New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-28
THE STATE OF EUROPE.

mon interest Mr.. Russell, The Timts'S Indian cor
respondent, sent Lord CaDning's proclamation to
England, which was published Immediately after
the taking of Lucknow. Everybody wa, startled
BY the cool impulence of flibusterism displayed 10
this remarkable document Lord Canning declares
openly that the former titles of landed property
are at once forfeited by all the great landhoders of
Dude, with the exception of six favored individu-
As, who, for their attachment 10 the English ulder
tle most advene circumstances, are munlfcently
rewarded with the permission Of retaining what
always has been their own. COnfscatIOn is, there
FORE to be the general rule in Dude, and disregard
Of the rights Of property the new principle of En-
glsh dominion in India. As soon as this Proclama
ton became known Mr.. Brsh. called the attention
Of the Government to it, and received the satsfac-
tory reply tina. the present Administration had dis
approved Of it. The Wings became furious, seeing
that the Governor General not to De sustained
by the Government; every ofiiee-holder, who until
now knew that, whatever he might have done,
whether beginning war with Blrmah or with
Chna-eytn against the intention of the Ministry
be would always be sustained against any cav of the
outsiders, made terrible cutlery, defending Lord
Canning and declaring that, the execution Of the
proclamation being left TO Sir James Outram,
friend of the natives, they could not find any fault
or harshness in Cannings policy But il soon be-
came known that Sir James Odtram had gone TO
Calcutta as q member of the Government, and that
it could not be pleaded that the proclamation would
be acted upon in temperate and humane way.
While the public interest thus excited, Lord
EllenboIough set precedent to the old diploma
lists which astonished everybody, and still more
enraged the uphoders of red tape and Off ,al roa-
tine He published in full his dispatch, which Sc
verely censures Lord CanniDgs proceedings.
Such document, which freely cOnfesses the guilt
Of England, and implies that India ought to be
governed not for the sake of English ofiice-holders
but for the interest Of the native population, struck
all the old jobbers and party politicians with hor
ror. Lord Derby as well as Lord Palmerston saw
at enee that their occupation was gone if such
tmeDts were allowed. Lord Peterborough there
upoD observing that even the so called Liberal organs
Of the press were horror struck to the principles
Of high morality introduced into the Government,
resigned his seat in the Cabinet, SO coon he
that the pious Lord Shaftesbury in the Peers, and
Dir. Cardwel in the Commons, proposed TO CEN
fure the Government for the publication of such
State paper, which admits that the HindoOs, at
leastthe Dude people are not entirely 10 the wrong.
OF course, both these politicians bypocritically
decline to scrutnize the policy Of Lord Cannings
proclamation, as if wholesale conhscation were
question of policy and not Of morals ! Lord Ellen
borough's frank admission, however, that IN pub
6shing his reply he had acted exclusively on his
own responsibility, without having communicated
to his colleagues and even his generous resignation,
has not put stop TO the announced motions and
to-day the Tory Government stands on its trial for
having been just and recommended clemency,
while, as uphoders Of robbery and the most
outrageous filibusterism, the Wings oppose it.
The debate will certainly extend over three
or four nights and the result depends exclusively
on the action of the so called Independent Liberals,
who now for the first tune have great oPPortu.
hity for emancipatng themselves from the Wing
family party, and for showing that the balance of
power ia in their hands. We know, however, the
wies Of Lord PalmerstOn and the seductive power
Of Sir j. Hayter, the whipper in, and fear much
that the 100 gentlemen who lately constituted them
selves as a new independent party will again act
each on his own hook, and miss the opportunity of
impressing the Wing and Tory aristocracy with the
conviction that the Government of England cannot
be carried on alternately BY two ollgarchic chques
without the hearty cooperation of the middle
classes. At any rate, the result is doubtful,
especially as Lord Derby weuld not shrink from
dissolution in case of defeat The forthcoming
debate 10 therefore of the highest Importance aud
may have lasting result by removing the brand OF
iIiberalsm from the Tories who, at the present
moment are in a state Of transition.
Mr.. Erskine, the Secretary Of Legation, removed
from Turin for having altered the sense of dis
patch about the Caeari in copying the draft for the
signature Of his chief, is now transferred to Wash
ingtOn. he will certainly accomplish a brilliant
career in the diplomatic line; the way in which he
offered himself as a scapegoat for Palmerstonian
intrigue stamps him as one Of the chief dploms.
tsts of coming years.
Aesinst expectation, the Duke of Malakoff proves
tame, and shows no temper in spite of the provo
cation Napoleon received in DR.. Demands triumph.
Still, the great msneuvers of the French fleet in
July, and the fact that the Mediterranean fleet is
likewise to appear in the Atlantic are somewhat
suspicious. The English, however, do not seem to
suspect the good faith of Napoleon toward them
and thus We simply chronicle the iac..
The Montenegrin difficulties are to be adjusted
by European Commission, which is to rectliy the
boundaries and to determine the relations between
the robber Prince in the Black Mountains and the