BLE. Lord Kitchener and staff have just arrived in Simla by the Simla-Kalka Railway. The journey was a record one, being accomplished between those two places in 5 hours and 4 mins, including 40 mins. spent in watering the engines. Our energetic Commnander-in-Chief looks well but is still very lame; it is a mercy he was not is volved in any accident on this rapid journey of his, for several attempts have been made Jately' on this line to derail the trains; fortunately the system of patrols is almost perfect, and the' trains run only in the daytime, which reduces the danger to a minimum. The attempts to remove a rail on the line are generally made at night. On the last occasion, about two works ago, the discovered a rail successfully lifted in a long curved tunnel, where the result would have been certainly most serious. He was able, however, to put all right before the first train came by in the morning. Though the train wreckers have been many times foiled, it seems unsatisfactory that they have never yet been caught.
The Partitic of Bengal, Dhis question, involving new boundaries for some of our Indian provinces, is chiefly designed to relieve the overgrown burden of our Bengal administration, From this point of view only, however, it cannot be solely led, Our administrators are nob callous as to leave out of consideration the desprooted prejudices of millions in this country in to ties of religion, language, blood, habits, and customs which have bound them together for centuriec—or have kept them sternly and firmly apart—as the case may be. All this does not seem to count to a festive gentleman called Mr. Prithuri Obandra Ray, who shows us in a small way how very inconsequent the Bengali Babu can be, particularly when he is trying to give really sound advice on matters of administration. In the pamphlet before us he invites the Viceroy to drop the present scheme, and to "recast the map of India, as far 08 possible, on a scientific Mr. Ray ignores population and takes only areas into consideration, the reason assigned being that sparsely populated districts may become crowded in a couple of centuries! The scientific basis of his scheme rests on the ancient divisions of India from geologic times; this, mingled with the ery, "do not, oh do not touch, the special class to which I belong," seems the burden of his song. attain this last idea, our friend with Light and airy touch, proposes to overhaul the whole empire, and is quite regardless of the welfare and feelings of the other pro-vinoes which he so cavalierly undertakes redistribute.
The Ca-operative Credit Societies Act.
This bill which has just been passed may not be called an important measure, but refers to a subject most important in India—agricultural indebtedness and the improvement of local credit. In this country the chief industry is agriculture, beyond this there is little; the old indigenous industries are dying out and but few have "been revived.
dering the notorious poverty of the country, the want of capital must be supplied by some such scheme.
The Ca-openutive Credit, Societies Act cant only give legislative aid to movements which for their success almost entirely do:
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