The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-08 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, Ann 6.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened very firm,
but weut lower subsequently, only partially recovering
tow,vards the close. Sheffields, 363—Leeds, 87 —Mid-
lands, 93}—Dovers, 208 —Trunks, 11 13-16—Rochdale
Canal, 84---f'Aledoniarv, 86—Eastern Counties, 111—
East Lancashire, 171 —Londons, 914.

SIR E. BULWER LYTTON AT LINOOLN.—Sir E Bnlwer
Lytton, Bart., who for a number of years represented
Lincoln in Parliament, visited that city last week, and
en Monday night last delivered, in connection with theh
Mechanics' Institution (in the establishment of which
the
Elmanr.lybanroinsteotrtyoookf
athgereEatisitnerten
and the mayor presided.l h
ressta),tioanlge,cteuspreewciaasOnyan
those mentioned in the 01 i Testament." There was
boa.
crowded audience,
i Greek,
the Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, E.7in.
baronet's lecture constituted an outline of the history
and Jewish nations.—Manchester Ougn.,l-(1
eror Alexander
A report lately presented to the
1 vet Toe
relative to
contains the following statistical
:___
Toe number of
landed property and serfs in "'runt to 127,000. Out
istory of
families who are landowner; a 0
000 to 10,000 serfs ; 2,000
of these 2,000 possess from , from 100 to 500 ; 30,000
15.000 bare less than 21. Tue
from 21 to 100; and i
'serfs of the nobility amounts to
total numter of peasant
ot the crown to 9,000,000. There
11,760,000 and
750,000 persons anxiously waiting for
from 500 to 1,000 ;
,8 000
ate therefore and
750,000
an miprovernen
e their condition.
L,,,f t ;TON AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—The
following r E
Fgexstract from the current number of Blackwood's
far as relates to Lord John Russell, is
Maigrha; gteli, o e
especial attention of Lord Palmerston, which
:: hope be will not fail to give it :—" had the fall of
the Palmerston Ministry been accomplished by the Con-
servatives, the result would have gone far to cot solidate
the various sections of the Liberal party. But the chef
agent in his fall was Lord John Russell, who signalised
his opposition by voting against the vsry firstreading of
the Con,piracy Biil—w hereas, the Conservatives, anxious
to avoid even the semblance of fac:ion on so delicate and
important a question, by their votes gave leave to the
Government to introduce the bill. It was also notorious
Viat throughout the whole course of Lord Palmerston's
AdmimPtration, Lord John Russell has been ever ready
to play the part of mischief maker. The result has been
to widen the breach previously existing between these
two chi, fa of the Liberal party, and to exasperate in no
ordinary degree the Palmerstonians against Lord John
Russell. Lord John will never rest so long as Lord Pal-
i vurston is above hire, while the Irish Viscount will cer-
t tastily not submit tamely to be displaced from his point
of honour. It is at present, almost a drawn race between
them, and, considering the advanced years of both, the
next heat must decide. At present Lord Palmerston
holds the vantage. It is six years since that noble
lord asserted his independence, and " took uptshtetrhreune.
ning" against Lord John, and during the
la
in fact, has of late years bon ' noffhere.":
years he has completely distanced his ri; a, . Lord John,

BAIT INDIA COMPANY.'
[A. portionvot.the.. following appea -ed in our' late edition
of last evening :Fr •
•, A special general meeting of the proprietors of East
India Stock was held this afternoon, at the India-house,
Leadenhall-street, Mr. D. R. Mangles, M.P., Governor,
itt.the chair, for the purpose of granting a pension to the
present Sir H. Lawrence ; and also for the purpose of
laying before the proprietors two bills before Parliament
for the better government of India, by transferring the
government of that country from the East India Com-
pany to her Majesty the Queen.
PENSION TO SIR 11. LAWRENCE.
The CHAIRMAN then laid before the Court the unani•
mous resolution of the Board of Directors granting a
pension of 1,000/, a year to the present Sir H. Lawrence,
with reversion to his younger brother in the event of
his dying without issue, remarking that it was unneces-
sary he should trouble the Court with the late Sir H.
Lawrence's brilliant career and the great service he had
rendered the proprietors and the country in India, all
of which bad been so recently laid before the public and
had been appreciated by them

Sir F. Ci7RRIE seconded the motion.
Mr. LINVIN expressed his regret that the pension
was not earlier awarded, and that it had originated from
the Board of Control instead of from that Court. The
Court of Directors would never have taken up this pen
sion had they not been stimulated by an article in the
The CHAIRMAN denied that the directors bad been
stimulated by an article in the Times to grant this pen-
sion, or that it originated with the Board of Control.
It was granted from the convictions of their own minds
that it was a proper course to pursue, and he assured
the Court that the proposition originated with the C)urt
of Directors, and not with the Board of Control.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Joisics objected to the vote, on the ground that
the Court of Proprietors had not bad sufficient evidence
laid before them by the Court of Directors on which to
found this vote "as an administrator or statesman" re-
quired by the bye-laws. The pension was proposed
merely for his defence of Lucknow, which he (Slr.
Jones) characterised as a failure. He allowed the
rebels, or rather the patriots—(laughter)—to use the
cover of the adjoining houses and temples of worship to
terribly annoy the garrison, so that the soldiers were not
safe in any room in the garrison from the bullets of the
enemy. Brigadier Inglis was the man who ought to
have the money. It was all very well for the Queen to
grant baronetcies, but he (Mr. Jones) would not
accept one if her Majesty would give it him. (Laughter.)
They cost nothing and were worthless, but 10001 a-year
was so much money out of the pockets of the people of
India. From a mistaken respect for the religious feel-
ings of the people of India the temples and mosques
were saved which gave so much shelter to the rebels and
enabled them so long to hold Lucknow. He moved an
amendment that the pension should not be granted on
the evidence before the court. _

Mr. Serjeant GASELEE seconded the amendment.
Mr. STEWART supported the motion for the pension.
The CHAIRMAN said that the late Sir li. Lawrence
had proved himself an able statesman. His abilities as
such were now matters of history, and were imperishably
connected with the government of India of late years,
and more especially for his marvellous good government
of the new territory—the Punjaub. The late Sir H.
Lawrence deserved the thanks of the civilised world, for
his conduct in India, both before and on the breaking
out of the mutiny.
Mr. LEWIN urged on Mr. Jones to withdraw his
amendment.
Mr. Sergeant GAZELEE said he seconded the amend-
ment merely from a belief that the Court of Directors
had not given the Court of Proprietors the information
they were entitled to for granting the pension. He
concurred it was desirable these pensions should be
granted unanimou,ly, bat the course pursued by the
directors were likely to attain that object. Ittferring to
the anticipated change in the future government of
India, he expressed his opinion that this Court had
worn out its purpose, that it had served its time,
was believed the march of intellect, and ought to be
abolished, but so long as it existed it was the du'y of
the Court of Directors to give the proprietors all the
information they (the directors) possessed. He called
upon Mr. Jones to withdraw his amendment

After some remarks from Mr. Helps the amendment
was withdrawn, and the original motion was cArried
unanimously.
In answer to a question from Mr. Sergeant Gaz-lee,

The CHAIRMAN said that all the officers engaged in
the defence and relief of Lucknow woull have double
batta.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

The CH&IIIILAN laid before the Court the followirg
report of the Court of Directors, relative to the two bills
now before Parliament for the future government of

"It is the duty of your directors to lay before the pro-
prietors the two bills which have been introduced into
Parliament by the late and the present Ministry, for
divesting the East India Company of all participation
in the government of India, and framing a new scheme
of administrative agency.
"On former occasions when the Ministers of the Crown
have submitted measures to Parliament for altering, in
any manner, the constitution of the Indian government,
the substance of the measures has been offiaially commu•
nicated to the Court of Directors, and an opportunity
allowed to them of offering such remarks as their know-
ledge and experience in Indian affairs might suggest.
The corespondence being after wards laid before the Court
of Proprietors, formed the most appropriate report,
which the;directors could make to their constituents on
the measures under consideration by the Legislatare. In
the present instance, this opportunity not having been
afforded to them, it appears desirable that they should
adopt the present mode of laying before the proprietary
body the observations which it is entitled to expect from
its executive organ, on the bills now before Roliament,
and on the present p mture of the company's affairs.
"The directors cannot but advert with feelings of
satisfaction to the altered tone which public discuss-on
has assumed in regard to the character of Ea,t India
Company, and the merits of the administration in which
lie company has borne so important a part. The int n-
tion of proposirg the abo'ition if the company's govern-
ment was announced in the midst of, and it may be sur-
mised, in deference to, a clamour, which represented the
g iveratnent of India by the company as characteristic
by ❑early every fault f wl•ich a c;vi!i.:ed government
c n be a custd, and the company as the main cause of
the recent disasters. But in the parliamentary discus-
sions which have lately taken place there has been an
almost universal acknowledgment that the rule of the
company has been honourable to themselves and beneficial
to India ; while ❑o political party, and few individuals
of any consideration, have alleged anything seriously
disparag ng to the general character of the company's
administration. So far, therefore, the stand made by
the company against the calu onies with which they
have been assailed, may be considered to have been suc-
o ,ssful.

" But the admieelen generally made, and made expli-
citly by the proposers of both the bills, that the exist-
ing, system works-welly has-not had the effect of iniinc-
lag, doubt of the wisdom of beefily abolishing it. Neither
does it seem to have been remembered that, if the sys-
tem has worked well, there must be some cause for its
having done so, and that it woul.d be worth while to
consider what these are, in order that they mig'ot be re-
tained in any new system. If the constitution which has
ma-1e the 'lndian Government what its must be eh:-
R . iiled, because it is thought defeotive theory, vha.t is
substitutedsh.ould at leaet,be theoretically unobjection-
able. But the constitution of the Ea-t Indian COIL! pany,
bowever anomalous, is far more in accordance with the
acknowledged,prieeiplasPf good government flan either
9f the prpposeu bills. - ,
"Toe nature of the case is, ineleed,eiteelf so anoma-
lous, that something anornal,,us was to be expected in
the means by which :itcould, be successfully dealt with.
English institutions and modes of political ac-
tion are adapted to the-ease of a nation geverning itself.
In India the case to.. be provided for is that of the go
vernment of one nation by another ; seta-ated from it
by _half the globe ; unlike it in everything which charac-
terises a people ; as a whole, totally unacquainted with
it ; and without time or means fur acquiring knowledge
of it or its affairs.
History presents only two instances in which these
or similar difficulties have been in any considerable de-
gree surmounted. One is the Roman Empire ; the other
is the government of India by the East India Company.
"The means which the bills provide for overcoming
these difficulties consist of the unchecked power of a
minister. There is no difference of moment in this re-
spect, between the two bill,. The minister, it is true, is
to have a council. But the most despotic rulers have
councils. The difference between the council of a despot
and a council which prevents the ruler from being a
despot is, that the one is dependent on him, the other
independent ; that the one has some power of its own,
the other has not. By the first hill, the whole council
is nominated by
the Minister; by the second, one-half is,
nominated by him. The functions to be entrusted to it
are left, in both, with some slight exceptions, to the
Minister's own discretion.
" The Minister is indeed subject to the control of Par-
liament and the British nation. But though Parliament
and the nation exercise a salutary control over their own
affairs, it would be contrary to all experience to suppose
that they will exercise it over the aff.ir-i of 100 millions
of undoes and Mahomedans. Hebilnally, they will
doubtless be hereafter, as they have been heretofore, in-
different and inattentive to Indian affairs, and will leave
them entirely to the minister. The consevence wi.l be
that, in the exceptional cases in which they do interfere,
the interference will not be grounded on koowle to of
the subject, and will probably be for the most part con-
fined to cases where an Indian question is taken up from
party motives, as the means of injuring a Minister ; or,
when some Indian malcontent, generally with obj eta
opposed to good government, succeeds in interesting the
sympathies of the public in his favour. For it is not the
people of India, but rich individuals and societies tep:-
e.enting class interests. who have the means of engaging
the ear of the public through the press, and through
agents in Parliament. And it is important to remark,
that by the provisions of either of the bills the House of
Commons will be rendered even less competent, in point
of knowledge of Indian affairs, than at present, since by
both bills all the members of the Council of India will
be excluded from it.

"The government of dependencies byf alilicister and
o
subordinates, under the sole control
drrao
Parliamentf i , s
i
not a new experiment in England. That colonial
government I,st th i United States, and bad
nearly
lost all the colonies of any considerable population and
importance. The colonial administration of this country
has only ceased to a subj,ct of general condernnati, il
since the principle has been adopted of leaving
dl the impLa taat coloniea to manage their own affairs
—a coura I,k hick caoLot eC
e follJz-ed with tho pc opie of
India, It the control of Parliament has not prevented

the habitual mismanagement of countries inhabited by
Englishmen like ourselves, who had every facility for
representing and urging their grievances, it is not likely
to be any effectual protection to M..seulmans and
Hindoos,
" All governments require constitutional checks but
the constitutional checks applicable to a case of this pe-
culiar kind must be found within the governing body
itself.
" Though Eogland, as a whole, while desiring nothing
but to govern India well, is necessarily ignorant of India
and feels, under ordinary circumstances, no particular
interest in its concerns, there are in England a certain
number of persons who possess knowledge of India, and
feel an interest in its affairs. It seems, therefore, very
desirable, for the sake of India, that England should
govern it through and by means of these persons. This
would be the case if the organ of government prin-
cipally consisted of persons who have passed a
considerable portion of their lives in India, or
who feel that habitual interest in its affairs which
is naturally acquired by having aided in admini-
stering them ; and if this body, or a majority of it,
were periodically elected by a constituency composed of
persons in England who have served the Government
for a certain length of time in India, or whose interests
are connected with that country by some permanent tie.
It would be an additional advantage if this constituency
had the power of requiring information, and compelling
a public discussion of Indian questions. These are con-
ditions which, to a considerable extent, the existing
constitution of the East India Company fulfils.
" The other great constitutional security for the good
government of India lies in the forms of business. This
is a point to which sufficient importance is not generally
attached. The forms of business are the real constitution
of India.
" From the necessity of the case, recognised in both
the proposed measures, the administration must be
shared in some proportion, between a minister and a
council. The council may consist of persons possessing
knowledge of India. 'The minister, except in very rare
cases, can possess little or none. He is placed in office
by the action of political party, which is governed by
considerations totally unconnected with India, and, in
the common course of politics, he is removed from office
by the time he has been able to learn his duty. Even in
the unusual case, of which present circumstances are an
example, when the Minister has made himself ac-
quainted with India through the discharge of high
functions in India itself, his knowledge is but the know.
ledge of one man ; and one man's knowledge of a sub-
ject like India, until corrected and completed by that
of other men, is, it may safely be affirmed, wholly in-
sufficient, and if implicitly trusted, even dangerous.
The good Government, therefore, of India, by a Minis-
ter and a council, depends upon the amount of influence
possessed by the council ; and their influence depends
upon the forms of business.
" However experienced may be the council, and how-
ever inexperienced the Minister, he will have the decid-
ing voice. The power will rest with one who may know
less of the subject than any member of the council, and
is sure to know less than the council collectively, it they
are selected with ordinary judgment. The council will
have no substantive power, but only moral influence. It
is therefore all important that the influence should be
upheld. Unless the forms of business are such as to in-
sure that the council shall exercise its judgment on all
questions ; that all matters requiring decision shall be
considered by them, and their views recorded in the
initiatory stage, beforethe Minister has committed him-
self to an opinion they will possess no more weigh or
influence than the same number of clerks in his office
(whom also he can consult if he pleases), and the power
of the Minister will be practically uncontrolled.
" In both the his these considerations are entirely
disregarded. The first bill does not establish any forms
of business, but leaves them to be determined by the
Minister and his council ; in other words, by the Minis-
ter and his council ; in ether words, by the Minister.
Even, therefore, if the Minister first appointed should
be willing to establish forms which would be any re-
straint upon himself, a subsequent Minister would have
it in his power to alter the forms in any manner he
pleased.
" The second bill, unlike the first, does establish forms
of business; but such alone as would effectually prevent
the council from being a reality, and render it a useless
pageant.
" To make the council a merely consultative body,
without initiative, before whom subjects are only brought
after the Minister has made up his mind, is already a
fatal inroad upon its usefulness. But by the second bill
the council are not even a consultative body. The
Minister is under no obligation to consult them. They
are not empowered to hold any regular meetings. They
are to meet only when the Minister convenes them, or
on a special requisition by six members. Ile may send
orders to India without their knowledge when the case
is urgent, of which urgency he is the sole judge. When
it is not urgent, his orders must be placed in the council-
room for their perusal for seven days, during which they
are not required, but permitted, to give their opinior,
not collectively, but individually. Their only power,
therefore, is that of recording dissent from a resolution

not only taken, but embodied in a despatch. And, as if
this was not enough, provision is made that an office
always invidious, shall be incapable of being fulfilled in
any but the most invidious manner. Tne members of
council must corns forward individually in declared op-
position to the Minister, by volunteering a protest
against his announced intentions, or signing a requisi-
tion for a meeting of c )uncil to oppose them. Such a
council is fitted to serve as a shield for the Minister's
responsibility when it may suit him to seek, and them
to accord, their adhesion, rather than as a restraint on
his power to administer India according to his iodivi-
dual pleasure.
Tne directors are bound to admit, that the first of
the bills contains several provisions indicative of a wish
to assure to the council a certain, though small, amount
of influence. The administration is to be carried o
in the name of the President in Council, and not, as by
the second bill, in that of the Secretary (_f State
alone. The council, as well as the president, has a
voice in the appointment of the home establishment ;
while in the second bit all promotions and all appoint-
ments to the principal offices under the council, rest with
the Secretary of State, exclusively, a provision which
divests the council of all control or authority over their
own establishment. Again, by section XII. of the first
bill, no grant involving increase of expenditure, and no
appointment to office or admission to service, can be
made without the concurrence of half the council. This,
as far as it floes, is a r(al p-r7.0.r, but its va've is much
diminished by the consideration that those by whom it
is to be exercised, are the nominees of the Minister de-
pendent on him for their contineance in office alter a
few years.

"In some other roints the provieioes of the second
bill seem to have the advantage. Its councl is more
numerous, to which, however, little importance can be
attached, if the council has no substantial power. It
also recognises that the whole of the council ought not
to be nominated by the Minister, and that some part of
it hould be elected by a constituency specially qualified
by a knowledge of India. But even in these, the best
p ants of the bill, it is, in the opinion of the directors
very far from unexceptionable. The nominatien of ever)
ha:f.,the council by the Minister takes away all security
for an independent mejority. It may, indeed, be,
doubted whether there is any- sufficient reason fer the
Minister's nominating any portion, except the supposed
rslediance Of some eligible pelonns to encounter a can-
vase, The proportion of one third, whom the Minister,
now nierninatee to the Court Of 'Director's, ' seems the
largest which, con •ietentlr with fall security for • in-
devndence, can he so appointed.
"The provision, that each of the members nominated
by the Crown shall be selected as the representative of
some particular branch of the service in India, is still
more objectionable. Not only would it preclude the no.
raination of the most distinguished man, if the seat in
council appropriated to the department in which he had
served leere not at the time vacant, but it would intro •
duce a principle which cannot he too strongly deprecated,
that r f class legislation. The council should comprise
the greatest attainable variety of knowledge and expe-
rience, but its members should not consider themselves
as severally the representatives of a certain number of
class interests.
"Tne clause which continuos to the proprietors the
power of electing some portion of the council is, so far,
deserving of support, and tie principle of enlarging the
constituency by the addition of persons of a certain
length of Indian service and residence, is, in itself, un•
exceptionable ; but unless guarded by provi,..iene, such
as have never yet been introduced into any electoral eye-
tem, so large and scattered a constituency as that pro-
posed would greatly add to the inconvenience of canvass,
especially as it is not certain that the new electoral body
would adopt, from the old, the salutary custom of re-
electing, as a general pract e whoever has been once cho-
see, and has not, by misconduct or incapacity, deserved
to forfeit their confidence. The duties of a member of
council would be entirely incompatible with a conti•
nually-recurring canvass of the constituency.
"Itespeciing the proposition fir giving the choice of
five members of council to the parliamentary constituen-
cies of five great towns, the Court of Directors can only
express a feeling of amazement. It is riot the mere fact
of election by a multitude that constituter the benefite
of the popular element in government. To produce
these benefits, the affairs of which the people are
enabled to control the management must be their own
affairs, Eiection by multitudinous bodies, the majority
of them of a very low average of education, is not an ad-
vantaee of
popular government, but, on the contrary,
one of its acknowledged drawbacks. To assign to such
a constituency the control, not of their own affairs, but
of the affairs of other people ou the other side of the
globe, is to incur the disadvantages of popular institu-
ti )1:19 without any of the benefits. The Court of Dlreetors
willingly admit the derirnbleuess, if not necess ty, of
some provision for including an English element in the
council of India ; but a more objectionable mode than
the proposed of attaining the object, could scarcely,
in tneir
Besides
he , be devised.
n
provisians which relate to the organ of
government in England,
the bills coitaie
opinion,
provisions re-
lating to India itse.f, which are open to the strongest
objection.
" Tne appointments to the councils at Calcutta and
at the subordinate presidencies, which are now male by
the Cour,' of Directors, with the approbation of the
Crown, 2..ie transferred by both hills to the Governor
General, and to the Governors of Madras and Bombay.
The Court of Directors are convinced that this change
would greatly impair the chances of good government
in India. One of the causes which have roost contri-
buted to the many excedences of Indian administration
is, that the Governor General and governors i ave al
ways been asoclated with councillors selected by the
authorities at home front among the most expe. i,eced
and able meinter3 of the Indian service, and who, not
owing their appointments to the head of the govern-
meet, have generally brought to the consideration of
Indian affeire an independent judgment. In conse-
quence cf this, the measures of a government, necessarily

absolute, have had the advantage, seldom possessed in
absolute governments, of being always preceded by a
free and conscientious discnssioo, while, as the head of
the government has the power, on recording his rea-
sons, to act contrary to the advice of his council,
no public inconvenience can ever arise from any
conflict of opinion. These important officers who, by
their participation in the government, form so salu-
tary a restraint on the precipitancy of an inexperienced,
or the wilfulness of a despotically-tempered, governor
general or governor, are henceforth to be appointed by
the great functionary whom they are intended to check.
And this restraint is removed, when the necessity for an
independent council will be greater than ever, since the
power of appointing the governor general. and of recall-
ing him, is taken away from the company, and from the
body which is to be their substitute. It may be added,
that the authorities at home have had the opportunity of
being acquainted with the conduct and services of can-
didates for council from the commencement of their
career. The Governor General or Governor would often
have to nominate a councillor soon after their arrival in
India, when necessarily ignorant of the character and
merits of candidates, and would be entirely dependent
on the recommendation of irresponsible advisers.
"Another most objectionable provision demands
notice, which is to be found only in the second bill. A
commission, appointed in England, is to proceed to
India, for the purpose of Inquiring and reporting on the
principles and details of Indian finance, including the
whole revenue sys'em, and, what is inseparably involved
in it, the proprietary rights and social position of all the
great classes of the community. The Court of Direc-
tors cannot believe that such a project will be persisted
in. It would be a stop towards the disorganisation
of the fabrics of government in India. A commission
from England, independent of the local government
of the country, deriving its authority directly from the
higher power to which the local government is subordi-
nate, and instructed to carry back to the higher power
information on Indian affairs which the local government
is not deemed sufficiently trustworthy to afford, would
give a most serious shock to the influence of the local
authorities, and would tend to impress all natives with
the belief that the opinions and decisions of the local
government are of small moment, and that the thing of
real importance is the success with which they can con-
trive that their claims and objects shall be advocated in
England. Up to the present time it has been the prac-
tice of the home government to uphold in every way the
authority of the governments on the spot ; even when
reversing their acts, to do so through the governme, is
themselves, and to employ no agency except in subordi-
nation to them.

" From this review of the chief provisions of the bills,
which embody the attempts of two great divisions of
English statesmen to frame an organ of government fur
India, it will probably appear to the pr,prietors, that
neither of them is grounded on any sufficient coosidera•
lion of past experience, or of the principles app icable t
the subject ; that the passing of either would be a
calamity to India ; and that the attempt to legislate
while the minds of leading men are in so unprepared a
state is al!ogether premature.
"The opinion of your directors is, that by all consti-
tutional means the passing of either bill should be op-
posed ; but that if one or the other should be determined
on for the purpose of transferring the adininiktration, in
name, from the East India Company to the Crown,
every exertion should be used in its passage through com-
mittee to divest it of the mischievous features by which
both bills are now deformed, and to maintain, as at pre-
sent, a really independent council, having the initiative
of all business, discharging all the duties, and possessing
all the essential powers of the Court of Directors. Anti
it is the court's conviction that measures might be so
framed as to obviate %-shatcver may be well founded in
the complaints made against the present system, retain-
the initiative of the council, and that independence of
action on their part which should be regarded as para-
mount and indispensable."

On the motion of the Chairman that the report should
be received,
Mr. MACKENZIE moved as an amendment that Par-
liament having determined that it was necessary to le-
gi,late for India, Sir James Melville and Mr. J. S.uart
Mill should be requested to draw up a scheme for the
future Government of India, to be submitted to the
Court of Proprietors and eventually to Parliament.
Sir F. CURRIE thought it was too much to ask the
directors to draw out a bill for their own extinction.
The hon. proprietors could hardly expect the directors
to consent to become their own executioners. (Loud
laughter.)

Mr. A RBOTHNOT entered into a consideration of the
different clauses in the bill. He was more inclined to
the present Government than the last; but, on the
whole, he preferred Lord Palmerston's bill to Lord
Derby's bill.

The CRAIR3fAN, on behalf of the Cilia of Directors,
said that if Parliament decided on changing the present
form of government, it would he the duty of the direc-
tors to render every assistance in making the measure as
perfect as possible.
Mr. SERGEANT GAZELLES urged that the Court of Pro-
prietors ought then to discuss the provisions of the hill.
He was prepared to do so, and in the course of hi:
speech, he said he gave the preference to Lord Palmer-
ston's bill. He objtcted to the council, and would rather
the responsibility was thrown on the Secretary of State.
The members of the proposed council would be merely
" gentlemen clerks." Toey would be paid 1,0001. a-year
each f ;r doing the work of clerks, but no voice in the
government cf India. If the two bills were sent to a
select committee of the House of Commons he thought
a good bill might be produced from them. The change
of government was only a question of time, and the
Home Government had lauded the present system to
make the directors' fall easier. (Hear, hear.) He called
on the directors to heartily join the Home Govern-
ment in providing a good system of government for
India. He objected among other things to the qua-
lifications for the representative council, remarking
that any one who had sent goods to India even
if they were so bad as to poison the people—(laughter)—
was qu lified for a Feat at the Board. He the❑ analysed
the bills, clause by clause, stating his objections to them.
He described Lord Derby's Bill as the most absurd im-
practicable scheme the.,; was ever concocted. Referring
to the election of the nine members of the Council, the
learned gentleman said it was objectionable, and he
CI 'old not believe it was the intention of Lord Derby
that an Indian Director for tae City of London should
be elected by the longehere men, who were ready to
vote any way at so much per head. The C Hirt was a
piece of aetiquity Ilee an old hacliney e —(IA sghter)
—and Viey must make up their mind to be abolished. He
should like the present G.,vernment to remain in power
to keep out the Whigs a little longer—(laughter)—but
he was afraid if they persisted in the bill, they would
have to pick up their traps and be off. (Laughter.)
The meeting was ultimately adjourned to Tuesday
next, for further discussing the report and. the bills be-
fore Parliament ; the Chairman having previously stated
that a copy of the report had been forwarded to the
Earl of Edenboroegh. 'fee court of Directors were
alone responsible for the report, which did not implicate
the Court of Proprietors. It was a report from the
Court if-Directors to tilt pourt of Proprietors.
The Court then, adjourned.

DORSETSBIRE.

`DORCHESTER, TUESDAY NIGHT.

,At the Town Hall, this evening, an inquest was
held before Mr. Giles Symonds, the distr:cy, coroner,
on the body of a newly-born male child which was
fond dead in bed with its mother, Anne Vincent,
aged 18, (4) the morning of the 27th ult. The
parents of the young woman are respectable, the
father' James Vincent, being bailiff to Mr. Pope,
of Sutton Poyntz.
Mr. W. Mansfield attended on behalf of the
young woman.

Tim young woman, who was known to be in the
family way, went to bed on the night of the 26th,
appareruly well, about nine o'clock, and no noise
was heard during the night. At five in the morn-
ing the father got up, and while dressing fancied
ho heard a moan. Went to call his daughter, and
said she had been sick. He called his wife to get
the aid. some tea, and went on to the farm (Her-
ringsbtone, near here). The mothergot her daugh-
ter some tea, and the girl reached it herself whilst
the mother prepared breakfast. On again going to
the girl, and ts,saying to wrap the clothes more
closely arcund her Mrs. Vincent found a newly-
born baby, dead in the bed.
Messrs. H. Arden and E. Emson, the surgeons,
stated their deeded opinion, unanimous ii.deed as
to the result of the post mortem examination Ex-
teraally there were marks of finger nails on the
baby's cheek and forehead, a scratch, two bruises,
and a curious bruise, as from a cord, relching
round from the ear to the front of the throat-. The
tip of the tongue showed wounds, and the root of
the tongue was torn from the bone of the tongue.
The back of the throat was much injured ; the
windpipe was stopped. Blood gushed from the
child's mouth and nose on b"ing moved. Both arms
were broken. The lungs and heart floated, and the
arm fractures were received during life. Death in
their opinion ensued from the injuries on the
tongue and consequent suffocation. The child had
been born alive certainly, and when first seen by
theFurgeon, about 10 o'clock on the morning of V. e
27th, appea. ed to have been dead some hours. The
foreign substance causing the throat wound might
have been a hand.

The Coroner having summed up,
The jury consulted for about three-quarters of an
hour when they unanimously arrived at the verdict
of Wilful Murder against Anne Vincent, the
mother of the &ceased.

A w trrant w,s issued fir the apprehension of the
young woman.

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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The following reinforcements, to the number of
nearly 1,000 officers and men, will embark at
Gravesend this day on board the screw steamer
Golden Fleece for Calcutta :—Captain H. H.
Stewart and 10 men of the 2d Dragoon Guards ;
Lieut. W. G. Blake, Cornet W. Gair, and 51 non-
commissioned officers and men of the 6th Carabi-
neers ; Cornet S. Ashton Prater and 31 men of the
9th Lancets ; Ensign J. V. Cooch and 15 men of
the Ist battalion of sth Fusileers ; Ensign A. G.
Westby and 10 men of the Bth (the King's) Regi-
ment, 30 men of the 13th Light Infantry ; 44 men
of the 20,h Regiment, 30 men of the 24th Regiment,
24 men of the 27th Enniskillens, 13 men of the
29th R-giment ; Captain C. R. Ricketts and 14
men of the 32d Regiment ; 67 men of all ranks of
the 34th Regiment, 20 men of the 38th Regiment ;
Ensign F. T. Rolls and 38 men of the 53d Regi-
ment ; 11 men of the 54th Regiment ; Ensign
Eaton S. Steward and 35 men of the Ist battalion
60th Rifles ; Ensign Augustus L'Estrange, 75th
Regiment ; Ensign R. Clay and 11 men of the 781 h
Highlanders ; Captain C. F. Auriel, Ensign G.
Lloyd, and 138 men of all ranks of the 80th Regi-
ment ; Ensign Seatolt R. Forster and 20 men of the
84th Regiment; 35 men of the 88th Connaught
Rangers ; Ensign Robert Lefroy and 18 men
of the 97th Regiment ; 20 men of the 21 battalion
Rifle Brigade, 25 men of the 3d battalion Rifle
Brigade, and 151 non-commissioned officers and
men of the Royal Artillery.
Yesterday the steamship Benares embarked at
Gravesend upwards of 600 men, selected from the
battalions at Chatham, Maidstone, Canterbury,
Colchester, Weimer, Parkhurst, Woolwich, Stir
ling, Aberdeen, and Ferinoy, for Bombay.
Yesterday a district court-martial of which Lieu-
tenant-Colonel J. H. Gascoigne, Ro) al Marin,.
Light Infantry, was the president, assembled at
Chatham Barracks for the trial of Sergeant James
Warington, 70th Regiment, on the following
charges :-1. For conduct unbecoming the charac-
ter of a non-commissioned officer in having been
found in a state of intoxication when in command
of a picket at the huts, Chatham, on the night of
the 2d inst. 2. For having broken h s arrest when
confined on the first charge, and been found drink-
ing in the canteen at the huts. The prisoner has
only been a few months iu the service, having
been promoted for his exemplary conduct. The
procee sings will be confirmed by the Duke of
Cambiidge before the finding of the Court is
known.

The Eagle, 50, coast volunteer ship at Pembroke,
has now a large crew of coast volunteers. This ad-
mirable force is making rapid progress in the use of
the great guns, 11 of whic!4 are mounted for them,
and tie crews are becoming expert at ball practice,
in which they are often exercised. The Violet,
gunboat, has arrived as a tender to the Eagle, in
order to afford the coast volunteers the oppo►tunity
of sea practice. The garrison at Pembroke has
been strengthened by the 23d Welsh Fusiliers and
the 15th Foo:, depots, in lieu of the depot of the
80th Regiment.
It was announced yesterday in the dockyard at
Woolwich, on the visit of Lieut.-Colonel Greene,
Director of Engineering and Architectural Works,
that the newly-constituted B ,ard of Admiralty
have abandoned the intention of erecting the new
storehouses in that yard proposed by their predeces-
sors in office, and which, it was estimated, would
cost about 40,000/. This resolution, it is said, has
been adopted to meet the necessary reduction in
the exp,ncliture on Government works, so as to
clear off the heavy sum exceeding the estimates of
last year.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :

Lieutenant—Stratford Tuke, to the Excellent.
Assistant-Surgeon—James Stevenson (Refine), to the
Eagle,

Assistant-Paymaster Thomas Waterfiell, to the
Victory.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING.

THE SUBSCRIPTION-ROONI.—TUESDAY NIGHT.
Kelpie was backed at 25 to 1 for both the Chester
Cup and Derby ; and for the ►atter event The Hadji was
driven from 16 to 1, laid to 501., to 1,000 to 45 ; 50 to
1 was taken to 501. about Ethiopian for the Derby ; and
10 to 1 was laid against Toxopholito for the Two Thou-
sand. The other transactions were unimportant,