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Excerpt from Sir Charles Wood's Administration of Indian Affairs: From 1859 to 1866 It would be impossible that all these questions, distinct as they are from one another, Should be dealt with chronologically. They will all therefore be touched upon under separate chapters. In order that the position of affairs when Sir Charles Wood entered upon Office may be clearly understood, it is necessary that a short account Should be given of the Parliamentary proceedings of 1858, which resulted in the transfer of the Government of India from the East India Company to the Crown. The mind of the English people had scarcely recovered from the crushing effect of the first news Of the outbreak at Meerut and the capture of Delhi, when a cry arose against the East India Company. Popular indignation, ever seeking a cause and demanding a victim for any national disaster, with some justice and much injustice, selected the Company as its victim, attributing to their neglect or mismanagement all the sorrows and sufferings of the Great Indian Mutiny. Before the opening of the session of 1858, Lord Palmerston intimated to the Court Of Directors the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce a bill for the transfer of the authority and possessions of the East India Company to the Crown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.