The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-28 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

ADJOURNED MEETING THIS DAY.

The fourth debate on Mr. Clavvshay's resolut;on
relative to the proposed change in the future Govern-
ment of India, was resumed this morning. Mr. E.
Mangles, M.P., in the chair.
Dr. BEATTIE opened the debate. Ho stated he had
had considerable experience in India, and complained
that the bible had not been made a class book in the
Indian schools as it ought to have been ; and the want of
encouragement of Christianity by the Company's ser-
vants. (Hear.) Be, however, strongly deprecated the
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proposed change. (Hear.) He approved of the present
I n dwi:,
Company, contrasting it with the recent Government
appointment of Lord G. Paget, Inspector of Cavalry.
(Hear, hear.) He contended that the East India
Company's government had been advantageous to
the people of India, and instanced the con-
struction of public works, the roads, canal &c.,
He hoped the petition would be adopted as that of the
whole proprietary body, &c. (Hear, hear.) He could
not-too strongly denounce the proposition of change as
one fraught with the greatest possible danger to the
true interests of the natives of India. He should cor-
dially support the petition.
Mr. PRINSEP (director) denied that the East India
Company had discouraged the spread of Christianity
in India. Their reason for not having urged it more
forcibly was that they wished to extend to the natives
the same religious toleration that was enjoyed by the
Christians, and also out of respect to their religious
prejudices. (Hear, hear.) On the day of humiliation
the sermons of all the preachers in this metropolis laid
the blame of the mutiny to the East India Company, in
consequence of circulars previously sent round to them
from the Church Missionary Society to that effect—a
society that bad been especially favoured by the
company in India, but he had reason to know the
contents of the circulardid not meet with the concurrence
of the bishops in India, because they could not agree in
its assertions. He contended the company had done all
they could to develop the resources of India. The
company was a responsible body, being responsible both
to Parliament and the people through the medium of
the press. He concluded by defending the conduct of
Lord Auckland, relative to the Afghan war, and threw
the whole Maine of it on her Majesty's Government.
Mr. Winn; M.P., took that opportunity, as a pro-
prietor of stock, of expressing his firm approval of Mr.
Crawsbay's motion.
The CRAIRMAN then addressed the Court at some
length, in the course of which he asked for a searching
inquiry on the part of the Government, before making
the proposed change. It was to be expected errors had
been committed, but when their administration had been
examined, and inquired into, he felt certain it would b,
found, in the words of Mr. Mill, the Indian historian,
" that no Government had ever manifested more die

,nterested benevolence or an earnest desire to improve

the condition of its subjects than bad the East
Government, and the black spots to be discovered
would be but few." (Hear, hear.) He directed atten-
tion to memorials received from several Rajahs: is
India, in favour of the present government, and expressed
an opinion that the proposed change had been ill-timed.

Tn• lion. gentleman read documents received recently
from India. One of them was from Mr. Grant, Preaiden•

of Benares, denying that he had pardoned any one or
had committed the errors attributed to him, Hie object
in reading the letter was in illustration of the state of

public feeling that could alone have led to the concoction
of many of the extraordinary stories that had been put f.)l th
He had always cons:dered two points were necessary fo•
the Government of India, first, that absolute authority
should be in the hands of imperial authority ; aud,
E cio ndly that by some means or other there should be
a body of advisers—a non-political body—(hear)—au
independent body—to stand between the Indian and the
direct action of the Home Government. It wa-
essential that it should be a body independent of
party change or party politics, and be knew

none better than the Board of three Lora. Referring to

the remarks that bad been made by previous speakers,

hesaid that the Court of Directors c,,ncurred with the

Governmeht in the annexation of Oude, but he though
that was not a Ifficient to dissolve the company, seeing
the Government was a particeps criminis, but he believed,

with Sir J. Lawrence, that that was not the cause of the

mutiny.

[We shall give the conclusion i❑ our last edition.]

LLOYD'S SIIIPPING.—(Thia Day.:

LONDON, Jan. 28.—Wind this day at noon, S.E.;
light breeze and fine.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 27.—Wind S.S.E. to S.E.---
Arrived—Her Majesty's steamer Vulcan, from Gibraltar.
SWANSEA, Jan. 27. —Wind S.E.—Arrived—Sir Henry
Pottinger, from Coquimbo.
HULL, Jan. 27.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived--Maria, from
Now York.

SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 27.—Sailed—Tagus (q), for Gib-
ral tar.
HOLYHEAD, Jan. 27.--Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Eliza-
both, from --- for San Cyprian ; Imogene, from -- for
Pernambuco; Rose, from -- for Madras; Gleaner, from
Whitehaveu for Matanzas ; Bennett, from Liverpool for
Rio Janeiro; Ledway Auguste, from Liverpool for La
Guayra.

CiLCUTTA, Dec. 21.—The George Washington, from
London to Shanghai, was spoken by the Banian, arrived at
this port; she had been on fire.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.

Wind S.
Arrived—Wonder, steamer, from Jersey; L'Etoile,
Cherbourg ; Alliance, steamer, Havre.
Sailed—Tagus, steamer, for Gibraltar; Havre, steamer,
Havro ; Dispatch, steamer, Jersey.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning.

Wind S.
Arrived—D, from Jersey ; Lochiel, Callao ; Nyverheid,
Ost,,nd ; Duero, Corunna ; Balbec, Havre; Empress,
Leghorn.
The Lore, screw steamer, which sailed last evening for
London, was ashore on East Hoyle atlo p.m., and remains
with her back broken. Passengers landed in the Hoylake
1 ife- boat.

Sailed—Arno, for New Orleans; William Owens,
Benin ; Adelaide, Pernambuco.

QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 23.

LITERATURE.

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Illustrated History of Preston, in Lancashire. By
Charles Hardwick. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
Upon the substantial basis of this goodly volume,
of very nearly seven hundred. pages, Mr. Hard-
wick has forthwith built up a durable and distin-
guished reputation, at once as an archaeologist
and' a topographer. It assumes its position.upon
the same shelf with Cunningham's London, and
Barrett's Bristol, and Whittaker's Mancliesier.
It is a work, we may observe, published by sub-
scription, under the direction of a_ local firm of
considerable enterprise, the firm of Messrs. John
Worthington and Company, of Town-hall Cor-
ner, Preston—the metropolitan agents being
the Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall, the London
booksellers. Altogether, after a very careful
examination of the volume we do not hesitate
to pronounce it one of the most entertaining, and at
the same time one of the most conscientiously
elaborated productions of the kind that has probably
yet anywhere made its appearance. The interest
of the work is not by any means of a local or even
of a provincial character exclusively. It throws
light through its antiquarian researches upon the
general history of the island, as well as in a more
peculiarly vivid manner upon the martial anuals
of the county of Lancaster. Nor can this be re-
garded as in any remarkable degree surprising
when it is considered that the borough of
Preston is, after all, one of the most ancient
boroughs in the whole of the United
Kingdom. Its antiquity, as place of human
habitation, indeed, dates back to a period, to use my
Lord Macaulay's phrase, "lost in the twilight of
fable, " or, according to a famous legal idiom,
regarding the borough of Preston as such, the me-
mory of man • running not to the contrary.
Preston is presumed to have risen. out of the ruins
of Ribble Chester, and Ribble Chester is under-
stood to have flourished immediately before the
advent to our shores of Julius Omar, Britain's first
conqueror, and what is yet more Britain's first lite-
rary celebrant. Preciselyas Hume, and Rapin, and
Lingard, respectively begin their narrative of the
national fortunes, Mr. Hardwick begins his more
restricted record of the fortunes of Preston (vice
Ribble Chesterabolished !)—with reference to classic
authorities, such as Strabo's Travels and Caesar's
Commentaries. He illustrates his argument in
these annals, moreover, somewhat as a geologist
might illustrate a treatise of the strata of this earth

byallnsionto the print of ferns upon the dazda]

granite, to the footmarks of extinct monsters, to
the very bones, the colossal skeletons im-
bedded in the solid rock, the osseous relics
of the mastodon and the icihyosaurus. Iu-

tead, however, of doing so with loot-prints
and skeletons, 'the archa3ologist adorns his
text with sketches of antique amulets, and celts,
and paalstabs—spearheads of iron, bronze urns, and
bone needles, curiosities dug up in the course of
recent excavations. The plan of Mr. Hardwick's
History of Preston appears to us to be really admi-
rable. Divided into three pats—it treats of Pres-
ton successively in a historical and topographical
point of view, subsequently expatiating upon its
environs—with particular reference to the Valley
of the Ribble, the Hundred of Leyland, the Hun-
dred of Blackburn, and the Hundred of Amouuder-
[less. A very curious Appendix is followed by a
most diversified series of Biographies, and this
again by a Chronologic,il Table and an Index, each
admirably complete, and each arranged with a
careful regard to the facilities for instant

reference. - The purely Historical division of
this History of Preston carries the reader by
due gradations downwards from , the most
remote epoch upon record to times immediately

contemporary, through the British Period, and the
Roman Period, and the SAxon Period, and the
Danish Period, to the Norman Conquest, and so
onward in the stream of eveuta throughthe reigns of
Plantagenets, and Tudors, and Stuarts, to the dy-
nasty and the very reign of our present gracious
Sovereign. After the fifth chapter of the First
Part, a chapter, bringing us from the Restoration
o the age of Victoria, we come to three other
chapters, completing the section, with records re-
lating to Municipal Government, Guild Merchant,
Trade and Commerce, and Parliamentary Represen-
tation. The illustrations of the work are so profuse
and costly, that we are almost ashamed to notice,
iu regard to them, what, nevertheless, appears to
us a deficiency. Yet it is without doubt a deficiency
so remarkable that it may not unreasonably, in
spite of the merit and multiplicity of the numerous
engravings scattered through the letterpress by way
of embellishment, be here at once distinctly sped-
fied. The deficiency we speak of is simply no other
than that caused by the absence of a really good
plan—nay, for that matter, the absence of any plan
at all—of Preston as it is nowadays. There cer-
tainly is o plan of Preston in the volume, intro-
duced opposite page 429, one solitary map of the
borough among all these ninety-five engraved and
lithographed illustrations—but it is a map of Pres-
ton only it was in 1774, just eighty-four years
ago ! The omission of a plan of the botough as it
actually appears now in the second half of the nine

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teenth ovntury might be very advisably flied up
in any subsequent edition of a book worthy of being
very often reprinted. Verb. sap. to men of enter-
priAo like the Me9srs. Worthington. Other histories

of Preston and its imwediateleighbourhood have
already of course at intervals before now made their
appearance tuthe gratification of the curious in such
watters in Lancashire. But besides the fact of

these productions being loi g since out of print, and
only to be met with accidentally once in a way upLin
some old book-stall in a daik corner of a bye-street
somewhere (a rather vague and tantalising direc-
tion this to au impatient bibliopole !)—Mr. Hard-
wick's work has many claims for pre-eminence
beyond the very
.best of his various predecessors.
It is a topographical, and archmological, and histo-
rical, and LiogrAphical record of the annals of Pres-

ton, readab'e elsewhere than in Lancashire. It is
a. narrative so readable that any one of moderate
intelligence who happens to dip into the book once
in search of information, will be tolerably- certain
to return to it more than once in quest of amuse-
ment as well. If every old borough in England
had an annalist as painstaking and conscientious as
our historian of Preston, the labours of the Macau-
lays in the way of research would b 3 very won-
drously facilitated. The work, although appa-
rently merely provincial in its character, is indi-
rectly but indisputably imperial in its interest.
As such, we can earnestly and heartily recommend
it to the perusal of the metropolitan reader, hardly
less than to the more minute examination of the

habitual inhabitants of the ancient borough of
Preston itself, and of the contiguous parts of the
county of Lancaster.

Highland Jessie : a Song. Words by D. M. Aird.
Music by T. Browne. Henry Bale, 340, Strand.
Another impassioned song, ssociated with the
heroic memory of Havelock. It is a song, too,
worthy of its theme—poet and musician having
alike acquitted themselves to admiration. The
profits derived from the dittyareto be devoted to the
India Relief Fund. May they help to increase that
fund not inconsiderably. Mr. Aird's war song of
"Havelock to his Warrior:Band," renders his name
upon the present title-page doubly acceptable. We
observe that whie his new song is commemorative
of the Heroine, it is at the same time dedicated to
the relict of the Hero of Lucknow. Few of those
who sing the thrilling words and tones of " High-
land Jessie," but will heave a sigh of sympathy for
the Lady Havelock. _

Thom's Almanac and Official Directory for 1858.
Thom and Sons, Dublin : Longman and Co.,
London.

This volume is one of a series whose value is
recognised and whose character is established fcr
general accuracy and utility. It is the fifteenth
year of its publication, and, consequently, it is no
new candidate for popular approbation. When
first commenced in 1844, it was almost exclusively
devoted to Ireland ; but, encouraged by its exten-
sive circulation, the compiler has taken advantage
of the opportunities afforded him to enlarge its
sphere of usefulness, and it now gives the reader,
in addition to the regular Irish Directory and
Almanac, several distinct directories for other parts
of the United Kingdom and its Colonial possessions.
One of the most remarkable features of the work,
States
and one which immediately commends it to the
favourable notice of politicians and political econo-
mists,
compiler mists is the collection and compilation of statistics
intthe portion
for die United Kingdom, also of Foreign
their population, revenue, (tc. re).
w ithcondition
marks that it is gratifying to trace, in
of these statistics relating to Ireland,
progres-
sive improvement and advanc, in
which is evidenced by the comparison yearofle
year. The commercial tables are likewise of great
practical utility to the
tmerchant and the mau of
Poefertahgee,
varonetage, and Orders
ob fu s ißes
Knighthoodirhe
Army, Navy, and Militiaf Directory, the Govern-
SAlools o Medicine,
mentOffices, United Kingdom, the
ttlrl e
with
ei st,hLt iht
oe r
Ea roy.
clesiastical, Law, Postal and
and Scientific
are all arranged and classified
Institutions, toge C
obuynat y
completeDi re ct o rai ensd,
convenient method. The Indexes are clear and
compendious and greatly facilitate reference. The
public will, 110 dot, appreciate the care and pre-
It ch this laborious undertaking has
been conducted.

The History of England. By Lord Macaulay.
Vol. 111. Longman.
The third volume of the popular edition of this
valuable work has now appeared. Those who
have been unable to obtain it in its previous form