The agitation against the partition of Bengal is evidently collapsing.
This is shown not only by the attitude of Anglo- Indian newspapers hitherto inclined to favour the agitation, but by the admission of the Bengalee, the organ of Mr. Surendra Nath Banerjee, that " the partition has come to stay," and that it is not anxious to upset it. Quite as significant as these statements in the Press is the practical abandonment of the anti-partition cause by Mr. Mitter, an ex-Judge of the Calcutta High Court and an
advanced Nationalist politician, and the speeches of two elected Indian Members—one a Mohammedan from the new province and the other from Behar—in the new Imperial Legislative CounciL The correspondent who summarises these various indications of a change in Bengali opinion in Thursday's Times points out that the financial benefits reaped by Eastern Bengal and Assam from the new settlement of the revenue are becoming generally recognised throughout India, and even in Bengal itself.
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