The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday February 22 1904

The practice of the Middle ages was the inevitable outcome of the two pre-dominant ideas that were ever present in the political atmosphere of that period of the World Empire and the World Church. [...] The British Government stopped sales of unserviceable vessels and actually paid the sum of £100 000 by way of compensation for the detention in British ports and the prevention of the sale of a flotilla of vessels which had been collected for the Chinese service and subsequently left on the hands of the British comander of the expedition. [...] On the other hand the prisoner was undoubtedly acti4 under the influence of the belief that the deceased man was the eauw of his child's illness and probably thought that by the act of killing Mitta the child's life might be saved. [...] It said inter alia " the whole affair has been so mysterious and the action of the Prime Minister and of the AttorneGeneral so completely at variance with the simple facts as to the law of England and the canons of common sense and plain justice that it is only natural to suppose that there is something behind the Whitaker Wright case which the Government desire to suppress but which in the [...] costs £7-7-0 the costs of the Bishop's solicitors £23-1-6 the costs of the solicitors of the Ecclesiastical Comissioners and the costs of the surveyors £14-3-6.