The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-10-01
tcaastills 9ailp Sournal.
The Profit of India to England.

The colonies OF Engl md have always.
been drain upon the national treasury
but they are sources of commercial
wealth to her people. and afford innrs
merable places tor her Office seekers an ]
idle aristocrscy.- rI ~ mr
Since the East India Company began
it's coneuests say for one hundred years
past, India, so FAR from being source
Of net income 10 the British Nation
al Treasury, has heen continual drain
upon it. The British Government have
hob to a,i the Companv, not only with
soldiers, but with money. Such aid is
required The Company itself has con-
tracted debt Of fifiy tbousand pounds
sterling, notwithstan ling all them .terial
aid" derived from the Home Govern
ment. The profits cpme not into the
Treasury Of the nation nor yet into the
Treasury of the Company, hnt into the
pockets of individuals. These individual
profits are neither few or small
The stockholders in the East India
Company number about three thousand
persons. TO these. there is guaranteed
upon pad up capitol Of f6,OOO,UOO,
an annual dividend Of ten and bali per
cent, amounting to f63.0O0 annually
The stock commands, of course. a high
premium, ranging from l25 to $50 pen
cent.
The persons who IRE engaged in the
civil, clerical, medical, military and ma
val lnGian Servi,e are numerous. After
being qualified by having obtained some
knowledge oil the languages spoken there.
u civilian, on first reaching India is paid
$50 month. After short probation.
his eiaolument is increased from $500
to S50UOO year. The average Of the
salaries is said to be alont $500. but
this does not include perluisiter and ex-
ira allowances which are often very con-
siderable. These civil servants of the
Company generally number about $40.
and are employed as Governors, Council-
ois, Judges. Emtassadors, Secretaries,
Collectors of the Revenue &c.
In the clerical or church service there
are three Bishops and about one hundred
and sixty Chaplains. The Bishop OF
Calcutta has twenty-five thousand a
year; those OF Bombay and Madras twelve
thousand five hundred dollars; and the
Chaplams' besides fees. two thousand
Eve hundred 10 seven thousand dol.
lars.
In the medical service, are about 800
physicians and surgeons with salaries
varying from 81, $40 to SlU,ou0.
The n,ili'ary service has about 5000
officers. In the ln.antry the paw is. for
Ensigns $3.50; Lieutenant Colcnels,
$3.50. This is the pay in cantonn ent,
but in active service 1t is higher. In the
cavalry and artillery the pay is more
But unitins civil employment with
the military, many officers contrive to |
double their salaries.
Besides these, there is large number
Of persons in England living upon pen
SONS which are paid after service OF
certain number of years. Some fifteen |
or twenty millions o. dollars are annual
ly drawn from India in pensions anil d,vi-
dends and interest on debts due IN Eng
land. To thus are to be addei he savings
from their salaries of those vino annually
a.
There are also some 5000 European
IN India, principally merchants
and manufacturers, who have gone there
solely for speculation. The foreign
trade Of India is said to amount TO one
hundred millions cfdoliars annually As
it is in the hands Of foreigners, their
profits must be large and operate as
constant and heavy drain upon the
Thus individuals draw largely from
India. and the sum total of national
VI ealth in the British Isles is augmented.
But it must I've remembered that at the
same time their possessions in India are
sn immense and ever increasing tax -pon
he people Of Great Britain. Her Indian
empire is constantly involving Britain in
expensive and rninous wars. Not to
mention the wars in India, the Persian
Dr. Chinese wars. we may remind the
-eader Of what We have often mentioned
'efore that the late war with Russia was
Undertaken on the part Of England sole
y from jealousy and dread OF Russia's
designs upon India. And now comes
he Sepoy rebellion with an expense to
he British people, and destruction Of
lie and property, which no man can
oresee or calculate. India may be in
he long run no gain to Great Britain.
a NERVOUS TRAVELLER AND GRUFF
3AcGAGE MASTER recently took
rip West, ana while passing over the
,. & II. X. r., being fond of .'the weed,'
had taken my seat in the baggage car
or the porpose Of indulging in a "llava-
Va" when a nervous individual entered
he car and commenced Overhauhng the
'ascage. The baggage master, after
yeing him moment, accosted him
ather grnfflv with