The Friend of India and Statesman Friday May 3rd 1878

That the uatiou has allowed the Government to drift so close to the verge of war is partly owing to the want of strong liberal loaders in Parliament and partly to the fw t that so long as the Earl of Derby was at the Foreign Office 3mM:oilmen had confidence that that cautious minister would not plunge the nation into war without substantial cause. [...] It is now clear that the poverty of a very large part of the population is so extreme that the failure of one h t only out of the two half-yearly crops that thesoil of India annually yields namely the kberreef and the rubber is sufficient of itself to reduce masses of the people to a position of complete dependence upon the State. [...] In particular we have been told that in the Agra district the cloonara the Loris (weavers) and the boatmen of the rivers formed 'three-fourths of the class who pedalled. [...] The writer of the pamphlet The Crown sad the Cabinet ' indisputsbly reworks that the Constitution of England hi largely growth a set of ever accumulating ussees the hist of which has the effect of modifying those cher have before and of prevailing in their stead. [...] The objections that ureic:lay felt to clew legislation and the tendency of much of the writing in the Vernacular papers were a constant danger to the freedom of the entire Press ; end it was a wise and statestrcan-like copromise we think to ensure the permane tit freedom of the English Press by putting some mild restrictions on the Verncular.