In this country the number of English residents is very small, and, of that small number, a great proportion are engaged in the service of the State, and are most deeply interested in the maintenance of existing institutions.

Even those English settlers who are not in the service of the Government have a strong interest in its stability.

They are few; they are thinly scattered among a vast population, with whom they have neither language, nor religion, nor morals, nor manners, nor colour in common; they feel that any convulsion which should overthrow the existing order of things would be ruinous to themselves.

Particular acts of the Government--especially acts which are mortifying to the pride of caste naturally felt by an Englishman in India--are often angrily condemned by these persons.

But every indigo-planter in Tirhoot, and every shopkeeper in Calcutta, is perfectly aware that the downfall of the Government would be attended with the destruction of his fortune, and with imminent hazard to his life.
"Thus, among the English inhabitants of India, there are no fit subjects for that species of excitement which the Press sometimes produces at home.