The establishment of presidencies had been Sidney's great panacea, and he waited only till Munster as well as Connaught was provided for.
In surrendering the sword, Sidney had not the satisfaction of seeing his favourite project of presidencies entirely successful.
The room provided in the Temple for the use of Stake Presidencies and High Councils is shown in the accompanying plate.
Let it mellow and soften all differences between members of the Stake Presidencies and the High Councils, as well as between neighbors living in the same ward.
But the law is loose and defective, where it professes to restrain the subordinate Presidencies from making war without the consent and approbation of the Supreme Council.
Besides this, Bengal sends a regular supply in time of peace to those Presidencies which are unequal to their own establishment.
In matters of peace and war it seems to have been meant that the other Presidencies should be subordinate to their board.
The several Presidencies have acted in a great degree upon their own separate authority; and as little of unity, concert, or regular system has appeared in their conduct as was ever known before this institution.
Nor was the great political end proposed in the formation of a superintending Council over all the Presidencies better answered than that of an inquiry into corruptions and abuses.
In 1870 District Savings Banks were instituted in all parts of India except Calcutta and the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay.
For the purposes of administration, the whole of India and Burma is divided into eight circles, corresponding with Presidencies and Provinces as far as possible.
Perhaps there was not in all the presidencies of India a man—certainly not so young a man—with the lustre of so many accomplishments upon him.
His career in India lasted six years and gave him occasion to visit the three presidencies and Ceylon.
In that year a Governor-General was for the first time appointed, and entrusted with the command of all the three presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay.
All the English officials in India, from the governors of presidencies down to ensigns in the army and clerks, were to be selected by a council of seven commissioners in London, nominated by Parliament.
To this day the government of presidencies and the vice-royalty of India are in each case carried on by a President in Council.
Each of these presidencies has now a lieutenant-governor of its own.
In the Madras and Bombay presidencies there were no signs of discontent.
It stopped all progress in Madras and Bombay by bringing those Presidencies too closely under the control of Bengal.
Ten years before, Miss Nightingale had reported to the Royal Commission that no one of the seats of Presidencies in India had as yet arrived at the degree of sanitary civilization shown in the worst parts of the worst English towns.
The presidencies and provinces are wholly administered by British officials.
Sidenote: The Presidenciesof the Quorums of the Lesser Priesthood Sustained.
Gentleman, whether it would not be a good thing to bring in a Bill to extend and define the powers of the Governors of the various Presidencies in India?
The capitals of those Presidencies would probably be Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Agra, and Lahore.
Your administration of the law, marked by so much disgrace, could never have lasted so long as it has done if the Governors of yourPresidencies had been independent Governors.
In the presidencies of Bombay and Madras the army and people, with few exceptions, remained quiet, and to a considerable extent were loyal.
The Madras troops arrived on the 7th, and the forces of the two presidencies proceeded up the river and attacked the stockades, which were defended by twenty-five thousand men.
In especial, they dominated over the British settlement of Bombay on the western coast, which was the last of the three presidencies to feel the lust of territorial ambition.
First stand the two presidencies of Madras (officially Fort St George) and Bombay, each of which is administered by a governor and council appointed by the crown.
In Bengal, Madras and Bombay Presidencies women do not wear a skirt, only a choli and sari.
The system thus organized in Bengal was afterwards extended to Madras and Bombay, when those presidenciesalso acquired territorial sovereignty.
No Anglo-Indian resident in either of the three presidencies thinks of driving a wheel-carriage through streets never intended for such conveyances.
The three presidencies of Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras were at this time mutually independent, and responsible only to the Court of Directors in England.
There is hardly, I believe, an intelligent and single-minded man in the three Presidencies who would view with complacency the prospect of immediate separation for his country from the English Crown.
Wherever I went in the Madras and Bombay presidencies I heard of common lands enclosed and rights of pasture withdrawn, and this without any compensation at all being given to the possessors.
All three Presidencies were therefore in contact with one or other of the Mahratta states.
Their three settlements formed separate presidencies or seats of government, unconnected one with the other, each governed by a president and council.
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