Extra Supplement to the Gazette of India Calcutta Saturday September 8 1883

He thought that by the restriction we in effect said to the European— You are not to be tried in the mofussil by the agency by which you are tried in the High Court and in the Courts of the Magistrates in the Presidency towns with the general approval and sanction of the European and Native communities." It was saying. [...] In these Provinces there has not yet been opportunity to form any very decided opinion about the character and qualifications of the Native members of the Service; and the time is still distant when it will be necessary to apply to the Native Civilians of these Provinces the test of personal fitness for the charge of a district or for the post of Sessions Judge. [...] The objetion is valid; but I would reply that as a fact the men appointed in India do not all of them come up to the standard of excellence which was propounded for them and that the adoption of the proposal will not require an invidious distinction to be publicly made but merely the laying down of a rule of practice to be privately observed by the Government of India and the Local Governmen [...] The extension of Native agency in the public service and the increase of the influence of the Native voice in all political matters are palpable facts and the European settler is learning that he must reconcile himself to the march of events and accept the inevitable. [...] Surely too it might be argued that Natives and Europeans are not on the same footisis in fact in many ways and that the law recognises this fact ; that there must be some eifferences in the position of the European British subject from that of the Native and" that the law recognises these differences and that the nationality of the Judge is no more invidious or special thau the composition of