THE EDUCATED INDIAN.

Mataura Ensign, Volume V, Issue 224, 26 January 1883, Page 6

THE EDUCATED INDIAN.

The appointment of a native Judge to act for the Chief-Justice at Calcutta is , a farther illustration of the desire which characterises Lord Ripon's administration to utilise as much as possible the abilities and patriotism of the educated native community in the service of their country. A signal proof of this disposition has been afforded by the Bteps taken to bring about the establishment of a system of local self-government throughout India. That enterprise is necessarily one the details of which it will take a considerable time to elaborate. The conditions to which the schemes devised by the provincial authorities under the instruction of the , Supreme Government, for the creation of municipal institutions must be adapted} vary' so enormously that the utmost care and consideration will be required' before :they can be set up .and put in working order i Meantime everything is of value which drives home to the suspicious Asiatic mind the assurance, that the British rulers of India are genuinely wishful to entrust important duties to capab[e native hands, and the judicial appointment made at Calcutta, which the Indian Spectator pays is beyond what ''the most, daring of former Viceroys Had the- couvage^.to^ think of," is certain to exercise the most powerful and beneficial influence in the desired direction. 7 ; ' ,