[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sru,--You may be interested
in the subjoined extract from a letter lately received from Eastern Bengal, the original seat, as you know, of the present trouble in India, where feeling
still runs strong :—
"So far as I can learn, there is no active disorder to be feared, but there is certainly some ill-feeling for the English officials, and this shows itself in petty insults and impertinences. A fresh complication has arisen owing to the fact that the Criminal Appeal Bench of the High Court has been upsetting almost all decisions of District Judges in which alleged rioters have been punished. The discontented ones think, therefore, that they are not liable to punishment for any offences committed in connexion with Bands /fah:tram and Swaraj, and a most unfortunate corre- spondence has been started in the papers which may intensify racial ill-feeling. The Long Vacation has now begun in Calcutta, and probably the Appeal Bench will be changed when the Courts reopen."
In fact, it is all this modern machinery of judicial and other administration which confuses and worries the Hindu mind.
• The Hindus are an ancient people possessed of a social order *Met ina.y almost be described as primitive, and they cannot understand or assimilate a civilisation evolved by such different influences. When shall we learn to leave them
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