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English thrashed st all events, like the echaol boy whe would be glad to see a new bully thrach his former master, eye though be proves a ceverer tyrant. The country is infinitely better governed now than belore the mutiny, and the wide-upread hatred of the Hnglish does not prove that they are bad rulers. If is merely tha hatred that easterns always bear their masters; yet missterg the Hindoow will alwsys have. The Singlish judges avd civil cflicials are incar— ruptioie, aud the nalive, wha is fond of Jaw suite, is eure of exact and even justies, althoogh his opponent may be « Eerepean. Under natiye rulers justice uninfluenced by bribes wad unkcown. For svores of centuries the Hindecs have bribed aad taken bribes, aud corruption Mas eaten inte the setional character go dseply that many people deviare if can never be waeked out. Bribes are constantiy offered to Hng- lish officials, end that they should be re- jected ig something incomprehensible ty the fgnorant native. The Ruseiang are not thereughly civisized: they zre semi-bar- hariaus, sad their ofiizials zre notoriously the most corrip’ snd yenal in HKurope. “-seraich a Ruesian acd you will Gud a bear beneath the skin.” Were they a civilized Kurepesu Power with “a mission”? in the Hash, or even anentignioned Commercial Power, with benevolent Joativets, but witb ne poliey ontside their pockeis—suer ss tha rule in India wes under the Kast India Company—mankilod might ba banefted by theiy advance into Southern Asis, But a3 anorganizsd Barbarisw, of Asiatic crigiv, to replace the Kuglish would be a step backwards to the people of Inia. The great mass of tho heople are quite in- di: ff2rent 33 to whe their rulera are, if anly their taxes sre kept down. The Govern- ment is eatablishing seleols ard enileges in all the largo cities, and thousands of young men ate growing Up with western idesy who Will stan: by the Bugiich in case of any future insurrection. They sre identiicd with the government by minor oflleial po- sitions, and wany thousands are employed on tha rsiiwavs. ‘ihe danger ig from the outside, not from any Internal dieaifeetion, There sre 70,000 Meglikh soldiera in the eountry, and in raorganizing tha native troops sines the mutiny the government haa wisely drawn moat of thelr rearaita from the Sikes and ether war-like tribes of the Punpjanb in Northern tndia, whe are all Mabometans nnd hate as wall as derpise the maore € fleminate Hindoae of the South, ily views of the “Mastern Question” are submitted in ajl modesty, and may not ba correct. I can only say that they are the result of over 3,000 miles travel through the enuntry, andthe honest endeavor, withoas auy partiality to the present rulers, sysinet whom I was strongly prejudiced, to gain all possible information on the subject.
