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INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS.
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<UR CHARLES TREVELYANAND THE 'SATURDAY S...
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BOMBAY AND BARODA RAILWAY. At the genera...
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NOTES ON INDIAN PROGRESS. By tho last ma...
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India And Indian Progress.
INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS .
<Ur Charles Trevelyanand The 'Saturday S...
< UR CHARLES TREVELYANAND THE 'SATURDAY SNEERERS . The appointment of Sir Charles Trevelyan was just the measure calculated to gain popularity for Lord Stanley and the Ministry with the public , : and to excite the wrath of the Treasury clerks , and of the head and under clerks of the India Board . ; It was nat urally looked for that their organ would choose an early opportunity of giving vent to their expressions of envy , and accordingly the Saturday lievtew has done its duty , and in the accustomed spirit .
While choosing the civil service appointments as its text , the n ew governor of Madras is made the subject of the sermon , and seldom has the astute cox combry of the Saturday Jiecieu ? been so applied as in the depreciation of a man whose merits are used as charges against him and represented a £ faults . It is of little importance what Sir Charles Trevelyan ' s late subordinates in the Treasury and think of him wliat
adjoining offices may , or leading articles they may write of him , but it is worth while " to notice now the spirit displayed by some of the clerks in the India House , ana the way in which some of their superiors set them on for the purpose of calumniating one whose measures will hereafter receive but scant co-operation from them . If red tape at home can thwart his measures , Sir Charles may feel assured that the petty jealousies of the superannuated elders and of upstart juniors will not be wanting to prompt any obstruction or
annoyance . The contest between the old system and the-new is made more serious by such appointments as those of Sir Charles Treveiyan , for while thereby the v . oice of Lord Stanley is given to the cause of improvement , the potency of the other party for obstruction is none the less in their own esteem . Already has many a good measure of Lord Stanley and his ablest councillors been thwarted in the
for that morbid greediness of icork which aloric suo- " -csts occasional doubts of Sir Charles Trevelyan ' s practical ability . " Who suggests any doubt ot Sir Charles Trevelyan ' s practical ability , or why any doubts should be suggested in the teeth of unexa-n pled success , it is difficult to tell , but the touch is . inimitable , and the insidiousness of the attack may well overcome the unwary . " The appointment ; however , may be considered creditable to * u ^ Government , and it may not improbably be attended with beneficial results . "
' The character of Sir Charles as " an indefatigable and experienced administrator" is acknowledged , but to counteract and correct this the doubters are instructed that " the defect of Sir ' Charles Trevelyan ' s mind , or perhaps of his temperament , consists iii a pertinacious fondness for experimental crotchets : ! while all his writings and answers to parliamentary commissioners show that his _ reasoning powers are disproportionately small in comparison with his practical energy . " The consolation is , however , offered that " the customs of an Indian province ¦ will oppose a solid mass of resistance to
his propositions are " neither experimental crotchets nor fidgety innovations . His propositions for the abolition of purchase of army commissions have been contested by sinister influences , but the accuracy of his calculations is at this very time being vindicated , and there is good prospect of the successful establishment of the plan ; His share in the Roman alphabet agitation , so far from tending to compromise hrmj is in this day passing from experiment to realisation , and he will leave little behind him unfinished or unsuccessful .
gratuitous and iidgety innovations . " This is language which would become a rival whose pretensions have been ignored by the head of the India Board , and which will be supported by the Madras civilians into whose Presidency a hateful Bengal man has been so cruelly intruded . It is not out of place for the organ of such sentiments to express an expectation that " the favourable anticipations suggested by Sir Charles Trevelyan ' s appointment may not be borne out by the result . " Credit is assigned
to Lord Stanley for the appointment , because some tribute to him is customary , for he is almost " of us , " -and yet if Sir Charles Trevelyan be the man whose ¦ character is here sneeringly hinted at , the appointment is one which so far from doing credit to Lord Stanley is pregnant with danger to India . Sir Charles Trevelyan ' s last labour of love for the establishment of the Roman alphabet in India does not escape the . notice of the Jesuit f > arty , who affirm that Eastern scholars and Indian officials seem
to be irreconcilably divided on the question , and under these promising circumstances this and Sir Charles ' s other schemes are left to him for experiment . The whole of this essay is in . itself an experiment on public credulity , at the expense of a man whose services are not publicly known , and may , therefore , ¦ be misrepresented with some degree of safety in a journal which parades the small-talk of the offices to authenticate its title to authority . When Sir Charles Trevelyan retired from service in India he neither went into Parliament and sought the
brilliant hazards of politioal life , nor did . he turn Ins abilities to account as a commercial speculator . Unwilling to compromise his reputation , and unable to be idle , he accepted a subordinate official career at home ; wherein the full honours and the remuneration awarded to him are limited , and where the ostensible merit of his labours must be enjoyed by his superiors . In taking such a step he was certainly not actuated by mercenary motives , nor did he show a want of proper spirit , and ho has been
rewarded by the achievement of new titles to success and by this lust special tribute to his services . His administration of the Irish relief measures , well attested his capacity , and gave him the opportunity , on the breaking out of the Russian war , ot powerfully contributing to tho organisation of our defective ¦ military administration , aud of rendering essential services to his country . The man- who , knowing this , likes to put forward l ( unronsted ooll'ee" aa tho record of Sir Charles
Trovolyau ' s carcor , ia to bo pitied . During that timo his services wore great and untiring , and perhaps his greediness ot work might then bo termed morbid , for ho spared no personal sacrifice to satisfy tho requirements of tho service . Throughout the extensive ramifications of tho Treasury jurisdiction tho hand of Sir Charles Trovelyau ia to bo traced to an extent which so far gives a base for tho imputations of usurpation of functions and excess of jurisdictions , but his" reforms have boon improvements iu principle and in detail . ' Tho competitive examinations attoat his successful prosecution of a great administrative oliango . Of a career so laborious it is impossible to compass tho dottiils , but
India House , as were the best efforts of the leading statesmen of India , and Sir Charles Trevelyan is threatened in the beginning of his career with that underhand persecution and misrepresentation which is best calculated . to : sap-his popularity , to alloy his good fortune , and to aggravate those accidents of ill fortune which attend all men . Many is the man who hits fallen in such petty snares , ana Sir Ch & rles Trevelyan may be one if his enemies are successful in depriving him . of the public confidence . detractors to
Tins there is the better hope for his accomplish , as Sir Charles Trevelyan ' s merits and services arc better known to statesmen than the public , for he has worked unobtrusively , without popular plaudits and without public recognition . The first hit at Sir Charles is that he has indulged iii an excess of jurisdiction at the Treasury , engrossing the statutory and customary powers of . the Prime Minister , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , the two parliamentary secretaries , and of the Board . It is also insinuated that his connexion
with the Crimean arrangements was signalised by the issue of the unroastcd coffee ; accordingly the succrers rejoice in the prospect of his removal , and the appointment of a successor less ambitious . He is entitled " the chief apostle of the doctrine of the divine right of universal examination / ' and while they affirm , on the one hand , that it has been justified by the conclusive test of practical success , they congratulate the country that he will be obliged " for a time to suspend lus indefatigable efforts ibr the assimilation , of the civil and military systom ot England to his favourite Chinese pattern ! " A little further on it is hold out that "tehsildars selected by competitive examination will plunder the peasantry
as much and as little aa their less meritorious proaecossora in office , " and yet thoy own that Sir Charlos Trovolyan is no abettor ot tho application ot clangorous follies to India . There is the will to wpund , although facts are opposed to ¦ tho gratification of thq malignant suggestion . Sir Charles Trovolyan is a hard worker , that cannot bq denied , and the Saturday auoerors who ¦ know ¦ this , would not , it might , bo thought , deny that his labours have been practical and usefuj , but fin m , ° suo" 1 W * admission would not ; sorvo tho ond . Aney hftvo , therefore , aaaignod 43 a reason foe tho apostle of competitive examination relaxing from tho prosooution . of tho system hero , that " the Govommont of Madras will nrovido mnplo food even
Bombay And Baroda Railway. At The Genera...
BOMBAY AND BARODA RAILWAY . At the general meeting this week , the directors reported the satisfactory progress of the undertaking . Next month eighty miles will be open , except the bridges over the Taptee and the Nerbudda , Which are necessarily works of time . The company now have m possession land for a considerable extent of line , and the surveys of one hundred and seventeen miles'of .. the-Bombay extension have been completed , and reccived ^ the sanction of the Bombay Government . The Bombay'Government is now paying greater attention to the Bombay and Baroda line , not only 1 1 _ 1 _ _ _ i _ 1 1 ! u » T-v « - » , 4- *^\ - ^ m *^ ^» 1 if innl tmi 1 * line wi xiiiv 1
as a vaiuapie cuiinneruisu . , u * xu -jjvi ..-a .. ^« j- - poses . The Bombay Government now , send all soldiers for the interior up by railway from Bombay , and-they are desirous of leaving the same facilities at other points on the coast . The Bombay and Baroda line will afford a northern port , and : it is of E articular value as commanding access up the Nerudda valley ,. and thereby securing the great seats of military occupation and civil settlement , which will there " be placed for the command of central India . At present , in the Vindhya and the other elevated ranges there is not even an invalid depot , but they are marked out for occupation , and will become" of the greatest importance , commanding the communications , between the Bombay Presidency and the valley of the Ganges , the railway for which is to run at the foot of the hills , from which it will
receive numerous branches . The Indian authorities at first considered railways as burthens upon the treasury and tasks imposed upon the Government , but now they begin to find the value of the system for military and political purposes .. The short length of the East Indian Railway from Calcutta to Raueegunge has materially served to protect Bengal from insurrection , and has assisted in the defence of Behar , and has cooperated in the supply of troops to the seat of war . The Bombay Government now find that they can concentrate troops rapidly in the interior , and can , within a few hours , pour down on Bombay a large force .
Notes On Indian Progress. By Tho Last Ma...
NOTES ON INDIAN PROGRESS . By tho last mail there is very little news from the hill stations , and indeed news in our department generally ia scanty . For Kusaowlee , the IJev . C . W . Cahusae hns been appointed chaplain for two years . Long leave in extenaion has been given to severa residents at Simla , including Captain Q . F . Fen wick and Lieutenant C . li . Blair- Assistant-surgeon D . C . McFull had been kept at Simla . Colonel J . C . C . Gray has a year ' s leave at Mussoorie . Major C . S . Wutchinsou and Lieutenant W , 13 . Giftbrd have had extended leave .
Brovet-Colonol R . Garrett has extended'leave for Murree , but will proceed to England ultimately . Ensign "VV \ S . Nugent has had a short leave to Almoruh . The only announcement from Ootufcamund is that Captain J . Gerrard has leave in continuation . Captain A . 1 ) . Warden 1 ms been appointed to command the Munneopore Uegiment . Diamond Harbour has beou provided with a register of deeds , Mr . G . D . Botts being appointed to that ofllcc .
Captain A . D . TurnbuII , of tho Bengal Engineers , is appointed Superintendent General of Irrigation in . the North-West l ' rovincos in succession to Lioutonant-Colonol 13 alrd Smith . Thu ¦ upper aniout of the Cawveny , we rogrot to say , has been carried away , broaches have taken piauo in tho enibankinapts in . Tanjoro and Triehinopoly , tuul much loss oflifo ami property has ensued . Tho Flax Association of Dundee have isauud ft circular showing tho grounds on which they demand th promotion of flux cultivation in India .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1859, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22011859/page/23/
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