INDIA, I;T:ITISH. 



401 



>. "-.in to Import rico into 



I. it-lit. -iia: ' 



of I'.on/al, \\!: -in^ tln-ir works 



same, 



::imoii with the lo.-al oliiriaN, who 



lauu'hcd at such 



! that still higher prices 



ing out hidden stores. Meantime 



the ; ami in (Janjam. 



aleulated that half a 



milli ! ut not till May 2<1 



i\v write a horrible pic- 



iino In- ha.l d. Tided, and not 



till Juno 4th did the Board of Revenue com- 



the j)iiblic. On June 4th tlio 



1 ('attack; only one 



officer was sent to relievo the overworked and 



now alarmed officials ; the public were told not 



to subscribe, as there was a balance of 62,500 



tho old famine fund, and the Bengal 



t derided the famine which had 



iy killed half a million and would not 



sanction tlio formation of a public committee. 



y, on this, "requested*' Sir Cecil 



>u to do his duty by going to Calcutta ; 



'ie latter would not yet believe in tho 



famine, and so a few more hundreds of thou- 



sands of lives were sacrificed. England, mcan- 



hoed the cry of indignation which 



sounded from India, and when a million at least 



had died, a commission of inquiry was sent down 



Tiio yea*r closed with deaths from 



and it-; consequences still counted 



, and with thousands of foundlings 



. which city behaved so nobly, and 



be cared for by public charity. 



Hhootan war,* forced on by Sir C. Bea- 



cretary, came to a close by tho 



return of tho two abandoned guns to a force 



which penetrated as far as the Morass river, 



not, hov.-ever, until tho lives of 94 per thou- 



of tho native troops, and nearly 76 per 



t' tho whole force had been sacrificed, 



irly every tenth man, besides invaliding on 



a "fright lul scale, resulting in the death of valu- 



able officers, like Colonel Bruce, who concluded 



tho treaty. On tho frontier tho rapid massing 



of troops to meet a threatened attack of the 



saved India from a repetition 



of tho Umbeyla campaign. Tho fortification 



.vur went on. Tho policy of the gov- 



ernment on the Assam and Cachar frontier 



r.ollapj 1. Wild tribes, never taught to feel 



i power, had been coaxed by black-mail, 



'ii-< result, that tho lives of the settlers 



were unsafe, and whole tracts were left un- 



cultivated. An experiment was accordingly at- 



tempted with the Angameo Nagas, on the 1'iia- 



; rhii'iplo of government by an individual 



: by missionaries and inexorable 



Lieutenant Gregory was app<> 



: ion of Samoogooting to carry 



The close of tho Bhootan war and 



demarcation of tho frontier, by which England 



Crci.or.SDiA for 13C5. 



* Se 

 VOL. vi. 2 



keeps a fine piece of Himalayan territory be- 



. I'arjeeliug and Bhootan so that i<.r some 

 fifty mil.--, the border of Hriti.-h India marches 

 with Thibet, was followed by IK-W administra- 

 tive arrant merits as to districts, including the 

 management of the native state of < 

 liehar during tho minority of tho rajah. A 

 special brigadier also was appointed to Assam, 

 with his headquarters at the new station of 

 Shlllong. 



The grandest "durbar" which has ever 

 been held by the representative of the English 

 (iovernment in India, took place at Agra in 

 November. The assemblage was not only ranch 

 larger than on the former occasion, but it was 

 much more influential. There were in Agra, 

 with the governor-general, the Commander-in- 

 chief, three lieutenant-governors, two chief 

 commissioners, several agents of the governor- 

 general, and about a dozen other political 

 agents and residents. These, with their staffs, 

 attended to assist tho viceroy in the duties of 

 the durbar, and some of them were there in- 

 vested with the Star of India. There were 

 also present, to do honor to the representative 

 of the British Government, nearly a hundred 

 leading princes and chiefs, many of them be- 

 longipg to tho royal houses of Rajpootana, 

 who claim to be descended from " the sun and 

 moon," and some 300 chiefs and nobles of less 

 lofty parentage and power, each of whom was 

 attended by a crowd of ministers, retainers, and 

 servants ; while private individuals innumerable 

 flocked thither from all parts of India. The 

 chief events of the durbar were the installation 

 of tho various Knights and Companions of tho 

 Star of India, which took place on the 16th, the 

 grand durbar proper on the 20th, and tho en- 

 tertainment given on the 17th by his highness 

 the Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior, in honor of 

 Sir John Lawrence, which cost the sum of 

 5,000. Balls, reviews, races, athletic sports 

 for the soldiers, and " at homes " filled np the 

 intervals, and kept up a continual round of 

 gayety. 



A great and successful activity in behalf of 

 female education in India, was displayed by 

 Mi-- Carpenter, an English lady of Unitarian 

 sentiments. She arrived in Bombay on Sep- 

 tember 25th, and alter making a tour of Guze- 

 rat, and holding several meetings in Surat she 

 proceeded to Madras, where she enlisted the 

 warm sympathy and cooperation of Lord Napier, 

 the governor of that presidency. From thence 

 she went to Calcutta, where her independence 

 and amiability of character created a decided im- 

 pression in her favor. On December 17th she 

 convened an important and influential meeting 

 in the cause of social science in the hall of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society, which was presided over 

 by iho Lieutonant-Governor of Bengal, and at 

 which were present the Viceroy, several mem- 

 bers of the government, tho Director of Pub- 

 lic Instruction and others in the Educational 

 Department, many members of the Royal A>ia- 

 atic Society, and a largo number of native gen- 



