The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-22 00:00:00

ENFIELD RACES.

SECOND DAY.—The Hack Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with a Purse
added. Heats, once round and a distance. The winner to be sold
for 50 sovs., &c. 8 subs.
Mr. Hook's Reveiller
Mr. -Frith's Figurante 2 2
Mr. Thomas's Suffolk Punch 3 3
Tsuan DAY.--Th• Berkeley Stakes of 5 sovs. each, for beaten
horses, with 25 added. The winner to be sold for 80 cove., &c.
Heats, two miles. 5 subs.
Mr. Bishop's Jennny Wren 4 0 1 1
Mr. Coleman's Needle 1 0 3 2
Mr. Messer's Florence 2 1 2 3
Mr. Brown's Fawn 3 0
' A Match for 50 sovs., h. ft., was won by Mr. J. Reynolds's
LittleSvreetheart, beating Mr. Craven's Flyher.
A Purse for Ponies was won in two heats by Mr. Charlton's
Eveline, beating Mr. Hooke's Little John, the latter having bolted,
and broke his leg.

NATIVE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN INDsIA

The India Jury Act, introduced by Mr. Grant, de-
dared natives of India eligible as justices of the peace
in that country.. This wise and liberal policy has been
folloWed up at Bombay by Lord Clare, by the actual
admission of a number of influential native gentlemen,
Parsees and Mahomedans, into the commission of the
peace. The following are the names who have been
selected :—Juggonathjee Sunkersett, Dhackjee, Da-
dajee, Mahomed Ibrahim Muckba, Mahomed Allee
Rogay, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, Bomanjee Hormarjee,
Framjee Cowasjee, Cursetjee Cowasjee, Cursetjee Ar-
daseer Dady, Nowrojee Jamsetjee, Cursetjee Rustom-
jee, Hormasiee, Bhiccajee Chinoy, and Dadahoy Pes-
tonjee.
This great step towards a more enlarged and equit-
able system of government than has hitherto been pur-
sued, in conjunction with the liberal measures of Lord
Williamßentinck, and the just principles recognised in
the late Charter Act, will convince our Eastern fellow
subjects that we have discarded narrow and selfish
maxims, and are content to hold our empire by the
tenure of opinion; It is but the dawn, we hope, of
still better days.
We subjoin the address from the natives of Bombay
to Mr. Grant in acknowledgment of their obligations
to him for his exertions in behalf of the people of
India, and the right hon. gentleman's reply :
No. I.
" TO THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES GRANT, PRESIDENT OF

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR THE AFFAIRS OF

INDIA, LONDON.

" Hon. Sir,—The Act of Parliament declaring the na-
tives of the three Presidencies of India eligible to act as
justices of the peace, and repealing that part of the pre-
viously existing law which excluded them from grand
juries, and sitting on the trial of Christians, having been
received in this country, it would be a reproach to us did
we fail to acknowledge the boon which has thus been con-
ferred on us, or to give some expression to those sentiments
of gratitude with which we have every reason to believe it
has inspired all classes of his Majesty's native subjects in
India.

" We perceive in those enactments the desire of the Bri-
tish Legislature that the natives of this country should feel
that they are members of the same great community over
which our gracious Sovereign presides, and a willingness to
admit them, in common with all British born subjects of.
his Majesty, to a full participation in those honours and ad-
vantages which usually spring from advancement in know-
ledge and education—privileges, the bestowing of which
cannot fail to draw closer the ties of affection and attach-
ment, between a generous and enlightened Government
and a loyal and grateful people.
" These, Hon. Sir, are not the sentiments of-a few, as'
we know that they are the same with which all our coun-
trymen on this island are deeply impressed ; and we feel as-
sured that our posterity likewise will view the measure with
the same gratitude and pride which it has produced in our
minds. They, we trust, will never forget, as we never
shall, that the privileges granted are not merely honorary,
but that they impose a high and important duty, for which
every good subject who is liable to be called upon to per-
form them, must labour to qualify himself, and which, when
he is called on to do so, it should be his desire to discharge
with zeal and integrity, having regard only to the ends of
justice and the welfare of society.
Bearing these principles in mind, no exertions shall be
wanting on our part, and, we venture to add, on the part
of our countrymen, to prove, by our conduct, that we are

London, August 25."
The Chief Justice of Bombay, at a Quarter Ses-
sions in March, 1834, adverted to this subject in the
following terms :—" To another important matter I
shall now call your attention, in respect of which I
sincerely congratulate the native inhabitants of Bom-
bay : I allude to a commission of the peace, which
has been recently issued, and which -contains the
names of twelve of the principal and most intelligent
Parsee, Hindoo, and Mahomedan inhabitants of this
island. lam not aware that any native gentlemen
have yet 'been included in a commission of the peace
at either of the other Presidencies, but, for reasons
which I shall endeavour to state to you, it was parti-
cularly desirable that native gentlemen should be ap-
pointed to act as justices of the peace for the town of
Bombay. The ordinance to which I have alluded as
being partly repealed was passed in 1827 ; and it esta-
blished a court of petty sessions for the trial, in a sum-
mary manner, of petty thefts and of other offences
therein mentioned—offences which, before that time,
ought to have been tried in the ordinary manner by a
jury. That ordinance was duly registered, and not
having been disallowed in England, became a part of
the law of this island. The Court which was thus
established consisted of three justices of the peace,
two of whom were magistrates of the police, and the
third was an unpaid justice of the peace. It was
attended by a barrister-at-law as an assessor ; and
it had authority to exercise the power of sum-
mary conviction in all cases of simple larceny,
when the value of the goods stolen did not ex-
ceed ten rupees. I believe that no court • exercising
a like jurisdiction has yet been created at Calcutta or
at Madras. I have already explained why it became
necessary to withdraw one of the two magistrates of
police from attending the Court of Petty Sessions ;
and I understand that the authorities in England have
directed that the number of stipendiary magistrates at
Bombay' shall be reduced to two. It was considered
proper, in new modelling the Court of Petty Sessions,
that in the stead of the police magistrate so to be
withdrawn, a native justice of the:peace should be sub-
stituted ; and that the new Court should consist of
one magistrate of police, of one European justice,
and of a third justice, being a native of India, not born
of European parents : and to be attended, as before,
by a barrister-at-law, as an assessor. As the Court
thus constituted will exercise jurisdiction over offences
which cannot be punished in England, unless the party
accused be convicted by a jury, and as the persons who
are sent for trial before the Court of Petty Sessions
are chiefly natives of India, it seemed to be
particularly desirable that at least one of the
members of the Court should be a native justice
of the peace ; and I confidently anticipate great
advantage to the public from the alteration to which
I have called your attention. The police magistrate,
from being acquainted with the ordinary duties of a jus-
tice of the peace, will afford the aid of his experience ;
the native justice, from his knowledge of the cha-
racter of the prosecutors, of the parties accused, of the
witnesses, and of the language in which they may be
examined, will be enabled to assist in the investigation
of the charge, and in leading the other members of the
Court to a just conclusion ; the European unpaid jus-
tice will take the same part as heretofore in the pro-
ceedings ; and the assessor will be present to advise the
members of the Court On matters of form and of law.
The native magistrate, by attending to the duties which
he will have to discharge as a justice in the Court of
Petty Sessions (and the duties will not be onerous),
will, in time, become acquainted with the forms of
trial, with the manner of examining witnesses, and
with the ordinary rules of evidence ; and it may be ex-
pected that in many instances his local knowledge will
be particularly useful in producing the acquittal of the
innocent, or the conviction of the guilty, party. Thus,
and by attending occasionally at the police-office to ob-
serve the proceedings of the sitting magistrates, the
native gentlemen named in the new commission of the
peace may in a few years qualify themselves to perform
the duties of justices of the peace in all cases, and
may stimulate others to follow the example : and thus
the native gentlemen will prove themselves to be de-
serving of the important office to the discharge of
which they were declared eligible by the Legislature,
and with which they have now been intrusted by the
local Government."

It may not be generally known among the manu-
facturing 'world that under the regulations o a late Act of
Parliament patterns may be. conveyed through the post at a
single rate of .postage, provided they are sent in an envelope,
open at both sides, with no other writing or any thing what-
soever than the address, name of the sender, and the prices
of the article annexed. If the envelope be closed, or the pat-
terns be accompanied by a letter or order, the whole is liable
to a double rate ; and in either case the weight must not ex-
ceed one ounce, or the packet is chargeable with the fulldrates
as s.n ordinary letter