Grant of Rothiemurchus; a Memoir of the Services of Sir John Peter Grant ..
Grant of Rothiemurchus; a Memoir of the Services of Sir John Peter Grant ..
W S Walter Scott Seton Karr
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the populous and important district of Jessore, the rumour died away, and nothing more was heard about any "white thing." Two sedition-mongers were sentenced to transportation ; the loyal Zamindars were reassured; the English planters scattered over the district at a distance from each other, felt secure ; and the year passed without any fresh outbreak. If there ever had been any danger of a disturbance at the Presidency, nothing of the kind took place. Grant, in a letter to the Viceroy, while ...assuring him that there was no present likeli- hood of an interruption to the peace of the capital, added ** that no man would dare to say that such a thing was impossible anywhere," and that **a street tumult in Calcutta would do more to shake the Empire than the loss of a battle in Oudh." Fortunately, under the administration of Sir Frederick Halliday, the experienced Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal, not a shot was fired in defence or attack in that province. Digitized by Google CHAPTER VI lA/'HEN, in the spring of 1859, Sir Frederick Halliday resigned the post of Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal, Mr Grant was chosen as his successor.
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