The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-04 00:00:00

THE OPIUM QUUTIQM.

DEPUTATION TO SIE CHARLES— WOOD.
Yesterday afternoon a depatatioa of gentlemen
eammened with the Anti- Opium Assodatioa, end others =
op.
zte the growth of opium is limbs awl the trellis with
waited upon the Right lion. Sir C. Wood, Bert , flare-
eery State for India, at the India House, Leadinhelt-streat.
The deputaten emehted of Mr. Edward Baines, M.P., Mr.
Samuel Gurney, M.P., Kr. R. N. Fowler, the Rev. Dr.
Coal, Eir. Charles Bid, Revs. H. Richard sad W. Owen,
Dr. Hodgkin, Miens. Edwerd Marsh, Edward Newman,
Joseph Ititerry,_W. Jenson, Pox, P. B. Pon, Edward
Mike, led T. W. Cheeses. Lord Shafteshery, the Her. A.
P. Slanted, Mr. H. Pease, M.P., Mr. H. E. Cheney, end
the Rey. W. Arthur were unavoidably prevented from befog
Mir. B. BAUM, M.P., introduced the :deputation by observ-
ing the they oonthisred the subject which they desired to
pees apes the attention of the tight boa. breast to be one at
great impetuous. They did not disguise from themselves
last it wee surrounded with, at lea,t temporary, dithrultiett,
bat they believed the subject was gallin g. apse the attention
et the people of Regland. and that It tismanded the most
seder
Mr.
ot the governineat.
Mr. I. MAIIII the reed she talleurieg memorild
Kr. R. N. lowtha mid *enema they had might for
the present fetterview with the Whit Makers was to be
boned in the deep iota,* they hth in this question,* Remora
sad religieth sepeott..6..4teridered It to be not emosisteet
with therapeutic* at age Christian lianas, nd
a wkk
the relight they p 4 end were anxious to dimendases
ewes* the heathen, that this trade in opium with China should
attar. It
gospformed • very Serirell 111111palmot to the
spread et the el Chem, wergetylag the people as
it did with matertel foraetatiag the ihitemeries With IMOD-
daissey. The Mae In mien Wye= India and Chine
had peen up mew the mei= of the Indian govern-
meat. Leis than • country age the hapertation of the drug
was exceedingly small, and h wee and exclusively for
easdkdnal purposes. The ammo spmag up in the
de ye of Wanes' Hastings, end had gradually increased
011 it reached its present extent end magnitude ; end
is wee entirely owing to the Indian government that
it had become so augmented. The opponents et the
system had sometimes been told that what they really
salted foe was a Maine Lw for Chita as certain 'dro-
wns et total abstinence from spirineens lemon went
asking for • thine Law for England. He midateired
that the two guanine were entirely distinct. Brea those
who did advocate the passing of each a law for al
were ready to admit that oplam was very difiersaßteare
effects to alcohol, and that it had bee. crewlemaed by inedloal
men in a way that the the of spirits sews was.
The Rev. Dr. Com*, as • representative of the Cher&
Mfedonery Sudety, red eaters of lettere he had received
hose the Archbishop etCmientery, the deafest eeaeovy of
the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Lice* the
of Chichester sad the Dien of Onaterbury ea the
The Rev. 1111X1Y Emma= mid the they had Wr.very
gement oorrespendimee with•lmAhig purse
et telsegian;
redone religious Indies this eanstry, who Imes
sym& t. with theth, sad Sell this male rhe • heads.aseedetaea rto ed adishomour the new ed the
=ea nation se wall ae • serious impediment to ttits-
tMa alert both is India and China. Fiseatils/ly
they beid it to be one et the matt exceptional **lee from
which to raise • revues& The crop itself was very pre-
carious, sad our rations with China might at say time be
very may dims:bed, end consequently the neourose
deed from the tramp would be at 011011 cut off.

Dr. 7eoe. BODOILIN: 1;;;12;11o;rmaa---, felt bound to tes-
tify to the pernicious eases winch rune result from the use
of opium, in opposition to those who endeavoured to MS/11.
lain the contrary. It was nothing else then poison. It wen
moot erroneous, therefore, to suppose that the Chinese could
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consume it wlti no worse coneequeuoss than the people of
England could drink beer or even spirits, injurious sa the
cffetds of thee@ too often are.

Mr. BAINDB said he shared very much in the obctions
which were felt to this trade upon moral grounds. lie was
puha aware that there bad been great exturgerations and
MUM'a on the subject put forth to the world, which hal
beset productive of harm. They seem to bare originated in
the statement of an American missionary; but then he
thought our own missions, in reply, had falba into an oppo-
site error, because there was an abundance of evidence of
worry deeoription—from the governante of China and
Japan, from oar own consols, from our missionaries, from
timelim and officers, of the daseondlastion,overt, sd
death to the people of China ocessiesed by
drug. But them was another upset of the .ll
deserved to be noticed namely, the etammlal. It
two ways this trails had had a aeons dim aloe
the commons of this etrattry. I,lla of all the supply of
opium had displaced these Tesenfmtures of England which
might be largely imported to China; sad it the next place
it occupies ewe of the meet hails provinces of India, Mil&
wee targeted producing these very satishe which we are
now wa me it mat ef—se many fist, silk, wool, limed,
repansed, sat ether setielea Aimed everrbing In raw
melded& Erg India sea palm we west, rod the pries of
ear mmaniellnue le Weed In eiewegasnee of the iMoiAat
niss.blie these lade Mw gives up to opium
maid bade sa if they devoted it to
bah had neer been right directly under
ths prismot if re Oars of Leland, and the parlia-
ment of Lathered agd Oa padple of England had low a
=bfhty IMM Ma which they ever had
.1 It was As thee pewee the change had taken
place; and if this system wen set done away with it
would bs raid that the Qom et England was the
greatest opium grower la she westd, and the lama,
of the crown would he Intiiited. He felt con-
fident, however, that Lilte yeediesent end the people would
at length insist npon the abendsmemt of the Mai& ; and he
hoped, therefore, that the govertamt malti gradually, but
as
araindly as they could, take mamma M Ogles* the growth
of o ern with onolesofte gram and Mier enefel pedaeta
C. WOOD mid that he gaits 'greed la the ',Woe that
the subject was one of much naderbeace. The Imesiel
pchfolposrolu was certainly the great obsescle is the way of the
change ; for if the lands now growing opium were
planted with corn and coats, the mount of remise to I.
derived that/roes would fall far short of that prodeced by
the opthem The manse obtained now ma from 5,000,0001.
to 00100,01101. par annum.
H Mr. ATXl3—Only 4,000,0001. I believe, net.
Mr C. Woon—Oh ye', 6,000,0001. net.
Dir. To wxst—Oniy iu meeptiosel cam, I believe.
Mr. C. Bitn—ln me year it was 6,600,0001.
Sir CNARLIS WOOD—But no government would derive
from four to five millions frost coact or fiat, and, cease-
meetly, say change would sprees meet seriously upon the
finances of the Indian exikewoor. If Eon any ear tbie
mums of revenue tell GE ti was difficult to ay whet maid be
dom. Certainly a vary heavy responsibility amid ilswahe
upon this country. In lie view the evil' bed Una wry or
timely exaggerated, and be bed been told that nue deaths
took pion in Hoeg Km ben thinking spirits then In the
whole of Ebbs from fts opium. Taken soiniedy, be
was ed ts Mink spina ma not mush mat Maid
thea lira se to the connexion of tho goenalleat
with *glen trade, the great props tion of as Miele
magmewn by the native states, end a heavy duty paid
to IM miversatent. Bat for the gomenmegn motelY
to ems growing it and yet to Mies revenue
from it .and not meet the views of the dernation. He
must Meitly say that the financial state of India jest
now was sash that he could not hold out any hotpot a change
being eisinei. It was impoesible to give up asp source of
reweave et the present time. Is two or three years he hoped
te melee ends meet, end then the question might be con-
sidered.
Mr. Fox lewd permlaion to remind Bir Charles that
Count Monlelembrt In his work on England had apoken of
the opium trao es I. a shwas to England and a scourge to
dim" The W Mettemich bad also given It his °pintos
that *mien task was the "greatest flaw on the Baglish
Menbasen nest to the slam MM." Commercially cols
siderei, there coald be no deabt that this country suffered
wall ler the elathmeasee at the traffic.
Ile &gated= them withdrew.

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