The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-18 00:00:00

THE NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT IN CHINA.

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Colonel SYKES asked the Secretary to the Admiralty
whether the 1,000 sunermunentry officers, engineers, seamen,
and other*, arid to be now on board her Majesty's ship
Lui.itreil, under orders for Chios, were surplus to the
017 naval establiahineot in China, or were intended to
vneancies ; and, in case they were surplus, how they
were to be employed
Lord C. PA ET replied that ehe Senspareil had been most
oat with reliefs to the gunboats upon the Indian station,
the time of service of a coosiderable number of the °dicers
and men having expired.
VOTE OF CREDIT FOR CHINA.

Coastal PEEL asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if
it was his intention to ask twiny vote of creditor account
of China during the present session. He wished also to ask
whether, if that were the case, any portion of the amount
would be applicable to the service of the present year, and
if it were not so, out of what fund the expenses not pro-
vided for in the estimates were to be met.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER remarked that
the right hon. gentleman had pat a question of which he
had not givi. n notate, as well as that of which ha had given
=Cos. nod he could °sly answer with respect to the subject
to which the question on the paper referred. There was no
intention to ask lb. house fur any vote of credit on accunat
of China. There was au unexhausted authority rwinsiniag
upon termer votes of credit of about ;MOW., aid the ax-
Le7ed the year account of the vote of credit would
a. as he on
he bad estimitcd them in March last, about 500,0001.
He was not aware that that vote would be appli-
cable to soy operatioos that bad taken place Mee
the pacification of China. Certainly the purpose
for woich it was asked was to complete thepayment on ac-
count of the wee with Chins, and speaking without the
power of any minute investigation his impression was that
the application must be exclusively confined to ths settle-
ment of that account. If the riot hon. gentleman, how-
ever, required further information upon that point he w
give it with perfect precision on a future day.
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SLAVERY AT LAGOS.
Sir F. BARING allied the Under Semler, d Slate fee
the Colonies whether may otdiaaase had bees weed by
the go, ersor of Logos for the registry of slaves there ; and
whether gorerameat had issued say directioas with respect

to pantos' who were in a state of slavery at Lagoa at the time
when it became a British poste/aloe, and if so, whether
there was soy objection to laying these directions upon ;
the table.

Mr. C. FORTESCUE said the affairs of Lagos were so
new to the Colonithoflce that he was afraid he should not
be able to give so mock information as the right boa. gen-
tleman might wish to have. But with respect to the first
part of the quessioe, he had no knowledge whatever of any
such ordinusee having bees issued at Lagos. With respect
to the second part, no directions had been sent out on the
part of the Secretary of State upon the subject of slavery,
but his noble friend was fully alive to the great importance
of the question, and had called for full information front the
governor by the next mail.
ASSAULT ON MR. PILKINGTON,
Lord H. LENNOX asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department whether any information bad reached
him respecting the recent assault, in Waterloo-place, on the
person of Mr. Pilkington, a member of that house, and
expressed • bops that the house would indulge
him for • few moments while he stated the
particulars of the attack which he received front the boo.
gentleman hinted. (Hear, hear.) It appeared that at one
o'clock on Tuesday morning laat the 111011. member for
Blackburn, having been performing his public duties, left
the house, and on reaching Waterloo-place the assault took
place, near the Guards' Memorial, so suddenly that he
neither saw the assassin nor could recollect feeling the blow.
In a state of partial insensibility he found his way to his
hotel, when it was found that serious personal injuries had
been inflicted upon him. His jaw bone had been much cut,
there were severe contusions upon the head, and a very
suspicious mark round the throat showed the medical
man the nature of the garottiog instrument ap-
plied to that hon. gentleman in one of the most
crowded thoroughfares in the metropolis. Under these cir-
cumstances he trusted that be should not be considered as
trespassing upon the rules of the house if he asked the
Home Secretary to give the house an assurance that he
would put himself in communication with the Chief Com-
missioner of Pollee, to see that all possible steps were taken
to prevent the recurrence of such attacks. (Hear.)

Sir G. GREY said that directly be heard of the assault
made upon the hon. member he had called for the reports
from the police, and the information they gave him was
very much to the same effect as the statement of the noble
lord. No one witnessed the assault except those who com-
mitted it, end though the thorvaghfin was usually
crowded at one o'clock is the morning there
were very few persons there. There were five police.
constables on duty upon their respective beats in the tIODIO-
- neighbourhood, and directly after the assault took
place a person came to one of them, and told him that •
man was lying upon the pavement on the east aide of
Waterloo-place, not far from the Guards' Monument. The
policeman immediately proceeded to the spot indicated, but
found no one there, the fact being that the hon. member,
though seriously injured and partly stunned by the blow,
had beau able to find his way to the hotel at which be re-
sided. The hon. member had the most imperfect recolleo-
tioe of the way in which the injury occurred, and on arriving
at the hotel he stated that he had met with an accident, but
the particulars of it he was not able to give. lie was
robbed of his watch, but not of the money which was
in his pocket. It was rather singular that upon
the same night, in Piccadilly, between St. James's
street and the corner of Bond street, another assault almost
identical in its character was committed upon Mr. Hawkins,
the sou of a gentleman well known from his connection with
the British Museum, and in that case also the victim was
robbed of his watch, but no attempt wee made to take the
money from hie pocket A policeman, who was almost ou
the spot, did not see the assault committed, and Mr. Haw-
kios himself had only a very confused notion of what had
taken place. Re (Sir G. (trey) hoped that the attack had
been made in both MIS by the same person. It was im-
possible for policemen to be upon every spot, but &titian
had been given in consequence of these occurrences.
The watches in both cams had been accurately
described, and it was hoped that that might lend to
the discovery of the person or persons ournmittint the
robberies. The object appeared to be to inflict a sudden blow
so as to stun the victim, to instantly seize the watch, and
at once to make off, without stopping to rifle the pockets.
Directions had been given to the police. and precautions
taken which be bad better not state—(hear, hear)—but
which he hoped would afford better protection in future
from samulta of this character, and lead to the detection
of the persons committing them. (Hear, hear.)
ROMAN CATHOLIC CEREMONIALS IN MONTREAL
Mr. WHALLEY, in reference to an order of the 21st
June, issued by the mijorgeneral commandiog at Montreal,
directiag all soldiers to pay attention end respect to
• Roman catholic ceremonial, called the Procession of the
Host, begged to give notice of his intention to ask the
Secretary at War whether such order had the sanction of
the government. (" Oh, oh," and laughter.)

THE INDIAN BUDGET.
The house having gone into committee upon the subject
of the East India Revenue accounts,
Sir C. WOOD, in moving certain formal resolutions, after
a few preliminary remarks, referred to the differences be-
tween Mr. Laing and himself on the subject of these ac-
counts, expressing his regret that there should be any per-
sonal ingredient in these differences. He complained
of the exreme inaccuracy of the aocounts transmitted from
' India, which, he said, had been • source of the greatest
annoyance to him, and which deprived the public of the
means of knowing what they had aright to know—the real
stated the Indian finances. He then proceeded to show in
details of figures, the alleged errors in the accounts fur-
nished from India for the years 186081, 1861-62, and the
estimate for 1862-63, accompanied by explanations of the
sources of the errors, which it is impossible to
compress into • summary that would be intelligible.
The result, in 1862.63, was that Mr. Laing had over-
estimated his surplus about 1.000,060 f, and. having
remitted taxes to the amount of 725.000 f., be had
really & deficit of revenue in that year. Mr. Ling, he ob-
served, had assumed that, the cash balances in the Indian
treasuries having increased, he must have a con-
siderable surplus revenue. Sir Charles argued that
this was an untenable assumption, arid that Mr. Lines
theory was erroneous. He then discussed the question
as to the lass by exchange of the rupee iota sterling
money in the railway accounts, being 2d. in the rupee,
which loss had been omitted in the accounts sent
from lodic, insisting upon the fallacy of the reasons as-
signed by the Ind an government for the omission. He
disputed Mr. Ling's views upon the subject of the repay-
ment of admirals, another disturbing element ia the ac-
' counts, prolamin his utter astonishment at the arguments
he had employed to support and justify these views ; and
he reiterated his own opinions upon the subject. Having
thus cleared the ground, he proceeded to state what the
finances of India really had been in the last three years :-
1860..61, revenue, 42,90.1,0001. ; charge, 48.924.0001.
110;1-62, revenue, 42,911,0001. ; charge, 43,606,0001.
1863-63, revenue, 42,971.0001. ; charge, 43.253,000/.
The result showed, he observed, a eficit of revecue is each
year, which he expected would disappear at the end of the
present year, as we were appmechieg, he thought, •
sound system of Indies Seams He stated the progress
malls in public works in India ; and, with reaped to
cotton, be had been informed, he said, by Sir George
Clerk that the growth of cotton had considerably in-
creased. He was decidedly of opinion that the government
ought not to interfere in this matter ; that an adequate
dentand would produce an adequate supply; but all
assistance seeded by cotton merchants in conducting their
own transactions, he added, should be afforded. He ad-
verted to the changes that, bad been made in the Indian
councils and the govenimental departments, end in the law
tribunals in India ; to the state of the civil service ; and
to the reductions in the army. He dwelt upon the good
effects which bad resulted from the policy now pur-
sued towards the native princes of the country, and
from the measures taken to create an intermediate
class connected with the land between the chiefs
sod the peesantry. To these measures, the merit of which
was due to Lord Cenning, the government bad determined,
es • proper oomplement,..to cam- out as soon as practicable
throughout British Lida a permanent settlement of land
tenures. Our lodise enipire, be remarked, bad suffered
shock • which had left Its lesson. Our power bid been
sustained by military strength ; but a source of still greater
strength would be found in the attachment of the
people of India. In conclusion, Sir Charles paid a warm
tribute to the character and services of Lard thinning.
Never was a man more severely tried. He bad every
prospect of • peaceful rule when he went to India ; but that
preened was rudely destroyed by the outbreak of the
mutiny. Through the severest storms, however, Lord
Canning held the reins of government with a calm and firm
hand ; and when he had succeeded in quelling that mutiny,
he succeeded in gaining the affections of all classes in that
country. (Hear, hear.) Indian finance had been brought
to its present state by firm yet sparing reduction, and Indian
princes and native chiefs bad been conciliated. The name
of Lord Canning was a tower of strength, and he (the right
hon. gentleman) truped that the policy ioaugnrated by the
noble lord would 'gather strength under his successor.
(Hear.) The population of Banana, which was oneof themost
!netted places in !Dili% bad passed • glowing resolution
in pmts. of his administration. (Hear, hear.) lu
conclu-
sion the right bon. gentleman expressed his belief that
drain in Inaba bad now been placed upon a satisfactory
footing, and his hope and trust that she had commenced
a camas which would result in happiness to herself and
benefit to bath countries. (Cheers-)
Mr. H. SEYMOUR cordially concurred in the sulogium
which had been paned on a great statesman who in a time
of difilculty held the reins of government in ladle. With
the lees of that noble lord they had also to deplore the
subsequent death of Mr. Ritchie, who deserved more titan
a passing word of pears.. Mr. Ling had himself suffered
very severely in his health although, fortunately, he had
survived ; end whatever that gentleman's short oominp
might be there remained enough of good does
by him duets/ his residence in India to en-
title him to the,eratitode of the country. (Hear, hear.)
He most say that this was • more satisfactory statement of
the finances of India than they bad had for tome year
put. Last year they were called on to consider • freak
loan for India. This year they were told that the time for
leans was paid, and the only circumstance that deprived
them of complete satisfaction had been this little want of
' understanding between the secretary for India and the late
finaecial secretary. He thought that the right hon. gentlemen
did not sufficiently amperage the outlay of British capital ie
India. The Madras Irrigation Corot:any made groat
oomplaints of his treatment of them. His (Mr. Seymostr'e)
view of that company was that there maid not be a better
thing for India then an undertaking that paid 50 per mot.
It would encourage other undertakings ; than would be no