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TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.
Bir,—lt is desirable that the public in Pngland should
know what is said on this subject in India, I tAerefore
enclose you a leading article from the Friend °finals
of the 3d of June, which I hope you will insert.
The Friend of India, on the 10th of June also si Irs—
"lt is a singular tact, and one which seems t o us
strongly indicative of the want of interest in Et 4
about India affairs, that not one of the London ix ipers
we have seen has published the list of the Indian ,:..om-
mittee. Even the Atlas for India and the ilome AVews
are silent on the subject, and wo should have had anfAlber
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-one
members. Its labours:tiease, of course, with the expiring
Parliament, and
_though it is probable the same Committee
will again be nominated, it is not likely that ally serious
business will come before it until the commencement of
the autumn session."

COMMITTER. •
Mr, Herries ' Mr. Hardinge
Lord J. Russell Sir J. E. Tennent
Sir C. Wood Sir J. Hogg
Mr. Gladstone Mr. Bankes
Mr. Labouchere Mr. R. Hildyard
Mr. Alderman Thompson Mr. Moore
Sir R. Inglis Mr. Cobden .
Mr. Disraeli Mr. M. Gibson
Mr. Baring Mr. Mangles
Mr. Baillie Mr. Hume
Mr. Ne wdegate Mr. V. Smith
Sir W. Molesworth Mr. J. Wilson
Viscount Jocelyn Sir E. Colebrooke
•
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 see the names of Mr; Macaulay, Mr. Bright, Mr.
Roebuck, Mr. Bernal Osborne, Sir James Graham, and
such like.—youn, &a.

A CoNsTANT READER.

The charter debate in the House of Commons came
off on the 19th of April, when Mr. Herries, the Presi-
dent of the Board of Control, moved for the appoint-
ment of a Committee to take into consideration the Act
pasoed 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
180 Members were assembled and voted one day after.
It affords matter for deep and melancholy reflection that
when the affairs of a hundred and fifty millions of beings
for whose happiness Great 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 hub 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 leit 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 abroad requires the vigilant eye of Parliament.
Oneauthoarnitiimesa,teodr adebatehundred
n tah
articles
ia lHouse
asof t Commons
hreo
local
more good in India than fifty dispatches
from
from the local
Whatever form may be given the Indian Administra-
tion, it is the interest taken inits affairs by the great
council of the nation that lifeinfuses does
press.
to
Bat this debate has taught us and energy into it.
Parliament can in no wise be broughtthe
to painful truth that
interest in any Indian question; that if
the smallest
re-
quired to clear the House, a em leer has itbe ever
pro-
nounce the name of India. The debate has onlyaio to
taught
us that the present system, without modifications
o
provement, is to be perpetuated for twenty years r more,nla
with all its anomalies and defects. It was well known
that the Whigs, if they had continued in power, Were
resolved to make no alterations whatever in the present
system. The charter of 1833 was a Whig measure, and
Lord John Russell bad determined to apply his own
principle of finality to it. Whatever trifling and 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, whieli
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 bad 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 Mahomedan des-
potism. But it was certainly expected that the Conser-
vatives, who were not responsible for the Act of 1833,
would not have shrUnk from a thorough examination
of its operation, that they would have made a root and
branch inquiry into the defects of the Indian adminis-
tration; and, instead of confining themselves, like the
Whigs, to the admiration of tho past, they would,
like honest British statesmen, have addressed
themselves to the improvement of the future. All
these hopes have. been dashed to the ground by Mr.
flerries's speech, the lest sentence of which may be con-
sidered as the funeral knell of all reformation or im-
provement fur the next twenty years, 6' As now ad-
vised, I contend that the present system is the best."
Even Mr. Mime, a radical reformer on every question
but that of India, regards the present order of things with
perfect complacency, and has no objections to allege to
it but that the Court bad not paid sufficient attention to
road-making and irrigation. None of the Manchester
Ba,aaat spoke on the occasion. Sir James Weir Hogg
and Mr. Mangles, who represented the court of directors,
lauded their own government to the skies, as in duty
bound, only this latter gentleman took the opportunity
of avenging himself on that moat august 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 had returned from India from taking
office,—and thus en led 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
panics are made up to the perpetuation of the present
system, the appointment of any Committee whatever
appears to be redundant. It would be tar more advisable
to peas a short Act of half a dozen lines to enact that
the Act, of the 3d and 4th Will_ IV,
e. bo, was extended
to the year 1874, without modification than to enact the
solemn farce of appointing a Committee which Whigs,
Tories, and Radicals intend shall lead to no result. All
these three parties in 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 pa' ronage shall not go to the Crown, but shall
contiu.un abiolutely vested in the Court of Directors,
a reward for governing India—the most costlyruiwd be
as Lord William Bentinck remarked,
which
-co
thaught of. Al; parties egret- that India i 9 prosperous
andit d_heppy .that jenelled
" she wears liej,ilu,firuer"e" b„ been a
turb.:ll with a smile of peace•
a though there has
lirgo increase of revenue,
aona tlay sincewar
been a greater increase ofo.,
high congatnlation, be-
eaaSad, yet this is a subject
laid
cut .n
local improve-
cause the money has been , A
trapiOyeu in the public
meets. Natives bave lona, been completely nation-
service; our administration
native out of a hundred and
alised, by bestowing (who is this fortunate man?),
fifty 1,560 L a 'lt
f 8401. to 960/. We have ex-
and on eight others r°
er cent. of the revenues of the coun-
peiaded one or twoe;
we have appropriated, at this
try in Public 0-tve3,ooo/. out of a revenue of sixteen
presidency, ab° to national instruction; and—what is
millions sterlMiesr.
ferries as the highest and most un-
cousidered y
baen of national improvement—Government
" ate°d the number of chaplains, entertained for
equivocalba")--cfi: of its European and Christian •establish-
the benefit
and thirty. eed, then,
to ene
move he f zany inquiry into, the workingg
of a sys-
here -°
can g
government so perfect? hat need of examini
f examining
tern
her an instrument, not created by design or skill,
et 'd tally put together at different times d but noel en 213 by
different workmen, is not susceptible
, of great improve-
ments? But India is a " bore; the real language of
the debate is, " Don't bother us with the subject. Lee
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,
or
even than the Colonial-office, and what more can the
in-
habitants of India in all reason and conscience desiree?

DEATH OF AN ALLEGED BIGAMIST..--011 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 'u
Henry-street, Hampstead-road, in one of which she resided,
and there became acquainted with deceased. .Formerly
wife had him arrested for bigamy, and,
liyed'at the Hope Nursery, Camden.town, but liie r
admit him to her home after his discharge Imar,
Ji Pbut had
took lodgings at 1, Brook-terrace, Regent's-P
d him during five
his meals at witness's house. She attertle. bed,
from weeks' illness, and daring his confinement w
~ , her presence. A
Sa-
turday until Tuesday, when he died was attested by
having refusedto,
he
week before his death he made a Iv
or,.
her father and mother in her favour.
the Marylebone work-
Wm. Hathaway, de-
ceased's brother, and an inmate
been insane for years. Other
invalid, as his brother had
and h
that deceased was neglected in
house ,
a declaredprev previous
ethat
one, the will
had
witnesses attempted to prove
ies.
a surgeon, said that he had at-
his last illness.
air. Wildbore performed a post-
per care and attentiound
ascertained that deceased died of
mortent examination,j6.__dict_66Natural Death."
peritonitis. am
tended deceased some3ir. Davies,
for dropsy, and he had every pro-
chronic
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