Star.
London, England, 1831-09-03 00:00:00

POLICE Ith.PURTS.

BOW-STREET.--TRAGRDY U REED To EtacE.—thi
Thursday night, Sir Richard Birnie having taken his teat
upon the hutch, between seven and eight o'clock,
Mr. HAY HER, the attorney, appeared on behalf of Mesa.
Street and Eve, who ate connected with The Satirist, and
stated that }Liars. Bond and Bliss, the parties charged on
a warrant with having feloniously assaulted Mr. Eve, with
intent to molder him, had given notice of their intention to
surrender themselves into custody that night at 7 o'clock.
at this office, and lie wished to know if they had surrendered
themselves to Salmon, the officer, who held the warrant?
Salmon said they had not surrendered, though he under-
stood front their solicitor that they would do so that night.
Mr. ALLEY and lilt. C. PHILLIPS, the Counsel lot the
accused, arrived about helfpast seven o'clock, and consulted
with Mr. Henson, the prisoners' attorney, in the private
room for some time. It was understood by some persons
that the accused were ilea's. at a house not far from the
othee, sod that before they surrendered, they wished to
have a pledge from dr. Harmer that he would not persist
in making a charge of capital felony against them, but
merely prefer a charge of assault end battery.
As the huur of eight approached, the Lffice became crowd-
ed to excess, and it is a long time since we witnessed such
an assemblage of " Gentlemen upon the Town."
Sir RICHARD BEANIE expressed some impatience at the
delay of business, occasioned by tue parties not appearing,
and also his doub sas to whether "it was nut all a hoax,"
when Messrs. Alley and Phillips presented themselves upon
the Bench.

Mr. ALLsr observed, that the time was passed which was
appointed by his clients to surrender, and he and his learned
friend had been in the private room fur above half an hour
anxiously waiting their arrival; they, however, had not ap-
peared, and be could not give any reason why they had nut
done so.

Mr. Hawaii—Your clients, Mr. Alley, under your ad.
vice, have no doubt acted with a very IVIPC discretion in out
surrendering.
Me. ALLZY—Let me tell you, Mr. Harmer, that when a
client of mine is charged with a capital felony, it would be
utterly impossible for me to act so improperly as to advise
him not to surrender himself into custody.
Mr. Hartman—l conceived the party might have been PO
advised, because I told Mr. Henson this day when he called
upon nie, that I should press the charge of capital icloby
against them.
Mr. PHILLIPS—I came here, supposing my dent would
surrender; but you sea what a dreadful wet night it is
(laughter;) it is shocking bad weather. (Loud laughter.)
Mr. Axxsir (the rain pouring in torrents on 'hr skylight
of the Office), assuming a gravity that did not ►ir very easily
upon his physiognomy, observed, that it was not a night It
for a dog to go out, and .hat the absence of his client must tie
owing to the inclemency of the weather. (Laughter.)
Mr. Ilwasaa—To come to the point at once, the lac. is,
after being kept here upon your notice, the parties aid nut
show themselves, and therefore Salmon will exercise his
lance to take them.

Ur. PHILLtra—A very fine night fur the officer to go
bunting the streets after felons.
Sir H. BILNIE ord.red the officer to tbe his best esertitn.s
to apprel,end the parties.
Mr. ALUM: Well, the rain seems somewhat abated—
good night, gentlemen—lion biers yuu (laughter.)
Sir It. Maxie: %Veil, now tnts farce is ended, char the
office.

It is stated the parties will not surrender till the Old Bai-
ley cessions, which commence on Thursday neat. Mr. Eve
was in the office during the evening, with his head bandaged,
a plaistar upon cis chin, and another on the back of his
bead.

Amid the be etues to this season a great
one at Drury is the performance of • Parisian drama, in
which a real tam is to appear.
HAYMARKET THEATRE. —Kean niade his se-
cond appearance last night, but his personation of Othello
was not an satisfactory as his acting in Richard on Monday.
We Weer glad to ace, however, that the tameness of his per-
formance resulted not from that physical tiLbility which de-
-1 teriurated from the effect of his acting last maim. But .'Jr.
Kean " was not i' the vein" last night, and his performance
was made up of exaggerated bursts and untrarrat.taide
pauses.
The first and even the second were most 'nisei
dons days fur the poor partridges and pheasants. Ou the
first it rained sixteen bouts ni:hout ceasing, or enough to
cool the ardouriof the most determined of their murderete in
sport! _ _

Our West India Colonists must have had a Lad
notion both of the morality of the mother country, and of
her regard for their interests, %ben they see, at almost
one std the same time, two public defaulters sent out to ou-
minister their Oovernment.

A COPFZE SHOP in Loution would be glad to
transmit revisal, a spare copy of the STAa, on the d atta
its publication, at Eighteen-pencr pa viva. Address, X 1,
per the Sr** Orricz, TZMPLII-11AR.

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iN'I'ERESTING PETITIONS lor criminal, have also powet to summon witnesses, and to
execute ail their orders and judgments, whether by arrest of
FROM BRITISH INDIA, ;the psrsmn or by seizure and sale of property, throughout
PRESENTED TO THE i the whole of the territories under the presidencies at which
HOUSE OF COMMONS, SEPTEstREst 1, ' these coons are respectively esteblithed. Those courts, in
By Six CHARLES FORBES AND Ma. HUME. the execution of their processes and orders, have always
I
—op— been scrupulously observant of the religious doctrines, rites,
" To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom and observanci it, and of the martyrs and usages of the na-
uf Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, I five,. The experience of more than half a century at
" The Humble Petition of the Hindoos, Parsees, and Calcutta, :led of more then a quarter of a century at
Mathenetans. Natives of the East Indies, and Inhabitants Madras and Bombay, has proved that life, property, cliarac-
of the Island of Bombay, whose Nunes are underwritten, ' ter, and personal liberty, can be protemed by his Majesty's
" tittowEln—We beg to be permitted to offer to your courts of justice, without violation of the religions, wan-
Honourable House our grateful acknowledgments, for the ners, and usages of the natives. We appeal 'o that evi
mare testimonies we have had of your solicitude to promote d?l,ce .n contradict erroneous repntts which have been sc-
our welfare and happiness. We are satisfied that our terns dulotely propagated, and have been ton long acquiesced
isentations for the amelioration of our condition in society, in, teat the introduction of courts of justice into India,
and for the improvement of our political institutions in strictly administering the law fur the protection of life, pro-
India, will be listened to by you with patient attention— . petit.. chatacter, and personal liberty, is incompatible with
will have your unprejudiced consideration, and that it will the religions, manners, and usages of the natives, and would
ever be your desire, that all the subjects of our gracious he highly offensive to them. Miserable, indeed, would be
Sovereign, in whatever region they may be, shall be fully the condition of matikind if the duties of judges could not be
protected in their lives, their personal liberty, their charm- executed without offending the religions, manners, and
ter, and their property. usages of those over whom they have jurisdiction. Reports
tt We beg your honourable house to take into your con. also have long prevailed, and been acquiesced in, that the
sideration the expediency of rendering all his Majesty's sub. religions, manners, and usages of the natives of India re-
jects, being natives of India, eligible to serve on grand ju- pilled their employment in judicial functions, and that they
ries ; and further, to introduce and establish the trial by had not capacity to perform them. The unprejudiced mind
jury in civil cases. in his Majesty's courts of justice at three of Sir Alexander Johnstone controverted the truth of that
presidencies in India, and to render the entities ot Lelia cli- report; and the experience of five years at Calcutta, Ma.
giblet to serve on those kitties. Alrettly ter natives of India dras, and Bombay, has denionsttated the willingness of the
serve on petit juries, in all criminal tied. in his Majesty's natives to aid in the administratioa of justice, even in the
courts in India t and the supreme snort of judicature at . unpleasant office of Jurors on trials for crimes, and their
Bombay has acknowledged their utility oil those trials. Of utility as Jurors has been repeatedly declared by the Su.
all trials, tine by a petit jury ter crimes is the moat int. prom Court at Bombay.
portant ; and when the natives of India are declared by "it is true, that the impartiality in the courts of justice,
Parliament to be qualified to serve as jurymen on those that we have presumed to solicit and enforce, will be offen.
trials, and experience has proved their utility, we venture ! sive to some of the connections and adherents of former so.
humbly to submit to your honourable house, that there is ; vereigns, who had privileges in some respects exempting
no sufficient reason to exclude them front grand jaries, told ! them from the jurisdiction of courts of justice ; as, for in.
petit juries, in civil causes. Whether before a wand jury, stance, the Sirdirs in the Dekan, whose privileges have been
or a petit jury, in the court of dyer and terminer, or a jury , conceded to them by regulation 29(1Iumb. g0v.)1827. But we
in plea causes, the subject under investigation generally ease I are sure that your honourable house will not expose the
braces transactions of a local nature, and the witnesses arc meanest of his Majesty's subjects in India to injury in life,
principally natives of India. To ascertain the intemion of I property, character, or personal liberty, in complaisance to
the witnesses, and the degree of credit that is due to them, the vicious pride of those personages.
in order to pronounce a true verdict, a knowledge of the I "We implore your Honourable House, earnestly and
languages of the country, of local usages and customs, civil i without prejudice, to reflect on the condition of the natives I
presume religious, and of general character, we pretue to mtg. inhabiting Ilia Illajesty's territories in India ; in number,
gest, is as touch required before a grand jury, and before . they exeteil sixty millions; the greater part of them are his
a petit jury in civil causes, as before a jury on trial fur Majesty's natural burn subjects, and almost all the rest are
crimes. denizens. This immense population, who have strong, ne-
tt We beg your hen. house also to take into your consi- tural, and legal pretensions to participare in the advantages
Aeration the expediency of rendes ing his Majesty's subjects, of society, are almost entirely excluded from offices of trust
the natives of India, qualified to b t his Majesty justices of and emolument. it is impossible for your honourable house
the peace for the several presidencies in India, and the ter- to credit misrepresentations, obviously originating in pre.
riteries subordinate to them respectively. IVe admit an ob- judice and self-interest, that confound the whole native po-
jection to arise, from a want of knowledge in the natives, of ',elation into one mass of ignorance and corruption. The
the laws administered by justices of the peace ; but that ob. entices of the territories now British India, were very
jection may be obviated by declaring, that all their acts, as highly civilized, and, by their various manufactures,
justices of the peace, to be valid, shall be in conjunction largely contributed to the splendour of Thebes, of
with a justice of the peace, who is a British subject. Since Pahnyra, and of ancient Alexandria, when the inha.
parliament has declared the natives of India, under the ad. bitants of one of the most powerful and illustrious kingdoms
vice of the Court, to be qualified to serve on petit juries, on of modern Europe lived in woods, and fought with bows and
trials for crimes, it surely may be allowed to us to argue, arrows and clubs. Whatever injury has been done to their
that they are qualified to act as justices of the peace, in understandings and moral principles, by the long modem.
conjunction with one of his Majesty's British subjects. ante of despotism, will easily and rapidly he rectified by
"We see no reason to dissemble, and we avow to your Courts of Justice Intelligently and impartially admistering
honourable house, that one of our reasohs for soliciting as justice among them • and by their admissibility into honour-
eligible to serve on grand juries, and kaki in civil causes, aids and profitable Offices in the Judicial, Territorial, and
and to be justices of peace, is to diminish the odious dis- Financial Departments, being made to defend on their intel.
tinction that separates us from his blajesty's British sub. lectual and moral character. The dynasties of the Save.
jects ; that pronounces us an inferior and degraded class in reigs of the territories conquered by the British arms were
society, and unworthy of the confidence of our Gracious of very short duration ; those Sovereigns never hail a strong
Sovereign and of the Government. hold on the affections of their subjects, and since those con.
" ‘l'e beg your honourable house to take into your con. quests, the natives have always manifested a desire to coa.
sideration the system for the administration of justice itt the lesce with the Crown of the United Kingdoms:—their
interior of' British India; it is eminently detective—it al- wishes to do so have been repelled even with contumely. Up-
fords no ad, quate protection for the rights of property—it wards of sixty millions of his Majesty's subjects are at this
affords scarcely any protection from personal wrongs—and, time disjointed, loose, and floating on the surface of India.
in particular, from false imprisonment when committed by Nothing is more easy than to consolidate this immense po-
persons possessing public authority. Your honourable pulation into one mass of cohesion with his Majesty's tern.
house are perfectly sensible bow much life is embittered by tones ; administer justice to them wisely and impartially,
personal wrongs, and especially by false imprisonment. It I and reward intellectual and moral merit with honourable and
Is true, that by Acts of Parliament, and by the Charters of profitatile offices, both at the Precidencies and in the Pro.
the Supreme Courts in India, actions for damages will lie in i vinces, and the principle of cohesion will circulate through
all those Courts for personal wrongs, including false impel. the whole body.
tionment, committed by his Majesty's British subjects, or ea- " With a view to the same principle of cohesion, we yen-
fives of India in their service ; but it is probable, that at a tore to suegest, that it is highly politic to introduce the
distance of thirty miles from each of the precedencies, there English language into the vernacular languages of India— ,
is scarcely a native of India who has the slightest knowledge and with that intention, for Parliament to enact, that no
of those Acts of Parliament or Charters; and, if they were native, after the period of twelve years, shall be admissible
known, the immense distances from his Majesty's Courts in into any office in the Judicial, Territorial, or Financial De.
India would, in most instances, prevent application to them , partments, unless his competency in reading, writing, and
fur redress. At present, we are inhabitants of the island of i speaking the English language, has been certified by the
Bombay, but many of us have families in the intertur of the • Committee appointed for his examination. The children of
British territories in India, and all of us, fur trade, pilgrim. I the natives of India have great aptitude in learning to read,
ages, and other purposes, occasionally leave the island of I write, and speak the English language. Since the institu.
Bombay, and at once are under the Judicial administrations tion of schools fur the instruction of the natives in the Eng-
that is in force beyond this presidency. We tearposely de. : list% language, under the advice and patronage of the Hon.
cline a statement of particular instances of grievances by the ! Me untstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay, many of
Judicial System in the interior of India—our objections ! the children of the natives read, write, and speak the Dig-
apply to the system itself. . lish language with facility and fluency. Besides the prm-
tt We beg to be excused entreating the attention of your ciple of cohesion which we have noticed, a knowledge of the
honourable house to the very extraordinary situation of his English Language extensively dispersed among the natives
Majesty's subjects, the natives of India. l'he dynasties of India will afford great facilities for the future improve.
that have been conquered by the British arms in India, were' ment of the judicial system in India.
only of short duratiou—scarcely one of them had been in . " Illustrious Legislators! Benefactors of the Human
existence more than a century—we allude to the Nabub of Race! Your persevering and intelligent tut does to abolish
Bengal, Behar, and Orixa—the Nabob of Arcot—Tippou ' the trade in slaves, have spread the fame of your humanity
Sahib, and the l'aishwa, there wet nothing venersble in the . over the whole world. The destiny of upwards of sixty
remote antiquities of those dynasties—the natives cat India ' millions of human beings depends upon your Councils ;
had no other attachment to them than what arose from ' they are the natural-born subjects, or the denizen subjects,
their possession of power. The ettenget of the present gc. 'of your own Sovereign. We are sure that you will be
aeration did not exist when the Nabob of Bengal, Behar, • eager to regress the wrongs we have submitted to you.
and Orixa, the Nabob of Arcot, mid Tippoo haltib, were tt Knowing, as we do, the propensity to misrepresents.
conquered. In another quarter of a century, few of the na. tion that will be active against the natives of India, and that
fives who were the subjects of the Paisliwa will be alive.— it will be suggested that this Petition does not contain the
The immense population, calculated at upwards of GO mil-
real opinions of all who have signed it, we have taken the
lions, which inhabits those conquered enmities, now !otter fur liberty to subjoin to it a translation into the Goozarette
protection and happiness to tee Braish stievernmen. alone.
end Malwatta languages—the languages in most frequent
They have no sentiments of hostiliy to the British tievcris.
use in leintbuy • and if, in having so done, we have trans-
went —they have uo hopes but what arise from British in.
greased any of :he Rules of your Honourable House, we
stitutions--is is their wish to possess and to merit public
crave your indulgence and pardon.
confidence, and under the auspices of your honourable house " And your Petitienets, as in duty bound, will ever
aed the enactments of parliament, to be declared eligible to
F Y'
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fulfil and execute all civil offices throhout British India--
judicial, financial, and territorial. We presume to suggest "Bombay, 25th Jan. 1831.
to the consideration of your hotiouraele houseetsat ths tittle is Signed I y
at length arrived, when public institutions th.ouglieut the : HORMUZJ RE ROMANJEE,
"" JAHANGIIEIR NASSERVANJEE, Com-
ten:utiles in British India ought to be adapted to the
JEEJEBHOY DADABHOY, miller;
permanent continuance of the Itritish authority over them. "
CURSETJEF. MUNCHERJEE,
Your honourable hcum will not believe, that a popuhatem
And by upwards of four thousand respectable Native Inha.
of sixty millions does not contain within itself talent, mei-
bitants of Bombay, of every religion."
dusty, and integrity to justify heir being largely admitted
into the execution of judicial, financial, and territorial
offices. We retrain from enlarging on the eumberless ad-
vantages, in policy, and in morals, both to the United Kieg.
'lotus and to British India, from the natives of India bei g
extensively admitted into thou offices. The philanthropy
uotl wisdom of your honourable house are our guarantees
that all will be dune that can be done to make the situation
cat bring his Majesty's subjects in India the cause of conga.
tilation to all the natives of British India.
" We have stem pleasure in acknowledging our oblige•
riots to your honourable house, tor your undeviating atten-
tion and and anxiety to secure to the natives of British Latta
the full and fret enjoyment of their respective !elisions.—
A In! your petit ~,,, erb, as iu duty bound, will ever pray, &e.

PANORAMA ot"rnE BRITISH
EMPIRE.

MANCHESTER I'OICE OF THE PEOPLE.

THE SeINNING BRANCH of the cotton wade is unusually
flat at present at Ashton and Stalybridge. The master.
complain of having heavy stocks on hand, and say that they
cannot find a market for their goods. One large establish.
ment at Ashton has commenced working " short time," and
it is esyccted that ore long this arrangement will become
general. About this time of the year, preparations are
usually made for lighting up their mills with gas, but there
In no sign of any thing of this kind at present : some of the
masters say they do not intend to " wake" this aide of
hu: to shorten the hours of labour as the days
shorten. The workmen, generally speaking, are but in a
low et edition, not having yet recovered from the effects of
Nee late turn.cut. 'rhe weaving branch still continues
pretty brisk, nor is there any appearance of any of those mills
I working short time where weaving is tuned on.
St Ltz WEAVING.—This trade is at present greatly on the
deck. e, both as respects the quantity of work given out, and
' the price
_Raid for it.
THE BATTING TRADE.—This trade has likewise suf-
fered a great depression.
LANCASTER, SATURDAT.—THE SENTENCES ON THR
• FORGERS AND WIGAN ItIOTRIIS.—James Collyer a d
ALlTtin Collins, who were found guilty at the last assizes,
before ,lr. Justice Littledale, of being accessories before the
I fact to a forgery, were brought up this morning to receive
sentence, together with Jonathan Dade, who was convicted
on Tuesday, and Robert Kirkwood, William Calvert, John
Stanfield, John Campbell, and James Kirkwood. The
Judge then passed sentence on the prisoners in the usual form.
" Jonathan Dade—in your ease I have allowed ,the; sen-
tence, after much consideration, to be recorded. I have
telt that the justice of the country required that you should
be involved in the sentence which has just been passed, but
I hope there will be sufficient example in the other two.
Hubert Kirkwood—your life has been spared. I have
had great difficulty in making the selection, both you and
Dade came into the plan after it was prepared."
With respect to Campbell, I have permitted the sen-
tence to be recorded.

" To the Honourable the Commons of the United King.
dam of tire.' hritnin and Ireland, iu Parliament
assembled ;
" The Humble Petition of the undersig,ned Cinistians,
Hindueb, Parsers, N.atiometans, and Jea-, natives of his
Illajesty'r Territories in India, and Inhabitants of the
Wand of Bombay :
" Most humbly sheweth—lt is with confidence and otitis.
faction that we address ourselves to your honourable house
it i 3 to Parliament that the natty s ut his Majesty's tern-
tories iu India are indebted for ti.: public institutions in.
tended to prevent injury and insult to them, and to raise
them in the ranks of society ; and we acknowledge with
gratitude the &oils of your honourable house to promote'
those good purposes. It is principally to inquires pursued
by your honourable house, that the natives of India owe
their earliest Enact:non from injustice and degradation, by
the establishment of the Supreme Court of Judicature at
Calcuttan Front that origin have succesrivay proceeded
the Recorders Courts, and mac Supreme Courts ut Judica-
ture at Madras and Bombay : those Courts have ever
fulfilled the duties entrusted to them by our gtacious
Sovereign Lord the King ; they have acquired we con-
fluence and esteem of the natives of India, and at-
tached them to the British Government. At Cal-
cutta, Madras, and Bombay, are the most numerous wenn-
blages of the natives of India, and of foretAn countries in
Asia ; they are of every variety of religion, c.tst and sect ; di.
versified illsaracd rites and observances, and in social 1114111)CM
and usages. The Supreme Courts of Judicature, where they
have jurisdiction over the matter to be tried, whether civil