The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-15 00:00:00

THE LIBRARY OF LORD TRURO.

Lord RipiiiDliiirdo; the tillstie report o[ of a ficm-
minas appointed to c:ntidor du of to Um boas* by Lady
Tram of tbe library of her late husband, Lard True.

TORTURE IN INDIA.
The Earl of ALBEMARLE, who had plasma a notice cm
the psper to prisms a petition iron certain tehabitaste of
the presiders, of Madras, complsiaing of the teliction of
torture by the °Mous of gave/assent, sttrlbutiog the prac-
tice to weight is the assessment of the goy. rawest reuses,
sad pray.ng far proectios ; also, to move to resolve that
by a report lately laid on the table it is proved to the es•
tin coavietion of the hoses that torture, or the infliction of
pale for the purpose of ersofersios or eztortion, hes loss
bs pnatinst and still cautious, to be premised
'by the Dative often of government to the nth-
wins of the public revenues sad the adatioistratios
of Musical law, to a greater or lees esteat, throughout all
the twenty portant ametitutieg the gumming of
Madras : toat the aforesaid sorter., although clandectinst
Lad unauthorised, has been f r massy years known and ad-
mitted by the constitated authorities at home sad Is India,
as shown by the public rounds: that tide house views the
aforesaid pnettee of torture, affecting so many millions of
her Majesty's subj. cts whether as as instrument for the
',slimmest of the public revenues, or the administration of
criminal law, or for say other purpose whatsoever,
as repugnant to natural jetties, abhorrent to hums-
nity, sad highly disgraceful to the shunter of this
nation: that this house her, by pledgee itself to pur-
sue the speediest sad most effectual moaseres
withia its power for the annihilation of the odious
sad barbarous practise of tenure within the shove.
mesticaed government sad presidency of Madras—
maid before he prooested to move tb• resolutions of which
he had given noises, he berged to prefect a pithiest front
certain inhabitants 0111841ns oomplainlsg of the 'ethane
of torten by the government oaken up .s many of their
somber, and praying the protection of their lordships'
hoses. The pstitiosers were Laziest that their lordships
should sot mild, r the report presented on this abject as
seranyleg any adequate idea of the amount of safferiag
sedated by the inltabitaan of Madras. Indeed the cam-
laitaleallf• themselves virtually made that admimion when
they said that to ease a surophote inansisation of the gen-
tles would require two years, whrrass they had Isabel
their inquiry in three months, wh le es the commissioners
were silting in the town of Manes it was impossible for
Lay adequate sealer of the sufferers to make their cam-
plebs% ; for the territory of Madras embraced an area of
amt.are miles, and although we had been I.
of it for more than half a *eatery,
t was still destitate of all mesas of Wend ,
oommusleation. The rir.rt, therefore, might be smoldered
as a ample of the way is which Junes was administered
sad the revises collected by the Indian authorities. The
noble earl then proceeded to urge that the puoishasset of
torture was ezercised over 22 milli as of the mane 'objects
of Mains, and that records in existence from 1806 to 1862
would show the feet of she eget 11•11 of that tortare.

The Dake of AHQYLL, ea til:p;ri7iti;go;initent.
be to expanse entire cosearrence with theopision of the
noble earl, se to the light in whir* they ought to regard the
prattle* of torture, wbieb, else I bed been proved to suit to
one atria preeideuelg of brit, ; gad he admitted tbat it
we. the duty of the goverusest to take every sneers la
their power to pat an sad te M es speedily as peesible.
(Hear, bear.) It was the maw serneary to de see Sr, se
their lordships might Man aarattmod, the fasts bung* to
light by the laveetlgerias of ail Stan seassilides bed
been quoted, not only la Ids eleatry, bet in mine paw.
of Europe, so proving the indlinean erne SAM genre-
meet ; and he was we ears Mat dayhad sat bees isetsd as
slowing that It bad the nectice of the British genrament.
(Hoer, Thereto's It was the doll of Wm who
spoke sip bailiff el the geverassat to dollen howstterly
they abbeerelseek penises sad that they unlisted Obey
wen a 'Wenn at the Inane% es as the he sad
sbansen at the o natty. (Hew, ben.) Bet with segard
to the sense the noble eel esinnwristi We be... to
=had a few words to say. The neo-
n. noble serf had proposed were, he
preiened, istemied te be dully the inland=
of 1M enable sad balky of the been with sewn to the
deem beeepht to deer inewiedes by the Urine IMIIIIMILF
siseen. Be we hr ben Sat the hawse nett sot
to seen to seen , the sodden having
been heenght le =l:Wise. He thought whoa the se-
Mean of sera agenda was Naught te their moths, it wee
&nee that tome strysheeld be his c bell then I rale"
be dereght. wsadi epee
_ebb bin thaternewer. resenting
they might amen 'been nate the fen as (aplenty es
psesibk, sad webs so weeded se te anny the teepressios
that the practise sanded with the ossiplisity of the gown-
mist. (Hear,) Ho would draw their lordeklpe angaties
to the facts. It wee sesecelf three Inn nth bowie
of perbesseat were earned Ia an miry peelhalaary to
the remnsal ed the Ran ladle Competes elheseee. For
way weaken* awry months the two lowa al sealant t
won sensed r isvestigatiog every "nab drip that
mild be brought against the But Uhl Camps y. Those
t keen wen engparted by the anima sr pewees whip were
hammed by as hiss* hens wads thateereard
witsteseedestreenthesseseseigniseheapesbeald
ia the presnaset et ladle. Bet it was somewhat evens
that awn, the whale of that agony sot a whimper wee
hosed se la the tideless@ of ate premise. Hews ewer that
isms wen elegising that the inquiry sight have ben pee-
leap/ win adenine. sae be w est preened le deny
that sedlenst due for the inesedgedsa he ell the gawdsas
whin sat of ear Win gunmen bed ben einem.
linerehebees, ores wend ban eapseted that If It had
boss a Mews het that she Bast India Clangsay resisted to
the leilletha of tartan he the sollestlea of their sewn,
that weld have been the Int sad nest shins w open
mad la debate by Muse cobs were enema is the sneers of
the den T. He swathes& It as a resassbabie het is sew
sense with the at e, that net a word epee the a•Meet was
smestioned. The discovery had wen is this way. It was ha
the souse of July, ISM, en the onsiaa of • India beanie
refereed la nether pine, that ea boa. monks, NON an
Vetere we practised is Madras. That stateneet wet,
domed at the time by those members el Me Swam et Oen- '
mons who wen sore Isnedietaly massorai with the
g aaaaa seat of India. Hie right has. bleed dir C. Woed,
who was President et the India Sued at the tire, stated
that he could act positively deny as 'seaside* he had
sever board before, bet he weld owe a strict ioquiry to
be sad,. The upset erne delmia wet suet out to India
immediately, and in fleposeabse, einem as soon as it arrived,
a royal someaissio• woe appeland a Junin Into the whole
minket. de rapidly did the eenenalseen meets their
duty that is the April tellowles Ode eras .eluded,
end whale maw edam, law raw the
ensilisrense of the Wine govenmest. we
mat la dm home ponnmest, awl within tea serill: ter the
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mete bed bees gibed sod themes* isvolipted. (Rue )
TWIN leeto, he lebuittod, did set irises say Mutates ee
the part albs 1/ebilt primmest or of lb* ladles rovers-
MOH to Wylie is. oho allegovoso, and or for so It mold
ao to. to ereelle statoodr. The sorolatioso gild sal Iliad*
to s foot dim* by tbo oromioulooney std tbe motet
of tooter% ashen seder DMA tile, bad sot seises
suds, British ear, sad woo set dee Pt M. Is einem tbe
list page of to report the imereittioson sewed tot

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forth Men wrrl4, that the modes bed net orison with se,
bat bel boss lehnited tress the teelinspeseannal lOLA
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