Asiatic Quarterly Review an account of India during the Jubilee reign, It does not relate to historical events, he says, but gives only the results of administrative improvements, of material development, of moral progress, and of social reform. Marshalling the principal facts under ten headings he proceeds to illustrate the difference between 1837 and 1887 in a brief and interesting mauer, The general reader probably finds it difficult. to preserve in his memory any facts connected with India except those of prime importance, and such a sketch as Sir Richard Temple has given is extremely useful, Even those who may doubt the wisdom of some of his official acts will admit that he knows India well, that his mind is imbued with the spirit of British Government there, and that as far as knowledge of the country goes he is probably without an equal: Before showing how the Indian empire has been extended he enumerates the chief battles, sieges, and disasters that have ocewrred during the Queen's reign, The British Government in India have won nine victories in the field; fought two battles, Moodkee and Chiliauwala, without decisive results; conducted five great sieges and defended four places of the first importance successfully. Disasters were suffered at Cabul, Delhi, Cawnpore and Maiwand, and inmumerable military expeditions were conducted against wild tribes. What the nature of these expeditions was may be inferred from this extract:-—"The whole length of the North Western frontier, some 2,000 miles from Peshawar to Karachi, was infested by fierce, warlike, and fanatical tribes. Tt has been subdued, after much fighting, in detail; and, by the long sustained exercise of political skill, it has at last been reduced to quiet, and to such sation as may be possible in such regions. The pacification of this frontier forms one of the items of British achievement during the present reign."
During the fifty years, Sindh, Pun-jaup, Jammu and" Cashmere, Pegu,
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