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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1858.

Lord ELLENIOROIIGII has resigned. He has
far more than expiated the slight indiscretion of
which he was guilty. With self-sacrificing honour
he took the entire blame on himself for the act
whieh he alone committed, and for which he
therefore was solely responsible. The policy and
propriety of the despatch we not and could not
be questioned. It was its publication that alone
was complained of ; and although we believe that
publication was a wise and statesmanlike act, one
that was essential to the pacification of Oude and
the submission of those who had been threatened
with wholesale confiscation, it was still the act
of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and could not fairly be
visited on the heads of his colleagues.
Mr. CA.RDWALL'S motion will, of course, fall to
the ground. As we stated yesterday, it cautiously
abstains from expressing any opinion respecting
the policy of Lord CANNING'S proclamation. It
was only intended as an envenomed shaft
against the Ministry, not as a defence of the whole-
sale confiscation. It was merely a trap to catch
stray votes—a party trick, which alike disre-
garded the interests of India and of the United
Kingdom.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S only mistake was, tha t
he too completely disregarded the dictates of red-
tapisna, and despised the traditions of the circum-
locution office. He fairly and boldly published
his opinions to the world, and did not, because
a lordling might feel aggrieved at the implied
censure, conceal his views from the community.
Lord CANNING was lenient, whose leniency was a
grave mistake, when it might be considered an
indication of poltroonery, or of vacillation. He
was willing to pardon murderers caught with the
red hand, who had not yet washed off the stains
of our countrywomen's gore, against whom the
blood of even innocent children was crying t,)
Heaven for vengeance. Bat when the emergency
was over, when the neck of the rebellion was
broken, when the most bigoted native must have
seen that resistance was hopeless, and been de-
sirous of making his peace, then severity became
the rule ; and what in the first instance might
Lave been considered as firmness, degenerated into
cruelty and rapacity.
Lo rd ELLENBOROUGH would have been wanting
to his duty, if he had refrained from expressing
hisopinion on the document placed before him,
and more so as there especially
Ives • was nothing within
knowledge to explain or justify it. Mr.
VERNON SMITR
had quietly kept in his pocket the
note of Lord CANNING, which might have led to tt.e
delay of the despatch. For rnore than a week he kept
the letter in his pocket—_a letter which, although
directed to him personally, was
all intents and
purposes intended for the President of the India
Board. If any one deserves censure, it is that
Right Hon. Gentleman, who seems to be as igno_
rant of the principles of social courtesy
as of the condition of the important empire,
over the destinies whereof he was presiding.
Had that letter been delivered to the person for

whom it was really infeiided, had even the
slightest inkling of its contents been given, the
despatch might not have been forwarded. The
promised explanation would have been waited for.
But Mr. TxxiioN SMITE kept the letter quietly
in his pocket. The proclamation was received
on the 12th of April. The letter must have
arrived by the same mail, and a day or two
would, under the most favourable circumstances,
have sufficed to place the new President of the
Board of Control in possession of the requisite
information. Mr. SMITH was not in any place
where the post only arrived once a fortnight. But
still he kept back hisletters for at least 14 days, for
the answer to theproclamation received on the 12th,
was written the 18th, dated the 19th, and trans-
mitted the 26th of April. In private society, a
person guilty of such an act of discourtesy, and
we may add, of injustice, would be severely cen-
sured. In public, we suppose, it will be consi-
dered that he has rendered good service to his
party, although as gentlemen they ought to be
ashamed to avail themselves thereof. We shall
ere long know to what length they are capable ofl
proceeding. But if they sueceed, we hope and
believe that the several constituencies will receive
an opportunity of expressing their opinions on
such factious and improper conduct.

Never was there a more timely or opportune
lecture than that which Mr. LAYARD has just
delivered at the St. James's Hall, in the presence
of many members of Parliament and other influ-
ential persons. That Hon. Gentleman has recently
visited India. He has encountered all the inevi-
table risks of so daring an act, and the unavoid-
able expense and fatigue thereof. His object was
to ascertain, on the very spot, the true state of
the case, and to be enabled to tender unexcep-
tionable evidence to the nation—to state the
actual facts without exaggeration or suppression.
He has done so faithfully and honestly. By
wonderful self-sacrifice he has obtained authentic
information. He has ascertained the feeling of
the inhabitants of India, has visited the very
scenes of the insurrection, has peeped down that
terrible well at Cawnpore, has been at the Market-
place at Delhi, where the ill-treatment of our
country women inflicted the heaviest dishonour on
the English name,

The testimony of an intelligent observer of such
a character is invaluable at the present time,
when a question relating to the conflicting
policies of Lords CANNING and ELLEN-
BOROUGH is actually pending. Mr. LAYARD
has clearly and distinctly exposed
the impolicy of universal confiscation, the danger
that must arise from the CANNING principle of
deeming every man to be guilty until he could
prove that he was innocent. He explained that
it should not, and ought not to be made an oppor-
tunity for a factious opposition. With a fine burst
of eloquence he exclaimed,
" For God's sake, let us forget party when
an empire is at stake." He would not ask
whether it was prudent or wise to publish a
certain document, but this he would say,
that whoever was at the head of the Govern-
ment of India ought to be guided by the two prin-
ciples laid down in the concluding paragraph of
that despatch, which ought to be written in cha-
racters of gold, and put up in every public place
in India."

The very words were as follows :

" ' We desire to see British authority in Indi I
rest upon the willing obedience of a contented
people ; and there cannot be contentment where
there is general confiscation.' These words should
be written in characters of gold, and exhibited in
every public place in India ; and if they were acted
upon there would probably be no other rebellion.
India must, of course, be governed in India, and as
to the Council in this country, it should, he thought,
consist partly of old civil servants, partly of mili-
tary men, and partly of natives. In Ceylon there
was a Council founded on liberal and civilised prin-
ciples, the Bhuddist and native half caste race
being represented. Let them try the experiment
of governing India on the same principles, an'i
(
then, even if they should lose India, that would be
no disgrace to them, provided they left the country
eivilised, prosperous, and happy, and if they could
effect that by their example, he would add Chris-
tian."
On those the vindicators of Lord ELLENEOROTJGH and
the Ministry, may take their stand and resist the
Sabbath-day conspirators, who hatched their
scheme at Cambridge House Sunday last. The
result of which we shall probably learn on Friday
or Monday next. We do not think that Mr.
CARDWELL will serve the Peelite cause by assist-
ing in the dirty job.

irresolute, and procrastinating.

The former

association keeps up the ball of opposition vigor-
ously. It is a standing reminder of truths as
telling in their way as these—that "fifty per
cent." is the mere cost of collecting tolls—that
freight from business is positively less than tolls
on fifty miles of England's highways—that tolls
are a tax on the workman's dinner—that they
prevent employment, and are an obstruction t 9
international exchange. It is simply ridi-
culous, in truth, for us, so long as the
London toll-bars remain in existence, to
talk disparagingly of our Parisian neighbours ;
for, inasmuch as they submit with a grumbling
pusillanimity, almost with a bland complacency,
to the continued levying of the old octroi duties
at the barriers, linked like a financial cordon
about the entire circumference of that magnificent
capital. Let no one born in England whisper a
syllable about the grievance of the octroi at Paris
until we have rid ourselves at least of the yet
more intolerable grievance of the Tolls of London.
We must have an end of the nuisance. It has
come at length to be absolutely unemlurablP.
And, now that the old incubus of debt has been
removed, there remains for it not the shadow of
the shade of any further excuse whatsoever. A
metropolitan member of the reforming school,
such a man, let us say at once frankly and ex-
plicitly, as—Try:mks SLINGSBY DUNCOAIBE—
might make short work, we feel satisfied, if he
listed, with this monstrous and absurd annoyance.
The monstrosity of it, the absurdity of it, are
everywhere admitted, are universally recognized.
The pear is ripe. Let such an one as the Hon.
Member for Finsbury, use the Toll Reform
association as his battering ram, and down that
ripened pear of reform must drop. And metro-
politan Toll-bars will thenceforth become as much
Ingenious tortures of the Past as the thumbscrew
and the Scavenger's Daughter 1
Since writing the foregoing, we are glad to find
that Mr. BYNO last night moved and carried an
address to her MAJESTY, to issue a Royal CJM-
mission to the following effect, and we hope they
will make short work of the abominations :

"Resolved,—That an humble address b© pre-
sented to her Majesty, praying that she will be
pleased to issue a Royal Commission to inquire
and report as to the best means of affording to the
inhabitants of the metropolitan districts, within six
miles of Charing-cross, a relief, from the abolition
of turnpike-gates and toll-bars, similar to that
which the Legislature has already granted, on the
recommendation of a Royal Commission, to the
metropolis of Ireland."

DEPARTURE OF THE QUEEN OF
PORTUGAL.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

Nobody can question for an instant that the
Tolls in the streets of London are an intolerable
nuisance. They obstruct the traffic. They fleece
the public. They are a constant burden and a
perpetual annoyance. Formerly, of course, there
were even etill more of them, than those actually
yet remaining among us, as standing monuments
of the foolish old-world system in vogue among a
past, and, comparatively speaking, certainly a very
slow generation. Time was, for example, and
that not by any means a hundred years ago, when
a thriving trade was driven at Hyde-park Corner
by these same official highwaymen, these recog-
nised and authorised Tunrms according to Acts of
Parliament. Ultimately the old tollbar at Hyde-
park Corner was swept away as a grievance no
longer endurable. A few other turnpikes almost
equally preposterous were demolished—but there
ended the sweepings of the high road with tha
bosom of destruction. Bees sigma, to this very
day the perpetual robbery of little bundles of
ha'pence, kept up doggedly to the last, all along
the very commonest of the outskirts of this vast
metropolis. "Survey the world (not) from China
to Peru"—but simply survey the world of Lon-
don, north of the Thames, from the Custom-hous3
to Chelsea Hospital— there to this moment stand ,
the old vexatious barriers, "ganging their aim gates,"
at Cambridge-heath, at Islington, at Kilburn, at
the City-road, atCamden-town, at Notting-hill, at
Camberwell, and at Kensington. 'Yet, as many
as 33 years ago the Metropolis Roads Commis-
sion was organised for the express purpose of doing
l 8 away2s wtihteh sameteheemsereiB
So that REBECCA. had •
Parliamen-
tary incentive to her n t '
Welsh Pikes long after d
about 1850, after a
vexatious obstructions. In
Commission was originally appointed.
in it a distinct o
orious rising against the
war s. Having, somewhere
n existence of a quarter
of a century, contrived at length to relieve the tolls
cf London from the load of debt by which they
had until then been more or less grievously en-
cumbered, the Commission in question had smooth
ground before them for the realisation of the pro-
ject, for the attainment of which they themselves
had been called into being as a Commission. Had
they but acted energetically, had they indeed but
acted conscientiously, they might gradually, year
by year, in 1851, in 1852, io 1853, and so on by
one solitary toll per annum down to the presentyear
of grace 1858, have abolished all the intolerable
gates to the north of London—the gates we have
now by name enumerated ; instead of which thcy
remain' intact down to the end of the chapter, at
Kensington, at Notting-hill, east, west, north,
and south, along the rigid sweep of that contract-
ing semicircle. The proceedings of the Metro
Ph:lwineveßr o,
for
rs Commission, amount literally, ill
Point of fact, to just simply—nothing. Happily,
the public at large, the Toll Reform
Association is as active, as energetic, and as inde-
fatigable as its official antithesis is slumbrous,

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

His Portuguese Majesty's steam corvette Bartho-
lomeo Dial, having on board her Majesty the Quen
of Portugal, left Hamoaze shortly after 3 o'clock
this morning, and, being joined in the Sound by,
Admiral Chads' squadron, the Renown (91), Dia-
drm (32), Curacoa (31), and Racoon (22), steamed
thr ,ugh the Western Channel for Lisbon. Wind
favourable from the northward.

ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL AT PLY-
MOUTIL—The Royal train, consisting of six carriages,
which left Paddington at 10.33 yesterday (Tuesday)
morning reached Taunton at 2.36 p.m., started again at
3.5, and at 5.40 arrived at Plymouth, where the Queen
of Portugal was received by an assemblage of official
persons, including Mr. Hicks, Mayor ; Mr. Darry,
railway director ; Mr. Carr, secretary ; Mr. Collier,
Portuguese Consul ; Maj Jr-General Eden, Commander
of the Forces in the West, and staff, and yards of
honour from the Royal Marine Artillery and the 67th
Regiment. Her Majesty proceeded in one of the Queen's
carriages, escorted by the military staff, to the Royal
William Victualling yard, where Admiral Chads, Ad-
miral Pasley, a large number of naval officers, and a
guard of honour from the Royal Marines were in attend-
ance. On leaving the carriage the Queen of Portugal
entered the Port- Admiral's barge, and, under salutes
' from the Citadel and Mount Wise, and from all the
dhips in harbour, proceeded on board his Portuguese
Majesty's c •rvette Bartolornio Dias, which was moored
at a short distance from the yard.
THE NEW AMBASSADOR TO CONSTANTINOPLE.—Her
Majesty the Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at
Buckingham Palace, at which the Right Hon. Sir Henry
Bulwer, G.C.8., had an audience of the Queen, and
kissed hands on being appointed her Majesty's Ambas-
sa,lor at Constantinople. Sir Hesry was presented by
the Earl of Malu3esbury, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.
The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton bad an audience
of the Queen of Portugal, at Buckingham Palace, yes-
terday morning.
The Marquis Zalbura has arrived at the Brunswick
Hotel, St. James's, from Spain.
Lord Aylmer; who succeeded to the peerage at the
death, in March last, of Advairal Lord Aylmer, K.C.8.,
has arrived in London, from Canada.
The Right Hon. S. R. Lushiagton and Mrs. Lushing-
ton have Id; the Clarendon, for Terrace House, New-
market.

The Countea Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P.,
have been entertaining a distinguished circle during the
past three days at Strawberry Hill.
Mr. George Hitchen, the editor of the ilampsh,ire
Chreniele, publighed in Winchester, died suddenly last
week in that c ty, aged 73.
VICTORIA AND PIMLICO STATION.—ne C nninittee OD
the bill authorising a rsilway to Pimlico and a station
near Victoria-street have denared the preambl! proved.

Crr OF LIMERICK ELECTION.—The supporters of Mr.
John Ball have already commenced a brisk canvass in
his favour, and there is every reason to suppose that the
hon. gentleman will this time succeed.
THE NEW SUBMARINE CABLE.—The submarine Can,
between Portland and Alderney will not be much above
fifty miles long. Cherbourg can be effectually watched
from the neighbourhood of Alderney, and when the
cable is laid down, instant notice can be given to all
parts of England of any movement of the French fleet
at Cherbourg. The cable could be easily extended from
Alderney to Jersey and Gaerosey, and a large portion
of the French coast could then be watched.
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—It is stated that Hull is
to be the great intermediate station of the Transatlantic
and British and Iri-h Telegraph Company for the trans.
mission of messages between America and the continent
of Europe. A four-wire cable is being laid in the
neighbourhood of Hull for this purpose, Condon, Liver-
pool, Manchester, and Glasgow will be placed in direct
communication with Hull, as well as with Valentin, on
the Irish coast, whence messages will be received from
America. Commueicatione intended for the Continent
will be forwarded direct to Hull, and thence along the
cable now about to toe carried via Withernsea to Spurn
Point, where it leaves the British Isles and passes
directly aortas the North Sea to Cuxhaven, at the en-
trance of the Kbe, and thence by land to Hamburg, the
principal terminal station on the Continent. Mr. Powell,
one of the company's engineers, is now in lb I prepar-
ing for the transmission of messages by sound, the vibra-
tions being produced by strokes upon a fine-toned bell,
entirely dispensing with the use of the needle. It is
expected that the cornmuthettion between New York
and Hull will be completed by July next.
DRESS OE THE HIGHLAND REGIMENTS IN INDIA.—
It is generally under,tood that the Highland regiment.,
whose heroism contributed so much to the relief and to
the capture of Lucknow, have been made as comfort•
able as possible in the way of dress. We are sorry,
however, to announce, upon the best authority, that np
to the 30th of March, such is not the case. On the
contrary, men and officers had been obliged to march,
mount guard, and fight in their kilt and feather bon-
net-, netwithstanding the evident disadvantages of these
artlolosof dress in the hot climate of the kingdom of Oude.
The ka, after nightfall, leaves the soldier sxpesed to the
horrible torment of the musquito, whose name there is
Legion, and the heavy hot feather bonnet, though over-
topped with a wti ish covering, fixed to the dice, somewhat
resembling a lady's " ugly," is quite unsuitable in active
service. The 01,j,-,ct cf retaining the kilt and feather
bonnet is no doubt to strike terror into our enemies, to
whom the deeds of our Highlanders in that costume are
well known ; but surely utility and humanity should
take the peecedence of any such advantage, It would
require but Ebert time to let it be known that our brave
fellow-ccuntrymen require no such adventitious assist-
ance, and it is not their dress but their stout hearts and
stalwart bodies that make their rush on the foe irresis-
tible. The authorities ri Rik:a have, however, so far
relieved our Hi,;hl.nd Brigade as to substitute a light
c,w,huaTatr,lll,intalenyr,eicvdc: coat. Ttris lourai loose cost, with red facings, for the old
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Tt clßr eos: et
NiVel:::"l,,:3osl;cta:il..rnii determined to oppose the Vic-
toria
andi Pw4uYbIBIC
toria:_St,a,toiffircaenodf
ii. The
ofeflw.lowhittneg-
letter is published in the parhainenta .37 papers yester-
day
White-
hall, May 4.—Geetl enen—l am directed Buildings,l
C ,mrui s:oner of ber Maje,ey'e Works and thePPublic
Buildings to acquaint you for the information of the
promoters of the Vie uric Statieu aed Pimlico Railway
r3i 1. that hating consulted the engineer of the New
Cnelsea Bridge and Thanes Embankment, lately con-
structed by the Government, and having this day re-
ceived his report, the First Commissioner will feel it his
duty to oppose the further progress of the bill as pre-
jud cial to the property in charge of this department,l
and to the use therdof by the public.--lan, &c. (signed)
ALFRED AUSTIN."

THE sup, LONDON, WEDNESDAY E:V ENING, MAY 12,
_lB5B.

itTEST NEW.

TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING 4.
The Aloniteur o9ntains the following with re-
gard to Turkey and Montenegro

"Turkey threatens to invade Montenegro.
" The French Government, in order to avoid
a conflict, invited England to co-operate, and
prevent hostilities.

"It has been decided to send commissioners
there to arrange difficulties."

The article concludes by hoping Russia and
Austria will join in the work of reconciliation.

VIENNA, MAY 10.

We learn from Ragusa that the Turkish steamer
Silistria, and a ship of the line having on board
3,500 men and 12 field-pieces, under the com-
mand of Sass An Paella, had, arrived in the port
of Kick,

The Prince of Prussia will take the waters at one
of the bathing-places this season, and it is conse-
quently probable that he will not visit the Rhenish
provinces as announced. The Prince and Princess
Frederick William will leave the capital in June
for Eastern Prussia, where preparations for their
reception have already commenced.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY.
The Patrie is warm in its approval of the con-
duct of the British Ministry in the matter of the
Oude proclamation :
" Lord Derby and Lord Ellenborongh assumed
in this debate an attitude which will be honoured
in Europe ; they nobly defended the cause of jus-
tice against the prejudices and passions of their
countrymen. It was as much in the name of jus-
tice as of sound policy that they blamed Lord Can-
ning for having confiscated the possessions of an
entire nation which fought for its independence and
its national institutions. Vfebelieve time will prove
that Ministers have been in this instance the beat
representatives of British honour and the best in-
terpreters of English interests: In resisting popu-
lar passions and in employing their authority to
save their country from an iniquity and a stain,
they have compuhended and also accomplished
their dirties as statesmen."

The Paris police continue their crusade against
the secret societies, and during the last few days
have made a capture of several individuals forming
the staff of the Societe Icarievne, one of the many
subdivisions of La Marianne. This arrest took
place in one of the central departments. A domi-
ciliary visit has taken place at the house of a
Madame Lefrancois, whose husband, formerly one
of the editors of Le Siecle, is at present a refugee
in Lonlon. Nothing of a compromising nature
was found on the premises.
The Revue du Nord, a highly intelligent periodi-
cal, published at Lille, has been suppressed. The
Tribunal at Amiens has sent the editor and printer
to prison for a month.
A letter from Jaffa, in the Univers, says :
"Serious disturbances, it has been stat-d, recently
broke out in that part of the mountains of Judea
which extends from Hebron to Belt-Bobrin and
Ramleh. They were cawed by some Scheiks,
headed by Mustapha Abou-Goch. This man is
little better than a brigand, but he is so powerful
that he can create disturbances when he pleases,
and the governors of Palestine sometimes con-
descend to bribe him to restore order. He is,
howeve often opposed by another brigand, named
El Laham, chief of the district of El Ha'comb,
and in a recent combat between their respective
adherent., there were 60 killed and upwards of
100 wounded. A tribe of the Thyas took advan-
tage of these disturbances to pillage several vil-
lages and carry off flocks of sheep and goats. The
governor of Palestine having only a few hundred
nizams (regular soldiers) at his disposal, and they
being required to preserve order at Jerusalem, in
which there were about 12,000 pilgrims, could not
seed a force to tl,e mountains, but by the assistance
of the Fieoch consul he succeeded in inducing the
parties to c merit to a truce of sixty days: Not-
withstanding these disturbances, the roads in Pales-
tine are safe for Europeans ; in fact, since the Cri-
mean war, the Arabs, even the most rapacious,
have such respect for the Europeans that they ab-
stain from doing them any injury. As a proof, it
may be mentione 1 that though tribes of warlike
Arabs recently fought with each other in the moun-
tains in the environs of Silo and Yaboud to the
north of Jerusalem, they allowed three French
nuns, accompanied only by a guide and a mule-
teer, to pass the day ofafar unhurt on their way
to Nazareth. I have just returned from a pilgri-
mage to J. rusalem, and I was there greatly grieved
to HOO the deplorable state of the cupola of the
Holy Sepulchre ; outside, the lead of the roof has
been torn off, and in-ide, the ceiling has fallen
down, so that tie sky cis be seen through, and
rain falls in. The projects of Russia in Palestine
merit the attention of Itoman Catholics. H( r Holy
Synod has sent a Muscovite bishop to Jerusalem,
and his arrival has produced a great sensation
among trio Chriitiaus of all communions. Even
the Greeks hay.' not been unmoved by it. It is
said that the Russian Government contemplates
building hospitals, churches, and convents in Je-
rusalem and other places, and even of making a
good road between Jaffa and Jerusalem. Perhaps
what is said is an exaggeration, but it is certain
that lately an Italian architect who was here repro-
iented that he was charged by the Russian Go-
vernment to purchase houses and ground, and
drawing up plans for constructions, at Jerusalem."
BOURSE, May 11.—The following were the
closing quotations :-
41 per Cents 93 Credit Foncier
Do. end month._ Belgian 4............
3 per Cent.
Do. end month 69 30 Roman ..................... 91
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account 725 Home Debt .......... —

RAILWAYS.--FOR CASH.
Orleans
Northern
New Ditt0...,,
Lyon and Mediteran. 772.1, Grand Central
New Ditto__ — Sardinian ............... 43'i
Geneva

from Palermo, arrived yesterday afternoon from
Palermo, and leaves at noon this day for Liver-
pool.

- The steamship Lebanon, from Liverpool, bound
to Constantinople, just coming in.
The steamship Alps left yesterday afternoon kr
Sicily and the Adriatic.
The Tagus packet left last night. The papers
were sent by her.
The Ville de Paris, for Malaga, also left last
night.

The acting civil chaplain here, Rev. H. 0.
Wrench, has been appointed chaplain to the forces
at Zante, and will le.ve wi.h the packet expected
here on the 9th from Southampt. n.