The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-10 00:00:00

THE CLIVE FUND.

Sir J. PAKINGTON asked, " What was the present
state of a fund of 70,0001., created by a donation of
Lord Clive in 1765, who paid a legacy, which he received
to that amount, into the East India Company's Trea-
sury at Fort William, to be at interest for the support of
European officers and soldiers who might be disabled or
decayed in the Company's service in Bengal, and for the
widows of officers and soldiers who might die on service
there ?

Mr. V. SMITH said that he had not yet been in-
formed by the East India Company, but referred the right
hon, baronet to the evidence of Mr. P. Melville, given
in 1852, which stated that the Clive Fund was absorbed,
and that the East India Company paid the pensions
granted under it out of their own revenues.

TROOPS FOR INDIA.
Mr. ADDERLEY asked the Secretary of State for
the Colonies whether any more regiments than the 95tb,
89th, and 13th had been sect from the Cape to India;
whether the 95th was not under orders for New Zealand,
and the 89th relieving them ; whether the two regments
so deducted from the forces at the Cape were all the set-off
against the addition of the German Legion on full pay,
equal to four regiments in strength ; and, whether the
total result of an increase of forces- at the Cape by two
regiments, was wholly at the expense of this country.
Mr. LIBOUCHERE said that he proposed to-mor.
row to lay on the table of the house, papers that would
give information relative to the conductof the governors
of colonies i❑ the immediate vicinity of India. He
thought that it would then be found that they had done
everything they possibly couli to send assistance to
India—(hear)—particularly the governor of the Cape of
Goad Hope, who bad anticipated tha direction of the
home Government, both in the supply of troops and
horses. So anxious were the people of Cape Town to
send troops to India that they volunteered to do garrison
duty to enable the governor to spare them, notwith-
standing the town was full of Kaffir prisoners.

MILITARY AUDITOR.
G,n. CODMINGTON asked whether, in the office
lately established—viz., that of " Military Auditor,"
attached to the troops in China, any separate authority
was given independent of, and with financialcontrolover,
the general officer in command of the troops ? whether the
expenditure required on active service in the field must
not necessarily, as heretofore, be decided on the sold
responsibility of the general aheer I whether those per-
sons employed in the office of military auditor with the
troops in China were amenable to, or independent of, the
provisions of the Mutiny Act ?"
Sir J. RAMSDEN said that the appointment of a
military auditor would not interfere with the authority
of the Commander-in-Chief. He would be subject to
the Mutiny Act.

THE RUSSIAN PORTS IN THE BLACK SEA.
Mr. WISE asked the First Lord of the Treasury,
whether the regulations for admission into the Russian
ports of the Black Sea had been framed in a spirit
favourable to the development of c3mmercial transac•
tious ; and to what ports in the Black Sea English Con-
s•ils bad bee❑ sent by her Majesty's Government I
Lord PALMERSTON regretted that at present the
Russian regulations had not been so much in accordance
with the spirit of the treaty of Paris as be could have
wlslie3. lie believed there were only three ports at
which custom-houses had been established.