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• away with many difficulties. He would nest proceed to , the w ost important statement, which was, a compariso of,tlle two accounts—the sketch estimate for 1856 57 with the actual result 3 of the year 1853-54. The variations in 18457, as compared with 1P53-51, would be -, REVENUE Increase, Decease. Ordinary. l i - revenue ............. ......... Cu ;Inros ...... OPiiUn To4pco (Abolished. 15,5",) Pow offitie Stamps ........ M;nt Marine and pilotage Judicial receipts Revenue of Straits settlements Ret!enue of Coorg Revpnue of Negpora Revenue of Oude . . 471,610 X 63,773 41%317 26,665 32,387 -- 46,891 - 14,978 - 35.061 - 21,5)6 - - 3,779 350,044 1,093,914 • Interest on debts due by native s(ates, Miscellaneous receipts, including sale of presents . Other receipts : Proceeds of estates administered to by the late Regi,trar-General Proceeds of assets of the late Go. vernment in the Punktb, and re ceipts from Rajah Gulab Sing Gaip by exchanges 101,012 ✓9,513 56,140 Total £3,0 7,83 £135,376 Net increase of revenue .. EXPENDITURE. Payments in realisation of the revenue Increase. Decrease X 141,516 - £132,72 g ...... 4 _ Chirges of collection, &c.... Allowances out of revenue by treaty Sinking fund, Tanjore, Allowances to village officers, enamdars &c. Charges of the Nagpore territory Ditto, Oude ditto Charges in India : Civil and political Judicial and police 173,779 1 Public works, buildings, &c.... ,030,218 Military Marine, Indian Navy, &c Charges of the Straits settlements Nint Interest on debt • Charges in Engiand : Di , ;idends on East India Stock Interest ou home bond debt Steam communication with India. Ditto, with extended' communica tions, paid to her Majesty's Go vern taint .. On account —building, &e., a steam vessel for Madras Government and cost of coals for use of steam vessels in India Transport of troops and stores Vuilough and retired military pay Ditto, marine ditto Her Majesty's troops in India Charges, general (home establish ment, &c.) Absentee allowance to civil ser vants Aiumities of Madras Civil Service 75,570 246,235 874,303 193,99 G 72,832 5,851 394,922 43,7G1 51,000 11,55 G 143,611 169 28,530 Vaud Bearing pay, S. Helena °stab . lishruent Her _Majesty's tstabliehment in China ExOmen of transportation of con- victa Invoice of stores Total Net increase of revenue £2,91 ,449 Net increase of expenditure 2108,597 IMPROVHHENT OF 1356-57 AS COUPARED WITH 1853-si .Excees,of expenditure ovr income, 185 t-54 £2,044,117 Exemis'of expenditure - over income, 1856-57 1,635,520 Decrease That calculation would show the general state of the In. than finances. The deficiency was not so great as had been geeerallY anticipated, and was even lees than he had esti in see leire his statement 'set year. Ile would, if the com 'o'4o, laYfeefor ethankthe generale - as alt of the Ine , :eeller**Euincei3ar the, lael;feee,yeeete, /r.i the year 1852-53 there was re.iu9lue of 424;2371. For'the year 1853-54 he had in litreitateinent last year anticipated a deficiency of $,67 . 0,518/. but it turned out to beeenly 2,044.1171. For ',28re5e56 holed eetiehated the deficiency at 2,057,63.3 , but ad e it wo Pe>t beereore area 1,152,10'e/. The probable defici- OnSy forlBsflipte had Atiet stated at 1,635,520'., subject to -teteietion. - 7 he. ereneenettee :was aware that there was a general opinion that the entire of: this •deficiency was clipped liy the excessive expenditure on public works. He • thoilight he would be ' able to disprove that statement,: and drew that, although a portion of the deficiency might be attributed to this expenditure, yet there wine other causes which tended to: 'produce it. He had taken great pains to ascertain the facts of the case, and Mr. Leech, one of the ablest accountants in his odiee, had prepated a statement of the result of this expen diture. The committee would understand that in order to arrive at these results he had taken into account only those which could fairly be considered remunerative public works. It was a great mistake to include (as Mr. Grant had done) under this head all those sources of expenditure which were as incidental to the government of a large terri tory as repairs to the possession of an estate. Ho would include nothing but works calculated to be reproductive. There were many works which, even in an economic point of view, might be considered reproductive ; for instance, in building largo barracks, the advantage derived from the improved health of the men would justify the expenditure. Drastic:sating the outlay is eaoh ha would take the entire expenditure on civil and military works, and deduct from it the avelage expenditure of former years; the balance would sh6w the expenditure which was attributable to this source. In the three years, 1851-52 to 1853.54, the average expenditure was 719,533/. The entire expenditure in pub lie*orks, civil and military, for 1854.55 was 1,818,9771. ; deducting from this the average ordinary expenditure, the baianee, - 1,034,344/.; showed the amount of the extraordi nary expenditure mi works for that year. For the year 1855.56 the entire estimated expenditure was 2,109,961.; deducting the average, as before, the extraordinary expen diture was 1,390,3291. The sketch estimate for 1856.57 for the total expenditure was 2,217,786/. ; the board of direc tor-a had, however, disallowed certain items, which would reduce it to 1,734,375/. ; and deducting the ordinary, as before, the extraordinary expenditure for the coming year would be 1,014,7421. Theae figures showed that if it were not for this expenditure.there would have been a surplus of 316,044 L Before he quitted the subject of public works he might be allowed to say that he yielded as much as any man to the excitement on the subject of public works after the report. of the committee of 1852. It was necessary to encourage great public works, but it was to be regretted that ths matter had been taken up so suddenly, instead of being brought forward by degrees. A letter was sent round to the various engineers and officers of the Government on this subject : it was an swered by them, as might be expected. As an instance, he might mention that a proposal was sent in to the Go vernment to make a road from Lahore to Peshawur at a cost of 4,000". a mile—about half the expense of a railway. Her merely mentioned this to show the ill-considered schemes which this desire for public works had produced. The committee was aware that salt was one of the many articles from which the revenue of India was derived. On this subject he would refer to the report of a commissioner who was appointed by Lord Dalhousie to investigate the matter--a report. which had not yet received the sanction of the local, and still less of the Imperial Government. This gentleman said : "It has been for years(since August, 1817) been open to any to engage inthemanufacture of salt, according to the English method under excise regulations. The only remaining question is whether it is possible to introduce any system of excise effectively where the common native process of manufacture is adopted. The question is n rot in course of practical solution. The Bengal Government, with the full concurrence of the Government of India, sanctioned, is Sep tember, 1854, asst of rules for granting licences to parties de sirens of engaging in the manufacture of salt, upon any method, under an excise system ; so that, in fact, in Bengal a system of excise has been in course of substitution for the monopoly arrangements for more than a year past. The whole correspondence on the subject will be found in the appendix, and it appears to me that all that is necessary is to push on the present scheme through all the salt-producing districts, as far as it depends near' the authorities to do so. I am of optuion that the duty should be at once lowered from its present amount of 2r. Ba. to 2r. per mauud, the rate which prevails in the North-Western Provinces, the special additional duty of Ba, levied on the Allahabad line of those provinces, for the protection of the Bengal revenue, being of course discontinued at the same time. I entirely agree with the Board of Revenue that by so considerable a redaction there would be a much greater probability of the prier) being at once reduced to tho consumer, and a stimulus in consequence dim - to colfseniptien, than if only a 4a. abate ment were made, as heretofore. lam not at all sure that it might not bo ultimately and speedily beneficial to the revenue if the rate throughout the Bengal Presidency and the Punjab wore at once reduced to Ir. Ba. per maund, being double the rate prevailing iu the Bombay and Madras Presidencies." The proposal here made was a very moderate one; bat he wished it to be understood that it was the proposal of the gentleman only wive was appointed to draw up the report. The committee was *aware that a very largo—indeed, the largest—portion of the Indian revenues was derived from: land. There had always been considerable difficulty iu saying how we should deal with the land revenue of India —it was a subject which had puzzled the greatest philosophers and statesmen—but he believed it was the general opinion that throughout the Madras Presidency it would be necessaryto have a survey and fresh assessment, and that nothing effectual could be dono till that survey was completed. In the meantime Lord Harris had not been insensible to the. evils of a too heavy assessment, and he had expressed a desire that a reduction in many in stances should take place. The line which Lord Harris had taken on this subject would be best explained by the following memorandum. . " Hie' lordship bad no doubt that if the Government de mand was fixed at '25 per cent., or one-fourth of the gross produce, ' not only would that be no lose to the general in come, but that there would be. in a short time a large addi tion to it by the large quantity of land which would be taken into cultivation and by the increased consumption of articles of import, both of which would be caused .by the accumula tion of capital. But that the actual loss or gain to Govern ment will be only known after the survey has.been made and the assessment fixed ; in the meantime, Lord Harris was 'ells; posed to think that the general out-turn. would be far from uufavourable to Government.' It would appear.that the Ma dras Government calculated that with four deputy-surveyors general,' the survey,..Ste., of the Mathes . Presidency will occupy 22 years, and that its cost will amount to 3,840,000 rupees, but that if the scale of operations is enlarged the period occupied will be shortened and the total cast will be diminished. The reapers eon recterl wth the proposed genets!. survey of the e.a has Presidency \v.:- e submitted to the Govern neat o: India foe.orders, &c. it Appears that that Government had informed Lord Hams of their unanimous' concurrence with the views and proposals of the Madras Government." He holland the beat authorities concurred in thinking that w ithout . * new survey and rseessmeut it would be difficult to bring about an increase in the land revenue, It was sa tisfactory-to find, however, that they were also of opinions and Lord Harris among the number, that a reduction of the assessment would leave the effect of increasing the re venue. Last year be mentioned that, among the reelection, of India, there was some hope of finding coal an run. In doing so he was guided very much by what lea appeared in the Indian papers; but he was happy to find that the statement was corroborated by the opinion of Lord Dalhoq. 10,944 474,683 out any idea that their labours would be sent to be examined in India, and the commissioners felt that it was not just that their labours should be sent to be examined by Indiln judges, however eminent they might be. Ho believed, however, the commissioners did not complain of their labours being put an TILE SUN,. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-, JULIY 22, 1856 8,393 2,400 2,970 10,611 27,289 403,693 3,(34 MOO 4,606 sic, who counted upon a valuable anil abundant supply of both dseing obtained at no distant date. He need hardly say that if those important minerals were found in abun dance in India, they would have an extraordinary effect in facilitating and accelerating the progress of that empire. (Hear.) There was another exceedingly valuable article of growth and manufacture in India to si,irich ho would for a m(euent advert, a., , 1 that was cotton. Everybody could see the importance eetur iug from India a large supply of cotton, and he eras happy today that to a certain extent the experiments which had been made had peoved success ful. He would read to the committee a note with which he heel been furniehe ► on the results of the cotton experi mental cultivation in the Bombay Presidency with the New Orleans seed - " With the exception of the Dharwar Celle:aerate the en deavours of the Government to induce the ryots to cultivate the New Orleans seed has nut been successful; indeed, in Ahmedabad, Surat, Broach, and other cotton districts, the American plant Is reported to have been entirely neglected, or the quantity grown quite insignificant. However, the area cultivated with the indigenous plant was in 1854-5 in excess of that in 1853-1 in most of the cotton districts. In Dharwar, in 185 , .!- - ). the acres cultivated with the New Orleans seed were G 3,293, against 45,403 acres iu 18'53-4, 'bowing an in creased cultivation in the former year of 21,895 acres ; and apparently the ryots are uow so convinced of the advantages of engaging in this cultivation that the American plant may he fairly said to have taken permanent root iu this district, and that the indigenous cotton will have to give place to it. Therefore, under these circumstances, interference or aid from the Government to induce the ryots to undertake the American cotton culture was no longer required in Dharwar, while in the other cotton districts encouragement o n the part of the Governmeat had not led to results of any con seqaence, or was likely to produce any permanent effect. Moreover, there are now scattered over the country Euro peans prepared to purchase cotton, either of the Americans or native variety, of a quality suited to the English market, at remunerating prices. And further, it would appear that the prejudices of the ryota to the cotton saw gin for cleaning the cotton was giving way, and that the use of it was becoming popular, as the ryots found that saw ginned cotton obtained from the merchants a higher price than the cotton cleaned and prepared by the churka or native foot roller ; and that the work was done more speedily with the saw gin than the churka, and fullyeas cheap." He also asked the attention of the house to the following : " Mr. Landon, a merchant, who has settled in Broach for cotton purposes, has established in that district a factory for making and repairing the saw gin machinery. He has also erected a cotton factory—an experiment which appears to have been attended with signal success. For it is stated the yarns made at Mr. Landon's factory, exclusively of short staple Broach cotton,' fetched in the market ' nearly 10 per cent. more than Manchester yarn of the same designation ;' and that orders had in consequence been received sufficiently to keep the factory in constant work for some mouths." He was sorry that the hon. member for Manchester (Mr. Bright) was not in his plaeee as he had ever taken a deep interest in, this question, and would, no doubt, have been gratified to learn that something was doing towards in creasing the cultivation of an article the production of which he had bsen most anxious to promote. He was not aware that there was anything further in the statement of the revenues of India which he need comment upon. He would only say that he saw nothing to lead them to despair of an increase in the revenue; but, at the same time, it was their duty also to look to other means of produciug a sur plus, viz., to a reduction in' the amount of expenditure. It had been said that it was impossible to lay on fresh taxes in India. He was not so very certain of that, for on look ing round he thought there might be found other things than now existed on which taxes might be raised. But, in the roehntiuie they hied to look to the expenditure. The ,'first great head of expenditure was the Indian army, and he would at once say on this point that it was next to impossible to suppose that they could effe.t any material reduction in that army. It had been said that a reduction might be made in the way of employing the native army more and the Queen's troops leas. Now, he maintained, it was necessary that a large proportion of Queen's troops should ba kept up in India, and particularly that to substi tute Indian cavalry for the Queen's cavalry was a proposal totally inadmissible. He believed that the presence of Bri tish cavalry in India was attended with a very wholesome effect, that they were exceedingly useful in teaching the Indian cavalry lessons of discipline, and exciting them to those habits of order and obedience which were of so much consequence to au army. He was happy to find that the first representation which he had the honour to make toher Majesty on the subject of thelndian army had been received with great approbation. The Governor-General said : " The Indian army, hoiveveic has stillhigher cause for con gratulating itself on the gradioui favour which the Sovereign has lately shown towards it, in raising its officers from the de rogatory position In which they have hitherto stood, and in granting to th = em, the rpeeguitiou, whi,ehtil now has been deniedto theni;;ole, ,, th4 :Military rank bi'every part of the British doled/lions, and throughout the'world,;'. Having received that compliment, the Indian army would be unwilling to have withdrawn from them the presence of the Queen's troops. There were other questions relating to the Indian army, such as the substitution in greater num bers than at present of irregular for regular cavalry which were still under the consideration of the Indian Govern ment. He hoped that no hurried decision would be come to upon them. Reductions might be madein the Commis sariat and other departments, bat it was quite possible to carry economy to too great a length—a mistake which he trusted would be avoided in dealing with the expenditure of the Indian army. (Hear, hear.) He now came to the civil service. At a former period of the session he was reported to have said, in reply to a question, that he thought the civil service in India ought to be reduced to the footing of the different colonial service. He never made any such statement. All be said was, that the civil salaries of India had remained almost stationary, while those of the colonies had been very much diminished. He thought that the Indian civil servants ought to be highly paid, and that the best men ought to be induced to go out, but he did not admit that the Indian civil service was the only service whioh required a man to go to a distant and -unhealthy country, and which sent him home jaded and worn out. The climate of the West Indies and many other places was, in some respects, as bad as that of India. Oa the other hand, the salaries of the Indian civil service ware upon a scale far beyond that which existed in any other profes sion. He knew of no other service in which a young mend 20 could enter at 3501., or in which a person could rise from 501. to 4,0001.; but let it not be supposed that he de sired anything to be done immediately in the way of reduc ing the civil salaries of India. To touch existing interests would be the worst possible economy, even if it were not unjust; but it would bathe duty of the Indian Government to keep the advantages of reduction always in view, and to resp them whenever practicable. Reduction, it was said, would be followed by peculation. He did not believe it. Lord W. Bentinck made great reductions in his time, and no ill ensued. In the worst times of Indian peculation and corruption salaries were high enough. Economy was a most offensive virtue everywhere, but especially in India. Financial reformers in England had the support of the House of Commons and the public press; whereas in India the only public opinion was that of the civil service itself, which was naturally averse from a reduction of its own salaries. It might be said, indeed, that the only person whose duty it was to preach economy was the President of the &a dof Control. He was glad to state, however, that in June a despatch was sent out recommending very con siderable reductions, and—what was of great importance —allowing public loans to be contracted for public works to the extent of 1,000,0001. for the next two years. It was to be hoped that the contents of that despatch would obviate the necessity of sending out an accountant to India. A system of audit already existed there, and the proposal to establish a separate audit here would require the 'most attentive consideration, because it took the power from the Indian Government and placed it in other hands. (Hear, hear.) Havin g thus gone through the revenue and expenditure of India , he should now pro ceed to describe the political position of that country at the present moment. Since his statement last year some dis turbances had occurred in India. At that time speaking upon the authority of the Governor-General, lie declared that the whole of India was tranquil. He believed he might repeat the same statement now, because in India temporary effervescences could not fairly be said to disturb the general tranquillity of the empire. But it so happened, curiously enough, that at the momont he was speaking last - year an extraordinary species of insurrection — known as the Santal rebellion—was in the act of breaking out. To some extent that insurrection showed negligence on the part of the authorities of India. If there had been a proper police, or if the authorities had been warned by certain circumstances which must have attracted the at- I tention of sagacious men, the Santal insurrection might have been instantly quelled. An ample report upon the cause of the insurrection had been received from India, and the Court of Directors had written a despatch, stating their views upon it. Mr. Bidwell, late commis eioner in the Santal districts, who took great pains to ascertain the cause of the Santal outbreak, was of opinion that the primary cause was the great dissatisfaction of the tribe on account of the oppressive exactions of the mahajans, or money-lenders, and the corruption of the naib eezewals (police-officers and collectors of the land t rx), and, in some places oppression on the part of the railway employes, and the little check they received from the Government 'authorities. The Government of India considered that the outbreak was caused by the want of early attention to the complaints of the &metals, or the oppressions they suffered from the mahajana (native revenue and police-officers) and zemindars ' • and in one instance the Lieutenant-Governor c msidered that they had been ill-used by a railway official: The local officers were greatly blamed. The above appeared to have been the exciting causes of the rebellion, fanned by religious fanaticism—the leaders mak ing their folowers believe that they were accompanied by an incarnate deity, under whose orders they acted. Al though some few it seances of insurrection had been more recently reported, it was believed that the great body of the Santals were settling (howl, peaceably and quietly. The country had been declared a nouounil ition province, and had been place I under the control of a commissioner, wi'h a deputy-commissioner and four assistants. These office, s were vested with juliciel powers, and would administer speedy justice to the Santals, who would thus he relieved from the oppressive enactions of the mshajens, police and revenue officers, and zemindars. A new police force was under orgenieation, and until that was efficient two regi ments of infantry and one of irregular cavalry would re main in the Saneal territory. The Santals were not to possess warlike weapons without authority, lint were to be employed upon the public works and paid for their la bour. Stores of grain and salt were to be prepared for the destitute Santals, and the payment of the rent was to be thrown over three years. Those were supposed to he the causes and remedies of the Santa! insurrection, which was an outbreak the more extraordinary, seeing that the San— tals had been always regarded as a most quiet and inof family° race. The next point to which he must advert was the mission to Ava. That mission had net been success ful to the extent of obtaining a treaty with Ava, whioh Lord Dalhousie did not. greatly regret ; but the reception which he had met with there was everything that could he desired ; great - tumour head been shown us, and the mission had resulted in bringing about that desnip tion of friendship which was much wanted. Another point of very considerable importance to which he had alluded last year had reference to our relations with Persia. Independently of anythin; that ha I occurred in the shape of a diplomatic rupture with Persia, the Per sians had, it appeared, thought themselves justified in marching upon Herat. It was not quite clear, from the accounts which hat been received—such was the coufus'on of histories and relations—whether they had been able to occupy Herat. He believed that the Affehans would l e so unwilling to allow the Persians to enter Herat that they would themselves repel them ; and as Dost Mahomed had obtained possession of Candahar he would be able, if he liked to attack the Persians in Herat, to repulse them. It was quite impossible that this country should allow the Persians to obtain p e eee e sion of Herat. By an engagement which they La l entered into in 1853 with the English I n vo 7, they bound themselves not to interfere in the affairs of Affghauistau • and, therefore, if it were true that they had gone to besiege Herat, they had distinctly violated their engagement with this country, and it was clear that wo could not allow our treaties to be trampled upon and our honour to he inseltel in such a manner. If the Per slime therefore, did nue retire from Herat, some means must be taken to vindicate British honour and to expel them from that place. (Hear.) _ln making this statement he must not omit reference to one of the molt important events which had. taken place in regard to our Indian empire—he meant the acquisition of the kingdom of Onde. Ho had presented nearly two months since the whole of the papers upon that subject, and as no member of either house had thought proper to notice it he presumed that there was a general consent in the opinion that the acquisition of Oude was a reasonable thing for Lord Dalhousie to accomplil. should such not bothe opinion he should be perfectly prepared at any time to defend that step, but at present he should only state t'm cause of the traneactiou, and the motives of the Govern ment. Lent Dalhou sic, finding from the statements of re peated govern ors-general, including Loi d Wellesley, Lord W. Bentiuck;and Lord liar liege, that the position of Onde was derogatory to the dignity and credit of the Indian Go vernment, and that the different schemes which they had tried one after the other had failed to effect such an im provement as was desired, determined, after eight years glorious government in India, nut toleave that country with Oado iu the condition iii which he had found it. In conse quence, in July last he sent a letter to the Court of Direc tors, stating his views upon the subject ; and that letter, which was backed by a minute of Council, reached this coun try at the end of September. Tho persons who coincided in Lord Daihousie's opinion were the men of all others whose principle was opposed to all aggression upon native princes, who were commonly known as theadvocates of native rulers rather than of the system of annexation, and among them were General Sleeman, General Ontram, and General Low. All the authorities that could be gathered together agreed that Lord Dalhousie was justified in the, view which he , took of that transaction. Lord Dalhousie having sent. home those-reports, the Court of Directors did not act upoie them immediately, although the pressure was great, becausb Lord Dalhousie eas then about to retire from India. A month or six weeks was spent by the Court of Directors and the Board of Control in consideration. At length, having regard to the prudence and ability which Lord Dalhousie had exhibited during his rule in India, her Majesty's Government deter mined to point out to him to some extent what they consi dered would be the beat course to pursue, while at the same time they left au ample discretion in his hands. Lord Del housie's conduct proved that Government had been well jus tified in placingthat c on fidencein him, because the moment that the power was conferred ,on the noble lord he took what he (Mr. V. Smith) regarded as a most manly course. He celled it a manly course, because it would really have savours d only of hypocrisy to deal with it in any other way with that unfortunate monarch—unfortunate from his own vices anti debaucheries. He (Mr. Smith) was very indifferent whe ther that transaction were designated as an annexation, an acquisition, or a cession ; but he denied that the general policy of the Government had been one of annexation, if by that were meant the grasping of everything which came within arm's reach. Such was not the annexation of Oado. Men might approve the annexation of Oude and condemn that of Pogue and. Nagpere, for each case stood upon distinctive features of its own. He had heard people say that we had no more right to annex Oude than the Emperor of Russia had to annex Turkey; but Russia was not responsible for what took place in Turkey, while we were responsible for what occurred in Oude. For whatever mischief happened within our ken in the East, and which it was in our power to suppress, we were held to be liable; end therefore every evil which existed in Oude to which we could put an end was imputed to our charge. It would not do to hold one principle at Calcutta and another at Lucknow—to say that what waskood in one place was bad in another, or vice versa; and ho was perfectly prepared therefore, whenever it should be questioned, to defend the acquisition of Oude as a most important step, which was rendered necessary by the circumstances of the country. As regarded the condition of the people of Oude since the annexation of that province he would read to the house a letter upon that subject from the Governor-General of India, dated May 3, 1856, in which it was stated— " Dude remains perfectly tranquil. Some of the zemindars holding armed forts, and among them the Thelsepore Raj th, have availed themselves of the option given them by , General Outram, and have paid part of their arrears in guns, which are taken at a valuation, although nothing in the shape of coercion or threat has been used to make them do so. The riots continue, as from the beginning, to show the best proof sof satisfaction and confidence, by flocking back to tracts of country which were rapidly becoming de sort and jungle, owing to the population being driven away, either by oppression practised on themselves, or by the feuds and ravages of the zemindars in the neighbourhood. I haVe no doubt this confidence will spre id and increase with the progress of our three years temporary settlement, teach ing them, as it will, that their rent henceforward will be fixed and moderate, and that everything beyond that rent will be their own without fear or extortion." Since he had last addressed the house upon the subject the dynasty of the Itejah of Tanjore had become extinct, and there had not appeared to be any necessity for founding a new one. He would next proceed to state to the house whet had been the progress in domestic affairs in India since last year. One of the most important questions con nected with domestic progress in India, and one which ex cited the greatest attention in this country, was that of railways, and he would shortly state what progress had been made in that re.pect. "The East Indian Railway has at present 121 miles open, and was in expectation of opening to Rajrnahal, a distance of 190 miles, by the end of the present year. The Great Indian Peuinsular Rail way was at present open as far as Caurpoolie, a distance of 90 miles from Bombay. The Madras line was ready to be opened to Arcot, a distance of 70 miles. The Baroda Railway Company . had made great progress in staking out and commencing their line towards Ahme labad. The Scinde Railway Company had been equally expo claims in the works on their line towards Kurrachee. The surveys for new lines now in progress or about to be commenced were that of a line to Nagpor, from the Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company's line on the north-eastern extension ; that of an extension of the present Scinde line to Lahore ; and that of a new line from Calcutta eastwards to Dacca. The progress of these railways was of thevery utmost im. portance, and ought in every way to be encouraged. For his own part he had seen with the greatest pleasure a pro posal which had been made a short time back for estab lishing a railway in India without a gual-a,ntee from the Government. The system of always requiring a guarantee for works in India was in many respects a most unfortu nate one for that country, because it to a great extent ten led to discourage private enterprise. He was not pre pared to sanction any scheme which might be proposed, simply because it had been proposed by private enterprise, but every scheme which afforded fair prospect of advan tage ought to be, as far as possible, encouraged. The sub ject next in point of attraction to the railways was the telegraph, and its progress in India heel been vary curious. The subject of the electric telegraph had been reported on by Lord Dalhousie in his minute of February, 1356, from which it appeared that the electric telegraph h id now been in 'operation in India above a year, and the results were most satisfactory. The construction of the lines commenced in November, 1853, and up to February last 4,020 miles had been completed. The total cost of the work had been upwards of 2,000,0001. sterling, or at the average rate of about 501. a mile. The receipts during the past year have been upwards of 20,0001,, and they had gone on increasing every month. The estimated cost of working the line was about 30,0001. a-year. The actual cash receipts, therefore, even in the first year, amounted to more than two-thirds of the working expenses, while the charges for messages were lower than on any other line in the world. Dr. O'Shaugh nessey, through whose exertions and superintendence this great work had been carried out, stated that he had been perfectly successful in establishing the direct transmission of signals and messages between Agra and Bombay and be tween Agra and Peshawar— " So that an answer is obtainable within two minutes from one end of this line to the other through 1,630 miles of line, in which eight rivers are crossed by submerged cables of up• wards of 40,000 feet in length." The government of Oude was transferred to the East In dia Company on the 7th Feb. last. On the same day ope rations were commenced for putting down the telegraph wire, and within 18 days a telegraph of 52 miles in length, including a cable of 6,000 feet across the Ganges, had been substantially constructed and successfully worked. Dr. O'Shaughnessey had been one of those who had taken a most active part in the establishment of the telegraph in India, and several schemes proposed by that gentleman had not yet been carried into effect. One of those proposals was to connect India with Eoglsnd, and that scheme, if carried out, would enable him to obtain an answer from Calcutta in six minutes and a-half. The condition of the postal service in India had boon much improved since last year, and he had every reason to believe that eventually communication with India would be more rapid and would be cheaper than with many of the other colonies of this country. There was ono other point to which he wished to refor—he alluded to the report of the Law Commission ers. The Law Commissioners had, in the third and last year of their existence, furnished the house and the country with a very able and valuable report. He had been informed that he had given greet, but he must say unintentional, offence to some members of the commission by sending that report to ludia. Now, the house woule bear in mind that a groat deal must be done by the Legis lative Council, and the jealousy of that body was well known. If, therefore, he had acted without their assistance they would not have been favourably disposed towards his plan ; but his object had been as much as possible to work thr ngh that body, as being the only way fully to carry out the views of the commissions. Some of the proposals of the commissioners were, from their very nature, inca pable of any other but an Indian consummation. -In the adoption of this course ho had been justified by the opinion of the Governor-General, who said that to have acted upon the report of this commission without trans mitting it to India would have given the greatest offence • in that country. The Indian Government rand the Legis lative Cate oil would have thought themselves most con tumeliously treated. One principal point was the amal gamation of the Sudder and Supreme Courts. This amid g anation, if compulsory, might have given great offence, because, while the supreme courts were accustomed to ac env the Sadder courts of a want of law, the latter retorted by accusing the supreme counts of knowing nothiug of India ; and it was most desirable that, if possible, this measure should be carried oat with the assent of both classes of courts. A patent law had been adopte i in India, and vies waiting for the consideration.and sanction of the Court of Directors and of himself (Mr. V. Smith). .One of 'the matters on which the Government of India most required amendment was the police, which was, in his opinion, lef no means in a satisfactory state. (Hear, hear.) He had already, in speaking of the Sental insurrection, referred to the defects of the police, and ho believed that its faults were common to the whole of India. In Bombay there had been established a new system, by which the police would be placed under the immediate direction of the Government ; and it was desirable that some experi ence should be obtained of the working of this system be fore any alteration was made in the police se stems of the other presidencies. The whole subject was, however, under consideration of the noble lord who had recently gone out to India as Governor-General. Another question incident to this one of police, was that of the torture— (ohfe torture. o r r , t h h e r -L e. r ) —Tthhoe Court existence of Directors,o f w hich had amongb been n otherbrought ios t r to o o . light by the meritorious exertions of his honourable friend and colleague the Secretary of the Board of Control ( Mr. Denby Seymour). (Hear, hear.) He could assure the house that everything whic t i was noesible was b ein g dr ne for the eradication of this horrible system. It was unworthy of any one connected with the Indian Go vernment to extenuate it—(hoar, hear)—or to Fay th a t_ it was not torture, but only bodily pain. All thew .) things were utterly puerile and contemptible. (Hear) For him, it was quite enough that revenue had been exto rted b y the infliction of bodily pain. Lord Harris, the emi nent Go vernor of Madras, was perfectly sensible of the h orrors of this system, and had taken the greatest pain s to su pp ress it. His ( Lord Harris's) opinion was that it to a great ex tent resulted from the high rate of assessmen ts, and that a readjustment of assessments would get rid of It. That, however, must be a slow operation, but in the meant ime Lord Hai ris had set a careful watch upon t his s y stem, and was prepared to punish with the severest penalties for there had undoubtedly been a want of seve rit y in th e pe nalties hitherto inflicted—and with dis missal fro m the service of any person who was convicted of the inflictio n tions, sent out an order that en act should be passed for the enforcement of severe penalties for this offence. The law advisers thought that such an act would be useless, and that the only way to suppress this evil was to separ.te the revenue from the police system. Ile (Mr. V. Smith) thought that this would be an excellent measure to adopt, but it was one which would involve considerable expense and would require much consideration, because we should have to decide whether we would establish an European police or would trust'wholly or in part to native, officers. He therefore could not help thinking that Lord Harris had not dope right ,in omitting to pass the act to which he had referred. It was true that by regulations, adopted so late as the years 1316 and 1819, very heavy penalties were im posed for acts of torture, but it was clear that these regu lations had never been enforced, and he thought that the passing of a new act would have more effect than the re newal of old ones. He could not help thinking that when Lord Harris considered the matter he would see that if no new act were passed the opinion would prevail that. es-hi therto no notice had been taken of this system, so no atten tion was intended to be paid to it in future. It was to him (Mr. V. Smith) most marvellous that successive Governor- Generals, iucludieg among them a man of the greatest vigour and assiduity, Lord Ellenboroupb, should have gene out to India and returned without the slightest knowledge of the existence of this system of torture. Ho could not attribute it to any defect on their part, but must suppose that it arose from some fault of the system that such a thing should pass without being observed by them. He had been blamed for the strength of the observations which he made upon this subject last year; but he must say that he considered Government responsible for what had occurred under their rule. If they said they knew nothing about it, that was as good as saying that they did not perform the functions of governors. (Hear; hear.) The next question to which he should call the attention of the house was that of the introduction of an improved system of education. A new system had been recommended by his right hon. friend the late President of the Board of Control (Sir C. Wood) in a despatch dated the 19th of July, 1854 ; and measures had been taken to carry those recommenda tions into effect by the appointment of directors, inspec tors, and visitors of schools, the passing of rules for univer sities, the distribution of grants, and by other means. In the north-western provinces a new class of schools termed halkabunda (or circuit) had lately been established under the auspices of Mr. Reid, the Director of Public 'in struction in those provinces ; these schools were spreading rapidly over the country. The main cost of them was de frayed by the landed proprietors and cultivators by an assess ment, voluntarily contributed by themselves of 1 per cent. on the Government revenue. Mr. Reid believed that, if this subscription could be generally obtained, a school might ba established in every e 0 s square miles of the country I with no expense to Government but that of supervision. In the Bombay Presidency public libraries for the use of the natives have now been established in eigh t different districts besides eight mitivelibraries in the town of Bombay, which contained English as well as vernacular works, and were supported chiefly by local subscriptions. At Sholapore the subscriptions for a library and anEoglish and hlarhatta school amounted to 2,71)0r. ' besides books. At Setters they were 1,200 r. AmonglheGovernment grants was one of 4,000 r. given to the native students' " Literary and Scientific Society" towards a building for a lecture-room, leboratory, museum, and library, for which private subscriptions had been raised amounting to 10,030 r. The members of the in stitution hold a meeting once a month for tl e transaction of business and reading essays in English-once a fortnight two meetings were held for a similar purpose in the verna. cular. At these vernacular meetings large and interested audiences assembled, to witness experiments and illustra tions of natural science, and to discuss questions bearing on the moral and social improvement of the people. Seven girls' schools, at piesent containing 450 children, are sup . ported by the society, and two infant-schools were under their superintendence. They already issued two monthly vernacular publications, and had undertaken to pub lish a series of papers in Mahrattee and Gaze rattee similar to " Chambers 's Information for the People." All this is the more remarkable as coming flour a native society, themselves having experienced the benefits of education and desirous of dif fusing its advantages among their countrymen. This was the progress which had been made by education in India. It had not been so rapid as he could have wished, but at tention had been called to this by the Rome Government, and he hoped that the defect would soon be remedied by the more active exertions of the local authorities. In re ferring to this subject, ho must not omit to notice the con sequences which had resulted from the improvement of education for the civil service in this country. He last year stated the result of the first competitive examination for employment in that service. It was, no doubt, sing. ter of some regret that the number of candidates who had presented themselves for examination this year was not so large as it had been the year before, but it was not to be apprehended that this cause of complaint would continue. In looking back to the examinations of last year he rather lamented the extreme severity of the tests applied. (Hear.) Ho was bound in sincerity to admit that the questions put to the candidates alarmed him for his own ignorance, and he had been assured that many Cambridge students had been very much disheartened by them. (Hear.) Except in the case of the professor of Italian, whom he reap pointed, he had thought it advisable to select new ex aminers, and had been so fortunate as to obtain the ser vices of one very competent gentlemen from Trinity Col lege, Dublin. The result of the examinations might be thus stated :-The total number of candidates examined is 56, whereas last year it was 112 (just double the number). The relative number of the candidates from the principal Universities in 1856 and in 1855 are as follow : -From Oxford in 1856, 10; n 1855, 19; from Cambridge, in 1856, 14 ; in 1855, 32 ; from London, in 1856, 3 ; in 1855, 4 ; from King's College; Loudon, 1856, 6; in 1855, 3 ; from other Euglish schools, stc., in 1856, 4 ; in 1855, 12 ; total English, in 1836, 37 '• in 1855, 70. From Edin burgh, in 1856, 1; in 1855, 3; from Aberdeen, in 1856, 2 ; in 1855, 5 ; from other Scotch colleges and schools, in 1855, 7 ; total Scotch, in 1856, 3 ; in 1855, 15. From Dublin, in 1856, 8; in 1855, 11 •, from Cork, in 1856, 3; in 1855, 5; from Belfast, in UK 2; from Carlow, in 1853,1; from other Irish colleges, in 1855, 2; total Irish, in 1856, 14 ; in 1855,21. From abroad, in 1855, 3 ; from at home (private tuition), in 1856, 2 ; in 1855, 3-i.e., Euglish col leges, &c., in 1856, 3( ; in 1855, 70; Scotch, in 1856, 3 ; in 1855, 15 ; Irish, in 1856, 14 ; in 1855, 21; abroad, in 1855, 3 ; private tuition, in 1856, 2 ; in 1855 ' 3 ; total, iu 1856, 56; in 1855, 112. One or two particulars with re spect to the examinations might not be uninteresting. The plan heretofore pursued contemplated two examinations the first, a general one ; the second to take place after the lapse of two or three years, an examination in law and the Oriental languages. The system was established under the sanction of Lord Ashburton, Mr. Macaulay, and Mr. Le fevre. It was excellent in theory, but when it was brought to the test of practical experience the second examination was seen to be surrounded with such difficulties that Mr. Masaulayhadhimself recommended that it should be relin quished. (Hear, hear.) Strange as it might appear, it was not less true that it was found almost impossible to procure the means for a sound legal education in this country. The only substitute was a certificate attesting that the candidate had attended a certain number of lec tures, but this was a very unsatisfactory expedient, for such certificates did not vouch for the candidate's profi ciency, and wore regarded merely as matters of routine. The difficulty aa regards Oriental languages was almost as great; and another obstacle arose on the question of resi dence, it being impossible to ascertain what became of the candidates during the interval between the first and the second examination. Taking into consideration all the circumstances of the case, he determined that the better course would be to give up the second examination altoge ther, and to send them out after they had undergone one examination only. He had provided a professor of Arabic and Sanscrit, but it was a little discouraging to find that not more than one candidate presented himsef for exami nation in those abstruse studies. It was one of the princi ples on which Mr. Macaulay's minute was founded that in conducting these examinations care should be taken not to examine a candidate in anything which, in the event of his being rejected, might be considered as lost time ; and very possibly it was the knowledge of that fact which induced the candidates to believe that it would not be necessary for them to " get themselves up " in Arabic and Sanscrit. (Hear.) With regard to the mode of examining, he hid himself introduced what he deemed to be a very important alteration-a viva voce examination. (Hoar, hear.) The reason why he bad done so was that he had always been of opinion that such a method of exami• nation afferded a better test than any other of a man's moral qualities-his courage, his readiness, .his aptitude, his self-possession. (Hears) He confessed that ho was not without his doubts as to whether the plan of competition would furnish any better guarantee for such qualities than the old system afforded, but, at all events, there was some approach to a test in a viva voce examination, and therefore he had adopted it. (Hear, hoar.) Ho had at tended one of those examinations,and was struck with the readiness and proficiency exhibited by the candidates. Nor was his experience singular. He was happy to say that it was corroborated by the testimony of Mr. Dasent, a gentleman of great abilities and profound attainments, whose services ho had been so fortunate as to secure for the examination of candidates ! (Hear,) Mr. Dasent had at first a strong prejudiee against the practice of viva voce examination, but he now admitted that it had worked welt, and its results were most satisfactory. In justifica tion of this statement he would iced the following extract from a letter he had received from Hr. Dasent :- " I beg leave to inform you that, in my opinion, the re sult of the viva wee examination in Euglishilistory has been highly satisfactory. It g ves mu the greater pleasure to be able to make this statement, because I was one of those who at first thought tile amount of viva voce examination for the Indian Civil service disproportionate to the paper-work. Out of 54 candidates who answered at their numbers at the vied voce examination I find that seven are classified in my notes as 'very good' and have obtained 53 marks-The greatest amount which lam enabled to give. Of the rest the great majority are classified 'good' and 'fair,' averaging about 30 marks. Ten or 12 arc indifferent,' with about 15 marks each, and only three are marked bad,' and may be con sidered to have fails I. I think this result is worthy e men tion, especially as the examination often led the candidate into minute historical details in which no mere men - I°l.la teetnica or cramming could have given them any assistance. Of the very good 4, 25, and4s, Were the beat-" (Hear.) And that last by the way was an Irishman. He confessed that he was much gratified by the perusal of Mr. Deeent's letter, for he regarded it as a must satisfactory statement, coining from one who was well qualified to pronounce au opinion on the subject. With respect to the general merits of the competitive system it must , be admitted that the question assumed a different aspect in India and in Eng land. For his own part, lie thought it was a mistake to suppose that, as a generel rule, the civil service in this country opened a suitable field of exertion to men of high ambition and proportionate ability. In India, on the con trary, it did open such a field. These able and ambitious men were needed. The civil service was; a fitting sphere for them, and in it they were sure to rise to eminence. He would not be understood, however, as ',tincturing in the opinion which a distinguished member of that house had not hesitated to express-that patronage WAS " au odious and a hurtful thing." Ho repudiated that sentiment alto. gother, ant rather favoured the doctrine of the right lion. member for Buckinghamshire-that patronage, well exer cised, was Olen of the noblest at tiibutes of power. What more delightful t isk Could there be than to befriend merit and to prevent talent from pining in obscurity? (Cheers.) It so happened that during the period he had held his present office not a little patronage had passed through his hands.elle mentioned the fact fur the sake of alluding 10 a Subject brought under his notice last year by the lion. and learned member for Enniskillen (Hr. Whiteside), who first had called attention to the fact that Irishmen were totally excluded from the Indian bench. Finding this statement to be correct, he deemed it his duty to rectify sd anomalous a state of things, and of three judgeships in his gift he had presented two to as many members eif the Irish bar, and one to an Irish gentleman. Ho had ale. pointed two gentlemen on the board of directors as nomi. iiceS for the Crown; but, though sensible of the distin guished merits and services of Sir G. Pollock. he had not reappointed him, simply because it was the intention of the Legislature that the office should be held only for a stated period, and that it should not be imp to .ted in the same hands. He had nominated General Viiian for one of the vacancies in the direction. He could not quit this part of the subject without expressing the great oldie- 1 faction it had afforded him to engage for his own depart. I ment the services of so distinguished an Indian admi niitrator as Sir George Clerk. (Hoar, hear.) He men tioned those facts to show that the distribution of pre; tronage, which had given rise to so much reviling, did not deserve all the reproaches cast upon it. Nothing had been more gratifying to him in all his . public life than to be able to select for important public situations men with scarcely one of whom ho had been personally ac queinted, but whose high qualifications promised to be of the greatest service to India. (Hear, hear.) Ha felt theft he had already trespassed too long on the attention of the house, and yet his remarks had been far too short to do ,justice to a question of such magnitude. He had passed hutriedly over topics which, if they had related to matters nearer home, might well have occupied weeks in their dis , citesion. As it was, hOwever, he had only to thank the helve for the indulgence extended to him. The question of the right government of India was, perhaps, one of the most difficult problems that claimed solution. The time had been when the rulers of that vast empire looked to nothing but the amount of revenue which they could ex trek from its people. Since then, however, thank God, a hitter day had dawned upon its many race.) and creeds, whirse governors were now endeavouring to do something for thei r social improvement. To interfere with their ter ligion was to tread upon delicate ground—a course 'which he should prefer to avoid. The proper mode of i osprey. iug their religion was by improving their morality ; and this could best be achieved by setting them an example of iuflexible honesty and good faith. This was the . policy which the Indian Government had to pursue ; and in that policy he trusted they would be successful. As long as the authority he now exercised was entrusted to him he should strive to promote the welfare of the natives of India, to whose interests be had been warmly attached from his ear liest .% ears. It had been observed by practical philosophers that it would be a. proud day for England when she re signed to the inhabitants of India, well educated, civilised, stud regenerated, the sway which she now held over them. Slob a result he could not anticipate that he should ever live to see. If, however, it occurred in his time, ho, for ono, should tremble for the consequences. His belief was that it would be a proud day for England when, Maintaining her rule over this distant and populous empire, she could yet say that to the utmost of her power she had advanced the physical prosperity and elevated the moral and intellec tual character of the people of India—objects wholly over looked by their ancient dynasties. (Cheers.) The right hon. gentleman concluded by moving a formal resolution, embodying the result of the accounts given in his speech. , Sir E. PERRY said he had heard the statement of the right hon. gentleman with great Satisfaction. (Hear.) Hewes sorry to say there wore not many members in that house who took great interest in Indian affairs, and there cer tainly was not great encouragement for them to do so, for they hardly ever brought forward a topic connected with India but they were met by the. Indian Minister with a growl.; and they were all well aware that, whatever inte rest they took in Indian affairs,, it would not gain them a vote from their constituents. They had, however, no res• eon to .complain of the progress of Parliamentary opinion respecting India during the present session. In the course of that time several facts had been made plain to the people of England respecting Indian affairs which would be very useful. One was that the East India Company was nothing more than a company of stockholders, having no inherent power of government in themselves'. Another, that the Court of Directors was nothing but a paid depart ment of the Government, in fact, merely trustees for the time being, while it had also been clearly established that England was responsible for any deficiency which might arise in the Indian revenue. (Hear, hear.) It had also been satisfactorily proved, that the people of India were so poor that a considerable portion of that revenue had, in times past, been elicited .by torture, and from that fact the impartial conclusion was drawn, that the Government of India ought to be as cereal and scrupulous in the ma nagement of its revenue as uny other department of the Government of this country. During the past session it bad been brought to the knowledge of the President of the Board 3f Control, that be had it in his power to check a eportion of Indian expenditure, which had hitherto figured as a considerable item. In many cases the Court of Directors had engaged in disputed legal questions, with out the authority or sanction of the Board of Control, and by, doing so had lost immense sums of money. Many of those cases they had thus engaged in wore notoriously b td. Ho need not refer to the Dyce Sombre case, which was known to most people. But there was the case of the Rajah of Coorg, who was deposed by the India Company some t weuty years ago, but who, having held shares iu the public fence of India, sued the Company for these after he had been so deposed. The India Company said they were entitled to hold these shares as booty of war ; but he believed if the Government of this country had defended the case under such a plea, that the people of England 'would have indignantly repudiated their conduct. Yet the ludia Company had gone into the case without the sletion of the Board of Control, and it was going on at thls day. There was another case of the slime class, that of the Nawab of Surat, which had now come to an untimely end, but in whichhe thought there was a great dealofjustice. Inthat case, instead of having their counsel, in the usual 'way, to argue their case at the bar of that house, they spend thousands of pounds in defending it. Another point to which he wished to draw attention was as to whether the Ett i st India Company had legally the power to grant large pe ' sions an make gratuities and charitable donations. U to 1833 they ware in the position of a private corpora i] d. tio , with immense funds at their own disposal ; but since th t r eriod they wore trustees, administering the revenues of India for the Crown, and had no right to dispose of those funds in any manner other than was provided for by the act of 1833. He next- came to the statement which the right hon. gentleman had made of the condition of the finances of India, and in that he must say that it presented a singular discrepancy with other statements which had been made to the house on that subject on former occa sions. In the first place, the statement of the right hon. gentleman completely corroborated what he (Sir E. Perry) had urged upon the house at an earlier period of the ses sion, that the heavy periodical deficit observable in the financial accounts of the Indian Government was not attri ' hatable to public works alone. It was stated in the se ' counts for 1853.4 that the sum expended for public works ' was two millions and a quarter sterling, nearly the whole amount of the deficit ; but now it appeared that the whole amount really expended in that year for public works was ' only one million, while there had been a public works loan of 2,725,000!. Under those circumstances there should have been no deficiency whatever, bat instead of that he found not only an apparent deficit of three millions, but also a very large deficit of several millions in the cash ba ' lances, which must be added to the former. Lord -Dal housie had spoken very cheerfully of the promising pros pects of the Indian revenue, and had boasted of having added by territorial acquisition during his tenure of office no less than 4,000,000/. a-year to the annual income -of ludic. No doubt that was a most cheering statement ; bat when they came to look into it they found that he had given only the gross receipts, without making any deduc tion for one item of charge for either civil or military go vernment, just as if a farmer were to boast of the return of his wheat sold at market as. net profit, without any allowance for rent or cost of cultivation. Thus the Punjaub was credited for one million and a-half, whereas it had been proved in that house that there was an actual deficit in the Punjaub revenue of 59,00)1. a-year ; Sattara was credited for 150,000/. a-year, there being really a deficit of 22,000.. Nagpore was put down for 410,010/, when deducting charges it hal been shown that there was only 100,855/. available income. In the same way the noble lord had talked of the opium revenue having increased from 2,73e,0001. in 1847 to 4,700,000/. in 1851: when it had really increased after deducting damages to 2,975,000/. The right hon. gentle man had referred to the economical plans that were in con shieration as a means of improving the condition of the finances of India, bat though he (Sir E. Perry) was an Indian reformer, he urged the right hon. gentleman not to imagine that it would be right economy to cut down the emoluments of the civil service in India. The true method would be by calling into their service the natives of the country in larger proportion, giving them the principal offices under European supervision, and. so cutting down the charges. The Indian Law Commissioners had applied themselves diligently to the improvement of legal process and procedure in India, recommending, first of all, the amalgamation of the Queen's and Company's courts, with a view to improving the administration of justice. The result had, however, been, that the report of the commis sion had been sent to India to be handed about like Mr. Ilacaulay's criminal code. The Chief Justice Jervis, who was a member of the commission, had declined to sign the second and third reports of the commissioners, and he had said that if he had thought that the labours of the com missioners were to be used as an excuse for postponing legislation, he never would have been 'a member of the commission. The honourable and learned gentleman then proceeded to comment upon the annexation of Oude, and to contend that the responsibility of annexing that king dom did not rest with the late Governor-General, Lord Dalhousie, but with the President of the Beard of Control anti the Court of Directors. He concluded by regretting the indifference of the leading statesmen of the country on this subject. He believed the house, from the indifference of hon. members, were not so forward on this subject as the public out of doors. That was also a subject of regret, because Parliament had never interfered without confer ring groat benefits on India. Ile concluded by thanking the house for listening to him so long and with so much attention. Sir JAMES W. HOGG said his hon. and learned friend heti concluded his speech by attacking the Court of Di rectors, and in reply ho would confine himself with allud ing to tee principal points. He had made a partial allu sion to the annexation of Gude. His belief was, that the Government hid acted wisely and justly in the an nexation of that kingdom. lie very much doubted whether the public were with his honourable friend (Sir E. Perry) in this matter. They were deeply indebted to Lord Delhousio for his services on that occasion, and the happiness and prosperity of the people were their re ear& It was true, there was a deficit, but that was owing to the combination of the ordinary with the extraordinary charges of annexation. He had no doubt, however, that in future years there would be a surplus as oron as the necessity which called for extraordinary charges was removed. He did not contend that wo ought to annex a country because of the bad way in which it was governed, but the Government of India were the virtual rulers of Oude by the treaty of 1801. They were bound to get rid of the actual ruler of that country, who had governed it in a manner most objectionable to the people, and the people of Oude were eteeedingly glad of the removal of the King. Reference had been-made to the re ports of the commissioners, who haul sat in this country, in respect to the courts of India; and he contended that the Government had judged wisely in riot founding any legislative measures on these reports, until they had submitted them to Indian legal authorities. The hon. gentleman said that much of the expenditure in India had arisen from the erection of new barracks, For the future the charge for repairs and military works would appear as separate items. He would, in reply to the hon. and learned gentleman who had just ad dressed the house, observe, that there was no act of Parlia meat to give the Court of Directors the power to grant pen sions. That power was an inherent right of the governing pawer. Tue act referred to only limited power. Therefore, the Court of Directors in this particular was established by the act which passed the Legislature in reference to tire pen sion granted to Lord Harding°. The reference made to the conduct of the Court of Directors in the case of tire will of Mr. Dyce Sombre was not justified by the circumstances of the case, for the Court of Appeal fully sustained the conduct of the Court of Directors in the matter Mr, I-lEADLAM said that the Indian Commission referred to had made many valuable reports, but no advantage had arisen from them. No use had been made of the reports, and the commission was brought to an end. Tire hon. wee learned gentleman. then referred to the letters addressed to the commissioners by Sir Charles Wood, and said, when the commissioners applied for an extension of their time, they received a letter from the Secretary of the Board of Control, informing them that it.was not intended to apply for an act of Parliament to continue their powers. Under these cir cumstances, it was likely that their past labours would be of no avail, and it was no wonder they complained of the treat ment they had received. Mr. LOWE said, as ope of the Indian Law Commissioners, ho did not scruple to say that they uudertook their task with- end to. After. a few words in explanation from Sir .1. W. HOGG, 'Mr. OTWAY said the charges brought against the direc tors of the East India Company were of a very grave nature — no less than that of spending the resources of that groat nation of which they wore the guardians, disregarding the most so lemn treaties, and if not torturing, at least conniving at the torture of the people committed to their char,,re In 1354, the directors of the East India Company spent upwa!d3 cf 10,000!. in law expenses ; in 1555, they spent 13,000/. in law expenses, and in 1856 it appeared they had spent about 16,000/. As regarded Lord Dalhousie's administration, there was no doubt that many of his acts were deserving of the highest approbation ; but there were some of his acts to which he (Mr. Otway) could not give his approval. As re garded nude, when they had m ide a solemn treaty with a prince, however weak he might be, they were bound to re spect it. As regarded public works, they should have sub mitted to them every year au account of those public works which were remunerative and of those which were not remu- nerative. It was disgraceful to see Sovereigns who sat upon the Throne before the House of Hanover reduced to the po- sition almost of beggars, and coming to this country to sue for their rights. If the right hon. gentleman would read the foreign newspapers, especially American newspapers, he would see how greatly those cases brought us into contempt. He next referred to the system of torture used to extract money from poor wretches who had none to pay. This system of tor ture was continued under the present reginte ; and worse than that, there was no attempt to apply a remedy. The latest accounts showed that the tortures, though they had, perhaps, diminished, had by no means ceased, and that the lion, gentleman was fully justified who said that in this matter the Court of Directors was a particeps crintinis. Au admirable suggestion was made by Mr. Llewen, that you should give to the native Moonsif criminal jurisdiction. We had just finished a great war ; but now we were on the eve of a little war a war with Persia. He bore testimony to the fact, that the right hon. gentleman de served great credit for the sentiments contained in the con clusion of his speech, and for the judicious mode in which ho had exercised his patronage for the advantage of India. Mr. H. D. SEYMOUR said it was impossible to manage such a vast empire as that of India, without having these princely claimants for what was designated justice. But many of these claims were of ancient date, and the present Government was by uo means responsible for anything com plained of. He took up the cases mentioned, and defended the policy which had been pursued respecting them. There were discrepancies in the accounts, but Mr. Grant had admitted that they were but approximative. These accounts were made under the old system ; the next accounts would be made up in accordance with the new system, and then he trusted that these discrepancies would not again appear. There would be far greater details iu the new accounts on many points, espe cially with regard to public works, than there were in the present. Some of the money wh ch had been expended nixes those public works had returned profits to the extent of 600 and 700 per cent. They wanted very badly cheap and easy justice in India ; and this want interrupted all commercial speculations, and proved a great incubus on the progress of the country, which in the new era of Indian government would, he hoped, not be suffered to remain long. The next want was a good system of education in India ; the system established by his right hon. friend, now the First Lord of the Admiralty, only required to be well carried out ; and he was glad to hear from his right hon. friend the President of the Board of Control that this system was to be carried into effect with vigour. There was a very great desire for education, and so great was the in dustry of the children that the difficulty was not to get them to learn, but to prevent them injuring their health by neglect ing to play. The great motive for this application was the de sire to get into Government employment. The education of girls was an important subject. Ten years ago it was difficult to get parents to allow their daughters to attend the schools, but this objection was gradually dying out, and the schools were beginning to be well attended. The Parsee schools in Bombay were also flourishing, and there were a number of schools for girls, which were well attended. They were in the hands of th natives ; but the English system was adopted, and the books used were the Irish school-books. There was also a railway about to be applied for, without a guarantee. There was great reason to be sanguine of the future prosperity of India, seeing the greater interest that was now taken in that country, and that Government now afforded encourage ment to enterprising speculators. With respect to cotton spinning in India, which had likewise been adverted to by the right hon. gentleman, the President of the Board of Con trol, he had seen the establishments at Noche, Pondicherry, and Calcutta, and looked upon the undertaking as most im portant, not from its magnitude, but the promise it afforded that the yarn which had hitherto been exported crom Europe might now be made in the country itself, and the money with which it had been purchased applied in the cultivation of the soil. They must remember, too, that the schemes for con necting India with Europe would boar largely upon this new source of expectation, and among them was the Euphrates railway project, which the Turkish Government would assist with all its power. Thus would old prejudices be forgotten, education be made more general, justice cheap and easy, and capital and intellect be introduced. By those means he con fidently hoped that every blot that had stained the adminis tration of the revenue in India would gradually disappear, and, by a wise government established in that country, they would acquire strength in the general relations with the Asiatic continent. (Hear.) Mr. BUTT took advantage of the peculiar nature of the committee to give notice that he should endeavour, probably on Thursday next, to call attention to the case of the only native Prince of Made who had a titleand territory remain ing. Mr. MANGLES said he thought it was duo to himself and others that he should reply to some charges which had been made against the Government of India, They had been asked why they had not abolished torture in India ? He would ask, in reply, what were the shortcomings iu their social Govern ment at home? Ho would ask, for example, why they had not put down agrarian murders in Ireland 1 And when he was blamed for not knowing of its existence, he could plead igno rance in company with Lord Ellenborough and other distin guished men. At the same time he would remark, that the fact of their not having known of it ought to be received as some proof that the practice was not so great as it was supposed to be. The honour/v.lc member for Stafford, speak ing of Oule, referred t• the treaty of 1537; but ho could tell the hon. gentleman, that had the alternative been adopted which he appeared to recommend, the only difference would have been, that the streets of Luckuow would have been deluged with blood, and the most horrible calamities would have occurred, which, happily, had been avoided. He quite agreed in the separation of the police from the revenue. Iu a population like that of India, ono of whose chief characteris tics was a tendency to crouch to fiscal oppression, the union was most objectionable. On the subject of torture he might hero mention that in the vast presidency of Bengal, which was little less in extent than the whole of France, not only was there no torture, but there was no officer by whom it could be committed. The resolutions were then put and agreed to. Mr. V. SMITH observed that the opinions given by the law commissioners were sent out to the Government iu India for their opinion, and they in return wrote a despatch sa g jug they were ready to carry many of them into effect if approved of by the Government at home. He certainly had sent out his ap proval at once, and no doubt everything would be done to carry their recommendation into effect as soon as possible. In answer to a question from Mr. OTWAY, Mr. V. SMITH said he had not heard if Mr. Theobald, a law professor in Calcutta, was dismissed from his.offico in con sequence of his denunciation of torture, but if he were dis missed, it must have been by the Governor-Geueral, who, uo doubt, had good reason to do so. The house then resumed. THE BISHOPS OF LONDON AND DURHAM BILL. In answer to Sir J. GRAHAM, Lord PALMERSTON said ho should propose to read it a second time to-morrow evening. Sir J. GRAHAM—WiII the noble lord have any objection to lay on the table the correspondence which took place be tween the Bishops of London and Durha m and the Govern ment on the subject of the resignation of their bishoprics ? Lord PALMERSTON said it had already been lad on the table of the House of Lords, and of course there could be no objection to do so. VICE-PRESIDENT OF COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION BILL. Oa this bill being brought up to be amendcdand considered, Mr. HADFIELD moved the insertion of a clause extending the duties of the Vice-President to Ireland. • Sir Cl. GREY opposed the clause, but on the suggestion of the Speaker, it was postponed until the third reading to morrow. THE LEASES AND SALES OF SETTLED ESTATES BILL. This bill was considered and amended, and ordered to bo road a third time to-morrow. The house t'aen went through committee on the Hay and Straw Trade Bill. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS (SCOTLAND) BILL. The consideration of the Lords' amendments to this bill was then proceeded with. The LORD ADVOCATE moved that the Lords' amend ments be amended, by leaving out clauses 12 and 13 of these amendments, the object being to restore the clause abolish ing all descriptions of tests ou the appointment of schoolmas ters, which was agreed to after a short discussion. COMMISSIONERS OF SUPPLY (SCOTLAND) BILL, The Lords' amendments on this bill were considered and agreed to. INTESTATES PERSONAL ESTATES BILL. The Lords' amendments on this bill were considered and agreed to. STOKE POGIS liOSPITAL BILL. This bill was read a second time. DULWICH COLLEGE BILL. The order for the &T end reading of this bill was discharged, PROCTORS (ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS), Mr. HADFIELD moved for leave to bring in a bill to ro• peal the Sth section of the act 50 Geo. 111., cap. 127, whereby proctors in Ecclesiastical Courts in England allowing their names to be used by persons not entitled to act as proc tors, or allowing such persons to participate iu any profit and benefit, !hall be struck off the roll.—Agreed. to. APPELLATE 3U lIISDICTION. On the motion of Mr. RAIK ES CUItRIE the following members were nominated as the select committee or the Ap pellate Jurisdiction Bill :—Mr. Raikes Currie, Lord John Rus,ell, Mr, Attorney-General, Sir James Graham, Mr. Hen ley, Mr% Gladstone, Lord Stanley, the Lord-Ad voca t e, M r. Attorney-General for Ireland, Mr. Walpole, Sir Francis Bar. ing, Mr. BaillCS, Mr. Cairns, Mr. Evelyn Denison, and Mr. Malhis : Power to send for persons, papers, cud records ; five to be the quorum. THE BISHOPS OF LONDON AND DURHAM BILL, This bill was read a first time, and the second reading fixed for to-morrow. The house adjourned at 25 minutes to two o'clock. COFFEE AND EATING.IIOUSE-KEEPERS' BENEVOLtNT ASSOCIATION. —The thirty-ninth half-yearly meeting of this useful charity, which is intended to assist decayed members, their widows and orphans, was held last night at the Freemasons Tavern. Tho immediate ob ject of the meeting was to receive the report of the coin miLtee and the auditors for the past half-year, to elect a president, vice-president, and committee and other offi cers for the ensuing year. Mr. Baker, the president of the association, took the chair, ar.d called upon Mr. Rogers, the secretary, to read the report, which stated that the capital invested was 3,280/. 13s. 5d., and that the balance in the hands of the treasurer was 311 13s. 5d., making a total of 3,312/. 6s, 10d., which should be con sidered as gratifying, because during the year three pen sioners had been added to the list, at an increased expen diture of 34/. The committee were happy to announce to the members that they continued to receive from the London press a constant support and sympathy. The report was unanimously adopted, and Mr. Chislett, on the part of the auditors, having presented their report, it met with a similar reception. Mr. Harding, of Ave Maria-lane, the vice-president of the past half-year, was then elected president for the ensuing year. the vive president, committee, t re. $ firer, auditors, at d ot h er offi cers were then appointed, and the meeting closed with a cordial vote of .hunks to the pact officers. Country Markets. CEIELMSFOItD-JuLY 18. - - The bustle of the Agricultural Society's show somewhat interfered with the b us iness of our market. The supply was thin and buyers were few; wheat firm, and the better samples is dearer. All else unaltered in value, with little trade in any description of grain. old, per s. s. qr. 55 83 new.... 51 82 01d..... 33 78 new.... 52 77 Barley 33 41 • Chevalier 36 45 Grinding 31 Malt 72 76 Chevalier 74 78 red, Oats, Peas, s. s. per qr. l5 3l Partridge ... 43 45 White 42 49 Boiling 4:3 Dun 43 44 Beans, Tick 36 40 Harrow ticks 40 42 Mo.zagan 37 49 Ditto, new 36 37 COLCHESTER- JULY 13 Again a short supply of wheat ; the trade was slow, but last week's prices were well maintained, and for fine white is per qr advance was established. Beans more plentiful, and is cheaper. Peas scarce and fully as dear. Prices to-day were as follow :—Wbeat, white, 74s to 84s ; red, 704 to 765; barley, 38s to 42s ; oats, 264 to 304 ; beans, Mazagan, 40s to 42s ; middle and small, 42s to 468; peas, white, 42s to 46s ; grey, 40s to 445. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., receive] in the port of London, from the following ports, from the July 13 to July 19, both inclusive. Colchester Harwich Leigh Mahlon 4.; 1 p:, d ....) . .74 Pa 334( 54J 130 817 tia 0 400 SIRICCALDY—Jura 19. Wo had a small supply of wheat and oats, with only three bags of barley. All met a quick sale. Wheat fully 2s per qr. up ; oats and barley each is to is Gd per qr. above last week's prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. I First B6s Od 47s 0.1 f 37s Gd I Os 0• 1 Second Bos Od I 43s Od 38s Gd Os Oil Third 73s Od —s Od . 1 33s Oci I Os lid COAL AIARICE Prins of Coed per ton at Bate's West Hartley...., : Buddle W. Hartley Byass's West Hartley Brown's Moor High e.d. 16. C ,17 3 17 0, M.—JuLy 21. the close of the mai ket. 1 Wallsend, to. Main Howard's West Hartle_ Netherton 17 0 Longridge's Wst Hartley 17 C North Percy Hartley l6 Tanlield Moor l4 0, Tanlield Moor Butes 14 0 Walker Primrose ... 15 0 West Peltou l5 L' Grey's West Hartley —.16 C Wyl am 17 0 Wallsend, - - .1 C Gosforth . 17 9 liarton Harvey Wylam 14 6 Pearoth (unsercened) l5 6, Ships at market...l9 s• (T. iCelloo 16 6 roes 2O 0 Eden Main lB 9 3raddyll l9 3 Pensher.. lB 0 South Hetton 19 0 Elartlepool "0 0 Hough Hall ......18 6 Plummer lB 6 Evenwood 16 6 Framwellgate lB 6 ,Fitewart's. 20 0 ioutb Kelloo 19 0 Russell's Hetton lB 3 Caradoe ••••••••• 9 19 lifetton 2O 0 Heaton l7 9 i Bell's Primrose ..... . l4 ' 3 ',Riddell l7 9 IS I Sold ll9 LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 21. STOOK EXOHANGE.—The market was quiet to-da y , and prices were about the same as esterday, closing at the following rates :—Blackburn, 7-15-16—Caledonian, 301 London and North-Westerns, 1083 I B—Midlands, 8 4 3 Great Western, 62 I—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 9 8 -- Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 33j i—Dutch Rhe nish, e" nish, 3, pm.— North Eastern, York Capital Stock, 311 - ",, South Eastern, 223—Eastern Counties, 10 5-16. MANCHESTER, JULY 21.. `. STOCK EXCHANGE.—This market was inactive to-dolF but prices closed at a slight decline. The following ' we the quotations :—Leeds, 9SI i—Sheffields, 33/ Dover; 221—Great Westerns, 62i—Midlands, 84 -- 3i Caledonian, 30i —York Capital Stock, 311—London, lBi —Preston and Wyre, 47i. BIRMINGHAM, JULY 21, STOOK EXCHANGE.—The market has been doing IN p er t moderate business to-day, but , Saturday's prices were w ell supported. In local stocks little doing, but quotations re main steady, with fow sellers. Railway guaranteed steek3 in demand. LEEDS, JULY 21. STOOK EXCHANGE. —No great business to-day, brit the prices wero higher than on Saturday. Leeds Norther 4 18 9-16 —North Western, 6 a—Midlands, 83} 84 I —Bradford Ext., 203. pm. BBABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the malls are sent from the General Post-004e :>y the night—and hi by the morning —despatch.) COUNTRIE4. 'My Whia made 111 in aoneral Poet- Office, London.* From WW l ' eon Olsp Atsh, 1 Wookli tmertea(byllrit.paok)l , linerice.tby Unitod Sts packet) ..........ls krtierica (bv U. Stato very Fr1,14-f LiVarpool ... Every Tuesday )uthamiton Livtitpa~i ... , • packet) N tastralia (via Liver pool) •• • • • • M, Ditto (via Marseilles) N _vitto (via Cape of Good rlope) •• •.• •• •• ••• • .N &fries (West Coast) )` .41exandria.. • • N Brasil .. • • •• •• •• • - Buenos AY r "* . cape of Good Dope •• _ Cape of Good Hope 1; de Verds ••.• • • (sco India) C C c a-e h lli n l ; 1 1i: •••• Constantinople Constantinople io Cont. of Europe NE & N Egypt (see India) France ........ 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