The general impression of the new. Vicero is a favourable one, and the people loo forward with great hopes to his time of administration in India for the very. reason that he seems to think India will be ander Aie rule. For though this aspect of the. Viceroy's did in some ways irritate the people, in others it pleased them as it showed that Lord Curzon was determined to take a very active part in the Government, and that during his administration things would not be so much left in the hands of the high Government officials. During Lord Elgin's time, the general impression was that things were left too much to the high officials, and that he, Lord Elgin, did not take suffi cient active interest in things in general.
Madras, 7th January.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.