report and through evil report pursue that which I conscientiously believe to be right, and then when the time arrives for relinquishing the trust, I shall have the consolation of knowing that I can lay my hand upon my heart, and truly declare that I never gave a vote in this Council which I did not at the time believe to be just and correct."
Noble words are these and should be written in characters of gold.
The License Bill was passed in 1861 with two dissentient votes of Sir Charles Robert Mitchell Jackson and the Chief Justice of Bengal.
SIR BARNES PEACOCK, KT.
The Hindoo Patriot wrote thus:—
"None perhaps more bravely defended the position of the Court than Sir Barnes Peacock. Sir Barnes would not yield an inch, and he generally carried the day. A brother Judge had applied to Government for leave without going through the Chief Justice, and the Government had granted his application, but Sir Barnes protested, and the Government cancelled its order and told the Judge to come through the Chief Justice, and this was done. The Government had asked for the opinion of the Court extrajudicially in a Sylhet case, just as it did in the Fuller case, but Six Barnes refused to express the opinion solicited in such an irregular manner, and Government had to give in."
SIR EDWARD RYAN.
The Mofussilite has the following about the late Sir Edward Ryan.
Sir Edward Ryan's name takes us back to a dark period of Indian history, when men's minds were wrought to fever heat of excitement by the appalling disaster which befel our army in that dreary passage through the Cabal gate, whence only one remained to reach the goal at Jellalabad. Among these who administered the sweets of consolation to the troubled
