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 HELP JUSTICE.

Brothers!—Up till yesterday have I been a practising lawyer; to-day I step over the threshold of the jail. The feeling that has influenced me to this step is this: We are pledged to help justice but when injustice in the name of law and order seeks to impose itself on men, their conscience rebels. Then comes the time when we should ensure the reign of justice by opposing the encroachments of the so-called upholders of law and order. Under the impulse of the idea have I stood against the recent order of the Government of Bengal encroaching on our right of association, and persuasion “Bande Mataram.”