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LONDON, TRURSDAY, NAY 20.

TO-XIGIT the adjourned debate on Mr. C
wiLL's Raelation will be resumed. The supporters
of that Resolution in the How of Commons have
done their best to divert attention from its exact
terms ; and ovt of doors it is difficult to meet with
any person who has taken the trouble to read it.
Almost everybody has been content to take its pur-
port, at second hand, from speeches of " Honourable
" Members," or from " Leaders" of the Times. We
therefore re-print the Resolution, as it stands on the
Notice Rook of the Rousso( Commons, in order that
our readers may be enabled to form their own
opinions of its scope and tendency. The Resolution
is as follows

" That this Home, whilst, in its present state of
" information, it abstains from expressing an opinion
" on the policy of any Proclamation which may have
" been issued by the Govannos-CiannsAL of India,
" in relation to Oode, has sees with regret and
" salons apprehension that her MAIIIM'S Govern-
" meat have addressed to the Gonixos-Oentiut,

" through the Secret Committee of the Conn of
" Directors, a Despatch condemning in strong ternm
" the conduct of the Govennon-Ganxisi., and is of
" opinion that such a coarse on the part of the
" Government most tend, in the present circum-
" stances of India, to produce the most prejudicial
effect, by weakening the authority of the °overtime-
GENERAL, and encouraging the further resistance
of those who are in arms against us."
Now the first remark, suggested by a perusal of
this Resolution, is, that it affirms a deliberate false-
hood. It is not true that the Government Despatch
"condemns in strong terms the conduct of the
" Goverwor-Beware!." The censure in the Despatch
is confined to the policy which it appeared from a
raft-Proclamation which bad rearised Govern-
ment, unaccompanied by any explanation, that
the GOVRRAOR-GENERAL intended to adopt, with
reference to the province of Onto alone, after the
fall of Lneknow. Not a word of angers wee
breathed in the Government Despatch upon " the
" conduct of the GOVE RIC o 1-0 EN am L." The Despatch
merely blamed an act which he had in contempla-
tion only, and exhorted him to abstain from com-
mitting it. If the Government had "condemned
"the conduct" of the Go %IMMO a-G for MIA L, they would
have condemned what by general consent is admitted
to have been on the whole creditable to him. To
affirm in general terms that Government have " con-
demned the conduct" of the GOVRRNOR-GENZRAL

is to affirm what is not true in order to create a pew
judice against them. To make the Resolution square
with fact it ought to affirm that Government have
" condemned the intention of the GovEitivol-Gmvi-
" SAL to confiscate all the land of nude."

The real qoestion raised by Mr. Cnatiermes
Resolution is Have Government dam right
in condemning the policy announced in Lord
Ciorpto's draft-Proclamation P Before Govern-
ment is censored for condemning the policy
which Lord CAeNtNG had intimated his inten-
tion to pursue in Onde, it is necessary to inquire
whether that policy was laudable or blameable.
Common sense and common justice are alike out-
raged by a proposal to " abstain from expressing
*an opinion on the policy of any Proclamation
" ithich may have been issued by the GOVERNOR-
" akseoAt of India in relation to Oude," and, at
the .same time to censure Government for " can-
" del nning in strong terms" the policy of smith
Peoclamation. If the policy of the Proclamation
is sound and honourable to Ragland, then undoubt-
edly the Government deserve censure for condemn-
ing it. Bet if, on the contrary, the policy of the
Proclamation is unjust and dishonourable to Eng-
land, then with equal certainty the Government
deserve praise for condemning it. Whether Govern-
ment deserve praise or censure for condemning the
policy of the Proclamation depends entirely upon the
character of that policy. Before the House of Com-
mons is entitled either to praise or to blase Go-
vernment for its condemnation of the policy of the
Proclamation, it matt declare either that the policy
is just and bonoarable or that it is the renew. To
proceed otherwise would be ludicrously illogical and
flagitiously unjust.

tic. w what i; the character of the policy in ques-
tion To enable our readers to judge for them-
selves, we reprint all of the Proclamation that con-
tains the expression of the policy condemned.
" The GovnurOl-OZNEILAL further proclaims to
" the people of Oude that . . . the proprietary
" right in the mil of the province is confiscated to
" the British Government, whien will disperse of that
" right in such manner as may stem fitting. To
" acme Talookdare, Chiefs, sod Lusdholders, with
" their followers, who shall make immediate sob-
" mission to the Chief Commissioners of On& .

. .
" the Govennon-Gammut promises that their lives
" and batman *ball be safe. . . . But as re-
" prim any farther indulgence which may be
" extended to them, and the condition in which
0 they may hereafter be placed, they must throw
" themselves upon the merry And justice of the
" British Government"

Assuredly this is plain speakiag. " The proprio-
" tary right in the soil is confiscated." The British
Government " will dispose of that right is such
" manner as may seem fltthsg." All inhaM-
tante of Gods who " maks immediate 'abatis-
" aka" are to have the promise el the Oovaarroa-
GE-utast—not that their proprietary right in as
soil shall be restored-Ims that "their lives and
" honours shall be safe." Beyond the bare promise of
misty el lib and asearity from dishonour (that is.
from imprisonment and trassepartatios beyond ass)
nothing is promised them. " Amy farther indulgence
" that ie extended to them "—that o the restorstiaa
of their propristaryright—slepasie spas the "messy
" and justses "—which, being interpreted, mesas