The Friend of India and Statesman Friday March 1st 1878

It professes to give a full explantion of the policy pmsued by the Indian Government on the North-West ; but by this we may understand that it sets forth the views of the Secretary of State on the subject and is rather in conflict with the policy of the Indian Foreign Office as inspired by Russophobism. [...] Chaplin asked for the reasons of his dismissal and the production of papers ; in reply the Under-Secretary of State briefly mentioned time treaty of 1798 as justifying the act of the Indian Government and added that the Secretary of State did not think that the papers on the subject could be laid upon the table of the House with advantage to time public interests. [...] Clark's Geographical Reader and Companion to the Atlas be adopted as the text-book in General Geography for the Entrance Examination of 1878 and the following years and that the fact be notified in the Gazette." The book contains 236 pages and therefore can hardly have been read in the course of the meeting. [...] The multitude bend to authority all the world over and have unfortunately neither the patience the caution nor the judgment to estimate the worth of the authority to which. [...] Ws are glad to note that the Editor of the Calcutta Review has made the amends honorable to the Calcutta bar in respect of the article on the Fuller case which appeared in the last issue of that publication.