The Friend of India and Statesman Friday January 11th 1878

It is said however that this break will not be a real obstacle to traffic and when the line is opened to the foot of the hills at Adulpore—an event which is predicted for the month of May a drive of less than twenty-four hours will trausport the resident of Calcutta from the languid atmosphere of the Gangetic delta to the bracing coolness of the Himalayan slopes. [...] The proposal we have advanced that Government should purchase the line and lease it to the company for a share of the profits seems the most feasible and hopeful promising better than any other course we can think of to secure a reasonable proportion of the profits to the State and at the same time to retain the present excellent management. [...] And we 14:nk now that instead of nibbling at the in it would have been wiser in view of the condition of the sury to have conceived differently of the license-tax altog and adapted its provisions to the facts of our position. [...] The settlement of their relati with the present heads of the department would be doubt a matter of some delicacy but you rarely find power in association with littleness of character ; and believe the heads of the department themselves WI cordially welcome the co-operation of men of distinguis technical skill and great experience of what is and what not possible in the way of reform. [...] But he seeing to be blind to the plain inferences to be drawn from his own facto c. g his complaints of the indifference of the Government to providing toads ; his account of "the subordination of the Christian to the Turk in every-day life ;" under which euphemism he tells us of the denial of justice to Christians the kidnapping and forced conversions of Christian girls and the rejection of