II. _Enlistment of Foreigners' Bill_. House of Commons,
December 22, 1854

III. _Negotiations at Vienna_. House of Commons,
February 23, 1855

IV. _On the Prosecution of the Russian War_. House
of Commons, June 7, 1855

Letter of John Bright to Absalom Watkin on the Russian War

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INDIA

I

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 3, 1853.

_From Hansard_.

[The ministerial measure for the government of India was introduced by
Sir Charles Wood on June 3, 1853. The particulars of the Bill were as
follows: The Government proposed that for the future the relations
between the Directors and the Board of Control should be unchanged, but
that the constitution of the former should be altered and its patronage
curtailed. It reduced the number of the Members of the Court from
twenty-four to eighteen, of whom twelve were to be elected as before,
and six nominated by the Crown from Indian servants who had been ten