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show forbearance on the present occasion. (Laughter.) As,
in spite of disadvantages of soil and climate, tho Scotch
were the best farmers and agriculturists in the kingdom,so
he hoped the difficulties of the income tax would prove a
benefit to them in another way. (Hear, and laughter.)
Sir J. YOUNG said the house was mistaken in suppos-
ing that any peculiar favour was shown to Ireland. (Oh,
oh.) The reason why the income tax was levied on the
poor-law assessment in Ireland was that there were so
many derivative interests that it would be impossible to
levy the tax except in that way.
The house divided 54
For Sir A. Campbell's clause
Against it 9B-44
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER, three new clauses were added to the bill in refer-
ence to deductions for poor rate paid by one party for
another.
Some verbal amendments were made in the other clause.
On clause 43,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed
the insertion of certain words in regard to assurance com-
panies. This clause could not come into operation till after
the sth of October. That being so, and as there was a
committee sitting on the subject of the registration .f joint
stock companies, he thought it better too take advantage of
what remained of the present session, in rder to determine
by some simple provision, to which he did not anticipate
any objection, ander what conditions exemptions should be
allowed for the annual premiums. This would give no pre-
ference to one company over another, and would leave the

matter quite open.
After a short conversation the amendment was agreed to.
On the motion that the bill do pass,
Capt. ARCHDALL asked whother the Chancellor of the
Exchequer would make the allowance which the poor law
commissioners promised should be made to the rate-payers
of Lowtherstown Union for the money paid by them under
the Relief Act ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that as
be understood the matter the advance was made under the
Temporary Relief Act, and not under the General Relief
Act. It was said that the poor law commissioners had
given an assurance that this money would be paid back,
but they declared that they had given no such assurance.
After a few words from Mr. J. BILL and Mr. FREWEN,

The bill was read a third time, and passed.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.—ADJOURNED

DEBATE.

On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned de-
bate on this bill being read,
_ _

Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE said it was with no ordinary
anxiety that he rose to express his opinions on a question,
on the proper solution of which depended the happiness of
by far the larger proportion of their fellow-subjects.
Differing as he did from the right hon. gentleman (Sir C.
Wood) in much which fell from him the other evening,
there was one point on which he-agreed with him, namely,
that, however theoretically absurd and anomalous the
frame of our Indian Government might be sup-
posed to be, still if it had really promoted the
happiness and welfare of those who were subject to its
dominion, it ought not to be abolished or even altered.
If, however, he were able to show that it had failed in the
discharge of, its sacred duties, and that not through acci-
dent, but owing to causes which had been repeatedly
pointed out by the greatest and wisest statesmen, including
Mr. Fox, Mr. Burke, and Lord Grenville, then he should
contend that uniform experience, as well as general reason-
ing, was in favour of the discontinuance of the present
system. He was ready to meet the right hon. gentleman
on the issue, whether the present mode of government had
been practically advantageous to the natives of India.
When the charter was last under the consideration of the
house, the right hon. gentleman the member for Edinburgh,
who proposed the bill for its renewal, insisted especially on
two points—the necessity of employing the natives, and
the necessity (the paramount necessity, as he termed it) of
a code for India. The right hon. gentleman said—" There
is one part of the bill on which, after what has passed else-
where, I feel myself irresistibly impelled to say a few
words. I allude to that wise, that benevolent, that noble
clause, which enacts that no native of our Indian empire
shall, by reason of his colour, his descent, or his religion,
be disabled from holding office." Now what had been the
conduct of the East India Company since that language, so
worthy of an enlightened statesman, was used ? Why,
from that time to this, not a single native of India had
obtained an office to which he was not eligible before.
(Hear, hear.) Again, the right hon. gentleman (Mr.

Macaulay) said no country ever stood so much in need of a
code as India, and he added—and he (Mr. Phillimore) re•
quested the attention of the house to this statement—that
there never was a country in which that need could be so
easily supplied. In describing the state of the law, the
right hou. gentleman said, " The whole is a matter of
chance. Even in this country we have had complaints of
judge-made law, where thore is everything that can miti-
gate the evils of such a system ; but judge-made law where
there is absolute government and lax morality—where
there is no bar and no public—is a curse and a scandal not
to be endured." Now, what was the commentary ou this
text ? One of the most able civil servants of the Crown