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    NOTES ON INDIAN PROGRESS. The hill news ...

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    Berar And Eastern Coasi Jl.Ulway. A New ...

    rinudl matter , now , but one hereafter of great tho % A & li « no outlet and inlet f « « ™ J bisin of that river , and the extent of ti a We will be enonnous , more particularly wluju the sys e . n ^ irrigation and navigation comes to be fully dc veloncd It will surprise no one who knows . any-S of India , that a great disproportion exists Seen the price of commodities on the coas and the interior , coast produce or imports bem » at enor oL prices in tl . e interior , and inland produce l " - __ ' ^* L mh « -nnP rl hv carnage before it can be

    EroTHitto ^ re coast consumer . " When we consider how in the smaller country of Spain , the consumption and supply of the inland provinces are trammelled bv want of efficient communication with the seaboard * we may conceive what must be the case in Berar and the Central Deccan , separated by hundreds of miles from the great centres of maritime commerce . Tims , wheat stands at 100 m Berar , and 213 on the coast ; rice , salt , & c , a t 100 on the coast aiul 275 to 300 in the interior . Under these circumstances trade is restricted , because the remuneration of the agriculturist is absorbed by

    the charges of the carrier . . The Berar Railway will effect great political objects for at the present moment the dominions of the Nizam , with ten millions of inhabitants m a stale of disorganisation , and the lately annexed territories of Nagpore swarm with dissolute and disorderly retainers , as ready to turii their arms on us as on the unhappy subjects of the Tvizam . Darin " tlic whole time of the revolt these distrusts have caiised much anxiety to the Hyderabad Resident . The Berar Rail way , opening communication with these districts by the coast , will enable reinforcements of troops to be poured in through Coringa in case of need by sea , and the branch rnrlwavs comiectiujr the territories with the western

    ghauts and tablelands , and thereby , with the English stations and settlements springing . up , will place . the JETyderabad dominions under the influence " the troops of the west . By the Jubbulpore line the troops from the stations and depots , now existing or in course of formation in the Himalayan regions , will likewise be made available . One subordinate' operation of the Berar Railway system , but one very important in its results , will be the thorough opening of the valley of the Godavery to English enterprise . ' One line will run from Ahmed- , nugger to Ghanda , which , will bring a large district within ten hours' reach of the hill towns and villages near Poonah , but railways descending from the head

    valleys of the feeders of the Godavery will bring cotton plantations within three or four hoars ' journey of the cotton planter , dealer , or merchant resident in the healthy climate of the hills . In the plains many overseers , agents , clerks , and mechanics will bo distributed , and the resources of the country will , under such action , be grcaily extended . Tims the amount of produce available for export at Coringa will be very much larger than it now is . Coringa has this advantage over Bombay , that , the gradients to it afford a gentle descent for exports and a gentle rise for imports , but to work to Bombay the summit level of the Bhorc Ghaut or Thul Ghaut has to be reached and overcome , and

    then a rapid descent to Bombay . For the cotton , ¦ t rade , with China , which is considerable , Coringa lias special advantages over Bombay . Taking into consideration tbis mattor of gradients it is evident the traffic between Coringa and Bombay will not , lie divided midway , but that the area of Coringa traffic will bo , greater than that of Bombay trallic . Tlie ascent of l . l » e Ghauts alone will always be an impediment to the Bombay traffic , whether of passengers ov goods , when compared with tho gradients of the Berar Railway .

    Much of the territory of the interior being forest , largo supplies of timber , which cannot advantageously bo floated down tho river as in New England , will become available for coast purposes . Not only timber for sleepers and othor railwaysuppl y will bo thereby obtained , but teak for shipbuilding and other purposes at Coringa , will bo supplied . At ; Coringa some vessels of large burden have been built ; , the timber for which is imported from the otUor coast of the Gulf of Pongtvl . The length of tho main lino is about four hundred miles , and this the directors reasonably ex poot to lay down at about 8000 / . ' por mile , so that the capital now proposed to bo raised is three millions , on which sum it is intended to solicit a guaranteo from the Government of India , and the oustomary

    priviieo-es . , years-neither would managers ask for a guarantee , nor the Government concede it , as the traffic is sure to yield an adequate income ; but in the present state of public opinion , and with the prevalent want of intelligence as to India , it is desirable to ask a guarantee , which the directors thiak they have good grounds for expecting ;; and we think they have , for apart from the natui'e of the line , it will have the strong support of the cotton interest , which will urge its claims on an impressionable Government . Lord Stanley is so far pledged to the encouragement of the cotton trade , that his favourable reception of the undertaking is naturally to be looked for , the more particularly when it is strongly pressed on his notice .

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    Notes On Indian Progress. The Hill News ...

    NOTES ON INDIAN PROGRESS . The hill news represents the authorities of the several Presidencies as occupying their accustomed abodes in the hills , or making excursions from them . Lord Elphinstone returned from Dapooree near Poona to Bombay on the 8 th of October , and was to reside on Malabar Point , but he had little disposition to remain in his metropolitan city , and it is confidently stated that he will soon proceed to the newhill town of Matheran , which is to be honoured with his residence . This will be a great advantage to that rising place and no detriment to public business , for Matberan is within three hours and a half of Bombay by railway , and has an electric telegraph . At present there is only one train a day each way , but it is to be expected the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company will now put on more trains .

    Sir Christopher Rawlinson , the Chief Justice of Madras , for want of the communication with the Neilgherries , which the Madras Railway will afford , has been in the practice of making Bangalore his residence ; but Lady Rawlinson and himself have now left it , as he retires from India . It is a great pity that while he was at Bangalore the large English community could not have the benefit of the jurisdictions of the Supreme Court , but are under Black law . The Madras Commander-in-Chief leaves his staff at Oo . takam . und , and proceeds with , one aide-de-camp on a tour of inspection . The Bishop of Madras has not yet left the hills , but is to make a visitation , which will include Madras and Bangalore .

    The Darjeeling news , or rumoured news , is referred to elsewhere . The leave of absence to the hills includes , for Simla and hills north of Deyrah—Lieutenant W J . S . Richards , 3 rd Batt . Europ . L . C . ; Lieutenant G . S . Davies , 6 th Drag . Guards ; Captain H . G . Deedes , 1 st Batt . 60 th R . Rifles ; Colonel J . Jones , 60 th ITootj Lieutenant V . D . Miigendie , Royal Artillery . To Kussowlic—Lieutenant H . S . Simeon , 27 th Foot . To Mussoorie—Lieutenant G . B . Trail , B . H . Artillery . To Landour—Ensign E . l ' acke ; and at this station Lieutenant D , M ., Murray , II . M . 64 th Regiment , is appointed on the station staff .

    To Muvree—Lieutenant T . R . J ) . Bingham , 18 th Irreg . Cavalry and H . M . 70 th Foot ; Lieutenant J . A . Gildea , 81 st Foot ; and Lieutenant A . Chute , H . M . 94 th Foot . To jNynee Tul—Lieutenant C . " \ V . Losack , II . M . 93 d Foot . To the hills generally—Lieutenant W . Dunbar , 34 th Foot . To Ootakamund nnd the Niclgherries— Liohtenant V , C . Bertie , 1 st Madras Fusiliers ; and Lieutenant Hon . A , K Harris , II . M . 43 rd Foot .

    We have given this list , tho result of one mail , as serving to show tho extent to which the sanatoria are now used , Tho leave is commonly for three or four months , saving tho officer and tho public service from the inconvenience and expense of a passage to Europo , and placing- relief at once within his reach . This is exclusive of civil leave , of leave to the uncovenantcd , of various permissions in Madras and Bombay , and of thoso who hold staff Appointments in tho hills . ^ It is again reported that tho French are abcrat to transfer Clmndernugoro to tho English .

    Tho Bombny and Surat lino of tho Bombay and Baroda Railway is not to start from Callian but to proceed direct from Bombay along tho Flats , nearly parallel with tho Main Drain , and on reaching Muliim Wood it will bo carried obliquely across tho estuary and continued along , through Sulaette , to tho Bassoin crossing . Tins latter wij ^ U be a very heavy work . ' ' Another specimen of the way private enterprise is treated in India is now attracting attention at Bombay . Thoro are there only the Government Docks nnd those of tho Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , quite insufficient for

    the repairs of the merchant shipping frequenting the harbour . It appears that in 1845 the Bombay Steam Navigation Company imported a patent slip from England at a cost of 6800 ^ , but to this day have not obtained leave from the Bombay authorities to lay it down . Much of the timber is now rotten , but application has again been made ; the Engineer of Public Works and the Municipal Commissioners make no objection , but the Garrison Engineer declines to consent . The head-quarters of the Madras Telegraph Department have been placed in the higher and healthier district of Bangalore . It is to be hoped all the main telegraph , departments will be removed to the hills . Hirv Tonnirs of the merchant shiDnine frequenting

    One of the strange appointments of the Government is announced in the gazettes lately received , the office of Civil Architect of Calcutta having been conferred on Mr- F . R . Boyce , Assistant Engineer ! until the arrival of a captain who is to have the appointment . The Government does not send architects to Calcutta . A new church has jnst been completed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at "Vepery , which Is ready for consecration . It is a handsome building . The architect is Mr . John Law . and

    The Public Works Office Conservancy Committee of Luckno-w are busy restoring that city . The ruinous buildings are being cleared , and wide streets and roads are being laid out , so that before long Lucknow will be a very fine city .. The numerous narrow streets or lanes in Lieut . Moorsom ' s survey are being cut up and widened . The -new roads will facilitate military occupation . A magnificent new road runs from Hurrut Gunj direct to Char Bagh , and another from the old 32 nd barracks straight through Secunder Bagh to the river side , and then over a bridge of boats on to the Fyzabad road . Some objection has been raised to placing the new military cantonments between Dilkoosha and Alum Bagh , instead of retaining the old cantonment of Mundeeaoii . .

    The enlargement of Allahabad to convert it into a metropolis of the N . W . Provinces is proceeding , and the accountant ' s , civil auditor ' s , and Sudder Board ' s offices , are to be removed as speedily as practicable . There is ranch grumbling among the Agra clerks ,. as they fear they will have some difficulty in . finding houses . The new Bombay Municipal Commissioners appear not to be more energetic than the former spurious municipality , for they have likewise distinguished themselves by declining to enter into a contract with , the Bombay Gas Company to light the public lamps , of which it was proposed only to light five hundred at first . India is perhaps worse off in this respect than any of our colonies of any importance , for Calcutta alone is lighted with gas , and Canada or Australia can show a far better muster roll . Gaslight is a most essential instrument of efficient police

    arrangement . Ceylon has derived grert benefit from the Coolie immigration , and the Coolies likewise profit . In the first eight months of this year 84 , 000 have arrived , and only 38 , 000 have left . The Malabars now fill not only field employments , but are found in domestic service as carriers , horsemen , and coachmen . Those who go back to Madras take with them ne \ r ideas and more energy , but it is much wished that more of the Malabars will settle in Ceylon , which wanta labour , and to have a mixed population , so as to leave the Cingulese less predominant .

    Bombay Docks.— * We Find Frequent Compla...

    Bombay Docks . — * We find frequent complaints-made by the mercantile and shipping community of Bombay with regard to the inconvenience and delay caused by tho insujtliuicnt accomittodatian existing for repairing ships . Tho difficulty will bo easily understood , when it is known that wo cnimot boast of any more docks than two , and thoso two only available to the public at a grout snerifle © of time and expense . We have the Honourable Company ' s Docks , and thoso of the P . and O . Company at Ma ' zagon , and nil the merchant ships have recourse to those for repairs ; but they arc incapable of reaching the wants' of tho largo shipping in tho harbour . With a viow to avoid this tUfliculty , tho Bombay Steam Navigation Company , in 1845 , ordered from England a patent « lip , which , on arrival here , cost them a sum of Rg 08 , 000 , but the object wns frustrated .

    by Government refusing to provide them with a piece of ground . The slip has beon running to waste fortlio last ton or . eleven years , nnd much of the timber-work has become rotten ; however , the company have folt the necessity of resuscitating tho project , and they hnvo now again applied to Govornmont for a pioco of ground in Mazagon for tho patent elip . Tho Engineer of Public Works and tho Municipal CoinniluHlunora have reported to Government , through tHo Culleotor of Lmul Kov « auo that they boo no objootiou to *' grant the application , a thov will not requiro' tho ground In question for any public purpose . Tho-Garrison Engineer , however , has intimated that though It .. my not bo required " Jbr public U 80 , it might bo ultimatol y wanted for that purpose . So tho matter at jnrosont rests with Government , - —Bombay Gaeotte .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1858, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13111858/page/23/