The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-15 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE

Yesterday an &di/fumed special court of the pro-
of Bast India stock was hold at the India House,
l-stnek for the purpose of considering the bill at
crWale palliest for thebiller government of India.
Oviuus, Maim= of the shammy, presided.
The aisstes ai the }lordly of the court on Monday
lest boobs bees read eel esallemed,
Xv. 1311•WIIII•T lON ko arm the adoption of the petition,
sad la a Ilasible eel
e& called spot the company, as their last
sot, ID pelmet the be gob spud its preamble. If
they in' meths esoremy ant 1W might be done for years
to come wadi be LK of Mir Wes; but with their protest
meat reseed, IM/sery _wail de them the justice of stating that
they bad he
deputed el Mak power without inquiry. It
did not elvers happen that the Leeds followed in the wake
of the Home at Owosso, end ems although the bill might
pars, if they amid get sent ems or two of their lordship, to
inciiii. Ms *slim which bad been done them
la lIPOIS AIM steaddeg T.vintacr public opiitiohti
he
aria MC Best India Company,w it hver
ad at
beet peemreed he illgaily. He would therefore eove that
the peaks be edeptel, sealed with the company's Beal, and
pasta to the Ware al 'aids.
The Onmaium mid the Breed of Directors had no dispo-
sition to appear the plasigie el }stationing the House of
Learn Ma Om wished ti pit out the peados la which
they steed. Them had low Mimed le bah louses of
the *blame a peados whisk hod bola adopted at •
very large teak sad which bad ban presented in one
house by Lord Grey, and in the other by Mr. Baring. That
petition wee tlemnt before the details of either bill became
[mown. What the awl. of bills 1 end 2 were made
public, • report was bid before the court, at the meeting of
the 13th of AprO, when • resolution was passed that nei-
ther of the bees was calculated to secure the (food govern-
ment of India, and the directors were authorised and re-
quested to tab measures for intros uciag such conditions as
would promise a system conducive to the good government
of India and to the general welfare. Upon that resolution
they It ad dace acted. When the third bill was introduced
the house bed by so large a majority alarmed the minciple
that there was lobs an India bill this seeds, and that it
was to treuler the power to the mown, that the directors felt
thecomlees bawd, in accordance with the neolution of this
court, to lake ask mmenres as wool be etas conducive
towards resekeleg the bill as innocuous as pomible. They
bad, horses WPM lemeted from the pried& originally
kid dews. MU album' to it. (Hser.) They thought
the emirmesE Impellile end enthen aleer, hear.) But
kr the sake el ladk they bed glves the beat advice they
could—not relive Melee, howler. They had not been
a peaty to either of the lib—Osar, beer)—end they bad
act sumplatil wales bei,
_where • manifestly wrong
come wee big tam, they bad pointed out the evils that
would memo if It wore peedeted Is. They would not op-
pose a polities, but as they ealietahred objections to several
palm of thir ;edam mew propceed--objectkaa which he did
sot head to stars melees caned upon to do so bat which he
would Mete if requirsi—he thought it wail be better that
W. pail's sew Wen prehemest should be the one on
whisk they sheidd rest tbek tem rather than one which had
bra sow brought forward after two zosstiage, end which
had not attracted a large majority of the prepriskire to sated
and
oirpuort It. The first petition wm spiel the panel
of the bin, and is QM they wen oil agreed. This
then was the IseMea whaler it wee artereseety to speed a
large et arearry la hieing ormasel. It would met a
greet dell of a 5..,, and they all haw pretty well what it
would come to. (Hear, hear.) If Misr these obeervadom
the court dill Imbed to take the memo suggested, the Board
el Dinettes would not oppose it.
Afar seem wavereatke, it wee left to the chairman to de-
cide to whet noble lord he should mama the presentation of
theYretitioecnart. adjourned to Wednesday amt.

NEW ABILTIM 701 FATHERLESS CHILDREN.
Yesterday the opening of the new asylum for
fatherless children at Couledon , near CroydonLwas celebrated
Zedpublic break:feet, at which the Bari of CARLISLE pre-
A special train Named • large number of the
friends of the inatitution from London to the locality, which
was easily ished as the souse of some ibed from
the numeroundiedsgu flags which lined the ammo which lad from
the terminus to the handsome building which cram the
sieved= en which the Institution is situate. Oa descending
from the train the visitors formed a proresethej Mid, 6y tceded he the band of the Grenadier Guarde, marausdh:Mt
slopes which lead to the asylum. The
ltsslf which was commenoed 18 manilla ago, is cee-70
cannot fail to arrest the eye of every traveller by the Brighton
line from its bold situation on a hill, which in compliment to
the melons cemetery and sub-tresettrer of the charity, Dr.
Reed, has been christened Reeiham-hill. The structure
itself is in the picturesque and broken style of Italian meld-
tectnre—the materials need in its conatroction being the cele-
brated Devonshire marble, with an exterior ornamentation of
freestone. It consists of • front extending to 400 fest, sue-
reounted by a antra tower of 90 test aeration, sad two
towers at the extremities in the same style but of lesser slays-
the. It has a depth of about 200 het. The enhance hall
le spacious and Imposing, and is bid dawn with Minton's
encaustic tiles. The institution le intended to accommodate
300 children,and the arrangements for them an el the most
ample and atiafactory character. Itefeeteries,
school rooms, are rooms, playgrounds tar summer
winter, plunging bathe, sick nom, all of them spacious
and airy in character, compose the interler, sad are well de-
signed to minister to the comfort of thalami's. The estimated
coat of the whole is 20,0001., and Ito Intelsat arrangements,
no Ire than its general view reflect much *rail. on the
architect, Mr. Moffatt, who also rimigned the Idiot Asylum
at Redhill, and several other puha building,. The Berl et
Carlisle was accompanied over the Widths brie. Alder-
man Wire, Dr. Reed, Mr. Moffatt, the Bev. Mr. Rogers,
the Rev. Mr. Arabi, ko., sad he expressed Ids entire satis-
faction with the at which had been made, and
the situation which Lem ethoted for the building.
The objeet of the charity is to moan the fatherless child
at any period of infancy or childhood, and to are for and
Fated him till he is competent to enter on the duties of life.
Thin are no restrictions as to age, place, sex, or denomina-
tion. Boys ere kept till the age of 14, and girls till 15. Up
to the present time the efforts of the friends of the charity
hays been dittoed over three separate establiannenta, end it
is hoped that by concentrating them in one locality, the elll-
dewy of direction will be augmented, whilst the toot of
mmapment will be reduced. At the last report there were
167 children in the three houses of the chanty. There are
at present 164 on the foundation, end during the 14 years
that the Methadon hoe existed there have been 384 oh,ldrea
received.

11;;;;Ibecriptione announced mounted to 1,0801. At six
o'clock the vieltore returned to town highly pleased with their
exclusion and the excellent defamer, which wee provided by
Mr. Olampool, of Hackney.