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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 24.

Tut House of 031112120111 has, by the compromise
of Friday night, given its sanction to the views,
respecting the controversy raised by Mr. CARD-
watt's Resolution, which have been advocated
throughout in the Express. Lord Pstasisros
and Mr. eIiKOWELL, moved by the threatened de-
tection of the Independent Liberals, have desisted
from peering a vote which would hare been equiva-
lent to an expression of approval of a coadesstary
policy in Dude. Ministers, by allowing Mr. Caurrirati.
to withdraw his Resolution, have abstained from
seeking en expression of approval of the Despatch
to Lardeismuo. It is evident, therefore, that the
sense of the Howe of Commons is against a system of
confiscation in Oode ; and that it is of opinion that
the Despatch was unduly harsh and peremptory as
regards Lord Csuitiuo, and dangerously unwise in
its resuscitation of the controversy mpecting the

policy and justice of annexing Onds. - -
The objects, therefore, which we have kept in
view throughout this discussion have been attained.
The representatives of the British people, while re-
training from expressing an opinion so positive as to
hamper the local Government of India, have suffi-
ciently indicated their desire that • policy charge-
Prised by justice and leniency as well as &mime
should be adopted towards all Indisa insurgents who
have set taken part in cold-blooded murders. And
the Liberal party have been spared the discredit of
advocating a cruel and rapacious policy, lees with a
view to its effects in India, than to the effects of an
adverse vote of the House of Commons upon their
political rivals' tenure of office.

We revert to this subject in no spirit of undue
and selfish triumph. At no time would we place
upon record facts or opinions which might have the
effect of prolonging any sense of irritation in them
who must be our permanent allies, did it not appear
to us that they taught an important lesson. The
excitement and canvassing of the last fortnight and
their result are pregnant with warnings against rash
legislation for the future government of India; and
it is to this consideration that we would invite atten-
tion. Many of the supporters of Mr. CARDWELL'S
motion now tura round upon us with an sir of
triumph and say " Now you see the injustice that
" has been done to Lard CANNING—you see how
" promptly he softened the terms of him Proclarna-
" tion in deference to the remonstrances of Sir Jesus
" OCITZAK." We are not, we confess, entirely Wis.
fled that the coneeerion made to Sir JAMES OCITILAN
is sufficient to arrest the evils which that gentleman
foresaw. We await with considerable apprehemkm
the intelligence which the next few mails will bring
us respecting the effect of Lord CANNING'S Procla-
mation, even in its modified form, upon the popula-
tion of Oude. Bat we gladly admit that for the
manner in which Lead CANNING acknowledged the
weight of Sir JAM'S Orrism's representations, and
for his partial yielding to them, his Lordship deserves
great credit. We mast, however, at the same time,
take the liberty of reminding those persons who now
praise Lord CANNING for abating the stringency of
his confiscatory edict, that before they knew he bad
done so, they praised him quite as much for making
it so stringent. To them the policy pursued by
Lord CANNING is a matter of indifference; it is
enough for them that it is his; he is the Governor-
General of their party, and they will approve of
whatever they believe him to have said or done ; and
they will abide by their approbation even after they
have discovered that what he has said or done has
been directly the reverse of what they at first be-
lieved it to be. Now this is only a fair sample of
what the home administration of India, if vested
in a Minister of the Crown, responsible only to Parlia-
ment, will necessarily become.
Under a Parliamentary Government we must
always lay our account with changes of Ministry
from time to time. We must also lay oar account I
with constant samisions and accusations by the
Opposition against Ministers of jobbery, oppression,
unwise policy, and so forth. Opposition and
Ministers will be pretty sure to take different views
of Indian policy as of all things else. Whenever a
change of Ministry, therefore, shall take place we
shall incur a risk of party bickeringe about the
Governors and Government of India such el we
have just witnessed. The Governor-General will
continue to act in the sense of the party to which be
belongs, and by which ►e was appointed. The
New Ministers will wish his to set in their sense.
Controversial correspondence will, as a mat-
ter of course, arise between them. Its
tallow will transpire and come to be die.
cussed in Parliament. Ministers will be suspected
and accused of wishing to make the Governor-
General's position uncomfortable, with a view to
induce him to resign. Motions will be submitted
about the matter in both Houses; "whips" will be
made to ensure a majority one way or other t mei.
monious debates will ensue ; and the question will
be decided, not with reference to the interests of
India, or even of the Empire as indirectly affected
by the fortunes of India, but with reference to the
strengthening or weakening of Ministers. If the
present perilous state of affairs in India has been
insufficient to deter members of the Legislature from
indulging in a faction fight of this kind, what will
be the case in more trawled times ?

This it clay OM d many evils that will neaps-
meily twat from the direct sod coostant inter-
!mos of Parliament in the administration of India.
To place the whirls home government of India—with
an its power and patronage—in the hands of a
Miaister whose tenure of office (and the tenure of
alloe of all his colleagues) is dependent upon a Par-
liamentary majority, is to make India the foot-ball
of Parliamentary factions. Every imaginary griev-
ance from laths will be greedily laid hold of by
Opposition ancksonverted into political capital. Every