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ι Φώ ο 尊 মহারাজা স্তর মণীন্দ্রচন্দ্র নন্দী official opinion unanimous on the subject P It should be unanimous and this meccessity for it as clear as the noonday scene in a case where the popular opposition to the measure is so strong and persistent and where even the final orders of Government are not accepted without a protest. Were the local officers and the Divisional com-. missioners of Malda and North Bengal consulted ? Was the India council in London unanimous But admitting. that the Lieutenant Governor is worked, is partition in the teeth of strenuous opposition the only means of affording him relief ? The “Englishman" suggested and the country endorsed the view that Bengal should be raised to the status of a Presidency Government with and Executive Council to help the Governor—that in short, the form of administration in vogue in Madras and Bombay should be adopted for Bengal. But His Exellency the Viceroy will not accept this view. He has no high opininion of the efficiency of the Presidency Governments though another high authority of much wider Indian experience and intimately acquainted with Presidency System of Government, Sir william Lee Warner, has borne high testimony to its efficiency. The fact remains that a Presidency Governor owing to his appointment to the Secretary of state more or less independent of the Government of India, and that it was a Presidency Governor Lord Ampthib who effectually opposed the application of the partition scheme to a part of the Madras Presidency and some of its districts were saved from incorporation into the Bengal Presidency. I confess I am not. able to follow the resolution of Government. Seeing that we cannot hope to appeal with success for the conver-- sion of the status of Bengal Government into that of