The objectors have not ventured to call a public meeting, and their memorial has obtained very few signatures.

But they have attempted to make up by noise and virulence for what has been wanting in strength.

It may at first sight appear strange that a law, which is not unwelcome to those who are to live under it, should excite such acrimonious feelings among people who are wholly exempted from its operation.

But the explanation is simple.
Though nobody who resides at Calcutta will be sued in the Mofussil courts, many people who reside at Calcutta have, or wish to have, practice in the Supreme Court.

Great exertions have accordingly been made, though with little success, to excite a feeling against this measure among the English inhabitants of Calcutta.
"The political phraseology of the English in India is the same with the political phraseology of our countrymen at home; but it is never to be forgotten that the same words stand for very different things at London and at Calcutta.