The Press.
London, England, 1857-10-10 00:00:00

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of the dreadful atrocities committed in India dhl a debate
take place in the llotio.e of Commons. On a motion being
made to count the house out, there was not a house exist.
ing, but several members came into it, and forty were soon
counted up, and so the house lagged on. It will be our
duty, and a solemn duty it will be, undoubtedly, to give
our attention to the important subject, and if that should
be the effect, dreadful as the course has been, horrid and
revolting as the acts committed have been to the mind of
man, when we contemplate them, I trust some good will
come out of the dreadful evil, and that for the future there
will be no cause to dread the repetition of it.

Several toasts of a local character followed, and the
meeting did not break up until a late hour.

THE EAST BEaKS ASSOCIATION met on Tuesday
at Strutul Farm, and in the evening a dinner took
place at the Town-hall, Maidenhead. The health of
the Queen having been drunk, the Belgian Minister,
in an animated speech, proposed " The Army and
Navy." Alluding to India, M. VAN DE WEYER said,
"in the face of such dangers, in the rresence of a
crisis which it would be childish to diminish the
extent and pnbable duration, they (the n•eefing)
would, he was sure, feel and think with him that
they were to testify their admiration for the English
army and navy not only by patriotic sympathetic
effusions, not only by toasts and cheers, not only by
words, however eloquent or stirring, but by the
strongest and most useful combination of all the
possible means to increase that noble band of de-
fenders ":

Let them all put their shoulders to the wheel—let them
put their hands and heads together—let them make in a
practical way to the sterling sense of the one and to the
pound sterling of the other—let every band that can be
spared from the field and farm be employed in wreaking
vengeance upon the butchers of innocent people.
The Hon. Colonel WOOD, in reply, said he cer-
tainly wished that the militia had been called out
immediately on the first intelligence of the mutiny
reaching this country, and that liberal bounties had
been offered to volunteers to join those corps, and
also that more liberal pensions were offered to those
willing to devote their services to their country. If
these means had been adopted, he thought that we
should by this time have had an army of between
30,000 and 40,000 ready to assist their gallant coun-
trymen in the East.
Captain VERNON had no fears of the result; no
maladministration of the East India Company could
lose us India. they were told the Government of
the East India Company had been exemplary and
paternal. People who were well governed did not
rise against those who governed well:—

He doubted the policy that took the crown from the
heads of monarchs, confiscated kingdoms, brought down
the landmarks of nations, and gave no nationality in
return, leaving the waves of popular commotion to surge
and fall, bearing on its waters the wrecks of hereditary
thrones. He thought he had a right to doubt that policy
which, after an exercise of a century, revolted all races,
from the fiery Mahomedan to the patient Hiudoo. Still
he had no misgivings as to the result. What we hail
wou by the sword we should keep by the sword.
Mr. Palmer, M.P., and Mr. Vansittart, M.P., also
delivered brief and telling speeches upon the position
of affairs in India.

MR. HERBERT INGRAM, M.P., at the Rickmansworth
Agricultural Association last week, spoke strongly
against the apathy of the Government towards this
Indian crisis, and in favour of more vigorous
means being adopted :
I must say that I do not think that Government has
been at all up to the mark in providing a force adequate
to crush this unhappy revolt. They should have at one::
called out the militia, and have made every man, high or
low, rich or poor, assist in the defence of the country. As
I before said, we ought to have the ballot, and each one,
young or old, on whom the lot might fall, should be re-
quired to Join the militia, or, if he could not serve h im-
self, he should be required to find a man to serve in his
place. This, as a matter both of policy and economy,
should be done at one move, and not by driblets, as that
would cost a great deal more money.

Mr. Ingram also advocated the abolition of the East
India Company, and, referring to the suppression of
the rebellion, said:—

I cannot agree with those who say that we ought with-
out mercy to sacrifice the principal cities of India. The
Christian religion teaches us mercy, and therefore, although
the sepoys have no right to expect the least mercy at Our
hands, let us not by imitating their conduct sanction their
barbarity. Let us be above that, and show that the Chris-
tian religion forbids us to take into our hands that ven-
geance which belongs to God alone.

THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH GOVERNMENTS have
been apprised by that of Russia that Prince Gslitzin,
who was sent to the Crimea to make inquiries con-
cerning the alleged violation of the graves of British
and French officers and soldiers killed before Sebas-
topol, has inflicted severe punishment on the offenders,
and that strong measures have been adopted to
prevent a repetition of the offence.
DR. GOULBURN, Head Master of Rugby, resigns at
Christmas. The election of his successor will tali%)
place on November the 12th.