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measure of incorporation. The governor of 

 each Presidency should be assisted by a 

 council, not constituted as at present, but 

 an open council. '' What we want," says 

 Mr Bright, ''is to make the governments of 

 the Presidencies, governments for the people 

 of the Presidencies ; not governments for the 

 civil servants of the Crown, but for the 

 non-official mercantile classes from England 

 who settle there, and for the 20,000 or 30,000 

 of natives in each Presidency." Mr Bright 

 then goes on to show the well-working of 

 the system at Ceylon, and he would ''see the 

 council of each Presidency composed in part 

 of the officials of Government, in part of the 

 non-official Europeans resident in the Presi- 

 dency, and two or three, at least, of the 

 intelligent natives of the Presidency, in 

 whom the people would have some confi- 

 dence. Thus would the Government be united 

 with the governed, and in such a union of 

 interests is safety alone to be found. India 

 should be governed not for a handful of 

 Englishmen, not for the civil service, but 

 for the good of the people themselves." 



By the arrangements that Mr Bright thus 



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