they have it would be a libel on their virtue were we to suffer ourselves for a mo ment to doubt it. Ah! to see those tender creatures making their acknowledgments, how sweet! how pleasing! Who would not envy Mr. Ricketts to share in their affec tions and to deserve their esteem? For my part, gentlemen, I wish I were he. To humour their vanity a little, it is well known how much the female mind is apt to be taken up with what is brilliant in appearance and engaging in show ; this indeed is the characteristic of every woman in every clime; and for our ladies to see their countrymen all armed cap-â-pee; enveloped in red and blue, and themselves the objects for whom we dress and fight and die, why they will run to madness in loving us and in loving their benefactor who obtained this privilege for us. Suppose for instance they should hear "we were at such an action, our regiments charged on such an occasion, we distinguished ourselves, took a post and run a thousand risks to be shot at the head, oh! their little hearts would go pit-a-pat with fear and pleasure and perhaps with love-who knows. And then come our young men (such a one as myself for example) all in bloom and vigour, or with the facetious Sterne "clad in armour bright which shines like gold, beplumed with each gay feather of the East, all, all tilting at it like fascinated knights in tournaments of yore for fame and love." Oh! this will stir the flame-the flame will burn with ardour, and in seeking to possess us our dear countrywomen will not fail to remember the person through whom they were enabled to entertain such a wish and to expect such an acquisition.

The motion in my hand proposes "That the managing Committee in connection with the East Indian Fund, be requested to carry into effect the objects which the foregoing resolutions have in view." I am certain, gentlemen, that we shall one and all concur in its adoption. It refers chiefly to the third resolution expressive of our warmest thank to Mr. Ricketts for his zeal and fidelity in the management of the affairs connected with his mission to England, and suggesting the propriety of our presenting him with some tokens of public gratitude. That resolution having been carried unanimously, no objection I think can arise to this. I shall therefore conclude with saying that we hope this will be a new era in the history of our race, that we shall no longer remain subalterns in rank and station but rise in the scale of society and political dignity; that we shall soon, by the consideration of the British Parliament to the prayer of our Petition, be put in a situation to justify the very flattering commendations bestowed by our European friends and put to shame the insolence of those who are our declared enemies. Gentlemen I long, I long for the time when we will more effectually be able to prove our loyalty and affection towards the British Government, when we shall be able to shew, that the same ties which bound our fathers to its interests, continue to bind us as closely and as inviolably; and that we acknowledge no other king or liege lord but the sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland. God save the King!

6.-" That the Managing Committee in connection with the East Indian Fund, be requested to carry into effect the objects which the foregoing Resolutions have in view."

Mr. Gardner seconded this Resolution, and it was adopted.

Mr. Pote said, he had now a resolution to offer to the meeting conformable with the sentiments he had expressed in his former address which he sincerely trusted would be adopted by those who heard him as he truly believed that its acceptance and execution were essentially connected with the promotion of the objects they had in view. He made this proposal with some reluctance as in the course of the report, he had heard what induced him to fear that it might not in the first instance be agreeable to the present convictions of Mr. Ricketts, but he trusted that when it was considered that this measure was most strongly recommended by Mr. Crawfurd, and when thee reasons he should have the honor to adduce were heard, he trusted that Mr. Ricketts might be induced to adopt his notions, and by his consent induce the whole meeting to concur in a matter of such primary importance. He should move as a resolution that the East Indian Petition Committee be forthwith instructed to draw up a second Petition to be submitted to a general meeting for approval and signature, and speedy transmission to the British Parliament on the subject they were met to consider.

In offering reasons for adopting this measure, he felt that he was not called on to trespass at any length on the attention of the Meeting, there was only one obstacle to be removed from the way, and that was the delicacy which prompted Mr. Ricketts to believe that any immediate act on their part would be construed by the friendly individuals in England who professed to take up their cause, as denoting a want of confidence in their promises or exertions. There was something in this objection peculiarly indicative of the punctilious integrity which characterizes the mind from which it proceeded, and had there been no probability of injury or loss he would have been the last man to disturb so amiable a reluctance; but he (Mr. Pote) perceived and he felt it his duty to submit that inaction here under any such impressions would inevitably be imputed by all parties in England to indifference and apathy, and he implored their highly respected delegate and the meeting to reflect how fatal to the continuance of any interest in the minds of those in England would be the intrusion of such a suspicion. He would repeat that this supposition would be the natural consequence of silence here-for was it not well known that every advocate finds an assurance a plea and an excitement from the animation and zeal of those he is to support. In matters like this, what example have the people of England set us! was it ever known there that any honest Parliamentary comba tant for the people's rights asked such confidence from the people's hands as silenc ed them, and left the whole weight and business of the battle to his unassisted strength! To oppose the many currents of hostile interests eternally flowing in the broad political ocean of the legislative assemblies, all the bulk and all the impulse of the strongest expression of the public voice has been ever found wanting to enable the steersman to shape his course for the point intended, and it became them to beware that by no mistake on so essential a matter they deprived their advocates of that aid which experience had shewn could not be supplied by any power of reason or truth that could be brought into operation. He bowed to the superior knowledge and experience of their respected delegate, but while he felt in his conscience that by treading that line of delicate observance which had been recommended they would incur the twofold disadvange of neutralizing their advocates, by a mistake they could not avoid making since they could judge only from the experience they had known, and of depriving them also of that succour which in all past cases of a similar nature had been found indispensable, he felt he should be crimially negligent of his duty in the present critical state of their affairs if he did not stand up to offer the remonstrance he now made.

After following the same line of argument for some time Mr. Pote was about to reason that the dissolution of the late parliament made the measure indispensable, but after a few words with Mr. Ricketts he concluded with reading the following resolution :

7. "That in consideration of the dissolution of the Parliament to which the East Indian Petition was addressed, and of the necessity of repeating our calls for justice on the Legislature of Great Britain, until they are conceded, the East Indian Petition Committee be requested to frame another Petition, which, when approved of and signed, shall be sent to both Houses of Parliament."

Mr. Derozio said, Sir, I rise to support the proposition of Mr. Pote. As junior counsel in the case, I cannot however, be expected to dwell so long or ably upon its merits. But its importance, and the necessity of pressing it upon the consideration of this meeting, must be my apology for the liberty I take with the patience and indulgence of all around me. Although our respected delegate has informed us of his having received very favourable assurances from certain noble lords and other influential individuals in Parliament, I cannot see the evils which the adop tion of this resolution is likely to entail. Why are we assembled here this day? Are we to confine ourselves to a particular routine, and exclude all matters which do not come exactly within it? Is this assembly unprepared to entertain this proposition? What is the difficulty in its way? Is it characterized by less discretion than zeal? He who entertains such a notion has certainly misunderstood the object of my friend, Mr. Pote, and attended but indifferently to the tenor of his Auggsetion. It is not required of the Committee to prepare a petition this mo

ment; nor is it supposed that any individual present has such a document ready in his pocket which he has only to lay upon the table for instant signature. Such speed is not contemplated by us. We only call upon our friends to request the Committee to frame another petition; and that no haste may do mischief, we take care that it shall be fully approved of before it is signed and despatched. Suppose this resolution is adopted, and that it afterwards becomes unnecessary, what harm will be done? We shall only have to change our minds, a matter of trifling inconvenience. Were there no other consideration, the fact that one House of Commons rarely takes cognizance of petitions addressed to its predecessor, should be alone sufficient to convince us of the imperative necessity of appealing to the Legislature of Great Britain again. What have we hitherto done? What have we yet obtained? Where are our spoils? Have our rights been restored? Have our claims been conceded? No, Sir. We have but just taken the field; and now shall we rest upon our arms? The spirit of exclusion has only been startled upon his throne; but there sits the demon still, mocking our efforts, and grinning over his triumph. Our hearts must not faint, our nerves must not slacken. Let us not trust our cause to men, who have nothing for us but empty professions. Our friend Mr. Ricketts has told us that Lord Ashley sympathises with us, and that Sir Alexander Johnstone is deeply interested for us. But their sympathy and their interest, however likely to call forth our gratitude, should never claim our confidence. Do you suppose that any member of the legislature touched by so much tenderness will address either House of Parliament in some such way as this? "Gentlemen-Here am I overflowing with the milk of human kindness, anxious to restore to that long neglected, and unjustly treated race, the East Indians, those rights which they

do not demand."-No, Sir, such will never be the language of legislators; the benevolence of statesmen seldom incommodes them to such an alarming degree. But the very facts which Mr. Ricketts' Report communicate to us should lead us to distrust noble lords and honorable gentlemen. What are those facts? Lord Ashley felt for us. We thank his lordship. He promised to present our petition. This was generous. But when the time came for his Lordship's hand to follow up the benevolent suggestions of his heart, that hand became suddenly paralyzed. Weighty matters of state pressed upon his heart, and the petition was left to make its own way into the House of Commons. I am apprehensive (though I only suggest the possibility of the thing) that matters of state may be as burdensome to our other sympathizing friends in Parliament, and that such paralytic attacks as we see do sometimes afflict Lord Ashley may be common to others who are deeply interested in our welfare. To protect ourselves against such mischances, it would not perhaps be the most unwise course to petition the Legislature. Gentlemen, you have nothing to fear from firm and respectful remonstrance. Your calls for justice must be as incessant as your grievances are heavy: complain again and again: complain till you are heard-aye, and until you are answered. The ocean leaves traces of every inroad it makes upon the shore; but it must repeat those inroads with unabat ed strength, and follow them up with rapidity, before it washes away the strand. Mr. Ricketts spoke to this resolution-as follows:

MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN,-You may perhaps suppose that I now rise to oppose the motion which has just been made by Mr. Pote, and seconded by Mr. Derozio, in regard to our preparing and forwarding a second Petition to Parlia ment. Not so; for I rise to third the motion, if such a thing can be done. I am no advocate for apathetic indifference and silence under an oppressive load of degrading disabilities. On the contrary, my motto is "Complain loud and long, until you are heard and answered;" but perhaps my motive in dissuading the Committee, for the present, from a renewal of our application to the Legis lature, is liable to be mistaken and misunderstood; and I will, therefore, now explain the matter. During my residence in England, I was in almost daily communication with Members of Parliament; and, before I came away, they never once even so much as hinted to me the necessity or desirableness of our re-petitioning Parliament for the redress of our civil and political grievances, on my return to Calcutta. With regard to the technical objection referred to, it is true that our Petition was presented to the last Parliament, which was afterwards dissolved by

the King's death; but the proceedings of the two select Committees on India affairs cannot, from that circumstance alone, be annulled and set aside. My evidence before them will be reported on to both Houses of Parliament, and there can be no receding from a decision of the public question involved in the case.

But, Gentlemen, while I agree to the propriety of our petitioning Parliament a second time, you will allow me to state my opinion of what nature such a Petition should be. We need not, in our second Petition, go into a lengthy detail of all our disabilities and grievances. These are now pretty well known among public men in England; and a very brief recital of them will suffice for every purpose. What we should now bend our chief attention to, is this. The impression on my mind, is that the boon we solicit,-No, this is a misnomer, I mean the concession of our just rights will no longer be withheld from us. It is to the British Parliament we must look for ultimate success in the accomplishment of this object; but I fear that, even then, some secret delusion may hereafter be practised towards us, so as to keep us out of what the Legislature may fully intend to put us in possession of. The door of admission into the Company's service, may perhaps be thrown open to us in theory, but completely and effectually barred against us in practice. Lest the noble intentions of the Legislature should be frustrated in some such way as this, I propose that we should at once express our honest fears on this head, and pray for the insertion of a specific clause in the next charter that may be granted to the East India Company, by which a fair proportion of their patronage may be transferred to India, and by which they may be required to maintain two Colleges in this country at the public expence, on a similar footing to their present Colleges in England. This is what I should call fair play; and this is all we contend for. A portion of the East India patronage might thus be transferred to the local Government; who might be empowered, with the sanction of the Court of Directors, to nominate our East Indian youth, thus properly educated in local Colleges, to writerships and cadetships in the civil and military service. In certain quarters, this is altogether, as I have once before said, a mere question of pounds, shillings, and pence; but this is surely taking the matter on its very lowest scale. I say that political degradation invariably carries along with it moral degradation; and if you seek to degrade any man morally, you have only to degrade him politically; and the thing is effectually done. I repeat it that, in certain quarters, the whole affair of public administration for British India, is entirely a mercenary question of pounds, shillings, and pence; and I really think that, were I a Rothschild with a long purse, it would not be difficult for me to compound the matter with those, who seem to have no other idea of a grave public question involving important social and moral consequences to a whole community of Christian subjects. Gentlemen, I say that we have a right to be employed in the service of the state, in our own native land; and, so long as this right is taken from us, we labour under a wrong and an injustice, that reflect the deepest disgrace upon the authors of our degradation. It would even be hard and unjust, for the sake of putting us in possession of our right to public employment, to subject us to the necessity of seeking it as a boon at the hands of those separated from us by the distance of half the globe. Here we are on the spot of our nativity; and here we are willing to render our services to the British Government. Why should we be put to the trouble of travelling 15,000 miles from home, in quest of what we might never obtain? The thing ought to be placed within our reach on the spot; it ought to be made accessible to us at our own doors.

With these sentiments, Gentlemen, I say we have a right to complain of our grievances; and complain we will loud and long, till we are heard and answered; and I would, therefore, conclude by thirding the motion just made by Mr. Pote, and seconded by Mr. Derozio, as already read to this Meeting.

Mr. W. Byrn stated it might be pleasing to know that another petition which had been prepared by the Committee was in a state of forwardness and would speedily be presented for approval and signatures.

The resolution was unanimously adopted, and the meeting separated after moving a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was carried with cheers,

THE POLICE.

The following are the Arrangements, we understand, from a private but authentic, source, under which the business of the Police Office is, in future, to be conducted. Its not being introduced to the public under a more official form, arises, we believe, from the circumstance of its being in some respects an experimental measure; and it would scarcely be expedient to embarrass the system with rules that may, from time to time, require to be partially amended, amplified, or rescinded.

1st. The Town Sergeants, Constables, Thannadars, Burkundazes and Chowkeedars, are placed under the special orders of Captain STEEL, the Superintendent, who acts under the general controul of the Chief Magis

trate.

2d. Four Magistrates will be considered to have special authority in Divisions of the Town, as undermentioned:

A. St. L. MCMAHON, Esq. in the 1st or Upper North Division, bounded on the
North-by the Mahrattah Ditch, on the

South-by Mutchooa Bazar Road and Cotton Street to Meerbhur's Ghaut,
East-by the Circular Road.

West-by the River Hooghly.

Residence, Mission Row.

C. K. ROBISON, Esq. in the 2d or Lower North Division, bounded on the
North-by Mutchooa Bazar Road and Cotton Street, to Meerbhur's Ghaut.
South-by the Boitakhanna and Bow Bazar Road,and Hare Street, to Police Ghaut.
East-by the Circular Road.

West-by the River Hooghly; and in cases connected with the Shipping, and other Craft in the River. Residence,-No. 12, Tank Square.

W. C. BLAQUIERE, Esq. in the 3d or Upper South Division, bounded on the
North-by Boitakhannah and Bow Bazar Road and Hare Street, to Police Ghaut
South-by Durromtollah Street and Esplanade Row, to Chandpaul Ghaut.
East-Circular Road.

West-River Hooghly.

Residence, Baliaghaut Road.

P. ANDREW, Esq. in the 4th or Lower South Division, bounded on the
North-by Durromtollah Street and Esplanade Row, to Chandpaul Ghaut.
South-by the Lower Circular Road to Kidderpore Bridge and Tolly's Nullah,
to the River Hooghly.

East-by the Circular Road.
West-by the River Hooghly.

Residence, No. 5, Harrington Street; also over the Coolie Bazar, and cases connected with the Fort.

3d. Offences perpetrated on the Great Thoroughfares of the Durromtollah Street, Esplanade Row, Boitakhanna and Bow Bazar Roads, and Hare Street, to Police Ghaut, Mutchooa Bazar Road and Cotton Street to Meerbhur's Ghaut, will be considered to be in the local division of the Magistrate whose division is situated to the North of each of them.

4th. All persons complaining of Assaults and Misdemeanors, will prefer their charges before each Magistrate, according to the locality as above.