The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-05 00:00:00

7"
They asked for Indian Indian councoduct ion of
the Indian ele nt into their Government. There was
no one who had attended the committees on this subject
but would admit that so far from there being a lack of
genius, power; intelligence, or high principle on tl ie part
of the civil servants in India, there was an abun dance ;
but, unfortunately, it was not found that these ;gentle.
men belonged to the court of directors ; and he tbought
that if we confided such powers to the court of directors,
the best we could do was to take some pains to insure
the admission into it of the largest amount of talent, the
greatest amount of experience, and the highest moral
and intellectual culture that we could. All this should
have access to the court, and should be directed and
turned to the public account both at home and abroad,
as regarded the civil service, more especially the judicial
service. The Lord Chief Justice of England had stated

eiloc
to no
fwi with
Indian the ju -
dthicaitalfrcoommmhiisttoeewnbeefxporeelvemncechitnhcoe
connection with the ju.
dicial committee before which the subj
' tri-
bunals were brought, nothing could be more discredit-
' able than the administration of Indian affairs was shown
to be. It would be a wonder if it were otherwise.
There was no specific education for those who enjoyed
this trust ; and it was uniformly found that of those more
distinguished students who went out from Haileybury,
the first and best .took to other departments ; the least
informed, the least promising, the worst, in one sense,
were sent to be the future judges of India ; and that
was not becoming, surely—that was not the way in
which the law should be administered—to select for the
judicial department, by an ingenious misapplication of
choice, exactly those who were the least fit for the
posts to which they were appointed. The inferior
judges were natives, and it could not be denied
that :their decisions had more weight than those of
theirieuperior. That was proved by the fact that when
both classes of decision came before a common court
of appeal, the Indian were more supported than the
European. There was no question that, as regarded the
natives, it would be the proper course to advance them
as they showed their qualifications and abilities in in-
ferior offices ; and to this was no answer to say that you
would not do so in the army service. He did not wish
to see natives at the head of the army, but what ex-
chided them from one e ffice did by no means necessarily
exclude them from another. He hoped that this peti-
tion would be referred to a committee of that house, and
investigated, not as a matter of form, but as a matter of
truth. He hoped that as much attention would be paid
to it, distant though the petitioners were, as if it came
. _

from the multitudes in the manufacturing districts.
The Earl of ABERDEEN did not mean to deny that
_ _

many of the recommendations of the petition deserved

the Trthst serious attention, but could not be expected
now to refer to any portions of that petition which it
was possible might be affected by the measure the
G-overnment proposed to introduce for the future go-

-ruitittitut of- indift,-,and be submitted-to the noble loid
that the proper place for considerhiribis petitio44o,
in the committee of which he (Lord Monteagle)
member.

The petition was then ordered to be referred to the
committee on Indian affairs.

The select committee to whom the Registration of
Assurances Bill had been ordered to be referred was no-
minated, and their lordships adjourned at twenty minutes
past seven o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
PRIVATE BILLS.

English and Australian Copper Company, United
Guarantee and Life Assurance Company, and West
Harptry Road Bills were read a second time.

Mr. -EVANS presented petitions from Derbyshire
against the admission of Jews into Parliament, and
against the opening of the Crystal palace on Sundays.
Mr. WHITMORE presented a petition from a place
in Surrey, against the admission of Jews into Parlia-
ment.

Mr. GROGAN presented a petition from Dublin,
against the Maynooth grant.
Mr. HUIT presented a petition from Gateshead,
praying for the passing of some measure for the sup-
pression of juvenile delinquency.
Mr. DEEDES presented a petition from the working
men of Sheerness, against the opening of the Crystal
Palace on Sundays.
Mr. KINNAIRD presented a petition from Perth
against the Maynooth grant.
Mr. DUFFY presented a petition from the North
Ward of Dublin, praying for the abolition of the free-
men's franchise.

Mr. MITCHELL presented a petition from Bridport
in favour of the Parliamentary enfranchisement of Lon-
don University.
Mr. MILES presented a petition from the Rev. G. A.
Denison, archdeacon of Taunton, on the subject of na-
tional education.

Sir B. HALL presented a petition from Marylebone,
against copyhold tenure.
. Mr. A. HASTIE presented a petition from the Cham-
ber of Commerce of Glasgow, praying that the Sheriffs'
Courts Bill be referred to a select committee.

Sir J. Y. MILLER presented a petition from Oak-
hampton, praying for a revision of the law of settlement.
Mr. BANKES presented a petition from the letter•
carriers of Dorchester, praying for relief.
Mr. W. 0. STANLEY- reported in the 'house that
the committee on the Waterford county election had
agreed to a resolution declaring John Esmond, Esq.,
duly elected, and that they had altered the poll by strik-
ing off three names from the list of persons who had
voted, as not being duly qualified.