The Friend of India and Statesman Friday November 15th 1878

It was pointed oat by the mover that one of the chief changes needing introduction was a code of rules to insure that efficient men only should be allowed to practice in the Presidency Courts of Small Causes —Sir Barues Peacock having ruled that the Cuurta of Small Causes mentioned in the Act referred only to the Courts in the mama The other Bill merely modified the meaning of some clauses in the [...] And the English people with its great traditions the mother of free nations the eery home of freedom the chrome champion of right—is to take up the foul cast-olf tinsel finery and rags of the Imperialism of Bonaparte% Mareliale and to march through the world with this Jow adventurer at their head to the tune of Portant your la Syria or an English parody of Yanhve-doodldeo —that the great [...] The causes of the decline in the value of the rupee have been traced and laid bare ; and though there is considerable diversity of opinion as to the merits of the various remedies proposed yet the pros and cons in each case are well understood. [...] the British consttution believes if we may so say in the supremacy of reason and the reasonableness of man ; and that therefore if a minority be in the right it will sooner or latter convince the nation of its rectitude ; but in the meantime the Government of the country must be carried on as if it were in the wrong. [...] The inevitable effect of all this discussion and controversy will be to divide the knowable from the unknowable ; and the former will then become the basis of the creed of all but the"998 The Friend of India and Statesman.