To seo ourselves a8 others see us has always been considered a gift highly to be desired, and it may be useful to notice the French view of British administration in India, as sot for forth by M. Bort, who was sout out by the last French Government to make x special report irish Methods of Colonial Ad. ministration. Unstinting of hie prai in some quarters, M. Bert yet points to what ho considers throe grave defects of British rule, One is the educational system, another is the cumbrous and costly procedure of law, and the hard and fast rules of red tape which bind the mass of official India too much to routine, thirdly, the indifferent organisation of the police force which he considers is insutticiently officered by Europeans and too much rel gether is placed upon the nati "Be instructed yo that are judg early ro. marks, to wit, that, in which he says that "the British Government has harmonise its administrative organisntio.u that it seems absolutely adapted to the population for which it fas won crouted.
After the E irthquake, The area affected by the grant earth. quake hn been carefully observed by the Survey Department to see whether any of the antral fatures of the districts concerned have been altered by the di turbance, and to decide on the advixability of rebuilding Dharmasala. In the beginning of May it was considered that the spur at Dharmasala, on which the Gurkha barracks formerly stood, would be quite safe, but the authorities have probably altered this conclusion, in view of the fact that Dharmasala was agau visited by a rather severe shock on the 18th instant about noon, which brought down many of the huts erected by the sufferers after the disaster of the 4th ultimo. A sharp shock also took piece at Simla on the 19th inst, after the inhabitts had rejoiced in quite a week's reps Mayhap those who criticise 20 severely the annual exodus of the whole heavy machinery of the government of India to the stills for half the year, may consider this a judgment on the powers that be, for too eagerly seeking © more agreeable climate than the steamy odoriferous environment of Ci cutty during the hot weather. Lord Curzon, during his first year of office, remarked that hac the matter rested with him, he would certainly not have written " Simla" for more than half the veer on the Government of India slate,
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