The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-06 00:00:00

water works, and the extension of railways. The
rapid growth of the Indian revenue, after so great
a depression, is almost unexampled. The average
annual increase has been over two millions and
a half. In 1858-59 the Indian revenue was
£36,000,000; it is now £45,000,000. When we
consider the effects of that tremendous outbreak
which shook India to its foundations, we shall see
that the most sanguine anticipations could hardly
have foretold so rapid an increase. This is only a
sample of what the future of India may be if only
the same principles that regulate our English ad-
ministration are allowed free scope. Sir CHARLES
TREVELYAN is ready, he tells us, to supply funds
to any extent for making cotton roads, and adds
that the want of the cotton cultivation in India is
not money but labour and superintendence. Here
is an excellent field for the energy and enterprise
of our middle classes. The effects of European di-
rection and management have been forcibly shown
in many other branches of Indian commodities, and
if a sufficient number cf skilled and energetic
men would undertake the superintendence
of the cotton plantations we should pro-
bably see as great and as rapid a change
in the prospects of the Indian cotton trade
as was visible when the culture of indigo passed in
Bengal to the hands of the Company's agents. Sir
CHARLES TREVELYAN is liberal, as an Indian
financier in the present state of the country has
urgent need to be, in his expenditure on public
works. The following statistics show the rate 0"
expenditure :

1862-63. 1863.64.
Works of public improvement ...... L 2,380,000 £2,618,000
Railway supervision and cost of land 132,500 182500
Loss by railway exchange 366,300 294,600
Civil buildings • 570,000 570,000
Military works, ordinary
Military works, extraordinary
One per cent appropriated ex income-
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Total £4,528,800 £4,995,100
Total for 1862-63

Increase
When we add the sum of £238,000 reserved for
cotton, roads, and other works of the kind, we shall
hope for some good results. We are reaping the
reward of our own negligence, as well as of the
misgovernment of past generations, in the tardi-
ness of those results oompared with what
might have been. On this subject Sir CHARLES
TREVELYAN says :—" The ladies of ages cannot be
repaired in a single generation, still less in a year
or two. We must not repeat in India the mi3take
made in Ireland, by not distinguishing between the
ultimate capabilities of a country after its resources
have been developed, and the improvements which
are immediately practicable. The soil and labour
of India are so largely engaged in producing indigo,
saltpetre, opium, oil seeds, fibres, and other export-
able commodities, besides this last urgent demand
for cotton, that she can with difficulty meet all the
demands upon her. We are too much accustomed
to look upon India as an inexhaustible fund to be
drawn upon ad libitum. She ought rather to be
regarded as a bank, the many pressing claims upon
which can be answered in full only by making the
most of every available resource," When we re-
member the vast amount of waste land and the lack
of irrigation, besides the old and limited system of
agriculture mostly followed, we shall rather regard
India as a bank, which has a large portion of her
capital lying idle, and profiting neither herself nor
her claimants.

Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN'S Budget has been
favourably received in Calcutta, as it deserved to be.
At its conclusion he announced his intention of
carrying out a very valuable and necessary
reform. He proposes undertaking a thorough
revision of our Indian public establishments, not
with the object of reducing the expense, but
of rendering them more efficient and satisfactory.
In some instances two officers from England will
assist an Indian officers in the task of reorganisation.
In others Indian officers will undertake it alone. The
number of ill paid and unprofitable native servants
who still linger in our offices are said to be the cause
of much of that corruption which is so difficult to
detect and so disastrous in its effects. It is not
intended to reduce the salaries but to secure the
fittest men for the work. Let a good amount of
work be done in a proper manner and the pay will
be proportionate. Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN has
evidently a clear perception of the real wants of
India, and while his satisfactory budget will give
confidence to the merchant and the capitalist we
hope the enlighted assistance he promises to public
works will meet ready assistance from the energy
and enterprise of this country.

It is satisfactory to find from tte late remarks
of the Crown Prince of PRUSSIA that he at least
takes no part in the late unhappy affairs that have
caused so sad an estrangement between the people
and their rulers. His Royal Highness arrived at
Dantsic. They paid a visit to the Rathhaus, and
were received by the municipal authorities. The
chief magistrate regretted that the untoward cir-
cumstances that had recently taken place prevented
any public rejoicings that might celebrate the visit,
to which the Crown Prince replied, "I also regret
that I have come here at a time when disagreement
has taken place between the Government and the
people, the news of which surprised me greatly ;
being absent, I was unaware of the ordinances
which have brought about this position of affairs,
and took no part in the deliberations when they
were resolved upon." His Royal Highness could
not have spoken more strongly than this, and indeed,
considering the extreme delicacy of his position, we
might well have supposed that he could not say so
much. He could hardly have been placed in a more
awkward situation, and from this he extricated
himself very successfully. He added a few words
about the good wishes of the King for the welfare
of Prussia, which, of course, from him, were genuine,
and were appreciated accordingly. It has long
been hinted and whispered that the CROWN PRINCE
has taken no part in the austere arrangements that
have of late so marred the prospects of
the country, but it is very gratifying thus
to meet with his viva voce testimony to the con-
trary. The perusal of this short discourse will be
very encouraging to all whom it concerns, and it
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tracted constitutional conflict upon the relations of
property, trade, and the public credit, and concludes
by requesting the King to re•establish the cousti•
tutional state of affairs by a speedy convocation o
the Diet.

If King WILLIAM chooses to persist in the course