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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 38, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The Bank Returns published in last night's
Gazette, exhibit an increase of X7BB;CTS in the stock
of coin and bullion. There is an increase •of
- £870,655 in the reserve of notes, and the total
reserve of coin in the Banking departments amounts
to £:2,308,368. The Government note of Nov. '1.2,
has, therefore, become a dead letter, the total
amount of notes being, now conformable to the
Bank Charter.
A very influential meeting for the furtherance of
India Missions has just been held in London. The
Archbishop of Canterbury presided. It was pro
posed to double the number of emissionariea; to
urge upon the Indian Government the necessity of
subdividing the bishoprics of Calcutta and Madras,
and of establishing bishoprics in the Punj rub and
elsewhere; to encourage the establishment
of industrial boarding schools for the benefit
of native children ; to erect memorial churches at
Delhi and Cawnpore; • and to promote other
collateral objects.. The resolutions said nothing
specifically about any of these objects, but in
general terms supported the -Society for the
Propoz,ation of the Gospel in its efforts to evan-
gelise the natives, and recommended that missions
should be established in the principal cities of
India, and that every available Means should be
employed to prepare native Christians for the
work of the ministry. The Bishop of London
spoke of the insurrection as "a great and
mys*.er7ous disaster." The Bishop of Oxford
looked upon it as a proof that the Almighty had
quarrelled" with England for having " cowered
before time Pagan Idolatry of India.. " Vim,Chan-
cellor Page Wood strongly advocated the extension
of the-episcopate in India.
The London Times is out in a "thunderer" upon
the East India Company, denouncing its ruledn nu
very measured terms It says :—" The double
. Government, which is the type of obstruction and
circumlocution, has had its day, and must now
give way to something better suited to the present
time and to actual wants. . We are. happy to .say
that as soon as Parliament meets for the despatch
'of general business the total abolition .of the
Company's Government will be proposed by
Ministers. India will be brought immediately
under the control of the Crown and Parliament,
with such a machinery o' administration as shall
be thought conducive to its welfare." The Morning
Post, however, comes out very warmly. in -the
defence of the Company. What does this mean-?
One Ministerialist organ attacking, another
defending, the rule of the .Leadenhall street
potentates. In the year 1852, when Lord Derby.
was. Premier, he delivered a • speech on
the. East Conpny's charter, in which
he is alleged to- have'kitnted that " with the act
of 1833, the Court of Proprietor.; ceased. to have
any' control or interest whatever in the affairs of
India. The whole business of the court of proprie-
tors at this moment consists in receiving the divi'
dends upon their stock, and in electing the main-
bers,of the Court of Directors ; further than that,
they have no function whatever to perform. It is
true they may meet and discuss together, but,
with regard to the legislation of India, any decision
or vote of the whole court of proprietors need not
exercise the slightest influence over the conduct of
the Government." The Secretary of the Sheffield
Foreign Affairs Cammittee lately wrote to Lord
Derby to know if he really expressed himself in
these words. That nobleman answers that he haS
no doubt he did; 'bu at any rate he believes the,
statement itself to he in substance correct.'
The Lord Advocate of Scotland has been enlight-
ening the inhabitants of Leith on his opinions And
prejudices on the Indian mutinies. The Lord
Advocate is M P for Leith Burghs, and, in his
address, he thought all ought to be very cautious
in forming
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opinions as to what had led to the H
mutiny. e did not believe there were ten men
in the country who had such a knowledge of our
Indian possessions and the Indian government as
Would entitle them to speak in a tone of ordinary
confidence. The whole smbject- was a matter for
solar inquiry. He had real and heard a great
deal about India, but the moral he drew from all
was, that in regard to India, as a matter of. political
government, he knew absolutely nothing. Give
him the men who had been there—such men as
Sir John Lawrence, Mountste-,vart, Elphinstone, or
Sir Thomas Munro—who knew the people, and
were capable of understauling the races they dealt
with; he would listen to these men with the deep-
est respect.
Dr. Livingstone has not yet 'left the shores of
Old England. He was to have proceeded by the
Peninsular Mail for Lisbon, which left South-
ampton on Thursday, but the epidemic is makinc,
such fearful ravage* in the capital of Portugal.'
that the celebrated traveller has considered it best
to pogtpone his visit.

The :Seott.ish Hospital Anniversary. which is to
take place in London on Monday, is to be a great
national pageant. Lords Russell and Macaulay
will be present ; and the Bishop of London, wh)

is a Scotchman, and a dcfscendant of King Robert
Bruce, will also at tend.
It is stated that the manifesto recently issued on
the subject of Reform, is now lying for signature in
London It has already received the approbation
of a large number of- Reformers of various
sections. It was not intended for publication
before the names were attache:!, but did not escape
the vigilance of the public press. When signed
it will be placed before the country to be ap-
proved or modified as the public may determine.
Its reception by the press in London and the
provinces has been remarkable, and the signatures,
when published, are, we are informed, likely to
remr.ve any suspicion of its being a party move.
went. Mr. Roebu.;k, al. hough thoroughly identified
with the proceeding, has no other prominence than
having convened the first meeting at Palace-yard,
of which he was chairman. A London paper adls

that no arrangement has been made for any

permanent leadership, either in the Hottse of
Commons or outside it.

It was only the other day that we mentioned that
a magistrate had been struck off the rolls, fined in
a heaty sum, and was sentenced to imprisonment
for 12 months. This is not the only ease of Justices