Then came the Mutiny, which in its essence was the breakdown of an old system; the renunciation of an attempt to effect an impossible compromise between the Asiatic and the European view of things, legal, military, and administrative.

The effect of the Mutiny on the Statute-book was unmistakable.

The Code of Civil Procedure was enacted in 1859.

The Penal Code was enacted in 1860, and came into operation on the 1st of January 1862.

The credit of passing the Penal Code into law, and of giving to every part of it the improvements which practical skill and technical knowledge could bestow, is due to Sir Barnes Peacock, who held Lord Macaulay's place during the most anxious years through which the Indian Empire has passed.