New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-20

rtctOrS The annual value OF each share OF patronage
seldom falls short Of f1i0O0. Al nominations" says
Mr. Campbell are now as il We're, the private proper
" # individuals being divided among the Directors
and each dispsng Of bis share as b. thinks fit Now
il is evident that the spirit Of the Court OF Directors
must pervsde the whole of the Indian Upper Aimnis-
irsiiCn trained Il is at schools Of Atdiscomee and
Halle, bury and appointed is. by their pa rona2e.
II il no les evident that this Court Of Directors who
have to distribute year after year appointments OF the
value of nesrly 10000 among the upper classes OF
Great Britain will find little or check from the public
opinion directed by those very classes What the spirit
Of the Court Of Directors Is. all show in following
letter on the actual state Of India For the present Il
may suffice 10 say thar Mr. Macaalay in the course OF
the pending debates defended the Court by the parcn-
lar rlea thar il Was impOtent effect all the evils Il
might intend so much 50. thag all Improvements had
been effected in opposition Ia IT, and against by indl-
yual Governors who bad acted their own RESPONSE
by Thus with regard the suppression of the Sattee,
the abolition Of The sbominabe transit duties and tho
emancipation of the East India press
The President If the Board OF Control accordingly
involves India in uinous under Of the Court
of Directors while the Court of Directors corrupt the
Indian Administration under the CLOAK OF the Board OF
Control
On looking deeper into the framework of this anoma
lous government find al its bottom third power,
more supreme than either the Board or the Court
irresponsible and more concealed from and guarded
against the suPerntt ndence OF public opinion. The
transient President ot the BOsrd depends on The perma
clerks of his establishment in Cannonrow and for
those clerks ndis exists not in India bur in Leadenhal
s. Now who is the masters At Lesdenhsllst
Two thousand persons elderly ladies' ard yaetulinsr
ian gentlemen possessing Indian stock having other
interest in India except 10 be paid their dividends out Of
Indian elect twenty Directors whose only
qualification is he holding Of ( 900 stock Merchants.
bankers and directors Of companies incur great trouble
in order 10 get into the Court for the interest OF their
private concerns a banker. said Mr.. Bright in
"tt, Civ of London commands 800 vOres of the East
lrtlis uho ella Df
tors is almost absolute Law Hence the CourtO Of
Directors is nothing but SHccErsai 20 the English
yocracy The SO-eeced Court forms, in its turn,
besides the aforementioned Secret Committee, three
otter Committees, which are l. Political aud Military.
p Finance and Home 3 Revenue. Judicial and Legis-
lative These Committees every year appointed by
rotation, that hHaHcier is year the Juicia
and the next year the Military Committee and no
one has any chance OF a continued supervision over
particular department The mode of election having
brought in utterly unfit for their duties the ~ stem
of rotation gives to whatever fitness they might per-
CHARGE retain, the final blow Who then govern in fact
uuder the name of the Direction large stall OF IT.
responsible secretaries, examiners and clerks az the
lLdla House, ofWh0m. Mr. Campbell observes IN his
Shame for The G0rcRmeEtCt India only one individual
has been in India and he only by accident Apart
from the trade in patronage il is therefore mere hc
on 10 speak Of the politics the principles. aud the sys
tenn Of the Court of Directors. The real Court of Di-
reotors and the real Home Government &c of India
are the permanent and irresponsible bureaucracy tho
creatures of the desk and the creatures OF favor"
siding IN leadenhal 81. We have thus a Corporation
ruling immense Empire not formed ss in
Venice, by eminent patricians but by old obstinate
clerks and the like odd fellows.
No wonder, then, that there exists no government
by which much is written and : little done,
as the Government of India When the East India
Company only commercial association, they, OF
requested most detailed report every item
from the managers of their Indian factories as done
by every trading concern When the factories grew in
10 Empire the commercial items into ship loads Of
correspondence and documents the Leadenhal clerks
in their ~ stem, which made the Directors and
the Board their dependents and they succeeded in
Transforming the Indian government into immense
writing machine Lord Bronghton stated IN hts evidence
before the Official Salaries Committee, that with ono
single dispatch $1,000 pages OF collection were sent.
~ order to give sou some idea of the time killing
manner IN Which business ia transacted at the India
House viii quote passage from Mr. Dickinson:
When dispatch arrives from India il Is r.fsrr.d h,
The hrsf instance to he Examiners Department to which
belongs after which the chairs confer with thu ofc,
IN charge OF that department and settle with him tbs
'tnor 81 reply and transmit draugh Of this reply 10
the Indian Minister. Ia what Is technically called c ..
previous commuD cation The Ga prs this pref MARY
tate Of = { depend mainly 'le clerks SIch {. this
pendence that even in di-uin in the Court Of Pro
preiors after previous notice pabs;o the chair.
an rt-fDg 10 secretary who s by his side and keeps
On whispering and prompting and chai hun he wsTe
mere puppc and the Minister AZ the other end the
:, ten u n TIE ssme pred.cin ent Ia iisstage of e.,
mere - difference II olniOn The dfapght Is d.
used, and almost invariably settled in friendly c0mmuai
caron bet~een the Minister AMI tho Chsir dally the
oIaugtt T. returned by the Minister. either adopted or al
tered md then It is submitted 10 the Committee of Drec
trs experimenting the department to which il belongs,
Win al papers bearing tue 10 b. considered and
oi-crssed and adopted altered and aerward l. Is ex
P'sed the process IN the aggregate Court and then
Ecfs, for the first time, official nuncsJn the
Minister after which undeFgoes the process In the
OIp0sit. direction
"NLen m.asur- is discussed ia India says Mr. Camp
h. nj Al II la.b eeu IN
"Court Of Directors regarded indefinite pO.tpons-
IneIt'
Tie close and AFFECT spirit OF this bureaucracy deserves
10 De- stgmatised IN the celebrated words Of Burke;
This tribe Of vulgar politicians are the loxe,t Of our
speces There trade vie aud mechanical Gov
eminent in their hands. Virtue IS Their habit They
sre out Of Themselves in any Of conduct
snded only by com cienoe and glory large liberal
and prospective II the interests Of States passes
aih them for and the pnncp that recommend
H. for the aandeuDgs Of dsordsrsd mlgnaion. Ths
and buhooE- shame them Of everything grand and
elevated. Ltilene-s in Oh ect and in them zp-
pears sOunGness and sObnsty
The clerical establishments of LeadenhalI-st and
CaunoDrow cost the Indian people the trihe of El6)-
900 annually The oigarchy involves India in wars ia
order to find employment for their younger sons; the
neyocracy consigns it TO the highest bidder a11
subordinate Bureaucracy paralyse its administration
ard porpetuac its abuses the vital condition Of their
own perpetuati0n.
Sir Charles Woods bill alters nothing in the existing
system IL enlarges the poSer Of the Ministry, without
adding to ts responsibility karl MARI.
GREAT BRITAIN