Lord Canning had, therefore, applied to the Government in England for the services of a trained financier; and Mr.Wilson, who had a great reputation in this respect, was sent out.

He declared the only remedy to be an income-tax, and he was supported in this view by the merchants of Calcutta.

Other Europeans, however, who were intimately acquainted with India, pointed out that it was not advisable to ignore the dislike of Natives to such direct taxation; and Sir Charles Trevelyan, Governor of Madras, argued well and wisely against the scheme.

Instead, however, of confining his action in the matter to warning and advising the supreme Government, he publicly proclaimed his opposition, thus giving the signal for agitation to all the malcontents in India.

Lord Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay, followed Trevelyan's example, but in a less pronounced manner, and these attacks from the minor Presidencies proved a serious embarrassment to the action of the Government.