The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday June 20 1904

The dignity of the Bench is sometimes relieved by the impudence of the Bar the learning of the majority of counsel by the ignorance of a few—not of the Judges for that is hardly a laughing matter—and the burning zeal of advocacy by the introduction of a common-place and a common-sense remark. [...] By the way considering the popularity of his wit with the lower classes may we not call him the Darling of the gods ? A plodding statistician tells us that this learned Judge is responsible for the dyspepsia of the upper and middle classes and the enormous sales of oppodeldocs ' of various kinds. [...] The cause it was discovered of this outbreak of illegality was the conduct of the Presdent of the Court who was in the habit of delvering considered jokes a sort of c. a. v. witticism. [...] 105) where the time fixed by the 0 t for the delivery of an award in a case pendin before it was the 18th April 1900 the award was actually completed and signed and made over to the peon after Court hours and.it did not in fact reach the hand of the Court until the next day it was held that the award "as within time. [...] He ought not in general to state the sum in the award ; but on giving notice to the parties that the award is ready for delivery it is advisable to notify also to them the amount of his charge in order that the party who comes to take up the award may be prepared to pay the samt The arbitrator has a lien forlhis reasonable costs on the award and submission and on any memoranda or valuation obta