We regret deeply to notice the death of Mr. J.
C. Marsh- man, of Redcliffe Square, almost the only Anglo-Indian not lathe service, of the State who ever made himself a visible nWare. in the peninsula, and certainly the only one who ever received his whole education in India. A man. with a splendid eonstitution, untiring energy, and vehement will, Mr. Marsh- man made himself from 1812 the working pivot of the great Mission establishment founded by his father, and Dr. Carey, and Mr. Ward, and though always a layman, worked for twenty years/ as a sort of secular and unpaid bishop. He carried his qualities afterwards into secular life, founded the only -weekly political paper in India—which he made a great autho- rity—set up the first paper-rail], rebuilt and re-endowed a great College at his own expense—he gave away at least 240,000, out of a merely professional income—compiled the first "Code of Civil Law," a huge book, big as several Bibles, and then trans- lated it with his own band for the people, saying "that no man Should lose property for his ease," and for a quarter of a century without a break worked fifteen hours a day,—working, too, at full speed. The Court of Directors thanked him in a public letter for his educational services, and he obtained the Star of India ; but at home.he was comparatively unrecognised, though Ills "History of India" was a success. He probably knew
more of British India, WI history and its circumstances, than any man who ever lived, and never passed a day of his life without adding to his information. Nature made him for a successful barrister, and there has been scarcely a reform in India during the half-century to which he did not lend most effective aid. He believed in "hammering," he said, and he hammered away some- times till he tired his readers ; but he never in his long life lost a cause, and he took up many which, to all eyes but his own, seemed desperate. Only twenty-five years ago it was impossible to open an Indian paper in any Presidency without reading abuse or praise of John Marshman.
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