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London, England, 1862-06-06 00:00:00

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as one who has saved this country from great im-
pending calamity. The results are before us ; a
mutiny suppressed, public credit maintained, and
peace universal." (Hear, hear.) After putting down
the mutiny Lord Canning sought to conciliate the
natives, and with that view he travelled through
the country. He went to Oude in particular, the
province which had been most disaffected, and
which probably in the first instance had a great
share in the rebellion. That province was now
admitted to be the most peaceable and the most pros•
porous in India. (Hear.) Originally Lord Canning
went out to govern India in the name of the East
India Company, but on the suppression of the rebel-
lion the governing power was vested in the Crown,
and in the name of her Majesty he issued a proclama-
tion which still lived in the public recollection, hon-
ourable as it was to this country and grateful to the
native population. Alderman Salomons then briefly
adverted to the happy results of the establishment of
the new Order of Merit, the Star of India, which had
been awarded to some of the native chiefs, and to the
part which the Governor- General took in enfranchis-
ing the land,and afterwards in mitigating thepressure
of the famine, which followed on the heels of the
mutiny, With the termination of Lord Canning's
administration, the apex, as it were, had been placed
upon the pyramid; and the honorary freedom of
the Corporation of London had been extended to
Clyde, Outran', and Lawrence, he (Alderman Salo-
mons) now asked the Common Council to complete
the series by conferring a similar distinction on the
saviour of India. He moved accordingly,—
" That the freedom of this city, in a gold box of
the value of 100 guineas, be presented to Earl Can-
ning, in grateful recollection of his eminent services
while administering the Government of India at a
period of great peril, and in appreciation of the con-
ciliatory and enlightened policy of his subsequent
measure for the good government and permanent
improvement of that important dependency of the
British Crown." (Loud cheers.)
Mr. ROWE, in seconding the motion, said it would
remain on record, to the everlasting honour of Lord
Canning, that after our supremacy in India had
been re-established by the bravery of our soldiers,
sailors, and civilians, each vying with the other,
he tempered justice with mercy, and reinstated the
native princes, some of whom perhaps scarcely
deserved such clemency. Above all, he never for-
got that he was the representative of a Christian
monarch. His administration throughout was
marked by continual trouble. There were first
the difficulties inseparable from the dual Govern-
ments, then the mutiny, afterwards the transfer of
the Indian army, and, finally, the famine ; but if
his rule was replete with trouble. it was also marked
by great conquests and achievements, To the moral
force of the illustrious George Canning the emanci-
pation of our own people from religious disabilities
was mainly due, and it was reserved for his son to
emancipate the land of India, so that there, as in
England, any man might now own a freehold-
' (Hear, hear.)
The motion was then put and carried with &cola-
' mation.