The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1858.

a band of foreign soldiers. They will remain un-
moved till the danger presents itself nearer Pekin.
This is a kind of opcositioa with which neither
Frenchmen nor Englishmen have been accustomed to
deal. Both nations are adepts at the art of beating
down en enemy who shows fight, but how to deal
with this passive resistance will puzzle them.
Srmosnr, in his Tour in England—a work that dates
from some forty years back—dwells upon the mystifi-
ed= and amusement he experienced at a scene which
Presented itself when he first looked out of his bed-
room window, at Dover, on the morning after his
landing. It was Sunday, and • constable wee en-
deavouring to prevail on a Quaker NS BIXONDE
tells the story) to close his shop, which he had opened
in utter disregard of the sanctity of the day. Tired
of • seemingly endless controversy, the organ of
authority at last proceeded to close the shop himself;
but as fast as he could put up one shutter, the
Quaker took down the one he bad put up before it.
The constable at last went away in despair. The
tactics of the Chinese promise to be attended with
the same success as those of the Quaker.
In short : We have taken Canton; what next?

Ws will not insult the new PREMIER by
asking whether he means to announce any new
edition of the Conspiracy Bill, because, little
confidence u we may have in his general capa-
city as a statesman, we have always given him
credit for a conaiderable share of ordinary shrewd-
ness and sound English feeling; and he must
abandon all claim to the possession of either, if, after
what has happened, he were to palter for a moment
with that hateful and humiliating measure. Neither
shall we harbour the supposition that he means to
repudiate the opinions which he and his friends so
recently expressed regarding legislation for India
during the present session. The beet thing he can
do upon the subject is to throw Lord PAL•
MERSTON'S Indian Patronage Appropriation Bill
into the fire. He is anxious, of course, not to pro-
voke general engagements and defeats in the Com-
mons, when he is supported by little more than
two-fifths of the entire House. But as he cannot be
beaten upon the mere abandonment of Bills he has
not himself brought in, it is plain that his course on
the two important subjects in question is safe and
easy. Mr. GLADSTONE and Sir JAMES GRAHAM still
retain their seats below the gangway on the
ministerial side of the House. We do not think we
err in construing such a demonstration on their parts
as intended to show that whatever be their leanings,
or their votes on particular measures, they feel
in the main less repugnance to the osten-
sible pre-eminence of Lord DERBY, than the
attempted leadership of the Opposition by
Lord PALMERSTON. Lord JOHN REMELT. has

taken his seat below the gangway on the oppo-
sition side ; and near him are noticeable most of those
members of the liberal party whom public opinion
has recently delighted to honour. If Lord DERBY
and his colleagues seriously expect to be able to con-
, tinue for any time in power, their wisest course will
be to earn the support of the distinguished men on
both aides of the House by whose disinterested aid at
a particular juncture they have been placed in power.
Let them boldly promote Law Reform ; let them
desist from opposing the Jew Bill ; let them
frankly adopt the Church-rate Abolition Bill;
let them give pledges to conduct the diplomacy of
the country openly and above board ; let them
grapple manfully and fearlessly with the goes-
tion of the elective franchise ; let them purify the
dispensation of patronage at the Horse Guards and
the Admiralty ; and they need trouble themselves but
little about retaliatory motions by Lord P 1.11 MUSSON
for the recovery of office. The country does not want
to are them hustled out of office to-morrow or next
day to gratify the mere personal resentment of a Mi-
nister who has shown himself ungrateful for and
unworthy of its confidence. But on the other hand,
people have a right to expect, if the ordinary rule of
parliamentary government is for a time waived in
their favour, and they are Llerated in the excep•
tional position of Ministers of a minority, that they
will requite such a concession by giving some solid
proofs that they respect the wishes and comprehend
the wants of the people.

THE NEW GOVERNMENT.

(nom •

TOZAIT CIAZICITI).

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day
of February 1858, peseent the Queen's most excellent Ma-
jesty in Colman. Her Majesty In Council was this day
yyaasd to declare the Moat Honourable James Bravado,
William , Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President of her Ma-
ju M te's on Houxtrable Privy Council, and his ladehip
took Ws place at the board accordingly.
This day the Most Noble Henry Chula, Duke of Beau-
fort ; the Right Honourable Henry John, Earl Talbot ; the
Right Honourable Edward Henry Stanley (commout .ailed
Load Stanley) ; the Right Honourable Sir Frederic T
Kea.; the Right Honourable Jonathan Peel; the Biel;
Honourable Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt ; sad
the Right Honourable Charles Bowyer Adderley, were, by
her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Hon-
I ourable Privy Council, and took their respective platen at the
bond accordingly.
Her Majesty in oounoil was this day pleased to delver the
Great Seal to the Right Honouree* Sir Frederte Thelger,
Knight, whereupon the oath of Lord Chancellor of Great
Britain was, by her Majesty's command, admininend to
him ; and ha took his place at the bard
Her Majesty having been pleased to da:lervelVeT custody'
of the Privy Seal to the Right Honourable Charles Philip,
Earl of Hardwkke, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Beal was
this day administered to him ; and his lordship took his
plebe et the board accordingly.
Her YMajesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
HanouraW James Howard, Earl of Malensibury ; the Right
Honourable Edward Henry Stanley (commonly celled Lord
Stankry)• the Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole;
end the Righ
Right Honourable Jonathan Peel, to be four of her
Majesty's rincipal Secretaries of State, they were this day,
lty her Majesty's command, sworn four of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State accordingly.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Beat Dinudi Claseellor and Under-Tremors, of
he Majesty's Exchequer, the usual oath was this day ad-
=Watered to hire.

HR Ma}any fn Council was this day pleased to declare nut
Itiaht Haa. Archibald William, Earl of Eglintma Limn"•
attat-Gamind and Osseral-Governor of that part of theUinted
. _

Hind= celled Ireland.
Her Majesty ht Conseil =a this day pleased to appoint the
Right Hon. lose= Warner Henley to be President al the
Committee of Council appantd for the *moldered= of all
matters relating to Trade and Foreign Pleatettena.

DEFENCE.

elailptelsi of peetseday contains the Official report
dal fist day's pesseings of the trial to cooneulas with
Its slasept to meardosto the Emperor. The report Meads
OW Mb/ closely prhill ohms,.
Ths fleMewing is ham the edictal account of the mend-
talks d Oriel t-
" Pelssear--Item trap)milk I have only had one object,
wad ass Magi isa the dsßvwena of my country, and un-
MOM the Auetriana sad I have coustantly conspired
aphiet=up to 1848. At that period I natural ly took
part to the WIC We bail Om aware regarded the Fres&
se beam and hisMIN sad whin they landed at
home vs weleemsd thaw as allies bet they soca showed
themselves War asteries ; we thee repotted the, and took
many of than plums. Aim dam ar four days, redacting
that Frans, was is meat drama of sedum, aid that -
haps she had be hi away spinet her will, we t it
our duty to eelwith gensaalty, end we released the
=Mid dries elf Vfte ie Prince " The riblike Mt
la literti Nam, I ' It war quite a national fete. What
did the Prime thin dot They suspended hostilities, but
it We/ only le wait ranfavermata. The Preach then
overwhelmed us with paha safety, he they were one hun-
dred to me- we could not resist, and the Elite of the Italian
youth woo liarlawd.
Preeilese—lt fs only out of roped to the defence
that I have tcheated whet you have just said : the jury
"I=_pee isminks.
I,re:a Ram we emigrated to Piedmont.
At lest, we bed a deep hatred against the French,
but in time the brag wore off, and we considered
them sa friends and brothers. la all our conspire-
d= we always rectimmandsd the Frenchmen to be spared.
We only wanted to get rid of the Austrians. From Pied-
mont, I went fateHianmey, where I was taken and on the
plot
jolbsiThhateunt but
wr limbezedwetthinassoming taeafa foan, d reagrAing
aee-
fa—rZi country. I ertlasseel ridiculous attempts made by
llaselni, who sent fifteen it twenty men to Italy, where
they lost their lives. I tried legal means. I went
over England and in all the meetings which I
addressed advocated the principle of non-intervention.
Public opinion declared itself in favour of that principle, and
numerous petitions were =drew= to the Queen. We bad
the sympathy of the English in our favour, but the affair of
India due on and the national question became paramount
over that of Italy. After the fall of Rome, I felt convinced
that Nsgolsoa would no longer mist us, and I said to my-
self : 'That man must be killed.' I had first thought of
acting alone, but wins; the f impossibility of
him, I took others to join with me. lat firataPP=lrvZ
not to speak of them, but when I was arrested I
found that I was betrayed by those whom I con-
sidered u my brethren. I gave way to a feeling
of vsngeance, but I will not commit an act of
cowardice. I reject all the charges they have
mad* against me; I pardon the; I offer my person
as a mace to my country, and I confide in my judges.
They will be able to judge el the exaggeration of the persons
who !MVO accused um lei who are under the influence of
iti whisk is a bad esumencer. I now come to what I have
edit sa Alleop and Drew& I never confided to Allaop
Oath was la metsmglealsn to kill the Emperor. I gave
Mm is melds et thelessabs, but he thought they ware to be
mad to Italy ; he knew ray history, and was devoted to the
NM of that country. As to Bernard, I spoke to him of the
Isembs, but did net tell him against whom they mere to be
tad; le also thought they wars for Italy. I will not mud
a elan will say nothing against the other primness.
As be the I em very sorry that so many people wee
wooded ; and my blood could repair this misfortune, I
em gam ma* to give it for the people; here it is."
Moo Rene, to lie address on behalf of Orsini., said—
" I do art marshiest, mwe—l do not come mat to defend—
but edgy to sapid& his heal aberration ; trusting to demoa-
abate to you that coq infiatunate client is not unworthy of
NMI feeling of pity." With rev= to the do-
das of the abrupt on the 14th. li. J. Fame
iii—" Yea, that is • crime, a crime of which Orsini will be
emenstable before OM, much more than before the law of
with because the law before it strikes him has to
as to his intailens. The Procureur-Oeneral has not

momelvely on this count. He has laid much rosy stress
ea what he calls the variations of his language. I will try
to remove that reproach. It does not much matter to as
that he may have contradicted himself, or that he show.
vacillatka el mind of which the solitude of his primon
L the cams. It is not by such circumstances that
we must judge an around man." M. Jules Fame
examine this part of the question at some length. "Or
▪ entered on this dangerous path on which fanaticism
urged him, bowed before the man he had intended to strike,
end turning towards the nephew of the great Emperor,
said to him, ' Prime you bout of having issued from the
ranks of the people. Well, then, take courage, and extend
your Mind to the people who are the brothers of the French
people. Do not allow Ink/ to be trampled under foot by
the children of the north. The worm of your own power
is a revolutionary source; bear it always in mind, and
you shall be invulnerable.' I have now done, and my last
words will be like tholes of the Procureur-Oeneral—a

prayer. Yon will do your duty without passion and
without weakness, and God, who judges the great of
the earth—God, who !mauves all Littman actions, and
weighs the lives of men In the balance of which our intel-
ligence and our hearts cannot have any obdurate notion—
God, who views the sufferings of this man—hts anguish, and
the thoughts which have ever agitated his spirit—the ardent
passions which have ever tilled his heart—and will, perhaps,
render to this intelligent and noble soul a pardon which, In
their weakness, men will not be able to extend to him." M.
Jules Fevre then resumed his seat. The imprardon peu-
dared by these Let words wee so great, that several minutes
elapsed before the Court was collected enough to call oa Y.
Nugent Bt. Laurens, Pierre counsel.

We ( Galignon i) regret to learn that Marshal
Beers* though he has recovered all his metal betake,
moat= for the preetent paralysed in one aids, sail be. caner
ttiettly wed of constant medical attendance.

The committee ordered by the Emperor of the
Preach to prepare for publication the Comespondenos of Na-
poleon the Yirst is about to Moue the Bret volume of Its la-
bours. The Emperor hinmelf ha. revised the prom This
Bret volume is said to contain a great number of hitherto un-
known documents.

The French government has decided that all pass-
ports for France shall be finally field by a French consular
(Acid. At Dover and Folkestone the French consuls are,
we believe, both Englishmen, and hence arms considerable
inconvsniesos to persons who reach the Gnat from the in-
terior, and who rely upon finding a French consul at either
of than porta.7Press.

Gaao.ral Sicandor Hushmut Bahadoor, brother of
the KM( of Owls, died on Tuesday bat, at ten :minutes after
ten o'clock p.m, after a short but severe illness.

On Thursday the Rev. John Dufton was instituted
to the vioarage of Bred&ld St. Andrew, in Suffolk, on the
presentation of the Queen.
Naw REFORM ASSOCIATION FOR LITERPOOL.—
The splay and officialism of the ea-dialed Reform Association
of Liverpoolhaveinduced the mom prominent resident liberals
to take Nap to form an active and energetic, political sego-
dation, wbioh shall take up and discuss political subjects
with earnestness and sinosritT, and so promote the spread of
liberal principles with doe vigour. A preliminary misting
will beleld on Monday next. _ _

EQUALISATION OF THE POOR-EATZS.—THE CITT
OP LONDON Umow.—Lest night a meeting of the parishes
comprised in the City of London DID OD was held at Johason's
Assembly-roams, Sermon-lane, Dutton'-commons, for the
purpose of obtaining an moslisation of the poor-nibs and
a uniformity of assessment throughout the metropolitan
district, when a deputation from the Metropolitan Association
attended. Alderman Sidney, M.P. ma to have presided,
in his absence Mr. Fowler took the chair, there being
present several infinentisl gentlemen connected with the
TWINY perishes. Herniations similar to those adopted at
other meetings in verities parts of the metropolis upon the
is staled wen agreed to. It was slated that the rates in
1832 in the pariah of St. George, Hanover•square, were
Is. Bd. in the posed, when in the same year they were 2a. Bd.
in the pound in the perish of St. Anne, in the City of London
union, and that in 1862 the rates in the former parish were
65., an in the latter 6e. in the pound. Petitions were adopted
b both homes of parliament.
THE LIVERPOOL LABOURERS' DWELLINGS DOM-
r•Ny.—ADOODit bthe annual report of this company,
established with view of supplying dwellings of an ire.
L.Tdose kw artbans, the receipts from rent and interest
ylier were 4131. 10s. 2d., out of which a dividend of 3*
per cent. was declared. The manners of the dividend is so-
combed for hem the toot that the buildings were only ready
for ommatise blow lost. and from the badness of trade.
LUNAR Ecttran.—This evening (Saturday) the
moon will be partially eclipsed, the whole phenomenon being
risible In London. The fret contact with the earth's dark
shadow will take pima at 9h. Iftm., Greenwich tiros; the
last contact at Ilh. 17m. About the middle of the eclipse,
at 10b. 14m., one-third of the diameter of the moon will be
immersed in the shadow, the obscured portion being silents
on the 'anthem or lower part of the disc. The next eclipse
of the moon visible in England will take place on the morn-
bg of February 7, 1880.
WAR-onus, FEn. 24.—The Queen has been
Mim3y pleased to make and ordain a special statute of the
Haeourable Outer of the Bath, for the appointment of
FiltaOtilth Jenkins and Captain John William Young,
bladiaa Navy, to be Extra Members of the Military
of the Third Clare, or Companions of the Moat
Honourable Order of the Bath.—Oerefte.

Fes. Queen has bean
Frtdarned to appoint Luaus Charles Otway, Nag.,
o7be be, Xelosty's Minton Plentseatiary to the
Mdabia Newblio ; Jobe &rile Lumley, , to be flame-
tag ip her Winer 111 Landon
,atcblattrid ; ontagwicala
=DY111;11 16.
it:bileabarar4a Connalasa t
Riga ; Mind
leviap-awilt, Nag., to be bee Ma'am?' Comsat at ;
Cltito Rea. Sawed Alfred John Haith RNA !deist
Coment•Omeral for the hoariest Coasts of the
Baa; Calomel Joint Unto's Arabia Shamosta, to
be bar bima Oattmd-gateral of Illamw • Kr. Jacob
Warta ros.al atiy=r Ibe Prue liaLmatio City
dilemma ; and Kr. ma Conant at Caps Town,
for Um Fria ilasmatio Harabargb.-0000.

INDIA.

(PROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
CALCUTTA. lAN. 23.
_ _

Two missionaries lately returned to Dacca from
visiting towns and villages in Eastern Bengal in dif-
ferent directions. It is the first tour they have
made since the commencement of the mutinies.
They say that the
_people were quite glad to see
them back among them again, and were most re-
spectful in general. Some of the Mymensing Ma-
homedans were, however, an exception to this good
report ; they openly declared that it was " the
Company's order that there was to be no
preaching.* In Furreedpore, some of the peo-
ple wanted the missionary to write his name
on the books and tracts he gave, just as the
native bankers ask people to write their names on
the back of a bank-note, in order that if they got
into trouble with the magistrate for having
these books, they might be able to prove
whence they procured them. Bengalee ryots
are no politicians: they care little whether it
is the Queen, or the Company, or the Bing of Delhi
that is the ruler of the country. Aa for the xemin-
dare to the eastward of Calcutta, they have grown
up under our rale, and have never known any other ;
they know that if we were smashed they would be
smashed also—in fact, that they would be the very
first persons attacked and squeezed. There are some
of the old Mahomedan families still in Mymensing,
but they are represented almost entirely by old
women or worn-out debauchees. As for the ese,
they poison themselves with opium ; and so
long as they can be sure of a /apply of that drag,
there is little probability of their turning against us.
The feeling prevalent in Eastern Bengal is it
will be seen, entirely different from that which Las
been universal in the westward. This may be ac-
counted for in many ways, but two reasons appear
most prominent: the one is the difference of race •
the other, the sudden annexation and the subee!
quent znal-administration of Onde. There can be
no doubt that the insurrection hes been an Onde in-

surrection—that it wu conceived by Oude noble-
men, and carried into execution by Oude Sepoys.
These men are the very opposite of Bengalee ryota.
Strong in body, proud in the compactness of their
organisation, they believed themselves able to
obtain by a sadden insurrection the mastery of
India. But the question still remains, how did
they imbibe the idea? The annexation would
not seem at • first glance to be the real cause, and
yet, if we dive beneath the surface, and examine the
system of administration adopted by us subse-
quently to the annexation, we shall see sufficient to
induce the belief that the " landed interest" of
Oude did not revolt without some kind of reason.
I must, in giving you a slight sketch of our system,
premise that the first thing to be done after annex-
ing a territory is to make a settlement of the estates,
and of the country generally. In making a settle-
ment, the first thing is to fix the boundary, then to
measure the lands, then to classify them according
to their goodness or badness, then to fix the demand
per acre: the aggregate makes what is called the
" jumma" of the village—that is, its full assessment.
Too heavy an assessment rains the country, whilst
too light a one injures the interests of the state,
whose finances in this country arc not elastic but
fixed. Now the Oude settlement made the people
disaffected, not on account of over-amesment, but
because it was moskunjust, not on the village proprie-
tary body, but on the " Talookdars " or feudal
barons. These latter had held Magee as their own
for twenty, thirty, forty, even seventy yews, and yet
in our settlement of the country the proprietary
right was in two-thirds of the cases taken from them,
and bestowed upon men who called themselves the
real and ancient proprietors (putteedars), but whom
the barons called tenants at will. In this way great
injustice was done, and in every division but one, in
which the government officer was conscientious
enough to oppose the views of government, the barons
were shamefully despoiled and ill-treated : in favour
of whom ? Why, of the very class from which the
Sepoys are enlisted, whose gratitude we failed to
gain, whose pride and arrogance we caused to in-
crease, whilst we embittered against us that great
class of feudal barons who, under a different mode
of

would have been our mainstay
against the &spivs. In fact, the Government be-
haved with respect to the settlement of Oude just as
the parliament of England would behave, if they
were to pass an act by which the monasteries and
abbeys of England were to be restored to their
ancient owners—the monks ! Would not the house
of Russell feel itself injured and aggrieved at such a
decision ?

Another anomaly also existed—one, too, which
shut out from the aggrieved party every hope of
justice, except th►t which might be obtained by an
appeal to arms. It will scarcely be believed, that
the official who regulated the settlement presided
also at the court before which settlement cases were
tried. And yet it was so. The only remedy for the
aggrieved party was the Civil Court, where the offi-
cer who tried and settled the case as magistrate
would re-try it as judge. I will instance the case
of the greatest proprietor and the most powerful
landowner in Onde, the notorious Mann Sing. It
is a fact that by the settlement introduced by the
British authorities after the annexation of Onde,
Mann Sing had more than two-thirds of his vil-
lages taken from him, which he and his father
had held for from twenty-five to forty years, on
the plea that the conveyances held by him had
been forcibly taken from the putteedars. Had he
not cause for wishing the overthrow of • power
by which he bad been disgraced and despoiled?
And yet when the revolt broke out Maun Sing
for a tune stood aloof. But when no promises were
made on our side to restore his jaghires until after
he had compromised himself, and on the other mast
tempting offers were made him, it is not to be won-
dered at that he took the bird in the hand, and
accepted the sovereignty of Oude for the time
being. It was not for want of warning on the part
of several of the best civil officers of govern-
ment that the power and influence of Mann
Sing were lost to us in the crisis of the fate of
India. It was only when the government heard
that he was going that larger offers were
made him, and it was then too late. The case of
Mann Sing is the ease of others ; the heart of the
most influential class in Oude was embittered against
us, whilst the Sepoy class, in whose favour we legis-
lated, saw in that concession but another symptom
of weakness on our part. It is, perhaps, too late
now to demand justice for these men; they have cast
in their lot against us, and they must take the eon-
sequences. It should be borne in mind, however,
that Oade, unjustly annexed, and then unjustly
and impoliticly governed, has been our great weak-
ness throughout this struggle.
The Maharajah of Guatior has arrived at Agra,
and has been well received ; is one of those who
saved India—thanks to LoarMllenborough's policy.

Of the memorable defence of Lucknow (says the
Literary °meta) there will be no lack of =then* historical
records. The despatches of the pliant oommander of the
garrison and of the chief engineer have already made lotown
the main events of the siege. A journal kept by Capella
Anderson, MA., is annoemeed for publication by Mears.
Thacker and Spink ; another journal, by a staff officer, is in
the hands of Messrs. Smith and Bider; a third journal is
from the pen of a medical officer; end a fourth, by a
civilian, Mr. L. B. Rees, is preparing for publication by
Mama. Longman and Co. It is not improbable that the
example of Lady Sale in as:rutin the dehisce' of Jellaistad
will be followed also by some of the heroic leas of
Lucknow.

The Paris Moniteur announces that the Senate
adopted on Thu/relay, by a majority of 135 to 1, the new
Penal Law on Public Safety. The single dissentient le said
to be Ganael iffsessehoa. He pounded his opposition on
the eassesUtutioesl °hamster of the law, and I. stated to

hove sopoosood We regret that a measure which he ors-
Wowed fold &could tap brought forward.
. .

Ws (Loader) have Weird with deep and einem*
regret that there is no probabnity el Mr. Cobden's saceptlng
a art In parliament for a land thee to now Domenic
afilletionno erne upon another, conspire to prevent Inn fres
Wag ear satire pert In publio brims. Is the =Win
Maas of the Mural party in the house, r oontased and In.
cabana fa Ile prinelpla and Its psnonal tehowlage, the
prunes pd authority of Mr. ;Bright's tradlliessl eaopeer
weeM be hit le ea mart eta policy, and a piedge of tn-
depshiemee sod whew*

I ON MX ISAAC 11111278 Oda.
(THIS IM Y.)

The committee re4seembled this morning, cadet
the proddeney of 8k J. Graham.

An application was made from Mn. Parr, through dig
Edward Codrington, praying that she might ►ave an oppor•
tunny of removing the aspersions which hid been throw&
upon her character.

The Chairman said the committees would hear her towards
the dose of the inquiry.

Mr. Vernon Smith,-M.P., late President of the Bard of
Control, was then called. He said that during his teame ef
aloe he had several conferences with Mr. Butt relating to
the claims of Ali Moored. In August, 1868, Mr. Batt told
him in the House of Commons that he intended to bring for.
ward the subject, and in 1867 Mr. Batt moved for p•pm.
The general substance of the oonfarenoss was that
Mr. Butt took a very strong view of the albite
of the Ameer, and urged that the government about
take • favourable view of them. Sir Fitzroy Bally
put a adios on the books oonatantly through the seal= of
1867 relating to All Moored. He did not recollect that Mr.
Butt ever spoke of a oompromiss, but hs urged that
the lands of which the Ameer had been deprived should be
restored to him. Mr. Butt said he thought t would be
unwise to allow the matter to be brought before parka
and to proclaim to the public that there was diaaffeodan
amongst the native primes of India. A draft lettat
on the subject of the Arceer's claims was sent from the Bad
India Company to the government, sad under his direction,
as President of the Board of Control, it was in some way
altered. When he came into office the question of the Amen
had been settled. He believed the Ameer had been guilty
of the offence charged upon him—that of a i
M
is the treaty—but he thought the punishment which
been inflicted upon him by the Court of Directors wu
excessive, and that the Amer having behaved well for seven
or eight years, there would be same mitigation of punish.
meat. It was certainly one of the inducements held
out to Ali Moored, that if he would go out to India the
authorities there would be ready to listen to him. He (the
witness) had interviews with the Ameer on the subject.
The Ameer never expressed any opinion to him In regard to
the character of Coffey. At • subsequent date Mr. Coffey
wrote to him to vindicate his character, but he mangy
acknowledged his letter, and savored him that he had nothing
to do with the matter._ _ _

167Doury11; bad always considered that the matte
was prinoipally in the bands of Sir Fitzroy Kelly. It IFIN
Tultdby All Moored himself that he should go ont to
oldy, in order that he might do all he could for Nu
En government the critical state of that country.
y the Chairmen—He believed he was the first Preddid
of the Board of Control who endorsed a mitigation
the punishment inflicted upon the Ameer. He intro:Mod
the Queen of Dude to the Queen, contrary to the vesissa if
the Court of Directors, as he wished to show is much
respect as possible to the native princes of India. He con-
sidered that when he went to the Board of Control he went
there to enemies his own judgment. Did the committee wish
to review his decisions f

Sir J. Graham—Certainly not.
Altar a few sceneral questions from Mr. Bonvoie. Mr.
Bright, Mr. Serpent Kinglets, and other nsienban of Os
oommittee, which elicited no facts of importance, Sir J.
Graham thanked Mr. Vernon Smith for his attendance.
end the right hon. gentleman retired.
The oomzeittee then proceeded with the examination cd
other witness..