The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-17 00:00:00

LORDS.

The SPEAKER announced that he had received a
xnelaage from the Lords, appointin; a c mference with
this house to-morrow, at half-pa,t 4 o'clock, in the
Painted Chamber, on the Lords' amendtneute to the
Oaths

THE DERBY DAY.
Capt. VIVIAN gave notice that he should to-morrow
mote the adj iurnment of the house at its rising till
Thursday. (C4eep.)
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.

, In answer to a question from Mr. LTGON,
. Mr. H. BAILLIE said that the first private letters
received by the present Government from India arrived
by the mail on Saturday. On that day three private
let•ers from Lard Canning reached Lord Ellenborough,
in which he stated he had received information that Lord
Ellenborough had accepted office. He (Mr. Baiilie)
thought that Lord C sending three private letters
by one mail was a sufficient prowf that the noble lord
was in the habit of corresponding by private lettere with
the late President of the B >ard of Control. (Cheers.)
CONSOLIDATED FUND (11,000,0001) BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
STAMP DUTY ON PASSPORTS BILL.

This bill, al amended, was considered.
THE VOTE OF CENSURE ON THE GOVERN.

MENr-ADJOURNED DEBA.TE

- Mr. ROEBUCK characterised the motion of Mr.
Cardwell as one of the most transparent instances of
party manceArring he had ever witnessed. (Loud cheers
from the Mioisterial benches.) Whilst discussing the
grave question of governing India there had been intro-
duced a question of party politics, and they were called
upon to decide which party should sit on this side of the
house and which on that, the real question being not
the-happiness of the 200,000,000 people of India, but the
Government of this country. (Cheers.) He contended
that Lard Eilenbarough was b3uod to answer
Lord Canning's proclamation ; secondly, that Lord
Itlenborough wrote the right answer to it ; and thirdly
that Lord Eilenborough was not solely answerable for
the production of the despatch. We had acquired a
great dominion in the East and our only justification
'for
that dominion was that it produced happiness to the
people whom we governed ; but, in order to do that, it
must be a just and merciful Government. (Hear,
hear.) Referring to the mutiny that had broken
:eutt, in India, the hon. and learned gentleman
•' that pnhis'einent to the uttermost ought t) follow
s) atrocities that had been committed, but he drew a
v_erey grut distinction between the mutinous army and
.tesayppeoortplieonofoltudiinisci.ia(llear, hear.)
. When we conquered
he
,considered we should annex
it and not create an i
withthem, but
party and enter
into treaties
having done so, we
ought to be hound by thsta,
tare of Oude to the issuing of the Tracinglate
first
theai
bon. and learned gentleman said thattheof history of man-
kind presented no such a parallel case
Governor-General
as
this. The intention of the Governor- India
athe
to issue such a proclamation was enough to cause
people of Oade to rebel to the end of their":
(Hear, hear.) This proclamation was objected to bylraii
io communication with the Governor-General of Indi4.
sod he understood from private sources, that with the'
draft of that proclamation a demand was reade for a
reinforcement of 20,000 men. (hear, hear) Such
a - proclamation rs.quired an answer ; and, if
the Prebident of the Board of Control had

refrained from so doing he ought to have been impeached
—(loud cheers from the Ministerial aide of the house)—
and he knew none who would have been more loud for
an impeachment, under such circumstances, than the
supporters of this motion. After the question of the
bon. member for Birmingham, and the answer of the
Vice-President of the Board of Control, and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer stating that the Govern-
men disagreed with the proclamation "in every sense,"
it was impossible for her Majesty's Government to with-
hold the deepatch, and it was the opposition side of the
house that was to blame for its production, and they
alone. (Cheers.) As honest men, ber Majesty's Govern-
ment were called upon to give their opinion ; they
did so, and when they were called upon to publish
i , it was from a demand on the opposition side of the
house, and in spite of themselves. The hon. and
learned gentleman condemned secret diplomacy, and
urged that the course that ought to be pursued towards
India was pointed out honestly in Lord Elleoboripugh s
despatch, and he mistook his countrymen if they did not
come to the same conclusions. (Cheers from the Mini-
sterial side.) If the mover of the motion obtained a ma-
jority to-night, what, he (Mr. Roebuck) asked, would
the house and the country get by it ? Why, the
Government they had so lately cashi-red. (Loud
cheers and laughter.) And because they had
neglected the honour of England they were, after a
few weeks spent in the cool requiem of opposition, to
be reinstated, and for what E Did the people of Eng-
land expect to obtain anything by it 1 If they did
he thought they would be woefully mistaken. He con-
sidered that the people of this country bad to expect
more liberal measures from the present weak Govern-
ment than they had from the strong and insolent Go-
vernment on the Opposition side of the house. (Loud
cheers from the Ministerial side of the house.)
If the house wished to give the people of
India happiness, justice, and good government they
would give a decided negative to the motion. (Cheery.)
Sir C. WOOD considered that the object of the last
speaker was to divert the attention of the house from the
question before them. It was not a question of a strong
or a weak Government, but whether Lord Canning had
done anything calling for the censure of Parliament. He
was not prepared to consider Lord Canning's policy and
he asked the house if they were (Hear, hi Ir, and cries
of yes, yes.) He wishei to enter on the question irre-
spective of party feeling. (Ironical cheers ) He as-
sured the house that he was not actuated in defending
Lord Canning and condemning the Government from
the paltry love of office (ironical cheers) but from a be-
lief that public interests in this country and India were
perilled by the course her Majesty's Government had
taken. (Hear, hear.) He proceeded to defend the
proclamation which he raid was only addressed, as
regarded confiscation, to those who bad been in arms
against our authority io India. There was a distinc-
tion drawn between the landho'der and the people.
Up to the sixteenth paragraph sue proclamation had
reference to the former and what followed to the
latter, and as such, he contended, the proclama-
tion would be read and understood in Oude. The
right hon. gentleman read numerous extracts from
Col. Sleeman's report, and also that of Sir J. Outram
in reference to the rapacious conduct of the tatookdhars,
or landowners of Oude towards the people, observing it
was their property only that had been confiscated.
The proclamation must be looked at in the manner
in which it was issued to the people of Oude ;
and in doing so, it appeared to him it would
produce benefit by inducing the disaffected t. return to
the British authority. Tee proclamation, as issued by
Lord Canning with regard to confiscation was similar in
language to those issued by a predecessor with reference
to the Punjaub.

BUFT SPEAKING.

THE STATE PROSECUTIONS.

Since the termination of the trial of Simon Ber-
nard for conspiring to assassinate the Emperor of
the Freisch, and the abandonment of the other
charges against him by the Attorney-General, it
is understood that communications have taken
place on behalf of Mr. Allsop with the Government,
with the view to ascertain whether it was intended
to proceed with the capital, or any other charge
against that gentleman. It will be recollected
that the charge against Mr. Allsop was precisely
the same as that which was made against M. Ber-
nard, namely, that he, being a British subject, fe-
loniously conspired to procure, and was accessory
before the fact, to a murder committed out of the
Queen's dominion; and the evidence would have
been precisely the same as that which was
adduced in the case of M. Bernard. So
far as Mr. Allsop was concerned, no legal
difficulty would have arisen relating to the
offence having been committed by a British
subject, as he was undoubtedly an Englishman ;
but a more serious objection would still have
existed, and which would also have been raised on
behalf of M. Bernard, if he bad been convicted,
which was that th,- murder in quest:on having been
committed by foreigners, the statute under which
the indictment -vas preferred would not apply. All
these matters have, it is understood, been urged
upon the attention of the Government and their
legal advisers, and it is believed that the result has
been that it is not intended to put Mr. Allsop upon
his trial. After the lowg inquiry, and the pains
that were taken, even to the extent of sending for
a witness from Brussels during the progress of the
trial of M. Bernard, to lay before the jury the
whole of the facts, upon which a conviction was
sought for, and the jury, after hearing the whole
of the evidence, having, upon the merits, returned
a verdict of "Not Guilty," it would have been a
very unusual course to have gone on with a second
indictment of precisely the same kind, and sup-
ported by precisely the same evidence, particularly
when the same grave questions Gf law existed in the
cae of Mr. Allsop, as iu that of M. Bernard, and
this, no doubt, influenced the legal advisers of the
Clown in the decision which it is understood has
been arrived at that no further proceedings will be
taken in the matter.—Dispatch.

Country Markets.

LIVERPOOL, MAT 11.

To-day's market was of the quiet character umal for
some weeks of late. Wheat was considered to 131 about ld
per bushel, and flour 6d per sack and barrel, easier in price
than on our last market day. Indian corn also dull. and
the value hardly supported, The fine weather the coun-
try is now favoured with suite checks any speculative
tendency.