This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... ESSAYS ON THE EXTERNAL POLICY OF INDIA. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF LORD LA WRENCE The Government of India is divided into six great departments--Foreign, Home, Legislative, Military, Finance, and Public Works. Every order issued from any of these departments runs in the name of 'The GovernorGeneral in Council.' And in the earlier days of the Anglo-Indian empire, when all cases used to be submitted for the collective consideration of the Governor-General and each member of his Council, this formula was a cor 1 Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1867. 1. Parliamentary Blue Books relating to Bhutdn. 1865 and 1866. 2. Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, No. XXIV. New Series. Bombay: Printed for Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press. 1856. 3. Diary of a Journey across Arabia in the Year 1819. By Capt. G. Forster Sadlier, of Her Majesty's 47th Regt. Compiled from the Records of the Bombay Government. Bombay: Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla. 1866. 4. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Volume the Thirty-fifth. Article XV., A Visit to the Wahdbi Capital, Central Arabia. By Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Her Majesty's Political Resident, Persian Gulf. London: 1865. 5. Reports on the Political Condition of the Province of Turkistdn, and the Financial Resources of Tashkend, from the Governor-General of Orenburg to the Russian Minister of Finance, published in the ' Invalide Russe' of the 20th November, 1865. B w rect description of the mode in which the machinery of government actually worked. But as time advanced, bringing with it additions of territory, improved administration, and better means of communication, it became impossible for so cumbrous an organisation to bear the strain of the enormously increased correspondence....