The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday July 13 1925

Sifting chaff from grain the following malt be said to be the Burp and substance of the policy to be pursued by the Secretary of State and the present British Cabinet with regard to the revision of the constitution of India :- The Secretary of State for India stated in the House of Lords on the 7th of July last that no decision was arrived at as the result of the coference with the Viceroy of I [...] In the course of the debate in the House of Commons which followed Lord Birkenhead’s pronouncement in the House of Lords Earl Winterton affirming the same said :- When proposals are submitted by the Indians themselves which carried a reasonable measure of general agreement among the people of India finch proposals would be carefully considered when the time came by the Government of 177alxiv [...] Those who are acquainted with the history of Dominion Constitutions know that the Australian 'Commonwealth Bill was Am framed at a conference of the members of The Legislature and the leaders of the people of Australia. [...] Intermktional law and morality have.theoretically undergone great develo' 'tient since the (lays of Grotius and were ebodied in the form of a. code in the Hague Regulations at the close of the last century butt when the beast in man is up we are little respecters of the moral laevs as the Great European war has abundantly served to illutratelPs So Lord Blanesburgh woefully said in the c [...] The pious and learned men to whom he has been introduced have felt the same towards hint the King especially so.- Might he as a Settsman remind them that the Ring in question was James the Sixth of Scotland and the First of England " the wisest fool in Christendom ?"—so that they would appreciate the merits of the commendation.