The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday August 29 1904

THE BENGAL GOVERNMENT RESOLUTION ON THE Report of the Police Administration for the year 1903 in noticing the small number of oases in which charges of extortion against the Police were proved remarks that it is the duty of the Magistrates to proseoute the complainants if the charges ah found to be. [...] formed at the Disruption and so were entitled to the whole of the funds and property of the Free Church of Scotland ; and they further claimed that the union of the Free Church of Scotland and of the United Presbyterian Church was invalid and could not be consistently carried out with the standards and constitution of the Free Church. [...] After two hearings occupying no less than seventeen days the House of Lords has upheld this contention reversing the judgments Of the Lord Ordinary and the Court of Session the effect of the decision being that the whole of the funds and the property and buildings of the Free Church of Scotland amounting to several million pounds is diverted to a small minority „who from the first have prote [...] The great majority of the people of Scotland including not only the members of the churches immediately affected but many members of the Established Match view the decision with the greatest alarm as a putting back of the clock a barrier in the way of all progressive thought and a victory for the narrowest form of Calvinism. [...] (4) But the Court had power in exercise of its equitable jurisdiction to alter the scheme in the interest of the trust even though the present scheme might be unobjetionable from the point of view of the trustees so far as the relative distribution and apportionment of the management went.