The Sun. — 1858-06-04 (London, England)

THE BAST INDIA COMPANY AND LORD CANNING'S PROCLAMATION.  Yesterday was i-sued, as a return to Parliament, the following copy of a letter from the Court of Directors of The East India Company to the Governor-General in Council, dated the 11th day of May last :  PoiiticalDapartmEnt, 18!,b of N.Tay(No 20), 1858.  Our Governor-General of India in Council, Paragr.iph 1. The Secret Committee has communieat. d to us the Governor-General's secret letter, dated sth March (No. 9), 1853, with its enclosures, consisting ,rf a letter addressed to the Chief Commissioner of Oade, dated 33 of March, and of the proclarnati..n referred to therein, which was to be issued by Sir James Outram to the chiefs and inhabitants of Oude as soon as the British troops should have possession or command of the City o:Lucknow.  2. We have also received communication of the letter addressed to your Government by the Secret Committee, under date the 19th of April last, on the subject of the draft of proclamation. 3. Our political letter of the sth of May has apprised you of our strong sense of the distinction which ought to be no,intained between the revolted sepoys and the chiefs and pe ple of Oude, and the comparative indulgence with which, equally from justice and policy, the insurgents of that country (other than sepoys) ought to be regarded. In accordance with these views, we entirely approve the guarantee of life and honour given by the propot.ell proclamation to all talookdars, chiefs, aid landholders, with their follow, r 4, who should make immediate submission, surrender their arms, and obey the orders of the British Government, provided_ they_ ham not participated in the murder of Englishmen or Engliehwonicn."  4. We are prepared to learn that in publicly declaring that, with the exception. of the lands of six persona whe la I been steadfast in the allegiance, the proprietary right in the soil of the province was confiscated to the Briti h Government, the Governor-General intended ne more than to reserve to himself entire liberty of action, and to give the character of mercy to the confirmation cf all rights not prejudicial to the public welfare, the owners of which might not, by the'r conduct, have exelided themselves from indulgent consideration. 5. His lordship must have been well aware that the words of the proclamation, without the comment on it which we trust was speedily afforded by your actions, must have produced the expectation of much more general and indiscriminate dispossession than could have Leen consistent with justice or with policy. We shall doubtless be informed, in due c mrse, of the reasons which induced the Governor-General to employ those terms, and of the weans which, we presume, have been taken of making known in Oude the merciful character which we assume must still belong to y our views. In the meantime, it is due to the Governor-General that we should express our entire reliance that on this as on former occasions it has been his firm resolution to show to all whosa crimes are not too great fcr any indulgence the utmost d, gree of leniency consistent with the early res oration awl firm maintenance of lawful authority. We ace rdingly have to inform you that, on receiving communication of the papers now acknowledged, the Court of Directors passed the following resolution : " resolved--That in reference to the despatch from the secret committee to the Governor. General s f the 19 ult., with the documents therein alluded to, and this day laid before the Court of Director!, this coart desires to express ifs continued confidence in the Governor-General, Lord Canning, and its conviction that his measures for the pacification of Oude and the other disturbed districts in India, wi:l be charaeterised by a get.erous policy, and by the utmost clemency that is found to be consistent with the satisfactory smut. plishment of that important object."—We are, &c., (Signed) F.