Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-28 00:00:00

THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC MONEYS,

A. letter from Mr. Henry Ll D d Morgan, of London,
public accountant was read. The followiug is an extract :
—"I have read the second report of the Public Moneys
Committee, and have no doubt that it will lead to some
good ; but you will observe that there has been a deferral
naion to prevent the examination of any unofficial persons,
so tha,.. I fear we shall have the accounts jumbled in the
same way. However, if we get them to adopt your sug-
gestion of a Finance Committee of tie House of Commons,
and if they carry out the responsibility of the Paymaster-
General, as recommended, in addition to paying the gross
revenue of the Crown lands into the Exchequer, we shall
have made a long move in the right direction."

RECRUITS AND VOLUNTEERS —ISDIAN MISGOVERNMENT.
The recent offer from the Horse Guards of a commission
in the army, to any gentleman possessing certain qualifi-
cations, who raises 100 recruit, was referred to as a beau-
tiful specimen of official management, since it is obvious
that, by out Lidding the recruiting sergeant, ; nd probebly
with his assistance, the military aspirant rosy procure the
required number of men, and thin attain a cernmiesion for
considerably less than the price which he would have to
pay for it, if he purchased in the ordinary way. It was
observed that there were great numbers of young
men ready and anxious to env) • upon military service
in India, who would not go as private soldiers, under
the present ceneti ution of the army, which bars
promotion against all who have not either interest or money.
They would go as volunteer corps of gentlemen, on the
understanding that, having served a cert-,in time, and hav-
ing distinguished themselves by pod cenduct and se vice,
they should be entit:ld to commissions in the army,
with the option of grants of land in India on condition
of residing there, and cultivating heir allotments—in fact,
such terms asiwere literally granted to German, Italian
and other foreign mercenaries, during the lice war sv,th
Russia, but never offered to British suhjscte, The feet
that the East India Company throws all sorts of ob.dacles
in the way of Englishmen desirous of settling in India,
was mentioned as one reason for its present condition.
With the exception of persons in the employ of the com-
pany, civil and mlitary, there were, according to a recent
return; only a few hundred British in the whole of
India. The bast thing that weld happen, both for India
and this c metry, would be to sow the land bread cast with
Earopeans. At present there were whole pr ,vincee lying
waste, an only half cultivated. The great difficulty in the
way of settlers was the -want of satisfactory tenure. As a
sample of this, a member stated that the house with which
he was connected only succeeded lately in obtaining a
thousand acres on leasehold, for the cultivation of the date
tree. The East India Company granted no freeholds. A
letter of Mr. John Bright, in which lie expressed his con-
viction, a year or two ago, that nwhing but some great
calamity wen'd effectually rouse the parliament and people
of England to the condition of India was (sited as a proof
of that gentleman's political forecast, and a sample of ihe
way in which the Home an: Indian Govamments
have neglected the most emphatic warnings.
The following extracts from a leading article in the Times
of the 16th inst were read :—" There are people who go
about dwellir g on Indian grievances, on taxer and tenures,
and confiscation?; on neglected irrigation, costly law
tardy justice, official corruption, and pe:iolical famines.
* * The British nation have simply undertaken
the office of keeper to a capricious and virulent animal,
and for a moment forgotten the responsibility of the task
Is has accordingly broken loose, and is now indulging its
instinctive and habitual tastes. * * * • We have
not made India what it is now showing itself. It is only
doing now what it always did as losg as it could, and we
happen, unfortunately, just now, to have let it have its own
way." It was observed, with reference to the first pas•
sage, that the evils enumerated by the Times, cf which it
does not affect to deny the existence, are all proofs of the
grossest misgovernment, forming, in the aggregate, an
excuse if net a jurstiticaeion for revolt; and, as to the
second, the plea that India is only a wild beast and Eng.
land its keeper, was considered to be the most miserable
pretext for neglecting all the duties of a government that
was ever put forward on behalf of a Chitrian and civilised
nation.

MONOPOLY OF TDB HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.

Extracts were read from the report of the proceedings
of a public meeting of the inhabitants of Perth, Canada,
published in the Bat hhurst Courier of the 14th inet.
respecting the Hudson's Bay Company, at which several cf
the speakers made honorable mention of the part taken by
the association on this question. The Mayor presided.
The first resolution—moved by Colonel Playfair, and
seconded by George Karr, 14:sq., declared that the meeting
highly approved of the sentiment, expressed and the reso-
lutions pissed by the Liverpool Financ:al Reform Associa-
tion, gladly availed itself cf the opportunity, publicly to
acknowledge the services thus rendered by the association
to the British North American Colonies, and pledged itself
to carry oat by all constitional means, the views therein
expressed. James Alen, E.q , said he frilly agreed
eith the Liverpool Association, bat he thought they
ought to have something more Canadian, and therefore
proposed that the resolutions of the Toronto meeting should
be adopted. On this point, there- was a good deal of dis-
cussion, in the course of which, one of the speakers, J.
Deacon, Esq , said : He thought Colonel Playfair had gone
to the hghest quarter •to get his resolutions, when he
, adopted those of the Liverpool A er.tiation. The original
I motion was carried. An address to the Queen and the
Houses of Parliament, against the renewal of the license
of the Hudson's Bay Company; and praying
.that the
claims of the company, under its charter, might be imme-
diately brought to legal issue and extingu'shed, was agreed
to; and a resolution passed expressive of astonishment
and indignation at the attempt of the Canadian Govern-
ment to make over, in fee simple, to t:,e Hudson's Bay
Company, for £5O, 46,000 acres of Canadian territory ;
including the mouths of six of the principal rivers leading
from the Canadian lakes, far into the interior ; and
commanding the trade of the far north.
This Trans-Atlantic appreciation, of the endeavour of
the Association to arouse the nation to the evil conse-
quences of this gigantic monopoly, was considered highly
gratifying. It was observed that amorgst the few English
papers which have taken up the question, was the Illustrated
London News, which had published two excellent articles
on the subject, expressing precisely the same views as the
association. The following is the concluding passage of
one of them :—" Why then should not the British peop'e,
interested in the extension and prosperity of Canada, hold
meetings as they are being held in Canada, and combine
their efforts and their means in an Anti-Hudson's Bay
Monopoly League? The question is one of the very
highest importance ; and, as we Laid last week, if the
British people and Parliament do not settle it in favour of
British interests, it will be settled by the people of the
United States, in a way damaging alike to the power and
the pride of Great Britain As far as the people of
Great Britain are concerned, it would seem to be their
determination to allow the friends of the Hudson's Bay
Company in the Colonial Office to renew its license, and
eontinue the monopoly claimed tinder' its absolute and
illegal charter, leaving the Osuadians to fight the battle
unaided. If this apathy shoilld continue, the Americans,
pursuing the same comae as in Oregon, will se tle with the
country and the question, in the manner indicated in the
tract of the association, and now by the Illustrated London
News.

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