Allen's Indian Mail seems to think it a certainty that
a son of Calcraft's has been admitted into the Indian Civil Service, and is very much inclined to turn him out again. A man with such a descent must of necessity, it thinks, suggest unpleasant associa- tions. Of course he would, more particularly to any criminals brought before him, if he had used that name, but the man, if admitted at all, was admitted under his father's real, not his offi- cial name. As it is, he will suggest no associations whatever, and will do his duty just as well as any other man, possibly better, from a sense of the terrible disadvantage at which he fights. If we are to have appointments distributed by competition, we must accept the logical results of our own resolve—the hangman's eon as well as the judge's. Would the Indian Mail expel a son of Dr. Pritchard, or does it perchance think being hanged more aristocratic than hanging?
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