The Calcutta correspondent of the Times sends home an analysis
-of a report on political affairs in Rajpootana which must be very amusing reading. It contains among other matters confidential esti- mates of the character of the Princes, their Viziers, and even their female favourites, which remind one of the reports the Venetian Envoys used to send home to the Signory. But we -should like much to know whether the publication of these -reports has been deliberately sanctioned, or whether it is, like so many Indian publications, accidental. The Maharaja of Jodhpore may want moral correction very much, and we dare say does, but for the paramount power to describe him officially to the whole world, and to his own subjects, as the slave of a low woman who uses her influence to rob everybody, can scarcely be the wisest method of correction. The relations between him and his English Mentor will, one would think, when the Times gets out there, be just, a little "strained." If the plan has been adopted deliberately, we have nothing to say, except that we do not like insult as an instrument of discipline, and do not believe it a good one ; but we have a suspicion that it has not been so adopted at all, but that the report has been published in the regular Indian way, without any consideration whatever as to its -reflex effect.
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