INDIAN ANTIPATHIES.
fTo ran EDITOR op Pee "13Pccrepon."1 SIB.,—India is the land of jealousies, and consequently of antipathies,—caste against caste, religion against religion, race against race. That, of course, is why we are there. In such a land why should we expect to escape dislikes altogether P In especial, why should we wonder at being disliked by the "educated natives," who regard us as a block in the path of their ambitions ? But if they dislike us, they well know that they are regarded with intense dislike by about ninety per cent, of the inhabitants of India—the rural classes —as emblems of the oppressions and extortions from which we have saved them as far as we can. When Mysore, after fifty years of British rule, was given up to native rule, I had good reasons for knowing, and the new native Government knew it too, that the people generally disliked the change. To show that I ant not prejudiced in the matter, I may mention that I was rather in favour of it than otherwise, for reasons I need not enter into. In the end I had entirely to change my opinions, and acknowledge that the natives of the country knew much better than I did what would take place.
—I am, Sir, &c., ROBRRT H. ELLIOT. Alexandra Hotel, Hyde Park Corner.
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