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Monday , February 22 ml . THE RE 3 IGNATIQH QF MINISTERS . Is the House of Lords , Earl Gtrasvilub announced the resignation of the Ministry in eonaequenea of the adverse vote of the Lower House on the previous iriday evening . He understood that Lord Derby ( who waa not present ) bad been sent for by the Queen to form a Ministrv ; and he believed that noble Lord waa desirous , as a ma ' ttor of convenience , that the House should adjourn until the ensuing Friday , although it would meet in the meanwhile for judicial business . —The Karl ot Malmesbuby stated that Lord Derby was then engaged in the task entrusted to him ; and , after some complimentary remarks with respect to the high sense of honour entertained by the retiring Ministers , said , on behalf of Lord Derby , that the brief recess indicated
would meet his views . THE LAW WITH KKSFHCT TO ALIENS . In answer to a question from Lord Lyndhukst , Lord Campbell , repeated his opinion as to the liability of aliens to the penalties of the law of England for crimes committed within the realm , which by a statement attributed to the Attorney-General in the House of Commons had been misrepresented . By that statement it appeared as if he ( Lord Campbell ) had declared that a foreigner might in this country do with impunity ^ Yhat would be a crime in a native . This , however , is not the law of the land , and it is important it should be known it is not the law . Within the realm , the law makes no distinction between the natural-born subject and the alien . While within the realm , the alien is within allegiance to the Crow iv and for any erime can be tried by the same procedure as a subject . An alien conspiring to do anything malwn in se , in this country , can be tried for the crime . He approved the bill of the Government , and should support it . —The Loud Chancellor thought it very probable that the Attomey-Genei-al had been misrepresented . —Lords Lyndhurst , Brougham , Wjensleyi > ale , and St . Leonards concurred in the views of Lord Campbell . The Havelock Annuity Bill was read a third time , and passed . Their Loixlsbips then adjourned at a quarter to six till Friday .
priest , who had been resident some time in the island , and made himself active in fomenting disturbances , particularly against the Roman Catholics of Malta . Under these circumstances , the priest having left the island , the Governor forbade his return .
TUB BAST INDIA LOAN BILL . On the motion for going into committee on this- bill , Sir Henrv Willo-ughby pressed for some explanation respecting the condition of the Indiau revenue , which could not stand additional charges or be materially inoreased ; how the interest of the loan was to be met ; and whether tho English Exchequer was secured against being called upon to pay any part of the debt . — The Chancellor of the Exchequer said he would give tjie required explanation in committee . —After some , remarks by Mr . . Ayrton and Mr . W Algous ( who thought that , owing to the position of the Government , members were placed in an awkward position with respect to the bill ) , the House went into committee ; when the Chanckllok of the Exchequer said , the bill merely enabled the East India Company to raise money , either by debentures or by bonds ; that it involved no new principle ; and that it was doubtful whether the Company this
now needed any Parliamentary authority for purpose . The deficit of the Indian Exchequer , at the and of tue financial year 1858-9 , is estimated at 7 , 500 , 000 / ., and the Company have exhausted their powers of borrowing in the Indian money-market . From the gross amount of the Indian revenue , the amount of the Indian and home debt , and the charge upon the revenue , it might be inferred that there is no reason , to doubt that ,, when the revolt is quelled , and the country has been restored to its ordinary state , the Indian Government will be able to defray all the expenses of its own administration . There is nothing in the measure to bring any prospective charge upon the British Exchequer .- « - The clauses of the bill were agreed to after much discussion ( during which Mr . Thomas Baring , Mr . Wil , - liams , and Mr . Ayrtox objected to the measure financially ) , and the amount of the loan was limited to-8 , 0 GiO , OQO £ The House adjourned at half-past eight o ' clock .
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE . In the Howsb ok Commons , Mr . Roebuck , agreeably to notice , presented a petition complaining of a breaoh of privilege by a member of the House ( Mr . Isaac Butt ) , in having entered ( as alleged ) into a corrupt agreement with Ali Moorad Khan , under whioh a sura of money had been paid by the Khan to Mr . Butt ; and be moved that the petition be printed Mr . Butt protested against the course taken by Mr . Koebuck , and demanded of the justice of the House an immediate investigation of the charge by a public inquiry at the bar , or , if the House objected to that course , by a select committee to be forthwith appointed for that object . He then withdrew .- —Mr . Koebuck having abroguted his motion for printing the petition , it was agreed , after a long and desultory discussion respecting the proper course of proceeding , that a select committee should be appointed forthwith . The members were accordingly nominated , and the petition was ordered to be referred to the
committee . THIS MINISTERIAL CRISIS . Lord Palmerston , who was received with cheers by his supporters , then rose and said : — I wish , Sir , to make a short statement to the House with respect to tho course which her Majesty ' s Government have thought it their duty to pursue in consequence of the vote to which this House came on Friday night . I think it can scarcely be necessary for mo to say that , that vote led her Majesty ' s Government to feel that there waa only ono course whioh they could pursue with a due regard to their own honour and with a duo respect to this House . ( Hew , hear . ) We therefore on Saturdny humbly tendered to her Majesty tho resignation ott our offices ,
which her Miijosty was graciously ploasod to aocopfc , and consequently wo now hold our otticos only for the purpose of carrying ou tho business of the country until our succosaora aro nppointod . Under those clrcuniatnncos , 1 am suro tho Mouse would fool that it would bo inconvenient tliut wo tihould cnutinuo to moot , and therefore , ns is usual on eucli occasions , I vonture to propose that thin House should ndjourn ibr a few dnys . 1 have ascertained by private communication from a noble lord , who , I boliovo 1 may venture to sny , in nt present engaged In constructing a Government , that it will be convenient that tho adjournment should bo until next Friday . I therefore proposu that tho Jlouso at ita rising should ndjourn till £ liat tltiy . " (// oar , Aaar . ' ) Tho motion waa agreed to , and it was further resolved that nil committees should have lutivo to ait ,
notwith-—* -stftnding-the-ndJournment ~ of'tho-lTOH 9 er ~ ' " EXPULSION OB A IMUKST I'JIMI MALTA . Mr . liAuouoiiuujc , in reply to a qucatiou from Mr . Bowyicu , stated tlmt tho Govornor of Malta , ixa woll ns tho Governor of Gibraltar , hud Nummary power lodged in his hands of aonding any foreigner * out of t » ° colony , upon his own reHporislblllty , whenever ho might think it doairablo . Tho Govornor of Malta had thought It proper to uxoroiso Uil « right In tho person of an Italian
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PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES . The Charge against Mr . Butt . —The select committee appointed to investigate the allegations of the petition of Edward Rees Coffey , charging Mr . Isaac Butt , M . P ., with a breach of the privileges of the House of Commons , in agreeing with Ameer Ali Mourad Khan , to prosecute , in his place in Parliament , the claims of his Highness against the East India Company , met on Tuesday for the first time . The following members were present : —Sir James Graham ( chairman ) , Mr . Sidney Herbert , Mr . Serjeant Kinglake , Sir William Codrington , Mr . Bouverie , Mr . W . Patten , Mr . Bright , Mr . Roebuck , and Mr . Serjeant Deasy . The case on behalf of the petitioner was stated by Mr . Koebuck , who said lie had no ill feeling whatever towards Mr . Butt , and that he only acted on public grounds . Ali Moorad Khan ia a Prince of Scinde , who was endowed with certain property by Sir Charles James Napier on account of assistance rendered to the English . The property has since been confiscated , and the Ameer came to England to prosecute his claim . The petitioner is an Irishman who lias been in the service of the East India Company , but who gave up the office of postmaster-general in India to accompany the Ameer to England , and help him in his endeavours to recover his property . Mr . Coffey had been in communication with Mr . Butt , who lmd , received from the Ameer the sums of 800 / . and 2000 / ., in conaideration of his good offices . The examination of Mr . Coflfey occupied tho whole day ; and , from questions put by Mr . Serjeant Deaay , it appeared that tho petitioner is . no longer in the service of the Ameer , having been dismissed by Mr . Butt at Constantinople for charging his Highness with disloyalty to tho Government ; that a largo lmlunco of money was duo to him from tho Ameer , and that ho had threatened to prosecute him . " Tho counsel retained by the Ameer , in addition to Mr . Butt and lus brother , wore Sir FItzroy Kelly , Mr . Kearalako , Mr . Lloyd , and Mr . Cairns . A consultation took place at tho chamber Of Sir Fitzroy Kelly , at which Mr . Butt was present . A petition to tho Queon was decided upon at a consultation , but ho was not suro whether Mr . Butt waa present . Mr . Butt received 25 / . for attending a
qousultation . Mr . Butt was not offered a fuo for attending a consultation in I 860 . " Tho committee adjourned to the following day , when further cvldonoo was received and documents wore road , from which It appoarocl tlmt , since tho breaking out of tho inuliny-, tho Amour desired to return to lndiu , but that Mr . Ooflby delayed him at Trioato , uudur tho influenca . of a fuar that lie might join tho insurgents . On Thursday , a good deal of ovidonco of a complicated kind was received , tho tondonoy of which wna to ahgw that Mr . Colftiy and M &JfiU ^!| a $ - ^^ ' furuior iv blackguard ; and that the Ameer waa « l « o very angry with Mr . CoQay , whom ho designated " tho son of Satan . " Eawx India ( Tuansvort ok Tkooi'h ) Committicio . — This caimulttco continued ita sittings . At tho mooting ou Tuesday , Mr . Qumsilnm , senior inombor of tho Council at Bombay , and Captain llarrla , toutlflod to the practicability of transmitting troops to India through Kgypt and by tho JUcd Sou , There wore no obataclow ymlvh
could not be easily overcome . " I regard Suez , " said Captain Harris , " as the sanatorium of the world . Troops would suffer nothiug from being kept there a few days . " The committee sat again yesterday , when further evidence was received , of a similar pature .
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? Ocr armies still continue to make rapid progress in the subjugation of the rebels and the restoration of order . Sir Colin Campbell moved on the 14 th , of January with the head-quarters of his army to Kanowy , a position occupied up to that time by Walpole * s brigade , which has since been moved forward to the Ganges , for the purpose of constructing a bridge at a point opposite the confluence o £ that river with Ruuighur . Having effected this service , the Brigadier crossed the Ganges into Rohllcund . The brigade is to march to Bareilly , for the purpose of clearing that city of the rebels under Khan Bahadoor Khan . Sir Colin himself waa waiting , at the last dates , for a siege train from Agra , on the arrival of which he proposed to move with his whole force , in conjunction with tfraj ; of June JSahadoor , on Oude .
The rebels who passed from Sohilcuod into the Moozuffernugger district on the SOth . of January have been beaten by Captain Boisragen , and driven back across the river . Tue Calpee rebels are etill w > . force , and are said to be under the leadership of Nona Sahib , who is threatening us in the dlreefciaa of Nagotee . Captain Montgomery , the Superintended of Police at Ahmednugger , has encountered' a gang of Bheels in the distriot of Chanelore , on the road to Mattaganiur . The result is not stated in the telegram from Alexandria ; but from another source it appears that we sustained a defeat . The captain , three other officers , and fifty men , were wounded .
A report to Sir Colin Campbell , from Brigadier Stuart , commanding the Malwa Field Force- ( now 1 st Brigade Nerbudda Field Force ) , describing his successful operations against tlie insurgents assembled near Mundisore , during four days , from the Sl » fc to the 24 th of last November , has been published . The general results are already known . Further items of news are thus communicated in various telegrams : — " The Coolies (?) have risen in great number . The Commissioner , with a party of Sikhs , has been obliged to retreat before them . Reinforcements have been sent from Midnapore . There is a report that the great Oude Zemindars have offered to surrender on condition of immunity . The Rajah of Bulubgliur has been hanged at Delhi . The trial of the Nawab of Cruraeknugger has commenced ; that , of the King Is still postponed . The Military Governor of Delhi gave over the charge of the oi £ y to the civil authorities on the 10 th of January . On the 18 tb , a mutiny took place among tho gunners of tk « Nagpore Artillery at Sacepore . The Infantry behaved well , and arrested the mutineers . Captain Osborne , with the Hewah troops , has taken the town and fort of Meghir . Sir Hugh Rose was to move from Sehore on Saugor about the 10 th . The Legislative CounoN has extended to Bombay an act which justifies the detention of the prisoners sought to bo released . by habeas corpus . "
THE KINO OV VBXHX . Some interesting particulars with respect to the mode oflife of the King of Delhi since his capture are contained In a letter written by the wife of Major ( then Captain ) Hudson : — " There ia a report , which has beon mischievously B « t about , ' and may have mischievous consequences— -vijf ., that tho King has the whole of hla retinuo , and has returned to his own apartments in tlio Palace . This ie perfectly untrue . I went with Mr . Saunders , tho Civil Commissioner , and his wlfb , to boo tlio unfortunate and guilty wretch . We mounted a flight of stone steps , at the bottom and top of which was a European sentry . A small low door opqned Into a room , half of which woa partitioned off with a grass matting-oalled ohltttc , behind which was a woman cooking some nfcroeious compound ,
if I might Judge from the smell . Tn tho other half was a native beclatoad—i . e ., A frame of bamboo on four logs , with grass rope strung aoroem it j on this waa lying 1 and smoking a hookah an old man with . » long white heart ! No other article of furniture whatovor was in tho room ; and . J ani almost ashamed to Bay that a fooling of pity mingled witli my dlogunt at fleeing a man , rocontly lord . of . muimporlttl-olty-ttlmo » t-ui ) paraHoledrAw « -rioI » nosH- » n « l magnificence , confined in a low , clout ) , dirty room , which tho lowest slave of hia household would aoarooly have occupied , in the very pulaco whoro ho had reigned supreme , with potvor of Hfo and < loiitf » , untrammelled by any law , within tlio proolnuts of a royal residence « s largo ao a oonaklorablo aivsed town | streets , gallon !©* , towora , mosquoH , forta , and frardono , a private and a pub-Uo hull of justice , and innumerable courts , paaaages , « nd staircases . "
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No . 414 , t *™ ™ taht 27 . 1858 . 1 TJS 35 LEADER . 195 _
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THE INDIAN REVOLT .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 27, 1858, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2232/page/3/
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