FEARS OF REVOLT IN INDIA.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 206, 4 June 1887, Page 4

FEARS OF REVOLT IN INDIA.

Englishmen are beginning , to anticipate trouble for the .native princes in India. Some time ago Dhulep Sineh, the noted conspirator against the power of Engand in India, left Paris, and went to Russia, where he remained for a short' time. He was then commissioned by the Russian Government to take a secret expedition to Central Asia. It is lie who was responsible for all the insurrection and rebellion on the Afghan frontier. It is said that he has been through most of the disaffected portions of India, so as to organise a rebellion which will break out in the event of any general European war, which would distract the attention of England from her colonial possessions. The situation of England is not considered at all gratifying by any of her clearest-headed public men. They see the disaffection growing in their Asiatic possessions. They are conscious, in the event of any general war that Irish advocates of independency would at once become aggressive. The army and navy of Great Britain are to-day on a peace footing, and nothing but the pressure of imminent war would persuade England to put them on a better footing. I notice that in the account given here by the papers of the Naval display to be made during the Jubilee races that the Naval Secretary had not enough men at his disposal to properly man the vessels that are to take part in this display. Lord Dufferin, one of the most skilful and successful of English diplomats, now in Persia, is meeting tnc intrigue of Russian diplomats to the best of his skill. He has recently presented the Persian monarch an elephant with h tndsome silver trappings, costing the Foreign Department L0,0()0. This magnificent present has given the English Minister the warm friendship ot the Shah. Lord Dufferin proposes to follow up this policy by making handsome presents to all the disaffected prince 1 ?. This policy does not, apparently, prevail in India, where the leading rajahs, instead of being given presents, have been commanded to make a subscription to tho begging fund of the Imperial Institute.