisted of tribes and races original jurisdiction, as cOntradistinguishecr from the ap e India CorapanYt—(Heand But wt tie I say this, lam etua or injurious to the great Y body. of the people than of such diversity that, if they sent out a Commisezon tu peal cases, there were, in the year 1849, the number of goite • of opinion that the ' 1 - the system which was now in forth) in that country.— India, they should send a Commission to every disainct 258,574 suits deci led, of which 256.151, or 99 per cents,' ' affairs ilf India shohld 'en or the den . erid administrant . _ emanate, not as the President ' - Moat) In discussing th . . . . e q ues tio n it was necessary tribe, and where could they find persona to conduce such were disposed of by native judicial offieers, the remain- ot the Board 0 Control See ms t o - ti e - to rn p rese nt it, - that the House sho ld b ' 1 ' u . ear in mind and c , early un• a multirarious inquiry. They should have rec e ur se t o ing 2,423, Or 1 per pent. of the whole, having been die- from the Ministey of.the C r own, but from the direeters . derstaed wfdat '` . • was the object end the intention of the the servants of the East India Company, than whom no Posed. of In Eieropcan ju icial officers... Tnen again, in . . of:;the ..." 4 33,5t India . Conine eenY—thet, :ittith regard to ait Government •- 'e • . in n.oposing the appointment of this COM- Persons were more capable of perfornimg the duties do- cases Of appellee) and original jurisdiction—the Sadder- matteis of fieauce, alt matter s . of legisletion, all meatere . , zenttee. the 130-0 L e s was aware. as his Right HO3. volved upon them; the hest proof of which was, then no maneee'end others were appeal courts—in the of jiitice, IlleY l'°uld give - th e i r eugge , t i ons an d frame . Friend t (Mr. Harries) 'had already stated in his very emergency had ever occurred without men being dound same year,. ounof 340,918 suits, original and appelle,te, thew Men-tit:duns. and that 'only -the power of .approba able speeche thee the present form of our Indian govern- who were capable of meeting it. They would be 'much altogether dispcded of, 319.554, ort93 per cent., vaerentitnnon:ribjtution shoutd rest with the Minister.—tflear, went was establithed by th e Act ef 1833. Previous to better able to get at truth by an inquiry cendu e e e d a t disposed ef by nvivet; while 21 364, or 6 end a -frac- hear.) It 1 4 evidea r a it a 4 ch is the cas e, i n cnnsi i,, st i lOC PS the Passing of that A c t a Committee was appointed to home, where they could have the services of so me o f th Q tidn her at nt., *ore dieposed of by Europese judges., this opinion of the urfe.eturs will 'b e t h nt w hi ch t h e B ier d investigate every bra nc h a n d depertment ot the Indian ablest men connected with India. With re s pe ct to t h e If an3hfurther preetewereneeded, it. would 'be fe uf .d in:.'asf:Centrel avlll be nlnd to approve. and tactically the edministration. That Committee was composed, he exempitous to which the Hon. and L-arned Geatl i man h tee statement of his &elm Hon. Feieud (Mr. fLrrieei), din:eters - will hi , lett uyiblir.l ee „,3 be . 3 thole. e P niusitieratienw ' believed, of seventy Membere, and in order to facie had referred, as having been made by Gevern men t, l ie re _ that, While the appeal , " from the pOrtb-westerr! peovi ec p s —(Hear, hear.).. Wish:i•isie queation, toe; is coneeeted ' . Mate , their , iequirdis, they w e ee su b-di v id e d i nto c:dleeted more absurd regulations b e i ng m a n e i n. t h is et n oun ted t o 15:c.er cene, dee reverse's emonnted only to the cpestitai of patruaageo _and upon thut quesdon.agafo' aix Committeee, each Sub-committee undertaking to in- country than had ever been made with respect to th.e im. 4 per cent.: The Hon. Member for Taunton. had seed it we c taunt but Pdrceive thht a problem has to be solved destigate one of_ the' six branches ef the administration portation of salt in India. The real thing to be con- wee desirahl9 to him° in th e direction of the India Com- which affeets not merely the geverete t if It di b in which the bueiness of the India House and the Board eidered was the principle upon which the inquiry was play gentlemen of character, und ingion, mid inflaence, the co,naitimtioti ef Allis oeuhtty•—(li t. en c ' a ' ut at', hear.) I quite • esf Control was classifi e d and arraiige.i. Each of thee° to be conducted. Ile was pleated t o fi n d th e G oe ern . connected with Lithe, end he (Strjames liege) agreed agree with the Hen. •Mentbsr for th e u tiotere i tt , o f to _ • &lb - Committees made a report, -and the whole of the ment had not determined on makieg aoy change w hich witn him in principle. But hie own experimme ef that tord, wil:.) i;poke -lest; that if h so• - heppened : that th x e _reparts were nompriee o d in not le , 's than eight large bl ue would have the effect ef removing the Court of Den c- Courrhed couvinced .. him that it eae etnittendy for the Mitlisiers of • the Cronin should hevethe endre disp , sel books: .He mentioned this merely that the House m i g ht tors from the management ot Indian affairs. No policy public good teat amoug, the directera there bhouli oe W all.ttio teventiPs.i.if . India, so far ae government ' and - bear in mind that, tirevious to the Act of 1833, the ad- could be more fatal than such a rem ova l o f th e ste pe r i n - Some unconnected with India. If they. were ell con- plifri)63g.) 'are chneern''d; i t You'd' b. a vett , ser io u t ' ministration of the affairs of India underwent a full, tendence of the Court of Directors. wi t h res p ect , to t h e ne...ted with abe • severe' s"rthets ot ledia—naval, mi s deleger- a itenight haVe 1.) , Perliap, - a f ita j d„„ ) - 4 . ,: .r . to .qompl e t e , a nd searching.. investidation. It must be alleged p overty o f I n di a i t was only comparetive. r here litary, and civii—elesie individual feelings • might in the 'the ''c'tin'stitutioa Of this .. country.—(Rear, hear.), I . obvious, therefore, that tbe Government had no in- was poverty in Etigland and Ireland as well as in lodia; ngreg , s,te amount te is prejudice. Ia guaelions regarding think it most fortunate, that. a medium should have tendon, nor iedeed was it necessary, that such an but the rwors on the Company's Ueda svere mere cern- the Church in this country. the sole investigation was not been fouod, by Which rule ever India is well to inquiry' should take • place now. They were already notable than those in any of the native principali dee. A !etc to the cle . rgd otter iu the ease ot the law was the in- viderl, and there ia, --at the same time, safety to P the• in poesession of the infermetion whice was proeured by comparison between ledie and England was notaiast, one , vire , left entirety to levelers; but on all Cenemittees . that „nonetitution of e this-countrY, and safety to that vase . that Committee, and which was conteined in the blue Let them rather make a comparisen between our colonies Were appointed there were generally. some cien tacit con: etneire under ' the sovereignty of the em ire of the books to which he had relerred. The qesstion wbich in different parts of ihe world and India as a c dony, and ' aected_with the subjectin a professiocal point of View, aud United Kingdom, - wrthout injury to the P workin of ~ was submitted to that Committee in 1832 was a very they would fied that India was far superior in the cora- who only repreeented the strong good set ae of the cum- our constitatumal and Parliamentary intereet. (Ctate g rs.) . different one from that which must now be submitted to tort and satietection of her people than any other celony. munity. This was his opinioa as regarded the Board I therefore, see b it i a ir these circumstances. should var -Parliament for its decision. In 18a-2 the quest i on was He trusted th a t the Government would see fit to enlarge of Directora; and• he was bouud to say that among the much lament if' I'llathigbi that the Right lion. Gentile . .11ot only whether the Government of India should be the powers and authority of the Court of Directors. In most useful men that had ever beloeged to that bodY— innin oPPosite was abo.u.t, either himself, or by the Means continued in the hands of the East India Company, b u t matters of peace and war they were utterly power- the late Sir F. Barieg, tor instance, 6ir Hugn Ihglish. and agenciea ot a Select Committeewto premise an reat ~' tnhether those exclusive privileges which the Company less. They knew nothing of the Affghan war until it MrdßoSanquet, slr. Astell, and others whom he might change in the Government of lodize T - ain con y erncel . had so long enjoyed under their charter sh ou ld b e con _ was at an end, It was beguu and ended . by the ' mame—not one of them had ever seen India, In the myself that although yeu might change,. you might alter ~ • tinued or abolished. The question for decision now was President of the Board of Control, without their con- Period of the last charter—prior to 183 n—there were 26 without any•eerious evils, you would not be able to alter a much mor e simpl e one. The question was one which sent or knowledge. He hoped, too, that the commer- vacancies in the Board of Directors, of which 'lO were the PrinciPal outline et that Government for the bett e regarded the principles upon which the Government of cial policy which had been carried out itri this filled by -men who were not connected with ladle. Since —(Hear, hear.) Indeed, I was happy•to collect fr el'. ' In ' .- om the t . die was• for the future to he carried on; whether the country would be extended to India, where it was cal. 1834, however, there was only one vacancy so filled, and Riglit Hon. Getitletcan th° President of tke .Board of ~ , Power s whi c h, by the Act of' 1833, were entrusted to the °elated to develop the resources of the country. If there that was• by a Member of that House, one of the most Control each in genteel were his views; and ,that oud t. , hands of the East India Company, and which they had was any complaint to be made against the Court of Di- useful men that could be fixed on. The Court ef Di- and beneficial eff7cts bad .., flowed from the . GOvernrtent ~. enjoyed since that pertod, should be continued, and if con- rectors, it was that they had not paid sufficient attention 'rectors, he would say in conclusion, had no object in of India as i thus - administered. -t- ctreiti,' hear ) I ' itnued, Whether those powers should be in n w cur- to the subject of public works, particularly roads and- view, no wish whatever, except that Parliament should convinced d • • i mod - t• •• am ,un er the preseo. 9 g government with • , tai , . led or restricted? Theo were the question a s w y hic a h Y were railways; and great improvement, too, might bit made arrive at that conclusion which sho u ld te n d most to the respect to that most inepora,nt ofall pints. name' he .. ie be -submitted to inquiry; and it was for Parliament now by putting taxation on a better footing. He would welfare of India, and conduce to th e prosperity of the selection of ehe Goveruor-General, - who must have Y eu f ch ,n te decide theimportant question whether or not a Core- strongly advise the Hon. and Learned Gentlesnan to People of India.—(llear.) • vast power, t and must decide many queutions before in . Mitteeshould be aPPointed as the beet mode of obtain- withdraw his amendment. Sir R. H• INGLIS acknowledged his obligations to structions can • I . d d : in - • reach him,-- am penile e , both from . that inf orn e a tion— a Committee selected frorn the lead- Sir J. W. HOGG had no - wish to prolong the •discus- his Hon. Friend, but at the same time begged to suggest experience ael f . n • rom the nature of things, we brave settled : in , g Members of all parties in this House, without any BiOE, which he concurred in thinking would be much •an error in-one of his statements. He could assure his thatequestio " b r that we do • n in such a'ma ne , get to India , •• :pertioular party view—in fact, with no other view than better postponed until the sConatnittee had made their -Hon. Friend that the service s o f hi s (sir In, Inglis's) men of the. greatest -eminence and ability.—(Elear, ~ ; t tsir of• benefiting and Promoting, as much as possible, inquiry, and the House was in possession of the result, slate father, to whom 'he had r e f erre d, were facilitated hear.) The present Governor-General has shown the i. I n interests• of the people of India as well as of the Speaking for himself and the great Company which he and enhanced by the fact of a residence in India. Since greatest talon ain the - ddministration ef Indian affa . ' , h Peo . ple of England ; and it was the opinion of the late, had then the houour to represent, he could only say their the time of Burke, Ihdian affairs had been a dinner (Rear, hear)land the a s . peech or an Hen. Gentleman's:- ~. L l,las . it also was of the present Government, that the ap. sole and anxious desire was that the most full and ample bell, • and they were so s till. y et th oui th this was a night cannot but rentind us that.- a near relation of his .• E r f 'Theist of such a Committee would be the be s t mode information should be laid before the House arid the question that involved the int e r es t s of 110,000,000 of conducted-the gover ent during trials as severe and ~ , ; ni g a ll' eitilitte the re qu i s it e information. On that occasion country, and as regarded the result of aoy inquiry which meneperhays - of 150,000,000, th e r e had scarcely been tuccess as great as- ever occurred in India.—(Hear, (Mr. Bantle) ld t enter into any discussion might be made, they had only one wish in common with " a HMIS& at various periods of the discussion.. With hcari) .S ee i n . . T " th . kth • . up on thosa . s. wou no t t o , g that, e rejoice ,to in - e appointment the view to the spiritual as• well as the temporalL in- of this Com ad been made elsewhere every man in that House and that was that the result . . with reahoottatements which h , . . . 9 mittee, while it affords materials of le • 1 gm a • ' of Indi v ~‘ to the existing administration of the affairs r o tbe deliberations in that House might be such as to - f that great era ire he Sir R H In lie ti terest o p , ( . . . g ) on to Parliament, while it may elicit many valuable . • de or as hoped, therefore, that those to whom the inquiry r d d h de in wh . ich the patron. tend to the welfare of India and the advancement and was sungestions is l• 1 to chan e the fund •t l . a , ge b a d te en d . s egar e t emo .. . . 5 , . , . not Ike y g . amen a ll fi d ros srit of 't He did n 1 tributed. These were a very tan p . es y i s countless inhabitants. ot feel b dl tdw Id t 't 1 'eh fl• to e e ega e ou en er in o i wi aee ingot principle c o s o. g vernm.ent in that country.—(Cheers.) , proper sulf be . somee, jects for discussion, hut he thought it would disposed to follow the Hon. and Learned Gentleman hat premature to enter upon such a discussion into all the subjects to whittle he had referred; but he the deep respoesibility that rested on them; and that Mr. GOULBURN said if the motion was in any way duct of the in uir itself would be uided to f the con .. . in y . g etter the Hens& as- to, its future determination, he a t that r e ~ li ereent °meat. He was of opinion, however, that Par- must say he had liatened with absolut e amaeemeuet (in by a right sPirtt as regarded religion• There would not suoport it. But_hi s Ri g ht H on , F r i en d h a d . 'g o t ten ,dVould find it exceedin g ly diffi cu lt to devise a which he was sure every gentle man conv e rs a nt with had been, as this Itight Honourable Friend truly clearly laid down the principl e i n hi s mot i on . fi rst, at i -b e d tm e . 1 1 which such a vast amount of patronaee could Indian affairs must have shared) to the Hon. and Learned stated, a gradual increase in the means of spiritual in- to what was the operatioh of the Act d * h h . lett-that d h ' " G l " ' '• ce 1793, and he (dir R. H. Inglis) believed House wer tdd • f . ' an next w at t a J ew __ e,t at would not be liable to abuses and ob- ent eman as he referred to every imaginable topac and struction sin eo e uce rom the inforniation thus ob• Lune. If • 'b e it were in tbe hands of Government it might subject: and he (Sir J. Hogg) sho u ld no t h ave no ti ce d that it had been found that in PrePortion to the increase tained to guide them to th e m - J u d g m ent as to t h e new e Used for the increase of the fidelity of the measure which G party pu r p oses; an d i t m i g h t . b e use d f or his remarks at all if it were not for hia concluding oh- of instruction so was overt:latent would propose for the act • ' rally p u ritish rule. And when he saw how Ce t co of the II - , r ei e......rposes now. But if it were so, it was, at servntions. No Member of that House was justified in people of India to B . t. .13 en ' ' d• 1 - bine. . With that view he should give th e 'du's, spread over a ll part i es i n the House an d m a k ing statements and charges without having full and imperfect that instruction still was, he trusted that the h is o r la support to the appointment of a Committee. . couture?. tch 'ally turn their attention to pro- He should not hide - • '. ve r n ese _ . 9 ereas, if it were in the hands of Go- ample information upon the subject on which be ad- committee' would especl and a word on the question if he dh t o le . h * - t d t ' ' ' . , nthie e h tent tt, would be used for the benefit of the party dressed the House. What, then, were they to think of vide for in. He considere t a ff ne is op was not suffi- ha .ne noticed i e. , q the - course of the debate a studied . dr eunh c,haneed to be in po wer . Th e H on . Member for the statements of the Honourabl e an d L warne d cient to manage the spirit"! .! sirs. 'et so vast on ern - otntssien. ,°f mention -of one.b ranc h o f t h e i n oi r y w hi c h . . by s ' 6 u 4 L.(IMr. Anstey) h a d oc cu pi e d considerable time Gentleman with resp e ct to the case o f m o t one l pire, With respect to the cm! service , the effiaiencYiof . he consme n rett we's essenti a l to t h e : me i n eut p ot . • Th e , ' In t ip it t e t rlng into th e case o f C o l one l O u tran). He (Mr. Outran°, denouncing as he did a l most a ll t h e the officials was beyond all Prais_et Mr. Canning mode matter heel been altogeth er •p asse d over by some H o n. d eta i l ") would not follow the Hon. Member into all his authorities in India and ,at home, accusing them three selections —Sir J. Munro, ell'. I t ilphins d ton b e, an d si r •M !e m u leere e anzi had only been touched upon by his Hon. , Yet l a ; d u l trn that subject, because the papers were not indirectly of the basest acts, and imputing t o t h em th e John M a l co l m — a nd Mr. Canning ra ec d iar e tst Ja e one , d` . d (nir Itobtrt konlid). 'Dee great branch of the . t , efore the Board of Control, and he was not, basest motives? The Ho n . and Learned Gentlem had could be found who was better qua lis to (sending the inquiry he coOeelved on tit..to be to - ascertain how far , . 'nee,. a n . . g , o e ivralre, in possession of the facts of the case. Colonel been a short . time since told from the Tr a r - bench affairs of India than each of those three gentlemen. He the Act or 1833 blid curie re m e Su ) d out • proper *Means of .reli edit., a wa s , no d oubt, a very distinguished and a very t h a t the papers reepectine Colonel Oarrain'a case had quite agreed with the Hon. Gentleman • (Si r J. in egit) di„us inTa?tion tor ehopeoPle of India. -The inquiry s - 01 ';' 4 7 n; butUs he was not in possession of all the facts nut yet reached this eountry, and yet the HorL and that it : was . not necessary to be I conneeted with Lillie ought'ln!iscer.tai.n if Aosta means had led to the fevour ' sei i v , ° use, he should on ly ob serve on t hi s occas i on, that, Learned Gentleman made those accusations and chargee to manage Indian *Jails well. t wed advisable : to able re/muds calculisted upon when the Act was first intro , At e .:: as he was acquainted with it, he thought the Hon. without inforaltng the House on what authority he kneed hava. English feeling, as well as lath= feeling, duced, an _ whether .. „ they_•had been commeneurate to . r e sp weer h a d b et -, labouring under some great error in t h em , He had alluded to a circular sent out by the in . the . direction; _ veld therefore d it h was not the extenslient.Of the ,Chrifitian religion throughout the . Thet e it at te many pits of the statemdnt he had ma d e , Bembay Government. What was the fact? There proper to h ave on ly t h ose men olecte w o were con- large ponu ,a ion (Iliadic. The Noble Lord had told the . M st ei ) was another question ti p on w hi c h t h e H im . wire rumours prevalent that there were cer- uected with - I n dia. He s h e uld, therefore, not b e di s .. H ou ie We• had conferred. great advantages on India by , 11 0t 4r had also rather misunderstood his Right tam indirect influences s u pp ose d to b„ t wor k p ose d to ma k e an y material- alteeation in the - extshing having a s_uPel:ier judici a l „ re s‘em• andby extending the , t o __ riend (Mr. [ferries). The Hen. Member seemed in Bombay at the presidency which could pnoduc e system. Tao stetement of the Hon. Gentlemen (Sir J. bene:ts t o h t eudilocatiOa, Butthe Noble Lord, with a cau nitteltdiPrhosenhat his . Right Hon. Friend contemplated certain results. It designing natives could OnlY flsTg) was enough to show thefie was no corrupdon tn 40E1 e .o . g .t it •he cees d ry . to eneete ho, iiiiieh .. w.ii . OU "Vibe from the East India Directors the right induce a general belief of thiii. kind, they would the neide of exercising. the patronage. He trusted no net the feeling of hid ow'n Mind - f b i allude tO ' ~ ure ore o . , , , recalliu 'on of the Court one subject which he'e • • • wee ea ~ g the G overnor .G en „ a l ot India. But, as b e a bl e •to extort money trout . the native princea alteretion would be made in the conetitutt, onsuleyed at was, the daty ot the , h 1 II i . to kee . ' ' 'he oniaide remembered, his R i ght H o n. Friend expressed and courts, under the impression that money could 'be of 13:rectors, or ot the patronage; and when e, rem) - , use . .p coustaently.in .tight._ .lle referred to 'the • .faterls--°ll upoa t h e su bd ectw b ut d e f erre d i t to a a ppli e d at tne Pretideuey to . WWII' h b lected th I • dep ndent ect—the recall of a Guver- means of givingthe. purposes, t ere y , . eony in e Photele oftlndia reli • . • *' ' gtoas instruction. _ nen..., 'Governor of He knew that great Ater t agr eed entehnon. Upon one point his Right Hon. Friend intimating that it might find its way into the Ler-General—bad- been signed •by one _ t n h . . d . ~ n , m .was telt mettle sabject Of the . i ttot - . w ith the Hon. Member for Yougnal—natnely, in hands of members of the Gavernment. Such a report Bengal, two other members of die &tuned. and Other reqn intro MUM Ot,Uhrtattanityinto Id' ' • ' - - n itt.- It was suppesed , likwevancipating that the labours of the Committee were was calculated te have a most injurious effect; but whe- who were experienced in the affairs of India --yehen.lie t i hat excitement and inaurrection would follow if Chris , side ; i t ; ° bii iirought to a close during the pr e sen t ses- ther or not, the Bovabey .Govarnmen t h a d sent ou t a cir- sa4. that such an act was sustained hY Persons dd'lnP" " hit Y • " rev ! ) . a g e mPted to be• i ntro d uced. but c it ctimt i th en _, tit he did not think that that was a reason why "Jar t') its agents delring them to probe- the rumour tent t 9 form • an Opinion iitajn i t _h e ah. ,,id b e very borry stam:ss had since comettolight which had diapelled that ' d tnould it a away. ()pinion. In one o f th . ti t , it . not appoint the Committee now, an d l eave to the bottom, and expose the authors of the rutnour.• to see thopower, as it at present existed, ta-e . . .. , _ . e oldeilr charters, that of 1698, it fin!! . •'• . Pa t a i _qu'rY to be carried on and completed in a future Amengst the men who lent a ready and willing 'ear to Re th°ught the Proposed Commiseion of Inquiey woutd was spec' , d y, erijotned_ou the CoMpany, that wherever za teement, if ufuture Parliament should so think fit. that object was Colontl Outrun. There were teW 'men. be inconeistent with the decisioh which Parliament was they sett e or e rid a teen.theii• inva th h . id' '. t y ey sou no. "a mea n • merely introduce a Ctiriati a • • th e e ie time he thought he might venture to assure who had rendered better service to India than Colonel soon .to give on . therenewal of tho charter, and he there .. tt .minister, approved .of by , se the Archbishop of Clint • Pitn ta i t ::" th at the existence or non-existence of this Outram. He entered into the in qu i r y . w i t h hi s w hole tore hoped the Hon. Member would not put the lieu-- - . erbury, but that -these ministers shouldlearn the native‘laii 'in ds c i i i: ee would not weigh one feather in the balance heart and soul, and with refere n c e to th e -c a se of the te the trOuble of dividing on his amendment. , (pages • d h b to ' mor er t e etter in t 0 convert the Gentooe an • • . ; migh t e _ g he Government as to the course which they wretched widow to whom the.flon. and Learned 'Gen- • Lord JOHN- RUSSELL •said: Sir, there has heen a n other- inhabitants, and convert h t urer f ' h ..bru ese : 4 sern it their duty to pursue with reference to tleman had alluded, Colonel.Outram probed to the bot- much argument already bestowed upon this subject, thee t encei 9 a t o P tCf "h.' The great •question • was itiet . nssainel:e present Parliament to a close; and he could tom the infamougoonduct to which she had • been sub- I certaiuly do not feel it•necessary to offer more than a war h a Pa le cr se ' naitg t•in-consequence of events at home,. - th eir •co ne a Hon. Gentlemen who were anxious to meet jected, and thoroughly 'exposed it; and Colonel Mutram's very few remsrks. . I rise, indeed, principally .to .dtate hut t -eY the C d theimportance of extending . the bless ''of thi s co tituents at. an early date, that the appointment conduct in the matter had been fully approved of by the what dn. my own mind appears to me the view with sing h s we b. e_DJ . 9!_e„ ~ 0 India; ,and he hoped, therefore;one ' , 40 ibg so. ` b „ l/ ? - e itiee s , Would not stand in the way of their Government. With regard to the subsequent proceed. which the committee w as . adpointed. - I . wish to take of t e ° de e e x t t s o ut_lus- Cominittee would •be to sugnest . .:Ing it h o 'a° non. Gentleman conclud e d by e x press. ings, they bad non yet got the papers. -The Government this opportunity of statieg my opinion upon the matter, mea ' ns e h t tif t u ber g C•hrk4i'aitY to India. It appeared . eee ,__.,., .. pe that the,Hon. Member for Youghal would not had directed an inquiry to be made at Baroda, and 'it because' from some 'expreasions .it might be supposed to him, t . a h lel e 'r ia44 a/4 difficulty on the subject, •r..53,111S amendment to ivision . Sir E. COLEBROM ad e ---- was made there in open court, and from the notes taken ..that.the committee about te be appointed Was .one to de; that toquiry wou x 1; concerned, hey p e e i d i 't - t t e" -- (Hear.)..As far as inquiry satatement made .1) IKE had heard with satisfaction the on that occasion the information must have been derived (Ade the future government ot India —(flear, hear.) was . , th now men in - this country•coni- Reiries) with refeY't t he Right Ron Ge 1 (M which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had partially That was not the meaning of . the Honourable Gentlee petent to give , e _ii nt eman r. tn ea lmittee the - be t• f • ' very s- in orma . ren,ce to th e t * n evens. branclk of th e • -tires of India had been intru ezant to which the na- doled Out to the House. If the Hon. and Learned Gen- man. It must be the intention Of her Majesty's Govern-, ti o on f o mei`occasions th subject. . 'ailed been urged . Ministration; but'be should haatved with offices in the ad- tleman were now present he should have asked him meat that they shall retain in their own hands the pewee o or h that an att a t "the - prejudices. of thee•natives ' greater satisfaction .had it be e listened to it with still whether he w" ther e a g the a d vmate of Colonel of makieg, when the fitting time arrives, such proposie were su . c dt _ . y ..empt to disaeminatethe•Principles en memo , . lenity amongst t h ' statement of the progreas made in i Panted with some Outram, and whether 'he had derived his informs- tions as they may think wise and politic, and that of i. lari eta would be attended with short Of limier - , :_tiou e n d g i v ing greater efficiency teratizoving the condi. tion from the Galltne Officer. What be apprehended Parliament retains in their own hands the power ef not mg t 0 _ e _ _ .a _ ,_ rdection. • Butin - the recent •go 'lse servant, in India. With regard to subordinate na- was the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's taking up a deciding .upon those propositions.—(Rear, - hear.) I, vernmen f tf.,....itn,1340, _eon dismivered that, without .°,,f,the.' Hon. Member for Youghae i t seetnthe amendment naked statement so injurious to the Government and to wish therefore to, say that I think the appeintment a the aid o ell ___l; (t e e t o e •Yede-, these prejudices had been' nch Cotehrooke) . -to involve this material, hhd f to him (Sir individuals, when the facts.and the whole ease were not the committee extremely useful and desirable, and that . overcome; etemen,etitiablor ntno.st tneritoriiiiis of Indian n n aae ld 'only be carried upon the suppoe r t ; e ect, that it before the louse. As to the manner in which the Hon. - if I were ia . the Government I should concur in its officere hadetee .. _ e q. tteinettoe the natives to forego ' s•O n ie Was disposed to convey a wholesale n c that the and Learned Gentleman spoke of th e C o urt o f Di rectors appointment. The committee will be Ueda' in the way the revolting rite ot , , 9!ttee•—•(l-lear, hear.) He (Mrt dme Goiernment of ludia.—(Hear.) It ent liesu o r e on the question was too momentous—the interests involveti otOollecting information and making suggestions; and, Goul b burn) co.no4yeots.tvnatuet-was mot given to shies:wintery i i p t , t d r ,ied, indeed, without setting up an autliori°tt be were of too great weight, too solemn to Permit of his this is the view in which it was appointed, more than aid for t e .b eder i c i me of i 'lour of .intal•Y, not to increase its wealth, i e — ',, 'a ' which - would .be independent of the Geierin indulging in recrimination; hut the result of the inquiry a Committee,entitledin.any way to decide upon the vast' or exhi . it t edve a this co "ree; be belieVed there was t o 4lt :Stf `that cohntry; and before the Howie em u ' would show whether .the Court of Directors had pro- question of the future government of India. I say this a duty impoese upo . r - e . _ ttritrYteethe high, moral duty t a t 1 tion as that, he thought _e t perly discharged their stewardship. The papers laid on the morn readily, because in my own mind there is not .of taking such meant e es , prudence," combined with e h ee , e , s roug a rase u . i the table w I f the future o- zeal, would justify, for the pue pose . . . . ou d show that the population of the British much deubt as to -the general nature o . g , . of extending over a " 1 " consider well whether it might not• take territor ' the kn 1 _o me . . . . yin India w• , ith reference to the square mile, vernment o . . f India. lam satisfied with the experience that heathen oodntry . .... ow edge . an • - tnie• • Plaashre for improving the machinery and ad- was doubt e t e ileum TO f h h Ch ' • " ligiOn.—(Hear, h • d the truth of fe eistreti • f h tof India. As to the princes an e g e - on o t e governmen e that of the provinces governed by native which we have had, since 1833, of the 0 _ , and so far fr b ' peration o t . • ( 6 re is one rea e ar.) 'Sir Thomits which hallow -to be iequired into.. I will not enter Munro said ee „The ~ g t question-to which we af „: 4 111 of the Committee pro Posed by the President I, 92, th e Ri 4 om mg no surplus of revenue from Aot - arreingemente_: b ''ae - B • d l h th ht they 'would a list of y ea g t 4 hit oar of Centro , e oug Ron. Gentleman (Mr. lorries) had read into the question of the • way in which we have obtained shoaltilook m ell . Oer , . , rs wherei • sult of our. Governm er , --a nnielY. what is to hot — ee lit "le - t0 discharge those functions if they did and the period exte d n there was a surplus of revenue, the . goveenment of India. The Hon. Baronet says that bp ..the. finel l re d *healer that cha ton the character .. dit e oa join a long investagation with regard to the land revenue was t h e e_ u tl down to the Affghan war. The Divine Providence has name . d us, to be the d rulets of thet oftt,he peo d p r et• • ' a ( n dlear, hear.) - -He (rlitteter will be kaised reoe ,a et thd adtaintstration of India. . A House of Cora- crop, but to the pro! ated, not with reference to the great empire. Bo that as tt . May, we fin ourselves in or lowere . ..,.. r ••Goulbnrn) as ... a ti n . . ld not- f lfil 'noes the o • uetive powers of th I e and. In many this . generete . . 'on with a vast responsibility imposed upon serted this' countey •eou • u the wishe d' vgeri fe^jeltnittee could never discharge the . duty of provi . altivator h san obe te e at Xnggestion • ' s with -regard to these deta . ils and -ad been l a oveniment to n a. I . di In so doin our • cts of the s e reat statesinan otherwise - t h • the proprietor. A . mi . a most converted - into us of giving g g L ie g an by dissemi- Peint t • f all inter nute starve av be to rovide for -the natin the truth of ,rdigion; • wee, .1,„• 0 , which th e i r attention ought to be directed rights o felted were as 3: as effected—the chiefeet, our greatest care mu . st . p . , , g . . . and hetruste ' • d the labours would prove th °erten:led, and then of the welfare.of the millions committed to our sway. That . of the present eaciatry . ; at exertiona were' het " — tie farthe • . Id • th hiner of go- net rents 20 per cent. was all f th "d • t ne t e et e y . cou improve e mac 7 . d prietor or tenant 18 otted to the cultivating pro- being Our first care, it is -obvious that there are - Some ;increased Without. any -0 e angers .being -ineurred 44 44 ,_. tor India, as well as improate the spirit an . , . a per ceat. to- ive them which they had which were heretcifore ttnticipated.-n( the talooklain advantages which we cen g t . . . Hear • ht , hear.) ' -... real othtne.nervice inthat country remembering that the or middie-man, and 62 pet cent. 1/BY thou ht t 11 1,e t .'s u ee t erntiaest ef India must be in India itself meat ; and in those carte s .to the Govern , either not at all, or - in • a very modified proportion.- In Sir He 'WILLI:JUG. .... _ ...g a _ ""Y were very.de where there was - the first place, our great power - ought to enable us to flcient in tlieir infiiimation ot wn 6 passed in India.'He, 4 .ieste . 'l. 4" , r milicrE ex reased his satisfaction that her no middle-man 30 per cant. was • finance. T tree - - aeovernment i P tad de • 4 A . h this the tenant, and 70 per cent. to the Gove t n os . . terminew to -eat wit , nin the souther •• • alletted to guard, them against the ravages of civil broils and petty for instanod, would select rnment.. That wars -which ia the secret of much of the misery under *ell that a greatievenhe .was collect . ed Su 1 heY knew very ndits—some sere l e stion in a spirit of fair in uir because he had system was be gu n dtvitnon of t he ' ' t to 24,000,0004 • . • eq ua l tam the directors q 3r, courted an inquiry, and he was rettes, and was being extended to the northern d- Mali- which the people heretofore groaned. • We ought to be thing from • I fi,Q00,00 0 6.- . , but ie was a expenses had inter s • Rh ceet _ e nt the istricts able with our knowledge of the true principled') of jus- Melancholy !fact that the eased in a en . eesult wouldprove that the had not ne- All matters of peace and war were vested entirely • * h t .tio n ,—(llear.) There ve ° , l :ltire:_•• l44 e interesti f the l y h Ma • est 'a Government, who forwarded- their - in nee, to give them impartial justiee. We ought to still greater Vropor ,- , ___. iti as no-authe'• Toti;,;•! " ,,ate,tte, hear e ) He w P o eo ufd a w c ir m g_yl ifterf tof the h ir e a r tches j , no Y t to the, Court of Directure, but to the see d re ts- t. . t titord them the ability which the great .abundance in ;hied offiaire unfortinmeelyt t. wn co Ilherenfor gi:e informetion "teat d en e , [ t .the Honourable Member ;o a r x vote h . or M t e es Committee consisting of the chairman, deputy Chair- will8i: country •of • •.ability for political administration to the loustnon the j 811!15 • - efcControl"steouled e thought the oug al ( r. t , permit; In the next place, •we ought tie pro- Pretiderit of the f3eeed o • . a ..,, . anntially . make l 'ear:'''' 4 E, he , could • brin If If • g • tmse_ to believe that the man, and senior Wm e , b r and it was thsir duty- te tranes - 'rid ° hie e ' -w hich he . eia. The whole responsibie cati e7" - . t and that is the moa essential ofell--for the edu- an Indian' hudget,',as 4,04: 011 ,.g in ' h Y,_ l° i tended ' • -. • d ; and wno e e _ . et .- wh; , . proposed . would really attain the mit them immediately to In, _ , , n . A e n and the. impsovement of the people of India, both should also. be abld ) to. exlitlian w ""a r "tinges nei h ot h A . ion thla COUlltry ou ht to g have in view. thy rested in that respect en •th her Besjesty s tioverns in rewi r e - . .g t ' 4 4 " a tteed • h h II f Directors. But the ad sth -to modest measures' of government end the take p/aCe.--<Heitr. Toe mutilation ef dispa tc h ee was eo i e .., vitt I e onourable Gentleman who meat, and not with the court o mumstratiou of •t . drk-f'h ' * d ' d - k ' . h hould he abolished, a cl• n which u t ed rt spok en Ur Baillie in th• • th e Lag oa 8 ( • . ) inking that a 'general administration of the country, _ h F , , in matters judi- non in tla • Juliette, an 1 everse or t eir e Lica- spondee meter tent 3 .. ose rules of practical morality which ought to could wAt he weltacco me liabed until they.h a d .. _ e , p uree , ene o u t to Lithe would hardly answer cial, financial, and fiscal, was vested by law in t e tett -govern nations. I 'ben • - - - ' •' ' Rear.) a reopen lave in all these respeets, if We sible officer to deal with.—d . . '''' • t'ad ou ree °Yen of the Honourable M b h' ' d d by the Directors. have hot fully and - 'Air et tile que t' f em er imseld India Company, and was con ucte s for 'degree, under th - completely, still we have in a great Hr. MANGLES. zooid mot concur in the obserra- I li,. ed ma , •. 3 tons is taxation and land tenure re- All the papers and dispatches from India, as well a . . . e present Act, perforated oUr duty to thins of th e Hi g h t gen; Genileman the Member for th *3l l • `are consid t• de e . of I d . era ion, as well as the d the tne Pe ( )Pte ( if Indi legal BOA- ludia. came betore the Court of Directors; they ha . . a. Under our s th h . U • ' 'Cle 'd (Mr. Goulburn) that the Go ° id e , n .1; 'and the House would short' • • e ., cu - been those ware beivee en - way ere aye not niversity ot am rt ge . - 4 ' 'Yn 'th .y have to inception of the latter, which were tramee by the e , small , States which end in the. vernment of this cotr itry shauld- take part in tbe • reti red . e er the 1 g andizeinent of • o ue r i. e a ,,,,, 4 . , • aw commission was to be abolished tive of the court, who thee. submitted them to the coat- ag r '. • . e t Lose pets Id la -Id h • - • '. h ' emit • oftheir doing ew --- le e n t ' t4 a t - -e • fut ' at all events, end in . th e • ge , Y inn% .ut w ic , gious I. ffatrs, at t (tired,' '• ; t • . -- wont , * a d „gband ee , -,„ ure day. The Hon. Member for mittee which had the charge of that department, for the 1 U d gradation and affliction of the nl IS fa th I• "t the had in - mew: .- The ausin - ner our away there kasd a - • e, ;• • ot t yei 9 . 00)je, . ~1 ~.. . - les 7 " 1 "" t i t _luity ay.7, mid great stress on the hardaMp and ine- court ;as divided into co ' h h h de peq-e; manttees; an. teas t e lee . . eeh _introduced an Abe Geverninent weal° hold ; the sca even Ydto alto* ration of justice-'more•• Igo - I • • h e m th at - -., . r , and tax; but it must he rememb . administ impartial •. d • - - -.-- • f the.:GOI el . • ' • tr! I ll ti . T WrilS. a • tax erect patches had to uudergo this first ordeal. If they were • . e than-has heretofore bee- . ,an , I believe ? • fair play. totthe diseemduation 0 . . P, to protect wing eettste m ee e to-which the natives of India had epproired of, well and good; if not, .then the chairs were - more pur . n a - newn to the people the reihsioilar '' d 'll t dth W ilit ve d t t e waY.—( Hear.) Under our aw a y,.an c ow r se e e t/tea- he „,'''es ,Iroin th ee i mmemor i a l under both summonedeand the guestion was settled by them • The of that country. Y men of the 'de ' of .eieetion deterr d bl e 'lab w-g..weanomedan sov r ' It was a tax too d - f d 1 'cl 1 r • bT • ha ve g one to India from thi s co _ . g eatest lie thettgltd the present-140de ea e ar ee ,e. .en r a w- e eigns. . , , ispatch was a.terwar Bal on the talent . tor a week, a t Ines onntina d untry, whether and eiheriencled men on their reeurn from India . from r t --.lp 0r ,•., y assessed, did not Dress with great and s b entl discussed b the Y beard. After this it occupy. g . .11 the supreme n as Governor-G Directors . i enerac spiking a piaci() On the Board.of . .. , - t would be• vt ' L le -' ' P e GPhs ec Id' '''';/- 0 , rd to the w II se "' Y more humble capacities e h hpi aloti e y tteda 01 ,.. 1 d. , , . la , ~ o . , reha . ,f. ~ ms s ent to ,h e Boerd of Gintrol, where it wee or wheth , er In . _ ti! as those a 'Freat impriinertieht . if 'gems means were devised bes' m oor Mr. Eldi,iti l hold %lb./4 iho ng h the , . n lA, he 01r. liarninge) wie.) t, , edoped or rejected. But, . never t ' ' homal uor : - .1_,../f4s, the • law pro. ' filled let new 1 . . „., lately introduted th • • • norm • ' n' . ' ' :Übder w .03.gentiefnon Cnuld'. - • d , he , ,adnu tee n _Monaberi e - of- that 7 * ied i 'l,•- ttav e t .°Wallis m i g h t t rra4lll ""' bt '" lemfiut m aci6 b - ' • n ..-11 casa fo: ewilat the eeurtesy of the vasiotes• bar swey it:olll43e been n 1 . 1 ' da• - f I).3ant.hetld :I* - Tii 7. l,:iithQ i f tlie..k.lq,,Trairitibu.•:of ,al iTni-onal ettni,ae 11 . 1 4 dig,,g _ htten. od have answered all the pur- presidents of that belied -had ;rendered- unnecessary,- 'of' instractaon.and.P. • m e l ee ~ eae 1 ae- 0 the leas of m ' ft d d a • OD ' gst a mincelittae.onetbody o . n tel nale.—(dear.) .. the. people, and frout - llictoir d eTr. t fotundeu.had in _ T i er' , yet he it gave a... r i ght _ of. lemonatrafice in the Board of gevern.ment which elevate _. _ . which The SPEA.KER ige n - f fut he'question, and the illation "'"" 4 "EO It s.gkiat:jastoive to Directors is a me t h e loud of CositroPaitvisin site .1 01 t time India bss domed great adysutages, was agreed to. Y rs- a e presen TUESD A y v 14] N iL N G, APRIL GO IA) MINES, Colonel THOMPON begged to postpone his motion on;thia buil et to The 27th root. PASSEN ;MS ACT' A IIENDMEN P BILL. The House h..vteg gone into o.anulittee on tho Bill, 11r, S. HERBERT n,lid the Huse was aware chat this Bill was the erm,uation of a report fit ni.ched by a Select, Committee, wirleh sat last year to inquire into the eperatiou of the Passengers A=lt of 1849. Is referred to the pas•lage of Irish emigrants between Great Britain. Ireland, and the United States; and in order that the measure should be carried into effective operation it was necessary to obtain assistance by referring to the United Stat©s Passenger Act.—(Hear, hear.) The xistin United States 13111 was more stringent than the e Britishg Act, and as the fortner would be put in force on the ar rival of the vessel, they had therein a guarantee that the protection provided by the Act would be tint in force. But the present . Bill proposed a new regulation, which bo'believed would be found objectionable. The food w as to be served out to the passengers uncooked twice a wrek; but from sea-sickness or want of accom modation in the galleys the passengers could not always cook their food. Now, he thought it would be very ad visable to procure the assent of the American Government to modify their Act so as to meat the requirements of the case. Sir J. PAKINGTON would have no objection to carry out the suggestions Oche Right Hon. Gentletnan, provided it could be done without any unnecessary delay to the passing of the Bill. After some observations froni Mr. Duncan and Mr. Cardwell, which did not reach the gallery, and which Mr. Goulburn complained ha could not hear a word of, the clause was agreed to, as were the other clauses up to 15. . On clause 16, a conversation arose as to the power of the tribunal of appeal between Sir .J. Pakington, Mr. W. Brown, Alderman Thompson, and Mr. Achierley. Mr. W. BROWN 6uggested that the magistrate should be empowered to take the opinion of seamen, provision merchants, and other competent persons, on any point of dispute, so as to avoid the loss of rime consequent on the appeal. Air. F. BARING thought it would be well if the Government would take into c - msideration the pro priety ,of settling some summary aad practicable power of appeal. Mr. S. HERBERT said an appeal might be inconve nient to the shipowner, but then the question might in volve 'he safety of hundreds of lives.(flear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON said' the emigrant officers, who, under the clause as it stood, would have the power of dt-eision, ware very competent, and were naval officers, acquabited with nautical inatt , rs; and the appeal would probably be to parties loss competent to decide, and baying no nautical knowledge at nll,--(Hear.) How ever, he would consider the question, and endeavour to see if any practicable appeal could be - !itigested. The clause was agreed togas was clause 17. Cltuses- 18, 19; and 20 'were agreed to. :On ci4roe 21, .2,fr: S. HE complain.,( that the difTerence be- tweeh Ltu eceommodstion for pas!etover s in hei,lth sa:d in bialstwss wit, not suffi.iently After a short cinversation, the clause was agreed to, as were el•.‘ur:i:s up to 48 inclusive. Clause 49 wai agreed to, with a ver b al amendment euggest,d by Mr. W. BROWN. Oa claus4l , Zr. S. LIERiIERT suggested that "rund-rs" -should be subje,ted .to some banige by which they might be linoWo to earl grants, Sic J. PAKINGTJN said that the necessary p re . eau , ions tad been tulwn to ensure these persons being known. The clause was agreed to. The rc wattling clauies of the Bill were then agreed to. A new oJause fora4 added rdving to the licenting of portere, and the B:11 srai ordered to b.. 1 reported. Tile .Exoticcper-bills Bill went through Committee. Tho Linen Manufactures (Ireland) Bill went through Committee. POOR-LAW CONTINUANCE BILL, On:the order of the day fur the second reading of this Bill being read, : Lord D. STUART said that, though he believed the poor -law rt quired amendment in several points, he vrouldnot opposs , the second reading of this Bill under present, circumstances. , The Government was composed Of Members who, when in opposition, were active op .ponentS of the poor-law, and he hoped they had only `proposed thiii Bill in order to obtain time to . amend the whole system. Ile, however, did not think that this Bill 'should continue for two years in operation, and be gave 'nodes that in Committee he would move an amend inent to. hinit it to the period of one year only. • Mr. WAKLEY complained of the powers given to the Poor-law Commissioners, and instanced the late case.of St.. Paucrati, when the governor of the work house was dismissed by the guardians, and notwithstand '‘,4' Which these Commissioners, who knew nothing whatever of the case, have stepped forward and declared thsit the representatives of the pariah had no authority to dismiss their officer. • ". Sir J. TROLLOPE said that the Commissioners had merely demanded the reasons for the dismissal of the governor, or that he should be reinstated in his situation. • The Bill was then read a second time. The Poor Relief Act Continuance Bill passed through Committee. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL. On the motion that this Bill, as amended, be con sidered, Colonel SIDTHORPE and Mr. HUDSON were severally opposed to going on with this Bill at such an advanced hour of the night. Sir A. COCK BURN brought up two clauses for the purpose of their being printed. It was proposed by them to allow a reasonable time between the summons and the attendance of witnesses, and to protect the Commissioners. Ultimately the clauses were ordered to be printed, and the third reading fixed for Friday next. • Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice that he would then move that the Bill be read a third time on that day six months. The House adjourned at One o'clock. --- NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19.—Commander Von Donnop, lately mail agent in one of the Cape screw-vessels, has been appointed to the command of her Majesty's screw vessel Vulcan, vice blaster Camm wrier Penn, super seded by the new regulation of the Admiralty, by which tr.op-ships are id future to be commanded by captains and commanders. The Echo, with two flits in tow, proceeded to Cowes, this morning, to remove the depot of the 36'h R-liment, 370 strong, to Southampton, en route to Pembroke. The Arethusa, 50 Captain Sym..uds, was towed out of harbour this morning by the Tiger steamer, with• royal yards aeros3, and joined the squadron at Spithead. The Tiger proceeded afterwards to test her engines and machinery along the measures mile. The Sampson steam frigate, Captain J ones, h as -re ceived her crew on return from leave, and will be ready to go out to Spithead and join the squadron assembled there to•morrow. The V.suvius steam-sloop, recently brought to this port from Plymouth, has been taken in the steam baain to make good defects. Wind, south; weather fine. DETONPORT, Aran, 18.--Lieut. Stevens, of the Steam Reserve, ha,s been appointed to take charge of the steam sloop Desperate. She has taken in two months' pro visions, powder, and other stores, and can be ready for sea at any hour should the Commander-in-Chief at Devonport give his powerful assistance. Sailed on Saturday morning the Devon, lighter, Bond, master, with Mr. Brown, second-master-attendant, and party, for Glasgow, to navigate the Brisk, steamer, from Glasgow to Devonport. Resistance, troop-ship, embarked a detachment of the 97th Regiment on Friday, and sailed on Saturday for Halifax. The sailing-orders for the Pestongee Bomangee, con vict-ship, arrived this morning, and she sailed at one P.X. this day. damoaze, lighter, Wood, master, is takine , in stores for the Comet, s tir ve yi ng - vesse l, at t h e Isle. of Skye, Scotland. She will return via Liverpool, to convey old stores to Devonport. We had a shift of wind yesterday afternoon, it having been east for seven weeks, with the exception of two or three days. Yesterday it shifted to south, and then to S.W., but very light. The whole fleet of wind-bound vessels got under weigh, above 200 in number. This morning it came in to north, a fine breezy, and has com pletely cleared the Sound, Catwater, Stonehouse Pool, Stc., of all the merchant vessels. In the Sound—Dauntless. In Harbonr—lmpregnable, St. George, Leander, Magicienne, Vixen, Britomart, Sylph, Avon, Hotspur, Confianco. In Hamoazs—Camel, Tortoise, and Manceavrer lighters. APRIL 19.—The Rolla left the Sound this morning to renew her task of relieving the homeward•bound ships detained by the easterly winds in the chops of the Channel. The Nautilus brig, Lieutenant Dolling, which has been employed on the same service, has ijuss made her numbers, and is coming into the Sound. THE MAGELLAN PIRATES. Great excitement prevailed at Valparaiso in conse quence of the arrival of the Virago (her 'Britannic Ma jesty's steamer) and Chilian brig of war Meteor, accom panying the American schooner barque Florida and Bri tish brig Elva Cornish, with the revolutionists of the Magellan Straits. They all landed on the 24 ch. Cain" biaso, the murderous leader, being heavily ironed, was conducted in a birloche (cab), but looked very cool, and amused himself by twisting his moustache and nodding to any chance acquaintance in the crowd. There are 350 in all, 180 of whom were taken by the Virago from on board the Eliz a C orn ish in the Str aits, the balance having been brought from Chiloe, w here they had been taken to, while on board the Florida a counter r evo i e . tioti Ila boaid having mastered Cambiaso and his re ", • ' and deliv;ved the yeses' u p to the legitimate authorities. Captsin Talbot, of the Eli za Cornish, Mr. Cornish, pa , se eger, and son of th e vessel's owner, Mr. Shaw, owner of the Florida, and eight other (including one woman), were all shot in Coot blood without any apparent c ause, but just t o satisfy i Cambi aso's craving for blood. As soon as the news reacted Valparaiso of the massacre on board these, yes. " 5 . alikyateb wei sent to o,4no2odore Al`Caul,i, at Calico, than ,on :his way to Panama, who immediately returned to the forer port wit h the Uoited Sates it . fri gate Raritan. These vessels had been employed to con-. vey the rebel troops from Valparaiso to Monte Video. When the Virago passed through the o the on ber way from England to the Pacific, Camit,,ul otv formed -the plan of taking ber, by invit in g th e o fficers to b abanquet on shore, there giving them poisoned dri n k s, and .sending. .poisoned proVisiozis on boird. F ortunat;:ly the apothe cary Ortho colony, to his honour and ) credit, n, sitively affair, refused to be a party to such an iafara . ' , ..,us.and the • threat of being shot, therefore, did not shake him. this, Gambles° and his rainiouha ve pr obablys received tkeir deserts. ! 20 2 LITERATURE. .31/011.4 UD'S iILSTORI" OF THE cRu- Si DE RS Tran.ylnipd from . the French by W. don street. Robson. 3 Vol.s.— vol. .1. lioudedg - e, Farrin g• • Aitn,)ugh it is the history of times Ling oast, the chief actors ill whim are separateet from us by ages, and many of whose events seem r ve!o ed in the " twilight of fable," still the record of the Crusades must be to all thinking minds an object of interest. Apart from their important influence over society, and their effect on the spirit of their generations, it is interesti:ig as 'well as instructive to consider the motives that induced to many to forego their existence, of comparative comfort at home to encounter the most toilsome and perplexed lives, and to run the chance of meeting with the most painful and linger ing deaths. Indeed, all the ills to which flesh' is heir seemed arrayed against them. After passing through hostile lands, after enduring shipwrecks and disasters at sea, they had to meet in the fiery desert troops of enemies to whom that scorching soil was native ground, and to whom that burning atmosphere was native air. Suffering was iudeed the badge of 1 all their tribes, from the first departure from the home they would never in all human probability revisit, till their final miseries and frequent deaths in the great and terrible wilderness in which there is no water. It is asserted by many writers, perhaps truly, that all were not sincere iu their professions nor honest in their practices who were leagued together in the bands of Crusaders. Human . nature was ever the same virtually, in all countries, through every age, in whatever undertakings there have been been, but it is certain that one of its brightest pages is that which chronic/es the Crusades. It would be well if the present age, amid its worship of gold and its cultivation of luxurious refinement, could exercise a little of that spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice which lighted up the doings of the heroes of antiquity, and drew down the acclamations of their greatest enemies. It was not zeal without profit that inspired them, nor was their enthusiasm entirely misplaced, since it has shown what man can do and d are, when actuated by a glorious cause. Human aspirations cannot look to higher, nor can human igenuity devise grandeur motives than those which propelled the Crusaders, and it has never been shown that any equalled them. The best proof is in the fact that nutmeg daunted them. If in troubles, they expected them ; if in want and priva tion, they bore their Master's cress ; if their friends fell away, they had gone before them to their greet reward; and if cast into dungeons, the enterprise that imprisoned them led captivity captive; while the last trial that can await all was their crowning triumph. To couqusr o'hers is the mot to of a warrior in line; in death he Illi13!", COnClaFr hiY , tit . . And who rose wore superior to the Kiog of Terrors than the cham pion of the Cross, over the mkt:44)y horrors of the ' foreign grave, into winch he cyanid ba flung by un hallowed hands alter the flames ut the stake and other torturing devices had done their worst ; he spreau the spotle:s robes of ineri - yrdete, send the scene of his ig norrliny was made bright to his tenses by a halo of glory caught front the opening gatas of Paradise. It such could be eudured for the cause, it was not a selfish, worldly one ; and it is to be_questioned if those who decidedly despise it as of earth, earthy, would undertake so much themselves for the avowed cause of 11 , lven. It is always easy to fish fault, and no thing is too great or good to escape ridicule ; but abuse is not argument, and many who criticise the faults of ethers are only endeavouring to psrede their own cleverness. The pilgrimages to the Holy Land are over, but the pilgrims, to use the words of the biographer of Lord G-. Bentinck, " th ey have left us the legacy of heroes, the memory of their great names, end the inspiration of their great examples ;" and it would be well, if on rising from the perusal of their histories, we were to imbibe some of their energy, their patience, and their courage, to carry with us into the battle of life ; then, when assailed by our numerous trials, their spirit might inspire us to go and do likewise. THE GREAT CITIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. By Theodore Alvis Buckley, 8.A., of Christ Church. lioudedge. A highly attractive and instructive work, presenting most forcibly to the mind of the reader the ima g e s o f the gr ea t c i t i es " i n their glory and their desolation." It must be profoundly inttresting to those who have studied the events and actions of distant ages to have the scenes where those events took place and those deeds were performed brought before them, not only as they are, but as they have been. Conspicuous among the list stand the names of Babylon, Palmyra, Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome. Others less known also find a place, such as Tyre, Ephesus, Elis, Veii, and Scandinavia. The following is taken from the In troduction : " When we view the sand•buried monuments of Egyp tian magnificence on their own site, or study the frag meets which, thousand of miles away from the places they adorned for ages, form the greatest orn amen t s o f our own museums ; when we read of the convulsions of nature and the ware of men which have produced vast and sodden ruin, or when we examine the minute poly pus which has wrought as sure but more tardy destruc tion iu Calabria, than its deadly predecessor the earth quake, we feel that even' the worm and the moth' have thair niche in the temple of history. What the head long sway of armed forces has spared, that the minutest things of earth have claimed for their own, and the same almost invisible agency that has partitioned the depths of the ocean with coral reefs has eaten away the well chiselled marbles that once bore witness to the pride of man's greatness. Did we eeek to write history with perfect accuracy, how humiliating its details, how minute its subdivisions !" THE TRAVELS of BOLA. DO ; or, a Tour Round the World. George Routledge and Co. A new edition .of this wink has long been called for. It includes travels in Morocco, Egypt, Arabia, the Cape of Good Hype, and Batavia, and many in tere.ting accounts of the cu,tomis and inhabitants of those countries are introduced. Wandering Arabs, snake charmers, Hottentots, elephants, lions and crocodiles are encouli!. - ered, and numerous illustrations are given. Fis translated by Miss Aiken, and newly corrected and revised by Cecil Hartley, A.M. It is an excellent combination of instruction and enter tainment, conveying valuable information under the form of exciting incidents and agreeable descriptions of foreign lands. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, wish their Royal Higbee:s-s the Prince of Wels, the Princess Royal, Prineo Alfred, the Princ-sses Alien, Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, and accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Leoplod of Saxe Coburg, left Windsor Cattie at twenty minutes before three o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the station of the Groat Western Rail way, in Windsor, where a guard of honour of the Cold k,treani Guards, with th e b an d of the regiment, received her Majesty on her arrival with the usual honours. _ The Queen and Prince l e f t by a s pecial train, attended Byng, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Beatrice by the Counters of Desert, Lsdy Caroline Barrington, Earl Talbot, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Pnipps ! Captain_the t and the the House Francis - Hugh Seymour, and the Master a detachment of Albert Hon. Joseph Denman, RN., Lord Colville, Co in lo e n s e s. l , oftoi hreareadiness, where hold. seven'fhe a e u t gtuh s e t were Paddington, which conveyed he g' r p:er Majestyet y n ' Queen ' s e r carriages w e re f r i conveyedti the 7th Hussars forming the escort. .. Royal party to Buckingham Palace ; The Queen and Prince Albert arrived at Bucking. ham Palace at twenty five minutes before f our o ' clock, and were received by the Master of the Horse, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, Lord George Lennox, and Colonel Wylde. s Royal . Her Majesty and hi e ji.Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by his Serene highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, and atten y the Countess of Desert, Earl Talbot, Lord Colville, and Colonel F. H. Seymour, the Princess's Theatre with th • honoured their presence last evening. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of Customs, had an in terview with_.h the Board of the eh E x chequer yesterday, at his offi_. ,residence in Down ing-street. Mr. John Wood, Chai rm Inland Revenue, had also an ian of the Board of H o n. Gentleman. nterview with the Ri g h t Lord Lyttelton had an interview Faking ton yesterday at the Colonial with Sir J. epu from BurnhamOffice. terview yesterday with the (Somerset) had an in their 'offices 'Rh - the General Board of Health at , Whit ehall. The Messrs. G. Reed, . deputation consisted of Sir Tho Gunter, and Hobbs. mail Gladstone Secretary W I had an interview with Mr. a pole yesterday at Dispatches were. the Home -office. Sunday from the received at the Colonial•office on Governors of Dispatches were received Hong Kong and Ceylon. yesterday from the Governors of Canada and of the Mauritius. Dispatches were sent yesterday . office to th e Governor from the Colonial s of Gibraltar and Malta, the Lord High Commis • stoner of the lonian lslands, the Governor of Ceylon, and the Governor of Hong-Kong. D - ucur or CORN WALL.--A return printed by order of the House of Commons, showing the receipts and disbursements of the Duchy of Cornwall, for the year ended 31st December, 1851, includes under the head of receipts, among other items, 8,6091. 15s. balance at the bankers, to the credit of the account of the council of his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales, on 31st December, 1850; rents and profits of courts, 27,0481. 9s. 74d.; produce of the royalties of coal min in Somerset, and royalties and reser vations of dues and rents of mines and quarries in Cornwall and Devon, 7,1421. 53. I ld. ; and annuity received trom the C maolidated Fund under Ist and 2d Vie., c. 120, in lieu of tin coinage duties. p.stgroats, and white rents, 16,2161. 155.; total receipts, 61,272/. 2.5. 7d. The disbursements, amount ing in the whole to 53,5951. 16s. 2d., include, among other items, 39,9021. 10s. payments made to the trustees and trea surer of his Royal Highness; and 13,0611. 118. 2d. for salaries, superannuatio n a ll owances and annuities, donations and charities, l aw c h arges, tithes, rates, taxes, income-tax, De and other incidental char ges; l eav i ng a b a l ance on the cemher last of 7,676/.65. sd. ' Dccay or,LANCASTER.—:-From issued) ir, appears that the income, wilb lvtichaelmas last Duchy of Lancaster in the year ending 12001. was paid amounted to 35,9981.'.2. 9id., out of w var ious payments the Atter to her Majesty's Privy Purse. return baiancyse:teorfatsiil; balancers wore 5,2871. 35. FREE TRADE. The prolerity or our inartufactariag towns is so pa tent, acid spl- Bahl a 'act that nobady. - now hai the bar. dihoed tc (16 , y It, Mil.es it_ he in thesdreiggfin g tail of satne maudlin rhaptod w's.ath qe writer knows is to eseorilitees for criticism. Tr,k any rriee, women, or neelisn.“listrites. cud teif them teat the-people are now It:ana . eny idereb:e :owe u k .„ - northern or Illoa 'PioYede s arviug, houssles3, and eaiseiable, and your hearere witteetyou down es a maniac b ro k en loose from some neighbourivg asylum. But when we pars frees the condition of the towns to that of the rural dis tricts, we come at on ce to a sphere where the greatest vuessieides make comparatively little show. If you drive through a prosperous manufactu-iug torso, you see factories and new streets rising on all sides; crowds of well-dressed women sad children p useing to their work or their homes; new shops, new anhurban villas and gsrdens—facts all vivid and s i gn i ficant as a poet or a pointer would venture to - describe. On the other hend, a rural village, whether in the height of prosperity, or in the depth of adversity, presents mush the setae aspect to the casual spectator. In neither case is it likely to exhibit new streets, new edifiCes, well die ssed crowds, showy sheps, cr any outward circum stances of happinets and wealth. Hence there is rather more Istitude for opinioa in measuring the progress of such a place, simply because t h e proo f s aro not °cu l ls subjecta fidelibus ; yon have notehe Eamo.palpable teat. Po this intut be add e d that. notorious disposition to grumble, which is the invariable iastinct of farmers, and which communicates itself in a greater or less degree to all classes connected with them. The landlord is always the most complaining of capiteliste, and the labourer the least satisfied of operatives. But - as for the farmer, no course of the seasons, no combination of the ele ments, no proportion of sun and rain, ever did or ever wall satisfy him. So from him, at least, we may wait long enough beton we shall find au explicit admission of prosperity. But oven our rural population is now too prosperous to Conceal its condition. The valued correspondent to wham we have so often been indebted for painful re velations of the state of Darseishire, and other agricul tural counties, has lived to see, as he now interns us, a delightful change come over that dreary scene. • Even iu teat dark region of Protectionist squires and un protected nsbourers, ho discovers, on a careful induc tion of all order and classes, that nobody has to com plain of free trade. Lsedlorda get their rents without i V d e g r X6' t h the necessity of p,rtnanent reduction; the clergy ti t beenscavcn,id,nroveligtivs nsooctietic., thPir 1,1 intlee; the established ch nim:.dheirwisthubsdcreimptainoduss: la:nearer:4 fare hatter even with their wages in some in stances reduced ; tail wheat and " casualties," as the betehers call them, are not in such request ; boards of guardians have not so much to do. Whichever way you welt, the 8311610 agreeable symptoms meet the eye. Be it tree trade or not, be it California, or emigration, or simply a kind Heaven, so it is in fact ; Dorsetsbire is caved, end its great pattern squire, by a remarkable co inuidence, finds himself in power jest at a time when he ties nothing more to say ; With his party in the azessint, boy cause is b an k rupt, and the great patron of landowrii re, framework knitters, hatidloom weavers, and other distressed ct4eses, has now nothing to do but convey to her Msjesly the decisions o f courts-martial. We are very far from asserting that free trade, and free trade aione, had pr. duced ell these gratifying t tilts. In the skein of nernan affairs there are many different teresds, :eel, if Providence seems to forward els development of the new pulley, it is not for us to diSO fill that opportune aid. But this we must say, that when many circumstances of the national pros. perity can be dir.ctly relented to free trade, and when the evils that were predicted have not come to pass; when naanuraeturers are prosperous, and agriculturists are not ruined; then artisans, mechanics, and labourers are all thriving.—then we must claim a victory. If that be not allowed, then there can be no appeal to results, and no end of controversy. Our Donetseire correepon dem: has brought the question to a very simple issue. so far as regards the sinister auguries of Protectionist prophets. He asks that his county may be polled, and says that the labouring class will return an almost utianituous verdict in favour of Free Trade. But even Mr. G. F. Young has at length crowned h.s long crusade by admitting the gerieral prospe rity. lie cannot deny it ; so he accounts for it se ter his own fashion. It is not owing to free trade, he declares, but in spite of free trade. It comes of the famine, of emigration, of Califorois, of Australia; and we know not whet besides. We shall not venture now to disturb the serenity of the Hon. Gentleman's convic tions, or to mar the perfect ,quareness of his theory. Let us hope that he believes what he says. Happily, he hiss come to the same practical conclusion as the rest of his political friends. Whether " th e big loaf," which he says will convert him when he sees it permanently secured to the labourer by free trade, or some other more potent considera ration, has moved hies, certain it be that the last of the Protectionists has now merged protection in the para mount necessity of a Conservative Administration, Here are the last words of Mr. G F. Young:--" Let me, then, solemnly conjure you at this crisis to take, as electors, the only course that offers a chance of averting the consuramadon of your destruction. If you begin now to reconstruct corn-laws and navigation-laws, and fixed duties and sliding scales, and diminution of burdens, and the thousand and one expedients with which friends perplex and enemies decoy you, be as sured you are lost. Divided and distracted, you will be defeated. Lord Derby's Government will be displaced. Lord John Russell, taking to himself seven other spirits more evil than himself,' will again be installed in power, and your ' last state will be worse than the first.' * * * * Again, then, I say, select as candidates men whose character is a gua rantee for their honesty, and ask them now only the one question, Will you support the Government of Lord Derby ?' It is too late to raise other points." Mr. G. F. Young is certainly taking the only possible course. Therein we commend his prudence. But we aro not so sure that even this only possible course will give him the satisfaction he desires. Lord Derby, with protection, is intelligible en oug h. L ord Derby, without it, is an enigma which neither hi s f r i en d s nor his foes have yet attempted to decipher, and Mr. G. F. Young evidently recoils from the task.—Times. IRELAND. DUBLIN, APRIL :9.—A long and angry correspon dence has prised between the Hon. Member for Kerry, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, and persons acting in the name of the Liberal electors, the upshot of which. is that Mr. trConnell will not be a candidate for that county at the next election. The candidates tor Louth are Mr. Chichester For tesque, Mr. J. M Clintoek, and Mr. R. M. Bellew. j n his address to the t lectors, Ur. 13. - llew promises to vote for Mr. Crawford's Tenant - right Bill. The edit , er of the Dundalk Demo crat pu b lishes the official notification which ho had receiv e d th at a ?toile prosequi had 10.t.1n i entered u the prosecutions COM. mence d against him by Government f or seditious libel. nRuR y-LANE THEATRE. some miiende.rstand:ng, not as yet clearly Through h between Mr. Sims Reeves and Mr. Bunn, the emtrrnt Englidi tenor br,i ceated to appear at this p i s a blishment, ma to r, has eecured the services of two of cur most popular vocalists, Miss Louisa Pyae and Mr. Harrison, who appeared last evening in the Bohemian Girl. Miss Pyne triumphantly sustained her high reputation, proving that her voice is fully equal to a larger areaa has ht! , retofore been beard in. Last night s h e elicited enthusiastic admiration by her brilliant execution, the purity and sweetness of her voice , and the delicacy and spirit of flu. acting. Mr.flarrison was hailed in his old part of Thaddeus with vehement plaudits. The opera was very p ower f u ll y cast, M r . Whitworth, Mr.Drayton, Mr. Manvers, and Mi ss I s aacs, bein g th© representatives of the other ch. The eiljo)rnent of the au di ence was unbounded,a and racters the bolts° extremely well attended. The manager is making si in defatigable eff o rt s to keeup Old Drury, and . it is incumbent on the Phsygoing world "to give hilu This evening Fid e li o i s announced, in order to introduce the celebrated soprano. ROY -AL MARIONETTE THEATRE. Some Ethiopian Marionettes wore introduced here Last night, and treated the audience to a regular negro serenade. Upon the curtain being drawn up, the per formers w ere d iscovere d seate d w ith their instruments, and their conductor or manager, Mr. Lignum Varnun, after a few words of introduction, called for an overture, which was followed by several songs and dnetts, accom panied by instrumental performances. The ebony choir performed to admiration, the little figures playing in ad mirable time; while the unseen i nstrumentalists and vocalists discoursed most eloquent music. O ne very im portant improv e ment was discernible, or rather we should say un di sc ernible, with these newly imported. figures, namely, the total want of th ose two v i s ib le w i res which, if necessary, are certainly a disfi guremen t t o th e other figures. The American Mari one tt es p rom i se to prove a great accession to the troupe of performers at this elegant theatre. DEATH BY DROWNING.-011 Friday evening last a painful excitement was created at Oxford by the an nouncement that two young men, named Arthur Mope?• shopman to Mr. Evans, and George Perrott, shopmN! tO Mr. Oliver, linendrapers, of this city, bad been drowned .!1! Sandford Lock, by the sinking of a boat in which t t r e .ri ira wr y three other companions, had been . to Naneham. By near the assistance which was afforded by several person s par ty were spot at the time of the accident threet_ oft the two above. rescued from their perilous situation; o a ll n e d ge, W d sz ied th a e tt i named young men perished, notwiot L was used to effect resuscitation by Mr s . and eve ry P i 6 11 ff s ° . °13 — m r t 3 at the Littlemore Asylum, and ed to this city, and h i s n taeb l un,d e i t n it g belong Dbeyv"DAtch army, states that Hollow ' Perrott, who was 20 years of ag e, his assist r a e n s t i , de ai nt r. au ß rg ic eo k z Christmas last. MoyseY wag re Oxford Journal. his father, who was servant Lieutenant of Dragoons of a farmer living in ~ADVEETISEMEN T. ~~ Holloway's Rheumatism n nted as sure remedies , bathing,didhivmaP°anur baths, Juncture i n the 0 several months' trial, c T u h r i e s d n offif cßerh ' ev.u-hino is have cured him of r heumatism "• ~ Pills and Ointment incurable, as neither sea peared to be . inc licommen leehiteahking Lt yrierairnsi Trinity College, nor preparat i ons va unted . At this was without sudecersus bbin h • these pills, a n g t e ointment into the h . h I complaining treatment of the doctor,. after ts twice a day, w lc et ectually cured him in the course of p.m ,, _ wee k s . The truth of this statement can be vouched for be x iur. .1. B. Stratraan, of Bo is - de-Due.—Sold D 'ld by all Drug.. e- uc.—So 'ts and at Professor Holl oway's Lo n d on. Establishment, 244, Strand. ExTRAOEDINA,Ky TAKE OF P IKE .—O n Monday last 's 111 three gentl emen belonging to Derby went out to have day fin e sport at pik e aching near Burton-on-Trent. The day was and the sFot - t admirable, as may be guessed from th e 1 i et, that one of the fish caught was not less than forty-two was fully inches in length, weighed upwards of 251 b., while another dition. They were caught, we understand, in the Water it 1 21bs. in weight; and both were in excellent con. t he back of Bladon eastle.---,DerbY Aferciffiri