The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

THE INDIA BILL.

AFTER a protracted debate, almost unexampled in
these days of legislative procrastination, the amend-
ment of LORD STANLEY to the Ministerial India

Bill was negatived by a majority of 324 to 142, and
the Bill was read a second time without a division.
This result maybe attributed to the objection of many
leading Conservative members to the amendment, as
being too vague, and suggesting no alternative for
the rejection of the measure; and we cannot there-
fore accept the division as any evidence of the ulti-
mate success of the Bill in its present shape. It
has yet to be submitted to the ordeal of a Com-
mittee, when its provisions may undergo important
alterations, such as practically to carry out the
views of those who are opposed to it, or it may be
that, feeling convinced of the impracticability of de-
vising an efficient scheme for the future government
of India until after the Committee now sitting on
the subject shall have presented their report, the
House may restrict the duration of the Bill to a
brief :period, so as to compel further legislation at
no distant time. It is evident that no solid ad-
vantage can be gained to the mother country until
India is open, like our other colonies, to British en-
terprise and the employment of British capital; and
this result will never be attained so long as this
vast empire is under the control of the petty kings
of Leadenhall-Street, who, having survived their
usefulness, only retain their functions for individual
advantage. If India were really free, we might
fearlessly incur the risk of such a large addition to
ministerial patronage, being satisfied that English
commerce would gain tenfold, and a far more effi-
cient check be imposed on those reckless wars for
which no one at present seems to be responsible.

MEETING IN THE ROYAL PARK THEATRE,
LAST NIGHT.

Last night, a large and enthusiastic meeting of the
friends of the Conservative candidates (the Hon. H. T.
Liddell, and Mr. Thomas Berry Horsfall) was held in the
Royal Park Theatre, Parliament-street. The building
was crowded in every part, and on the platform were a
great number of the leading Conservative gentlemen con-
nected with the ward. Henry Steele, Esq., was called to
the chair.

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the
meeting referred to the fact that it appeared we were now
to have a contest. The Conservatives had been abused
for bringing forward a gentleman who was connected with
a -neighbouring county. What then must they think of a
gentleman who was brought from Bombay ? (Hear, hear.)
That gentleman had told them that he was in the prime
of life, a thing they did not often find amongst the jaun-
diced people of the east. But this gentleman not only
toldrthem that he was in the primp of life, but he also told
them that he was a gentleman of independent circum-
stances. He must say that a man who had thus made a for-
tune in the prime of life must have had some fine pickings.
(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Now, he (the Chairman) did
hope that .none of there desired that there should be any
split in thetansp. (Cries of "No, no,") And if any gentle-
man had expressed a desire to insinuate that feeling he
hoped the 'meeting and the Conservative party would show
the feelings cf determined resentment at such conduct,
(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) After a few further
remarks he concluded by introducing
The Hon. KENRY THOMAS LIDDELL, who was re-
ceived with tremendous cheering, accompanied by the
Kentish fire. As soon as the cheering had subsided, the
hon. gentleman remarked that, although he could not
pretend to say that be was altogether unused to public
speaking, yet he might say that this was only his second
appearance on a stage for public purposes. He was only
beginning to feel what the electors of Liverpool were.
Hitherto, in the present contest, they bad had an easy
course, because up to the present time it had been said,
" You have it all your own way." Now, however, an
opponent had come forward against them ; and, along
with the candidate who had at last presented himself, he
(Mr. Liddell) trusted that the spirit of the electors
would rise to meet him. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
Since they had had their Perry, they were now beginning
to effervesce. (Loud laughter and cheers.) Far be it
from him to say one word against the gentleman, whose
name he never heard until last Saturday; but let it not
now be said that he (Mr. Liddell) was a stranger amongst
them, when the person who was to oppose him was a
gentleman who had only recently been imported when
Bombay. (Hear, hear.) lie had already said that from
a man presented himself to a public constituency as a can-
didate for their suffrages, he must be prepared to endure
all that was said against him, and, if he was an honest
man, he must also be prepared to answer all. A cele-
brated poet, who was a good judge of human nature,
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would not say more than that he had disposed of them
with success. And now for one more charge which he
would not have named, had he not felt that if the character
of a man did not represent what he really was, it was
only what lie owed to his honour to rebut all charges made
against him. The last: charge which had been made
against him he found in the Liverpool Albion of the 4th
of July, (yesterday,) and which, as it bad been repeated