peasantry. On the recommendation
of the select committee of 1825, also, a motion for an address to his
majesty was carried, praying him to order a commission for inquiry into
the tolls and customs collected in fairs, markets, and sea-ports
in Ireland. These tolls and customs had been granted to particular
individuals and corporations, and great evils existed in the levying of
them, whence the motion for inquiry. It was opposed both on the general
merits of the measure, and on the inefficiency of the particular mode
of inquiry proposed; but the motion was carried, and a select committee
accordingly appointed.

INDIA JURY BILL, ETC.

An important alteration was introduced this session into the
administration of justice in India, by a bill brought in by Mr. Wynn,
for the regulation of juries within the territories of the East India
Company. The existing law admitted all British subjects to serve upon
juries; but the right had never been extended to all persons born within
the British dominions. During late years a large population had sprung
up in India, known by the name of "half-caste," one of their parents
having been a native, and the other an European. This class, though
born in wedlock, as well as another numerous class, consisting of
the illegitimate children of European fathers by Indian mothers, were
disqualified from serving upon juries, under the idea that they were not
British subjects; and Mr. Wynn moved that this disqualification should
be removed, which motion was adopted. A bill was also passed this
session allowing the East India Company to appoint any person to a
writership who should produce testimonials of character, and undergo
such an examination as might be fixed by the court of directors and the
Indian board. By an act, passed in 1813, no person was eligible to be
a writer in the Company's service who had not passed four terms in
the East Indian college; and in consequence of the extension of the
Company's territories, and the establishment, of new courts in Bengal,
much inconvenience had arisen from the restriction, as the college could
not supply a sufficient number of young men fit for office.

NATURALIZATION ACT, ETC.

During this session the law of naturalization was extended in Canada. By
the act, 179 no person could be summoned to the legislative council, or
elect, or be elected, to the legislative assembly of these provinces,
unless he was either a natural born subject of Gre