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extremely refreshing to find a tone so healthy 

 prevading the debates of a Council the members 

 of which at one time it was thought were doomed 

 to he dummies. From such constitutional proceed- 

 ings as this debate records, evincing as they do 

 respect for the wishes of the Supreme Authority, with 

 an honorable and conscientious resolve faithfully to 

 discharge the sacred trust with which members are 

 invested, the public can augur nothing but the 

 strengthening of the power of the Executive, and the 

 welfare of the Country. It is further gratifying to 

 know that Mr. Ellis has not spoken in vain, that 

 this highly important debate has not been, barren of 

 results. Agreeably to the orders of the Secretary of 

 State, the Act has become law ; but the discussion 

 was not a week old before the propriety of deputing 

 a Government Commissioner, as suggested by Mr. 

 Ellis, to all the colonies to which coolies are sent, 

 to obtain the information asked for, was considered ; 

 and it is the intention of the Government of India 

 to revise and consolidate all the laws relating to 

 the emigration of laborers from India. The revision 

 and amendment of these laws will effect one portion 

 of the object the protection of the emigrant before 

 he leaves India and the deputation of a Commis- 

 sioner, should such an officer independent of all local 

 Colonial influences be appointed, will go some wny 

 towards extending that protection to him, after he 

 has left it. Thus, the Government of India will have 



