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rilis and services the o,,uncil, being a permanent
body, is like!y to pos,ess a more intimate arid—cle-:
tailed acquaintai.ce than willgeuerally be possessed
by the S cretsi y of State.
" 11. The Court would also suggest that the
Tire-President, who is to preside over the Conniiil
in the absence of the Secretary of Stale, should be
chosen pe.iodicAlly by the Secretary of State in
Council, but nA by the Minister alone, it being of
iinpottance that this officer should possess the con.-
fide-ce of the Council, and should be their repre-
sentative with the Minister iu the iutervals of their
sittings.

" There are other provisions not conne&ed
with the Junctions of the Council which the Court
greatly regret to see transferred from the former
into the present Bail. By one of these. fotraing
clause 29, the governments in India itself are ra-

(IL:ally altered in constitution and their meat cha-
racteristic excellence d, stroyed. Instead of a Go-
vernor-General, or Governor, and an independent
Council appointed by the authority to which he is
himself responsible, the_ Government is now to
. _

conii-t of 6-e G (vorno- -General or the Goveroo-,
i;nd advisers selected by himself. The Cour( have
reason to believe that this prop( sal has met with

unanimous reprebaeion in India, and they would
regard its aeloption as one of the most fatal blows
which could he struck against good government in
that country. The association of the head of the
Government with advisers not of his own choice,
but chosen fir him by superior authority, has
given to a Government necessarily absolute an ad-
vantage rarely possessed by absolute governments,
and the absence of which in India would be pecu-
liarly mischievous; that of free, unrestrained, and
conscientious discussion and deliberation. This ad-
vantage would be enirely sacrific td if the bead of
the Government selected his constitutional advisers.
Advisers who will merely echo his own opinions
he can never want. What he is in need of are ad-
visers who will think for themselves, who, by the
collision of judgments, will cause subjects to be
examined in a variety of lights; who will correct
his mistakes, complete what is imperfect in his in
formatie n, and whose very errors will be useful by
b ing of a different kind from his own. Such are
not the colleagues ',horn, even with the hes inten-
tions, that high functionary can safely be relied on
for selecting. Not to mention that for some time
after his first arrival he will- not be in a condition
to distinguish such persons, even if he look out for
them.
" 13. The 48th, clause proposes the appointment,
by the Crown ot an aeiditorof the home accounts; a
provision which, if carried into eff -ct, must. materi-
ally interfe o with the independent action of the
new Government, and the nece-sity of which is
obviated by the existiug system bosh ot pre-audit
and pos -audit, which is recognised and apparently
approved in the 47th clause of the bill, and which
system would be greatly weakened by the intro‘tuce
tion of a dist not auditor acting under another
au hority.
" 14. The Court regret that it should be con-
teiliplatel by the 50th clause to send a Commission
to India t itiqeire and report to her Majesty on
many important branches of Indian adwistration,
passing over the local gove nments. It is impossi-
ble t tat such persons, how ver judiciously chosen,
should collect in three years a tithe of the informa-
tion which already exists so abundantly on the re-
cords of The Home Government, and is daily added
to by the labours of toe abl st functionaries in In-
dia, while their appearance in the cenntry will be
considered as opening up for reconsideration all the
vital quest ons included in the collection, receip,,
and management of tie revenues,' as well as 'the
application of such revenues and public moneys iu
India' the first embracing the whole subject of the
laeded tenures and propri taryand possessory rights
of the agriculteral popul.V ion ; the other the entire
economy of the publ c resources, wh titer in rela-
tion to civil or military administration, public
works, the contrec ion or liquidation of debt, or
any other of the multifarious mat ers which require
to be decided by a finance minister. The Court are
as desirous as her Majesty's Government .hat all
practicable and well devised improvements should
be made in these branches i)f administration, and
many such have been and ,re even now being made.
But they are convinced that the proper mode of
making these improvements is through the govern-
ments on the spot, by whose instrumentality alone
India can be governed or held, and whose ascen-
dancy it is of the utmost importance to maintain,
by making all orders and all benefits which proceed
frem the supreme au hority, flow through them as
the intermediate channel.

" 15. The Court are also appnhensive that the
effect of clause 34 may be to reinove from the Milt-
tory College at A idis Bombe the educ ttion of c tdets
for the Engineers and Artiliery. That college h,s,
during a long courEte of 3ears, been mei,t success-
ful in train.ng ~ighly quz,hiled cadetwilyrtnt.-e,zien-
tific branches, a result greatly attributable to the
earn.st couifietition for engineer and artillery ap-
poiuttnents w• ich exists within the college among
the cadets appointed to it ' • and the Court would
consider any change which involved the transfer of
the educati.:u for these branches from the Military
Colb-ge to priv de establishments as being injurious
to !he public servo
" These are the ob:ervations which, by the de-
sire of the Court, we tate the lib,rty of subtniiti,4
to your for !ship, and we hope to be favoured wad
a c •mmunicAtion from your lordship of the inten-
tion of Ministets ou the several points hereinbefore
adverted to at a suflioiently early period to admit
of their take ig Aus, further measures which may be
necessary for bringing their views before Porno-
went.

" We have the honour to ba, my lord, your lord-
ship's most obedient humbloß,lvan s,

" F. CURIIIE.
" W. J EASTWICK.
" The Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P., Ike."

THE CASE OE Sl HE BY MEUX.

The subjoined h-tters nave passed between Lord
Erue,t Bruce and Mr Montague Cnamb -rs

" 7, Si. Gii-orge.-}lace, June 22, 1858.
"Sir,—My atteuthm ha-: ern particul::rly directed
to an article in the Morning Post of 'Saturday laNt, con-
taining an erritct from your address to the jury in the
late proceeding with reference to Sir Henry Meux, and
commeoting upon that portion of it. The passago from
your addr,-Fs is as f dlows Lady Meux was certain
of having 15 0001. a year, and there would only.. e the
i.lreles life of a ebini to keep ber from 40,000/ .a per.
When, at sr the remaining life fl i•Ned trout the
frame f her uttbapp-i bu..band, she shouts be induced
to marry aga n, toe world would omit fail to remark
u:i fact ha- t,at 15 000/. would be inereas.d to
40 0001. a y-ar no the ,'eath of the i fant. if wealth
therefore could not secure health., it w)ulcl, at least, pro-
voke suspicion.'

"TO.; cou1d:110s up)n it are to the following effect
"If il.e e • xpr,ssions have any evaning at al,
it is a t o drt-alful to be at ered in plain words.
Nced we vindicate outraged motherhood from aura
imputations r

I • "As the husband•of the lady to wh-tha these exPre,--
hsious rtfei 'ls iati-vv, unhappily, incompetent to notice
then, it devolves m. an., her patent, to addrem you
upon the su-ject. ‘Vtitu L c•tocedo to counsel the ful-
lest license bin-the interests of their clients may re-
quire,
I cannot but think that your own sense of
justice and honour will recoil from undeservedly casting
upon any person the imputation of committing a most
strocioui crime. That it was your inteutaon to convey
such an impute ion I cannot believe, but that your
language is unfortunately open to such a construction,
the comments of the auove-'.awed jou-nal abundantly
testify.

_..J._Your expressions and these comments have now-been
published to the world. and I tru- t., therefore, that you
may not deem it inconei,tent with your position as
counsel for mornedbf the partn.s ituerested, as I a'n sure
that you must feel it a4reeable to your own feelings .as a
gentleman and a man of honour, when the subject is
brought under your consideration, to enable me with
equal publicity to place on record an expression on your
part of the absence of any intention to convey so
griev,,us an imputation on my daughter.—l remain,
str, your obedient servant,

" ERNEST BRUM
"Montagu Chatuberra, Eeq., Q.C."

June 23, 1858.

"My Lord,—l have to thank you for the good feel-
intf and spirit displayed in your letter, as I am thus en-
abled, without hesitation or reserve, not on y t comply
with your request, but, in so doing, to remove
,rroneous impre-sious of my own conduct and character
likely to be produced in the minds of strangers by tte
article in the Morning Post.
"In distinc• and unequivocal terms I declare that I
bad n ) intention of conveying ' the grievous imputation
upon your daughter, Lady Menx,' to which that article
alludes, or any imputation cif a similar character.
" By all who know me in public or private He I hope
I have airs dy been exerocerated frnm such a suspicion,
and I am pleased in believing that y ,ur appeal to rue,
`as a gentleman and a man of honour,' to do an act of
`ju-eice,' is a convincing proof that my efforts to.fulfi
with z.al, firmness, and fidelity the ocero is arid somt-
times distre•sing du les of an advocaTe, have never com-
promised my own reputation er that of my present pro-

" I have not been able to obtain a copy of my address
from the not a of any shorthand writer, but ,n turning
so the report in the Times newspaper, I am happy to ob-
serve that my own conviction of the unintentional mis-
take and misapprehension as to my laniusge and
meaning in the article in the 1 I orniv Post is fully
confirmed. This, I feel assured, has art-en solely
from the diffienity, of reporing
_in an abridged form
the rapid speech of a counsel in a crowded room,
and not front any want of care, or the slightest dispo-
sition to be otherwise than accurate. The passage in
itarics,. however,. upon which the strong common A are
f iuuded, does not appear in the coltpuns of the Vows;
and the only remarks that are at all similar are ob-
viously made with an entirely different objsct, and con-
vey an opposite impression.—l have the honour to be,
your lordship's obedient servant,

-" Pelogplau Caoxpzgo.
awn kw, 11.13.!.

MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 28,

DOCKS.

APPRE.NTicE.

expect td be buried in the ruins. -There is a Ne:
meiis waits on good as wail ai on evil ac-
tions, and the benefactors of society h,:ve as of;eu
been the victims of the changes they have wrought
as its disturbers and dewroyers. merit of abo-
lishing the Eist India- 0,-mpany belongs rather to
those who fir,t prop-sed it than to those on whom
was thrust the unwelcome task of accomplishing it,
and the former are now paying the penalty of the
change of which they were the authors. We do not
doubt, indeed, that we shall hear all through the
autumn the assertion made in every tone of self-
laudation that Government found the Indian ques-
tion just as. Mr. Disraeli found the finances of the
country—in a hopel-ss state of confusion ; that
they brought light into this darkness, order into
this chaos, and that by the application of a few
liberal and popular principles they solved the
enigma propounded by the Sphinx, which threat-
ened to devour all those who co,.dd not answer it,
All this, and much more, we shall hear, no doubt,
to the new Miniserial tune of Suomi /a tromba,
but we protest beforehand against its justice. The
real credit—and it is a credit--,of Ministers will he
that they pass,d a bill abAishing the Eas- India
Company, and that by the assistance of till East
India Company itself.

EXTR4ORDINARY ACCIDENT AT
BLACK W ALL.

TWO SHIPS JAMMED AT THE EAST INDIA

A most disastrous accident. involving the wreck
of two vessels and a serious loss of property, hap-
pened at the entrance of the East India Docks,
Blackwell, on Saturday afternoon, and it is feared
will cause a serious h:ndrance to the company's
business, all communication with the dock from
the Thames being now stopped.
The mishap took place shortly after high water,
between two and three o'clock, and being spring
tides, there was rather an unusual amount of busi-
ness in docking and undocking ships and craft.
The Blenheim, Result, and another large vessel,
were hauled out, and at the tep of the tide the
New York line-of-packet ship Southampton, draw-
ing 21 feet 9 inches, was taken in. Captain Tuit,
the dockmaster, had just succeeded in the safe
docking of the Southampton, wl en his attention
was drawn to the position of two vessels in the lock
just within the gates, and which evidently hail got
jammed. They were the brig Ocean, Holland
master, of Shoreham, bound to Swansea, with a
cargo of copper ore, and the collier b: ig Lustre,
Williams, of and from South Shields, with 350 tons
o! coals. The Ocean had been hauled into the lock
on the east side, and had nearly got out of the lock,
her bow being abreast of the ga,es, when the Lustre
came in from the river, and in progressing up the
lock and passing the Ocean, they because jammed.
The moment their situation was ascertained, every
possible means were at once taken with a view of
geArng them clear. The Great Republic tug
steamer, a very powerful vessel, which was passing
down the river at the time, was at once hailed, and
a hawser being laid out from the Lustre, steam was
put on to haul her out back into the river, while all
the available handsin the dock with several hawsers
applied an inward purchase on the Ocean, in order to
get her more in, free from the collier. Their united
exertions, however, proved utt rly fruitless, hawser
after hawser yielding to the immense strain put on.
By that time, although brief, the tide had com-
paratively much fallen, and the Lustre having a
considerable bilge, tieing an old-built vessel, settled,
became immoveable, making the "jam" greater,
and both vessels became immoveable. Their de-
struction appearine inevitable, every despatch was
used in endeavouring to lighten them of their
cargoes, and getting down their topmasts, spars,
ya de, gtc. For • his purpose, several of the largo
ships in the dock lea their crews, and worked with
extraordinary energy. As tee ride receded, how-
ever, the position of the ships became more critical.
The collier, with her heavy carge of coals, careened
over on the s arboard side of the Ocsan, cru4sing
her bulwarks and beams, and resting, as it were,
upon her, rendered her condition, if possible, more
hopeless. A large number of bags of ore, forming
tl.e Ocean's cargo, were got out, and as it was ap-
pareet that she would fill on the return of the tide
if the position of the collier was not altered, s ,me
30 er 40 empty puncheens were put down into her
hold in order to assist in floating her. The work
of discbarge and dismantling the vessels went on
during the night, but on the flowing of the tide it
was discovered that both vessels had sustaine i such
damage that they filled ; indeed the Ocean appeared
to have become a wreck, the buoyancy of the empty
puncheons having forced up the deck. However,
in order that a chance might not be thrown away,
another effort was made to-haul the collier out by
tugs and capstan. Lek° the former attempt, it
proved ahor ice, and at high water the vessels were
covered. As soon as the tide had receded the ope-
rations for discharg:ng the ships were resumed.
At the return of the flood, yesterday afternoon, the
vessels were again covered, and every tide renders
their position more hazardous, and it was expected
that the collier would eventually have to be broken
up before the lock could be got clear and the com-
munication with the ricer re-opened.
Unfor,unately for the company there is only one
entrance to the East India Docks. Their busi-
ness at times is very heavy, and necessarily has
to be done in a short period, about the time
of high water. Tire largest of the merchant
ships that c me up the Thames are taken into
this dock. There are also innumerable craft and
marry coasting vessels, which receive cargo from the
Indian and Australian ships. Had there been a
second entrance doubtless tliis accident would not
hove happened, as the docking and undocking of
two ships in one lock would not have been deemed
necessary.

The accident has created much interest on the
river, and throughout the whole of yesterday the
East India Dock entrance was thronged with spec-
tators. In the course of the day Mr. Routh, the
chairman, and the secretary, visiteni the dock, and
consulted with the docker:asters and the engineer as
to the lo?st steps to be taken itt ream vit,g the vessels.
Captain Jam-9a, the h trboer-master, Mr. Hep-
worth, the sh'pwrig-ht, budder of the Leviathan,
and many other visited the spot, and
gave the officials of the company the advantage of
their experience.

SHOCKING BRUTALITY TO A SHIPS

COMMITTAL FOR MANSLA.UGHTER.

Tile town of Newport, Monmouthshire, has Been
• the scene of another of those acts of brutality
towards a ship's apprentice which have recerely
thriwu so much discredit on the mercantile marine.
The perpetrators of the outrage were Allred Bore-
ham and Goerge Passmore, two se .men of a
schooner called the David and Martha, lying in the
dock, b..th of whom have been committed for trial ;
and there was a third seauraii, narurd Andrew
charged before the magistrates, but as
nothing more could be estiblished against him thin
the fact of his having looked on without in'e for.
ing, he was discharged from custody with a repri-
m‘nd. The poor boy whose life was so prema-
turely sacrificed, was an apprentice on board the
same schooner, named E lward Thomas, and was a
native ef the town of Bridgewater, Somerset.
It appeared from the . evidence of Thomas
Littlechild, a carpenter Joseph Parsons, a
boilermaker ; Jacob Vollam, the second mate
of the. American brig James Gray; and some other
witnesses who were examined before the magis-
trates, that on Friday afternoon the prisoners
George Passmore and Alfred Boreham were seen,
from some motive which could not be ascertained,
to put the deceased over tee side of the David and
Martha into a boat. Passmore was on the deck of
the schooner, and put him over, and Boteham was
in the boat and received him. M‘Neill was sitting
in
.the stern of the boat, but did not interfere.
After the boy was over Passmore got into the boat
also. The two prisoners then seized the poor boy,
who cried out, and made an unavailing resistance,
over the guewale of the boat. He cried out to
them to let him go, but they paid no heed, but
forced his feet over, and then forced his person
into the- water, dipping him completely; under
several times, One of the witnesses and some
Other persons who were standing at thu time on
the lock, celled out to them to discontinue their
unmanly conduct, but they only replied wi h
abuse. After dipping the boy several times they
dragged him again into the boat, and one of them
commenced rubbing his head roughly, and another
to pat him on the back. After that the boy, who
seamed out of breath, was taken to the ship's side,
and the prisoner Passmore began to hand him up ,
the side, but after he was sone way up, and before
he could get a proper hold of the rail he suddenly
let him go, and the po little fellow fell into the
water, between the bow of the boat and the side of
the schooner, where he sank and never was seen to
rase afterwards. The boy, according to the witness
airsoras, appeared when pushed up the ship's side
to be v(ry much exhausted from the effects of his
previous usage. An alarm being given the irons
were procured and the water dragged, but nearly
half-au-hour elapsed befo e the body could be re-
covered. He was, of course, quite dead. The
magistrates said they considered that the death of
the poor youth was clearly as-ignable to the un-
manly and volent conduct of the two seamen,
George Paismore and Alfrcd Boteham ; and they
fully commuted them to take their trials for man.
slaughter at the ensuing county assizes. he hear-
ing of tee cace exeie ed a great amount ef interest,
and the court was cvwdcd, by befSlaell 812Zi(13,1r3 to
teas 111 J omits

Names of
Companies.

Dividend.
per
71 Annum.

Price.

Ashtn &Dia
Birmingham
Coventry....
Derby .. • ...
GrandJo Intr.
Do., 6 pr. Ct.
Grand Union
Kennt An
Leeds faortf.
Leicester_..

Leicstr 3:;Fith
Loughborogli
Macclesfield.
Neath

93 71. p. at.
40 4/.
100 111.
100 6/. 15s.
100 21. pr. ct.
10 61. pr ct
103 7s. 6d
40 Gs.
100 251.
!00 51
03 11.55.
143 701
100 V. 10s.
I CO 16/.
1100

6
504',

PPICPS OF ,sllAtues.

Prom the Official Lut,
rUBLISLIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN

LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1858.
CANALS.

Names of
Companies.

IDividend
per

Annum

'Peak Forest.
!Regen t's • • • •
Rochdale.. • •
Btftrcl &Wor,
Stonrbridg,
Severn and .1
Wye Rail.
Warwick &
Firming.
Warwick &
Napton..
iWercstr &
Firming. j
Wilts & Brkr

5/. Os.
17s
41. 8
281
121. 10s.

P. les.

7s. Od.