MR. THAKUR AND THE ARCHBISHOP.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.']
have no desire to open any controversy in the columns of your paper, as I have elsewhere given expression to my views.. But my object in addressing you is to correct a mistake or two in. your number of the 31st of August.
In the paragraph on p. 1,095, I read, "S. B. Thakfir writes again to the Times, scolding the Archbishop," &c. Unfortunately. for the writer, the letter which is noticed was the first of the letters I have written to the Times.
The other thing I am anxious to point out is that I have not the good fortune to belong to that race whose "scorn becomes oppressive" when expressed in English. In plain words, I am not a Bengalee, as very many of the readers of your leader, "The Archbishop and the Heathen," may perhaps infer from your language. Hoping you will give insertion to these few lines, I
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