The following, from the Ballarat Star, is an extract from a letter received by a gentleman in Ballarat from a relative in the Government service at Fyzabad, Oude, India : " England must withdraw troops from India if she enter into any var; and Ido not care to see my family in India when the troops are withdrawn, more especially in a war with Russia. The native sympathies are even now expressed in favor of Russia. Imagine a schoolboy saying to his master, ' What's the use of teaching me English ; why don't you teach me Russian—it will be much more useful to me.' This was the speech of a native boy in Lucknow. The natives, in entering into bonds of all sorts, now enter the proviso, 'So long as the British rule may last in this country.' I have a good deal of intercqurse with them, and I am convinced that they now consider the end of the British rule more certain than they did during the mutinies; and more, are ijesjrous of ft,"
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 952, 24 February 1871, Page 2
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