The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-03 00:00:00

Lord Mayo's Policy in India.

The Calcutta correspondent of the Times says the
policy of Lord Mayo in India is a policy of public
works. The Governor General has charged himself
with the direct supervision of the public works
department the details of which are so over-
whelming that the most indeßendent man would be
in the handi of his secretary. What is condemned,
says the Times correspondent, and what Lord ➢layor
will find no support in, is the attempt to spend twelve
millions sterling a year on public works through a
department organised as that is over which
Colonel Strackney presides. It is all well
he argues, to boast of this enormous expenditure, to
cry up the new policy of State Railways and State
Canals, to point to the expenditure of one-
fifth of the land revenue every year on works that
will not return a penny to the Treasury, but
is the country getting its money's worth ? Before
year after year so much money is spent he considers
it becomes an earnest and high-principled Govern-
ment like that of India to satisfy itself on this sub-
ject by formal inquiry

The Halfpenny Newspapei Stamp.
" A. Working Man " considers that the Govern-
ment have taken a curious step in the issue of the
halfpenny stamp on newspapers to shew that they
are anxious to encourage the cheap press. The
change, he says, will only benefit the rich readers of
the Times and the weekly papers, while the readers
of the cheap daily press, who cannot procure their
copies at the railway station, but must have them sent
by post, will have to pay an additional tax under the new

arrangement, averaging from Os. to 13s. per annum.
He contends that the proposal of the Government
to allow the threepenny paper with its supplement
weighing nearly six ounces, to be sent for the same
price as the ld. paper, which weighs under three ounces,
is an anomaly in legislation which is a disgrace to
the present century. He wishes it not to be mis-
understood that the present tariff actually imposes a
tax upon the working man, as at the present time
they can obtain a parcel of newspapers at a penny
for every four ounces, but under the new regulation,
supposing this parcel contains four papers, which it
does in many instances, the conveyance by the post-
office will cost double the amount.
The Ladies' College at Cheltenham.
There is an institution at Cheltenham known as
the Ladies' College," which has attained a well-
deserved fame for the successes it has ensured to a
large number of English girls in respect of their educa-
tion. Of late years whenever a "local " or other
public examination has been held in the neighbour-
hood of Cheltenham, the names of some
students of the college have invariably been
prominently forthcoming in the honour lists. It is
only a few days, indeed, since the announcement was
made that all the five pupils of the first-class who went in
...for the women's examination of the University of
Ldndon from Cheltenham " passed," while two of the
number gained certificates. To a school, in which
efforts have been so happily undertaken for the cul-
ture and higher education of young ladies, the eyes
of those who have it in their power to assist and
encourage good works, do not long remain closed.
It is a pleasing duty to record that a Peninsular
hero, Colonel Church Pearce, has been one of the
first admirers of the college and he has become its
benefactor. Knowing full well that in the
army there are many officers young as well as
old in service, who have not the means of
giving their daughters the opportunity of
a worthy education, the gallant colonel has devoted
£l,OOO for a scholarship at the Ladies' College, to be
open to girls, whose fathers are in the army, but
whose positions in society are threatened by
pecuniary trials or other circumstances of misfortune.