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Appointed Viceroy of India—Forebodings—Voyage to India—Installation

—Deaths of Mr. Ritchie, Lord Canning, General Bruce—The Hot Season

—Business resumed—State of the Empire—Letters: the Army; Cultivation of

Cotton; Orientals not all Children; Missionaries; Rumours of Disaffection;

Alarms; Murder of a Native; Afghanistan; Policy of Lord Canning;

Consideration for Natives.