The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL

The Bill "for the better Government of India," pre-
pared end brought in by the late Premier and his col-
leagues, wee published on Tuesday. It contains 52
clauses. The government of the territories now in pos-
session or under the government of the East India Com-
pany, and all powers in relation to government vested in
or exercised by the said company, are to become vested
in and exercised on behalf of her Majesty the Queen.
India is henoeforth to be governed in the Queen's name.
The real and personal property of the company is to vest
In Her Majesty for the purposes of the government of
India; and the appointments of Governor-General of
India, fourth ordinary member of the Council of India,
and Governors of the three Presidencies now made by
the director' of the company with the approbation of Her
Majesty, and other appointments, are to be made by the
Queen under her Royal sign manual. For the execu-
tion of the Act • council Is to be established to be
tityled, " The President and Council for the Affairs of
India," to be appointed by Her Majesty. The council
will consist of eight persona, exclusive of it. President.
Two members will be named for four years, two for six
years, two for eight years, and two for ten years. Every
ordinary member of the council must have been a di-
rector of the East India Company, or have been ten
years at least In the service of the Crown or Company in
India, or 15 years simply resident in India. Members
of Connell can only be removed by the Queen, like the
judges, on an address from both Houten of Parliament.
The President of the council may sit in the Commons
House of Parliament, and if he be, on his appointment
to this office, • member of Parliament, bin seat will not
be vacated. Four member* of council will be a quorum.
Each ordinary member will receive a salary of £l,OOO,
and the President will receive the cutlery of a principal
Secretary of State. The council will exercise the power
now vested in the °mummy or the Board of Control, but
a specified number of oedetchhis must be given to sons
of civil and military servants in India. A.ppointments
now made will continue to be made in India The In-
dian forces, naval and military, will remein under the
existing conditions of service. No military forces, paid
out of the revenues of India, may be employed out of
Asia while so paid. Servants of the company will be-
come by this Act servants of the Queen. The Board of
Control is abolished.

COUNT WALEWSKI'S DESPATCH.
The following important document was communi,
to both House of Parliament on Monday night:—
_

EARL COWLEY TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON.
(Received Feb. 21:)

Feria, Feb. 20, 1868.
My Lord,—Having learnt by telegraph that certain
resolutions imputing blame to Her Majesty's Govern.
ment for not baying made any reply to Count Wale-
wski's despatch to Count Persigny dated the 20th of
January had been affirmed by a majority of the House
of Commons, I think it a duty to your Lordship to place
on record, that although I have not been charged to
make any official communication to the French Govern-
ment in answer to that despatch, I have been enabled
by your Lordship's private instructions to place before
the French Government the sentiments, views, and inten-
tion of Her Majesty's Government far more fully, and I
cannot but believe more satisfactorily, than would have
been the case had my language been clothed in a more
official garb.
When Count Walewski's despachrwas written the
Irritation against the suped apathy of England in •
matter so important to France as the preservation of
the Emperor's life was excessive. Rightly or wrongly,
the idea prevailed that every conspiracy against His
Majesty had been organised in England, and that the
British laws gave security to the conspirators. No
counter-assertions on the part of Her Majesty's Govern-
ment would have had any effect at that moment, and
any official notice on the part of your Lordship of Count
Walewski's despatch would, probably, have involved
the two Governments in a controversial discussion more
likely to have increased than to have calmed the excite-
ment which prevailed. If the object was to soothe, it
it was important to let time exert its usual influence,
and to reserve the official answer to Count Walewski's
despatch until it was known whether Parliament would
answer the appeal which was to be made to it by Her
Majesty's Government.
But it ought not to be ignored, that, while taking
prudent eourse,_your Lordship lost no opportunity of
informing the French Government, confidentially, of
the true bearings of the question which had been raised.
Your Lordship's language has been, from the beginning
of this unfortunate affair, plea, and straightforward. I
have now your Lordship's letters before me, in which
while vindicating, in language worthy of your Lordship's
name, the right of asylum which Great Britain has ever
Afforded to strangers of all ranks and nations, and while
dealarin I, In terms as explicit as they are determined,
the iinpossibility of infringing on that great principle of
our constitution, you show how utterly insuflioient
must any enactment be to prevent men of desperate
minds from entering upon desperate undertakings. As
your Lordship's true, but very inadequate organ, I have
faithfully represented your feelings and your prin.
elplu, and could I call upon the Emperor or upon Count
Walewski u witnesses, neither, I feel certain, mould
belle my words.
I know not what may be the result of last night's rotel
but, at all events, I loose no time in stating my waste.
lion that to your Lordship's judicious and prudent eon.
duet at a very crllloal moment It Is owing that, without
the shadow of the writhe of a single principle, our rola.
thins with this Government hare not received a shook
which might hare huh fetal to the friendship which yet
happily prevails between the two nations.
I have, ke, COWLEY.