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

| SbSlItrpufy UotOn ot Ctcsuft, TIC Dcio! '".''
| t,y bad but rsrrow escape. The resolution was
defeated BY majority CT only nine. On the same
| ay-FIidsy, the 18th in.taut-a similar resolution
was moved in the House of Commons BY Mr. Card
well the debate upon which &C cupied that day, and
visa adjourned to the Monday following. II wa'
euIpcss that tie re suit in that House would be
| decced majority sgain,t the Ministers, ranging
from thirty to sixty. not only large oIgh t" com
| pei them to re.,en, but TO prevent them from car
Iyrg out thtir threat Of dissolution. The Man
| CHESTER School members. 10 the number Of ten or
| ~ el,e, headed by Mr.. Btight ard Mr.. Gibson. 1t
vss syppossd. wou.d support the Ministry. We
have bat u.e.eer report If the debates IN either
| Houe hat there seems 10 lie come Inconsistency
| in tho various grounds upon which the Ministers
| undertook to def nd Themselves. Several days
sispscd tetwsen the reception Of the draft Of the
pIocsuat:oD ED the sending the dispatch cDnts.a-
| ipg Lord EIlenboioUehs criticisms upon it. In
| that interval Mr. Vernon Stotb, President Of tbs
Beard Ct Control under Panerstons Ministry, re-
oeived private letter feom Lord Canning. who
at .he time Of writing it, ~as gnorant " the change
Of Ministry, sbd in which he Inadvertently men
tered his regret that he had DOT been able to
fad tune, whtn be sent the draft of the
proclhnstor. to send with it an explanation of bis
reasons for is+ung it. This letter resched Mr.
Vernon Smiths bands previous to the sending Of
LoId EllenborCueh's dispatch, aud great complaints
were nsde on the Ministerial side of the House Of
Conmons that this piece of information. evidently
Intended as Il communication 20 Mr. V. Smith. not
in bis character of Lord CanLing's private friend.
but as the head of the Indian Administration, had
not been laid before Lord ElenbOrougb, the argi-
hi nj being that had he received this information,
10 would have awaited tho expansion of Lord
Canning befose sendi, TIE dispatch. This,
bowtyef, wss hardly consistent with Lord
EllepbcIouehs owe statemsnt in the c"urse
Of the debate in the House Of Lords,
thst he regarded the proposed proclamation as like
ly 10 excite general cOphagration Of revolt
throughout the prosrce Of Dude, aud that he had
consitred It is duty TO send out antdote at the
earliest possible moment, on which ground he just
fed hs having cent the Dispatch through the secre.
Committee, thus avoiding the delay of i fortLeh.
or 90, which would have been inevitable had the
dispatch been obliged to ps,s through the whole
Board Of East ILdiA Directors.
There seems also to have been degre. Of neon
s;stercy in the attempt to make Lord Peterborough
alone responsible for the dispatch, at the same no
that every speaker Gil The Ministerial side in both
Houses fully justified thst document. Tnis pc
sition of the Ministers gave good deal Of petit
mercy to the question put by Mr.. Lowe, why, if
the dispatch was so doftnsible, Lord Peterborough
had been sacrificed
Lord John Rustell conteEdeJ, on the other hand
ard it must be confessed that tie general tone
sud st le Of the dispatch afford good deal OF col)r
to that yiew-ihat the Government, AS this dispatch
showed, vas on the lock out to find come Aston
to censuIe Lord Gaming, that the criticism made
op0n the proclamation was captOus and exaggera.
ted, ald more in the tons of lsmpoon than III he
.tyie of correction and rebukeevea admitting that
LORD Gaming Rad been wrous-befitslDg the Gov
ernmt nj, and due 10 him. The Government might
have expressed IFS own vows OF the proper policy
10 BE- pursued, without undertaking to hold up the
| proclamation to odmm, as not only lmpotc, but
| cruel ard unjust. AS matters stood, the question
was between the retention by the Ministry of their
| places ana The continuance OF Lord Canning rs
Governor re raj OF Indla for tho whole Ministry
was fully Iespor .ble for the di-patch-a responsl-
bhy which they adnitt,d in a-suIniug to justify it.
1t would be curious result and striking IN.
tsry on the crosspurposes TO which the En-.
| ish Government of India is liabe--spd Of which
some curious instances have heretofore occurred
If Lord Gaming, upon the receist Of this dispatch,
.bould resign bic post as Governor General, while
at the cane time the having sent it should oust
LOT OILY Lord EllenboroUsh, but the whole MiastrY
along With him.
About eighteen months ago, at CaDton, toe Brit