The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 21, UK

the Prime Minister's speech of Monday evening
that he spoke in favour of eompetition, and defended
its introduction into the new India Bill. It may
be considered that Lord DIADT spoke as the
champion of Coe middle classes when he openly re-
buked his ?firmer colleague, Lord ELLF.NBOROWIH, for
supposisg that the son of a grocer or a cheesemonger
is not as fit to bear the QUERN'S commission as the
fifteenth cousin of a PLiNTAollllT—possibly " the

" accident of an accident." But " the common
" fellows" in society want something more than fine
speech's. They desire to have the rights which
they now enjoy by suferanco confirmed by Act of
Parliament. They know enough of the cavalier
1 way in which Memorandums of the Horse Guards

anti Orders in Council are met aside or secretly
ignored. Ilan underling like Sir RICHALD Maar
eau violate with impunity an Order in Council, the
same thing may be done ci forgiori by the new
Indian Minister. There is no danger of any such
thing so long as Lord STANLEY holds the
meals of office. He is too honest a man.
But it will not do to open or close the Indian ap-
pointments at the will of the Minister of the day.
It mems to be assumed, indeed, that Clauses 32 and
34 of the last Government of India Bill have
established the system of competition both for the
Civil Service and for the Ordnance Corps. No
doubt had the form in which they came up from
the Commons been retained, it would have been so.
At that time the Indian Secretary of State, with the
Civil Service Commissioners, were to frame regula-
tions for examining all British subjects who derved
to enter the Indian Civil Service. And it was spe-
cially provided that the candidates, certified by the
Civil Service Commiasioners,should be recommended

for appointment according to the order of their
proficiency as shown by such examinations ;

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and only such certified persons were to be ap-
pointed or admitted to the Indian Civil Service. A
similar provision by elause 34 wu made for the
officers of Artillery and Engineers, and it was also
specially provided that the candidates found entitled
under the regulations should be recommended for
sadetahips, accordiwg to the order of their profisiency
by such examinations.

Now, it is clear that these clauses, as originally
framed, secured not only an absolutely open compe-
tition to all British subjects, but gave the successful
candidates the right to claim an appointment accord-
ing to their merit. The right was not made to depend
upon a Minister's discretion—an order in Council, or
eves a vote of the House of Commons. It gave the
middle class candidates—the ambitious sons of every
cheasemonger and grocer—throughout the British
Empire the security of an Act of Parliament. It
prevented for ever, with regard to India at least,
that unseemly contest between successive Mau' tam
such as illustrated the advent of General PEEL into
Lord PANNURI'ii chair. Bat Lord DEESE has put
an end to all this. He has got the Lords to strike
out that part of the 32nd clause which compels the
Minister to adopt an open competitive examination,
and which forbids him sending any young man to
India who has not passed through the Examiners'
hands; moreover, he has induced them, nothing
loth, to omit that part of the 34th clause
which enables the most successful candidate for the
Engineers or Artillery to get the Brat appointment,.
In short, if the clause, as it now stands, be carefully
considered, it will be found that the open competitive
system is substantially abolished as far as the Indian
appointments are concerned—that for anything
contained in this Act of Parliament the India
Minister may establish as low a standard as he
Onuses, or even, as it seems to us, appoinf to India
without any examination at aU. It is nothing to
the purpose to say that at present the system is
thoroughly competitive, and that there is no inten-
tion to alter it. This is not security enough. No
Ministry can answer for what may be done by another.
Enough has been already done by Ministers to show
that in this matter of competition they are not to be
trusted. But this is not all. Lord STANLEY dis-
tinctly pledged the Cabinet that the appointment to
India, both in the Civil Berri°e and the Ordnance
corps, should be thrown open. That pledge was
embodied in the Bill as sent up to the House of
Lords, and the pledge must be kept. It has, indeed,
been hinted by Lord DERBY that such a provision in
an Act of Parliament is unheard of—that it is an in-
vasion of the prerogative. But such an argument can
scarcely be serious. It is surely perfectly competent for
the Crown to consent to any regulations touching
appointments; and Parliament may pat the Minis-
ters under any terms with respect to the exercise of
their patronage. The immaculate British Constitu-
tion most be singular indeed if those who enjoy its
blessings are not permitted to protect themselves by
a law which, whilst it checks corruption, secures the
fair distribution of public appointments. In sober
truth no Minister can afford to violate a pledge so
solemnly given as this was ; and we shall be curious
to see how Lord STANLEY will defend this most im-
portant alteration when the Bill returns to the
House of Commons.

Nor is the matter much mended when the whole
eireanestances of the ewe are fairly considered. If
Lord DERBY had any real doubts on the constitu-
tional question, or on the expediency of the change,
he ought to bare insisted upon the objection before
the Bill left the Commons. But his own Minister
introduced both dame* 32 and 34 of his own free
will—they were drawn up under his own direction
—the very phraseology is his own. The frankness
of his conduct with respect to the Indian
patronage, and the completeness of the secu-
rity nothing leis than an Act of Parliament—
disarmed all opposition. No doubt many of those
who would have stayed in town to discuss the ques-
tion, and to secure the fairness of the competition,
are now away. Surely under such circumstances
it was not well for Lord DERBY to move the
omission of one of the most important clausal in
the long debated Bill, and to open the doors to a
thousand forms of jobbery. Nor is the Prime
Minister's case improved by the fact, that not one
single tittle of evidence can be produced against the
Ismael of the open competitive system and, indeed,
men like Sir lons I.Awaturcu have recorded, as
strongly as words could convey it, their deliberate
opinion in its favour. The only thing that remains
is for some member of the Howe of Commons to
move that the 32nd and 34th clauses be amended
back again into their original form.

Doontitto-erszET, JULY 17. The Queen hu
bees pleased to appoint Richest Ceraweil Ligb, Esq., to be
Auditor-General for the 'stead et Yalta.—Casette.
WHITEHALL, JULY 19.—The Qoe.o hoe been
Vto present the Rev. Predate Southgate, 8.A., to the
Vicarage of Northfleet, to the comity of Etat and diocese of
Rochester, void by the death of the Rev. Richard Keats.—
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OSBORNE, JILT 20.
The Queen and Prince Consort, Princess Louie*,
sad Prince Leiningeu, attended by the Countess of Desert
and Captain the Hon. D. de Ros, drove to Nimrod
yesteri;
Captain the Rm. J. Dam= had the honour of dining
with r Majesty.
H. Halle and M. Joachim led the honour of performing
on the pianoforte sad violin before her Majesty sad the royal
party is the erring.
The Countess of Desert hes seeeseded the Counter of
Credos m Lady in Waiting.
Her Royal Highness the Duchene of Lint, attended by
Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Colmar, left Frogmore
yesterday for Osborne, on a virt to her Majesty.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were :
The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke,
the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, the Earl of
Malcassbury, Sir E. Balwer Lytton, General Peel,
Sir John Pakingtoo, Lord Stanley, the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners.

A deputation on the subject of the removal of the West
Riding Amite@ had an interview with the Lord President of
the Council yeeterday, at the Privy Council•o®oe. The
deputation consisted of Aldermen Boated!, of Leeds;
Alderman Richard Wilson, of Lads; Comcillor J. M.
Barret, of Leeds; Councillor B. Cu,ise of Lode; end Mr.
John Arthur Ikin, Town Clerk of Lade. The deputation
wm Introduced by the Right Hon. K. T. Baines, M.P.,
mad Mr. George Ellthrow Beecroft, M.P.
A deputation from Leeds, introduced by Mr. Bescroft, M.P.,
sad otasiating of Mr. Samuel Weston, Mr. Christopher
Heaps, and Mr. Charles Naylor, had an Interview yesterday
with the Right Hon. T. Sotheron Estcourt, at the °floe of
the Poor-law Board.

/Uri Helm had an interview with the Earl of Derby yes-
terday, at hie official residence in Downing-street.

There will be a field day at Aldershott this day,
at which his Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge, and a
brilliant military staff, will ba present. Their Royal High-
USING the Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburgh, and the Princes Mary, attended
by Baron &tanbark, are expected to leave town at an early
hour to-day in order to witness the review of the troops.

Ili. Excellency the Duke of Malakoff, attended by
Colonel Appert, left the French Embassy yesterday morning
for Eaton Hall, Cheshire, on a visit to the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Westminster, and to attend the meeting of the
Royal Agricultural Society at Chester.

kis Excellency the Count d'Apponyi intends to
Ism the Austrian Legation early in the ensuing month, for
Vienna, en enrage for • few months. Count Karol,' shortly
wetness to Cherubs House, in order to act as chargé d'affaires
daring the abeanoe of his excellency.

His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer have arrived at Orleans House, Twickenham,
es a visit to the Treks sad Duchess d'Aumale, from New
Lodge, Windsor Forest.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond will leave
town on Saturday for Goodwood Park, Petwoeih, Sasser.

The Marqaci and Marchioness of Tweeidale will
leave town to-day, for their meat, Yoder Home, Haddington-
shim for the season.

The Earl and Countess of Craven will leave town
in a few days, on • visit to Mr. and Lady Mary Craven at
Barobtidge Park, near Winchester.
The Earl of Aberdeen, whose health of late haq
greatly improved, will leave Argyll House soon after the pro-
rogation of parliament, for Haddo House, Aberdeenshire,
accompanied by the Hon. Arthur Gordon.

The Hon. Lionel Sackyille Weet will leave town
to-morrow for Turin, to enter on his duties as Secretary to
the British Ligation, in the place of the Ron. Edward M.
Rivkin*. Mr. West was first attaché for some years at the
oottrt of Berlin.

The Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., and
Lady Hall tem leave town early next week for (Germany.
Mr. John Bright, M.P., arrived at the Union
Hotel, Inverness, on Friday evening.
_ _

The Lord Bishop of London has appointed Dr.
TRIM./ Twig to the office of Chancellor of the Diocese of
Loadon, vataat by the advancement of the Right Hoe. Dr.
LaeMagian to the Jegeehip of the Court of Appeal of the
Province of Centerbaif.

,•
The House of Lords held a sitting this afternoon,
at 4 o'clock.

The Lords' Committee of Privileges meet on Friday
to =eider the question of the Berkeley Peerage.

On Friday evening Mr. Chichester Fortesene will
oat the siltation of the Howe of Commons t, the present
position of the question of the tight of visiting Alps sus-
pected of slave-trading, and mak what course the rowan-
meat him takes arm that subject.

To-morrow, Mr. Hume is to ask the First Com-
rufwdoner of Public Works " whether there are any petunia
for the tumours that serious decay hal taken place In the
nowisdaUce stone of ibis hours, osustog the eL odors to give
way in several *am"

Lord Normanby had a private audience of the
Greed Doke sad Greed Meier of Tuscany on the 16th, for
fie purpose of prryanting hie lettere of recall.

A letter from the Hague of the 17th says :—" The
Ring end Queen yeeterds, rare a prirate audience at the
Palace of Noordeinde to Gen. Mansouroff, the Russian
Minister, who presented to their Majesties General
Tottlabels."

The Iloniteur de la Flotte announces that an
American state corvette, used for the iortr action of the pupi'a
at the naval academy, has left the United States to be
moment at trio fres of Cherbourg. The "Debt et the King
or Pniasim, the Orille, has been fined on to represent the
Pruardan navy at the same fate*.
We read in the Oat Deutsche Post :—" The Sultan
is seriously ill. Letters from Convintinople mentiorlag the
feet Mats that the palliation ere deeply moved. The mosque/
are crowded with the faithful, who offer up prayers for hie
recovery. Abdul Medjid is more beloved by the people than
were say of his ancestors; even the political won of which
he Is moused by the old Turkish party are attributed to his
goodness of heart. The difilcultim which now surround
Turkey cannot but be aggravated by the Saltan'a Innen."
At the sitting of the Paris Conference of the
16th, says a Pails letter In the /rodepeoltetter of Brussels—
" Coast de Kieseleff read an able paper on the re-organisa-
tion of the Danubian Provinces, the ideas of the Russian
pknipotisitiaiy bring Wad on a prat:4ml knowledge of the
Principalities."

• Madame Champagneux, the only daughter of the
celebrated Madame Roland, her just died at her remideoce,
No. 24, Roe de Map" at the ago of 77. Elba was burial
yesterday fa the Cemetery of Most Penni% Pith.

The Scientific Congress of France will thii year
held the twenty-fifth endow at Anaerre. September 21a.
limed for the opening day.
A COYPLINUT TO ENGLISH TOVILIST9.—The
asariperi, by the pen of M. Tai'le Deiced, who has just
node a tour In Oartnenty, speaks in the following coaspi-
seentary grebe of the Influence of English visitors to the
Continent :—" It is customer/ In France to speak evil of
English tourists. Open no matter what book of train'',
and you s re that It beeCns end ends by a matter-of-
course Wade against the English. It Is time to give up this
common-place criticism. Take away the Englishman and
the English lady, and the comfort rod poetry of your
travelling would evaporate. It is for the English that these
wealillerst caravanserais have been bail', width tragsrectie
ina of old times, mail of which we Freedmen find
Ale annsilb It is es account of the Englishma that
rills how aeuttred these habits of civility width they
an Mallawaglawst to throw of whin ether Ambers awe in
ennenst Gm. The genuine trawl er blesses Nagiend
troodat CI of her. Is it set Awe logien& that
attaY aes• ' whew,' whom we en, Moo so many
fairissou the top of every high rassatsia, in the
MINIM of the And Um valleys, ea the bribe of every sea,
thes4 end lake In Europe ? Without the Englishwoman
the world would be a desert ; the is the wieweary adjunct of
way Undo:ape."
The

of the hearing of the wee of
ledia v. dersies, at the Madiardakire Mares, b died for
Friday mendag. TIN conned retained for the plaintiff,
Mrs. Briar's, are Mr. Kinard', Mr. Gray, Mr. Y•Mahca.
aid Mr. Crisp; while Mr. Hata lams, Q.C., sill lead
for Catania thrialis, the dahodast, amid 11:11 to mired by
Mr. Hoddlietcre, Q.C., amid Mr. Henry Janes. It la ex-
pected that the tease wal occupy three days ; b there is a
resew that it may sok be goes tato dada( the preset
arras bat that Kr. Judos Bybee will retina to Orford at
a /atm time to try it.

The late General Havelock's only brother is at
present, we tinderstaad, staying at Blackpool, "rho., be his
gone for the benedt of Wm health.

escape. He has had all the sentries placed in arrest,
and gendarmes have been Isisfly occupied since
yesterday morning, when the event took plaoe, in
searching for the fugitive, whose own premises have
been minutely bat fruitlessly ransacked
General de Goyon is to leave Rome almost im-
mediately, and it is thought that his return is not
very certain, on account of the dissatisfaction pro-
duced in the papal government by the tone of his
general orders to the Roman and French armies, on
the occasion of the recent quarrels above alluded to.