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all the other tenants that it is better for them to
be quiet. But suppose he gets access to the court,
he finds himself arrested as a debtor, not only for
the year's increased rent, but for the increased
amount with int%erest on it for ten years
back, and has no remedy but to pay, or
to lie in prison till he can pay. This
is no exaggeration, as the reader may see, but
an understatement of the villanies which a
powerful landlord in Bengal can perpetrate on the
unoffending ryot ; and the wonder is, not that
the peasantry do not care for us, but that they
should care to live and breathe under such a
system. It will be remembered that intolerable
as were the oppressions of the talookdars of
Conde, the peasantry preferred what they endured
there to the sufferings to which they might be
exposed under the forms and technicalities of
the courts which we have established. With
certainly not dishonest intentions, the Civil Ser-
vice has allowed a system of legal chicanery and
oppression to grow up under their management,
which must be completely swept away, and the
Punjaub administration of justice introduced in
its place ; the task will be indeed an arduous one,
but there is no time to trifle. The natives ought
at once to feel ;some tangible results of the trans-
ference of the Government of India to the Crown.
They ought to feel the difference between a Cor-
poration, whose only business was that of money-
squeezing, and an Imperial Government, which
seeks not the money, but the welfare of its sub-
jects. There is one man in India to whom uni-
versal consent there points as the right mau to do
what man can do as the Governor-General for
India. How long is it to be before a respectable
English Postmaster-General gives ways to a man
of such Indian repute as Sir JOHN LAWRENCH ?

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(This Day.)

The SPEAKER tlok the chair at 12 o'clock.
PROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA-
TION A.CT AMENDMENT BILL.
On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Lord HOTHAM asked her Majesty's Government
to state what corirse they intended to pursue with
reference to the disputed clauses of this bill.
The express unOterstanding for sitting to-day was
to proceed with -unopposed measures, and it was the
duty of her Majesty's Government to scrupulously
adhere to that engagement, He moved that the house
resolve itself into. a committee on this bill on Monday
next. No time would be saved by proceeding with the
bill to-play.
Mr. S. WARaEN seconded the amendment.
TbeATTORN EY-GENERAL explained that circum-
stances had arisan, showing that justice could not be
done in the Divorce and Probate Courts without an alte-
ration of the law% and these bills had been introduced
to meet these defects. The acts referred to emanated
from the late Government, and the noble and learned
lord (the late Lo rd Chancellor) introduced the amended
bills into the Lords, where they were considered and
passed, and they came down to this house in the charge
, e the learned gentleman the member for Aylesbury,
but he finding it impossible to bring on the bills,
he (the Attorney-General) reluctantly undertook to
carry them through this house. If the session closed
without their being• passed numerous and severe injuries
would be inflicted on the suitors. Ho intended to strike
out the 24th clause of the bill, to which so much objec-
tion had been made, and he asked hon. member:: to
withdraw their amendments, especially those relating
to contentious I:niftiness, and the throwing open of the
Admiralty Court to the profession generally. He also
added he should withdraw the sth clause of the Divorce
Bill.
After some remarks from Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Ayrten,
the Attorney-General, and Mr. Walpole,
The house divided. The numbers were—
For going 'into committee
Against it
Majority ~..
The bill then proceeded through committee with
amendments, clatrzes being inserted throwing open non-
contentious busine3s to the profession generally.
DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT
AMENDMENT BILL.
Thit bill also passed through committee.
THIRD READINGS.
The fo lowing bills were read a third time and passed :
—Consolidated Fnncl (Appropriation), Metropolis Local
Management Act Amendment, Drafts on Bankers' Las
Amendment, Int:lumbered Estates (West India) Act
Amendment, New Writs, Militia (Service Abroad) Act,
Continuance, and the Militia Continuance (No. 2).
The house then adjourned.