Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-18
English As She Is Wrote. IEroy,, tho AJour voyly Doct

after his death by nephew. copy of the third edition, issued last year, has come into our hands, and we greatly regret that we cannot give it in toto (as the author would say) in these columns. But such space as we can afford we gladly devote to the most remarkable passages of this yer batim reprint, though the preface states that 'tthe first edition of this humble and unassuming treatise was assailed on all sides by native and European papers," For our part, we find it highly amusing and interest ing.
 The subject of this little volume was un- mistakably really admirable man, who, "by dint of wide energy and perseverance, erected vantage ground above the common level of his countrymen-nay, stood with the rare, barring few on the same level with him, and sat arrayed in majestic glory, view ing with unparalleled and mute rapture his friends and admirers lifting up their hands with heartfelt glee and laudation for his sue cess in life." "His father died when he was very young, and the large estate which be had beaHeathed to his children was gradual ly squandered away by his eldest brother in unfortunate blind bargains and speculations The family was threatened with Barmecide feast x Onoocool Chunder was pressed by his mother to search for an en- ployment. All love the womb that their first beings bred, and Justice Meorkerjee was not out of the pale of 1t. {" And his nephew, enlarging on this topic, after some rather surprising remarks on child-bearing, reminds us that ''there can not be a greater instance of self-deniai than mother endures during the whole existence of her offspring. Nothing in the world can make her facetious when her child is not so, and nothing in the world can make her lugubrious when her child is not so. Ergo, on the contrary, 8 mother is loved and respected in every age."
 Ergo, on the contrary, 'Ethe late Hon ble Moorkerjee could no longer sit at home;" he ''saw that an effort was necessary and an eff fort he did make" He applied for a "Na- zirship," and served for five years under three successive magistrates, each of whom, Ftas he left the magfstracy, gave him a certificate testifying to the excellence of his character and his cui bono in the post he held" Meantime an English judge became acquainted with him and interested in him, and advised that he should ''be nurtured for the bar;" and "Onoo- cool Chunder began to study law, for none can be great impromptu!' And in 1855, when he was twenty six years old, he joined the bar If the Sudder court. "1t is impossi- ble to describe the oblactation with which he contemplated this change in his position. J sFHis first business, on making an income, was to extricate his family from the difficult ties in which it had lately been enwrapped, and to restore happiness and sunshine to those sweet and well-beloved faces on which he had not seen the soft and fascinating beams of simper for many a grim-visaged year"
 In 1869 discussion arose between MT. Moorkerjee, who was what, in Indian par Iance is called 'FPleader," and a MT. None Malone Chose, barrister fresh from Eng and," on a point which had never been raised before, namely, the Headers right, when engaged conjointly in case, to have precedence over the barrister in arguing the case, if he (the Pleader) were the best pre- pared and the senior. The judges before whom the question was brought gave deci- sion in favor of the barristers.
 ''Justice Moorkerjee he was not Justice till two years afterward was now stung to the quick for the first time in his life, and returned to his chamber malcontent. On the next day he received letter from the Chief Justice (Sir Barnes Peacock) asking him te become Advocate of the High court. Ht thought that if he accepted the offer he, be ing senior to many barristers, would have the pre-audience to many: but, on the other hand he would thereby leave to go to wreck his hope of becoming judge, and would also leave his brother pleaders to opprobrium Accordingly he held meeting in the bar library for determining whether he should accept the offer. After heated discussion
 
 Hon'bl Moorkerjee did hill the offer polite ly."
 A few weeks after this incident his eldest brother died, and "now Hon'ble Moorkeriee was once again thrown into the peck of troubles" In the same summer he "was at tackled with doloriferous boil" but in the autumn he ''felt himself much emendatory in his bealth.' The next year he was offered and accepted seat in the legislative council at Bengal. ''This was the first time (and in the case of the Hon'ble Moorkerjee) that we see pleader of the High court taking a seat in the Bengal legislative council, solely by the dint of his own legal weapoA d he was an au fait, and therefore undoubte> tran scendental lucre to the council. x The selection in Justice Moorkerjee was. est juflicious and tip-top." But within the year he resigned his seat in the council to accept a seat on the bench.
 'sThis was desideratum to him. The hope which he so long matched at last yielded him what he hankered after and in seven league boots. True hope is swift and flies with swallows wings and he might have justly said: Veni, vidi, yicil The law study to which he had devoted so long his midnight hours, with indefatigable ardor and the zeal of martyr, yielded him fruits most saccha- riferous and wished for, position, respect and wealth. His elevation created catholic rayishment throughout the domin- ion under the benign and fostering sceptre oi great A1bian."
 He had, however, but short enjoyment ot his success. Within eight months, one day after delivering judgment in court, "he felt slight headache, which gradually az grayated and became so uncomfortable that he left like toad under harrow" and sent "to inform or apprise Justice Jackson, with whom he was sitting on the same bench, of his indisposition, which will cause him to be absent from the bench for that day-and who knew to everness! All the well known doctors of Calcutta did what they could do with their puissance and knack of medical knowledge, but it proved after all as if to milk the ram! His wife and children had not the mournful con solation to hear his last words. He remained sotto voce for a few hours and then went tc God at about p. m The doctors all x were with tears in their eyes we must, most respectfully, greatly abridge], his wife shrieked bitterly, \ his children did fondre en larmes, x his friends departed broken hearted, x his servants cried out. The house presented second Babel or a pretty kettle of fish,"
 But it is not merely mirth that these pages excite when read unbrokenly. There is a very touching short conversation reported in this comical style, which the judge had with friend after his seizure, reminding him, "l have told you about fifteen days ago that my time was very near to it's close, and my faith CT went to reside with the morning stars at about this age of mine" And the whole impression of his life is most agreeable. 'sHe was faithful Hindoo," and stthe Hon. ble Moorkerjee did bleed freely, but he was not a leviathan on the ocean of hberality; x x the mode of assignment of his chari- ties was to such men as we truly wish and recommend and exsuscitate enthusiastically. He used to give monthly something to many relicts who had no hobbardy- hoy even to support them, and had no other source of sustenance left to them by their consort." Among other details of his per sonal appearance our author says:
 'tWhen boy he was flamentous; but gr. dually he became plump as partridge: x His dress was unafected-he used to wear Dhootee and Chadur on all occasions except when going to court, office or to see any European gentleman or attending any European party. And even on going to see a Nautch or something of the like I have never seen him in dress fine as a carrot fresh scraped, but esto perpetuum ip Panta- loon and in satin or broadcloth Chapkan, with Toopee well quadrate to the dress'
 We can easily believe and understand that s'when the Hon'ble Onoocool Chunder Moor kerjee left this earth all wept for him, and whole Bengal was in lachrymation-and more I shall say, that even the learned judges o1 the High court heayed sighs and closed it or