The Pioneer refers in a sarcastic vein the fact that among the guests on whom the British public “have lavished hospitality,” there is “one gentleman whose paper is excluded from other parts of India on account of its teachings.” Against whom is this sarcasm directed? Surely not against the British public who could not be expected to make an invidious distinction between members of the deputation and others; nor can it be directed against the editor of the Hindu himself because the position in which he finds himself was not of his own seeking. It can only be directed against either the party responsible for the selection or the party responsible for excluding the Hindu from certain Provinces.