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INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS.
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India And Indian Progress.
INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS .
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XOTES ON INDIAN PROGRESS . We think it necessary to contradict a statement , which appeared some few days ago , to the effect that the Government had determined on . granting no more guarantees for public / works for some time . The Government are exercising the greatest caution in the amount of guarantees and the nature of the undertakings guaranteed , but so far from such a step being taken as the peremptory refusal of guarantees , various important undertakings are now under the examination of the local governments .
Although the alarm as to Nepanl has . subsided , at Darjeeling Dr . Campbell , the superintendent , continues his preparations for strengthening the Jiilapahar and the European cantonments for the expected increase of force . The alarm as to Jung Bahadoor is , however , only transferred to other districts , and the Tirhoot people , who were already alarmed , are becoming none the less anxious because Jung Bahadoor , whose designs oh the province are notorious , proposes to . make a pilgrimage to Hajeepore with one thousand men . Private letters speak
table-land aboye the Ghauts , thus avoiding the unfavourable effects of the lpw country . If therefore judiciously distributed in the higher stations , they will be kept in good health and effective for immediate service . The provision which is now afforded for Bombay can , on the extension of the railway system , be given to the other stations . Troops landed at Madras will be at once conveyed to the Neilgherries , those at . Calcutta or Port Mullah to Darjeeling , and the Kurrachee troops to the Scinde sanataria . At Kurrachee ,. the collector is making great exertions to kill snakes . Some natives can earn 4 s . a day at snakekilling . The Indian Government was about to ship ten thousand tons of Sinde salt from Kurrachee .
Leave for Dhurmsala has been given to Lieutenant the Hon . G . EL W . Clive and Ensign G . R . Wilberforce , 52 nd Foot , in extension . Leave for Murree has been given to Major W . H . Kirkby . Leave for Dugshaie has been given to Colonel U . Williamson . A strong effort is being made by some parties in Dharwar to draw attention to it as the true sanitarium of that part of Western India . The Bombay Gazette affirms that Dharwar links Belgaum to Bellary , Bellary to Goa , Belgaum to Hurryhur , Kulladghee to Coomta and the coast with Hyderabad . The Europeans have not had a fatal case in seven months , and the weather is cool all the year round . Temporary barracks are in course of erection , but the Dharwar people claim that the place shall be made a station for two or three
registrongly of the feeling- of the planters , who complain that the Government has , left them without protection . It is affirmed Jung Bahadoor proposed to bring , with him ten thousand men . A great quantity of baggage had already reached Hajeepore . There are several places of this name , but the one in question may be considered a suburb of Patna , being opposite to the ferry over the Ganges to that great city , and at the confluence of the Gunduck . Patna is ominous for the massacre of 200 English prisoners in 1763 by the German Sumroo , under orders of Cossitn Ali ;
At Darjeeling , a branch has been formed of the Society _ for Promoting English Settlement and English Progress in India , and efforts are being made to form a branch in Calcutta . The Darjeeling people intend to petition Parliament in the next session , and are collecting evidence as to the resources of their settlement . The Friend of India says of emigration , that " the design is excellent , provided the proprietors offer to every emigrant distinct specified advantages , and keep their , pens' from the vague promises which produce such misery . "
merits . The collector ate of Dharwar is on high ground connected with the western side of the Western Ghauts , and- is famous as a cattle district . The town is within a hundred miles of the grand line of railway between Bombay and Madras ,. and the works on the Bombay southern line are moving towards it ; Coomta , on the Malabar coast , is used as its port . ' . ' Leave to the Neilgherries has been given to Lieutenant E . Faunce for twelve months , Ensign R . C . Wbttlpck for eight months , Major A . E . Saunder ? , Brigadier W . H . Miller , in extension , Major J . Babington in . extension , and Captain C . W . Moore in extension . . Leave to Mahableshwur is given to Lieutenant J . Noding . . .
At Simla , the Proclamation-day was accompanied by a grand ceremony , as the Commissioner , Lord W . M . Hay , conferred promotions and rewards oh a number of the subsidiary princes . The following was created a Rajah : the Keonthal Ranah ; the following were created Ranahs : the Thakoor 3 of Kotee , Ghoond , Theog , and Bulsun . Rewards were conferred on the Rajahs of Kihloor and Sirmoor , and the Kihloor Wuzeer ; the Ranahs of Joobul , Bhogul , Dhomee , Budgee , and Kooneer ; the
The injudicious measure of introducing that band of scoundrels , the German Legion , into India does not escape without censure . After the trouble we have had from Sumroo and other Germans , and the numerous French officers in the Punjab and the local courts for about a century , with French and German officers pressing the War Ministers for leave to proceed to India and join the revolters , the step of introducing such elements of discord admits of no excuse . The Germans are generally unprincipled , but the Legion consists of the scum of the country . It was bad enough sending them to the Cape to sympathise with the Boers and Africaanders , and in India wo shall have more than Germans enough in the emigrants , who will rush thither with the progress of the settlement movement . The Germans in India , although a small body , are increasing now .
Thakoors of JCoomharsain , Turoch , Durcotee , and Kolhar ; the Vakeels of Bissahir and Puttialla , and Jye-Sing . Dr . Ross , Civil Surgeon , has been appointed an ev-officio Municipal Commissioner for Simla . Leave has been given for Simla to Lieut .-Col . N . D . Barton in extension , to Lieut . G . N , Money , Col . G . Congreve , C . B ., in extension ,, Lieut . G . A . A . Baker , [ Ensign J . B . Whitla , and Major C . P . Johnson in extension .
At Musaoorie , Assistant-Surgeon M . B . Lamb has been appointed to the medical charge of the depot and various establishments . Leave to Mussoorie has been given to Lieut . F . T . Bainbridge in extension , to Capt . G . Forrest , and Liout . and Adjutant G . C . Kelly . Leave to the Deyrah district has been given to Major S . J . Browne . In October , 2 officers , 86 restored English invalids , and 50 Sowars ' marched from Nynee Tal , and their place was supplied by Lieut . Fieher of the 82 nd Foot -with 48 English sick , and an escort of 50 of the Irregular Cavalry ,
to the small colony of Chinese in Calcutta ,, who are found , as usual , secretly banded together against the community and the police . They take Portuguese wives , but do not nationalise the children , so that the colony does not greatly increase . When Chinese immigration sets in , as it will through the Burrampooter valley , some important influences will be brought to bear on India . The Government of Ceylon has appointed emigration agents to collect coolies in India , who are to be conveyed in steamers . We are sorry that an expedition of 2000 men , sent out from Sarawak under Captain Brooks to punish some of the Sarabas pirates , has not been successful , as , after driving them up into the country , they could not be further got at . The Ceylon pearl fishery is again in operation .
The Government is turning to account the powerful organisation of labour , instituted by the railway contractors , to obtain the clearance of the jungles in the rebel districts . Messrs . Burn and Co . are hard at work on the Jugdespore jungle , in Oude . This is twentytwo miles long , by three broad , but including fields and open spaces ., . The flax cultivation in India is having the stimulus of English enterprise applied to it . The Punjab is
particularly suitable for this plant . The heavy prices of provisions for Europeans in Calcutta are attracting notice in consequence of sorne evidence on a trial ; saddle and legs of mutton , 1 / . ; saddle , 10 s . ; leg of mutton , 5 s . ; fore-quarter of mutton , 4 s . ; roasting fowls , Is . ; curry chicken , 3 d . ; goose , 3 s . ; duck , 7 £ d . ; pigeon , 2 id . ; turkey , 12 s . It is hoped that when the hill districts have railway communication , meat , vegetables * and fruits of the temperate climates will be supplied cheaply and in good condition .
A tree , valuable for wood engraving , has been made known at Calcutta , being equally close-grained with box . It is found in the Southal jungles , and called " purparool . " Wood engraving is making such progress in India that it is an important instrument of native education , and the material for it a matter of importance , as boxwood is getting dear . The Government have ordered a diving-bell to be supplied to the port of Madras , after about two years ' correspondence , and the diving-bell has yet to be got . The quicksilver lode in Cannanore is as yet found to be very scantily disseminated in Laterite , The Home Government are sending out to Calcutta four iron barges , constructed by Messrs . M . l ' earse and Co ., at Stoekton-on-Tees , and which contain about 450 tons of iron .
Mr . Le Mesurier , of the East India Railway Company , has been despatched to the Sutlej to survey and make arrangements for the proposed viaduct and the extension across that river . Great efforts are being made in Calcutta as elsewhere to induce the Government to give up printing , and restore the half-caste and native writers , who lmvc so long pressed on the Government establishments . It is alleged printing will bo much dearer , but the Council for India may learn better , if thoy will take the opinion of large firms at home . The works on the Ceylon Railway are going on well . Labour is sufficient , and the coolies are taking to the wheelbarrow , a grand lesson in the art of progress , marked by tho local observers as a great advance in civilisation .
The scheme for a Eurasian regiment to be raised in Bombay has failed , as tho Portuguese prefer to be Government clorka or waiters at better pay than that of the private ' soldier . The situation of parties in , India is beginning to attract attention . The old Conservative , or un-English , party is that which has possession of most of the officos , but the English party is gaining ground in India and at home , and even in the Supremo Council of India it is supposed to have three member . ? , and is strong in the subordinate Governments . The Friend of India observes that the general current of feeling is decidedly towards the English party , some of the very ablest Indians having passed over to the opposition , and many more being engaged in weeding their minds . " Tho effect of the Conservative CommUteo has been almost
incalcu-Tho arrangements for the telegraph lino were at the last advices in progress in Nagporo under tho direction of Inspector W . J . Grinnal . Tho captive King of Delhi has made part of his journey to Culeutta by the East India Railway . It is said that accidents by flro are common on this railway , in consequence of . wood being burned in tho locomotives as in the American system . On the 20 th October , tho works on tho Lahore and Umritaur Railway wore commenced . Tho lino will , it is expected , bo completed in eighteen months . Tho improvement of Lucknow ia making a great change in that city . Many buildings have been pulled down and broad roads laid out . Tho enemy ' s mud forts have beon erased , and most marks of tho ravages of tho war have beon removed . Only a few of tho largo buildings still exhibit shot holes .
For Nynee Tal , leave has been given to Lieut .-Col . C . Herbert , O . B ., and Ensign J . E . D . Campbell . In Sylhet Mr . J . B . Shadwell has been appointed deputy magistrate and deputy collector . Leave for Landour hna beon given to Ensign H . W . Fielden in extension , to Capt . S . M . Clarke in extension , and Ensign A , Dlxon . At Ahnorahi in Kumaon , a regimental dopdt of tho 06 th , or Ghoorka Regiment , is diJreated to be formed , and Lieut . R . S , Graves ia appointed to the command .
lable , and tho next session will , wo believe , ' says that able journal ) " witness a strugglo which , nominally for a system of administration , wi ll bo really for tho introduction of a principle . " Tho old leaven is , however , so strong , that out of twenty-five deputy magistrates lately appointed fifteen are Hindoos , two are Mussulmans , and eight Christianswo suppose most of thorn half-oasto . Just at that time tho police magistrate pf Calcutta had boon dismissed for what may bo called want of knowledge of tho bounds between justice and injustice . Tho Govornorf-Genoral has declined to authorise at present tho tran emission of tho wives and families of tho rqbola to tho Andamans , but an acoession of free population to tho now colony will bo obtained . - Dr . Walker is making strenuous exertions that tho settlement may bo permanent , Tho Friend of India has boon paying some attention
It is satisfactory to find tho attention of tho Government is still given to tho Hindustan and Thibot road , of which Liout . G . A . F . Houohon is appointed to temporary charge during ; tho absence of Capt . Briggs , the superintendent . Considerable interruption ia caused to tho hill trade by Jung Bahadoor having stopped tho cutting of timber in all parts of the Torai within tho territory of Nopaul . As an example of tho advantages whloh can bo placed within tho roach of tho English soldier in India , we may observe that on tho 8 th of November fourteen officers and five hundred and ton soldiers arrived at Bombay , and on tho evening of tho 10 th thoy disembarked and proceeded by rail to Poona , on tho high
The Government have directed 800 QJ . to bo appropriated from tho city tax for tho erection of an kngilsij church at Lucknow . Captain Hutchinson is appointed architect . . , A . An English paper is to bo started In Allahabad ; the now capital of tho North-West Provinces . Mr . » . Blanohard is the proprietor and editor . Mr . W . G . Stcolo lias boon appointed to tho charge of the Umritaur drainage works . . , ,. Tho Calcutta drainage Bchomo is as lingering as tno metropolitan main drainage . Tho plan lias boon flont homo to Messrs . Rondo ! , and thoy bavo not yet uoen able to report .
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56 THE LEADER . [ No . 459 , January 8 , 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1859, page 56, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2276/page/24/
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