The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-03 00:00:00

RENEWAL OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S
CHARTER.

The P.arl of DERBY.—IIIy lords' —I rise, pursuant to
the notice which I laid on your lordships' table, for the
purpose of muving " for the appointment of a select coin.
neittee to inq tire into the operation of the act of toe Jrd
and 4th William IV., cap. fts, for the better government of
her Majesty's Indian territories, and to report their obser-
vations thereon." My lords, the motion which lam about
to submit to your lordships is for a committee to inquire, in
common parlauce, iuto the renewal of the East betel Coat.
pony • charter. I say in common parlance, McMinn net
sly doe. that phrase not correctly express the real facts of
the case, but iu peiut of fact it expresses almost the reverse
of the facts of the case ; for, in the find instance, and up to
a comparatively re-cent period, the East India Company has
been a commercial body. Their charter was a commercial
charter, gieiug certain privilege.. si.t rights. Ihe act of
1813 materially diminished the.: privileges, and gave them
the privileges which they now possess. Ihe act of 18.13
went further, tied did not only diminish, but altogether
took sway the powers they had of tritaiug, not only as an
exclusive company, but of trading at all. When I say took
away thine powers, I mean so long as they were entrusted
with the political posers with which they were not in-
vested LI the act of IG't. So long a* they were invested
with pohtiesl powers, so long the trailing powers of their
mimes. tat charter were put in ItheTaneit. If your lord-
ships sheuld now think tit to withdrew the political power
vested in them, the commercial charter is revived. If you
continue the political power the company now eujeys, so
far from that being a renewal of the barter, it will be a
renewal of the midi:ions tinder which that charter remains
in abeyance. It is not my iutention to take up the time of
the house ley tracing the rim: and progress of this great com-
pany which has no parallel in history. This company
has at led obtained dominion absolute &mouton,
whether by the direct excrete. of authority, or by ni.-sns
not lees Lian authority itself—over a country extend-
ing from twenty eight degrees of latitude from Cape
et'eaturin on the south, to the borders el Chasmere, Cahul
and Aterhaniecen on the north, and 'wilding in the
bruedeot parts of that empire hardly less than 20 degrees of
losiettude. a east district inhabited by a population which
I believe lam within the sit irk when I estimate at one
hundred suet fifty raillious. And it is not the
least extraordinary course of the gigantic progress effected
by this company, that although, for the maintenauce of
Wan vast desuisditis, tucy maintain an army of 211.5,000
men, yet tit that void t.nny five-nxths are CronipoSed of the
natives of Chem territories they have conquered. Idaho-
metes. and UM luCiii—every eanety of religious Meta and
denomination, alike exhibiting as much loyalty and attach-
ment to their conquerors, exhibiting as much of interest
and valour, as that small and noble army drawn from the
mother country, with which it is their pride to be asoo
rioted. You leave, then, when you look to the vast extent,
to the great reecurcce of this empire, no light and unite.
portent task before you; and I am commending to your
consideration calmly and deliberately to investigate the
machinery by winch the affairs of this great empire are ten.
shoo tl—a machinery framed fur other purposes, gradually
converted from its original intentine, applied and adapod
to the chance of circumstances in which it was placed,
cud institutions which seemed at the outset to be
anomalous &Mort to the extent of absurdity, but
which practically re-crated most beneficially to the interest
of humanity and the advancement and progress of that
mighty empire which they superiutended. I stated that
sea., 1533 the East India Company had altogether ceased
to be a commercial body. 11'1813 and op to that time they
possessed not only the right of tradiag with India, but ex-
clusively the right of trading vireth India and with China.
By the act of 1813, for the lint time, an invasion of that
eoramercial monopoly was eff. teed. Coder certain limits-
Lour, British subjects were allowed to settle in India, and
the India trade was thrown opeu to other than the servants
of the Company ; at the same time not depriving the coma-
piny from participating in that trade. In 1833 we went a
step further, and we cut only did away with the exclusive I
privilege* of the company with regard to India, but also
took from them altogether the right of trading Ia
the !Wan trade, and threw open to the public in
patrol the trade to India, which up to that period had
bees enjoyed by the elow• monopoly of the company. There
were also other Changes mails as to the settlement of
Earopven 'objects in India, and as to the acquisition of
load. With regard to commercial affairs, this material al-
teration woo made after the law of 1833. The court of pro-
prietors—the foundation of the machinery—ceased is fact
to base any interest whatever, or any control over the
manage meta of the affairs of India ; because the
went reedy 1&33 deprived the East India CompaaZa2al 1
their commercial property; not only of their right of trod- I
ing, hut tit all Aar eautossrsial property, which, was mods I
over to the crown_
_thom ler, at too same time, • pm-
Vision made by widdi the elect of the company, to the I
amount of six millions—ohoslividond sa the stook amisont-
hag to six millions—was made a grimily anew as at or
venue of India ; and two MEM' IMO set aside der the
purpose of accumulatiag wader certain conditions,
to buy up, if seessamy, that amount of Moab.
I might here mention that up an 1833 the act was Wood
to the coltrol of parliament. At the NA Of twenty pamk
s ems to have contemplated this anatinaaatis of this padded
power of the company fur act only twenty, hat forty yea, I
inasmuch so it gays to the 411111Speay the right—if the poll- 1
Beal powers which were ainersissi to than were taken
away at the end of twenty pans—at dinlandlnft from
the government the repayment a the mama of stock
at the rate of MOP. sterling kr sveey 1001. stock.
And they have the right to rognire tress the govern-
ment, on their political powers being taken hem
them, that the government should boy up their Mask at
that amount within a penod of throe ran. 1 most ray, is
passing, that it is nut very probable, ems if the political
pow, re were taken away item the _ they woad I
make such a demand, became, although thealognay,
applicatiaa
would be to take the stock, yet as it is now worth 260 L, it I
Is not very probable that they would insist on its bang I
purchased at 2001. By the act of 1833 you lam no power j
to pay off that dock natil 1874. You have %opener am- I
pulwrily to call on the company to accept that bargain sad pay I
of the rock. But if the company's powers are continuator :
1874—that is, for another period of twenty years—dio mown
will then have the power of bidding as : paylithat
terra
stock on the I have mss pm toe
year's notice. And for the purpose oaflegate OM sleek
20)0,0001. were at first set wide out et Or ememandsi
assets of the company, which have sew eimmulated to
3,87u,000i. That SIM we to pea esseemelattai at eme-
pound haunt to bay me the semis I aid at the expiration
of forty years the ram* Mewed Webg trim that Mask
would hare to be carded to the revenue of lads.
Stich was the arrangement a which evidently imm-
templates! a eommelnain la the and principle et sr-
nilpotent between the Crews aril the sett India Com-
pany. Fist if, melee to memo mesemees deities of pare.
meat, it should le thought inexpedient le eimilisas these
powers in forty yonnss mail the expiration 01 that peeled
the `ovummat 11111111 lave no poser of extinguisid the
stock by miss the petaelpal. With the art of 1883 the
_ Court of oloes somad to have any metrol or inlaid
in limas : the whir bushes et the Court of at
this memeat emakite in rowdebig the dividends ea thole
stock, new paying it'. per seat pee maem, nedi
electing the umbersof the Court od Dinsfain—lhirear
the^ that the Court of Propriatom lam as haelisos
to perform It is tree hey most sal Ahem bet, mith
to the legislation et lags, he ray shale tirleietfri
tr=ilivea, any order to be ism* orimalea to he
t
the unanimous vote of the whale Covet of ProprietoniZ
exercise not the slighted control or lallinswee over the as..
duct of the 'Moir+ of India. And undenhtedly when yea
look to the present composition of the Court of Proyristom,
there is some reason why they should not exercise any
powers over the affairs of India: they have no interest In
the affairs of India except .uch as they derive from the pay-
ment of their dividends. The number of proprietors a
about 1,800, and I think the total number of votes is 2,500.
The qoalifieation for a seat in the Court of Proprietors is
I,ooof. stock; a larger amount gives two votes, and a still
further amount a greater assinitior of votes, about one-fifth
of which are held in India. The nowise which dovnly.
tie ISMoroo•oes •roloootoo, as. l• a material ele-
ment is the maelinery by which Indian affairs are eon.
ducted; but that is the sole power they can exercise, ex-
cept the very insigninoust power they have of putting a
check on some gratuities, amounting to five or six
hundred pounds. Now, my lords, I have bees
speaking of the Court of Proprietors; I now came
to the Court of Biretta?* elected by those pro-
prietors. That comet consists of 24 members, and the
only qualification, I believe, fir being an East India direc-
tor is the possession of a certain amount of stock, I forget
what, but I thitik 1,000 i., the same qualification as that of
a director of the Bank of Etioland or the South Sea Com-
pany. But practically speaking the directors of the Batt I
India Company are now and have at all times been, a great
majority of them, men a great portion of whose lives ha.
been spent in India; who know the country, Its lawn, and
the habits of its inhabitant., snit perfectly stile to direct the
revetment of India. Of the Court of Directors, consisting of
21 members, one quarter part go out each year, but gem— i
rally they are re-elected at the expiration of the year ; and
the whole body of directors may be considered to consist of
tho s•me members. The director, for convenienee
sake, divide the/m.lTc. into throe committee*: one Is the fi-
ranee committee, another is the political and legislative
committee, and the third is the helm and iodide! commit-
tee --one insisting of eight, the other of seven, and the
third of six, which, with the chairman and deputy chair. •
man, form the great governing body. Now, in them in-
verters has been vested, in the first timer. all the nominal,
and wide regard to most offices, all the substantial power of
maleino every appointment in the civil service of India fmsa
the earliesikt the latest period ; the nominal and real creep.
lioo are the governor•steneral, the judges, the bishop., and
a small nouthre of suhonlinnte appointments, which by
courtesy or custom, 1 don't know wliethyr fey law or not,
are mist ..d its the President of the IYe trot of Contrd. M
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pany, from the governor seams' down to the low-
est clerk, without any communication or concert with
the government. For every appointment they mast have
the concurrence of the crown; bit the power of *calling
every servant Is vested in the . There may bas
been Meallestie on which that ea y say ham led
mote inconvenience, but when we tome to the
power of the Court of Directoraterrea* es It
and great as their influence is, their legislat
dwindles down to nothing, Op nod eel) lase the Court of
Proprietors no power by their enanlmous vote to issue •
single order, but the Court of Directors themselves can
ie.,* no order with regard to the legislation or government
of India without the consent of the crown signified through
the President of the Board of Control. They have not the
power of Issuing a single despatch ; and more than that,
they have no power for refusing to issue a single dispatch
which the Presideut of the Board of Control may think it
his duty to issue. If the Praident of the Board of Control
sends the Court of Directors a despatch on a particular sub-
ject, and they refuse to deal with the question,
ho may then, within one fortnight, compel the
' transmission of that dcootch, with the single exception,
which is a very improbable one, of the orders of the Presi-
, dent of the Board of Contrail being contrary to law, in
which case the Court of Directors have the power of appeal-
ing to the Court of Queen's Bench. But if the Court of
Directors think proper to send out particular orders, and
' the despatch containing them is submitted to the President
of the Ward of Control, they may by him be disapproved
of; and then not only are they compelled not to scud out
the despatch they intended to send, but the Board of Con-
trol may exercise the power of altogether modifying and
altering that despatch so as if it thinks tit to reverse the
whole arose and meaning of the instructions, and give in-
structions at variance with those which the Court of
Directors desire to go out. The Board of Control has
uudergone various alterations since it was instituted; the
last alteration made was in 1833, when the last act of par-
liament was parsed, and by which, instead of three paid
commissioners and a chief secretary, the consti-
tution of the board was altered to what it now
is—namely, the President of the Board of Con-
trol and two secretaries, and in that board,
practically speaking, the whole administration of the affairs
of India vests. When we are looking to the working of
this anomalous machine ry, conducted, in the first place,
apparently by directors elected by the body of proprietors
who have no interest in the affairs of the country—con-
ducted again by those directors under the control of the
President of the Board of Control, and thereby reduced to
be, in point of fact, a subordinate government hoard—the
question naturally suggests itself, of what purpose is it to
continuo this complicated and anomalous system? Why
not invest the nominal authority in the same hands that
have now the real authority, and why not dispense alto-
gether with the unnecessary intervention of the Board of
Directors ? That is a question which the government will
have to deal with. I think there are valid and strong rea-
sons for not departing from the practical working of that
which we find in existence ; but it is open to the considera-
tion of the committee. Aud if they continue this system,
they ought to bseaatisfied that it works well, or at all events
that it is better than any modification or alteration of the
system which could be proposed. (Bear, hear.) I ought
to mention that independently of the courts of proprietors
and directors, there is also the secret committee, which is
charged with all negotiations in affairs welch have to be
transacted between the Company and the native princes,
as well as other business which it is thought expe-
dient to preserve secret. That secret committee consists
of the chairman, deputy-chairman, end senior member
of the Court of Directors ; and, in conjunction with the
President of the Board of Control, that secret committee
administers all those affairs which COMO under the head of
negotiations or dealings with foreign princes. I think it
may not be a waste of your lordships' time if we see how
practically this system has operated in India, and what has
been the prayer made since 1834. Proceeding at some
length into the inquiry he had proposed to himself, the
noble lord observed that hitherto the system had been un-
doubtedly what a noble friend of his called a mild despo-
tism. Since the charter was last granted there had been
added to the British territory an area of 165,000 square
mile., with a population of 8,380,000 souls, while the re-
venue had increased full as much as the charge bad done,
baveug risen from 18.0001. in 1834 to 23,000,0001. in 1849.
The commerce of the country had in the same time made
rapid strides. The imports had risen from 6,000,000/. in
IS3I to 12,000,000 in 1918; while the exports bail risen in
the same period from 8,000,000/. to 18,000,0001. In the arts
of peace there had been the same progress. It was also
satisfactory to show that, while in 1512 there were only 3
chaplains in India, in 1832 there were 1 bishop and 75 chap-
lains ; while there were at present 3 bishops and 105 chap-
lains, independent of the ministers of the Sco ch church.
Slavery had been completely abolished is 1843. In the
administration of justice also great reforms had been effected,
and in the minor courts there had been a great increase in
the employment of natives. He was far from thinking that
the time had come for conceding to India popular institu-
tions, bed he thought the natives should be trained to take
a larger part in the administratiou of their internal affairs;
and eves if this should load the natives to desire political in
addition to judicial power, ad se la the coarse of years the
east power of the British Empire le India should tell by its
own hands, in the power it entosted Sr the natives, still it
would be au expenueent worthy of • nodes like the; to have
rescued the population ben the belusemosest sad ignorance
in which we found them, sod saga them capable of
governing themselves. Alt the isermades es this and
on other ways* would be WI beaus the semnsittee, and
it would tbes be fir that 11111Mdtbs• to molder whe-
ther the susemement of that reentry had been
Niels* or net. It would he Ihr the., however, to con-
sider whether the intermediate solhedglietwecn the crown
and India—the Court of Direseue—seseid be continued or
not. As he had already casheinsi, Neagh they possessed
no substantial power, they bad selsentre patronage : sad
the mewl* weft ought it OS be emelesed with them,
or amid It be wassikeeed te the sown. For
his part, he believed thet arch • tusehrosee would
be to pia* die vast pewee'p in the herds of a prac-
tically ineepseellsk, minister, aid use who could not
know the selsonies of the essedee es the directors did.
Of the thirty dtreetees new 'Alm so Inver than twenty-
ems at *am hal served with dlitleselos Is India, and wore,
therefore, quadded Is sho Need sad voluble advice upon
the goverummt at lie ailakf alinides this, it was,
he thee" et the Musa leassMoses that the pa-
Um.* of Isila shod& net be *bled ap with the
pol itiod dllbeniNee of this country. Dockhos, be thought it
was wag K osogratulation rather then meet that when
• man who linispant the beet a hi Sip Is Wile returned
to this issumbi, _
_whisk be severoseeed soesider as his
home, there Mould be mean for at Isiatiotr him still to
inksige be ladies reeolleellwe Waft out to him the
hope ef mot is the Coen of and nf allowing
his, la the mucks et his to h ter* • me,
a nephew, or a peals* Ile IMO honourable gamer
which he himself had ostseal ems Ia early bk. The.
IMO all qmotiese, lasemeen As Os Nelniase to decide
on; aid *oust he kg hharlf s etrees *Moe se the
sub, yet her sou eery serreaseeme won ready to be
gui by dem eopel. mode Spy the sommitters la this sad
the saw Moo at sullement. The sale bud thee eon.
eluded by aselm_twempaistesset of the committee.
nulled of NI,LERIOII,OI7OI sold the male lord hai
stated with mometable seem, the useless es whisk the
govonsocese at India was modessel. He had eserestal the
osmium laser, that this yes • semdea ahem the lemma
11111 Oil= shorter; sod it woe emprishm that he
W set ewes/ wee le sersoes psi by
whisk do MIS hesselhed m gowssoks bed* by
oesspery ausiseily wan, bet the company did
mg goers '• Hem, bear," hem Laid Derby.)
Ter almost 7iyers die CosesetDbeetsm bad in point of
fact boos so mom this • ism* et the Dosed et Control :
and pediment had sew Is oseekim wieder It was expe-
dient still to sestinas thatagroweseseLtra, er whe
it would net be better to a mem same Ass the
goverment of that . The noble bed bad set ed.
ve real as Ids sposok hews taken into eis-
sideratise4the Tors Is which India naw
Med. The of the Sea power had al
Assisi our position Is India. Doetut that, Zits's
greet rival, and bad miry nt es distant period,
to expect a most swim mead Napremacy in India.
That rival was sow destroyed; as we MOM in the position
in which Itome had steed efts the distensties K Carthage,
when all fear of rivalry in the field *sobs hoes easseel,
all those evils began to sperm" whisk lei is the destruction
of abbe liberty, the ruin of the cesumeswealth, end the
destruction of the empire. We had arrived at a
petrels is whisk we maid est with eallstibiciebseyend our
tinis rue* soloi he I *64 is Wwe had
shady is sons eletetoes__ Mud lbw It was with
much regret that he caw at tie putendea of any country
es the right hank of the bides above Cendshar, where the
oavigation of the Indire ewe& Me lashed with regret opow
ores ea she slimming:me slat lel los node in the last ten
or twenty years from Am, with the anosption of Araean.
But beyond oar present territorial lin* it would be the
Met proof of political imanity le pre. The danger to •
military empire—as ears in India was and must ever
main—wal far greater in the stationary condition
than in the progressive. That which he looked upon
with apprehension now was the insolence of office, which,
ems Is his time, had led to one insurrection, and the dire-
pal et atUitary duties by those called upon to perform
ism, swing to the want of consideration for the native
keeps; above all, forgetfulness of that great principle by
which ear empire had been acquired, respect for the reli-
"gime' prejudices and the social habits of the people. These
were the dangers of • stationary *spire ; and they were
for greater than any we had encountered in our progressive
advancement to the dominion we now possessed. In eon-
aliering what could be done under the pre sent circus-
seenese, end what alteration, if any, could bo made, he
nonmedthat one point had been fettled 70 years ago—that
the poteesam of India was to be severed for ever from the
erews—thee was, the patronage of original appointment.
He farther theseht that the crown should have the unroll-
trolled right of the commander of the forces, and that officer
shoe* he es Oki, a member of council; and, further, that
I the 1110110 shoel.l have the right to send as many imperial
temp dem as the crown might think fit. At present no
lima 20,000 troops could be sent without the consent
of As oempeay. Ile further thought that the crown should
appoint the members of council, not that he thought the
bad hitherto abused its tower, but in the new
ci he thought it would be Metter that those
gostisine Amid look entirely to the crown as the source
of
meberity. He did not propose to change. the present
arms of appointing the governor-general, but he did
boil that the right of recalling not only the governor-
but the governors of the provinces, should be
from the direetore. It would greatly condom, to the
MMthilmam of tho governor-g.-nerd if ho had in his Citified
tatim of each of tho different proud. nein. In.
Kes~ab from the traelersro tnioae7:er legislative
memberwo
-'awa advantage to Oa governor-general if tbut WWI-

her were token from palled society—fraw that geode
ben Thigh Ifewileseft lone Wee iftwally token for the Aloe
d ftwist-ftmeolitep of eloOft Oftek • man would be of the
Niue ftfte he the as one with whom he
eemmunieati at all time. There
fte ty In the power of the giewnor-
opinieft pit his council, ea Well as
a t to leant his minion sad go into lb. pee-
viseeft at the time oft his won responsibility.
With_ftend to the Internal government of the CeenpaniL
be Wilda state tilifit not more them one-sixth ef
holds% of Indian Stock were conmetted with India,
and it bad hems candidly avowed to himself, by a
candidate for the direction who had been often
defeated, that be stM persevered in his canvass in
order that when he obtained a seat at the board he might
do something for those who had supported him. What was
the result? In plies of 21 members of the direction who
had been distinguished in the Indian service, as his noble
friend had said, he averred that there were not more then
four of the present members who had an Indian reputation.
Ile would propose that, in addition to the existing proprie-
tors of India stock, all officers who had served ten years is
India, whether in the military or the civil service, should
have votes in the body that he proposed to sebetitute for
the Court of Directors. This new body he proposed should
be reduced to twelve members, with a view to expedite
business, and concentrate responsibility, particularly
in the exercise of patronage, which cat present was
confined in • great measure to the families and friends
of the directors. On looking over the list of Indian
cadets the other day he saw fourteen gentlemen all I
of the same name, and that name so peculiar that
he could hardly doubt they belonged to the lame family;
while, on the other hand, ono of the most distinguished
officers in Sir George Pollock's army, after applying to
every director in succession, could not obtain a cadetship
for his only son. Ile would further suggest that a portion
both of the cadetships and writerships should be exposed for
sale like commissions in her Majesty's army, for a fixed
sum, and that the governor-general should have the power
of removing an officer frln the military to the civil service.
Ile objected to giving cadetships as • reward for scholarships
in colleges and schools. What was wanted in India
was knowledge, not of books, but of men, probity, energy,
decision of character, and, above all, moral courage sail
fearlessness in the face of the public—qualities which mut
certainly were not to be learued from books, except, per-
haps, from " Plutarch's Lives." He concluded by entreat-
ing their lordships to remember that the Indian empire
was in a perilous condition, at it had no roots in the affec-
tions of the people, though he was satisfied it would
from England if the same ability was shown in preserving
that had been shown in extending it; and he trusted, there-
' fore, they would allow no considerations of mere conveni-
ence to prevent them from doing that which was just to the
people of India, and just to the people of England, and
which would tend to found for England an eternal empire
in lodic. (Cheers.)
The motion was then agreed to.
The Earl of DERBY nominated the committee, which
was also agreed to.
THE INDEMNITY BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of LON*DALI this bill was
read a second time.
MAYNOOTII.
The Earl of DERBY intimated, in reply to the Earl of
ALUEMAII.LE, that government had no present intention of
proposing any interterence with the Maynooth Endowment
Act; but the aggressive attitude which the newish church
and many of the Irish people had lately taken had added
materially to the difficulty of defending an endowment in-
tended for the purpose of maintaining peace and good will,
and of binding the Roman catholic clergy to the state by
the ties of gratitude and loyalty.
Their lordships then adjourned at half-past 7 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAT, Arm. 2.
The Smack's took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock.
PEI V ATE BUSINESS.
—.—

The Barnsley Gee Bill andthe Bristoland Exeter Rail-
way (Yeovil Branch) Bill were read a third time and
passed.
BILL/ CONSIDIRED AND AORIND TO.—British Empire
Mutual Life ASattranCe Company, Derby Ow, Lancaster
Waterworks Cemetery and Gas, and Medina River Navi-
gation Bills.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
UNITIRSITT TEATS (SCOTLAND).—By Mr. JOHN-
STONE, from Clackmannan, for abolition of.
MALT TA: —By Lord J. RUSSELL, from places in
Sussex, for the repeal of.
TAxan on Knowutoon.—By Lord D. STUART, from
Maryleboue, for the repeal of.
INDTATIDAL COTANTNINAIIIPA.—By Mr. SLINF.Y,
numerous petitions; Mr. A. lIASTIE, from the workmen
in the employ of Maws. Allan and Ferguson, Glasgow, in
favour of.

ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT.—By Mr. KEOGH,
from Bnagh and another place in Clam; Mr. DEVE-
RECK, from Gorey, Wexford, for repeal of.
NATSOOTII ACT.-By Mr.IMILES, from Somerset;
Mr. NEWDEGATE, from places in Warwickshire; Mr.
HEALD, from inhabitants of Heaton Norris, Lancashire,
for repeal of.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.—By Sir A. INGLIS, from
Lincoln College; Mr. CLAY, from Hall, for exemption
from the operation ; Mr. MASTERMAN, from the Cooks'
Company, against.
SECULAR EDUCATION.—By Lord MELOUND, from
Glasgow, in favour of.
AGRICULTURAL BURDENIL—By Mr. STAFFORD, from
Northampton, praying for relief from taxation.
GREAT EAKIBITION BUILDINO.—By Mr. COCKS, from
Reigate, ;praing for the preservation of.
METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY.

Lord EIIIiINOTON pored that the gtitiaa of membcn
et the Metrepelibut Sanitary Asembition. Wag water
esesomese imeleyers withia Ae imellMebsi be te-
Meal le the committee on the Mersey* Water Supply
Bill ; and that it be an iamiselha •Me sell committee
to hear the parties whor
have ftiml the oil petition, in
pmesemee the praye themet; sai OM the add peti-
dame he templed Men She morieent et Mss. Thai the
hllewiss iamb= be ladled hie as dline ea the mid
bill :—Lord Jelea ]Fusers, Sir Jeha Jehoshav, Sir Wil-
liam Clay, Mr. Mrmatt, Mr. Lesithestes, Me. Cochrane,
and Viscount Ebel...ten.
After • brief 011111100sfios, he motion was rid NA mis-
fired.
KENNINGTON COMMON.
I Lord J. MANNERS brought up • bit he the imaketwe
I sad improvement of Kenninitoa-commem, whisk wee read
a arse time.

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