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s way with many diffieulties. Ito would next proceed to w hich was, a comparison the most important statem ent, of the two accounts—tho sketch estirnste The for 1836 stions7 within the actual result of the year 1853-51. varia 1856-57, as compared 3-51 with 185, would be — REVENUE. Ordinsry. Increase. Decrease. £432,542 471,640 Land revenue ............... Customs Salt... Opium ••• Tobacco (abolished 1853) Post•offic,e Stamps Mint Marine and pilotage Judicial receipts Revenue of Straits settlements Revenue of Coors Revenue of Nagpor.3 Revenue of Oude Interest. ou debts due by native £63,778 413,817 8,338 26,665 32,867 - 46,891 - 14,978 - 35,061 - 1:1,596 - .- 3,779 350,014 1,095,914 states, &c Miscellaneous receipts, including sale of presents Other receipts : Proceeds of estates administered to by the late Registrar-General Proceeds of assets of the late Go vernment in the Punjab, and re ceipts from Rajah Gulab Sing Gain by exchanges 101,012 29,513 56,140 Total £3,0 - 7,82.: £135,376 Net increase of revenue........... L 2,942,409 EXPENDITURE. Payments in realisation of the revenue Increase. Decrease- Charges of collection, &c.... £lll , -516 Allowances out of revenue by tre at y £132,727 Sinking fund, Tanjore . 84 Allowances to village officers, 75,570 enamdars, &c. Charges of the Nagpore territory... Ditto, Oude ditto Charges in India : Civil and political Judicial and police 173,779 P u blic works, buildings, &c 1,030,218 Military Marine, Indian Navy, &c Charges of the Straits settlements Nint Interest on debt . Charges in England : Dividends on East India Stock Interest on home bond debt Steam communication with India Ditto, with extended communica tions, paid to her Majesty's Go vernMent On account—building, &c., a steam vessel for Madras Government and cost of coals for use of steam vessels in India 246,235 874,303 193,996 72,832 5,851 98 304,922 43,764 Transport of troops and stores Furlough and retired military pay Ditto, marine ditto Her NI sj est y' troops in India Charges, general (home establish• ment, &o.) Absentee allowance to civil ser ♦ants Annuities of Madras Civil Service Fund Retiring pay, St. Helena estab lishment Her Majesty's establishment in China Expense of transportation of con victs Invoice of stores 54,000 11,856 11:3,692 169 28,560 10,941 474,688 Total Net increase of revenue £2,942,449 Net increase of expenditure £408,597 IMPROVEMENT OF 1856-57 AS COMPARED WITH 1853-54. Excess of expenditure over income, 1853-54 £2,044,117 Excess of expenditure over income, 1856-57 1,635,520 Decrease That calculation would show the general state of the In diau finanoos. The deficiency was not so great as had been generally anticipated, and was even less than he had esti mated it in his statement last year. He would, if the com mittee allowed, lay befor e them the general result of the In dian finances for the last few years. In the year 1852-53 there was a surplus of 424,2571. For the year 1853-54 he had in his statement last year anticipated a deficiency of 2,670,5181., but it turned out to be only 2,0 44 , 1171 . For 1855-56 he had estimated the deficiency at 2,057,6331., but it would not be more than 1,152,1091. The probable defici ency for 1856.57 he had just stated at 1,635,520!., subject to reduction. The committee was aware that there was a general opinion that the entire of this deficiency was caused by the excessive expenditure on public works. He thought he would be able to disprove that statement, and show that, although a portion of the deficiency might be attributed to this expenditure, yet there were 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 office, had prepared a statement of theeesult 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. He 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 large barracks, the advantage derived from the improved health of the men would justify the expenditure. In estimating the outlay in each he would take the entire expenditure on civil and military works, and deduct from it the average expenditure of former years; the balance would show the expenditure which was attributable to this source. In the throe years, 1851.52 to 1853.54, the average expenditure was 719,5331. The entire expenditure in pub lic works, civil and military, for 1854.55 was 1,818,9771. ; deducting from this the average ordinary expenditure, the balance, 1,09.4,3141., showed the amount of the extraordi nary expenditure on works for that year. For the year 1853.56 the entire estimated expenditure was 2,109,9621.; deducting the average, es before, the extraordinary expen diture was 1,390,329/. The sketch estimate for 1856.57 for the total expenditure was 2,217,7861. ; the board of direc tors had, however, disallowed certain items, which would reduce it to 1,731,3751. ; and deducting the ordinary, as before, the extraordinary expenditure for the coming year would be 1,014,7421. These figures showed that if it were not for this expenditure there would have been a surplus of 346,041/. 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 1832. It was necessary 'so encourage great public works, but it was to be regretted that the 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, ho 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. He 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 wenn 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 stid less of the Imperial Government. This gentleman said : " It has been for years(since August, 1817) been open to any to engage in the manufacturoof salt, accorhieg to the English method under exeise 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'w in course of practical aointion. The Bengal Government, with the full concurrence of the Government of India, sanctioned, in Sep tember, 1854, a set of rules for granting licences to parties de sirous 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 ou th© subject will bo found in the appendix, and it appears to me that all that is necessary is to push en the present scheme through all the salt-producing districts, as far as it depends upon the authorities to do so. I am of opinion that the duty should be at once lowered from its present amount of 2r. Ba. to 2r. per maund, the rate which prevails in the North-Western Provinces, the special additional duty of Sa. levied on the Allahabad lino 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 reduction there would be a much greater probability of the price being at once reduced to the consumer, and a stimulus in consequence given to consumption, 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 were at once reduced to Ir. Ba. per maund, being double the rate prevailing in the Bombay and Madras Presidencies." The proposal here made was a very moderate one; but he wished it to be understood that it was the proposal of the gentleman only who 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 in saying how we should deal with the land revenue of India —it was a subject which had puzzled the greatest philosophers and statesmen—bat be believed it was the general opinion that throughout the Madras Presidency it would be necessary to have a survey and fresh assessment, and that nothing effectual could be done 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 : " His lordship had 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 loss to the general in. come, but that there would bo 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 bo 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 dis posed to think that the general out-turn would be far from unfavourable to Government.' It would appear that the Ma dras Government calculated that with four deputy-surveyors general, the survey, &c., of the Madras Presidency will occupy 22 years, and that its cost will amount to 3,810,000 rupees, but that if the scale of operations is enlarged the period occupied will be shortened and the total cost will he diminished. The papers con cected with the proposed genes a' survey of the Ma has Presidency we: e submitted to the t Government of India for orders, &c. It app ears that that Government had informed Lord Harris of their' unanimous'' c oncurrence with the vewe awl proposals of the Madras Government" He believed the best authorities concurred in thinking that without a new survey arid rssessment 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 amen; the number, that a reduction of the assessment would have the effect of increasing the re venue. Last year he mentioned that, among the production, of India, there was some hope of finding coal an I ron. In doing so he was guided very much by what had appeared in the Indian papers; but he was happy to find that the ;statement was corroborated by the opinion of Lord Dalbou- sie, who counted upon a valuable and abundant supply of i both being 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 facilit sting and accelerating the progress of that empire. (Hear..) There was another exceedingly valuable article of gro‘A,-th and manufacture in India to which he would for a moment advert, and that was cotton. Everyboar could see. the importance of securing from India a large supply of cotton, and he was happy to say that to a certain extent the experiments which had been made had proved success ful. He would read to th e committee a note with which he had been furnished on the results of the cott , l-ft experi mental cultivation in the Bombay Presieletey with the New Orleans seed : " With the exception of the Dliarws.l Collectorate the en deavours of the Government to LnMce the ryots to cultivate the New Orleans seed has not been successful ; indeed, in Ahmedabad, Surat, Broach, sad other cotton districts, the American plant :5 reported to have been entirely neglected, or the quantity grown quite insir'',Aficant. However, the area cultivated with the indigenous,. of that in 18534 in most o plant was in 1851-5 in excess : the cotton districts. In Dharwar, in 1854-5. the acres c':iltivated with the New Orleans seed were 63,293, agaiv:st 48,403 acres in 1853-4, showing an in creased cultivat,lon in the former year of 21,895 acres ; and apparently tad ryots are now so convinced of the advantages of engagtog in this cultivation that the American plant may be fairly said to have taken permanent root in this district, and that the indigenous cotton *ill have to give place to it. I Therefore, under those 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 on the part of the Government had not led to results of any con sequence, 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 ryots to the cotton saw gia 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 fully as 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 months." He was sorry that the hon. member for Manchester (Mr. Bright) was not in his place, 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 been 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 producing 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 meantime, they had 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 effect 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 less. Now, he maintained, it was necessary that a large proportion of Queen's troops should be kept up in India, and particularly that to substi tute Indian cavalry for the Queen's cavalry was a proposal totally inadmissible. He believedthat 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 an army. He was happy to find that the first representation which he had the honour to make to her Majesty on the subject of the Indian army had been received with great approbation. The Governor-General said : " The Indian army, however, has still higher cause for con gratulating itself on the gracious 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 them the recognition which until now has been denied to them, of their military rank in every part of the British dominions, 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, but 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 he said was, that the civil salaries ot 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 which 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 were upon a scale far beyond that which existed in any other profes sion. He knew of no other service in which a young man of 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 be the duty of the Indian Government to keep the advantages of reduction always iu view, and to reap them whenever practicable. Reduction ' it was said, would he followed by peculation. He did not believe it. Lord W. Bentinck made greet 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 Beard of 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.) Having 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 tho Governor-General, I declared that the whole of India was tranquil. He believed he might repeat the same statement now, because iu India temporary effervesceucea could not fairly be said to disturb the general tranquillity of the empire. But it so happened, curiously enough, that at the moment ho 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 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 sioner 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 groat dissatisfaction of the tribe on account of the oppressive exactions of the mahajans, or money-lenders, and the corruption of the naib sezawals (police-officers and collectors of the land t)x), 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 S antals, or the oppressions they suffered from the mahajana (native revenue and police-officers) and zemindars ; and in one instance the Lieutenant-Governor considered 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 blowers believe that they were accompanied by an incarnate deity, under whose coders they acted. Al though some few ibif;ances of insurrection had been more recently reported, it was believed that the great body of the Santals were settling down peaceably and quietly. The country had been declared a non-regulation province, and had been placed under the control of a commissioner, with a deputy-commissioner and four assistants. These OffiaBl were vested with judicial powers, and would administer speedy justice to the Santals, who would thus be relieved from the oppressive enactions of the mehajans, police and revenue officers, and zemindara. A new police force was under organisation, and until that was efficient two regi ments of infantry and one of irregular cavalry would re main in the Santal territory. The Santals were not to possess warlike weapons without authority, but were to be employe] 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 be the causes and remedies of the Santal insurrection, which was an outbreak the more extraordinary, seeing that the San tale had been always regarded as a most quiet and inof• fensive race. The next point to which he mast advert was the mission to Ave. That mission had not been success ful to the extent of obtaining a treaty with Ava, which Lord Dalhousie did not greatly regret ; but tho reception which he had met with there was everything that could be desired ; great honour hed boon shown us, and the mission had resulted in bringing; about that deserip 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 anythin4 that La 1 occurred in the shape of a diplomatic rupture with Persia, the Per sians heel, it appeared, thought themselves justified in marching upon Herat. It was not quite clear, from the accounts which had been received—such was the confus'oa of histories and relations—whether they had been able to occupy Herat. He believed that the Affghans would 1 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 possession of Herat. By an engagement which they Lal entered into in 1853 with the English Fn. voj, they bound themselves not to interfere in the affairs of Affghanistan • 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 we could not allow our treaties to be trampled upon and our honour to be insulted in such a manner. If the Per sians, therefore, did not retire from Herat, some means must be taken to vindieate British honour and to expel ITIR SUN, LONDO them from that place. (Hear , ) In Making this statement ho must not omit reference to one of the most important events which had taken place in regard to our Indian empire--he meant the acquisition of the kingdom of o,ude. Ho had presented nearly two months since the WEele of the papers upon that subject, and a no hicrober of either house had thoOht P'roPel• to notice it he presumed that there '*at a 'general consent in the opinion that the tiequisition of Ouch) was a reasonable thing for ii&d balhousie to accomplish. Should such not be the ' opinion ho should be perfectly prepared at any time to defend that step, but at present he should only state the cause of the transaction, and the motives of the Govern ment. Lord Dalhousie, finding from the statements of re peated govern ors-general, including Lord Wellesley, Lord W. Bentinck, and Lord 11Nrlinge, thatthe position of Oude was derogatory to the dignity and credit of the Indian Go= vernment, and that the different schemes which they bad tried one after the other had failed to effect such an im provement as was desired, determined, after eight years' glorious government in India, not to leave that country with Oude in the condition in which ho had found it. In conse- queue°, 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 bye minute of Council, reached this coun try at the end of September. The persons who coincided in Lord Dalhousie's opinion were the men of all others whose principle was opposed to all aggression upon native princes, who were commonly known as thoadvocates of native rulers rather than of the system of annexation, and among them were General Sleeman, General Outram, 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 upon them immediately, although the pressure was great, because Lord Dalhousie was then about to retire from India. A month or _ _ out any idea that theirlr.bours would be soot to be examined in /nth; and the commissioners felt that it was not just that their laboiirs should be sent to be examined by Indian judges, however eminent they might be. He believed, however, the commissioners did not complain of their labours being put an 2,970 10,611 27,289 2,400 403,693 3,618 1,400 , 88 4,606 T.C.I.P,S..o.AVIA'. _ . ,0, 1858, 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 best course to pursue, while at the same time they left an ample discretion in his hands. Lord Dal housie's conduct proved that Government had been well jus tified in placing that c infidence in 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 c tiled it a manly course, because it would re ally have savoured only of hypocrisy to deal with it in any other way with that unfortunate monarch—unfortunate from his own vices and 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 Oude. Men might approve the annexation of Oude and condemn that of Pegue and Nagpore, 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; and 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 waslgood in one place was bad in another, or vice versa ; and he 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 Ripon that subject from the Governor-General of India, dated May 3,1856, in which it was stated— " Oude remains perfectly tranquil. Some of the zemindars holding armed forts, and among them the Thelsepore Rajah, 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 of satisfaction and confidence, by flocking back to tracts of country which were rapidly becoming de sert 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 spread 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 Rajah 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 what had been the progress in domestic affairs in India since last year. One of the moat 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 respect. " The East Indian Railway has at present 121 miles open, and was in expectation of opening to Rajmahal, a distance of 190 miles, by the end of the present year. The Great Indian Peninsular 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 Ascot, a distance of 70 miles. The Baroda Railway Company had made great progress in staking out and commencing their line towards Ahmedabad. The Scinde Railway Company had been equally expe ditious 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 the very 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 guarantee 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 tended 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. Tho sub jeet next in point of attraction to the railways was the telegraph, and its progress in India had been very curious. The subject of the electric telegraph had been reported on by Lord Dalhousie in his minute of February, 1856, from which it appeared that the electric telegraph hid 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 4,0.,0 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 WI. a mile. The receipts during the past year hare been upwards of 20,0001., and they had gone on increasing every mouth. 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 en 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 Peshawur— " So that an answer is obtainable within two minutes from ono end of this line to the other through 1,600 miles of line, in which eight rivers are crossed by submerged cables of up wards of 40,000 feet in length." The government of Chide was transferred to the East In dia Company on the 7th Feb. last. On the same (lay 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 G 'nes, had been substantially constructed and successfully worked. Dr. O'Shaughnessey had been one of those who had taken a must active part in the establishment of the telegraph in 'Anna, and several schemes proposed by that gentleman had not yet been carried into effect. One of those proposals ' was to connect India with England, 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 been much improved since last year, and ho 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 one other point to which ho wished to refer—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 great, but he must say unintentional, offence to some members of the commission by sending that report to India. Now, the house would bear in mind that a great 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 us possible to work through 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 he 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 and the Legis lative Council would have thought themselves most con tumelieusly treated. One principal point was the amal gamation of the Sudder and Supreme Courts. This amal gamation, if compulsory, might have given great offence, because, while the supreme courts were accustomed to ac cuse the Sadder courts of a want of law, the latter retorted by accusing the supreme courts of knowing nothing of India; and it was most desirable that, if possible, this measure should be carried out with the assent of both classes of courts. A patent law had been adopted in India, and was 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, by no means in a satisfactory state. (Hear, hear.) He had already, in speaking !of the Santal insurrection, referred to the defects of the police, and he believed that its faults were common to the whole of India. In Bombay there Thad 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 systems of the other presidencies. The whole subject was, however, under consideration of the noble lord who had recently gone out to India as Governer-General. Another question incident to this one of police was that of the torture — (hear, bear)—the existence of which had been brought to light by the meritorious exertions of his honourable friend and colleague the Secretary of the Board of Control (Mr. Danby Seymour). (Hear, hear.) He could assure the house that everything which was possible was being (lone for the eradication of this horrible system. It was unworthy of any one connected with the Indian Go vernment to extenuate it—(hear, hear)—or to say that it was not torture, but only bodily pain. All these things wore utterly puerile and contemptible. (Hear) For him, it was quite enough that revenue had been extorted by the infliction of bodily pain. Lord Harris, the eminent Go vernor of Madras, was perfectly sensible of tie horrors of this system, and had taken the greatest pains to suppress it. His (Lord Harris's) opinion was that it to a great ex tent resulted from the high rate of assessments, and that a readjustment of assessments would get rid of it. That, however, must be a slow operation, but in the meantime Lord Harris had set a careful watch upon this system, and was prepared to punish with the severest penalties—for there had - Undoubtedly been a want of severity in the pe nalties hitherto inflicted—and with dismissal from the service of any person who was convicted of the infliction of torture. The Court of Directors, among other instruc tions, sant out an order that an act should be passed for the enforcement of severe penalties for this offence. The , law advisets thought that such an act would be web:3ss, and that the only Way to suppreaa this evil was to-separate the revenue from the poli i ce systpai e He ~ellre eV .,Seeith) thotight that this world be an eecellent tneaaure to adopt, bet it *AR one Vehicle Would involve consideratile eitpenee 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 done right in omitting to pass the act to which he had referred. It was true that by regulations, adopted so late as the years 1816 and 1819, very heavy penalties were ims posed for acts of torture, but it was clear that these regus lations had never been enforced, and he thought that the passing of a new act *mild 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, as 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, including among them a man of the greatest vigour and assiduity, Lord Ellenborough, should have gone 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 ho 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 perfor m 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 bees established I 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 be established in every b 0 .s square miles of the country with no expense to Government but that of supervision. 11l the Bombay Presidency public libraries for the use of the natives have now been established in eight differentdistricts besides eight nativelibraries 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 anEnglish and Marhatta school amounted to 2,700 r., besides books. At Satter& they were 1,200 r. Among the Government grants was one of 4,000 r. given to the native students' " Literary and Scientific Society" towards a building for a lecture-room, laboratory, museum, and library, for which private subscriptions had been raised amounting to 10,000 r. The members of the in stitution hold a meeting once a month for the 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 present 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 Guze rattee similar to " Chambers's Information for the People." All this is the more remarkable as coming from 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 Home 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, he 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, a mat 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, bat it was not to be apprehended that thiecause of complaint would continue. In looking back to the examinations of last year he rather lamented the extreme severity of the tests applied. (Hear.) He 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 gentleman 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 ; in 1855, 19 ; from Cambridge, in 1856, 14 ; in 1855, 32 ; from London, in 1856, 3 ; in 1855, 4 ; from King's College, London, 1856, 6; in 1855, 3 ; from other English schools, &c., in 1856, 4 • in 1855, 12 ; total English, in 1856, 37 '• in 1855, 70. From Edin burgh, in 1856, 1; in 1855, 3; from Aberdeen, in 1866, 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, 14 ; from Cork, in 1856, 3; in 1855, 5; from Belfast, in 1856, 2; from Carlow, in 1856, 1; from other Irish colleges, in 1855, 2; total Irish, in 1856, 14 ; in 1835, 21. From abroad, in 1855, 3 ; from at home (private tuition), in 1856, 2 ; in 1855, 3-i.e., English cols leges, kc., in 1856, 37; 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, in 1856, 56; in 18.55, 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 fevro. 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. Ma esulay had himself recommended that it should bo relin quished. (Hear, hear.) Strange as it might appear, it was not less true that it was found almost impossible to procure tho 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 were regarded merely as matters of routine. The difficulty as regards Oriental languages was altnort 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 sec ma examination. Taking into consideration all the I 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 Senscrit, but it was a little discouraging to find that not more than one candidate presented himself for exami nation in these 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 " gat themselves up " in Arabic and Sanscrit. (Hear.) With regard to the mode of examining, ho had himself introduced what he deemed to be a very important alteration-a vivel wee examination. (Hear, hear.) The reason why he had d 4110 so was that he had always been of opinion that such a method of exarni• nation afforded a better test than any other of a man's moral qualities-his courage, his readiness, his aptitude, his self-possession. (Hoar.) Ho confessed that he was not without his doubts as to whether the plan of competition would furnish ally better guarantee for such qualities than the old system afforded, but, at all events, there was souse approach to a test in a vivel voce examination, and therefore ho had adopted it. (Hear, hear.) He had at tende 1 one of those exteminations,and was struck with the readiness and proficiency exhibited by the candidates. Nor was his experience singuler. 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 he had been so fortunate as to secure for the examination of candidates ! (Hear,) Mr. Dasent had at first a strong prejudice against the practice of vied voce examination, but he now admitted that it had worked well, and its results were most satisfactory. In justifica tion of this statement he would lead the following extract from a letter he had received from Mr. Dasent - " I beg leave to inform you that, in my opinion, the re sult of the viva voce examination in English History has been highly satisfactory. It gives me the greater pleasure to be able to make this statement, because I was ono of those who at first thought the 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 viva 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 are indifferent,' with about 15 marks each, and only three are marked bad,' and may be con sidered to have failo 1. I think this result is worthy of men tion, especially as the examination often led the candidate into minute historical details in which no mere memoria technica or cramming could have given them any assistance. Of the very good 4, 25, and 45, 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. Dasont's letter, for he regarded it as a most satisfactory statement, coining from one who was well qualified to pronounce an 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, he thought it was a mistake to suppose that, as a general 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. There 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 concurring in the opinion which a distinguished member of that house had not hesitated to express—that patronage was " an odious and a hurtful thing." He repudiated that sentiment alto gether, and rather favoured the doctrine of the right hon. member for Buckinghanalhite—that patronage, well exer cised, was one of the noblest attributes of power. What more delightful task 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. He mentioned the fact for the sake of alluding to a subject brought under his notice last year by the hon. and learned member for Enniskillen (Mr. 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 so anomalous a state of things, and of three judgeships in his gift he had presented two to as many members of the Irish bar, and oue to an Irish gentleman. He h a d a p. pointed two gentlemen on the board of directors as nomi nees 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 shonld be held only for a stated period, and that it should not be peril to tted in the same hands. le had nominated General Vi%ian for one of the vacancies in the direction. He could not quit this part of the subject without expressing the great satis- Motion it bad adorded hire to engage for his own depart 'Pent the services. of Fio distinguished ap: Indian admie pistrator as Sir George Clerk. (Hear, hear.) He men tioned these feet*, to show that the dhtributinn of pa tronage, which had given rise to so much retilieig, did not deeerie ell the re 'roadies : cast tip' it. Notting lied been more gratifying 6 hien in all his Pnblic life than to be able to select for important sitn?,tiens men with scarcely one of whom he had been persona:l/ at-. quainted, but whose high qualie,;.l4onl promised to be of the greatest service to India. (ifear, lite;ro H? felt that he had already trespassed too long on the attotnign of the house, and yet his remarks had been far too short to ae justice to a qiieStldu of such magnitude. He had passed hurriedly over topics which, if they ?idol fea,lated to matters nearer home, might well have occupied weeks in their dis cussion. As it was, however, he had only to thank the holies 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 Cottld est tract from its people. Since then, however, thank God, a better day had dawned upon its many races and creeds, whose governors wore now endeavouring to do something for their social improvement. To interfere with their re ligion was to tread upon delicate ground—a course which he should prefer to avoid. The proper mode of impror ing their religion was by improving their morality ; and this could best be achieved by setting them an example of inflexible 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 he had been warmly attached from his ear heat tears. 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, and regenerated, the sway which she now held over them. Such a result he could not anticipate that he should ever live to see. If, however, it occurred in his time, he, for one, 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 were not many members in that house who took groat 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 rea• son 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 arias 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 tortare, and from that fact the impartial conclusion was drawn, that the Government of India ought to be as careful and scrupulous in the ma nagement of its revenue as any other department of the Government of this country. During the past session it had been brought to the knowledge of the President of the Board of Control, that he had it in his power to check a f d portion 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 were notoriously bad. He 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 wen ty years ago, but who, having held shares in the public funds 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 India Company had gone into the case without the sanction of the Board of Control, and it was going on at this day. There was another case of the same class, that of the Nawab of Surat, which had now come to an untimely end, but in which he thought there was a great deal ofjustice. In that 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 East India Company had legally the power to grant large pensions and make gratuities and charitable donations. Up to 1833 they were in the position of a private corpora tion, with immense funds at their own disposal ; but since that 'erica they were 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 1E33. 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 rather 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.. ge ntleman completely corroborated what h e ( Sir E. ferr y ). 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 butable to public works alone. It was stated in the ac 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 noniron, while there had been a public works loan of 2,725,000'. Under those circumstances there should have been no deficiency whatever, but instead of that ho found not only an apparent deficit of three millions, but also a very largo deficit of several millions in the cash ba lances, which must be added to the former. Lord Dal housie bad spoken very cheerfully of the promising pros pecti 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 India. No doubt that was a most cheering statement ; but 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 Puujaub was credited for one million and a-half, whereas it had been proved in that house that there was an actual deficit in the Put) eub revenue of 59,000/. a-year ; Sattara was credited for 150,000/. a-year, there being really a deficit of 23,000.. Nagpore wasput down for 410,0001., when deducting charges it ha.l bean shown that there was only 100,895/. available income. In the same way the noble lord had talked of the opium revenue having increased from 2,730,000/. in 1847 to 4,700,000/. in 1851, when it had really increased after deducting damages to 2,975,0001. The right hon. gentle man had referred to the economical plans that were in con sideration as a means of improving the condition of the finances of India, but though he (Sir E. Perry) was an Indian reformer, ho 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 an I procedure in India, recommending, first of all, the amalgamation of the Queen's and Company's court-e with a view to improving the administration of justice. The result had, however, been, that the report of the commis sion had b Jen sent to India to be hauded about like Mr. Maeaulay'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 commissiou. 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, Lor Dalhousie, but with the President of the Board of Control and 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 great benefits on India. He 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 had concluded his speech by attacking the Court of Di rectors, and in reply he would confine himself with allud ing to the principal points. He had made a partial allu sion to the annexation of Oude. His belief was, that the Government had acted wisely and justly in the an nexation of that kingdom. He very much doubted whether the public were with his honourable friend (Sir E. Perry) in this matter. They were deeply indebted to Lord Dalhousie for his services on that occasion, and the happiness and prosperity of the people were their reward. It was true, there was a deficit, but that was owing to the combination of the ordinary with the extraordinary charges of annexation. Ho had no doubt, however, that in future years there would be a surplus as soon as the necessity which called for extraordinary charges was removed. He did not contend that we 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 exceedingly glad of the removal of the King. Reference had been made to the re ports of the commissioners, who had sat in this country, in respect to the courts of India; and he contended that the Government had judged wisely in not 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 wh o had just ad dressed the house, observe, that there was uo act of Parlia ment to give the Court of Directors the power to grant pen sions. That power was an inherent right of the governing power. The 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 the pen sion granted to Lord Hardinge. The reference made to the conduct of the Court of Directors iu the case of the 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. HEADLAM said that the Indian Commission referred to had made many valuable reports, but no advantage ha arisen from them. No use had been made of the reports, and the commission was brought to an end. The hon. and learned gentleman then referred to the letters addressed theto the commissioners by Sir Charles Wood, an d said, when 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 t o 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 one of the Indian Law Commissioners, ho did not scruple to Say that they undertook their task with.. end to. APee a few words in explanation from Sir J. \V. HOGG, Mr. OfIVAY said the charges brought against the direc tors of the East joule Company were of a. very grave nature 1 - 2 d le'ss than that of spending the r esources of that great nationso of which; they Were the guardians, disregarding th! most lemn treaties, and if not torturing, at least conniving at the torture of the people ci,tl t raitted to their charge. In 1854, the directors of the East Iffilia Company spent upeogids cf 10,000', in law expenses ; in 185 had spent s', they spent 13,0001. inabout law e xpenses, and in 1856 it appeared they 10000/. As regarded Lord Dalhousie's administration, there was too doubt that many of his acts were deserving . of the hi g hest approbation ; but there w ere some of his a A cts re- t which he (Mr. Otwa - 7) c ould not give his approval. s o g arded Oude, when they had made a solemn treaty with a prince, however weak he might be, they were oul boundave to re spect It , As regarded public works, they shd h s mitted to them every year an account of those public works Whieh Were remunerative and of those which were not remu nerative. It was di sg raceful to see Sovereigns who sat upon the Throne before the Homo of Hanover reduced to the po eition almost of beggars, and coming to this country sue for their rights. If the right hon. gentleman would read the foreign newspapers, especially American news papers, he would se e how greatly those cases bro u g ht us into contempt. Ile next referred to the system of torture used to extract mo of ney and worse f ro m poor wretches who had none t o pay. This system tor ture was continued under the p resent re g ime . The ; than that, there was no attemp t to apply a remedy l a t es t accounts showed that the tort ures, though had,ywrhape, diminished, had by no means ceased, and that the hon. gentleman was fully justified who said that in this matter the Court of Directors was a particeps crintinis. u admirable suggestion was made b y Mr. Llewen, hat you should give to the native Moonsif criminal jurisdiction. Wo had just iluisheJ a great war ; but now we were on the eve of a little wiCe— 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 judic,!ous mode in which he had exercised his patronage for the advanti:y3 of India. Mr. H. D. SEYMOUR said it was imposiale to . manage such a vast empire as that of India, without 11,:ring these princely claimants for what was designated justie:9- But many of these claims were of ancient date, and the pfesent Government was by no means responsible for anything cotil plained of. He took up the cases mentioned, and defended the I policy which had been pursued respecting them. There were discrepancies in the accounts, but Mr. Grant had admitted that there but approximative. These accounts were made underhe old system ; the next accounts would be made up in accordance with the new system, and then he trusted that th e se discrepancies would not again appear. There would be far greater details in the new acco unts on many points, espe cially with regard to public works, than there were in the present. Some of the money which had been expended tapes 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 iu 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 groat 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 th eir 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, whieh were well attended. They were in the hands of the 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 takenitin 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 portaut, not from its magnitude, but the promise it afforded that the yarn which had hitherto been exported from Europe might now be made in the country itself, and the moiley with which it had been purchased applied in the cultivatio n of the soil. They must remember, too, that the schemes fo r con necting India with Europe would bear 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 forgotton, 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 Scinde who had a titleand territory remain- Mr. MANGLES said he thought it was due 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 abolishes" torture in India 7 He would ask, in reply, what were the shortcomings in their social Govern ment at home? He would ask, for example, why they had not put down agrarian murders in Ireland 7 And when he was blamed for not knowing of its existence, ho could plead igno rance in company with Lord Elleuborough and other distin guished men. At the same tine 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 honourable member for Stafford, speak ing of Oude, referred to the treaty of 1837; but he could tell the hon. gentleman, that had the alternative been adopted 1 which he appeared to recommend, the only difference would have been, that the streets of Lucknow would have been deluged with blood, and the most horrible calamities would have occurred, which, happily, had been avoided: Ho quite agreed in the separation of the police from the revenue. In a population like that of India, one 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 here 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 in India fur their opinion, and they in return wrote a despatch sa3iug 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 ca rry their recommendation into effect as soon as possible. In answer to a question from Mr. °TWAY, Mr. V. SMITH said he had not heard if Mr. Theobald, a law professor in Calcutta, was dismissed from his office in con sequence of his denunciation of torture, but if he were dis missed, it must have been ley the Governor-General, 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 he should propose to read it a second time to-morrow evening. Sir J. GRAHAM—WiII the noble lord ha,\To any objection to lay on the table the correspondence which took place be tween the Bishops of London and Durham and the Govern ment on the subject of the resignation of their bishoprics ? Lord PALMERSTON said it h a d already been la, d on the table of the House of Lords, and of course there could be no objecton to do so. VICE-iPRESIDENT OF COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION BILL. On this bill being brought up to be amended and considered, Mr. HADFIELDmoved the i n sertion of a clans 3 extendin g the duties of the Pres id e nt to Ireland. Sir G. 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 be read a third time to-morrow. The house ten 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 on the appointment of schoohnas 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 HOSPITAL BILL. This bill was read a second time. DULWICH COLLEGE BILL. The order for the second reading of this bill was discharged. ROCTORS (ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS). Mr. HADFIELD moved for leave to bring in a bill to re peal the Bth 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 in any profit and benefit, shall off the roll. —Agreed to. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. On the motion of Mr. RAIKES CURRIE the following members were nominated as the seleet committee on 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 - Advocate, Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland, Mr. Walpole, Sir Francis Bar ing, Mr. Baines, Mr. Cairns, Mr. Evelyn Denison, and Mr. Malins : Power to send for persons, papers, and 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-HOUSE-KEEPERS' BENEVOLENT 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. The immediate ob ject of the meeting was to receive the report of the com mittee 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, and called upon Mr. Rogers, the secretary, to read the report, which stated that the capital invested was 3,2801. 13s. 5d., and that the balance in the hands of the treasurer was 311 13s. 5d., making a total of 3,3121. 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 341. 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 vice president, committee, t rek finer, auditors, ard ot her offi cers were then appointed, and the meeting closed with a cordial vote of thanks to the past officers. 7oa? .try rilarkets. Cl lET ,MSFORD-Jur 18. The bug° of t he Agricultural Society's show somewhat interfered with the business of our market. The supply was thin and bu ye' s were few; wheat firm, and the better samples is Beare r. All else unaltered in value, with little trade iu ally (ivieri *ption of grain. Wheat, win ' te, 01(1,1 )er s. s. s. s. 4 ir.55 83 Oats, per qr 25 31 new ....54 82 I Peas, Partridge 43 45 old. ....53 78 White.... ....... 42 49 new ....52 77 Boiling 43 10 Barley ............... ......33 41. Dun 43 41 Cirevaliei • ...36 45 I Beans, Tick 36 40 Grinding . ..31 39 Harrow ticks 40 42 malt Clwvalier 74 78 Ditto, new... 36 37 red, COLCHESTER,- JULY r) Agaic, a sltnrt supply of wheat ; the trade was slow, but last wee la's Pri ces were well maintained, and for fine white is per qr adva nee wvis established. Beans more plentiful, and is cheaper . Peas scarce and fully as dear. Prices to -clay were as follow :—Wheat, white, 74s to 84s ; red, 70s to ,'6s; barley, 38s to 42s ; eats, 26s to 304 ; bow, Mazagan, 4O tc.. 42s ; middle and small, 42s to 465; peasl white, 42s to. 46s ; grey, 40s to 445. Official State Inept cf the Quantities of Corn, in the port. of London, from the followit the July 13 to July W, both inclusive. Ste., rt;osival g ports, ar..‘ •—• ) 4 ...:,. A .., - -4 , 8 . ~. Colchester ...... 334- 549 -- 130 - 817 - Harwich Leigh Maiden 7UI7C A g 4 t pa (LI 400 KIRKCALDY—JULY 10. We had a small supply of wheat and oats, w ith only three bags of barley. Al l met a q uick sale. i'Vheat fully 2s per qr. up ; oats and barley eaoh is to is 6d per qr. above last week's prices. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I MOM.. Fi rs t B6s Od 476 Od 6 37s 6d I Os Od I Second Bos Od I 43s Od 36s 6d , Os Od Third 73s Ott lOd 336 Od Os vd COAL MARK! Primo of we per ton at C. d. 16 61 17 3 17 N.—J - lILY 21. the close of the market. 1 %Mond, &Q. Bate's West Hartley Buddle W. Hartley Byass's West Hartley Brown's Moor High 0. a. golloe. 16 6 Tees 2O 0 Eden Main lB Braddyll l9 3 Pensher 18 0 South Hotton 19 1 ,: ) , Hartlepool 20 Eleugh Hall ... Plummer Evenwood 116 6 ~ Framwellgato 20 v 3tewart's 9 1: 6 8 8 : south Kelloe Russell's Hetton 18 Caradoe .. . 19 20 Retton 17 Y, Heaton 14 Bell's Primrose 17 9 i,Riddell .48 1 Sold ll9 Main . 1 v 1 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 17 0 Longridge's WstHartleyl7 0 North Percy Hartley _l6 ( Tanfield Moor l4 0 Tanfield Moor Butos 14 0 Walker Primrose l5 0 West Felton l5 (. Grey's West Hartley 17 16 6 Wylam 0 __ . . Wallsend, Ike. Gosforth l7 9 Harton Harvey Wylam 14 6 Peareth (unsereened) l5 6, Ships at market...l, LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 21. STook EXOHINGE.— The market was quiet today, g' l3(l prices were about the same as yesterday, closing at the following rates :—Blackburn, 7 15-16—Caledonian, 301 London and North-Westerns, 1083 / B—Midlands 84 3 T u Great Western, 62 I—Lancashire and Yorksh ire,' 98 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 33i 3—Dtch Fr' nish, 3 pm.—North Eastern, York Capital Stock, 3 1 1" South Eastern, 223—Eastern Counties, 10 5-16. MANCHESTER, JULY 21. STOOK EXIMANGIL—This market was inactive t 04 14 but prices closed at a slight decline. T he following, ee the quotations :—Leeds, 981 i 4—Sheffields 331 It 4-- Dovers, • 22a —Great esterns, 62i —Midla nds, 3 84 i --- Caledonian, 3 0 A — York Capital S t ock , 31 a —London, I(Si —Preston and 'Wyre, 474. • BIRMINGHAM, JULY 21. &mos EXCHANGE. — The market has been doing a ye/ moderate business to-day, but Saturday's prices were we supported. In local stocks little doing, but quotations re .main steady, with few sellers. Railway guaranteed stook s in demand. LEEDS, JULY 21. STOCK EXCHANGE. —No great business to-day, but the prices were higher than on Saturday. Leeds Northern, IS 9-16 i—North Western, 6 i—Midlands, 83i 84i i 84 ---:Bradford Ext., 20s. pm. OBABORNB MAIM. as signifies that the mails are sent from the General Pos t-0 thi night—and Mby the morning---despatch.) 110 .y Um, .i nignt—and as uy aue morning—timpawi. , ., Wb" Whit -- Daywhonmade up from age u (ll lUSTRIE2. in General Post- Port g N iami. Office, London.* Dispatehe z . .....---...... ••••••••••*.......... ""......''''.. ............... . 00 Mara= • (byßrit.paok)N gvery Friday ...• Liverpool Weekl7 America (by United Ste. ..N America (by U. Stater pi l au 4,1 ..........N Every Tuesday ••...... - taiverpool •pg .. Southampton Weskit packets• • • • ..Liver- • • (via Australia. P°°l) ..' i ... ;hies) N Dover .....•. Ditto (vie •,,,, Ik t ar n : of GOOe •• • 4th and 19th .... Liverpool .. Turtle / 130 • Ditto (via '''-- - N ... anode" .... ** •••• f10p0)%:;6 09 t)../.: 334 Of the month .. Plymouth .. 6th of I"' //trim ( w_ •• °'" ... ..); 10th St 26th of n o DOTI? .......id 619th Alex andria • .... •" • • &loaandria . •• • ...2d 411 & 2011 of mop,. Southampioa. A So 21 ot ta „, ....Di (7th of the month Southampton 16111 Bahamas •• • ' ......../4 Dai1y............ Dover .... .. Dinty [legit= ...• . m m o o n n t th h .... Inonutthilammpotoorn July y y a• , Buenos A-Yrss• •• , Various ports Uncor ts.l Good LIo P 0 ... N Cape of :::: 'A 9th o of f th tt i n e of tri Brasil ......... ' 4th f de Verds .. .I - . o th. month Southampton 16th r „,,,. Cape of Good , Iva .. b Uncertain Ce-e o loth and 26th lo A ' o "' ceylon • • •. . ~ ...N 4th and 2oth .„ Ceylon (see Indi s) , _ 0 ,1•• Channel 151e5.. .. ..• ..N ituu.,weu.,M.b•ries , iouthatlV" n". - 16 Chili.-- • . ......... —ld Id &17th of month Southarnror l two _. China .... . .... 4th and 10th .. • • 4 A nd 37 e ad 1 6 Constantinople •......r lOth and 26th.... Dover ...... . a- 24 Constantinople Cont. of Europe IL I ~ ,N Twice daily ...... Dover ...... noes Egypt (see India) ~....tcodail.f France ........ bi Ps 14 Twice daily...—. Dover ..... ;,—,- •,,,ge. Gibraltar —— ‘t 4.7, 17, 20, 37e fm. Southampton .• " - Greece (see India) I and 10 0 Greytown hit 'll l &17th of mon. Southampt. r -_,—,,. asinburgh /4 I, 'ally' . London ... r . D *l o '', ll o Flavannah IN; .In i of the month ioutila.napt. a. 2d 1 Golland •••• • • •• • • • g 1.1 Dag,' • • • • • • Dover ....... pa LI Y 16111 01 21 the moult). outham d India (viaSouthampt.)7o 411 • • - 02 0th of mon. S Pl3/mouthpta , •• .1 0 ut India (via Marseilles)sl 10, hit26th of moth D0ver...... L " lonian Is:es (see India) •• •• •• • • • Dover.... •• Ireland ........Ili & N Twitte dally!• • Li5bm............../4 2d of n 0.. Ma Icira ............M oh o " the , moil r Southampton 6 ••``• A'adeira'............N 234 of nxinth Aa, ta (sae India) 21 1 6 , 0 Watita .. •• .• •• • • ••1 4 .. 1, 10, 20,. and 26.„ DOM ......... i• ' It - m1.11.1115 (aee India) 15 29 Nlattrifir! ~...... .N 20 t,h of Ws mouti ' . Mexico M Ind of the r • lonth- douthampt. S -is • t • • 4 Nwilt..s . „,„ ......-1 , Daily... .....• •• • • Dover ...... July 16 New Granada ......N 2d & 17th of n. , onth Southamptoi - tre•iv Zea1and.......... T. i :.e a mor LI .. Various port PA33.1 States ........N Daily .......... Dover ...... 4 "ash ), Poulasula ..........N1 iouttiarripiLi , i on Peru ..............N td & 27th of mnl'. ~ outhainpt, i I st a Pert Natal ..........N .ly private ship..., Various port ...., _,,i, Sicily ~............N Every Saturday.. Dover ...• w el''''' Tuscany ............N Daily in Veueznelr ........N Id& 17th otmouth Southampiet I 6 -,,„ Van Dlcmcn'sl;4nd (cc , Australia) .......... ith of mon .. .. mio nttill d 16 West Indies ........1V :r , -4. situ s us in • i'onthamotst 11.1121-__,••• When tiny of these dates fall on a Sunday, the mails will be de. , (.4 epatched on the following day, with the excnption of the 1 11, 1 t he Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be despatc h( preceding day. [ADVERTlSEMENT.]—Holloway's;iointment and ?i ll° surpass all other Remedies for the Cure of Bad Leg e ''' . 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