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Rh report and through evil report pursue that which I conscientiously believe to be right, and then when the time arrives for relinquishing the trust, I shall have the consolation of knowing that I can lay my hand upon my heart, and truly declare that I never gave a vote in this Council which I did not at the time believe to be just and correct."

Noble words are these and should be written in characters of gold.

The License Bill was passed in 1861 with two dissentient votes of Sir Charles Robert Mitchell Jackson and the Chief Justice of Bengal.

The Hindoo Patriot wrote thus:—

The Mofussilite has the following about the late Sir Edward Ryan.

Sir Edward Ryan's name takes us back to a dark period of Indian history, when men's minds were wrought to fever heat of excitement by the appalling disaster which befel our army in that dreary passage through the Cabal gate, whence only one remained to reach the goal at Jellalabad. Among these who administered the sweets of consolation to the troubled