The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-27 00:00:00

OUR NEW POLICY IN OUDE.

holders and hereditary chiefs of Oude legitimately
possess, instead of seeking to suppress that in-
fluence, and to supplant it by our ruling authority
in our own officers.

The Bonzbay Standard publishes the following
correspondence :

FROM THE SECRETARY TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF
DUDE TO THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF
INDIA, WITH THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

3. The Governor-General is satisfied that no
scheme of administration which sets this influence
aside will be acceptable to the people or successful ;
and now that the revi7al in perpetuity of the ta-
lookdaree system in Oude has been declared it be-
comes more than ever necessary that the authority
of the talookdars should within wholesome bounds
be sustained.

Foreign Department, Lucknow, Oct. 24.
Sir,--I am directed to observe that his Excellency
the ight lion. the Governor-General will have
learned from a memorandum the chief commissioner
had the honour of submitting for his perusal, that
it has been the chief commissioner's constant endea-
vour within the compass of his authority, to accom-
modate the forms and procedure of revenue adminis-
tration in force in the North-Western Provinces to
the different system on which the settlement of the
land revenue of Oude is based. The close control
and frequent interference of the revenue authorities
which may be suitable where peasant proprietors
enter into direct engagements with the state are
not so well adapted for Oude, where three-fourths
of the revenue are paid by great landholders of an -
cient lineage. Those restrictions are also new to
the talookdars, who, under the native government,
were vested with absolute power within tho limits
of their estates. That :government, which was in-
cessantly engaged in coercing some refractory
talookdar or other, never thought of interfering
between him and those under him.
2. The feature of our administration that is
viewed with most dislike by the talookdars is the
subordination under which it places them to the
tehseeldars, or local revenue officials, not merely
because such subordination lowers their position
and wounds their pride, but also because it tends to
foster a spirit of litigiousness and disrespect in their
tenantry. Loss of power and of the respect of his
inferiors are what a native of rank feels most
acutely. In great measure this result is unavoid-
able ' • we cannot perpetuate the old state of things,
but though we cannot avert we can soften the blow.
3. It is also a frequent apology for the indolence
and insouciance of the talookdars, and for their habit
of resigning the care of their estate to corrupt agents,
that we, by adjudicating in every difference be-
tween them and their tenantry, take all the busi-
ness of management into our own hands. Though
this plea is not valid to the full extent urged, and
a large sphere of usefulness is still left open to the
talookdars, it must yet in fairness be admitted that
with the loss of power it is but natural they should
lose interest in the management of their estates.
4. Many talookdars have told the chief commis-
sioner that if they could be put on the same foot-
ing.- as the Rajah of Benares, who, within the limits
of his family domains, enjoys certain revenue juris-
diction, they would have nothing left to desire.
The chief commissioner has never heard that the
condition of the village occupant. on the estate of
the Rajah of Benares is inferior to that of the rural
population in the adjacent British districts, nor has
he heard that they have expressed any wish to be
brought under our system.

4. The Governor-General approves of the proposal
that revenue authority should not be conferred upon
any talookdar until ho has given basis to every
tenant holding directly under him, and until all
subordinate rights have been recovered.
5. His Excellency also agrees in thinking that
for the present it will be well to invest with magis-
terial powers those alone of the talookdars who are
to have exemption from the ordinary course of
revenue procedure.
6. The Governor-General has it much at heart
that the experiment now about to be made in Oude
to enlist the services of the chiefs in the administra-

Lion of the country should not fail, and that not
even any discouragement of it should occur. He
therefore entirely concurs in your opinion that
tho talookdars chosen as the recipients of the new
powers should not be chosen on account alone of
services rendered to the State, but that very great
care should be taken to select those -whose intelli-
gence, self•control, and considerate treatment of
their dependents, give the best promise of a faithful
discharge of their public trusts.

7. For the same reason the Governor-General
wishes you to guard against a conclusion being
drawn in the minds of these men that, because the
Government is about to recognise in them powers
akin to those which were left in their hands by the
native government, it will look upon the abuse or
lax exercise of those powers with the same indiffe-
srence as was felt by their former rulers.
8. To prevent this the precise scope of their
functions, the mode of exercising them, and
the errors into which they are most likely to
fall, should be carefully pointed out to them ; and
as this can never be so effectually done by general
written instructions as by personal intercourse and
friendly admonition, the Governor-General wishes
that during the approaching cold season you should
visit all the talookdars whom you have proposed as
the first to be selected, each on his estate, and there
personally induct the chief into his new duties.
This will be more likely to impress each with a
sense of the responsibility placed upon him than
any communications through the ordinary channel
of the local officers.

0. The measure is one of which, if it should be
successful, the importance will reach far beyond the
limits of Oude, and the Governor-General places
the introduction of it in your hands with the fullest
confidence.—l have, &c.,

The chief commissioner would much like to see
this precedent followed in Oude, not of course gene-
rally at first, but experimentally in a few special
instances of talookdars in whose good sense and
moderation reliance can be placed. The chief com-
missioner has lately had the advantage of meeting
the superintendent of the domains of the Rajah of
Benares, and of learning from him the nature and
extent of the authority entrusted to the Rajah. It
embraces civil jurisdiction, but the chief commis-
sioner does not purpose to go so far, at present, nor
would he concede the authority primarily exercised
by the Ilajah, as a collector of revenue, of selling,
the rights of the under proprietors for de-
fault. His plan is for the talookdar to '
appoint an agent or tehseeldar to a sub-division
of his estate, paying a rental of, say from 30,030 to
40,000 rupees. The tehseeldar would exercise
the ordinary powers of a landlord for tho collection
of the rent, and when these fail, must, like any
other landlord, sue for recovery of tie arrears. But
his suit will be heard by the talookdar, not by the
district officer, and on his obtaining a decree he
would execute it according to the rules in force.
If the defaulting tenant has proprietary rights, the
talookdar would in satisfaction of the decree be
authorised to transfer them for a term nut exceed-
ing five years to any other member of the village
community who will pay the balance. If a sale
becomes unavoidable, which is not likely to happen,
the sanction of the deputy commissioner must first
be obtained. The tenants, on the other hand,
would bring their complaints of exaction, ouster,
&c., against the tehseeldar to the talookdar, who
would hold open court, as indeed has been his wont
heretofore. From all orders of the talookdars an
appeal would lie to the deputy commissioners, who
would occupy the same position as the superinten-
dent of the Rajah's domains.
6. The privilege which the chief commissioner
proposes to confer, according to the above sketch
of his plan, would be personal only, never heredi-
tary. It would be held by the talookdar during
good behaviour, and on the distinct understanding
that it will be withdrawn the moment he appears
unfitted to exercise it. With the right of appeal
to the district officer, the chief commissioner does
not well see how it can be put a stop to before it
can have reached any great length. He thinks,
however, that the privilege will be so highly prized
as to make the possessor careful to do nothing to
forfeit it, and lie also thinks that the fact of pos-
sessing such authority would incline the talookdar
to use it with moderation, for it is in the
nature of men, particularly of Easterns, to be more
disposed to deal liberally and kindly with those
who are dependent on them than with those who
assert their independence of them.
.7. It must also be explained that it is not pro-
posed to confer this authority on any talookdar
until he has given leases (puttahs) to every tenant
holding directly under him, and until all subordi-
nate rights have been recorded.
8. The chief commissioner knows there are ob-
jections to putting any class above the law; but the
measures he proposes are practically only a modifica-
tion of the fiscal law to suit an altered state of
things. It is, he admits, a measure of a novel kind
in our revenue system, and in a counter direction to
the course we have been pursuing ; but it is not
novel to the country, for it is but a return to the
native system, from which many now think we
have been rather too prone to,depart.
9. The Chief Commissioner would also desire to
invest wit magisterial powers the same talookdars
as enjoy exemption from the ordinary course of
fiscal procedure. To confer on them such authority
is consonant with English policy, and will, the
Chief Commissioner thinks, have the effect of mak-
ing them identify themselves with the governing
race and feel themselves part of the govern-
ment of the country. Their powers should at first be
the special ones of an assistant magistrate, to be:ex-
tended to the full powers of a magistrate as they
fitness to exercise authority. The Chief Com-
missioner would not allow them to issue orders of a
general nature to the police, they should merely
try the offenders brought before them by the police.
They would also be required to conform to all tha
rules of our system of criminal procedure and to
furnish the customary reports and statements.
10. The following are the talookdars whom the
Chief Commissioner desires to recommend ; they
have been chosen as far as possible from different
parts of the province to make the example more
public, and excite a spirit of emulation. They have
not been selected solely for their claims on the con-
sideration of Government ; for, unfortunately, some
of those who have rendered the most signal ser-
vices are wanting in intellectual capacity, and
other qualities besides loyalty are required for the
exercise of this extended authority.
I. Maharajah of Bulrampore. Pays a revenue
of 300,000 rupees ; his estates are situated in the
Baraitch
11. The brother of the Rajah of Kuppoorthulla
provided he resides on the rajah's estates in
Baraitch division.
111. Maharajah Mann Singh. Pays a revenue
of 280,000 rupees ; his estates are situated in the
Gonda and Fyzabad districts.
IV. Rana Rughonah Singh. Pays a revenue of
99,000 rupees ; his estates lie in the Roy Bareilly
district. A rajpoot of the same family as Beneo
Madho and the Rajah of Morarmow.
V. Rajah Aurdeo Buksh. Pays a revenue of
36,516 rupees ; his estates lie in the Hurdeo dis-
trict, opposite Furruckabad,
VI. Rajah Roostum Sahae of Dera. Pays a
revenue of near 60,000 rupees ; his estates lie in the
Fyzabad district.
' 11. These arc all whom the Chief Commissioner
can at this moment recommend with entire confi-
dence. He would like to see the number raised to
12, and if permitted will submit the names of Aix
more, hereafter, when in the course of his tour
through the province he shall have become tho-
roughly acquainted with the character and qualifi.
cations cf some in respect of whom he is not quite
so confident. lie wishes to take every precaution
to avoid fai!ure even in a single instance.—l
have, &c.

CECIL BEADON.
Secretary to the Government of India, with the
Governor-General.
Camp Cawnpore, Nov. 2, 1859.

l'itoll TILE SECRETARY TO TUE GOVEIZNMI:NT OF INDIA
. 'WITH THE GOVERNOII.-GENERAI., TO 'VAT. CHIEF COM•
mrssioxEli 01•' ou:)II.

Camp, Cawnpore, Nov. 2.
am directed to acknowledge the receipt
of your secretary's letter, dated 24th ult., iv o.
2,39 G, and in reply to acquaint you that the Go-
vernor-General cordially assents is the two pro-
posals recommended therein, viz., the granting to
certain talooltdars limited revenue jurisdiction over
their estates, and the investing them with magis-
terial powers.

2. Moth these measures will tend to the object
which, as you are aware; the Governor-General
has in view, of turning to the purposes of good
government the influence which the great land-

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1859.

Instigated by her mother and her own fears, L •
hastily threw on some extra clothing, and was des-
patched off to the house of a relative in Gourock,
there to await the tide of events.

Finding himself deceived, the captain got into al
towering passion, uttering the most violent lan-
guage, and was like to turn both houses upside
down looking for his lost bride. He rushed from
one apartment to another like a madman, then left
the house, threatening to take legal proceedings to
recover L. It was eventually, however, arranged
that on the following Wednesday morning the cap-
tain, accompanied by legal gentlemen called in by
the mother, and L., accompanied by her mother,
should proceed to Glasgow to have an interview
with the clergyman who was alleged to have mar-
ried the couple. Though the four went to Glasgow
by the same train the mother and daughter went
by themselves, it appeared that on,their way to
B----terrace, the residence of the clergyman, the
law ageni had occasion to make a business call, and
when E and her mother arrived at the house, they
found the captain there without the law agent ;
and apparently'comeunderstanding come to between
him and the clergyman as to the proceedings. A
printed document was produced, headed " Marriage
Certificate," and this L. was asked to sign, and
actually did sign, and the captain signed it
" Charles Allan, sea-going bachelor ; " the old rev.
gentleman signed it " J. G., minister of B----
street Church," and it was signed by " J. A." and
" C. G." (we suppose the whole names) as wit-
nesses ; and the document certified that the parties
had been duly proclaimed according to law, and
were regularly married by the said clergyman ;4f
B--terrace, Glasgow, on the 23d day of
November, 1859 (the day on which the certifi-
cate was granted was the 24th). Strange to say,
this latter ceremony was gone through in presence
of the mother ; but it seemed a mystery to her, and
also to the daughter, if her own statement is to be
believed. On leaving the house the captain told
the clergyman that a law-agent would call there
that day, and he (the clergyman) would know how
to act.

The three returned to Gredock, the mother and
daughter apparently in a quandary, but the mother
was resolved that, whatever had transpired in the
shape of a marriage, she would prevent its con-
summation by cohabitation till she learned more of
the bridegroom. Her daughter, beginning to see
the danger of the course she had pursued with an
entire stranger, adopted her mother's views, and
took the earliest opportunity of beating a retreat to
her old quarters at Gourock. When the captain
found she was gone he became fierce as a hungry
tiger bereft of his prey. He hired a cab, and drove
about the town in all directions, seeking for his
wife. He visited one clergyman's house after an-
other, in hope of learning something of her where-
abouts. He employed a law agent, who went to
the mother and remonstrated with her about the
impropriety of perhaps destroying her daughter's
prospects, as the pretended husband had told him a
fair story of his position and ability to maintain a
wife. He had told him that he was a tradesman,
and had property in America, and was willing to
set up house-keeping in a respectable way ; but the
mother, acting under instructions, was inexorable.
At length it reached the captain's ears that L. was
in Gouroek, and thither he drove in haste. This
was on the evening of Friday, and learning that he
was approaching, she escaped by a back door
through the fields and sought shelter in the house
of a respectable clergyman whom she had known
previously in connection with the revival move-
ment, in which she had taken a part, and under
whose roof she experienced the utmost kindness
and sympathy, But a visit from the captain to
demand his wife was feared, and, three hours be-
fore daylight on the following morning, L., wrap-
ping the minister's plaid around her to protect
her from the cold, started on foot to Cloch Ferry,
under convoy of the worthy minister, and was des-
patched across the Firth in an open boat to I)unoon,
intending to seek shelter in the house of a relative at
S—r. The weather became wet and tempestuous;
but the poor young woman, impelled by a fear that
she had unwittingly been led into the committal of
some act which had rendered her amenable to the
criminal law, and that she was pursued by criminal.
officers, trudged on alone, footsore and weary,
through a barren and inhospitable district, a dis-
tance of 25 miles, and reached her friend's in an
exhausted condition. There, however, she could not
rest, but started again on foot for Lochgoilhead,
where she took the steamer on Monday for Greenock.
Now comes the sequel of the first act in this re-
markable chapter of errors. It appears that the
captain had been playing some queer pranks else-
where in town about the same time. He passed
the first night on shore at the Royal Hotel, East-
breast, and on leaving next morning he paid his
bill, and seemed to have money. Ho next came
back 4o the same house, driving in a cab, on
Wednesday night, in a state of excitement, and in
liquor, and the cabman being importunate for his
hire (is.), the captain asked Mr. Walker, the land-
lord, to pay it, till he got change, which he did.
Mr. Walker felt disposed to turn him adrift that
night, in consequence of his offensive behaviour;
but, taking pity on him, he allowed him then to
remain, but turned him out next day, without how-
ever, getting payment of his bill. The captain com-
plained of having lost money, and had not a far-
thing to pay. He had run up a small bill in the
widow's house, and a much larger one in that of her
neighbour, both of which he failed to pay. On
Thursday he drove about in a cab seelling for his
wife, until it was ascertained that he had no money,
and then he was forced out in the street, and a fur
boa which he wore round his neck detained for his
hire. He went to Glasgow, to the Caledonian
Hotel, where he ran up a bill, using the name of
Mr. Walker, of the George, Greenock, to Mr. Mac-
farlane of the Caledonian. And finally, the Ameri-
can captain figured at the Central Police Court at
Glasgow, on Tuesday, the 29th November, exactly a
week after his marriage, as Chas. Brownlow Allan,
alias Duncan Allan, where he was convicted of steal-
ing a number of silk handkerchiefs from a shop in
Trongate, and to be imprisoned fel. 60 days, 30 of
' which to be accompanied with hard labour, and he
is now undergoing that sentence in the North Pri-
son of Glasgow.

Thus ends in the meantime this strange and
eventful history. It conveys a moral which should
be pondered by the softer sex in every condition in
life, but more especially by those who, like this
young woman, are exposed to the cajolery of every
nameless adventurer who may happen to cross their
path. She seems, innocently enough, to have been
victimised; but, happily, the wrong she has sus-
tained is not irremediable. Her relatives are not in
a position to defray an expensive process in the su-
perior court in reducing the irregular marriage, but
we understand something will be done to endeavour
to extricate her from the toils into which she has
been inveigled.
As for the party who has been a chief actor in the
affair, and vvithout:whose agency it could never have
taken place, and of whom better things might have
been expected, we leave him to be otherwise dealt
with. The possibility of having the peace of fami-
lies thus furtively compromised by illegal marriages
cannot surely be tolerated at this time of day.
Gretna Green, with all its irregularity, was nothing
to this.

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