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THE RENEWAL OF THE INDIAN CHAR-

TER ACT. •
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NvirS,
Sir,—lt is desirable that the public in Etiglaud should
know what is said on this subject in India-, I therefore
enclose you a leading article from the Friend of India
of the 3d of Juno, which I hope you will insert.
The Friend of India, on the 10th of June also says—
"lt is a singular fact, and one which seems to us
strongly indicative of the want of interest in England
about India affairs, that not one of the London papers
we have seen has published the list of the Indian com-
mittee. Even the Atlas for India and the Borne News
are silent on the subject, and we should have had another
month of suspense, but for the publication of the list in
the Bombay Gazette, who received it, we presume, from
a private hand. The Committee numbers thirty-ono
members. Its labours cease, of course, with the expiring
Parliament, and though it is probable the same commit tee
will again be nominated, it is not likely tlitit any serious
business will come before it until tho commencement of
the autumn session."

COMMITTEE.
Mr. 'Terries Mr. Ihrdinge
Lori J. Russell Sir J. E. 'foment
Sir C. Wood Sir J. licgg•
Mr. Gladstone Mr. Bankes
Mr. Labouehere Mr. R Hiidyard
Mr. Alderman Thomp3on Mr. Moore
Sir R. Inglis Mr. Cobden
Mr. Disraeli Mr. M. Gibson
Mr. Baring Mr. Maugles
Mr. Baillie Mr. Hume
Mr. Newdegate Mr. V. Smith
Sir W. Melesworth Mr. J. Wilson
Viscount Jocelyn Sir E. Colebroulie
Mr. Plowden Mr. Spooner
Viscount Mahon Mr. Cardwell.
Now, Mr. Editor, some of these gentlemen have not
at present seats in the House of Commons; and I should
like to eee the names of Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Bright, Mr.
Roebuck, Mr. Bernal 63torne, Sir James Graham, and
such hke.---yours, &c.

A CONSTANT READER.

The charter debate in the House of Commons came
off on the 19th of April, when
.Mr. Berries, the Presi-
dent of the Board of Control, moved for the appoint-
ment of a Committee to take into consideration the Act
passed in 1833 for the :government of India. So little
interest did the subject excite, and so complete is India
the dinner bell of the House, that it was at times found
difficult to keep forty Members together, although on a
petty question regarding the induction of a half Popish
priest to the Protestant living of Frome, no fewer than
nd and fifty millions of beings
pdre and melancholy reflection that
180 Members were assembled and voted one day after.
t
IfwOhraeffwnohrtodhsseemahffaa apiprittersnfoeosf a for deep
udheeGreat Britain is responsible, came
under consideration after the lapse of 20 years, it was
found impossible to secure the attendance of more than
one Member in sixteen of the House of Commons. This
debate has decided more than one question. Good go-
vernment in the colonies of the Crown, which are peopled
with sturdy and independent Englishmen, may be said to
depend on the degree to which they are left to manage
their own affairs. The wisest Minister we have ever had,
as respects the colonies, was the old Duke of Newcas-
tle, who is said to have left the dispatches from the
American colonies unopened for twelve years. On the
other hand, the good administration of India at home
and
one
more
animatedg abroadod i rqnud ii rae
debate requires
thanit
nh e
fi thefvigilt fifty
Hd ai
son
put
as
et e
ofe
dispatches
s o
ffrooi
tennamr
tol i
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esm e nt.
doeslocal
authorities, or a hundred articles from the local press.
Whatever form may be
council of the nation that l-ivnefntuti
cos the
lifelannddianonorey
Administra-
tion, it is the interest taken in its affairs by the great
But this debate has taught
Parliament can in no wisebebus the
into
it.
paint ul truth that
interest in any Indian question;
to take the smallest
re-
quired to clear the House, a Member that
if it
be ever pro-
nounce the name of India. The debate has only to
us that the present system, without modification also taught
provement, is to be perpetuated for twenty ation or
with all its anomalies and defects. It was .Yweeall"kinore,
that the Whigs, if they had continued in power,
resolved to make no alterations whatever in the present
s 3 system. The charter of 1833 was a Whig measure, and
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Lord John Russell had determined to apply his own
principle of finality to it. Whatever trifling and w
un-
important modification he might have been induced
to sanction, would have been adopted merely for the
sake of showing how little it required to be altered,
and they would have made no alteration what-
ever in the working of the present scheme, which
is, perhaps, one of the most anomalous which
the ingenuity of statesmen has ever devised. It was on
this principle that the Whigs refused the appointment of
a committee last year, when there would have been
leisure and opportunity for examining the question. If
the Whigs had continued in power, therefore, we were
fully prepared to dismiss every idea of any amelioration,
and the debate fully justifies these anticipations. Lord
John Russell maintained the superlative excellence of
the present system of Indian Government, because, as
he affirmed, this country was better governed than Tur-
key and Persia, so that the highest conception which a
Whig Minister of England in the middle of the nine-
teenth century can form of the good government of a
foreign dependency of the Crown, is that it should be
better administered than a wretched Manorn.-dun
potisrc, Bot was centinly expected that the CuOSPT-
vatives, who were not respomiink, for the Act of 1886,
would not have shrunk from a thorough examination
of its operation, the they would have made a root esid
branch irquiry into the defects of th 9 lad,au adminis-
!ration; and, instead of continiog themselves, like the

Whigs, to the admiration of the par, they would,
like honest British statearneu, have addressed

liemselres to the improvement of th,• future.

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these hopes have been dashed to the ground by Mr.
fl,trries's speech, the last sentence of which may be con-
sidered as the funeral knell of all reformation or fill.
pro ve113.211t for the next twenty years. .‘ As nuw ad.
viaad, I °Attend that the present system is the best."
Even Mr. Hume, a radical reformer en every question
but that of India, regards the preient order of ihings with
p I.4ect complacency, and has no objections to allege to
it' but that the Ccurt had not paid sufficient attention to
r) king and irrigation. None of the Manchester
s(3d .m
ch,ol :poke on the occasion. Sir James Weir Ilegg
and Mt. Mangles, who represented the court of directors,
lauded their own government to the skies, as in duty
only this latter gentleman took the opportunity
himself on that most august
obfouu avengingd,
body, the pro-
prietors of East India stock, for eight years of humilia-
tion, by saying that he believed the present mode of
election and canvassing-deterred many of the highest
class of men who land returned from India from taking
office,—and thus ended a debate more disgraceful to the
British Parliament, from the total disregard it evinced of
one of its highest responsibilities, than any which has
taken place for twenty years.
Under these circumstances, when the minds of all
parties are made up to the perpetuation of the present
system, the appointment of any Committee whatever
appears to bo redundant. It would be far more advisable
to pats a short Act of half a dozen lines to enact that
the Act of the 3d and 4th Will. IV., c. 85, was extended
to the year 1874. without modification, than to enact the
solemn farce of appointirg a Committee which Whigs,
Tories, end Radicals intend shad lead to no result. Alt
these three parties is the House appear to be equally sa-
tisfied with the system of a double government, which
works well, although it is anomalous. They are resolved
that the patronage shall not go to the Crowe, but shall
continue absoltuely vested in ihe Court of Directors.n
a reward for governing India—the most costly reward,id be
as Lord William Bentinck remarked, which
thought of. All parties agree that India prosperous.
di:etelled
and hippy—that " she wears her plumed has been a
could
turban with a smile of peace." There there has
largo increase of revenue, and i tn°
outlay since the war
been a grouter increase of °._llit,h aoegatulation, ho-
c:eased, yet this is a subjpot
]std
13 b
out in local improve-
in -the public
coaleulsiets.theNmaotinveeye hhaesvelascn
aoployed
beenhas been completely nation-
service; our administration Due native out of a hundred and
on
ar (who is this fortunate man?),
alised, by bestowing
fifty millions 1,5601. ti_rYen2
840/. to 9601. We have ea
and of the revenues of the coun-
or two pkes', we have appropriated, at this
try 111
. public "9'3,0001. out of a revenue of sixteen
presidency,
panenddoend eoingeht others
fir''ferries as the highest and most un-
considered by
gbuto national instruction; and—what is
of national improvement—Government
()ken f chaplains, entertained for
Dishe number o
has increase
fit its European and Christian establish-
tbe benefit
d d d thirty. What need, then, ono hun re an
erzot to
cinqiulliirocncsa
i sterlingt
can g so perfect? What need of examining
ra ban be for any inquiry into the working of a Sys.
f governmentinstrument, not created by design or skill,
wiehmetleF an
ntally put together at different times and by
but accidentally
different workmen, is not susceptible of great improve-
ments? But India i s a '• bore;" the real language of
the debate is, " Dont bother us with the subject. Let
there be no questions brought up which shall constrain
us to bestow the smallest thought upon it." Is not
India governed better than Turkey, than Persia,
even than the Colonial-office, and what more can the
or
in-
habitants of India in all reason and conscience desire?

DEATH OF AN ALLEGED BIGAMIST..--On Satur-
day Mr. G. Brent held an inquest at the Earl Cathcart,
Munster-street, Regent's-park, on George Hathaway, house
agent, aged 64. A report that deceased was very wealthy,
and that foul play had something to do with his death, in-
vested the inquiry with an unusual degree of interest. The
principal witness was a Spanish female, named Villaneuse,
who stated that deceased collected the rent of two houses in
Henry-street, Hampstead-road, in one of which she resided,
and there became acquainted with deceased. Formerly he
lived at the Hope Nursery, Camden-town, but his second
wife had him arrested for bigamy, and, having refusedsteorbe-e
admit him to her home after his discharge from, prison,
is but had
took lodgings at 1, B-ook-terrace, Regent's-bpausr -
his meals at witness's house. She attended
bed, from Sa-
weeks' illness, and during his confinement toper Presence. A
turday until Tuesday, when he died
3,ipioP w P
h as attested by
week before his death he made a will, la
u wm. llathaway, de-
her father and mother in her
fa"ofr.the Marylebone work-
ceaetel'm brother, and an inmate
invalid, as his brother had
house, declared that the will was invalid,
insane for years. Other
made a previous one, and had been
deceased was neglected in
witnesses attempted to prove
and he had every pro-
i during live
surgeon, said that he had his last illness. Mr' Davies, surgeon,
dropsy,
Mr. Wilabore performed a post-
per at-
tendedca
re deceased
and
and ascertained that deceased died of
mortem examinationerdiet_e Natural Death."
chronic peritonitis. x
THE _
AMERICAN ARMY,—A pro-
A BONAPAIITErcIe
cadets of the Military Academy at
motion of forty-.tuhst
taken place in the United States army.
West Point hasJ
the number the name of the cadet Jerome
We remark smon3fte,
some
attention. t i e
who was No. 11 in his class time
Napoleon Bonaparte,
ii and who is appointed to the r
of the ex°P'm
rift em He is the grandson of Jerome Bonap
..
mounted rl-e-- • N of Westphalia,
MUD f the Emperor i apoleon, ex-King
brother o .
dent of the French Senate. dmother,
His gran
Iv President
resides in me
and no Patterson, first wife of Prince Jeib ,
an fortune, and is in possession of a considerable eg:t o!"
Baltimore,
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New fork Journal.