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 HIS CAREER IN ENGLAND, AND AT THE BAR. 23 ducted with great ability and renown was the well- known case of The Queen vs : Aminudin as reported in 15 Weekly Reporter, Criminal Rulings, page 25. In this celebrated state trial, Mr. Ghose was called upon to defend the prisoner somewhat suddenly as Mr. Craigh, his counsel died shortly before the case was heard. It was heard before Mr. Justice Norman and Mr. Justice Bayley, in 1871, and though Mr. Ghose lost the appeal, the late lamented Mr. Justice Norman, then officiating as Chief Justice, compliment- ed Mr. Ghose highly for the ability with which he had argued the case. This case created a sensation at the time, and secured his reputation. The other criminal cases in which he achieved a distinction are the celebrated Lai Chand Chowdry's case at Chittagong, the Fenuah case, the Shapur murder case, the Nuddea Students' case, the Rungpore Deer case, the Jamalpur Mela case, Mulukchand Chowkidar's case, the Lokenathpur case, and so forth. The bio- grapher has summarized the history of these celebrat- ed cases in a separate book (History of celebrated Cri- minal Cases) and published it in 1888. In all of these cases, mofusil Magistrates and the Police both Euro- pean and Native, erred grievously in doing justice to the aggrieved parties, and Mr. Ghose,, with marvellous tact, patience and perseverance, and often times at great sacrifice of time and money, secured justice to the poor .and agrieved parties. It can be safely stated without any fear of contradiction, that no other lawyer, be he a pleader or a Barrister, has done more, when the cause and interest of justice required it, for the impartial administration of criminal justice in the Mofusil, where, some times, the Police and the Magistracy, unhampered by public opinion, ride rough shod over the weak and the poor. As a gentleman of the long-robe, he has a prestige of his own, and this prestige coupled with his other forensic talents, his honesty of purpose, his devotion