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Rh Supreme Court, established by Royal Charter, but to 'the Company's Chief Court of Appeal, the Sadr Diwáni Adálat.' Against this proposal the gorge of Calcutta rises. The press, which Macaulay had helped a few months before to free, uses its liberty to turn on him and rend him. The English Bar leads the opposition. As the field of that Bar's practice is mainly in the Supreme Court, its disinterestedness is not wholly above suspicion. Threats of personal violence are used; the native observes, and will note for imitation, the sentiments with which the columns of the Calcutta papers are crowded. Forty-seven years later, the most discreditable of these diatribes will seem like the piping of Meliboeus contesting with Corydon, when compared with the torrent of abuse which will be lavished on one of Macaulay's successors. In 1883 it will be desired to extend the criminal jurisdiction of Native Magistrates over European British subjects. The sack or the sea with which Macaulay was threatened will promise euthanasia compared to the torments then prepared for the Legal Member. Macaulay remained unmoved. His draft became law. On the slopes over which had flowed the molten lava of his adversaries' wrath, smiling spring reasserted herself. Administration resumed its appointed course. The indigo planter continued to buy and bargain, the ryot to make and to break his agreement. The Company's Chief Court of Appeal showed itself quite competent to control either party, as every