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mind as to the policy of having a discussion. (Hear.
hear.) If, during the interval, such circumstances had
occurred, of course honourable gentlemen would maintain
silence on the subject. If they had not occurred, he
thought the honourable member for Aylesbury would
neglect his duty to his constituents and the country if he
did not proceed with his motion.
Mr. BRIIJ HT was of opinion that the matter should be
left unreservedly in the hands of the Government.
Sir G. Gum( disputed the inference that any circum
stances of gravity or danger had arisen within the pas
week to induce the Government to smother discussion
Ile believed that the prospect of bringing these &lairs to
an amicable termination WWI better than it was a
week ago.
Mr. Minim and Lord I). STUART urged the withdrawal
of the motion after what had fallen from the noble lord.
Mr. LAYARD then withdrew his motion, on the under.
standing that it should be open to him to bring it on when
considerations of public service permitted.
INDIA BILL

The house then went into committee on this bill, after
a preliminary conversation originated by Mr. &Act:Err,
who urged several objections to the measure.
In clause I, Mr. ProaNN moved an amendment, the effect
of which would be to place the Indian tloven►meut under
the control of the Crown.
Mr. Lows: opposed the amendment. The question of
responsibility had been determined on the second reading.
Lord STANLEY contended that the amendment did not
propose to make any alteration in the constitution either
of the Hoard of I liroctooro• or of the home Government,
and mould not, 11101114 e, Is considered as opposed to the
&ethic government. Be thought that the amendment,
although not likely to produce any very important results,
would he le•neficial in various inspects.
A COOYCYNAtiOII On a matter of form resulted in Mr.
NUNN temporarily withdrawi►►g his amendment.
I,orol .14,143.1 s veil au► amendment continuing the
net till the sllth► April, lx4;1. ILO withdrew it after some
discussion.

Thu c 'lieu then divided lin Mr. Phinn's amendment,
which was lost by 117 to 31. Thu datum; was then
agreed to.
On clause '2, Lord doct:tvx moved an amendment for
continuing the number of the Hoard of Itireetor4 at twelity
four. _ _ _

On a division this amendment. was lust by 186 to 85.
The t .11.1IRMAN then reported progress, and thu house
resumed. . . .

The other orders ocomied the remainder of the night.

THE Paris papers continue to pre►cerve a eatitions silence
RS N► the rumour of the meditated attack nlaa► the
noes life. It appears that. the persons seined by the police
do not amount to 11101 V than twel‘e, and they have bceu
recognised as helotiging to 143011 societies. Whether they
are concerned iii the alleged plot is at. p►eseul. unknown.
t►n Wednesday night the Emperor ►aid I;►upress. as if to
mark their contempt of danger, dmve up and 'town the
Champs Elysecs. mixing with the crowd of promenaders
in an unostentatious manner. _

Simultaneously with the entry of the Russian ttoops
into the principalities, Prince t is'tsehakoff was instructed
to bend a letter to Rescind Plaint to assure the Porte that
no attack on Turkish troops was at present intended, and
that the occupation was a pacitie one. The Russian oc-
cupying force is to ha limited, tin• the present, to '2',1)0
men.

Letters from Constantinople of the 27th state that the
prosle•cts of peace were improving. England. France, and
Austria were to mediate it served in which the tenor but
not the form of the Russian demand was to be accepted.
This, however. was before intelligence of the invasion
would have reached the Porte.
Ftrum: Com3Ltsmu.—The Journal dr Conglonlinfiple
says, " If war should break out. which, however, we do not
think of, the fleets will be eommanded by Admiral Pulalas,
and the troops by a French general."

The Prince and Princess of Prussia left England on
Thursday night, via Dover and Calais.
It is stated that her Majesty's intended visit to Treland
has been postponed, on account of the indisposition of
Prince Albert.

Tar. CoN.r:m•An%r, LAND SOCIETY.—Last evening the
members and friends of this society celebrated its extra•
ordinary success by a dinner in Freennisons'-hall. There
was a very large attendance of gentlemen of the Conser-
vative party, amongst whom we observed the LordVissount
Hanelagh, who presided ; Earl Talbot. Mr. Christopher,
ALP., Col. Knox. M.P., J. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P., Mr.
Butt, M.P., the Hon. Butler Johnstone, the Hon. Major
Rowley. H. Storey, Esq., 11. Pownall, Esq., B. E. Bennett,
&v., ttc. The usual loyal and customary toasts
having been drunk with great enthusiasm. Mr. Christopher.
M.P., after highly enlogising the principle anti plan of the
Censeivative Land Society, which he described as equally
important to the bolt. social as well as political interests of
the country, proposed •• Success to the society.•' The toast
was drunk with great applause. which was prolonged by
the admirable style in which Mr. Alfred Smith, of Tup-
wood, sang the song of " The Old Spit.." The toast was
duly acknowledged by Mr. Henry Pownall, a member of
the executive committee. Mr. Isaac Butt, M.P in an
eloquent breech, proptised the house of Liras," for
which the Earl Talbot returned thanks. The lion. Butler
Johnstone proposed the toast of the House oft:ominous ;"
Mr. Booker, M.P., returned thanks. Mr. Merewether.
Q.C.. in a very humorous speech, proposed the health of
the noble chairman, who, in acknowledging the compli•
meat, paid a well-merited tribute to the zeal and ability of
his colleagues on the executive committee. The toasts of
the vice-chairman anti the council, solicitor', secretary, and
officers of the society, were afterwards drunk very cor-
dially by the company, which broke up at a late hour, after
speuthvg a very pleabaut

SATURDAY,

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, July 5.

BANKRUPTS.—FatosaIcx 11,11. E THOMSON, late of 4€l,
nemstreet, and West End, Hampstead, Middlesex, manufacturer
of silvered glassware and silvered glass redeetors.—JOßN ROBINS
V/VIAN, City, dealer in mining shares--CHARLES
JOHN Dims, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, iroumonger—WlLmax
PlCKLlClNGlPiccadilly,bookseller—GEoftox FRANKS,
Blifekfriarsivad, surrey, surgeon and apothecary—JOHN Dxwar,
Wellingubn, Salop, grocer—NV mum/ Diatax, the younger, Wol•
verhfunpton, Staffordshire, brickmaksr.

Friday, hay 9.
WlLLism Ilesuri, Portsmouth, builder Titonks
Itsi.mEit, Abbey-street, Bermondsey, engineer WILLIAM
LIONEL FELIX TULLEMACHN, commonly called Nati HUN•rING.
rowEn, (lrosvenor•square, horse dealer—J. G. UPWARD, draper,
Lyme Regis—FRANCIS ENGLISH, Manchester, power•loom
Bluth WILLIAMS, Llanelly. Carmarthen,
wine and spirit merchant—HENns Roes, Bruton, carpenter
and builder—Wl:J.lAm llama: and Pi.rtat SAK.ER, Wakefield,
rail% uy truck makers.

The polling at Liverpool took place yesterday, and re•
stilted in the triumphant retuni of Messrs. Liddell and
Borstal). At the dose the numbers were—For Mr. Hors.
fall, 6,01 S ; Mr. Liddell, 5,671; Sir E. Perry, 4,495 ; Mr.
linimley Moore, 1,362.
The Sligo election has terminated in the return of Mr.
Sadkir ; the numbers appearing at the close of the poll on
Thursday were—SatHeir, 145; Somers, 141. Hanley did
not go to the Will.
Commissios,:ns for the Reduction of the National
Itebt publish an announcement in last night's Gazette,
stating the surplus of revenue over expenditure during
the year ending the sth of April last to have been
2,100,741/. 16s. (►t this sum the fourth part is to be
applied, under the act, to the purchase of Stock and Ex-
chequer Bills, making, with some additional receipts from
interest On beqiwsts, a total of 619,137/. 2s. UM., applica-
ble to the reduction of debt during the current quarter.

A 'Asr. or Cum. Coy. was tried yesterday ii the Court.
of Queen's Bench, in which Mr. Mitchell, sheriff and
Chief Magistrate at Hong-Kong, was the plaintiff: and
the Prince of Armenia the defendant. The alleged inter-
course took place in London, where Mrs. Mitchell had
been residing since July, ls:r2, her husband being detained
by his official duties in the colony. Her acquaintance with
the Prince of Armenia commenced at a boarding-house of
which they were both inmates. The jury found the charge
proved, and gave i 3411. damages.
\V n: regret to announce the death of the Marchioness
of Anglesey, which occurred yesterday (Friday) morning
at nine o'clock. _

..... _
APPROACHIN4: REGISTRATION.—We know not upon
what. secret inkrination they may be acting, or whether it
is merely on the general impression that some political
crisis is near at halal, but it is quite certain that Messrs.
Coppuelt and Co. are actively engaged just now in pre-
paring for the next. Middlesex registration. The Conser-
vatives ought not to be asleep. The last registration won
the county for them. Were a new election now to take
place, there is scarcely room for a doubt that a Conserva-
tive candidate would have a majority of nom 300 to $OO.
lint all this may be lost, by akw weeks' inaction. If one
side rakes together and pitts on the register all the Radical
claimants that can he found, while the other side does
nothing of the sort—if the Radical agents object to
vast numbers of Conservatives, whilst the Conservatives
make no answering move—the result is simply inevitable.
Upon a register of 11,000 names either side may operate
with effect. And, if all the effort and all the outlay is on
one side, it is tolerably certain that the advantage will
finally rest with that side also. But the Conservatives am
now fairly warned; let them take the warning in time
Herald.
Tin: (inumALL was struck by lightning during the
storm which raged in London on Thursday night. Part
of a buttress was knocked off, and sonic fissures made in
the wall around it, but no serious damage done.

PROXIMATE MOVEMENT or THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.—.
The reports that the Emperor will shortly undertake a
journey to the southern prcwinces may thus be explained,
that, if the Emperor should go there at all, it will not be
until later in the autumn, as his physicians have advised
a repose of some duration, and the use of the baths of
held. This journey will take place in the second half of
the present month, as a settlement of the Turkish dittis
eulties is then expected:— Foss Berlin Zeiliing.
LATEST INTELLIGENCE ON THE PLANS OF EUROPEAN
EMIGUATION.—GeneraI Klapka is not in Turkey, but at
present in Genoa, where he has gone according to orders
of Kossnth, after having stayed a considerable time at
Genoa. It is from Genoa whence the whole of the Hun-
garian emigration, scattered over Switzerland, France, and
England, is to take place when the favourable moment
will have arrived, as it is supposed that the Sardinian
Government will not oppose the embarkation of a number
of unarmed persons. It is intended to send arms and
ammunition for the little hand of emigrants from England.
Mazzini. also, and the remainder of the Italian refugees,
will participate in this undertaking, and embark with the
cadre of three battalions of Bersaglieri from Southampton.
Colonel Haug, of the late Roman Republic, has published
an anfoif (call) for the formation of a German Legion. as
Mazzini has refused him the command of the Italian
Legion. The proclamation concludes with an invocation
to the social, democratic, and indivisible republic. It is
also said that Manin, ex-President of the Venetian
Republic, has arrived in London to concert plans, in the
ease of any " prosperous accident," fur the " patriots " of
all nations. Kossuth has also issued a declaration ad-
dressed to the notabilities of the Hungarian emigration,
where, in alluding to the " disagreements of the Courts,
he exhorts his fellow-countrymen to be united, and merge
at present all personal differences of opinion which may
exist between them.—Neue Prom, Zeibmg.....4 Although
the sources of our German contemporary are respectable,
the above stattlatelitB UV to be Icceitred with due eircum.
erection.]

JULY 9, 1853.

yittraturt.

1788 Administration of the East India Company

a History of _Wittig Progress. By John Wil
limn Kaye. London : Bentley.

[Third and Concluding Notice.]

Two interesting chapters of Mr. Kaye's work
are devoted to Thuggee and llakoitee, topics
which the peculiar interest attaching to crime
has rendered tolerably familiar. That Colonel
Sleeman and his assistants deserve all credit
for their success in putting down the former
a these nuisances we readily acknowledge.
But that it has been utterly extirpated, never
to revive, though Mr. Kaye strenuously asserts
the fact, we beg leave to doubt. Thuggee is
less rife than formerly, but it exists, and in
certain localities even continues to flourish.
Nor, in justice to our predecessors in the
Government, should we forget the advantages
possessed by us in dealing with this crime.
The vast extent of country over which we
operate secures a certain unity of organisation
wholly wanting in native states. The escaped
felon can no longer find within easy distance a
frontier which he may cross and be safe. And
Mr. Kaye wholly omits to mention a fact well
known to Anglo-Indians—namely, that the
police established for the express purpose of
acting against Thugs has in some districts it-
self become a powerful though unintended
engine of oppression. Armed with inquisitorial
power, striking terror into the people whom it
protects, it has not rarely levied black-mail
under threats of false accusation ; and this
abuse, though notorious, is hard to detect,
and still harder effectually to suppress.

As a sketch interesting in itself, and as a
good specimen of Mr. Kaye's manner, the
following description of a Dakoit gang is worth
quoting :

The ordinary practice of these gangs was to set out,
after the usual ritual preliminaries, in parties of thirty
or forty, disguised as travellers, or pilgrims, or bird-
catchers, or anything else that might promise good
chance of concealment. The principal implement of
their profession was the spear. The spear-head they
carried about with them, concealed on their persons ;
the handles they either converted into walking-sticks, or
buried in a convenient place. One of the party sent on
in advance, or sonic confederate at a distance—a corre-
sponding member of the society—either brought or sent
in tidings to the effect that he " had bis eye on a rich
house," A full description of the locality—of the build-
ing itself, of its inhabitants, of the probable means of
defence, as far as they could be ascertained, was com-
municated to the leaders of the gang ; and then, the
night and hour of the attack being determined upon,
the gang was duly mustered, and an estimate formed of
its adequacy to the intended enterprise. If the party
were not considered strong enough to secure success,
some " auxiliaries " were called in. These were members
of robber-tribes, or local Dakoits, resident in the neigh-
bouring villages. With their party thus augmented
they took counsel together, and determined on their plan
of operations. It was their policy then to separate for a
day or two before the meditated attack, and then to meet
at a given hour—an hour after nightfall—and to advance
at once to the enterprise. They then collected the
handles of their implements, fixed them into the spear-
heads and axes, prepared their torches, divested them-
selves of all their superfluous clothes, and advanced to the
attack.

It VMS always a nocturnal surprise. With flaming
torches, and spea►s glittering in the broad light, they
came suddenly on the sleeping inhabitants of the doomed
house, and either roused them with their noise, or pricked
them up with the points of their weapons. Thus suddenly
startled from their sleep, finding themselves surrounded by
armed men, whose numbers their fear greatly exaggerated,
the unhappy merchants, or bankers, Ho surprised, could
seldom muster either their senses or their courage suff►-
ciently to conduct an effective defense. If by any chance
the resista►►ce was obstinate, the Itakoits, who had not
always the stoutest hearts to sustain them, were in a fair
way t► be beaten back. But the chances were greatly in
their favour. A pa►ty suddenly surprised is always at a
disadvantage. So it often happened that the luckless in-
habitants, confused, bewildered, panic-struck, like people
under tl►e influence of a fearful dream, ►lid all that they
were directed to do—pointed out the places where their
wealth was hidden, and went like sheep to the slaughter.
It is only fair to remark that a great part of
the difficulty experienced by Government in
its proceeding against Dakoitees arises from
the disgraceful connivance of the people—
partly produced by fear, but quite as much
also by the love of plunder. Men of wealth
and character do not scruple to g 4) shares
with the burglar, and rob him in turn of his
ill-got gains. A bargain is driven by which
impunity is guaranteed on the one hand, and
participation in the spoil on the other, and