The Times of Monday published a letter from its special
correspondent in India on the resignation of Mr. Sinha from the Viceroy's Executive Council. We suggested last week that the resignation of the only native member of the Council was due to some pressure from his fellow-Indians. We are glad to learn that the special correspondent of the Times thinks that there is no warrant for any such suspicion :- " As far back as last March he made no secret of his intention to resign his seat on the Viceroy's Executive Council as soon as Lord Minto left India. He had never coveted a post which involved for him heavy pecuniary loss and the necessity of spend- ing a large part of the year at Simla away from his home and all his friends and connexions in Bengal. His resignation, however, which, I believe, is to take effect on the very day on which Lord Minto hands over the Viceroyalty to his successor, is much to be regretted in the public interest ; for his discharge of the duties attaching to his post has gone far to reconcile those who, like myself, had misgivings as to the wisdom of calling any Indian into the Viceroy's Executive Council, and chiefly on the very grounds which have been erroneously suggested as an explanation of Mr. Sinha's resignation."
We wish that Mr. Sinha could see his way to continue in office, even though he dislikes it, on the ground of public, duty.
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