The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-12 00:00:00

NEW JURY BILL.

The following Circular respecting the New
Jury Bill has been issued from the Home
Office :

AVUITEHALL, JULY 4, 1825,

" S's —I herewith transmit a copy of the Act (6 Geo. IV.
c. 50) which has recently passed for consolidating and amend-
ing the laws relative to jurors and juries. The machinery for
the construction of the jury lists came into operation on the Ist
instant, but the general provisions of the Act will not be in
f:a-ce until the commencement of the next year.
As it is highly important that the duties of those who are
concerned in the formation of the lists should be fully under-
sood, I think it would be extremely useful that you should
explain them in your charge to the Grand Jury at the ap-
proaching Quarter Sessions. And it will also be disirable that
you should call the attention of your brother 'Magistrates to the
necessity of their appointing a Special Petty Sessions, to be
held within the last seven days of September, for the purpose
of receiving, considering, reforming, and allowing the lists;
the day of holding which sessions must be fixed, so as to
enable the desk of. the,petty sessions to give notice of it to the
high constable of each hundred, and to the churchwardens
and overseers of each parish, before the 20th of August. You
-will find this subject treated of in the 10th section of the Act.
" The qualifications and exemptions of jurors are described
in the two first clauses ; and as they are also fully stated in the
precepts, which will be in the hands of the parish officers, I
hope there is little danger of their being misunderstood. The
great alteration consis-,s in making the owners of personal pro..
pert), qualified to serve on juries, which is effected by qualify-1
rag those who are rated or assessed to the poor -rate, or in-
habited house duty, in 201., or occupy a house with fifteen
windows.
" You will not fail to observe that the lists, which have
been heretofore prepared by the petty constable or tything-man,
a,7e now, according to the Pith, 7th, Bth, and 9th sections, to
be prepared by the churchwardens and overseers, who are
deemed to be,- en the great majority of cases, more intelligent
and more conversant with the subject than those on whom the
duly has hitherto fallen. And the power given by the 11th
clause, of inspecting the tax assessments and poor rates, is cal-
culated to facilitate the discharge of tills duty.
The 44th and 45th sections impoee such penalties on the
peace and parish officers for the neglect of their several duties,
an, it is hoped, will deter them from neglecting them.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
" ROBERT PEEL.
" Ts the Cfiairrnan of the July Quarter Sessions for the—."

THE INDIAN ARMY.

MitiLLTARY BADGE OF DIS'fr,NCTION.
Fort IVilliun, Jan. 21, 1825.

The Right Hon. the Governor-General in eonncil is pleased
te•pnblish in General Orders the following Resolution of the 1
Supreme Government, passed in the Secret Department under
this date .• •
Resolution.—ln testimony of the exemplary valour and
steadiness displayed by the 26th Regiment of Madras Native
Infantry, under the command of Major C. W. Yates, in the
defence of the post Kernmendine, near Rangoon, against the
furious and reiterated attacks of vastly superior numbers of the
many, by day and ,night, during the period between the Ist
and 9:l‘ of December, the Right Hon. the Governor-General in
Gouncil is pleased to resolve, that the corps shall be permitted
.to !bear the word Kemmendir.e) inscribed on their colours, as
a perpetual record of their distinguished-and persevering gel-
- iantry on that occasion.
SECURITY TO BE GIVEN BY PAYMASTERS OF 1115