The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-14 00:00:00

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1833.

At a late hour last night the SOLICITOR-
GENERAL made his promised notice for leave
to bring in a Bill to amend the law of debtor
and creditor. It is at present in a most barba-
rous state, and much indebted will the public
be to the SOLICITOR-GENERAL for his enlight-
ened exertions. The title of his Bill will in a
few words give our readers an idea of the
objects he has in view. It is " A Bill for
facilitating the recovery of debts, the prevention
of frauds by debtors, the relief of debtors
willing to make cession of their property for the
payment of their debts, and abolishing imprison.
meat for debt, except in cases of fraud." We
look impatiently for the provisions by which these
desirable objects are to be accomplished.

It will have been seen by the correspondence
given on Monday in our report of the proceedings
at the East India House, that the question of
the Charter of the Company, as far as the Go-
vernment and the Company are concerned, may
be looked upon as settled. Upon the whole,
the terms agreed upon may be considered
advantageous to the public, and we may there-
fore anticipate that the Bill will go through Par-
liament without any very serious opposition.
This must be no small comfort to the few old
stagers, who recollect how the House was occu-
pied on the last renewal of the Charter, night after
night, for some months, in examining witnesses
at the bar ! The experience of what took
place on the last occasion when the East In-
dia Company's affairs were before Parlia-
ment, as well as that gathered since, have
not been lost upon the Government. Not
only will a tolerably perfect plan be at once
laid before the House of Commons, but
a plan which bears upon the face of it many
marks of the liberal and enlightened spirit of the
times. The most striking feature in the new
Charter is the utter abolition, or rather the plac-
ing in abeyance, during its continuance, all the
trading privileges of the Company. It finally
severs the unnatural union of the character
of merchant and sovereign in the same
body, and transforms the " United Com-
pany of Merchants of England, trading to
the East Indies " into a kind of Parlia-
ment, or rather oligarchical body for the go-
vernment of the immense territories it has
acquired. The history of our rule in India
has, from the beginning, presented to the
world a moral phenomenon, which has been
more a subject of wonder than of investigation.
Even now, that we are working a change, the
progress of which will, to the philosophic his-
torian, be matter of curious research, of deep
interest, and boundless astonishment, we look
on, as if at a matter of every day occurrence.
This, of itself, would be a matter of wonder, did
not experience furnish us with a thousand instances
of the incapacity of the human mind to take true
measure of the importance of the events in which it
is mixed up. MACHIAVELLI, in his preface or
introduction to II Principe, likens kings and
subjects watching each each other's actions to
travellers who, to obtain a view of mountains,
station themselves at some distance in the plain,
and who, contrariwise, to view the champaign