OUR INDIAN EMPIRE.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7268, 16 October 1891, Page 1

OUR INDIAN EMPIRE.

I A. telegram, for which Router is [ responsible, received tho other day, giveß us the mind of iho semi-oflioial Moscow Gazptte as to' what Russia would do in case of a revolt in India. The Russian organ calculates on the possibility of sued a revolt. Only Uat week a large raeetiog of Bengalis in Calcutta bound thonißolvea not to use English gooda of any kind. From this impotent rage one may speculate ac to what would bo done to wipe out Plaßsy and Eoglieh rule generally if our Indian subjects flaw their way to do it. The Anglo-vernocular Press and the vernacular Preßa are intensely disloyal just now. Lord Cross oalls (his Press license the ' eafoty valve of indiuu disaffection.' It may be more than this— it may be the incentive and tho torch of revolt as well, yet we gag not our sourrilouß and envenomed prints, and they abuse uh to our face with impunity. A Bengali gentleman publishes a blasphemous and indecent cumtnontary en tho Bible, ridicules its doctrines and osporons it with filth, yet wo who are so sensitive of idolatrous prtjudiceß, and co meticuloue about oflouding Hiudu religious ausceptibilitios hb to remove for in«tanor, from tho railing of tho Benares waterworks a few btaaa drayont/ heads, because they offended Native religions susceptibilities, how I know mt, allow the book which is bo dear tj Christianity to be thus roughly handled. An unbridled Preun, a terment of unrtat and d Bcontont, bb well aa expressed contempt tor all that we hold sacred aie tho Gret fruits of our eftoriß 10 engraft western o viliaation on the old Aryan Btock. — Hobart Meroufy'a Indian correspondent.