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ta-sdian Affairs. Lord Minto's Executive Council has considered the report of the Committee of Reforms, with the result that a telegram lias been framed for dispatch to Viscount Morley (Secretary of State for India) to assist him in preparing Indian legislation. The authorities in Calcutta recognise that the anarchist movement is of larger dimensions than at first imagined, and that incessant vigilance is necessary. Indian officials strongly warn the Home authorities that the Indian anarchist leaders are likely to show an increasing tendency to reside in London or I’aris. The Bengali student Bose has confessed that he was given a revolver and twenty rupees to kill Biswas, the Public Prosecutor, at Alipnr. An influential movement is afoot among the Indians to raise a memorial to Biswas. The editor of the Poona newspaper “Kai” has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of 1000 rupees for publishing a seditious article. A Bengali student named Base, from Barisal. fired three times in the Alipore Courthouse last week, during the trial of anarchists, killing Asutosh Biswas, the Puldie Prosecutor engaged. The assassin was arrested. iSix Hindus have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for inciting people to minder, and for having published placards at Kolahapur containing recipes for the making of bombs. This murder is considered to be a token that a campaign has been commenced for the assassination of officials. The Indian papers demand that severe measures shall be taken with all offenders.