Ir is evident in many ways that the subject of the government and adminis. tration of India is now undergoing that long process in the Eoglish mind which invariably precedes action, and that at some day not very distant it will be discovered by one of the political parties that people are determined that something must be done to put matters in the East in a botter state, The favourite politician of the day will "take up India," his friends will awaken to a sense of their duty, meetings will be held, when that singular product of the age, the Calontta baboo, will speak, and the thing will be done. We doubt if many people know what the actual condition of India is; whether her millions of inhabitants are living in comfort or morely dragging out a wretched existence, Most of those who have written on Indian subjects of Into years have held extreme view on one side or the other, and it is impossible to estimate how far the public mind has been hisssed by the optimist or the pessimist schools. But the average Englishman, though ho may have no special knowledge of Tndian affairs, has a notion that these fare not as they should be, and that something is wrong in the finances which ought to be set right, which he will see about in the first idle moment.
We published Colonel Gordon's pamphlet on the Indian expenditure a few days ago, and the recent appearance of; SirR. Temple's work, "India in 1880,"
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