A Full and Corrected Report of the Proceedings of the Public Meeting in Honor of Lord Canning

bring forth the fruits of peace and contentment In confirmation of what I say I need only allude to the settlement of Oude and of the Punjaub to the consolidation of the Nagpore Provinces and last not least to the amalgamation of British Burmah. [...] You all remember the siege of Lucknow—I know not whettler the escape of the inhabitants of the citwhen the town was won arose from the direct orders of the Governor-General or whether such was the result of the principles of justice so constantly supported by him but this I do know that such an act was an act acceptable to God and to man. [...] All that seems wanting to this great measure is a direction by the Legislature that on the receipt of any funds arising from such redemption that such money should be immediately applied tO the reduction of the public The fund produced by the sale of the Government Revenue stands the sane footing as the sinking fund did in England—both are itended to reduce the debt of the country. [...] 'By directing the immediate application of the sums received to the extinction of a corresponding amount you prevent the possibility of misapplication and all danger to the interests of the public in general is avoided. [...] Genttethen whether you look — the restoration of the confiscated estates in Oudh ; to the rsettlement or liat province ; the suppresion of that most infamous practice of infanticide ; or the abolition of the bar which was laid upon the princes and magnates of this land in the exercise of their right of adoption according to their own religious views;—whether you look to the reforms in the