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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 16.

Ocz position in the molted provinces of Hin-

&man 'may be indicated in a few words. The

British force ander Sir COLIN CAMPBELL continues

to occupy Lticknow. The column detached to the
south to relieve Azimghur had not reached that
place when the latest Despatches were sent off. No

detachment had been sent from the main body in
any other direction. The line of communication
with Oalcutta, by Cawnpore, Allahabad, and Bemires,
was kept open. Sir HOOK Ross had not been able
te advance beyond Shansi ; and the Goorkbas bad
retired within their own frontier to secure it against
any attack from the insurgents and mutineers. North
Lucknow and between the Ganges and Gogra the
whole country was in possession of the insurgents. To
the south they mustered in force along the Ganges,
from opposite Futtehpore to the vicinity of Rename.
They ware assembled in force at Calpee, pre-
venting direct communication between Sir HUGH
ROSE and the COILNANDEI-IN-CIKEP; swarms of
rebels were moving from the eget, through Bundel-
rand, with a view to get into Sir Noon's rear ; and
the Kotah mutineers kept the field with undimi-
nished numbers. The hot wawa had fairly set in,

daring which it will be certain death for any
European troops to operate in the jungles.
In plain English, the sewn daring which
European troops can operate in India without being
exposed to decimation has terminated, and the work
of suppressing the revolt has scarcely been yet begun.
In a state of our Indian interests so suggestive of
anxiety and apprehension, so peremptorily demanding
instant and united action, what is the English Le-
gislature doing ? Last night there were vehement
debates in both Houses. The speakers on either
side were excited to a degree rarely witnessed of
late. From both aides of both Houses angry
and clamorous cheers and counter-cheers were
heard at the close of each well-rounded pe-
riod. The galleries were thronged with lis-
teners as excited as those who took en active part in
the wordy war. Crowds of beautifel and fashionable
women had pressed into the Upper House, as the ladies
of Spain throng to a bull-fight. Passion there was
in abundance, but statesmanship and high prin-
ciple, especially in the Hones of Commons,
were at a dial:conk Ministers were denounced
as having no policy for India, but no sign
was given by their amailants that they had any
policy either. Mr. CAaDWELL inveighed against
Ministers for disapproving of Lord CANNING's Pro-
clamation ; but added, " with regard to the Prods-
" mation of Lord CANNING, it is no part of my in-
" tendon to ask any judgment of the House upon
" that? Mr. CARDWELL and his coadjutors ask
from the House of Commons a vote that will drive
Ministers to resign, but they keep carefully con-
cealed what course they themselves intend to pursue
with regard to India, if they are invited by her
MAJESTY to form a Ministry, and snowed in the
attempt. They ask the House to take Mr. VERNON
SMITH, in lieu of a principle, as an exponent of their
contemplated Indian policy.
The object of the double debates is avowedly to
drive the present Ministers from office. To that we
can have no objection, provided we are to get better
in their place. But what prospect have we of a
more liberal and stable Ministry?—of one more alive
to the urgency of Indian affairs, and more able and
willing to adopt a generous and liberal general po-
licy ? For an answer to this question we must refer
less to the debates of last night, than to the proceed-
ings at Cambridge House yesterday—Lard PALMER-
STON being apparently the only candidate for the
reversion of the Premiership u yet in the field. That
meeting was attended by some hundred and eighty
gentlemen, of whom it is maid, in a semi-official report
of the proceedings, that they received Lord PAL-
MERSTON well, and that " though the represents-
" fives of different sections expressed their views
" without reserve, we are quite justified in saying
" that a feeling of cordiality, amounting almost to una-
nimity, prevailed." There is in this but slendee
promise of a majority in the House of Commons
earnestly bent upon upholding a PALMERSTON

Cabinet. From all that has transpired, it ap-
pears that India—the topic of the hour—was
scarcely touched upon; and though Lord Pal,
neuron was expressly invited to explain what
course he would pursue in the event of his
being restored to office, he declined to " make any
" decided promise," but " spoke on several of the
" principal public questione in a manner that
" appeared to give general satisfaction to those
" present." On only one subject was his
lordship earnest and explicit—he dwelt empluaL
Ally upon the importance of securing a majority
against Ministers sufficiently large to deter them
from dissolving.
Thee then the matter seems to stand :—ln a
House of Commons the majority of which were re-
tained for the one purpose of supporting Lord
PLIJIZILSTON, he can only muster about two hundred
discordant and irresolute supporters. The Ministers
actually in power have avowedly a minority in the
Hesse. Some hundred and twenty " independent
" Liberals " hold meetings in "smoking rooms," bat
cannot agree no any set of principles, or any course
of policy. India is ostensibly the question of the
orlon ; yet two India Bills and two or three
sets of Indian Resolutions have been allowed to
drift out of sight while the members of both Houses
fie eillefilef in the interest of their grand
mita. It has been ennoanood that a
1111, flat el Home Government is to be con-