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LONDON, TUESDAY MT-ENING, JUNE 8, 1858.

NOTICE. - MR. RAREY'S ARRANGE-
MENTS for Teaching his Method of TRAINING COLTS
and TAMING VICIOUS HORSES, after his return from Scotland,
are as follow : —THURSDAY, I7th ; SATURDAY, 19th ; and
MONDAY, the 21st, at the ROUND lIOUSE, Kinnerton street,
Motcombe-street, Belgravia. Lessons to commence at 12 o'clock
punctually.
New subscribers admitted at half-past 11.
Mr. Rarey has (by permission of the Council of the Zoological
Society) subjected a Zebra to his process.
Mr. Rarey will exhibit this beautiful animal to subscribers on the
17th, 19th, and 21st June.
The subscription is Ten Guineas for a Gentleman, and Fifteen
Guineas for a Lady and Gentleman.
Further information and forms for Subscription may be obtained
on application to the Secretary, at Messrs. TattersalLs', Grosvenor-
place.

GRAND CEREMONY and FESTIVAL on
the 18th of June next, at the OPENING of the SOLDIERS'
DAUGHTERS' HOME, Hampstead, by his Royal Highness the
PRINCE CONSORT, who, with his Royal Highness the PRINCE
of WALES, have been graciously pleased to purchase Presentations
to the Home.

Several Military Bands will play in the beautiful Grounds of the
Home, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has promised
to be present.
Admission by purchased tickets, to be had only at the Office
of the Home, No. 7, Whitehall, (exactly opposite the Horse Guards).
A single ticket for the Ceremony and Grounds, 10s. ; a double ticket,
15s. ; a reserved seat for the Ceremony and the Breakfast, 20s
Omnibuses start from the Tottenham-court-road end of Oxford-
street every 12 minutes, reaching Hampstead, without changing, in
30 minutes, ar.d carriages will take less than half-au-hour in reach-
ing the Home, through the Noril Gate. Regent's Park.
H. L. POWYS, MAJOR, Chairman.
The Ceremony will commence at Three o'clock, p.m.
BANK

OF DEPOSIT,
Establif,hel A.D. 1844.
3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON.

Parties desirous of INYESTINO MONEY are requested to examine
the Plan of the BANK OF DEPOSIT, by which a high rate of interest
may be obtained with ample security.
The Interest is payable in January and July.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.
Forms for opening accounts sent free, on application.

NIVEYMOUTH and CHANNEL ISLANDS
STEAM-I' ,CKET COMPANY (Limited).—DAY.PA
SAGES to GUERNSEY and JERSEY.—The CYGNUS or AQUILA
every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, at 8.0 a.m.,
from WEYMOu TH HARBOUR; and on MONDAY, IVEDNES-
DAY,. and FRIDAY, at 6.30 a.m., from JERSEY (calling at
Guernsey) ; with Goods and Passengers.
FARES.

From Paddington, Ist class.... 3 ls.-2nd class.... 21s.
From Weymouth ..•• •• •• 12s.

Steward's fees „ 2s. „ is.
Through booking from all the principal stations on the Cireat
Western Railway.

jTOSEPII MAUNDERS, Manager and Secretary.

29th May, 1858.

LONDON AND NORTH-WE
AND MID LAND RAILWAYS.
A Cheap EXCURSION TRAIN will leave the Eu:
Loadon, on SATUDAY, JUNE 12th, at 10.10 a.m , to I.
NOTTINGIIAM, DERBY, SHEFFIELD, LEEDS,
YORK, and other Stations, at the following Fares:—
Fares for the Double Journey.
.. First Class

Leicester ..
Loughborough ..
Nottingham
Newark ..
Lincoln .. ••
Derby
Chestsrfleld
M asborough
Sheffield ..
Oakeushaw (for Wakefield) .. ••
Normanton
Leeds •.
Ship!ey
Bradford ..
York ••

•• •• ••
Eetaming Wednesday,

June 16th.

STERN

iston Station.
,EICESTER,
BRADFORD,

Covered
Carriages.

A Special Train to London (Easton square Station), via the Mid'
land and London and North- Western Railways, will leave Notting-
ham, on Monday, July sth ; returning from London (Euston-square
Station), on Tuesday Evening, July Gth.
By Order.
Ueneral Manager'j Office, Euston Station, Juae, lisB.

VARDEN, Mayor.—ln a MEETING or As-
sembly of the M tYOR, ALDERMEN, and LIVERYMEN of
the several COMPANIES of the CITY of LONDON, in Common
Hall assembled, at the Guildhall of the said City, on Monday, the
7th day of June, 1855,—
Resolved unanimously,—That this Common Hill Icarus with sur-
f r se and concern that a Bill has been introduced into the House of
Commons, intituled 9 A Bill for the better Regulation of the Corpo-
ration of the City of London," by which It is sought to deprive the
Livery of this City of their ancient rights, granted to them by Roy I
charters, confirmed by acts of Par lament, and enjoyed for six hun-
dred and fifty years, of mee:ing and voting in Common Hall for
Lord MaYeir, Sheriff 4, Chamberlain, Bridgemastere, Auditors, and
other WTI era of the Corporation and that the said Bill also contains
clauses aboiLhing the rights of the City in certain dues and metage,
without compen,ation, thereby introducing a principle of conasca-
lion which, if affirmed, wilt re der insecure the foundation of pro-
perty granted by charters and confirmed by acts of Parliament.
It, solved unanimously,—That Petitions embracing the foregoing
Eesolut'on be forthwith presented to both Houses of Parliament.
It. solved unanimously, —That the Petition now read be adopted,
and as the 1 rill stands to be read a third time this evening, the Petition
to the house a' Commons be signed by the Right Honourable the Lord
Mayor, four A'dermen, and twen,y Liverymen on behalf of this Com-
mon Dal, and presented to the said House, and that a s:milar petition
be presented to the House of Lords, to be signed by the Livery as
numerously a, time will permit ; and that the Members for the Cety,
together with the Right Honourable the Lord Slayer, William Cubitt,
Esq., Alderman, Edward Ball, Esq., and other Members of the
House of Commons connected with the City, be requested to support
the prayer of the Petition to the House of Commons.

Riseivcd unanimously,—That in the event ofthe bill passing into
the Rouie of Lords, tha: a dutiful and loyal Address, founded upon
the first Resolution, be pre<cnied to her Most Gracious Majesty the
Queen, signed by the Town Clerk; and that the Sheriffs, attended by
the Remembrancer, do wait upon her Majesty to know her Royal
will and plewure as to the time of receiving the same.

Resolved unanimously,—That the Master and Wardens of the
several Companies be res ectfally requested to facilitate the signing
of the Petition to the House of Lords ; and that they also be re-
quested to prevent Petitions to both Houses of Parliament in defence
of the rights and privileges of their respective Liveries.
Resolved unimimously,—That this Common Hall approves of the
proceeiings of the Committee of Liverymen appointed the 28th day
of October, 1856, to watch the progress of any Bill which might be
brought-into Parliament affecting the Corporation ; and that such
Committee is hereby appointed to continue to act on behalf of this
Common Hall in taking all such steps as they may deem advisable,
to uphold the rights and privileges of the Livery of London. And
that such Committee is hereby empower d to add any Liverymen
to such Committee as they may think proper.
Resolved unanimously, —That the thanks of the Livery are due,
and are cordially offered to Sir James Duke, Baronet, Alderman,
M.P., and William Cubitt, Esq., Alderman, M.P., for their services
on behalf of this Livery, with respect to this Bill.
Resolved unanimously,—That this Common Hall desires to thank
the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walter Carden, M.P., Lord Mayor,
for the promptitude with which he complied with the requisition for
calling this meeting, and for the courtesy with which he has pre-
sided on the present occasion.

NORT LI OF EITROPE STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY.

Yesterday afternoon an extraordinary general meeting
of the shareholders in this company was held at the Lon-
don Tavern, for the purpose of receiving a report from the
directors upon the affairs of the company. Mr. C.
Morrison, chairman of the board of directors, presided.
The CHAIRMAN commented upon the items of the re-
port, bat said he had nothing new to add to it. The
estimated value of the fourteen remaining ships of the
company was based upon the actual sales of the last six
months. The estimate vas taken at a very low figure, as
was also the estimate of all the other property belonging
to the company. The works and factory at Lowestoft were
not valued. They no doubt formed a very valuable pro-
perty; but it was not a property of easy sale, and the
directors were decidedly adverse to any forced sale. lie
concluded by moving the adoption of the report.
Mr. LEE STEVENS, one of the committee referred to in
the report, said the committee were not unanimous in any
one thing. They all appeared to entertain individual
opissions en everything they discussed, and nothing could
therefore be agreed upon.
A letter was read from Mr. Gainsford, another member
of the committee, in which he declined to absolve Sir S.
M. Peto, Bart., from responsibility as a former director of
the company.
Mr. WHEELER, another member of the committee, and
a director, said the committee made an attempt to
organise a new company, but it failed. Finding that they
could agree to no precise plan of arrangement, they finally
separated without making any report.
Mr. HANTIAR, a third member of the committee, said
at an interview which they had with Sir S. M. Peto and
four other of the old directors, Sir S. M. Peto repudiated
all legal or moral responsibility in connexion with the
company.

Some discussion followed upon the transactions alluded
to in the report, and upon the sale of the ships disposed of
since the last meeting. In reply to some questions upon
the latter subject, the chairman said they had been sold
for the best price that could be obtained; he detailed the
progress of the negotiations with various parties for their
sale, and stated that they had been offered to the General
Steam Navigation Company, and refused by them.
Mr. ABEL then moved as an amendment, " That owing
to the conduct of the late directors the report be not re-
ceived." In support of this amendment Mr. Abel remarked
that the directors, in their reports of 1853, 1854, and 1855,
had represented the company as prosperous, add they had
declared dividends of Bto 10 par c:nt. They now pro-
tested that they were ignorant of the real state of tho
company, but he could not reconcile this profession with
their selling their shares and getting out of the concern.
Five of the directors had reduced their aggregate holding
from 800 to 250 shares. Mr. Abel further commented on
fallacious anticipations which had been held out, and
which had resulted in a loss, proved by the investigations
of the committee to be not less than 350,0001. He observed
that the ships which hadjust been sold to Sir S. Peto for
28,0001. had been valued only a year ago, by an efficer ap-
pointed by the board, at 63,000/.
The amendment was seconded by Mr. GODSON, but,
after some discussion, the mover and seconder agre sd to
withdraw it and substitute the following : —" That the re-
port bo received and adopted, but that this meeting feels
called upon to expr.:ss its opinion that the conduct of the
late Board of Directors in issuing reports and declaring
dividends, which are now shown to have been false, and in
the means resorted to by them in the month of March last
year, for concealing the real condition of the company, has
been moat unjustifiable, inasmuch as it was calculated to
be of pernicious example in this trading and commercial
community, besides being certain to be attended with dis-
astrous consequences to the public confiding in the state-
ments and characters of public men, and, therefore, is de-
serving the most serious reprobation which the shareholders
in this company can pronounce."
The amendment was negatived on a show of hands:
whereupon Mr. Godson and Mr. Abel demanded a poll. It
was fixed to take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday, from 10 to 1 o'clock on each day, at the offices
of the company; and the meeting was adjourned till Fri-
day, to receive the report of the scrutineers.
A second extraordinary meeting was then held to con-
firm the resolution agreed to at a previous meeting for
v y ; and a formal reso-
luotlSieoinratSaw.riaMlsy.pwPaisEnsTedodinfwgoirushtphedatthtepoucsroapmisaea.nfew words with refe-
rence to the three vessels which he had purchased. He
now made this offer to the liquidator; that those ships
should be at, their disposal for the next month ; and if
during that polka they could get a better price for them
than he had given, or a better price for the others by
putting them together, those three vessels should -be
wholly at their service.
The meeting then separated.

P4II?LIAAIENT4BY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-Jumm 7.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

I(In the Committee.) 3. Question again proposed, "That in
, order to assist such Minister of the Crown in the discharge
of his duties, it is expedient that a Council of not less than
twelve nor more than eighteen 'Members :"—Amendment
proposed, to leave out from the first word 0 That," to the
end of the Question, in order to add the words " regard
being had to the position of Affairs in India, it is expedient
to constitute the Court of Directors of the East India Com-
pany, by an Act of the present session, to be a Council for
administering the Government of India, in the name of her
Majesty, under the superintendence of such responsible
Minister, until the end of the next session of Parliament :"
_Question put, " That the words ' in order to assist such
Minister of the Crown,' stand part of the proposed Resolu-
tion :"—The Committee divided ; Ayes 265, Noes 116.
AYES-265.
Adams, W. 11. Freestun, Colonel Norreys, Sir D.
Adderlcy, C. B. Galway, Viscount North, Colonel
Akroyd, E. Gard. R. North, F.
Alcock, T. Garnett, William O'Brien, P.
Alexander, J. GffisOn, Milner • Ogilvy, Sir J.
Anderson Sir J. Glyn, G. Owen, Sir J.
Arehdall;Capt. M. Goddard, A. Parke, C.
Ashley, Lord Goderich, VisCOUnt Paget, C.
Atherton, W. Gore, W. R. - Pakington, Sir J.
Ayrton, A. reenll, Gilbert Palmer, R.
Bailey, C. Greene, John Palmerston, Viscount
Bernie, 11. ereAnrOod, John Paull, Henry
Baines, Rt. lion. M. Gregson, Samuel Peel, Gen.
Ball, E . Grey, R. Perry, Sir E.
Baring, T. G. Griffith, C, Philips, R.-
Barnard, Thomas Grogan, Edward Powell, Francis
Bernard, W. Gurdon, Brampton Power, N.
Barrow W. Gurney, I. H. Pryse, E.
Bathurst, A. A. HadiFeld; Geneve Pritchard, J.
Raxter, W. HalleSir Benjamin Proby, G.
Beach, W. Hamiltbn, Lord Claud Pugh, D.
Beecrolt, G. Hamilton, G. A. Puller, Christopher
Bennet, Capt. P. Hamilton' Capt. Ramsay, Sir A.
Bentinck, G. Handley, H. Rebow, J.
Brake, J. Harcourt, G. G. Repton, G.
fllakemore, P. Hardy, G. Ricardo, 0.
Bland, L. H. Harris, J. D. Roebuck, J. A.
Bouverie, Hon. E. P. Hateeell, John Roupell, W.
Bouverie, lion. P. Hayes, Sir E. Russell, Lord J.
Bowyer. G. Ilayter,Sir W. Russell, A.
Brady, J. Heard, J. Russell, F. W.
Brand, Hon. H. Henley, J. Rust, James
Bridges, Sirß. Herbert, 11. Schneider, Henry
Bright, John Hill, Lord E. Selater, George
Brocklehurst, J. HoltOrd, It. Scott, Major
Browne, Lord John Hopwood, John Scrope, G.
Buchanan, Walter Hornby, W. Seymour, Danby
Buckley, Gen. Hotham, Lord Shirley, E.
Buller, J. W. Hadson, G. Sibthorp, Major
Butler, C. S. Hume, W. Smith, J. B.
Byng, G. 11. C. Hunt, G. W. Smith, V.
Caird, J. Inglis, John Spooner, R.
Cairns, 11. Jervoise, Sir J. Stanley, LoM
Calcott, M. Johnstoue, H. B. Stapleton,John
Campbell, R. Jones, D. Stephenson, Robert
Cardwell, E Kelly, Sir F. Steuart, A.
Carnac, Sir J. R. Kinglake, J. Stuart, Lord J.
Cartwright, 11. Klunaird, A.
Stuart, Colonel
Cheetham, John Kirk, W. Sturt, H.
Child, Smith Knatchbull, W. Sturt, C.
Clay,Churchill,
T.
Clifford, A. Knatchbull-Hugtlessen Sullivan, Michael
Knox, Col. B. ler.
Clifford, C. C. Thornhill, W.
Clive, R. Labouchere,ltt.lion./.1 Tite, W.
Cobbold, J. C Langston, J. a. Towline, G.
Codrington, Sir W.C. Langton, w. 0. Townshend, J.
Cole, H. A. Lefroy, Anthony Trollope, Sir J.
.2olaer, It. P. Lennox, Lord A. F. Truman, C.
Couitigharn, W. Leliliox, Lord H. G. Vance, John
Lewis, Sir G. C.
Cooper, E. J . Vansittart, G.
Conte, Sir C. li. Lindsay, W. Vansittart, IV.
Locks, Jolla
Corry, H. T. L. Vivian, J. C.
Crauturd, E. U. J. Lovame, Lord Waddington, 11.
Lowe, IL
Cross, R. A. Walcott, Admiral.
Luce, T.
Crossley, F. Wa:pole. S.
L:vgon, Hon. r.
Daiglish, R. Walsh, Sir J.
Denison, W. 11. 31acarthy, Alex. Warren, S.
Disraeli, B. 3beartneY, George Watkins, Col.
Drummond, 11. Mackie, J. We:by, W.
Du Cane, C. meditation, W. Whatman, J.
Duff, Si. Malins, Richard White, Henry
Dunbar, Sir W. Mauners, Lord J. Whiteside, J.
Duncan, Viscount Marsh, M. Whitmoro, H.
Dundas, G. Marshall, William Williams, W.
Dun kellin, Lord Martin, C. • Wilson, J.
Du Pre, C. Martin, P. 'Wise, J.
Dutton, lion. R. 11. Massey, W. Wood, Sir C.
Egerton, Sir I'. Meflor, John Wool, W.
Elm'ey, Viscount Miles, W. Wyld, James
Eatcourt, T. Miler, Taverner IVyndliam, General
Evans, T. IV. Miller, Stearns Wynn, Col.
Fagan, W. Mills, Arthur Wyline, W.
Farquhar, Sir M. Mills, T. Wyvill, 31.
Fellowss, E. Moniell, IV, Yorke, E.
Fitzgerald, W. R. S. Morgan, 0. Young, A.
Fitzgerald, J. Mowbray, J. R.
Forde, Colonel Naas, Lord TELLEIIS.
Forester, Cul. Neeld, John
Foster, W. 0. Newark, Viscount Joiliffe, Sir W.
Fortescue, C. S. Newport, Viscount Taylor, Colonel

NOES-116.
Adair, He Ewart, W. Paxton, Sir J
Baring, A. Ewart, J. Pease, Henry
Baring, Sir F. Ewing, Crum Pennant, Cot. E.
Baring, T. Ferguson, Sir Robert Pevensey, Viscount
Bass, M. Finlay, A. Philipps, J.
Beale, S. Ga.skell, J. Fi,:ott, F.
ISlggs, John Gifford, Earl of Pinney, Col.
Black, Adam Glyn, G. Itawdeson, Sir 11.
Blackburn, Peter Graham, Sir J. Ridley, George
Boldero, Col. 11. G. Gr(;.ives, E. Itobartes, T.
Brantley- Itoore, J.. Hankey/P. Robertson, P.
Brautston, T. W Maw, Sir John, Itolt, P.
Briscoe, John. Hassartl, Michael Scott, F.
Brown, J. Ileadlam, T. Scymer, 11.
Brown, W. Heathcoate, Sir W. S' eridan, R.
Bruce, Major Hill, Hon. R. Sianey, It.
Buxton, C. Hope, Alexander Smith, Sir F.
Calcratt, J. Horafall, T. Smyth, Col.
Clifford, Lt.-Col. IL M Horsman, E. Smollett, A.
Colebrooke, Sir E. Howard, Lord E. Spaigkt, James
Cowan, C. Ingham, R. Stanhope, J.
Cox, W. Johnstone, Hope Stanley, W.
Crawford, R. W. Johnstone, Sir J. Steel, John
Crook, J. Kin lake, A. Stirling, W.
Hoodoo, William. Langton, 11. G. Stewart, Sir M.
Denison, E. Legh, G. C. Syker, Colonel
Dent, John Leslie, C. F. Talbot, C.
De Vere, S. E. Liddell, El. G. Tancred, H.
Dill wyn, L. L. Locke, J. Thompson, General
Duff, L. Lockhart, A. E. Vane, Lord IL
Dunlop, A. Lyall, George Verney, Sir H.
East, Sir J. Macaulay, Kenneth Wegaelin, T.
Egerton, Edw. C Marjoribanks, D. White, James
Elcho, Lord Melgund, Lord Willcox, B.
Ellice, E. Milner, R. Willoughby, J.
Ellice, E. Morris, I). Wilmington, Sir T.
Elliott, J. E. Nicoll, D.
Elphinstone, Sir J. Nisbet, R. P. TELLERS.
Elton, Sir A. H. Paget, Lord C. Gladstone, W.
Euston, Earl of Paltenham, Colonel Bovill, W.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.

INDEPENDENT OPPOSITION.

The Cork Constitution, publishes a remarkable
correspondence which has passed between the Irish
Executive and Mr. John Francis Maguire, one of
the leaders of the independent contingent in the
House of Commons, It is quite unnecessary to
recall to mind the support given by those gentle-
men to the Ministry on a recent very urgent occa-
sion. Whether that support had anything to do
with the offer of the commission of the peace to Mr.
Maguire is, of course, a matter of speculation, and
no more. Meanwhile, the public will read with
pleasure the interchange of courtesies between the
member for Dungarvan and the head of the Irish
GoVernment

" Secretary's Office, Court of Chancery,
Dublin, May 29.
"Sir ,—His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant having
thought it advisable to assign to you her Majesty's corn-
mission of the peace for the borough of Cork, I am to in-
form you that to enable you to take out the commission it
will be necessary that an application either in person, or
by some person in your behalf, should be made at this
office for the warrant.—I have the honour to be, sir, your
obedient servant,

" JOHN AD AIR, Secretary.
I, John Francis 3daguiro, E3q, Al P., Cork."

" Cork, May 31.
" Sir,—ln reply to your communication of yesterday,
appri,ing me of the fact that his Excellency the Lord-Lieu.
tenant had been pleased to assign to me the commission of
the peace for the borough of Cork, I beg to inform you
that—for reasons Which, by this post, I have stated to his
Excallaccy—it is not my intention to apply for the said
commission.
" Sir, I have the honour to remain your obedient ser-
vant, JOHN FRANGIg MAGUIRE.
"John Adair, Esq., Secretary
to the Lord Chancellor."

Cork, a 31, 1853.
is my Lord,—l hsve, in the first " place, toM rety urn you my
sincere acknowledgments for your kindness in ' assigning
to me the commission of ,the Peace'—a fact of which I have
been made aware through an official letter addressed to me
by the Seeretary of the Chancellor. Baying thus expressed
my thanks for your Excellency's unlooked-for kindness, I
e
thgreatest Personal respect for your Ex-
beg leave, with
cellency, to decline accepting the honour intended for me.
d, my motive is a simple one, I desire not only to main-
tain my political independence in and out of the House of
Commons, but not to risk even the appearance of its forfei-
ture. I gave a cordial support to her Majesty's Ministers
in their late struggle against a dishonest resolution and an
unprincipled cabal. I did so because I felt the Govern-
ment were is th3right, and that their enemies wore in the
did I receive even so trifling a favour as the
wrong. But
ease from
commission of the Your Excellency's hands it
not know me,or who have an
might be said—by those who do
interest in misreprasenting the party to which I belong,
and the policy which .I have persistEnly pursued—that I
was anxi nis to propitiate the Tory Administration, and
acted with a view to some ulterior object.
" Under these circumstances, I feel compelled, in self-
defence, to perform
the seemingly ungracious act of refus-
ing a favour kindly intended and delicately offered.
" I assure your Excellency I appreciate 3 our unhooked-
for courtesy the more from the fact that the application of
the Town Council of this city, over which I presided as
in 1853, was refused in 1851 from motives of hosti-
lity,
Mayor
the result of political anial°saY--the application being
made with a view of farther rewarding one who, with all
his faults, had been an active chief magistrate.
~ Respectfully requesting that your Excellency will
communicate the purport of this note to Lor 1 Naas and
lir. Whiteside,
_I remain, gratefully and sincerely yours,
I 4 r
U 0111,1 FRANCIS MAGUIRE."

• " Viceregal-lodge, June 1.
"Sir,--I regret that you should find it necessary to refuse
to be paced on the commissicn of the peace for the city of
Cork, though I cannot but honour the motives by which
you are actuated. I can only assure You on my part that
if you had accepted tho offer, I should not for a moment
have imagined that you wore in the slightest degree
pledged to support the Government of which I am a mem-
ber; nor did I consider that in making the offer I was
doing more than a simple act of justice find impartiality.
—I have the honour to be, your obedient servant,
EGLINTON AND WINTON.
" J. F. Maguire, Esq., M.P."

Messrs. Lock and 13rassey have acquired fresh laurels
by the punctual delivery of the Cherbourg line to the
French Government,

THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILE.

(Pr•om the Times)

We are aware that it entails a positive loss of
caste in some quarters to speak with the most mo-
derate and qualified respect of the people of Eng-
land and the British House of Commons. ft is
the faith of our high political Brahmins that the
people are " accursed," and the House of Com-
mons, their best representative, equally ignorant,
self-willed, and presumptuous. It is, then,- at some
risk to our reputation in these quarters, that we
venture to express our belief that never was there
so deliberate an insult to the House of Commons
and the people of England as the speech—we say,
not the motion, but the speech—of the member for
the University of Oxford last night. After very
ample notice, and after much out-door discussion,
the subject of India has been before Parliament the
whole of the Session in the form of two bills and a
series of resolutions as good as a third measure.
The house has twice most steadily and energetically
resisted attemp's 'at delay, besides fighting its way
through a greater variety-of obstacles than ever
beset any other measure, with, perhaps, the single
exception of the measures waich ended in the Re-
form Act. Never was there: -so -moth unity and
fixity of purpose. Indeed, in the multitude of
topics which do not get the attention they deserve
or have become the mere bones of contention, the
unaniinity and ...petseveiance of the House of
Commons on this one point of India are quite-a.
consolatory and redeeming feature, leading one to
hope that on other points a better understanding
may at length be attained. At such a moment,
when the character of the house seems staked on
its adhering to this one resolve, Mr. Gladstone
rushes in right athwart the line of the discussion,
and occupies an important evening in arguments
which, it they prove anything, prove that the
house should do nothing at all. Indeed, that con-
clusion was evidently anticipated in the very time
selecled for the speech, which certainly had no
claim to precede Mr. Roebuck's motion, except
that it was of a more fundamental character. If
Mr. Roebuck's mAion went against the existence
of a Council, Mr. Gladstone's speech went against
the necessity of immediate legislation at all. The
particular resolutions comprised in the motion
might stand on their own merits. Had they been
the first measure of the session, or had they been
moved as an amendment to Lord Palmerston's
Bill, the louse of Commons might vrhaps have
been favo ab'y disposed to a saliane f.,r coee litt-
ting the present Court of Directors, and making a
bridge ftom the old Government to the new. But
it is wholly unnecessAry to discu's the proposal,
not only because it is now ovei laid by others of a
more durable character, but because Mr. GladAone,
in the course of a very long speech, hardly said a
word about it. Practically, his speech was as much
against this as against any other measure for alter-
ing the constitution of our Indian Government
this prasont session.

Mr. Gladstone thought we ought either to do
nothing or to do everything, and that no measure
would be of any use, no measure would fail to be
incalculaLly mischievous, which did not setae very
tho-oughly and permanently the relation of the
European and the native in India, the sccial and
polit cal status of the latter, the position of the
native army, the finances of India, the sacurity
for its debt, and the extent of imperial liability ;
the mutual relations of the three PreAdences, and
a great deal more. As any bill, to be worth the
time and attention of the heuce, must be thus com-
prehensive and final—must, in fact, to the entire
silu ion of the greatest political problem ever sub-
mitted to man, Mr. Gladstone very naturally in-
sisted on the immense population of India, on the
fact that the war still continued, that the expenses
mast be immense, the revenue impaired, and that
the House of Commons had manifested a tendency
to fight the battles of party on Indian ground.
All this was exceedingly to the purpose, if the
purpose was to do nothing at all. But as the
House of Commons, very faithfully representing
in this respect the people of England, has twits
mcst solemnly determined to have a n w, and,
as far as possible, permanent constitution for the
government of India, all these considerations were
foreign to any present purpose. Indeed, as Lord
Stanley very properly olyerved, the main ques-
tion before the house is the constitution of the
Home Government, and that is susceptible of most
important changes without directly affecting any of
the social, financial, or military qu,stions of Indian
adwiniAtation. The change embodied in Mr.
Gladstone's Resolutions would itself be important.
It would necessarily alter the form, and therefore
the constitution of Indian government. It could,
however, be made without another word as to the
debt, the revenue, the army, the European popu-
lation, the native Princes, the Presidencies of
India. In a still greater degree, either Lerd Pal-
merston's or Lord Derby's bill would be important,
though it had nothing to do with these matters,
and related only to the construction of the Home
Government. We are at a loss, then, to see what
possible reason Mr. Gladstone had for descanting
on the immensity, multiplicity, and impossibility
of the Indian question, except to break its back
altogether ; to dishearten and paralyse the house,
and so leave the coast once more clear for some
new political combination.
If it is of any use to appeal to so old-fashioned
a virtue as patriotism, and so vulgar a sentiment
as respect for Parliament, we venture to beg that
the House of Commons may now be considered
to be in earnest, and entitled to something like
sympathy and co-operation. We do not see why
any individual member is to get up the next even-
ing the debate is resumed and tell the house that
it really has made a groat mistake, that it
knows nothing about the matter, that it
ought to leave India to the Court of Directors,
and not meddle with a subject so far out of its expe-
rience and above its capacity ; that it cannot be
serious in undertaking so vast an addition to its
work as the government of 200,000,000 Indians on
the other side of the woad. After a certain length
of trial it is a sin to doubt constancy ; and we sub-
mit that the House of Commons, having now de-
voted the greater part of a session—yes, four
months out of six—to this one subject ; and having,
in the most business-like manner, returned to it,
with the fullest intention of finishing the work, so
far as regards the Home Government, and two or
three leading points of the Indian Administration,
new deserves to be let alone. We are, of course,
wholly disinterested in the matter. Were it a
matter of mere political feeling we might allow
ourselves to be biassed by a regret that Lord Pal-
merston's very simple measure was not now regu-
larly before the house. The present procedure by
resolutions threatens needless trouble. As that,
however, is the course en which the house is
actually embarked, there is no choice but to make
the best of the measure, and we are disposed to
resent as much any attempt to defeat and indefi-
nitely protract Indian legislation under its present
auspices as if this were the identical measure to
which we gave our adhesion some four months ago.

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crop and low prices ; Roman States, good crop ; Lom-
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—June 7.

The June General Sessions of the Peace for the
county of Middlesex commenced this morning at
Clerkenwell, "before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant
Judge, Mr. Creasy, Mr. Payne, Dr. Bateman, and
Mr. Simpson. There were 83 prisoners for trial,
69 for fel:.imy, and 14 for misdemeanour.
John Baldock, 59, carman, was indicted for em-
bezzling the several sums of 3s. 9d., 3s. 6d., and
lls., received by him on account of John Newton,
his master. He was convicted, and sentenced to
six months' hard labour.
Henry Williams, 41, was convicted of pot-steal-
ing, and sentenced to nine months' hard labour.-
William Charles Maddocks, 36, was indicted for
stealing a gun, and other articles, value 505., the
property of William Newman. He pleaded guilty.
It appeared that he iiad been sentenced to seven
years' transportation, and he was a well-known
offender.

Th. Court sentenced him to ten years' penal
servitude.

John Carey, 18, was tried and found guilty of
having assaulted Frederick Crewe, a police-con-
stable, in the execution of his duty. He was sen-
tenced to eight months' hard labour.
Charles Fuzzey, 24, was indicted for feloniously
breaking and entering the dwelling-houie of Eli-
zabeth Pearsall, and stealing therein two sheets
and othen articles, her property. He had been
'repeatedly convicted, and the Court sentenced him
to seven years' penal servitude.
John Shoot, 36, was indicted for obtaining Is.
frinn James Pratt, a recruiting-offieer, by a false
,representation that he was not physically incapa.,
citated from serving in the army.
The prosecution was directed by the War Office,
an conducted by Mr. Bodkin.
The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to
four months' hard labour.

James Thomas and John Cole, who were con-
victed before Mr. Creasy, at the last sessions at
Westminster, of assaults, were brought up for judg-
ment. Thom-is, who broke a sailor's arm with a
sick, in the Bow-road, without provocation, was
sentenced to four mouths' hard labour ; and Cole,
who beat a man at a public-house for saying he
had cheated him in a betting transaction some
years previously, and who afterwards paid 61. to
compromise the matter, was sentenced to one
mouth. Both cases were reported at the time.
Two women, named Robson' and Cline, were
brought up from the House of Correction, at West-
minster, to be dealt with by the Court, under the
Vagrant Act, they having bawl convicted as incor-
rigible rogues and vagabonds by a police magis-
trate. Robson had been in custody and committed,
fur impoiing upon benevolent persons in the
streets, by some plausible and well-concocted story
about domestic affliction, no less than 19 times,
and Cline 13 times, since 1841. They were, as
might be supposed, well known to the officers of
the Mei:dicity Society.

Bateman, who presided on hearing ofthisca,se,
said the Court considered it to be one in which the
full punishment provided by the Act should be in-
fiicted—a worse case could not ba, and sentenced
each of the prisoners to 12 months' hard labour.
Mr. Poland wa for the prosecution, instructed
by the M.uidicity Socie-y.
John flog-;, 48, cab:littanker, of No. 82, Fill-
wood's rents, Holborn, was found guilty of stealing
7 feet of leal pip-, the property of James Dand-
rido.e from a building.

LT received a good -character for nearly 20 years,
and some doubts were expressed by the witnesses
as to his sanity.
Under these circumstances the Court postponed
the sentouce, in order that the prisoner might be
examined as to his &ate of mind.