Nor only in " India Revisited," which we noticed the other day, but in almost every Indian newspaper, and in many another form, the bitter complaints of the Anglo-Indians of the low exchanges of Late yeara Lave been heard. All classes, whose pay or salaries are drawn in silver, have suffered in thesame wayes the officers of the Indian army and the Civil Service, And the condition of the woes and of trade in Indi here else in the East, makes it'very improbable that there will be such an increase to the pay of employ as will be a compensation to them for the raised value of gold, or as it is generally termed the low rates of ox-change, It seems pretty certain that woin the East must for the future calculate on remitting to England at low rates, which, whether they are the present or these of last year or of the year before will still leave ample grounds for grumbling. Taking it for grunted that silver will not rise, and with. it sterling exchange, much above the average of the first part of Inst year, it is worth considering purely as n speculation whether low rates of ox-change in the Enst may not effect great alteration in the domestic habits and the lives of Europeans, there, We do not know that the Pp. ty of a continued low value of of silver making these clanges has been considered by any of the numerous writers, who have doalé with ils effects on the public finances and on commerce. For the sake of simplicity in statement we shall take as examples the Indian Civil and Military Services. The married men in these have hitherto been in the habit of having their children educated at home; bat it seems to be within the bounds of possibility, that the decline in exchanges, by the consequent increase in cost of " fotuily remittances," may lead toa consider able change in the customs of the official and military classes in India, A man who sees before him the necessity of paying Re, 1,400 or upwards for every £100 for which he formerly paid Rs. 1,000, and whose income is not increased to meet this extra call apon it, may be obliged to consider whether he should not educate his family in Tudia altogether, and not a fow may be compelled to do-so. Probably the means of education there would in a short time be as good as are now: to be obtained in Edinburgh and Cheltenhaw, or the large, good, but not first class, schools to which such multitudes of Anglo-Indian children are uow sent; colleges equal to Haileybury or Addie. combs would before long be founded in India, and 0 far as the method and means of education go, of as high a character as the Competition Wallab, or the cadet now gets in England. And the-retention in India of the youths who would in time be a part of the governing classes there, would have another advantage, they would learn much more about native character than young men who come out from home can, save in exceptional cases, ever acquire, In the old Company's days its officials lived much among the people, The generations of thole children acquired a heartier sympathy with all classes of natives, than the winner of many marke now gets, or could understand if it were offered to him, Mr. Smith, and most previous writers on modern India have noticed this defect in our services, and the education of European children in the comity in which their fathers were serving would reproduce the former friendliness between the governed and the governing classes. Supposing the education in India of European youths to be adopted on a largo scale, it would remedy a part of the financial evils which some writers (all us India is suffering from, and lesson the drain of money to Love don, to pay the "home charges," and, also, the high rate of expenditure in the army, The retention of Bug. lish youths in India might, in the second generation, form a uew class in Indian Society, one that would rank with the present official and military class, and which would in time become numerous, It would supply the services with young mon, as well born and probably as well trained as the young men who now come from Hugland. They would not look forward to retiring to Great Britain after a certain number of years, any more than the Australian or South African colonist does, and it la not likely they would sick into the apathy which characterises the Eurasian, They would keep touch with England, as the New Yorker or the Bostonian, who has to make his way in the world, does; they would "ran over" when they could afford it, or when their interests required. Their pay, almost all of it and their pou-sions would be spent in Indi money thus retained there would be of the greatest benefit to the country, It will be said that Englishmen who have been wholly educated in the Hast will show deterioration from those who lave been under the wholesome infigeuce of a training at home. That would have been a much more serious objection before the last twenty years than it is now. Daring that period life among foreigners in the East has become much more homelike, and has lost many peculiar characteristics which would have induced such deterioration and it is to be hoped that this process of improvement will go on.
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