PAGE CHAP. I.--To the Votaries of Jugernāth 1 II.--The Blasphemer 2 III.--What is Jugernāth? 4 IV.--A few ugly Facts 6 V.--Axioms for Jugernāthians 9 VI.--Political Economy 12 VII.--Political Extravagance 17 VIII.--False Prophets of Jugernāth 21 IX.--Isolation of Jugernāth 24 X.--Treachery in the Camp 29 XI.--Quem Jupiter vult perdere prius dementat 33 XII.--The wages of Jugernāth 35 XIII.--Pauperism, Crime, and Intemperance 37 XIV.--Jugernāth afloat 41 XV.--Adverse Prosperity 43 XVI.--Sacred Rights of Property 47 XVII.--Selections from Jugernāth’s Sacred Writings 51 XVIII.--The Vampire 54 XIX.--Odimus quos læsimus 59 XX.--Prosperous Adversity 63 XXI.--Ireland under the wheels 64 XXII.--The Finishing Stroke 68 XXIII.--Little Greatness 71 XXIV.--Blunder and Plunder 73 XXV.--Dear Cheap Food 77 XXVI.--The Pagoda tree 81 XXVII.--I know a Maiden fair to see 85 APPENDIX I.--Discourtesy _versus_ Argument 89 ” II.--Unheeded Warning 96 THE BRITISH JUGERNATH. CHAPTER I. TO THE VOTARIES OF JUGERNATH. My Idolatrous Compatriot! Were it not for the gravity of the situation, it would be amusing to watch the self-complacent smile of conscious superiority which you assume, when descanting on the paternal character of our rule in suppressing such abuses as those of Suttee and Jugernāth; unconscious at the same time that the Jugernāth of the wretched Hindoo is dwarfed into complete insignificance when compared with that huge idol which you yourself have set up for worship.