proof copy and prints it in extense, Soouer or later the British Government il x the expenditure of fiasco of the epartmen [dia has given ment a fair opportunity for enquiry, it would be as well to take advantage of this break-down, to go into the whole question' of Indian expenditure, Indeed, the break-do may be considered quite a God-send, having given such an opportu Tt in quite useless to euquirs whether it 4 was the Indian official A. or B. to whom blame is to be attributed for the miscsloulntion; in fact, the Indian Admivistral of Finance has failed completely.
Now no Governor-General or Indi Home Council dare confront the phalanx of Indian officials; they are the initiated, and they alone wider stand the mysteries of India. of Indian' expenditure. in ly &. Select The only way to get at the proper state
Committee of the House of Commons, in the hope that sorns member of Houre.will.take.up..the subject, 1 make the following remarks India, in 1840, consisted of 621,000 aquaro miles, population, 148 millions; in 1879 it coneiated of 863,000 square miles, population, 191 millions. It cost 225 millions to administer in 1840, and 67.3 i 1 1879, irrespective and was India quieter in 1840 than in 18791
The Admin India, with ci The Admin Groat Brit and Colonie War Department Adwiealty.conts 2,1 millions, The Imperial forces of Ireland, numbering 519,966 troops.,....cost 11 millions, The 65,000 Imperial and 5 0 trope in India, in all 190,000 tree coat 18.4 million The Medical Department in India costs £669,059. The Medical Department in Great Britain and Printing wud Stationery in Great Bi Ireland, (and we have the two Hou cents £471,470, of much vexation ehavenow hold India for some hundred years, and we may justly that we had acquired a the country by our admi to remain quite at rest, both with the ple and with respect to foreign foes.
thin the case? And what is the reason of our continual fears respecting The result of the Afghan war has boon to'nid Atussia in the improbable of an invasion. We have, by our roads and forts shown her generals the strategical 4 its of that country. Our tenure of india depends more on our rule being acceptable to the peuple than-on. armed forces, or on scientific frontiers.
As @ marti ion we hold India, yet India has but two ports, Kurraciee and Bombay. We have apparently quite overlooked the fact that the ports of Ind are our true basis of operation.
With refererics to the above small analysis of Indian expenditure, 1 would ask it is utterly impossible to employ tives in a very much Larger proportion, in order to enlist their sympathies with us, and to interest them in the suc ce failure of our rule, and at the sau ly rather General who went into and exami for himself, than they would any amount of pomp.
I have suid before that our tenure in {India depends far more on enlisting the sympathies of the people in our success or failure than in our armed forces: ud therefore i the Csuncila in India todo away with the enormous anlaries of would largely increase the native element. some of the Departmental officers It may be said that if the reductions With respect to the pay of the army, and economies which are advocated: here, how is it that at Ceylon, Mauritius, Si are put in force—and they can never be pore, Hongkong, ete., etc., the higher a0, unless as an outcome of a Parliamentary rauks of officers are paid half xs much as Committee—men will not' care to go' to those in India, India are I do not think that this need i ur times as much as for oven if the class that now necessaries of life to India will no long do 40, there ara paratively the same in many other classes who will go and be colonies as in Indin. glad to go. generally stated, namely, that i The whole relation of India and Groat more pomp should be kept up than in thee Britain has changed since the eatablishcolonies? I cannot see that this is " necesment of quick communication and of the sity, and if 60, why isnot the increased pay yearly furloughs. India is no longer the given to the subaltern ranks "ud lower home of Indian employes, as it was before, ranks as well as to the higher rauke in India?
It would by invidious to yo into the pay allowances of this or that post, but it Tt would be a different question if the to be hoped that if a Parliamentary ne of India could support the bur-Committee does examine into the Indian but with the inevitable relinquish expenditure, it will examine into the pay ment of the opium trade it cannot do sy, and allowances and duties of every Govern-and-aurely it is better to look ahead and determine how to meet the curtailed ment employe, ad will see what proper tion of mutives ure employed in revenue.
Government service; this lutter Ivol In the Dopartmonts of Law and Justice groutest importance, (exclusive of prisons), is there an absolu Scindia, ete., etc., were ces sity for such a larg positions where they could' be usefully being expended? Could ployed, they would not need the watch found who could do a great ing they have now.
imple legal work that is 10 be Pho establishment of an English Envoy and who would thus be involved in our success or failure with Kaufmann, and of " Russian Envoy with the Governor-General, would go In the Admi great way to move the mutual Governor-General and between the Secretaries ut the Go costing with their Staffs, £119,079 with Staff, tal Secretaries, The most important official in India must nor of Madras, be the Financial Secretary, and he should d_his Depart be entirely under the control of the Home tal Secretaries, 891; the Governor of Bombay and his Council wid ment, and thus unable to pland for
287,810. hin Departmental Secretaries, costing etcomings by putting the blame on.
subordinate What is the wre of all those pee vale pitts Parrot arery Councils, if the Supreme Council is to control them in the most minute particular?
There ar but very fow questions in the Governments of Bombay, éc., that the Council of Bombay, we., and its Departmental Secretaries, could nut deal with why sh uld the Supreme Council be paid at the rate of £6,600 a yenr, total £45,624, tu give more work, anil to decide (on matters which the Bombay Council or Madras Council know a great deal more about than the Supreme Council can degree the propolising all the work tration of India by the Supreme Council scoounts for the enormous amount for stationery and printing nearly hilt-a-million annually.
The existence of the Supreme Council of India has not been " happy one; sometimes the Governors-General have used and sat on them; at used them as buffers in Ottice, or else ignored Concentration of all power with the Governor-General is a great mistake. If the Governor-General were free of the i amount of work uow thrown on he would be able to move rapidly about, and to see and judge for himself, I s60 no reason for the tédivus d the expenses—some£66,00 caused by moring about as wow, li overeigu Prince; in fact, no Sovereign Prince would trouble himself to such an extent.
be said that this pomp is necessary in the eyes of the people; in my opinion, they do not care anything about it. They Aden ough to be made a Crown instend of being, as it is now, nominally under Bombay, but really under the Supreme Council of India, who know it only 9 & place which they pass gain and coming Home frou India expect that they have not the faintest conception of any of the countries with which Aden is so intimately connected.
I would not. on the pay of the captains, lieutenants, or soldiers; it will be found that they ate not overlaid, And I would not interfere with the native The economies are to be made in igher posts, and staff, civil and a transport services to and from Indin, for the reliefs of the 65,000 Imperial troops which are there, cost £399,777. Would it not be cheaper to employ the merchant marine to take these reliefs to and fro?
1 am well aware that in ing my opinions in this manner I am exposing myself to a shower-bath of criticism, but Ido care for the welfare of my country and though I may be of no rebut. authority in this question, I feel that I have some show of reason on my side. It is impossible to yo on as we have done hitherto in India; there will come a time when there will be a dead-lock; and itis better te prevent that by our House of Commons looking into this question now. a 2st January, 1881,
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