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    • INDIA,, AjNTD INDIAN PROGRESS. ¦
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      master , proposes to commemorate the centenary : of his death by some practical proof how highly we prize the legacies he has bequeathed to us * and by some effort in favour of the helpless ones whom many of his worthy illustrators leave amongst us when tfiey , t 66 , pass away . The generous need no more incentive to loose their purse strings' than the mere reminder how . mauy of such cases there are : and we believe , as well as hope , that the munificent dor or of land to the value of 5 , 000 / . will find himself fitly seconded . Mr . Owen Jones has offered to act as honorary architect , and a list of noble and gentle patrons will be published shortly . Let us add another hope—that some more charitable spirit than characterised the early proceedings of the Dramatic College authorities will be found among the counsels of the Handel Institution . The following distinguished persons honoured the Royal Italian Opera ^ Drury Lane , last week , with their presence : —Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar , the Duchess of Manchester , the Duchess of Montrose , the Duke of Roxburgh , the Earl and Countess of Cardigan , the Countess of Mountcharles , the Marchioness of Downshire , Count Batthyany , his Excellency the Baron Brunow , the Baroness Brunow * ind party ; the Earl of JLonsdale , his Grace the Duke of ^ Bedford and party , the Marchioness of Conyngham , Lady Rivers , Lord Salisbury , Lady Packington , Lord Cranstoun , Marquis of Stafford , Sir Courtnay Honey wood , Sir Ralph find La . &y Howard , Lady Fakenham , 'Miss Burdett Goutts and party , —D'Horsay , Esq . ; Sir J . Dundas , J . Grenfcll , Esq . - ; C . Goding , Esq . ; Captain Harris , Hon . Otway Toler , Major . Gordon , Major Blake , Major Lynn , Captain Cavendish , Captain Cave , Mr .. arid Mrs . Wheeler . — Hume , Esq ., &c .

      India,, Ajntd Indian Progress. ¦

      INDIA ,, AjNTD INDIAN PROGRESS . ¦

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      form , so far from having a wish to exclude natives from office , ' wish to see them in the highest offices , sitting in the Legislative Council , and in the Supreme Courts , associated more extensively in the magistracy , and , summoned on provincial juries ; and taking part in . municipalities ; but for the protection of natives and English , they wish no native to be entrusted singly with functions , which he may pervert to corrupt and oppressive purposes . .

      Another alteration of tins kind , at Bombay , which tends to raise the native is , that no separation of nation or sect now takes place on juries . Formerly the English sat hi the jury-box by themselves , Portuguese , Parsees , Hindoos , and Mahomedans being kept distant from each other . On a late occasion a Parsee was foreman . To return to Sir Charles Trevelyan and Madras , we may mention another compliment to the

      natives . Formerly , while English gentlemen drove straight up to Government House , native gentlemen were required to alight before reaching the portico , but Sir Charles has allowed them the same privilege , with which they are much gratified . The sepoys have been pleased by Sir Charles discontinuing the guards at the Collector ' s Office , the Lunatic Asylum , and the Post-office , where he has substituted police . Thus the military element is also reduced , and the display of arms lessened ..

      Sir Charles is engaged in meeting the difficulties of caste and custom . . In South Arcot the right and left hand castes have been engaged in impeding each other , preventing gooroos and processions from passing down particular streets , and left hand men from riding in their own carriages along a public street , or building houses with an upper story . The governor has instructed the authorities that the public streets and roads-sin- all towns are not the property of any caste , but of the whole community , and that 'any man may use them and deal with his own property as he pleas , es , provided he does not giye any real annoyance to others , or outrage public decency or public law .

      In the case of the Tinnevelly authorities a salutary lesson has been read , for the moonsifl ' has been dismissed , because it was by his orders the shops were closed during the riots . The head of police is likewise dismissed , because he used no influence or authority to disperse the mob , or to persuade them of the risk of resistance . In fact , these menai-e ptmished for passively allowing the Christians to be molested . The Governor has given , his support to the new Madras police plan , under which the police functions are to be separated from those of magistrate

      and collector . All local forces , and zillah and district police , are abolished , and the whole police of the Presidency—22 , 000 in number—formed into one body under a commissioner of police , who is to have the general , management . The chief _ danger is introducing the military clement too far into the police , and giving it a character too military . It is to be regretted that , in addition to swords , the police are to bo provided with carbines . Under the commissioner are district superintendents , and in every talook an inspector . Under him . is the village inspector , to whom the village watchman is alone responsible . The watchmen arc in much bettor order than in the other

      Prosi-—• . . w ^^ SIR C . TREVELYAN " . — HLLL STATIONS . —FREEHOLD TENURE . THE Madras papers report that various measures of Sir Chas . Trevelyan ' s are increasing his popularity among Europeans and natives . He continues his exertions to relieve the civil servants and officials from the burden of papers , reports , and correspondence . He has likewise issued new rules with regard to petitions—another impediment of the Indian official . All complaints against any servant of Government must first be made to the local authority ; no petitions will be attended to on matters which form the subject of judicial proceedings , and no petition will meet with any answer which applies for a situation in the gift of the heads of departments . Thus the petition nuisance , will receive a heavy blow , while the power of the local authorities will be much strengthened .

      The amalgamation of the Supreme and Sudder Courts may be looked upon as determined on , and although a new code of civil procedure has b « en passed , and a penal code will be prepared which places Europeans on a footing with natives , there cannot be much doubt that the old system , is doomed , that English rights will b . e established , and English law introduced . A commission on the amalgamation is said to be appointed , which copsists of Mr . Smyth , the Advocate-General , Mr . J . B . Norton , of the Madras bar , a leading reformer ,

      and- Mr . Strange , M .. U . S ., a judge ol the » uaaer Court . The amalgamation will constitute the Supremo Coux-t the high court of appeal for the whole presidency ; and to relieve it from part of tlie local civil business , the small cause court of Mftdrns ia to be put on the footing of a county court . In order to give local " sittings , Sir Charles Trevelyan proposes to establish provincial courts , consisting of oa « civiV servant , one barrister , and one Eurasian , or other native—an unobjectionable method of « mploying natives , and agoodstop for raisingtbein xu the political ecale . The leaders of Indian

      rodencies , but will be put on an improved footing . There is besides a bod y of regular police . The village watchman will begin at 5 s . a month , the police constable at 10 s ., advancing to 12 s . and to 14 s . ; the Serjeants will advance from 20 s . to 28 s ., and the inspectors from 41 . to 20 / . A superannuation fund is provided . The pay of the Serjeants is insufficient to provide Europeans , but doubtless this defect will in time be remedied . Measures are being taken to put the Madras revenue officers on a footing with those of Bengal , by requiring the observance of Sunday as a holiday .

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      27 th Foot , and Paymaster SewelL ( ith n ™ Guards . The Rev . i . W . tS ^ SuStSSS from Kussowlle to Simla . ^^ udngecl Nynee Tal is rising much into favour . Anionothe leaves of absence are Captain C P HaiwF commanding AUygurli district police , and Lieutenant Slade , 57 th Foot . ™ Leave to Mussoorie has been o-iven tn C-wn-T . C . Lyons , 20 th Foot , to CaptiunT SaaS and Barnett 54 th foot , to Ensign r ! Kane , 7 ? st Foot Tn ^ T ^^ f " * ?• > Adjutant of the Allahabad military police . .. ¦ Th g . ? - F- Fairer has . changed to Kussowlee from Simla . Brevet Col . . L'Estrange , 70 th Foot , has leave to continue at Landour .

      Ensign Tulloch , 23 rd Foot , has leave to th e hilla north of Deyrah . . The exchanges , between the chaplains at Meean Meer and Rawul Pindee , are cancelled . Sir A . Ii . Lawrence , Bart ., assistant commissioner , has . been removed from Lahore to Kanora district . = Lieut . S . Clayton and Ensign II . B . Sayce , 99 th Foot , have leave to Ilazaraee bagh . Mr . Y . C . Ross has been '" appointed deputy collector arid deputy magistrate of JJoolundshnlnir . Leave to the NeiJ » herries has boeii <> iven to Major-Gen . R . Budd , commanding S . Madras division ,, Major II . S . Kin" -, 3 rd Foot . aml to Capt A . S . Findlay , 3 . 0 th M . N . T ., to Liuut .-C'ul . Smyly , 99 th Foot , and to Lieut . A . W . Atkinson , OOtli Foot .

      The governor of Ceylon , and most ol ' the leading pei-sonages were reported to be , at Newera Ellia sanatarium until May . jffilens Indian Mail has an article in ¦ remembrance of the claims of Major Munro , of the Bengal arniy , as one of the pioneers of the principal of a freehold tenure , . by the publication of letters under the signature of "Verax " in 1 hv-Asiatic Journal for 1841 * and the following years . This fact does hot , however , lessen , the-inorit u ' . ' i )\ o exertions ol the Friend of India , and other ' . advocates of ¦ this great-economical and social improvement . Alleifs Indian JSIail has been brought round to . advocate the suppression of that hot-bed of seditiou- ^ -the native army . The Bengal autho

      rities have now move ojlicers ot native regiments borne on the lists than before the mutiny . The same paper explains that tho complimentary address from the British India Association to Lord Canning is not from English residont .-t , Irut from blacks , who approve of his policy . The Friend of India puts forward a well-founded protest against the repeated return of IJoraramlthc Hyderabad assigned territory to . the Xizain , us a reward for his ambiguous loyalty . Tho editor shows how the country has improved hi the slioat period since its cession in 1850 : — The first year the revenue- wus • • • . Cl 7 "> , noo In lfsTA-ii • l ! W , 0 "" ilftwl ; :::::::::::::.::.: w **

      In the time of the Xr / . iwn the five millions of people were subjected to i ' , ll " kinds ol' oppression , nor did he derive the pecuniary bom'lil . There has been no emigration Irom I ho district , and the population is supposed to have increased . In the Raichorc district aJimo i ' orty-one new schools have been started , making the number Jo | . Village roads have been laid out over tho whole country , but the issue of dobonli . uv . s with a provincial guarantee can alone provide tho rocjuwito funtUt for public iniproveimunts . Tlio Uoinbay Railway i « aj ) proac ; hing iho Ucnw country , > vhicU will exercise great influence . . . In the northern hilln aro admirablo po » iI ions for English colonies and sanitaria , but nothing luia yet been done to make them available . in

      From tho hill settlements the chief news is of numerous concessions of loave of absence . For Darjeeling , Ensign A . Jones , 87 th Foot , has leave . Mr . E . M . Roily , deputy-collector of Cachan , has left his district for a while , from ill health . Simla is now the seat of the military department , and the officers are working more comfortably there after their late toils and inconvenience . Loave for Simla has been given to Lieutenant F . A . Stebbing , 8 tUFoot , Lieutenant J . S . White ,

      Berar in one of tho h ' nt'st cotton countries India ; and while tho Cotton Supply Aiwooiation arc doing all in their power to promote tho railway anu tho development of the country , ooinu ol thu omoials in India aro seeking to ooiwign it to tho oppression of anaroliy under tho Nizam . . In Allahabad , tho magistrate , Mr . Hcwoliol , , had gone out against tho rebels with twonty-eiffnt Europeans , and achieved groat buoOwm . l » pno fray ho captured twenty-four rebel * at icinampore . . _ . .. „ ,,, ! Me . A . W . Wilson Stool , born in India , ami eduoatedin the Marthuoro , at Calcutta , has i ^" ^ muoh applause in India for having come off liena wrangler at Cambridge . , , It is noticed that more trouble has boeu taken

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      Ke \ v GARDEXS .- ^ Weh ave been requested state that the National Botanic Gardens , containing the great palm-house , the old and new museums , the tropical aquarium , &c , and the royal palace pleasure grounds , flower gardens , , and new arboretum , having been greatly improved and adorned , are now open for the season , every week-day from one o ' clock nil dusk . On Sundays , from two o ' clock till six . Free admission to the whole .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 4, 1859, page 702, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2297/page/18/