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the Isle of Man customs duties. He had seen deputations from the House of Keys since Friday, and having . heard their statements, had prepared a Treasury minute i n an swer, showing that they had greatly object of the Government proposition misunderstood the and until he drd portunity had been given to consider hat minute not intend to proceed with the measure. THE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Sir J. PAKINGTON said he understood the Chancellor of the Exchequer to have stated that the committee on the India Bill should conclude at a certain hour that evening, and then that the report on the Succession Duties Bill should be brought up. He wished to know at what hour that course woculd be taken ? Lord J. RUSSELL—that depended on whether the re port on the Succession Bill was to be received without dis cussion or not. If there was to be any discussion it had better not be brought on at a late hour. Sir J . PAKINGTON said it was the intention of an hon. friend of his to move an amendment on the bringing up of the report. Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to intimate that the Succession Bill could not be brought on. THE INDIA BILL. The house then went into committee on this bill. On clause 3, Mr. V. SMITH rose to propose an amendment to the clause. He hoped he might entreat the attention of the house, for the reason that they were placed in an awkward and unusual position in the discussion of this measure. Complaints had been made against the Government for not bringing it on earlier, but he thought there was more just cause to complain of the Ministry of 1850, who did not pro pose the appointment of a committee like that which was appointed in 1830. (Hear, hear.) Some little blame was also to be laid on gentlemen opposite, on their mode of opposing the bill. The noble lord the member for Lynn moved an amendment asking for delay in legislating, and the result was, that the discussion on the question of delay was mixed up with the question of the second reading, and they had never really discussed the principle of the second reading. He, therefore, made no apology to the house for now inviting them to a discussion on the prin ciple of the measure. The question which was decided the other night was whether they would go into the conside ration of the bill, and he had voted for going into that con ' sideration. Another qUeation was what was called the question of double government. He agreed with the noble lord the member for Lynn that no phrase was ever invented with less meaning. It was, in fact, invented by the enemies of the system, as it implied a confused govern ment. But it really was a mixed government, with an in dependent body , acting as a check on the power of the crown. That body should, therefore, be really independent if it was to be such a check, and to ake it so was the ob ject of his amendment. He did not wish to counteract the principle of the bill, but to carry it fully into effect. With regard to his (Mr. V. Smith's) amendment, the vote would be taken on the omission of the words, " her Majesty by warrant under the royal sign manual," and he proposed to insert the words " the Court of Directors by warrant fro m h er Majes'ty under the royal sign manual, countersigned by the President of the Board of Control, shall appoint." The honourable member for Montrose said this would be a mode of self-election ; no doubt it would be, but with the qualification that they would be men who had been ten years in India. This selection was limited to the appointment of three fourths of the court, and excluded directors and ex-direc tors, and if it was thought advisable, he would have no objection to limit the choice to those who had returned from India within a given period. With regard to the opinions and authorities on this point, he might state that Lord Hardinge had said that he thought that for every two directors put late the court by the proprietors, there might be one put in by the court itself, taken from mem bers of the Indian service. Mr. Halliday, that valuable Indian servant, hesitated about giving his opinion on the English government of India, but, on being pressed, said that he had heard it proposed that the Indian directors should be nominated partly by the Crown directors, and partly by the holders of Indian stock ; 'but he inclined to the mode of election us it at present existed, but with one third or one-fourth chosen by the directors themselves. The same opinion was expressed by Mr. Marshmau, who thought that part of the court should be elected by the directors themselves, the minister for India having a " veto" on the nomination. In the plan proposed the only object seemed to him (Mr. V. Smith) to be to insert nomi nees into the direction, so that by degrees they might be the means of superseding the Court of Directors altoge ther. It was as it were getting in the small end of the wedge. He did not mean to say that was his right hon. friend's intention, because if it had been he would have declared it; but other persons might take up that princi ple, and it was on that ground that ho (Mr. V. Smith) ob jected to it. The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to say that he was decidedly in favour of a mixed govern ment, which, cumbrous as it appeared, was a better 0016- nial government for India than the government of any other colony, and was far superior when compared with the government of any colony where there was a native population. It was on behalf of a mixed government that he asked their votes, and it was because he believed that the system of nominees would destroy the power of the check which the Court of Directors was intended to be that he moved his amendmeut. The right hon. gentleman then moved to omit in the clause the words, "It shall bolaw ful for her Majesty by warrant under the sign manual to appoint," in order to substitute the words " The Court of Directors by the consent of her Majesty under her royal sign manual, countersigned by the President of the Board of Control. to ap p oint," Sir C. WOO.Jthought it would be more convenient for the committee to avoid a general discussion on the past Government of India, and other to:'ies introduced by his right hon friend, which did not bear on the precise ques tion raised, and to which he proposed to confine himself. They had agreed the double government should be main tained, and all that they had to decide was in what shape certain persons should enter the Court of Directors An other point had been agreed on—namely, that by some other means than election by the Court of Proprietors a certain portion of the future courts should be introduced into it. The evidence that had been received went strongly to point out a great defect in the constitution of the Court of Directors—namely, that the ablest men -men of the highest character and experience among Indian servants — were deterred by the arduous anti expensive system of canvassing from offering themselves as candidates for the direction ; and it was apparent, from the concurrent evi dence of many witnesses, that by some means or other, a portion of the court should be selected from such wen. In order to simplify tho question, he would concede that one third of the court shold be introduced either by selection or nomination, and the question was, whether it should be done by such a selection as was proposed by his right hon. friend, or by nomination by the Crown. His right hon. friend had raised an objection to the mode adopted by the Government on the ground that the persons to bo appointed were nominees. It was not until after great deliberation, that it was decided to adopt that plan. If the Court of Directors were to be independent, it was the interest of the Government to make them so. They might be wrong in the mode of doing that they had adopted. He admitted it was a fair subject for discussion, but he still thought that the plan chosen by the Government was the best calculated to preserve the independence of the court. His right hon. friend said that self-election by the board was objectionable, and he (Sir C. Wood) thought so too, as it would tend to destroy the independent action of the court. It should always be an object to treat a min ority with respect ; and, practically, to leave to a minority a certain amount of check over a majority; and obviously the scheme of the right hon. gentleman would have the effect of placing in the hands of the majority a power to sink and crush the minority by the overwhelming introduction of their own partisans. That, certainly, would be the result ; and only to a very limited ex tent indeed would the veto of the Crown be of use in preventing such an evil. With regard to what the right honourable gentleman had said of the dangers of the proposal of the Government occasioning dissensions between the directors and the Board of Control, all he (Sir C. Wood) could say was, that he did not foresee that dan ger, and that, at any rate, he was quite sure the plan of the right hon. gentleman would be far more productive of such mischief. Supposing that the minority in the court, and that the Board of Control were on one side , and the majority of the court again s t th e B oar d o f Control, then dissensions could not but arise when the majority increased its strength. (So we understood the right hon. baronet, but it was, as usual, difficult in the gallery to catch his precise meaning.) In this respect the plan proposed by the Government was greatly superior, for the sole object of the Board of Control would be to select men of marked qualifications, and such. appointments would consequently in each case be decided upon without reference to the state of parties or cliques in 'the Court of Directors. The right hon. gentleman had said a good deal with respect to the possible dependence of these nominee directors on the Go vernment. He (Sir C. Wood) did not believe that any such dependence would , ever exist. The sole object of the Government would be to get men of first-rate capacity, knowledge, and experience ; and certainly they were not to look for such men to the classes of retired Indian ser vants who might consent to act as manageable tools to the Minister in the House of Commons. Undoubtedly, it was his opinion, that the Gervernment of the day, which would make such appointments, would be guilty of betraying its high and sacred trust in the most disgraceful manner. Ho did not agree with his right hon. friend on the question of salary. In talking on that head, he (Sir C. Wood) had always contemplated low amounts ; and his notion was that the emoluments of the office ought not to be such as to make it on that ground a matter of petitioning to the Government. He want ed the office to be sought for on other grounds. Tho office was .held now for little or no salary, and he only pro posed to raise the salary a small degree higher ; and he believed that by low salary this, among other results, would be produced—that the men who would accept tho office would be of independent character and position. He also differed with the right hon. gentleman in ,regard to the contingency of English party politics being eciingled in the practical adminis tration of Indian affairs. He did not think it very likely that gentlemen arrived in England after long service in India, and still devoted to Indian questions and wrapt up in Indian interests would easily get engtilphed in purely English polities ; and, assuredly, if there was one fact more clearly made out than another in the evi dence taken 137 the committee, it was this—that the civil service of India was totally free from the feelings aroused by party contentions in England. He therefore did not f e ar that Governments here, in the men they selected, would make party choices ; but even if there was that danger, it was to be remembered that the evil would in some meas ure cure itself, since, consequent upon our rapid changes, one Government would be e na bl e d to counteract the par ty influence which might be introduced by another. Unanimity in the directors was not likely, and he thought it was not desirable that there should be but one p ar t y i n the court any more than it was desirable that there should be but one party in that house. And if the apprehension s of his right friend that there would be party struggles were well founded, the more reason there was that it should not be put in the power of a majority to select ono third of the court from ameng its own partisans. The Government did not propose that there should be any dif ference in position and authority between the two classes of directo rs the elected tend the nominees ; and as both would be directly, and in the first place, guided by their Indian habits and feelings, he did not see what•likelihood there w as th a t those selected by the Crown would stand out from their own body as depe ndent tools of the Board of Control. O n th e whole ho was sure this part of the scheme would work satisfactorily ; and ho believed it would prove that the highest and most illustrious names in the Indian service—even s uc h a name as Mountstuart Elphin stone—need not disdai n th e acceptance of such nomineeshi by the Crown. The safety for India and tlat for the Court . o r ; Di re ctors, and for this country was, that was so much the interest of the Government to second-class, and possibly dependent w ere not likely ' ever to get the o ffi ce ; and on that committee to reject the amendment. dhe asked the pgongilifirst-clasa ram Mr. HERRIES was understood to say that he found his own views on this point very accurately s e u x p P pp resa rt, d rejoici ng a mendment, which he would accordingly that the opposition to this part of the Government planwas initiated on the ministerial side of the house. He did not flee how it would be possible for a body constituted as the court would be vilifier this bill, to work harmoniously together. It was all very well to talk of low salaries and high characters, but it was palpable that the office would be greatly sought after, and it was as palpable that the ten dency of the men appointed would be to support the mini ster to whom they were indebted for the post. The effect of the introduction of non-elected men into the court would be to lower the character and prestige of the elected body; for, pro tanto, it was a declaration by Parliament that the proprietors did not elect the best men ; while, on the other hand, there would always be the suspicion attaching to the nominees that they were mere Government partisans, so that, on the whole, the whole body would suffer in public estimation. Very likely their legislation led to the com plete deprivation of the holders of stock of all power ; but, at least, while the Court of Directors was maintained, let it be maintained in all honour and credit. These were obvious objections to the ministerial plan. They seemed not to have been weighed sufficiently by the right hon. gentleman (Sir C. Wood), and had certainly not yet been removed. He must therefore earnestly beg of her Ma jesty's Government that they would consider this matter. Mr. LOWE argued, from what had occurred in other cases, that a right of sanction would practically become a right of appointment, and that nothing would be gained by making these directors appea r to be elected b y the Court of Directors, while they were really nominated by the Board of Control. The effect would be to minimize the responsibility of the President of the Board, while actually leaving the power in his hands. But if the amended plan were worked out as desired, the veto of the Crown would not improve the character of the candidates, unless it were extended to every election until the desired man were presented, and this would amount to Crown nomination. The tendency of things under the act was to increase the influence of the directors, in regard to elec tions, as compared with that of the proprietors ; and it might therefore not be wise to increase this tendency. The object of the measure of Government was to obtain the best men for the directors ; and under the proposed system there would be an emulation between the Crown and the company as to whose directors should do the most credit to their constituents. Mr. El - 4LIOT did not think that the hon. gentleman (Mr. Lowe) had made out a case to show that the system proposed by Government would render the Board of Direc tors more independent, or its opinion of more authority than at the present moment. It did not appear plain to him that the alterations proposed by the Government would render a seat at the Board of Directors acceptable to that class of men to which the hon. gentleman referred. The number was to be reduced from 25 to 18 ; now, when there were 25 directors, the amount of labour cast upon each was not too onerous ; as, however, the number was to be reduced, more would be cast upon each director than gentlemen in the position adverted to by the hon. member (Mr. Lowe) would be anxious to undertake. If this part of the bill were carried the house would not stop until the government of India would be absorbed by the Crown. The effect of this would be, that the house would continu ally intermeddle in Indian affairs—a thing by no means to be desired, for there were not two of its members who really understood the subject. Even those members who had evidently worked hard upon the subject had made state ments which were far from being accurate. Lord STANLEY said that the committee ought to con fine itself to the question immediately before it—that ques tion being whether the plan of the Government or the plan of the right hon. gentleman was best calculated to secure the most efficient and independent men on the Board of Directors. The plan of the right hon. gentleman was that of self election, for which there was no precedent. His objection to that plan was that it tended to give perma nence, if not perpetuity, to that very system which it was the object of the bill to do away with. Neither did he altogether approve of the Government plan, and he thoughethat, without trenching on the principle on which it was founded, it was susceptible of improvement. When these members were appointed by the crown, and had seats in that house, they would - become, he would not say the tools, but the allies of the Government. Now he thought that if these directors were appointed for a term of ten or twelve years, and were not re-eligible at the end of that period, they would have a sufficient guarantee for their in dependence. (Hear.) He offered, this as an improvement on the plan of the Government, which, however, he would support in preference to the plan of the right hon. gentle r man. (Hoar.) Mr. HUME said he should vote for the principle of elec tion in preference to the principle of nomination, which he was altogether opposed to ; but the election which he should prefer was that kind of election by which the East India Company had been and was now maintained. (Hear.) The right lion. gentleman the President of the Board of Control had so strongly painted all the advan tages which accrued from the system as it stood, that he felt at a loss to understand the reasoning on which lie made the proposition in the bill. They might remove the defects which existed in the present system, by making the Court of Directors really responsible to the proprietors, but they had no right to destroy rights which had been secured to the East India Company ey the bill of 1333 till 1574. They were giving the president of the Board of Control a greater power than was possessed by her Majesty in this country, because ho had the power of making war and spending the revenues of India to any amount without letting the Court, of Directors know anything about it- He thought they should increase the power of the Court of Directors, and compel them to keep a record of those points on which they differed from the Board of Control. (Hear.) Sir X. HOGG said it appeared to him that the house was agreed as to the expediency of selection which was the principle of the bill. He was sure the sole object of the Government and of the committee was to have tho'se gen tlemen in the Court of Directors who could give the best information on India, and who were best qualified to dis charge their duties. They must either give the selection to the Crown, or to the Court of Directors. If they gave it to the Crown, what gentlemen would be candidates for Cie office? Every gentleman who thought himself fit for the appointment would put himself forward as one of the , six to he selected. And they would thus narrow and de teriorate the class of men who would come forward as can didates. (Hoar, hear.) As far as his experience of the Court of Directors went, it did not at all accord with the opinions of those persons who expressed. so greztt a horror of. the system of canvassing. (hear, hear.) Did not the members of that house, who spoke of not condescending to canv.Lss, go about themselves at every election to canvass for votes ? (Hear, hear.) And there was this distinction in favour of the Court of Directors, that when a member was once elected and discharged his duties with ability, efficiency, and honour, he was elected for life. (Hear, hear.) Ho could only say for himself and for his colleagues on the board, that if there had been anything dishonour able or humiliating in the canvass, neither he nor they would have condescended to it. (Hear, hoar.) It appeared to him that there were strong objections to the plan of the Government and also to the plan of the right hon. gentle man, and it was for the committee to determine on which side the balance of advantage lay. Against the nomina tion by the Crown of the six directors the objection was urged, and with some weight, that those directors would be under the influence of the feeling that they were so nominated in the discharge of their duties. But for him self, he felt bound to say that he entertained no such apprehension. He believed that those gentlemen who had passed their lives in the civil or military service of India, would, when appointed to a seat in the direction, discharge their duties there honourably, independently, and uninfluenced by any consideration of the persons who ap pointed them. (Hear.) He thought that the suggestion of the noble lord (Stanley) would make the proposition of the Government worse than it was, because it would ex clude those gentlemen from being re-eligible when, from the experience they had acquired, their services would be most useful and beneficial. (Hear, hear.) He under stood the noble lord to say also that he would exclude those gentlemen from sitting in that house, but he did not think that the Government or the committee would ever support a scheme of that kind. He admitted that the principle of self election was also liable to objection, but the Court of Directors must at all events have a better knowledge of the men who wore most fit to be appointed than the Presi dent of the Board of Control could possibly have. (Hear, hear.) But whether the appointment rested with the one or the other, he had no fears on the subject of the practical working of the plan. It was said it was desirable to have such men as Lord Metcalfe and Mountstuart Elphinstone in the board of direction. To be sure it was, and he had no doubt that if either of those gentlemen expressed a wish to be members, they would be elected without canvass on the next vacancy that occurred. (Hear, hear.) But such men as Lord Metcalfe and Mountstuart Elphinstone were not to be picked like blackberries. Sir G. Clerk, who was a man of great talent and distinguished services in India, stated before the committee that it had been intimated to him that if he wished he might be elected to the Court of Directors without a canvass. Heretofore the Court of Directors had been regarded as the fountain of all honours, at least of all appointments, and all the servants of the Company looked up to them on that account. But what would bo the case now, when the Court of Directors were themselves partly condemned by having some of their numbers curtailed. (Hear, hear.) They were-ex cluded from all the nominations to the higher offices. (Hear, hear.) In the civil service the appointments were to be made by public competition. (Hear, hear.) It was the same with regard to the medical appointments. With re gard to scientific appointments in the engineers and artil lery these were not made by the Court of Directors. With regard to Addiscombe, the pupils there underwent a half yearly examination and were appointed according to merit. The great mass of youths who had attained the standard which fitted them for the artillery went out as cadets—not as direct cadets but as infantry cadets—and with the ad vantage of a good education. For his own part he con fessed that he wished to see Addiscombe extended ; ho wished to see a greater number of young men proceed to India with the advantages of a superior education. Under the bill the whole of their prestige was taken from the Court of Directors, all their patronage was trans ferred to other hands, and the government appeared desirous to make the situation of director as little as pos sible an object of ambition or solicitation. He would urge the government to make the offide of director as important as they could. A salary 5001. a-year was not half so much as one given to a commissioner of customs or excise ; and he did hope that either by position, by influence, or by salary—by some means or other, the office of director would be made an object of honourable ambition to emi nent men who had returned from India. Mr. C. BRUCE said it appeared ta him that there was no clause in the bill which would lewd more directly or more distinctly to the extinction of the Court of Direc tors, and of the system of government which had hitherto preserved India to this country, than the clause then under consideration, The speech of his honourable friend (Sir J. Hogg) had clearly proved the disadvantage of this rash and tinkering treatment of India. (Hear, hear.) A great deal had been said about the evils of canvagsing, and the obstacle which it presented to men of eminence who wished to attain the office of director. He could not see the force of the objection, and for his own part, he would rather canvass such a body as the Court of Pro priotors than wait about the Board of Control. (Hear, hear.) It seemed to be forgotten that the Court of Pro prietors had the great advantage of not being a political body ; and the plan of nomination would, in his opinion, take away that quality. When the number was reduced to 13, and the Goverment had six nominees, there would be an end of all hope of seeing the directors act as an effectual check on the Government at home. What was wanted was a body as free as possible from political Mas— a body which would have a single eye to the good government of India, and which would not blindly follow the lending of the President of the Board of Control ; and such a body could not exist under the operation of this clause. The clause would. in fact, aggravate an hundred fold the tTespotic system of government which prevailed in India. Public opinion could not check it for want of adequate information ; the House of Commons could not usefully e:ercise controlling functions; the Ministry could not be trusted in the matter because it was liable to con stant change. He would trust no ministry with the power ticthat there was patronage of India. Let him not be was no. cause for apprehension in times of Parliamentary government. He had not forgotten how Lord Hoytesbury was recalled in 1835. Lord Heytesbury was appointed Governor-General . by Sir Robert Peel, his bagg a g e was on board, his suite had embarked. In this state of things a Whig Government succeeded to that of Sir Robert Peel ; the appointment of Lord Heytesbykry was cancelled, and a THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1853, opponents of the measure would, by their so-called amend ments, make it, if possible, worse. (Hear, hear.) After a few words from Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Mangles, 1 and Mr. Hildyard, The committee then divided. The numbers were, — For the original motion ... ... 193 For the amendment 111-82 On our return to the gallery we found Mr. BRIGHT ad dressing the house, but, amid the noise following a division, we could not collect any of the hon. gentleman's remarks. Mr. HUME wished to ask the right hon. baronet the President of the Board of Control whether it would not be better at once to:ally and entirely to abolish the Court of Directors than nominally to retain it, but by the power of appointment on the part of the Crown virtually to destroy its independence and its efficacy. If anything had ever been more distinctly pronounced than another, it was the declaration of the right hon. gentleman (Sir C. Wood) in favour of the system of double government. But the right hon. baronet the First Lord of the Admiralty had told them quite a different thing. The house ought, therefore, to know what was really intended to be done, the speeches of the two right hon. gentlemen being in direct opposition to each other. Sir J. GRAHAM did not apprehend that what he had said, having been supported by a majority of the commit tee, deserved to be marked with su c h s t rong mar k s o f re probation as were implied in the speech of the hon. mem ber for Montrose. His (Sir J. Graham's) earnest desire was to maintain a double government ; at the same time he could not shut his eyes to the fact on which the right hon. gentlemen the member for Stamford dwelt—that the time must come, and that probably at the expiration of 20 years, when the system of a double government must cease. It was wise, therefore, to make preparation in time for that inevitable alternative. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY moved the insertion of the fol lowing words in the same clause :—" That on or before the first Wednesday in the month of April, 1854, the 15 direc tors hereafter appointed to meet and act as the Court of Directors shall prepare a list of 12 persons whom they shall deem best qualified to act as directors, and who shall have been 20 years at the least in the service of the Crown in India, or in the service of the said company in India ; and it shall be lawful for her Majesty, out of the said list of 12 persons," &c. Sir C. WOOD objected to the amendment, because it restricted the eligibility to 20 years' service, when the per son to be elected would certainly be disqualified by age, and because there was no provision for the removal of di rectors. He was opposed also to any interference with the nomination of the Crown. After a few words from Mr. HuME, Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said he had no objection to adopting a period of 10 instead of 20 years' service. Mr. T. BARING considered that Parliament had de cided to leave the nomination to the Crown, and recom mended the hon. baronet to withdraw his amendment. The amendment was then negatived without a division. In line 38 of the same clause, Mr. RICH proposed to amend it by substituting for the " one" director, who is to be appointed for the first period of four years, the word " two," and also generally to amend the periods of service to three, six, and nine, years. Sir C. WOOD objected to the amendment on the ground that it would render it necessary that the elective directors should be elected for no shorter period than nine years, which was more than double the time for which they were elected at present. Mr. BRIGHT thought that the clause before the com mittee ought to be considered in connection with a subse quent clause, which made directors eligible to seats in the House of Commons. Tho clauses in conjunction would destroy the independence of directors. What he wanted was, that directors should be elected for a fixed period— say eight to ten years—and be not eligible to re-election. If the clause should pass as it now stood, he would pro pose the omission of the clause allowing directors to be members of the house ; for if there should be three or four elected directors, and five or six nominees of the Crown in that house, an independent member, on bringing forward any question connected with the Indian Government, would have to encounter not only the hon. baronet the member for Honiton and the President of the Board of Control, as at present, but the fresh auxiliaries by whom they would then be supported, and would thus be borne down by the accumulated evidence of persons interested in giving a colour to transactions, or even in suppressing the truth. (Hear.) The clause ought to be postponed to afford the President of the Board of Control an opportu nity of altering it to meet the wishes of the house. Sir J. HOGG—The hon. member for Manchester never rises to discuss any question whatever before the house without introducing matter of a personal nature. I never knew any occasion on which the hon. member rose in this house in which he did not take the opportunity of saying something personal and offensive. (A laugh, and Hear.) I call on the hon. member to state what he means by his allusion to the member for Honiton and his vicinity to the Treasuryconbdeunetchi.n Parliament has been,tell the memberhon. t least, as honourable and independent as his—(hear, hear) a —and I further tell him that have had an opportunity that my afforded me which he, perhaps, has not had, of evincin g that independence in conjunction with attachment to India and the desire to render that country any humble services in my power. I mrst refer to a matter which I have never mentioned before, either public or private, but, taunted as I have been, I am compelled, however re luctantly, to take this course. Some nights ago the hon. member made an observation to which I, not being of a suspicious nature, did not attach the meaninc , which it was probably intended to co nvo y. M y attention, however, was subsequently called to the observation, and I believe that something was meant by it which the hon. member had not the manliness to state openly. The remark in question compels me to state—and I do so in my own justification —what I have hitherto abstained from making publicly known. Ido not pretend to be devoid of that honour able ambition which makes every man desirous of aspir ing to the dignity or honour of office, nor am I, per haps, in a position to pretend to be insensible to the emo luments attendant on the possession of office. This being the case, it happened that nearly nine years ago I had the honour of being sent for by Sir R. Peel, who offered me a high office—high in station and in respect to emolu ment, and involving the honour of being enrolled of her Majesty's Privy Council. I, or any other person, might be proud of such an offer from such a man. (Hear.) The offer was made not only without solicitation, but without the slightest intimation of a wish on my part. Why did I declire it? I had recently been elected deputy-chair man of the East India Company. I hope my colleagues have a sufficiently good opinion of me not to doubt my in dependence, but I resolved not only to be independent, but to be above the possibility of imputation. It was a mo ment when India was the subject of deep and anxious con sideration—it was the period of the Sutlej campaign in 1845. If I had been merely a simple director I wouldhave gladly availed myself of Sir R. Peel's offer, but having been selected by my colleagues to fill an office of import ance, I could not reconcile it to my feelings to abando n ' them and my duty to I n di a • and, although there were in the direction men as able to discharge the duties of that office as I was, yet I intimated to Sir R. Peel that I cou ld not, consistently with what I felt due to my colleagues, abandon the position in which they had placed me. I think my conduct iu this matter proves that I am not influenced by the low considerations which the hon. member would seem to impute to me, and I pledge my honour I never mentioned to my colleagues the offer which had been made to me, and in the years which have elapsed I believe that to not more than three or four living men have I men tioned an offer of which not only a humble individual like myself, but almost' any man might be proud, looking to the man who made it and the high character of the office tendered. (Cheers.) I beg pardon for introducing a matter of a personal nature, but after the allusions which have been made to me I could not refrain from doing so. Mr. BRIGHT—The hon. baronet has alluded to some thing which passed in a former debate, when he says I had not the manliness to say what I thought. lam of opinion that I generally say pretty much what I think. (A laugh,) I did, on the occasion referred to, allude to the hon. baro net's ambition, b u t no t i n an offensive sense. I do not blame the hon. baronet for being ambitious, and I think that men generally would perform much less if they were not ambitious. I think the house will agree with me in thinking that I did not to-night utter a syllable which any man had a right to deem offensive. Perhaps I have not been sufficiently regardful of the delicate position in which directors of the Hon. East India Company are placed, and of the state of feeling which may exist under such circum stances. I 'will try to be more careful in future, and avoid wounding them on the tender point. (Laughter.) After some conversation, in the course of which Sir T. Maddock and Mr. Cayley recommended the postponement of the clause, and Mr. Bright advised Mr. Rich not to press his amendment to a division, The amendment was withdrawn. On the question that the clause, as amended, stand part of the bill, Mr. T. BARING moved a proviso to the effect that the persons nominated should not have quitted the Indian ser vice for more than five years. Sir C. WOOD thought it was undesirable to place such a limit on the power of nomination, as the object was to introduce fresh bl oo d i n t o th e C our t of Directors. Cases might well occur in which it would be desirable to solicit persons who had left the Indian service for a longer period than five years. Lord JOCELYN said that some of the men most distin guished in India would be excluded if this proviso were adopted. He thought it would be better to postpone the clause for further consideration. Mr. T. BARING said that after the opinion expressed by the noble lord he should not insist on pressing his amendment. Mr. BRIGHT suggested that the qualification required, for the nominees of the Crown—in the possession of a cer tain quantity of stock- was unreasonable, and would prove inconvenient. They would have no connection with the proprietors, and the restriction might prevent the no mination of eminent individuals. He, therefore, moved the omission of the latter part of the clause. Sir H. MADDOCK agreed that the requisition was im material. Sir C. WOOD said the reasons for it were these—that the nominated might be assimilated with the elective mem bers, and that the court existed independently of the go vernment of India, and its members must be directors for all purposes. Mr. BOWYER supported the amendment, thinking the possession of stock would be inconsiderable and immaterial in respect to the giving the nominated directors any com munity of interest with the company, while it would ex clude many excellent men. Mr. BRIGHT said one of the most distinguished indi viduals just returned from India had told him that he could not obtain the qualification required by the clause. The best Indian servants were, however, poor—with nothi ng but their pension ; and the clause required 2,0001. stock, which would cost 5,0001. _ _ Lord J. ItUSSELL said there was weight in what had been urged against the clause. (Hear, hear.) It a p peare d to be felt that the absence of the qualification would be no derogation from the position of the nominat e d di rec t ors. He, therefore, was prepared to agree to the omission of the words. (Rear, hear.) _ _ Mr. DISRAELI said he was glad that the noble lord had taken that course. He thought nothing was more pernici ous than factitious pecuniary qualifications. (Hear, hear.) The arguments against this part o f th e c l ause were strong, and ho trusted that it would be struck out. (Hear, hear.) The clause was amended, and then agreed to. On the next clause, Mr. BRIGHT moved (it being half-past twelve) that the house resume. (Hear, and no.) Sir C. WOOD pressed that two or three more clauses be taken. Sir J. W. HOGG suggested that the 15 direct ors best competent to be put out of the present board should be se lected by the Government, so as to spare the board the painful duty of doing so. (Hear, hear.) Mr. DIS RAELI differed from this suggestion, as it would increase the nominees of the Crown. The members of that house, of course. would not be selected. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BRIGHT said, the only alternative was, that the proprietors should select them. The right hon. President of the Board of Control had himself suggested it. It was , a most disgusting process to be performed by the court on its own members. (Hear, and laughter.) Mr. OTWAY believed that if the directors had the selection they would choose the worse for retention. They had recently chosen a man of no experience at all for the office of director. Sir J. HOGG said the law gave the choice to the pro prietors, and there was no stipulation that only men who had lived in India should be chosen. On the contrary, it was the opinion of all the best authorities that it was not well to have only men who had been residents in India. After a few observations from Mr. OTWAY and Mr. RICH, The clause as amended was agreed to. The house then resumed, and the CHAIRMAN reported progress and asked leave to sit again. Mr. BRIGHT asked when the committee would be re sumed? Sir C. WOOD replied, that it would be resumed on Thursday, after the report on the Succession Duty Bill. STAMP DUTIES (No. 1) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. BRECON COLLEGIATE CHURCH BILL. This bill was also read a third time and passed. LAND REVENUES BILL. This bill was likewise read a third time and passed. COINAGE OFFENCES (COLONIES) BILL. This bill passed through committee without amendment. COPIES OF SPECIFICATIONS REPEAL BILL. This bill went through committee pro formd. GENERAL BOARD OF HE A TiTH (No. 3) BILL. Sir W. MOLESWORTH moved the committal of this bill, the object of which was to carry out the provisional orders of the Board of Health in such towns as desired to have the provisions of the Health of Towns Act applied to them. Colonel HARCOURT trusted that next year the General Board of Health would be placed upon a different footing. In reply to Mr. EVELYN, Sir W. MOLESWORTH said, the General Board of Health did not hold themselves responsible for the defects in the drainage works which were said to have caused the fevers at Croydon. Mr. EVELYN—The works at Croydon were done under the orders of the General Board of Health, and they were held responsible for these works by the inhabitants of Croydon and other places in Surrey, who regarded with dismay the probability of similar works being executed against their desire. (Hear, hear.) After a short conversation, The bill passed through committee. DUBLIN PARLIAMENTARY REGISTRATION.— PAYMENT OF BARRISTERS. This bill passed through committee. NEWPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL. The second reading of this bill was postponed until Thursday next. _ WORKS OF DRAINAGE. Colonel DUNNE moved for a copy of the certificates appended by the Commisioners of the Board of Works to the first plans and estimates of the 12 works of drainage which have been lately submitted to a commission ap pointed by the Treasury minute of the 13th day of July, 1853. The motion was agreed to. CANTERBURY WRIT. Mr. SEYMER moved the further suspension of the Canterbury writ till the 29th inst. The Canterbury Com missioners had concluded their inquiry, and their report would be forwarded to her Majesty in a day or two. It was his intention, on the 29th of this month, to put a question to the noble lord the member for the city of Lon don, whether it was his intention to bring forward and carry through Parliament any measure affecting the city of Canterbury. Should the noble lord answer in the affirm ative, he should move the further suspension of the writ. Should he reply in the negative, he should then move the issue of a writ for CanterbUry. At this period of the ses sion, private legislation was out of the question, and, therefore, unless the Government were prepared, on seeing the report of the commission, to bring forward any mea sure, he should feel it his duty on that occasion to move the issue of the writ. The motion for the further suspension of the writ was then agreed to. SUPPRESSION OF BETTING -HOUSES. The ATTORNEY. GENERAL moved for leave to bring in a bill for the suppression of betting-houses. The evils which had arisen from the introduction of these establish ments had been perfectly notorious for a long period, but a difficulty in legislating on the subject arose from the disin clination which existed to interfere with that amount of betting which had long existed legitimately at Tattersall's and elsewhere in connection with the national sport of horse racing. At these houses, however, a new form of betting was transacted which had been productive of the greatest evils, and the object of the bill was to suppress them, without interfering with the betting as carried on under the old established method. The bill prohibited the opening of houses for the purposes of betting, inflicting penalties upon the persons concerned in such establishments ; and in asmuch as mischief appeared to arise from the advance of money in the first instance, in the expectation of receiving larger sums upon a given contingency, that was forbiden by the proposed bill. There was not a prison in London, or an establishment for the reform of offenders from which abundant and conclusive testimony might not be gathered of the vast number of persons, especially youthful persons, who had been led into crime by the dreadful temptations held out by betting-houses. (Hear, hear.) From 100 to 150 of these houses existed in the metropolis, and in all the large towns they existed in considerable numbers. It had been said that they ought to be licensed by the Go vernment, but he thought it would be discreditable to Par liament and to the country to do anything of the kind, for this would only increase the mischief instead of preventing it. (Hear, hear.) The bill which he now moved for leave to introduce would, he hoped, have the effect of remedy ing the evils so loudly complained of; but, at all events, it was the duty of the Legislature to attempt to put an end to the existing state of things. (Hear, h ear .) The motion was agree d to, and leave was given to intro duce the bill. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at a quarter to two o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-JULY 11. ( Prom the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. ) GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL. Clause 3 (Her Majesty to appoint of the first directors for and years). Amendment proposed to leave out, at the beginning of the clause, the words, " it shall be lawful for her Majesty, by covenant under the Royal sign manual," in order to insert the words, " the Court of Directors of the said Company shall, subject to the approbation of her Majesty, to be signified in writing by her Royal sign manual, countersigned by the President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India," (Mr. Vernon Smith,) instead thereof. Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the clause." The committee divided—Ayes 193, Noes 111. Ha,Laing,.;:iiiiGower,.a(axa: sasgnntceaggsjyentll,,ot,MAJOßlTY—AYESoens Langston, : F. L. .0 nHa G. .. E c l Jas . . H. . I I ,m , 9 11 .vpssTT 3 spri i N ittoehoig . atudrh i illimoreo o ngi ttetampr, r r oey mih.rits,ionppe e tHiem,pydj y sen. oFfiee:oss. Stephenson, ~ r, G.OO. je, L jnsi.,a. .i,,o.mrß. Sir IL .ol.sib. . J. es, J. . t Adderley, C. Graham. Lord M.W. O'Brien, P. A'cock,;Thomas Greene , J. Osborne, Ralph Anderson, Sir James Greene, T. Otway, A. J. Bailey, Sir J. A . A F c l a o ? I L I. t i , , Sir c. TH...avim. W. Gresson, Samuel Owen, Sir John Baines, M. T. ()revile, Colonel F. Palmer, R. Barnes, Thomas Grosvenor, Earl Palmerston, Viscount Bass, M. T. Hadfield, George Patten, J. Benbow, John Hamilton, Geo. A. Pechell, Sir G. Bentinck, Lord H. Hanmer, Sir John Peel Frederick Berkeley Grenville Harcourt, G. G. Peel, Colonel Bethel, Sir Richard Harcourt, Col. Pellatt, Apsley Bidduiph, R. M. Haile, Alexander Philllmore, J. G. Biggs. William Headlam, T. E. Bonham-Carter, J. Heard, J, Bowyer, George Herbert, 11. A. Pilkington, J. Boyle, Hon. Colonel Herbert, Sidney Ponsonby, Hon. A. Brand, H. Hervey, Lord Alfred Portman, lin. W. Bright, John. Heywood, James price, W.P. Brocklehurat, John Hindley, Charles Prime. R. Brockman, E. D. Horsfall, T. B. Pritchard, J. Brown, Wi ll iam Howard, Lord E. Ricardo, 0. Buller, Sir J. Hughes, W. B. Rich, 11. Butler, Charles S. Hutchins, E. Robartes, Thos. J. A. Byrr, Hn. G. Charles Hutt, William Russell, Lord J. RsSaauswndsieeall,r'sc,F.aiW.. G. . Cardwell, Edward Ingham, R. Caulfield, Col. Cayley, E. S. Scobell, Captain Scully, F. Scully, V. Seymour, H. D. Seymour, W. D Shar,o, R. D. Coffin, W. Smith, John B. Smyth, R. Craufurd, E. Stafford, A. Crossley, Frank cCCCC Clay ohohh Currie,,bd,, Child, Smith e Shs n r Sa: , u,mr Alderm an m R W W a i ' i t t Richard h e a rs John d l Stanley, Lord Cockburn, Johnstone,nirarig Keating , at I a l 'inaP r g d ß W'' , I t . Earljil lAmi'.la James I . a . F Sa mi : l e se s Dalketh, Earl Lee, W. Stirling, W. Dashwood, Sir G. Lemon, Sir C. Strutt, E. Denison, J. E. Lennox, Lord A. Sutton, J. H. Y. Dering, Sir E. Lennox, Lord H. G. Tancred, Henry Wm. Disraeli, Benjamin Lowe, Robert Train, G. Dlvett, E. Lytton, Sir E. B. Trollope, Sir J. Drumlanrig, 'Meant Mackie, John Vernon, L. Duncan, G. Macgregor, James Villiers, C. Pelham Dundas, F. M'Taggart, Sir J. Wall, C. B. Elcho, Lard Maguire, J. Walmsley, Sir J. Esmonde, John Massey, W. Whitbread, Samuel Feil den, M. Matheson, Alex. Wickham, H. W Fergus, John Maule, Colonel Wilkinson, W. A. Ferguson, Col. Mall, E. Wilcox, B. Eitzwilliam, G. Mills, T. Williams, William Foley, J. H. Moffatt, G. Wilson, James Forster, J. • Moleswortb, Sir W. Winnington, Sir T. Fox, R. Monck, Lord I I Wise, l. Wrightson, A. W. F F r uil ee e s r t , un A ,.C E o . lonel m ik iki f fw o o n ood a il e y l i, l ry , C. W H. ao i . i n.x li . am oCE. % Wood, Sir C. Gardner, Richard Morris, D. Young, Sir John Gaskell, James M. Mostyn, E. M. Geach, Charles Mure, Colonel Gladstone, William Murrough, J. ri, Goderich, Viscount Napier, Joseph Hayter, W. G. Goodman, Sir George Neeld, Joseph Mulgrave, Earl Asp inall, J. Grey, Sir G. North, Colonel Baird, James Pakington, rir J. Ball, John. Gwyn, Rowel Parker, R. Townley Beckett, W. h. c o h m i b a S a l P. d BBBB) 3 B uurie e aarcr u rci nke t ok,s i if : : oogt c er dth k n,we , ,Jsi Lewis G. . TN 1.. . . in P . WI Philips, John HearY Blair, Colonel Herber t, Henley , sir Thomas'lV. R s ;J r n s b o o u u r t ~ Capt ain L_ord *th Sir W. S mii ' illi a m Willoughby, .l,llN,vvranal Taylor, nitolittiWhitmore, : ,arjoA C Eer r.:odddElr Adm. SI inAarn. henry H. rls: . Tucker Brooke, L ' ord Hildyard, Robert C. Smi th ' t A Brooke, Sir A. E. Hill, Lord Arthur E. i.v . Sni°llet ' Richard Spooner, Bruce, Cumming Hogg, Sir James ' Hotham, Lord Burrell, Sir C. M. Hume, J. Henryl N Hume. Ald. Clive, Robert Coles, Henry B. j i. K i nel lt lilglyfr i :e , t e 'Si r eiS , Yri / F a l ti ll . al n Warner, I'iy Corbally, M. E. Cotton, W. H. King. J . K. Knight, F. W. Crook, Joseph Vernon, G. Denison, E. Duckworth, Sir J. Duke, Sir James Walsh, Sir J. B. Dunlop, A. East, Sir J. 11. Kendall, Nicholas Varce, J. Wellesley, Lord C. Ellice, E. * Mangles, K. D. Elliot, J. E. Fi i ntey, Viscount Marjorlbanks, D. ' Lisa Michell, William — i ' B. Masterman, J ohn Wcdehouse, E. Ewart, William Milne R. M. 3 4ml L ri' f ' o ol i n ( c c id ci r ad s h ioc: a a a ,n l ß :t t . j ~ 'C i csa A w o him l ra .o . re nß idsi e i l Weodd B Farnham, Egerton.n Egerton. iyh nam 1 K, S v l E. r . E. i n. ' vv y i ha m , General (lallwey, Sir W. P. Montgomery, Sir 0 Gladstone, Captain Nowbray, J. • Wynne. Wm. W. E. Yorke, Eliot T. Goer, W. Mullings J. Randolph Granby, Marquis of Mundy William TELLERS. Greenall, G. Newdegate, C. Baring, T. Smith, R. V ............. nilGaernrrabi ehusarmArTJE,,,. vs, tzwi , TELLEItS. THE BATTLE OF CHOBITAAL—The firing of the great guns at Chobham has this week been actually heard at Aylesbury. The distance to Chobham is nearly forty miles by road, but the direction is round about. A straight line drawn between Aylesbury and Chobh a m cannot be much more than 25 or 30 miles, and e xploding artillery can very easily be heard at that distance.— Bucks Advertiser. supporter of the new Government succeeded to the office. He must say it was his firm conviction that had not that most unjustifiable cancelling, and that appoint ment taken place, they would not have had to deplore that disastrous chapter in the history of India—the re cord of the calamities of the Affghan war ; had Lord He34;esbury been allowed to proceed that war would, he believed, never have occurred. It behoved the house, therefore, instead of weakening and rendering null the power of Court of Directors as a check on the Board of Control, to maintain and strengthen it, at least so far as to allow time for a remonstrance against any ill-advised step. It was impossible that the nominees should not have a bias in favour of those by whom they were appointed ; the court would act more and more every year under the in fluence of party feeling, and ultimately the interests of a Iremote people would be made to kick the beam in com parisonl with political considerations. They were not without an example at that moment of what a powerful minister, backed by a strong party, might do when he thought it his mission to crush a particular interest. They had only to look at the succession duty for a proof of this. (Ironical cheers from the ministerial benches.) He did not wish to see any such power as that introduced into India. (Hear, hear.) Though open election was liable to many objections, he preferred it to the proposition before the committee, and he should vote for the amendment as one means of opposing the bill. Mr. J. PHILLIMORE would vote for the clause as proposed by the Government, because he preferred a no minee of the Crown to a nominee of the East India Com pany. The most distinguished men in the service of India had refused to undergo the fatigue and humiliation of a canvas for a directorship. Had the hon. baronet forgotten the case of Mr. Morris ? When the hon. baronet spoke of the directorship being bestowed on eminent services, he (Mr. Phillimore) said the reward had been given, not to the most eminent servants, but to those who, like the heroes in the Dunciad, could dive deepest through the mud. Mr. MARJORIBANKS said, he regretted the allusion of the hon. and learned gentleman rendered it necessary for him to trouble the house with a few words, not for the purpose of depreciating the services of Mr. Morris, a civilian of standing, of much ability, and of great local knowledge, whom he knew and esteemed, and of whom he would not say one word of disparagement, but on his own behalf and in vindication of the recent election. No one had attempted to controvert the opinion of Lord Ellen borough, which had been borne out by the recent evidence before the committee on Indian affairs to the fullest extent, that English gentlemen, by which English gentlemen with out Indian antecedents must be meant, must be admitted into the direction if they wished to preserve its tone. If the hon. and learned gentleman granted the correctness of that opinion, he must admit that the recent election af forded a fitting opportunity to carry it out, 15 years having elapsed, and 17 elections having taken place since the ad mission of such a person into the board. (Hear, hear.) He could not approve the system of nomination by the Government, nor (as we understood) that proposed by the amendment. Mr. PHILLIMORE having explained, and said that he objected to the system, but was sure a better selection than the hon. member could not have been made, Mr. T. BARING said, that his convictions with respect to the course taken by Government were so decided he must trespass for a few moments on the house, but before he did so he must say that an hon. member, bearing a name so familiar to every East India proprietor as that of the hon. member who had just spoken, needed no excuse for being elected, nor did the proprietors require any apology for his election. The name had been honoured in Indian affairs, and the services of the late Campbell Marjoribanks gave every relative a claim upon them. (Hear.) It was de sirable for the house to recollect that the origin and cause of this clause of the bill was the assertion in evidence that the length of canvass militated against distinguished ser vants in India seeking for places at the board on their retuln home. 'The hon. baronet said their objection arose from a morbid sensitiveness which he could not entertain, and it might be so in the case of an Englishman, but when a man came over here after 25 years in India, with a high reputation, and a name known to the world, he did not like to undergo a canvas which would last five or six years. The next point was, to see how the change proposed would work in the most harmonious wa y. Ho th ou ght any gentleman would rather sit in the di rection, knowing ho enjoyed the confidence of both the directors and the Crown, than if he felt he entered merely as a mlininee of the latter. (Hear, hear.) The house would, by the adoption of the proposal of the right lion. gentleman, destroy the line of demarcation which must exist when gentleman were sent in by the Crown as its separate organs, and which was looked on with the jealousy of a distinct body. His anxious hope was that the Government, seeing the general feeling of those who wished to remedy the defects of the administration of India to adopt any plan that could be suggested to them, but not a clause which changed the whole principle on which the Court of Directors was founded, would take into consideration those views ; and if it was, as it must be, their only object to improve the Court of Directors, without throwing into its composition an element of discord, or planting in it,ithe seeds of decay, he trusted they would be disposed to adopt some suggestion such as that which had been made them. (Hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM could assure the hon. member ho did no more than justice to the motives which actuated the Government with respect to the point they were. n now de bating. They had no object—they could have o object, but that for which ho had given them credit—namely, to promote by the arrangements they were now making the security and harmony of the Board of Directors. Their sincere desire was to take ample security by this bill for the most efficient and independent body exercising no di rect power, but exercising that moral influence and con trol which, by reason of their knowledge of Indian sub- jects, they must necessarily possess. The hon. member seemed to think it was possible to increase the powers of the government by nominating a certain number of per sons to the board. They could not desire, as a govern ment, any more power than they already , enjoyed. Their powers were as large as the most ambitious ruler could wish, and the power of ruling India was totally vested in the Board of Control for the time being. The influence of the Court of Directors was a moral influence, and just as they added to its ability and intelligence they increased that moral influence. Therefore, so far as related to di rect power, the Government asked for no addition by no minating members to the Court of Directors. His hon. friend laboured under great misapprehension if he thought any power was given by the bill to remove the nominees of the Crown at the pleasure of the Crown. So far, from that, the words used in the clause were taken from the act appointing the County Court judges, who wore appointed, not during pleasure, but during good be haviour, and there must be some power of removal under peculiar circumstances. If he mistook not, the Court of Proprietors had now the power of removing in case of inability or misbehaviour, and if the Crown was to nominate, it must have the same power in cases to warrant its use. The hon. member opposite had used some strong expressions as to this bill, which he called a rash and illusory measure. But what was the course he would adopt? He proposed more extensive changes than those proposed by the Government. He agreed that if there was any one point as to which all the evidence they had heard was conclusive and unanimous, it was the sys tem of canvassing now existing. (Hear.) It was the weak point of the present system. It the first place, as was justly observed by the chairman of the Indian Com mittee, it was quite certain that many of the most distin guished servants of the Crown returning to this country after a long absence, with acquired tastes, feelings, and habits quite of an opposite description to those prevailing here, could not be induced to undergo a canvas such as was necessary under present circumstances ; and, again, he was sorry to say, he was convinced that, though there might be exceptions, there was in connection with the present amount of patronage a system of promised patron age, which, he must say, threw some discredit on the Court of Directors itself. It was necessary to put an end to that system of canvass, and to strike at the root of the evil by diminishing the amount of patronage. He was certainly of opinion that there was great force in the obser vation made by his hon. friend the member for Kidder minster, founded on the assumption made by the late Pre sident of the Board of Control—it was impossible to dissemble the fact—it was vain to do so—it would be wrong to do so—that the time was , inevitable when the present system of government in India must cease—when the government must be carried on as a single govern ment, in the name and in the hands of the Crown, and when the double system of government must terminate. He stated it truly and unquestionably—the longest period that could elapse before the change took place was 20 years. At the conclusion of the time the present system of election by the proprietors to the Court of Directors must necessary terminate. (Hear.) He stated, when he addressed the house on the second reading, that it had more or less of an experimental character. If it was suc cessful—as he hoped and believed it would be—he had no doubt it would remain for the next 20 years without any material change ; but if, on the other hand, it should not succeed, he was satisfied the next change would be the sub stitution of a single government by the Crown for the system of the double government. In 20 years the go vernment must be exclusively in the hands of the Crown— that change might be anticipated, and it might become necessary, owing to circumstances, to assume it at an early period, and the great object of the Government and of the Legislature whic had to deal with it was to make the in evitable change as little conclusive in its nature, and as easy as legislation could render it. He believed that was the effect of the clause. He believed the introduction into the direction of a small number of directors, nominated by the Crown, would form the nucleus of a body which would be the council of the sole Minister nominated by the Crown. Then came the question—how would the new direction work ? He thought it would work well ; ho did not be lieve it would be a discordant body. It was quite true, as had been said by an hon. member behind him, that it was impossible for one who had served for several years in India not to have a community of feeling and habits, and not to entertain common views and common opinions with those who were connected with the same country; and, though one portion of the new board was formed of nomi nees of the Crown, and another, and the larger proportion was derived from the proprietors, still he thought, when they assembled at the board, there would be such an equality of position, such a perfect uniformity of past habits and feelings, that there would be nothing of differ ence between them. He considered that it was open to discussion, when they arrived at a subsequent clause, whether six years should be the term of service, or whether it should be prolonged to 10 years. That was a subject open to consideration, but he would point out that a pro longed period of service would diminish the objection en tertained to the expected favour on the part of the Crown, for the same person would not, in all probability, be at the head of the Board of Control at the end of six years ; an d, jmijing from experience, he should say that in poli tical affairs expectation of future would prove a stronger motive than recollection of past favours. He must say, that althotgh the question was of an embarrassed and difficult c h a racter, looking at the circumstances of the case, and carefully weighing the conflicting opinions, he certainly thought that, for the reasons he had stated, the proposition of the Government was tho one which ho hoped the committee would adopt, and ho did not anticipate from it any of those evils which hon. gen tlemen had prophecied, but, on the contrary, he was strongly of opinion that from the system of self-election more evil was to be apprehended than from any nomination on the part of the Crown, particularl7 when that nomina tion devolved upon a minister himself responsible to Parliament. (Hear.) Mr. BRIGHT said that the right hon. baronet bad combated the proposition of the hon. member for North ampton with the very argument used by hon. members who had opposed the Government measure. With regard to the amendment of the hon. member for Northampton, ho thought that ho had made the matter worse than the Government proposed to make it already. If he had moved that the 18 were to be chosen as the 24 were now, it would, in his opinion, h ave b een b e tt er . Strong as his objections to the bill were, he felt bound to vote for some of its provisions, because he was afrai4 that spore of the CRICKET. MAR YLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND v. ALL ENGLAND. This match was opened yesterday at Lord's, and played in the presence of a large gathering of spectators, amongst whom were a considerable number of the aris tocracy. The ground was in beautiful condition. The Marylebone Club commenced operations, Mr. Ward and Adams taking the bat. The score of this innings amounted to 119, the highest contribution, 39, being made by Mr. Haygarth. The representatives of All England then went to the wicket, and a reference to the score will show that their combined efforts were not very productive, inasmuch as that 43 was the amount of their score, one double number only being shown, and that by Sherman, —viz., 21. The Marylebone Club then essayed upon their second innings, and it will be found that Wisden " tucked" them up, so tor as the innings had proceeded, when "time" was called—six wickets at this hour had been demolished for a score of 23, Wisden having bowled two, having had two caught from him (one by himself and the other by J. Lillywhite), whilst Adams had his stumps scattered by Tinley, and Grundy contrived to run out. At this stage of the pro ceedings the ominous word of " time" was heard to issue from the pavilion, and play ceased for the day with the following score : MARYLEBONE. First Innings. A. R. Ward, Esq., c Marshall, 2_ Second Innings b Wisden - lO Adams, Ibw, b Sherman l7 b Tinley 7 A. Haygarth, Esq., c Anderson, b Wisden Chatterton, c Wisden, b Tinley 5 not out 1 E. Balfour, Esq., b Wisden..... 3 c and b Wisden 0 R. Hankey, Esq., c Box, bWis den G. F. Cooke, Esq., c and b Tin ley Dakin, b Wisden Grundy, b Caffyn Hillyer, c Parr, b Tinley l3 Cla-ke, not out. Bye 1, leg byes 4, wide 1 6 Byes 3, leg bye 1_ 4 Total 119 Total 23 5 b Wisden.. - 0 0 c Lillywhite, bWisden 6 7 b Wisden 1 4 run out 4 ENGLAND. First Innings, M. J. Ellison, Esq., st Chatterton, b Hillyer 0 Sherman, 1 b w, b Clarke 2l Caffyn c Adams, b Hillyer 0 Parr, c Adams, b Hill yer Anderson, c and b Hill yer Wisden, st Chatterton, b Clarke 0 Box, b Hillyer 7 John Lillywhite, c Chatterton, b Hillyer 5 A Marshall, Esq. not out 2 F. Tinley, c Chatterton, b Hillyer G. Kirwan, Esq., run out 1 Leg byes 1 Total 43 The match was resumed this day at eleven o'clock. ..- TRANSPORTATION BILL. A bill under this title has been laid before the House of Lords by the Lord Chancellor, "to substitute in cer tain cases other punishments in lieu of transportation." I The bill, which will take effect as an act from the Ist of September next, contains 13 clauses. The principal pro visions are as follows :—Sentences of transportation will be discontinued, except for life or for fourteen years or upwards—that is to say, in all cases excepting those in which, under the present law, a sentence of trans portation for life or for fourteen years or upwards, would have been passed. In all other cases, which are not punished by transportation for shorter periods, sen tences of " penal servitude" will be passed instead. Per sons who may still be sentenced to transportation for 14 years or upwards, or for life, may, instead thereof, be sentenced to penal servitude. The following are the terms of penal servitude which are to be awarded : Instead of transportation for 7 years or for a term not exceeding 7 years, penal servitude for the term of four years. Instead of any term of transportation exceeding seven years and not exceeding ten years, penal servitude for any term not less than four and not exceeding six years. Instead of any term of transportation exceeding ten years, and not exceeding fifteen years, penal servitude for any term not less than six and not exceeding eight years. _ _ Instead of any term of transportation exceeding fif teen years, penal servitude for any term not less than six and not exceeding ten years. Instead of trasportation for the term of life, penal servitude for the term of life. Every person sentenced to a term of penal servitude may be confined in any prison, port, or harbour of the United Kingdom in which convicts are by law confined, or in any part of her Majesty's dominions beyond the seas, under the order of a Secretary of State, and other wise dealt with as persons sentenced to transportation. In Ireland the Lord Lieutenant has the powers of a Secretary of State. Persons convicted of larceny after a previous convic tion for felony, are to be sentenced to penal servitude for not less than four, or more than ten years, instead of transportation. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. NOTICE TO MARINERS. Relighting of the Oxo Lighthouse.—Oxo light, at the entrance to Christiansand, will be relighted on the 16th of the present month of July, at the same time as the other lighthouses in the kingdom. Oxo light is, therefore, in future a fixed light of the second order. Its elevation above the level of the sea is a hundred and thirty-five feet. It is visible at a distance of 18 to 20 miles, and situ a t e d i n 8 deg. 6 min. 35 sec. long. east of Greenwich, 58 deg.l3 min. 25 sec. north lat. CUSTOM-HOUSE, JULY 11. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Vesta, from Harlingen ; Willem and Care, Amsterdam ; Hellechnia Wilkins, St. John's, N.B. ; Eva, do. ; Dynamene, Hamburgh ; Emma, Ibraila ; Ada, Mogadore ; Elizabeth, Manila and Bristol ; Comet, Horsens; Preoiosa, Cuba ; Mary and Caroline, Constantinople ; Carolinda, Cherbourg ; Otta, Rotterdam ; Java, Amsterdam ; Ceres, Rotterdam ; Hendrika Jen, do. ; Ahda, Dram ; Reindeer, Cluistiansand ; Adolph, Meaborg ; Robert, Antwerp ; Cornelia, w ßo o s r t c o u ck m ; ; Alice Maud, Algoa Bay ; Aarhuus, Aarhuus ; Earl of H ar d w i c k , Sydney ; Morg i ana, Port Lo tus an d Mauritius ; Mallord, Calcutta and Trinidad. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Hoppet, for Gothenburg ; Lady 31`Donald, Bombay ; Richard, Ant werp ; Ha nna h an d S ara h, do. ; Planet, d o . ; Y orkshire Lass, do. ; Hero, do. ; Nancy Dawson, do. ; Willi am Sep timus de Septimo, do. ; David, do. ; Joven Ricardo, Cadiz and Malaga ; Queen, Algoa Bay ; Stulna, Cronstadt ; Ths. Arbuthnot, Sydney; Twee Goodfriends, Port Philip; Isabel, 2d clearance, Santander; Baron Martin, Harburg ; Ottawa, Quebec ; Twee Kunden, Elsinore and St. Peters burgh ; Rockcliff, Calcutta ; George Marsden, Genoa. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Cato, for St. Vincent ; Emerald, Antigua ; Earl Selkirk, Sydney ; Twee Goodfriends, Melbourne; Doris, Constantinople. LIVERPOOL, JULY 11. The Henry, Short, hence for Bristol, put into Holyhead yesterday, with loss of bowsprit, &c., a large steamer having ran foul of her the previous night off Point Lynas. The Pelican, from Chester River to London, was aban doned on the 9th inst., in Cardigan B a y, i n a sinking state —crew saved, and arrived at Pwllheli on the 10th inst. The Tronse, Venice to Amsterdam, was spoken, June 13, off Alienist. The Nordcap, Odessa to Bergen, was spoken, June 28, lat. 41 N., long. 10 W. The Elbe, Genoa to Hamburg, was spoken, July 5, lat. 48 N., long. 7 W. The Alexander was spoken, May 6, off the Cape of Good Hope. VESSELS SPOKEN ITH. The Jamaica, from the Clyde K , June 24, lat. 46 N, long. 15 W. The North Esk, Wilmington to Liverpool, 27th, lat. 47 N, long. 35 W. The Seringapatam, London to Bombay, July 7, lat. 49 N, long. 6 W. The Marp Muir, of Liverpool, for Montreal, June 20, lat. 51 N., long. 2 W. The Prospe r ,o of Liverpool, for Ri o J ane i r o, July 1, la t. 48 N, long. 9 W. The Elizabeth (schooner), to Melbourne, `T une lat. 9 N, long. 25 W. • The Admiral (barque), for New Zealantaat,: June a3ne 26,day lat. The Camertonian, Li ver p oo l to Caleu 39 N, long. 13. The Afri ca ( s t eamer ) , to Li ve rpool, The Glasgow (steamer, Clyde to June 29. New York, 30th. j p _ recach T : l y. CAMP9bseAryTe CHOI3II.AIt.--- ve f rY o i n in w o a n l e nu m t, ile by LADVER,TISEXENT , opposite the 39, Albemarle-street, York Hotel. d a half distant ; The Royal Exhibition.powerfi A valuable, eery psuczese on dtheanrawcrlie a- cciohsersteea,tP:t:'stohl! tcgnhaleanewsysl glass, newly-invented, n u t ssh v ewe e e n en : e size dacne country de toßsepyortareslnval:alguealslbhtliieelira:s e a ll re clearl! seen or shooting, deer and toarists. Telescopes —A new and most important gamekeepers, nvention in telescopes, possessing such extraordinary s a ri: i n 2 opera -houses, ul y 4B a e nis ch 1 Tn s g . , powers that some, 33 inches, with an_ extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, , Saturn's ring, and the ounces, can be double stars; with the same te escope, weighing only- 3 seen a persofs count,enarce three miles and a half d istant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat-pocket , and aro of larger and all sizes with accordingly. Opera and race-course lasses, with wonderful power; an object can be clearly seen , from 14 to 16 miles creasing distant. Messrs. S. and B. So'oreons opticians, have powers in vented invaluable preserving spectaclelenses. Immediately theyobject are placed before imperfect vision, every appears clear and distinct; the most aged, defective sight becomes b r i g ht and brilliant, is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Deafness —New Discovery-- scovery ar — d The 0 extraordina r y Organic Vibrator, an extraordina powerful newly-invented instrument;, for Deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass anything kind that of the has be, produced. Being of tFe been, or probably ever can distinctly at church and at public as same colour as the skin, it is not perceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hoar . of removed ; and it affords all the assist the ears is entirely as semblies ; the unpleasant sensation singing noises in 39 Albemarle-street, Piccadilly' ance that possibly could be desired.—S. and B. Solomons Aurists and Opticians„ A EMENTI--HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND [ADVERTISEMENT.] --HOLLOWAY'S Obsorve, opposite the York Hotel. PILLS ARE SURPRISING REMEDIE S FPR THE C URE OF BILLSLEGS.—Mrs. Sarah Ashby, of Knowsley, had been a sufferer for a considerable time from a bad leg of a very alarming description. Several medical gentlemen at tended her, and she had recourse also to other remedies usually adopted in such cases, but all were of no avail, and after being reduced to a very distressing condit on from continual pain and suffering, she was induced to try Holloway's Ointmentiand Pills, and these astonish ing medicines effected a perfect cure in a comparatively short time by strictly following the directions given with them. She has continued in excellent health ever since. Sold by all ,dtuggists, and at Professor Holloway's 1-4 /labli-limae "Ix = , truvi, London. COUNTRY MARKETS. CHELMSFORD —JULY 8. At the opening of to-day's busine4s at our market prices were fully 2s per qr. higher than last week, but that ad vance was not sustained throughout ; and at the close rise of only is above last week's quotations could be ob tained. In spring corn of all descriptions little business doing, and prices unaltered. Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, old 41s Od to 59s Od, new 39s to 57s ; red, old 38s to 51s, new 33s to 48s ; barley, 25s to 27s ; chevalier, 31s to 37s ; grinding , 21s to 27s ; malt, 55s to 568 ; chevalier, 55s to 58s ; oats, 19s to 25s ; peas, partridge, 32 s t o 37 s ; white, 33s to 35s boiling 39s to 42 s ; dun, new, 31s to Ws ; beans, tick, 35s to 37s ; Harrow ticks, 33 s t o 39 s ; M azagan, 31s to 355. COLCHESTER —JULY 9. We had again a short supply of wheat at market, for which much higher prices were demanded ; but buyers were not so anxious for wheat, and the trade was only slow at is per qr. advance. Beans and peas were fully as dear, and the supply moderate. Prices to-day were as follow :—Wheat, white, 50s to 58s ; red, 44s to 50s ' • barley, 28s t o 33 s ; oats, 18s to 248 ; beans, Mazagan, 34s to 36s ; middle and small, 37s to 40s ; peas, white, 40s to 42s ; grey, 36s to 38s. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., received in the port of London, from the following ports, from the 4th to the 9th July, both inclusive. Colchester Harwich Leigh Malden .. . 364 1452, KIEXCALDY---JuLY 9. Here, to-day, we had only moderate supplies of wheat and oats, and three small parcels of barley. Sales quick for everything. Wheat 2s to 3s per qr., and barley and oats 6d to is per qr., higher than last week. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I Beans. First . . s7s Od I 32s 0,1 24s 6d l Os Od Second 548 Od I 30s 0 d 21s 6d , Os Od Third 49s Od I 298 Od 208 Od I Os Od Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs imperial, 30s Od to 31s Od. COAL MARKET---Jurx 11. Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market : s. d. l s. (I. Carr's Hartley l7 Olambton 14 6 Lumley 16 9 A Dean's Pi 'mro3e 16 „v Holy -,vpll 16 6 North Hetton Lyons' ...16 ',', Howard's West Hartley (Russell's Hetton 16 Y A Netherton 16 6 ,Stewart's. l7 v„ Smith's West Hartley ...17 o ,Londonderry small 13 v A Longridge's Wst Hartleyl7 oHetton Lyons Main 16 v North Percy Hartley ...16 0 Cassop 16 6 Ravensworth Pelaw 15 0 Hartlepool 16 0 6 Redheugh Main l4 6 H eug h Hall . 16 , TanOeld Moor l6 0 S ou th H artlepool 16 ', Townley 15 6 South Kell oe .. . v ........... 16 Walker Primrose l5 3Thornley Hartley l6 0 I Wallsend, &c. Backhouse 15 9 , Gosforth 15 9,Tees l7 " Harton l5 9 Trimdon 16 3 Lawson l5 3 Adelaide Tees . 16 6 , v Ridd ell l5 9 C ow p en 17 A" Eden Main •.16 6 Llang ennec h 23 Lambton P r i mrose 16 3 Cragworth W. Hartley _l6 0 Belmont l6 3 Grey's West Hartley _l6 v Hetton l7 0, Ship at market...... 78 J Sold 6B. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 11. • STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market, though quiet tone, has improved in feeling, and quotations are slight/ advanced. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 8 d•I Chester and Birkenhead, 193 ; Caledonian, 341 ; Gres' Southern and Western, 54k ; Lancashire and Yorkshire' 77h ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 103 ; London and North" Western, 1143; Ditto (4 shares), p. • Midlandi ; South-Eastern and Dover, 21,i ; York and ' North laidiset 293 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent., 15,1 Helen's Railway and Canal, 5 per cent. and div., North Union A, 262. MANCHESTER, JULY U. 11 STOOK EXCHANGE. —Prices were rather highei than.-„ Saturday, but the business done was exceedingly snit Leeds Stock, 77k ; Midlands, 71; East ern C oun ti es, 12t. BIRMINGHAM, JULY 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The suspension of business COw tinues, buyers being anxious to see a solution to the noir ish question before investing, and sellers hoping a favour able termination to the negotiations may brin g beget prices. London and N or th-W es t ern Ei ghths were done at Gs. 3d. prem. South Staffords were quoted Ito dis., so" Stour Valley 9i to mi. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-0 1 by the night—and Mby the morning —dispatch.] Day When mad e up COUNTRIES. Prom what wh e i in General Poet- vl , Port due 12 ......_.______ .._..-- sate` -..___..... ._...-- Office, L0nd0.n..... Liverpool v i s e p rpoo .. : r n ri g y l:_„, 6 ' A merica(bylirit.pack)N Every F rida y America (by United ste. America ) (by U.. .Wtat .es July 13 ...• •• • • Live r p oo l ... Ju ly 20 .. packet) .. •• • . _ ...N July 20 .......... Southampton lillY 13 Australia (via SOUtJa . ampton) • • • • • • • • •• M Sept. 4 .....• .... Southampt on A ug . 4 Ditto (via Cape of Good Ditto (via Marseilles) N July 8 ........ ... D over ...... July. 31 Hope) •••••• • • • • • • l'T August 4 .......• Africa (West Coast)..N 23rd of the month. Plymottth .. J un e 9 Alexandria........ .. NB, 9, 24, &30 of na. Dover ..... ,July 16 Alexandria..........M 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton . 'Tuly 2 , 1 BBahamas ...........M 2nd of the month Southampton July 1 " elgium ...... •• • ....N Daily...—. .. .... Dover ...... Daily Brazil . ..... ........M 9th of the month.. Southampton July 16 Buenos Ayres ........M 9th of the month.. Southampton July 16 Cape of Good Hope ..N 14th of the month Plymouth .. July 26 Cape of Good Hope —II Plymouth .. Cape de Verde ......N 14th of the month. Plymouth .. July 2 6 Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ..............N 14th of the month Plymouth .. July ag 26 i Channel Isles ........N Mon.,W e d.,&Frid. Southampton Tu.'fil•r M 2d & 17th o f month Southampton July 1 6 Chili China (see India)i Constantinople ......N 7,8,17,24 , & 27 of m. D0ver. ..... July i -, 0 Cont . o Constanf Europe ........ 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton J u ly 2, 4 Egypt (see India) M & N Twice daily ...... Dov er ...... irwieedw France ........ lif & N Twice dai1y...... Dover ...... Tvolced 22/ Gibraltar ..........11 4, 7,17, 20, 27 ofm. Southampton July 1 6 Greece (see India) Greytown ..........M 2nd & 17th of mon. Southampton uly 16 ,,g Hamburgh ..........N Tuesday & Friday London ..... l Tues. o ' .. Havannah .......... 81 2nd of the month Southampton ug. 1 ...., f , Holland ...... • • • • •• 31 Wednesday & Sat. London ..... mott.Tuw Honduras .... •• •• ..M 17th of the month. Southampton lily 1 6 . India (viaSouthampt.)ll 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton July 21,. India (via Marseilles ) M Bth& 24th of month Dover ...... July 11 lonian Isles (see India) Ireland ........M & N T w i ce d a i ly ...... Holyhead .. Twicee l Lisbon .......• ......M 7,9, 17, & 28 of m. Southampton July 1 6 Madeira ............31 9th of the month . SouthamptonlJuly P , ! Madeira ............N 23rd of the month Plymouth ...Tune 28 Malta (see India) Malta ..............N 7,17,19,28, 30 ofm. Dovr—•• ..... Mauritius (see India) Mauritius ..........N 14th o f th e month Plymouth July 1206 Mexico .....• ......II 2nd of the month.. Southampton ug. 1 Naples... .. ........N sthlsth2sthormon. Dover ...... July 12 New Granada ......ld 2d & 17th of month Southa mpton July 16 New Zea1and.......... By private ship .. Various portsiUncerw Papal States ........N sth 15th25thofinOtt. Dover ...... July 12 :: .• : :: ......:515th25th Peninsuls. ..........M 7 thl7th2B thofnaon. Southampton , uly 1 6 Peru ..............M 26 ig: o r : of mon. Southampton , July 1 1 6 ; teZlonth Plymouth ..1 July 2 ., on, Dover ......,July 1! /.7 si i t t ilsth2s 31 2d & 17 s F l o c r i t y N!!ai .. .... Tuscany .......• • • .. th of u ra fro on o th n. s p o o n y th er am .. p . t . o . n . t y t y y j ; Venezuela .... •• •! (see Van Dlemen's Land 1 Australis) • west Indies .... • • ..M 26& 17th of month SouthamptonlJuly 16 .--•"' * when any of sedatesng da y f , a I w l l o t n h t h a e S e u x n c d e a p y ti 0 ntheof mailswlllcl dispatched on the foWi Southampton), and the Malta, both of which will be dispatched day preceding. , THE GREAT BRITAIN STEA3IER.—It has been notioe f that the next departure of the Great Britain steamer ' , i gt ? Australia will be postponed until the 11th of Aug— t Au s tralia to the alterations which have been c arr i e d O f with the view of giving her the qualities of a cliPP e o sailing ship having occupied more time than h a d bee. anticipated. According to a trial trip which took plac ( i last week, she now promises, both with the screw AT, under canvas, to make a much greater speed than OP has yet in any instance accomplished. frOL I EMIGRATION TO AUST RA L IA , —The departures the port of London for the Australian colonies duriPe, the past week show a slight increase. They have 1 prised altogether 11 vessels—five to Port Philip, ni l tons ; two to Sydney, 01 an n a a g g g g a ta a g t t e r e eburdenn burden of s tons t o ; two w ; o o t n e e La t n o An d e e e l s with an ai d of 900 tons, and one to Hobart-town of 308 tons. b 7., total capacity was consequently 5,616 tons. The an ments of manufactures and ordinary merchandise 12°0 increased, and since the arrival of the overland mail th rates of freight have exhibited an advance. Owil it t however, to the present state of the labour market every part of the United Kingdom, and the increasil l !, prosperity of all classes emigration has for some till' past received a decided check. BIRTHS. Or A SON. On the 9th inst., at 5, Henrietta-street, Cavan(ii° b ' square, the wife of William Adams, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. ark! On the Bth i nst., at 23, Chester-terrace, Regent's-p— -le wife of James Ingram, Esq. MARRIED. On the 9th inst., at Dartford Church, Horace West oh; o f Ki ngs t on - on - Thames, to Mary. Old, fourth daub ter of the Rev. Edward Irish, Dartford Kent. On the 9th inst., a t St . John's, Hackney, Alfred Awl Esq., of Albion-road, Hackney, to Elizabeth Ball, daughter of the late Richard Freemantle, Esq., of Hut Essex. DIED. S On the 12th o f March, 1853, at Melbour ne , New l° l ou ate Wales, _Ed ward Waldron Vincent, fourth son o f the m" Rev. Henry Budd, recto r o f Whi te Roothing, Os° %t aged 17. On the 3d inst., at Belmont-house, Devonport, ALL'y General F. W. Wilson, 0.8., of the Madras Army- LONDON : hinted and Publish e d by MIJRDO YOriv, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tice Sun O ffi ce, N 0 . 4.; of Btrand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e connv Middlesex, Tuesday, July 12, 1853. The Sir o Lieu Chair Co R. Y C. 2 N - Geol., He star lie W. J, Lei Georg Lo Alex: C. M Davit Willi Ns Itu tß , Dr. Maio P, JLe A, Pf 41 . () ft , Is, git c kess Dr , i Dr• s IT. T. Mich, bepo! by, aTh kgq., . , Cot tw ent of Ass Stich and as 01 11ven thel y c tOnfers Or Intel ?l ands ( wee of ADI In ca I, 9Btem ADVA: ••