The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-12 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1858.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, 7To APRIL, 1858.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do Hereby Give Notice, That at the
General Court held this day, a Proprietor (Colonel Wilkinson) gave
notice that at the General Court appointed to be he'd on TUESDAY,
the 13'11 I istant, ter the purpose of continuing the consideration of
the two Bills now before Pariiam,nt relative to the Government of
India, and of the report of the Court of Directors thereon, it is his
intention to submit the following resolution, viz. :

" Resolved, that a Petition be prepared to the effect of the
Report laid before the Court of Proprietors, and that the
same be presented to the two Houses of Parliament under
the seal of the East India Company, in the usual form."
.1. D. DICKINSON, Secretary.

CONTRACT FOR FEARNOUGHT.
Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, Sth April, 1858.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the 27th inst., at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
-uch persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her
Majesty's several Dockyards with
FEARNOUGHT.
A sample of the Fearnought, and a form of the tender may be seen
at the said office. No tender will be received atter Two o'clock on
the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends or
an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressedto the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Fell'.
nought," and must be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by
a letter, signed by a responsible Person, engaging to become bound
with the person tendering, in the sum of 4001. for the due per-
formance of the contract.

GRANDES NOUVEAUTES IN PARIS.--,
LA COMPAGNIE LYONNAISE,
No. 37, Boulevard des Capuchass, Paris,
Have just exposed for sale their Novelties for the season, compri ing
Silk stuffs, Lace, Indian and French Cachemires, printed Muslins
and Quilting, Fancy stuffs of all kinds, Wedding outfits, Mettles,
Burnous, &c.
The successive aggrandizements of the establishment of LA 0031-
PAGNIE LYONNAISE have rendered it ono of tho moat extensive
to Europe; the ware-rooms at the present day comprise upwards of
thirty saloons or galleries, having fear separate entrances. Being
theirown manufacturers, their productions are not liable to the
extra charges made on account of intermediate agents, and thus this
company can afford to offer to the public on terms far more advan-
tageous than any other house. Every article, even the Cachemires
is marked In plain figures.
LA. COMPAGNIE LYONNAISE have established houses at
Lyons, Kashmere, Aleoc.-n, and Chantilly for the manufacture of
Silk stuffs, Cachemires, and Lace, but they have no succursale for
sale in any country whatever.

ft •1 to keep himself alive. It might be asked, was there
anyone left to buy land, now we bad exhaubted the peo-
ple as we bad done I After the potato famine in Ire-
land, and the passing of the Incumbered Estates Act, it
was found that Irishmen bought the chief part of the
estates ; and, perhap., it might be found, after all, that
there were people in India who possessed' the means to
buy the land when it was offered them. The East In-
dia Company had often been in want of money, they had
something like 60,000,0001. of debt, and be believed a
large portion of that belonged to India. If the Ameri-
cans bad followed our example they would not have been
sending us three millions of bales of cotton. They had
not a people to exhaust, as we had in India ; they had
the red Indian to drive away, and then to induce the
capitalists to settle on the land. If they had told him
he must take the cotton to- market on bullock's backs,
would they have got the land cultivated ? The Ameri-
cans sold their land in fee simple, and provided roads,
railways, and canals. Why, therefore, should we hesi-
tate to demand that India should follow the example ?
And no doubt if the example were followed, India would
in due course of time supply cotton to an extent that
would satisfy reasonable wants.. They who made these
demands asked for no "protection ;" they asked only
that obstacles should be removed. (Hear, hear.) We
had been told that in China not a man rose from his bed
but covered himself more or less with cotton. There
were 300,000,000 of people there; there were
180,000 000 in India in the same case, no doubt ;
and if we dii not provide the clothing, some one else
did, and it came from cotton. After all, where was
the one of us who was not neck deep in c.)t-
ion and the woollen trade themselves would be starved
out if we had not cotton to keep them going. (Laughter.)
It had been said by the East India Company that the
Manchester people should go to India and grow their
own cotton. No doubt it would mnit their purpose very
well, now they had squeezedout the Hindooe. (Laughter.)
It was v. ry kind to ask the Manchester people to spend
their money in India ; but how were they to get it back
again ? However, they need not say much about the
East Ind ;a Company now—they had got " notice to
quit"—they bad got two sheriff's officers at once
(great laughter)—and he thought either Lon{ Palmerston
or Lord Derby would get them ousted. (Hear, hear.)
However it was done, if only there was afforded an op-
portunity of free intercourse with India, and a reason-
able land tenure for security, he would venture to say
that if Manchester manufacturers did not themselves-go
to grow cotton in India, Europeans would grow cotton
there, notwithstanding the scorching sun.

Mr. A. J. OTWAY responded. He believed the impe-
diments to the cultivation of cotton in India were chiefly
the want of communications, the land tenure, and the
adrninistratien of justice. At a meeting c.f the Socie y
of Arts, uo less a person than Colonel Sykes denied the
statements as to r,ads and communications in India,
asserting that very large sums had been expended on
them by the East India Company, and that the accounts
of them were greatly exaggerated. He (Mr. Otway)
behaved, however, that the roads in India were utterly
impracticable ; and that the East India Company, in
what they had expended under the head of " Public
Work., had devoted the money principally to the con-
structiontivnr believed,aettthrae.
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was mainly brought about by the eloquence, vigour, and
cbester—Mr Brigbt. (Cheers.)
Mr.
teat, said it must be obvious that in the ca,,e of a semi-
educated people, or a wholly barbarous people, such as
inhabited many of the countries where cotton could be
cultivated, an who had no notion that such a place as
e
Mhn ceter calico i, we could not apply the common
doctrines (1 po'itical economy. To make thesa people
aware of the fact that we wanted their c.)tton was one of
the objects of this association, and it seemed a matter of
duty to carry it out. No donut the supply woul t answer
the demand ; but, as had been well said la; Mr. Edmund
Ashwortii, in the morning, it was a question of time,
and also of great loss of capital ; it in gbt be a question
of very great misery to our population, and of v.zy great
theiteis;b4e,erftobya very
institutions
great
temporary ft the Countryoutl ywe could
itself. If,
t
prevent the calamity, surely the object need only be
known to command increasing interest from every class
of the people of this country. (Cheers.)
Mr. T.' CLEGG, in proposing " The Houses of Parlia-
ment," britfli' described his operations for obtaining
cotton from Africa, as one means of inducing the native

objets to abandon the slave trade. He had induced oat, yes
to come to England to be instrucked in the cleaning of
cotton, and they having been provided with the reAuisite
implements, and sent back again to Abeokuta, the result
had been, after seven years' gradual progress, that last
year 1.250 bales bad been produced in that region
entirely by the natives themsel►es, awl by no Ear4epean
agency except in the prompt purchase of the cotton.
(Applause.)
Col. PATTZN, M.P., and Sir J. POTTER, M.P., re-
sponded.
Mr. DUNLOP, of Glasgow, proposed " Prosperity to
to India."

Mr. A. N. SHAW (late revenue commissioner for the
north of India) responded. He believed the two mea-
sures which only would ensure perfect prosperity to
India were—first, an extended and liberal system of
education ; and second, a full development of the re-
sources of the courrry. He considered one of tee causes
of she mutiny was that we bad broken down the aria-
tocracy of the country, and raised up nothing in its
place, which should have been interested for its ex-
istence in intimate connection with ourselves and the
irainuance of our Government. Such a class wool i
have been established, if we had allow‹d the rale of
land in fee simple. (sear.) He challenged anybody to
chow a siegle instance in which either native or Euro-
pean had ever purchased land in India fee simple.
Against whatever had been said to the contrary, he
maintained that American cotton had been grown sae-
ces-fully in Dharwar, and it was going a little too far
for East India directors to say it could not be grown in
dietrius where it had never been attempted. (Hear,
hear.) His firm convicti ,n was that India was the only
fi ld which would be able to compete with the United
States, and by strenuous and persevering endeavours he
heel not the slighte,t doubt of our success. (Cheers.)
Mr. R. REDDELL also responded.
Mr J. A.. TURNER, M.P., proposed " Our Colonies
and Depenencies as additional fill is of cotton ou•ture."
Sir J. BROOKE, IK C. 8., responded. He thought it
probable that there was not one in that room who knew
so little of cotton supply or cotton manufacture as him-
self, and could only venture to speak on information
from others. India was the central point from which all
the cotton demanded was to be sought ; but he could
never speak of ludia as a whole, or say that we would
grow cotton here or there in India, for we might as well
speak thus of Europe. There were many peoples, with
many different languages, and many different religions,
to be considered in detail. India was different from Ame-
rica in one very important point—there was no slavery.
After all our practical legi,lation we must still inquire
II Will the native of India work the cotton we want 7"
There were plenty of theta to do it, but they were free
men, and might cheese to work sugar, or coffee, or
so:nething else besides cotton ; and we were not quite
safe, merely because " India can do it," in assuming
that if we obtained the land, " ergo must he done.
He believed it could be done, but he merely threw out
the suggestion as a detail worthy of attention. Wecould
not speak of India as a whole, and deal with the land
tenure of India according to the z mindaree and ryot war
or other systems exactly by one eneee men; out it must be
done by a patient attention to detail. By such a course
he believed India wonld prove a large field of supply ;
' but the more etreandets we had to swell the great cur-
rent tne safer we should be, and we should despise none
of them. In every one of them there were many and
very obstacles,iaw
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tenure was an
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but
a mutinyra in hand at this moment. Mr. Cleeg's
area. In dvery peculiar people to deal with, for we
exertions—and there was the reall practical man—
(cheers)—who had devoted himself to the work, and
yWofhtehreeveenrorwmeoutusranreeda,oint ww,hmioldt,
after seven years had produced 1,250 bales, showed how
slow the process ww, and how many must be the sources
never do
cotton could be grown, and assume that cotton can be
we could go in India
pien y.o
.them, and contenting
the best points, those most
taccfuetotned to our appear-
ance,faet. grown
Wcobteisreeqvuerently, because such vv,awsersehaoll
to supplyttohsepdeae
those districts longest settled and
ourselves with some of
kmamnedr.el
where the tenure was _
least opposed to change. Probably
gowderisetricts in Bengal and Madras, where
uyldnochtotohsee
with the leas. violent changes. In
been long resident, would supply an
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e therehi
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out was better than the best plea-
measure well carried . an
tion and faction. By perseverance
sure ruined by disaft c
eanll°trhme°s•eu'dflisucaunstsiitoyns let it be remembered that the worst
be believed the objects of the association would be suc-
cessful, but they would never succeed except by a sys-
tematic(Loud applause.)
The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr. J.
pursuit and minute consideration of details.
Pander and Mr. M. Ross.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE
.R become vacant by
Gennys. Customs.
CIVIL SERVlCE.—Coastguard.—The office of inspecting-
cthoemm
—We are informed that there will be many clerkships
vacant soon, owing to various superannuations beinl
deaanthdeorf,
cLoirovemrpaonodlerdi
W. E•
E.
a
on the tapir ; Mr. James Ferguson has been appointed
a clerk at Glasgow ; Mr. E. A. West, clerk at Bristol,
has been permitted to exchange situations with Mr. C
A. Badcocke, clerk at the London decks. Inland Re-
venue Department, Excise branch.—Mr. W. Coles,
supervisor of Dudley district, has been appointed a
surveying-general examiner ; Mr. T 3. Hoyte, supervisor
of Wednesbury district, has succeeded Mr. Coles at
Dudley, at his own request ; Mr. W. E. Morris, super.
visor of Brentford district, has been appointed to succeed
Mr. Hoyte at Wednesbury.
Dookyards--Mr
Thomas Watson, temporary clerk in the storekeeper's
office, Devonport, has been appointed a third-class clerk
at Deptford ; Mr. George Cork has been appointed
assistant schoolmaster at the Devonport dockyard.--
Qivit Gazette.