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INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS
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SIR CHARLES TREVELYANAND THE SATURDAY SNEERERS . The appointment of SirCharles Trevetyan wasjust 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 headaud under clerks of the India Board . It was naturally looked for that their organ -would choose an early opportunity of giving vent to their expressions of envy ,, and accordingly the Saturday Reoiew has done its duty , and in . the accustomed spirit . While choosing the civil service appointments as its text , the new governor of ? Madras is made the snbject of the sermon , and seldom has the astute coxcombry of the Saturday lie vie a been so applied as in the depreciation of a man whose merits are
used as charges against him and represented as faults . It is of little importance what Sir Charles Trevelyah's . late subordinates in the . Treasury and adjoining offices may think of him , or what 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 , and 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 annoy-¦
ance . ' ; ..... . The contest between the old system and the new is lYiade more serious by such appointments as those of Sir Charles Trevelyan , for while thereby the voice 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
India House , as were the best efforts of the leading statesmen of India , and Sir Cbarlos 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 has fallen in such petty snares , and Sir Charles Trevelyan may be one if his enemies are successful in depriving him of the public confidence .
This there is the better hope for his detractors to accomplish , as Sir ' Charles Trevelyau ' s merits and services , are 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 in an excess of jurisdiction at the Treasury , engrossing the statutory and customary powers of tho 1 ' riino 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 1 % A 1 C 9 C %% A ^ V m f K ** k w m * » a *^ , n n £ . ^ h « 1 *¦»«*« . ** - « h ^ m - ^ ft * 4 * 1 1 % t At 1 ¦ » Vim / -h laouu
^ ^^ ** * ** vwu vi bUO dUIUUSltU UUIIUV , UUUUJLllJ J Jy 1 ) mivj sneercra rejoice in the prospect of his removal , and the appointment of a succpssor less ambitious . He is entitled " the chief apostle of the doctrine of the divino right of universal oxamimition , " and while they affirm , on the one baud , that it has been , justified by the conclusive teat of practical success , they congratulate the country that ho will by obliged " for a time to suspend I j is indefatigable efforts- for the assimilation , of . the civil and military systom of England to his favourite Chinese pattern ! " A little further on it ia held out that " tehsildars selected by competitive examination will plundor the peasantry
« 8 much and as little aa their leas moritorious prooeooasors , in office , " and yet they own . that Sir Charles Trevelyan is no abettor ot the application of dangerous Eolllos to . India . There ia the will to wound , although faots are opposed to the gratification of tbo malignant suggestion . Sir Charies Trevelyan ia a hard workor , that cannot bo denied , ami tho Saturday aueorers who knew this , would , not , it might , bo thought , deny JjUftt his / labours have boon pva ' otioal and useful , but to make suoU an admission would not servo tho end . Ihey have , therefore , assigned as a reason i ' pt' the apostle of ' . competitive examination relaxing from vno prosoouUon of tho system hero , tliafc " tho Governmont of Madras will provido ample food even
for . thai morbid greediness of work , which alone " suggests occasional doubts of Sir Charles Trevelyan ' s practical ability . V- Who suggests' doubt of Sir Charles Trevelyan ' s practical ability , or why any doubts should be suggested in the teeth of unexampled 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 the Government , and it may not improbably ha attended with beneficial results . " The character of Sir Charles as " an indefatigable aud 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 in a pertinacious fondness for experimental crotchets ! while all his ' writings' and answers to parliamentary commissioners show that his reasoning powers arc 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 gratuitous and fidgety 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 lie is almost " one 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 tho lloinan alphabet in India docs not escape the notice of the Jesuit party , 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 political life , nor did he turn his abilities to account as a commercial speculator . Unwilling to compromise his reputation , and unable to be idle , lie accepted a subordinate ofiicial 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 hjs superiors . In taking such a step he was certainly not actuated by mercenary motives , nor did he show a want of proper spirit , ' and lie has been rewarded by the achievement of new titles to success and by this last special tribute to his services . His administration of the Irish relief measures well attested his capacity , and gave him tho opportunity , on the breaking out of the Hussion , war , ot powerfully contributing to tho organisation of our defective military administration , and of rondoring essential services to hia country . The man who , knowing this , likes to put forward " unronsfcod coffee" as the record of Sir Charles Trevelyan ' s career , ia to be pitied . During that thno lua services were great and untiring , aud perhaps Uis gjroedinosa ot work might ; then bo termed morbid , for lvo spared no personal sacrilicc to satisfy tho requirements of the service . Throughout tho extensive mini float : ions of the Treasury jurisdiction the hand of Sir Charles Trovelynn is to po traced to an extent w'hioh so far gives abase for tho imputations of usurpation of functions and excess of jurisdictions , but his reforms have boon improvements in principle and in detail , Tho competitive examinations attest his successful prosecution of a groat , administrative change . Of a career so laborious it is impossible to compass tho details , but
las 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 him , is in this day passing from experiment to realisation , and he will leave little behind him unfinished or unsuccessful .
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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 uow have in 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 received the sanction of the Bombay Government . The Bombay Government is now paying- greater attention to the Bombay and Baroda line , not only as a valuable commercial line , but for political purposes . The Bombay Government now send all from
soldiers for the interior up by railway Bombay , and they are desirous of leaving the same facilities at other points on the coast . The - Bom-bay . and Baroda line will afford a northern port , and it is of particular value as commanding access up the Nerbudda 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 , bilt they arc marked out for occupation , and will become of the greatest importance , commanding tiie communications between the Bombay Presidency and the valley of the Ganges , the railway for -whicli 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 Bebar , 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 .
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NOTES ON INDIAN PROGRESS . Bt the last mail there is very little news from the hill stations , and indeed news in our department generally is scanty . If or Kussowlee , the Rev . C . " W . Cahuisae has been appointed chaplain for two years . . Long leave in extension has been given to severa residents at Simla , including Captain C . F . Fehwiok and Lieutenant C . K . Blair . Assistant-surgeon D . C McFall had been kept at Simla . Colonel J . C . C . Gray has a year ' s leave at Mussoorio . Major C . S . Hutchinson and Lieutenant SV . 15 . Gilford have had extended leave , Brevet-Colonel li . Garrett has extended leave for Murree , but will proceed to ISnglnnd ultimately .
Ensign W , 9 . Nugent has had a short leave to Almoruh . The only announcement ; from Ootukamuntl is that Captain J . Gerrard has leave in continuation . Captain A . D , Warden has been uppointed to command tho Munneoporo Regiment . Diamond Harbour has been provided with a register of deeds , Mr , G . D , Betts being appointed to that office . Captain A . "D- Turnbull , of tho Bengal Engineers ,
ia appointed Superintendent General of Irrigation in the North-West Provinces in succession to Lieutonnut-Oolonel Uaird Smith . The upper aniout of the Cawveny , wo regret to say , hus baen carried away , breaches have taken , place in , tho embankments in Tanjore and Trichinopoly , ami much losa of life anil ^ oporty Una oiiAuea . The Flax Association of Dundee have ianuod » circular showing tho grounds on which thoy douioua tho promotion of Jiax cultivation iu India .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1859, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2278/page/23/
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