The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-06 00:00:00

meets will est Massy a high d the practical
wisdom of their smiters; for though there is in tle m
ap,. writhes, of strews fealties of indignation at
to (Saes d which they treat, and at the offerict r ;
tbr re is little evidence t f gay eve by having been
&vire to penult a • p titioe c f tl a caw), rood
metal all of any likelihood e f orrauensation bring
gide tots sufferers; and thee. are by far the most
Worts:at robes in this cur.
on the Sits theavery of Sir Thomas Tuaeorcb
bpi:cajole., Sir Lawitaxat Pali., the chid juetior
pled: suggested to the supreme government a plash
fir iodemhifeing degteta toe sufferers; but it 1
toes to strangely wijust in its essence that L:rJ bat,
Soros at ores repudived it; sad the wonder
ybow such a scheme could seer have
retold into the mind of a judge. Let us, in cube
owe, reposed Sir Lewitexca Pert, appoint Mr.
swiss, a gentleman of high honour and of ennsi-
mede pmpeny, registrar of the o urt, ea condiiies
rbst he is contest with 24,000 'urea. a years MSS-
skt , a and pay the balance cf the emoluments of
*Ace over to the court. By such an arrangemett
the C slot Justice estimated a sum of 45,000 rupee •
goy at less* wield be received. and out of it, he ear
',PP, afa d might be formed for the virtual dis-
arm* of the claims on the offs a Bet if so imminently
aggliEed a registrar as Mr. SASHES could be had for'
is,ooo rupees a year, why levy nearly three times that
knounton the suit re terking justice in the court and
pew castes adnini-tered by its peter? Aud what
sooners lad its future suit. re and estates to ba
Wafter adm'nisteyed by its registrar with the
popery committed on ; enema already to king juetiee
knees its instrumentality sad on estates already
within its jurisdiction? This was a proposal to rub
MSS to pay Tent with a vengeance ; ar.d, as roe':,
it wee very properly tejected at once by the surname
poet rament ; and the rejection was ecoompaitd with
natty smog hint to the Supreme Court that the fete
ad commission payable to its registrars ought to be
forthwith reduced. But that any seek reduetioa has
been made dues act appear in these ppers.
So far so belt can h.) found with Lord DALHOUSIE
pd his coLeagass. They were obviously right is.+
mooing their &section to Sir IstWEINCE Pages
plea of indemeiffesties; but having rejected it. they
were by so emelt the more bound to devils ems
Mme whereby empezeatioa might be made to the
edbras. That qmstios, however, they do nut sp-
rat to have considered; sad in the only prow
Word sir documents is which it is refined to,
b treated as one of doubtful solstice✓ sad se if the
acre e• goverasont of has were set the sw borithe
k decide it. On this poi it the papers are
emptier. assatisfactory. Eighties mottos hove
pipe are these enormous earthiness were
kokeekd, and it is not yet &sided who.
**the Marinfa are
.to receive compensation. By
pp the property of intestate torso's dying in India
pot keedistwatered by the registrant of the trireme
pate; the r. 'tenons entitled to it have no power to
reedits going into the hands of that caber; sad
whoa to alienates and squanders it they have as
seem for oompectatior as was ever made on the
=rest of any country. Their claim, too, has
bees recognised in legislation; foe when Mr.
Blame wade a wailer &fink as registrar of the
Symms Court of Madras, no less a sum than 49,906 J.
were directed to be made good to the sufferers from
the Tolman d the Indian governments.
Tter lanes of the papers on this point is the more
sigsifieset, es tee report of the commiaion which
beamed into Sir Tuccus Terrines debar:atlas:9, cloa-
eledes by corgrathiating the eupreme government
that though their grass amount is large, " it is so sub-
ended anacerit tee diarist estates and trust., that
theses abstracted from etch is, happily for the enf-
lame, is melt cams somparatively small.* But
seedy it le set intended to be argued that cothpeesa-
tise should not be made because the lon is meet
Mrs will be little felt?
There is a complete agreement of opinion amongst
the lawyers sioasulted teat Sir THOMAS TURTON'S
reveries di not amount to a legal offence. Bu' so
impressed was Mr. &TWINE, the law member of the
liwirtme Cunoc I of India, with the enormity of his
slime, that he suggieted the propriety of sappythe
the eeficiriacy of the statute law, by the enactment ef
a retrospective act of pairs and penalties, under
which he would have bad Sir Tisomea Team
henspertsd for fourteen years. On this proposition
there wee a daft tierce of opinion in the council;
and Lord Dennouns at otos announced that be
remold refute his sinerot to any such enactment.
Is coming to this determination the Governor
Oeseral was principally indu.'uced by doubts as to the
power of the supreme government to pus such se
set; and herein again he differred in op-mon with
Mr. Bernuni. The difference on this posit involves
a garottes of the very highest impsmears—nothing
short of the extent of the legislative powers of the
supreme government of India. On it Lord D.u.-
JONI! Witte as follows :
I am by no mesas confident that the power of the mama
d LAS to pass a retrospective set, inflicting peaishenest on
es iis'ivldual fur • ioaduct which the statists law of Bag-
had had not mord id to be a at.., sad thus exercising
se authority which the imperial pailsseat ball does not
pet forth except es the meet oceastous, sad at dismal later
val., would be received es isdispwabls, either by trgLas:
*Mt ups in England, or by eke Hoeourahle Court of
ardor whom we serve. The Butourable Court his of late,
ea is le occasions than one, evict...it en inethuties le held
stet the ledislatiee powers of the multil of ledis, es ease
=has those which are specially regulated by the
Act, ere saythiog but co.azteminvo with the pewees
dodge legislatures; while it ie
.eory aortas, that if the
Wohal legal embovitiee of her Majesty's government and of
thelieunerabie Company should be of opinion that the
eseacil of India, Is passing asset Opals. sad penalties bed
seer «lei in powers, or had emu exercised a power that was
queetteedile, their opiates wield of seesesay prevail, end
very subs/mats, results might be mashed.
To this view of the Qovernor-General Mr. BITEIIIII
this replied :
I lielE the legislative power conferred by parliament se
the Ooverserlieseral is Couseil to be as hog. with's the
ethers dies op reties, as that of parliament itself for the
whole of Is-r lifejesty's dominions, fabled fret to Mess 01-
yeso seeptious, made b 7 the set by which this power was
seated, sad I thick it right to rent this eplaiss se phial,
bee, whet se pona the eirmilless of doe
gevencip°l4l4l novel appear is some degree le esisliMasste 6
Isferest doetriaa
And there, at present, the matter rest& Sir Meth
ItASTrITON has perpetrated afoul robbery,for whisk
there is no punialmmet, and his victims are without
redress. The former is a minor evil ; the offender
will tot bus it in hie power to injure others agaia ;
to such a man poverty, and the isolation that must
attend poverty so int weed, is punishment. Bat that
there should be no redress for the injured, is a dis-
pees Its our laws and institutions.