The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

THE COUNCIL OP INDIA.

Wednesday, one at o'clock, the Council of India se-
gambled at the India-house, in Leadenhallatreet, for the
transaction of business, and remained. in deliberation
until shortly after 3. Lord Stanley, the Secretary of
State, who had arrived as early as half-put 11, joined
the Council at the hour of meeting, and acted in his
capacity of President throughout the sitting. The
members of the Cot nail present were—Sir Frederick
Cunie, the Vice -P in resident, Mr. Arbuthnot, Captain
Eastwick, Sir J. W. Hogg, Mr. Elliot Munaghten, Mr.
It. D. Mangles, Mr. Mills, Sir Henry Montgomery, Mr.
Prinsep, Sir Henry Rawlinson, Major-General Sir
, Robert Vivian, and Mr. Willoughby. The indisposition
of Mr. Shepherd again prevented that gentlemen taking
his place in the Council. Sir John Lawrence could not,
of course, be in attendance, and Colonel Sir Proby
Quaky was absent. Mr. Mangles, whom indisposition
until now is understood to have detained on the Conti-
nent, joined the Council for the first time. At the
meeting Lord Stanley is understood to have brought
under the notice of the Council the scheme for the revi-
sion and arrangement of the two establishments of
officers and servants at Leadenhallatreet and the Board
of Control, which the Secretary of State is empowered
by the Act of last session to draw up "with all
convenient speed." This document is understood to
indicate the manner in which the permanent esta-
blishment of the Secretary of State in Council
is to be constituted for the future, and the manner
in which the present retiring officers are to be pen-
• sioned, and his Lordship, exercising the powers con-
ferred upon him by the statute, is believed to have
made such reductions in the existing establishments as
seem to him consistent with the proper and efficient
discharge of the public business. It is obligatory on his
Lordship within six months after the commencement
of the Act to submit the scheme for the permanent es-
tablishment to the Queen in Council, and Her Majesty,
by the advice of her Privy Council, is authorized to
declare what shall constitute the establishment of the
Secretary of State in Council, and to fix the salaries of
the persons upon it. The order in Council is to be laid
before both houses of Parliament within 14 days after
their meeting. It is said, upon good authority, that the
establishment of the Board of Control will be reduced to
an extent simply consistent with the due preservation
of the records of that department. Both Sir George
Clerk and Mr. Baillie, M.P., the late Secretariat to the
Board, have removed their official quarters to the India-
house, and there, on one spot, the whole Home Go-
vernment of India is now conducted upon a scale of
simplicity never known under the system which has
just been abolished. The energy and self-devotion
evinced by Lord Stanley in the discharge of his high
functions IS already a common subject of remark among
the officers of the establishment, and his unassuming
demeanour and ability not less so. It is not an uncom-
mon circumstance for the Secretary of State to present
himself at the India-house so early as 10 o'clock in the
morning, and on more occasione than one he has re-
mained at his post there until seven in the evening. It
may be added that his Lordship is undated, in the
capacity of private secretary, by the Hon. Gerald
Chetwynd Talbot, formerly in the civil service of
Ceylon, and appointed private secretary to the Go-
vernor-General of India in 1356.

CHINA.
THE TREATY.

We (North China Herald) have received from a re-
liable source the following summary of the most import-
ant points of the treaty which was ..igned at Tien-sin
on the 26th ult, by his Excellency th) Earl of Elgin
and the Imperial Commissioners Kwei-liang and Hwa-
shana, and which has since received the ratification of
Emperor. The treaty wafting 56 articles

"Art. 1. oonfirms the treaty of peace at Nankin.
and abrogates the supplementary treaty and general
regulations.
" Art. 2. provides for the optional appointment of
Chineae and British Ministers at the Courts of Pekin
and St. James's. . .

_
" Art. 3. contains provisions with respect to the
permanent establishment of the British Minister at
Pekin, his family and suite.
"Art. 4. makes provision for the travelling postal, and
other arrangements of the Resident Minister.
"Art. 5. The B:itish Minister to transact business
with the Secretary of State on footing of equality,
"Art. 6. The same privileges accorded to Chinese
Minister in London.

"Art. 7. Provision with referenoe to Consuls and
their official rank.
- . . .

"Art. 8. Christianity, whether Protestant or Roman
Catholic, to be tolerated, and its professors protected
throughout the empire.
"Art. 9. British subjects to be permitted to travel
for pleasure or trade to all parts of the interior; ar-
rangements with respect to passports, and cities in the
hands of rebels.
" Art. 10. Chinkieng to be open to trade within •
year from the signing of the treaty, and three other
ports on the Yang-tse-kiang, as far as Hankow, to be
opened, on the evacuation of its shores by the rebels.
"Art. 11. The ports of Niu-chwang (Manchuria),
Tang-chow, (Gulf of Pe-che-le), Tal-wan(Formosa), Sea-
tow, and Kiting-chow, (Hainan), to be opened in addition
to present ports.
"Art. 28. Tariff to be revised by an Anglo-Chinese
Commission appointed for the purpose.
"Art. 27. Revision of tariff to be decennial.

" Art. 28. An official declaration of the amount of
transit duties leviable at inland custoimliousee to be
published in English and Chinese. The British merchant,
however, to be allowed, if be chooses, to commute the
transit does at an ad valorem rate.

"Art. 29. Reduction of tonnage dues, and a four
months' certificate to vessels engaged in wasting
trade.

" Art. O. Official oorrespondenoe to be for the
future oonduoted in English on the part of English Aid.
ale—to be accompanied by a Chinese version for the pre-
sent—and to be oonsidered the text.
. .

"Art The character ' I ' (barbarian) to be sup-
pressed in Chinese official doeuments.
" Art. 52, British ships of war to visit any part in
the empire. The commanders to be treated in terms of
equality by Chinese officials.
"Art. 53. Measures to be conoerted for the suppres•
sion of piracy.
"Art. M. Favoured nation clause.
. _

"Art. 55. Conditkna iffooting the cKnton indem-
nity question, to be plaoed in • separate artiole.
'Art. 56. Ratilloations to be exchanged within •
year."

THE TREATY 07 TIEN•SIN. —Tim 0(727110 Of aotion
and the diplomatic) requisitions of England, much ma they
have been up to the signing of the treoty, are precisely
those which were pointed out in the letters of the pm.
tiord and clear sighted Time.' oorreepondent. The ccp.
ture of Canton, the conduct of our oorrespondenoe in
the English language—at once a blow to Chinese con.
cell, and o termination to Chinese nhufaing—the open.
Mg of the Yang•teekiang, free transit, and the passport
system, are All the ',rains* of them letters—all a result
whieh the Times And the Times' correspondent may
fairly olahn. It will be a pity should Mr. Cooke'a brood
and decided line of policy not he entirely carried out, as
we fear that it may not. To the Tine. newspaper And
its correspondent we arc probably indebted for whatever
solid advantage has been obtained. Of all that may be
lost or omitted—of all fatal short-oominp in our de-
mands—we have at lout received due warning.—Tht
Beacon.

It Is said that after the Installation of the French
Minister at Pekin, a naval sub-dividon, oomposed chiefly
of gunboats, will be established, having for its chief
'station the Golf of Pe•ohe•le, the principal object of
which will be to protect the French mission established
in the Chinese capital.