Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XVIII. 1844-1849. LORD HARDINGE'S ADMINISTRATION.—THE CALCUTTA REVIEW. The year 1844 opens a New Period.—Lord Hardinge.—Public Service opened to Educated Natives.—Dr. Duff-s Anticipations not realized till 1854.—The New Period one of Public Discussion.— John Kaye and John Marshman.—Sir Henry Lawrence and Captain Marsh.—Establishment of the Calcutta Review.—Dr. Duff's Recollections of the Event.—His Early Articles.—The Editorship forced on him.—Encourages Bengalee Essayists.—Sir John Kaye's Gratitude.—The Fever Epidemic of 1844.—Calcutta nowa Healthy City.—Dr. Duff's Appeal for the Medical College Hospital.—Description of the Dying and the Dead.—The Ten Hospitals of Calcutta now.—Dr. Abercrombie and his Daughter.—Project of a Monument to John Knox.—Belief of the Highland Famine.—Mrs. Ellerton.—Duel of Warren Hastings and Philip Francis.—Letter to Mrs. Duff.—Bishop Wilson.—Letter to Principal Cunningham. —Andrew Morgan and the Doveton Colleges of Calcutta and Madras. The successive administrations of Lord Auckland and Lord Ellenborough, by the violent contrasts which they presented, and the vital questions which they raised, summoned all Anglo-Indians, official and non-official, to discussion. The civil and the military services were placed, temporarily, in a heated antagonism. The disasters in Afghanistan, followed by the evacuation of the country after a proposal to sacrifice the English ladies and officers in captivity, and by the follies of a public triumph and the Somnath proclamation, had roused Great Britain as well as India. The annexation of Sindh and the war with Grwalior further stirred the public conscience in a way not again seen till the Mutiny, of which the Auckland-Ellen- 38. LORD HARDINGE AS GOVERNOR-GENERAL. 85 borough madness was th... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.