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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . Monday , March 7 . In the House of Lords , Lord Wodbhouse , gave notice of his intention to move the second reading of the Marriage Law Amendment Bill on the 22 nd inst .
va .. ; Lord Granvit . t > e asked Lord Salisbury whether any regulations had been issued by the Privy Council with respect to vaccination under the Act passed last session . —The Marquis of Salisbury replied that the attention of the Government had been . directed to the subject , and that the officers of the Privy Council were in communication with the Tegistrars throughout the country . Lord Colciiestek , in reply to the Marquis of Clanricarde , stated that arrangements have been made for the despatch of mails to Ireland twice every > day , and for their arrival at Dublin in eleven hours . Their lordships adjourned at half-past six . In the Hoitse of Commons , Mr . Spooner gave notice , for Monday , the 21 st , of his annual motion respecting the Maynooth grant . _
Mr . Duncombe announced that if the Reform Bill i-eached the stage of committee , he should move amendments by which the 60 /; required as invest-¦ m ent in the sayings bank by way of qualification , should be reduced to 40 / ., and the privilege of the ^ franchise granted to the possessors of \ that amount lodged in any benefit society -that the lodger franchise should be reduced to a minimum of 4 s . a week rental , or 10 / . per annum instead of 20 £ ; and the payment Of rates and taxes , should not be exacted fi-om the elector before he is allowed to record his
^ vote . . THE INDIAN LOAN Bill ,. Lord Stanley . having moved the second reading of the Indian Loan Bill , Sir G . Lewis said he . was not one of-those who placed much reliance upon the Indian revenue , or xipon the national wealth to be derived from India . But as we had destroyed the native states * and entered into engagements with -with that country , it was incumbent upon us , to carry on its government . When the form . of that government was altered last year , arid a wprh-out constitution was put an end to , although the change was a wholesome one , he cautioned the House against supposing thai it implied any alteration in the
financial management of India , or imposed any additional obligation . upon the Imperial Exchequer , the severance of India from the Imperial Exchequer being as entire in future as before the bill of last year . After reviewing the enormous military expenditure in India—the great incubus of Indian finance—and the means of reducing it by our paying a part of that expenditure , he observed that if we . were to lend assistance , to India , no means could , be more objectionable than that of guaranteeing an Indian loan . What he wished to impress upon the Government was , to take the earliest means of endeavouring to reduce the force of the native iirjny ^ and to rely upon a system of police , to be substitut ed as far as
ppssible for a native army . It was the duty of Parliament to enforce a good financial adminstration in India , and compel the adoption of measures that would offer a certain prospect of the revenue of that country being sufficient to meets its expenditure . — Mr , Bright could see little difference between the doctrines of Sir G . C . Lewis and the proposals of Lord Stanley . The finances of a country are a good test of its ' condition and of its Government , and , fudged by that test , our Indian Government , must !; jje visited with emphatic condemnation . The debt is 80 , 000 , 000 / ., the expenditure is increasing , and the revenue is- diminishing and precarious . It is not ieafe to console ourselves with the reflection that this
debt only amounts to three years' revenue , or that it is only a tenth of that of England , There is so little ppwor of production in India compared with that of England , that the Government is unable to iLnd a new source of revenue , If the Chinese Government , now that wo have compelled them to legalise the use of opium , should undertake its homo cultivation , three or four millions more of our Indian jrevonuo will disappear , Tho home Govornmont has no power to control tho expenditure in India . The change of Government is one only in name , not in
principle . Lord Stanley , honest and enlightened as 3 » e is , ean do nothing against the flftcon instruments wf tho old system of injustice by which ho is suv-TQundecl \ and his Instructions aro notoriously dlsro-Sjardod in India , The native Governments had no . debts , and very seldom a doflojt . On the contrary , ' jfcho fulness of their exchequers has boon among ouy ( temptations tp annex their states t but aftor soiling <* U wo can , and rrttsing all wo can by taxation , our broken faith and shattered , credit compol hb to borrow In tho money mtu'lccts of England * o carry on the Govornmont off India . What ,
then , was to be done ? He suggested t . he reduction bfthe salaries of the CivilService of India , and either the employment of a much larger number of Europeans in certain departments , or the giving much better salaries to a superior class of native onir cials . Moreover , with a better government in India , a small military force would suffice . He urged the reversal of the present system of policy in India ; the establishment of something like municipal institutions there , and the admission into our councils and the incorporation with the Government of the best and most intelligent of . the . natives of India . He insisted that nothing like a . change had taken place in the administration ot India since the bill of last year ; that the change was only in name-, it was scarcely one of form , ana none of principle . He was convinced that the course we had pursued had led , by a logical and necessary process , to the position in which we now found ourselves , and that uuless that system was reversed , we might have Another great revolt , with consequences most disastrous to this country .--j MT . Aykton did not take a disheartening view of the Indian finances , and assigned reasons for believing that when the means of comniiinication were complete , in a-few years , there wouldbesuch an increase in the land revenues as would render it quit , e equal to the charge . He recommended the Government to borrow money in this country at 3 ^ per cent . j and to lend it to India at a rate of interest insuring the repayment of the principal in fifteen or twenty years . He suggested various reforms in the details of the Indian Government—Mr . Eavart differed from Mr . Bright in respect to the financial prospects of India ; he expected from the improvement of the means of intercommunication , a great development of the resources of that country . —Mr . Wilson had not only no apprehensions as to the financial prospects of India , but he had the greatest hope of them ,. Almost every increase of the Indian debt had arisen from wars , and from expenditure upon public works which would be reproductive . If the increased interest upon the Indian debt were taken at 2 , 000 , 000 / ., and the expenditure upon public works at 1 , 000 , 000 / .... and there should he a deficiency of 3 , 000 , 000 / ., he should not despair of seeing in the next three or four years such an increase of the revenue from existing sources , as would enable the Government of India to bear this charge . He disputed some of the conclusions of Mr .- Bright regarding the land revenue of India ; he condemned the policy of alienating in perpetuity waste of jungle lands , as repeating the error committed by Lord Cornwallis in his Permanent Settlement ; and he justified the views of the late and former Governments in relation to railways in India and to certain branches of the Indian revenue , lie did not anticipate a falling off in the revenue derived from either salt or opium . He disapproved an Imperial guarantee of an Indian loan ; he believed that the future rule of England over India was more secure than ever , and did not fear for the resources of the latter country . — Lord Stanley , in reply , maintained that the finari- ' cial prospects of India , were , on the whole , notdisr couraging . Though the debt had increased from time tp time , the revenue had expanded in a still larger measure , and this process he expected to see renewed , and the additional liability created by the now loan extinguished by a fresh augmentation in the revenue of the country , when tranquillity was restored , and the reforms which tho Government were . maturing had been brought into operation , On tho question of responsibility , he fully admitted tho principle that the creditors of India had no claim whatever upon tho English revenue . These creditors had , however , a first charge on the local revenue , and if the whole Indian income proved insuificient both to pay interest on tho debt and defray tho expense of defence and adminis- tration , a question might in that caso arise as to tho source whence funds should bo sup- plied to carry on the government of that country . — Sir E . Pkruv obsorved thnt nil the best authorities now agreed that , under present circumstances and pvesent prospcots , tho flnancos of India pi'escnted an alarming aspect , Was India able to bear tho burdens cast upon hor ? ' If not , and if this country would be ultimately responsible , it would bo wiser arid more economical to miso tho monoy at once upon tho credit of England . — -Mr . C . Bnuois reminded tho House that tho intimate connexipn of Indian and English finance had boon pointed out by tho lato Sir , R . Peol in 1 B 42 . As tho Logislaturo had now as- sumed complete control over tho affUirs of India , it was idlo to attempt to repudiate its liabilities . —Tho bill was thon road a second time , and ordered to bo committed . I > . VY OV HUllAr / TKKNO . t ' Oolonol Fnmjcsx ^ N called , attontlon to tlio pay of tho subaltorns of tho army , which , ho said , oxposod young men to tho liability of being Involved in dobt . —After spmo remarks by Sir A . Aunisw , Sir W . GVmwNaroN , and Mr . W , Williams , General l nnu said ho should bo glad if ho could give oflbct to tho ¦ fi
suggestion consistently with justice to other branches of the service and the country .
supply . . . General Peel moved a vote of 1 , 050 , 000 / , to make good the deficiency of certain Army grants for the year 1857-58 , explaining the reasons o f this supplementary vote ; that it was a matter of account , and that it did not necessitate any actual payment . —The vote was agreed to . The . House proceeded with the votes belonging to the Army estimates , and adjourned at twenty minutes past twelve . ¦ - Tuesday , March 8 . THE CASE OF THE CHARLES J > T CrKORGKS .
In the Hot's * : *> f Lords the debate on t his matter was introduced by Lord Wowkhousk , who moved for additional papers relating to . the Charles ct Georges seizure . He complained of the incompleteness of the papers that liad been presented , and proceeded to argue that the conduct of our ( government was censurable because it had not stood to our treaties with Portugal , but had played into the hands of France . — -Lord Malmesih- 'RY replied , that when first introduced to the notice of-the . Government , the ease was so full of contradictions that it was impossible to decide whether Portugal was entirely right , , and could justify the measures she had taken . The French Government met the Portugese complaints
with counter-statements , so that her Majesty ' s Government had no data on which to arrive at a decision as to which of the parties was in the right . lie explained- the steps he had taken and the correspondence he had entered into with Lord Cowleyon the subject , and repudiated the charge . of delay and negligence brought against him by Lord Wodehouse . The principle laid down by the / Trench Government , that a vessel with a Trench agent on aboard Who was responsible to his Government is no . longer to be treated as a private ship , was hi accordance with international law , and he insisted that if such a vessel violated any municipal law it was not a case for the ordinary tribunals , but for diplomacy . In consequence of LordCowLKv ' s representations , the Trench Government gave a positive assurance that an arrangement which the mediation of
would be come to by a friendlv power would be allowed . If the Trench Government recoiled from their assurance , that was not a reason for blaming her Majesty ' s' Government . The course he had pursued , he was sure , had saved the country and Europe from the most serious consequences . — Lord Granvilli : said Ministers should have shown more activity and judgment . — Lord Kixcsuovs defended the Government . —Lord ' Gu-iiv thought the Government ought'to -have presented a formal note to-the French Government , stating that there were serious grounds for thinking that France might not be entirely in the right . ^ ° man had a greater horror of war than himself , but he did not tjiink that the best way of securing peace was to abandon an ally for too-thishUilly following the advice we gave hor . The conduct of the Government in this -matter had sensibly
1 s ] < 1 < < < ( < 1 1 I £ ^ c lowered this country in the opinion ot Lurupe . — Lord Derby said the mover of the question ought to have called on Parliament to prqnouneo a verdict against tlio Government , if he thought the course pursued had lowered its character in huropc . UC objected strongly to the view of the . question time had boon adopted by tho country , that we liml incited Portugal to suppress tho sluvu trade ,. nmP : iiuj deserted her , when she had exortod liwwJt to i <>{ <» w our counsels . That was not tho question . A it question was , whether tho Government , uiulor me circumstances , liaddone their , duty to the count : \ . He denied thnt any violation of our treaties \ Portugal had occurred , a circumstance wIiicm . n « been allowed by tho Portuguese Prime Minister himself . The reason why wo had not sooner inte " . l ; , " was , that tho matter in dispute
\ i v p 1 1 C h ii v ji c li fi , h t < Si si pendent countries , neither of whom interference , lutf because they hncl nottunmlioji 9 with information on which to t'ovm a j wltfinunr . { »* ; good offices of tlio Government hiul boon tcmlerw w Portugal immoJIatoly that . sho hud applied tor inui Ho rojoctod tho course of action proscribe" >> . v - ° Grey , of remonstrating with the French , <>«> VW » "J " boforo they wore convincod that I'Miiee m « is in tho wron « . Ho repudiated tho notion tline wo had submitted to mi insult , or Inul M Jwj in tlvq estimation of Europe Up 1 . lionght J course adoplod . by hor Majesty ' b aovurnmo t liad convinced Tranoo of tho uiiBoundness ot w systom of tVoo immigration , nu « l thnt I ii » « " ^ had come forth with honour to It soli ami a < M J ««> 8 J to tho intorosts of Eurono , nnd , unloss PaHinit J should condoinn tho conduct of tlio Oovornnu'i J ., n « should be content with tho course imivsiumI . — A u '
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Leader (1850-1860), March 12, 1859, page 324, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2285/page/4/
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