The Friend of India and Statesman Friday March 15th 1878

In this circumstance the Golos finds the explanation of the mistrust prevailing in Ruesia and of the uneasy suspicion that in the end the country will be left 'without any substatial compensation for the expense and sacrifices of the war. [...] Were these countries asks the Gales of less importance in Europe than the Balkan Peninsula ? Of course (it continues) there are points in the Eastern question which touch the general interests of all the Powers such as the navigation of the Straits the fate of Constantinople and 'tire independence and territorial extension of Roumania ; and these will be submitted to the decision of the Power [...] The exclusion of foreigners from the country by the ruling race is but the top-stone of a system by which the ruling race themselves are excluded from the houses and villages of the aboriginal inhabitants Into man"234 The f'rttnd of India and Statesman. [...] Without 'undervaluing the importance of the character abilities and acts of the treads et governments we must nevertheless remember that the real governnimit of the country and the administration of its laws are in the hotels of the scattered multitude of officers iu the districts men who are Very often almost entirely beyond the reach of public opinion whose acts and whose influence for goo [...] On the present occasion the debate opened as oar readers will remember by a speech from the Chancellor of the Echequer in which the endeavoured to justify the demand for six millions and to rouse the fears of the House by enumerating the conditions of peace.