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136 LIFE OF BABU SURENTXRA NATH BANERJEK. A PERSONAL ANECDOTE AND THE FIRST PUBLIC MEETING HELD AT KRISHNAGHUR TO EXPRESS SYMPATHY " ' 1 WITH BABU SURENDRA NATH. On Saturday the 4th of May 1883, Babu Surendra Nath was sent to Jail and the sad news of his incar- ceration spread like wild fire throughout the length and breadth of the land. On the morning of Sunday following, while we were reading newspapers in the lodging house of our esteemed friend Babu Amrita Lai Chatterjea, then Sub-Judge of our native town of Krishnaghur, a student shewed us a letter contain- ing the heart-rending news of the Imprisonment of Babu Surendranath. Overpowered with grief and! sorrow, we hastened to the leaders of our society,) viz, the late lamented Rai Jadunath Roy Bahadur,? Zemindar of Krishnaghur, and Babu Prusunna Kumar Bose m.a, b. L.,< one of the leading inembers of the local Bar and other distinguished citizens who seemed to be paralyzed by the shocking news just to the samd extent as we were. We then requested Babus Jadui nath and Prusunna Kumar to call a public meeting* on that very day, without any loss of time to exl press sympathy with Surendranath and they readilj* acceded to our request Overpowered -with grief anal sorrow and burning under a deep sense of wrong we! tan from one end of the town to the other, visiting all educated and sensible people of the town requesM ing them to muster strong at the time of the meeting | and by 6 o'clock in the evening, the- entire educated? "native community of Krishnaghur -numbering oveil one thousand persons/ including influential Zemini dars; Pleaders/ Doctors, Tradesmen, School-ma stertf assembled in the local Public Library Hall to expresj sympathy with Babu Surendranath. Rai Jadunath R03I Bahadur took the chair on the occasion, and with] his characteristic sense of propriety, calmness and| moderation, expressed, on behalf of the entire nativ 4 population of the district of Nuddea, their sympathy