Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-16
DISSATISFACTION WITH THE
BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

Is becoming more marked all over tue
world wherever it extends. In India
the utter failure Of the British Govern
meus TO make any provision against the
dreadful famine in 0rissa and other
large sections, where the people have
died BY thousands Of starvation, has
produced a still moro complete depopu-
lation of all that are able to get away
from the dominions Of Her Majesty. In
British Burmah it has been especially
noticed that although the authorities
may keep on adding tract after tract Of
country to the British dominions, the
population is BY no means increased in
the same proportion. The masses Of
the people are not owners of real estate;
they rent or hire of the proprietors, and
their property, aside from money, con
sists only in a few household goods,
not difficult of transportation, but like
those of the negroes Of the South. The
result is, that they emigrate to escape
to the dominion of laws less just, per-
haps, 10 theory, but laws better suited
to them, because better understood and
executed than those administered
by the British authorities. The depop-
ulstion Of Ireland and Of India arises
from essentially the same cause. The
British laws are e~minently protective Of
property, but hard upon persons, so
that the poor are oppressed and the
rich alone well protected. Slowly and
silently the people Of India move away,
not by preconcert and not even from
any q acknowledged cause, but they
accumulate in the surrounding king
doms, such as Burmah Proper, and
leave desolate and bare what used to be
the richest provinces. Many of the En-
glish cannot conceive why this IS. But
the London Tines well remarks,
there is no immigration corresponding
TO this from the countries even most op-
governed. The masses do
not like the administration OF law as
to property, because i, is so unsympa-
to persons. The native gov
around are VIGOROUSLY tyrau-
meal and unjust. Justice is bought
and sold and arbitrarily administered
without regard to human rights, and a
head is cut of for some little
crime that by an English magistrate
would be punished only with a Sigh.
fine and Imprisonment. But then
dead men never rebel, aad the dread Of
assuming the slightest responsibility
manifested BY all British officials rem
ders justice so tardy and uncertain
that it ~irritates all parties more than i,
co~nciliates. British authorities cannot
be bought (~unless they are n~atives), and
they are not vindictire and cruel but
they have no disposition, in that hot
climate, TO exert themselves 4; so they
delay justice, and the people prefer the
old rule. The late King OF Burmah used
20 have a certain number Of heads struck
of daily from the mere love Of blood
shed bu, the people did not ay to Brit
ish India as they now fly from the apathy
Of officials who allow a famine to rage
and do nothing to alleviate it.
The same thing seems to be true in
Canada. Within O month, out Of sew
enseen hundred passengers arriving at
by a single vessel, all but thirty
left Canada for the Western States of
the Union. The trouble is that the peo-
pie Of those Provinces have neither en-
,erprise nor self-reliance. Everything
is directed by ~listless officials. The pro-
gressives would like annexation, but
the old fogies have all the government
Offices and patronage. 10 point Of fact,
It would seem as il the whole Of Canada
was so Immediately interested in be-
united with the States that this
event must occur before long. The
the wealthy, the officials
and the scheming politicians may not
like this, but the interests Of the masses
Of the people will be sure to bring it
about. onLthe Pacific coast the people
are about ready. In the meantime, the
discomfort Of the Irish, mani
by the increasing masses Of those
who attend the funerals Of such Fenians
IS fall, and the red republican attempts
;. instruction in London and 10 Birm-
show that a more settled and
ieep discomfort is felt by the masses
han has been generally believed. The
bill, WHOLESALERS as il is repre-
'ented by its advocates to be, comes
100, and is so evident a concession to
fear, and nothing else, that i,
will only excite fresh demands. The
system Of a%ristocratic rule is in
he horns of this dilemma; as long as i,
'ucceeds it kills all life and growth and
lends of increasing warns Of emf
grants. But it must soon undergo
notification, with law or without law,
hat will amount to the most complete
We hope it may prove a
peaceful revolution. But the present
Prince Of Wales seems to inherit as lit
ls Of the popularity as Of the virtues
which have made his royal parents so
and generally popular, and
THAT will result when the present
Queen dies none can foresee.
A No. ! PAPER, rrc.-The Oakland
N.rs has entered upon its third volume.
{ is q thoroughly excellent paper,-a
redit to the California city Of schools,
..lnr;as and nolI.oaa II bao a ,n.