FROM BAD TO WORSE IN BURMAH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2367, 7 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

FROM BAD TO WORSE IN BURMAH.

It is very wrong of the Burmese I Why don't they submit to be annexed quidly I The AngloJndians who insisted on the seizure of the country assured us that the Burmese were panting to become British subjects, and that we bad ouly to rid them of their brutal King, and govwi the nation wjtbout bini, to make the niuivis the happiest people on oarih. But the King is gone, is kept a prisoner in India, and yet the Burmese struggle against British rule. The Anglo-Indian, however, is not abashed at the ntter falsification of bis prophecies. It is not the people of Burmab who are grumbling. It ist ih« b'in«lin« of Sir Charles Bernard ivhiuh is at the bottom of it all, A few short months ago he was landed as the ablest official in the East, but, ns ibe Rurmese have not become quiet, a> are still " struggling to be fivr." somebody must bear the blame, and ut« well Sir Charles Bernard as another. 'IV Oil. cutta correspondent of the Tim*"', the great apostle of (he blood and iron policy, who utterly ignores the claims of tho natives that he hardly seems to consider tbuy have '■ souls to hewed," takes Sir Charles roundly to task for his great Wiindeiing; "No one," he very graciously limits, "denies Sir Charles Bernard's ability, energy, or honesty of purpose, but it is felt that he has shown himself altogether deficient in t'je qualities required for organising the now province, and has tailed to strike tho proper key of the situation. What is wanted is not additional troops, but a strongman thoroughly in sympathy with the people—such a man as the late fir Arthur Phayre, or as was Mr Nicholson iu the Piinjaub, It is beginning to be, whispered, too, that. General White is not the right man in the right place. If things go on as at pretent the pacification will be a very tedious and. herious business, while under a stong common sense and elastic Government tho country would be in order in a few months."—Times aud Echo,