[The term "Mofussil" is used to denote the provinces of the Bengal Presidency, as opposed to the Capital.] Seven weeks have elapsed since the notification took place.

Time has been allowed for petitions from the furthest corners of the territories subject to this Presidency.

But I have heard of only one attempt in the Mofussil to get up a remonstrance; and the Mofussil newspapers which I have seen, though generally disposed to cavil at all the acts of the Government, have spoken favourably of this measure.
"In Calcutta the case has been somewhat different; and this is a remarkable fact.

The British inhabitants of Calcutta are the only British-born subjects in Bengal who will not be affected by the proposed Act; and they are the only British subjects in Bengal who have expressed the smallest objection to it.

The clamour, indeed, has proceeded from a very small portion of the society of Calcutta.