The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday September 5 1904

Considering the amount of profitless matter introduced in the last Report of the Police administration by the Government of Bengal to the neglect of Criminal Statistics we are sure the Government will profit by a perusal of Sir John Macdonell’s Introduction and obtain an idea how. [...] THE FIGURES AS TO THE NUMBER OF PERSONS TRIED by Courts of Justice the number of persons punised and the number of crimes reported to the Police may be said to furnish some index to the amount of crime committed in any country But those figures must always b eceived with reservation as to the probable sources of error. [...] WHEN THE FIGURES AS TO THE NUMBER OF PERSONS tried at Assizes and Quarter Sessions the number admitted to prisons and the crimes reported to the Police all agree in indicating an increase it must be said that crime is on the increase as was the ease in England in 1902. [...] The poveer of the Civil 'or Revenue Court to eommita case to the Court of Sessions after copleting the preliminary enquiry is restricted to the cast% provided' in the section. [...] 9 of the Specific Relief Act and subsequently bringing a second suit against the same Defendant asking for cancellation of a deed of gift under which the latter claimed title the Plaintiff had not split up a cause of action and the second suit was maintaiable.