§ MR. O'DONNELLasked the Under Secretary of State for India, If his attention has been called to the fact that, in a recent prosecution against the European proprietor and a Native captain of a Bombay line of coasting steamers for alleged breach of the Passenger Acts, both the European proprietor and the 770 Native captain were sentenced to fines by the magistrate; whether the European proprietor made use of his right of appeal as a European to procure a rehearing of the case in a higher court, with the result that it was decided that no breach of the Passenger Acts had been committed, and that his fine must be remitted; whether the Native captain, because he was not a European, had no right of appeal, and cannot have his fine remitted; and, whether Government intends to maintain the privilege of appeal for some of Her Majesty's subjects, and to refuse it to others, solely on the ground of difference of race?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSSir, since answering the hon. Member's Question on Monday last, I have seen, in The Hindoo Patriot of the 30th of April, a mention of the case referred to; but the facts are so insufficiently stated, that it is not possible to say whether the Native would, or would not, have had the right of appeal.