Indian opium trade is a subject which as yet it seems impossible to discuss with fairness and moderation. But the remedy for this undoubtedly lies, not in silence, but in increased discussion. That millions of human beings have been and are being ruined by opium is a fact that cannot be denied, nor is it palliated by the equally certain fact that millions who have never tasted the drug are daily ruined by other forms of self-indulgence. If it can be proved that the English nation, as a body, is responsible for the first evil, who would bid her delay her repentance until she had purged herself of her other sins? Mr. Cleiffe's book, "England's Greatest National Sin," contains an indictment not so much of the English nation as of the Government and the Civil Service of India, who are even accused of falsifying the records presented to Parliament, with the object of concealing from the British nation the full extent of the evil which they are working. He assumes throughout that the English nation is ignorant of what is being done in its name to those whom he is pleased to call 'our subjects.' We wonder if Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji would acknowledge himself as a subject of Mr. Cleiffe and those whom he addresses.