evident reluctance to deal with any corporate body of Europeans, who can seek redress from Parlia. cd, or from the law of England, nothing has yet ced, and unless the community interested in rowth of cotton, take the lead, nothing will be There are two other lines of railway in the Ben g direction that would be available for cotton from Mizzipere. The one is the Great Indian rousing dirent from Calcutta to Mirzapors, 440 miles in Gladstone. length: the other, the Great Western of Bengal
nites in lenght, occupying the line of a cafual opraj cied by the Government itself, from Coutts to Rajmahl, the Ganges, which was favourably reported on, as saving a detous voyage of a month or six weeks, during three or four months of every year, and on which nearly two malous of tons of goods would be conveyed.
fies examination of the first of these lines, doubts are enstained of its being profitable, not only owing in the great expense which must be incurred in constructing some parts of the road, but awing to the small quantity of traffic that would come nion such a road, passing through a thinly populat eil tract, in some portion of which the inhabitants de not exceed in numbers one ta a square mile.
Each of these companies applied to the East India directors, op separate grounds, for a guarantee and permission to construct. The Great Indian, on the plea of its being a great experiment, which swald be useful chiefly to the Government. The Great Western of Bengal, to give confidence to the English public to support their project, fully convinced, however, that the Government could never be called on to make up a deficiency of five per cent on advanced capital.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
and dated 30th April 1846, anfly **The persons who made town to me
Jance of such remours did not professi their credit by any statements of perties of the kind to which you refer, bhi to found dre general notoriety. It is not therefo power to convey to you what I have not received,
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Wilmot, just published, is a triumphant specimen world of a condition, and beyond the cognizance of forming the necasion of my letter marke Thimblerig is nothing to it. The more wondrous the law. Perhaps he was not aware of that feats of the Indian juggler-who puts a girl under Bearing in mind what has just been read, will basket, stabs her through it, while her blood and the remier not sympathize with the pour Garernor shrieks pour forth, and then, having excited the when he he told that he
he was required to understand indignation of the bystanders to e pitch beyond for what follows comparing it, that last line is an bearance, throws over the basket and shows that announcement as gracious as it is losarutable. The there is nothing there-all this is outdone by Mr writer is speaking of the reported state of crime and What a pea is to the thimblerigger, of an alleged combination to conceal it what any given child to the pretended murderer, such is a tact to Mr Gladstone. He shifts it about with marvellous sleight of hand, until when at last you have him fixed, his tifts up his text, and there is nothing there!
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"This is not, it is true, systematically stated to me in official reports, because these by whom it ought either to he stated or denied are slogether allent on the matter. I am not able to judge to what precise extent the horrible impressions which Sir Eardley Wilmaf was to ho dismissed from prevail upon these subjects correspond with the the past of Governor of Van Diemen's Land, and fact, or how far they may he referable to apprehen also from public employment generally, for causession, magnified through obscurity. Bai from the which may have been adequate, but which are a evidence before me. fragmentary wad indirent, yet concealed under the impenetrable veil of Mr though, I regret to add, too concordant as it is, Gladstone's explanations. The publicly assigned can entertain no doubt of so much as this, that the reason for Sir Eardley's dismissal from the govern ideas to which I refer have a foundation, and that ment of the colony occupies a space in the Minister's of no inconsiderable breadth, in the real state of despatch nearly equal to two columns of the size things. And here I must brony and once far of those now before the reader. Slated in brief it all distinguish as between the rumours and the amounts to this-that Van Diemen's Land is a extent of actual fnols corresponding with them; so penal colony, that the convict society is reputed to between the inactivity which I have to impute to be addicted to shocking crimes, and that Sir Eardley you, and any supposition that you are indifferent to did not look after the moral conduct of the prisoners. the horrors of which I now speak. ・・・ ・ ・ I might. That is a reason intelligible and sufficient: it is perhaps, say that the rumours themselves which only when you come to look into Mr Gladstone's exist, even if they can be proved to be wholly at explanation that it begins to grow obscure and variance with fact, yet, from their effect both here retnote; as some distinct and palpable object is and in the colony, had such a claim on your atten- dimmed by the gauze clouds of the ingenious scene. tion, that your entire disregard in practice of that shifter at the theatro. For instance, after saying claim, has amounted to an error of judgment so a great deal about the alleged crime among the serious as to render it altogether inexpedient that We understand the East India directors have convicts, and Sir Eardley's apparent unconscious you should continue in the exercise of your present
ness that such crime exists, Mr Gladstone says-functions. as a preliminary; that the two companies,
But I look exclusively to acts and required the one for constructing the line for the benefit of
"It is only with extreine rarity that you advert omissions without any reference to their mental the Government Troops and stores to Mirzapore in your despatches to the moral condition of these counterparts
men. You have discussed the economical questions direct; and the other, for the benefit of commerce principally, should anite, and the unprofitable and connected with their maintenance or their coercion, rafiteble 'nes should be constructed by the same and you have even entered into argument, though company; which having been effected, the East
in a manner too little penetrating, upon their offences India Company has magnanimously offered a guar- against the laws But into the inner world of astee of four per cent for a limited period, as por- their mental, moral, and spiritual state, eiliver tions of the line are opened, at a time when the you have not made it a part of your duty to exa. government of Lodia itself has a five per cent loan mine, ur else, which for the present issue is, I sp I should have felt authorized to express a wil open to all the world
prehend, conclusive, you have not placed her Malingness to consider of any favourable opportunity jesty's Govenment in possession of the results; and which might offer itself for such crap'ognent, had it I need scarcely point out to you that this is the re not been far the circumstance that certain remours ginn in which reformatory efforts are to operate. bave reached me from a variety of quarters relating and that it is a region very distinct from that of to your private life, to the nature of which it is " offences actually brought under the cognizance of perhaps annecessary that I should at present parti-
cularly allade. the law.”
Really the legislation for our Indian empire is samething quite shocking, and the still inconsidera ble portion of commercial intercourse it holds with the rest of the world, is deplorable. Our experience shows that a more energetic, industrious, and intel ligent race than the hundred millions of our fellow- subjects in Indio, no where exists. The removal the monopoly of the East India Company, in 183). has, notwithstanding the obstacles still exis- tent, led to results hardly to be anticipated. Look what has been effected, in these few years, by the relief from differential sugar datics. See how the trade in wool, tallow, linseel, and other articles hitherto unknown, has increased. In 1839, General Biggs points to the contrast between the state of derived from a faulty system of france in d with our other colonies, and Zur colonies consume less than
home manufactures, and ob
While Thuarut from commercial inter. con:sc, does not consume more than 7d a head, though there are, independent of the native popu Jation, upwards of 20,000 Englishmen distributer throughout the country, whether as soldiers, civi. line, or merchants who probably purchase more than half of the whole imported
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The force of puzzle could no further go. The passage quoted seams meant to explain and clucidate Sir Eardley's offence: let us see what it does predicale.
There is more of this invers exhortation-this rating of Sir Eardley because he had not done the things thus distinctly elucidated.
But that is not all he was not only dismissed, but told that he could never be employed againg and that point muited more explandion at Mr Gladstone's hands.
"Had these rumours been slight, and without presumptions of credibility. I might warrama' jy and gladly have passed then by had they, on the other hand, taken the Fern of charges or of infor Sir Eardley, it is admitted, enters into argument, mation supported by the names of the parties ten. but his argument is too lile penetrating" dordering it, it would have been my absalate dang, ing Mc Gladstone's adininistration of the Colonial independently of nay niher reason for interference empire, then, Governors were required to "args" with your tenure of office, to refer the matter to their manner was to be a little penetrating" you, and at once call upon you for your exculpatos in short, tuey were to be dialecticians of guod But they occupy an intermediate position." style. Fartherinore, Sir Eardley was to penetrate "into the inner world of the mental, moral, and spiritual state" of the hardened criminals: he was to have the penetrating power of the dactyle phofas was to direct his course towards that definite territory the inner world" of a "state"--was to place her Majesty's Government in possession of the results"; and then was to operate" in "that region." We do not twist the writing of the ex perienced and right bonourable reviewer; we are not tampering with his style; we are only analyzing it. That last requirement is the very crown and glory of exaction, Sir Eardley was to operate." The word is used in various senses,-by military men, of evolution or fortification; by commercial men, of money manoeuvres; by physicians, of me. dieines; by "&c." of "&c." in which sense was Sir Eardley to operate"? Imagine such a com- mand issued positively; conceive the right honoura ble saying to the hapless Sir Eardley-"Now, operate ?!?
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GEO. STRACHAN Victoria, Wh Julv. 1917.5
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Intermediate between what 1-intermediate let weed something which was absolutely incredible and something which would have been tantamodul
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TESSER SMITH & BRIMELOT l call will not again employ Sir Eardley until they
by Pranic ACOTION, on Friday next, de 9th (these oddly defined rumours) are satisfactorily disposed of" The per Governor's condition of 1st, the Auction Rooms. Queen's Road, at 1 employment was the satisfactory disposal of rumoured, precisely, for the benefit of tho can which were something between incredible tables corned, — and accusations. Very well; want were they - that is at last the question Sir Eardley asks. We will not add a word alter Mr Gin stone's reply: we will not spoil the four of that bonne brushe We only want to know if, in the subjoined passage, Mr Gladstone does not beat out of the field the thimblerigge and the In lian juggler? Sir Earlies asks to be told the nature of the accusation, and the oumes of his accusers. Mr Gladstone was no longer Colonial Minister; but the subject was still referred to him, and he writes thus, from Hagley-
Can we he surprised, however, at this state of things when we look steadily at the picture which Ersten exhibited of our fonncial legislation in that country? And can it be doubled that if India en. joyed the privileges granted to our other colonies, that she would, at no very distant period, piehl testines the genue she now does to the state, and conmeme ten times the amount of our manufactures Which she now lakes from us? It is difficult to carlate on the rapid and enormous growth of the commerce of one hundred and by millions of en industrious and ingenious people, st to work by demand for the produce of their agricoltural labour by a nation really to supply all their wants by re.. turning to them their own raw materials worked up in manufactures, Imagine such a trade carried on is British vessels instead of in Amerienn, as is Bow the case with the the enlion trade, and con- template our altered maritime position with that country. Is this a point to be overlooked? It may well be asked why it is Indin has been so neglected, PATNA-LIVERPOOL, for Flongkong, sailed IIb April, 1847:--
and has hitherto been deprived of the ordinary advantages permitted to our colonies and even to breign states?
SHE 18 WITHOUT REPRESENTATION ||
But the time is come when the parliament of Great Britain will, is hoped, be called on to inter fre in behalf of the hundred millions of our fellow subjects in the East when a more enlightened policy will be introduced into the financial rang ments of that.
great empire, and when England berself will be compelled to reperise Ludin, not es A vanquished foe, but as he most valuable friend When justice shalt be done to Indin, if it be only brthe sake of justice to the commercial community of Great Britain-then, and not till then, will our empire in the East be entitled to be deem has often been called the brikitest jet sovereign's crown, and shelling really be nue of the firmest bulwarks of our natODEL Dr.
glory.**
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cause "Why India does not
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One thing is clear, that poor Sir Eardley is rated in this way for not operating somewere beyond the "cognizance of the law." So that his province, paar Governor extended into that region the inner
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