5 OCTOBER 1895, Page 3

The Blue-book issued on Monday, containing the reports of the

residents in the protected Native States of the Malay Peninsula and the general report of the Governor, is a very remarkable State paper, and contains a record of pro- gress and prosperity which is most satisfactory. In almost every State not only are roads, railways, and other improvements being pressed forward, but the revenues are increasing. The Governor states that "their rich mineral resources, and the teeming Chinese population that has been attracted by them have no doubt been the great factors in the prosperity of the States. Bat, after making all due allowance for these factors,

there remains the indubitable fact" that, but for our pro- tection "internal dissensions and weak rulers would have dissipated the value of those resources, and the States would probably now be in much the same condition of picturesque barbarism that they were in twenty years ago." "I have served her Majesty in many lands," adds the Governor, "but nowhere have I felt the same vivid pleasure in witnessing the

triumph of British powers of organisation as I have in the protected States of the Malay Peninsula." It is curious to note that the correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, who has been viewing Baron de Kallay's work in Bosnia with such intense admiration, delares that the only thing to which it can be compared is our work in the Protected States of the Malay Peninsula.