A meeting was held at the Town-hall of Calcutta, on
the 18th of June, to determine upon the measures that should he adopted to pre- vent the final success of an act passed by the Supreme Government, depriving British-born subjects of the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of Judicature, and rendering them amenable to the native courts. The object of Government in passing the act was to equalize the In- dian laws but as this equalization has been considered to have the effect of debasing the European to the level of the native, instead of raising the native to an equality with the European, it has been earnestly resisted. There were about six hundred persons at the meeting. Mr. Turton, the barrister, opened it ; and proposed a reso- lution to memorialize the Court of Directors and the Board of Control to repeal or disallow this act. This resolution was carried. It is intended by the British inhabitants of Calcutta, to depute Mr. Turton to England, with a salary of 2000/. per AIIIIUM, to carry the petition before Parliament, and otherwise to employ his talents in furthering the wishes of his constituents.
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