New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-27

With swords ie't ~ Gle fDE'ffEp WIN 49, -
cut q, or subjected to desradatiors "0r'e W"
death from cutrsges involving loss OF caste ouu
dart il etapces Of all which occurrences nsy De reao
in TIE diary recently published OF Sir ""u'n
Sleemap long the English Resident in Oude' and
Sho. By the order Of Lord Dslbousie, then Gov
ernor- General, m,de Journey through the KING
dom in 1880, for the purpose OF reporting upon
tie CO ndition Of things seen and ascertaned oy
himself.
In all this. however, the Hn1oo sees only the
incidental losses Of the game, which every one
hopes to escape for himself, and which excite no
pity except in the immediate connections Of the
loser. On the other hand, there is the opportunity
of robbirg, pluDderpg and cheating in ways so
diversified that every may fstter himself wisn
the idea Of sudden and splendid fortune. Waiting
maids ard wet nurses stand chance to become
queens, and Of dying worth thousands OF rupees.
Singers and fddlers may make themselves prime
ministers; footpads and highwaymen rise to be
zemindars and taloOkdars; while men of the lowest
station and the most vainous character attain
to vast revenues and exalted position. Moreover,
such is the Evolutionary abtipathy of the Hindoos
to all change, that not merely the great Mo
hammedan andholders and official agents who thrive
by oppression, but the poor Hindoo cutivasors
who groan under it, would appear, from Sir William
Sleemans testimony, to prefer after a the Mo-
hammedan to the English rule, and that notwth-
stardpg the marked superiority in material pros
perity of the districts directly ruled By the
English.
These abuies in the administration of Dude led
as lopg ago as 1901, to English interference. The
Dude army was mostly disbsnded-the English
undertaking the defense of the Yzier against both
external and internal foes insisting, however, upon
the cessiOn of Allohabad and some other districts
as means of defrayipg the expense. The Vizer
was also compelled to stipulate for an improved
system Of civil administration. But, except the
cesson Of territory, nothing came of this treaty.
1t was found impossible to employ British troops in
the collection of the revenue. The Dude rulers
were taciy permitted to disregard the limits of the
treaty and gradually to augment their troops tll
they reached the number of 10000 men-thus
renewing all the evils Of military brigandlsm.
AS TO the promised civil reforms, the re-
iterated remonstrances Of the Resident were
disre garded, and things continued to 20 on
in the fashion above described. In 1912 the
British authorities began to get FESTIVE and to
threaten direct interference if something was not
DONE In Ie49 Lord Dalhousie directed the Resi-
dent, Col. Sleeman, TO undertake the tour of OBJ
servaton and inspection to which we have above
referred. Col. Seeman recommended that the
King should be required to abdicae in favor Of the
next heir, and as that heir was minor, that az
fairs should be administered by CCurcil of Re-
gency, composed of the British Resident and two
natives of rank. Lord Dalhousie however-and
his course was sanctioned by the Government at
home adopted the policy of dissolving the king
dom and annexiDg the territory to the British do
miniOns; proceeding the effect of which upon the
native population, and their dislike to it, Sir VIII
liam Sleeman appears fully to have foreseen.