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INDIA.The following is from the summary of the Friend of India, August 22:— . f,- ■Colonel Bruce, Inspector-General of Police in India, haying recently visited the Godavery during the rainy season, has been able for the first time to give the public and Government a clear idea of its capabilities for navigation, and as a means for the export of cotton. He shows conclusively that the navigation is open only four months of the year, and that it is hopeless to spend moiiey on the third or highest ..barrier of rock, which stretehes for thirty miles. He recommends that a road be made from Chanda, the most easterly of the cotton marts, to Mogelee, at the foot of that harrier. But as all the cotton is ready for export by March, it is evident that it will prefer the railway to Bombay, instead of waiting four months on the banks of the river for its rise. The local advantages to the central provinces, however, of the opening of the two lower barriers are evident.Government has just entered into a contract with the Burmah Steam Navigation Company which will do much to develop the coasting trade of India.Cholera has been spreading in several of the cantonments of the North-West and the Punjaub. The cholera report by Mr. Strachey bas been in type for the last three weeks. It is a most elaborate production, and contains admirable suggestions of a prophylactic and sanitary character. Meanwhile, a panic is said to have spread among the English troops. How long does Government mean to delay the publication of the report?There has been printed a memorandum of observations on the administration of India, drawn up by the Hon. Bajah Dinkur Eao for private circulation. Under fifty heads the writer discusses the problem of how the British should govern so as to be popular with their subjects. He approves of no measure not in accordance with caste prejudices, or that does not preserve established customs and existing rights. He tells us the people have now ‘ forgotten the goodness of the Government, and have begun to prefer the tyranny of the native princes.’ He would keep all rights in land as well as the practice of selling ‘ bucks or rights’ by judicial process for personal debts, all hereditary rights in certain offices, such as exist in large villages, where water-carriers, watchmen, barbers, washermen, have all remained in particular families from time immemorial as ‘ entailed property of which the life interest only can be alienate ? ’ All this would be disappointing if we did not believe that the British Government has a higher duty in India than to make itself popular with Asiatics degraded by centuries of idolatry.The Morrellgunge affray appeal has been decided. Eleven natives are found guilty of riot attended rvith murder and abduction, and sentenced to transportation for life. Doulut Chokedar, a principal in the dreadful outrage, is sentenced to death Hely now awaits his trial on a charge of homicide arising out of this case. The Agra Sudder Court has confirmed the sentence of death, for murder and rebellion, passed on Pandoo Itao, an adopted son of the last Peishwa, and cousin of the Nana. Thus the blood of Bithoor and Cawnpore will be avenged.
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London St Pancras News and Middlesex Advertiser
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Sat, Oct 04, 1862
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