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London, England, 1858-05-22 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EYENNG, MAY 22, 185$.

ECONOMY.—A Nine Gallon Cask of First-
-4 Class DINNER SHERRY for 71., cask Included—Cash.--
HENEKE V, ABBOTT, and Co., 22 and 23, High Holborn. Esta-
blished 1t431.

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NOTICE Ft HEREBY GIVEN, That A GENERAL 'MEETING
of Shareholders in this Company will be held on MOND kY, the
31st May, at I o'c'oek p.m , at the Paces, 65, Moorgate- street, for
the purpose of declaring a dividend on the Capital Stock of the
Company, and electing Directors and Auditors for the ensuing year.-
MiThe Transfer Books will be closed on the 25th Instant to 7th
June, and the Dividend paid on the 17th June.
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LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY—WHITSUNTIDE HOL I DAY 4.
DAY TICKETS will be available from Saturday the 22d, until
Saturday the 29th May, inclusive.
MARK IMISH, General Manager.
1, London, Euston Station, May 21, 1858.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
ILA WAY.—RETURN TICKETS, First Class 215., and Closed
Carriages 12s. 6d., available for seven days ; and First Class 375.,
and Closed Carriages 175., available for 28 days, are Willed until
further notic,-, by all trains, according to class, between London
(Euston Station) and Liverpool, Birkenhead, Chester, Warrington,
Wigan, Preston, Manchester, Stocki,ort, Staleybridge, Greenfield,
Oldham, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Batley, and Birstal.
Care should be taken at London-road Station, Manchester, to ask
for tickets by the London and North-Western route.—By Order.
London, Euston Station, April 9, 1858.
ASCOT RACES.—LONDON and SOUTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.-From Waterloo-bridge Station to
Ascot, within 400 yards of the Grand Stand.

Horses and Carriages—On Monday, May 31, a Speci d Train, with
carriages and horses, will leave Waterloo for Ascot Station, at 3.50
p.m. The 4.40 p.m. ordinary train on that day will not convey
horses and carriages.

Arrangement of Trains on Ist, 2d, 3d, and 4th June.—On Tue -
day the Ist, and on Thursday, the 3d June, a train, with seated
covered carriages, will run from London to Ascot at 8.15 a.m., and
will return from Ascot to London at 7.30 p.m.
Fares there and back, or either way, 6s ; or fares there and hack,
with the privilege of returninz by any train to which covered car-
riages are attached, up to Saturday, 7s. lid.
Special Trains will run from London to Ascot, each day, from
10 a.m. till 12.45 p.m., and will return from Ascot to London from
4 till 7 p.m.

Fares there and back, or either way.—On Tuesday, Ist, and
Thursday 3d—first-class, 12s. 6d.; second-cla-s, 10s. On Wednes-
day 2d, and Frid ty, 4th —first-cl 1.., Ins ; second-class, 7s. Double
journey tickets, available for the four d iys —first. c ass, 433. ; second-
class, 325. ,uillcient first-class accommodation cannot be guaran-
teed by every train.
Tickets, at the above-mentioned fares, can he obta'ned on an 1 after
Monday, the 31st Mar, at Messrs. Tattersall's, Hyde-park corner ;
and at the Universal Office, Regent- c rens ; Swan-with-two Necks,
Gresham-strect; Spread Eagle, Gracechurch street; 53, King Wil-
liam-street, City; Bolt-In-Tun, Fleet-street ; Green man and Still,
Oxford-street; George and Blue Boar, Holborn; Golden-cross,
Charing-cross; Blossoms Inn, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside ; or 90,
High-street, Borough. By order.
Waterloo-bridge Sta:ion, May, 185 i.

O'Rorke, from the 19th foot, toh4nsign, vice Lewis.
To be Ensigns, by purchase— Artar Morris, Gent., in
. ;
Succession to Lieutenant :Phillip: promoted ; Alex-
tinder Borthwick, Gent, in suedsion to Lieutenant
M`Gill, promoted Redvers Heti' Buller, Gent., in
succesnon to Lieutenant Sewell who retires. The
Christian names of Majof so was promoted, in
the Gazette of the nth-April. 183, are George Walle-
grave.
68th Foot--Richard Clayton, Gent.,,o be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Kay, promoted.
.73rd Foot—Brevet Lieut-Colonel G. H. Smith, to be
Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase Captain W. L. Peto
to be Major, without purchase, ace Smith ; Lieut. A.
H. Godfrey to be Captain, wit-ho,S purchase, vice Peto ;
Ensign William Bayley tie be Lintenant, without pur-
chase, vice Godfrey.
76th Foot—Henry Bouverie Paw Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Wallace appalited to the fOth Foot.
81st Foot--The date of the prabation of Capt. Malachi
Hanley and Lieut. G. P. Jelling, to be the 9th, and not
the 7th September, 1857, as stabd in the Gazette of the
19th February last.
filth Foot—Ensign Montgomery Nilliams to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Arlon, died of his wounds;
Ensign Frederick Cornwall to le lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Williams, whose promotion by purchase, on
the 2d February, 1858, has been cancelled.
90th Foot—Captain F. E. Sorel' fiom the 29th Foot, to
be Capiain, vice Phipps, who ovhanges.
92d Foot—Ensign and Adjutant James George to be Pay-
master, vice Hay, who resigns; Lieut, C. A. Humfrey
to be Adjutant, vice Ensign George, appointed Pay-
master.
96th Foot—Captain H. V. Mundell to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Croker, who retiree; Lieut. J. Briggs to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Mrindell ; Ensign Wm. O.
Barnard to be Lieutenant, wittoutpurchase, vice Coch-
rane, promoted in the Bth Fneti; Ensign A Manera to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vies Briggs ; Ensign J. L.
Toke, from the 26Sh
al su r out—Ensign Robert W. Birbor to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice P. C. Smyth, died of his wounds.
98th Foot—Richard Townley, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Smith, promoted.
Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant George Henry Grey to be Cap-
tain, without purchase, vice Bell, deceased ; Ensign F.
W. Ramsbottoni, to be Lieutenant, without purchase,
vice Grey.
3d West India Regiment—Ensign John Robert Mather to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Rowland, promoted.

WITBDRAWAL OF MR. CARDWELL'S

BESOLUTION.

(Prom the Daily News.)

The House of Commons has rarely presented a more singu-
lar and exciting scene than it exhibited last evening. Every
seat was occupied, the bar was crowded with members,
the galleries were thronged with an eager and excited au-
ditory. All announced the eve of one of those decisive en-
counters the issue of which is to determine not only the
fortunes of a party but the policy of an empire. The num-
bers, the hush of expectation, the electric sensitiveness,
ready at the slightest spark to discharge itself in bursts of
applause or roars of laughter—combined to indicate the
imminence of a close and desperate struggle which neither
party courted, but from which neither shrunk. Still an
impression was prevalent amongst those accustomed to
watch closely the symptoms of Parliamentary strife, that
a battle " a l'outrance " might even yet be evaded. A
few moments sufficed to show that this impression was
well founded. Lord Palmerston rose to ask the Chancellor
of the Exchequer two questions • first, whether any cover-
ing despatch had accompanied the papers just laid on the
table of the house ; secondly, whether it was clearly un-
derstood that the debate on Mr. Cardwell's Resolution
should finish that•night, or stand over till after the Whit-
suntide recess. Mr. Disraeli, pale, calm, and concentrated ;
the great speech evidently all prepared, and with no dis-
inclination to try the chances of war, gave a guarded and
dubious answer to the first question, and with regard to
the other quietly remarked that, as far as he was concerned
he intended to address the house ; the other members, no
doubt, would do so too; and that though he assumed the
general un ferstaeding was that the debate should conclude
that sight, it was impossible to give any absolute pledge
on the subject. After a few more Questions and answers,
out a complete mutiny in the ranks of Lord Paimerlatorh
supporters. One -!liberal warier afteranotber'rese; filth
every vs iety of tone, from entreaty to menace,
to' urge the withdrawal of Mr. Cardwelt, s Resolution.
The publication of the recent despatcher!, it was
represented, had completely altered the aspect of the
question, the nature of the issue was entirely changed ; it
was no longer possible either to waive the discussion of
Lord C inning's confiscation policy, or to arrive at a just
ant satisfactory conclusion upon it. To vote for the motion
as it now stood would be to place the Liberal party in a
false position with the country. Mr. C ,rdwell was in-
exorable; refused to withdraw his motion, and declared,
with metallic inflexibility, that the debate must go on.
Then the storm broke out afresh, and the mutiny waxed
fiercer and fiercer. The more independent supporters of
Lord Palmerston openly declared their intention to desert.
" If the motion is persisted in," exclaitued Mr. Thomas
Duncombe, " I shall npt vote against it, but put on my
hat, and wish the right hon, gentleman good night."
Colonel Sykes, amid the inextinguishable laughter of the
house, endeavoured, by quoting the Hindee equivalent, to
prove that the word "confiscation" was to ba interpreted
in a non-natural sense. As a "linguist," he contended
that it meant nothing more than " sequestration aed
appropriation." He might as well h 'ye toll his h -ar rs
at once, in the veruacular of Ancient Pistol, that " convey
the wise it call." Then came the more plaintive remon-
strances of the gentlemen who were fast bound by pledges
to Sir William Hayter. They felt they could not escape ;
if the motion was persisted in, they must march on 820
ficvello victims towards the altar of party. But they cou,d
and they did protest against the cruelty involved in this
exacting the utmost rights of the " torturing scourge."
While these affecting remonstrances were being made and
these indiscreet revelations indulged in; while 'the
party character of the motion was thus admitted,
and the mysteries of the ex-Treasury whip revealed,
the serried ranks of the Ministerialists at quietly
watching the progress of the insurrection. It
was time for the superior powers to intervene ; the
knot had acquired that degree of complexity which
traditionally demands the interposi.ion of a God,
and Lord Palmerston once more detceeded on the
scone. The ex-ministerial Jupitergave the signal, and his
sedate satellite, no longer inflexible, put himself and his
motion in the hands of the house.

Mr. Gladstone, amid -some expressions of iinpatience.
which even his inimitable elocution c3uld not allay, urged
on the Government the adoption of Mr. Dillwyn's amend-
ment, and' teek occasion to psss an eloquent enlogiurn,
which was generallerfelt to be not then called for, on the
personal character and general policy of Ler 1 Ca eying.
Then Mr. Disraeli lose. He accepted the withdrawal of
the motion, n it asreleasing the Ministry from the peril of
a conflict which they did not fear, but as relieving the
house from the necessity of deciding, on a false issue. a
most grave and difficult problem of Inperiel policy. The
Ministerial leader endeaveured, and not without success,
to show that he and those with whom he acted lied
throughout advocated in India a policyof "discriminative
amnesty" as opposed to wholesale confiscation; be pointed
out that in PO far as Lord Canning proceeded on this policy
he would naturally command their support, and that the
Proclamation was condemned solely because it involved a
departure from it. Loud cheers from all parts of the house
accompanied the assurance, with which Mr. Disraeli con-
clu le-t, that, since the transmission to India of Lord El-
lenhor.ugh's Despatch, a telegraphic message had been
forwarded to Lord Canning assuring him of the confidence
and support of the hone authorities. Lord John Russell,
with reference especially to a motion of which Sir De ',icy
Evans had given notice, explicitly condemuing the coatis-
Cation policy of Lord"Cinuttg, exPromPH4-4Villtte°-
sire that Parliament should net, in the prowls alit of
our Indian affairs, and in the necessary absence of adequate
materials and competent knowledge, be asks I a ;Ain to pro-
nounce aju Igment on the public, conduct of Lord Canning
as Governor-General. In this recommendation all reason-
able men will be strongly disposed to censer; it is impossi-
ble, however, not to remark on the singularity of its being
urged by a statesman who is generally regarded as en un-
rinproinising assertor of the competency and right of
Parliament to take into its own head,' the government of
India. Mr. John Bright closed the discussion by declaring
that he entertained no feeling of animosity against the old
party leaders, and only trusted that whet bed just taken
place might prove to them the necessity of a more free and
genial communication with those gentlemen who bad
hitherto been expected to support their measures without
being admitted into their counsels.
:thus, like so many other political aTairs in this free and
constitetioual country, the great "faction fight" has ended
in a compromise. No one who really has at heart the
dignity of the house, the welfare of the country, and the
safety of India, can regret the result. The question had
long transcended the narrow limits within which the
literal terms of Mr. Cardwell'e motion would have con-
fined it. It had become a question, as Sir James Graham
put it in his admirable speech, between a policy of con'ls-
cation for India and a policy of amnesty. After the re•
ceipt of Sir James Outram'e remonstrance, it had become
utterly impossible for any honest supporter of Lord
Palmerston to seote the substantial apprise 4 of the policy
which that remonstrance condemned. Hence the protest
before which the noble lord, however reluctantly, was
compelled to give way. No doubt there may have been
other and lower feelings at work : their inflasnce, in feed,
was more than sufficiently betrayed by one or two of the
Pelmeretonian revolters. But, on the whole, it is only
fair to admit that the house was mainly actuated by
higher and more dignified impulses, The wants., , whose
instinctive good sense an I just feeling revolted from the
notion of making the destinies of India turn on the con-
flicts of party, will rejoice at the result. The Liberal
party must feel well satisfied at having escaped the neces-
sity of going to the hustings on a false issue. The leaders
of the Liberal party ought to learn wisdom frem the event.
The great need of the party is harmony and re oensolide-
Moe. These ends aro butter to be secured by extending the
basis of confidence and the scope of legislative effort, than
by devising dexterous motions which involve either no
principle at all, or none which honest and intelligent
Liberals oan consistently support.