The news of the unrest in India has no new
features. The editor of the Hind Swarajya, a Bombay paper, has been sentenced to two years' and one year's imprisonment for publishing two seditious articles, the sentences to run consecutively. In the case of Mr. Tilak, the Nationalist leader who was arrested on a charge of publishing a seditious article in the Kesari, bail has been refused. More important is the news contained in a Reuter telegram pub- lished on Friday, which states that on Thursday seven arrests were made in connexion with the recent attempt to blow up the Eastern Bengal mail. "Three of the prisoners, Pandit Pancbanan Tarkaratna, Professor at the Bhatpara Sanskrit College and Institute; Dr. Brojoraj Gosh, the famous Bengal practitioner ; and Babu Horida.ss Bhattacharjee, are men of some importance in Indian society, while the others are local minor pandits and mill hands. A large amount of correspon- dence has also . been seized, and will be placed before the Alipur District Court."
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