The example of Ceylon furnishes the most irresistible evidence of the benefits to be expected from the introduc tion of this mode of trial. In Ceylon so late as 1810 domestic slavery was common; but subsequently to the introduction of jury trial, that community petitioned the Government to do away with slavery. Here too every successive Governor we have had has expressed the same opinion, that till you can get the people themselves to administer justice, you must not expect to see justice done.

Mr. LEITH said that it was not his intention to addess

to a third. Such being the case he was of opinion that a consummate liar. Give the inhabitants of this counit would be wise in the inhabitants of Calcutta, instead try, the institutions of a free country, and they will soonof adopting trial by jury in civil cases, without quali- learn to value truth, which can only co-exist with freefication or restriction, to accompany the demand, with a dom. suggestion of some provision by which the verdicts of Juries should be rendered final and conclusive. It is a frequent cause of motion for new trial, that the verdict has been given against evidence; but as the Supreme Court is at present constituted this is an evil which is not to be apprehended. Another difficulty that was peculiar to the present state of the community here, was the difficulty that would be found in obtaining an impartial trial." The learned gentleman instanced a case, where a cause had been removed out of Cornwall to Devonshire, on the ground that an impartial jury, could not be had in the former county; for the same reason it was successively removed from Devonshire to Somersetshire, and finally was brought up to be tried at Westminister as the only place where an impartial jury could be got. Was not the community here too limited and too biassed to be impartial? "Sometimes too, juries were found to be obstinate and perverse, and insisted upon deciding on the Law as well as the fact, and that sometimes after a most ludicrous manner." In proof of this assertion the learned gentleman instanced the case of one jury, which doducted from the amount of damages they awarded the plaintiff, the amount of the damages which another jury had awarded to the defendant, in an action brought by the latter, against the Plaintiff, for a black eye. "It is such circumstances as these that give the Courts an absolute power to send back a case for a new trial." The learned gentleman concluded by recommending the inhabitants of Calcutta to pause before they adopted a measure, which would leave them just as much as ever at the mercy of the Court, with this additional evil, that it would compel them to pay for new trials.

Mr. W. P. GRANT rose and expressed his distinct and unequivocal denial of the legal position upon which the gentleman who spoke last, had founded his argument. He denied, that a new trial in civil cases was, by the

the present meeting, nor should he have done so but to express his astonishment at the statement that in civil cases, after a verdict duly found, a new trial was to be had as a matter of course. Such was not the case; and as to sending a case for a new trial, there would indeed be good ground of complaint, if the Judge or the Court, attempted to decide differently from the jury; but what did they? why where a decision appeared to be dubious, for some good and sufficient cause, they sent it to another jury, that all doubt might be cleared away.

Mr. WYBURN begged to explain that he did not object to the introduction of trial by jury, but merely intended to suggest its modification, so that it might not give rise to an interminable series of new trials.

Mr. DICKENS said that he had not intended to have spoken upon this occasion, and he was only induced to tish Lawyer should be found to advance so extraordido so in order to express his astonishment that a Brinary a ground of complaint, as that a party to a suit, should possess the right of appeal from a first decision.

Here Mr. WYBURN rose for the purpose of explanation but after some noisy discussion as to order, he sat down again.

the adoption of the practice of new trials, was, that MR. DICKENS proceeded. The object attained by instead of bringing a writ of attaint of false verdict, against the jury who tried the cause, first, it was sent to another jury to see if they would come to a similar conclusion. In addition to what had been said in favor of the introduction of trials by jury he would furnish the meeting with an example which would tend much to establish its value. The American States contained a population of 12 millions, and in each of these states it was customary to hold periodical meetings of the people, at which to revise, and if possible to improve, the judicial system then prevailing; and yet it has never occurred that a variation has been proposed from the former mode of holding juries.

Law of England, to be had in the Courts where that law
was administered, as a matter of course. Such was not
a principle that was either recognised or acted upon, in
our Courts, and if some few instances could be adduced,
of new trials granted upon slight or even improper
grounds, such instances could weigh nothing against the
preponderating advantages of the introduction of
the trial by jury in all cases when it was practicable.
He regarded it as likely to be productive of peculiar
advantages to this country at the present moment, a
country which may be regarded as now on the eve, or
rather in the early dawning of a new and brighter era.
He considered that whatever operated as a means of
bringing a knowledge of the laws, and the best institu-
tions of Law, home to the feelings and bosoms of the
great mass of the people; whatever tended to familiar-
ize them with habits and notions of administrative jus-
tice, subjects towards which they had never hitherto
been taught to elevate their thoughts, must be of the
most salutary consequences, to the improvement and
civilization of India. It would tend to engender proper
sentiments in every man, in respect to his rights and to
induce him fearlessly to avow and maintain them. It
had been said that the people of this country are not yet
fit for this mode of trial; but if we look back to the his-call for.
tory of our own country we shall find, that when juries
were first established in England, the people were in a
condition little differing from that of the people of this

country.

It was the institution of trial by jury that did so much to make them what they now are; and the same results may be anticipated from its introduction here. A disregard to truth is the common vice of slaves, and was so proverbially so among the ancients, that with the comedians of Rome a slave was always the representative of

After some remarks by Mr. Wyburn, much interrupted on the score of order, the first resolution was put and carried unanimously.

The second resolution now coming to be discussed. Mr. Wyburn rose to say that it was superfluous, inasmuch as the Magistracy could be compelled by mandaof General Quarter Sessions, for the purpose of hearing mus, issuing out of the Supreme Court, to hold a Court any appeal which an aggrieved party might think fit to

Mr. CLARKE maintained that the resolution so far

from being superfluous was absolutely necessary. That

in order to constitute a Court of Quarter Sessions, competent to the trials of Appeal, it was necessary that the commission under which the Magistrate was appointed, should contain certain words conveying such authority as should constitute him one of those before whom such appeals could be heard. These words were not contained in the commission under which Magistrates have been appointed here.

After some objections on the part of Mr. Wyburn, the resolution was carried unanimously.

In the third resolution, Mr. Wyburn expressed his full concurrence, and it was passed without a voice being raised against it.

Mr. C. PRINSIP said that in anticipation of that unanimity which he was happy to find prevail, he had prepared and would, with the permission of the meeting, read a petition which he had drawn up, expressing the objects which the present meeting were desirous, as had been former meetings, of obtaining. He had hoped that the same hand, from which they had received the liberty of the press would have bestowed these benefits also, and thus have added another leaf to that wreath which justly encircles his brow; but he congratulated the meeting that we had now to make our applications for improvement and reform to a British Lawyer, who might be presumed to regard British nights, and British institutions, with all the respect they deserve. He concluded by recommending the meeting, never to desist from their application till their object was achieved.

form:

Resolved. That the Petition now read be adopted and presented to the Right Honorable the Governor-General of India in Council. Carried unanimously.

Mr. SMITH then stated that with a view to carrying into effect, the resolutions passed at the meeting, it was advisable that a Committee be appointed, and he proposed the following resolution.

That your Petitioners although well disposed to rely on the Council and Commission so constituted for the remedy of the manifold and manifest defects and vices of the existing Judicial system, see little chance of any relief until those who are to abide the result shall volunculiar experience may have supplied to them. tarily come forward with such suggestions as their pe

That your Petitioners as a part of the public of India, beg leave to bring to the notice of your Lordship in Council some particulars in which the administration of Justice may be essentially improved, and in which your Petitioners feel themselves more immediately interested and most competent to express an opinion.

That your Petitioners in the first place again crave attention to the important object of extending the principle of Jury-Trial to Civil as well as Criminal Cases, and that not only in the Supreme Court of this Presidency but in all His Majesty's Courts within the British territories in India, if not in the Company's Courts also. That such extension has long been desired by this community is too well known to admit of question.

So soon after the establishment of the Supreme Court Mr. PRINSEP then read the Petition which was ap-in Bengal in the year 1779, it was claimed as matter proved and adopted by the Meeting-in the following of right by the inhabitants of Calcutta, but denied by the Supreme Court, as not warranted by the terms of the Charter of Justice. It was, however, even then, and has since continually been, declared from the Bench to be a measure as desirable to the Judges as to the public. gislature was resolved upon unanimously at a General In April, 1832, a Petition for that object to the British LeMeeting of the inhabitants of Calcutta convened by the Sheriff and held at the Town Hall. A committee was then appointed, and a Petition drawn up and signed, Resolved. That the following Gentlemen be ap-which was accordingly transmitted to England and prepointed a Committee for the purpose of forwarding the Petition to the Right Honorable the Governor-General, and also to adopt such measures as may be necessary to further the proposed objects. Messrs. Longueville Clarke, J. R. Bagshaw, F. H. Burkinyoung, Dwarkanath Tagore, Theodore Dickens, David Hare, J. Kyd, H. M. Parker, C. R. Prinsep, Prosonnocoomar Tagore, A. Rogers, H. W. Torrens, T. E. M. Turton, Captain Vint, James Young, W. R. Young, W. P. Grant, and J. F. Leith. Carried unanimously.

It was also resolved that the Petition be presented to the Governor-General by the Sheriff, attended by the Committee as a Deputation.

After which, the usual vote of thanks to the Chairman was carried unanimously, and the Meeting broke up.

The Resolutions in a separate and official form, and the Petition, will be found in a preceding page.

THE PETITION.

sented to His Majesty and both Houses of Parliament. A copy of that Petition is annexed, and we crave reference to it as expressing the general wish of the community of that period. The British Legislature being already occupied in framing a new Constitutional Act for India, the Petitioners by letter from the Right Honourable Charles Grant, then Chairman of the Board of Control, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee, were referred to the Legislative Council about to be established, as the proper authority to whom the applimunication, a second General Meeting was, on the recations should be made. In consequence of that comquisition of the former Committee, convened by the Sheriff and held at the Town Hall on the 8th of July 1835, when another Petition to the Honorable the Governor-General of India in Council was voted, and a ject of it. To that Petition, a copy of which is also Committee appointed to present and to forward the obannexed, we crave the earnest attention of your Lordship, that although the Petition last mentioned was duly presented, and the Committee, in compliance with the instructions of the General Meeting, respectfully tendered their services in supplying materials for the better effecting of the object in view, your Petitioners

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD AUCKLAND, GOVERNOR- regret to say, that nothing appears to have been done

GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL.

(The Petition of the Inhabitants of Calcutta.

and its Neighbourhood.) HUMBLY SHEWETH,-That the Government and Legislature of Great Britain on the late renewal of the Territorial Grant to the Honorable East India Company expressed their full conviction of the imperfect state of the legal institutions of the British dominions in India by not only adding to the Supreme Council a Legislative member, whose duty was limited exclusively to sitting and voting at meetings for the making of Laws and Regulations, but by likewise constituting a Law Commission for the purpose of enquiring into and reporting upon the existing judicial establishments and suggesting alterations therin.

in the matter, nor has any answer yet been given to the prayer of that Petition.

Your Petitioners, therefore, beg leave to renew the

application and to recommend it to immediate notice as an object that may presently and safely be effected without interfering with any scheme of general codification, of which (should any such be actually in progress or in contemplation,) it will necessarily form a promi

nent feature.

Your Petitioners also beg to draw attention to an object of great local interest, and which has often been agitated that is to say, the revival of the Old Court of Quarter Sessions of the peace for the trial of minor offences and misdemeanours committed within the limits of Calcutta. The discontinuance of that court has long been felt as a local grievance. The time of the Superior

THE AUTHENTICATED RESOLUTIONS.

Fourt has been occupied with matters greatly beneath its dignity and the partial remedy attempted by vesting increased power in the Magistracy, without the aid of either Jury or professional skill has not only been un-bourhood, was held this day at the Town Hall, persusatis factory in the result, but is moreover a dangerous encroachment on that principle of English Jurisprudence which awards to every one the right of trial by his equals.

A meeting of the inhabitants of Calcutta and its neighant to a requisition addressed to the Sheriff, Richard Howe Cockerell, Esq. the Sheriff' was placed in the chair. Moved by Mr. Longueville Clarke, seconded by Mr. Bagshaw:

RESOLVED." That the solicitations of the inhabiYour Petitioners have yet another matter to bring to tants of Calcutta for the extension of trial by jury the notice of your Lordship in Council, and one that has to civil cases, not having been complied with, another intimate relation to the two other objects abovementioned, namely, the extension of the limits of the Local Jurisdic-petition be presented to the Right Honorable the Govertion of the measure." nor-General in Council, praying for the immediate adop

tion of Calcutta over its populous Suburbs and dependencies. The present limits were defined by Proclamation, as long ago as the year 1794, since which time RESOLVED." That the petition also pray for the large Suburbs have grown up, wherein the whole of the establishment in Calcutta of a Court of General and business of shipbuilding, and many other branches of Quarter Sessions in which His Majesty's Justices of the manufacture are carried on with capital and skill sup- Peace may be vested with the same powers and jurisdicplied from the Town itself. Within these Suburbs not tion as are exercised by the Magistracy in England." only is the Law administered by different Courts, from RESOLVED." That the petition pray that a new those exercising jurisdiction over the Town itself, but the proclamation be issued extending the local limits of Calprocess and even the principles of Law are widely dif-cutta so that the inhabitants of the populous suburbs may ferent. Thus traders and others, whose whole dealings be subject to the same Code of Law and Courts of Justice and occupations are transacted within the Town, and as the residents of the city." Carried unanimously. with its inhabitants, are not subjected to the jurisdiction -or amenable to the Laws-there prevalent. Even if the prospect held out to our hopes of a general uniformity in the Law, and in the process by which it will be administered were less uncertain, and less remote than to us it appears to be-still must it be a manifest advantage, on grounds as well of economy to the Government as of simplification and consistency, that, for all local transactions and rights, not only the Law should be one and the same, but that it should be administered by one and the same tribunal.

Your Petitioners are well aware that objections may be urged against such extention on the score of difference in the expenses of suit; but the powers of reform and retrenchment now vested in your Lordship in Council are so ample, as to render any such objection very easily removable.

(Signed)

R. H. COCKERELL, Chairman. The Sheriff having left the Chair in order to attend the Supreme Court.

Moved by Mr. C. R. Prinsep, seconded by the Reverend Thomas Robertson.

"That Mr. Longueville Clarke do take the chair. Moved by Mr. C. R. Prinsep, seconded by Dwarkanath Tagore.

RESOLVED. "That the petition now read be adopted and presented to the Right Honorable the GovernorGeneral of India in Council." Carried unanimously. Moved by Mr. Samuel Smith, seconded by the Revd. T. Robertson.

RESOLVED." That the following gentlemen be appointed a Committee for the purpose of forwarding the petition to the Right Honorable the Governor-General, and also to adopt such measures as may be necessary For all these several purposes ofgeneral and of local in- Clarke, J. R. Bagshaw, F. H. Burkinyoung, Dwarto further the proposed objects. Messrs. Longueville terest, your Petitioners bumbly pray, that your Lordship kanath Tagore, Theodore Dickens, David Hare, J. Kyd, in Council will take into your earliest consideration the H. M. Parker, C. R. Prinsep, Prosonnocoomar Tagore, matter of the former Petition for the extension of Jury A. Rogers, H. W. Torrens, T. E. M. Turton, Captain Trial to Civil Cases,--and will also direct that early Vint, James Young, W. R. Young, W. P. Grant, and measures may be taken for the revival of the court of. F. Leith. Carried unanimously. Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the Town of Calcutta.

Moved by Mr. C. R. Prinsep, seconded by Mr.

Moreover that, with a view to economy and uniformity David Hare. in the local administration of Justice, your Lordship will RESOLVED." That the thanks of this meeting be given be pleased in execution of the powers vested in you by to Mr. Cockerell, the Sheriff, and to Mr. Longueville the 1st Section of Statute 55th Geo. III. C. 84 to ex-Clarke for their conduct in the chair. Carried unanitend the limits of the Town of Calcutta so as to comprise mously. the whole of its populous Suburbs and dependencies.

And your Petitioners shall ever pray, &c.

(Signed)

LONGUEVILLE CLARKE, Chairman. [Hurkaru.

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Proposed by Mr. Stocqueler, and seconded by Mr. Turton, that Mr. Molloy be elected a Church Warden for the ensuing year. Carried unanimously.

"Proposed by Mr. Turton, and seconded by Mr. Stocqueler, that Mr. Sim be elected a Church Warden for the ensuing year. Carried unanimously.

the new Trustees, the Vestry joining in all such acts as may be necessary to vest the property in the new Trustees; and that in case of any difficulty the new Trustees be requested, on behalf of the Inhabitants, to take such steps as they may deem necessary for placing the Trusts on a proper footing. Carried nem. con.

Proposed by Mr. Staunton, that a vote of thanks "Proposed by Mr. Stocqueler, and seconded by Mr. Binny, that the following gentlemen, namely, Messrs. be given to the Church Officers of the past year, for the T. E. M. Turton, J. S. Judge, R. Molloy, and A. H.independent manner in which they have discharged Sim be requested to act as new Trustees, and undertake their duties. Carried nem, con. the Trusts vested in the old and former Trustees; Proposed by Dr. Langstaff, and seconded by Mr. and that the old Trustees and their representatives Stocqueler, that the thanks of this Meeting be given to be requested to convey and assign over their in- the Rev. Mr. Robertson for his able conduct in the terests in the Church Property, Land and Funds to chair.-Hurkaru.

AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA.

A general Meeting of this Society was held in the be adopted, and printed in the Ist No. of the Society's Town Hall, on Wednesday, the 13th April, 1836. transactions, now in the press. THE HON'BLE SIR E. RYAN, President, in the Chair. Members Present.

The President intimated to the meeting, that the Right Honorable Lord Auckland had kindly consented to become the Society's Patron.

1.-R. N. C. Hamilton, Esq., officiating Magistrate and Collector at Meerut, proposed by Sir E. Ryan, seconded by the Hon'ble Mr. Melville.

2.-The Hon'ble Col. Rehling, Governor of Serampore, proposed by Dr. Marshman, seconded by Sir E. Ryan.

3.-J. O. Voight, Esq., of Serampore, proposed by

Dr. Marshman, seconded by Mr. Bell.

4.-Major Smyth, Commanding 4th Local Horse, proposed by Major Honywood, seconded by the Hon.

Mr. Melville.

5.-E. A. Samuells, Esq., officiating Magistrate of Hoogly, proposed by Mr. Piddington.

6.-Capt. J. Mathie, European Regiment Assam, proposed by Mr. Bell, seconded by Mr. Storm.

7.-Lieut. T. Brodie, 10th Regt. Assam, proposed by Mr. Bell, seconded by Mr. Storm.

The chief points to which the Committee had devoted attention here, to the encouragement of Vegetables out of season, by withdrawing premiums, from such as have been brought to perfection in season, and to divide the exhibitions, so as to afford mallees an opportunity of competing for some articles, heretofore excluded from the Annual Exhibition by reason of being wholly out of season that time.

The Committee had also proposed a Resolution which was passed on a suggestion offered some time ago by Sir H. Fane, to give ample encouragement for the production of strawberries in large quantities.

The following communications were read, and donations presented.

Nos. 1 and 2, letters from the Right Honourable Lord Auckland to the officiating Secretary, dated the 16th and 29th March.

The first enclosing copy of a report by Mr. Masters, of the Botanical Garden, upon the state of preservation, in which he found a variety of plants brought to India by the Governor-General."

In directing attention to the mode of distribution proposed by Mr. Masters, Lord Auckland's offers for the acceptance of the society, such as are noted, desir

ing the officiating Secretary to name any others, that he

might consider useful.

The assortment of seeds and plants presented, comprehends, kitchen garden seeds, 13 varieties of oats, 11 ditto of Barley, 31 ditto of wheat, 6 ditto of millet, 1 ditto of rye, 2 ditto of tobacco, 2 ditto of Brazilian cotton, seven species of figs, 2 ditto of vanilla aramatico 1 ditto of frasinus ornus, 1 ditto adonia Sp., 1 metrosiderous, SP, 10 grape vines, to which Mr. Bell proposed to add the cactus cochinellifer, maranta arundinacea, and a few others.

The second, presenting a box of kitchen garden seeds, in addition to the above, which includes, hemlock, hen8.-James Crooke, Esq., proposed by W. Storm, bane, and foxglove, put up at the suggestion of Dr. Esq., seconded by John Allan, Esq.

9.-J. Mackay, Esq., on his quick departure for N. Holland, proposed by Mr. Bell as an Honorary Member, seconded by Dr. Marshman

The President, in reference to the suggestions offered at last meeting by the Hon'ble Mr. Melville, read to the meeting, the Resolution of a Committee, appointed to revise the Rules, &c. regarding medals and prizes, distributable to mallies, which Resolutions were ordered to

Royle.

The Secretary had collected the opinions of four medical members, viz. Drs. Bramely, Jackson, Strong and Egerton, which were favorable to experiments being made at the Botanic Garden, Russapugla, Saharunpore and Assam.

No. 3.-From Mr. Masters, dated the 19th March, forwarding to the Secretary by order of Lord Auckland, a "memorandum as to the introduction of use

ful plants to India," by John Forbes Royle, Esq., to-| No. 9.-From W. H. S. Rainey, Esq., of Jessore, gether with the grain and garden seeds referred to in presenting a bottle of Persian tobacco seed, and asking His Lordship's letter No. 1. for more guinea grass.

No. 10.-From W. Cobb Hurry, Esq., dated the 24th March, strongly recommending to the attention of Planters and gentlemen in the interior, the cultivation of guinea grass, in which he had been most successful. Mr. Hurry has had as much as forty tons from a single beegah, and four or five cuttings in a season.

Mr. Hurry recommends its propagation from cuttings,

No. 11. From Mr. Bell, in reply to Mr. Hurry, stating his conviction that with proper care seed may be successfully cultivated and pointing out the advantage of being able, by means of seed, to disperse this grass to the utmost limits. Mr. B. has kept up a continual succession of crops from seed for many years, and finds that it does not deteriorate.

jection to seed was mainly based on the probable disapNo. 12. From Mr. Hurry, explaining that his obpointment that would be experienced from sowing in the usual manner.

Doctor Royle, in recommending attention to the im-rather than seed provement of rice cultivation in India, relates an anecdote of a Liverpool merchant sending to his correspondent in Calcutta some bags of American rice, which in cleaning had been deprived of the embryo as well as the husk and again that a quantity of kiln-dried hops had been acctually sent to Calcutta for cultivation. Doctor Royle's observations, concise, and to the point, will, no doubt, lead to further and more general enquiry. No. 4.-From E. A. Samuells, Esq., Officiating Magistrate at Hooghly, to the Secretary, dated 21st March, presenting a small box of West India seeds, received from a relative resident in Jamaica, and requesting to be favored with any seeds, of East Indian plants, which may not be common to the west (including the lichee and mangosteen) which Mr. S. states would be most acceptable to his correspondent, who is devoted to Horticultural pursuits. The contents of this box are as follows. 1, the "broad leap," a valuable forest tree; 2, the star apple; 3, the neesberry; 4, the bilberry; 5, the red sorrel; 6, the pimento; 7, the fiddle wood; 8, guinea grass; 9, pimento grass; 10, bahama grass.

No. 5.-From Dr. Wise, Civil Surgeon at Hooghly, dated 27th March, in reply to Mr. Bell's letter, intimates Mr. Samuell's polite offer to write to Jamaica, for any seeds or plants the society may desire.

No. 13. From Mr. Masters, forwarding for the use of the Society a copy of Dr. Roxburgh's observations on substitutes for hemp and flax, and stating that the species of hemp referred to by Colonel Burney, in a on the 10th February last, is the "Urtica tenacissima" therein referred to.

letter submitted

No. 14.-From Dr. Strong, forwarding a paper on the hemp of New Zealand, and Mr. Stevenson's analysis of a sample of cochineal (grana sylvestra), taken from tal. the prickly cactus, in the grounds of the Insane Hospi

Mr. Stevenson after putting the colouring properties of the insect to the test by eight different processes, winds up his remarks by stating that "enough has been done to prove Mr 6. From John Vaupell, Esq., seeds to the Bom- the substance (if not cochineal) equal to that valuable bay Agricultural and Horticultural Society, dated 9th dye, for all purposes to which it is applied in the arts." March, acknowledging receipt of Mr. Bell's letter of the No. 15.-From J. W. Grant, Esq., Officiating Super11th February, on the subject of obtaining a supply of intendant of the Botanical Garden, in reply to a letter Egyptian cotton seed, and acclimated Otaheite sugar-from the Officiating Secretary dated 9th ultimo, soli

cane.

citing on behalf of the Seciety, the use of a few beegahs of ground, within the limits of the garden, to be applied as a nursery for the reception and propagation of sugar-cane ordered from the Mauritius.

Mr. V. advises the shipment of a small quantity of the former, which had been just bronght round on the steamer, by a Mr. Mayo, passenger from Egypt, who intends engaging in the culture of cotton on that side of India. This seed was a donation from Mr. Mayo, to the Bom-reference to Mr. Masters. bay Society, and very kindly transferred by that body to meet the objects of the Calcutta institution.

A cask of Mauritius (originally Otaheite) sugar-cane, has also been sent in the name of the Framjee Cowasjee Shaw, the Bombay Society's native President, the pro

duce of his state in Salsette.

Mr. Grant promptly meets the Society with by a

Mr. Bell informed the Meeting that he had accordingly met Mr. Masters, and that an eligible spot of ground measuring more or less six begahs, had been fixed upon for the nursery, which Mr. Masters had promised to have dug up at the Society's expense. No 16. From Mr. R. Smith presenting some seeds Calendula Straiata" or African Marigold, with No. 7-From J. Vaupeli, Esq., in continuation dated of the the 18th March, replying fully to Mr. Bell's letters of drawings of the varieties which produced this seed. the 11th and 20th February, and 1st March, intimating No. 17. From H. Piddington, Esq., presenting a the conviction of the Society at Bombay, as to the neces- sample of tobacco and cheroots made from it, the procity of maintaining a more intimate and regular corres-duce of Cabul Seed, with a pint of seed for distribution. pondence with that of Calcutta for the furtherance of the objects of both.

No. 18.-From Mr Bell, a small supply of seeds from his garden.

No. 19.-From Dr. Burke dated 11th April, presenting in the name of Lieutenant-Colonel Stacy of Allyghur, a bottle containing varieties of the clematis.

No. 20.-Extract of a letter from J. M. Mackie, Esq., of Dinapore, dated the 5th Apirl, sending by banghy, a Bombay mangoe, the produce of a tree which blossomed in December, the fruit from which was all destroyed by a severe frost save two, which were blown down on the 4th instant, by: a N. wester. In February, although the fruit was on the tree, it again threw out a