The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-25 00:00:00

ETII EPItES EN TATI

The Bill for the regulation of Juries in India
is, as we .anticipated, receiving the support of alt
who take honest and liberal views on the subject
of our government in India. As the TORII)),
Jury only exists at the several townships of Cal-
cutta, Madras, and Bombay, where jastice is ad-
ministered according to the law of England, the
first extension of the eligibility to serve on Juries''
is neceksarily limited to these places; but if
Ceylon be really taken as the standard of ex-
'tension, much yet remains to be done ; and herein
we have the good fortune to agree with Mr.
Hum:, (a good fortune which the variety and
eccentricity of that Gentleman's pursuits seldom
places within our reach), namely, that the belle.
fit should not be confined to the inhabitants of the
Presidencies, but communicated to the millions
subject to British-rule. The punchayst, or Jury of
Five,• is 'an institution indigenous as it were
in the Ilindoo law and administration ; the prin.

ciple would not, therefore, be a novelty, and an
enlargement in the number of Jurors would
be to mere alteration of form, with which no
prejudice of Caste Could interfere. We feel
assured that such an impro4ement in our judic4ll
system would prove highly convenient and be-
neficial. It would be convenient, as an aid
to the European presiding Judge In the dis-
covery of truth which may escape, and for a
length of time often eludes the acutest mind, from
the want of that knowledge of the moral pro-

petisities and motto!, habits of the natives o

India, which no foreigner of a different educa-
tion nod tribe can possibly acquire. it would
further be highly beneficial, by giving our
administration, a hold upon the affections of
,the

natives, and inspiring a sentiment of self.re.
speet, which every measure of our rule has
almost inevitably had a tendency to wound and
destroy. We tarry our views of the employment
of our native subjects, especially in the judicial
and revenue departments, much farther than
has been yet attempted ; and we are therefore
the more anxious for the extension of the Jury
system throughout our territories from a convic-
tion that the eligibility of natives to decide on
the facts of cases involving the lives and proper-
ties of their fellow-subjects, must lead to their
introduction into the higher offices of the general
administration.

[MORNING lIERALD.]

In another part of our paper will be found
accounts of the importation, for the last three
years, of cotton and sheep's wool, wine, silk,
tobacco and snuff, tallow, ashes, indigo, and
timber ; from which it will be OCE,II that the im-
portation of almost all those articles was, for the
last year, what may be called excessive. Here
we have it demonstrated, as far as it can well be,
why the several persons engaged in those several
branches of importing business, complain that
their trades arc fiat; that, they canon! dispose of
their
goods except at very reduced ptices and so
on. In cotton and cheeps' wool, wine, aud
Imo, the importations of last year appear to
have been almost double what they
were the
preceding years, The consequence naturally
was! ► depression of prices. The diminution of
the medium—if there was a- diminntion—had
little or nothing whatever to do in these several
cases.—(Ses another column of TnaSini.)

COMMERCIAL.
IN PORTATION OF COTTON WOOL.

191 Alillions of pounds might.
119 ditto
228 ditto

IMPORTATION OF STIBEI"S
In the year 1023, about 19 Millions of pounds weight.
1824 - 226 ditto
1825 . - 44 ditto

IMPORTATION OF WINE.
. . - 8 Millions of gallons.
. .
_8 ditto

- 18 eitto

IMPORTATION OF WINE.
. . 2i Alillions of pounds weight.
ditto .
ditto

IMPORTATION OF TOBACCO AND SNUFF.
.023 - - 35 Millions of pounds weight.
1824 - - 22 ditto
,825 . 40 ditto

IMPORTATION OF TALLOW.

830,000 Cwt.
680,000 do.
. 06 1,164,000 do.

300,000 Cwt.