Restrictions on the Press in India.

(1) pp. 1-562, Rough copy of Evidence given before the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed in 1834 to examine into the case of J. S. Buckingham 11th July to 31st July 1834. (2) pp. 563-616, Buckingham's Compensation Bill, Opinion of Opposing Counsel, dated 20th Nov. 1835, signed E. J. Lloyd. (3) Proceedings of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Calcutta Journal. pp. 621-3, Resolutions, 4th Aug. 1834, that Compensation should be granted to Buckingham; pp. 625-7, Proposed Resolutions (Printed); pp. 629-89, Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Suppression in 1823 of the Calcutta Journal 18th to 25th May 1826 (Printed. Apparently this Select Committee presented no Report, Lord John Russell and Richard Wellesley successively in the Chair); pp. 691-3, Buckingham's Petition to the House of Commons 9th May 1826 (Printed); pp. 695-825, Minutes of Evidence presented before the Select Committee on the Calcutta Journal 1st to 31st July 1834 (Printed); pp. 827-935, 981-4, Accounts and Papers laid before the Committee (Printed); pp. 939-79, Appendix (Printed). Edward William Wynn Pendarves and Edward Baines were successively in the Chair. The above printed Papers appear to be the daily issue afterwards arranged and embodied in Parliamentary Blue Book 601 of 1834. The only evidence taken in 1826 was given by Sandford Arnot, J. S. Buckingham, Col. William Franklin, James Charles Colebrooke Sutherland and William Henry Trant (Member of the Committee for revising the system of the Post Office). In 1834 evidence was taken only from Buckingham and Thomas Love Peacock (Senior Assistant Examiner of Indian Correspondence).

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