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•Bu itHAY COURT OP JUDICAtURt:
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FR ,261 THE BOMBAY GAZITTI, OCT. 8.
'On Wednesday last 1 deputation of the principal wi-
lier, merchants and inhabitants of Bombay proceeded
'the house of the Honourable .Sir Charles Chambers,
acting,,Ctsiel Justice, to present au Address of Condo-
lence nil the death of the late; Chief_ Justice
West: The ()flowing is a copy of the Address.:
" To the Hon. Sir Charles Chanibers, eke. &c. and do,
Hoa. Sr John Peter Gnat, Kot. &e. &e.. Judges "of hi.
Majesty's Supreme Court of indicator., Bombay.
" My Lords—We:, the undersigned membrrs rf lb•
'several tribes'compasing the natiet corismitnity,
to the jurisdiction of his Majesty's Suprerbe-Coud of
Judicature under the Bombay l'residencis beg leave
respectfully to present ourselves before pour H mow-
able Bench, for the purpose of offering et last mourn-
ful tiibute.of affection to memory of ,rur late di's
the
tiaguisbedVollja. go', fur gi'aciotitt Chief Jastice, tttr
Hop. Edirdid Waist. We' sari eonicinni thit
novelty for the people to come forward
Bench of English, judge" ..dti suchia subjalit; at
less a•nivelty• (actually witnevseJ, by, many of us) t I be
rescued, in the short space of 29 years since the este
blistimeot of a regular Court, of British law in this
island, 'from the an'inefficient and irregular ad-
ministra:i3n of justice which previously exiited.

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• C 01.0.4111 APERU.. •

The following remarks as pear is the Goode is elem
lantiti of the 9th of November, upon the Proelainathe
of Gametal Lamar of the 30th of Anna. 1928:
" Vain are the efforts of the Chief of Peru to divide
the Colombians amongst the's- +dyes, and indisp'se them
towards their Government.. He is no neophyte of liberty
'who can cry down the first of her soldiers, nor can the
bbi►ds which unite us to him be broken, merely because
he is unjustly called a tyrant. Eighteen years of daily
and eminent sacrifices upon the altar of his country: pis
entire consecration to the welfare•ot the people. an un-
bounded obedience to the national will; with the most
signal success in the ondertaking of our_ emancipation.
are the claims which the Liberator has to our confidence.
to our love, and to the-admiration 'of the universe.—.
With him-the Republic has gone through the greatest
perils in her st.uggle with the,,Spaniards, until she obt
mined her independence, and with him'sbe hypes to ace
herself consolidated, fr e, and happy. .
"On the present occasion, General Lamar has made
use of language unbecorning a Magistrate who is ad-
dressing the nation which lie represents, upon so im-
portant a subjext. He ought, out of respect to it and
the other motors of the wotid, to acquaint them with
his motives (Or cemprainintigninst Colombia, and in.
form them what satisfaction has been given for the
ci time preterred by Colombia against his nation. But.
to content himself Math calling him tyrant who gave
liberty to Pent, and with laying the blame of the ag-
gression upon Colombia and Bolivia, when the occupa-
tion of the tatter and of our frontiers by the Peruvian
troops is still so uecent..is the greatest immorality of
which a Government can be capable.
" We cell upon the impartial world to declare who
ii to blame in this cinuest. and whether there is the
slightest foundation (sr believing that Colombia and
B livie are combined to make war against Peru ? Let
him tell us, we tin not say an act, hut only one single
expression t,f the Chili of the two Republics that cats
indicate any debite f interfering in the affairs of Peru.
or of hostility against her. For our part, we can quote
to him the documents, both public and private, of the
Liberator, which we have noticed in our former pub.i-
calior as breathing nothing but peace. We can in-
'suffice the journey to Callao, just made by the Grand
Marshal, for the purpose DE leathering the said peace....-
We can assert, without any (ear of its being disproved,
that to the welllkuown intentions of Peru to subjugate
Bolivia, General Sucre opposed only the precautionary
measotes autitth his duty dictated; and we ail clearly
disprove the intention attributed to both Republics, of
uniting• in a war against Peru, by the single tact that at
the very time when ibis ctitatinatioa should have taken
effect, our Government had considerably reduced the
at my a the south. These are'puhltc and notorious facts,
and it is with the greatest satisfaction we oppose them
to the taunts, which are the only foundation of the Prim
demotion of the Chief of Peru.
'• It is a real triumph for the Liberator that his per-
son can be a tacked only by unjust language; and that
although lie be called perfidious, yet it is by a Govern.
meet which has committed double perfidy in attacking
an innocent nation like Bolivia without any pterrious
declaration of war, and without even acknowledging
itself to be the author of the aggression.
4. The area which the Government of Peru is making
to induce her people to take op arms against us, do not
intimidate either Colombia or her Government—her
superiority is well known. ,We do not desire war, and
we would wish to avoid it; but this wish springs only
from love to the people, and our delay in commencing
it arises from the knowledge we possess of the evils
.which must inevitably accompany this scourge of
hemlnity." •

• " Grateful for 'web 'advantages,. we Tresort to those
means which alone are open fu a community consti-
tuted like ours, to express publicly our sense of them;
and indeed we shimli jaitly rnerit the reproaCh of waqt
of feeling, did we now silently confine within our own
breast: the Brie', the. ut!trigited sorrow, wpexpetient4e
in the eVelit Whieti bk,'ilepritrEd fis *rii- him, at where
hands those advantages have b ets so latoleeitended
and confipied to us. in repressing to your ,L-filships
our sorrow fir the death of Sir Edward West, we seek
a 10'111,1'10r our sufferings, and would fun tiope thereby
to alleviate the distress with, which you must.contein•
plate your earthly, separation from a colleague so ablo
and indefstigible,•so undautited and Upright.
".Tlie rinse is past when any commendation of ours,
or indeed eny. earthly honours, can be of value•to tom,
Whom the joys and sorrows of this world can no longer
ikeett and hit is, thrraore, equally teinoved 'beyond i
Unseats)) of :bareao. censure and of hcman applause.,
But we should deem it an omission of duty, as well as
tifit'atitude, did be tart come forward, now that out
motive's ea:limbs miscdniarued, ter mat k in the strong-
est manner the deep sense we entertain of Its-virtuous
administration. That spirit of even handed justice
*hien prOmpted his dicisions—the of/conquerable
,sluitz.nd unshirken firmness which he evinced in din.
charging the' functions of his high r Efice—the
ing zeal which animated him in making salutary re-
ieuess--obsat,. above all,' that bigb ptinciple of indepen-
dence andintegrity which led him to swerificeso much
of hi, private happiness to thiconscientions perform-
ance of his• pub' c -ditties—these, my Lords, are the
virtues which have grown upon our gratitude, since
every day's succeeding experience teaches us tosappre-
ciate their Value.
"lrr briefly noticing the most prominent features in
the adm nistration of Sir Edward West, we canna but
dwell. wish grateful delight on the easy access which
that humane and honourable Judge at all times af•
forded to the'poor and heedy part of our countryment
That he rendered the administration of the law less ex;
pensive to the inhabitants of this Pi esidency, thus throe 4
ing op n to the poor the ave;.oes of justice so long
barred against them, is not the bast solid advantegn
derived from a Carer fertile in benefi's. But, great mid
salutary as was thi, reform, it did not satisfy that glow,
log spirit of philanthropy, ever thoughtful to devise and
active to execute what might lessen the distresses or.,
increase the happiness of his fellow-creatures. Scrupu-
lous in the discharge of his high functions as a Judge,
which alone seemed labour too great even for his ester.'
getic mind, he found leisure, and had the condescension
to become himself the adeocateof the indigent. •
" But amongst the many great favours received at
the hands of Sir Edward West, that for which we would
chiefly record our gratitude is the manner in which,
conjt.intly with your Lordships, he carried into execu-
tion the recent provision of the British Legislature, for
admitting the natives of this country to sit on' juries,
The wise and conciliatory methods he took to give
-eff..ct to the measures of Parliament—the condeten
sion with which he conferred with every class of the
native community—the prudent deference he paid to
all their national and rcliAitus feelings—the seal with
which he laboured to overcome innumerable difficulties
arising out of the multiform constitution of our body,
and the solicitude lie di.plased to set the intention of
-the enactment in its true Ishr, ale fie.h in the recoHecj
tion of us all. 'To these exertions it is owing that.the
natives of Bombay ate now in the enj iyment of one of
the greatest privileges 4 freemen.
• "A knowledge of the virtuous and enlightened cha-
racter of the late Chief Justice cannot fail to gave pre-
vailed throughout a large portion of our countrymen'
in 'lndia; but it has only been permitted to the in-
habitants of this island to enjoy the immediate fruits f.i
his distinguished judicial administration. However
imperfect any farther addition'may prove to this record
'of our deep sorrow for his demise, and respect for his.
Memory, we beg to announce that we have raised a
sum of money, which it is designed to mske over to she
Native Lineation Society, to be vested by them in Go
veinment securities, for the endowment of one or more
scholarships, and the distribution of one or more annual
`prizes, according to the amount of interest realized
trout the total fund, to be denominated • Chief Justice
West's Scholarships and Prizes.' Engaged as the late
Judge was himself so earnestly in improving the MI
ditiosi of the natives, se humbly hare that we have de-
wised the most dina le and appropriate method of pet-
petoating the gratstul eectillection of him among them,
and training up our chileren in the proper discharge
of those public duties to which lie first showed them
the.way. •

Wit's a firm reliance on the coistintreJ favour and
kindness. of leas: Lordships, we AM with the greiie t
respect, my Loidi, a most obedient And
moat humble servants.'

(Nina by about 140 .4 the prbatlpal Hindoo. Parsee%
dlaboatetlau !Wareham and lukst.itaots.)

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The Kixt(pen Gazette seiates proceedings instituted
by the Tribunal of that town against eleven inhabitairs
of the village of Beek, for having, on the night of the
23d of October, forced two i f their fellow villagers
from their beds, and, yoked them half naked to a plough,
which they made them (big along the high road, and
over a piece of land till the morning. This fact seems
to have grown out of a singular custom,- respecting
which the above journal leaves us in the dark. These
are the details :—T.)wards midnight, in consequence it
is supposed Of • (lose intimacy that subsisted betiseen a
cei tam widow M— at Beek, and a military pensioner
whom she was about to marry, a crowd of people in-
truded tb, mielves into bib house; two of them pulled
her out of bed, and having tied herby the legs, dragged
her into an outhouse. They then went in quest of her
it:leaded, and having becared hiin, took him to the
same place, tied a cord round his body, and yoked
him with nothing. on but his shut to &plough. which
by dint rf repeated blows they compelled the unfor-
tunate pensioner to draw. The journal of -NinsegOen ,
adds, that these, excesses, called ploeidspery, -oat
accompanied with such atrocious circumstances as s•
seat celf to becredited in the nineteenth century, espe-
cially iu she Netherlands. where civilisation is so far
advanced, and that a parallel must he sought in the dark
,ages. Two of the accused were sentenced to two years
mad a half imprisonment, one to two years, three to three
mouth four to one month.. and the whole to a ins o(,twenryb •e or eight Ratios: only Doe was acquitted.—,
&easels 1 eleseepA.