THE INDIGO COMMISSION.
Calcutta, Juno 18, 1860.
Sin—In the papers from Calcutta, which will now be reaching England, there is contained the evidence of ryotts i (cultivators) and others as given be- fore the Indigo Commission now sitting n this Capital, and which evidence is mainly composed, (so far as ryotts and missionaries are concerned,) of accusations against Indigo-planters, and of statements which can be most completely contradicted. Documents have already been submitted to the Commissioners, showing the falsity of some of the statements; but as planters cannot personally at- tend at present in consequence of the manufacturing season' some time must elapse before their contradictions can appear on record. I am, there. fore, requested by the Central Committee of the Indigo Planters' Asso- ciation, to address you in the hope that you will have the goodness, through the medium of your journal, to point out to the English public the necessity of their refraining from, and begging them to defer forming any opinion on the subject until the parties who have been accused have an opportunity at giving their evidence.
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