(Ilvi.) at the hands of Government, we do not think we are putting forward an unreasonable claim in asking the Government to honour a man like Babu Vihari Lala Mitra with a suitable distinction. We have written so mnch about him, because we feel that we should be wanting in our public duty, if we did not bring to notice the eminent services of our really eminent men. We need only add that by honouring Babu Vihari Lala Mitra, the Government will honour the whole Hindu connmunity in Bengal. from the Indian Empire, dated, Tuesday, մanuarց 3, 1971: A ғlower of Calcutta. Aristocracy. In view of several references that have recently been made in both the indian and Anglo-Indian press to the notable character, illustrious parentage and extensive charities of one of the distinguished citizens of Calcutta, we make a new-year present to the reader of this short sketch, confident that it will help to bring more prominently to public notice the manifold qualities of the head and the heart that adorn this flower of the Calcutta Aristocracy. We are never in the habit of kow-towing before the bloated nobility
