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VOL . IX . No . 413 . ] - SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 20 , 1858 . Price { ggg ^^ jg ^ * - .
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? LO RD PALMERSTON has carried his Government of India Bill on the first reading by something like a triumphant majority , a majority all the greater when we consider the ' large combination of interests against him , and the comparative indifference with which most members regard the distant subject of India . It is true that the mutiny has occasioned a keener attraction for Indian questions just at present , and it is true-that the Premier commands a large following ; but both these advantages have been to a considerable extent neutralized by the dissatisfaction and uncertainty introduced amongst the Government ranks in consequence of the French embarras , while the keener interest in Indian subjects is in a greater degree counterbalanced by the still keener interest in Company questions . Yet the debate was a dull one , because the subject was virtually decided from the moment when Lord Pauhekston explained his bill ; and the real contest was transferred to a later stage . The measure is calculated to engage the general liking of the British publio ; it is simple in its appearance , it looks effectual , it is bold ; its provisions , in brief , amount to this : The Court of Directors is abolished ; so is the Court of Proprietors . The advocates of the measure represent that the East India Company is only decapitated , not destroyed ; that the great body of the Company—the shareholders and the limbs of thq Company , its civil service—remain intact ; only it is deprived of its head—the Court of Directorsand debarred the power of speech in the Court of Proprietors . In lieu of the present administration , the whole authority , patronage , and power * will bo drawn to the President , who is to be assisted by a council ; for , instead of a Socrotary of Jjjtato for India , wo are still to have a President , only ho is to bo a statesman of higher rank than the one that has generally hold the office before . The Council will consist of eight members at 1000 / . a year each ; it will have consultative powers , and in flnanco it will have so muoh authority that the concurronco of four of its members , at Iqnst , will bo re-TJuircU for any act of the Prosidcnt . It is not very likely , however , that gentlemen aocdpting office at 1000 / . a year , holding it by only an eight years ' fconuro— -for such is to bo the rule—will bo- anxious to thwart the President even in financial matters . Hence the net effect of the whole measure ia to promote the President of the Board of Control to a
higher rank , to relieve him of all conflicting or controlling authority in the Board of Directors , and to supply him , it has been said , with eight clerks to assist in his onerous duties . On the subject of patronage which will be reposed in the President of the Council—videlicet , the President' —no assurance has been given that there will be any check upon favouritism , corruption , or abuse of any kind . Although protracted for three nights , and indeed for a fourth , since the motion for papers on Mr . Henry Baillie ' s part ^ introduced a . separate debate upon the question of Oude , the debate , we have said , was not animated nor interesting ; nor can it be said that the cause of the Company was sustained with equal power by those who represented it . Mr . Thomas Baking took the lead with a motion , " That it is not at present expedient to legislate for the government of India , " and he supported this proposition with very great power ; but in the subsequent debate the consistency of the argument fell off . If Mr . Whiteside galvanized it in a speech of large calibre , it had too much an appearance of procuration about it ; and subsequent speakers , even down to Mr . Disraeli , diverted the pleading from the points at issue . ' Mr . Disiiaeli , for instance , indulged himself by a separate essay on the subject of Indian nuance , and the necessity for an entire reconstruction of administration in India , arguments which so seriously weakened the position , that the subject ought , for the present , to be postponed entirely . On a wind-up , however , it was found that the interests of the Government transcended those which would have whipped the Opposition ; Lord Palmerston leading into the lobby 318 members , Mr . Baring only 173 . Neither in the House nor out of it is tliero a growing feeling favourable to the Conspiracy Bill ; oa the contrary , the Opposition is becoming more determined . Some of the signs may be noted in tlio number of questions , directly or indirectly , bowing on the subjeot which have beon asked during tlio week ; moro notable still , as showing which way the Premier thinks the tide is sotting , is" the tone in which ho has answered—or rather attempted to silence—them . If the House wished to , broak off J , JACt ^ XfiMClvAniftaco , 4 gtJt , do .. so ,, and . tako 4 hp-ooii 8 e---ciucnces ; those attacks upon the Fronoh Government wore short outs to that end . Whon Mr . GuiFi'inr , on Tuesday , asked if anything had been done to induoo the French Government to give publicity in tho Monitour to Count Walewski's apology , Lord Palmeuston rose in a pet , to say that of course the British Government had not
doneand did not intend to do— ' anything so excessively absurd . ' But his Lordship became positively * indignant ' with Mr . Stirling for asking whether it was a fact , that the legacy left by the first Napoleon to Cantillon for attempting the life of the Duke of " Wellington had been paid by or } er of the present Emperor ? The rules of the House forbade Mr . Stirling from pressingrhis question any further : but out of the House he has taken a course which has exposed the futility of the indignation . Mr . Stirling ' s pamphlet proves beyond doubt from the pages of the Moniteur that not only was Cantillon one of those who claimed , under the will of the Emperor Napoleon I ., but that his was the only legacy on which interest as well as principal was paid . It is now explained that the payment was made before the time of the present Emperor ; but he long had the credit of obeying his uncle ' s last wishes , and the Moniteur appeared to corroborate that impression in the most formal way . It is clear that LordPalmebston has determined to go to dangerous lengths to meet the views of the Emperor of the French j at all events , he is as well aware as any one that so his conduct is interpreted in Paris , where the arrest of the refugee Bernard has been hailed with satisfaction as the strongest possible proof of the good-will of the chief of the Englis h Government . It is even said that very warm expressions of thanks have been tendered to him for this service from the French throne ; and further , that the ex ample will be made immediate us , q of for the purpose of bringing the Governments of Switzerland and Piedmont into the same way of thinking as the British Premier . The expressions which his mode of proceeding with this hazardous subject has called forth in various parts of the country are by no means complimentary , and these expressions arc to be intens ificd on Sunday afternoon next in Hyda Park , when the People of London will meet to * enter tuoir peaceable and orderly protest against the new Conspiracy Bill . ' Sir John Trelawney succeeded on Wednesday night in getting 213 votes against 1 G 0 for tho second reading of tho Church-rate Abolition Bill . Tho steady increase of tlio number of voters on this long-debated-questionr- 'while-inaTfcing ^ tlie-progress - of opinion in tho House , indicates the growing feeling , out of doors . Tlio time is unquestionably ripe for tho change ; and if there was one domestic question moro than nnothor to whioh mcinberaq ^ - plodgod themselves at tho hustings , it was t )^ Qh ^ t p : /' < abolition of churoh-rntos . Tho h « ndsomp ^ a | o # ttk / 1 ,. then , of Wednesday night wore only cof ^ sj ^ fc p £ T & — ' , 5 ? J ^ C ^ Nj ^
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« B S " J S B 0 REVIEW OF THE WEEK- i-aoe State of Trade 176 The French Alliance 180 ^' summary 185 * iZ * ° British Bank Di - m SS £ --=: ™™ = 18 SSSSSSTSaK . ! : !^ .:::::: ^^ ^^ . HI ^| g »^— ::::: g ^ Si ^^^ ::::::::::::::::::::::: iS 2 ffiS ; :::=: j ? ffiSsns ^ SS&BSST :::::: » toBe * ri ! "pari ament ' ""^ Z 171 Gatherings from the La w and Po- Approaching Settlem ent of the ffe . w Novels 188 T ™ e ! nd an Bev ™ lt ...:::: 173 lice Courts 178 Kansas Question ^ .. ; .............. 18 a Publications and Replications ... 188 « So ^ i T ^ tfM ^ fVoni fndia 174 Mis cellaneous 178 Lord John Russell ' s Oaths Bill 183 rrtMMrRciAi AFFAIRSS ^ it eSS ^ rfoSton :::::::::::: 175 Postscript ...... 179 Dr Livingstone and the Commerce C ^ zStte .. . f . ^ . ^ . ...., 189 % S 8 ? 3 Uss ; -:= r == z \ U Pl ^ d p ^^ 5 n Vind ia bm *» Poiltf ^^ tes :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: lit SfciSSm ^ n . ** , , * , m » .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 20, 1858, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2231/page/1/
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