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Grown, Military Officers serving in India, should 

 naturally preserve the privileges as British subjects 

 they enjoy elsewhere. In regard to Civil Officers 

 too, there seemed some slight inconsistency in the 

 prohibition. AH over the world, it is especially 

 land-holders, as those most deeply interested in the 

 maintenance of order, that Governments endeavour to 

 enlist in the magistracy and other similar depart- 

 ments of the Service of the State. Lord Canning had 

 long been of opinion that it was a serious defect in 

 our Indian system, that it did not admit of such 

 Zemindars as the Raja of Burdwan, and other less 

 wealthy land-holders, in some way taking part, in 

 the Government of the Country ; and as a beginning 

 he invested certain talooqah-dars in Oude and the 

 Punjab, with magisterial powers. In the spirit 

 of this policy, also, the Secretary of State added 

 native Members, large landed proprietors, to the 

 Council of the Governor-General. It was distinctly 

 ordered, again, that the restrictions regarding the 

 holding of property in the soil, were not to be made 

 applicable to the native and uncovenanted, but only 

 to the European and covenanted civil servants of 

 Government. Lately, moreover, especially in Bengal, 

 a considerable number of Indigo planters and other 

 European developers, were made honorary Magis- 

 trates, for the districts in which their properties were 

 situated. It would seem, then, as if Government 

 was endeavouring, on the one side, to make landed 



