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LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1858.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS. --(YESTERDAY. )

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

There was a very full attendance this evening. The
space in front of the throne and bar was immensely
crowded, and the galleries around the house were filled
with ladies.
The Earl of Ellenborongh did not occupy a seat on
the Government bench. His lordship sat on the front
bench below the gangway, in the seat usually occupied
by Lord Aberdeen during the late administration.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
On the motioa of Lord REDESDALE, the Manches-
ter Improvement, Manchester Assize Court House, and
Tay Fisheries Bills were read a second time.
The Ely Valley Railway and the Selkirk and Gala-
shiels Railway Bills were read a third time and passed.

THE STAMP DUTIES ON DRIFTS.
This bill was read a first time.
OATHS BILL.
Their lordships appointed Tuesday next, at half-past
four, for the conferences with the Commons in reference
to this bill.

THE VOTE OF CENSURE.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY rose to move the
following resolutions :
" I. That it appears from papers laid upon the table
of this house that a despatch has been addressed by the
Secret Committee of the Court of Directors to the Go.
ternor-General of India, disapproving a proclamation
which the Governor-General had informed the Court he
intended to home after the fall of Lucknow.
"2. That it is known only from intelligence that has
reached this country be correspondence published in
newspapers that the intended proclamation has been
issued, and with an important modification, no official
account of this proceeding having yet been received ;
that this house is therefore still without full information
as to the grounds upon which Lord Canning has acted,
and his answer 'to the objections made to his intended
proclamation in the despatch of the Secret Committee
cannot be received for several weeks.
"3. That under these circumstances this house is
unable to form a judgment oaths proclamation issued by
Lord Canning, but thinks it right to express its disap-
probation of the premature publication by her Majesty's
Ministers of the despatch addressed to the Governor-
General, since this public condemnation of his conduct
is calculated to weaken the authority of the Governor-
General in India, and to encourage those now in arms.
against this country."
The noble earl said it bad almost always been his in-
variable rule never to interfere in any political question,
and he had departed from this rule with great reluctance,
because it obviously more suited his comfort and capa-
city, and because his sympathies were with the great
body of those who formed the Government of the noble
earl. But the gravity of the question Lad rendered it
necessary that something should be done, and he
called God to witness that this had been his
only motive in coming forward at the present moment.
Ile had not been in his present course actuated by
any political feeling or feelings of personal ani
mosity to the noble earl (Derby). He could not con-
sider the noble lord (Ellenborough) alone culpable for
what he had written—for what he hag written the
Government had written (hear, hear)— what -he
had published they had published=—(hear, hear)—
and he did not think that any separate respont,i-
bility existed, but that it extended to the whole of
the Administration. The step taken by the
noble earl (Bllenborough) in retiring from office
rendered it absolutely necessary that sormethirl,-;
should now be done, because it was considered by
some persons that by that retirement no further
responsibility was attached to the Government
for the publication of the despatch. Ile con-
sidered that the question under discussion, which
at one time bad been only politically important had now
become both politically and cmstitutionally important,
and the retirement of the noble earl from office had
not altered the case in the slightest, as both morally
and logically it remained entirely the same, and he
could not consent to throw on the noble earl the
sole responsibility of publishing a certain document
which had led to this question being brought forward.
If they had reason to find fault with a Governor-General
it was their duty to recall him, and not degrade him. If
Lord Canning had acted like Warren Hastings he ought
to have been impeached here for high climes and miscle•
meanour, and another sent out. But what greater folly
could there be than to injure the office in India, and
make it merely showy and lofty I (Hear, hear.) They
could not govern India now as formerly, for a great
change had taken place ia the native mind, which was
alive to it quiry and draw its own conclusions. By this
despatch the Government bad taken away the essence of
power from the Governor-General, and left him only the
externals, and they would find that the people of India
would not boa' down to it. The noble lord then moved
the resolutions.

The Eal of ELLENBOROUGII—I so la`ely re-
ceived your lordships' indulgence whe❑ I stated shortly
and clearly the circumstances under which I resigned my
office, that I think I should trespass most unwarrantably
upon your attention if I were, although invited by the
noble earl, now to repeat what I then addressed to your
lordships. I distinctly said that in common sense I alone
was responsible for the publication of this letter, because
I alone knew that it was about to be published ; and
there is not a common jury in the united kingdom which
would not scout as absurd a charge again,t, any man for
an act of which he necessarily knew nothing. (Rear,
hear, and a laugh.) The noble earl has had the goodness
to read for your lordships' edification a considerable por-
tion of that letter itself, commenting as he went on. I
shall not follow the noble earl through those detail
With respect to much of what the noble earl said I shall
only observe this—that all the facts stated are in the
blue-books before Parliament, and aro as ac::T sible to
all the world as anything that is known to the public of
this country. All that is not in the blue-books is equally
known to the whole people of Oriole. This letter states the
ground o❑ which I (and I believe all the world came to
this conclusion) was of opinion that the war in Oudo
bears more the character of legitimate war than of rebel-
lion. (Rear, hear.) But I must be allowed to read
two passages in the letter which the noble earl has ab-
stained from reading. 'They are these, not unimportant .

" We desire to see British authority in India resting
upon the willing obedience of a contented people. (Loud
cheers.) Government cannot long be maintaned by any
force in a country where the whole people is rendered hos-
tile by a sense of wrong, and, if it were possible so to main-
tain it, it would not be a consummation to be desired."
(Hear.) Those are the principles by which I stand.
Tnose are the principles upon which I say the Govern-
ment of India should be c r,ducted. (Cheers.) Aral I
feel, indeed, that the question before your lordships to-
night is one far more important than anything affecting
merely the existence of an Administration. It is practi-
cal'y this—Shall the Government of India he conducted
on the principles of severity which appeared in that pro-
clamation of Lord Canning ? (Cheers.) I hoped, when I
wrote that letter, that the proclamation never would be
promulgated. I had every reason to believe that the
strongest representations were made to Lord Canning
against its promulgation by persons the most entitled to
make such representations. (Cheers.) I was in hopes
that these represenaaeions would prevail. But this, at
any rate, I know—that if that proclamation were pub-
lished it was absolutely necessary, in my opinion, that
immediately there should appear a letter to undo the
mischief, to mitigate the danger which must arise from
the promulg,aton of principles of such excessive seve-
rity, Your lordships have been referred to the restrain-
ing clause in the proclamation. What has that clauseset
forth ? It says that persons who support the Govern-
ment shall obtain the restitution of their property. Wh)!
Because the confiscation took the whole of it away.
Now, there is the greatest possible difference between
confiscation in Lord Daihousie's proclamation and con-
fiscation in that of Lord Canning. ITne former was pro-
spective ; it was denounced against those who should
hereafter become rebels. (Hear.) The confication in
Lord Canning's proclamation is retrospective, and it
strikes a whole people. (Cheers.) I have been in-
formed, and I have no doubt of the fact, that, however
strong this expression of " the proprietary right" may ap-
pear to your lordships, in the language of India its
strength is greatly increased by any possible translation.
But, my lords, consider what is confiscation. It has not
been known in Europe to this extent for 800 years. The
only example of anything resembling it is in the time of
William the Conqueror. True, we have had confiscation
in Ireland. It is said that large portions of that country
have been confiscated three times over. But has the re-
sult been peace ? Has the result been prosperity ? Do
not all those who have considered the subject trace to
confiscation all the disasters which have occurred in that
country ? (Hear.) In India, however, confiscation is un-
known. No Mahommedan conqueror has ever perpe
trated that which is perpetrated through Lord Canning's
proclamaticn. Whatever have been the charges of dy-
nasty, the storm of war sal swept over village conicau-
niCe,, and the propert3 of is ividuals from the lowest to
the highest. The wise conquerors of India have changed
little but the rule. They have left everything wanding.
And on that ace unt it is that they were enabled t)

tablish a permanent Government. :(`Jheers.) Tee not,h,
earl has thought fit to allude to what I did in Scinde.
My lords, in Scinde I struck the rulers', to the ground
because they had been guilty of treachery against the
British Crown, because they had attacked the Britb-h
Resident Minister immediately after the conclusion of a
treaty of peace. But I confirmed to every man his pro-
perty, and that was the secret of our strength in Scinde
and of the permanent tranquillity of that country. There
ha-i nut been one hand raised against the British Go-
vernment since the battle which destroyed the last
the Aineera who were contending for the sovereignty.
In two months that country was subdued, and at the
present moment thero is not a pr,rtion of the Britida em-
pire in India which is more faitbfui thou Snide.. ?
It is faithful because property has been respected.
(CheerE.,.) My lords, we aro told that we ought to form
no opinion with respect to this proclamation until we