The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-27 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN—(This

i_ONDON, March 27.—Wind this day a, noon, N.W. ;
moderate breeze, and line.
OFF QUEENSTOWN, March 24.—Arrived—Venice, from
Mobile.
OFF MARGATE, March 26. —Arrived--Revenge, from
St. Michael,.
DARTMOUTH, March 26.—Wind; W. —Arrived—Mose,
from Cmsi antinople, for Antwerp—with pumps choked.
Sailed—Talbot, for Newfoundland.
PORTSMOUTH, March 26.—Wind N. W., to W.—Arrived
—Clotilde, from Callao. Sailed— Her Majesty's steamer
Dee, for westward. and proceeded eastward.
COWES, March 2i.—Arrived—Micbael Angelo, from
Callao.
CARDIFF, March 26.—Sailed—Helene, for Cuba; Sis-
ters, Malta; Marmion, Malta.
QUEENSTOWN, March 2>.—•Wind N.—Arrived —Panta-
loon, from Mauritius ; Xarifa, Barbadoes, with mainma,4
and jibboom sprung.
RAMSGATE, March 26 --Wind W.S.W.— Sailed— Gia-
come, for A.loxandria ; Proteus, Singapore.
OFF PENZANCE, March 25.--Arrived—Ulysses, from
Cale utta.
JERSEY, March 25.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed—Patruus
de la Perelle f r Arichat.
CLYDE, March 25. —Wina N.W.—Sailed—Mary Car-
son, for New York.
EAST HARTLEPOOL, March 26.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—

Melons, for Hong Kong.
GRONINGEN, March 27.—The Exchange (brig), from
Sunderland to Hamburg, has been totally lost on Burkina
Reef ; crew saved.
NO ~DEN, March 26. —The Effort (brig), from Sunder-
land to Hamburg, was wrecked near Langerooy yesterday;
crew saved.
SRIEEDS, March 27.—The Johanna (schooner), of Stet-
tin, upset, when transporting from the pier at Brandling
Drops ; they are trying to raise heir.
SUNDERLAND, March 26.—The Charles Stuart, .fiom
Southampton to Sunderland, reports having been in con-
tact, on the 15th inst , off Scarborough, with the Lord
Provost, of Perth, and lost stancheons, rail bulwarks, round
house, 14c.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTH .1301 ON, Saturday Morning,

Wind W.
Arrived—Ann, from Lyme ; Surprise, Cherbourg ; Ex-
press, steamer, Jersey ; Susan, Newport ; Eleanor, and
Jane, Swansea; Havre, steamer, Havre; Beryl, Swan-
sea.
Sailed- Alliance, steamer, for Havre; Wonder, steamer
Jersey.

LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning.

Wind N.W.
Arrived, March 26.—Sharston, from B.ihia; Lady
Matheson, Demerara.
Arrived, March 27.—Maggie and Lima, from St.
Michael's.

Sailed, March 26. —Reine Desanges, for Alicante; Reyna
del Ocean, Manilla ; Lola, for Constantinople; Finland,
Apalachicola.
Sailed, March 27.—America, steamer, for Boston.
OlL—Victor Emanuel, Philosopher, and Avely.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Wind W ; tide three hours' flood; weather fine.
Arrived, March 26.—Anna, from Gottenburg ; Mentor,
Worcom ; Ranger, Rouen ; Revenge, St. Michael's.
Arrived, March 27.--Pride, from Antwerp; Quiver,
and Feronia, from St. Michael's.
Sailed, March 26—Ran , for San Francisco; Clara Louisa,
Corfu ; Anna.n.lale, Quabec.
Sailed, March 27—Condor, for Bremen.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Wind N.W., moderate; fine. -
Passed-41er Msjestys ship Rhadaraanthus, from Ports-
mouth, for Woolwich ; Clara Louisa, for Corfu ; St. Clare,
Algoa Bay ; Ann, Bridport ; Mantua, Abbeville ; Caro-
line, St. John's—all from London.

A "dummy engine" has been placed on the City por-
tion of the North Pennsylvanian road. Its progress, it is
said, is unattended by noise, and the construction such
that it can be stoppld in an instant, even when progress-
ing at its highest speed. The invention is by Jos.
Harrison, jun., of Pennsylvania, and essentially different
NM anything hitherto known.--Tice Builder.
The Court of Assizes of tho Lot-al-Garonne, three
days ego, tried a married couplo named Vtriier of Don-
das on the charge of extorting a signature, and a man
named Brunet for having astdsted them in so doing. The
trial took place with closed doors, but it transpired that
the person from whom the signwure
,was alleged to
have been extorted. was the pal h priest, and that
according to the indictment he had gone. to see
the woman at a time when he thought her husband was
abient, but that the husband and his friend having rushed
in, accused him of adultery, and made him sign two bilis
of exchange of I,ooof. each. The th,ree prisoners, in their
defence, asserted that the tarn had bad improper designs
in visiting the woman, and the jury acquitted them.

THE NEW GOVERNMEVT OF INDIA BILL.

(Prom the Daily News.)
Mr. Disraeli's speech last night, in exposition of the new
India Bill, will be read with as much interest by men of all
classes throughout the kingdom, as it was ,i-tened to, during
its animated delivery, by the members of the House of Com-
mons. Cavillers who expected to fi :d in it t o much of
Oriental show and glitter will be compelled to own their dis-
appointment; while plain folks like ourselves, who only re-
membered the antecedents of the present Cabinet, and the
dexterity of their eloquent mouth, ieee in Parliament, will be
rejoiced to find that instead of a Jesuitical apology for an
artful Tory scheme, w. have a manly and straightforward
sta,ement of a measure infinitely more Jibe' al than that pro-
pounded a few weeks ago by the late Administration. T, e
manner in which the right .1 on, gentleman was greeted during
the course of his address appears to have been sufficiently in-
dicativ of the prevalent feeling on both sides of the house ;
and whether the bill ever passes into law or not we may truly
say that its introduction m irks the beginning of the end.
Sine the day that Lord North brought forward the memo-
rable Regulation Bill, 851egislative yearshav , come and gone,
and many statesmen of eminence and leaders of Parliamentary
party have ulidertakeu to propound comprehensive measures
for the better government of our depe• denc'es in India.
Before the Regulation Act had lost the gloss of novelty,
things went so ill in the East, and the public dissatisfa tion
grew so loud at home, that Burke and Fox male up their
minds to try what they could do by w y of legislation. and
having staked the existence of the Administration of 1783
upon the success of•their famous project, they were officially
overwhelmed by its ruin. Mr. Pitt and Mr. Dundas succeed( d
better, and by their hands sframetl that system which has
been commonly des gnated the " double Government," and
which we have seen gr dually undermined and prepared for
extinction in our own day. Sir C. Wood professed, indeed,
in words, to respect the principle in 1854, although as the
colleague of Lord Palmerston in 1858 he affec' s to take credit
for foresight in providing or its eventual annihi ation. And
finally, Lord Ellenborough and Mr. Disraeli when suddenly
called upon to frame a treasure for the future government of
India, pronounce their Amen to the interdict of their pre-
decessors upon the further prolongation of the corporate
existence of the East India Company. Provision is made in
their plan for giving holders of India stock a certain voice in
election of the members of the council whose function and
authority are to succeed those of the Directors. But as an
o genic body, the great association of merchant adventurers
that for two centuries traded to the East and conquered the
fairest regions thereof for an English posse sir will, if
the measure introduced last night become law, utterly and
irrevocably cease to be.
In this respect the two schemes now before Parliament
agree. In almost every other essential particular they differ.
It is not, indeed, very ease t, feel quite sure that one has
gathered at first a complete and accurate conception of
al the details of so complicated a measure. Of necessity
these are very numerous and very varied. Wo have before
us the ground-plan of a vast edifice, desigeed for the cariying
out of the most difficult and varied work, and requiring to I e
judged emphatically, if no e !elusively, by its fitness for the
busines, to be transacted the&. We do not desire to be un-
ders ood as hazarding any hasty or inc eisid Tato opinion on
the minor features of the scheme. But there are some which
stand out i rominently, contrasted with those of the rival
project, about which we have no difficulty in stating our im-
pre,sion.
In the first place, it is to be clearly noted that whereas
Lord Palmerston's bill in form and substa ce destroyed all
power, authority, and influence save that of the Cro gqii, Lord
Ellenborough's measure seeks to create a Consultative C.,un-
c 1 one-half of which shall from time to time be freely elected,
and the votes and opinions of which are to be absolutely in-
dependent of the Minister or the Parliament of the day. The
Council, it will he seen, is to consist of eighteen members,
five of whom it is pfoposed shall be elected by five great com-
mercial cities of the United Kingdom respectively, and four
by the constituency to be formed of the holders of East India
stock and of persons who shall have served or dwelt a certain
number of years in British India. Of the last-named elemen
it is impossibl -to speak too highly. It is a step, and a very
decided one, in the right direction. It is the creation of an
Experience Franchise. Li is the first practical attempt to
realise what theorists have so long dreamed and dis-
coursed about—an Education Franchise ; for this is to give
a right of voting to the men who have experimentally
had the opportunity Of learning the watats and re shes of
the count y whose affairs they are appointed to deal with.
We have here a bar, as far as it goes, to the perpetuation of
those oligarchic jobs for which there was such unblushing
facility given by Lord Palmerston's Bill. But if we under-
stand Mr. Disraeli's exposition aright, there are cheeks of
other kinds likely to be interposed. Service or residence for
a specified number of years in India is to be made an indis-
pensable qualificati n fo- all the eighteen members of Coun-
cil. It is possible that yell I objeStions may be urged to the
exclu ion from the Council of all who have not actually visited
India ; but it is certain that the whole harpy br,oul of aris-
tocratic breeding will be roused to indignation by this un-
palatable condition. There is not a pauper or roue of quality
who did not feel his plight improved by the prospect of the
Palmerston Bill passing into law. There is not one of the class
who will not set his evil tongue in motion against the counter
proposition now before us. The country will judge impar-
tially between the two plans.
We own we could have wished that some less apparently
partial proposition had been devised than that of conferring
the peculiar right of choosing five members of Council on the
citizens of London, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Bel-
fast. It is easy to foresee the local jealousies to which any
selection must necessarily give rise. Already we have evi-
deuce of the outbreak of such feelings. We will not atyresent
enter into the discussion; but we a. e bound to own frankly
that the choice to be made w .s between alternative 3 any ono
of which would have probably provoked an equal amount of
opposition. Meanwhile we cheerfully reeog,,ise in the gene-
ral scope and tendency of the measure an earnest desire to
obey the dictates of public opinion, and to embody guaran-
,ees for its permanent control.

dealt with most judiciously. In fact, " the distribution of
patronage wil not," as Mr. Disraeli remarked, " be in the
least degree alte ed. Her Majesty will do directly that
which she •,has before done indirectly. She will appoint
the Governor General, the fourth member of council, the
governors of the different presidencies, and the other great
officers, who are now appointed by the Crown, with the
assent of the Company. The members of the civil service
will be elected under the same regulations which at pre-ent
prevail, and which are working so well. The cadetships
for the service of t e Indian army and navy will remain as
they are now in th • bands of the directors, so then in the
hands of the members of council. The only change will be
that formal et ange which the transference of the government
of-India to the autlio, ity of the Queen renders necessary;
but, virtually, the patronage now held by the East India
Company will then be exercised in exactly the same way by
the members of the council."
That a measure conceived in this truly liberal spirit, and
formed with a due regard to the interests and welfare both
of England and of India, "will be we'l received by the people
at largo, we do entertain the slightest doubt. Its reception
in the House of Commons las' night afforde l a marked con-
trast to the dissatisfaction and cruel censures that greeted
the ex-Premier's proposal. Repeated bursts of applause
from various parts of the house show that its character was
nor, ughly appreciated, and. it may be considered as 'a most
satisfactory sett ement of an irritating, a difficult, and a
complicated question.