In a letter to A. S. Barnes & Co., a native Hindu writes: "The Hindus of India are a proverbially sober race. Alcohol is not even known among their higher classes. For instance, I am a grown-up person of forty-one, and up to this time I have not seen other kinds of liquors excepting beer, port wine, and brandy, and these, also, I have seen either at Englishmen's tables or as prescribed by doctors trained under the English system. My parents, who are the other side of sixty, have perhaps seen none of them. This sober race the Englishmen are fast demoralizing by spreading the drink curse far and wide. My feelings amount almost to agony when I contemplate this. But we are helpless. We have no hand over our laws, consequently we can not control the evil. Native public opinion has pronounced itself with unmistakable unanimity against the Government policy, but no heed is paid to it,—the consideration that seems to be paramount with the Government is—'Revenue.'" Is not this pathetic?—Union Signal.