The illustrated London news . the closer and more been able to free greater, on the i of India has not e itself entirely from the influence of the traditional policy handeddown to it by the East India Company. The transition from theold exclusive system to one better adapted to develop the inex-haustible resources of our Eastern dependency proceeds slowlyand cautiously ; but it does proceed. Events on both sides havequickened the progress of political and commercial amalgama-tion far beyond anything that could have been effected by specu-lative theories and arguments. As in the case of Ireland
The illustrated London news . the closer and more been able to free greater, on the i of India has not e itself entirely from the influence of the traditional policy handeddown to it by the East India Company. The transition from theold exclusive system to one better adapted to develop the inex-haustible resources of our Eastern dependency proceeds slowlyand cautiously ; but it does proceed. Events on both sides havequickened the progress of political and commercial amalgama-tion far beyond anything that could have been effected by specu-lative theories and arguments. As in the case of Ireland, so inIndia. When mans shortsighted wisdom or folly had broughtaffairs to the brink of ruin Divine Providence snatched thereins out of his imbecile hands and guided the destinies of bothcountries alike into a safer track, The military mutinies, thefinancial embarrassments, the drought, famine, and pestilencewith which India has been so severely tried, and the abruptBtoppage of the usual supplies of cotton to British manufac-. 3lZ THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS markev, have hru-l aside many of theprejudices which have f>o long operated to keep England andJulia antiKlcr; arid, as in a tropical district, a violent convulsioncf the eltmentB will diive animals of the most opposite instinctsto tJbc same shelter, and suspend for awhile tbeir mutual an-tagorrisrn, so the awful crises which have swept over India, andthat which now threatens the manufacturing industry of theUnited Kingdom, have removed not a few of the previouslyirremovable impediments to the creation of a permanentinterdependence of the one upon the other. The vibit of the Indian Finance Minister to Manchester, andthe interview between him and deputations from several manu-facturing or commercial bodies, may, wc hope, be regarded as spirit which will henceforth animate the policy of theIndian Government, The bare fact is agreeably cannot but be pleased to see India and
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