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Notes Ox Indian Progress. Good Accounts ...
prices driving Chinese tea out of the market , and causing a Jarge increase of native consumption . Mr . P . W . Wall , a mineral surveyor to the Madras Government , has been examining the lead mines of Kurnool . He has found a good vein of ore at Kolkoontha , and traces of extensive mines at Gangapully . In the Sukumulla hills he has found indications of copper in some quantity . Simla is gay . General Windham has arrived ; he has hired the mansion called Barnes Court . General Sir Robert Garrett was expected on the 14 th of August . ' . .
Nynee Tal is also busy . The rains have not been so heavy , but the roads are not in good order . A new bathing-house is being built on the beautiful lake , and the dip in the clear cold water is delightful . Sixty more invalids have arrived and are stationed at Kalee Dodnjee , a beautiful village built by Captain Glover , Executive Engineer , and which is described as most comfortable and picturesque . General Story has become a large invester at Nynee Tal , having bought most of the houses of Mr . G . C . It is considered it will be
Wilson , B . C . S . a good speculation when the railway comes nearer . The American Mission are setting up schools for native boys and girls ; altogether the settlement of Nynee Tal is busy and improving . At Mussoorie the rains have been as heavy as usual . In July thirty-two inches fell , and on the 1 lth August two and a half inches . The settlement is very gay , many weddings taking place , archery meetings in vogue , and private theatricals in rehearsal . ¦
In Assam , the Meshmees have as usual given trouble in the Luckimpore district in the neighbourhood of Suddah , but have ' been beaten by some of the chief inhabitants , who are to be rewarded with grants of land . Cashmere is in a v . ery bad state , Runbeer Sing ' s rule being unpropitious . The sooner the country is restored to England the better . We are glad to see the Fort of Turoul , beyond Suraon , on the Ganges , is to be demolished . It is most scandalous that these forts have been allowed , which during the late mutiny stopped the passage of the rivers to our people . Only lately the Calcutta was fired upon . Not one Of the river or hill forts should be left . What was done in England and Ireland , in the Parliamentary war , and in the . Highlands after the , should be carried out through India .
At Dacca the Indian Limited Liability Act is working . The Dacca Public Rooms Company ( limited ) is fully subscribed , and the first instalment of 10 s . per share being levied . A Masonic Hall and an ice-house are projected . A skittleground has been built for the soldiers in the town , who are sadly in want of recreation . The Dacca Museum , which is now of some value , remains without a building provided by Government . In the schools of Mootoocherry , near Bangalore , there are now , we are sorry to say , 500 children , boys and girls , belonging , to the 43 rd and the artillery . Bangalore is not a bad place , but we should like to see them in a hill school , as General Tremenheere has proposed .
The attendance on the Grant Medical College at Bombay has fallen off . It is said to be because the Hindoo students do not get Government appointment at once ! It is observed that the native doctors who won covenanted appointments were not sent by the Government into tho field during the mutiny , as they ought to have been , so that , if they run away , they might be cashiered . They hiwo been preserved by the Government in Calcutta while Englishmen have had to bear the brunt . The famous marble platform and crystal block from tho Delhi palace are packed up and on their way to England to join the Scone stone and other relics of the empire .
Mr . T . P . Manual , an Inxlo - Portuguese , headmaster of the Mozutferporo school , and author of Selections from the Epics of Europe , has brought out a new work at Calcutta , jn one volume octavo , The Rubt / s Smile ; or , a Tate of Woman ' s Hate and Woman s Love . Price 4 s . In time we shall have some curious productions in poetry and romance marked by the distinctive peculiarities of the English mind . Huree ISeshowjee , who translated the Pilgrim ' s Progress into Maralhi , died lately in the Bombay Presidency . In a report on tho asylums for tho European
insnno at Bhowamporo and Dullunda , Dr . Canter states that Europeans are never coerced by native assistants , for ho has discovered that English patients have a peculiar dread of force thus applied , and not unnaturally , for if unrestrained , horrid tortures would natives inflict ! Drunkenness is tho great cause of insanity in Indln , but religious fanaticism sends many to the madhouse * His general conclusion is that madness is tho resuljb of disease engendered , by vice . One-third of tho patients last year "Wore eont to Europe . Tho yearly photographic exhibition Is now open In Calcutta . There are eomo views of tho seat of
war and many local scenes . One benefit of photography in India will be to make the aspect of the country and local features known to many whom the enormous distances and slow travelling forbid from examining the objects illustrated .
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Kestrictions On The Civil Service. Some ...
KESTRICTIONS ON THE CIVIL SERVICE . Some attention has been given in India and at home to the prejudicial effect of the restrictions which prevent the civilian from investing his money in land , zeroindarees , factories , tea , coal , or lime , even in the district in which he holds office , and the Indian press has taken the subject in hand . With a larger and more independent English public , with a more independent press , with rapid home communication , and with a simplified and energetic Government , there is no fear of the civilians , as a body , being able to abuse their position , thoug h there may be individual instances , even in such a body , of injudicious proceedings , in which , however , there are checks enough . Formerly , the condition of the civilian was very different ; he was not shifted about as he now is from post to post every few months , he remained longer in a district , his power was really more absolute , and . he was in many cases an unmarried man , with native concubines about him , and a horde of their relations ; whereas , now , tire civilians—and it is a complaint against them that they are less rooted in native associations—marry early , and marry English wives . Now they have the charge brought against them that they have no stake in the country , nothing but their amoivr propre and esprit de corps to consult , and that there is no danger of their trying political experiments , regardless of tlie consequences .
Indirectly many civilians have relations with mercantile houses , and the uncovenanted are engaged in many enterprises , so that in the Deobroghur district of Assam , it is asserted by the Dacca News that there is not a single official who is not the owner of a teagarden—and we believe this to be the case , so far as we know—and that the tea cultivation has been much indebted to such support . The growth of Simla , Darjeeling , Mussoorie , Nynee Tal , Oatakamund , and other English settlements in the hills , has been much favoured by officials taking up land plots and building houses ; and had they not done so , the experiment of settling in these remote regions would have been , in most cases , contested . A freer recognition of the right of investment would , however , have much stimulated enterprise .
Those who have watched carefully Indian progress are aware that improvement has been greatly fostered by the energetic endeavours of civilians , military , and surgeons , who have made known the resources of particular districts and exerted themselves to obtain aid from the Government , and the application of private capital . It is one great encouragement to enterprise in India that in the present time any judicious undertaking will obtain a large amount of capital from the public servants , and , through their influence , from tho natives . Let tho present system of government have fair play , let Lord Stanley persevere in the course to which he has pledged himself , and as the demand for improvement is great , so will the measure of
improvement bo considerable . The public officer will feel a greater confidence ) in the Government , ho will invest his money jn tho soil , and with the advantages of hill residence a much greater number of men will spond their retirement in India , instead of England , forming , with their children , a most valuable addition to that essontial instrument of Government in India—the English public . What is expected of Lord Stanley if , the liberation of tho civilians from tho restrictions of board orders , and tho impedimenta of caste , and in . faot , by giving thorn greater liberty throughout , to strengthen and enforces their responsibility . Great ns is the jealousy displayed of tho Indian civilians as now constituted , there is no Indian Resident who docs not -wish that their local prerogatives shall be increased , so that they shall have freer action , and in reality bo the governors of tho districts over which they preside . Then tho settlor will himself have
greater privileges and greater prerogatives , for ho will rise in tho political scale , and bo loss amonablo to tho dictations and interference of tho central authorities at tho Presidencies , while ho - \ jtfll have nil tho beneOt of appeal to them for protection in caso of being aggrieved by tho local authority . At tho present moment there are so-called municipal commissioners of largo cities who cannot stir a stop without tho express authorisation of tho magistrate and collector , nutl of tho supremo Government and its departments , oven to tho expenditure of 61 , Tho Government goKOt ^ o of any ono of tho Presidencies , Indeed , Is as .. strong a condemnation of tho system of Indian administration as-nro tho contents of tlto Monitiur of tho French administration . Horo again wo call upon Lord Stanley to comply with tho public requirements to lesson tho labours of tho supremo and presidential Governments by relieving them
from many small details , and by consigning these to the local authorities , carrying out , in fact , that experiment of government in the Punjab which leaves the initiation of measures and the administration to the local authorities , and reserves the supervision for the superior Govern , ments . Thus , though the check may sometimes be imposed after the harm is done , it is better that it should be so than that good should be impeded by interference ; and it will be found in the majority of cases that the power of veto of the Governments can be so exercised durhi " the initiation of measures , or after their adoption , tliat ' any mischief can be suspended . In Bengal , Madras , and
Bombay , however , the intermeddling and interference are continual and vexatious . Paper and stationery cannot be obtained in a vast province without a presidential decree , and it is thought that economy is therebv enforced , whereas it would be much safer to lease the government of a collectorate to an officer for a term of years , assigning him a revenue which must be raised and a proportionate rate of expenditure—in fact , practically treating the collectorates as non-regulation districts—than to undertake to manage by the Central Government what the Central Government is totally incompetent to effect .
There is many a district which , under responsible government , would be provided with public improvements and reproductive works , because its superior , seeing his way , would raise a loan for works of irrigation or communication , repaying the loan out of the surplus revenue created , and having the credit of a good district to pledge .
The Police Regiments. While The Voice Of...
THE POLICE REGIMENTS . While the voice of enlightened men is calling out for the reduction of the native force and for the extension of European police superintendence , the Indian authorities are raising a new native army , under the name of military police , formed into regiments , and with only two or three English officers attached to them . Into these regiments they have invited the most dangerous elements of the Indian population , with no sullieieat
supervision . The local police remains in the old state of neglect , left in the hands of the same vagabonds , superior and inferior , with the traditionary practices of torture and oppression . The police of India are as much an object of dread of the aggrieved population as the police of Russia , and murders have been hushed up by the public subscription of a village for bribery of the police , rather than the inhabitants should have the expense , vexation , and loss of time of a reference of the criminal to the distant magistrate . lishmen
It is , of course , impossible to take raw Eng and turn them into police superintendents and inspectors in a country of which they do not know the language , though , for that matter , tho A division , which has sent police officers to Hong-Kong , would furnish young men of a better class , who have already acquired languages , and would engage in the Indian service , subject to examination . If the Indian police were put on a good footing , something like the Irish police , it would receive available recruits . For Calcutta , Madras , Bombay , and wherever there is a European superintendenceof policc , cadets should bo taken on as station-clerks and assistants , and on their passing the required examination in languages , they should be posted to Mofussil stations , under commissioners and superintendents appointed from among old Indians . Tho city police would bo cheaply officered by probationers , and its efficiency would oe
increased . Throughout each Presidency , what is now in progress in Madras should bo carried out . Commissioners nnu assistant-commissioners should be appointed , ami w ™ superintendents of collectorates , and besides su |> pJvi » o thorn with retired sergeants and Eurasian" assistants , tiiey should have cadets placed under them as already proposed . Those who know tho competition that taues place for tho Irish constabulary will not doubt tnac » good supply of young men will bo obtained lor tno Indian police , not A . A ' s or JB . A . ' s , but men willing » subject themselves to tho examination test Uereauer j and , in tho moan while , ablo to do service for board i »« clothing , being well-built , smart , and healthy mon , « u * u to make their way across country . Such a sen 10 , having a fair prospect of promotion , would not re < jmr « tho tromendous salaries of tho Civil Service ami urn " to
satellites . Tho municipal commissioners of « m » shouia likewise to instructed with tho pohco , ami t itj would employ Europeans under thoir own supervision . With tho oxtension of volunteer magistrates , tlioro ar » many districts whore nowly-nppointod Europeans w »» bo ablo to work satisfactorily .
Australian Mail Contract.— Government Ha...
Australian Mail Contract . — Government haHncooptod tho tondor of tho Peninsular and Oriental WJ ™ Navigation for a monthly mail , service between t >» country and Australia , vid Suez . Tho route proposed , » by Mauritius , and tho time between Southampton * Sydney is fifty-Ovo , and Melbourne fifty-two ilnj j which will bo reduced to fifty and forty-seven re * > ec . tlvoly by tho Marseilles route . Tho subsidy is ««>« * bo about 185 , 000 * . a yea * -. There was ono other tonum —from tho Royal Mail Company .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1858, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16101858/page/24/
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