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THE SAN LONDON TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 185 S

Total £2,829,024
Now the gross revenue, as I before said, is 29,000,000/.,
and the net income may be taken at 23,000,0001., so
that the annual charge fir the public debt of India, as
it stood in 1856, amounts to about one-eighth of the net
revenue, whereas the annual charge for the debt of the
United Kingdom is about 28,500,000/., or newly one-
half its ordinary revenue. The committee, therefore,
cannot fail to perceive that the debt of India is compara-
tively light when taken in connection with the revenue
which she yields. The statement which I have just
made will, I trust, lead the committee to arrive at the
conclusion that when the existing revolt in India has
been quelled, and the country restored to its ordinary
condition, the credit of the Indian Government will be
in a position to sustain the loan which I now propose.
Let us just see what is the present state of the credit of
that Government. Oa 6th Oct., 185 d, the Company's
Four per Cents. were worth in the Indian market 1031
or 103;. That was before the public works loan was
negotiated, Upon 29:11Jan., 1857, just previous to the
mutiny, the 5 per Cents. were 99, and the 4 per Cents.
30, at which price the Indian Glvernment could borrow
at the rate of 5 per cent. If, however, you compare its
credit with that of most of the continental nat'ons,
you will find the comparison to be not very disadvanta-
geous to the Government of India. The French Three
per Cents., for instance, were as lately low as 69, and
very many continental governmea—tefinthemselves
unable to borrow upon more advantageous terms than
4 2-7ths per cent. The ordinl%reYritainnd interest of money in
India is 10 and ever. 12 per cent.,
cent,
iiBt the Indiaa Go-
vernment can borrow at 5 pe
Bible to contend that their credit is. bed:er I think, Pte°s't-
of the soundness c f that crud t can, I think,
tak
than the value of its bonds in the London markete. Those
bonds are at 4 per cent., and are now at about 255.
premium. Exchequer-bills are at a rate of interest which.
is equivalent to 3/. 16s. per cent., and are at about 2/.
premium. If the committee will compare the two scales
of credit, they cannot fail to perceive that the superiority
of the Imperial credit over that of the Government of
India is nothing very remarkable. (hear, hear.) I
therefore entertain no reasonable doubt as to its being
able to negotiate its bonds upon fair terms, nor, in my
opinion, is there any good ground for calling up on Vie
English Exchequer to give a guarantee for those bonds.
It hashitherto been the great boast of the Indian Govern.
ment that they have been enabled to defray all theerenx.-
pauses connected with their administration; but it cannot
with justice bo denied that they have always enjoyed the
advantage of being hacked up by the resources of this
country. The number of troops sent out to India La,
been much larger than usual, but the pay and provisiee.
jog of those troops is provided for from the Indian
exchequer. It has been usual for many years for all
a and to some extent the naval expenses
military elPen'e", c
uh
ee s
trevenueso n
was
time
toL br d
e
for the defence of ld
of
India,
of India. In the pNaoidrtohutthoef
ues of India. The East India
mooted whether the British Government had not a claim
to the territorial revetnh
ir
rig
ht to them, while, on the
other hand, • tained that whatever
Company matihnetalinmapderiael Government contended, and
has always consistently main
the Crown. A compromise,
territory might he acquired b British subjects, it was
acquired only as tenants to
nd ora
however, was effected by the imposition of what
fwas
called a tribute upon the East India Company,
series of years that tribute was paid into the British Ex;
chequer. Sub,equently, however, the arrangement wa
altered and the Company was required to pay over the
surplus revenues, but no surplus ever came, and at last
the bargain was abandoned. But it has always been held
that if the East India Company contributed nothing to

the revenues of this country they should be independent
of all aid from the Imperial Exchequer. There have
been loans from the Government to the East India
Company, but I am not aware that there has been any
grant of public money from the British Exchequer to
the Company. I can sea no ground for departing from
that invariable practice, and I hope the committee will
agree that this bill is founded upon a just principle, and
that, should it be passed, the East India Company will
have no difficulty in raising money as they may require
it for the wants of India. The Company, I must observe,
do not contemplate an immediate call upon the money
market for so large an amount of loan as the bill men-
tions. If they raise two or three millions within the next
six months, that is quite as much as they are likely to
require, but as circumstances arise they will take a million
or so in order to defray current expenses in India, and
therefore it is that so wide a margin has been taken in
the bill. Every one will see that it would not be a suffi-
cient justification for calling Parliament together next
October or November simply because a bill was necessary
to enable the East India Company to borrow another
million. While upon the one hand there is nothing in
this bill which is likely to bring any prospective charge
upon the British Exchequer, upon the other hand it
provides the means for raising money at the least prac-
ticable cost to the taxpayers of India. It is adz:lY tted
there is a real want of money. Then, what is to be
done ! Has anybody anything better to propose ! It
is clear the current revenues of the East Indi4 Company
are in the present conjuncture insufficient ta meet their
expenditure, and the question which these facts raise
is whether they can borrow sufficient funds in India. I
understand the Indian loans do not fill as rapidly as
would be necessary to enable the wants of the present
year to be met by that means. What course, then,
could the East Isdia Company adopt bat to borrow the
money in London ? If you will not permit that there
only remains the question whether the British Exche-
quera should supply any deficiency.
pEpeeaarlslytothme reeatsoobne-
able and proper course to pursue
so obvious in the present necessarily embarrassed state
of the Indian finances that I cannot but believe the
committee will he satisfied with the explanations I have
yen.

- Mr. T. BARING regretted ',la'. tha right hop. gen.
tleman had thought it necessary to make such a long
speech in the present state of the house. The right hon.
gentleman had challenged opinions upon three points of
the state of Indian finance—on the power of the India
Company to borrow money, and to what exteni-, and
whether there was any claim upon the honour and
liberality of this nation to support the Company, in
order to enable them to meet their engagements. He
(kir. Baring) was not one of those who thought so badly
of Indian finance. The right hon. gentleman said the
Company could always borrow money in London. If
that was so he (Mr. Baring) should like to hear him and
the Chairman of the East India Company state why

hey did not borrow on as good terms last autumn—
shear, hear)—and why the right hon. gentleman did no
raise the rate upon India Bends so as to place them on
the same footing as the most favoured railway shared.
He thought the reason was plain ; it was because the
right hon. gentleman thought that would interfere with
his own Exchequer Bills. It seemed to him (Hr. Bar-
ing), looking at the state of the house, and knowing the
state of the Government, that it was most objectionable
to give power to borrow 8,000,000/. when there was
only 6,000,0001. wanted, and giving that power to they
knew not whom. (dear, hear.) They knew there
was to be a council, but that was all they knew, and
therefore he repeated it was objectionable to give
a power to borrow 8,000,000/., when not more than
6,000,0001. were required. ( H ear, hear.) Much
had been said regarding our liability from Indian
debt, but this lee would remark, that he hoped so long as
England retained the possession of our Indian empire it
never would repudiate such obligations. He maintained
we were bound to keep the Indian finances in order so
long as we assumed the responsibility of administering
them. The late Sir R. Peelhad observed that there was
no direct connection between the finances of India and
of this country, but that we were bound to keep those
finances in a state of regularity ; and that to say there
was no connection between Indian finances and the
finances of this country, was to take a merely superficial
view, and that any serious disorder in Indian finance
would be felt generally throughout this country. The
hon. gentleman also quoted the opinion of Sir C. Wood,
spoken on June 3, 1853, to the same effect. For the
British Government to say that it had nothing to do
with Indian finance, as the right hon. gentleman the
Chancellor o' the Exchequer seemed to say, was in effect
to cause the Government of India to borrow at the
highest pos-ible rate of interest, He apologised to the
house for so long trespassing on them, but the Chancel
for of the Exchequer had most unexpectedly made a
long speech, much of which he felt called for his marked
dissent.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ex-
plained. The hon. gentleman who had just sat down
had not fairly represented what he said. He did not
say the British Crown might be indifferent to the pos-
session of India, but that he entertained serious doubts
as to the value of India to this country. He repeated
that the exchequer of England derived no advantage from
India, but he admitted fully that we were bound to ob-
serve all our engagements with ;the native princes.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY al-o explained. He hoped
the house would see what the state of thelndian revenue
was before it permitted a fresh debt to be contracted.
Sir F. BARING regretted- that the right hon. gen-
tleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer had brought this
great subject before the committee, but he suppoJed his
right hon. friend thought that as Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer he would not have another opportunil of
doing so. He (Sir F. Baring) adhered to his former
views regarding the responsibility of this country for
Indian loans. He wished the loan to be no more than
8,000,000/.
Mr. WILLIAMS did not see what connection there
was between an Indian loan and the taxation of this
country. Ho hoped never to see the views of the hon.
gentleman the member for Huntingdon adopted here.
Mr. V. SMITH did not desire to raise a large question
concerning Indian finance, but if such a question was
raised the blame was attributable to the hon. gentleman
the member for Evesham. He did not see why India
should not be at liberty to borrow as well as any of our
colonies.
Mr. CRAWFORD said the imperial revenues were
answerable for the capable stock of the East India
Company.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied
that this was so.
Mr. AYRTON gave his opinion of the nature of the
guarantee. He trusted the right hon. gentleman would
not press the bill through committee, considering that
there was no responsible Government.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defended
the form in which the bill was drawn, and said that
neither in law nor equity would the imperial revenues
be made answerable for the liabilities of the Indian
exchequer.
After a short discussion,
Mr. MANGLES said that it was necessary the Com-
pany should be supplied with funds to go on ; if the bill
were not passed through committee that night, it would
probably be delayed until after Easter, and the Company
would be without the necessary funds.
The committee then proceeded to the consideration of
the clauses.
Upon clause 1,
Mr. LINDSAY said that he understood from the
Chancellor of the Exchequer that only two or three
millions would be required for the next six months ; he
would therefore propose as an amendment to the clause
that the 3UM of 8,000,0001. be reduced to 2,000,0001. :
that sum would probably be sufficient for the next three
months ; and after that period Parliament would pro-
bebly know in what situation the Company would be
placed.
Mr. MANGLES said that the very small sum pro-
posed would be totally inadequate to meet the emer-
gencies of India.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped
the amendment would not be pressed. The hon. gen-
tleman was confounding two things which were quite
distinct—namely, the way of borrowing for the Imperial
Government, and the way of borrowing for the East
India Company. All that this bill would give the com-
pany was the power of borrowing to a certain extent up
to April, 1853 ; but the company would probably not
take up more than two or three millions immediately.
The first clause was then agreed to.
After a short discussion,
Mr. CRAWFORD asked whether the stock to be
issued under the bill would have priority over any other
Iridian stock ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it
would have no preference.
The remaining clauses were then agreed to, and the
bill was reported to the house.
The other orders were adjourned until Friday next.
GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
Mr. COWPER obtained leave to bring in a bill to
confirm a provisional order of the General Board of
Health, for the application of the Public Health Act to
the district of Skipton, in the West Riding of the county
of York.
ABSTRACTION OF INCOME TAX RETURNS.
On the motion of Mr. CRAWFORD an address was
agreed to, for copies of all correspondence which has
taken place upon the subject of the abstraction of income
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Mr. Colville paired ii;----tavour of Mr. M. Gibson's
resantion
and against the second reading of the Con-
spiracy Bill with the Hon. W. B. Portman.

--------- - --
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE—MURDER AT FARNBOROUGH.
—Oa Saturday night last an occurrence of a very appal-
ling nature took place at the village of Cove, near Farn-
borough, in which a young man named John Rummay
lost his life. It appeared that on Saturday a number of
y,th.g too! try fellowr, of the agricultural clefs, attended
a club meeting in Cove, atter which they a:loomed to
the Plough Inn, to have some refreshment. About 12
o'clock a quatrel arose between two of them, named
John Rummay and William Goddard, and they got to
blows, after fighting some little time the latter drew
forth a knife, and not only stabbed, but ripped up the
abdomen of his unfortunate opponent. The bystanders
were perfectly horrified on perceiving the entrails of the
unfortunate Rummay protruding through the wound,
and they, without delay, removed him to the Plough
inn, and
he received a medical gentleman was at once sent for,
that to prolong.e,
;and
exhtiesnitifeofwtahse frightful injorits
beyond all human
suffering the most
unfortunate fellow, who was about
was
the
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ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Crnswick.
THIS EVENING, will be performed an original English
Play, RIGHT AND WRONG.
To conclude with PERILS BY LAND AND WAVE
Messrs. Shepherd, Potter, Widdicomb, &c.

riANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.-
1.....) OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
1g company of Vocalists aro engaged for the performance of
S dections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, ezc., viz. :—Miss Russell,
Sirs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Brunel', Miss Ray,
Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montagne, and Madame Marietta ;
Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J.
Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Hime, Mr.
Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Bernard ; Messrs.
T. Maclagan, W. I. CritchEeld and E. Mackney. Piano-
forte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmouinm, Master Williams ;
Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock
precisely. Suppers, dza., until twelve o'clock.
Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
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To-Moratow —Morn. 32 rain. aft.lo--Even. 25 min. aft.ll

ALE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE', FEBlttrAla 23.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
42---highest since noon yesterday.
37—lowest this morning and during the night.
41. —this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 29.68.
WIND, Easterly; fresh, cold and dull weather.

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or procrastination. A Fabian policy cannot and
will not be tolerated. The first interrogatory to
be exhibited to the new leader of the House of
Commons, whoever he may be, will relate to that
ail-important topic, and should he refuse to re-
turn a clear, distinct, and unequivocal answer, a
trial of strength may fairly be demanded. This
rough lesson will teach the new Government that
the popular will must be respected, and that it
can neither be shelved nor shuffled over for an
indefinite period.

Lord PALMZRSTON, in office, has maintained
Ms Tory predilections. Ho would yield not a single
point so long as he was surrounded by an obedient
majority, ready to back, per pas QUI tiyas, any
opinion promulgated by the dispenser of " the
loaves and fishes." He may now be prepared to
take a more correct view of his situation, and to
speak out more plainly than he has hitherto done.
His future position, nay more his reputation as a
Statesman, will mainly depend on the course pur-
sued during the present week. Should he be
found wanting, Lord JOHN RUSSELL will be avail-
able after all, the author of the modern Magna
Charia, has many claims on our sympathies. As we
statod the other day, his speech and vote on the
Conspiracy Bill have gone far to redeem former
errors, and wo are receiving adequate pledges of
repentance and reformation ready to condone all
grievances, and to work harmoniously with our old
driver, albeit ho did continue "to upset the
coach" on more than 0110 occasion.

The few days for which the 'louse has been
adjourned are pregnant with important results.
On what may occur within that brief period will
depend the future prospects of the competitors for
the Premiership; and rival- parties—Whige,
Tories, Radicals, and Independents—will all be
weighed in the balance. The winner—whoever
he may be—must make a handsome offer, and
whatever it may be, it is tolerably certain that it
will be exceeded. There is a time-honoured
apophthegm that tells us that " When
(Statesmen, we suppose, should supply the hiatus)
honest men come by their own." We
hope that it will be verified on the present occa-
sion, and that the people
of Great Britain will
profit by the changes looming in the future, and
which will rapidly succeed each other.

It is surely very frightful that there should
actually be found amongst us earnest, and even
enthusiastic advocates of the ruffianly Sepoy Muti-
neers. It is frightful that it should be so, but it
cannot be said to be unparalleled. There have
been (Allier, and yet more astounding instances of
judgments so warped, of ardour so distraught that,
in periods of great popular excitement, and in

vindication of abstract principles of political
morality—champions have appeared, ready, not
merely to extenuate, but even to eulogize, and
incredible though it may sound, absolutely to

deify the enormous national delinquents. Nay,
not simply enormous national delinquents, but
systematic outragers of all the dictates of our com-
mon humanity. There was MARAT, the "Friend

of the People," one of the most atrocious monsters

of all the many gigantic miscreants of the Great

French Revolution. No sooner was this wretched

creature dead in his bath—struck to the heart by
the dagger of CHARLOTTE CORDA.Y, the " Angel of

Assassination "—than the squalid buffoon was
raised into a Divinity. The Convention solemnly
decreed him to be a God. The worship of MARAT
became an organiz,d Institution. Prayers were
offered up to his divine nature I On the morrow
' of his murder the populace hung garlands at his
door. His bust was inaugurated in the chamber
of the popular Amerubly. His miserable body
was embalmed. He was buried in the Pantheon
with the pomps and splendours of au apotheosis.

It was proposed by some of his worshippers tha
his body should be carried, as a holy and conse-

crated relic, through the departments to the very

limits of the world ; and by others that
au empty tomb should be erected to
him under every tree of liberty, as
an altar for his adoration. These things are not

poet scrawled upon
the drivellings of some mad
the walls of his dungeon, and there read with a
shudder of pity by some casual visitor of Bedlam.
They are the actual records of Modern History—
events, comparatively speaking, of yesterday_
occurrences within the remembrance, nay, even
contemporary with the advanced manhood of our
grandfathers. Afterwards—very little more than
a twelvemonth afterwards—another violation of
all the laws of humanity, kindred by his acts if
not by his doctrines with the execrable MAR.AT,
was treated with divine honours,
not simply after
his dissolution, but absolutely during his very
lifetime. Witness this the homage
paid by
; CATHERINE THEOS, and Dom GERI
and their
deluded disciples, to MaxattLlAN D
AWEESPIEREB.
These, however, only obeyed, it is true, the
wrote--" He
vop iufr
ttyruihiaiolm- dictatems. in d of
the t
placehe
of
Onceob
GOD. He desired toj
LAMARTINE object of their reverence.
elf
be the exterminating and creative genius of the
Revolution. He forgot that if any man thus
made a deity of himself, there could only remain
cne man upon the globe at the end of the world,
and that the last man would be the assassin of all
the others 1" It be surprising, there-
fore, remembering these things, that there should
be found amongst us nowadays apologists, cham-
pions, even eulogists, of the ruffianly Sepoy
Mutineers. can hardly

It
merely isi
amacinrge, thatlamentable,however, than that, to
our thinking,
should actually be not
wore
a t eo
fir
tiiele e Sepoys,
but depredators
t
and vilifiers of their heroic antagonists, our own
gallant and dauntless countrymen. Nevertheless,
so it has absolutely come to pass. Tho bravest of
our soldiers in India have had their valiant, actions
depreciated, have been themselves_ madly vilified
—vilified almost, be it said, in the language of
execration. NEILL has been scouted for his deeds I
at Cawnpore—though one would have thought
that the daring soldier might have been permitted
to lie uuscoffud at in his heroic grave, if only in
consideration of that awful " well" choked up
with the mangled remains of English women and
English children. WILLOUGHBY has been tra-
duced fur an act of unsurpassed audacity and self-
, sacrifice, the ordering of the match to be applied
to the magazine of gunpowder at Delhi—though
he knew that the explosion frightfully jeopardised
his own life—and the explosion in reality did
so fearfully mutilate him that ho died not long
afterwards. The daring captors of Delhi again
have been assailed, as men dishonoured—because
forsooth the princes who had been at the head of
that, fiendish ruvolt and saturnalia received at last
the punishment their infamous career had ao
richly merited ! Again, we say, it is very lament-
able that there are Englishmen who could speak
thus in abhorrence of our own glorious soldiers at
the same time that they extenuate the conduct of
the wretches who have so notoriously and so
foully outraged humanity, in the wanton ven-
and ova innocent children.
geance wreaked by them on our helpless women

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FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

It is certain that the result of the division on the
second reading of the " Conspiracy to Murder
Bill" has been received in official quarters bete
with great surprise and still greater regret. On
the public generally the impression is deep and pain-
ful, yet among the better classes may be found per-
sons whose attachment to the Imperial Govern-
ment does not prevent them from admitting that
the event will not be without its use, and that it
will teach people more discretion and moderation
in future.

To diminish as much as possible tho effect on the
public mind the Ministerial papers are recoin-
mended to be moderate in their language, and to
avoid everything which might a,l.d to the prevail-
ing irritation.

The Emperor yesterday gave a private audience
to Count de Hatzfeldt, the Prussian Envoy, who
delivered a letter from his Sovereign announcing
the marriage of Prince Frederick William of
Pru,sia with the Princess Royal of England.

As Prince Napoleon was going to the Tuileries
two days hack, his horse slipped and fell in such a
way that the Prince's leg was somewhat crushed.
Fortunately, the limb was not broken, but the
Prince was co injured that he is confined to his
chamber.

BOURSE, Feb. 22.—The market became more
buoyant towards the close, from a roport that
Lord Palmerston's Cabinet was t) be re-organised,
and prices left off as

per Cents
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Credit Foncier
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i'Dome Debt —

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Do. end mouth 69 45
Bank Sia,tres ?,100
Credit Mobilier 860
Do. Account 865 —1
RAW
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DESPATCH' FROM HER MAJ4,6TY'S
AMBASSADOR AT PABIS.

EARL COWLEY TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON.
(Received Feb. 21.)
PARIS, FEB. 20, 1858.
My Lord,—Having learnt by telegraph that cer-
tain resolutions imputing blame to her Majesty's
Government for not having made any reply to Count
Walewski's despatch to Count Perigny., dated the
20th of January, had been affirmed by a majority of
the House of Commons, I think it a duty to your
lordships to place on record, that altho ughl have not
been charged to make any official communication to
the French Government in answer to that despatch,
I have been enabled, by your lordship's private
instructions, to place before the French Govern-
ment the sentiments, views, and intentions of her
Majesty's Government far more fully, and I cannot
but believe more satisfactorily, than would have
been the case had my language been clothed in a
more official garb.
When Count Walewski's despatch was written,
the irritation against the supposed apathy of Eng-
land in a matter so important to France as the pre-
servation of the Emperor's life was excessive.
Rightly or wrongly, the idea prevailed that every
conspiracy against his Majesty had been organised
in England, and that the British laws gave security
to the conspirators. No counter-assertions on the
part of her Majesty's Government would have had
any effect at that moment ; and any official notice
on the part of your lordship of Count Walewski's
despatch would probably have involved the two
Governments in a controversial discussion more
likely to have increased than to have calmed the
excitement which prevailed. If• the object was to
soothe, it was important to let time exert its usual
influence, and to reserve the official answer to
Count Walewski's despatch until it was known
whether Parliament would answer the appeal whioi►
was to be made to it by her *ajesty's Government.
But it ought no-, to ba ignored, that while taking
this prudent course, your lordship lust no opportu-
nity of informing the French Government, confi-
dentially, of the true bearings of the question
which had been raised. Your lordship's language
has been, from the beginning of this unfortunate
affair, clear and straightforward. I have now your
lordship's letters before me, in which, while vindi-
cating in language worthy of your lordship's name,
the right of asylum which Great Britain has ever
afforded to strangers of all ranks and nations, and
while declaring, in terms as explicit as they are de-
termined, the impossibility of infringing on that
great principle of our constitution, you show how
utterly insufficient must any enactment be, to pre-
vent men of desperate minds from entering upon
desperate undertakings. As your lordship's true,
but very inadequate organ, I have faithfully repre-
sented your principles, and could I call upon the
Emperor or upon Count Walewski, as witnesse,
neither, I feel certain, oould belie my words.
I know not what may be the result of last
night's vote ; but, at all events, I lose no time in
stating my conviction that to your lordship's
judicious and prudent conduct at a very critical
moment it is owing that, without the shadaw of
the sacrifice of a single principle, our relations
with this government have not received a shook
which might have been fatal to the friendship
which yet happily prevails between the two nations.
have, &c., (Signed) COWLEY.