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LONDON:

BENJAMIN PARDON AND SON, PRINTERS,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

THE BRITISH

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

JULY 1, 1869.

ART. I. (1.) Summary of Affairs of the Government of India in the Foreign Department, from 1864 to 1869. Calcutta: Government Press, 1869.

(2.) Papers relating to the Mutiny in the Punjaub in 1857. (India Office, 14th April, 1859.)

(3.) Evidence taken before the Court appointed for the Trial of the King of Delhi.

(4.) Correspondence respecting British and Native Systems of Government in India. (India Office, 24th March, 1859.)

(5.) Statement of the Moral and Material Progress of India, 1864-65.

(6.) Papers relating to the War in Bhootan (1865.)

IT has seldom fallen to the lot of a Governor-General of India to take a prominent part in directing the affairs of that country after his return to England. When death has not prematurely closed his labours, a variety of circumstances have weakened the influence which might otherwise have belonged to a man who had once been placed at the head of an immense empire. Some lapse of judgment, some act which disappointed the real owners of British India, has left the ex-Governor-General with only the memory of an active life to beguile away hours of enforced idleness. Lord Lawrence is happier in his fortunes. He returns high in the favour of the Crown, and with the still greater reward of finding that his services are justly esteemed by the great body of his countrymen. Even Indian politicians, whose jealousies and hatreds are a habit of life rather than an accident of thought, find little to cavil at in his work. They admit that, although Lord Lawrence refuses to believe that we ought to risk

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THE BRITISH

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

JULY 1, 1869.

ART. I. (1.) Summary of Affairs of the Government of India in the Foreign Department, from 1864 to 1869. Calcutta: Government Press, 1869.

(2.) Papers relating to the Mutiny in the Punjaub in 1857. (India Office, 14th April, 1859.)

(3.) Evidence taken before the Court appointed for the Trial of the King of Delhi.

(4.) Correspondence respecting British and Native Systems of Government in India. (India Office, 24th March, 1859.)

(5.) Statement of the Moral and Material Progress of India, 1864-65.

(6.) Papers relating to the War in Bhootan (1865.)

IT has seldom fallen to the lot of a Governor-General of India to take a prominent part in directing the affairs of that country after his return to England. When death has not prematurely closed his labours, a variety of circumstances have weakened the influence which might otherwise have belonged to a man who had once been placed at the head of an immense empire. Some lapse of judgment, some act which disappointed the real owners of British India, has left the ex-Governor-General with only the memory of an active life to beguile away hours of enforced idleness. Lord Lawrence is happier in his fortunes. He returns high in the favour of the Crown, and with the still greater reward of finding that his services are justly esteemed by the great body of his countrymen. Even Indian politicians, whose jealousies and hatreds are a habit of life rather than an accident of thought, find little to cavil at in his work. They admit that, although Lord Lawrence refuses to believe that we ought to risk

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