"TO avettator," aprit 3rb, 1652.
Tim period at which the incorporating act of the East India Company falls to be renewed is almost close at hand, and the prospect of a satisfactory preliminary inquiry grows fainter and fainter. Mr. Herries is to move, some day soon, for a Parliamentary Committee; but who dreams that a Committee can do anything this year ? And next year Parliament will have to legislate. Mr. Anstey proposes that a Royal Commission should be .sent to India. That anything can be gained by new inquiries in India at this late hour is most questionable; and the Commissioners will either be old Indians, whose preposses- sions would make them see nothing but corroborations of the opinions they already entertain, or men new to India, who would be bewildered by the entirely new world in which they found themselves. But though there is no inducement to send Commissioners to India, a Royal Commission to collect infor- mation in England, and perhaps to prepare a projet de loi for the future government of our Indian &minions, might form an efficient substitute for a now impossible Parliamentary Committee.
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