The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-14 00:00:00

have felt himself called upon to obtrude upon their at-
tention
on this occasion, were it not that he knew it
would be agreeable to their feelings that they should
not part without paying a tribute to the chairman of
the East India Company. (Applause.) With respect
to the particular occasion on which they had met—the
occasion of celebrating the appointment of his noble
friend to an important station in India—he need scarcely
say anything. As one of her Majesty's Ministers, they
had already spoken by the mouth of their foreman—his
noble friend near him, and who was the first in official
rank among them, and by whom they had been ably re-
presented to-day—so that there could be no doubt as to
their feelings on the appointment. In another capacity
he might be held to appear among them as a member of
one. of the most important constitutional authorities in
the country—the House of Lords, who, as well as the
other house of Parliament, have always been in connec-
tion with the East India Company, and who have ever
felt the advantage of leaving the affairs of the company
in the hands of the directors or their shairman ; and he
was sure both houses would always be ready to ac-
knowledge the merit, the skill, and the judgment with
which they had administered them. As a member of
the House of Lords he was certain he spoke the feelings
of all composing that assembly when he said that if a vote
could have been proposed there, or if any proposition
could have been made in conformity with the principles
of the constitution with respect to the merits of die
selection which the East India Company had made in
the new governor of Bombay—if ever vote was passed
unanimously in the House of Lords, that vote would
have been a vote in favour of his noble friend. (Ap-
plause.) There are and there always have been in that
house members who derive their right to sit in that as-
sembly from their connection with servives rendered in
India to the East India Company and to the country at
large. Even in this room they had great living instances
—(applause)—and among the first families in the coun-
try there were persons who dated their origin and their
position from services in the East. There were others
who had made for themselves a career, in some respects
a new career, by serving not only the company, with zeal
and fidelity, but also, as-his noble friend had told them,
by holding it to be a great and solemn duty so to admi-
nister the affairs of the country as to benefit the natives
who were committed to their charge. He bid every
confidence that Parliament had acted wisely in placing
the government of India once more in the halals of the
Company, and his confidence was all the greater from
finding his honourable friend in the chair placed at the
head of the Company, to whom he begged to return
thanks for the generous hospitality with which he had
brought them together to-day, and he would beg to pro-
pose as a toast " The Chairman and Directors of the
East India Company." (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and afterwards pro-
posed " Mr. Millett and the Civil Service."
Mr. MILLETT returned thanks.

The CHAIRMAN then proposed "The Indian Army,"
whose services he said it would be impossible to over-
estimate. (Applause.)
Sir GEORGE POLLOCK, in returning thanks, said he
was gratified to have that opportunity of acknowledging
publicly how much he bad been indebted to the officers
who served under his command, for they had served
him with heart and soul. With respec tto the army of
India, he need only say that it was always ready to act,
and that it always acted with effect, whether in the east
or the west. But after the eulogium that had been pro-
nounced on that army by Lord Hardinge it was un-
necessary for him to add another word. (Applause.)
The last toast of the evening was, "The Indian Navy,"
which was replied to by Captain Campbell, after which
the company separated.