A COMPLIMENTARY CORRESPONDENT.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 146, 20 November 1874, Page 3

A COMPLIMENTARY CORRESPONDENT.

The diffusion of ;m English education ami Western ideas among ouv Indian. fellowsuhjects does not appear to have exercised as yet a particularly soothing or civilising effect upon the .Bengalee students, it, at least, the following letter may he-taken as a fair illustration of their ordinary frame of mind. It is addressed to the editor of a Calcutta daily paper, usually distinguished for his advocacy of native rights and privileges “ Sir,—Worst of English men and pest 3 of England if you arc an Englishman and hoi’ii in England or any other part of (Jreat Britain ! Every Bengalees mind will be burnd with indignation when he will read your malicious article you have written reffering Baboo Surandra Aath Banarjee in which you have insulted and attacked the whole and all class of English knowing Bengalee. My blood runs hundred times faster in my body than ordinarily hut I regret that .1 am yet a lower-class student in a English school. 1 am ready to give my head if in return can take yours. Although a young boy 1 wonder how a man with all Id's bookish knowledge of the nineteenth century can he void of all sense justice and truth. You are certainly a black sheep. We have no other consolation but to wait with patience for a time like

massacres at the Calcutta black hole and the same at Cawupore in the time of mutiny in 1857. lam grieved to hear my country man talk that you and some other dam Europeans who are also paper writers are the chief cause of the malicious feeling between the Bengalee and the English otherwise many of the Englishmen are good. Worst you are, and shame be to you, and everlasting damnation be to you that you are doing all injury with your every flesh and bone to our country although you are breathing its air eating its bread and enjoying innumerable pleasures, happiness, and enjoyments. You do not know how my elder brothers pained when you insult them. By your treatment we are obliged to think that our life will be sacred if wc can die by taking the life of any such a dam man as you are. The burden of Government we can hear with some difficulty considering our helpless position but the malicious reproach and insult of the English paper writers we cannot bear. We even wish that (!od may destroy India at once than to keep it in this lamentable condition. What is your position in England ? A lord a bishop or a marquis ? 1 know not what yon could do if you were any one of these. May gracious and just God destroy wholly the blood from which you have sprank and may he throw you and all your relatives and akius in one place of the hell for ever and ever.”