New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-20

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cry voice that IL hardly fair 20 attempt 70 reverse
in greatly thinnsd House. the decisions previously
adopted OF course. Lord John did not recoect 'ha'
% the very Notwithstanding his colleagues had oeeh
beaten before By majority OF 10 snd had only hal no"
amsjo-ity Of 10 Notwithstanding Lord johns lec'ure
on constitutional fairness. the motion OF NJ Glad
stone for duty OF o. each advertisement Was nes-
lived by o. against 63. and Mr. C1sfords amendment
carried by 20 against I'll. Mr. Dsrae and his friends
voted with the Manchester School
The House Of Commons. in order 70 DO insce % the
colossal dimensions Of the subject has been spinning
Is lldan debate 10 unusual length aud breadth. Al
though that debate has failed altogether in depth AMI
greatness If interest. The division leaving Ministers
majority Of - against M is in inverse ra0 10 the dis
Cussou During the discussion all Jhstes tor the
Ministry and Sir Charles Wood the asa officially
IUt @ rhe task # feeding upon them In the division
al j. roses snd Sir Charles Wood receives the crown
of another Mem. The same men who negatiyed the
pan Of the Ministry By their arguments ahcned II b.
their votes None of It's supporters dared to apologies
FIR the b itself the contrary, all apoogHed Tor their
SUI porting the bill the because II WAS an inhntes
ms part of in the right direction the others
because was no measure ar all The former pretend
that they will now mend il in Committee the latter say
that they will strip il Of all the fancy Reform flowers
pafades in
The Ministry maintained the fed by more than one
ia.t ct the Tory opposition running away. aud great
portion OF the remainder deserving With Herrieo and
lnCls into the Aberdeen camp while OF the u opp1
site votes 100 belonged the Disrae fraction and -
To the Manchester school backed by some Irish dis
contents and some neXpressbles The opposition with
in the opposition has once more saved the Ministry.
Nr HALLIDAY. ore OF the officials Of the East India
COMPANY when examined before a Committee ct Luz
quiry stated That the Charter giving twenty wears
% lease 10 the East India Company considered by
the natives of India as fdruiSg them ont. This time
81 east he Chatter has nor been renewed for d m
mite period but IS reyokable at will by Parliament The
Company therefore will come down from the respectable
situation of hereditary farmers to the precarous cOa
dton OF tenants al will This Is 50 much gam Tor the
natives The Coalition Ministry has succeeded in trans
forming the Indian Government like All other questions
into an open question The House OF Commons. the
oLer hand has givenitse testimonial of poyery
in cortssina by the division its impotency for le
gsatiug. and It's urwingness 10 delay leglshting.
Since the days OF Aristotle the world has been inun
dated With a lrghuul ouaniy ct dissertations. lngen
og- or absurd. il might happen, on that question
WHO shall be- the governing power But for the drst
tim ia the annals of history lhe Senate OF people rul
ing over another people numbering l56 millions of
human beings and spreading over surface OF 1855 rs
square miles. have put their heads together m sol nm
aud public congregation, IN order 20 answer the irreg
lar question: WHO among us is the actual governing
power over that foreign people of lJD millions Of souls
There was no Edpus in the British Senate capable of
eNtrcatiug this riddle The whole desate exclusively
tWred around II a although division TOOK place. no
definition Of the Indian Government was arrived az.
hat there is in India permanent financial deficit
regular oversuppy OF vars and supply 40 all of pub
lic works abominable system of taxation. ani NJ
lees ahouinabe state of justice and av. that these i've
itras constitute II we're the five points at the Est
Indian Chatter. settled beyond all doubt in the de-
bates Of l-53 II had been ia the debates Of 1888 and
in the debates of l-l3 in all former debates on India
The only thing never found out was the party RESPONSE!
be Tor al this.
There exists. unquestionaby. a Governor General of
lada holding tie supreme power, bur that Governor is
governed IN bisturl by home government Who Is thai
home government l. It the Indian Minis disguised
under the modest title of President OF the Board OF
Control or is il the twenty four Directors Of the East
lrdia Companyl On The threshold OF the Indian re-
lilionWe find q divine trinity and thus find pr)idne
trinity tie threshold of the Indian GOyernm mt.
Leaving, for while the altogether
side tequeston at Issue resolves Itself n'O that Ot
tie douih GOreument. in which form it is amiarto the
Enl'h mind The Ministers in their BILL and the House
in s division. cling to this dualIsm.
When the Company of English merchant siyenurers,
VINO conquered India to MAKE money on. Of it. bcga ID
81" =. "'" 't''",'5 INTO an empire anen their COM
petition with tie Dutch aud French private merchants
assumed the character of national rl"dlry then Of
couiso. the British Government commence. meiiin
vih the aiaiis the East India COMPANY and the
double Government Of Irda sprung mp in fac. if not in
name. Pitts act of ~, by entering into compro-
mise with tue Company, by subecng to the slpecn.
tentence Of the Board Of Control and BY making he
Board At COnfro an .ppendage 20 the Ministry accepted
regulated end settled thar double Government arisen
from circumstances in name as Rell as in iact.
The act Of 1888 strengthened the Board Of Control
changed The projectors of the East India CompnyinO
mere mortgages Of Che East India revenues ordered the
Con Iauy ~ sell of it, stock ds solved ifs commercial
c2>cLce, trausormedt a, fr az r existed politically
into trustee Of the Crown and did thls with the
East India Company that the Company had been ia
the habit Of doing with the East india Princes After
having superseded them IL continued for a while stll
% govern their 80 far, the East India COnDl-
ny has nce 1888 no longer existed bu, in name and on
sulrralce While thus on one hand there seems 10 be-
10 difficulty in getting rid OF the Company altogether 10
b., IN he other hand very Indifferent whether the Eng
LIB nation rules oyer India under the personal name Of
Queen Victoria under the traditional firm OF anon
ymous society The whole Question therefore, appears
10 turn about technically OF very questionable mpOr
touce Sill, the thing Is not quite plain
II is 10 be- remarked. in the first instance that the
Ministerial Board Of Control, resd NJ in Cannon row
is much a fiction az the East India Company. sup
posed TO reside in Leadenhal-st The memo, rs com
posing the Road of Control a mere cloak for the
uIrmr rule Of the Presidebt Of the Board The pres-
dent J. himself but subordinate though independent
MEMBER Of the Imperial Ministry In India it seems
to b. assumed that if man is III foi nothing il is best
to make him q Judge, and get rid Of him IL Great
Britain. when party comes mo Office and finds i,seif
elcuutered with teuth-rate statesman is con- /
scer,d best to make him President Of the Board of
Control Of the Great Mozu, and IN that way
o. let I'D Of blm-teste Garlic HOod.
Tie letter Of the law entrusts the Board Of Control
which II but another for it, President with full
power and authority 10 uperiLt nj direct and control
ali acts, operations aud concerns OF the East India /
" Company which in ans ise relates 10 or concern the
" Government or revenues Of the Indian territories"
Directors prohibited from issuing any orders, in
~ struc'ions. dispatches, official letters communca