The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-04 00:00:00

THI 104BD OF CONTROL AND 4LI 1if01714.178

Carl.

(Ft= the Booboos.)

According to the evidence of the chairman of the
Bast India Company, and of Sir James Hogg, one of the
directors, on Friday, Mr. Butt bed fruitlessly endeavolved
to obtain from the directors • flOoadderstice of All Moored'.
case. He urged • compromise, in which he believed Mr.
Vernon Smith would eriquisece, upon the ground of the inex-
pediency of his being forced to agitate the matter in the
1 House of Commons. The directors disregarded his threat-
ened appeal to parliament, and holding that the case had
long since been derided in accordance with justice and its
merit*, both by the Board of Control and the board
of directors, refused to re-open the discussion. An
answer to that effect to Ali Mound, in reply to his memorial,
was forwarded to the Board of Control for its approval. By
the president of that board it was returned to the directors
altered in the teems of the compromise previously urged by
Mr. Butt, but refused b the directors. The directo;:
tested in vein, their protest, and then yielded
with a bad grace. Mr. Mangles, the Chairman of the Beat
India Company, stated that, discountenanced by the Pm.
Maud of the Board of Control, it was hopeless for the di-
me:ton to enter into a parliamentary contest with Mr. Batt;
that the malt would, of coarse, have been unfavourable to
them ; and that the effect of a defeat would have operated
very prejudicially to British interests in India. They, there-
fore, gave in, maintaining their own opinion that the course
taken wee wrong.
On Saturday, Mr. Vernon Smith, the President of the
Board of Control, was examined. It then came out that he
bad had constant interviews and much correspondence with
Mr. Butt on the .inject of Ali Mourad's affairs. The corm-
=ewe of Mr. Butt had been marked "private and mail-
" and he had therefore datrpyed it. He had kept no
copies of his own letters to Mr. Butt. He had formed a
strong opinion in favour of a reconsideration of Ali Mound's
case, and had acted upon that opinion in the independent
exercise of his own judgment, contrary to the views of the
Court of Directors, and the decision of his predpmesors in
calm He had net, however, SO acted previous to Mr. Butt's
first interview with him. •He had afterwards written a
private letter to Lord Elphinstone, Governor of Bom-
bay, recommending Ali Mowed'. claim. That letter
had not been communicated to the Court of Direo-
tees. Had no doubt Mr. Butt was aware of
it. Did not know that Mr. Batt received remuneration
from All Konrad for his services. Had he known it he
would not have oommunicated with him. In this and other

oasis of Indian princes brought before the Board of Control
by rombers of parliament, he was not sure whether those
members were exclusively of the legal profession. There
were Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and Sir Erskine Perry and others.
Did not knew whether Sir Erskine Perry could ,e considered
a lawyer. He was not aware of these members receiving
professional Gee, but had heard, as he supposed the members
of the committee had, that members of parliament and others
who advoosted Indian claims received presents for doing so.
Mr. Batt Wag asked for copies of any letters he had re-
ceived, stated that all his correspondence and papers con-
nected with this case had been sent by mistake to India, and
there:foie could not be produced ; and Sir George R. Clerk,
the Sscreter7 to the Board of Control, proved that no tram oC
any correspondence, private or public, upon this matter could
be toned in the records of his oft*.
The affair, it will be seen, wears a very ugly lurid for
all macereed. If a public office is to have its affaus con-
ducted as is now shown to be the case in the Board of Con-
trol, we mild be no worse by dela( away with it, and keeping
to the old government at the India House. Of course, the
bete proved before this committee will be largely used is
sltiEntnre &emission of the question of the goverment of
t They indicate the denser of allowing the government
to exorcist too absolute and direct a power over whatever
body may replace the present Court of Directors. It would
'ppm that had it not been for the remonstrance of the di-
rectors in this instance, Ali Moored would at once have had
a decision in his hewer arranged between Mr. Butt and the
Board of Control, and Mr. Butt would hare pocketed the
fall 10,000 W.

THIRTT-SIX SHILLINGS TO THE CAPTORS OF
Ditutt.—Ne4ther ancient nor modern history, as we believe
—and we have not forgotten Sebastopol-01M show a parallel
to the 11111durssoi of those British troops. At Sebastopol the I
soldiers knew that they had the ma and the great ships
behind them; at Delhi they led nothing—not even iatelli-
'see of the exertions England was making to succour tame
in their seed, or to avenge their deaths. No prouder blows
can henceforth be inscribed on their banners then the word
" Delhi," which, rightly interpreted. means " Imes saved."
I wee of those who fought by Delhi" should be as proud
a phrase as can lame
,from English lige, and he who can
utter it with truth is entitled to his country's gratitude.
We wish we could declare that England had rewarded these
brave men es they deserve to be rewarded; but the simple
fact is that England, with all her vast accumulations of
wealth, has not blushed to offer each soldier who fought
before Delhi—to each man who stormed the breach and
forced his way into the accursed city, as an acknowledgment
of his valour and a compensation for his sufferings, the sum
of 11. Ifle.! We have not spoken of the effect snob a deter-
mination may be expected to produce smong the native treopa
who remained faithful to the British muse throughout the
'age, and among the wild Sikh levies who so greatly assisted
our man in the capture of the city. These people cahoot
understand Entopeen refinement'. All they know Is that
each man risked his life to preserve the British dominion in
India, and that each man has received 11. Ns. as a reward
for his risks, his exertions, and his rewires. This is not the
spirit in which the upper ranks of English officers are re-
warded for achievements of a far more dubious ohmmeter, as
the chronicles of Crimean distinctions may show. Delhi,
in truth, is far distant from the source whims the
the fountain of honour bubbles forth in preemiel shwa, or
Colonel Phipps would scarcely have feceived the harm of
knighthood, while the soldier who *sight at Delhi is
ttis-
mired with the nismilicast donation of thirty-Mx
For the third time this winter the Rhine and the
Marne are now House over, and steam navigation inter.
septet The water asthma very low ha both.