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SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

In another part of tc-day's paper will be found
the Queen's speech, delivered yesterday (by
proxy) on the occa3on of the prorogation of the
lrst sessou of the present parliament. It is a
♦ery commonplace document, and does not add
anything to our stock of knowledge on the etate
of affairs generally. The mutinies in India have
occasioned to her Majesty extreme concern, and
the barbarities which have been inflicted on her
subjects in Indio, have filled her heart with the
deepest concern, but her Majesty b.as much con-
solation in the fact, that the conduct of the civil
and military officers in Indio, has excited her
wartntst admiration. She thanks the Commons
for their assurances of their readiness to support
her government in any measures necessary for
complete restoration of peace in those territories.
That house is also congratulated upon the fact
that the Sound Dues question has been settled
without adding to the national debt. My Lords and
gentlemen are thanked for the provision which
they have made for her beloved daughter the
Princess Royal, on her approaching marriage with
his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia. The
Divorce Bill is alluded to as an Act which will
remedy evils which have long been felt. Th's is
very questionable. Such are the salient points of
the Queen's speech delivered to the Lords and
Commons, and Parliament was then prorogued to
the tith of November next.

Her Majesty took her departuro for Scotland at
eight o'clock this morning.

We will no doubt be enabled to furnish our
readers with full de:ails of the Indian news in
our next publication. The mails arrived of Paris
last night, and would at once be forwarded
on to London. They are of a most interesting
character.

We give to-day a speech by Mr. Layard, at
Aylesbury, on the occasion of his being pre-
sented with a testimonial by the inhabitants
of that town. He looks upon the present
state of India with the greatest dismay, and
proceeds to enlighten his late constituents on his
reasons for so doing. He evidently has no faith
in the present government in India, and Mr. Denby
Seymour comes in for no small share of condem-
nation. While on the subject of India. we may
mention that Mr. Byng has arrived in London, and
has issued his address to the electors of Middlesex.
eee k;.., ~,ic 4.et ••• oncary Re-
former, and in favour of the vote by ballot. ee itn
regard to India, he would quell existing disturb-
ances, punish the guilty, and re-establish our autho-
rity upon a firmer and more endurable basis. He
does not inform us what that basis is to be; he says
nothing of enquiry into the real causes of the muti-
nies, or of the redrese of well-known grievances.
The ceremony of commencing a new line of
railway, the East Durham and Lancashire
Union, the other day. brought several public gen-
tlemen together, and although the topic at the
dinner table was exclusively one in connexion with
commerce, the speakers very naturally made refer-
ence to the exciting scenes going on in India. The
Duke of Cleveland, who turned the first sod, and
presided over the party, declared his belief that the
mutiny would be put down, but the climate, he
stated, was against us, and he remarked that what
might happen it was alarming to contemplate.
We regret to have to announce the untimely
death of Mr. James Platt, the member for Oldham,
who was accidentally shot on Thursday by a friend.
The circumstances attending the fatal occurrence
are of a very distressing character. It appears
that the honourable gentleman, who recently
returned to Werneth Park from the discharge of
his parliamentary duties, went out on Thursday
forenoon, about eleven o'clock, to have a day's
shooting. He was accompanied by his intimate
friend Josiah Radcliffe, Esq , the Mayor of Old-
ham; Joshua Radcliffe, Esq. ; Jelin Radcliffe,
Esq. ; and other gentlemen. After they had been
shooting about two hours the party came, in the
pursuit of sport, to a gully in the moors, which
the deceased gentleman was the first to cross. Mr
Josiah Radcliffe, the mayor, was following about
six yards distant, carrying his gun in a horizental
position. In taking the leap over the gully he
stumbled a little, and the trigger caught his leg,
causing the gun to go cff, and the contents to lodge
in the calf of Mr. Platt's right leg. The wound
was immediately bandaged by one of the party,
and the unfortunate deceased gentleman was car-
ried into the gamekeeper's house, which was not a
very great distance, at Ashway Gip. But he never
rallied ; the shock was too great for his weakly
constitution ; and although there was little loss of
blood from the wound, and the bandage was as
efficient as could have been put on by the most
skilful of the profession, Mr. Platt died at
about half-past two o'clock. The lamentable
fatality has thrown a gloom over Oldham, and
plunged many of the leading families of that
district in the deepest distress. The Alanchester
Efoniner of yesterday, in chronicling the death of
this gentleman, says : —" The worth of the deceased
is best known where it has been most dis-
played ; and the friends of all that concerns
the prosperity of the town and people of "Oldham,
will regret, with the friends of progress generally,
the cutting down, at the early age of thirty-four,
of a gentleman, whose amiable disposition,
energy of character, and public usefulness, had
gained for him tna high position which he he'd."
A London paper of last night earnestly hopes
that the Radieel party in Oldham will not fail to
place Mr. W. J. Fox in the vacant seat, and
thereby render an act of justice to an old and
well-tried servant, while they confer honour upon
the borough.
The Surrey Gardens C mipany has made its
second appearance in the Court of Bankruptcy.
The shareholders, or at least a large portion of
them, appear to be of opinion that the Gardens
may still be carried on at a profit, and that, heavy
as are the losses, there ie, alter all, no need
for the company to be wound up, or to
be declared bankrupt. So the Commissioner
has given the shareholders time to make
up their minds on this point ; and we hope
they will be able to extricate themselves
from their present difficulties A metropolitan
cotemporary says :—" Mr. Coppock took part in the
proceedings yesterday, and complained bitterly of
the manner in which he and his brother directors
had been assailed. When these gentlemen have
successfully vindicated their management they

may, perhaps, be justified in. comp.&
lining of the
old English epithets with which Ora, y have been
pretty freely .pelted."
The North of England Unitarian) . Association
have held their anntral'meeting this- wen )k at New-
castle. At the close of the morning.% 'nice, the
Rev. George Harris read portions of la 3 reports,
from which it appears-that the assceintiea I projects
more extensive operations in different to wns and
villages in the north of. England. There an a nuna,
her of lay preachers belonging to the. as elation.
The Earl. of Carlisle having granted pen fission
to the members to visit Castle Howes -d, in
Yorkshire, and view the interior of that
magnificent mansion and the beautiful gretunds
eontigious, it was determined that the adjou'rnect
meeting should be held in the village of Wel-
burn, close by. A painful incident must lie re-
ferred to here. The young minister of Welborn
and Melton, the Rev. H. Dunkerton, who had
assisted in making the arrangements for this visit
to welcome the friends from Newcastle, was sud-
denly taken ill, and died on Saturday. He was
interred on Tuesday, the last of these anniversary
services, at Melton. The ministers and a few of
the friends from Newcastle left Welburn in the
morning to be present at the funeral.
At the Assizes yesterday several trials of interest
took place. A gentleman recovered £l5 damages
from a schoolmaster for the expulsion of his (the
plaintiff's) son from school. Two libel cases ended
in 40s damages and costs in each, and an action
brought against the Lou lon and North Western
Railway Company by a travelling post-office clerk
for injuries received in an accident on that
railway, ended in a verdict of £450 damages.
A meeting of the Magnetic Telegraph Company
was held yesterday, at which a resolution for the
company to be wound-up voluntarily, under the
provisions of the JGint-Stock Companies Act, was
agreed to. From a statement made by the chairman,
it appears that the income during the first half
year of 1857 was £34,000, and the exeenditure
£lB,OOO, leaving a large surplus, out of which they
had been enabled to declare a dividend at the rate
of 5 per cent.
The weekly meeting of the Toxteth Park Board
of Guardians was held on Thursday. No business
of importance was transacted. The relieving officer
was appointed. Out of sixty-eight applicants.
Mr. Heath, late of Nantwich, was selected for the
office.

The foreign news does not possess much interest
or importance this moraing. The Paris Pays,
alluding to doubts thrown by some London journals
upon the accuracy of its account of the strength of
Delhi, affirms that it has never published any
Indian news except upon sure information, and
that none of its statements have ever been contra-
dicted. We have already mentioned that the Pays'
exclusive London news is supposed to be furnished
by the French Embassy, but how does is account for
Lord Palmerston's contradiction of the story it told
the other day about an applicivion to the Pacha of
Egypt for leave to send troops across the Isthmus
of Suez ? The Courrier de Paris says that Prince
Gregory Ghilca committed suicide, on Tuesday
evening, at a chateau, which he had lately pur-
chased near Melan. He shot himself with a
fowling piece. The reason for the act has not
transpired.

PARLIAMENT has been prorogued—the Royal
Speech has been delivered—and the 'people of
the United Kingdom have before them the senti-
ments, aye, and wishes of the Sovereign. Our
readers do not require to be reminded that Royal
orations are—as far as the politics of the world
are concerned—good for nothing. We have the
Royal Speech before us, and for the sake of
curiosity shall divide it into its legitimate parts,
and appeal an observation or two thereon.
Here we may remark, en passant. that the
" Queen's Speech" is of a divisable character, and
that the number of parts therein are neither
more nor less than five. Like all other fulsome
eulogies, the words put into her Majesty's
mouth, but which, by the way, she deliverd by
proxy, commences with a series of congratula-
tions that the state of public business enables
the monarch to dispense with the further services
of the Lords, and her faithful Commons. Affairs
in Europe we are told are satisfactory. This is
an assertion without a proof, and should be re-
ceived with caution. Regret is expressed that the
Treaty of Paris is not yet fully executed. Whose
fault is this ? The people of the United King-
dom, who pay the taxes, require an answer, no
matter who may be the suffrer by a clear and
unreserved declaration now. We are glad to
learn that her Majesty's heart has felt for the
state of affairs in India. Had royal feeling been
much earlier alive to what was coming, the
present lamentable crisis would not have taken
place. Glad indeed shall we be that her Majesty's
promise will be performed to the letter, and that
"no measure calculated to quell these grave
disorders" shall be omitted.

It is sail that " money is the root of all evil."
On this point we find her Majesty quite earnest,
aye, and energetic. She thanks the Commons,
as in all conscience she ought, for the provision
made for her beloved daughter the Princess
Royal. What right the nation had to contribute
one farthing to this royal daughter of Victoria
we are at a loss to conjecture. A pauper could
do nothing less than Queen VICTORIA, in
returning thanks
_for an unwarranted dowry of
70,0001.
The Queen, at the instance of her Ministers,
extols the doing of Parliament during the ses-
sion; and dwells with peculiar emphasis upon
the Bill relating to the efficient jurisdiction for
the proving of wills in England and Ireland.
The other matters are jumbled together in a
continuous list, without note or comment—a
fact which proves that Ministers have little to
say respecting them; and that they did not con-
tain provisions of essential importance to the
welfare and happiness of the people.

With these remarks, we dismiss Parliament for
the present. Since it met in May, little—very
little—has been done for the improvement and
elevation of the masses. The Government seems
only bent in keeping the '• stools of office." It
remains with the Reformers of the United
Kingdom to say if such a state of things shall
exist.

THE case of MR. BE RTOLACC I, in connection
with the affairs of the Duchy of Lancaster still
continues to attract much public attention. We
have already alluded to the matter and endeavour-
ed to show that not only were the duchy's affairs
grossly mismanaged, but that an injustice of a
most glaring character was heaped upon MR. BE R-
TOLACCI simply because bt sought to discharge his

duties as Auditor with fidelity to the Crown, and
uproot a system of management that was repre-
hensible in every sense of the word. Our readers
are aware that a Select Committee of the House
of Commons was appointed to investigate the
allegations contained in MR. BERTOLACCI'S peti-
tion and that they collected a variety of evidence
upon the subject and made a report thereon to
the House.

From the first sitting of this Committee it was
evident that each and every member was bent, not
in. eliciting the truth or fallacy of the auditor's
petition but to shield the delinquencies of those
occupying high and dignified official stations.

The very mode in which the Committee was
.struck,—its composition, and the studied exclusion
of every member of the House who were at all
friendly to BERTOLACCI'S claims, showed that the
government had perpetrated a job—that it was
their object to cloak the mismanagement of the
affairs of the duchy, and to deny that the auditor
should meet justice at the hands of the House.
Under these circumstances we need not be sur-
prised that every point was strained to make it
appear that the auditor was in error, and that
the officials of the duchy, from the Chancellor
down to the lowest servant, were animated by a
praiseworthy desire of managing the revenues
of the duchy, so as to yield the greatest possible
amount to the Crown. One would have thought
a Committee appointed to investigate such an
important and delicate matter would have been
desirous to conduct their proceedings so as to be
above suspicion, and that in awarding their ver-
dict it should be formed according to the evidence
upon which it pretended to be based.
Contrary to all precedent, the Committee
after collecting evidence made their report to the
House, but at the same time withheld the wit
nesses' testimony. What is the character of the
Report ? As a whole it is favourable to Mr.
BERTOLACCI. It eulogises him as an able, pains•
taking and zealous officer, and the committee are
constrained to express a desire that " nothing
which has happened should be permitted to di-
minish his claims to promotion." This we regard
a complete vindication of Mr. BERTOLACCI'S peti-
tion, and a confirmation of the, course he deemed
it his duty to pursue as auditor of the duchy.
But notwithstanding this eulogy of his character,
the Committee vindicate and justify the act of
the Chancellor of the duchy- in dismissing him
from the situation of auditor, as he had shown
himself so perverse and obstinate as to refuse to
audit the accounts. Now we ask cart the de-

cision or opinion of a committee be more in-
consistent than is exemplified in the two par-
ticulars just noticed ? First, Mr. BERTOLACCI
is the model of a public official, able, indus-
trious and honest ; so much so that he merits
promotion in the civil service, 'Nevertheless.,
he loses his situation because his tem-
per will not permit him to perform his duty.
Evidcuay Chu Committee found thornaolves on
the horns of a dilemma. It was their desire
to whitewash the higher officials of the duchy.
To do so would have been a denial of the
truth of Mr. BERTOLACCI'S allegations, and disbe-
lieve the very evidence on which their report
was founded. Anything more glaring and one
sided we have never heard. The Committee's
procedure throughout the whole investigation
have shown the cloven foot. Government in-
fluence has been brought to bear upon them,
Hence they manufactured their report to please
all parties, but which reminds us of the fable of
the old man and his ass, who in attempting to
"please everybody pleased nobody, and lost his
ass into the bargain." The Committee may
depend that neither Parliament nor the public
will be satisfied at such double dealing.
Either Mr. BERTOLACCI has been unjustly de-
prived of his office of auditor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, and thereby entailed pecuniary loss,
or he has not.

How can the public know - which of the
positions is the correct one. The Committees
report being so glaringly inconsistent and
contradictory, cannot be relied upon. The
only means of arriving at a correct judgement
of the case is, a perusal of the evidence.
But this has been withheld, and has not yet
made its appearance, nor from private advices
in our possession we fear that it will not be
published by the Committee of the House of
Commons before the prorogation of Parliament,
after which all the members will have left their
town residences, where it will be left for them.
This we pronounce unfair, and inexcusable in
the extreme, inasmuch as the evidence was in
print before the R.-port of the Select Committee
although the latter has been some weeks since
freely circulated among the Members of the House.
On finding what was going on Mr. BARTOLACCI
wrote to the Chairman of the Committee,
protesting against the nonpublication of the
evidence, as on it he relied for a refutation of
the charge made against him, for want of
temper. The Chairman replied that if he were
dissatisfied he could appeal to the House of
Commons. But this was only adding insult to
injury, inasmuch as Mr. BERTOLACCI could not
appeal against the Committee's report without
having the evidence to substantiate the position

he took up.
Independent of the injustice inflicted on Mr.
BERTOLACCI personally, this matter is one of
deep importance to the public at large. It
cannot be permitted to a Committee of Parlia-
ment to present a :eport and keep back the
evidence upon which that report is founded.
We are glad to perceive that Mr. CONINGHAM
has given notice that he will call the attention of

the House to the matter early next session.
The" subject is one that cannot fail to claim the
support of both sections 'of the House; in the
meantime we hope the people at large will take
the matter up, and urge with determination
the necessity of considering this question and
deciding it in favour of a useful public servant,
who has been unjustly persecuted for the fair
and honourable discharge of the duties of his
office.

The news from India must be regarded in a two-
fold light; a distinction should be drawn between
the dangers to individuals scattered over the
North-west Provinces, in the midst of the muti-
neers, and the progress of General Havelock's
flying brigade, which has driven Nena Sahib from
Cawnpore. That this European force can drive
before them any native army that may appear in
the open field, no- person questions ; still it is
doubtful whether he can relieve Lucknow or Agra,
so as to establish communiattions with Delhi.
As to the subjugation of the mutineers,
as soon as the reinforeetteents now on
their way arrive, they will not only be subdued,
but totally and speedily extinguivhed. In the
mean time, let us hope that we have heard the
worst of the horrible violations and butcheries that
have been perpetrated upon defenceless women
'and children; still, we must remember that we are
engaged in a war of extermination—no quarter is
given or taken ; and " as we sow so shall we reap,"
that ie. perfectly clear. It will, there Fore, never
answer to place the Commander-in-Chief ander
the Governor-General, as heretofore, if the North-
West Provinces are to be held by England. Mill.
Lary rule is the only one suitable to the condition
of the people.—From a Correspondent.