[To the Editor of the SrEcrxrcin.] tried, but was too
late, to delete the erroneous state- ment that the Sikhs intermarry with the Hindu's. What is trite, and complicates the Problem, is the difficulty of knowing how many-, orthOdox Sikhs there are, So many come-under-the
influence •of the Arya Samaj or Hinduism, thereby ceasing to be strict Sikhs. • The Akali trouble arose partly from this eause.
Perhaps the expression had blood," to which Mr. Ilohne objects, was too strong. But at many periods during the past year Calcutta -European opinion has tended to annoyance with what has seemed the -defeatism of some of the Bombay European business community. There is no question that the latter have been sharply criticized. The Calcutta European community-is in a much stronger and more independent posi- tion than the Bombay one.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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