ABA

ABANDONMENT of British territory

by the Crown, question as to, 343;
Aden, 57; connected with Bombay Go-
vernment, 284; its growing impor-
tance, ibid.

Afghan War, the, an error, a calamity,
and a warning, 246
Agricultural Colonies, 47

America. See North America
American Stamp Act, 149, 151

- Colonies. See North America, Bri-
tish Guiana, West Indies

War of Independence, 144
Antigua, situation, size, &c., 372
Appeal, 384

Army, British, in India, present
strength of, 272; in Colonies, under
what authority, 388

Austin, his test whether a State is a
Sovereign State or a Dependency, 271
Australia first used as a receptacle for
convicts, 56, 270; area, climate,
&c., 306; character of natives, 310;
wool its wealth, 311; squatters in,
312; convict labour, 312; probable
political future, 317

Australasia one of the three main
masses of our Transmarine Empire,
45; its area, 306; climates, 307

BACON, Lord, his opinions on Free

Trade, 93; his essay on 'Planta-
tions,' 93, and note; thought martial
law good for young colonies, 97
- Nathaniel, heads Virginian Insur-
rection, 129

Bahamas, their area, population, &c.,
379

Barbadoes, situation, size, &c., 374
Bengal, possession of, and political and
judicial power are granted to the
East India Company, 216; Governor

and Council for, with supremacy over
other Presidencies, appointed, 217,
See Lower Provinces
Bermudas, the, their situation, area,
&c., 380

Bombay acquired by Charles II. by
marriage: granted by him to East
India Company, 200; becomes prin-
cipal seat of English trade on west
of India, ibid.; the chief English
Establishments in India at begin-
ning of eighteenth century, 202
Presidency, its present extent and
Government, 281

British Constitution, 1, 8

-

Columbia, 187; Vancouver's Island
incorporated with, 188; constitution,
population, ibid.

-India Proper, as distinguished from
Territories of Subject-Allies, 279
- Burmah, 294

Burke, his distinction between the
British and the Imperial Constitu-
tions, 1; his views as to Colonial
Representation, 39; agent for New
York, 41; his remarks on the demo-
cratic zeal of slaveowners, 100; his
statement of the Paramount Power
of the Imperial Parliament, 157
Burmah, war with, forced on British,
237; our conquests from, 238; Bri-
tish Burmah politically connected
with India, 238, 295; its area, &c.,

294

YALCUTTA purchased and fortified
by the East India Company, 199;
its increased importance, 202; taken
by Surajah Dowlah, 216; recovered,
ibid.
Campbell versus Hall, case of, cited and
commented on, 165

CAN

Canada, Dominion of, 183; its cultiva-

tion, 184; p pulation, 186
Canada, French power in, 140; ceded to
England, 143; English Government
there, 173; divided into Upper and
Lower, 173; discontents in, 174;
reunited, 181

Cape Breton, 86, 137

Cape Colony, 341; discovery of the Cape
by the Portuguese, 341; first settle-
ment by the Dutch, 342; made part
of the British Empire, 342; progress
of the colony, id.; Kathir wars, 343;
Orange River Territory abandoned,
ibid.; Kaffraria acquired, 344; pre-
sent area of the colony, 345; climate,
ibid.; population, 345; Constitution,
346

Carolina, whence named, 78 note; be-
comes a British Colony, 115; Locke's
Constitution for it, 116; divided into
North and South Carolina, 117
Catholic Emancipation, 29
Central Provinces of British India,

their extent and Government, 290
Cession, political status of Colonies
acquired by, 61. Se also Appendix
Ceylon, 348: a Crown Colony, 319; pro-
clamation as to its laws, 350; its
area, climate, &c., 349; its mode of
Government, 354; costs England no-
thing, 355; rapid advance of its re-
venues, ibid.

Channel Islands, 60; antiquity of their
connection with England, ibid.; never
acquired by England, ibid.; their Con-
stitutions, 59

Charles II.; his liberal charter to
Rhode Island, 119; liberal treat-
ment of all the New England Co-
lonies except Massachussets, 121;
Navigation Act, 125; grants the
conquered New Netherlands to the
Duke of York, 131; grants Pensyl-
rauia to Penn, 132; grants of
Hudson's Bay Territory, 133
Church and State, complete alliance
between, broken at the Union of Eng-
land and Scotland, 22; disestablish-
ment of the Irish Church, 29
Civil Service in Ceylon, the Straits, and
Hong Kong, 392

-, Indian, thrown open to natives,
241; to all British subjects, 257;
present appointment by Competitive
Examination, 302

Classification of Colonies, 46; as to

mode of use, 47; as to reason why

CRO

colonised, 52; as to mode of acqui-
sition, 59; official classification, 70;
geographical, 71

Climate, its importance in determining
the class of a colony, 49
Clive, beginning of his career, 215;
his victory at Plassy, 216
Colonial Representation, 37, 151 note
- System, the, 126, 146 and note
-Taxation, 147. See Taxation of Co-
lonies

Colonisation, British, motives for, 53
Colony, Heeren's definition of, 47
Competitive Examination for Indian

Civil Service, 302; it brings forward
the readiest rather than the most in-
tellectual men, ibid.; works well, 304;
for Ceylon writerships, for Hong
Kong and Straits cadetships, how
far in use, 391; for the English Co-
lonial Office clerkships, 392
Connecticut, first English traffic there,
88; colonised, 120; its early Go-
vernment, 120

Conquest, political status of Colonies
acquired by, 61. See also Appendix
Constitution. See titles English,
British, Imperial, Colonial Constitu-
tions respectively
Constitutional morality indispensable
for existence of a democratic com-
munity, 108; very strong in the early
New England men, ibid.

Control, Board of, for India, 227
Coote, General, his exploits in India,
217

Cornwallis, Lord, his legislation for

India, 223; his external policy, 231
Council, Government in, how practised
in India, 371; Mill's eulogy on it,
276; Indian Council in England, 301
Covenanted Service, Indian, origin of
the name, 286 note

Cromwell, his treatment of New Eng-
landers, 113; offers Jamaica to them,

DAL

Dish territory under, 250; vigour

ALHOUSIE, LORD, increase of Bri-

and success of his internal adminis-
tration of India, 251; his memoir on
leaving office, 253
Declaratory Act, the, 160
Delaware first colonised, 133
Demarara. See Guiana, British
Dominica, a West Indian Colony, 374
Dominium Eminens, what, 156; vested
in the Imperial Parliament, 157
Double Government of India intro-
duced, 227; abolished, 254

IND

French early attempts at colonisation
in North America, 78 note; strive
with English for Newfoundland, 83;
for Nova Scotia and Cape Breton,
137; decisive contest during the
Seven Years' War between French
and English for ascendency in North
America, 138; their power in India,
203; overthrow by the British, 217;
possessions in India still retained by,

300 note

YEORGIA formed out of part of Caro-

Gibraltar, 37

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, founder of our
North American Empire, 77; his
views as to colonisation, 78
Governor-General of India, 272; his
appointment and power, ibid.; his
Council, 273

Governors of Colonies, by whom ap-

pointed, 67, 385; their general powers
and duties, 386; general length of
time of their tenure of office, 386
Grenada a West Indian Colony, 374
Guiana, British, 381

their will; its powers curtailed in
1833; it ceases to be a trading com-
pany, 240; its empire transferred to
the Crown, 260. See also Appendix
Electoral Franchise in England, 32; in
Scotland, 33; in Ireland, 34
Electors of the House of Commons:
their number, power, and responsi-
bility, 35

Elizabeth's reign, our Colonial History
begins in, 75; she gives Virginia its
name, 87; grants charter to East
India Company, 196

vernor-General of British India
under Regulating Act, 218
Heligoland, 382

Hindustan. See India
Honduras, 382
Hong Kong, 357

Hudson's Bay Territory, grant of by
Charles II. to Hudson's Bay Com-
pany, 133; agreement for its cession
to the Dominion of Canada, 184; its
condition, 187

Hyderabad, present condition of, 299
Hyder Ali, 214

NDIA one of the three main masses

INDIA or of nsmarine Empire, 45;

British India a Crown Territory, 61;
its geographical position, extent, cli-
mate, and population, 191; English
children cannot be reared there, 192;
we found it over-civilised, 193; cha-
racter of its population, 194; mise-
rable state of, under the Moguls, 207;
debased state of natives not attri-
butable to the English, 211; struggle
between French and English for

IND

power over, 203-217; engages atten-
tion of English Parliament, 217;
Regulating Act, 217; introduction
of English law in, 218-223; the
Cornwallis Regulations for, 224;
double Government of, 227; native
princes become subject-allies, 231;
war in generally forced on the Eng-
lish, 236; the North-Western Pro-
vinces, 237; changes made in the
Company's privileges in 1833; ex-
tension of British power in, and in
neighbouring countries, 247-250;
great public works and legislative
and educational improvements, 251;
tranquillity always precarious, 253;
placed under the immediate domi-
nion of the Crown, 260; present
Government of, 261; true principles
on which it should be governed, 270;
sketch of present political and terri-
torial divisions and Governments,
270; all India is now really within
the British Empire, 271; the Gover-
nor-General there, 272; his powers,
ibid.; his Councils, 273; British
India Proper, how composed, 279;
Regulation and non-Regulation pro-
vinces, 286; general area and popu-
lation of India, 300; present English
rule over, 301; civil-servants in, how
chosen, 302; probable effects of the
Competitive Examinations, 304
Indian History, how to be studied, 194,

MA

[ADRAS, fort built at by East India
Company, 199; a corporation
there, 202; taken by the French,
214; restored to English, 215

Presidency, its present area and
government, 280

Mahrattas, origin and power of, 212
Maine, whence named, 120
Malta, 57

Mansfield, Lord, his exposition of the
Law of Colonies, 163

Martial Law in Virginia, established in
James I.'s reign, 96; Lord Bacon's
approbation of, 96; abolished in
Virginia, 97

Maryland, its colonisation and govern-
ment, 117

Massachussets, first explored by Capt.

Gosnold, 88; settled in 1628, 109;
bold liberalism of its early colonists,
110; their religious intolerance, 110;
peril under Charles I., 112; favoured
by Long Parliament and Cromwell,
113; peril under Charles II., 122
Mauritius, 357

Military force in Colonies, how far
under Governor's authority, 388;
present policy of withdrawing Im-
perial military forces from Colonies
having Responsible Government, 338
Mogul, emperor, his powers, 198;
permits the English to erect factory
at Surat, ibid.; and at Hooghly, near
Calcutta, 199; decay of his power,
206; grants Bengal, Behar, and
Orissa to the English East India
Company, 216

Montserrat, West Indian Colony, 375
Mysore, present state of, 299