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This is a much more quiet and rural place than any which I have visited since I have been in India; for Barrackpore is a great military station, and the park, &c., there are quite public. Here there are not altogether above five or six European families.... We have a train twice a day from Calcutta, so I can get my boxes as regularly as I do there. Bhagulpore. August 25th.
Binnie woke up briskly when the Colonel entered. "It is you, you gad-about, is it?" cried the civilian. "How has the beau monde of London treated the Indian Adonis? Have you made a sensation, Newcome? Gad, Tom, I remember you a buck of bucks when that coat first came out to Calcutta just a Barrackpore Brummell in Lord Minto's reign, was it, or when Lord Hastings was satrap over us?"
When the melancholy news arrived in India, the young couple were spending their honeymoon in a lodge in the Governor-General's park at Barrackpore. Lichfield. Easter Sunday. After the service was ended we went over the Cathedral.
The officer in command at Barrackpore, General Hearsay, addressed the troops on parade, explained to them that the cartridges were not prepared with the obnoxious materials supposed, and set forth the groundlessness of their suspicions. The address was well received at first, but had no permanent effect. The ill-feeling spread to other troops and other stations.
Residences for the Governor Parell Its Gardens Profusion of Roses Receptions at Government-house The evening-parties The grounds and gardens of Parell inferior to those at Barrackpore The Duke of Wellington partial to Parell Anecdotes of his Grace in India Sir James Mackintosh His forgetfulness of India The Horticultural Society Malabar Point, a retreat in the hot weather The Sea-view beautiful The nuisance of fish Serious effects at Bombay of the stoppage of the trade with China Ill-condition of the poorer classes of Natives Frequency of Fires Houses of the Parsees Parsee Women Masculine air of the other Native Females of the lower orders who appear in public Bangle-shops Liqueur-shops Drunkenness amongst Natives not uncommon here, from the temptations held out The Sailors' Home Arabs, Greeks, Chinamen The latter few and shabby Portuguese Padres Superiority of the Native Town of Bombay over that of Calcutta Statue of Lord Cornwallis Bullock-carriages High price and inferiority of horses in Bombay Hay-stacks Novel mode of stacking.
Lord Hastings added the experimental farm, formed near Barrackpore, to the Botanic Garden, with an immediate view to its assisting the Agricultural Society in their experiments and pursuits. The Society became speedily popular, for Carey watched its infancy with loving solicitude, and was the life of its meetings.
Unless I get out of sorts, I hope to become personally acquainted in this way with everyone, whose views may be useful to me, before I leave Calcutta, even to go to Barrackpore. As the season went on, the heat became greater. 'For the last few days, he wrote on June 1, 'it has been very hot; quite as hot, they say, as it ever is.
Lady Lansdowne having invited eight midshipmen to spend a Sunday at Barrackpore, they arrived there by launch with a drag net, which the Viceroy had given them leave to use on the largest of the ponds. My sister at once set them down to play lawn-tennis, hoping to work off some of their superfluous energy in this way.
"This revelation, so momentous to the Hindoo, found its way first to Barrackpore by reason of its nearness to Calcutta.
The annual average mortality by crowded and unventilated barracks in the English army has sometimes been enormous, as at Barrackpore, where it seldom fell far short of one tenth; that is to say, its garrisons were every year decimated by fever or cholera, while the officers and other inhabitants, who lived in well-ventilated houses, did not find the place particularly unhealthy.
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