The Friend of India and Statesman Friday April 26th 1878

The limitary Commissioner of the North-West himself volunteers the statement that the excessive mortality in the Provinces during December and January was probably due to the extreme distress of the poor "during this season of high peleam" This is but a euphemises avoidance of a plain statement of the fact that bringer alone was killing nearly three times as many people in the Provinces as [...] We ask the Government of India to look at the following returns for the mouth of February from the Rohilkund divieion: and to compare them with the returns of the same month last year as a proof of the " vigour and foresight" with which the local Government dealt with the famine in that part of its territorial charge :- Feb. [...] It is tine that the Ministttry are " servants of the Crown'; but they are so in the sense only that the Crown represents the nation while these Memoirs show clearly that the Prince Consort was saturated through and through with the continental notion that the Ministry are the mere counsellors and servants of the personal Sovereign and that it is the Sovreign and nut the Cabinet U110 is re [...] The Buglish Crown is covenient expression for the abstraction we call this State and Ministers are not the servants of the person who wears the Crown but of the State of which the Crown is the embodiment and expression. [...] The extent to which the Court was allowed to influence we might almost say to dictate the foreign policy of the Cabinet under the later years of the Prince Censored life is very strikingly illustrated by the disclosures which the biogrpher wakes as to the immediate cause of the Crimean War " Those who remember the Crimean War may also perhaps rmember that the immediate cease of it so far