The East India Company does not seem disposed to limit
the operation of its newly-acquired spirit of economy to a reduction in the amount of the allowances which it has hitherto granted to its offi- cers. By the latest accounts from Madras, we learn that the troops were to be reduced very considerably in number and that the civil service in all its departments was to be rendered less expensive to the Company for the future.
The inhabitants of Calcutta, it is said, " have sent into the autheii- ties a requisition for a public meeting to petition the King for a re- versal of the laws lately passed for limiting the freedom of press. The papers of late certainly hear .the marks of power, columns being left blank—struck out, no doubt, at the time of going to press, as being considered offensive to the Indian authorities."
The Bengal Hurkaru of the 9th June tells its readers in a myste- rious way, that some " high authority" had expressed his sense of the absurdity of opposing colonization in India by Europeans, and that some other " high authority" had " said ditto" to the first high au- thority's opiniou,
