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 the Contempt case. 133 Calcutta, which he tendered as soon as he was impri- soned, and we are in duty bound to say that it was 1 Sir Henry Harrison, who wrote strongly to the Go- vernment that his resignation should not be accepted, Here it is necessary to say one word with regard to the circumstances under which the apology was drawn up. On the 4th of May Babu Surendranath in company with Babu Gonesh Chundra. Chundra, the Attorney, Went to Mr. W. C. Bonnerjea, Barrister-at-Law, who was then residing in a suburban village. In great hurry,, the affidavit was drawn up and read before the Judges. In the cases of Mr. William Tayler and of the Editor of the Englishman Captain Fenwick, Sir Barnes Peacock called upon these offending parties to apbh> gize for having made serious reflections on the charac- ter of Justice Dwarka Nath Miter and^they were pardoned. But in the case of Babu Surendra Nath, his apology was not accepted and was considered in- sufficient The Judges did not seem to make much allowance for 'the haste with which the affidavit was drawn up. Be that as it may when Babu Surendra Nath was in the Jail, a proposal was made to him from an influential quarter to submit another apo- logy which he refused to do. . On the 4th of July he was released in a very novel way. The officials knew that a great popular demonstration would be made in his honor, and so they thought of taking him out of the Jail in an un- precedented way. The Jailor awoke him at 4 o'clock in the morning, took him up in a hackney carriage and drove him through the Lower Circular Road where they knew the crowds would not muster strong to greet him and thus brought him to his house. The proceedings of the authorities to prevent the appearance of a popular demonstration at Barrackpur were still more extraordinary and produced results exactly the reverse of what was intended. On the