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correct him. I quite coincide in his opinion that it would be impossible to govern India by such a council. Mr. T. BARING was most happy, then, to find that bankers and brewers were not quite such bad legislators after all—(laughter)—and that it was agreed that there would not be much wisdom in forming any administration from a particular class—be they lawyers or merchants. (Hear.) Nor could he assure the hon. member that he would be disposed to make an exception to the rule even where the parties were disciples of the Manchester School. (Laughter.) He believed that the council to be formed ought to embrace within it men perfectly acquainted with the state of affairs in England, and all the bearings of English society, as well as those well versed in the details of Indian matters. Neither did he believe that the mode of election was as objectionable as was imagined. v O an a the tage contrary, he maintained that there was this advantage attendant upon the present system, that it tended by the notoriety given to each candidate to upholdtheintegrity of the Directory. (Hear.) He was not one of those who pretended that in many respects our gove rnm ent of India believed there had had disappointed expectation. He been unnecessary delay in providing a code of law for that had country, and that public works been too much re tarded. But hon. gentlemen must bear in mind that the Court of Directors were not always responsible for those evils. They had had wars in India, and they could not say that these wars had always been undertaken by the desire of the company, o r that, if their influence with the government were to be diverted, that these wars would be of less frequent occurrence. (Hear.) Perhaps it might happen that there had been individual instances of patron. age being abused ; but still, on the whole, that patronage had been exercised in a manner to produce a body of public servants, of which this or any other country might be proud. (Hear, hear.) And let him ask the honourable gentleman opposite (Mr. Blackett) to suppose that some enlightened natives of India came over, could they not point to us, and say, " See, your judgments are not infallible ; for your verdicts are always in accordance with evidence. (Hear.) Nor do your legal reforms date from a very ancient period. Behold the anomaly of a con stitution which permits a veto that is never used—that grants a negative power which is never brought to bear." And yet, though all that was true, were they to be pre cluded from introducing changes into the administration of their affairs. (Hear, hear.) Much as he differed from the honourable member for Manchester, upon one point at all events he agree d w ith hi m, an d th a t was, that this was not a question between Manchester and Essex—that it was no party question to be made the football of contention in this house. (Hear, hear.) Much as he had learned from his attendance on the committee of inquiry, one thing in Particular he had learned, and that was, the great import ance of caution in our changes with regard to India—(hear, hear)—the great necessity of proclaiming that they would not falter in giving the best "form of government within their reach to India, but, above all, the necessity—the imperative necessity of preserving this great question se parated from the influence of party strife and the blasting triumphs of party objects and party discussion. (Loud cries of hear, hear.) Sir H. MADDOCK said he was convinced that it would he more advisable to postpone legislation at least until next year than to pass such a measure as the right hon. gentleman had proposed. While he was Pi communication with the British Association when he win last in India, in reference to the appointment of a fit person as their agent in Calcutta to promote their views, he satisfied himself upon this point—that there was no expectation amongst the intelligent part of the community that there would be another act passed for India during the present session. He would not, however, make any objection to the intro duction of the bill proposed, although be entertained some strong objections to many of its provisions. He was de cidedly opposed to the system of a double government. If it wore the desire of the house to get rid of frequent dis cussions upon the question, the proposition of a double government would no doubt have the effect of attaining that object. He confessed that so far the measure pro posed contained many improvements upon the former system. Ho did not consider it to be just or proper that India should continue to be governed in the name of the East India Company. The witnesses who were examined before the committee on India were unanimously of opinion that justice should be hereafter administered di rectly in the name of the Crown. It was true that the military servants of the East India Company received their commission from the Crown, but this was done only for the sake of convenience, in order to fix their relative rank, when serving in the field or at court martial, with the offi cers of the Queen's army. Since the institution of the order of the Bath, only two members of the civil service were thought worthy of the consideration of the Crown. The existence of the East India Company was for many years a mystery to the people of India. But the veil had been lately removed from their eyes, and they were now to he told that for the future they were to be held in subjec tion by the East India CoMpany. For a period of 70 years the coin in India was impressed with the name of the King of Delhi. In 1815, when he went to India, the seal of the Governor-General had an inscription on it in Hindostanee language, " Slave of the King. ' That system had long ceased to be the case. The tables were now turned, and the King of Delhi was considered at present in the light of a 'There pensioner. He thought it was high time that the Crown should be directly represented in India. He asked how could the fidelity of the troops be relied on when they were told that they owed subjection to a power which was not really in existence ? He perceived it was proposed to name a new Legislative Council in Calcutta, and to give a great number of members to the council. He doubted much whether there would be sufficient business to occupy much, of the time of those officers. But perhaps it was in the con templation of the right hon. gentleman that many of those officers should exercise other duties. There was, however, one omission which he hoped would be supplied by the right hon. gentleman. There had been no allusion made in the employment in the Legislative Council of any of the natives of the country. (Hear.) He could have no hesitation in saying that, if there was any position in which they could place the most distinguished of the natives with advantage, it was one in which they would have to legislate for their fellow-countrymen. Mr. DANBY SEYMOUR said he thought it must be evident to all persons that sufficient care was not taken of the interests of India by the Government of this country. He considered that the committee appointed to inquire into the affaira of India were very partially selected. Of the 39 members who formed that committee, 31 of them were connected with her Majesty's Government and the East India Company. There were, therefore, only eight inde pendent members upon the cemmittne. They had already heard what the opinions of the chairman were upon the subject. It was utterly useless to bring any witnesses before such a committee. So extraordinary had been the conduct of the Government in respect to this committee, that though they had last year finished the question, as far as the Home Government was concerned, it was this year re-opened by the right hon. baronet the President of the Board of Control himself ; notwithstanding which, the right hon. gentleman proposes to bring in his bill before the evidence taken by the committee was reported to the house, and in the hands of hon. members. (Hear.) He asked whether the commonest railway bill would be treated with such disrespect? He (Mr. D. S.) had had the advan tage of passing some two or three 3 ears in the Russian Asiatic possessions, both under the old system of govern ment and when a new system was introduced by one of the most able administrators that had ever lived. He could assure the house that that new system of government had increased in a great degree Russian influence through out the whole of Asia, and had been crowned with the greatest success. When he was in that country the 50 different nations of the Caucasus were treated nearly in the same manner as the British , Government had continued to treat our possessions in India. For some time the whole possessions of Russia rested upon a volcano, which every moment threatened to explode and to overwhelm. During the year before ho had gone to India, there were such con spiracies organised that the natives were prepared to assas sinate the whole of the Russian authorities. About a week before the appointed time for the revolt, information of the existence of such conspiracies had arrived from St. Petersburgh, and measures were immediately taken to meet the threatened danger. lie had the great advantage of seeing the old system completely changed, and the mod enlightened policy carried out in its stead. That policy bad proved eminently successful, and he heard the natives express the greatest satisfaction with it. The natives, therefore, generally felt that they had more to hope from Russian policy than English. In the Russian possessions every one had equal privileges, and at the present time one of the most distinguished generals upon whom Russia re lied with confidence was an Armenian—a man of a nation that our Government would not permit to hold an ensign's commission. The Armenian might enter the Russian civil service, and might aspire to the highest dignity in the State. There was no difference made in respect to creed, colour, or caste—everything was thrown open to the natives, and the utmost satisfaction was felt by them. Could they doubt that when the time came to choose between those two nations, which would eac h go on extending their boundaries until at last the empires touched, which would be successful ? He could not con ceive at the present time a more important subject than this. He must say that he had never heard such a conti nuation of misrepresentation from beginning to end, as he had hoard in the speeches of the right hon. gentlemen the President of the Board of Control and the hon. member for Huntingdon (Mr. F. Baring). He hoped that the people would study the subject for themselves, and not permit themselves to receive the false impressions which those speeches were so well calculated to convey. The Whig policy of 1839 was not one which brought success or glory to this country ' • it was an eminent failure, and y e t i t ap peared that this was the policy that was now to be con tinued. In reply to the taunt of the hon. member for Honiton (Sir J. W. Hogg), that the opponents to the policy had not examined the papers before Parliament or the evi dence given before the committee, he (Mr. S.) would say, first, that the evidence had been taken before a partial committee, and was not, therefore, worth anything. The inquiry was looked upon in India as a mere mockery, and was designated as such by the Indian papers. He would quote an extract from the history of the Affghan war, by Mr. Kaye, for the purpose of showing how those powers entrusted to the East India Company had been exercised. Was it not a notorious fact that in the papers which had ' been received from India everything that told against the case of the East India Company and our Government was cut out and suppressed ? (Hear, hear.) Why, the whole ' India government was a mystery of iniquity. They all knew that such a personage had existed as Dost Mahommed. In his time Russia and England were nearly going to war. The position of Affghanistan was then considered most im- Portant. Sir A. Burnes was sent there to arrange differences. Dost English Mahommed was disposed to be f a vo ura bl e t o th e c a b ooni. e k'ise, and when the Ru ss i an em b ass y came t o and Sir Ale wasnot well received by it. Does Mahommed's governmen O der E Burnes's letters were transmitted to the that told against raid, and in those letters everything actually cut out. ;Lease of the Indian Government was would read Mr. Kaye's observations upon this subject. covered after Sir Alexa w nl' s Only by a letter that was die toßeernvheos' s w d u eat i h n , di w g h n ic a h nt w a a t s sent the this country by hi s f a tl e a r e way in which his son had bree treated by the Government, that the real facts became known. Now here were the subject—the historian of observations of Mr. Kayo ontmtheohon then quoted the East India Company? M r , Kaye's testimony, to the effect that I,ellr39had been palmed upon the world by the governor of Court of Directors, who on that occasion bore false rlid the nem aga inst their neighbours, (b r. asu4mmedeuardpuetma-Ptinto: Burnes.] That was the reason he faith in any of the documents furnished by the East India. Company and e the Board of Con tro l. Turning ec, other misrepresentations of the hon. mem ber for Honiton, in r gard to the police of India, that hon. member had sneered at the hon. member for Manchester on the case of Darugo and the police. He (Mr. S . cym d.ca ou t r iv ) e a o g f re t ed he that t e aof single • • case should not be taken as in 1 b and which hac een gal ; but the petition which had been treated with such contempt by the Board of Control, The hon. member for presented under the auspices of three most respectable gentlemen, told a different story. ,- 21 -Honiton had declared that the administration of justice in perfect. The petition stated 1 1 20 GOtr4ll. r4'• . - ~~ h% ~~,,, _ stated that the police failed in the protection of life and property in the lower province, and that it had become the eneine of oppression. It added that a man might be detained for 15 days before a magistrate, and that it was not unusual for witnesses to be in the com pounds of a magistrate for weeks. The petitioners stated that native policemen employed terror as a means of detec tion, and that torture was believed to be practised by them also. The law and police, they said, spread corruption among the native population ; the police controlled the magistrates, instead of the magistrates controlling the police, and hence the terrible evils which wer3 entailed by the system. The hon. member for Honiton sneered all ' through his speech at the hon. member for Manchester , and asked him why he had quoted f rom th e F r i en d o f India, rather than from Mr. Marshman's evidence ? Mr. Marsh man's evidence, however, made the case no better, for he said that in the Bengal presidency dacoity, or night rob beries, were so common, that scarce a night passed on which three or four were not committed with impunity, and that only a year or two ago the magistrates confessed that no man with 201. or 301. in his pocket could retire to rest without a prospect of being plundered before he rose in the morning. And yet Calcutta was the oldest of the British settlements, and had been so for 100 years. He (Mr. S.) had been in all the countries between England and Central Asia—the Caspian Sea—and he knew of no place where life or property was so insecure as it was in Bengal, cr where the inhabitants were so ill-governed. The Pre sident of the. Board of Control had denied that any man under 25 was appointed magistrate in India. Sir C. WOOD—As judge. Mr. SEYMOUR—When the right hon. gentleman made that statement, Sir Erskine Percy was seated under the gallery of the house, and sent a note to the hon. member for Manchester to say that his own experience differed altogether from that of Sir G. Clerk, upon whom the right hon. gentleman relied. Mr. Marshman's evidence was fully confirmatory of the fact, however; they were called "boy magistrates" by the natives, and to this was entirely attri buted the badness of the police. Criminal justice was by that means deteriorated throughout the whole length and breadth of the land, because of the youth and inexperience of these judges. Sir C. WOOD—Not judges. Mr. SEY MOUR asked, however, should a magistrate be under 25 any more than a j udge • or should the vast powers entrusted to magistrates in India over the lives and pro peties of the natives be entrusted to the sons and nephews of directors not yet arrived at years of discretion ? Mr. Marshman stated that when there was a good understand ing between the sessions judge and the magistrate appeal was a farce ; when the contrary existed, the sessions judge consistently and uniformly repealed the order of the magis trate. The committee had only examined interested par ties, whose evidence, could not, therefore, be safely trusted. Mr. Sullivan even had been refused, though he offered him self as a witness, because it was known that his opinions were adverse to the present system. Several witnesses had been heard to express their indignation at the conduct of the committee, and to say that it lowered public men in their estimation. Within the limits of tho Supreme Courts money could be had at 5 per cent. ; outside of these limits and within those of the company's courts it could not be had for less than 12 per cent. The right hon. gentleman and the noble lord the member for London could have had these and other facts before the committee ; but they had played throughout the game of the India Company, espe cially the noble lord, who, indeed, had altogether shirked the subject in his programme of the session, and who had, moreover, proposed to continue the charter two years pre viously, but for the question of the hon. member for Lynn, which led to the appointment of a committee. It was the fashion in that house to sneer at the hon. member for Manchester, and to describe him as a discontented Radical, in reference to the subject of India. The late Sir R. Peel, whose provident mind was occupied for years previously to the expiration of the charter, with the future of India, had, however, consulted that hon. member on more than one occasion in connection with the subject. Notwithstanding that, the hon. member was excluded from the committee, though he presided over the cotton committee, and eight safe men were appointed by the Go vernment. These facts were not calculated to make the plan palatable to the public ; and that it was not palatable was proved by the fact, that out of all the newspapers in England, only two paid journals supported it—namely, the Globe and the Morning Chronicle. The hon. member then proceeded to read Mr. Macaulay's description of the govern ment of India in 1763, in reply to the statement of the noble member for London that the East India Company had governed that country for a period of 70 years with exemplary wisdom and prudence. It was to the effect that misgovernment was then carried to a point incompatible with the existence of society; and that British rule in India was more like the government of evil genii than of civilised human beings. In respect to more recent times, Mr. Burke had said the English Government in India was no thing but a succession of officers—a commonwealth with out a people—a state made up of magistrates. While Mr. i Kaye, the latest writer of all, said that the servants of the Company regarded the natives as dark-faced, dark-souled i Gentiles, whom it was their business to overreach in peace and to overcome in war. That was a pretty picture of a pa ternal government. Mr. Kaye added, among other facts, that there was a race of natives in India who worshipped devils ; and that these poor people had most prominent among their infernal deities the image of an Englishman, whom they propitiated with sacrifices of spirits and cigars. In 1833, Mr. Shore, and he was high—perhaps the highest authority—and that one reason of the mystery that per vaded the government of India was the dread of the directors that their system of government would be exposed. He, too, bore testimony to the diminution of kindly feeling towards the English on the part of the natives, and stated that the chief end, aim, and object of the company's go vernment seemed to be the exaltation of the few and the oppression of many ; first, by appointing to all offices of power and trust persons utterly ignorant of India ; secondly, by excluding the natives from all such offices ; and, thirdly, by acting on the idea that the natives were unfit for any functions except the most inferior and ill-paid offices. Mr. Cameron and Mr. Chapman, high authorities, also bear testimony to the same effect ; the latter stating that vast heaps of humanity, testing in com pulsory idleness, encumbered the soil, but that it might one day turn to gunpowder, and ignite at the slightest touch. He (Mr. Seymour) asked the hon. member for Honiton whether Mr. Kaye's book was paid for out of the taxes levied on the people of India—(hear)—as the " His tory of India," written by Mr. Thornton, to supersede the continuation of Mountstewart Elphinstone's history, was said to have been? The continuation by the latter was still unpublished • but it was asserted that the inferior work intended to be set aside had cost the India Company no less than 7,0001., though it could now be had for a low price at a book-stall. In the speeches of the President of the Board of Control and of the noble lord the member for London little or nothing had been said of the 100,000,000 of natives ; it seemed as if the whole question had reference solely to the Board of Directors and the Board of Control. In this respect the course of the Government contrasted most unfavourably with that of Lord Glenelg in 1833, whose reference to that great empire, which fell into our hands less by the will of Providence than through our own crimes, was marked by a tone of high moral elevation and anxious desire to pro mote the happiness as well as the enlightenment of the na tive population. The hon. member for Honiton sneered all through his speech at the statements of the hon. mem ber for Manchester ; but the hon. member himself had in most of his own statements misrepresented, unintentionally of course, the facts. He had misrepresented the facts as regarded Mr. Kayo ; and he had charged the hon. member for Manchester with quoting scraps and patches from magazines and newspapers. Mr. Norton, the vakeel of the Madras Government, however, had borne testimony to the incompetency of the judicial bench, and to the general in efficiency of the present system • and Mr. Prinsep, himself a director, stated that the administration of justice in India had fallen into the worst repute, and was open to the most serious imputations. It had been said by Sir G. Clerk that it was the impression that European judges were incorruptible ; but to correct this opinion, informa tion came shortly afterwards to the effect that two of the judges of the Sudder Court had been removed under suspi cious circumstances. For the reasons he had already ad duced, ho was of opinion that the company's system of government was not a good one. It had been stated that the Madras petition contained allegations that were incor rect ; but if there were inaccuracies in that petition, those inaccuracies were but slight, and ought not to have led to the virtual rejection of the petition. The allegations of the petition ought to have been thoroughly inves tigated. Sir G. Clerk asserted that where the ryot whar system prevailed there was great poverty. The testimony of Colonel Sykes was to the effect that land had very little or no value in Madras, because of over-assessment. Farming was a wild speculation. The rent was divided, not between the Govern ment and the farmer, as it ought to be, but between the Government and the usurer. The system must be radi cally faulty to produce such results. When land was in this state, it was fair to infer that the population was in an equally degraded state, and when the population was degraded that did not say much for good government. It had been said by the hon. member for Huntingdon that the object for all good government was to ensure security for life and property ; but there was no property in land in Madras, and there was very little security for life. Ho admitted that these censures did not apply to all districts, hut they certainly did to some. He would quote from the Calcutta Review to prbvo the character of the civil service. But he would first give an extract from the Cawnpore sta tistics to prove that the average allowed to the cultivator was only 2s. 16d. per head, and yet this was one of the most favoured districts. Had there been a proper system of government, it would not have been necessary for the company to have laid out a shilling in irrigation, because capitalists would have come forward to do all that was re quisite. Was it true or not, that Colonel Cotton had written two very damaging reports relative to the affairs and management of the company, and that these reports were suppressed under special, but not very honourable, circumstances to the company ; was it true that 100,0043 persons died from famine yearly in India, which might have been prevented by due exertions on the part of the company, and which in fact had been of late prevented by the energetic efforts of Colonel Cotton ? Many hon. gen tlemen saw in this bill only a temporary measure—a measure merely to break the fall of the directors, and he could assure the government that public intelligence and public determination would not permit the existing system to continue, or the Court of Directors to be in existence. If legislation bad been delayed for a year, the prospective agitation at the present incomplete measure would have been impossible. The changes contemplated were of great commercial importance. (Hear, hear, from Mr. Hastie.) They were of particular importance to the constituency of the hon. gentleman opposite who had interrupted him, and who ought to state his views on this important matter. He considered that a Government which had not attended to the due administration of justice, and had debarred the natives from holding suitable offices—which bad placed obstacles in the way of settling permanently British com merce in India, had not done its duty well. (Hear.) He had now answered the challenge of the hon. member for Honiton, who said if it could be shown the Government had not been a good one that the company would not have a leg to stand upon. Mr. HASTIE, who had been alluded to, said before hon. members proceeded to tear down an old system they ought to be prepared to show what they proposed to sub stitute in its stead. (Hear, hear.) The agitation which had been got up on this question was mainly referable to a few disappointed persons—lawyers, newspaper writers, and others. In 1813 an agitation had been got up to throw open the cotton trade. (Hear.) It was then about 600,0001. a year, and now it was upwards of 5,000,0001. It hacl been asserted by hon. gentlemen that the system of government of the East 'lndia Company had been to throw millions of the natives out of employment. This, LI O r entd::ialcsi cotton Manchester asserted, cottons, ley nadn'tcrihaicaeledt,e t b l een d , one , by the Manchester people ""' by the company • for, in order to further their member opposite in the questi kept on a duty of 60 per cent. on and compelled the natives of India to on. r ptal 7 a t t to :i n n s ig a h t t s b per cent. duty. The hon. the natives employnade:tis, native commodity so that the undersell them in their . 6 c u o t 7s t ti e tuents had a deep interest ; but it was not to give o enable them to tax the own market. (Hear, people might DI Trati 0/111 3 404 to receive Engligi c a o r itr ar.) When US at a duty THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1853: of 5 per cent. only, and when 60 per cent. was kept on ' • native cottons that was not done from kindly feelings, or • from a feeling of liberal reciprocity. The deep interest, therefore, of the constituents of the hon. g entleman oppo site was not to benefit the natives of India, but still further to throw them out of employment. (Hear.) It had been stated by Dr. Bowling that the effect of throwing the trade open, and not allowing India to send her home-made sugar, would be this—that the plains of the Deccan would soon be bleached with the bones of the cultivators. What he had principally to say was this, before the system was destroyed by which India had derived enormous advan tages, and by which England and his constituents had de rived enormous advantages, he wished hon. gentlemen would inform the house what it was proposed to substi tute. He should be glad to see the plan If the hon. gentle man before the house, and if the plan was better than the existing system, he would adopt it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME did not agree with either hon. gentlemen, but he agreed that before destroying the present system the house ought to know what was to be substituted. The question was whether the Government established by the act of 1836, which invested in the East India Company the management of India, had been productive of all the good intended, and had produced results such as India had a right to expect? He believed that much which had been stated as to mis-government was true. Much had, no doubt, been left undone by the Court of Directors but much more had been done - by them for the benefit of India than many hon. members seemed disposed to allow. The present at tempt to legislate in almost total ignorance of what had taken place in India for the last twenty years was alto gether premature. On the present occasion he should be disposed to follow the course adopted in 1831, 1832, and 1833, and to inquire into every department of the Indian Government. Instead of doing so the Government had brought forward this measure suddenly, as if some great emergency had rendered it necessary. (Hear, hear.) He could not believe that the Government had any idea of le gislating permanently for India without sufficient inquiry. •n every former occasion lengthened negociations had taken place between the Government and the India House, and had been laid on the table. He should prefer to the present measure a temporary bill to continue the present charter till 1854 or 1855, in order that the subject might be fully inquired into. He had never witnessed such a precipitancy, not even with regard to the pettiest parish bill, as had been shown to introduce and pass the pre sent measure. A great deal had been said by those who were opposed to the Court of Directors as to the great misery of the people of India. His desire was to inquire into the cause of it—to find out who was at fault, and to attend to every complaint that might come from India against the company. In his opinion the committee up stairs had not been selected from amongst-those best qua lified or most inclined to inquire into the whole ques tion. He had proposed to the committee that all petitions from India should be received, and the parties invited to prove their allegations. Yet, out of the seventeen members composing that committee, only one had supported the motion. (Hear.) He had presented petitions from Madras and Bombay, praying for inquiry, and was delighted to hear the hon. member for Rochester admit that the natives ought to be heard, and that no injury would arise from postponing legislation. He regretted, on that ground, the course which the Government proposed to take, but he still hoped that they would not allow themselves to be led blind folded into this hasty, rash, and inconsistent legislation. The right hon. gentleman the President of the Board of Control had in his speech praised the Court of Directors, and had painted every part of the present system couleur de rose, yet, to his no small astonishment, had concluded by proposing to destroy the very system which he had so praised. (Hear, hear.) Some hon. members thought that India might be ruled like Canada, or the Cape, or any other of our colonies • but how did it happen that every one of our colonies ha ' d been in a state of rebellion, while India alone had remained tranquil and contented? (Hear, hear.), One of the principal reasons why he wished for in quiry related to the financial difficulties and the increase of the debt. If the Court of Directors, in justice to the proprietors, ought to have protested against the wasteful expenditure of her Majesty's Government, he had no hesitation in saying that if the principles upon which we had attempted to govern Canada and the Cape were applied to India, our empire there would not be worth ten years' purchase. (Hear, hear.) It was impossible to over-estimate the value of India to this country. (Hear.) He wished for inquiry, to show that the excess of expenditure had been caused by the Board of Control interfering with the Court of Directors, who were by law the guardians of the proprietors. At present the Government was pledged not only to the redemption of the 12,000,0001. stock, but if he had read the act rightly, they were also pledged to pay the dividends till 1874. Parliament had decided that the East India Company were to be retained, and though the number of directors might be reduced and their power lessened, yet they could not be dispensed with. They were now going to degrade the Court of Directors, and instead of 24 independent members, to reduce the number to 18, with six members to be nominated by the Crown, taking away from them at the same time the patronage they had hitherto enjoyed, and adding some 2001. to their salaries. He hoped there was not a director who would not spurn such an offer. (Hear.) It was an insult, not only to them, but to the people ofllndia, to suppose that they wished to pay their servants 5,0001. a year, and their masters only 500/. (Hear.) The Court of Directors in individual cases might have been guilty of partiality and favour, but that was not the general rule. The tenour of those dispatches proved that their object was the benefit of India. Every question con nected with the army—with the revenue—with the adminis tration of justice—with the navy—was submitted to ono or other of their committees, and their army of 300,000 had been kept in its high state of discipline not so much by the agents in India, as by the care and circumspection of the committee at home. (Hear.) They were about to destroy that system. He would not have destroyed the present con stitution of the Court of Directors, but he would have made it a qualification for the office that each director should be an independent man, and able to devote his whole timo to the duties of the office. He would also have extended the number of electors by giving a vote to every holder of 5031. of stock instead of 1,0001. as at present. Above all things time was required at present in order that an inquiry might be made as to the best means of im proving the country and elevating the condition of the people of India. But the Board of Control had stepped in to check such inquiry, and India had been made a political foot-ball. He should be able to show that but for the war India would have had a surplus revenue every year since 1833. The whole difficulties had arisen from the Court of Directors not having been allowed to exercise that central which the law intended they should possess, and from their having been kept in ignorance of the most important facts until the expenditure had been incurred.. There had been an expense of no less than 5,000,0001. sterling in curred by this country in connection with that war in Scinde, and ho was of opinion that the extension of our territory which had been consequent upon the war, so far from tending to the maintenance of tranquillity in India, would be the occasion of fresh disturbances and renewed expenditure. Upon the whole there had been an out lay of not less than 26,000,0001. incurred by England for the purpose of prosecuting hostilities in the east, and that vast sum had, for the most part, been squandered without the authority or even tho knowledge of the Court of Directors. At the present moment another war was being waged in India, in connection with which he had no doubt large sums of money would be sacrificed, and it was against a system of useless expenditure such as that that he called upon the house most emphatically to protest. He should now beg leave to call the attention of the house to a resolution passed by the secret committee of the 7th of June, 1833. That resolution stated that the committee ad hered to the opinion which they had repeatedly expressed,viz. that some share of publicity, to be exercised as a rule, not as a privilege, would be necessary, in order to preserve to the company a due control, and enable them to perform efficiently their part with respect to the government of India. The capabilities of that country were very considerable, and what he asked for its inhabitants, as well as for the people of this country was, that the power should not exist to squander its resources, and to render all attempts at effect ing improvement absolutely insufficient for any useful pur pose. He was the advocate of giving a salary of 5,0001. a year to the Minister at the head of the Board of Con trol, and of making him in the eyes of England and of tke world responsible for the government of our Eastern possessions, while he should wish to see the Court of ' Directors acting in the capacity of a council to that Mi nister, and exercising a certain control over his proceed. ings. He was anxious, too, for the existence of publicity with respect to the transactions of this country in dealing with the affairs of India, because he believed that by making these transactions public many evils might be cor rected. A witness who had been examined before the com mittee that morning had stated that his principal com plaint against the government of India was, that trials often took place in that country, and parties were removed from the offices which they held, and yet nobody could ascertain the cause of those proceedings. Ho, therefore, was the advocate of publicity, where abuses were known to prevail, and he felt confident that with a free press, which would be ready to bring its influence to bear upon those abuses, they could not be of long continuance. He was of opinion that the measure of the Government ought to be opposed in every stage, as a proceeding both unstatesman like and precipitate ; and that a full opportunity of being heard should be afforded both to the natives of India and to the people of this country, before we proceeded to legis late upon so important a subject as the future government of our possessions in the east. (Hear.) Mr. BLACKETT wished to observe that his hon. friend the member for Poole (Mr. D. Seymour) having been obliged to leave the house from indisposition, had requested him (Mr. Blackett) to state that the words which he (Mr D. Seymour) had used in reference to certain newspapers being in the pay of the Government had escaped him in the heat of debate, and that he wished to recal them. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. CUSTOMS ACTS. would apply with equal force to a proposal for abolishing the duties on tea, and on various other articles. It would no doubt be very desirable that they should admit oranges into this country without the imposition of any duty. But they should, to use a homely phrase, cut their coat accord ing to their cloth. He believed that it was not the opinion of house generally, that the Government, in framing their financial scheme, had proposed to reserve too large a surplus. Ther!luestion of the duty on oranges and lemons was not an insignificant one—was not an insignificant one as regarded the amount of the national revenue. The duty produced at present a sum of more than 80,0001. a year. The Government proposed to reduce that sum by fully one half ; but as they calculated on an increased consumption under that reduced charge, they could not admit oranges and lemons duty free without sacrificing a sum of between 50,0001. and 60,h001. a year. He believed that the best course they could pursue in that case would be to proceed by degrees, and not precipitately to abolish taxes without making any provision for supplying the deficiency which would be created in the public revenue. Sir C. BURRELL supported the proposal for the aboli tion of the duty on lemons and oranges. No comparison could be fairly instituted between those articles and the article of tea, for they were perishable commodities, while tea might be kept for an indefinite period. Sir W. JOLLIFFE said he thought the duty in that case ought to be altogether abolished. The resolution, as proposed by the Government, was then agreed to. The resolution for a reduction of the duty upon currants having been put, Mr. MOFFATT moved that the duty on currants should be reduced to the same extent as the duty on raisins. There was no reason whatever why a distinction should be made in favour of the latter article. Currants were grown principally in Greece and in the lonian Islands ; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought not to impose a higher duty,on an article which was produced in our own posses sions than that which he proposed to impose on an article produced in Spain or Turkey. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he agreed in the premises of his hon. friend, but felt com pelled to dissent from his conclusion. He readily admitted that the lonian Islands had a fair claim to the favourable consideration of that house ; but there were other circum stances which they ought specially to bear in mind in coming to a decision upon these questions. The first thing they had to consider was, whether the reduction of the im port duty would diminish the price of the article to the con sumers in this country ; and the next thing they had to consider was, how the change would affect the public re venue. Until they had disposed of this point they had no right to go into the question of whether the reduction would or would not be beneficial to the people of this country. The hon. gentleman said there was a differential duty in favour of raisins, as against currants. But the committee would bear in mind that the price of currants was as nearly as possible double that of raisins. Mr. MOFFATT—They are generally lower. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.—When that was the case then the hon. gentleman might make his proposition, and he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) would be ready to entertain it. At present they had to deal with a state of things amounting almost to a famine in currants ; and if the duty was reduced to ss. he did not think the consumer would derive any benefit, nor would the revenue gain a farthing. Why ? Because at present they were at a famine price, and all the currants that . could be drawn to that country had been drawn from the lonian Islands. It would be neither more nor less than a boon to the importers. The duty had been, in 1819, 400,000/. ; in 1850, it was 350,0001., and in 1851, it was 285,0001.; and even at that low amount he could not afford to give away upwards of 400,0001. of revenue. He should be quite ready to re-open the question as soon as a different state of things arose ; and as the hon. gentleman had now discharged his duty to the lonian Islands, he hoped ho would withdraw his amendment. _ _ . . The house went into committee upon the Customs Acts. The proposed reduction of the duty upon oranges and lemons having been submitted to the consideration of the committee, Sir W. JOLLIFFE begged to explain the reasons why he had upon a former occasion asked for the postponement of the debate with reference to the above-mentioned articles. The Chancellor of the Exchequer might have been of opinion that by postponing the debate upon the subject, he would be causing some inconvenience to the progress of public business, but he (Sir W. Jolliffe) could not hold himself responsible for being guilty of any dereliction of duty in entering upon the course which he had taken. In his opinion they ought to reduce the duty on oranges and lemons to 6d. instead of Bd., as proposed by the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It should be remembered that these were articles which were largely consumed by all classes in this country, while they did not enter into competition with any of our native pro ductions. Lord J. RUSSELL said he had not understood his right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to have ac cused the honourable baronet (Sir W. Jolliffe) of having offered any unbecoming opposition to the progress of the committee on the Custams duties on a former evening. Mr. WILSON said that the duty which the Government then proposed to levy on lemons and oranges had been de cided upon after a good deal of communication with parties engaged in the trade. All those parties thought that Bd. would be a fair sum to charge on the import of those arti cles ; and he (Mr. Wilson) believed that that duty would amount as nearly as possible to one-half only of the sum formerly levied. Mr..HUME said he thought that they ought altogether to repeal the duty on oranges and lemons. Those articles did not come into competition with any home production, and the abolition of the import duty upon them would be beneficial to people of every class. (Hear, hear.) Sir W. JOLLIFFE said that, as he perceived the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer then in his place, he wished to inform that right hon. gentleman that he (Sir W. Jolliffe) could not be fairly charged with the postponement on a former evening of the resolution for a reduction of the duty on lemons and oranges. Mr. MOFFATT, after an explanation from the right hon. gentleman, would not press his amendment. Mr. HUNTE suggested to make the duty 4d. per cwt., in order to facilitate calculations with respect to fractional parts. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he feared that, if he assented to this proposition, he might be called upon next year to alter it in order to meet the change to a decimal coinage, in the event of the committee now sitting on the subject recommending such an altera tion. On the resolution with regard to books being read, Mr. COWAN recommended the postponement of this item till the question of foreign paper came on. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER objected, as he did not think they ought to fix any duty upon books beyond that which would pay the excise charges. Mr. COWAN said, there was a printing establishment now started at Jersey which would be enabled, under this arrangement, to print books with paper paying no duty, which would give these parties a decided advantage over the booksellers and printers of this country. The resolution was then agreed to. On the proposition to impose a duty of 6d. per dozen on stockings, Mr. HiTME, wished to know why these articles should still be protected? He objected to retaining these protective duties. The CHANCELLOR of theEXCHEQUER said it was eonsidered necessary to afford some protection tO those small trades in which so much hand-labour was employed. Sir J. TROLLOPE congratulated the right hon. gentle man on having acknowledged the necessity of a protective principle. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then agreed to. On the resolution imposing a reduced duty on articles of cotton or linen fabric, Mr. CROSSLEY objected to the continuance of these productive duties, and did not see why they should not all be removed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the duty on all these articles was being gradually reduced. He could not remove the whole at once, otherwise he could not in fairness retain the duty on silk and silk goods. The house would not probably enable him to go to that extent, as he should be obliged to make up the deficiency from other sources. On the articles of paper, &c., Mr. COWAN offered some observations as to tho vexa tious nature of the Excise regulations on the home mama- facture. On the article of watches, Mr. SPOONER made a few remarks as to the competi tion to which English watchmakers were subjected; and asked the Government to make an alteration in an act of George 111., which imposed certain restrictions upon them. Mr. CARDWELL said he would consider the subject. The other articles were agreed to, and the house re sumed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he had not meant to advance any charge against the hon. baro net upon that point. The hon. member for Montrose wished that lemons and oranges should be admitted into this country free of duty. But the reasons which the hon. milamaa had pat fozward in fan= 0 that suggestion SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ASCOT HEATH RACES.—THIIRSDAY. THE EMPEROR'S PLATE. The anticipations of an immense attendance on the Heath to-day were quite fulfilled, notwithstanding some threatening indications of the continuance of the rain which commenced overnight, and falling at intervals in light showers had the effect of cooling the atmosphere and laying the dust on the roads, although it produced no impression on the course, which was still as hard as granite. The race for the Emperor's Plate has of late years been much more attractive than any other event of the meeting. It acquired an additional attraction this year from the day being chosen as the only one on which her Majesty honoured the meeting with her presence. Thousands, therefore, who had determined on a visit to Ascot selected this day as being the most important and fashionable. Accordingly, from an early hour, the roads from Windsor to Ascot exhibited extraordinary scenes of gaiety and animation. Public vehicles and private carriages of every description, following in rapid succession, formed an unbroken line as they approached the Heath. So many carriages were never seen on the ground since railroads were established. The Grand Stand presented a brilliant array of company, amongst whom were numbers of elegantly dressed ladies. The other stands were thronged with spectators, and the crowd of pedestrians scattered over the heath was im mense. The distinguished leaders and patrons of the turf mustered numerously, but we missed from the aris tocratic circle the new Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the Duke of Richmond, whose presence at the installation ceremonies prevented their appearance at Ascot. As the time (half-past 1) for the first race approached the roofs and balconies of the stands were densely filled with eager gazers, by whom the royal cortege was dis covered advancing up the New Mile, a very few minutes after the appointed hour. Slowly the cavalcade approached, headed by the Earl of Bessborough, the Master of the Royal Buckhounds ; Mr. Davis, the Royal Huntsman, with attendant hunts men and outriders in the royal livery, immediately pre ceded the open landau in which sat her Majesty, accom panied by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and her Majesty's illustrious guests, the Duke of Genoa and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz. The se cond carriage contained his Royal Highness Prince Al bert, the Princess Royal, the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, and the Duchess of Suther land. The cortege consisted of seven other carriages, containing the guests and suite of her Majesty, the names of whom will be found in the official Court Cir cular, in another part of our paper. As the procession passed up the course the Queen was received with the respectful and affectionate greet ings of her loyal subjects, which she acknowledged with her wonted condescension. Similar loyal demonstra tions were made by the multitude assembled on the course in front of the royal stand whenever her Majesty ap proached the window. The sky, which had been lowering darkly all the forenoon, cleared up soon after the arrival of the Queen, and the day continued uninterruptedly fine to the close. The Emperor of Russia's Vase, manufactured by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, was exhibited after the race in front of the Stewards' Stand. It is a magnificent and beautiful piece of workmanship, designed in the renais sance style by M. Vechte. After the race for the New Stakes—at a quarter-past 4—her Majesty and the royal cortege quitted the heath in the same order, and accompanied by similar loyal de monstrations, as on her arrival. The spert was every way worthy of the royal counte nance, and the contest between the Derby hero of 1851 and the St. Leger hero of 1852 for the Emperor's Plate was truly worthy of so magnificent a prize. Had not Tcddington swerved at the finish the victory would have keen more distinctly achieved. Autocrat's performance for the New Stakes fully jus tified the confidence of his party, and had the effect of raising him, nominally, to the position of first favourite for the Derby. The lengthened details given below render further comments here unnecessary. SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three-yr-old ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b ; those by stallions or out of mares that never bred a winner allowed 4113 ; if both, 61b. Swinley course. (11 subs.) Lord Exeter's Cobnut, by Nutwith, Bst 3lb (Norman) 1 Mr. C. Dorrien's The Golden Plover, by the Baron, Bst llb Mr. Combe's Alamode, by Alarm, Bst 11b...(Rogers) 3 Betting-7 to 4on Cobnut, 3to 1 agst Alamode, sto 1 agt Stone Plover. Cobnut made all the running, and won very easily by six lengths. Two lengths between the second and third. VISITORS' PLATE (handicap) of 100 sovs., and 25 sovs. for the second horse, by subscription of 5 sovs. each ; the surplus, &c., to go to the fund. Once round and a distance. (25 subs.) Mr. W. Cooper's Torment, by Alarm, 3 yrs, Est 51b (J. Streggles) 1 Lord Exeter's Dove, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (Flatinan) 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Corybantes, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (Charlton) 3 The following also ran :—Pancake, c by Cotherstone —Lucy Banks, Sandhurst, Lady Speedy, Lady Louisa, Don Quixote, Angelo. Betting-3 to 1 agst Dove, 3to 1 agst Pancake, 4to 1 each agst Torment and Corybantes. All got well off at the first si g nal. Lady Louisa, next the rails, started with the lead, but at the Queen's Stand was passed by Sandhurst and Torment, the former overpowering his jockey and making strong running—Lady Louisa and Corybantes lying - well up in their wakes, Dove in the next division. No , change of moment occurred until they arrived at the road near the brick-kilns, when Sandhurst dropped off. Torment then took up the run ning, and from that point the race was not a moment in doubt. Torment inaintained an undisturbed lead the remainder of the di-stance, and won very easily by four lengths. Two lengths between second and third ; Angelo was fourth ; Lady :Louisa fifth. A PIECE OF PLATE, value 500 sous., the gift of his Majesty the Empetror of all the Russias, added to a Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each ; for 3-yr-olds, 9st 101 b ; four, Bst blb ; five, 9st ; six and aged, Oat 31b ' • mares and geldings allows d 31b. About two miles and a half. (22 subs.) Mr. J. M. Stanloy's Teddington, by Orlando 5 yrs, 9st (J. Marson) 1 Lord Exeter's StocAwell, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Norman) 2 Capt. Lane's Ninny hammer, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Wells) 3 The following :also ran : Defiance, Lady Evelyn, Kingston, the Indi an. Warrior. Betting-5 to 4 :agst Stockwell, 3to 1 agst Kingston, 4 to 1 agst Tedditygton, 8 to 1 agst. Ninnyhammer, 10 to 1 agst Defiance, 50jto 1 agst Lady Evelyn. Weather gage was scratched at 1.10 p.m. this day. After taking their preparatory canter they were paraded before the Queen, and on returning into the course they were immediately called to the post by the starter. At the first signal the exciting contest com menced. Indian IVarrior led the way, Kingston taking second place, Stockwell third, and Teddington fourth, with Ninnyhammer Lady Evelyn, and Defiance close together in his wad :e. In Indian file they proceeded at a strong pace down t Swinley-hill into the bottom where Stockwell passed :Kingston, and on entering the Old Mile Course, he • went to the front, Indian Warrior falling back ; Tedi lington then drew into the third place, Ninnyhamra er being fourth ; the others beaten off at long intervals. After rounding the turn into the straight Teddingto) I gradually neared the front. At the distance, followed by Ninnyhammer, ho passed King ston, and at the ha if distance he reached Stockwell ; most interesting race with the two ensued. Teddington, despite a little ewe] wing to the left, achieved the victory by a head ; the se( :ond beating the third three lengths ; Kingston was fount ,h, Lady Evelyn fifth, and Defiance sixth. Indian W: irrior trotted in last. Run in 4 minutes 33 seconds. NEW STAKES Or 10 sous. each, with 100 added, for 2-yr-olds ; colts Z3k t 71b, and fillies Bst 31b. Wi nners extra. T.Y.C. (39 subs.) Mr. E. R. Cooper's Autocrat, by Bay Middleton, Bst 71b Mr. Payne's f by Bay Middleton—Lady Strut, Bst ..... _ 31b.... (Flatman) 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Rosaline, Bst 31b (Marson) 3 The following tile° ran :—Farsa, Sine qua Non, Her mitage, Jack Frost, Phcenix, Ptolemy, Diana, Adelaide, Diable Boiteux. Betting-6 to -4 on Autocrat, 3 to 1 agst Sine qua Non, Bto 1 agst Lady Strut filly. Lady Strut filly, with Autocrat, Ptolemy, and Rosaline lying well up, made the running - to half-way between the road and the distance, where A utocrat went up and took possession of the lead, which he maintained to the end, winning very easily by a le ngth and a half. Rosaline took third place at the distance, and finished a length behind the second. Sine qua, Non was fourth, Phoenix fifth, Jack Frost sixth, and Ptolemy seventh. ST. JAMES'S PALACE STAKES of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for 3-yr-olds ; colts Bst 71b ; fillies Bst 41b. Old Mile. (12 subs.) Lord John Scott's The Reiver, by Pantaloon, Bst 71b (Whitehouse) 1 Lord Exeter's Co , j)nut, Bst 71b (Norman) 2 Mr. Payne's Speed the Plough, Bst 71b (Flatrnan) 3 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Veteran, Bst 71b (Marson) 4 Betting—Even on the Reiver ; 3 to 1 each against Cobnut and Speed the Plough. After the first 200 yards Reiver rushed to the front ; but before they had pro ceeded a quarter of a mile, he was pulled back, and Cob nut went on witk the running. At the stand the latter was joined by Reiver and Speed the Plough, and a fine race home with the three ended in favour of The Reiver by a head. Half a length between the second and third. Veteran beaten off. HANDICAP PLATE of 0 sows. for ages. Three•quarters of a mile. Lord Exeter's Hazlenut by Nutwith, 3 yrs, fist 41b (S. Steggles) 1 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Bloomer, 3 yrs, sst (Oliver, jun.) 2 Lord Chesterfield's Humphrey, 6 yrs, 7st 71b (Flatman) 3 The following also ran :—Allington, Benita, Hirusta, Tested, and Merlin. Betting-7 to 4 agst Hirsuta, 3to 1 agst Humphrey, 7to 2 agst Bloomer, 4to 1 agst Hazlenut. Bloomer, followed by Humphrey, and Hirsuta made the running to the distance, where Hazlenut came out, and the race finished in his favour by two lengths ; Bloomer beating Humphrey for second place by a head. Benita mu to have been ridden by Denby, but *Het cantering up the course Allington twisted round, ran against Benita, and knocked Denby off. The poor fel low sustained a slight concussion of the brain. WINDSOR TowN PLATE of 50 sovs. • for 2-yr-olds and. upwards ; mares allowed 51b ; geldin gs 31b. The win- EXCISE DUTIES ON SPIRITS BILL The 11;;e len. went into committee on this bill. On clause 1, granting additional duties on spirits in Ireland and Scotland, Mr. P. O'BRIEN objected, that at such an hour (nearly twelve o'clock), and in the absence of almost all the Irish members, it was unfit to bring on the measure, as it was wholly unexpected that it would come on. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BOW YER said there was a surprise on the Irish members. It had been reported that the India debate would occupy all night. (Hear.) The bill would increase illicit distillation, and was of an important character. He moved that the chairman report progress. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER disclaimed nay intention of taking the Irish members by surprise. There had been an understanding that the bill might come on before midnight. (Hear, hear, and oh !) Tho bill was not one for raising duties, and .the question could be dis cussed at another stage. It had been considered in confer ence with the leading distillers. Its only object was the regulation of the duties, not the imposition of new duties. He proposed that the measure be allowed to go through committee, and the debate be adjourned till a later stage. Mr. BOWYER was sure the right hon. gentleman meant no surprise upon members, but there was a surprise, and this was such au advanced stage of the measure, that it would not be proper to permit it to pass through com mittee. Colonel DUNNE said certainly the Irish members ought to be there—(hear, hear)—but he objected to the bill on the ground that it would increase the duties, and would stimulate smuggling and illicit distillation. (Hear, hear.) The provisions of the bill required great discussion, and it could not be carried on at that hour. Captain JONES said this evening ho had been told that the measure could not be carried on after twelve, and it was then just twelve o'clock. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said under all the circumstances he would withdraw the bill for the present. As to the proposition for equalising the duties, it required great consideration, and he desired to reserve it until the committee on the subject had reported. The right hon. gentleman said he would take the committee after the second reading of the Succession Bill to-day. The house resumed. BANKRUPTCY (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time. COPIES OF SPECIFICATION REPEAL BILL. On the motion for reading this bill a second time, Mr. WHITESIDE said that if the Government were de termined in pressing this bill, it would meet with a most determined opposition from the members from Scotland and Ireland. The SOLICITOR GENERAL said he would postpone the bill for a week. COPYHOLD BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. SAVINGS BANK BILL. On the motion of Mr. WILSON, the report of the com mittee on this bill was received. GOVERNMENT Off' INDIA. • Sir C. WOOD brought in the bill for the future govern ment of India, which was read a first time, and ordered to be a read a second time on Thursday, June 23. SPITALFIELDS AND SHOREDITCH. Sir W. MOLESWORTH brought in a bill to amend the acts and extend the time for constructing a new street from Spitalfields to Shoreditcb, which was read a first time. REPAYMENT OF ADVANCES. Mr. WILSON brought in a bill for altering the mode of repayment of advances by the public works loan commis sioners, &c., which was read a first tim e . The house adjourned at twenty minutes after twelve o'clock. WOMEN AND PORPOISES.---Well, its the natur' of por poises, when a, she one gets wounded, that all the other porpoises race right arter her, and chase her to death. They show her no marcy. Human natur' is the same as fish natur' in this particler, and is as scaly too. When a woman gets a wound from an arrow shot out by scandal, or envy, or malice, or falsehood, for not keeping her eye on the com pass, and shapin' her course as she ought to, men, women, and boys, parsons, and their tea-goin' gossipin' wives, pious galls and prim old maids, all start off in full cry like a pack of bloodhounds arter her, and tear her to pieces ; and if she earths, and has the luck to get safe into a hole fust, they howl and yell round it every time she shows her nose, like so many imps of darkness. It's the race of charity, to see which long-legged, cantin' bilious-lookin' crittur call be in first at the death. They turn up the whites of their eyes like ducks in thunder, at a fox-hunt, it's so wicke d ; but a gall-hunt they love dearly, it's servin' the Lord:— Sam Slick's Wise Saws. WEDDING DIVINATION.—Being lately present on the occasion of a wedding at a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, I was witness to the following custom, which deems to take rank as a genuine scrap of folk-lore. On the bride alighting from her carriage at her father's door, .a. plate covered with morsels of bride's cake was flung from a window of the second storey upon the heads of the crowd congregated in the street below ; and the divination, I was told, consists in observing the fate which attends its downfall. If it reach the ground in safety, without being broken, the omen is a most unfa vourable one. If, on the other hand, the plate be shat tered to pieces, and the better, the auspices are looked wpm as most happy,—Notes and Queries. ner to be sold for 150/. Allowances if to be sold for less: Straight half-mile. Baron Rothschild's Hyacinth, by Bay Middleton, 4 yrs (401), 7st 111 b Mr. Harris's Antonina, 3 yrs (401), 6st 123b...(We115) 2 Mr. Reeve's Lioness, 2 yrs (601), sst 71b _.(Ashmall) 3 The following also ran :—b g by Idas—Avon, Angelo, and Anxiety. Betting : 2 to 1 each agst Hyacinth and Lioness ; 5 to 2 agst Antonina. Won by a length. Very bad third. The winner was afterwards sold by auction for 260 guineas ; the fund thereby realising 1231. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. ST. LEGER. 7to 4 agst West Australian. 100 to 15 agst Rataplan. 12 to 1 agst The Reiver. DERBY, 1854. 12 to 1 agst Autocrat (offered), 20 to 1 agst Verbena colt. 25 to 1 agst Marl tey Hill. RACING FIXTI The figures within parentl day's I TRES FOR 1853. besis denote the number of •acing. Ascot (4) Hampton (2) 15 Beverley, Hull, &c. (2) 15 Tenbury (1) l6 Robert-Town (3) l6 Lamberton (2) 21 Bibury (1) 22 Macclesfield. (2) Stockbridge (1) Harrogate(2) Knighton Winchester (1) Newcastle (3) Ludlow (2). Newmarket (3) 5 Worcester (2) Carlisle (3) 5 Woodford and Loughton 5 Lancaster (2) 7 Odiham (1) 8 Macclesfield (2) 12 Liverpool (3) 13 Maidstone (1) l3 I Ipswich (2) Leith (1) Stourbridge (2) Stamford (2) Whitehaven (2) Knutsford (2) Nottingham (2) Goodwood (4) Wenlock UST. AU Ripon (2) Brighton (2) 3 Airdrie (2) 4 Edgware (2) Brighton Club (1) 5 Wolverhampton (3) 8 Yarmouth (2) Reading (2) lO North Staffordshire (21 10 York (3) 17 SEPTE: Lincoln (2) 1 Warwick (2) 6 Doncaster (4) 13 Weston Zoyland and Bridgwater (1) 12 Dover 15 Pontefract (2) OCT( Canterbury lB [ Radcliffe (3) 22 Egham (2)_ .23 Tonbridge (I) 24 Liverpool Hunt Cup (2) 24 Derby (2) 2 Hereford (2) 25 Eccles (3) 29 Lichfield (2) 29 Chelmsford (2) 30 IMBER. Chester Autumn (2) Bedford (2) 2O Leicester ( 2 ) 21 Lanark (2) 22 Manchester Autumn (2) 22 Newmarket F. 0. (3) 27 Walsall (2) 28 Northallerton (2) 29 IBER. Yorkshire Union . Hunt (1) 6 Wrexham (2) 6 Newmarket S. 0. (5) 10 NOVE Worcester (2) Epsom Autumn (2) Cowbridge Hunt (2) Warwick Autumn (2) lB Caledonian Hunt and Kelso 18 Richmond (2) l9 Newmarket H. (6) 24 :MBER. Liverpool Autumn (2) Shrewsbury (2) 15 Aberystwith (3) Last week. IS TO COME. Tipperary Autumn 12 Limerick Grand Na tional 21 OCTOBER. Curragh October Meet ing l9 IRISH RAC. JUNE. Howth and 8a1d0y1e...14 Curragh June Meeting...2B JULY. - Down Royal Corporation (4) l9 SEPTEMBER. Curragh Sept. Melting.. 6 COURT OF EXCHEQUER—June 9. (Before Mr. Baron Parke and a Common Jury.) BATEMAN AND OTHERS V. GREENWOOD AND ANOTHER, This was an action brought by Messrs. Bateman, Daniel Bateman, and Samuel Bateman the younger, of Brighouse, near Bradford, in the County of York, card makers and manufacturers, against Mr. George Oates Greenwood, of Keighley, near Bradford, gentleman, for the recovery of 2661. 18s. 3d., the amount of certain goods supplied by the plaintiffs to a Mr. Leonard Greenham, trading under the style of " Leonard Green ham and Co." The plaintiffs relied upon certain agreements between Mr. Greenwood, the said Leonard Greenham and ano ther, by which it was sought by the plaintiffs to establish that those gentlemen were partners, so as to fix the de fendant Greenwood with liability for goods purchased from the public by Greenham. The arguments relied on were put in evidence, and at the conclusion of the plaintiffs' case Mr. Watson, Q.C., as counsel for the defendant Greenwood, submitted to his lordship that the agreements did not establish a partnership between the parties, so as to make the defendant Greenwood liable for goods purchased by Greenham. In this view his lordship concurred, observing, at the same time, that Leonard Greenham had no right, in his purchases of goods from the public, to have used the name of the firm of " Leonard Greenham and Co." His lordship stated that he was clearly of opinion that the plaintiffs should be nonsuited, and directed a nonsuit accordingly. LEADBEATER V. GREENWOOD This was an action arising under similar circumstances, and, immediately after the previous case was disposed of, the record in this case was withdrawn. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. NOTICE TO MARINERS. ALTERATIONS IN THE BUOYS ON THE WEST COAST OF SLESWIG. (Translation.) In the course of a few days the following alterations will be made in the buoys in the undermentioned chan nels, viz. : Lister Deep—lnstead of the black buoy, marked "No. 2 Romo," there will be placed in the north-west bite of Jordsand's Flat a seven-foot black and white chequered buoy, which on entering for Romo must be kept on the starboard side, and for the Hoyer Channel on the larboard. Instead of the red buoy by the Hunning Shoal, a white and black-stripped five-feet buoy will be placed, which on entering the Hover Channel must be kept on the starboard, and to the List Roads on the larboard. Further, in the course of eight or ten days, the following additions and alterations in the buoying of this channel will be made : Instead of the customary buoy at the entrance of the channel, a " Pla,cock's" buoy, with a vane, marked " Lis ter-dye ;" this seamark appears like a floating beacon, is twelve feet above the water, and can serve as a refuge for twelve persons. On the north side of Saltsand shoal, another black buoy will be placed ; there will thus be two black buoys on this shoal, marked List No. 18, No. 2. The white buoy A will be placed further to the N.W., in fourteen feet water, at the S.W. end of the "Rist" shoal. • To the south of the " Haysands" reefs, on which there is only two feet, a thirteen feet white buoy will be placed, with a black ball, marked " List C." New Hover—Between the white buoys C and D, a white buoy, without letter, will be placed on a projecting point of the north " Sandground." The green wreck buoy will be taken away. North Elbe—lnstead of the white buoy A, a thirteen feet white water ballast buoy, with a black ball. The floating beacon on Gehlsancl flat will be taken away. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 9. The Rosanna, Garbles, loading in the Union Dock for Genoa, had her winch broken, her deck planks started, kc., yesterday afternoon, in consequence of a chair break ing, and a locomotive engine falling into the vessel. The ship Mellicito, from Savannah, at this port, reports having, on the 27th May, in lat. 48 10 N., long. 23 18 W., taken on board, from the brig Volusia, of Belfast, the captain and crew (six in number) of the ship Aurora, of Hull, that ship having foundered, at 8-40 a.m, on May 20, in lat. 4 . 50 N., long. 38 W. The Gratitude arrived to-day from London, making - water, having been ashore on the North Bank. _ _ _ , - The &mown, Liverpool to Bombay, was spoken, May 31, three days out. A young man of about thirty, dressed in seedy black, was yesterday placed at the bar of the Tri bunal of Correctional Police to answer the charge of vagabondage. His appearance was strange—his face was pale and without expression, and his hair was so long that it fell on his shoulders, and at times covered his face. The President asked him his name and profession ; but he gave no answer ; and as it was intimated that he was a Scotchman, an interpreter was called. He was then questioned through the in terpreter in English : " What is your name ?" " Donald Ross." " Where were you born ?" "In the parish of Edderton in Scotlond." What is your profes sion ?" " I have no other profession than to profess Christ." " Have you any papers to show who you are ?" "I have not ;in my religion we must go by the grace of God." " Have you been long in France ?" " I disembarked at Calais on the 26th January." "What did you come to France for ?" "To preach my religion." " And what is your religion r "I follow the commands of my Great Father God and am only respon sible to him." " How have you lived since your arrival in France ?" "On the charity of the rich." "You possess no thing ?" " Almost nothing, but I have still a French far thing in my pocket." "In your own country in Scotland, how did you live ? Did you exercise any profession ? " " I was a schoolmaster in the parish of Edderton in the county of Ross." "Have you any relatives ?" "My father and mother and four brothers and sisters." "This young man," said the President, "is a forigner, and does not appear to possess his intellectual faculties. We must obtain more information respecting him, and it will be well to write to the English Embassy." The case was ordered to be put off for a week, to afford time for applying to the Embassy. [ADVERTISEMENT.] The Earl of Aldborough and Holloway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miracu lous medicine after every other means had failed.—See extract from his lordship letter, dated "Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. To Professor Holloway. Sir,—l beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of the disorder in my liver and stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty at home, and all over the Continent, had not been able to effect—nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) ALDBOROUGH."—These wonderful pills will cure any disorders of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway's ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London, and by all medicine vendors through out the world. COUNTRY MARKETS. DERBY SMITHFIELD--Jurrs 7. A tolerable supply of fat beasts, attendance of buye rg large, and demand brisk. The number of sheep and lambs more numerous, and most of the sheep sold. Fat 3 ,, n i a store calves not so plentiful, and readily sold. Few 1) 16 , ; Prices :—Beef, 6d to 6id. • mutton, sid to 6id ; lamb 1r to 8(1 ; veal, 5d to 6d per lb. ; pigs, 98 to 9s 6d per sco, skins,3id to 4d per lb. rough fat, 4s 6d per 141 b. ; hides, 2 d to 2Ad per lb ; EDINBURGH GRAIN— JUNE 8. We had a small supply of grain ill to-day's Inarl et .,; Sales were brisk for all sorts, from the finest of quell ?rims advanced considerably. ' Wheat on the top 5a , ,1 0 the average 2s 6tl up. Barley on the top is down, aneld w.trage is 6d up. Oats on the top 4d, and the average ip. Beans on the top 2s, and the average is ld, UP. Top of Wheat ............ ........... 65 lb 56s Od Barley.. .. b b 2 3 4 4 : 4 0 da 45 67 lb 40s Od Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 467 qr 5............ Barley lBB qrs, Oats 505 qrs Beans 76 qrs AVERAOES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Average of wheat £2 11 11 51 00 Ditto of Barley Ditto of Oats .- 1 2 Ditto of Beans 4 1-12 tbs - Oats . -- Beans. sold 467 cio so ld 131' - so ld 503 q ....sold 76 01 8 BOSTON—JUNE 8. qr. 0 An advance of is, and in some instances of 2$ Per'tc. on wheat. Oats 6(1 to is per qr. dearer. Bean' in 5 1 request, at an advance of Is. Of barley and PeA 5 s.„ c let it, 4 1. sample on offer. The following were the prices 21 5 4 red, 38s to 48s, white, 48s to 50s, extra, 52 5; barley 2 ,6 8 Lo 323 ; oats, 153 to 20s ; beans, ifs to 42 s ; P e* 9 373 per qr. NEWARK—JUNI 8. At the Corn-exchange to-day we had a good S ' te w desist' and fair supplies of grain. Wheat was 25 per 4 1 '004 Spring corn in favour of sellers. The prices viere th : : 275 white, 56s to 58s, red 47s to 52s ; barley, grin"'' 42 0 28s, malting 00 '" to 00s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; b eaus, 16s ; peas, 36s to 38s ; malt, 56s to 60s ; tares : 4°B per qr. ..26 ..27 DUBLIN—JUNE 7. g ,,„ 0 0 White wheat, 26s Od to 30s Od ; red ditto, p osed; barley, 13s Od to 16s 6d ; oats, 10s Od to 13s Od; r a ,.ker. .21s Od to 23s per brl ; oatmeal, lls Od to 138 Od; flour, 14s Od to 18s Od per cwt; Indian corn, 298 Od d per 480 lbs. Curren4 t° / 3 8, Od to 00s Od Os Od-- 4 " 6d to 00s 03 Od to 008 Od 00s Od -2p do. Od to 00s Od Od to 00s Od Od- -16d°. } Od to 00s Od 000 Od to 00s Od Od to 00s Od Os Od CORK-JUNE 8. Brig. White wheat 00s 4 Redwheat 21s Ditto OOs Ditto OOs Barley oos Ditto OGs Ditto OOs Bere oos 216 Oats los 4d to 12s Od e, ____ 1 ...AO . Ditto 00s Od to 00s 04118 o , ' Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od Ott" Pigs oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od par . col Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last ate, • 7: l ' Wheat, 27. Barley, 175. Bere, 00. ° Pigs, 00. _ Return of cattle sold for week ending June 4 Pigs, 209. Sheep, 255. Cows, 51. PRICES OF BUTTER. (ANT. CtINENNOt• 7 58 First quality iecond quality ".bird quality 7 6 s Third..quality .... .......... 63s Fourth quality iifth quality 6Bs Fifth quality .............. • Sixth quality sBs Sixth quality... ...•••• 6 . .• 0 j; Is Coax.—F l our—First, 13s Od to 14s Od ; extol; seconds, 12s Od to 13s Od ; households, lOs to Bott s ' Ss 011 7s to sOd per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, 7s 6dr r ej' A ' oatmeal, lOs 6d tolls ; wheatmeal, 9s 6d to lOs 6a 115 g Uu Indian corn, 71 Os Od to 71 7s 6d per ton. Bran, 41 ver g , to 5/ Os Od per ton. Hay—Farmers, 42s Od to 43s Od; OOs; dealers, 43s Od to 00s Od ; average, Os per ton. ,P s 'erdt ° . Farmers, 30s Od to 31s Od; average, 00s ; dealers, 4 '60 0 38s Od ; average, Os. per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf, 96 Od ; household ditto, 51,d to Od per 41b.—Fresh butter , o efi Lid per lb. Eggs, 4s 7d to 4s 9d per hundred. bles t - 61' o 4Ad to 8d ; mutton, 6d to Gid ; veal, 5d to 8d ; pority;fo,lo 6a ; bacon, 7d to 8d; sausages, Gd per lb.— Fish, Ne fp; land, 001. Os to 00/ Os per ton ; Scotch herrings, 00s ping Red, do., 30s per brl.—Potatoes, white, 10d to 1 2 ‘, 1 ; 10 , 15 12d to 15d.—Coals, Newport, 198; Lyduey, 19s ; , Od per ton.—Whiskey, 25 0.p., 6s 10d per imperial Hides, market, 30s to 365; Salted, 30s to 38s per c ton skins, 3id per lb.—Bangor slates 2/. 17s. 6d to 31. P er o, e c Fleece wool, OOs to OOs per stone Hemp 381• to • goo I ton—Timber, Memel, 31. 15s ; red pine, 31. 15s ; Y° 3/. ss. per ton; deals, 19/. to 20/. per hundred. ---Bar Si. to 106.105. per ton.z.J4Callow, 49s 6d to 50s per cwt. , ; 00 0 Ti. lOs to 01. per cwt.- Tar, Archvigel, 19s. per brl Peruvian, 121. Os to 001. per ton. • RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 9. 10; STOCK EXCHANGE.—Prices have undergone an vourable change since yesterday of about 1 per ce 'Cot?' ll al] the leading stocks. Caledonian, 33i ; Eastern o blre ties, 13 ; East Lancashire 18 ; Lancashire and It° . fift li 77$ ; London and North-Western, 114 i ; Shares, 1i prem. ; ditto 1-Bth Sh ares , prem. ; Itang'3l s ?: Sheffield, and Lincoln, 304 •, Midland, 71i ; North v - io sir, 84 ; South-Eastern and Dover, 21/ ; Y or k, Ne l- )flu' and Berwick, 171; York and North Midland, 301;.„ e betr land Erewash Valley, 7.54 ; Quebec and Richmond (v ture 6 per cent.), 1074. NGAM, JUNE 9. oll 9 . ; STOCK EXCHANGE BIRM . I Pric H es stationary, but a fa! go of business done. Birmingham and Stour Valley done at 104. MANCHESTER, JUNE 9. . STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been a fair ',WOW'. at declining prices. London Stock, 115 ; ditto g 5-16 prem. ; Midlands, 71 ; East Anglian, 6 per el 50,,, Dovers, 218 ; Leeds, 778 ; ' Sheffields, * 3o ;, York 'I A re , Midlands, 304 ; Caledonians, ; East Lanolin kfr Kendal and Windermere, 15 ; Eastern Counties, LEEDS, JUNE 9. li'v STOCK EXCHANGE.—Transactions in railway shsr o bt 1 : 1 ... 0 14 .4 4 been to a very limited extent, and quotations 'rot"' lower. Midlands have been done at 72 ; Lana'' Yorkshires, 78; and North-Westerns, Bi. SEABORNE MALLS. (N signifies that the malls are sent from the Gen by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] miell 1 , - ip pi.llgi3O,oo.' .„/ - - " --- ) o.' . gay j 0 ell' ' ° JO O 4016 une Day when mm - le up in General Post- Oftlee, London.* From vilu it port „ Dispatcheo. Liverpool ... Liverpool •" I3mth.nPtolll SouthareP W' Dover Londo Ptyino Dover Dover Southa to n P ponou nan ;l: n. tr t 1 1: South: t•9ynioutb JO 0 0 ' $o Jo n : 1 6 pat!, o n' 1 6 o°' ; 6 Jane Jam° f 6 Ju l ru• 1 6 Jun ° Plymouth ._!1 s ou thantp wo n StoutlianaPt° Dover Soucharnplo: Dover • • • . • Dover s o utluvor :ontharort4n. .-• Lon don • . 7 outllaciP, London • •i o :, Aotithi 4MP p 4 0L Ittlfin I p t Dover .• • tiolYbe n4 ' LithaTnp 00 °P iout I „a, viyulo6. 1 Do ver • • • • • ' s .„ o utti ptan than' I :i v tt er llamP i g: vario us Dcnr ow °" r tor , ' tllatuP t°i 4°u atk ** o ver •- 3-osthaa3P.- ~„ithoos"l h d a t e s fall on a Sunda aY, t-e, 2A; '.l day, with the excpt i be e on DI M both of which COUNTRIES. America(byltrit.pack)N imerica (by United Sts. packet) ..........N America (by U. States packet) :......... N Australia (via South-I ampton) Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) . Africa (West Coast) ..N Alexandria.......... N Alexandria ........ ..Al Bahamas M Belgium ............N Brazil .............. Ai I tuenos Ayres Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape of Good Hope N Cape de Verde ......N Ceylon (see India) Ceylon... ........N Channel 151ea........N• China (see India) Constantinople ......N Constantinople cont. of Europe M & N Egypt (see India) France . ..... & N Gibraltar ..........M Greece (see India) Greytown ..........M Llamburgh ..........N Elavannah ........ ..M IloHand ............M Llondu ras India (viaSoutbampt.)M India (via Marseilles)M lonian Isles (sea India) Ireland ........ M & N M Madeira .. Madeira ............N Malta (see India) Mauritius (see India) Mauritius N Naples . N New Granada M New Zealand.. Papal 6...a1es N Peninsula Port Natal N Sicily N Tuscany N Venezuela M Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) ... . West Indies ........31 • When any of these dispatchel on the follow. Southampton), and the day preceding. Every Friday .... 'June 14 .. ;June 22 .. •- ...... !July 4 .. .. • • .... 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D,, itibltslittilheo.l:;;lll. to.cioslo, el .D 1 RD. bull , , COOD ~,, On the Bth inst., at 26, St. MarY's,l3‘" , i ., 0 DP"' Robert Brien, surgeon, R. N., aged "` t h e P .- ' 1 ,, On the Bth inst., at 23, Chester-square, .0 Gore, aged 81. , estorshire, iiitOranTtahieth6y,Einscist.:,aagteciFf7trberstene, 14 0 .. c ,040; -irD u lill LONDON : Printed and S Publishe d bi 311Tracei -11011 of No. 112, Strand, printer. at Yu i n the c° Strand, in the Precinct o f the sai , rO7 Ilidllesex, Friday, June 10, oris. BIRTHS. 1 44.9 01' A SON. g t° lK e nsin n' Oh On the Bth inst., at Earl's terrace) - of J. T. Longman, E a s q. bror 13°' On ho Bth inst • P tlO Eaton -place' Ors' f PA ' p OF A DAIIGIITZU.,. itobe tli rb the On the 7th inst. at Hampton-wick) '7,otestb On o Bth inst ,at Ileath-ra oun t, 10 0 of Alfred Ray, Esq.., 0 . ag ,A