The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-08 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1858.

EAST INDIA COMPANY.

Yesterday a spacial general court of the Esat
India Ce. wr held at the India House, for the
=of beim the proprietors, for their approba-
reselattea tithe Court of Dimotom, come
to ea the Ma of Atizeptaitlai te the eldest we of the
ots 114ar-Oessrel air Lammas FE .C. 8., an annuity
i1,00N., wlll mord= to yammer ia the event
of the death etas ebbe beether without heirs male; sad also
to take into testiltreeks the two Ulla prepared by the late
and by the prwmat untdstsfee for the future government of
India, reepectaly ea MA "A Bill for the better Govern-
ment of India, and "A Bill to transfer the Government of
India from the Emit India Company to her Majesty the
C 0..."

The char was tabs at 12 o'clock by Kr. R. D. Kum's,
M.P., tie dolours claw cceopsay.
The Dammam shoved that the coort ehoold give Ito
seactios to the receemandetkit el the threaten, net the
tenon peat Weld be mole to the en of the late Sir H.

2/I=Zelciidtb; mlytmr ausliaaddy be affirmed,
Tiko god odd afee bras od
ended epee doe .meet Et Whines pawned by
emeed, odd dmir Weida dogma& pea lie kerne oi
badmen.

" 110WIEW aspiriesold may be the comma, sad however
imeaperionced the :abider, he will have the Ikaillisig vein.
YU power will rest with one who ma know Ms of he
eableet thou eley member el the coos, a Otto Wow
Iwo has the alles, if Obey aro wheal
The esn will kw as sabeatathe
belware. t is, thosediso,ell
sat that this ledusweilmald bo up Iheld. Was the=
el Wane ere wit es to mare that the someilliall Mr-
ale lb Mama ca ell twestleas, that ell matte mohair
&he shell be coaslancl by thew, ad &dr yaws no-
sadok la the Mule the alahar has cora.
eibd lamittitalatiia, fl poems so more weight
sr him. Om lb' MEM moats" ad desks in his °Moe
(whom she, he amok ff be piesaws), mad the power of
adader vlll be In
sassatrolled.
"Is bell Air bib Are oessidaseleas an warily dime-
paled. Th• rtl In doss sot samba* ray hems of had-
sees, bat haws them to be detemassl by the Wailer red
bk warm alba wade, by ths Washer. BaL thew-
= t.
the aids* arse swab& Weald be i.or
hews odor Irma be tag restraint epos himself,
sabsegmat aloha, would lave in hie power to altar AND
home la say meweer hollowed.
"Tbe sand Mk omlft the *A d.es Nigh& haw
awhile% tat web sloes se wed* allodeally promat
wawa he se big runty, sal nada ft a umbra
'at: he resod moray consultative bodype=
lams when weldwts fin 0117 laStal• Ohs
miss ter ma% sit ads& le IV • IlPla
la ustabries. ity dr mead As ems/ mo sot
ems • emolatato body. The Wailer Is ashy so sato-
dos Is east& OWL

" fhey am not empowered to fold any melee meetings.
They are to les:4=hen Use minister conmewas them, or
on • by sit members. He may mod
orders Villa willed their knowledge when the cam I.
urgent, of whisk ingeney he is the Will jades. When it is
not mesa; be olden mob he plead in the esuncil-room for
thedreiresal to
mesemm Is" Imam which they me not re-
intatumeitlttaire glen their spike, not edisetively,
why rower, therebria Is bat at
reaming ribenst.lbeea a meel not cmly Was had ein-
WNW In • awl& AM, es if this was net
In
Aden is made ter is dime. always invidions=hts
eflablisnisilbusnybat the most invidious manner.
Cla-
ILIA= of es must come forward Individually
in adored elyelliem b the ministere, or, by volunteering a pro.
test spied kb asmosmed on a req
ihe • mestleg dsenadi to appose them.g Such • counciluisition is
fitted barman a Wald fir the minister's reeponsibill=rhoz
le it may snit him ask, end them to award, their
rather than as • restraint cm his power to admininer India
according to his individual plasm's.
" The direeteee ate bound to admit that the first of the
bills contains weld provision' indicative of • wish
to assure to the council a certain though small
amount of infinence. The administration is to be
carried on in the name of the president in council, end not,
as by the second bill, in that of
.the secretary of state alone.
The council, am well as the president, has a voice in the ap-
pointment of the home establishment, while in the second
hill all promotions end ell appobtments to the principal
officer under the connea, net with the eacestery of state, hi-
elusively, a provision which divests the =nen of all control
or authority over their own establishment. Again, by section
12 of the first bill, no grant involving increase of expenditure,
end no spmintmast to office or admission to service, can be
made without the concurrence of half the council. This, as
far as it goes, is • real power; but its value is much dimi-
nished by the consideration that duns by whom It is to be
seer died are the 120201111X4 of the minister, dependent on him
tor their continuance in office after • few years.
" In some either points the pravidoes of the second bill
seem to have the advantage. its council is move nutscroaa,
to which, however, little importance can be athiched, if the
council hes no substantial power. It also recognises that the
whole of the coundi ought not to be nominated the ml-
ulster, and that some part of it should be skated a oon-
'Mummy specially qualified by knowledge of I But
even in these, the hest punts of the bill, it is, in the opinion
of the directors, very far from tmeaceptionabie. The nomi-
nation of even half the council by the minister takes away
all security for an independent majority. It may indeed be
doubted whether there is say sufficient reama for the
minieter's nominating any portion, except the supposed re-
luctance of some eligible persons to encounter a cenvaid The
proportion of one-third, whom the minister now nominates
to theCaut of trsete., woo the largest whiehoonsistently
with (till security can beat appointed.
" This provision fiatmob of the members nominated by
the mown shall be ellibid as the representative at saes
gLdglbranch of the service in India is ea more older
irel. Not only would it preclude the neseinetien of the
most dbtlnguished man, if the seat in conned appropeisted
the department in which he had served ware not at the time
vacant, but it would introduce • principle which cannot be
too strongly deprecated, that of cbes legislation. The
council ehould comprise the greatest attainable variety of
knowledge and expectance • but its members should not eon-
eider themselves se seventily the representatives of a adds
number of elms internam.

" The clause Irhiac;ittatiee to the pmeistors the power
of electing some portion of the wunon is, ao far, deserving
of support; sad the principle of the constituency
by the addition of persona of a of India'
service and residence is, in itself, But
unites guarded by provisions such as haws never yet been
introduced into any electoral memo so large mad scattered •
constituency se that proposed ;mild greatly add is
the inconvenience of canvass, eapielaily es ft is not
certain that the new electoral body would adopt from
the old the salutary custom of re-electing, es •
rule, whoever has been coos chorea, and
lnot by misconduct or incapecity deserved to forfeit their
confidence. The duties of a member of council would be
adhely looompatible with a continually recurring outman
of the ocastituency.
" Respecting the proposition for giving the choke of fin
eumabers of council to the parliamentary constituencies of
M great towns, the Court of Directors can only exes •
teenag of smaterciont. It is not the mere fare of elec by
• meltitode that constitutes the benefits of the popular air
neat in government. To produce these benefits the 'She
of which the people are enabled to control the
management must be their own affairs. Election
by multitudinous bodies, the majority of them of •
very low average of esittoatios, Ls not an advantage of
miloazimAvernment, but, on the contrary, one of its
drawbacks. To assign to such a constituency
the co' not of their own affairs but of the affairs of other
people ca the other side of the globe, is to incur the died.
vantages of popular institutions without any of the benefits.
The Court of Directors willingly admit the desirableness. if
not neon city, of some pro on for including an English
element in the council of India ; but a more objectionable
mode than the one proposed of attaining the object could
scarcely in their opinion be devised.
" Besidee the provisions which relate to the organ of
government in England, the bills contain provisions relating
to India Itself which are open to the strongest objection.

" The appointments to the councils at eakutti, and at the
subordinate Presidencies, which are now made by the Court
of Directors with the approbation of the crown, are trans-
ferred by both Ws to the Governor-General, and to the
Governors of Madras sad Bombay. The Court of Directors
ma convinced that this tempo would pr qtly impair the
chances of good government la loam One a the causes
which have most contributed to the away eximilenoss of
Indian administration lart the Goversor-theend and
te
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Governors have elwqe assoalated with esetaankes
selected by the a et home hoes smog re nor
(aperients, and able ardeme et the rare eerie% led
who, not owing es* le the bow I of the
government, have lor the Mee
et
Indian affairs an Mgmaa. Ia =lee et
this the ateetteree of a vseennson hove
had the advents's, Mlle. pessemed=gemonsalla,
of beinuleLrays rowed by • tae ad geweelerler diver-
geon, w u tbe heed alas govament bes the power,
hie
no • reasoss. le eel owilifry o las Miles of his
Mawr/no public Inesavonimes es OM ere flora say con-
opinion. Theme hrecteet ellsow—erho by their
pedielpatiou In the rgienrare lane se asisktry a ?asinine
is the edam igispriered. or die Whiner of
• terspeed, diernear-Cisewel or Gornwr—
be be lopereelby the omit frelioury wham
614
eve Weeded to re& Aegi this rwersiot is removed,
whoa Ohs gereelty for es holopeader resell will be peer
thee ever, de co re power et appointing the Cireleor-
Gees*, =I of serail Ilas. is taken away from
the eos, ori rer re beky which is to be
tbsir resa wry be that the andweitise
at hire her bed re eweservi4_of esquialeil with
the ardor owl weeleueit gdareo fler rear hears

eemseweaseed d bit weer. The Cleveraer-Onsed
booms well Ma bow le ambele • coma, eisw
saw hb.tid Y bib% when asemeirily ipeneet gibe
theaber eat waled esabisliffetse= liew=bl
41161113a11i the esetamodeths
" Amberea meet eloseleastie problem inn& able%
white* to be howl lw the esered MIL • eennabe
Siebb" is ameba * W peeped 63 bile be th2=
of i=hl, ealliag es be O*
the whole r Minh, MA
1166 i :Sy la it, the poptilery awl
ebb' der the peat clam cf the tenumaiy.
The Mob= sweet believe bet welt a fob*
wellistribl b. It wed' be slew twee& be dim,
et lb /ebb peteemeat is bulb A emasie-
liele Bookait baprbie Si the *eel ♦
preenosteet
the *mast. *ebbe* wierVir lbeelb Vie,
Prow to breet be bed pomml* es Zr-
letweted te anw bete le the War prole teihrmilwa
ea bin ebbe whiti the bed peetunnt ast
bowel webbally treetweelby OA wadi Si'. • met
mime ink *be barest et the bid aliedies, mai
wadi tesi N dl..We. wilt the tie bet be
sPiessemi 6fleiw. Si the keel pmembil be et meal