পাতা:বঙ্গদর্শন-নবম খন্ড.djvu/৫০৪

한 • চারি দিন পরে এই কথাটা কলকাতার এক খান ইংরেজি দৈনিক পত্রের সম্পাদকের কাণে গেল । পর দিন প্রভাতে সেই পত্রের সম্পাদকীয় উক্তি মধ্যে নিয়েtছত লীডর দেখা গেল । - “The wisdom of A NATIve Magistrate—A story of lamentable failure of justice and race antipathy has reached us from the Mofussil. John Dickson,an English gentleman of good birth though at present rather in straightened circumstances had fallen under the displeasure of a clique of designing natives headed by ©}☾ Rungini Jeliani, a person, as we are assured on good authority, of great wealth, and considerable influences in native society. He was hauled up before a native Magistrate on a charge of some petty larceny which, if the trial had taken place before a European magistrate would have been at once thrown out as preposterous, when preferred against • Eu ropean of Mr. Dickson's position - * * * • . .” - readers to conjcture from a study and character. But Baboo Jala. dhar Gangooly, the ebony-eolour ed Dan iel before whose awful ... . . . . . tribunal, Mr. Dickson had the mir वज्ञगर्नन । (कांइन fortune to be dragged, was incapable of understanding that - petty larcenies, however ാ - al to sharp intellects of his own country, have never been to be perpetrated by men born and bred on English soil, and the poor man was convicted on evidence the trumpery character of which, was probably as well . known to the magistrate as to the prosecutors themselves. The poor Inau plended his birth, and his rights as a Europeau British subject, to be tried by a magistrate of his own race, but the plea was negatived for reasons we neither know nor are able to conjecture. Possibly the Babu was under the impression that Lord Ripon's cruel nefarious Government had already passed into Law the Bill which is to authorize every man with a dark skin lawfully to murder and hang every man with a white orá, May that day be dis- tant yet: Meanwhile we leave sur of the name *: Jaladar and ot. . Jaliani the whether tie of kin