The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday August 20th 1878

Lord Salisbury has retired from the India Office ; but his successor will surely note the complete disregard of his instructions implied in the announcement that the Government of India in the Foreign Department have sanctioned the annual payment to the Khan of Khelat of the sum of Re. [...] We remarked the other day on an indication in the writings of some of our coal emporaries on the subject of the NortWest famine of what we suspect will be the course of the authorities in apportioning the biome for the heavy mortality therein. [...] But the right way to ascertain the advantages of a new machine is to consult the opinions of the workers of it—not of the inventor. [...] The dishonour of the course which the nation has been made to take is hardly redeemed by the deliverance of the people whom the war has emancipated because it is associated with the total betrayal of the trust which the Greeks were required to place in Ministerial assurances to befriend them. [...] Grant Duff commenting on the above " is the difference of human fate ! If this obscure revolutionist had had the good fortune to have been born to the north of the Straits of Dover precisely the same qualities might have brought hire into the position of the honoured chief of a proud aristocracy the defender of an apostolic church the pillar of an ancient throne." Passing over an article enti