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London, England, 1858-07-27 00:00:00

Maid of Kent..
Two ran.—Toxopholite scratched about 1 p.m.

LATEST BETTING.
STEWARDS' CUP.
13 to 2 agst Peter Flat
10 to 1 agst any other.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

SOUSE OF COTAMON3—(This Day-)
The SPEAKER took tins chair at 12 o'clock.
NEW WRITS.
Sir W. JOLLIFFE moved for new writs for South
Devon and North Cheebire, the former vacant I,Y the
acceptance of the Coiltern Hundreds by Sir J. Y. Baer
and the latter by the appointment to a similar office of
Mr. W. T. Egerton.
The motion was agreed to.
PRI V ATE BUSINESS.

The le,rdee ameHdalents to the South Wales nail Why

(new railway, &c.) bill and the Vale of To wy Railway
bill, were considered and agreed tn.
Colonel WILSON PATTEN called attention to the
standing orders of the house with a view to ferns im•
provemente. He adverted particularly to the difficultie,
in the way of railway committees, and recommended
the appointment of five perwanent chairmen. He bad
bad communications with gentlemen of experience it,
the house, and he was happy to say that three most
experienced chsirtn,n bad agreed to serer.
Lerd R. CECIL concurred in the view expressed t y
Colonel Patten, and considered that the majority of
members were unfit for such cornrni tee duties as were
imposed upon thew. With regard to private bills much
evidence was taken, and ene witness, Mr. Denesen.
the chairman of the Great Northern. Railway, recont•
mended that the jurisdiction should be taken away
from the hou-e altogether. It frequently happened Cart
members of the committee, from ignorance of the man-
ner of conducting inve-tigations in courts cf justice,
pursued lines of examination wholly irre'evant, and
they allowed counsel to play all sorts of tricks wilt
them. Occasionally a member of the committee struck
up a mare's nest, and tio:emed a witness a day an t a
half, although the expenses to the parties amounted te
2001. or 3001. a year. Per,nanent chairmen would hay,
to sit 50 days in the session, four times 'a day, at:cl
thought it was only just that they should receive com-
pensation for their labours.
Mr. D. GRIFFITHS complained that in these cam-
,mittees couneel receive enormous and unreasonable fees,
and rushed about front one co:nruitt(e to another.
lit-
trusted that that system would receive a check, espe-
cially as the counsel practicing before Parliamentary
committees were not reqif-ed to be so astute, or their
legal talents so perfect, as those who practised in courts
of jte tics.
Sir D. NORREYS thought that gentlemen degraded
themselves by the centralisation of business iu tha.
house. Lie believed that much of that business rniAt
be transacted in their various counties, at a very much
smaller expense than was ircurred in bringing it to

London. -
C A. WILSON PATTEN hoped the day would never
come when membtrs of that house would be paid for
their parliamentary services.
The CHANCELLOR of ,he EXCHEQUER promised
that the attention of the Government should be nailed
to the report of the commtttee app iuted fur the rev:sioe
of the stanfing orders.
Co'onel PATTEN moved, that this house will rot in•
sist on its privileges with req.“! to a,•y C in pr.-
vats bills sent down f. ow u.n House cf Lords which re-
fer to ttl s and charges for services performed, and are
not in the nature of a tax.
The motio.i was agreed to.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. BILL.
On the order for the consideration of the Lords Amend-
ments on this bill,
Colonel SYKES moved as an amendment that they
be considered this day three months. The East Inch,
Company had gainei an empire which Alexander the
Great or Augustus Cosgar might have envied, and
he thought, therefore, it might have been re•
spected by the Government instead of seeking its
extinction. He had been for a long time con-
nected with the comp any, and he could say that
there had always bee a a desire to prevent war,
annexation, and extens;ons. and that what had b-en
done had been forced up .n tl-em by the home Go-
vernment, and they had been obliged to confirm the acts
of the home Government against their better convic-
tions. With those exceptions, there Lad not been a

failure in its a.dmini Ara ive power. Millions of men and
abundance of stores had been conveyed t,, India, and he
held that there had not bean *lngle failure, and, so
far as be was aware, not a complaint. The directors,
be maintained, had been actuated by the best intentions
to ensure to the people of India their right, privileges,
and justice. (Hear, hear.) It could not be contended
that the Company was responsible far the ILdia.n mutiny.
which arose from the fact that a certain numb .r of
gallant men preferred death to dishonour, and would
not do that which was cppoeed to their reli-
gious convictions. Thct spirit rapidly tan tilt-no/lg.,
the army of Bengal, and speedily made it a cuirass of
mutiny. The bill ciu-bed a court which enabled the
people to come before the public with their complaint-,
and which put an end to party strife in that house on
Indian affairs—strife which he contended had been a
disgrace to the British character. What was the
present state of India Everything must succumb
to our arms there, but it wai like putting
a man's finger upon a globule of quicksilver.
He thought be bad got it under his power, but
only let him look around, and he would see 20
globules starting on every side. That Was the exact
state of India at pr,sert in reference to our military ope-
rations there. He believed that the prc ent state of this
question was the re'ult of a mist tke. Some mendacious
papers bai stated that there was a determination on the
part of the put.lic that the authority of
.the company
should be transferred to the Crown. Many members of
that house bedevci the-u st,tement3, and hence the
la,rge division whica t )olr place on the que3tlon. He
might remind the hou,t3 that there were at bat moment
481 petitions before the house in reference to India. Of
these 126 were f-)r the removal o: the 1-ysteen ol caste,
89 were again,t i ,olatry, and 145 were for the extension
of Christianity. So that there were 360 petitions closely
touching the feelings of the
people. (Hear, bear.)
He believed th..t in this movement the natives of India
would come to the conclusion that the Government
was not caring for them.
[LEFT SPEARING