Hawick in a manner which amounts to a declaration of
the Go- vernment policy—not on. finance,. but on religion in India.. The announcement is not the lets important for being in perfent har- mony with the deliberate elieen, of the most se-• fleeting statesman in Indira- Lord tanning as well as Lora
Canning's opponents in India ; of statesmen belonging to both the great parties in the State here ; and of all the British public —save Exeter Hall and some very few individuals amongst the class of statesmen. The opinion is, that the propagation of Christianity must be left wholly and exclusively to the mis- sionaries ; that the Government cannot interfere without arous- ing jealousies and endangering the peace of the country, jeopardizing even the British tenure of India, and thus risking even the progress of Christianity itself.
