Amongst the educated classes, many respectable fathers of families, whatever their political opinions may be, have taken fright at the growth of turbulence and insubordination in schools and colleges, which were often carried into the home circle; for when once the principle of authority has been undermined the parent's authority cannot remain unshaken.

In the same way some even of the "advanced" leaders have been alarmed by the development of secret societies which often attract young men of very good connexions, and they have proposed to use for the detection and suppression of dacoities the local bands of "national volunteers" whom they formerly helped to organize for the purpose of enforcing the boycott and stimulating unrest.

How far, even if unreservedly exercised, the influence of such men as Mr.Surendranath Banerjee will be as potent for checking the mischief as it was for promoting it remains to be seen.

For the present also the boycott is being discountenanced in the same quarters, though Mr.Banerjee, presumably to "save his face," professes to have agreed only to a suspension pending the revision of Partition.

But his paper, the _Bengalee_, is almost the only one that pretends to regard the Partition as still an open question.