THE SURPLUS AND THE FAMINE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPUTA:TOL-I SIR,—Why should not our surplus of five millions be spent to save Bengal? Nothing short of some such effort will do the work before us, and uphold the name of England and Humanity throughout "all Asia and the world." The country is evidently in no breeches-pocket mood just now, but ready—after a long abstinence—to do something Imperial.
I for one yield to none in hatred of the Income-tax, but I would -cheerfully hold up both hands for another year of it for such an object, and I firmly believe that ninety-nine out of every hundred who pay it would say the same.
It would be but following our fathers, when they paid to free the slaves, and would prove that, as a nation, we yet believe in a reign of love and pity higher than the "reign of law."—I am, Sir, Ste.,
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