The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-21 00:00:00

EAT INDIA LOANS.

/dr. DISRAELI would be glAd if the President of the
Board of Control would give the house any information
respecting the precise nature and security of the loans
now being negotiated by the Elst India Company.
Mr. V. SMITEI said that the loans negotiated by the
East India Company had always been made on. the secu-
rity of the revenue of India. The lean was always an
open one; the total sum to be raisel was specified, and
the minimum interest was also sta'ed. On the payment
of the loan the secretary of the cimpany gave a promis-
sory note, pledging the revenues of the East India Cault-
pany for the payment of the interest. With that security
the creditors had always been satisfied, and he Loped
always would be.
LOSSES BY EUROPEANS IN INDIA.

Mr. V. SMITH wished to be snowed to esidaiii that
a misunderstareling bad arisen with regard to a question
put to him on Tuesday night. The right hon. gentleman
(Mr. Disraeli) had asked what was proposed to be done
with respect to the sufferers in the recent events in India
He understood the question to refer to the widows and
orphans of those persons in the civil and military service
who had perished by the massacres, and he replied that
the same scale would be adopted as in the case of persons
perishing in action. His reply showed the impreasio❑ he
was under, but did not meet the meaning of the right
hon. gentleman's question. He was told ttat the inter-
pretation put by the public upon his answer wa.4 that the
East India Cojnpany bad under their consideration a
scheme of compensation for the loss of property sustained
during the recent mutiny; but the fact was that no such
scheme had been in t'eir contemplation. Such a ques.
tion of compensation opened up 4 much wider question,
into which the directors of the East India Company
were ❑ot prepared to enter.
Mr. DISRAELI had confined his inquiry to property
and ha,i asked whether it was intended to compousate
those European subjects of her Majesty whose property
had been destroyed during the insurrection. He had
not put his question on the paper, and the right hon.
gentleman might, therefore, easily have been uti-lcd al
to his meaning. He still wished to know whether it
was the intention of the Given:merit to take into consi-
deration the claims of those European subjects of her
Majesty in India whose property had been injured or
destroyed during the insurrection.
Mr. V. sir must reply that the question em-
braced so very wide a field that it was impossible to
answer it without deeper 'consideration than had been
hitherto given to this subject.
•
THE MILITIA BILL. ,
On the order of the day for the third reading of this
bill,

Col. NORTH said he wished to put a question to her
Majesty's Government with reference to the regiments
of militia about to be embodied. It was of very great
importance to the officers that they should know what
rejmenis were to be selected, in order tbat they might
not be absent from the country in the event of their own
regiments being called out. He wished to incinire what
rule was to be followed in this matter, and whether those
regiments which had volunteered for service abroad in
the late war would have the priority in being embodied
at this moment. Those regiments who had had the ad-
vantage of doing garrison duty, especially in the colo-
nies, and of being joined for a year and a half or two
years with the line, would necessarily be much more
efficient than the others ; independent of this considera-
tion the officers of those regiments had been put to se-
rious expense in fitting themselves for that service, and
it was certainly understood that when they returned to
this country their regiments would enjoy the benefit of
being retained in an embodied state borne months afterte
the rest of the militia had been disembodied just inh
Esann ;el
anmannerd.
Aansotrhbee
Another
regiments
point
sn wwhiiiiicsohshu
edhhaed
desirednev quitteder
to the militia
infor-
mation was as to the new orderß
that order the in regard to recruiting.
recyruit for the line within
officerssumof shouldss.
for
bringing
grei
ncegi vi e
to
oheir head-quarters. The war-
rant ad-
jutantsoirol e
ofw were
milesen abflrt
recruiting
any remuneration, except
stated• the
and it was also in circular that
a recruit ;
they would be liable to the same contingencies as the re.
said, that the recru
cruiting officers of the line—viz., in case of the recruits
not being passed after inspection they would be subject
to the expense of enlisting them. It appeared that the
surgeons of the militia regiments were to be the surgeons
who would pass the recruits ; and the Government were
entitled to thanks for the concession they had made in
this respect. During the late war, it was intimated to
the surgeons, both of the militia and the line, that they
aught not to be as strict in their examination of recruits
as they were in time of peace ; but as those officers
were to be made responsible for the cost, should the re-
cruits be rejected, they ought to have definite iustruc-
tiens as to whether the orthal preliminary to the passing
of the men should or should not be a stringent one. He
ss
had again to express his hope that during the
recently
ale case he
her
the lieutenant-
Majesty's Government would take into co_nsihdaerdreaction the
claims of a body of o—cers to w
called their attention. He referred to
operation. To show the
working of this principle t
1854, had had a retrospechteivheon.
and gallant member
colonele of tae army on whom the warrant of October,
olonel after he had been 49
1807, became lieu'enan cmp hayed in the Peninsula, and
years in tile service, was e
quoted the case of a colonelt. who entered the army in
-
was never absent during the campaigns of 1810, 1811,
1812, The officer in question was
Lieut.-C:7l,nel Alves, noye
18M and 1814.
Major-General Alves, on the
retired I,st,
whe was passed over by 53 juniors, owing to
sne retrospective action of the warrant of 6th Oct., 1854.
He entered the army Nov. 5, 1807 ; was promoted to be
colonel on the 9th Nov., 1856 ; and the sth Dec., 1856,
took the retired full-pay, with step of rank. His services
:—General Actions.—Bu,:aco, Fuentes D'Oner,
Ciudad R. idrige, Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria, Py-
renees, Nivehe, Nice, Orthes, Toulouse. Actions.
—Retreat to and occupation of the Lines cf Torres
Vedraq, Potubol, Redinha, Fez d'Arouoe, Gunrda, Sabu-
gal, El B )(lon, Mica do Ponce, Capture of Madrid and
Retire, Affiirs on retreat from Madrid to Portugal, Pas
sage of the Ebro, Blockade of Pampeluna, Vio Bigorre